Chapter 0577 – Don’t Drink Water
The training for the cylinder ghost mainly focused on dodging, vacillating, and instantaneous explosive power, Chen Ge did not need the cylinder ghost to have much aggressiveness, he only wanted him to come back alive after prying out information.
”Over to you guys.”
Chen Ge closed the door leading to the underground scene and returned to the middle of the staff lounge.
He opened his own cell phone only to realize that there were several unread text messages on it, most of which were from Wen Wen’s aunt, and a few from Xu Wan.
The approximate content was asking where Chen Ge was, and when Wen Wen’s aunt came from work to pick up her brother and Wen Wen, she found that the father and daughter had already been sent away by Chen Ge, so she couldn’t help but feel a little worried.
”The fact that the other party didn’t call me back there means that she has already made sure that the father-daughter pair is safe.”
After thinking for a while, Chen Ge thought it would be better to return a message to the other party.
Probably because it was too late, the woman did not write back to Chen Ge.
”Shouldn’t anything happen, right?” Chen Ge shook his head, thinking that he had been too sensitive lately, and that if only people who had talked to him could be in trouble, then the world would still be in chaos.
Placing his cell phone on the bedside, Chen Ge took out his black cell phone again and looked at a few daily tasks.
”Renovation, publicity, expansion, normal difficulty tasks don’t mean much to me, if it’s a nightmare level task you can still consider it.”
Lying on the bed, Chen Ge placed the white cat and Xiao Xiao next to him and covered them with a thin quilt, he was ready to go to bed early once today.
”When I get up tomorrow, I hope the cylinder ghost will give me a surprise.” Chen Ge wasn’t going to procrastinate any longer, tomorrow night, he was going to go and finish the Twin Water Ghost task: “The water horror scene, I guess all those horror designers abroad don’t dare to play it like this, this should be considered original by me.”
Hugging the fluffy white cat, Chen Ge slowly entered dreamland.
At five o’clock in the morning, before the sky was bright, Chen Ge woke up.
His hands and feet were cold, but he didn’t feel any unpleasant sensations.
”Body temperature is still dropping, but it’s not very obvious.” The sleep time was short, but Chen Ge was refreshed, “The more I get into the night, the more awake I become, and my dependence on sleep is decreasing, is this a good thing, or a bad thing?”
Chen Ge was no longer alone now, if he collapsed, then all the ghosts and monsters in the House of Horrors would also lose their shelter, “I can’t give up those ghosts and monsters, and those ghosts and monsters will have a hard time leaving me, that’s it for now, I hope that the tragedy that befell that old lady in the Living Coffin Village won’t be repeated in my place.”
Putting on his coat, Chen Ge returned to the middle of the underground scene, and when he entered the Living Coffin Village, he saw a scene that surprised him.
With an agility that didn’t match his body at all, the cylinder ghost was frantically fleeing from Xu Yin and Bai Qiulin’s pursuit, and he was always able to dodge away at an incredible angle before the two ghosts’ attacks arrived.
”This guy seems to be moving more nimbly than we thought because of living in the water for a long time, like a slippery eel.” Old Zhou and Duan Yue stood to the side, watching and commenting, and further away was still a whole bunch of doll students looking on in amusement.
”What a terrible analogy, but it looks like the special training was successful, this cylinder ghost still has a lot of potential.” Chen Ge called back Xu Yin and Bai Qiulin and brought the cylinder ghost out of the haunted house, placing it in the middle of the park’s water recreation facilities.
As soon as his body touched the water, the cylinder ghost’s speed increased once again, he was very fast, but the expression on his face was still the same as before, as if he was somewhat nostalgic for the days when he was a ghost hiding at the bottom of the cylinder and spitting bubbles.
”When this trial mission is completed, you no longer need to be suffocated in a water tank, I’ll change you to a large pool.”
Chen Ge was very satisfied with the change in the cylinder ghost, he was worried that Chorang would hurt the cylinder ghost, and after briefly looking at it for a while, he put the cylinder ghost into the middle of the comic book.
”One more bottom card.”
At eight twenty in the morning, Director Luo and Uncle Xu came to the paradise early, and they were followed by two men in suits.
”Little Chen, let me introduce to you, this is my former business partner and my former college classmate, Mr. Bai of Hanhai Group, our park’s equipment update and upgrade will cooperate with their company.” Director Luo’s voice was cheerful, but Chen Ge noticed that when he introduced the man, his eyes were very calm, not a trace of happiness could be seen, instead, he was vaguely worried.
