Chapter 0745 – Father’s love is like a mountain, crashing into the ground

　　The light in the hallway seemed to have dimmed a bit, and the cold wind blew from the top of his head, making the hairs on his head stand up in sweat, and the Nightmare Academy’s backstage control room seemed to have turned the air conditioning temperature to the lowest possible level.

　　When Chen Ge returned to the previous floor again, he was surprised to find that the security door leading to the corridor had been closed by someone, with a brand new seal on it.

　　”Locked? Are they preparing to trap me in the hallway?” Chen Ge stopped at the door and looked towards the corridor through the glass window on the door.

　　There was a line of figures flashing by on the dimly lit long corridor, they were of different sizes and held various tools in their hands.

　　While he was attracted to those figures in the corridor, the sound of footsteps in the hallway sounded again.

　　”Someone is following me?”

　　Chen Ge was not in a hurry, and after a while, he realized that the footsteps were interspersed with a child’s voice, and the other party seemed to have gotten separated from his father and was screaming with a crying voice.

　　”This voice sounds and feels strange, it doesn’t sound like a child, but it’s much sharper than an adult’s voice, as if the voice is not fully developed.”

　　Closing his eyes, Chen Ge patiently judged the child’s location.

　　”The child’s voice upstairs is mixed with a very faint electric current sound, it should be a machine playing, the voice coming from downstairs, although it also sounds }human, it feels a little clearer, that child should be on the ground floor of the building.”

　　The more he walked towards the downstairs, the darker the lights became, and the walls became mottled with large stains and some strange patterns, which was very uncomfortable to look at.

　　Chen Ge also found a very strange point, a black incense burner was placed at the corner of every floor, with three broken incense sticks on it, and he didn’t know what special significance it had.

　　”The incense is damp, can’t be lit, or broken ……” Chen Ge squatted next to the black incense burner and held it in his palm, and was surprised to find a photo pressed underneath the incense burner.

　　He picked up the photo, and on it was a man in his thirties, wearing a mask and hanging his head low, as if he was worried about others seeing his face.

　　Moving his line of sight down, Chen Ge saw that the man’s left hand seemed to be holding someone else’s hand, except that the left half corner of the photo was cropped out.

　　”Dad ……,” a ghostly voice came out from behind Chen Ge, very suddenly.

　　”Are you calling me?” Chen Ge looked back, there was nothing behind himself.

　　His pupils narrowed as Chen Ge walked in the direction the voice came from, and he found a miniature audio player in the mottled wall skin.

　　”It turns out that they intentionally designed the wall skin to look like this, to make it easy to hide various devices and organs.” Chen Ge ran his finger across the front of the player, “Such an elaborate device must be very expensive, my haunted house doesn’t even have one yet. There’s some reason why Nightmare Academy can be so big, combining technology and weird stories, that’s the way to go.”

　　Chen Ge wasn’t an arrogant person, always keeping a humble heart was one of the keys to his ability to get this far.

　　”It’s been a while since I looked at my bank account, I should have accumulated quite a bit of money by now. After the four-star scene is successfully unlocked, I’ll go ask Director Luo for a sum of money to purchase a batch of top-notch equipment for my haunted house. Letting the haunted employees manipulate the top of the line equipment, hiding a deeper horror within the horror, will definitely amaze the visitors.”

　　Holding the picture in his hand, Chen Ge carried his bag down another level.

　　The sounds of footsteps and children’s cries were even closer to him, and it seemed that the Nightmare Academy was trying to create an atmosphere where the ghosts and monsters were slowly approaching, and they did do so perfectly through the use of several miniature audio players installed in the hallways of the building, coupled with precise backend manipulation.

　　Unusual people who came in and realized that the longer they stayed in the hallway, the closer the sound of footsteps and the sound of a child crying would get, their psychological defenses would surely slowly crumble, but it was a pity that they encountered Chen Ge today.

