Chapter 0249 – Midnight Taxi

　　Tomorrow, the park would start doing large-scale publicity and promotion for his haunted house, which was a rare opportunity for Chen Ge.

　　Director Luo had placed all his hopes on him, and he naturally didn’t want to disappoint the other party.

　　”After tonight’s successful expansion of the horror house, the West Suburban Private Academy should be able to successfully unlock and add a new two-star horror scene, which will be very helpful for my plans tomorrow.”

　　There was also the possibility of obtaining a special building after the second expansion, and Chen Ge was also very excited about this.

　　”The Midnight Ticket Hall can solicit and attract special tourists for me, I don’t know what function the new building has.”

　　After eating and continuing to start business, the repeater Chen Ge had ordered online was finally delivered at around 3pm, so he could also call Xu Yin out to help at any time.

　　”It always feels weird to carry a repeater on a quest, but it’s much better than carrying a tape recorder around.”

　　The haunted house closed at 6:30 p.m. There were too many tourists, and Chen Ge was shutting down later and later.

　　Seeing that it was slowly getting dark, Chen Ge dismissed the idea of going to the Linjiang Blood Defense Station, which was far away from the Western Suburbs House of Horrors, plus he couldn’t be sure about the identity of Number Ten at the moment, so he didn’t act rashly.

　　After cleaning up, Chen Ge entered the middle of the underground scene.

　　”The haunted house in Tanto Hospital is very game-like and interactive, this point my horror house still has room for improvement, if I add some more elements of exploration and puzzle solving, the visitors should enjoy it even more.”

　　Chen Ge was busy in the haunted house, checking all the scare points until almost ten o’clock.

　　”Xu Wan is in charge of the Underworld Wedding scene, I’m in charge of the underground Twilight Sun Middle School and the third sick building, and I still need one more person to play the homicidal maniac in the Midnight Escape scene.” There weren’t many people Chen Ge could completely trust, Uncle Xu was old and his personality couldn’t relate to a homicidal maniac, in comparison it was still Gu Feiyu who was a bit more suitable.

　　”This kid doesn’t have much experience, but with the Little family helping out in Midnight Escape, the experience shouldn’t be too bad.” Chen Ge was now worried, fearing that Gu Feiyu would also be frightened by the Tiny family.

　　”There are too few excellent employees, it’s still Ghosts and Monsters that are comfortable to use.”

　　Returning to the staff lounge, he looked through the information among his cell phone, and a picture message sent to him by Team Yan made him vaguely uneasy.

　　”The Weird Tales Association has their eyes on me, if they mix in amongst the tourists and mess up for me at a critical time, then my plans with Director Luo will be all but ruined, it’s better to get rid of them sooner rather than later.”

　　The mental patients in the third sick building were capable of doing anything, and with so many tourists, it was impossible for Chen Ge to distinguish them from each and every one of them.

　　The only way to avoid such a situation now was to bring those lunatics to justice ahead of time.

　　”Number twelve is the podcaster of the Ghost Story column, and number five is the program director of the Midnight Radio Station, why don’t we start with the two of them first?” Chen Ge searched Ghost Talk Radio with his cell phone, and among the homepage previews there was a message that caught his attention.

　　Usually Ghost Talk started broadcasting from twelve midnight, but today it was an hour ahead of schedule, and the reason given by the program team was that Lychee was away on vacation yesterday, so they made up an extra hour for the listeners today.

　　”This reason makes sense.”

　　Chen Ge didn’t think much about it at first, and it was only after seeing the column preview that he felt something was wrong; the first five of the stories Lychee was going to tell tonight were all related to cabs.

　　”Today is a cab special?” Chen Ge counted the time, the stories related to cabs were all placed before midnight, it felt like it was purposely arranged.

　　Turning on the radio station, Chen Ge laid down on the bed and closed his eyes.

　　At ten fifty-five, the woman’s melodious voice came out on the radio.

　　”We met in the night and parted before dawn, we parted in this moment and reunited in the next.”

　　”Hello everyone, this is the midnight podcast Lychee.”

　　The woman’s voice was melodious, she didn’t show off any tricks, just opening her mouth and speaking made people feel comfortable.

　　”Born with a good voice, it’s a pity.” Chen Ge rested his arm and continued to listen.

　　”Jiujiang has a long history, and there are still a lot of former buildings in the old city center, among which there is an old street called Sophora Alley that is the most famous, except that it is famous not because of the history and culture, but because there were several very strange things that happened there.”

　　”Named Sophora Alley, there was not a single Sophora tree in the alley, and the old generation of Jiujiang people couldn’t say why they gave it such a name.”

　　The woman’s story continued, her broadcasting style hard for others to imitate.

　　The beginning is bland, as if she is slowly weaving a mesh net, letting the listener unknowingly burrow into it, sinking deeper and deeper step by step, and then finally violently tying the net tightly, detonating all the shock points.

　　Lychee’s first story takes place in Sophora Lane, where a driver picks up a customer near Sophora Lane in the middle of the night, and the other party says that she has forgotten something somewhere and wants the driver to drive her back to get it.

　　After saying a rough location, the driver drove the passenger to the car, but the passenger was very strange, and continuously changed several places to say no, things are not there.

　　When the driver’s patience was about to run out, the passenger said the last location – the bus stop next to the crematorium.

　　The story ends on a bit of a tangent, as the passenger eventually finds his lost item there, it burrows into the driver’s body and drives off, while the driver is put in its place in the lost urn.

　　”The story is okay, the main thing is that Lychee tells it as if it’s true.” Chen Ge suddenly realized a problem after listening, was it possible that Lychee’s story was true?

　　This cab driver thing happened in Jiujiang, and Locust Lane did exist.

　　”Could she have heard her story from other members of the Weird Tales Association?”

　　Lychee had already started her second story, which also took place in Locust Flower Alley, and the protagonist of the story was also a driver who ran a nighttime taxi.

　　”Not quite right.”

　　Chen Ge had spoken to Team Yan on the phone, and the other party had divulged a piece of information to him, that most of the cases related to the Weird Tales Association happened on Wednesdays, and that day of the week seemed to have a special significance for them.

　　”Today’s Ghost Talk is an hour earlier, before twelve midnight is still considered Wednesday, are they preparing to strike today?”

　　After listening to Lychee’s second story, Chen Ge felt even more suspicious, the stories she told ended up with the ghosts getting a new lease of life, while innocent living people became victims.

　　”Locust Lane, Taxi Driver ……”

　　Chen Ge thought for a moment and grabbed his jacket and draped it over his body, “Human life is at stake, it’s better to go and take a look, there might be unexpected gains.”

　　He put the repeater, tape and ballpoint pen all into his backpack and rushed out of the staff lounge.

　　With the experience of the last time, he tucked the skull-crushing hammer diagonally into his bag again as he passed the props room.