”Old classmate, this is our Paradise Haunted House’s chief director – Chen Ge.” Director Luo introduced Chen Ge to Mr. Bai again.
”He is Chen Ge?” General Manager Bai scanned Chen Ge up and down and nodded kindly, “To be able to hold up such a large haunted house all by yourself and come up with all those subtle and scary scenes, marvelous, truly marvelous.”
He stretched out his hand towards Chen Ge, “If there’s a chance, we can cooperate deeply.”
Chen Ge looked at the man’s face and felt somewhat familiar, and after thinking for half a day, he remembered that he had seen a photo in the cell phone of that engineer from Virtual Future Land, which seemed to be a party scene, and among them was this General Manager Bai.
How did the person who had gotten together with Virtual Future Land suddenly run to cooperate with New Century Land?
With doubts, Chen Ge did not move and glanced towards Director Luo.
The other party understood and gently pressed his palm down before pointing at himself, signaling that Chen Ge knew all of these things and would just leave it to him next.
Director Luo was a successful businessman, and it was better to leave things between these businessmen of theirs to businessmen.
Chen Ge didn’t say anything more, he always felt that Luo Dong had his own plan, wanting to swallow the other party’s benefits while not letting the other party’s plot succeed.
”I hope everything goes well.”
Witnessing the departure of several people, Chen Ge felt a sense of urgency from Director Luo, if the pressure brought to him by the Virtual Future Paradise wasn’t too great, he was afraid that he wouldn’t have soldiered on.
”It looks like I need to speed up my own progress as well, first finish the other few missions in the Eastern Suburbs, and if there is any resistance, I’ll feed Zhang Ya and Bai Qiulin directly.” After two days of slacking off, Chen Ge felt that he couldn’t go on like this.
At nine o’clock, the paradise opened and a new day officially began.
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In the eastern suburb, in the hallway of a certain neighborhood, Wen Wen had her hands on the door of her room, crying loudly, her big eyes full of tears, it was heartbreaking to look at.
”I’ve promised you to go to the amusement park, now you have to honor your promise with me as well, and go to school obediently.” The woman in the professional outfit squatted down next to Wen and tried to carry her down, but Wen gripped the door and just wouldn’t let go.
Raven’s father, although he himself suffered from a disease and was far below average intelligence, loving his daughter was more like a biological instinct for a father.
He faltered a bit and tried to stop Raven’s aunt.
”Brother, my heart goes out to Wen, but if you don’t want her to become like you in the future, it’s best to let her go to school!” The woman’s words stung a bit, speaking to the man’s sore spot.
This father, one of the last things he wanted to happen was for his daughter to become like him in the future.
Stopping in his tracks, he didn’t bother to save the little girl.
”I’m doing this for your own good, I’m going to be old one day too, and if Wen Wen doesn’t have the ability to live on her own, what will you two do when I’m old?” Wen’s aunt picked the little girl up, picked up her school bag from the floor, and forced her to take her downstairs.
”When you get to school be good and listen to the teacher, don’t get into arguments with your classmates.” The woman took Wen Wen on the bus, the little girl seemed to have given up resisting, hugging her school bag, very unhappy with her head down.
Half an hour later, the woman dropped Wen off at a private rehabilitation school, which was filled with many patients similar to Wen, as well as children with ADHD and those suffering from other congenital disorders.
”Ms. Wen, I’ll leave the child in your care.” The woman still loved Wen Wen from the bottom of her heart, and explained several times when she was leaving, worried and afraid that the little girl would be bullied.
”Is it still the same as before? You come over to pick it up at night?” The one who spoke was a female teacher, chubby, with glasses and short hair, looking about forty years old, with a soft voice.
”En, please.” The woman took one step forward and three steps back, and finally left in her car, she had to go to work.
Raven didn’t look back at the woman since the beginning, she looked upset.
”Let’s go inside.” The woman’s put her hand on Raven’s shoulder and gently pushed forward.
Entering through the front door, inside was a special school.
This school covered a small area, divided into two indoor and outdoor areas, and at this moment, on the small outdoor playground, there was a male teacher leading a few children to do rehabilitation exercises.
The movements were not difficult, but the way those children did it was strange, but the scene in front of me would not only not cause people to laugh, it would also cause a trace of heartache.
Shizuku seemed to hate this unfamiliar environment as she knocked the woman’s hand off her shoulder and took a water bottle out of her book bag.
