Chapter 1142 – Am I scary, or is the curse scary?
Chen Ge asked Lao Wu to reveal his identity to the landlord, and the two of them entered the rental house to check it out.
Eat Ren left in a hurry, the takeout on the table was not finished, there were all kinds of clothes thrown on the sofa, the drawers were not closed, and the house was in a mess, just like it had been burglarized.
”Did Eatren tell you where he was going to go?”
”No, but he’s been talking to people on the phone lately, it seems like he’s trying to get someone to take him in temporarily for a while, and in between he’s had a couple of big arguments with the people on the phone.” The landlord pointed at the wall, “Older houses, the soundproofing is rather poor, and although Eat Ren usually looks honest, he is very scary when he gets angry.”
”Then did you hear any more important names of people and places?” Chen Ge had a serious expression.
”They seemed to have mentioned a delicatessen called Ten Mile Delicatessen, and the owner also seemed to have the surname Eat.” The information the landlord could provide was limited, and Chen Ge had silently released Men Nan in the course of the conversation.
While they were chatting, Men Nan roughly searched the entire room, but didn’t find anything.
Leaving the apartment building, Old Wu drove Chen Ge to the Ten Mile Delicatessen again.
This store was located on the busiest Century Avenue in Xinhai, and coincidentally, Shangguan Light Hong’s haunted house was also near Century Avenue, and the two stores belonged to the same business district.
”The Century Avenue shopping district is brightly lit and popular twenty-four hours a day, hiding here is indeed a good choice.” In a popular place, it was very inconvenient for a Lich to move, even Redcoat would be affected.
”Brother Wu, you don’t have to care about me after you send me to the deli, today is really troublesome for you, when it clears up, I will definitely treat you to dinner.”
”Are you okay on your own? This is Xinhai, you’re not familiar with the area, you wouldn’t dare to do anything dangerous by yourself.” Old Wu gave Chen Ge his cell phone number: “Call me if you run into trouble, I’ll try to help you figure it out.”
”Thanks a lot.”
Old Wu had accompanied Mr. Wang, he still had a mission in mind and couldn’t move with Chen Ge for a long time, but he was able to send Chen Ge to Xinhai, which already made Chen Ge very grateful.
Carrying two large bags, Chen Ge directly found Ten Mile Delicatessen.
The store was small, but there were so many customers that there was a long line at the entrance.
”Business is pretty red hot.”
It took a full fifteen minutes to line up Chen Ge, who looked at all the deli foods in the window and smelled the pungent aroma: “Boss, how does your deli food feel so much more fragrant than others’?”
”My family has a secret sauce passed down from our ancestors, this flavor is unique under the sky!” The boss was a big fat man, looking very joyful.
”Have a little of each, I’m a person who especially likes to eat meat.” While Chen Ge was talking, he had been secretly observing the boss and the staff, and didn’t find any problems, this seemed to be a very normal deli.
After paying, Chen Ge left with a big bag of deli food.
It was already dark, but the street was still filled with cars, and not only did it not become cold, but it also became more and more lively.
”Xinhai is a big city after all.” Carrying two large bags and the bag of cooked food, Chen Ge found Shangguan Light Hong’s haunted house at the corner of the street, and compared to the main street, the crowd here was indeed much less.
”Last time I was here, this was still someone else’s haunted house.”
Just as Chen Ge entered the haunted house, an employee warmly greeted her, but when she saw Chen Ge’s face, she instantly took a few steps back.
”Chen, Chen Ge ……,” that female employee was too impressed with Chen Ge, her boss had been hospitalized twice because of this horrible man in front of her.
”You have to call me boss from now on, New Century Paradise has already bought your place.” Chen Ge took out a certificate from his backpack, “Go and call all the free employees over, I have something to tell you.”
The dead enemy had turned into the new boss, the employees in the hall all had ugly faces, they looked at Chen Ge the same way they looked at the villain in a TV series, who had driven the poor people to the end of their rope and still refused to give up.
”Don’t just stand there, hurry up!” Chen Ge didn’t have the idea of bullying these employees, although it was this haunted house that first provoked him in the first place, he was a very generous person, and he didn’t put those small things in the past on his mind at all.
Ten minutes later, several employees wearing ghost makeup hurriedly ran out from the scene, counting the cashier and the handyman in charge of water and electricity logistics, there were a total of five employees standing in the hall.
”Why are you guys the only ones here? Where are the others? Are you guys trying to give me a hard time?” Chen Ge was under the impression that this haunted house had at least a dozen employees.
”There are fewer and fewer tourists, the wages can’t be paid, and with the rumors of being haunted, many people chose to leave on their own.” The female employee whispered, “Because of the lack of manpower, we are now opening the two most popular sub-scenes.”
