Chapter 0648 How to Choose
The shopkeeper was counting on Chen Ge, and Chen Ge was not counting on the shopkeeper.
With three out of four people hit, the shopkeeper felt that his side had the numerical advantage to make a move, he didn’t realize that ninety-nine percent of the battle power in the few people in front of him was in Chen Ge alone.
The reason why Chen Ge hadn’t acted rashly after entering the hotel was also because he was afraid of the store owner’s backhand, such as the police sidearm, and the red coat in the refrigerator.
Now both sides felt that they had the initiative, so they all had smiles on their faces.
”It’s also possible that the other party has hidden the sidearm, and with limited bullets, he probably won’t use it until it’s crunch time, so I’ll make sure to preemptively strike later, and directly waste both of their hands before he can react to it, so that they can’t shoot.”
Chen Ge’s way of dealing with problems was simple, and to prevent accidents from happening, he tended to address them directly from the root.
”Give up resisting, we don’t have any malicious intentions, we just want you to play a little game with me.” The store owner thought that he had taken the absolute initiative, his expression was relaxed: “I believe you have already realized that there is a problem with the chair, the toxin attached to it will little by little make you guys lose your ability to resist, and then die after enjoying extreme pain.”
The shopkeeper took out a clear glass of water from his pocket, with blood gushing inside, “I only have one bottle of potion here, out of the four of you, only one of you can live.”
”It’s not like I’m poisoned, your threats won’t work on me.” Chen Ge unzipped his backpack and put his hand inside.
”Soon you’ll be just like them, I advise you not to do anything pointless, lest you’ll be missing an arm or a leg, affecting the rest of your gaming experience.” The fat flesh on the shopkeeper’s face quivered with excitement, he seemed to particularly enjoy watching the living kill each other, the feeling of having all the goodness rubbed together and put on the ground to be trampled on.
”Game? What kind of game do you want to play?” Chen Ge was very interested in games, his haunted house needed more interesting forms of entertainment, ordinary entertainment games didn’t fit with the haunted house atmosphere, but the games that came out of the mouths of homicidal maniacs were different.
A scary and eerie haunted house with games that homicidal maniacs liked to play, Chen Ge already had visitors screaming in his mind.
”A lot, like cutting the cake, grabbing chairs, hide-and-seek, and so on.” The fat boss felt that he was in control of the whole situation, and he patiently told Chen Ge about those games.
The cruel rules of the game, the gaming experience that made people call out perverted, just listening to it made Chen Ge feel less comfortable, “If we copy it exactly, I’m afraid the tourists will play themselves into the emergency room, but some of the ideas of the games are still quite good.”
”Tourists? What are you talking about?” The fat boss and the cook were already only a few meters away from Chen Ge.
”I’m sorry, because I have more friends with me, so I’m used to talking to myself alone.” Chen Ge didn’t explain to Fat Boss the relationship between carrying around more friends and talking to oneself alone; he had already drained Fat Boss’s potential value and was ready to tear off his disguise.
”You guys are bullying the few with the many, and you also have a sharp weapon, although I don’t have much of a chance of winning, I’m not going to sit around and wait for death either.” Chen Ge gritted his teeth with a ferocious expression.
”Actually, compared to using poison, we prefer hunting fresh lives, the more you struggle and suffer, the more excited we get!” The fat boss couldn’t stop laughing, his body trembled as if it was a shaking mountain of meat.
”The more the victim struggles, the more excited you guys get?” Chen Ge waited until the fat boss walked up to him before suddenly revealing a smile, “That’s great, I’ll let you guys get excited today!”
Shrugging off his backpack, Chen Ge held the vertebrae-like hammer handle with both hands, raised it high, and swung it round to smash it against the fat boss’s chest.
”Pfft!”
Chen Ge was already sure that the fat boss was a living person, as the blood spat out by the other party was still hot.
”Are you excited now?!”
Considering that the fat meat might have a shock absorbing effect, Chen Ge used his full strength, and the fat boss’s huge body couldn’t hold up at all and was directly hammered over.
Without stopping for a moment, before the cook behind him could react, Chen Ge quickly stepped forward and hammered off both of the fat boss’s arms and one of his legs.
Even though he had the upper hand, Chen Ge still wouldn’t take it lightly, he wasn’t sure if the fat boss had a hidden pistol, so he used the safest method.
With both arms broken and both hands lost, even if he had a police gun, he wouldn’t be able to fire it.
