Chapter 0681 – Your role is to be a homicidal maniac
Chen Ge was busy by himself, he ran around all night last night and didn’t have a good rest during the day, by the time noon rolled around, he was a bit overwhelmed.
Opening his backpack, Chen Ge released Old Zhou and the others, picking a few employees who were still in good shape and letting them enter the underground scene, responsible for the basic running of the scene.
Other than Xu Yin, the other employees were not cursed, and the vast majority of them were still being nourished by the blood mist, reaping certain benefits, and when their injuries were healed, their strength would all have a significant increase.
”Scaring the tourists today is secondary, you guys pay more attention to rest and get your bodies well as soon as possible.” Chen Ge took the initiative to open his mouth and asked the employees to let go of the water, and those employees complied even though they didn’t understand the reason for it.
At twelve thirty, Xiao Gu and Xu Wan took turns to rest for half an hour, and most of the tourists also went to eat, so there were many fewer tourists lined up outside the haunted house.
Seeing the decrease in tourists outside the haunted house, two men walked over.
One of them had gauze wrapped around his face, and the other’s waist was straight, wearing a suit, and his demeanor seemed to be a bit nervous.
”May I ask if Chen Ge and Boss Chen are inside?” The man in the suit found Uncle Xu who was buying tickets at the entrance.
”Are you tourists? Or tourists’ families?” Uncle Xu’s heart thumped when he saw someone with gauze wrapped around their face, thinking that Chen Ge had gotten into trouble.
”We’re here to work, Boss Chen should have told you about us, right?”
”New employees? Okay, you guys wait here, I’ll give him a call.”
A few minutes later, Chen Ge came out from the house, he also felt a little surprised when he saw the two people in front of him, these two people were completely different from what he remembered.
Scissors had half of his face wrapped in gauze, he was tall and thin, his skin was frighteningly white, he didn’t seem to have been out in the sunlight for a long time, and gave off the impression of not being a pervert, but more like a person who was seriously ill.
Drunkard Zhang Jingjiu on the other hand was the complete opposite of Scissors, having taken a shower and put on a suit, he looked sunny and full of positive energy, with the look of a successful man.
”Just in time, there aren’t many tourists right now, I’ll take you guys in for a spin first.” Chen Ge warmly greeted the two men as they went inside the haunted house, “Right, where’s the doctor? Didn’t you guys come along?”
”We exchanged phone numbers with each other after you left, but the doctor’s phone couldn’t be reached.” Mentioning the doctor, Zhang Jingjiu’s face changed slightly, “He didn’t know if something had happened to him or if there was some other reason, I even went to his house specifically to take a look, and only after asking the surrounding neighbors did I realize that it wasn’t his house at all.”
”That means the doctor is missing?” Chen Ge thought for a while and gently nodded: “It’s not a problem, I believe in him, we all share the same life and death, he’s not coming probably because he has his own difficulties.”
In fact, it wasn’t that he had confidence in the doctor, he just trusted the black phone’s judgment more, the doctor was not a simple person, but he didn’t have the intention to harm anyone.
Leading the two employees into the haunted house, Chen Ge gave them a brief introduction to the various scenes.
Scissors and Drunkard were different from Xiao Gu, and Chen Ge was prepared to train them in all aspects, not being solely responsible for one scene like Xiao Gu and Xu Wan.
”When we start business in the afternoon, you two will first follow the tourists and start visiting from the one-star scenes, experiencing all the scenes in my haunted house all over again.” With the kindest expression, Chen Ge uttered a sentence that Scissors and Drunkard didn’t realize how cruel it was right now, “You guys are going to be working here in the future, and you definitely can’t get scared yourselves.”
”Don’t worry, we’ll try to do our best.” The scissors and the drunkard promised well, perhaps in both of their minds, they had even killed their way out of that place in Liwan Town, what was there to be afraid of in this world?
”Alright, this afternoon, treat yourselves as tourists and experience to your heart’s content.” Chen Ge didn’t assign specific tasks to Scissors and Drunkard, he just let them visit, which was also a way to let them grow up quickly.
The lunch break passed quickly, and Scissors and Drunkard had the most memorable day of their lives.
Listening to the screams rising and falling in the scene, Chen Ge stroked his chin: ”Too timid to be a haunted house actor, don’t scare the tourists instead of your own coworkers. The Liwan Town scene is going to be put into use soon, I have to train the two of them as soon as possible before I can do so.”
While Chen Ge was thinking, Uncle Xu’s voice came from outside, Chen Ge hurriedly ran out.
