Chapter 0710 Birthday Cake
Putting down the greeting card, Chen Ge picked up the key on the table and quietly looked at it for a while.
After his parents disappeared, fewer and fewer tourists came to play at the House of Horrors and it was on the verge of closing down, in that extremely difficult environment at that time, Xu Wan still didn’t leave, and she was the only employee recruited by Chen Ge’s parents who still chose to follow Chen Ge in the end.
”Did this girl sense something?” Chen Ge put away the key and opened the cake box.
Compared to the beautifully packaged box, the cake inside could be completely described as miserable.
The center was collapsed, the outer skin remained baked leaving black marks, and the overall structure was so loose that it seemed like it would crumble at the slightest touch.
It could be seen that the maker was very attentive, she spread the cream evenly on the surface of the cake in an attempt to cover up the flaws, in the process the cake seemed to have been touched and crumbled once, the cream was both decorative and served as a glue, penetrating into the interior of the cake.
Just by looking at this cake, Chen Ge could already think of Xu Wan’s image when she was making it.
”Worthy of being my Chen Ge’s employee, baking a cake can be so thrilling.”
Picking up the table knife in the box, Chen Ge cut off a piece and gently took a small bite.
”En, the texture is sparse, hard outside and soft inside, it’s also sticky to the teeth, too much oil material was used, it wasn’t fully baked, this girl didn’t use high gluten flour, did she? You have to use bottom gluten noodles to make a cake!”
Although Chen Ge was constantly spitting, he still ate most of this cake.
Seeing Chen Ge eating so much, the white cat was also a bit curious, but it was stuffed back into the backpack by Chen Ge just as it stuck its head over.
”Fresh milk cake is not good for your health if you eat it, in the future when you have a birthday, I’ll make you a cat food cake.”
Ignoring the white cat’s protests, Chen Ge wiped his mouth and carried his backpack out of the employee lounge.
The birthday party had taken up some time, but it didn’t affect Chen Ge’s plans for tonight.
He had already compiled the information on the Left Eye crew online, and was ready to go over and take a look tonight.
Leaving the New Century Paradise, Chen Ge waited on the side of the road for a long time without seeing any cabs, and it was as if the cab drivers in the entire city of Hanyujiang had formed a consensus not to go near the New Century Paradise after the early hours of the morning, let alone pulling random guests from that place.
”It’s a pity that my bus drove into the world behind the Liwan Town Gate, otherwise where would it be so troublesome?”
After walking through two streets, Chen Ge finally found a cab, and only after he got in did he report the address, “Master, I want to go to Yongling Mountain Villa.”
”Yongling Mountain?” The driver obviously froze for a moment, “There are villas in that place in Yongling Mountain?”
”You open the navigation and take a look.” Chen Ge wasn’t sure, that’s what the internet said anyway.
”What’s the full name?” The driver voice typed in the words Yongling Mountain, but the navigation didn’t show the place Yongling Mountain Villa above.
”The full name ……” Chen Ge’s pupils narrowed slightly as he looked at the several place names displayed on the navigator – Yongling Mountain Gas Station, Yongling Mountain Flower Market, and Yongling Mountain Resort: “Let’s just go to Yongling Mountain Resort first.”
”So random?” The driver glanced at Chen Ge from the rearview mirror, he felt a bit familiar, vaguely recalling a certain rumor about a midnight rider.
The vehicle was started and after driving for half an hour, only sporadic lights were left on both sides of the road, and a huge shadow could be seen at the end of the road, which was the western suburb of Yongling Mountain.
The navigation showed that the cab was about to arrive at its destination, the driver gripped the steering wheel tightly, he opened his mouth a few times to try to have a conversation with Chen Ge, but in the end, he gave up, he himself didn’t know why, maybe it was because the man sitting in the back row had a more powerful aura.
After the cab entered the mountains, the surrounding lights completely disappeared, this place seemed like very few people would come over at night, it was very desolate.
After driving forward for another five minutes, the driver’s cell phone navigation made a sound: “Arrived at the destination, this navigation is over, have a nice trip.”
The car was parked on the side of the road, surrounded by darkness, and could only vaguely see the swaying branches of the trees and hear the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.
The driver’s hands on the steering wheel were drenched in sweat, his face was a little pale, this “journey” was not pleasant for him at all.
”Here we are, the navigation shows that this is Yongling Mountain Resort.” The driver turned his head somewhat stiffly and looked at Chen Ge.
His eyelids kept jumping, afraid that this suspicious guy in the back row would take out a murder weapon from his backpack and hijack his car.
”This is the Yongling Mountain Resort? There isn’t even a single house around, it’s a complete wasteland.” Chen Ge possessed Yin pupils, and the darkness didn’t affect him much; he could clearly see that the surroundings were all big trees, “You’re not lying to me, are you? Dragging me to the middle of the night to the middle of nowhere?”
”Why do you still suspect me? Brother, I was driving according to the navigation ah!” The driver turned on all the lights he could inside and outside the car, but the light still couldn’t dispel the fear in his heart.
”Okay.” Chen Ge paid the fare and walked out of the cab with his backpack.
He turned on the flashlight that came with his cell phone and walked along the road for a few steps when he suddenly saw an overgrown path in the middle of the woods in the distance, “Going inside? Yongling Mountain Resort is inside? How come it feels like it’s been deserted for a long time?”
Chen Ge turned back, wanting to ask the driver, but when he turned around, he saw the driver turn the car around, put his foot on the gas, and rushed down the mountain like a madman.
”Is this place that scary?”
Others couldn’t count on him, Chen Ge could only rely on himself, he held up his cell phone and turned into the middle of the path.
After walking inward for a few minutes, the view opened up, and Chen Ge could see a row of low fences and a few buildings constructed in a strange style.
”This is the resort? Who would run to this place for a vacation, it looks similar to my haunted house.”
Vacationing was about relaxing, not finding excitement for oneself, and the further Chen Ge walked in, the more puzzled he became in his heart.
”It’s shown on the navigation, but there’s always a feeling that this place seems to have been deliberately forgotten by the locals, and I don’t know if it’s still open for business.”
The road surface was uneven, with multiple cracks, and the trees on both sides were crooked, emitting a shadowy aura, as if they hadn’t been tended to for a long time, making it very uncomfortable to look at.
The fence was covered with creepers, covering the writing on the wall skin, Chen Ge groped for a long time before finding the gate into the resort a dozen meters away.
On the rusty iron gate, there was a sign that prohibited entry, and next to the sign was a yellow-brown wooden mailbox.
”They still use mailboxes these days?” Both the wooden sign and the mailbox were handmade, very rough and completely out of place with the overall architectural style.
”The words on the sign are very clear, and the wire that hangs the sign isn’t rusted, this thing should have been put up by someone recently in.” Chen Ge tried to push the iron door, the door shaft made a piercing sound, as he kept pushing, the iron door was unexpectedly pushed open directly.