Chapter 1113 – “Cozy and Harmonious” Daily Life
Pen Fairy stood beside Chang Lone with a confused look on her face, she still didn’t understand what was happening, just now everyone was auditioning for the movie, she just made a few expressions as Chang Lone said.
”I didn’t expect that the first one to debut in my haunted house would be Pen Fairy, it’s not in vain of my usual careful teaching.” Chen Ge looked at Pen Cents with great relief, then asked again, “So has the male lead been finalized?”
”I’m a bit torn right now on the male lead, in terms of acting skills, your employee surnamed Zhou is really great, his acting skills are better than all the actors I’ve worked with, the problem is that he’s too old, we’re a school youth comedy, it’s more or less the same for him to play the female lead’s father.” Chang Ku looked at Old Zhou and Bai Qiulin who were deliberately walking around, and sighed helplessly, “To be reasonable, the most suitable person to play the male lead in your haunted house is Xu Yin, it’s as if his eyes were encased in a sea of sadness, his body carries with it a kind of natural melancholy, and his age is more appropriate, the most important thing is that his facial features can almost ‘abuse ‘ most male actors of the same age, this is simply the life of the main character!”
”Then let Xu Yin play the male lead.” It didn’t matter to Chen Ge who would play the male lead, he was more hopeful that Xu Yin would be able to slowly step out of her own world and look at the outside scenery through this experience. Of all the haunted house employees, Xu Yin was the most loyal, and in order to protect Chen Ge, he had almost lost his soul several times, so no matter what, Chen Ge wanted to help Xu Yin regain his hope.
”Since you agree, then you should have a good chat with him, do his mind work, the male lead has very many lines, this back and forth he will just say a good pain can’t work.” Chang Ku was a little afraid of Xu Yin, and didn’t dare to speak too loudly when talking to her.
”There are some things that can’t be forced, how about you try to shorten the male lead’s lines a bit, or use another form to show the male lead?”
”It’s hard, after all, we’re different from those adaptation teams on the market that don’t respect the original, we have to do right by the late writer.” Standing Orphan was still very professional in some ways.
”Good, then I’ll go have a good chat with him later.” Chen Ge followed Chang’lu as he walked among the two scenes of the Psychic Ghost School and the Twilight Sun Middle School, “Do you have any candidates for the other slightly more important roles? I previously promised an employee to help her with the movie, her name is Duan Yue and she was an English teacher before she was born.”
”The management forcing their way into the crew? This scene is a déjà vu for me.” Chang Lone originally wanted to refuse, but after recalling Duan Yue, he changed his mind, “I remembered, that female teacher is also a great actress, how about making her the class teacher of the female lead? In the original, this homeroom teacher has been helping the female lead, and later even got together with the female lead’s father.”
”I’ll go, this plot will probably kill me with laughter again if Old Zhou hears it.” Chen Ge nodded, “You’d better communicate with Duan Yue again and see if she’s willing.”
”OK, let me give you the rest of the roles as well.” Chang Ku was very capable, the roles he chose all matched the actor’s own personality, and didn’t even require much acting skill, just go ahead and be yourself and interpret the role well.
Apart from the group actors, there were a total of nine important roles. The plot of this youth comedy was not really complicated, focusing on the story of a girl from a single-parent family who comes out of depression with the help of her father and school.
It’s a story about youth and growing up, full of positive energy and the traumas essential to maturity.
One small thing that is laughable makes for a clever story.
The story wasn’t long, the dramatization was strong, the conflict was distinct, and the difficulty of filming was relatively low, all of which were the reasons why Chang Lone chose this work to film.
”Just hurry up and shoot, I’ll leave the rest to you, it’s best to get it done within a week.” Chen Ge didn’t know when the cursed hospital would come for him, gaining Chang Wenyu’s trust as soon as possible would only do him good, no harm.
”I didn’t expect that after death, I can instead do what I love with all my heart, it’s really ironic, don’t worry, I won’t let you down.” Standing Orphan gave Chen Ge a “military order”, and let Chen Ge see the results within five days.
Chen Ge also felt that Chang Ku was quite reliable, so he didn’t ask any more questions and left it all to Chang Ku.
He was just an ordinary person, he couldn’t be compared to the ghosts and red clothes, and after staying up for most of the night, he was already sleepy.
Chen Ge had just left the underground scene in front of him, and Chang lu was about to go shooting, when a short figure secretly grabbed Chang lu’s clothes.
Startled, Chang Lone twisted his head to look, and he realized that a redcoat whose height just reached his knees was looking at him.
”Do redcoats run everywhere in this place?” Chang Lone’s body froze in place, and he realized that Chen Ge’s House of Horrors was even scarier than the Psychic Ghost School.
”Director Chang, my name is Men Nan, do you see any suitable roles for me? I’ve wanted to see myself on TV since I was a kid, it’s kind of a dream of mine.”
A child’s request could be ignored by Chang Ku, but it would be a completely different story if that child was in red.
