Chapter 0195: Haunted Tanto Hospital
After the woman finished her sentence, Chen Ge clearly saw that goose bumps sprouted on the back of the dead actor’s neck.
He had only mimicked the handwriting on top of the white paper and casually filled in a few words, not realizing that the actors in the haunted house would react so violently.
With his eyes narrowed, Chen Ge stood between the recorder and the haunted house actors, he vaguely felt that there was indeed something wrong with this haunted house, and it was highly likely that there had actually been a haunted event.
Xinhai was a big first-tier city, and the Tanto Hospital had gone to great lengths to set up a scene there, and it seemed to have left in a hurry without being in business for very long, taking a break and opening up again only to run to Jiujiang City, which was a long way away from Xinhai.
”If the three words Xu Zhenzhen can really summon ghosts over, why would they be so bent on continuing to use those three words in the haunted house?” Chen Ge was a bit puzzled by the head of Tian Teng Hospital’s thinking, “He didn’t think that by changing to another place and avoiding it from afar, he would be able to escape the entanglement of the severe ghosts, did he? Or does this Xu Zhenzhen have a special meaning to the haunted house owner?”
The light in the haunted house was dim, and the dead actor took the piece of paper and looked at it carefully, “The handwriting hasn’t dried yet.”
He twisted his head to look at Chen Ge and quickly withdrew his gaze, muttering to himself, “There is only one tourist visiting today, even if he brought a pen into the haunted house and wrote this line, how can the voice in the recorder be explained? This scene is a new addition, no one except the design team knew there was a tape recorder in there, and a tourist no matter how strange he is couldn’t possibly carry a disk tape with him!”
As the actor pondered, a scream once again emanated from the tape recorder.
The pain was completely different from the one recorded by the voice actor, and standing a few meters away and listening to it felt like his hair was tingling and his teeth were chattering, as if the murder was happening right next to him.
”Ringo ……” the actress moved toward the door, “How come the sound in the recorder is just like the real thing?”
”I’m not too sure.” The dead body actor looked back and he realized that Chen Ge was still standing next to the recorder.
He hesitated for a moment not to bother with Chen Ge, but quickly walked over to the woman and lowered his voice, “Other than this piece of paper, did anything else appear in the scene you were responsible for?”
”No.”
”Where are the people in the first few scenes?”
”Should be coming over soon.” The woman’s eyes danced and she was nervous, “That thing won’t appear again, right? We’re only on our first day of business, didn’t the boss say it was all sorted out?”
”What are you guys talking about? What happened in your place before?” Chen Ge lifted the recorder up, he was ready to convince the haunted house staff to take the recorder out first.
Seeing Chen Ge walking over with the recorder, the two haunted house actors’ expressions froze on their faces.
”Put that thing down!” The actress’s voice was shrill, “The voice inside the recorder wasn’t recorded by us!”
Of course Chen Ge knew that the voice wasn’t recorded by them, but he couldn’t show it, “In your haunted house, the voice in the recorder wasn’t recorded by you, could it have been recorded by a ghost?”
The haunted house actors were dumbfounded, a moment later it was the woman who stepped forward, she ignored the male actor’s obstruction and said under her breath, “When we were in Xinhai, there was once a tourist who was scared to tears and came out to tell us that a certain actor acted really well, the truth is that we don’t have that actor in our haunted house at all! We asked the tourists what that actor looked like and found that the person the tourists described was exactly the same as Xu Zhenzhen in the newspaper!”
Chen Ge looked odd: “Is that tourist backstabbing you guys? Joking with you guys.”
”There’s more than one case, from one day onwards, more and more tourists have seen Xu Zhenzhen.” The male actor pulled out the Jade Buddha around his neck, “Each of us has something placed on us to ward off evil spirits, but strangely enough, until now, none of us haunted house actors have seen Xu Zhen Zhen.”
”Since it’s really possible to be haunted, why did you guys write Jenny Xu’s name all over the haunted house after you moved to Jiujiang? Aren’t you guys afraid of bringing that ghost to Jiujiang as well?” Chen Ge felt that there was something wrong with this group of people, “You guys aren’t acting now, are you? The notes, the recordings, all of them were made by yourselves just to scare me.”
”Absolutely not.” The two actors were so aggrieved that they wanted to cry, “First of all, you should first understand one thing, our haunted house is because the first stop is in Xinhai, in order to attract tourists, that’s why we thought of combining real events to increase the sense of terror. That incident of Xu Zhenzhen’s bizarre suicide is especially famous in Xinhai, almost just seeing the name can evoke memories buried deep in the hearts of local tourists.”
The male actor blushed badly, “We were also forced to do this, fewer and fewer people came to play in the haunted house in the past two years, the scenes were updated several times, and basically everything we could think of and do had already been tried. Seeing the decrease in visitors, we always have to look like a way to maintain popularity.”
”So you guys are content to move real deaths into the haunted house and make a dark line?” Chen Ge felt that this group of people were even bolder than himself, and he at least had the cards to deal with it.
”As it turns out, the positive reviews climbed after combining the real case, and there are many tourists who will bring their friends over for a second and third brush in order to crack the dark line and find out Xu Zhenzhen’s secret.”
”So hot why do you guys still come to Jiujiang? How good is it to honestly stay in Xinhai and earn money?” The recorder in Chen Ge’s voice kept making heartbreaking sounds, but it was as if he couldn’t hear them.
The two haunted house actors didn’t know what to say when they looked at Chen Ge, and every time Chen Ge took a step forward, the two of them took a step back in unison.
”Many tourists saw Zhen Zhen Xu in the haunted house, and this accident made our haunted house the most well-reviewed and popular haunted house in the circle. But it didn’t last long, we drew the ire of Zhen Zhen Xu’s family for being so famous, and her sister found us.”
The actress told the hidden secrets of Tanto Hospital’s past, and Chen Ge casually turned the pickup off as she listened.
”The two sides negotiated, and Xu Zhenzhen’s sister felt that we had violated her sister’s and father’s honor, and offered high compensation, as well as for us to change the interior design of the haunted house.”
”And the person in charge of us only agreed to remove Zhen Zhen Xu’s name, compensation and changing the overall design was impossible.”
”Xu Zhen Zhen’s sister was ready to solve the problem through legal channels in a fit of rage, and I’m not sure about what happened afterward, anyway, it didn’t take long for the haunted house to close down.”
The woman should not have lied, large-scale mobile haunted houses had trouble approving, and could easily be closed if something went wrong, this point was best known to Chen Ge, because his parents had operated a mobile haunted house in their early years, and had been accumulating enough fame before settling in New Century Paradise and starting to work with the park.
”We packed up the props, changed the layout of the scene, changed the name and went to another city, but the effect was very poor, it only lasted for two weeks, and there were hardly any tourists to visit.”
”The person in charge discussed with us and felt that the problem was still with Jenny Xu, so we went to Jiujiang, a long way from Xinhai, and recreated the scene at its peak.”
The two haunted house actors had retreated to the door, and they both looked at Chen Ge, who had a handheld recorder, and said whatever they had to say.