"Lucky ghost patron, your courage is amazing. This nightmare mission is both a test and a reward!"

"The name of the following game is Deep Water. It can transcend life and death and allow you to meet the deceased."

"Task requirements: Enter the bathroom alone at 3:30 a.m., lock the bathroom door, turn off the lights, fill the bathtub with water, light a candle around it, and then lie in it."

"3:30 to 3:44 in the morning is when the night is the darkest, and it is also the intersection of yin and yang in a day. What you need to do is hold your breath at 3:44, sink to the bottom of the pool, and silently recite the name of the person you most want to see."

"When time reaches the gap between night and dawn, you can see him on the edge of life and death."

"If you successfully meet the person you miss, the mission will be successful. If you still don't meet him/her, the mission will automatically be successful after holding your breath for 60 seconds."

After reading the mission information on the black phone, Chen Ge felt very complicated.

Compared to the first nightmare-level mission, this mission feels much simpler. Closing your eyes for thirty minutes in a terrifying environment requires strong mental qualities and extraordinary courage, but holding your breath for sixty seconds is something that most people can do.

But precisely because most people can do it, he feels uneasy. After all, this is a nightmare-level task and must hide some unknown risks.

"It's the same as the previous nightmare mission, both are carried out in the bathroom. The difference is that this time I have to sink into the bathtub and hold my breath for 60 seconds." He thought carefully about the entire mission process. Including the preparation time, it would only take about ten minutes. What kind of horrible thing could happen in such a short time?

Chen Ge was somewhat tempted, not only because the mission looked relatively simple, but also because of a sentence in the mission description - you can transcend life and death and see the deceased you miss.

The more critical the situation, the calmer Chen Ge would be. He sat in a chair, thinking about a possibility.

His parents disappeared in an abandoned hospital in the suburbs, leaving behind a black phone and a puppet. When he was about to abandon the horror house, he activated the black phone.

When the first nightmare mission is carried out later, the puppet becomes the key prop to prevent the monster in the mirror from coming out. It is worth pondering that the puppet and the black mobile phone are both relics of the parents. Is it possible that these two things were left by them on purpose?

If everything was really arranged by them, then this second nightmare-level mission would be worth pondering.

"Maybe they want to see me in this way and reveal more information?" Of course, this is just Chen Ge's guess. In fact, no matter whether the nightmare-level mission is assigned by his parents or not, Chen Ge will do this mission.

Crossing the boundary of life and death and meeting the people he knew, for Chen Ge, this was an opportunity to confirm whether his parents still existed in this world.

If he can't see them, it means his parents are merely missing and are still alive.

If he saw it, it would prove Chen Ge's first guess. His parents did have something to tell him when they left the black phone. Perhaps their true last words were hidden in the phone.

"It seems I have no choice." Chen Ge glanced at the watch. It was 2:55 in the morning, and there were still 35 minutes before the mission started. "I spent too much time smashing the mirror on the third floor. This is not going to be easy."

The task requires you to lie in a bathtub filled with water, but the only room in the entire haunted house with a bathtub is in the midnight escape scene.

At the end of the staff passage is a room with a bathtub. When Chen Ge scared Heshan and the others before, he entered and exited the scene from there.

"There are only 35 minutes left. It's too late to go out and find a hotel with a bathtub. I can only fight the monster in the mirror head-on." Now that he had made his choice, Chen Ge would not hesitate any longer. He put all four puppets on his body, ran out of the haunted house, sneaked into the park's employee cafeteria in the middle of the night, and took out two kitchen knives.

"Although I have never used this kitchen knife to slaughter pigs and sheep, I have seen chefs use it to kill chickens and fish before, so it should be considered as having killed something." He put the kitchen knife to the tip of his nose and smelled it. There was no smell of killing, only a strong smell of green pepper, which made him want to cry.

After returning to the haunted house, Chen Ge carried the iron bucket and ran between the bathroom and the toilet. With ten minutes left before the mission was to start, he finally filled the bathtub with water.

"The preparations are complete, we can begin." The main door of the midnight escape scene was locked. Chen Ge entered through the employee passage. He stood alone in the bathroom according to the task requirements on the black phone.

The mirror in this room had been smashed by Chen Ge a long time ago. The fragments were scattered all over the ground, making a crunching sound when stepped on.

"The noise I made just now when I was carrying water was quite loud. The monster in the mirror should have known I came in. But it doesn't matter. I just need to hold on for a minute and I'll be safe."

In Chen Ge's opinion, although this mission was strange, it was not too dangerous.

He locked the bathroom door, placed the doll left to him by his parents behind the door, and then placed four dolls that represented the victims' sorrow around the bathtub.

"Everyone, I'm relying on you now. You must buy me one minute no matter what!"

Just like last time, he turned on the camera of his mobile phone and put it at a suitable angle to record the video. However, because the room was too dark, the screen was almost pitch black and he could only barely see a figure.

With three minutes left, Chen Ge took out everything from his pocket and placed it on the sink. Following the instructions of the black phone, he lit a candle around the bathtub.

The flickering candlelight became the only light source in the room, reflecting the mirror fragments on the ground. Chen Ge's figure emerged in each fragment.

He took off his shirt and walked over to the bathtub.

There were shallow ripples on the water surface. The bathtub was obviously very shallow, but because the light was too dim, it was impossible to see the bottom at a glance.

Reaching out his hand to touch the water surface, a chill ran up Chen Ge's body along his fingertips. He couldn't help but shudder: "This mission is really weird."

After finally confirming the time, Chen Ge sat in the bathtub holding two kitchen knives.

As he entered, the water suddenly overflowed, spilled all over the ground, and flowed on the fragments of the mirror.

“It’s so cold…”

Chen Ge felt the heat in his body rapidly dissipating, and even his heartbeat slowed down a lot.

Drops of water dripped along the edge of the bathtub. Apart from that, there was no other sound in the room.

"One minute. As long as you can survive this minute, you will get a reward and verify my guess!"

Chen Ge kept adjusting his breathing, waiting for 3:44 in the morning to arrive.

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