"This is the first time I have seen such a not-scary haunted house."

"The props are too fake. After walking around, I was not only not afraid, but I even wanted to laugh."

“Materialists are fearless!”

"I've told you that it's boring. It's better to play games in the dormitory. My Kun is already at level 80."

At the entrance of the horror house in the western suburbs of Jiujiang City, several students rode shared bicycles and left without any nostalgia.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ge, who was holding the haunted house leaflet, was quite helpless.

Scary is a technical job, but modern people have experienced various thriller baptisms and have strong psychological qualities. Entering a haunted house is like in their own backyard.

"boss!"

A clear female voice came from behind. Chen Ge turned his head and looked at him. He saw a petite "zombie" wearing a nurse's uniform and proudly surrounded by a proud "shoulder" ran out of the haunted house in anger.

"What's wrong, Xiaowan." The girl's name is Xu Wan, and she is one of the extras in the haunted house.

"Those little gangsters just now want to take advantage of me!" She clenched her teeth and clenched her fists.

It turned out to be here to sue...

"It's too much, they don't even let go of zombies." As the boss, Chen Ge would naturally speak for Xiaowan: "I'll go to the park administrator to reflect on the situation and adjust the surveillance."

"No need to be so troublesome. When I noticed that the other party had this intention, I took the initiative and beat him up." Xu Wan shook the blood on the corner of the nurse's suit: "This is not makeup."

"Uh, there is nothing wrong with girls. Girls should learn to protect themselves." Chen Ge wiped his forehead and looked at the sunset: "Then let's stop here today. There are probably no tourists. Notify others and get off work early."

After he finished speaking, the girl with zombie makeup in front of him did not move.

"Is there anything else?"

"Boss..." Xu Wan wanted to speak again and slowly came out of her pocket: "This is the resignation letter from Tao Ming and Xiao Wei. You treat them well. They are embarrassed to tell you in person, so I ask me to pass it on to you."

"They are leaving?" Chen Ge was stunned for a moment and took the envelope: "Everyone has their own ambitions, you should get off work early."

"Yeah, I'll go take off my makeup."

Watching this cute little "zombie" leave, Chen Ge silently lit a cigarette.

Half a year ago, his parents disappeared mysteriously, leaving only this horror house.

In order to keep thinking, Chen Ge quit his job and devoted himself to running the haunted house, hoping to do better.

Unfortunately, the times are changing too quickly, and the competition pressure in the haunted house industry is very high, and it is relatively unpopular, and there are still many limitations.

The same horror scene will become boring after watching it once, and it will take a lot of money to keep renovating.

Since a few weeks ago, haunted house management has been ineffective, and the daily tickets are not enough to even have a fraction of the water and electricity bill.

"I don't know when I can hold on."

After extinguishing the cigarette, Chen Ge was about to go back to the haunted house when a middle-aged man wearing New Century Paradise work clothes came over.

Seeing him, Chen Ge was like a mouse seeing a cat, so he quickly accelerated his pace.

"Pretend to be invisible?" The middle-aged man grabbed Chen Ge's shoulder: "Today we will make it clear. You have been owed two months in water and electricity bills and venue rent. The superiors kept urging me, which put a lot of pressure on me now!"

"Uncle Xu, it's not that I don't want to give it to you. The funds are really difficult recently. Please give me another month."

"You said so last month."

"I promise you that this is definitely the last month!" Chen Ge patted his chest with a sincere look on his face.

"The haunted house industry is in a recession now and cannot attract tourists. I told me not to stick to it anymore." The middle-aged man named Uncle Xu looked at the envelope in Chen Ge's hand and his strength gradually decreased: "You are so young, why are you so tired of doing something so young?"

"Uncle Xu, I know you are for my own good, but this horror house has different meanings to me. It is a thought left by my parents." Chen Ge's voice was low, as if he didn't want more people to hear it.

As the paradise administrator, the middle-aged man knew everything about Chen Ge’s parents clearly. He didn’t reply. After a few seconds, he sighed lightly and softened his heart: “I can understand your thoughts, okay, I will try my best to help you with a few more weeks.”

"Thank you Uncle Xu!"

"Don't thank me, you'd better use snacks to sell more tickets to the haunted house."

After seeing off the park administrator, Chen Ge returned to the haunted house and began to repeat his daily work, checking for equipment loss, maintaining props, and cleaning.

"The artificial plasma in the repair room is almost used up, so I have to buy another batch; tilt this passage inward, which may better block the blind spots of tourists' perspectives; if the doll is scratched, it needs to be replenished; wipe! Where is the craft light I installed? Who stole it!"

In the eyes of outsiders, he is the owner of a horror house and a promising young man who starts his own business. In fact, only he himself knows the sadness behind this.

Haunted houses are considered a kind of "terrifying" consumption. In a terrifying environment, people's muscles and spirits will be highly tense. Once released, it will be like a massage. This method can make people feel satisfied in a short period of time.

