The night before heading to Xicheng Private School,
Scrolling through the Black Phone, if he wanted to maximize his gains, he'd definitely go for the nightmare-level task. But based on his two previous experiences, nightmare tasks always came with a specific time requirement — typically around midnight. Once he missed that window, there was a high chance the task would automatically fail.
"No need to gamble on this. Better to play it safe." Chen Ge tapped the screen and accepted the medium-difficulty daily task.
"Medium-Difficulty Task: You have earned an expansion opportunity for the haunted house. Find a suitable venue as soon as possible to begin expansion!"
This was the first time Chen Ge's haunted house was being expanded. He had no idea how to go about it, and the Black Phone offered no hints whatsoever.
"Not even a beginner's tutorial. I'll have to figure it out myself." Chen Ge pulled up the haunted house panel again. Two things caught his attention.
The Ghost Team roster was still completely empty, which meant neither
Yin Xiaoxiao's affinity probably wasn't high enough yet. As for Zhang Ya — forget about getting her to join the haunted house, Chen Ge would be perfectly content if she simply stopped thinking about killing him every single day.
The second thing that drew his attention was the Haunted House Expansion Requirements row. The originally grey text had turned red, and when he tapped it, a line of text appeared on the phone screen — "Please select the location for the door."
"Grey text turning red means it can be activated. As for selecting the door's location..."
Chen Ge had leased the entire underground parking garage. The space was enormous, but the drawback was that the garage entrance was outside the amusement park, making the back-and-forth incredibly inconvenient. So he planned to carve out a passage through the haunted house, leading straight underground.
Near major attractions like the roller coaster and Ferris wheel, underground structures weren't allowed. But the haunted house, being situated in a remote corner of the park, was exempt from that restriction. Chen Ge's building sat right on top of the parking garage.
Holding the Black Phone, Chen Ge walked to the entrance of Zombie Resurrection Night on the first floor. Ever since they'd added Ghost Marriage and Midnight Escape — both one-star horror scenarios — Zombie Resurrection Night had been rarely used.
"I'll put the door right next to Zombie Resurrection Night. If we run out of space down the road, I can always replace it." Chen Ge had thought this through carefully. He used a carbon pen to mark out an area on the floor beside Zombie Resurrection Night. It was only after he finished drawing that he suddenly realized — he had no way to communicate with the Black Phone. Ever since obtaining it, he'd always been passively accepting tasks and rewards.
"Am I missing something?" Chen Ge browsed through the pages again. When he tried double-tapping the phone's home screen, the haunted house image that had been serving as the background slowly enlarged. Its structure was identical to his actual haunted house, including the interior horror scenarios and room layout.
"Could I select it from here?"
Chen Ge located the Zombie Resurrection Night scenario on the screen and tapped a patch of ground beside it. A message instantly popped up on the phone screen: "Confirm the door's location?"
"Confirm."
"Please select the expansion direction."
"Downward."
After making his selection, the home screen returned to normal. At the same time, Chen Ge received several more notification messages in quick succession.