Uncle Xu and Luo Dong were standing behind the door, seemingly looking for Chen Ge for something.
”Luo Dong, why did you personally run over here?” Chen Ge was a bit surprised, “Did the Virtual Future Land release some big move again?”
”The Virtual Paradise side is still building momentum and publicity, I’m looking for you today because I want to talk to you about something else.” Luo Dong waved towards Chen Ge, and the two of them came to a corner with fewer people, “Chen Ge, just now I saw that small program we made, and there are already many visitors who have cleared the three-star scenes, and there are even some visitors who are about to reach the achievement of clearing all the scenes. If this goes on, I’m afraid that your haunted house won’t be able to survive the opening of the Virtual Future Paradise before it’s completely raided, and by then the attraction of the haunted house to the tourists will be weakened by a lot, coupled with the fact that the Virtual Future Paradise is secretly making things worse, the situation will become very unfavorable.”
Luo director of the shopping mall for many years, the surface of the elegant, in fact, is also an old fox: “Our park’s biggest gimmick, is your haunted house so far no one can completely pass, so I hope you can increase the difficulty of the haunted house of all the scenes, I know that this is also a challenge for you, but now we have no way back, can only be hard on the head. ”
”You came just for this.” Chen Ge didn’t expect Luo Dong to think so much the same way as he did, “Don’t worry, I’m deliberately letting the water out today.”
”Deliberately releasing water? But the number of passers has increased, that’s not a good thing for us?” Luo Dong trusted Chen Ge, but he really couldn’t think of a reason for Chen Ge to do so.
”Yes. The number of people who pass the three-star scenes increases, and the number of tourists who can experience the higher-starred horror scenes only gets bigger. When a new scene is opened, if no one challenges it and it’s not lively enough, it won’t be good for our publicity.” Chen Ge spoke in a calm tone.
”New scene opening?” Luo Dong instantly found the point in Chen Ge’s words, “You’ve built the new scene?”
”Most of the concepts and equipment were done by my parents before, I’m just putting them together and combining them. But don’t worry, this scene is definitely scarier than all the previous scenes.” Chen Ge looked at Luo Dong and without having to say anything more, the two of them smiled at each other.
”Okay, then do as you say, if there is anything you need just ask, I will do my best to cooperate with you.” Luo Dong was in a much better mood and left with the documents in his hand.
”Paradise has such a wholeheartedly giving boss, why would visitors worry about finding happiness?” Chen Ge returned to the haunted house and ran both above and below ground, supervising Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu’s experience of the haunted house while being responsible for the safety of the visitors in the scenes.
At 6:30 p.m., the haunted house sent off the last batch of tourists, Chen Ge told Xu Wan and Xiao Gu to go home first, and then came to the side of the steps himself.
Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu were paralyzed on the ground, somewhat in a trance.
As a matter of fact, they clearly remembered that they had fainted during one of the scenes in the haunted house, and just when they were glad that they finally didn’t have to continue the experience, when they opened their eyes, they realized that they were still in the haunted house, and when they looked at their cell phones, only ten minutes had passed.
After tossing back and forth a few times, their bodies had surprisingly developed a certain resistance to shock, and even though they were scared to death, their heads remained clear.
”How do you feel?” Chen Ge handed the two men mineral water, he was training the scissors and the drunken man as employees, in order to prevent them from having accidents, he purposely let Dr. Wei follow them and escort them throughout.
”I can’t tell you, it just feels like no matter how much difficulty I encounter in the future of my life, I can just laugh it off.” Zhang Jingju’s awareness was high, and he tried to unscrew the mineral water bottle with a trembling hand, but tried several times without success.
”What about you? Scissors?”
”Why do I think it’s still Liwan Town that suits me better? Maybe it’s because I’m hiding a pervert inside?” Scissors covered his face, he really didn’t expect that Chen Ge’s haunted house would be so scary before he came, the wounds on his face that were originally almost healed were bleeding from fear.
”Very well, you’ve already experienced it once from a tourist’s perspective, now I’ll take you to experience it once more from a staff member’s perspective.” Chen Ge stood up and pushed over a cart from the haunted house lounge.
”Still coming?” Scissors and Toast Zhang leaned in.
”If you guys have mobility issues, I can push you in. Don’t worry, it’s safe, I’ve been running this place for almost ten years and nothing major has ever happened.” Under Chen Ge’s persuasion, Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu once again entered the haunted house.
But this time, unlike during the day when they visited on their own, Chen Ge began to actually teach them some techniques to scare tourists.
