Gao Ruoxue, who had been studying human anatomy for years, spended more time with corpses than with her roommates. She was not good at socializing and knew more about the dead than the living.
"The makeup on the faces of our haunted house actors is very special, coupled with the complex environment in the haunted house, as well as your own psychological hints, so there will be illusions." said Chen Ge, who would never reveal the secrets of Black Friday to outsiders.
He mentioned it in passing and did not talk about it in depth: "If you have nothing to do, I will go to work first."
After bidding farewell to the medical students, he asked Xiaowan to tidy up the props in the ghost marriage scene and went alone into the control room.
Only Chen Ge knew the truth about Heshan being scared to the point of fainting. The monster hiding in the mirror had not left and was still lurking within the haunted house.
"Keeping it is a hidden danger after all." He was also the first time to accept a nightmare-level mission, and had no idea that it would have such consequences.
Turning off the background music of the haunted house, Chen Ge called out the surveillance, watched the video of Heshan entering the west wing room repeatedly, played it frame by frame, and soon discovered it.
Heshan entered the west wing room at 9:24:11. He was scared out of his wits and went on a rampage.
At 24 minutes and 14 seconds, he came to the back room and saw the bronze mirror for the first time. At this time, there was a very strange scene on the monitor.
Heshan, who had panicked, calmed down after seeing the bronze mirror, as if time had stopped, and he stood motionless in front of the mirror.
The number representing the time in the surveillance video kept changing until 25 minutes and 17 seconds, when Heshan suddenly raised his left hand and took the initiative to walk towards the mirror.
It looked as if someone was holding his hand, trying to forcibly pull him into the mirror!
Twenty-five minutes and twenty seconds later, Xiaowan, came after him. By this time, half of Heshan's body was already attached to the mirror. From the monitoring, it was obvious that something flashed in the mirror, and then Heshan fainted to the ground.
"Was it Xiaowan's arrival that disrupted the monster's plan inside the mirror?" Chen Ge watched the video repeatedly. So many things happened in just ten seconds, and he rubbed his temples, unable to think of a good solution for the time being.
"It seems that I can only cover all the mirrors in the haunted house first,and after I figure out how to deal with this monster, I will eliminate it once and for all."
He went into the prop room, found some black cloths, and entered the ghost marriage venue.
"Boss, why are you here? I can handle these." Xiaowan saw Chen Ge from a distance across the door. She was stuffing the scattered paper people and paper money back into the coffin.
"I came to inform you that all props related to mirrors in the haunted house are temporarily suspended, and when you play the ghost, be careful not to get close to the mirrors." Chen Ge said, holding the black cloth and helping Xiaowan reassemble the scattered coffin props.
Xiaowan did not understand Chen Ge's approach, but did not ask in detail.
After redecorating the scene in the main room, Chen Ge entered the west wing room alone.
White paper lanterns hung high, the room dimly lit. He stood where Heshan fainted, silently staring at the bronze mirror.
"Living in the mirror? Could it be that there's another world hidden in the mirror?" Chen Ge touched the cold mirror surface, looking at his reflection. The longer he stared, the stranger it felt: "When I handed He Shan the mineral water earlier, he subconsciously reached out with his right hand, which means he's not left-handed. But in the surveillance,he raised his left hand first. Why would he do something contrary to his habits? Could it be that he was already controlled by something in the mirror and couldn't help himself?"
Chen Ge pressed his left hand against the mirror, merging with the reflection: "After all, only everything in the mirror is contrary to reality."
Covering the mirror with black cloth, Chen Ge sat in the haunted house and took out the black cell phone: "Whoever started the trouble should end it. The monster appeared because of the black phone, and to defeat it, I might still need the help of the black phone."
He slid the screen and clicked on the haunted house icon. The app interface changed slightly, with the number of visitors for the day and the month each increasing by two.
In the column for unlockable horror scenes, another trial mission appeared. After clicking on it, it prompted that completing the trial mission would unlock the corresponding horror scene.
"The game is designed to be very fair. If you complete the task, you will be rewarded. The reward is related to the difficulty of the task. If I want to develop the haunted house quickly and solve the dirty things in the mirror, I need to complete as many tasks as possible."
Daily tasks can only be completed once a day, so Chen Ge naturally looked at the trial mission.
"Midnight Escape Trial Mission: The Dilapidated Apartment."
"A dangerous psychiatric patient has moved into the building, armed with scissors and a hammer, wandering outside your door."
"Task Location: Xijiao Ping'an Apartment."
"Task Requirements: Arrive at the task site before 23:00 today, find the murderer, and survive until dawn."
"Task Tips: He hides among the crowd, with a kind exterior, but a heart full of scars."
"Do you accept the mission? Note: Trial missions only exist for twenty-four hours. If not accepted within twenty-four hours, it is considered abandoned, and this scene will never be unlocked."
Chen Ge was a bit hesitant, but after seeing the last line, he decisively chose to accept.
"Whether it's fortune or disaster, it's inevitable. Now that the haunted house is just starting to show some promise, I must seize every opportunity to make it better.
After accepting the mission, he continued to look down, and the horror big turntable at the bottom had been activated at some point.
Out of curiosity, Chen Ge clicked on the turntable interface, and a line of text appeared on the screen: Life and death are fated, and wealth and honor are determined by heaven. There are spiritual fruits that increase lifespan here, as well as ferocious ghosts filled with hatred and resentment.
For the first time collecting tourists' screams, the turntable is activated, and a lottery opportunity is given(only screams above seventy decibels can be collected, and after accumulating a hundred times, you get a chance to spin the turntable).
"One hundred times of screaming can be exchanged for a chance to draw a lottery?" Chen Ge held his mobile phone with a strange expression: "This turntable is too bad. It is difficult to meet the conditions. The final result is uncertain. If really turn out a ferocious ghost, that would be in big trouble."
He looked at the remaining number of times on the turntable, itching in his heart, feeling like an obsessive-compulsive person seeing a message notification on their phone, wanting to click on it whether it's spam or not.
"Trying it once shouldn't cause any problems, right?" Chen Ge comforted himself, and with a light touch of his finger, the turntable on the screen started to spin immediately.
"As long as it's not a ferocious ghost, anything else is fine!"