At the same time, haunted houses are also a one-time consumption. Many haunted houses on the market use the method of moving in various cities to continuously attract new tourists to visit. Haunted houses like Chen Ge who are fixed in a certain place cannot last long unless they have a particularly famous reputation and can attract people to come.

It is not easy for him to hold on for so long.

Dragging the caught doll, Chen Ge entered the repair room. He studied toy design and manufacturing in college. Many of the dolls and mechanisms in the haunted house were designed by him.

The repair process is complicated and monotonous, and requires the doll epidermis to be stitched, re-colored, and made old.

"I almost remember that there is still inventory in the attic." The haunted house is divided into three floors, the first and second floors are used to arrange horror scenes, and the third floor is a utility room.

Pushing open the dusty wooden door, the attic is filled with various eliminated equipment, most of which are left by his parents when they run the haunted house.

When you see things and think of others, Chen Ge rarely comes here.

"More than half a year has passed in a flash."

Looking at the familiar equipment, Chen Ge remembered his childhood.

At that time, they were still running mobile haunted houses, and their parents took him to travel around in various cities. Sometimes when the young couple was busy, they threw Chen Ge into the backstage alone and accompanied various ghost props. They started to cultivate them since childhood, which also led to Chen Ge being very brave.

After all, when his peers were playing the letter puzzle, he was already holding the head model and started running around.

"It's all memories."

Before he knew it, Chen Ge walked to the wooden box where his parents' relics were stored again, with a rough puppet and a pitch-black mobile phone inside.

The mutton was Chen Ge's first toy when he was a child, but he had no impression of the phone.

These two things were found by the police in an abandoned hospital in the suburbs. As for why Chen Ge's parents went there late at night, no one knew the reason.

"It's been so long, where are you?" Chen Ge picked up the doll, pinched its face, and sighed softly: "I'd better find artificial plasma as soon as possible. If I can't survive this off-season, the horror house may really be closed for business and transfer."

Chen Ge was just talking to himself, but when he talked about the suspension of business and transfer, the black phone, which had not been moved in the wooden box, suddenly flashed and emitted a faint cold light.

"What's the situation? Black technology? Supernatural phenomenon?"

If someone else comes, your heart may be beating faster, and you will look around and sweat in your palms. Compared to this, Chen Ge's reaction is very direct. He picked up his mobile phone, put it in front of him, and began to make a second confirmation.

"I tried this phone for a hundred times before but didn't turn on it. Why did it suddenly start by itself today? This was found from the place where my parents disappeared. Could it be that they knew I was in a difficult situation now, so they were actively contacting me?"

Restraining the excitement in his heart, Chen Ge slid the screen, there was only one application on the dark desktop of his mobile phone, and he used the haunted house as an icon.

"It's different from what I imagined, but this icon looks familiar, it seems to be the gate of my own horror house!"

Chen Ge frowned and clicked on the application, and a line of blood words appeared on the screen - Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?

Whether there are ghosts in the world is a surreal philosophical question. For a science and engineering man like Chen Ge, the difficulty coefficient is very high.

"It should be..."

Chen Ge made his own choice, and a few seconds later, new handwriting appeared on the screen of his mobile phone.

"What you think in your heart is the answer. From this moment on, you will officially replace me as the new owner of the Horror House. Of course, this is not something worth celebrating. In the final stage of the novice tutorial, I would like to give you a piece of advice. Suicide is the most cowardly behavior, please work hard to survive!"

"The amount of information is a bit large! But why does his tone of speaking like my father?"

Chen Ge clicked on the Haunted House app again and a brand new interface appeared:

Horror House in the western suburbs of Jiujiang City

Status: On the verge of closure

Positive review: None

Number of visitors today: four

Number of visitors in the month: 10

My Ghost Team Member: None

My prop library: None

Unlocking Achievements: None

Existing facilities scenes: Zombie Resurrection Night (bad props, bad actors, no story or logic at all, no scream index); ghost marriage (non-couple when they were born, the dead were buried in the same cave, the ghost wife chased the soul, the scream index was half a star)

Unlockable horror scenes: Midnight Fighting Royale (a dangerous mental patient who lives in a dilapidated apartment building, holding scissors and hammers, wandering outside your door, screaming for one star); the third sick building (this abandoned hospital makes strange noises every late at night, you as a newspaper reporter will enter to find out, screaming for three stars); the desperate hearse (the hearse carrying dead people has already been on the road. If you cannot leave within an hour, you will be left in the car forever, screaming for two stars)

Daily Mission: Complete the daily mission of the Horror House, corresponding rewards will be given and more horror scenes will be unlocked.

Conditions for the expansion of haunted house: The number of visitors in that month exceeds 100, and the praise rate reaches more than 60% (after three expansions, the horror house will be upgraded to a trembling maze)

The terrifying turntable (consuming the scare value generated by tourists in the haunted house, you can turn the turntable): Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, here are spiritual fruits that increase lifespan, and there are also ghosts full of hatred!

Other functions: bdshare() not unlocked;
Chapter completed!