”Occupying such a good location, the tourists are actually getting fewer and fewer? It seems like Shangguan Light Hong really needs to reflect on this.” Chen Ge looked at the only five remaining employees, “Shangguan Light Hong has already sold this place to me, I welcome you if you are willing to continue to work here, if not, I will make up for the wages that Shangguan Light Hong owes you, so let’s get together and part ways.”
Hearing Chen Ge say that he would pay back the wages, the remaining five employees were all a bit moved, and in the end, including the female employee at the front desk, four of them chose to leave.
Chen Ge settled their wages on the spot, “You won’t have to come in tomorrow, good luck finding a better job.”
After the handover, the four employees unloaded their makeup and left, leaving Chen Ge and a female employee in the large haunted house.
”Why don’t you leave with them?” Chen Ge looked at the female employee and felt that she looked somewhat familiar.
”I usually live here, if I leave, I won’t even have a place to stay.”
”You should have saved a lot of money after working for so long, right? How could you not even have a place to rent?” Chen Ge forgot that he also lived in a haunted house every day when he said this.
”My brother’s health isn’t very good, he has to be cured and go to school, it costs more, so I’ll try to save some if I can.” The female employee whispered, she seemed to be afraid of Chen Ge, but for the sake of her paycheck and a place to live, she stood her ground with a stiff upper lip.
”Difficulties at home?” Chen Ge nodded: “You add me on WeChat first, I’ll make up the wages owed by Shangguan Qinghong to you, and you’ll still stay and work here in the future.”
”Thank you …… boss.”
”Have we met before? I always feel that your looks are familiar.”
”My name is Hu Die, everyone calls me Xiao Die, when you visited here last time, I played the pen fairy game with you.” The female employee whispered back.
”That’s you! I almost didn’t recognize you after removing my makeup.” Chen Ge remembered this girl, at that time, he and Xiaodie played the Pen Fairy game together, and when they reached the second game, he took out the ballpoint pen that hid the real Pen Fairy, and at that time, Xiaodie was directly stunned and fainted.
In order to prevent embarrassment, Chen Ge changed the topic, “It’s said outside that our haunted house is really haunted, and you’ve kind of experienced it yourself, why do you still insist on working here? Aren’t you scared?”
”There is nothing in this world that scares me more than being poor.” Xiaodie clasped her hands together, her family circumstances seemed to be very bad.
”Don’t think about those unhappy things, do a good job, I don’t dare to guarantee that you’ll be rich and famous in the future, but at least there’s no problem in doubling your salary.” Chen Ge didn’t like to say empty words and platitudes, what he said was usually what he could do.
”The employee benefits on my side are much better than what you used to have, you’d better find a place to live first, I’m not driving you away, after my last visit I realized that this haunted house of yours does have problems.” Chen Ge stared at Xiao Die’s eyes, “There seems to be something unclean at night, for your safety, it’s better to move out.”
Xiao Die nodded, looking a little pitiful.
”Let’s go, take me around the haunted house, I was in a hurry last time I came, there are so many scenes I haven’t even gone in to see yet.”
Chen Ge and Xiaodie entered the interior of the haunted house, and before they could see a few scenes, Xiaodie’s cell phone suddenly rang.
Seeing the caller ID, Xiao Die was embarrassed and walked to the side and answered the call.
”Sis, where are you? Can I stay at your place tonight?” A boy’s voice came from the other side of the phone, with a crying tone in his words.
Xiao Die was in a difficult situation, Chen Ge had just told her that she couldn’t stay here, and she didn’t know how to answer her brother, “Don’t you live in school? Why did you sneak out?”
”I really can’t afford to live there anymore.”
”Did they bully you again?” Xiao Die was a little angry.
”Sis, don’t ask, I’m at the door of your haunted house, just let me stay for the night.” The boy desperately begged, Little Butterfly helplessly looked at Chen Ge, before she opened her mouth, Chen Ge nodded in agreement.
”No problem, we can let him stay here for a night today first, but it’s not a long term solution, you’d better figure out why exactly he doesn’t want to live in school.”
”Thanks boss.” Xiao Die hung up the phone and ran out of the scene with Chen Ge.
In the hall of the haunted house was currently standing a skinny high school student with very pale skin, he had a narrow bone structure, injuries on his face, and was holding a stomped out eyeglass in his hand.
”Why did you run over here by yourself?” Xiao Die saw the high school student and hurriedly walked over, she took out wet wipes from under the counter and helped that high school student wipe the ash from his clothes and arms, “I’ll go find a band-aid, you stay here and don’t run around.”
After Xiao Die left, Chen Ge and the high school student were the only two people left in the hall.
”Can your school let resident students leave school at will at night?” Chen Ge placed the two large bags in his hands on the seat and received two cups of water, he held one for himself and placed the other in front of the high school student.
The male student didn’t bother to take the water Chen Ge handed over, he didn’t seem to like Chen Ge too much, “Are you and my sister coworkers? Why are you two the only ones here today?”