She didn’t drink the water either, she just left the lid open so that she could see directly into the water.
Ms. Wen had seen Wen’s odd behavior before, and she didn’t stop her from leading her into the chamber.
Rows and rows of plastic tables and chairs with their corners wrapped around them were set up in the center, and a female teacher, also wearing glasses, was teaching something to the students below.
”Bamboo, give her a seat, I have something to do, so I’ll get busy first.”
”Okay.” The female teacher had also met Wen Wen, and when she saw the girl, her brows frowned lightly, but quickly returned to normal.
She gave the girl the seat furthest to the back, and neither side paid any attention to the other, so it was kind of out of sight, out of mind.
Sitting in the last row, the girl slumped down on her desk, she didn’t take her textbook out of her book bag, she just stared blankly at the water in her water bottle, muttering to herself as if she was talking to it.
Her voice was low, and the classroom was rather chaotic, all at first no one heard her, until the female teacher pointed to the picture of the animal on the projector, and asked her classmates to come up and answer the question, the classroom slowly quieted down.
Most people closed their mouths, only Wenwen was still stuttering and communicating with the water bottle, the female teacher was a bit angry when she heard her.
”Wen Wen Liu, come tell everyone what kind of animal this is?”
The little girl looked up blankly when she heard her name being called, she was a little disturbed when she realized that everyone was looking at her.
”Don’t know? How about this one?” The female teacher changed the picture and a frog appeared on it.
Raven remained silent, she didn’t know what to do, her palms were covered in sweat.
”I’ve told you many times, it’s a frog, why can’t you remember?” The female teacher walked off the podium and looked at the little girl, the more she looked at her, the angrier she got, “Hugging a bottle of water every day, never taking a sip, and when someone else drank your water you scratched and spent their face, I really doubt that the doctor’s diagnosis of you is wrong.”
The female teacher disliked Wen Wen, she pointed to the picture on the projection, “I’ll tell you again, that’s a frog, remember?”
The girl still didn’t say anything, her eyes looking at the water bottle on the table.
”Not speaking?” The female teacher grabbed Wen’s arm and made her stand on the aisle between two rows of desks, “Here, you do the same thing it did in the picture.”
Wen still didn’t respond, finally, under the female teacher’s constant gestures, she seemed to understand each other’s meaning, comparing to the frog in the picture, crouched down on the ground, pressed her hands on the ground, and used her limbs to support her body.
”Memorize this action, this is the frog, I will ask you again in the next class.” The female teacher motioned for Raven to return to her seat and continue to start the lesson.
Patting the dust from her hands, Wen stood up and plopped down on the table again, her eyes looking at the water bottle that hadn’t been touched by anyone, but the surface of the water inside shifted on its own, a dark hair that had sunk to the bottom of the glass floating upwards.
The morning classes ended quickly, and after lunch, the rehabilitation school began to organize naps for the students.
Wen was still placed in the corner, and she didn’t cry or make a fuss, clutching her water bottle and school bag as she walked obediently to her bed.
She threw her book bag at her feet and then placed her water cup next to her pillow.
After about half an hour, when the children were falling asleep one by one, the check-in teacher entered the room.
As she walked over to Raven, she noticed an uncovered water glass next to the boy.
”Why is there a hair in here?” The female teacher picked up the water glass and poured the water inside into the washroom before placing it on the counter next to the bed.
At two o’clock in the afternoon, the children were woken up one after another, and as soon as Wen opened her eyes, the first thing she did was to look at the cup of water at the bedside, but she didn’t see anything.
She looked around anxiously, and finally realized that the water cup had been placed on the cabinet, but the water inside had been poured out.
”Pah!”
The water cup was dropped on the floor by Shizuku, there was no hair seen inside and Shizuku cried out loud.
At this moment the female teacher called Kotake was talking to the male teacher about something, the two of them were physically close to each other, talking and laughing.
They were chatting happily when they suddenly heard Wen Wen crying, the female teacher was a bit impatient, “It’s her again, this girl I suspect that what she has is not congenital dementia, it’s acquired mental illness.”
Pushing the door open, the woman walked over to the girl, she didn’t know what the hell Wen was mad about, there was absolutely no way to communicate.
After she had cleaned up the crumbs of the quilt from the floor, she saw that Raven still couldn’t stop crying and simply took Raven out of the room and locked her in the other room.
”Don’t disturb the other children, just calm down, cry enough and I’ll come back for you.”