Chapter 0041 – Hold Your Breath

　　”Lucky Knight’s Favorite, your courage is astonishing, this nightmare quest is both a test and a reward!”

　　”The name of the following game is called Deep Water, which can cross over life and death, allowing you to meet the deceased.”

　　”Task requirements: enter the bathroom alone at 3:30 a.m., lock the bathroom door and turn off the lights, fill the bathtub with water and light a candle around it while lying down in it.”

　　”3:30 a.m. to 3:44 a.m. is the time when the night is at its thickest, and also the intersection of the yin and yang transitions during the day, all you need to do is to hold your breath at 3:44 a.m., sink to the bottom of the pool, and silently recite in your heart the name of the person you want to see the most.”

　　”When time goes between the gap between night and dawn, you will be able to see him on the edge of life and death.”

　　”If you succeed in seeing the person you miss, the mission is successful. If you never see him, the quest will automatically succeed after sixty seconds of closing your breath.”

　　After reading the mission information on the black cell phone, Chen Ge had a very complicated mood.

　　Compared to the first nightmare level mission task, this mission felt much simpler, closing one’s eyes for thirty minutes in a horrifying environment required a strong mental quality and excessive courage, while closing one’s breath for sixty seconds was something that the vast majority of people could do.

　　But it was precisely because the vast majority of people could do it that he felt uneasy, this was after all a nightmare level mission, there must be some kind of unknown risk hidden.

　　”It’s the same venue as the last nightmare quest, it’s all in the bathroom, the difference is that this time, you have to sink into the middle of the bath, and you also have to close your breath for sixty seconds.” He thought carefully about the entire mission process, counting the preparation time, to put it bluntly, it was only ten minutes, what horrible things could happen in such a short period of time?

　　Chen Ge was somewhat moved, not only because this mission looked relatively simple, but also because of the sentence in the mission introduction – one could cross over life and death to see the deceased person one missed.

　　The more critical the situation was, the calmer Chen Ge would be, and he sat on the chair, pondering over a certain possibility.

　　His parents had disappeared from the abandoned hospital in the outskirts of the city, leaving behind the black cell phone and the muppet, which he had activated when he was about to abandon the House of Horrors.

　　Going forward on the first nightmare-level mission, the Muppet becomes a key prop in stopping the monster in the mirror from coming out. It’s worth pondering whether it’s possible that the Muppets and the black cell phone, both of which are relics of their parents, could have been left behind by them on purpose?

　　If everything was really set up by them, then this second nightmare level quest was worth playing around with.

　　”Is it possible that they wanted to meet me this way and reveal more information?” Of course this was only Chen Ge’s speculation, in fact, regardless of whether the nightmare level mission was set up by his parents or not, Chen Ge would go for this mission.

　　Crossing over life and death to see the person he met was a chance for Chen Ge to confirm whether his parents still existed in this world.

　　If he couldn’t meet them, it meant that his parents were merely missing and still alive.

　　If he saw it, then it would prove Chen Ge’s first guess that his parents did have something to tell him when they left the black cell phone behind, and perhaps this cell phone hid their true last words.

　　”Looks like I have no choice.” Chen Ge glanced at his watch, it was now 2:55 am, there were still thirty-five minutes left before the mission started, “Smashing the mirror on the third floor took too long, this isn’t going to work out too well.”

　　The mission requirement was to lie down in the middle of a bathtub filled with water, but the only room with a bathtub in the entire haunted house was in the Midnight Escape scene.

　　The end of the staff passageway was connected to a room with a bathtub, and when he had scared Heshan and the others earlier, Chen Ge had entered and exited the scene from there.

　　”With thirty-five minutes left, it’s definitely too late to go out and look for a hotel with a bathtub, so we can only fight the monster in the mirror head-on.” Since he had made a choice, Chen Ge wouldn’t hesitate anymore, he put all four muppets on his body, ran out of the haunted house, slipped into the Paradise staff cafeteria in the middle of the night, and carried two kitchen knives out.

　　”Although this kitchen knife has never slaughtered a pig or a sheep, I’ve seen the chef use it to kill chickens and fish before, so it should be considered to have killed a living being.” Putting the kitchen knives on the tip of his nose and smelling them, there wasn’t any killing smell, only a strong green pepper smell that smoked him to the point of wanting to shed tears.

　　After returning to the haunted house, Chen Ge carried the iron bucket and ran both sides of the bathroom and toilet, and finally filled the bathtub with water when there were still ten minutes before the mission started.

　　”Preparations are complete, you may begin.” The main door of the Midnight Escape scene was locked, Chen Ge entered through the employee passageway, and he stood alone in the middle of the bathroom according to the mission requirements on his black cell phone.

　　The mirror in this room had long been smashed by Chen Ge, and at this point, there were pieces all over the place, making crunching and crunching noises as he stepped on them.

　　”The commotion made by transporting water just now was quite loud, the monster in the mirror should already know that I’m coming in, but it doesn’t matter, I just need to last through the minute of closing my breath and I’ll be safe.”

　　This task was not too dangerous in Chen Ge’s opinion, even though it was weird.

　　He unlocked the bathroom door and placed the muppet that his parents had left for him behind the door, then placed the four muppets that held the remnants of the victim around the bathtub.

　　”Gentlemen, I’m counting on you later, buy me a minute no matter what!”

　　Just like last time, he turned on his own cell phone’s camera and placed it at a suitable angle to record the video. However, due to the darkness in the room, the screen was almost pitch black, and only a silhouette could barely be seen.

　　In the last three minutes left, Chen Ge took out everything in his pockets and placed it on the sink. As requested by the black cell phone, a candle was lit around the bathtub.

　　The flickering candle flame became the only source of light in the room, reflecting the pieces of mirrors on the floor, and Chen Ge’s silhouette surfaced in each piece.

　　He took off his shirt and walked over to the bathtub.

　　The surface of the water was cleansed with shallow ripples, and the bathtub was obviously shallow, but because the light was so dim, it was actually impossible to see to the bottom at a glance.

　　Reaching out to ruffle the surface of the water, a chill crept up Chen Ge’s body along his fingertips, and he couldn’t help but shiver, “This mission is really weird.”

　　After finalizing the time, Chen Ge sat down in the middle of the bathtub with the two kitchen knives.

　　As he entered, the water roiled out all of a sudden, spilling onto the ground and flowing on top of the mirror shards.

　　”It’s so cold ……”

　　Chen Ge felt that the heat in his body was rapidly draining away, and even his heartbeat was much slower.

　　Droplets of water dripped down the edge of the bathtub, other than that, there was no other sound in the room.

　　”One minute, as long as I make it through this minute, I’ll be able to get the reward and verify the guess in my mind!”

　　Chen Ge kept adjusting his breathing, waiting for 3:44 am to arrive.