Chapter 0076 – Entering the School on a Rainy Night
”Today a child came to visit my haunted house, he looks to be only eight or nine years old, he is not talkative, the more eerie the environment, the more excited he gets instead, what kind of illness do you think this fits?” Chen Ge directly stated his question, there were only two people he could consult now, one was Heshan and the other was He Feng.
”We forensic doctors major in applied medicine, biology, including some chemistry courses, and people’s psychology is the study of psychological phenomena, mental functions, and neuroscience, it’s completely two different branches, it’s a waste of time for you to ask me.” Heshan had a helpless face, “Boss, are you really not going to do something? I see that your short video hasn’t been updated for several days, and the live stream hasn’t been turned on, if this goes on, the popularity that you’ve managed to accumulate is going to slowly fall off. Look at your homepage, some people have already brushed you off, and some have even started to discredit your haunted house.”
”Defame the haunted house? There’s this?” Chen Ge couldn’t calm down anymore, he went to his personal homepage to take a look, and sure enough, there were many negative messages.
”Boss, there are too many short videos now and they are heavily homogenized, once the heat of your video decreases, they will quickly shift their attention to other anchors.”
”That makes sense, but this isn’t as serious as you think.” Chen Ge chimed in, his mind was still focused on Fan Yu and the black skinny woman, in his opinion live streaming and short videos were only supplementary means, the most important thing was still the black cell phone’s mission.
”Well, I’m just giving you a heads up.” Heshan still felt some pity in his words, “That Qin Guang is a big anchor with a lot of resources at hand, the platform will definitely push him, but I think what he broadcasts should not be as good as you.”
”What he broadcasts are what I have left to play.” Chen Ge smiled, the biggest difference between his short videos and other anchors is that his videos are completely real and can’t be copied: “In terms of resources, channels, and number of fans, Qin Guang can indeed throw me off a few blocks, but when it comes to the mastery and use of horror thrillers, he’s still a long way off.”
”That’s right, after all, you are the professional.” On the other side of the phone, Heshan paused for a moment, “Boss, I suddenly remembered something.”
”What is it?”
”The schoolmate that you scared to tears last time, do you still remember?”
”There are more ‘schoolmates’ that I’ve cried in fear, you just say the name.”
”Gao Ruxue, her father is a psychiatrist and a senior lecturer in criminal psychology, I’ll try to see if I can get her number for you tonight.”
”Sure, when you get it, I’ll treat you to dinner, and on the way, I’ll take you to visit the new scene in the haunted house for free.” Chen Ge was thankful for this simple and straightforward medical student and opened his mouth to make a promise.
”Don’t! The last time I came out of your haunted house, it gave me scary nightmares for a few days, and I feel like I have mental problems.” Heshan poured out his pain, “Once I fell asleep in class, I didn’t know when the teacher came over, I was dreaming that I was being chased by a doctor with a hammer, running wildly through the building, all about to run to the roof when I suddenly felt that someone grabbed me by the shoulders. I was really shocked and swung over with an elbow strike, and when I opened my eyes I realized that the teacher’s glasses had been smashed off by me.”
Chen Ge held back half a day or laughed out, “OK, I won’t force you to visit.”
After chatting for a while more, Chen Ge hung up the phone, he looked at the scenery outside the car window, the sunlight was blocked, thick clouds piled up on the sky, it seemed like it was going to change the sky.
Returning to New Century Paradise, Chen Ge saw from afar that there were quite a few people crowded at the entrance of the House of Horrors, and Xu Wan was communicating with them.
”Wan, what’s going on?”
”You’re finally back, these are all people who came to visit the haunted house specifically, I couldn’t find you people, so I could only pacify everyone first and tell them not to be anxious.” Xu Wan removed her makeup, her forehead was sweating in a hurry.
”Good job, just buy the tickets outside and leave the rest to me.” Chen Ge pushed away the guardrail, changed into the Dr. Cranium Shatterer jacket, and entered the middle of the Midnight Escape scene.
At three or four o’clock in the afternoon, it was drizzling outside and the clouds were getting thicker.
Many of the outdoor entertainment facilities in the park stopped running, and some visitors who were unwilling to leave began to focus on indoor programs, Chen Ge’s haunted house inadvertently became the most popular place to go, and more and more visitors were outside until the park closed at 5:30 when the number of visitors began to decrease.
Chen Ge, who had been dragging a hammer around the haunted house all afternoon, was also a little tired, so he took off his doctor’s uniform and went outside the haunted house.
The sky was overcast with dark clouds, and a rainstorm was soon to come.
”The night a few years ago when Fan Yu’s parents disappeared, it was also a torrential downpour.” Chen Ge looked at the sky with a complicated expression, he told Xu Wan to get off work first, and returned to the repair room himself, taking out his backpack.
He brainlessly stuffed the lighter, flashlight, tool hammer, and muppets all in there, then put on his raincoat and left the house of horrors.
There were too many tourists in the haunted house today, and it was already six o’clock when Chen Ge left the park. He stopped a cab at the entrance, and after reporting the name of the place where Mureyang Middle School was located, the driver unexpectedly refused to take him.
He had no choice but to switch to another one, and the other party told Chen Ge that the area around Mureyang Middle School was already a wasteland, and there wasn’t even a road, so he couldn’t even cross it, so he could only send him to that neighborhood.
The black phone’s mission had a time limit, and by arriving earlier, he would have more time to explore freely and minimize the risk.
Chen Ge was not willing to delay, and after negotiating a price with the driver, he set off directly.
Along the way, he also opened his mouth to ask the driver, wanting to find out something about Twilight Sun Middle School, but unfortunately, the driver had a serious expression and just stared ahead and drove silently.
At a certain moment, Chen Ge even missed that nagging uncle who sent him to the West City Private College.
It was more than seven o’clock in the evening before the cab drove to the place, the road condition was very poor, this place had basically left the suburbs and was considered even more remote.
”I can’t get my car in on the road ahead, so I can only send you here.” The cab driver pointed towards the outside of the car, “There should be people living in the neighborhood, if you can’t figure it out you can ask someone, scan the QR code for the fare, I don’t accept cash.”
”No cash?” The driver said decisively, although Chen Ge felt strange, he didn’t look deeper, after paying with WeChat, he got off the bus.
The rain gradually increased, the sky had completely turned dark, Chen Ge looked around, there were a few rows of houses in the distance, but it seemed that because they had been uninhabited for a long time, there was no bright light coming through inside.
”How is this going to find Twilight Sun Middle School?”
Chen Ge wanted to ask the driver, but he turned around just in time to see that the driver had thrown the cooler cushion he had been sitting on out of the car window, then without a moment’s hesitation, he started the car and turned around.
”Not accepting my cash, and throwing the cushion I sat on right out of the window, what does this person mean? Could it be that he’s afraid of getting something bad on his car?”