Chen Ge asked Lao Wu to identify himself to the landlord, and the two of them entered the rental house to check it out.

Chi Ren left in a hurry and had not finished the takeaway on the table. Various clothes were thrown on the sofa and the drawers were not closed. The house was in a mess, as if it had been robbed.

"Did Chiren tell you where he was going?"

"No, but he has been calling someone recently, and it seems that he wants someone to take him in temporarily. He even had several arguments with the person on the phone." The landlord pointed at the wall and said, "It's an old house, and the sound insulation is not very good. Although Chi Ren looks very honest, he is very scary when he gets angry."

"Did you hear any important names of people or places?" Chen Ge asked with a serious expression.

"They seem to have mentioned a delicatessen called Shili Xiang, and the owner's surname seems to be Chi as well." The landlord could only provide limited information, and during the conversation, Chen Ge had quietly released Men Nan.

While they were chatting, Men Nan searched the entire room but found nothing.

After leaving the apartment building, Old Wu drove Chen Ge to Shilixiang Delicatessen.

This store is located on Century Avenue, the most prosperous area in Xinhai. Coincidentally, Shangguan Qinghong’s haunted house is also near Century Avenue. The two stores belong to the same business district.

"The Century Avenue business district is brightly lit 24 hours a day and is very popular. Hiding here is indeed a good choice." In popular places, it is very inconvenient for evil spirits to move, and even red clothes will be affected.

"Brother Wu, don't worry about me after you drop me off at the delicatessen. I'm really sorry to bother you today. I'll definitely treat you to a meal when I'm free."

"Can you do it alone? This is Xinhai, you are unfamiliar with the place, you don't dare to do anything dangerous by yourself." Old Wu gave Chen Ge his cell phone number: "Call me if you get into trouble, I will try my best to help you find a solution."

"Thank you very much."

Old Wu came with Teacher Wang. He had a mission to complete and couldn't work with Chen Ge for a long time. However, Chen Ge was very grateful that he could send Chen Ge to Xinhai.

Carrying two large bags, Chen Ge went straight to Shilixiang Delicatessen.

The store is not big, but there are a lot of customers and there is a long queue at the door.

“Business is booming.”

It took a full fifteen minutes before it was Chen Ge's turn. He looked at the various cooked foods in the window and smelled the fragrant aroma: "Boss, why do your cooked foods smell so much better than others?"

"My family has a secret sauce passed down from our ancestors. The taste is unique in the world!" The boss is a big fat man who looks very funny.

"Give me a little of everything. I particularly like eating meat." While Chen Ge was speaking, he had been secretly observing the boss and the staff. He did not find any problems. This seemed to be a very normal delicatessen.

After paying, Chen Ge left with a big bag of cooked food.

It was already dark, but the streets were still busy with people. Instead of becoming deserted, it was getting more and more lively.

"Xinhai is a big city after all." Chen Ge carried two large bags and the bag of cooked food and found Shangguan Qinghong's haunted house at the corner of the street. Compared with the main road, there were indeed fewer people here.

"Last time I came here, this was someone else's haunted house."

As soon as Chen Ge entered the haunted house, an employee came to greet him warmly, but when she saw Chen Ge's face, she immediately took a few steps back.

"Chen, Chen Ge..." The female employee had a deep impression of Chen Ge. Her boss had been hospitalized twice because of this terrifying man in front of her.

"You have to call me boss from now on. New Century Park has bought your place." Chen Ge took out a certificate from his backpack: "Go and call all the idle employees over. I have something to tell you."

The mortal enemy became the new boss, and the employees in the hall all had ugly faces. They looked at Chen Ge as if they were looking at the villain in a TV series, who pushed the poor people to the point of desperation and still refused to give up.

"Don't just stand there like an idiot, go quickly!" Chen Ge didn't have any intention of bullying these employees. Although it was the haunted house that provoked him first, he was a very generous person and didn't take those little things in the past to heart at all.

Ten minutes later, several employees wearing ghost makeup hurriedly ran out of the scene. Including the cashier and the handyman in charge of water, electricity and logistics, there were a total of five employees standing in the hall.

"Why are there only a few of you here? Where are the others? Do you want to show off your power to me?" Chen Ge remembered that there were at least a dozen employees in this haunted house.

"There are fewer and fewer tourists, and we can't pay salaries. Plus, there are rumors of ghosts, so many people choose to leave." The female employee whispered, "Because we are short of staff, we are now opening the two most popular scenes."

