Chapter 0484 – Midnight Hearse
Chen Ge finally walked up to Fan Da De and Fan Cong, the two visitors were in a more serious condition.
Fan Da De’s eyes were empty, staring blankly at the ceiling, seemingly thinking about life and the future, while his younger brother Fan Cong had returned to normal, except that his body would spasm from time to time, which looked a bit scary.
”Better?” Chen Ge carried a teapot of hot water and sat next to the hospital bed, Fan Da De looked at Chen Ge stupefied, he really couldn’t connect what he had just experienced with this kindly man behind the scenes in front of him.
”Thanks for your concern, it’s already much better.” After being scared several times in a row, Fan Cong seemed to have mistakenly come out of the haze of his lost love, re-understood the preciousness of life, and found the meaning of living.
”That’s good.” Chen Ge poured two cups of hot water on the table and prepared to leave, the House of Horrors was still open for business, he couldn’t leave for too long.
”Boss Chen, wait a moment.” Fan Cong sat up from the hospital bed and looked at Chen Ge.
”Something wrong?”
”Can I ask you a question.” Fan Cong’s fat hands gripped the edge of the hospital bed and thought for a long time before speaking, “You designed so many ghosts and mechanisms in the haunted house, so do you personally believe that there are real ghosts in this world?”
”The question of whether there are ghosts in the world has been asked of me by many tourists.” Chen Ge looked at Fan Cong with some surprise, this chubby geek seemed to have unknown experiences, “I don’t know the answer, maybe there is, but I have never seen it.”
”Never seen it?” Fan Cong’s expression was slightly disappointed.
”Why would you suddenly ask this question?” More than whether there were ghosts in the world, Chen Ge was more curious about what had happened to Fan Cong, this person looked ordinary, but after suffering repeated scares, he could still maintain his sanity, which was very impressive.
”It’s nothing really, I’ve recently been playing a small game produced by a suspected homicidal maniac, which probably recorded the process of his murder.” Fan Cong’s one sentence drew the attention of everyone in the sick room.
”A game made by a homicidal maniac?” Chen Ge got interested, “But what does this have to do with whether there are ghosts in the world?”
”Maybe the graphics are too gloomy, I would hear the sound of a child crying during long raids of the overclaim, at first I thought it was the game’s own sound effects, it wasn’t until I removed the headset and stepped out of the room that I realized something wasn’t right, and that sound would still appear in my ears.” Fan Cong said these words for the first time, his expression was strange, “I suspected that I was hallucinating, but the doctor examined me and told me that there wasn’t any problem with my body, which means that that child’s voice was real.”
”Can you tell me what that voice said to you?” Chen Ge stopped at the door of the hospital room.
”She cries all the time and always appears at night.”
”What was that game about?” Chen Ge asked another question.
”On the surface, it’s a little dress-up game where you can dress up your own daughter, and after completing various little tasks, you’ll be rewarded with all sorts of clothes, dresses, gowns, school uniforms, and so on.”
”Raising a daughter? Dressing up mini-games?” Chen Ge looked at Fan Cong suspiciously, “Why would you go and play such a game?”
”That’s not important, what’s important is that the game rewarded me with the last piece of clothing after I cleared all the mini-games.” Fan Cong held his head and inserted his fingers amongst his hair, “The name of that dress was called Mommy’s Pajamas, and while obtaining it, a line popped up on the game screen saying that Boo had found a key to the dungeon in Mommy’s Pajamas.”
”Boo is the name you gave to your own daughter in the game?” Chen Ge was very curious.
”No.” Fan Cong shook his head, “During that time, I had just broken up with my girlfriend of four years, and I named my daughter in the game after my girlfriend, called Liu Jiaru.”
”You named your daughter after your girlfriend?” Chen Ge was also shocked, he sat on the edge of the bed and decided to inquire properly.
”Don’t care about those details, I was also wondering at the time, I obviously named the game character Liu Jia Ru, why did it change its name to Boo on its own when it passed the level? I googled the game’s cheats, but I didn’t find any information related to this game.” Fan Cong saw Chen Ge reveal a puzzled look and explained again, “I found this game on a small game forum, there are a lot of small games made by players themselves on there, some of them have modified difficulty and are very suitable for self-mutilation.”
”You cleared a nurturing dress-up handheld game and obtained a key to a dungeon, so then what happened later?” Chen Ge took a sip of hot water and listened quietly.
”That game scene wasn’t big, it was a small town, all the quests were completed in the middle of the town, after I obtained the key to the dungeon, I let the girl whose name had changed put on her mom’s pajamas, walked out of her room, and started searching for the dungeon entrance.” Fan Cong shrank at the head of the bed, his expression slowly appeared to change: “The picture style of that game is very warm, sunny, flowers, everyone in the town is very warm and friendly, help each other, I just fell out of love at that time, but also because I saw such a healing picture so I decided to continue to play, I was thinking of playing the game to divert my attention, but who ever thought that more painful and horrible things happened.”
”Don’t you lay out the groundwork, just say the result directly.” Chen Ge was anxious to hear what happened behind him.
”I spent a week clicking every place in the town with my mouse, and finally found the entrance to the dungeon behind the closet on the first floor of Boo’s classmate’s house.” Fan Cong raised his head to look at Chen Ge, “At that time, another line popped up on the screen, telling me that I had found the entrance to the dungeon, should I use the dungeon key?”
Hands clenched and unclenched, I could tell that Fan Cong was very nervous, “I used the key, and after pressing confirm, the closet was opened and I maneuvered Boo into the back of the closet. My computer completely blacked out at that moment, for about a second or two, and when the screen came back up again, the game picture was completely different from before.”
”Is it a blood-colored world behind the closet?” Chen Ge thought of the Door.
”No.” Fan Cong shook his head, “Everything behind the closet is dark, there are wilted sunflowers thrown on the ground, and the walls are thick.”
”After stepping out of the ground floor, outside was a dusty road with streetlights that would be spaced far apart on either side of the road.”
”I could tell that I was still in the town, only it was dark and the buildings around me looked and felt completely different than during the day.”
”I maneuvered Boo to continue down the road, and up ahead was a station with a somewhat worn bus parked next to the stop sign.”