"I don't know why the comedy we shot broke the record of horror films, but we did aim to make a comedy in the beginning." Chen Ge smiled bitterly. This was an unexpected success. The most important thing was that the original author became a ghost. He was also very satisfied with Chang Gu's work and thought that Chang Gu had captured the core of comedy.
The original author is satisfied, the director is satisfied, the audience is satisfied, the film and television company is satisfied, everyone is satisfied. Although Chen Ge feels weird, he slowly chooses to accept it: "Mr. Luo, this is just a high-quality concept film. If your friend wants to cooperate with us in depth, we can have a good talk."
"That's exactly what he meant. I'll give you the contact information later and you can chat on your own."
"OK."
"We seized this opportunity. The success of the film is a great publicity for us. If the subsequent web series can maintain this popularity, it will be better than any advertising."
Mr. Luo hung up the phone, and at this time, the legend about this comedy-horror film continued on the Internet.
Chen Ge initially wanted to use the popularity of the horror house to boost the online drama and try to trick one or two companies into negotiating cooperation. However, he did not expect that after only a few hours, the popularity attracted by the film would start to benefit the horror house.
Many people who have never played haunted houses or horror games have also become interested in horror houses. After all, a haunted house that can produce comedies is rare in the world.
The comedy produced by the horror house has even gradually become a meme on the Internet, and the "goofs" in it have been regarded as classics and included in horror film teaching materials.
The unintentional thriller and the feeling of getting more scared the more you think about it make viewers unable to sleep all night, and more and more people begin to discuss this comedy.
The writer's work is very hardcore, with all the clues and psychological changes described very well. Chang Gu's filming is also exceptionally perfect. The nightmare world and reality run simultaneously, and all kinds of images and metaphors can lead to countless ways of interpretation.
Overall, this online comedy produced by the horror house became a huge hit, and countless people began to look forward to the subsequent plot.
After staying up all night, Chen Ge was still very energetic. He and Chang Gu watched videos on various video websites in turn. The data on all platforms continued to soar.
The haunted house employees are also very excited. Although they don't fully understand how popular this short film is, they will be happy just to see themselves appear in the video.
The employees chattered non-stop, and Chen Ge was terrified as he listened to them. Many employees joined in the fun during the filming. They appeared in various ways, and there was nothing they couldn't do, such as a face hidden in the tea, a small shadow under the desk, a severed hand floating behind the door, etc.
These details are invisible unless you look carefully. As the popularity on the Internet grew, Chen Ge, in order to avoid a fallout, openly admitted it on his social media platform. He said that he had hidden a hundred Easter eggs in the short film, to see if any audience could find them all.
The popularity is too high, so he simply stops pretending and tells the audience directly - all the terrifying shots you see are Easter eggs deliberately created by the haunted house.
What he said attracted a large number of audiences.
"This fire happened so suddenly, I'm not prepared at all."
Chen Ge looked at the skyrocketing number of messages in the background. Some people were planning to form a group to go to the web drama filming location to clock in, and some were planning to enter a haunted house for the first time tomorrow, just to meet the male lead. There was even a management company with an extremely keen sense of smell that left a message for Chen Ge, saying that they wanted to sign Bi.Xian as an artist.
There were too many messages for Chen Ge to reply to. He looked at the already dim sky and put away his phone: "Another all-nighter."
After sleeping for a while, Chen Ge got up quickly and prepared to open the business.
Xu Wan and Xiao Gu came early today. As soon as they saw Chen Ge, they rushed over. Xiao Gu, in particular, stuttered as he spoke on the phone: "Boss! Is this movie really made by us? When I saw it last night, I was stunned."
“We did take the photo.”
"When did you take this photo? It's amazing!"
"What do you think I do every night when I'm not sleeping? I put a lot of energy and spent a lot of time shooting this film. Fortunately, judging from the results, all the efforts are worth it." Chen Ge stopped answering Xiao Gu's questions and waved his hand for them to put on makeup quickly and prepare to welcome today's tourists.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the New Century Park opened and tourists flocked in. While they were waiting in line, the comedy in the horror house became the focus of discussion. Even two groups of people who didn't know each other at all could chat enthusiastically.
"There are more tourists today than in the past few days. What's going on?" Uncle Xu was worried that something might go wrong, so he quickly found Chen Ge.
