Chapter 0961 – A Beautiful Blessing
”Why are there so many dead characters carved in the shrine? This doesn’t even look like a place where a deity resides!” The detective lay on his back at the very front, and after seeing the handwriting in the shrine, his face turned white with fear.
”Didn’t the video just say that? Shrines placed on tables are for deities, and this kind of shrine placed in the corner is for other things.” A woman bravely squatted in front of the shrine as she cautiously looked inside.
This shrine did not know what material it was made of, like wood, but it had a sticky and slippery feeling when touched, like touching a puddle of blood that was about to coagulate.
Ever since the small door below the shrine was opened, there had been a faint stench coming out of the shrine.
”I’ll say something disrespectful, this box is probably not something a ghost would want to stay in.” The policeman quietly stood beside Chen Ge, “Also I have to tell you one thing, the last time I came to challenge the shrine, there weren’t any of those bloody words in the shrine.”
After he said this, he looked at the girl who was crouching in front of the shrine.
The girl slowly got up with a hint of puzzlement in her eyes as she secretly shook her head at the policeman and the woman with long black hair.
Several “tourists” seem to be in charge of different jobs in the haunted house, this girl seems to be specialized in refining the props and organs.
Seeing her shake her head, the policeman’s face became even more ugly, and he hesitantly said to Chen Ge, “Why don’t we not continue to walk in, you don’t want to be too reckless to pass the level, we’ll accompany you to explore the first few scenes.”
The police officer’s words were basically a clear indication to Chen Ge – we don’t scare you, and you don’t continue to go forward to make us look bad, so we can all be peaceful and calm.
”It definitely won’t work if we don’t keep moving forward, even if we don’t go looking for them, they’ll still come looking for us.” Chen Ge had long since realized that several tourists were making eye contact with each other, and he also saw the girl shaking her head at the police officer, who was the one who proposed not to continue exploring forward after seeing the message given by the girl.
The “tourists” were scared, and the reason for their fear was related to this shrine.
Chen Ge grabbed the edge of the shrine with both hands and tried to look at it from a different angle, but he was surprised to find that the shrine was fixed to the ground and was integrated with the entire house.
The Reincarnation Haunted House was created by Virtual Future Land, so why should they still be afraid? Although these few employees were not very bold, but to be chosen to come in as escorts, they must be the type of people who were more resourceful and had strong business skills, and for them to be able to retreat in fear, something must have gone terribly wrong.
Chen Ge pretended to ask unintentionally, “Did the designer of the Reincarnation Haunted House not also imagine that the scene inside would turn out like this?”
”Pretty much.” The policeman had a bitter face, and only realized that something was wrong after he blurted it out, and hurriedly added, “When I came to visit last time, I heard a few of the designers arguing, and it seemed to be because some of the hell-level scenes appeared to change outside of their design under the control of the central computer.”
”No matter how powerful the intelligent system is, it can’t affect reality, it has to be paired with manual labor and machinery in order to have an effect.” Chen Ge stared at the interior of the shrine, the tip of his nose twitching slightly as he used his just-acquired talent, Spirit Scent.
”That’s true, but not all questions in the world have answers.” The police officer didn’t know how to go about explaining this to Chen Ge.
”I probably understand.” Chen Ge took a deep breath, “All the scenes are controlled by the central computer, and there will be errors and variations in the integration with each other, but these variations are within the acceptable range, so those designers didn’t care, and instead gloated over their masterpieces. But they overlooked a very crucial factor, these idiots put some old objects they found in the eastern suburbs into the haunted house! The central computer controlled the projections and organs, changing the script and various development patterns, while the things attached to those old objects were silently changing the scene itself.”
”What, what are you talking about?” The policeman was puzzled.
”My parents run a haunted house, I grew up in a haunted house, I definitely know more than you guys.” Chen Ge gestured for the detective to come over with his cell phone, “Haunted houses themselves are places with heavy yin qi, a little inattention will produce bad things, and this haunted house has purposely placed a whole bunch of ominous items inside, it’s only normal that those things will be attracted.”
”Do you think we’ll believe that?” The woman with long black hair still disagreed with Chen Ge, she did not allow others to say bad things about Virtual Future Land, this was the same as Chen Ge not wanting to hear others say bad things about New Century Land.
He could understand, but that didn’t mean he would compromise: “You guys get down closer and look at the handwriting inside the shrine.”
The light shone, and several people forced themselves to watch it.
”These words were all dug out by people with their fingernails a little bit, some of those red marks are dyes and some are blood. You guys look at those words in the innermost part again, are there some impurities in the middle of the font engravings?”
”Yes, I see it.” Under the light of the cell phone’s lamp, a few people finally got a good look, “What’s that?”
”If I say it’s rotten meat do you guys believe me?” Chen Ge’s expression was a bit frightening, “There is a foul odor emanating from the shrine, it’s the smell of rotting meat, it’s hard to imagine a shrine emitting such an odor. If this isn’t an elaborate design by Virtual Future Land, then it proves that something is going to go terribly wrong with this haunted house.”
His pupils narrowed as Chen Ge scanned the room, the entire Japanese-style building exuded ominousness everywhere, and something was wrapped around every item.
It couldn’t be seen clearly, but it did exist.
”Then …… how about we retreat to that scene from before?” The policeman had already beaten a retreat, he had visited the medium difficulty scene and knew a lot about this haunted house, but it was precisely because he knew so much that he felt even more scared.
”You guys seem to like this paradise, does anyone know when this paradise started building haunted houses?” Chen Ge felt a strong sense of resentment and hatred from the shrine’s handwriting; it was the aura of a curse.
”More than a month ago.”
”That’s when my haunted house caught fire on the internet.” Chen Ge spoke nonchalantly, “Virtual Future Paradise just saw the business opportunity, but didn’t see the danger behind it, the eastern suburb of Hanjiang is different from the western suburb.”
”What’s different?” The white collar with long hair furrowed her eyebrows, as if she wanted to set Chen Ge’s words, she herself understood that Virtual Future Paradise was an outsider, while Chen Ge was a native of Hanjiang.
”You’ll know later.” Chen Ge finished speaking and took out a cloth doll with half of its face burnt from its backpack.
”What do you want? Isn’t this that little girl’s toy?” Those “tourists” could no longer guess what Chen Ge was thinking.
”I want to do an experiment.” Chen Ge said and stuffed the doll into the shrine, and closed the door of the shrine: “The shrine is the most dangerous place in the entire scene, so I’ll stand guard here. You guys grab the other rooms in groups of two, and if you find anything, or if you come across anything scary, scream loudly, and I’ll come over to support you.”
”Are you sure you want to stay in the hallway alone and guard this shrine?” There was a hint of uncertainty in the policeman’s tone.
”Leave him alone.” The man with the glasses dragged the policeman away, and a few tourists started searching in a hurry.
When they were far away, Chen Ge quietly opened the shrine and took out the rag doll to have a look.
The weird thing was that the rag doll with half of its face burnt had revealed a scared expression.
”The rag doll’s expression still changes? This shrine seems to have other meanings.” Chen Ge said and put the rag doll into it again, then opened his backpack and stuffed the red high heels in as well, “There are specialties in the arts, you are very good at curses, so I’ll leave this place to you. I know you are very strong, this time putting you into the shrine also contains my good wishes for you, I hope that one day you can become a Fierce God as well.”