Chapter 0954 – Twelve Midnight of Reincarnation

　　”Why did the haunted house actor suddenly let out a scream?” Chen Ge himself was running a haunted house, and he had heard countless screams, so he could be sure that the haunted house actor wasn’t acting, but had really encountered something very scary, and it was almost impossible for that scream to have been acted out.

　　”It’s getting more and more interesting, a haunted house actor being scared like this in his own haunted house.”

　　The door to the outside of the projection hall was being pounded hard, the screams were getting louder and louder, Chen Ge wanted to open the door to take another look, but found that the door could no longer be opened.

　　”The combination of virtual projection and artificiality is a good idea, but sometimes there might be some mismatches.”

　　Before the screaming stopped, the whistling from the other end of the corridor was already approaching.

　　The lights went out, and it took Chen Ge using his Yin pupil to see that there was a man in a chef’s uniform standing on the other side of the corridor, he was obese, his originally white chef’s uniform was covered in blood stains, and he had half a human head stuffed in his stomach pocket.

　　”A man-eating chef?”

　　The shoes on this haunted house actor’s feet were specially made, walking made very little sound, and now that the lights were out in the long corridor, he was speedily approaching Chen Ge with that large exaggerated kitchen knife.

　　If Chen Ge expected well, in a few more seconds when this chef got close, the lights would come on again and scare himself.

　　”Nice idea, too bad I have better eyesight.”

　　The chef darted closer in the darkness, and Chen Ge began to run wildly.

　　”No wonder the corridor is so clean, it’s just that I’m afraid he’ll fall while chasing, after all, there are no lights.” Chen Ge glanced at the wooden boards on the wall, “Should I get a piece down and cross it halfway across, the chef definitely wouldn’t have thought that there would be a wooden board in the middle of the road.”

　　After thinking for a moment, Chen Ge still gave up on this intention, he was worried about giving the other person a fall.

　　After ten seconds passed, the lights came on again, and the chef laughed maniacally and raised his knife to swing it, but he realized halfway through his laugh that there was no one in front of him, and Chen Ge had long since run to the other side of the corridor.

　　”Eh?”

　　Gasping for air and laughing alone in the corridor for half a day, suddenly realizing that there was no one in front of him, the chef looked forward when he realized that Chen Ge was also looking at him, and he had no choice but to continue laughing maniacally to keep his persona from collapsing.

　　”That one is the Butcher from Hell! He’ll make stew out of anyone he catches! I’ve seen a similar movie!” The youngest boy shouted as he ran wildly.

　　”He’s about to come after us!” A girl turned around and saw the chef and screamed in terror.

　　Probably because he was a bit embarrassed earlier, the chef brandished his own kitchen knife and chased after the tourists even harder.

　　”This way!”

　　Seeing that they were going to be caught up by the chef, at the critical moment, the police found a door.

　　”Wait! Don’t go in yet!” The man with glasses tried to warn, but it was already too late, the police pushed the door in, and the other tourists rushed in after him without thinking so much.

　　Chen Ge was the last one to enter the room, at this time, the chef was already very close, he closed the door with his hand.

　　”Boom!”

　　Wood shavings were flying overhead, a large opening was chopped out above the door panel by the kitchen knife, the wooden door vibrated, and someone was frantically hitting the door panel!

　　”This door won’t block it for long! We must find a way out of this room as soon as possible!” The policeman shouted, “I entered this scene the last time I came to visit, and it’s not too difficult. Everyone just needs to find the dead mannequin of the corpse before the clock on the wall goes to twelve! By the way, the scene behind that corpse is also useful, and we have to take the corpse away!”

　　”I have a question.” Chen Ge raised his hand, “Since you’ve visited you should know what had happened in this room, how many pieces of the corpse do we need to find to be successful?”

　　”Pieces?” The policeman froze for a moment, “Aren’t the bodies counted by the piece?”

　　”Look at the fruit plate on the table.” Chen Ge pointed to the exquisite fruit plate on the coffee table, on which were three plastic apples, a bunch of plastic grapes, and five severed fingers, “Fingers should be counted as part of the human body, right?”

　　”I didn’t have this last time I was here!” The policeman looked at the other visitors in surprise, and after a brief exchange of glances, he rushed towards the bedroom, “Last time we were here, we found the body under the bed!”

　　Not waiting for the others to follow, the policeman entered the bedroom and lifted the bed sheet, he looked at the empty bottom of the bed and was dumbfounded.

　　”It’s impossible!”

　　”What’s impossible, the difficulty has been upgraded from medium to hell, it’s normal that there are more things to find.” The man with the glasses was calm, “I’m a detective by profession, and I gained my first clue when I entered this scene.”

　　He looked to his wristwatch, “The location of the head is on the upper level of the refrigerator.”

　　Two of the three girls instantly turned away from the refrigerator, only the woman with the long hair didn’t care and went over to open the door herself.

　　”Now I have good news and bad news, which would you like to hear first?” The woman’s face went a little white.

　　”What’s the good news?”

　　”Inside the refrigerator, besides the head, there’s the mannequin’s little arm and five other fingers.”

　　”And the bad news?”

　　”The mannequin’s body is even more shredded than I thought it would be when I cut it up.” The woman had recoiled a little, the hell level scenario hadn’t been entered since the official opening of Virtual Futurama, and they were the first ones.

　　The general process was clear to them, but under the control of the center’s computer, the difficulty of the basic tasks had also been raised to an exaggerated level.

　　”Move faster, we still have four minutes.” Chen Ge looked at the clock hanging on the wall in the living room, it was now eleven fifty-six: “The sound of banging on the door is constant, the fat chef is at the door, in addition, listen carefully, the cries that were following us before have not disappeared, only that they have been temporarily covered by the sound of banging on the door.”

　　Holding his breath, after a while Chen Ge spoke again, “To add to that, that little girl’s laughter hasn’t disappeared either, which means that if we don’t solve the puzzle quickly, we might face a ferocious chef and two ghosts later.”

　　”That’s hellish difficulty ……,” the policeman was a bit nervous, “Up here are three ghosts and we’re still only on the second level.”

　　”Three is a conservative estimate, and don’t you forget that there are probably ghosts present in this new scenario as well, and the ghosts following us will increase in number as time goes on, and while most of them are haunted house actors and projections, a small percentage of them might actually be something indefinable. After all, you’ve put a lot of unspecified old objects in this haunted house.” Chen Ge was still broadcasting live, and his offhanded few words had already begun to pave the way for the follow-up, and by the time his own employees came out, he could also shrug off the fact that it was the virtual paradise that was the problem.

　　Quickly walking to the refrigerator to remove the head of the mannequin’s corpse, Chen Ge realized that the corpse’s mouth was bulging with something stuffed inside.

　　He put his hand into the mannequin’s mouth and quickly felt a ball of paper.

　　”What are you doing?” The woman with long hair saw Chen Ge’s actions and wanted to stay with Chen Ge even less.

　　Too lazy to explain, Chen Ge took out the paper ball and looked at the message on it – I found myself caught in a reincarnation nightmare, whenever midnight twelve o’clock comes, I’ll always be killed in various ways, and every time I’m about to die I’ll always wake up from the dream and realize that what I just experienced was just a dream, what really makes me feel desperate is that , every time I woke up the time was 11:56 pm.