"With such a prime location, there are fewer and fewer tourists? It seems that Shangguan Qinghong really needs to reflect on this." Chen Ge looked at the five remaining employees: "Shangguan Qinghong has sold this place to me. If you are willing to continue working here, I welcome you. If not, I will make up for the salary that Shangguan Qinghong owes you. Let's part ways in peace."

When the remaining five employees heard Chen Ge say that they would pay back wages, they were tempted. In the end, four of them, including the female employee at the front desk, chose to resign.

Chen Ge paid them their wages on the spot: "You don't have to come tomorrow. I hope you can find a better job."

After the handover, the four employees removed their makeup and left, leaving Chen Ge and a female employee alone in the huge haunted house.

"Why don't you quit with them?" Chen Ge looked at the female employee and felt that she looked familiar.

"I usually live here. If I leave, I won't even have a place to live."

"You've been working for so long, you should have saved a lot of money, right? How come you don't even have a place to rent?" When Chen Ge said this, he forgot that he also lived in a haunted house every day.

"My brother is not in good health. He needs medical treatment and schooling, which costs a lot. I will try to save as much as I can." The female employee whispered. She seemed to be very afraid of Chen Ge, but for the sake of her salary and place to live, she stood there.

"Are you having difficulties at home?" Chen Ge nodded. "Add me on WeChat first, and I'll make up the salary Shangguan Qinghong owes you. You can continue to work here in the future."

"Thank you...Boss."

"Have we met before? I always feel like you look familiar."

"My name is Hu Die, everyone calls me Xiaodie. When you came here to visit last time, I played the Ouija board game with you." The female employee replied in a low voice.

"It's you! I almost didn't recognize you without your makeup off." Chen Ge remembered this girl. He was playing the Pen Fairy game with Xiaodie. During the second round, he took out the ballpoint pen that contained the real Pen Fairy. Xiaodie was so scared that she fainted.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Chen Ge changed the subject: "People say that our haunted house is really haunted. You have experienced it yourself. Why do you still insist on working here? Aren't you afraid?"

"There is nothing in this world that scares me more than being poor." Xiaodie clasped her hands together. Her family environment seemed to be very bad.

"Don't think about those unhappy things, work hard. I can't guarantee that you will become rich in the future, but at least your salary will be doubled." Chen Ge doesn't like to speak empty words and clichés. What he says is usually what he can do.

"My employee benefits are much better than yours before. You'd better find a place to live first. I'm not trying to drive you away. The last time I came here, I found that there is indeed something wrong with your haunted house." Chen Ge stared into Xiaodie's eyes: "There seems to be unclean things at night. For your safety, you should move out."

Xiaodie nodded, looking a little pitiful.

"Come on, take me around the haunted house. I was in a hurry last time and I haven't been in many scenes yet."

Chen Ge and Xiaodie entered the haunted house. Before they had watched a few scenes, Xiaodie's phone suddenly rang.

Seeing the caller ID, Xiaodie walked to the side embarrassedly and answered the call.

"Sister, where are you? Can I stay at your place tonight?" A boy's voice came from the other end of the phone, with a tearful tone in his voice.

Xiaodie was in a dilemma. Chen Ge had just told her that she couldn't live here, and she didn't know how to answer her brother: "Aren't you living on campus? Why did you sneak out?"

“I just can’t live there anymore.”

"They bullied you again?" Xiaodie was a little angry.

"Sister, don't ask anymore. I'm at the door of your haunted house now. Please let me stay here for one night." The boy begged desperately. Xiaodie looked at Chen Ge helplessly. She opened her mouth but before she could say anything, Chen Ge nodded in agreement.

"No problem. You can let him stay here for one night today, but this is not a long-term solution. You'd better find out why he doesn't want to live on campus."

"Thank you, Boss." Xiaodie hung up the phone and ran out of the scene with Chen Ge.

At this moment, a thin high school student with very white skin was standing in the hall of the haunted house. He had a narrow frame, scars on his face, and was holding a pair of broken glasses in his hands.

"Why did you come here by yourself?" Xiaodie saw the high school student and hurried over. She took out wet wipes from under the counter and helped the high school student wipe the dust off his clothes and arms: "I'm going to find a Band-Aid, don't run around here."

After Xiaodie left, Chen Ge and the high school student were the only ones left in the hall.

"Does your school allow boarding students to leave campus at will at night?" Chen Ge placed the two large bags in his hands on the seat and filled two glasses of water. He held one glass himself and placed the other in front of the high school student.

The male student didn't take the water that Chen Ge handed over. He didn't seem to like Chen Ge very much: "Are you and my sister colleagues? Why are there only two of you here today?"

