At 4:30 in the afternoon, Chen Ge stood alone in the prop room of the haunted house. He looked at the things on the table and was a little undecided.

"What do I need to prepare to stay in a haunted house?"

"Identity card, cell phone, power bank, lighter, fruit knife, multi-tool hammer... Oh, and bring this doll too."

Chen Ge stuffed the puppet that appeared in front of the mirror last night into his backpack. After making sure that nothing was missing, he zipped up his backpack and walked out of the room.

"Xiao Wan, I'm leaving get off work early today. Come and lock the door later. I have something to do and I'm leaving early."

"Boss, it's not even five o'clock yet, are you going on a trip?"

"The key is on the table in the prop room. See you tomorrow."

Seeing Chen Ge looking like he was about to let himself go, Xu Wan helplessly said "oh", threw down the haunted house flyer, and ran into the prop room.

"This girl." The evening breeze blew the flyer into disarray. Chen Ge shook his head and picked up a stone to press it down. "I hope she doesn't see me on tomorrow's morning news."

Contrary to his relaxed appearance, Chen Ge was actually very nervous and felt uneasy the whole afternoon.

Last night's nightmare-level mission opened the door to another world for him, and also made him clearly realize that the missions issued by the black phone are indeed dangerous.

"The trial mission is definitely more difficult than the daily mission. I must be extra careful tonight." In order to spend the night safely, Chen Ge rode a shared bicycle to Ping'an Apartment before dark.

The mission information only provided a place name. In order to find Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge combined the complaint message from nine months ago, asked as he walked, and it took him more than two hours to reach his destination.

“Will anyone live in an apartment building built in such a remote location?”

The dirt road covered with weeds crookedly extended into the depths of the woods. There were no street lights around, and a dark gray building could be vaguely seen in the distance through the sparse branches.

On the way here, Chen Ge asked many people, but most of them had never heard of Ping An Apartment. Finally, an old man in his sixties showed him a way and kindly advised him, saying that someone had died in that place before and it was very unlucky, and people nearby would avoid it in broad daylight.

Chen Ge was also speechless. If it wasn't for completing the task in the black phone, who would have nothing better to do and stay in a place like that?

"It's 6:50 now. The mission requires us to arrive before 11:00 pm. I still have enough time to figure out the situation in the haunted house."

Following the winding dirt road, Chen Ge entered the depths of the woods. After walking for dozens of meters, he finally saw the legendary haunted house.

The house was surrounded by high dark gray walls and had only one entrance and exit. The rusty iron gate opened to both sides and there was a brand new big lock hanging on the door.

"The gate is so shabby, but the lock is quite new. Wait, what is this?" There was a piece of white paper next to the iron gate. Chen Ge originally thought it was a small advertisement or something like that. After taking a closer look with the help of the light from his mobile phone, he found that it was a missing person notice.

"Zhang Qing, female, 27 years old, 157cm tall, thin, has a black mole near her right eye and nose bridge, likes to wear red clothes... If anyone has information, please contact Mr. Wang, there will be a generous reward!"

At the end of the missing person notice were the contact information and address of the contact person. What caught Chen Ge's attention was that the address filled in by Mr. Wang was this haunted house.

"It's a bit strange." He instinctively felt that something was wrong, so he took out his cell phone and took a photo of the missing person notice before entering the yard.

The building was much larger than he had imagined. The main building had three floors, and there was a warehouse and a building similar to a water room next to it.

"The wall paint has been peeling like this, it looks like it is at least 20 or 30 years old." Although the building as a whole is seriously old, it is still clean. There is no garbage on the ground and all the weeds have been cleared away.

After parking his bicycle in the yard, Chen Ge entered the main building with his bag on his back: "Is anyone there?"

The long corridor was pitch black. After more than ten seconds, the door near the entrance opened a crack.

"Hello." Chen Ge walked towards the room, but the owner of the room did not seem willing to face Chen Ge, and the door only opened half a finger's width before stopping.

There was no light in the room. Chen Ge could only see a woman standing behind the door. Her eyes were bloodshot and she seemed to often stay up late and was in a bad mental state.

"I'd like to ask how much it costs to stay in our apartment for one night?" Chen Ge spoke in a low voice, trying to appear friendly. However, he did not expect the other party to react very strangely. He smiled at him and immediately closed the door.

"What do you mean?" Before he could figure out why, footsteps were heard on the second floor of the apartment. The only voice-controlled light at the corner of the corridor lit up, and a lame middle-aged man walked down.

The man seemed to have heard what Chen Ge said before and asked, "You want to stay at my hotel? How long do you plan to rent it for?"

"Are you the landlord?" Chen Ge took the initiative to walk over: "I'm only staying for one night."

"Stay one night?" The lame man looked Chen Ge up and down, as if he wanted to see through him completely. "Okay, let me see your ID card, and come to the second floor to pay."

Chen Ge was about to follow the man to the second floor when there was a sudden noise from the iron gate at the entrance of the courtyard. Hearing the sound, the lame man frowned and his expression instantly turned bad.

He stopped where he was, and Chen Ge had no choice but to wait.

After a while, a haggard middle-aged man came in. He was wearing tattered clothes and holding a thick stack of flyers in his hands.

"Wang Qi, I told you your girlfriend is not here. If you continue to pester me, don't blame me for being rude!" The lame man stood in the middle of the stairs, blocking the way.

The middle-aged man ignored the lame man and walked upstairs with his head down.

"I'm talking to you!" The lame man pushed hard, and the defenseless middle-aged man crashed into the wall. The flyers in his hand fell to the ground, and one of them fell right at Chen Ge's feet.

"It's a missing person notice, exactly the same as the one posted on the door of the apartment building." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, picked up the missing person notice on the ground calmly, and secretly looked up at the stairs.

The middle-aged man did not fight with the lame man. He got up from the ground and silently picked up the missing person notice, like a walking corpse.

"Don't worry about him, he's a lunatic." The lame man waved at Chen Ge, signaling him to go to the second floor first.

"Mad man?" Chen Ge glanced at the middle-aged man quietly as he passed by him. "It was mentioned in the scene description of Midnight Escape that a mentally ill patient had sneaked into the apartment building. If this person is a mad man, is it possible that he is the murderer I am looking for?"

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