Chapter 0004 Unexpected Reward

　　Probably because the window of the restroom was not closed tightly, the night breeze blew into the house, as if a pair of invisible hands brushed Chen Ge’s face.

　　The doorway of the toilet compartment shook gently, making a creaking sound, the water droplets from the roof fell down the water pipe to the ground, and there seemed to be bugs crawling and rustling in the sewers.

　　In the silence, all sounds were amplified, in this environment, many people would feel uneasy, but Chen Ge was an exception, his early childhood encounters had allowed him to exercise his superior mental quality and thick nerves.

　　His mind was blank, not thinking about anything, just silently calculating the time.

　　After about almost twenty minutes, Chen Ge felt that the temperature in the room had inexplicably lowered a lot, as if a few ice cubes had been placed around his body, and he involuntarily shivered.

　　”Calm down! Don’t think about why, don’t scare yourself, there are still ten minutes left, no matter what you have to hold on!” There were air currents blowing vaguely in his ears, something seemed to be hovering around Chen Ge, he clenched his hands into fists, the veins on the backs of his hands rippled, but his body seemed to be like a green pine, rooted to the ground, motionless.

　　”Chen Ge, Chen Ge, Chen Ge ……”

　　Reciting silently in a low voice, with only five minutes left, Chen Ge felt as if the fire that was pulsing in the bathroom had gone out, and it seemed as if there was another person in the darkness who was also chanting his name.

　　”Echo? It can’t be!”

　　”Chen Ge ……”

　　The voice seemed to be calling out to him, somewhat urgently, as if it had something very important to tell him.

　　”This voice seems to be coming from outside the door, should I go take a look?” Soon Chen Ge dismissed this thought, the rules of the game were very clear, just stay in front of the mirror.

　　He was calculating the time in his mind, the voice in his ears gradually went out of tune, he could be sure that there was another person calling his name, and that person seemed to be standing right outside the door.

　　”The man seems anxious, but I’m the one playing the game, so what’s his hurry? This is obviously a trap, it’s too low level.” Chen Ge skimmed his lips, “The setting and atmosphere are well set, but it’s a pity that the means of scaring people is very one-dimensional.”

　　In the last three minutes, a piercing sound rang out from the bathroom’s door panel, as if someone was scratching with their fingernails and gnawing with their teeth, and the door to the room rattled as if it would be opened at any time.

　　”1798 seconds, 1799 seconds, 1800 seconds!” Half an hour had come and gone, the voices outside the door all disappeared, and everything returned to calm.

　　In order to prevent himself from miscalculating, Chen Ge didn’t open his eyes immediately, he made another majority of three hundred sounds before taking a step back, putting his hands on his chest and blinking his eyelids.

　　The candles in the bathroom had long been extinguished, the bathroom was pitch black, Chen Ge vaguely felt that something seemed to have changed somewhere.

　　Turning on the flashlight, he froze in place when the bright light reappeared in the room.

　　The mirror in the bathroom was covered with cracks, and the self in the mirror was split into countless parts, looking extremely unrealistic, what made him feel even more shocked was that right in front of the mirror, at some point there was an additional worn-out doll!

　　The eyes made of buttons were glowing brightly, and the patched body was stuffed with cotton wool, this ragdoll was not cute, but it meant a lot to Chen Ge, this was the first doll he made, and it was also the thing that he took with him when his parents disappeared.

　　The doll’s back was against the shattered mirror, as if it was preventing what was in the mirror from coming out.

　　”The bathroom door was locked, how did the doll get in? Through the window? That’s not right! Why did it move on its own that’s the key to the problem!” Chen Ge felt that his worldview was collapsing, he was a bit messy.

　　One person and one doll confronted each other like this for three minutes before Chen Ge calmed down, he moved his cold fingers and slowly approached.

　　The eyes made of buttons looked like they were staring at him no matter which angle he looked at them, Chen Ge looked at this toy he had made and the corner of his mouth involuntarily twitched.

　　He carefully avoided the doll with both hands and picked up the cell phone next to him, “Luckily I kept an eye out and was prepared.”

　　The cell phone video had not been interrupted, and Chen Ge cautiously saved the backup before starting to watch the video.

　　The video wasn’t shot too clearly, the candle flame was swaying, Chen Ge standing in front of the mirror looked a bit stiff, on the contrary, the image in the mirror was more animated.

　　For the first ten minutes, the wind was calm, and the twist began in the eleventh minute.

　　The sound of the night wind blowing was not recorded into the camera, the video just captured the door of the squatting toilet cubicle, gently shaking a few times.

　　Immediately after that, murmurs began to appear in the video, which was obviously just a very ordinary picture, but it brought an indescribable sense of terror, which was probably due to the fear of darkness and the unknown in human nature at work.

　　Watching the video, Chen Ge’s face didn’t look too good, he was under the impression that he had kept his eyes closed and kept his distance from the mirror, but the actual footage captured showed that his body was slowly leaning forward, as if he was about to stick to the mirror.

　　By the twenty-fifth minute, his upper body was bent at seventy degrees and the tip of his nose was almost touching the mirror.

　　After a few more seconds, without warning, a crack began to appear on the mirror, and the scene looked shocking to Chen Ge.

　　Immediately afterward, the most unbelievable thing happened, the Chen Ge in the mirror changed his expression, bared his teeth, and hit the mirror hard!

　　Right at the same time, the candle went out and the video was terminated.

　　Due to the shooting angle, the video didn’t contain any footage about the Muppets, and what exactly happened in the last five minutes, Chen Ge wasn’t sure.

　　”The thing in the mirror wanted to come out, and in the end, it seemed like it was stopped by this doll, so if I think about it like this, it should be the one that saved me once.” Chen Ge picked up the doll on the vanity and inquired very seriously, “Can you understand me? Do you know where my parents ended up?”

　　The doll didn’t respond, only the eyes made of buttons glowed with a faint bright light.

　　He cradled the muppet in his arms and glanced at the bathroom room door, not daring to go out, and hunkered down alone under the window sill, pulling out his black cell phone, the message that the mission was complete already showing.

　　”I have to say you are lucky, congratulations on completing the nightmare difficulty daily quest! Receive the mission reward – Beginner Talent Skill Mortuary Yung.”

　　”Mortuary: I hope you can be a bit more serious in inheriting this talent. Unlike cosmetology, where morticians only apply makeup to corpses, the beauty in your hands cuts across life and death, revitalizing someone who is already cold and bringing her eternal beauty.”

　　”Completing the Nightmare difficulty daily quest for the first time, you will be awarded the title of Nightmare City Newcomer, with the additional reward of unlocking the one-star horror scene Midnight Escape Trial Mission! Upon completion of the trial mission, this scenario facility will appear in the middle of the House of Horrors!”

　　Looking over the information on the black cell phone, Chen Ge pondered, the haunted house development could not be separated from the makeup artist, no matter if it was an actor or a prop, it needed a makeup artist to dress up for a second time, a good makeup artist could create a realistic effect more easily.