Chapter 0108 – The Secret of Ward 3
”I must have seen her somewhere.”
It wasn’t that Chen Ge was confident in his memory, but the girl’s face was very distinctive, making it hard to forget.
He couldn’t think of it for a moment and was unwilling to let the man go, so he grabbed his cell phone, grabbed the hammer, and chased after her.
The white rice on the floor was kicked apart, and when Chen Ge went out from the staff lounge, the shadow had already disappeared.
”Where did it run off to? The door was closed, the girl should still be in the haunted house.”
Turning on the light, Chen Ge walked next to the white rice that had been kicked apart, and slowly walked forward along the sporadically falling rice grains to the deepest part of the first floor corridor.
The wooden board covering the floor was lifted and the sound of the wind whistling below could be heard.
Chen Ge pushed the wooden board to one side, opened his cell phone flashlight, and entered the middle of the Twilight Sun Middle School scene.
Rice grains could be vaguely seen on the stairs, which made Chen Ge even more certain that the girl had run into the Twilight Sun Middle School scene.
”Her escape route is very clear, it’s coming in this direction.” The scene was large, but the rice grains left on the ground pointed out the direction for him.
The horror scene was placed inside an underground parking lot, but it didn’t change the terrain of the parking lot, and the white rice grains ended up disappearing next to a load-bearing pillar.
”Could it be hiding in the pillar?” This load-bearing pillar was located directly below the haunted house, bearing the weight of the entire haunted house.
Patting the pillar, Chen Ge remembered the story his family elders had once told him when he was a child, that every family had a spirit living in it, mostly good spirits, but there were also evil spirits.
Good spirits sheltered the family, stabilized people’s luck, and made peace with the neighbors; evil spirits disturbed the rules and destroyed the feng shui of the family.
Usually the spirits that live in a home are deceased ancestors, but there are exceptions, such as the place where Fan Yu and his aunt live, where the ghosts are so chaotic that if they are left unchecked, they will get out of control.
This is the same as what is described in the black cell phone quest introduction, there is a guest in the house that has never been seen before, it may be full of malice, or it may have good intentions.
”The girl who hid behind me just now, could it be the spirit that shelters the haunted house?” The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, he walked around the pillar and realized that there was a muppet thrown behind the concrete pillar, and this muppet was the first muppet that he had made with his own hands.
”That’s not right! I’ve been carrying my ragdoll with me.” Chen Ge felt towards his clothes pocket, and the Muppet that was originally tucked in his arms was long gone, “That person who lived in the haunted house with me was you?”
Chen Ge reached out to pick up the ragdoll, and when he took it away, he happened to see that there was an artificially punched hole underneath the ragdoll’s body.
He looked into the hole through the bright light of his cell phone, and a string of bracelets and a thousand paper cranes were placed in the hole that only allowed four fingers to reach in.
Neither was anything expensive, the bracelet was plastic and looked very much like a little girl’s toy, and the paper crane was stuffed at the bottom and had been severely deformed.
Taking the things out, Chen Ge saw three crooked words at the end of the bracelet – Luo Ruoyu.
”Why would there be a girl’s toy in an underground parking lot?” Chen Ge brought the bracelet to his eyes, “If this bracelet is something that belonged to that figure just now, then these three words on the bracelet should be her name.”
Surname Luo, guardian spirit of the haunted house, girl’s toy in the underground parking lot ……
All the clues were connected, Chen Ge tapped his head, and the face he had just seen in a trance overlapped with the other face in his memory.
”This girl is the daughter of Director Luo of New Century Land!”
He had seen a picture of the girl when he went to Director Luo to negotiate the lease of the underground parking lot, she had physical defects but had the purest smile.
”The girl became the guardian spirit of the entire paradise? But why would she possess the muppets left behind by my parents?” Chen Ge vaguely felt that this nightmare quest had another deep meaning, he took the muppets, bracelets and paper cranes and ran back to the staff lounge, took out a photo album from the locked drawer, and the first page of the album when he flipped it open was a photo of Chen Ge’s family of three.
This was taken by Chen Ge’s parents on the first day of the completion of the House of Horrors, and the background of the photo was the front door of the House of Horrors.
In the photo, Chen Ge’s father stood smugly in the center, happy as a child, while Chen Ge, who was still in school at that time, was separated from his parents, looking at the camera somewhat speechlessly.
His mother stood on the other side of his father, and looking closely at the photo, Chen Ge realized that his mother’s hand was raised in the air, with her fingers bent as if she was holding another person’s hand.
”There were four people in this photo at the time?”
Flipping through the album, there was another photo that was even weirder, with the father pointing to the house of horrors in showing off to Chen Ge, and the mother half-squatting on the ground, reaching out to gently caress the air.
Behind there are many life photos, looking at Chen Ge a burst of cold heart, before he felt strange, why every time you take a picture of yourself, next to always leave a large piece of empty space, together really want to take pictures of other people, they are a breathing background.
”This old couple’s attitude towards ghosts is also too good, right? If you put your heart in the right place, if you have parents like this, why would you worry about not being favored by the severe ghosts!”
He really didn’t expect Director Luo’s daughter to be attached to a rag doll left behind by her parents, and it looked like she had already been living with them for a long time.
Director Luo’s daughter was the guardian spirit of the Paradise, and she couldn’t leave the Paradise, so Chen Ge’s ragdolls were only useful in haunted houses and the Paradise.
It was because of this reason that the Muppets didn’t react when Wang Qi was preparing to sneak up on Chen Ge in the hut at the back of Ping An Apartment, and there were many other similar situations.
Chen Ge closed the album and gently rubbed his temples, he vaguely felt that there was something else strange about this mission.
Moving his eyes away from the ragdolls and the bracelet, he cupped that thousand paper cranes in his palm.
The material was ordinary, but it seemed to be stained with blood and looked dirty.
”This paper crane doesn’t look like it was stuffed recently, it should have been put away for a long time.”
Unwrapping the paper crane, nine words were written on the white paper stained with small pieces of blood – the third room of the third sick building!
”Third sick building?” The moment he saw these words, Chen Ge couldn’t calm down. After the completion of the three nightmare-level daily missions, he could obtain another trial mission for a horror scene, and before doing the mission, he was already prepared to choose the corresponding mission for the third sick building, after all, this horror scene was the only three-star horror scene that came with the black phone.
”Look at the handwriting and my family’s handwriting is very similar, but why did they leave a location without a clue? Is the third room in the third sick building dangerous, or is it hiding the secret of their disappearance?” Chen Ge put away the piece of paper, his mind pondering another question.
”The black phone says that after completing the third nightmare mission, future nightmare missions will be changed to randomly refreshed, which means that the three nightmare missions I’ve already completed are fixed.”
”The first quest opened the door to another world for me; the second quest told me that my own parents were only missing and still alive; this third quest left me with a location. First earning my trust, then giving me hope, and finally leaving me with a direction I can go to explore, three nightmare quests in a row, seems to have a big meaning.”