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"To enter this scenario, visitors must wear a wristband crafted by Director Luo. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, the doctors won't be able to mount an immediate rescue." Ever since the Underground Morgue scenario had been unlocked, Chen Ge had grown bolder—so long as Dr. Wei had examined things and declared them safe, he was willing to go all in.
Carrying the white cat as he emerged from the underground area, Chen Ge felt physically exhausted, yet his mind buzzed with excitement. "Am I getting sick?"
The Medium-Sensitive Ghost School scenario was unlocked, and the task rewards corresponding to it should have appeared by now.
Setting the white cat down, Chen Ge entered the dressing room and found Lin Sisi's phone and
He had used Lin Sisi's phone before, so there was nothing new about it. He gave it a quick look—inside were numerous messages related to Lin Sisi, along with recordings filmed when she had been bullied.
"These things belong to Lin Sisi. I'll keep them." Chen Ge deleted nothing from the phone. Instead, he opened the comic book and summoned the ghost child Tongtong. "Can you go inside this phone?"
After a brief attempt, Tongtong nodded.
"Good. I'll entrust Lin Sisi's phone to you for safekeeping. Once tourists enter the Medium-Sensitive Ghost School tomorrow, do exactly as I've instructed." Chen Ge handed the phone over to Tongtong. Watching the ghost child clutch it like a new toy, he thought back to his own ordeal inside the Medium-Sensitive Ghost School.
When he had first entered the scenario, he had lost consciousness. Chang Wenyu had stolen his black phone, leaving him completely on the back foot.
"That kind of thing must never happen again." Chen Ge immediately went online, planning to order a few replica phones modeled after his black phone. He didn't need many features—just the ability to make calls, send texts, and conceal vengeful ghosts.
He had just opened the webpage and hadn't even typed "custom phone" into the search bar when his eye caught the trending news rankings.
Out of pure habit, he glanced at it—but after reading, he froze.
Two of the top ten trending topics were related to his haunted house!
The top five were all celebrity gossip, but starting from the sixth entry, the tone shifted dramatically, as if a mudslide had suddenly surged into a crystal-clear stream.
"The afterlife genuinely exists?! Real firsthand accounts from multiple comatose patients who awakened the same day!"
Continuing down, the seventh trending topic, sitting right below the sixth, read—The world after losing consciousness turns out to be a paradise in reality!
Clicking through to see more, Chen Ge discovered that New Century Paradise had already cracked the top twenty in trending searches, and the number of people looking it up appeared to be climbing.
"Did Director Luo buy his way onto the trending list?" Usually he was the one reading the news. Now his own workplace had shown up in it, and the feeling was strangely disorienting.
"Hopefully Director Luo can handle it." Chen Ge refreshed the page, ready to look for a custom phone shop, when suddenly he spotted two familiar characters at position fifty on the trending list—the very last entry.
"Chen Ge?"
The trending topic consisted of those two characters alone, looking completely out of place among everything else on the list.
"Why is my name here?"
Chen Ge was certain he wasn't mistaken. He had actually found his own name on the trending list.
"What is going on?" He hastily clicked on the fiftieth entry, only to discover that all of his past exploits had been dug up by netizens. Livestreaming in a haunted house and encountering a real killer, chasing a psychopath through an entire mental hospital, picking a fight with a top streamer and getting both their channels banned, assisting the Hanjiang police in capturing a fugitive, helping them crack a murder case, assisting their investigation into a cold case from five years ago—and even the old news article about him receiving a third-class public security honor medal had been unearthed.