Chapter 0757 – The Night Before
”There aren’t any outsiders around now, so you don’t need to have any scruples, tell us all you know.”
Chen Ge placed the two diaries in front of Shangguan Qinghong.
”Where did you find them?” Shangguan Light Hong hadn’t come back from the shock, in his impression, Chen Ge would at least be stunned if not scared half to death, but the Chen Ge in front of him was not only all normal, but also exuded a very dangerous aura.
”Your haunted house is indeed haunted, and the root of all the calamities lies in this notebook.” Chen Ge pulled open the backpack zipper, and if Shangguan Light Hong still wanted to argue, he would summon out a few doctors and have them do another full checkup on Shangguan Light Hong.
After a few minutes of silence, Shangguan Light Hong suddenly revealed a smile, he moved his neck with difficulty and looked at Chen Ge: “Even if I tell you, it’s useless, the dirty things in this diary have already left, it’s just an empty shell.”
”Empty shell?” Chen Ge became even more curious, “Looks like you know a lot of things.”
”I won’t lie to you, I bought this diary from a mother. Her child became a vegetable because of a car accident, she took care of that child for five whole years until late one night, her child suddenly woke up and looked at the world around him in great fear, it was as if he had a long nightmare.” Shangguan Light Hong’s words fully aroused Chen Ge’s interest.
”A vegetable waking up? Where is that child now?” Chen Ge didn’t think Shangguan Light Hong was lying, he wanted to find that child directly.
”Dead, not long after he woke up.” Shangguan Qinghong’s voice was a bit strange, as if he hesitated with every word, “The boy was incoherent and afraid of anyone around him, including his own mother, during the time he was awake. About two days passed before the boy finally let his guard down with his own mother, telling her that he had hidden a diary in his room and hoped that she would keep it safe. That mother agreed wholeheartedly, but that very night, the boy died, the cause of death being cardiac arrest.”
”The boy died after telling his mother the secret?” Chen Ge felt that there must be something wrong here.
”That mother couldn’t believe that this was true, she had guarded the child for five whole years, and the boy had a hard time waking up, only to leave this world forever late at night on the day after he woke up. She was so stimulated that she had mental problems, and after a long time of conditioning she still couldn’t get out of the shadows, and in the end she sold everything related to the boy under the doctor’s advice, treating it as if that child had never appeared in her life.” Shangguan Qinghong knew in detail, he seemed to have investigated this diary as well, “I met the mother and her attending doctor at a yard sale, and that’s also when I bought this diary.”
”How is the boy’s mother’s condition now? Where is she living? Is she still receiving treatment?” Chen Ge’s brain had begun to spin rapidly, and he “smelled” something unusual in the whole thing.
”Unfortunately, the treatment went poorly, selling things doesn’t make you forget the past, that mother left late one night because she was overly sad and couldn’t handle the shock.” Shangguan Qinghong struggled to sit up straight, “That’s all I know.”
”What about the empty shell you mentioned?”
”When the diary was first taken back to the haunted house, the sound of children’s laughter and cries would come out from inside every midnight, and this was the main reason why our Nightmare Academy nightclub was very scary at that time. But then I don’t know what happened, but the diary suddenly became normal, so I guess it’s just an empty shell now.” Shangguan Light Hong acted normal.
Chen Ge wasn’t sure if Shangguan Qinghong had lied or not, but one thing was clear to him, there was indeed no ghosts present among this diary, as Old Zhou and Xu Yin had already verified.
”Every word I said is the truth.” Shangguan Qinghong’s voice softened, “I know that Hanjiang is your territory, and since you can have so much energy to be able to transfer me to your own territory, then I’ll admit it.”
Shangguan Light Hong had just come out of his coma and did not yet understand what had happened.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he realized that he was staying in a ward in a strange city and that his nemesis was guarding the door.
It was hard not to make associations with this situation, and he was a paranoid person himself, so it was natural for him to misunderstand something.
”Get well here, the one who helped you with the transfer procedure is a police officer, it has nothing to do with me.” Feeling that he wouldn’t gain anything by staying here any longer, Chen Ge stuffed the backpack that the two diaries were stuffed into and got up to leave.
”Police?” Only Shangguan Qinghong was left alone in the hospital room, and he was still constantly trying to figure out the deep meaning of Chen Ge’s words.
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Returning to New Century Paradise, as soon as he entered the gate, Chen Ge saw that the surrounding arrangement was different from the usual, with a lot of things added: “The peak season is coming.”
The park employees were all off duty, and Chen Ge sat alone in the House of Horrors staff lounge.
He unlocked the door, closed the windows and drew the curtains, then placed his black cell phone on the work desk.
Sliding the screen, Chen Ge flipped to the page of mission information, and his eyes looked straight at the bloody words on the screen – Four-star trial mission Psychic Ghost School (This mission will be cut off after twenty-seven hours, attention! After the mission closes, the scene will never be unlocked)!
