Chapter 1143 - Which Is Scarier, Me or the Curse? 2 in 1 (2/2)

“The employee benefits I have are much better than what Shang Guan Qing Hong gave you, so I suggest you find a place outside of this place to stay. Do not take this as me chasing you away, but after I visited this place last time, I realized that there is indeed some problem with your haunted house.” Chen Ge started into Xiao Die’s eyes. “There are certain things here at night. For your own safety, you’d better move out and find a place to stay.”

Xiao Die nodded. She looked rather pitiful.

“Come, bring me on a tour of the haunted house. Last time I was here, I went through the place in quite a hurry. I believe I have not seen many of the scenarios before.” Chen Ge and Xiao Die entered the haunted house. Before they visited much scenarios, Xiao Die’s phone suddenly rang. Seeing the caller ID, Xiao Die very embarrassingly excused herself to the side and answered the call.

“Sis, where are you now? Can I stay with you guys tonight?” A male voice came from the other side of the phone. One could hear the voice trying to hold back his tears.

Xiao Die was caught in a conundrum. Chen Ge had just told her she could not stay at the haunted house overnight, so she really did not know how to answer her own younger brother. “But don’t you have the permission to stay at the dormitory? How come you have sneaked out?”

“I really cannot stay there anymore.”

“Are they bullying you again?” Xiao Die was rather angry.

“Sis, don’t ask me anymore. I am now at the entrance of your haunted house. Just let me stay with you for one night,” the boy pleaded. Xiao Die turned to Chen Ge helplessly. Before her lips opened to say anything, Chen Ge already nodded his agreement.

“That’s fine. He can stay here tonight, but this is not going to work for the long term. You’d better find out why he is unwilling to stay at his dormitory.”

“Thank you, boss.” Xiao Die hung off her phone and ran out of the scenario with Chen Ge. When they arrived at the lobby, there was a lanky high schooler with very fair skin standing there. He had a very small frame and wounds on his face. He was holding a pair of glasses that had been stomped on and broken.

“How come you came here on your own?” When Xiao Die saw the boy, she hurried over. She took a wet wipe from under the counter and cleaned up some of the dust stuck to the young man’s shirt and arms. “I will go and find some bandages. Stand here and don’t go wandering anywhere.”

After Xiao Die left, the lobby only had Chen Ge and the high schooler left.

“Your school allows their in-residence students to wander out of the campus at night?” Chen Ge placed the two big bags he was holding on the seat. He fetched two cups of water. He placed one before himself and the other before the young man.

The male student did not accept the water offered by Chen Ge; he did not seem to like Chen Ge. “Are you my sister’s colleague? How come there are only the two of you here tonight?”

“Do you have a problem with that?” Chen Ge took a sip of the water and smiled. They were not on the same level at all. Xiao Die’s younger brother stood transfixed. He held the broken glasses and did not dare say a word. Moments later, Xiao Die ran out with the haunted house’s first aid kit and dressed her younger brother’s wound as best as she could. During that period, Xiao Die asked her brother what had happened many times, but her brother clammed up like a shell. After she was done with his wounds, the young man grabbed his school bag and raced into the haunted house. He appeared to know where the staff breakroom was, so this should not be the first time he had run to the haunted house to seek help.

“Hu Yuan! Wait a minute!” Xiao Die shouted twice before the high schooler stopped moving.

“I do not know anything. Can you please stop asking me questions?” Hu Yuan had great emotional swings. It was a clear representation of his inner emotional state.

“This is my new boss, Chen Ge. If you want to stay at the haunted house, you must at least get his permission first. That is basic manners.” Xiao Die dragged Hu Yuan to stand before Chen Ge.

“He can stay here tonight, but what can hiding here one night change?” Chen Ge walked to stand before Hu Yuan. “Fear will not dissipate because you run away from it. Eventually, you will have to face it. Why don’t you share your problems with us and let me and your big sister help you?”

Ever since he obtained the black phone, Chen Ge had met many problematic children and had collected many useful experiences when dealing with him. With his coaxing and persuasion, Hu Yuan finally told the truth.

There were four students in his dormitory room, and the other three kept on ganging up on him. Normally, he would have just ignored them, but that afternoon, after school, the three bullies shoved an envelope to him. Hu Yuan did not want it. In the end, the three of them stayed to make horrid jokes about his sister, and that angered Hu Yuan enough to get into a physical fight with them. The thin Hu Yuan was naturally not their match. After being beaten up, he did not want to return to the dormitory room, so he chose to come to his sister’s place. It was typical school bullying. Xiao Die was very angry; she wanted to go to the school to talk to the teacher tomorrow.

“They wanted to give you an envelope?” Chen Ge caught onto this strange detail. “Did you take the envelope in the end?’

“Cao Fei shoved the envelope inside my pocket. I initially wanted to throw it away, but I hesitated after I saw the content of the envelope.” Hu Yuan took out an envelope from inside his school bag. “I don’t think you guys should look at it. I will figure out a way to deal with it later.”

Actually, Chen Ge did not mind this detail, but when he saw the envelope, his eyes slowly narrowed. There was a very dark print left on the surface on the envelope. “Why would there be human blood on the envelope?”

Chen Ge took the envelope and held it in his hands. Ignoring Hu Yuan’s protest, he opened the envelop. Other than a few strands of hair of varying lengths, there was also a patient list. The list did not have the patient’s name, but there were a few sentences written with red ballpoint pen on the back.

“Please clip a piece of your hair and place it inside the envelope and hand the envelope to the next person. If you do not pass the envelope to the next person before night falls, I will appear inside your house at 4:44 am.

“If you do not pass the envelope to the next person within the next three days, I will appear before your eyes at 4.44 am.”

“A cursed letter? How juvenile.” Studying the hair inside the envelope, Chen Ge knew that many people had received this envelope already.

“You’d better return the envelope to me. I heard Cao Fei say that he really saw something last night.” Hu Yuan reached for the envelope but was evaded by Chen Ge.

“At your current age, the most important thing you need to focus on is your studies. Just ignore everything else.” Chen Ge patted Hu Yuan’s shoulder. “The person who handed you this letter is called Cao Fei, correct?”

“Yes.”

“Does he also stay at the school dormitory like you?”

“What do you plan to do?” Hu Yuan was stunned. He turned to his big sister, but Xiao Die also had no idea what Chen Ge was planning.

“I plan to appear beside his bed at 4:44 am tonight.” Chen Ge put the envelope away with a smile. “I’m just kidding. You must be tired. Go in and get some rest.”

His expression was normal and easy, like nothing had ever happened. Chen Ge had Xiao Die lead him to visit the rest of the scenarios, and then he locked himself inside the headmaster’s office.

“Nightmare Academy’s sets are slightly better than my own haunted house. The props alone are worth quite a pretty penny.” Chen Ge flipped through his comic and had his Red Specters check every corner of the haunted house. After ensuring that there were no hidden dangers, he sighed in relief.

“There are two things I need to do tonight—investigate the eatery and find the source of the cursed enveloped.” Chen Ge had seen many patient records, but this was the first time he had encountered one without a name or picture.

“After midnight, I will go and visit Cao Fei and trace it back student by student. Eventually, I will come to the source.” Chen Ge placed both of his legs on the headmaster’s office table and switched into a more comfortable posture. “The school is a place for education; those that target students shall never be forgiven.”