”Haunted house actors rarely have lines, so acting becomes even more important, you need to completely substitute into the character and let that aura emanate naturally, from the inside out.”
From how to pick a location to ambush tourists, to knowledge of first aid such as chest compressions; from the use of internal applets, to psychopathic psychology; Scissors and Toast Zhang now understand that being a haunted house actor requires so many skills.
”It’s getting late, you guys go back and rest first, come over early tomorrow, I’ll arrange some things for you to do, so that you can truly experience the charm of the job of a haunted house actor.” After Scissors and Toast Zhang left, Chen Ge gave them a red packet each, counting it as overtime compensation.
After a day and night without much rest, Chen Ge’s body was at its limit, so he set a watch and fell back to sleep.
The next morning after four o’clock, Chen Ge was woken up by his alarm clock, he hugged the white cat that had climbed onto his pillow at some point to the side and opened his black cell phone in a hurry.
”Three and a half star scene – Liwan Town completed!”
”Attention! The space inside the haunted house is full, please expand as soon as possible!”
”Another expansion? How big is the Liwan Town scene?” Chen Ge’s House of Horrors had already been upgraded to a Trembling Maze before, and it only needed two more expansions to be promoted to the next stage.
”Expansion will come later when I can afford it, let’s go check out the new scene first.”
The sooner the new scene was opened, the more favorable it would be for Chen Ge, so he put on his clothes, grabbed his backpack, and headed straight underground.
The road leading to Liwan Town was next to the Living Coffin Village, and the two scenes were right next to each other, but this scene was bigger than the third sick building of the Living Coffin Village combined.
”Right next to the small lake where the water ghost is and that tunnel that leads to nowhere, next to the Living Coffin Village, and the hospital and school, this is simply a fully functional underground town.”
Walking on the streets, the buildings around Chen Ge were all extended underground, there were no buildings, only underground second and third floor lights, most of the basements were also connected to each other, and the internal environment was very complex.
Out of consideration for the safety of tourists, Chen Ge carefully checked all the buildings once, just walking the whole way would take an hour, this scene was indeed a bit exaggerated.
”There are advantages to having a big place, I can play as I please.” Chen Ge called out all of his employees and began to remodel the scene, such as taking away some sharp and dangerous things, and then placing the “trained” new employees into fixed places.
”The hotel, hospital and residential area are the three main scenes, the number of ghosts and monsters is still too low, when it’s dawn you can let Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu come in to make a cameo appearance, in addition I need to customize another batch of mannequins to make it work.” The scariest part of the hotel was the secret room behind the refrigerator, unfortunately the overeating female ghost was killed off, a big scare element was missing, Chen Ge was trying to think of ways to remedy this, he was going to highly recreate Liwan Town, creating that desperate atmosphere where homicidal maniacs were roaming around everywhere, and all the corners were hidden with severe ghosts.
”The scare points in other scenes only have a few, or a dozen, while I’ve set up dozens of scare points in Liwan Town, with such a high frequency, I don’t know if the tourists can withstand it.” Chen Ge was very satisfied with his setup in Liwan Town, he was busy until more than eight in the morning before he came out, when he went in the comic book was full, when he came out, the comic book was almost empty.
”There were so many people who cleared the three-star scene yesterday, so taking advantage of their paralysis, and releasing the news that the three-and-a-half star scene is open today, there will definitely be people willing to challenge it. If we’re lucky, we might even meet a few people looking for trouble, and it’d be even better if there were Virtual Future Paradise employees mixed in.”
Walking out of the underground scene, Chen Ge took a cool shower before opening the door and preparing for business.
Today was considered Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu’s first official day of work, and both of them came especially early.
”Boss, there’s something I need to report to you.” Zhang Jingjiu was still wearing a suit and dressed formally, “I still haven’t gotten in touch with the doctor, it’s like he’s disappeared.”
”I have an idea in my heart, leave him alone for now.” Chen Ge brought the two of them into the dressing room, “You don’t need to be formal, just sit casually and treat this place as your home.”
Using the mortuary talent, Chen Ge showed the two new employees his superior makeup skills, which also surprised Zhang Jingjiu and Scissors that their boss was simply a jack of all trades.
”You can’t open a haunted house without knowing how to apply makeup.” Chen Ge put on Zhang Jingjiu’s makeup comparing to the owner of the Liwan Town Hotel, then rummaged through the tool room and found the Ripper suit, handing it over to the scissors, “Your character is a perverted murderer, I’ve seen more than a dozen different kinds of perverts, I’ll write down each of their traits for you later on, I hope that it will inspire and touch you.”