Chapter 0708 – Confrontation in Person
”A director trapped in a movie? This should fall under the category of weird stories, right?”
Chen Ge felt that this was within his scope of business and he couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.
He looked up at the watch on the wall, it was now 2:30 am: “It takes half an hour to take a taxi from here to Yongling Mountain, it’s too late, it’s better to wait until tomorrow to check it out.”
”There’s always not enough time, the deadline for the Psychic Ghost School mission is coming up soon, but I don’t even have an available Redcoat by my side, this can’t go on. Let’s go to that crew first, it’s best if I can help the writer fulfill his obsession and get that suicide operator to join the house of horrors as soon as possible.”
After making sufficient preparations, Chen Ge closed his cell phone and went to bed early for once in a rare while.
At around eight o’clock the next day, Chen Ge was woken up by the sound of tapping on the window, he opened his eyes in a daze and heard Xiao Gu’s voice coming from outside the window.
”The boss might have run out again in the middle of the night, let’s just wait at the door.”
”Boss does he often leave at night?” The one who opened his mouth to speak was Zhang Jingjiu, who was curious about Chen Ge as a person.
”Let me put it to you this way, there’s a real-time step-keeping function on the social software we commonly use, anyway, by the time I get up every morning, the boss has already walked 10,000 or even tens of thousands of steps.” Xiao Gu’s tone was calm: “But today is a bit abnormal, from last night until now, the boss has only walked more than three thousand steps, could he be in trouble?”
”If you let the boss hear this, he will definitely cut you.” Xu Wan’s voice also came into the room, these few employees seemed to have all arrived.
”How could I possibly do something like assaulting an employee?” Chen Ge climbed up from the bed, pulled open the thick curtains, and pushed open the window of the employee lounge, “At most, I’ll just dock my paycheck.”
”Boss!”
All four employees stood next to the window, they seemed to have been here for a long time.
”Wait a moment, I’ll go open the door for you guys.” Chen Ge looked down at his cell phone, it was now 8:40 a.m. He was too sleepy last night and went straight to bed without setting an alarm.
Pulling open the security door of the haunted house, Chen Ge greeted the four employees and entered the dressing room, giving them makeup one by one.
”It just so happens that you’re all here as well, let’s put on makeup while we have a simple morning meeting.” Chen Ge skillfully applied makeup to the employees, his movements flowing smoothly, and he couldn’t see a trace of a straight man of steel at all, “Xu Wan and Xiao Gu, you two are the old men, specializing in the two scenes on the ground. Our haunted house implements a horror grading system, many tourists can’t play the high starred scenes, so your task is the heaviest, representing the face of our haunted house, affecting the first impression of the tourists on our haunted house.”
”Don’t worry, leave it to me and Sister Xu Wan, everything will be in order.” Xiao Gu patted his chest and assured that his enthusiastic and optimistic character could easily mingle with the newcomers.
”Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu, you two specialize in the underground scenes, just do your job well, and if there are any accidents with the tourists, remember to call my number at the first time to let me know.” Chen Ge exchanged a look with Zhang Jingjiu and Scissors, “The underground scenes are difficult, you two have to keep honing your acting skills before you can do it.”
”Understood.” Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu had followed Chen Ge into Liwan Town, and they knew exactly what Chen Ge meant when he said those words.
”One last thing, the spare key to the haunted house I’m now officially handing over to Xu Wan, if you guys ever run into a situation where I’m not in the haunted house in the future, follow my assignments to keep the haunted house running.” Chen Ge handed the spare key to Xu Wan and looked at the girl in the mirror, “If something goes wrong with the scene on the ground, go and ask Xu Wan, if Xu Wan still can’t solve it, go and find Director Luo of New Century Paradise, don’t look for anyone else and don’t be gullible.”
Without waiting for Xu Wan to reply, Chen Ge stood up, “I’ll be in charge of the underground scene, now you two, Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu, come here, I still have a lot to teach you.”
After Chen Ge and the others walked away, Xiao Gu realized that Xu Wan was still looking at the mirror in a daze, “Sister, it’s time to go, go into the scene, the tourists should be here in a while.”
”En, know.” Xu Wan held the key in her hand and slowly exerted herself as if she was afraid of losing this most important thing.
Chen Ge brought Zhang Jingjiu and the scissors into the underground scene and stopped outside a certain room in the underground corpse vault.
He lightly knocked on the door of the room, and an old man in a white coat walked out from it, he had gray hair but a straight figure, like a green pine growing on a rock wall.
”This old gentleman is called Wei Jiuqing, he is the best doctor in our haunted house, if one day I am not in the haunted house, and you guys encounter something you can’t solve, you can come and look for him, he will help you.” Dr. Wei was the oldest, had the most experience, and his character was nothing to sneeze at, he was one of the best people to run the show out of all the haunted employees.
”What are you talking about all of a sudden?” Dr. Wei inquired as he vaguely felt something was wrong.
”Nothing, just keeping a back seat.”
”If you kid has something in your heart, you must give it to me! Old man I’m living comfortably in your place, especially when I can still see my former students and educate them like before.” Dr. Wei usually seldom joked, this time it seemed like he was deliberately trying to make Chen Ge happier.
”Don’t worry.” Chen Ge returned to the ground level and waited for the tourists to start entering the various scenes of the haunted house one after another before leading Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu around the underground scenes, introducing most of the ghosts and monsters to the two of them.
Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu were shocked during the “tour”, there were students, teachers, doctors, patients, and even some special laborers in the underground scene, which was just like an underground town.
”What you guys are seeing now is just a part of the underground scene, the whole underground scene is very, very big, and was created by my parents in ten years.” Chen Ge told Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu many more taboos before finally sending them into the middle of the Liwan Town scene.
”Only if they are life and death friends, I dare to rest assured that they will become my employees, it’s going to be too hard to recruit people in the future.” Chen Ge was working hard to cultivate Scissors and Zhang Jingjiu, so that when they were able to stand alone, he could free himself up to do more things.
Coming out of the underground scene, Chen Ge had just walked to the entrance of the haunted house when Uncle Xu called out, “Chen Ge, Luo Dong is looking for you.”
”Looking for me?”
”En, stay more attentive, there are outsiders.” Uncle Xu whispered a reminder and went back to selling tickets.
Chen Ge ran to the office building, and as soon as he pushed open the door, he heard laughter coming out from inside.
Luo Dong and a middle-aged man were talking happily, and without knowing it, they thought they were good friends for many years.
”Little Chen, come and sit.” Luo Dong showed a lot of enthusiasm towards Chen Ge, he took the initiative to get up and gestured as he turned his back towards the middle-aged man, but his voice was still cheerful: “That one is General Manager Bai, I introduced you before, he has some things he wants to ask you.”
”General Manager Bai?” Chen Ge immediately realized that the visitor was not good.
”There’s no need to be so formal, we’ve met a few times, I came over this time because I was entrusted by someone and couldn’t wipe my face.” Mr. Bai also had a smile on his face, “Previously, a haunted house in Xinhai came to visit us, and as a result, all of their employees were scared into the hospital, their boss and I are friends, so they wanted me to come over to help and ask, how did Boss Chen do it? Those can be professional haunted house actors, who have been in the industry for five or six years, and are considered to be the most powerful group of people in the market.”
”That’s what you came here for, huh?” Chen Ge pondered for a while, then looked at Mr. Bai, “Maybe it’s because they’re too weak, I feel like my haunted house isn’t too scary, this thing varies from person to person, why don’t you go into my haunted house and experience it too?”