"It's the first time I've seen such a non-scary haunted house."

"The props are too fake, and after walking around, not only am I not afraid, but I even want to laugh a little."

"Materialists are fearless!"

"I've told you a long time ago that it's boring, it's better to play games in the dormitory, my Kun is already level eighty."

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

Seeing this scene, Chen Ge, who was holding a haunted house leaflet, was a little helpless.

Scary is a technical job, but modern people have experienced all kinds of thriller baptism, and their psychological quality is extremely strong, and entering a haunted house is like being in their own backyard.

"Boss!"

A clear female voice came from behind him, Chen Ge turned his head to look, and saw a "zombie" wearing a nurse's uniform, petite and proud, running 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 bastards just now want to take advantage of me!" She clenched her tiger teeth and clenched her fists.

It turned out that he came to file a complaint......

"It's too much, they don't even let go of zombies." As the boss, Chen Ge will naturally help Xiaowan speak: "I'll go to the park manager to report the situation and adjust the monitoring." ”

"Don't be so troublesome, when I noticed that the other party had this intention, I preemptively attacked him and beat him." Xu Wan shook the blood stains on the corner of the nurse's uniform: "This is not makeup." ”

"Well, there's nothing wrong with it, girls should learn to protect themselves." Chen Ge wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and glanced at the sunset: "Then let's stop here today, it is estimated that there are no tourists, notify others and leave work early." ”

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

"Is there anything else?"

"Boss......" Xu Wan stopped talking, and slowly took out a letter from her pocket: "This is Tao Ming and Xiao Wei's resignation letter, you treat them well, they are embarrassed to tell you in person, so they ask me to pass it on to you." ”

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

"Eun, I'll remove my makeup."

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

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

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

It's a pity that the times are changing too fast, the haunted house industry is under great competitive pressure, and it is relatively unpopular, and there are still many limitations.

The same horror scene, after watching it once, becomes boring to watch it again, and it takes a lot of money to constantly renovate it.

Since a few weeks ago, the haunted house operation has been unable to make ends meet, and the price of a day's ticket is not even a fraction of the utility bill.

"I don't know how long I'll last."

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

Seeing him, Chen Ge was like a mouse seeing a cat, and hurriedly quickened his pace.

"Pretend you can't see?" The middle-aged man grabbed Chen Ge's shoulder: "Let's make things clear today, you have been in arrears for two months for your water and electricity bills and venue rent." The above has been urging, which makes me very stressed now! ”

"Uncle Xu, it's not that I don't give it, it's really a bit difficult to fund recently, you give me another month."

"That's what you said last month."

"I assure you, this is definitely the last month!" Chen Ge patted his chest with a sincere expression.

"The haunted house industry is now sluggish, and it can't attract tourists, so I want me to stop insisting on it." The middle-aged man called Uncle Xu looked at the envelope in Singer Chen, and the strength in his hand slowly decreased: "You are so young, what is wrong with doing something, why are you so tired of living?" ”

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

Chen Ge's parents, the middle-aged man as the park administrator was clear, he didn't reply, after a few seconds, sighed lightly, and softened his heart: "I can understand your thoughts somewhat, okay, I'll try to help you delay for a few more weeks." ”

"Uncle Xie Xu!"

"Don't thank me, you still use dim sum to sell more tickets to the haunted house."

After sending off the park administrator, Chen Ge returned directly to the haunted house and began to repeat the daily work, checking the wear and tear of equipment, maintaining props, and cleaning.

"I'm running out of artificial plasma in the repair room, so I'll have to buy another batch; This passage is tilted inward, which may be better able to jam the blind spot of tourists' perspective; The puppet is scratched, and it needs to be mended; Wipe! Where's my craft lamp? Who stole it! ”

In the eyes of outsiders, he is the owner of the horror house, and he can be regarded as a promising young man who started his own business, but in fact, only he knows the sadness behind this.

Haunted houses are a kind of "horror" consumption, in which the muscles and minds of the person are highly strained in a terrifying environment, and once released, it is like a massage, which can produce a sense of satisfaction in a short period of time.

At the same time, haunted houses are also a one-time consumption, and many haunted houses on the market adopt the way of moving from city to city, constantly attracting new tourists to visit. A haunted house like Chen Ge, which is fixed in a certain place, will not last long unless it has a particularly big reputation and can attract people to come here.