”No problem, why don’t I arrange a role for you as the heroine’s brother? There’s one in the original, but it’s not a big part.”
”It doesn’t matter if the part is big or small, as long as you show your face.” Men Nan left contentedly, and Chang Ku also breathed a sigh of relief, he took a step and was about to walk forward, when he suddenly shivered and smelled a strong odor of blood.
Looking back, a female ghost in red holding her own head was standing at the corner staring at him.
Without saying a word, she stared at Standing Lone with the human head in her arms.
”Hello ……,” Chang lu directly used honorifics as he walked over stiffly, as he felt it was slightly safer to walk over on his own initiative than to have the other party follow him.
The headless female ghost could understand what Chang Ku meant, but the pent up resentment and hatred made her not good at expressing herself.
”Do you also want to shoot a movie? It just so happens that I have a role here that suits you, you don’t need to open your mouth to speak, you just need to give your silent blessing.”
Standing Orphan’s face blanched and she spoke carefully, other places wanted money to shoot a movie, this place wanted to shoot for its life!
The headless female ghost didn’t say anything, just took the head and gently nodded a few times, then left.
Until the headless female ghost left far away, only then did Standing Lone breathe a sigh of relief, “I’m going to hurry up and start working, don’t have other red coats looking for them in a while.”
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At eight o’clock in the morning, the first thing Chen Ge did after getting up was to enter the underground scene, he first notified Chang Lone that all the filming would take place at night, and the haunted house would still be open during the day.
The ghost employees didn’t need to rest, after filming all night, they were still very excited, all of them were ready to greet the visitors with their fists, they were very dedicated.
The employees returned to their respective workstations, while Standing Orphan took advantage of the daytime to start editing the video shot in the evening, all night long, and can still fight again, this director is also powerful.
At eight fifteen, Xu Wan and the others arrived one after another, Chen Ge put on their makeup and then entered the staff lounge alone.
He had organized the suicide victims’ wishes from Zhang Wenyu’s side, and most of these suicides were concentrated in the northern and southern suburbs of Hanjiang, while some others died in the border between Xinhai and Hanjiang.
”Is the number so high?” Chen Ge printed out all the information and stuffed it into his backpack, preparing to go out during the day to help Zhang Wenyu fulfill the last wishes of some of the suicides.
Most of those suicides’ last wishes were uncomplicated, except that there was a part of the last wish that Zhang Wenyu, who was a redcoat, was not good at stepping in.
Before he could walk out the door, his cell phone rang again.
Tapping the answer button, Director Luo’s voice came from the other side of the phone.
”Chen Ge, I’ve received two pieces of news on my side, so prepare yourself mentally.”
”What news?” Chen Ge heard a hint of bad feeling from Director Luo’s words.
”There has been a change in the top management over at Virtual Future Land, Jiang Jiu has been hospitalized, and is now completely under the charge of a person called Ma Feng. This person I know very well, sharp as a tack, not too old, extremely fast to the top, decisive and ruthless in his work, the people below call him the Fast Dagger Hand.”
”Ma Feng?”
”He is very capable, but because he does not leave any room for error, he has offended a lot of people, this time, if Jiang Jiu was not accidentally hospitalized, it would not have been his turn to take the lead.”
”Does this person need our attention?” Chen Ge knew what Jiang Jiu was hospitalized for, he didn’t expect a chain reaction.
”Ma Feng looks at the benefits, he was against all of Jiang Jiu’s layouts from the beginning and thought it was a waste. Now after he takes the throne, he will definitely make another counterattack against us, if he makes achievements, then it will be Jiang Jiu’s incompetence; if he doesn’t make achievements, then he will probably just give up the haunted houses and related projects in the Virtual Future Paradise and will no longer compete with us in the same kind of competition.”
”That’s kind of a good thing, isn’t it? As long as we beat him up and hurt him, he’ll be honest, and in the future, it’s estimated that the two parks will exist side by side, and they’ll never think of crowding us out again.”
”The mall is like a battlefield, the winner takes all, Virtual Future Paradise will at most just give up on squeezing us for the time being. But being able to fight for this period of time is already very favorable to us, and I won’t just sit back and wait for our park to change and upgrade.” Director Luo’s words revealed an important message, “By then, we will have what they have, and we will still have what they don’t have, if you were a tourist, how would you choose?”
”Of course I’ll choose us here.” Chen Ge didn’t realize until now that Director Luo’s so-called winner-take-all was actually referring to him wanting to swallow Virtual Future Paradise.
”This won’t take too long, and you’ll have to work hard until the generation change is complete.”
”Understood.” Chen Ge and Director Luo were on the same boat, and the two sides were tightly connected, “Right, didn’t you say you received two messages? What’s the other message?”
”News from the intensive care ward of the People’s Hospital of Hanjiang, most of those people who were hospitalized in a coma by you before have been discharged, those people are not only comforting and encouraging each other every day, and then they are planning to take revenge, the whole thing is just like a pyramid scheme.”
