Putting down the greeting card, Chen Ge picked up the key on the table and looked at it quietly for a while.
After his parents disappeared, fewer and fewer tourists came to the horror house and it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Under such a difficult environment at the time, Xu Wan still did not leave. She was the only employee hired by Chen Ge's parents and finally chose to follow Chen Ge.
"Did this girl sense something?" Chen Ge put away the key and opened the cake box.
Compared with the beautifully packaged box, the cake inside can only be described as horrible.
The middle was collapsed, the outer skin had black marks from being burnt, and the overall structure was loose, as if it would break at the slightest touch.
It can be seen that the maker was very attentive. She spread the cream evenly on the surface of the cake, trying to cover up the defects. In the process, the cake seemed to have been broken once. The cream was not only a decoration, but also acted as glue, penetrating into the interior of the cake.
Just by looking at this cake, Chen Ge could already imagine the scene of Xu Wan making it.
"As expected of my employee Chen Ge, you can bake cakes in such a shocking way."
Chen Ge picked up the knife from the box, cut off a piece, and took a small bite.
"Well, it has a mushy texture, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and it sticks to your teeth. Too much oil is used in the cake, and it's not fully baked. Could this girl be using high-gluten flour? You need low-gluten flour to make cakes!"
Although Chen Ge kept complaining, he still ate most of the cake.
Seeing how happily Chen Ge was eating, the white cat became curious, but as soon as it stretched its head over, Chen Ge stuffed it back into his backpack.
"Fresh milk cake is bad for your health. I'll make you a cat food cake on your birthday."
Ignoring White Cat's protest, Chen Ge wiped his mouth and walked out of the staff lounge carrying his backpack.
The birthday party took up some time, but it did not affect Chen Ge's plans for tonight.
He has already sorted out the information about the Left Eye crew on the Internet and plans to go over and take a look tonight.
After leaving New Century Park, Chen Ge waited on the roadside for a long time but didn't see any taxi. It seemed that taxi drivers in the entire Hanjiang City had reached a consensus not to go near New Century Park after midnight, let alone pick up passengers from that place.
"It's a pity that my bus drove into the world behind the gate of Liwan Town, otherwise why would it be so troublesome?"
After walking two streets, Chen Ge finally found a taxi. He got in the car and then gave the address: "Master, I want to go to Yongling Mountain Villa."
"Yongling Mountain?" The driver was obviously stunned for a moment: "Is there a villa in Yongling Mountain?"
"Try turning on the navigation." Chen Ge was not sure, but that's what the Internet said.
"What's the full name?" The driver input the three words "Yongling Mountain" by voice, but the navigation did not show the place called Yongling Mountain Villa.
"Full name..." Chen Ge's pupils shrank slightly. He looked at the place names displayed on the navigation system - Yongling Mountain Gas Station, Yongling Mountain Flower Market, Yongling Mountain Resort: "Let's go to Yongling Mountain Resort first."
"So casual?" The driver glanced at Chen Ge in the rearview mirror. He felt that he looked familiar and vaguely remembered a rumor about a midnight passenger.
The vehicle started and drove for half an hour. Only sporadic lights were left on both sides of the road. At the end of the road, a huge shadow could be seen. That was Yongling Mountain in the western suburbs.
The navigation showed that the taxi was about to arrive at the destination. The driver held the steering wheel tightly. He opened his mouth several times to talk to Chen Ge, but gave up in the end. He himself didn't know why. Perhaps it was because the man sitting in the back seat had a stronger aura.
After the taxi entered the mountain, the surrounding lights disappeared completely. It seemed that few people would come to this place at night. It was very desolate.
After driving for another five minutes, the driver's mobile navigation system said, "We have arrived at our destination. This navigation has ended. Have a pleasant journey."
The car was parked on the side of the road. It was pitch black all around. I could only vaguely see the swaying branches and hear the rustling sound of the leaves in the wind.
The driver's hands holding the steering wheel were soaked with sweat, and his face was a little pale. This "journey" was not pleasant at all for him.
"We're here. The navigation shows that this is Yongling Mountain Resort." The driver turned his head stiffly and looked at Chen Ge.
His eyelids kept twitching, fearing that the suspicious guy in the back seat would take out a weapon from his backpack and rob his car.
"Is this Yongling Mountain Resort? There isn't even a house around, it's completely a wasteland." Chen Ge has Yin pupils, so darkness has little effect on him. He can clearly see that there are big trees all around him. "Are you kidding me? Pulling me out to the wilderness in the middle of the night?"
"Why are you still doubting me? Brother, I'm driving according to the navigation!" The driver turned on all the lights inside and outside the car, but the light still couldn't dispel the fear in his heart.
"Okay." Chen Ge paid the fare and got out of the taxi carrying his backpack.
He turned on the flashlight attached to his phone and walked a few steps along the road. Suddenly, he saw a weedy path in the woods in the distance. "Should we go inside? Is Yongling Mountain Resort inside? Why does it feel like it's been abandoned for a long time?"
Chen Ge turned around and wanted to ask the driver, but when he turned around, he saw the driver turned the car around, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and rushed down the mountain like crazy.
“Is this place that scary?”
Chen Ge couldn't rely on anyone else, so he could only rely on himself. He held up his phone and turned into the small road.
After walking in for a few minutes, the view became wider and Chen Ge could see a row of low walls and several buildings with strange construction styles.
"Is this a resort? Who would come here for vacation? It looks like my haunted house."
The purpose of vacation is to relax, not to stimulate yourself. The further Chen Ge walked inside, the more confused he became.
“It’s listed on the navigation, but I always feel like this place has been deliberately forgotten by the locals, and I don’t know if it’s still open for business.”
The road surface was bumpy and cracked in many places. The trees on both sides were crooked and gave off a gloomy aura. It seemed that they had not been maintained for a long time, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
The wall was covered with ivy, which covered the words on the wall. Chen Ge groped for a long time before he found the gate to the resort more than ten meters away.
On the rusty iron gate, there was a sign saying "No Entry", and next to the sign was a brown wooden mailbox.
"Do people still use mailboxes nowadays?" The wooden signs and mailboxes were both handmade, very rough, and totally inconsistent with the overall architectural style.
"The words on the sign are very clear, and the wire that hangs the sign is not rusty. This thing must have been put there recently." Chen Ge tried to push the iron door, and the door hinge made a harsh sound. As he continued to push, the iron door was actually pushed open.