Chapter 0602 – The Ghost
Chen Ge rushed back to New Century Paradise at 8:40 a.m. At this time, the park had not yet opened, but there were already many tourists waiting at the entrance.
Chen Ge smiled as he looked at the excited tourists who were chatting with their friends.
His own work could bring happiness to the tourists and help them drive away their unhappiness, which made him feel very accomplished.
Among the crowd, Chen Ge also saw some familiar faces, and the topics these tourists talked about tended to focus on the House of Horrors.
The emergence of a large number of repeat visitors also proved that the implementation of the horror grading system in the haunted house was correct. Those who had challenged the low-starred horror scenes would surely be curious about the high-starred scenes, and with mutual encouragement from their friends, the possibility of them visiting the haunted house again was very high.
Luo Dong’s small program tailored for the house of horrors also somehow caught fire, not only for the tourists of the house of horrors, but also for many fans of paranormal phenomena and other cultures on the Internet, and this small program has a tendency to become the largest haunted house enthusiasts’ exchange community in China.
The number of daily downloads and the number of active people are increasing, and it is said that there are advertisers who have found Luo Dong to seek cooperation, but he was directly rejected.
Luo Dong looked very far, the horror house is now the signboard of the park, the small program is only auxiliary, all is for the horror house service, so he will never affect the user experience because of the district advertising fees.
”Boss, where did you run off to last night again?” Xu Wan and Xiao Gu guarded next to the guardrail of the haunted house, one on the left and one on the right, similar to the door god.
”I can’t tell you guys, go read it on the news yourselves after a while.” Chen Ge’s reply was very arrogant.
”Is it legal news?” Although Xiao Gu did not come to the haunted house for a long time, he had gotten used to these operations of his boss, and when he shared a room with someone, his roommate sometimes found it strange that while most young people were brushing short videos, playing games, and reading novels, Gu Feiyu turned on the TV as soon as he went back to watch the news on the local station in Jiujiang. His roommates don’t understand Xiao Gu, just as normal people can seldom appreciate the feelings when they see their boss appearing in a legal program.
After putting makeup on Xiao Gu and Xu Wan, the park was officially opened, and Uncle Xu and the staff were outside to maintain order, so Chen Ge himself was free.
Watching the tourists come in and out, Chen Ge felt that this kind of life was quite good.
”A haunted house can always attract tourists by relying on the unknown and novelty, only by constantly unlocking new scenes can we maintain vigor.” Chen Ge took out his black cell phone and flipped through the quests on it, of which the deadline for the Psychic Ghost School quest was almost up, a four-star quest that Chen Ge wouldn’t give up no matter what.
”We can’t put it off any longer, we’ll go to the White Dragon Cave Tunnel tonight and have a good talk with the female ghost of the car accident, since she and Shadow had clashed before, it shouldn’t be hard to convince her.” Chen Ge put down his black cell phone and glanced at his own cell phone again, “The weather is good tonight, but tomorrow night the weather forecast says there will be a rainstorm, by then I can drive bus number 104 to the eastern suburb to try my luck, even if I can’t run into the raincoat woman, it would be fine if I can trick some passengers.”
He found a pen and paper in the haunted house and sketched, “Go to the White Dragon Cave Tunnel tonight to complete the three-star trial mission, go to the Raincoat Woman tomorrow, buy a batch of strong lights by the way, and get it all ready, then I’ll take all my staff to Liwan Town at night the day after tomorrow, and challenge that mission with a difficulty level of three and a half stars.”
Boo had warned Chen Ge that his life would be in danger the next time he entered Liwan Town, he didn’t know what he would encounter in Liwan Town next time, but it was never wrong to prepare more.
”Little Chen, what are you busy with?” Uncle Xu’s voice came from the entrance of the haunted house, he himself was very timid and never dared to enter Chen Ge’s haunted house.
”Something wrong?”
”Director Luo is looking for you.”
Sending the tourists into the middle of the scene, Chen Ge put away his pen and paper and ran out of the horror house.
Not far away, Director Luo was wearing a casual outfit and chatting with a few tourists, they were talking vigorously and letting out laughter from time to time, those few tourists probably couldn’t have imagined that this kind and civilized middle-aged man in front of them was the helmsman of the entire paradise.
”Director Luo, you’re looking for me?” Chen Ge waited for Director Luo to finish chatting with the tourists before walking over.
”There are some very important things to discuss with you.” Director Luo led Chen Ge to a less crowded place, the smile on his face slowly tightened, “Do you still remember that I had accompanied a man to visit the park before, and at that time, that man even specifically inquired about your haunted house.”
”I have an impression, I forgot what his name was, but it seems like he said that he wanted to invest in our paradise and help us upgrade our entertainment facilities and expand the paradise grounds.” Chen Ge recalled that man, whom he had seen in the cell phone of a staff member of the Virtual Future Paradise.
”His real name is Bai Qing, a very powerful real estate developer, this person loves money very much, does things by any means, and always puts profits first.” Director Luo spoke very slowly: “He and I were classmates, I know him very well, that man can do anything for money, he joined a powerful businessman when he was very young, even his name was changed, so very few people know his real name.”
”So are we going to work with him?”
”The entertainment facilities in New Century Paradise are too outdated, without updating and upgrading, it’s hard to snatch visitors from Virtual Future Paradise.” Director Luo had his own concerns, “Now that Jiujiang has few places for entertainment, people have no choice but to come to us, when Virtual Future Land opens, it will definitely have a huge impact on us.”
”Most of them are high-tech entertainment programs, reality virtual interaction, and physical parks like ours are two directions, I think as long as we can resist the pressure, slowly the tourists will start to return.”
”You underestimate their ambition.” Director Luo was the top pillar of the paradise, he seldom gave his concerns to outsiders so as not to shake the heart of the army, “I’ve already investigated clearly, not only are they planning to build the top physical entertainment facilities, even your haunted house is ready to copy it together, they’ve recently initiated a new project called – Ghosts.”
”Ghosts?”
”A combination of reality and virtualization, plus physical scenes and actors, they have invested a large amount of money and are preparing to build the largest and most special haunted house in the country that covers the largest area.” Director Luo looked at Chen Ge, “Bai Qing showed me some internal information, Virtual Future Land wants to make their haunted house a mega horror game that visitors can participate in, designing four main lines and a dozen or so branch lines, with different choices every time and different results in the end.”
”Sounds and feels pretty interesting, I want to go in and visit.”
Chen Ge simply wanted to go over there to have friendly exchanges and learn from each other, just like the last time he went to the Tanto Hospital.