It was not easy for him to support himself for such a long time.

Dragging the caught-out dolls, Chen Ge entered the repair room, he studied toy design and manufacturing in college, and many of the dolls and mechanisms in the haunted house were designed by himself.

The repair process is complex and monotonous, requiring the doll skin to be stitched together, repainted and distressed.

"Almost plasma, I remember there was still stock in the attic." The haunted house is divided into three floors, the first and second floors are used for horror scenes, and the third floor is a utility room.

Pushing open the dusty wooden door, the attic was filled with all sorts of obsolete equipment, most of which were left over from his parents' haunted house.

Seeing things and thinking about people, so Chen Ge rarely comes here.

"More than half a year has passed."

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

At that time, they were still running a mobile haunted house, and his parents took him around the city, and sometimes the young couple was busy, so they threw Chen Ge to the backstage alone, accompanied by various ghost props, and began to cultivate since childhood, which also led to Chen Ge's great courage.

After all, when his peers were playing alphabet puzzles, he had already started running around with a model of a human head.

"It's all memories."

Unconsciously, Chen Ge walked to the wooden box where his parents' relics were stored, and there was a rough puppet and a pitch-black mobile phone inside.

The puppet was the first toy Chen Ge made when he was a child, and he had no memory of the mobile phone.

The police found these two items in an abandoned hospital in the suburbs, and no one knows why Chen Ge's parents went there late at night.

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

Chen Ge was just talking to himself, but when he talked about the closure and transfer, the black mobile phone in the wooden box that had not moved, suddenly flashed on the screen, emitting a faint cold light.

"What's the situation? Black technology? Paranormal? ”

If another person comes, his heart may beat faster, he looks left and right, and his palms are sweaty, but Chen Ge's reaction is relatively straightforward, he picked up his mobile phone, put it in front of his eyes, and began to confirm it twice.

"I tried this phone a hundred times before and didn't turn it on, why did it suddenly start on its own today? This was found from where my parents disappeared, could it be that they knew I was having a hard time right now, so they reached out to me? ”

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chen Ge swiped the screen, and there was only one app on the dark mobile phone desktop, and it was using the haunted house as an icon.

"It's not like what I imagined, but this icon is a little familiar, it looks like it's the door of my own horror house!"

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

Whether there are ghosts in the world or not, this is a surrealist philosophical question, and for a science and engineering man like Chen Ge, the difficulty coefficient is very high.

"There should be......

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

"What you think in your heart is the answer. From this moment on, you will officially succeed me as the new owner of the House of Horrors. Of course, this is not something to celebrate, and at the end of the tutorial for beginners, I would like to give you a word of advice, suicide is the most cowardly act, please try to live! ”

"That's a lot of information! But how is his tone of voice in the second middle school a bit similar to my father? ”

Chen Ge clicked on the haunted house app again, and a new interface appeared:

Horror house in the western suburbs of Jiujiang City

Status: On the verge of bankruptcy

Positive: None

Number of visitors today: four

Number of visitors in the month: ten

My Goblin Team Member: None

My Inventory: None

Achievements unlocked: None

Existing facility scenes: Zombie Resurrection Night (bad props, bad actors, no story and logic to speak of, no screaming index); Underworld marriage (not husband and wife when born, the deceased is buried in the same cave, the ghost wife chases the soul, and the scream index is half a star)

Unleashable Horror Scenario: Midnight Fight Royale (a dilapidated apartment building is inhabited by a dangerous psychopath who is hovering outside your door with scissors and a hammer, screaming at a 1-star rating); Ward 3 (this abandoned hospital makes strange noises late at night, and you, as a newspaper reporter, will go in and scream at three stars); Deadly hearse (the hearse carrying the dead is already on the road, if you can't leave within an hour, you will be left in the car forever, screaming two stars)

Daily Missions: Complete the Daily Quests in the House of Horrors to reward you and unlock more horror scenes.

Haunted House Expansion Conditions: More than 100 visitors in the month, and the praise rate reaches more than 60% (after three expansions, the horror house will be upgraded to a thrilling maze)

The Great Horror Wheel (consumes the scare points generated by the tourists in the haunted house, and you can turn the turntable): Life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, there are spiritual fruits that increase lifespan, and there are also powerful ghosts full of grudges!

Other features: Not unlocked