Chapter 0967: All the Way Forward
Standing in front of the door of the secret room, Chen Ge put up his ears to listen, the woman’s singing voice was very strange, singing as if it was some almost lost local tune of Hanjiang.
Through the wall full of talisman paper, just hearing that woman’s voice, closing his eyes as if he could see the green bricks and green tiles, all colors of curtains, as if he had gone back to the past, taking a deep breath, his lungs were full of lipstick that carried a ghostly scent.
”Unexpectedly good, this red dress is a bit special ah.” Chen Ge perked up, “My haunted house doesn’t have any employees who can sing ancient songs yet, if she’s willing, I can give her a hand.”
The woman’s voice was mesmerizing, she used a dialect, Chen Ge could only understand a very small portion of it, and didn’t know if she was singing opera or herself.
”Which room would you choose? The secret room plastered with talismans is the most dangerous, would you come here?” Chen Ge’s hand clenched into a tight fist, just then he heard the sound of a door panel being pulled, the door to the bedroom outside the secret room was opened!
At the same time that the door opened, the long-haired woman sitting alone in that bedroom outside the secret room let out a scream.
”Xu Yin!”
Chen Ge decisively pulled open the door to the secret room, and he saw a slim woman in a blood-colored costume standing at the door of the bedroom.
Her fingers pressed against the door of the room, a touch of unresolved hatred in her scarlet eyes, her body leaning against the wall, and a bruise could still be seen on her skin that was exposed outside of her costume.
”Be careful!” Chen Ge shouted at the woman with long black hair inside the room, grabbing the woman’s arm and blocking her with his back.
While helping her block the danger, he also blocked her line of sight.
Taking advantage of the fact that she was in a state of shock and hadn’t regained her senses, Xu Yin stepped out of the talisman-covered chamber and stormed towards the red dress in costume at the door.
”Red high heels guarding the shrine, blocking the front, Xu Yin chasing after you, where are you going to run?” Chen Ge surveyed behind him with his afterglow and waited for Xu Yin and the costume-clad red dress to leave before he stood up.
He was about to head out when his clothes were suddenly grabbed.
”You, don’t go over there, that woman in the costume isn’t a haunted house employee!” It took the woman a lot of effort to say a complete sentence, her long messy hair stuck to her face, this woman who had always looked at Chen Ge in a bad light now had a great change of heart towards Chen Ge.
When the danger occurred just now, this man defiantly stood in front of him.
Business rivalry aside, this man could not pick out any flaws on a moral level.
”How do you know she’s not a haunted house employee?”
”I ……”
”Don’t worry, maybe she’s just a projection, this place is after all a fusion of forty hellish scenarios, it’s reasonable to say that any strange and bizarre projections appear.” Chen Ge ran out of the bedroom as if he hadn’t noticed a change in the woman’s tone of voice.
The other tourists who heard the ringing also all walked out, but the red-clothed female ghosts had long since disappeared from the corridor.
”Where did they go?” Chen Ge wasn’t worried about the safety of Xu Yin and Scarlet Heels, the two of them together would be able to stall for a long time even if they met a top-notch red dress, “Now I’m able to determine that there is indeed a red dress in the haunted house, but the other party’s state is very strange, and it’s a lot different from the red dresses that I’ve seen before.”
Exactly where it was different, Chen Ge couldn’t say, all he could do now was to do everything he could to control the costumed redcoat.
”That ghost is really hiding in the shrine!” The policeman shouted, attracting everyone’s attention, “The shrine door was opened! Those red high heels are gone too!”
With the police’s assistance, a wonderful misunderstanding arose, and all the tourists thought that the red high heels were the ghost in this cursed scene, they didn’t even think that there was another possibility.
”Look here! The exit!” Xiao Ling pointed at the back of the shrine, where it was originally sealed by wooden boards, and just when the female ghost appeared just now, the boards were removed by someone unknown.
The cold wind blew against the crowd, and a dark path appeared behind the shrine.
”There’s no door in the cursed house, behind the shrine should be the hidden way out.” The youngest boy stroked his chin and tugged at his sporadic few beards, “We didn’t solve the riddle, but the exit appeared on its own, could this be a trap?”
”The last time I came in to visit, the exit was also here, but this time when I came in I had already tried, the wooden boards behind the shrine wouldn’t open at all, it seems like it’s because some conditions weren’t met.” The policeman was afraid that the crowd wouldn’t believe him, and was the first to run to the side of the shrine, “Look, there is a pattern on each of these wooden boards that corresponds to the hints on the residual scrolls, and by arranging them in a fixed order, you can rearrange these boards, and then you will be able to open this hidden door. But I tried it before, and even if I arranged it correctly, I couldn’t open it!”
”Why don’t you share it with everyone if you know the way to leave?” Chen Ge stared at the police, he realized that these people still weren’t honest and were always thinking of playing tricks, “It seems that you guys still aren’t desperate enough, but it doesn’t matter.”
When everyone realized that this wasn’t a game, but was really tied to their life and death, only then would they listen to Chen Ge’s words and become his helpers.
If Chen Ge didn’t come, they would have to face the risk of death anytime they worked in a scene with red clothes.
Now Chen Ge was helping them solve this problem, but relatively, they also had to give something before they could do so.
”Let’s go, it’s good to find a way out, let’s enter the next scene now and take a look.” Chen Ge carried his backpack and ran into the bedroom next to him first, secretly stuffing another black and white photo into his pocket as well, “Still missing a wind chime, forget it, I’ll look for it next time I come.”
What Chen Ge wanted was not those items, but the obsessions on them, he had the comic book, as long as he was given the time, he could take those obsessions away through the comic book, and the items would remain.
After getting the items, Chen Ge avoided the shrine and entered the pitch-black passage.
”The mystery of this scene hasn’t been solved yet, the exit opens unexplained, is it really good for us to go in like this?” The man with glasses looked towards the police, frankly none of them wanted to continue exploring any further.
”Finding a way out is a good thing, what? Are you guys scared?” Chen Ge walked alone in front, and the others could only follow him in as “companions”.
Seeing everyone enter the new scene, Chen Ge revealed a satisfied smile, these tourists would be able to provide him with clues and free labor, and could also help him verify certain speculations, the most crucial thing was that these tourists were witnesses, and their eyes would be able to help Chen Ge clear all suspicions.
”Although Xu Yin and the red high heels are not here, I still have Stench and the headless female ghost, so my personal safety is completely guaranteed.”
Outside the Cursed House was a dark corridor without any light, and with cell phone illumination one was able to see several wordless tombstones standing on the long corridor, as if this place was a mass grave.
At the end of the corridor hung a sign for a popular hotel, pushing open the dilapidated door, there was a lot of space inside.
”This is the new scene?” Chen Ge was the first person to enter the scene, but he had been standing at the door without going inside.
After everyone had entered, Chen Ge reached into his backpack with one hand to flip through the anime picture book and quietly summoned Stench to go and put the piece of boarded-up door of the cursed house back together.
At the same time as Stench left, Chen Ge closed the door of the popular hotel, from now on, all the tourists had no way back.