"Uncle, don't you usually go online? We have put up another ad, and the effect is quite good." Chen Ge was helping to sell tickets outside, and he felt happy from the bottom of his heart as he watched the tourists coming and going.
However, he was not carried away by joy. While selling tickets outside, he was also keeping an eye on those who wanted to disrupt the event.
The number of people visiting the four-star scene, the Psychic Ghost School, has increased several times today. This scene can accommodate up to 20 people at the same time, and it is almost always full, which caught Chen Ge's attention.
Many of the tourists attracted by the online drama are visiting a haunted house for the first time and need to start the challenge from a one-star scene, while those who challenge the psychic ghost school scene are mostly veterans.
Originally, this was nothing, but Chen Ge discovered that there was a group of people who bought tickets repeatedly. They kept challenging the Psychic Ghost School, as if they were going against this scene.
After paying a heavy price in terms of spirit, money and body, this large group of people have explored the Psychic Ghost School thoroughly. Of course, they are still far from completing it.
In order to protect the tourists, Chen Ge took out the most difficult tasks from the lottery box, such as finding all thirteen oil paintings, looking for the president of the Red Society, and finding out the secret of the disappearance of the old principal. These tasks were specially prepared for those who wanted to mess up the place, and ordinary tourists would hardly draw these "fatal" tasks.
This group of people drew simple and medium-difficulty tasks, but just this alone pushed their spirits to the limit. After the last person fainted, a special person among the tourists took them away.
It was obvious that a team was trying to conquer Chen Ge's haunted house, but they greatly underestimated the difficulty of Chen Ge's haunted house.
After the group of people who kept challenging the psychic ghost school left, another group came in the afternoon. They seemed to share information with each other. The maps and locations of scare points that the predecessors had exchanged for their "lives" provided great help to the latter.
These unusual tourists also attracted the attention of the haunted house staff, and Lao Zhou even came to ask Chen Ge whether he wanted to increase the difficulty.
Chen Ge directly rejected Lao Zhou's proposal. He taught Lao Zhou that a game would only be attractive if there was a possibility of completing it.
In fact, what he wanted in his mind was to make that group of people as careless as possible, so that the ghost fetus scene would be useful.
The horror house opens at nine in the morning and closes at six in the evening. The Psychic Ghost School is always packed. Although the group of people failed to complete the exploration after their desperate efforts, they seemed to have completely drawn a map of the east and west campuses of the Psychic Ghost School.
As long as they have the map in hand and know the location of the scare points, and as long as they are not too unlucky to get a mission involving hidden scenes, it will only be a matter of time before they pass the next level.
It was dark, and after the tourists left, Chen Ge sat on the steps at the entrance of the horror house.
"The popularity of the comedy filmed in the horror house is still rising, and this is just a pilot concept film. If online dramas are continuously launched in the future, not only the comedy filmed in the horror house, but also the New Century Park where the horror house is located will become famous. Ma Feng may have a sense of crisis, so he is eager to complete my haunted house and suppress my momentum." Chen Ge looked at the income on the account, and the corners of his mouth began to rise unconsciously.
Twenty visitors can enter the Psychic Ghost School at a time, and each session lasts about forty minutes. However, most of the time, few visitors can last the full forty minutes, which means that the average session lasts about thirty minutes.
The ticket price is 40 yuan, and Chen Ge can earn 800 yuan per show. Today, there are 12 shows at the Psychic Ghost School alone.
Normally, few people would challenge a four-star scene like this. It takes a long time just to get enough people together. The low-star scenes are the ones that make the most money. These high-star scenes are prepared for high-level players. Compared to making money, they are more of a symbol.
"I hope these guys can come again tomorrow."
After a quick cleanup, Chen Ge put on his backpack and came to the puppet workshop. After paying the boss a portion of the money in advance, he directly drove the boss out.
After locking the door, Chen Ge called out the evil ghost employees and asked them to help make the plastic black fog monster.
After working until the early morning, Chen Ge asked Tang Jun to drive the No. 104 hearse to transport all the prepared black fog monsters back to the horror house.
Chang Gu had a new idea and was preparing to shoot a new short drama, while Chen Ge and some employees who had nothing to do started to set up the ghost fetus scene.
After checking several times, Chen Ge came out at four o'clock in the morning after confirming that there were no hidden dangers.
"The ghost fetus scene is now open to the public at any time. I wonder which tourists will be the lucky ones."