Fierce, decisive, cunning, cautious, this was the impression Chen Ge left on the cook, his mind was even thinking about what to cook with these few customers, and the next moment his own boss was hammered and spit out blood directly!
Just how despicable and shameless a person would be to hide such a large hammer in a backpack and carry it around!
The cook’s pupils danced uneasily, the bone chopping knife in his hand was like a toy compared to the other party’s hammer.
He was frantically thinking of countermeasures in his head, and when he looked up, he unintentionally locked eyes with Chen Ge.
The ferocious and terrifying eyes made people shudder, and when he thought Chen Ge was preparing to say something to him, who would have thought that Chen Ge would directly charge over with the skull crushing hammer, not a word of nonsense, and not the slightest break could be found.
It was too fast, before his brain could think of a countermeasure, his body had already felt the pain.
The bone chopping knife in his hand fell to the ground, and the cook watched as his arm hung limply and his fingers loosened feebly.
”I ……”
The cook wanted to speak, but Chen Ge didn’t give him this opportunity, he was too cautious, and while he didn’t bullshit himself until he was in complete control of the situation, he wouldn’t let his enemy speak to interfere with him.
A few more hammers went down, and the cook was also hammered to the ground.
”There, now you can talk. Tell me, where is the antidote that can restore their mobility?” Chen Ge first took away the antidote from the fat boss’s hand, and as he looked at the blood filaments inside, he thought of the scene when he fought with the Weird Talk Association in the Living Coffin Village a long time ago, when Wu Fei also had such a bottle of blood filaments in his hand.
”I ……”
”Don’t be fooled by him!” The cook was just about to speak when the fat boss immediately shouted loudly.
”I haven’t made any promises to you guys, plus I never lie to people.” Chen Ge squatted in front of the fat boss and started to search him, the cook held his face red and froze without saying a word.
”If I were you, I definitely wouldn’t give them this bottle of medicine.” The fat boss had both arms broken, his chest sunken down a piece, his mouth was still spitting blood out, he looked miserable, but his attitude was hardened.
”Why?” Chen Ge knew the fat boss’s bottom card, the other party was probably still waiting for the old man to use his teeth to call out Red Clothes to clear the scene.
”Can the enemy’s words be believed too? In fact, this is a bottle of poison, I want to enjoy your most desperate expressions, I will let the four of you kill each other, and when only one person is left at the end, I will give the poison to him, and then enjoy his slow death.” The fat boss’s tone was maniacal, his voice was loud, and his eyes darted from time to time to where room number one was located.
”Coincidentally, I also like to admire the desperate expressions of the living.” Chen Ge reached into his pocket and took out a piece of black cloth from it, opening it up in front of the fat boss, inside was a polished tooth, “You keep glancing towards that room, is it because there is this in that room?”
The fat boss instantly lost his voice, he wanted to hide the shock he felt deep inside, but he simply couldn’t control his facial expression.
”Say it, where is the antidote?” Chen Ge shook his skull crushing hammer, “My patience is limited.”
Both the shopkeeper and the cook were silent, and after a minute or two, the shopkeeper slowly spoke, “I can tell you where the real antidote is kept, but you have to promise to let the two of us live, take the antidote and hurry away.”
”No problem, frankly I’m not interested in you two at all.” Chen Ge was telling the truth, everything he did was for the red clothes in the hotel.
”The antidote is stored in a special location, I’ll personally take you there.” The shopkeeper’s face was chagrined and uneasy, and he seemed to be admitting defeat: “Can you help me for a moment?”
Chen Ge had hammered off both of his arms and one of his legs, and at this point, he only had one way left to move.
”Don’t play tricks, tell me the place first and I’ll reconsider whether to take you there.” After Chen Ge searched the fat boss and the cook duo, he found another bottle of antidote, in his opinion those two bottles of antidote should be what they prepared for themselves.
”Okay, I’ll tell you, it’s in the drawer in the third room on the second floor to the left.” The fat boss seemed to be resigned to his fate and was very cooperative, while the cook next to him was expressionless, as if he was worried about exposing something.
”On the second floor?” Chen Ge thought back to the Boo game and had little impression of the second floor of the hotel, so to prevent any accidents, he scrapped the cook first and then helped the fat boss to the second floor.
The room that the fat boss was talking about was his own room, and there were many old photos in it, and the strange thing was that all of them were pictures of him and a woman together.
”Is that your mother?”
