The light in the corridor seemed to have dimmed a little. A cold wind blew from above, making people's hair stand on end. It seemed that the air-conditioning temperature in the backstage control room of Nightmare Academy was adjusted to the lowest temperature.

When Chen Ge returned to the previous floor, he was surprised to find that the security door leading to the corridor was closed with a new seal on it.

"Locked? Are they planning to trap me in the corridor?" Chen Ge stopped at the door and looked towards the corridor through the glass window on the door.

Figures flashed by in the dim corridor. They were of different sizes and held various tools in their hands.

When he was attracted by the figures in the corridor, the footsteps in the hallway sounded again.

"Someone is following me?"

Chen Ge was not in a hurry. After a while, he found that there was a child's voice mixed in with the footsteps. The other party seemed to have lost his father and was shouting in a crying voice.

"The voice sounds weird, not like a child's, but much sharper than an adult's, as if the throat is not fully developed."

Closing his eyes, Chen Ge patiently determined the child's position.

"The child's voice upstairs was mixed with a very faint sound of electricity, which should be the sound of a machine. The sound coming from downstairs was also creepy, but it felt clearer. The child should be on the ground floor of the building."

The further downstairs you go, the dimmer the light becomes, and the walls become mottled, with large stains and some strange lines, which is very uncomfortable to look at.

Chen Ge also discovered something very strange. At the corner of each floor, there was a black incense burner with three broken incense sticks inserted on it. No one knew what special meaning it had.

"The incense got damp and can't be lit. It's also broken..." Chen Ge squatted beside the black incense burner, holding it in his palm. He was surprised to find a photo under the incense burner.

He picked up the photo, which showed a man in his thirties wearing a mask and with his head lowered, as if he was worried that others would see his face.

Moving his eyes downward, Chen Ge saw that the man seemed to be holding someone else's hand with his left hand, but the left half of the photo was cut off.

"Dad..." A faint voice came from behind Chen Ge, very suddenly.

"Are you calling me?" Chen Ge looked back, but there was nothing behind him.

With his pupils constricted, Chen Ge walked towards the direction where the sound came from. He found a miniature audio player in the mottled wall.

"So they deliberately designed the wall like this to hide various devices and mechanisms." Chen Ge's finger slid across the front of the player. "Such sophisticated equipment must be very expensive. My haunted house doesn't even have it. There is a reason why Nightmare Academy can become so big. Combining technology with ghost stories is the right way to go."

Chen Ge is not an arrogant person. He always maintains a humble heart, which is one of the keys to his success today.

"I haven't checked my bank account for a long time. I should have saved up a lot of money by now. After the four-star scene is unlocked successfully, I will ask Director Luo for some funds to purchase a batch of top-notch equipment for my haunted house. Let the ghost employees operate the top-notch equipment, and hide deeper horrors in horror, which will definitely surprise the tourists."

Holding the photo in his hand, Chen Ge went down one more floor with his bag.

The footsteps and the crying of a child were getting closer to him. It seemed that the Nightmare Academy wanted to create an atmosphere of ghosts slowly approaching. They did this perfectly by installing several miniature audio players in the corridor and using precise background control.

Ordinary people came in and found that the longer they stayed in the corridor, the closer the footsteps and the crying children would become, and their psychological defenses would surely slowly collapse. Unfortunately, they met Chen Ge today.

After noticing the approaching sound, Chen Ge not only did not panic, he took the initiative to rush towards the direction where the sound came from, wanting to see the true face of the ghost as soon as possible. This made the backstage control personnel very embarrassed.

He and the actors were constantly communicating and coordinating to prevent Chen Ge from rushing over before the horror scenes were ready.

"It's useless to judge the location only by the footsteps and the crying of children. There are speakers installed on every floor. They can make any sound they want." Chen Ge stood quietly in the corridor, holding his breath. He wanted to find a third sound amid the interference of footsteps and crying, so as to determine the employee's location.

The people behind the scenes saw that Chen Ge had finally stopped and calmed down, so they immediately contacted the actors and prepared to go on stage.

Chen Ge had no idea what was happening in the control room of the haunted house. He just used his extraordinary five senses to hear two footsteps coming from the floor below at the same time, one heavy and one light.

"One of them is a sound effect, and the other is supposed to be the actors in the haunted house moving."

Without any warning, Chen Ge rushed over. As he grabbed the handle of the floor security door, another pale hand grabbed the handle from the inside.

Both hands fell at the same time, and through the glass, both parties looked up at each other at the same time.

Inside the floor, a girl in the Nightmare Academy uniform stood at the door. She had heavy makeup on, her cheeks were pale, and there was a very obvious black and purple mark on her neck. What was even more terrifying was that there was a finger stuck in her eyeball, and both sides of her mouth were covered with red paint.

In the corridor, Chen Ge grabbed the handle tightly, his eyes were cold, and a woman's figure was reflected in his pupils. He exuded a special aura.

It’s hard to describe, but it doesn’t look like a living person.

The girl never expected that someone would suddenly grab the door handle and appear in front of the door window. Her face twitched, but she was still very professional.

To prevent the finger stuck in her eye from falling off, the girl raised her chin and looked at Chen Ge in a very strange posture.

"Are you the ghost in the corridor? The evil ghost that can only be seen when you step onto the thirteenth step?" Chen Ge looked at the other person carefully through the door.

The girl was very surprised to hear Chen Ge's words. She felt that Chen Ge was more into the role than she was, but soon a difficult problem was placed in front of her.

As a ghost entangled in resentment and despair, how should she respond to Chen Ge?

Saying yes makes you seem very obedient and your status very low. But how can a ghost just give you the same answer you asked?

If I say no, wouldn't this evil ghost seem a bit arrogant? And it also feels like he's trying to cover up his mistake.

The girl tilted her neck to look at the surveillance camera next to her. There were no lines for her in the script.

"Not answering means you agree. Is it so abrupt and scary? Where is the thirteenth step?" Chen Ge pulled the emergency door and opened the door that was grabbed by the evil spirit, but at this moment something strange happened.

The girl seemed to hear a prompt from the background in her headphones. She looked behind Chen Ge and her expression changed drastically, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

"He's out again!"

After saying this, the girl ran away, and the finger prop stuck in her face fell to the ground without her having time to pick it up.

"Come out again?" Chen Ge looked back and thought it was Lao Zhou or the Pen Fairy that came out.

He looked at the girl who disappeared very quickly, and he himself was a little confused: "Is this a play within a play of Nightmare Academy? Or is it really haunted? Their place is built in the darkest place, so it is not impossible that it is haunted."

Chen Ge was thinking when he heard footsteps and children's shouting in the corridor again. The noisy and strange sounds were annoying.

"Are you still not done? Fine, you want to find your father, right? When I find you, I'll show you what fatherly love is like!"