”Are you afraid that they will come back to take revenge on me?” Chen Ge laughed out loud, “A bunch of old patients, still want to play Avengers?”
”Don’t be careless, don’t flip the boat in the gutter.” Luo Dong hung up the phone after saying that.
Chen Ge still had a smile on his face, the gutter will capsize the boat, but it can’t capsize the aircraft carrier, they come openly, the door of the four-star scenario will be opened for them at any time; if they play dirty, the Fierce God and the Red Clothes will welcome them.
After saying hello to Uncle Xu, Chen Ge left New Century Paradise with his bag on his back and went to the northern suburb of Hanjiang, he followed his plan and started to help those suicides fulfill their last wishes.
In the process of continuously completing the last wishes, Chen Ge also discovered something very strange, as he completed more and more last wishes, more blood-colored numbers appeared next to the title of the Wish Returner in his black cell phone.
Every time he completed a dead person’s last wish, that number would increase, and the number of each increase was different, seemingly related to the difficulty of the wish.
Chen Ge’s current number next to Returning Wish Master was 127, and he guessed that perhaps when he waited until 200, the title of Returning Wish Master would see some sort of change.
Busy until the afternoon Chen Ge returned to New Century Paradise, he briefly inquired about the staff, today was another calm day without any accidents.
”There are more and more people who have the guts to challenge the four-star scenarios, but they’re still a long way from passing.” Chen Ge received a report from Old Zhou and Bai Qiulin, a total of nearly two hundred people had attempted to enter the Psychic Ghost School in the recent week, but the density of ghosts and monsters in that scene was so great that Chen Ge retrieved all the students who had been abducted by that door and took the homeless ones into his own Psychic Ghost School scene.
This was a direct result of the fact that no tourists had yet been able to make it all the way through the Psychic Ghost School, and they were basically crying and announcing that they were giving up straight away, and then being brought out by real ghosts.
There were all sorts of rumors about the Psychic Ghost School on the internet, and the heat was so high that it had long since come out of the ring.
”A four star scene is still too little, the Underworld Fetus scene can also be considered open, so go in tonight and check it out properly.”
At six in the evening, the paradise stopped operating, and after Chen Ge sent off all the tourists, he let Xu Wan and the others get off work first, and went into the middle of the underground scene alone.
Standing Orphan started organizing everyone to shoot again, while Chen Ge held the white cat and took the comic book into the Underworld scene.
Originally, there was only one layer of steps leading to the underground, but now there was a second layer of steps, and there was only one scene on the entire second layer, which was the Underworld Fetus.
Speechless Town, White Orphanage, Dark Building, Ghost Street, and several other scenes are fused together, countless dark tunnels are intertwined, constantly extending underground, and the despair and distortion of the Underworld shrouds everything.
The Plutonic Fetus scene is fundamentally different from the Psychic Ghost School scene, probably because this scene once belonged to the Fierce God, as soon as one enters it, one can feel a wave of extreme oppression, as if a demon lives in the bottom of the heart, which is constantly stirring up memories deep in the visitor’s mind.
All negative emotions will be aroused, and one’s sins and evils will be unleashed here, becoming the sustenance for the Underworld Tire Scene.
Having experienced the deepest despair, visitors may leave this place much lighter and with a new perspective on life and the future.
For the price of a short coma, a new life could be ushered in, which was incomparably cost-effective in Chen Ge’s opinion.
Flipping through the comic book, Chen Ge called out all of the several stern ghosts from the world behind the Should Pupil Door, and Ms. Skirt, Mr. Wood, Auntie Wu the cleaning lady, and Ms. Red silently appeared in the surroundings.
”Bai Qiulin and Old Zhou should have already told you everything that needs to be said, the dark building is where you’ll be living next, and there’s not much else that you’ll be required to do besides having to abide by the employee code.” Chen Ge briefly exchanged a few words with the several new employees, “Soon you will understand the charm of this job and fall deeply in love with it.”
After saying that, Chen Ge summoned all the severe ghosts and obsessions he had acquired after the Underworld Fetal Nine Doors, and one by one, he arranged positions and jobs for them, and in the end, he only left Little Sun behind.
Xiao Sun had already accepted the fact of his death, he was looking at it very openly, at this moment, seeing that everyone had a job but himself, he was a little anxious: “Brother, what do I need to do? I also want to help scare the tourists, I’m very good at scaring people.”
”You don’t need to scare tourists.” Chen Ge gave Xiao Sun an expectant look, “You’ll play the tourists and blend in with them, so that you can maximize your superior death-defying talent.”
”I’ll play the tourist?” Little Sun didn’t understand, he didn’t know that haunted houses could be played this way.
”Only then will it not be considered condescending, I believe that with your ability, you can easily regiment your teammates.” Chen Ge smiled and nodded, “After all, you’re a special talent who made the Fierce God storm out with a single word.”