　　After noticing the sound approaching, Chen Ge not only didn’t panic, he also took the initiative to rush towards the direction where the sound came from, wanting to see the true face of the ghosts and monsters for the first time, which made things difficult for the backstage controllers.

　　Between him and the actors, there was constant communication and coordination, in order to prevent the horror scene from being ready before Chen Ge rushed over.

　　”It’s useless to judge the location just from the sound of footsteps and the sound of a child crying, there are speakers installed on every floor, so whichever speaker they want to make a sound, whichever speaker they want to make a sound, they can make a sound.” Chen Ge stood quietly in the hallway, holding his breath as he tried to find the third sound with the interference of footsteps and cries to determine the location of the employees.

　　The person controlling the backstage saw that Chen Ge had finally stopped tossing and turning and was honest, so he immediately contacted the actors and prepared to make his entrance.

　　Chen Ge didn’t know what was happening inside the haunted house’s control room, he only used his overpowering five senses to hear two footsteps sounding at the same time on the downstairs level, one heavy and one light.

　　”One of them is a sound effect, and the other should be a haunted house actor moving.”

　　Without any warning, Chen Ge directly rushed over, and at the same time he grabbed the handle of the floor’s security door, another pale hand grabbed the door handle from the inside.

　　Both hands fell at the same time, and through the glass, both sides looked up towards each other at the same time.

　　Inside the floor, a girl wearing the Nightmare Academy school uniform stood in the doorway, she was wearing very heavy makeup, her cheeks were pale, a very obvious black and purple strangulation mark was on the end of her neck, and even more horrifying was the fact that there was a finger sticking out of her eye there, and the sides of her mouth were covered in red paint.

　　In the hallway, Chen Ge gripped the handle hard, his eyes were cold, his pupils reflected a woman’s figure, and he exuded a special aura around him.

　　It was hard to describe, anyway, it didn’t look like a living person.

　　The girl hadn’t even expected someone to suddenly grab the door handle and appear in the window of the door panel, her face twitched, but she was quite professional.

　　In order to prevent the fingers stuck in her eyes from falling out, this girl tilted her chin up and looked at Chen Ge with a very bizarre posture’s.

　　”You’re the ghost in the hallway? The evil ghost that you only see when you step on the thirteen steps?” Through the door panel, Chen Ge carefully sized up the other party.

　　Hearing Chen Ge’s words, the girl was surprised, and she felt that Chen Ge was even more into the scene than she was, but a dilemma was soon placed in front of her.

　　As a stern ghost haunted by resentment and despair, how should she return to Chen Ge?

　　Saying yes, it would appear that she was being obedient and her compulsion was falling wildly, how could there be a reason for a stern ghost to reply to whatever you asked it?

　　If she said no, wouldn’t it make her seem a bit arrogant? And there is also a kind of here no silver three hundred and two feeling.

　　The girl glanced sideways at the monitor next to her as she did, no lines had been assigned to her in the script.

　　”Is not answering an acquiescence so raw and scary? Where’s the promised thirteenth step?” Chen Ge pulled the security door, and the door to the room that had been seized by the stern ghost just let him yank it open, but just then the change suddenly occurred.

　　The girl seemed to have heard the backstage alert in her headphones, and she looked behind Chen Ge, her expression dramatically changing as if she had seen something very terrifying.

　　”He came out again!”

　　After saying these words, the girl scattered her legs and ran away, the finger props stuck in her face fell to the ground and she couldn’t even pick them up.

　　”Came out again?” Chen Ge looked back and thought it was Old Zhou or the Pen Fairy running out.

　　He looked at the girl who quickly disappeared, and was a bit puzzled himself, “Is this a play within a play at Nightmare Academy? Or is it really haunted? They built this place in the middle of the yin to the yin, it’s not impossible for it to be haunted.”

　　As Chen Ge was pondering, the sound of footsteps and children’s cries came out from the hallway again, the noisy and eerie sounds were distracting.

　　”Are you still not finished? Fine, don’t you want to find your father? When I find you, I’ll show you what a father’s love is like a mountain!”