”Yes, I have a bad relationship with my father, so I only have pictures with my mother.” A happy smile appeared on the fat boss’s face, “My mother is very, very beautiful, you can take you to meet her sometime.”
This sentence didn’t sound like it had any problems, but only if one didn’t know what the fat boss’s mother actually looked like.
”This is the antidote.” The fat boss asked Chen Ge to open the drawer, which contained three sealed glasses filled with some grayish-black deposits.
”Are you sure?” Chen Ge put all the sealed glasses into his backpack, then led the fat boss back to the first floor.
He walked over to the dining table and placed the three sealed glasses on the table, “Can you guys hear me?”
”No problem, I’m sober now, I just don’t have full control of my body.” The drunken man’s attitude was much better after witnessing Chen Ge fighting one against two just now.
”These three glasses were taken out from the boss’s house, he said that this is the antidote, but it’s not that simple in my opinion.” Chen Ge took out the two bottles that the boss said were poison again and placed them on the table, “I think the boss is lying, what’s contained in these two bottles is the antidote. Unfortunately, there are only three bottles in the boss’s house, one bottle is used and one bottle is missing, so if you take out one bottle for the test, there won’t be enough antidote in the end.”
After saying that, Chen Ge carried the white cat, who was hiding in the distance to watch the fun, over, and he held the white cat’s small head, “You swallowed a similar blood filament in the Living Coffin Village, I’ll open up these two different ‘potions’ later on, and you’ll come and help them tell the difference.”
Chen Ge didn’t care if the white cat understood or not, he first opened the glass containing the gray-black sediment and placed it in front of the white cat.
A faint odor emanated from the cup, and the white cat struggled to get away.
Putting the lid on the cup, Chen Ge then opened the cup containing the blood.
Just after loosening the lid of the cup, the white cat seemed to smell something, its ears perked up and its beautiful eyes stared at the cup in Chen Ge’s hand.
When Chen Ge completely opened the cup, cries and wails came out from inside the cup, and all the blood threads inside came to life, trying to escape.
The white cat’s eyes also instantly turned red, as if something deep within its veins had been activated, and it directly pounced on Chen Ge’s hand.
Chen Ge hurriedly screwed on the lid, and only then did the white cat calm down.
”It’s unusual that this blood filament could cause a reaction in the white cat, it’s possible that it’s the same as the blood filament that the Weird Tales Association got from the world behind the door.” Chen Ge put the lid back on and placed all the cups together, “My cat reacted strongly to the bottle containing the blood filament, personally, I feel that this blood filament is the real antidote, and it’s very likely that the boss is lying.”
Chen Ge voiced his opinion, the remaining three passengers reacted differently, all of which he saw in his eyes, “The choice is up to you, I won’t interfere, but I hope you’ll be cautious.”
”I trust you.” The first to make a choice was Scissors, who grabbed a bottle of blood-filled glasses with the last of his strength.
”It’s common sense in nature that the brighter the color, the less safe it is, and I’ve studied a bit of pharmacology, and there’s no way I can convince myself to take living blood filaments.” The doctor hesitated and pushed one of the bottles of black sediment in front of himself.
The two passengers made their choices, leaving the drunk alone, the doctor and Chen Ge were both people he trusted, and now that these two people were in disagreement, he didn’t know how to go about choosing.
Mentally he was more inclined to choose the gray and black potion, but it felt like the store owner might also do the opposite, deliberately making the antidote the same as the poison.
After three minutes had been passed, and the sound of the female ghost banging on the door outside the room was getting louder and louder, and the doorway could be knocked down at any moment, the drunkard finally made his choice, and he picked up the other bottle of Blood Silk.
The question of who would try it first was another test of humanity.
The first person to try it was practically probing with his life.
”I’ll go first.” Scissors braced himself and sat up, “Can you open the lid for me?”
”Okay.” When Chen Ge walked to his side and was about to help him unscrew the lid, Scissors suddenly said to Chen Ge, “My cell phone is in the left pocket of my pants, it contains all of my brother’s information, if I chose wrong, I hope that you can pull him out of the way when you meet him, and if you don’t, you don’t have to intentionally look for him.”
”En.” Chen Ge was appreciating the scissors more and more, a truly courageous person did not mean that he was not afraid of anything, but in the case of being scared to death, he was still determined to make a decision.
”Thanks.” Scissors brought the cup of water to his mouth, he just made a pouring motion, and the blood in the cup of water actively gushed into his mouth with a cry.