RNP Chapter 57: Your level is too low.
Chapter 57: Your level is too low.
An eerie silence filled the private room. Neither Zhang Ze nor Chen Ge spoke first. Zhang Ze needed to establish a superior position in Chen Ge's mind, while Chen Ge had many concerns.
Is Zhang Ze his enemy?
If they are enemies, why choose this fair competition method?
If it were someone else who lacked morals, they would have already resorted to dirty tricks.
How can you compete with Chen Ge's serious haunted house business by seeing who gets higher customer ratings? It's a straightforward, unpretentious business battle...
Of course, if Chen Ge knew that Zhang Ze had recorded his "Black Friday," he probably wouldn't think it was fair competition.
Time passed by, second by second.
Zhang Ze stared at Chen Ge.
Chen Ge felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He felt many eyes staring at him, perhaps from crows, or from somewhere else.
Out of biological instinct, Chen Ge tightened his grip on the skull-crushing hammer.
"Your haunted house is behind a door, a dangerous door filled with malice, resentment, and hatred, like another world parallel to the real world, inhabited by vengeful ghosts."
"It's no coincidence that you opened your haunted house right across from mine, is it?"
Chen Ge was trying to get information out of her.
They wanted to extract Zhang Ze's information at zero cost.
"Your haunted house is just as impressive, it's full of real stuff. They're your employees, you have your ghost employees, and I have my own team of ghost employees too, makes perfect sense, right?"
"You should be more worried about your employees than about me."
"I know, the Ouija board is gone," Chen Ge said. "That's one of the reasons I came to find you. You know a lot, and I need an answer."
"Do you know my parents? Why did they go to the eastern suburbs and never come back?"
"What did you do to the Ouija board?"
Zhang Ze shook his head. "I just asked the spirit some questions according to the normal game procedure."
"As for your parents..."
"I know them; they entrusted me with something."
Has Zhang Ze really met Chen Ge's parents?
I've never seen a damn thing!
Since Zhang Ze transmigrated, he has never had any contact with Chen Ge's parents. Even if he wanted to meet them, he wouldn't have the chance. Chen Ge's parents are deep in the world behind the door. Unless Zhang Ze is desperate, he would never challenge such a difficult scenario right now.
But that doesn't stop Zhang Ze from fabricating a lie.
In a sense, Zhang Ze did know Chen Ge's parents and their whereabouts, but only as a reader who had read the novel.
However, this news was enough to put Chen Ge in his place.
Sure enough, Chen Ge's expression changed visibly when Zhang Ze said that.
"I have a favor to ask you?"
"Why didn't I get any news? They left without saying goodbye and didn't leave me anything. Did they expect you to open a haunted house right across from mine just to provoke me?"
Chen Ge couldn't understand it.
If Zhang Ze was a trusted advisor left by his parents...
Why not just join him and open a haunted house together?
His haunted house is always short of people; he never complains about having too many.
Zhang Ze smiled wryly.
His initial idea was indeed to join Boss Chen's team, live off Boss Chen's protection, and become a shameless layabout.
The system led him down this path, and from the moment he died in Lingling's painting, there was no turning back.
Seeing that Zhang Ze was unwilling to reveal anything, Chen Ge realized that Zhang Ze was waiting for a higher offer. He wouldn't give him the information for no reason; he needed Zhang Ze to show sincerity.
I hesitated for a moment.
Chen Ge tentatively spoke.
"I saw a video in your scene at the midnight police station, number 009."
"The video mentions an organization called the Strange Tales Research Company, which is recruiting. The video provides an address: Film and Television Base, Donghai Road, West Suburbs of Hanjiang City."
"There are other videos, and the paranormal phenomena they show are definitely not something that was filmed casually. Someone must be deliberately creating ghost stories."
Zhang Ze nodded. "That's right. All these videos point to a common publisher, this company. And it was after I inquired about this company that the Ouija board disappeared."
"I understand, I will go to this company with you."
Chen Ge continued, "Now tell me, how are my parents?"
He stared intently at Zhang Ze, as if trying to read words on Zhang Ze's face. It was clear that Chen Ge's parents were his biggest weakness, and Zhang Ze had completely manipulated Chen Ge by bringing up this topic.
"You're too low-level."
"When you've grown to a certain level, I will personally assess you to make sure you're capable of facing real terror."
Zhang Ze said earnestly.
Chen Ge: ?
If it weren't for the conversation we just had, and someone had said those two sentences to Chen Ge right away, Chen Ge would have definitely beaten the other person so badly that they couldn't take care of themselves.
However, a series of topics were deliberately steered by Zhang Ze.
Chen Ge was genuinely intimidated.
From his perspective, Zhang Ze was someone stronger than him, who also controlled vengeful spirits and knew the whereabouts of his parents. Although he looked about the same age as him, he was psychologically a generation older.
To achieve the effect Zhang Ze wanted.
"Then let's wait and see."
"I'll go with you to the Donghai Road Film and Television Base in a week."
Chen Ge gave an affirmative answer.
Zhang Ze spread his arms and fell backward to the bottom of the Ferris wheel. In mid-air, he transformed into several crows, flapping their wings and flying away in the direction of Zhang Ze's haunted house.
Chen Ge was left alone, lost in thought.
"This person knows the whereabouts of my parents."
"And he's very strong. He knows many of my secrets, and even my haunted house can't scare him. But he probably has unresolved issues, like that ghost story research company."
"Given his upright and honest business acumen, he would never have kidnapped Chen Ya-lin. Chen Ya-lin's disappearance was an unexpected situation that even he did not anticipate."
"Since that's the case, I'll help him resolve this matter. This way, I can not only find Chen Yalin, but also do him a favor and take the opportunity to find out the whereabouts of my parents..."
Chen Ge considered it a lot.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
……
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Zhang Ze returned to the haunted house and entered the world behind the door.
The meeting went fairly smoothly.
They even exceeded their targets.
Zhang Ze's original plan was simply to establish authority in Chen Ge's mind so that he could recruit more people later. He didn't expect Chen Ge to agree to act together next time. With Chen Ge as his henchman, he could save a lot of effort.
"Ha, it seems the decision to turn Zhang Peng into a madman was the right one."
Zhang Ze looked at Zhang Peng in front of him.
Zhang Peng has completely gone mad, wandering aimlessly around the police station with a chainsaw in his hand. This is the butcher that Zhang Ze designed for this scene.
Zhang Ze decided to emulate the format of Dead by Daylight, specifically the fifth identity game.
Each scene has a killer, and the player, as a survivor, searches for the cellar as an exit.
The butcher of the crow's nest is Lingling.
The butcher at the midnight police station is Zhang Peng.
Chen Ge only came to regard Zhang Ze as an older brother figure, rather than an imminent threat, after he met Zhang Peng and learned that Zhang Ze had helped him imprison Zhang Peng and dealt with this potential threat.
It can only be said that Zhang Ze had laid out this plan for so long, taking all factors into account, and it was only through the combined effect of all these factors that he finally won over Boss Chen.