Chapter 0002 – Alternative Daily Tasks
This application on the phone with the horror house gate as its icon was very much like the popular simulation and management handheld games on the market, except that instead of a restaurant, aquarium, or petting zoo, its operation was a haunted house.
Chen Ge stared at the screen, he couldn’t figure out why there was such a strange little game in the cell phone left behind by his parents.
He carefully looked through the application interface, and all the information in it matched his haunted house, including the number of daily visitors and the scenes of the facilities in the pavilion. The game gave Chen Ge a strange feeling, as if the haunted house that he needed to run in the game was the same haunted house he had in reality.
The same terrible situation, the same on the verge of closing down, there were too many commonalities between the two.
”Could it be that this game was made based on my haunted house? Then if the haunted house was changed in the game, wouldn’t it benefit in reality as well?”
Chen Ge continued to look down, the existing facilities in the horror house scene Zombie Resurrection Night was relegated to nothing, and the Underworld Marriage program, which had once been in the newspaper and even caused a sensation, was only given a half-star rating in the game review.
”Even the Underworld Wedding was only given half a star, I really can’t imagine how horrible those unlockable horror scenes in the back are.” He tried clicking to unlock more scenes, and after touching the option, a line appeared on the screen, prompting him that he needed to complete a certain number of daily quests to be eligible for unlocking.
”It seems that daily quests are the root of everything, only by constantly completing daily quests can you unlock horror scenes. More horror scenes can then attract a large number of tourists to visit, and the increased number of excursions can in turn expand the haunted house and increase the size of the venue, thus creating a virtuous cycle.”
Chen Ge had played many handheld games in his spare time, and he quickly comprehended the rules of the game – the degree of completion of daily tasks would affect the development of the entire haunted house.
Tapping on the daily tasks, three options surfaced on the screen:
Simple Difficulty: the three main elements of haunted house design – story, scene, and mood, a haunted house without a story has no soul, please perfect the backstory of the two horror scenes of the Zombie Resurrection Night and the Underworld Wedding.
Normal Difficulty: Before midnight early morning, fix all the mannequin models in the horror house.
Nightmare Difficulty: I believe you must still be curious whether there are ghosts in the world or not, come and play a small game, the truth is in the moment you open your eyes.
Daily tasks are refreshed in the early hours of the morning, you can only get one task per day, with different difficulty and different rewards.
(Caution! Individual quests are extremely dangerous, please choose carefully!)
After reading the daily quests, Chen Ge was a bit surprised, “The quests in the game even require one to complete them in reality, is this indirectly stating that this game can affect reality?”
In order to verify the speculation in his heart, he decided to pick up a quest to try.
Daily quests were graded according to difficulty, and only one could be picked up per day, if one wanted to maximize benefits, one would definitely have to choose the one with the highest difficulty, it was just that the hint that a few of the quests were extremely dangerous at the back that made Chen Ge a bit intimidated.
”It’s hard to make a trade-off, the description of the nightmare difficulty quests is very vague, it’s a big pit at first glance. Why don’t we start with the normal difficulty first, it’s a bit nerve-wracking to mend all the mannequin models before 12:00 AM, but it’s not impossible to do.”
Chen Ge was a very decisive person who would immediately go into action when he had a decision, he didn’t waste any time, carrying a toolbox and a bucket of unopened artificial plasma, he then began to check the mannequin props in the entire haunted house.
The night was already deep, Chen Ge was walking through the huge horror house by himself, in order to save electricity, he didn’t even turn on the porch light, his arm was clamped with a flashlight, dragging the mannequins that needed to be maintained and running around.
If this scene was seen by an unknown outsider, I’m afraid he would be so scared that he would just call the police.
”I’m exhausted, I didn’t expect so many dolls to have problems, it seems that the previous maintenance was very poor!”
At 11:45 pm, Chen Ge received a prompt on his cell phone that the task was completed – “You have completed the general difficulty daily task, focusing on the details in order to create a perfect horror atmosphere, congratulations on the task reward – the Background track ‘Black Friday’.”
”Isn’t ‘Black Friday’ a banned song abroad? It’s rumored that listening to it too much will cause people to commit suicide, and the original track has long since disappeared.” Chen Ge found a CD pattern in his cell phone’s props library, “What kind of person uses this as a quest reward, it can’t be a prank, right?”
He casually tapped towards the CD pattern, and a melody he had never heard before rang in his ears.
The sound seemed to have been born in the darkness itself, lonely and mournful, Chen Ge felt that everything was leaving him, as if he had sunk into the depths of the ocean, or as if he was walking through a tunnel with no end in sight.
When the song ended, Chen Ge’s back was already soaked, he was glad that he didn’t choose to loop the song just now, otherwise, he really didn’t know if he could walk out from this song.
”Playing for real! It should be the original version right!”
Completing quests in the game that could be rewarded in reality allowed Chen Ge to see a shortcut that could change the status quo of the House of Horrors.
Turn off the music and save carefully. After taking care of everything, Chen Ge burrowed into the middle of the staff lounge.
Lying on the bed, he was physically exhausted, but he didn’t have a single ounce of sleepiness.
What he had experienced today would take time for any normal person to digest.
Unconsciously, it had already passed twelve midnight, and Chen Ge was still staring blankly at the ceiling.
”Can’t sleep at all!” Bored, he took his black cell phone out again, “Midnight wee hours have passed, the daily tasks should be refreshed, right?”
Tapping on the application software, the column of daily quests really appeared to change.
Easy Difficulty: If you want to provide visitors with a very scary experience, then first of all pay attention to the rhythm of the tour, actors and organs appearing too early or too late will lead to a loss of visitor’s excitement, so I suggest that you install sound detectors as well as monitoring in the haunted house, always controlling the progress of the tourists’ tour.
Normal Difficulty: A good haunted house needs a good team to run it. Recruit more talented people and they will help you get through it.
Nightmare Difficulty: I’m sure you’re still curious whether there are ghosts in the world or not, come and play a little game, the truth is the moment you open your eyes.
Daily quests are refreshed in the early hours of the morning every day, you can only get one quest per day, with different difficulties and different rewards.
(Caution! Individual quests are extremely dangerous, please choose carefully!)
The three newly appeared daily quests made Chen Ge a bit torn.
The simple task was to install sound detectors and surveillance in the haunted house, a task that could be completed as long as one had money, but the hard part was that Chen Ge had limited funds and simply couldn’t get that much money.
Normal difficulty task is also very unfriendly to Chen Ge, accompanied him through the storm together with the old staff, just yesterday put forward the resignation, today he has to go to recruit new people, not to mention whether it can be recruited, even if someone is willing to come, from the beginning of the training to spend a lot of time, and wait for the new people to be able to take charge of the new house of horrors is expected to be cool.
Excluding the easy and average difficulty tasks, Chen Ge set his sights on the last daily task.
”The higher the difficulty, the richer the rewards, should I try a nightmare level mission?”