"Is it not possible?" Chen Ge drank a sip of water from the cup with a smile on his face.

The auras of the two are simply not on the same level. Brother Xiaodie stood there, holding his broken glasses, silently without saying a word.

A moment later, Xiaodie ran over with the haunted house's first aid kit and treated her brother's wound briefly.

In the middle, Xiaodie asked her brother many times what happened, but her brother just didn't say anything. Only after his wounds were treated did her brother walk into the haunted house with his schoolbag. He seemed to know where the haunted house staff lounge was. This should not be his first time to run to the haunted house for refuge.

"Hu Yuan! Wait!" Xiaodie shouted twice before the high school student stopped.

"I don't want to say anything. Can you please stop asking?" Hu Yuan's emotions fluctuated greatly, and it was obvious that he was in great pain.

"This is Chen Ge, the new boss of Nightmare Academy. If you want to live in the haunted house, you must at least get his consent. This is the most basic courtesy." Xiaodie pulled Hu Yuan to Chen Ge's side.

"He can live here, but what can hiding here for one night change?" Chen Ge walked up to Hu Yuan and said, "Fear will not disappear just because you hide from it. You will have to face it sooner or later. Why not speak out and let your sister and I help you think of a solution?"

Since obtaining the black phone, Chen Ge has met countless problem children and accumulated extremely rich experience.

Under his constant guidance, Hu Yuan finally told the truth.

There were four people in their dormitory, and the other three always ganged up on him to bully him.

He usually put up with it, but this afternoon after school, those three little bastards stuffed a letter into his hand.

Hu Yuan insisted on not doing so, so the three men started teasing his sister, and finally Hu Yuan started fighting with them.

The thin Hu Yuan was certainly no match for the three men. After being beaten up, he didn't want to go back to the dormitory, so he ran to his sister.

This is typical school bullying. Xiaodie is very angry and wants to go to the school teacher tomorrow.

"They wanted to give you a letter?" Chen Ge heard something strange: "Did you finally accept the letter?"

"Cao Fei stuffed the letter into my hand. I was going to throw it away, but after I saw the contents of the letter, I hesitated." Hu Yuan took out a letter from his schoolbag: "You guys better not read it. I'll find a way to get rid of it."

In fact, Chen Ge didn't care at first, but when he saw the envelope, his pupils slowly shrank. There were dark black marks on the surface of the letter, which were left by dried blood: "Why is there human blood on the envelope?"

Chen Ge took the letter in his hand and opened it despite Hu Yuan's obstruction. In addition to a few hairs of different lengths, there was also a medical record.

The patient's name was not written on the form, but a few words were written on the back with a red ballpoint pen.

"Please cut a strand of your hair and put it in the envelope, then give this letter to someone else."

"If you don't pass this letter on to someone else before dark, I will show up at your house at 4:44 in the morning."

"If you still don't give this letter to someone else within three days, I will appear in front of you at 4:44 in the morning."

"Cursed envelope? How childish." Chen Ge looked at the hair in the envelope and knew that many people had touched this envelope.

"You'd better return the letter to me. I heard from Cao Fei that he seemed to have seen something last night." Hu Yuan went to take the envelope, but Chen Ge dodged.

"The most important task for you at your age is to study hard. Don't worry about other things." Chen Ge patted Hu Yuan's shoulder and said, "The person who gave you this letter is called Cao Fei, right?"

"kindness."

"He lives on campus like you?"

"What do you want to do?" Hu Yuan was confused and looked at his sister. Xiaodie didn't know what Chen Ge wanted to do either.

"I plan to be at his bedside at 4:44 this morning." Chen Ge put away the envelope with a smile: "Just kidding, you go inside and rest first."

Chen Ge had a relaxed and natural expression, as if nothing had happened. He let Xiaodie take him to visit all the scenes, and then locked himself in the principal's office.

"The equipment of Nightmare Academy is better than that of the Horror House. These props alone are worth a lot of money." Chen Ge opened the comic book and asked several red-clothed men to carefully search every corner of the haunted house. After confirming that there was no danger, he was completely relieved.

"There are two things to do tonight. Investigate the delicatessen and find out the source of the cursed envelope." Chen Ge had seen many medical records, but this was the first time he had seen a blank medical record without a name or photo.

"I will go find Cao Fei after midnight, and I will definitely find the source of the curse one by one." Chen Ge put his legs on the principal's desk and changed to a comfortable position: "School is a place for learning. Anyone who wants to take advantage of students is not worthy of forgiveness."