Chapter 0271 Is it in or out?
Simply installing the locks, Chen Ge and Xiao Gu dragged the members of the Weird Talk Association back to the first floor and locked them into the dressing room.
”Boss, is it safe to lock them in like this?” Xiao Gu shook the door lock, “I mean do we need to get ropes to tie them up?”
Chen Ge clearly felt Gu Feiyu’s progress, he took off the skull crushing doctor’s uniform he was wearing and handed it to Xiao Gu: “Don’t worry about it, you put on the uniform and go back to the scene on the third floor, the tourists should be waiting impatiently.”
”No problem, leave it to me.”
This time Xiao Gu changed into the skull crushing doctor uniform without much refusal and behaved very positively, a different person from when he came over in the morning. It made Chen Ge a bit skeptical that he was possessed by the ghosts of the Weird Tales Association.
”Strange, you went into the haunted house scene before just like going to the torture chamber, how come it’s changed so much now?”
”Has it?” Xiao Gu scratched his head in embarrassment, he was wearing a skull crushing doctor’s suit, making such an action brought Chen Ge a serious sense of incongruity: “Actually, I initially thought that haunted houses were just scaring people to death, and felt that it was bad to earn money by doing so, but then after I saw you persuade and that couple, I suddenly felt that our haunted houses were quite cozy at times. ”
”It seems that you have always had a misunderstanding about haunted houses, fear can make people remove the thick disguise they usually wear, here you just need to let go of your worries and scream to your heart’s content.” Chen Ge said in a serious manner, “With the fast-paced life, all kinds of pressures that one has to face, in this city, there has to be a place for people to vent their frustrations without fear before they can do so. You think we’re making money by scaring people, but in fact, we’re not, we’re just adding vitality to their numb hearts.”
Patting Gu Feiyu’s shoulder, Chen Ge’s face showed a smile as warm as the early sun, “Use all your strength to bring fright to the tourists, that couple just now is a good example, no one will cherish what is easily obtained, so only in the deepest despair, it is possible to encounter the most beautiful accident.”
”En!” After listening to Chen Ge’s words, Gu Feiyu nodded his head heavily a few times, and he suddenly felt that his job was very sacred: “I will definitely play my role seriously!”
”Cheer up.” Looking at Gu Feiyu’s energetic appearance, Chen Ge was quite pleased, “Young people are just more hot-blooded, by the way, you set my number as a one-touch dialer, and if you encounter anything that can’t be solved in the haunted house, report back to me immediately.”
”Good.”
The couple’s quarrel was just an episode for Chen Ge, what he didn’t expect was that through this little episode, it made Gu Feiyu completely identify with the haunted house.
Of course, what Gu recognized was the haunted house that Boss Chen had “portrayed” for him.
Lifting the thick curtains, Chen Ge walked out of the house of horrors, the lounge was full of waiting tourists, the publicity effect was surprisingly good.
Many tourists who couldn’t wait also started to visit other programs, people came and went, although it could not be compared to the peak of the New Century Land, but it already made the staff of the park very satisfied.
Everyone was busy after a long time, and the park that had been built for ten years was revitalized.
After losing two members again, the Weird Tales Association didn’t continue to try Chen Ge, perhaps they realized what the problem was, if they continued to try like this, it wouldn’t take more than a few days, it was estimated that the entire association would have no more members.
At 6:30 pm, the number of visitors in front of the haunted house was still high, but Chen Ge stopped receiving visitors for safety reasons.
The paradise began to clear out, and only at seven o’clock did the tourists leave one after another.
Today’s number of visitors broke the record of New Century Paradise in the past six months, and at noon Uncle Xu was called away by Luo Dong, and they seemed to start discussing the next step of the publicity plan.
”Good job for the two of you!”
Closing the guardrail, Chen Ge counted today’s income, the online payment and cash added up to nearly fifteen thousand dollars.
This figure was a little less than expected, mainly because Chen Ge had limited the number of visitors per entry in order to ensure the visitor experience.
Underworld marriage scene can only go in at most four people at a time, the upper limit of the number of people in the Midnight Escape is seven, and the Twilight Sun Middle School scene ended up being too high due to the outcry of the tourists, and the upper limit of the number of people entering the same batch was adjusted upwards to twelve people.
The first two scenes twenty minutes a scene, on the contrary, Twilight Sun Middle School because the venue is too large, the number of tourists entering at a time is large, the length of the visit needs to be forty minutes on average.
The efficiency of making money was a little lower, but the positive feedback rate continued to go up, and more and more people began to actively help Chen Ge publicize, sending out dynamics and microblogs, and amusing friends and family around them with the House of Horrors.
This is a virtuous cycle, ordinary haunted houses because of the limited number of scenes, once the freshness has passed, the number of visitors will gradually decline, but Chen Ge’s haunted house because of the presence of horror scenes graded uniforms, as long as he can continue to ensure that there is a more horrifying scene, the number of tourists who come to visit his haunted house will only be increasing.
