Popularity skyrocketing, screen flooded with bullet comments — even Chen Ge hadn't expected things to turn out like this.
"I warned Qin Guang a long time ago, but he was dead set on it. I can't really be blamed for that. Still, it's not too dangerous at Muyang High School. The evil spirits inside aren't vengeful ghosts or malicious spirits, so he should be fine." Chen Ge genuinely considered himself a kind-hearted person. "I hope he makes a quick recovery. Next time, don't just blindly follow the trend during livestreams."
Watching the viewer count climb toward four hundred thousand, Chen Ge took the opportunity to throw in a few advertisements for his haunted house.
From the sheer volume of comments, it was clear that the viewership was almost entirely genuine. Just this one stream, and the name "Jiujiang West Suburb Haunted House" would be seared into countless minds.
With the buzz still fermenting, for the foreseeable future, there would be a steady stream of viewers heading to the haunted house to experience it firsthand.
"Chen Ge, we need to get the contract moving. Also, I have a question for you." Liu Dao hadn't hung up the phone — he was under enormous pressure on his end too. "Tonight's livestream was staged by you, right? That whole scene was your haunted house team running the show?"
Liu Dao had no idea what Chen Ge was really about. They were business partners; all he knew was that Chen Ge ran a haunted house and must therefore know professional haunted-house actors who could design the most realistic horror scenarios.
For someone who didn't believe in ghosts, the first time encountering something abnormal, they would naturally try to explain it through the lens of their existing experience.
"Something like that," Chen Ge replied with a deliberately vague answer.
He certainly had his own haunted-house team, but aside from Xu Wan, the other members weren't exactly people he could introduce to outsiders.
"I knew you weren't in there alone." Liu Dao sounded relieved. "A moment ago, the camera on your wrist fell off. After you ran off, the camera that had been lying on the ground suddenly started moving again and captured new footage. When Sister Li saw it, she actually thought it was a real haunting."
"New footage?" Chen Ge turned to glance at his wrist. The camera had been knocked off during the scuffle with the nurse.
"Look — it's moving again!"
Chen Ge muted the bullet comments and looked at the bottom-right corner of the livestream screen — that was the feed from the wrist-mounted camera.
The view was advancing forward. The camera appeared to be dangling from the nurse's clothes, chasing in Chen Ge's direction!
"It survived being chopped up like that? Is it because the terrain here is special?"
Liu Dao had no clue how serious the situation was. He earnestly offered Chen Ge some advice: "You should contact your friend and tell him not to show up on camera. That way, you can build up more anticipation for the viewers."
"Anticipation my ass!" Chen Ge hung up and sprinted toward the upper floor without another word.
The livestream now showed two cameras capturing completely different perspectives, as if they were chasing each other.
This was something no viewer had ever seen before — and even Chen Ge himself was experiencing it for the first time. He flew back to the third-floor corridor at full speed.
After running over a dozen meters, Chen Ge glanced down at his phone screen and saw — in his own livestream — the back of his own head.
"It's on me!"
There was no perfect way to deal with the nurse for now. Without looking back, Chen Ge took the stairwell on one side of the corridor back down to the second floor, accelerated to shake the nurse off, then changed direction and slipped down to the first floor.
The nurse chasing from behind seemed to operate on pure instinct alone. Having lost Chen Ge's trail, she once again began opening doors one by one, searching through each ward.
"That monster is different from the mirror ghost — she has no consciousness of her own. She's probably fused with the special environment of this place."
Only after the nurse had moved far away did Chen Ge step out from his hiding spot. This floor was the source of every horror event.