Chapter 0504: Key Clues!
”The first ending Boo was taken away by Red Raincoat and became her daughter; the second ending Boo was made into a sculpture and turned into an artist’s work, both of which are undoubtedly bad endings.” There was a hint of powerlessness in Fan Cong’s voice, “Reading the file to restart, Boo was awake in her room again, and I maneuvered her to begin her third attempt.”
Fan Cong was a fan of the game, and this game had an inexplicable attraction to him, both fearful and curious at the same time.
”Unlike last time, I chose the relatively dilapidated East Street this time when choosing to travel to East and West Streets.”
”The buildings on both sides are gray and black, with mottled siding and complicated wiring.”
”The game is a free-for-all, open world full of death traps, and as a player you never know what horrors you might encounter, and in what way you might meet your demise.”
”One thing I also realized after playing for so long is that in this game, people are scarier than ghosts. When you see a ghost, there’s still a chance of escape, but meeting a person is almost a certain death.” Fan Cong said all that was on his mind.
”The game maker’s view of people is rather biased, perhaps it has something to do with his own experience.” Chen Ge signaled Fan Cong to continue on, “What is the third ending for Boo?”
”I maneuvered Boo to walk aimlessly through the streets, and when I passed an apartment building, a man with a thin body hurried out of the building, who seemed to be trying to grab a hold of the town.”
”In other games, this is a very ordinary NPC, but in this game’s, as long as it’s a living person more or less, there are problems.”
”The man ran past Boo and a message popped up at the bottom of the screen – why would they need so many kids? Damn, the cops are coming, I should have known better than to take this deal.”
”After the man left, two more options appeared on the computer screen: enter the building and move on.”
”Out of curiosity, I chose to enter the building.”
”The apartment building was filled with trash and looked very run down, I maneuvered Boo to the top floor and noticed that the door to the roof was open.”
”Continuing inside, I saw a small vegetable garden on the roof of the building, but all the vegetables and flowers planted in it had all wilted, and next to the garden were several large water tanks placed side by side, probably used by the residents of the building to pickle something, with a large stone pressed on each tank.”
”At first I didn’t think much of it, the roof of the building was windy, and the stone pressed could prevent the lid from blowing away. But when I passed the tank, another dialog box popped up at the bottom of the screen – Boo heard a cell phone ringing from the tank.”
”Knowing I might have triggered the plot, I looked around for tools to move the rocks off the lid of the tank.” Fan Cong had a very depressing expression as he spoke, “You wouldn’t have guessed what was hiding in the water tank.”
”A child?” Chen Ge’s expression also changed, this third story that Fan Cong told was exactly the story of the cell phone ghost! That poor little boy on the roof of the building who was hidden in the water tank was the cell phone ghost.
Fan Cong glanced at Chen Ge in surprise, then nodded: “There was a little boy with twisted limbs stuffed inside, and the boy was holding a cell phone in his chest.”
”His face was bruised, his skin was grayish-white, his limbs were twisted, and when I manipulated Boo to find him, he was already dead.” Fan Cong cried out, “I manipulated Boo to remove the cell phone from the boy’s body, the caller ID was from the child’s mother, at that time I answered the call, probably because of this action, triggered something.”
”Footsteps came from the hallway and the man who had just run down the stairs poked his head out of that door on the roof, he had a horrible look on his face, his hands were around Boo’s neck and he shoved Boo into the second water tank.”
”Boo was shoved into the water tank, which was the third bad ending.” Fan Cong didn’t want to say any more, he felt that this game was torturing human nature, torturing a “human being” in the most extremely cold way.
After listening carefully to Boo’s third ending, Chen Ge thought for a long time, put the water in his hand aside, and his tone became serious: “Fan Cong, I think it’s better for you to call the police, I will accompany you.”
The child Fan Cong found in the water tank was the cell phone ghost, all the features matched, and during his narration, Chen Ge also noticed one detail in particular.
When the murderer of the cell phone ghost first met with Boo, a phrase came out of his mouth – why would they need so many children?
This sentence revealed a very important message that there was another real culprit behind the child abduction case! And this real culprit was most likely the culprit who turned the entire Liwan Town into a ghostly place!
”That brute who caused the cell phone ghost should still be in prison, it looks like we’ll have to make a trip to the city precinct today.” If he wanted to meet that murderer, Chen Ge’s power alone wouldn’t do, he had to rely on Team Yan to make it possible.
”So many cases hidden in a small game, the eastern suburb is far too dangerous than the western suburb.”
Comparing the two places, Chen Ge realized that all the weird and scary scenes in the western suburb were confined to a certain range, which might also have something to do with his parents. On the other hand, the eastern suburb was completely different, the various horror scenes merged with each other, expanding silently in the darkness of the night, and there seemed to be a certain horror in the shadows that was fueling it, and the final result was that the eastern suburb looked all normal in the daytime, but after nighttime, the boundaries between humans and ghosts began to blur.
”I just want to run my own haunted house peacefully, but if I let them continue to expand like this, sooner or later, it will affect me.” Chen Ge found a reason for his initiative, “People are divided into good and bad, good and evil, so are ghosts, after the House of Horrors is upgraded to the Trembling Labyrinth, it can have more red coats and stern ghosts, so after getting rid of the evil ghosts, I can provide a home for those displaced good ghosts.”
Chen Ge and Fan Cong both fell into deep thought, only that the two were thinking completely different things.
After a few minutes, Fan Cong opened his mouth first: “Boss Chen, this matter of calling the police, you let me reconsider.”
”Why should I consider it? Hidden murders in a game, this is serious.” Chen Ge was a bit puzzled.
”I’ll think about it again.” Fan Cong seemed to have something hard to say, and it was probably because there was a certain reason for this that he came to Chen Ge in the first place instead of just calling the police.
The sun shone on his body, but Fan Cong couldn’t feel the slightest bit of warmth.
”It’s fine, take your time to think about it, just give me an answer within three days, I’m afraid something bad will happen if it’s any later.” Chen Ge was really worried that Fan Cong was being targeted by certain things, after all, this game recorded too many things that were so real that they were cruel.
”En.” Fan Cong bit his fingers, last time when he visited the haunted house, Chen Ge realized that Fan Cong had this habit, once he was nervous, he would bite his hand.