”After twenty-seven hours, this four-star mission can no longer be claimed, and the four-star scene Tongling Ghost School will also be permanently unlockable.” Chen Ge looked up at the watch on the wall, “After twenty-seven hours, that means this quest will disappear tomorrow night.”
His finger moved on the screen, but Chen Ge did not have the confidence to click on it.
After experiencing the three and a half star scenario of Liwan Town, Chen Ge no longer dared to imagine how terrifying the four star scenario would be, that fear might have exceeded the upper limit of his imagination.
”Zhang Ya is sleeping, no matter how much he calls out, there is no response at all, although Xu Yin has become a Red Clothesman, the curse has not yet been removed from him, his strength has been greatly reduced, and the rest of the staff are all old, weak, and sickly, so it’s hard to put them to use.” Chen Ge went through all the employees in his mind, and his heart felt cold.
When he himself went to challenge the three and a half star scene, all the employees of the entire haunted house together were at the peak of their strength, and it was only in the end that he was able to narrowly get through.
Now to challenge the four-star scene, the strength is instead far less than at first, how is this going to pass?
Every time the mission countdown on the black cell phone changed, the nagging in Chen Ge’s heart would worsen by one point.
He hung his finger above the phone and tried several times without dropping it, “Just to be safe, it’s better to ask the Pen Fairy.”
Chen Ge took out the tape-wrapped ballpoint pen and used the Pen Fairy’s prediction ability.
”Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, will I be able to get out of the Psychic Ghost School alive.” Chen Ge asked Pen Fairy just to seek a psychological comfort, he didn’t even dare to ask if he could pass that scene.
A few moments later, the ballpoint pen in Chen Ge turned itself around and wrote down a sentence on the white paper.
”If you take me to the Psychic Ghost School, I will choose to commit suicide. Compared to going there, it’s still happier to commit suicide.”
”Do you have some misconception about happiness? Besides is that place that scary?” Frowning at the words on the white paper, Chen Ge was also shocked by Pen Cen’s aura of “I’d rather be broken for the sake of jade than for the sake of tile”.
”I can only predict a hazy thing, and that thing gives me this feeling.” After leaving the second sentence, the Pen Fairy never reacted again.
If it wasn’t for Chen Ge knowing that ordinary severe ghosts couldn’t leave their hosts for too long, he probably would have thought that the Pen Fairy had run away.
”The Pen Fairy has a fifty percent chance of making a wrong prediction, and this time it just might be wrong.” Chen Ge picked up the pitch-black cell phone and hurried to the middle of the underground scene again, where he found the Truth Statue that would shed tears.
”I have a question I want to ask you.” Standing in the dimly lit bedroom, Chen Ge hadn’t finished his question yet, just saying the words Psychic Ghost School, the statue’s eyes bled, as if it had seen something very terrifying.
”The levels are too far apart.” Chen Ge’s haunted house had two employees who possessed predictive abilities, but they were both ordinary stern ghosts with weak abilities, “If the pen fairy can become a red dress, then she should be able to become another core of my haunted house.”
Looking at the worn out ballpoint pen, Chen Ge told the Pen Fairy his thoughts, but unfortunately the other party did not respond.
”Is it really necessary to give up?” The quest would close late tomorrow night, and seeing the four-star scene disappear just like that, Chen Ge’s heart ached vaguely.
In fact, Chen Ge had asked Pen Fairy before when he was unsure if the mission was dangerous or not, and the other party would only say something about nine deaths and very dangerous, like this time when he was forced to even write about suicide, it was the first time Chen Ge had encountered it.
”Can’t be impulsive.” He repeatedly chanted in his heart, and his fingers ultimately did not fall.
Sliding the black cell phone quest page, Chen Ge suddenly saw another quest in progress – the story of the left eye.
”I’ve only completed the first session of that quest related to Chang Lone – Dead Man’s Screening Hall – and there are still two sessions behind it that I haven’t completed.” Before Chen Ge went to Xinhai, in order to help Zhang Wenyu fulfill the wish of the suicidal man, he wanted to find the crew that shot the movie, accidentally met Chang Lone, and obtained a very important piece of information – Chang Lone’s sister, Chang Wenyu, had gone into the Psychic Ghost School, and had come out alive.
Unfortunately, Chang Wenyu’s soul has long been lost, and her left eye is now in the middle of her own brother Chang Ku’s eye socket, because of the failed eye replacement surgery, Chang Ku’s normal eye has also been affected, and she is almost blind.
”Chang Wenyu has entered the Psychic Ghost School, and there is also a student card for the Psychic Ghost School, we should be able to find something from her.” Chen Ge still didn’t die, he decided to start with this task first: “There are only about twenty hours left, I must act immediately.”
Without delay, Chen Ge packed his backpack, and before he could rest for long, he ran out of the haunted house again.
After getting into a cab, Chen Ge took out his cell phone and dialed Standing Lone’s number, but strangely enough, no one answered after several consecutive calls.
”Could something have happened to him?”