For him, a good reputation was much more important than momentary benefits.
After a full day of business, only one team had found eighteen school licenses, and this team included the students from Jiujiang Medical College who had come with Yang Chen, as well as the passersby who had tried before.
Chen Ge asked them if they would continue to challenge the next scene, and that team of devastated tourists all decisively refused.
The day’s business ended successfully, and when Xu Wan and Xiao Gu left, Chen Ge used his cell phone to transfer two more bonuses to them.
After dealing with all the trivial matters, Chen Ge opened the door of the dressing room, Wei Wu and Kong Xiangming had already woken up, only after the symbiotic ghosts and monsters disappeared, their sanity was also heavily damaged, they looked demented, as if they couldn’t remember anything.
Getting the two out of the haunted house, Chen Ge took them to the city precinct to look for Team Yan in person.
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Xiao Gu skipped along the road, touching his face from time to time, after wearing the mask for the whole day, now even after removing it, it still felt as if something was attached to his face.
”Where to stay at night? After falling out with Supervisor Huang, it’s not good to go back to the security dormitory again, Brother Chen helped me so much, and I just can’t open my mouth to find someone to pay me in advance.”
He stuck his hands in his pockets and was in the middle of his agony when his cell phone received a transfer message.
”Brother Chen gave me a bonus? It’s only my first day here.” Xiao Gu looked at the eight hundred yuan transfer message on his phone, this money was enough to rent a fairly decent house in the western suburbs of Jiujiang.
He remembered what happened to him when he first arrived at the security team, and with the comparison, Xiao Gu was even more moved in his heart.
”Boss Chen is really a good person!”
Putting away his cell phone, Xiao Gu walked towards the Fang Hua Yuan district security dormitory, he was going to pack up his things and move out tomorrow.
Only at eight o’clock in the evening did Xiao Gu return to the dormitory building rented by the security guards of Fang Hua Yuan, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Supervisor Huang standing in the room with a foul face.
”Where did you go?” Dressed in a suit and with polished leather shoes, Supervisor Huang seemed to look down on Gu Feiyu a bit from the start.
”I was looking for you, I’ve already found a new job, I’ll move out from here tomorrow.” Gu Feiyu’s own temper was stubborn and his speech was direct.
Old Wang was also in the dormitory, he hurried over, tugged at Gu Feiyu, and in a low voice, he compensated Supervisor Huang: “Don’t take it to heart, Xiao Gu doesn’t know any better.”
He glared at Gu Feiyu, “Why don’t you know how to change this temper of yours?”
”There’s no need to change, my temple is small and can’t accommodate this big Buddha.” Supervisor Huang placed a piece of paper in his hand on the table, “You just don’t go out and look for a job, I won’t keep you, fill out this form and get the hell out of here tomorrow.”
Pushing Lao Wang away, Supervisor Huang walked to the door and stopped again, “There’s one more thing to notify, Lao Wang, he was introduced by you. The money deducted for this kid’s private absenteeism, as well as the treatment costs for going to the hospital’s emergency room, all of it will be deducted from your paycheck.”
”What does this have to do with Uncle Wang? You can just deduct my salary.” Xiao Gu forced himself to say.
”Deduct your salary? When you came to sign the contract written clearly, a full month to be considered regular, now you do not have enough time to leave without authorization, really think the contract is a piece of waste paper? Do you really think the contract is a piece of paper? You then count how many problems you have caused in less than a month?” Supervisor Huang walked towards the outside without looking back, “You still want to be paid? Dream on?”
Gu Feiyu turned around, he wanted to severely beat up Supervisor Huang, but was stopped by Old Wang.
”Endure the wind and waves for a while, take a step back and the sky is the limit.”
”Uncle, it’s really fine that he doesn’t pay me, what I’m angry about is that he made you pay for those penalties!”
”How old are you, still so impulsive.” Old Wang told Gu Feiyu to sit down and closed the door to the dormitory himself, “It’s not easy to earn money these days, so tell me what kind of job you’ve found. If the treatment is good, uncle will also go over to help.”
Old Wang was worried about Gu Feiyu, afraid that he would be cheated, so he politely wanted to explore Gu Feiyu’s situation.
Mentioning his new job, Xiao Gu’s anger slowly subsided, “I’m working as an actor in a haunted house, just pretending to be a ghost to scare people, and the boss is especially nice, giving me a red packet on my first day of work today.”
”Really?” Old Wang was a bit puzzled, “You’re an honest kid, it’s best to keep an eye out when you go to work for someone else, don’t get them into trouble, and be careful about encountering crooks.”
”Won’t be.”
Old Wang said a lot uneasily, and it was almost half past eight before he changed into his security uniform and prepared to go out.
”Uncle, I remember that you’re the one working during the day today? Why are you still going at night?”