”No?” Chen Ge took a sip of the water in the cup with a smile on his face.
The aura of the two was not at all at the same level, Little Butterfly’s younger brother stood still, holding the trampled glasses, silently not saying a word.
A few moments later, Xiao Die ran over with the haunted house’s medicine box and gave her brother a simple treatment for his wound.
In the middle, Xiao Die asked her brother many times what happened, but her brother just didn’t say anything, until after treating the wound, her brother carried his school bag and walked towards the inside of the haunted house, he seemed to know where the haunted house staff lounge was, this shouldn’t be the first time that he ran to the haunted house to take refuge.
”Hu Yuan! Wait!” Xiaodie shouted out twice before the high schooler stopped in his tracks.
”I don’t want to say anything, can you stop asking!” Hu Yuan had a lot of emotional ups and downs and was obviously in a lot of pain inside.
”This is the new boss of Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge, if you want to stay in the haunted house, you have to at least get his permission to do so, this is the most basic courtesy.” Xiao Die dragged Hu Yuan to Chen Ge’s side.
”He can stay here, but what does hiding here for one night change?” Chen Ge walked over to Hu Yuan, “Fear won’t dissipate just because you hide, you’ll have to face it sooner or later, why don’t you say it so your sister and I can help you think of a solution.”
Since obtaining the black cell phone, Chen Ge had encountered countless problem children and had accumulated an extremely rich experience.
Under his constant enlightenment, Hu Yuan finally told the truth.
There were a total of four people in their dormitory, and the other three always hugged and ganged up on him.
Usually he put up with it, but this afternoon when school was over, those three little bastards stuffed a letter to him.
Hu Yuan insisted not to, the result of the three began to take his sister flirting, and finally Hu Yuan and the three fought.
The skinny Hu Yuan was certainly no match for the three, and after being beaten up, he didn’t want to go back to his dormitory, so he ran to his sister.
Very typical of school bullying, Xiao Die was very angry and wanted to go to the school teacher tomorrow.
”They want to give you a letter?” Chen Ge heard something strange, “Did you end up asking for that letter?”
”Cao Fei slipped the letter to me, originally I was going to throw it away, but I hesitated after seeing what was on the letter.” Hu Yuan took out a letter from his school bag, “You guys better not read it, I’ll think of a way to get rid of it.”
Actually, Chen Ge hadn’t cared about it, but his pupils slowly narrowed when he saw the envelope, there were deep black marks remaining on the surface of the letter, which were left behind after the blood dried up, “Why would there be human blood on the envelope?”
Chen Ge took the letter in his hands and disregarded Hu Yuan’s obstruction to open the letter, inside, besides a few hairs of different lengths, there was also a case sheet.
The patient’s name was not written on the sheet, but a few sentences had been written on the back in red ballpoint pen.
”Please cut one of your hairs and put it in the envelope, then give this letter to someone else.”
”If you do not pass this letter on to someone else before dark, I will appear at your home at 4:44 a.m.”
”If within three days you still have not passed this letter on to someone else, I will appear in front of your eyes at four forty-four in the morning.”
”Curse the envelope? So childish.” Chen Ge looked at the hair in the envelope and knew that many people had already touched this envelope.
”You’d better return the letter to me, I heard Cao Fei say that he really seemed to have seen something last night.” Hu Yuan went to take the envelope, but Chen Ge dodged away.
”The most important task for you at your age now is to study well, you should not be concerned with other things.” Chen Ge patted Hu Yuan’s shoulder for fear, “The person who gave you this letter is called Cao Fei, right?”
”En.”
”He’s a resident like you?”
”What do you want?” Hu Yuan was confused and looked at his sister, and Xiao Die didn’t know what kind of thing Chen Ge wanted to do.
”I’m going to show up at his bedside at four forty-four in the morning tonight.” Chen Ge smiled and put away the envelope, “Just kidding, you go inside and rest first.”
With a relaxed and natural expression, Chen Ge acted as if nothing had happened as he let Xiao Die show him around all the scenes before locking himself into the principal’s office.
”Nightmare Academy’s configuration is a bit better than the House of Horrors, these props alone are worth quite a bit of money.” Chen Ge flipped through the comic book and had a few red coats carefully search every corner of the haunted house to make sure there was no danger before he completely put his heart down.
”Two things to do tonight, investigate the deli, and figure out the source of the cursed envelope.” Chen Ge had seen many case slips, but it was the first time he had seen a blank case slip with no name written on it and no picture attached.
”I’ll go find Cao Fei after the early hours of the morning, one by one, I’m sure I’ll be able to find the source of the curse.” Chen Ge placed his legs on the principal’s desk and changed to a comfortable position, “School is a place of learning, all those who hit the students are not worthy of forgiveness.”