After sleeping for more than three hours, Chen Ge was woken up by the alarm clock. He looked at the slowly rising sun and stretched comfortably.
“It would be nice if I could live like this forever.”
After taking a cold shower, Chen Ge changed his clothes and opened the guardrail of the haunted house.
The park opened on time at nine o'clock, and tourists entered the park, with the familiar noise ringing in their ears.
There was a long queue at the entrance of the horror house, and some veteran players ran into the lounge to reserve seats, discussing enthusiastically the latest strategies they had developed.
From the time Chen Ge received the black phone until now, the horror house has been accompanying tourists for a long time without them noticing. More and more people like this place, and it has also left them with various memories worth recalling.
Life was generally dull, but in Chen Ge's horror house, they experienced another kind of life.
Groups of tourists entered the haunted house scene, but what surprised Chen Ge was that no one was going to form a group to challenge the Psychic Ghost School today. When he was wondering if that group of people had given up, screams suddenly came from the lounge.
"What happened?" Chen Ge took the initiative to walk over. Many old players knew him and made way for him when they saw him coming in.
"Boss Chen! Take a look at our haunted house APP. Someone has posted a message about how to clear the most difficult scene in our haunted house. It's the most popular post!" A student from Hanjiang Forensic Medicine School ran over, holding his phone and showing it to Chen Ge.
There is indeed a new popular post in the haunted house APP, and countless netizens leave comments below, so that this post always remains at the top.
The content of the post itself is also very explosive. First of all, they admitted that Chen Ge’s haunted house is scary, but not that exaggerated. They said that most tourists are misled.
The post starts with standard nagging quotes: the horror house is scary, but it didn't scare them. Although they have never been there, that's how they feel.
There were a lot of people from the same haunted house industry who supported the post. They analyzed Chen Ge’s haunted house from various angles, and finally came to a conclusion - Chen Ge’s haunted house was not worthy of its reputation, with only two points of strength and eight points of hype.
Chen Ge's haunted house is so popular, it's unfair to those who run the haunted house seriously. Today they will work together to expose the hypocrisy of Chen Ge and the horror house to the public.
The entire post is written like a manifesto, which makes people's blood boil. However, if you think about it carefully, most of them have never visited the horror house. How did they come to this conclusion? Is it based on their superb imagination?
In addition to being on the Haunted House APP, this post also appeared on major platforms at the same time, with a large number of internet trolls pushing up the post to maintain its popularity.
What’s interesting is that these platforms and forums are where horror house visitors are relatively active, and their posts were met with all kinds of ridicule as soon as they were published. After all, the last person who said this is still in the hospital.
However, the other party had obviously planned it all. They didn't care about the fans' ridicule at all. It seemed that they were holding back their anger and were ready to strike back and slap their faces.
They have made all the preparations, so they dare to post such posts in the most active places of horror house tourists. They just want all the people who like horror house to see it, and then complete the most difficult scenes of the horror house in front of everyone.
In this way, he won both face and substance, felt proud, and broke the legend that no one had ever passed Chen Ge's haunted house.
Seeing these arrangements, the name "Ma Feng" immediately popped up in Chen Ge's mind. This person's style of doing things was different from Jiang Jiu's. He was decisive and ruthless. Once the chips were on the table, he would seize the opportunity to decide the outcome in one go.
"He must have been preparing for this day for a long time." Just as Chen Ge finished reading the post, something happened outside the horror house.
Nine tourists were blocking the door. They didn't even line up, and they were clamoring to see Chen Ge.
These nine tourists, both men and women, dressed differently and spoke with different accents, as if they were from different parts of the country. However, Chen Ge had seen two of them before.
One is Shangguan Qinghong, the owner of the scariest haunted house in Xinhai; the other is Qin Guang, the anchor who initially competed with Chen Ge on the live broadcast platform.
Seeing the two of them, Chen Ge felt quite friendly. He walked out of the lounge and went straight to greet them.
"Long time no see, both of you. I've been busy here and haven't had time to visit you in the hospital."
Just hearing Chen Ge's voice, Qin Guang felt so angry that his teeth itched. He was about to reply but was stopped by Shangguan Qinghong next to him.
