Chapter 103 Reward: Hiring the Ouija Pen (Second Update)
"Mission Objective: Find the best friend the Ouija Pen had in life and fulfill the Ouija Pen's wish." "Mission Reward: Significant increase in the Ouija Pen's favorability, with a chance to hire the Ouija Pen as a Horror House employee."
Chen Ge's eyes locked onto the last line of the mission reward. Hiring a ghost as an employee was something he had fantasized about, and he never expected this day to come so soon!
Back when he first got the black phone, he had paid special attention to the section on ghost team members for the haunted house. But after completing so many missions, the number of ghost team members remained at zero. Yin Xiaoxiao and Zhang Ya couldn't be hired for various reasons.
Chen Ge had already given up on this kind of idea, after all, humans and ghosts were different. But unexpectedly, when all hope seemed lost, the black phone proactively issued such a mission.
The benefits of hiring the Ouija Pen were too numerous. She could predict some strange things on her own, and she could scare tourists without needing makeup. In Chen Ge's view, she was essentially a skilled, free labor force.
"The Ouija Pen's wish—let me help her fulfill it."
Putting away the black phone, Chen Ge squeezed back into the crowd. The people from Qin Guang Studio sheepishly packed up their computers, seemingly preparing to leave.
"Who said you could leave?" Chen Ge walked over to Fei Youliang and pulled the school badge out of his pocket.
On the stained school badge was written a woman's name—Chen Yalin.
"Why did you steal props from the haunted house?" Chen Ge shook the school badge in his hand. "Don't tell me this deliberately aged school badge is Fei Youliang's own thing."
The people from Qin Guang Studio exchanged glances. How were they supposed to know what had gotten into Fei Youliang, making him run specifically to the classroom to steal that school badge?
"Xiao Chen, let me handle this." Uncle Xu, afraid the conflict might escalate, stopped Chen Ge.
"Never mind the rest, first make them delete all the videos from their computers. Otherwise, I'm not letting them go. Every scene in the haunted house was painstakingly crafted over a long time. I can't let my hard work go to waste."
Uncle Xu also understood how much damage exposing the haunted house's internal scenes could do to the Horror House. He watched as the Qin Guang Studio people deleted all the videos cleanly, then led them into the park management office. Their actions had already affected the park's operations, and he would deal with them according to park regulations.
Once the videos were completely deleted, Chen Ge stopped paying attention to them. If anything, it was their bad luck to have run into the Ouija Pen.
"Boss, are we still open?" Xu Wan also came out of the haunted house.
"Of course." Chen Ge returned to the entrance to sell tickets, but the orderly tourists suddenly surged over.
"Dude, that school scene just now—why isn't it on Dianping? It looked freaking intense!"
"Is the school tour ticket also twenty bucks?"
"Can we go in as a group of four? I haven't been this excited in ages! Everyone, hold onto me!"
Chen Ge hadn't expected the tourists to still be so enthusiastic after witnessing Fei Youliang and Zhu Jianing's ordeal. He glanced around and saw that most of the tourists were students.
"I'm sorry, due to a recent incident, this scene is temporarily closed and needs about two days of maintenance." Fei Youliang and Zhu Jianing were the first to experience it, and judging by the results, this scene could scare people stiff without his involvement. The fear experience was excellent, but there were too many uncertainties and certain risks.
The Midnight Escape scene had a similar issue at first. The mischievous Xiaoxiao had followed behind the monkey, scaring that guy into screaming. It wasn't until Chen Ge later completed the hidden mission for Midnight Escape that things improved.
"To fully control the Midnight Sun Middle School horror scene and make the lingering thoughts obey, the simplest and most effective way is to complete the hidden mission for this scene." Chen Ge reached into his pocket, touched the black phone, and had already made up his mind.
The Horror House continued operating. What had just happened was just a minor episode for the tourists.
Busy until three or four in the afternoon, when the number of tourists dwindled, Chen Ge called Xu Wan over and let her leave early.
After Xu Wan left, he went alone into the underground Midnight Sun Middle School scene.
This was Chen Ge's first unlocked two-star horror scene, and also the entrance and exit for the haunted house's underground garage. No matter how the haunted house expanded underground in the future, this entrance would remain unchanged. The first horror scene visitors would see was this one, so Chen Ge was very cautious.
He turned on his flashlight and walked past the last classroom door. The overturned desks and chairs and the school badge on the podium had all been restored to their original state, except that one school badge was missing from the paper box.
"Can you hear me?" Chen Ge stood at the door and called out into the room.
Sets of school uniforms lay draped over the chairs, but no one responded for a long time.
Shaking his head, Chen Ge entered the girls' dormitory, picked up the battered Ouija Pen, glued it back together, and put it in his pocket.
After coming out, he went to the deep well on the other side of the fork.
The video showed Fei Youliang standing by the well's edge, talking to himself.
"At that time, he must have had several lingering thoughts or ghosts possessing him, which is why he was babbling nonsense." Chen Ge looked into the well. It was only about two or three meters deep; even if someone jumped in, they wouldn't die. "Why did they say that? Is there something special about this well?"
Chen Ge thought of the door in the mirror of the haunted house's bathroom. That door only appeared in the first minute after midnight.
No one would answer his questions. After checking everything, Chen Ge came up from the underground and sealed the wooden boards.
He took five thousand yuan from the drawer in the staff break room, locked the haunted house door, and headed to the park's comprehensive management office.
Seeing Uncle Xu, Chen Ge repaid the money he owed and then asked about the Qin Guang Studio matter.
Uncle Xu told him the issue was resolved and not to worry about it.
After handling these trivial matters, Chen Ge left the park and dialed Officer Li's number.
The phone rang only three times before it was answered. There was silence on the other end, with only the faint sound of tense, suppressed breathing.
"Uncle Sanbao?"
"What have you found now?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to ask you to help me find someone."
"Not a murder suspect, I hope?"
"No, just an ordinary student."
After receiving the affirmative answer, the silence on the other end was broken. The office filled with the sound of footsteps, people coming and going—some flipping through files, others on the phone. Everyone was busy with their normal work again.
Officer Li also let out a long sigh of relief. "I told you, four times a week is way too frequent. Look how scared these people are."
"Uncle Sanbao, the person I'm looking for is named Chen Yalin. She should have died three years ago at Midnight Sun Middle School."
"Died three years ago? You're looking for a dead person?"