”The neighborhood has just recently mixed in a murderer, and now people are on edge, and one person on the night shift isn’t quite enough.”
”Why don’t I take over for you for one night!” Xiao Gu felt guilty in his heart, if it wasn’t for him, Old Wang wouldn’t have been fined.
”You have a good rest, go to work tomorrow to give people a good impression.”
Old Wang took the thermos cup and went out, halfway to the door and ran back to explain: “If you are not used to the new job, remember to call me, I still have some contacts in this area.”
”Don’t worry, even if that job is tiring, it’s still tens of thousands of times better than being a security guard.”
”Brat.”
Old Wang shook his head and really left this time.
He slowly and leisurely came to the back door of Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, chatted with the security guard who was on shift, and then guarded the security booth at the back door alone.
There were two security guards on night shift, one at each of the front and back doors, and they couldn’t touch each other.
The night was getting darker and darker, and the back door, where few people passed by, had become even more deserted.
Recently there has been a murderer mixing into the neighborhood, Wang dare not slacken, sitting by the window, from time to time to look up at the back door of the neighborhood.
After a day shift, coupled with age, it did not take long for Lao Wang to lie down on the table.
Around eleven o’clock at night, the wooden table of the cell phone suddenly sounded, the old king woke up from the dream, he took the imitation police baton towards the surrounding look, dim street lamp, a person is not.
”Scared me.”
Old Wang opened his thermos and took a sip of hot water, looking to his cell phone, a message was received on WeChat.
”In or out?”
He was older and usually didn’t play WeChat much, “Who is this sending me a message?”
The other side of the dynamic prohibit outsiders to browse, the old king looked at the person’s name and avatar, really can not think of this WeChat friend who: “I WeChat in addition to family, a piece of out of the workers, it seems to be left in the neighborhood a few more familiar owners.”
Hands holding the cell phone, the old king thought for half a day did not think of who the other side is, always think it should be acquaintances.
He put his cell phone on the table and wanted to use voice input, but he felt that it was not very polite at night, so he simply put both hands together and slowly gave the other party a sentence back.
”Yes, what can I do for you?”
After waiting for a few seconds, the other party sent a new message.
”I’m a resident of the twenty-third floor of building number three, I don’t know what’s going on in the house across the street, the child in the house has been crying, but I don’t hear the adult’s voice, you quickly call someone to take a look.”
A child crying? Twenty-third floor of building number three?
As soon as Old Wang saw these words, he thought that it should be a message from the owner, as there had been similar situations before.
”Okay, I’ll be right there.”
Out of caution, Old Wang sent a message to the security guard who was on duty at the front door, and then called Supervisor Huang again, but Supervisor Huang did not answer.
”Building number three again, why is this building so full of trouble?”
Old Wang picked up the imitation baton and ran to the third building, he had heard the legend about the elevator in the third building, but the message said that the incident was on the twenty-third floor, time was running out and it was definitely too late to take the stairs.
”It’s better to wait and take the elevator up with Old Wei.”
Lao Wang stood at the elevator entrance waiting for the front door security guard to come over, but at this time the phone rang again.
”In or out?”
”In.”
”The kid is crying even harder, something may have happened! Where are you guys?”
Looking at the phone, Lao Wang pressed the elevator button, and the elevator happened to stop on the first floor.
”Don’t be in a hurry, I’ll be right there.”
Entering the elevator, looking at the silver gray elevator door slowly closing, Lao Wang’s heartbeat is getting faster and faster, in the middle of the confined environment, he feels that breathing has become a little difficult.
The number on the display screen quickly changed to “23”, and the elevator doors slowly opened on both sides.
The dark hallway was unusually quiet, and Lao Wang carefully stepped out of the elevator.
He turned on his flashlight, and instead of bringing him a sense of security, the light made him feel even more uneasy.
”I’m already on the twenty-third floor, so report your room number.”
”3239.”
Bravely, Lao Wang moved a little bit into the darkness, he swept through one room after another with the help of the flashlight’s bright light, and felt like walking farther inward before finding room 3239.
”There’s no sound of crying, ah?”
He pressed against the door and listened for a while, room 3239 was very quiet, there was no child’s voice at all.
”Mischief? Or has something happened already?”
Old Wang wasn’t too sure, he took out his cell phone and was about to go ask the other person, when the person sent him another message.
”In or out?”
”I’m already in room 3239, are you mistaken?” Typing was too slow, so Old Wang directly sent a voice.
But not long after the voice on his side was sent, his own voice sounded behind him.
”Someone?”
Slowly turning around, Old Wang saw that the door to the room across from 3239 was half open, and there was a miserable white figure squatting in the doorway with a cell phone.
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At eleven fifteen, Xiao Gu was about to go to sleep when his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
He opened it to see that it was a message from Old Wang, the content was very simple, only three words.
”In or out?”