Chapter 0068: Midnight Ticket Counter
Before he went to the West City Private School last night, Chen Ge had read about the three daily tasks for today, the simple task was to check for safety hazards, the normal difficulty task was to find a suitable site to expand the haunted house, and the final nightmare level task was to find the other person living in the room.
Flipping through his black phone, if he wanted to maximize the benefits, he definitely had to choose the nightmare level mission, but based on his experience from the previous two times, the nightmare missions had specific time requirements, probably all in the wee hours of midnight, and once he missed this time, it was highly likely that it would count as an automatic failure of the mission.
”There’s no need to gamble, it’s better to play it safe.” Chen Ge clicked the screen to receive the general difficulty daily mission.
”General Difficulty Mission: you have been given the opportunity to expand your haunted house, please find a suitable site for expansion as soon as possible!”
It was the first time Chen Ge’s House of Horrors had undergone an expansion, and he didn’t know how to go about it, and asking his black cell phone didn’t give him any hints.
”There isn’t even a newbie tutorial, so I can only figure it out on my own.” Chen Ge re-looked at the Horror House panel, and two places caught his attention.
The Ghosts and Monsters team member column was still empty, which meant that Zhang Ya and Yin Xiao Xiao hadn’t become part of the House of Horrors.
Yin Xiao Xiao was probably because she didn’t have enough favorability, and as for Zhang Ya, not to mention asking her to join the House of Horrors, Chen Ge was already satisfied if she didn’t think about getting herself killed every day.
The second place that got Chen Ge’s attention was the Haunted House Expansion Conditions column, the original gray text turned red, and after touching it, a line appeared on the phone’s screen – “Please select the location of the door.”
”Changing to red text indicates that it can be activated, as for choosing the location of the door ……”
Chen Ge leased the entire underground parking lot, which was very spacious, but the drawback was that the parking lot gate was outside the park, and it was too inconvenient to run back and forth, so he planned to make a passageway in the haunted house that went straight underground.
In amusement parks, underground buildings are not allowed near large entertainment facilities such as roller coasters and Ferris wheels, but the haunted house is excluded due to its remote location, and Chen Ge’s house is below the parking lot.
Holding a black cell phone, Chen Ge came to the door of the Zombie Resurrection Night on the first floor, with the two one-star horror scenes of Underworld Wedding and Midnight Escape, the Zombie Resurrection Night had rarely been put back into use.
”The door opens right next to the Zombie Resurrection Night, so if the venue is not enough in the future, the Zombie Resurrection Night can be replaced.” Chen Ge was very considerate, he used a carbon pen to circle a range on the floor next to the Zombie Resurrection Night, and only after he finished drawing did he suddenly realize that he had no way to communicate with the black phone. Since getting the black phone, he had always been passive in receiving tasks and rewards.
”Am I missing something?” Chen Ge flipped through the pages again, and when he tried to double-click on the phone’s desktop, the haunted house pattern that had originally acted as the background slowly enlarged, and its structure was identical to his own house of horrors, including the horrifying scenes and room layouts inside.
”Could it be a choice on this?”
Chen Ge found the Zombie Resurrection Night scene on the desktop and clicked on a piece of ground next to it, and a message instantly popped up on the phone’s screen, “Is the location of the door determined?”
”OK.”
”Please choose the direction of the expansion.”
”Down.”
After making the choice, the desktop returned to its original state, while Chen Ge received several more message prompts in succession.
”Keep expanding so that your house of horrors can house more homeless souls and harvest more screams, congratulations on completing the normal difficulty daily mission and receiving the mission reward – one free horror carousel opportunity!”
”Selected venue, the first expansion was successful, congratulations on obtaining the special building – Midnight Ticket Desk (Disabled)!”
”Midnight Ticket Desk (mutilated): there is a 1 in 1,000 chance of attracting special ‘tourists’ that are different and may be able to be a help to you.”
The information on the black cell phone, each of which Chen Ge read very carefully, the daily quest rewarded him with a chance to spin the wheel, this reward was too uncertain, collecting a hundred copies of the screams would only allow him to exchange for a chance to draw once, and according to the principle of the black cell phone’s equivalence of exchange, it was certain that there were good things in the wheel.
But the crux of the matter was that his luck in a certain area scared even himself, what if he really drew out another love letter?
Two stern ghosts competing might really divide him equally, not the kind of equal division where one, three, five goes to the East Palace and two, four, six goes to the West Palace, but divide his body, neatly and symmetrically, into two halves.
Chen Ge’s mind had even conjured up images of two stern ghosts holding blood-stained knives, arguing fiercely over the ownership of the head and torso.
”Can’t mess with it, can’t mess with it.”
Disregarding the raffle for the time being, Chen Ge looked towards another reward – the crippled midnight ticket counter.
His haunted house had never had a dedicated ticket counter; after all, before the House of Horrors obtained the black phone, there were at most a dozen or so people visiting it a week, so there was no need to build a ticket counter at all.
”The black cell phone did help me solve a problem, just what does it mean to have a one in a thousand chance of attracting a special visitor? Does this special visitor refer to ghosts?”
Chen Ge purposely ran to the entrance of the haunted house to take a look, and there was nothing unusual near the guardrail as before, “I guess it’s the same as the last time I unlocked the Midnight Escape scenario, it won’t appear until after midnight.”
With the mission completed and the reward received, Chen Ge no longer cared about this.
He cleaned up while waiting for the early hours of midnight to arrive, although the monster in the mirror had been gotten rid of, it didn’t mean that the gradually decreasing numbers in the mirror had disappeared.
Taking a rag, Chen Ge rolled up his sleeves and cleaned up the artificial plasma on the bathroom walls.
He was in a hurry to clean up the plasma also because there was a small accident this afternoon, there was a tourist in the haunted house in an internal emergency, Chen Ge brought him to the bathroom, once he opened the door, the dude saw the wall full of plasma froze and didn’t dare to go in, and ran out of the haunted house with a hard shoulder, and finally his face was suffocating green.
The place to scare people to scare people, should not scare people to serve thoughtful, this is Chen Ge’s father had said to him a sentence, he has also been remembered in the heart.
After eleven o’clock at night, Chen Ge cleaned up all the plasma and fixed the bathroom door in the meantime, after doing this, he took his cell phone and stood in front of the mirror.
Casually flipping through the short video personal homepage, the number of fans was increasing, the short videos he shot were also reproduced in large numbers, and there were even advertisers who found him.
”There is also a need for short videos and live broadcasts to be run properly, this is my main means of publicity.”
Pinching the time and waiting until 11:59 pm, Chen Ge put away his cell phone and stood in front of the mirror, he unlocked the door to his room and turned off all the lights in the house like he did when he did his first nightmare mission.