"Boss Chen, you're too polite. We came here today to visit your haunted house." Shangguan Qinghong knew how mean Chen Ge was, so he tried not to give Chen Ge a chance to speak: "The people around me are all designers and founders of the country's top haunted houses. We are all very curious about your haunted house and want to see what kind of haunted house can be called the most terrifying haunted house in the country."
"I don't dare to claim to be the scariest haunted house in the country, but it's a good thing for colleagues to communicate with each other." Chen Ge used the word "communication". He had memorized the appearance of these tourists. "It's okay if you want to challenge, but there is a rule in my haunted house. All tourists must start with the one-star scene. Only after they pass it can they challenge the two-star scene. If you want to challenge the most difficult four-star scene, you must first pass the previous scenes."
"Challenge? I'm really giving you face, calling a visit a challenge. I don't know where you get the confidence from." A young man dressed fashionably glanced at Chen Ge and said, "We don't have time to play with you."
"I set this rule for the benefit of tourists. Increasing the fear little by little can prevent accidents from happening to the greatest extent possible." Chen Ge was "persuading" them earnestly, but Shangguan Qinghong and the others saw this persuasion as just a way to delay time, which showed that Chen Ge had no confidence.
"No need. We came here today to visit your most difficult scene and see what's so special about the haunted house that's so popular on the Internet." This time, the speaker was a man wearing sunglasses.
More and more tourists gathered at the entrance of the haunted house, and many onlookers took out their mobile phones to take pictures.
Hearing what the man in sunglasses said, Chen Ge looked embarrassed: "This is against the rules..."
"Rules are made by people. We didn't come here from far away just to visit a one-star scene. We are all senior practitioners. Don't try to fool us with the same tricks you use to fool tourists." The man in sunglasses was a little impatient. He seemed to be afraid of heat and felt very uncomfortable in the sun.
"Boss Chen, you keep making excuses to delay, is it because you are unsure?" The stylishly dressed man smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will save some face for you."
Now that things have come to this, it would be inappropriate for Chen Ge to refuse. He looked around and found that many tourists were taking pictures.
Some of them were tourists who really came to watch the fun, and some were probably people from the virtual Future Park, because Chen Ge found that there were updates of the live video on the mobile phone APP and major platforms, and the comments were not favorable to the horror house, and it seemed that someone was deliberately guiding the topic.
"Since you insist on challenging the most difficult scene here, then I can't do anything about it." Chen Ge faced the cell phone cameras and said, "Everyone, please testify for me. I have already advised them. It was they who insisted on challenging the most difficult scene directly."
"You talk too much nonsense. Are you going to let us in or not? We are playing in your haunted house and listening to your pitiful words? That's ridiculous!" The person who spoke was a hot-tempered woman with a black skull tattoo on her arm. She looked like someone who was not someone to be trifled with.
"I'm really doing this for your own good." Chen Ge stood in front of the nine people. "Finally, let me confirm with you. Do you really want to challenge the most difficult scene in my haunted house?"
"Sure! Stop wasting time!" The nine tourists urged him. They seemed even more anxious than Chen Ge.
"Okay!" Chen Ge nodded in agreement. His tone suddenly changed, and he shouted at all the mobile phone cameras: "We are all haunted house practitioners. It's boring to just play haunted houses like this. Why don't we make a bet? If you successfully pass the most difficult scene here, I will hang banners on all my social accounts and the facade of the physical haunted house, saying that my haunted house is not as scary as yours, and admit that I am just hyping it up."
Chen Ge's haunted house was extremely popular, and those haunted house practitioners were all somewhat tempted. On the contrary, Shangguan Qinghong felt something was wrong, but before he could say anything, those people agreed first.
"Don't be so quick to agree. If you lose, you have to hang the name of the horror house on your physical storefront and honestly admit that the horror house is powerful." Chen Ge looked at the people in front of him with a smile.
The few people talked to each other. They had a map of the Psychic School and the locations of all the scary points. They also watched the hidden videos of the Psychic School for a whole day and were used to the horror. In their opinion, there would be no problem in passing the level.
“We agree that this is very fair.”
"You are all senior industry experts from first-tier cities. I believe you will not default on your promise." Chen Ge raised his lips and shouted in front of all the mobile phone cameras: "Come in with me. Next, you will challenge the four-star scene - the fetus of the underworld! In the deepest part of the black fog, there are nine children waiting for you."
"Ghost fetus?"
Shangguan Qinghong and someone in the team looked at each other, and they were sure that they had heard correctly.
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