"Any questions?" Chen Ge took out two hundred yuan and placed it on the ticket counter.
The conductor was stunned for a moment before quickly replying, "It's okay, it's just that the name feels a little familiar, a lot like a friend of mine."
"Really?" Chen Ge smiled faintly and didn't care.
The staff members moved noticeably faster and completed all the formalities in just a few seconds.
The ticket to Nightmare Academy is very interesting. It is an admission letter with Chen Ge's name written on it.
"Take your ID and notice, and line up in the waiting area. You can enter when there are five or more tourists." After the staff member completed Chen Ge's formalities, he seemed to be feeling unwell and left, holding his stomach.
Chen Ge walked behind the other two tourists carrying his bag, looking relaxed, as if he had returned home.
"Hey, are you here alone?" There was a couple queuing at the front door, holding hands and looking very nervous.
"Well, I have nothing to do, so I came in and saw it."
"You are so awesome to come here alone. This place is very scary. I just discussed with my girlfriend that if there are too few people going in, we will just give up." The man was over 1.7 meters tall, wearing a black suit and wide-framed glasses. He looked good.
"If we give up, then wouldn't the ticket money be wasted?" Chen Ge couldn't understand.
"That's better than being scared and crying and then running out by yourself!" The man thought Chen Ge's train of thought was very unique: "My colleague has played in this haunted house before, it was very scary, we must walk together later."
"Okay." Chen Ge himself runs a haunted house, so of course he would not underestimate the enemy. The Nightmare Academy has become so big, so it must have some hidden talents.
The man seemed to be very timid and kept telling his girlfriend how scary the haunted house was. His girlfriend was also very cooperative and her face turned pale with fear just listening to the man's story.
After waiting for about another minute, a woman in her twenties and three students came in.
They didn't know each other. The three students were chattering non-stop and seemed extremely excited. One of them seemed to have played in this haunted house before, but he was so scared that he gave up halfway through.
The new female tourist was dressed very ordinary and had no special features. She was the type that could not be recognized in a crowd. She didn't talk much and stood alone in the corner.
"There are enough people. All tourists follow me." The staff member who had just felt sick walked out of the employee passage, holding a tattered red schoolbag and a few blue storage boxes. "Please do not use your mobile phone after entering the haunted house. We will provide you with lighting tools. Do not chase or play, and do not touch the actors. Of course, the actors will not touch you either."
The staff member explained the rules that visitors need to follow when entering the haunted house, then reached into his bag and pulled out a small flashlight: "Please line up and come to me to get the lighting tools."
When the man and woman who were walking in front passed by, the staff directly handed out the lighting tools to them. However, when Chen Ge passed by, the staff reached out to stop him and said, "Sir, can you temporarily store your backpack with us? We will return it to you after you finish visiting the haunted house."
Chen Ge shook his head. There were four red coats in his backpack. If he gave them to others, if something went wrong, the whole building would probably be buried with them.
"I'm sorry, we are also following the regulations and hope you can cooperate." The staff member said in a firm attitude.
"Are you worried that there are prohibited items in my backpack? It's okay, I can open it and show you." Compared with the staff of Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge seemed much more reasonable.
He opened his backpack in front of everyone and said, "I've read your instructions. You are not allowed to bring in flammable and explosive items, knives, or video equipment. I don't have the things you mentioned in my bag."
Everyone present looked at Chen Ge's backpack, and their expressions gradually turned strange.
"What is all this?"
The bright red high heels and cute cartoon dolls can be understood as personal special hobbies, but what about the repeater? Is it for learning English?
The point is, you are visiting a haunted house, why would you bring these things with you?
The tourists around looked at Chen Ge with strange eyes, and the staff were also full of question marks.
"You indeed don't carry any dangerous items, but..." The staff member picked up the recorder. He suspected that there was a hidden camera or something like that in it.
The staff pressed the switch, and the tape inside started to turn, making a rustling sound.
This seems to be just an ordinary repeater...
"What do you mean? I can't bring a tape recorder to your haunted house? There has never been such a rule in other haunted houses I have visited!" Chen Ge argued.
"The key is that they can't imagine that someone would bring this thing to visit a haunted house." The staff member hesitated for a moment, put the recorder into the backpack, and looked through the other items.
In the backpack's interlayer, the staff also found a hand-drawn horror comic and a ballpoint pen wrapped in tape.
“Are you a painter?”
"Don't you think so?" Chen Ge neither admitted nor denied it, but just looked at the other person quietly.
The staff member didn't know how to answer. He put all the things away for Chen Ge and returned the backpack to Chen Ge: "Take your admission notice and flashlight, and go in."
He fumbled in his backpack for a long time before finally taking out a red flashlight and handing it to Chen Ge.
This flashlight looks the same as other flashlights, but only Chen Ge's flashlight has a red shell, while everyone else's flashlights are green.
After passing through the security door, several tourists entered the elevator one after another.
"In ten seconds, your nightmare journey will officially begin. If you really can't hold on and want to give up, just shout for help to the surveillance camera." The staff member watched the tourists enter the elevator, then pointed at the admission notices in everyone's hands and showed a strange smile on his face: "There are very few of you visiting this time. In order to balance the difficulty, I will give you one more hint - think more about what the nightmare is."
The staff pressed the elevator switch, the elevator closed, and began to rise.
"Cui Ming, you have played this game before. Do you know what secrets are hidden in this admission letter?" One of the students asked another child next to him.
"Don't look. Just keep staring at your feet when you go in." Cui Ming looked to be only eighteen years old and was very shy.
"Is it that scary?" Another child didn't believe it and wanted to tear open the admission letter to have a look. Just when he was halfway through, the lights in the elevator suddenly went out!
Darkness suddenly fell, and several screams were heard in the elevator, followed by a creepy green light emerging from all around the elevator.