novel-bin Chapter 58: Freddy in Ward 3
Chapter 58: Freddy in Ward 3
day.
The haunted house is operating normally.
Chen Ge clearly realized that the crow could be Zhang Ze's eyes and ears, so he moved his bedroom to the staff room inside the haunted house to avoid being seen by Zhang Ze, the voyeur.
Zhang Ze did not push his luck.
Even if he doesn't monitor Chen Ge 24/7, he knows what Chen Ge is busy with right now.
Arrangements were made for Fan Yu's life at the orphanage.
The follow-up work on the case of the body hidden at Muyang Middle School.
Because of Chen Yalin's sudden disappearance, Chen Ge lost the opportunity to contact Dr. Gao, Gao Ruxue's father, through Wang Xin. He has not yet contacted Dr. Gao, and naturally, he has not seen Men Nan either.
However, this was bound to happen sooner or later, and Zhang Ze was not worried about dramatic changes in history.
If all else fails, he can take over. He has complete control of a door and a complete red-clothed vengeful ghost, and he's not afraid to go head-to-head with the current Dr. Gao.
Zhang Ze himself was also busy.
After the haunted house operation got on track and the daily income stabilized at more than 4000 yuan, the business was back on track.
Zhang Ze used one of his roulette wheel draw chances.
This is the reward he received for completing the system task.
【⑤ (Daily): Add a second scene to the haunted house, reward: 1 roulette spin】
This task was completed a long time ago, but Zhang Ze hadn't had time to use the lottery chance. Now that he finally had some free time, Zhang Ze started the roulette lottery again.
A turntable appeared in front of him.
The pointer on the turntable spun rapidly.
A few seconds later, the pointer stopped on a very small section.
[A burnt toy straw hat]
[He had never seen the outside world since he was born. His mother bought him a toy straw hat, and he was very happy, hugging his mother tightly until the moment he was burned to death.]
A toy straw hat appeared in Zhang Ze's hand.
This hat is a bit like the hat on a straw raincoat, only slightly smaller. It fits me just right, but the surface is covered with burn marks, and many parts are carbonized.
"What is this?"
"It looks like a quest from a supernatural place, but it hasn't been triggered. If you draw a supernatural item, the system should explain its use, but this one doesn't have anything at all."
"This garbage system is getting more and more into playing the riddle game."
Zhang Ze muttered a few words.
The system didn't tell him what this thing was; Zhang Ze had to find it himself.
Based on the item description, the owner of this hat must have been burned to death, and was a child, which greatly narrowed down the search area.
Zhang Ze turned on the all-powerful Baidu search engine.
Find a suitable news story.
A fire broke out in a closed ward of the Third Mental Illness Recovery Center, resulting in 2 deaths and 7 injuries. The arsonist was a mental patient.
This news story is from a few years ago, but Zhang Ze paid special attention to it because it happened before the patients in the third ward ganged up to kill the nurse.
In other words, the owner of this hat is probably more senior than the patients in the third ward.
I clicked in and took a look.
Goodness, the publisher is actually the Mystery Tracking Studio.
"...The arsonist was Xiong Qing, a patient in room eight of the closed ward of the third ward. Due to his inability to control himself when his mental illness flared up, he lit the curtains at night and set fire to the room of a female patient in the adjacent ward."
"When firefighters arrived at the scene, the patient and her son were both dead. Photos of the scene are shown below..."
There are even pictures.
No wonder they're a mystery tracking studio; they can even get their hands on images like this.
Zhang Ze clicked on it and saw two humanoid charcoal figures twisted into a ball. One of them looked like a child wearing a toy straw hat, and the other looked like a mother, whose face was completely unrecognizable.
Even though I've seen many tragic scenes.
Zhang Ze's eyelid twitched again.
Judging from the picture, the mother was holding her child before she died, seemingly trying to protect him with her body. Unfortunately, both mother and child were eventually engulfed by flames.
"It actually happened in the third ward, and it was Xiong Qingqian's case."
"These mentally ill people are truly heinous."
Zhang Ze muttered a few words. He hadn't intended to cause trouble for the third ward, but unexpectedly, the third ward had come into his view on its own.
He wouldn't be as soft-hearted as Chen Ge.
He had only one word for his enemies.
kill!
However, there must be more to this straw hat than meets the eye. It's impossible that Zhang Ze would actually fly over and kill Xiong Qing; they're completely unrelated.
Zhang Ze continued reading the comments below the news article.
"The scene is burned to a crisp, people are charred, but that hat is only charred? What the hell?"
"I suspect this is a paid advertisement! Send me the link to the hat!"
Hat: Kids, I'm very heat-resistant.
Zhang Ze felt a little uncomfortable watching this.
It was clearly a serious tragedy, yet many people were making a hellish joke about it, showing no respect for the deceased, especially since it was a tragedy caused by mental illness.
Just then, a comment caught his attention.
"I know that female patient. She already had some mental issues. While she was being treated at the mental hospital, due to poor management, she was raped by other patients and became pregnant with this child."
"Because the female patient had no family members and she was unwilling to abort the child, she had no choice but to give birth and raise the child in the hospital."
Zhang Ze was taken aback.
Is this really not talking about Men Nan?
Children born in mental hospitals.
However, such incidents are certainly not isolated cases. Men Nan's reclusive nature may be due to the fact that he once had such a friend, who unfortunately died in a fire.
Keep reading.
"According to my relatives who live in other wards, many patients also discriminated against that woman. It seems there's a specific term in psychology that describes how bullying the weakest person can create a sense of collective security."
"After the fire, this ward was renovated. It seems that the hat is still in the hospital. My relative said that the hat is cursed. If you wear it to sleep, you will dream of the child who was burned to death."
It turned out to be the case.
Zhang Ze roughly guessed the purpose of the hat.
I guess I'll have to wear it to bed at night.
That ghost is probably the same as Men Nan, not much stronger.
If Zhang Ze could convince him with his fists and then promise to help him kill Xiong Qing to avenge him, he could gain a loyal and vengeful ghost employee.
"Finally!"
Zhang Ze almost burst into tears.
Finally, we'll have a normal employee.
He hadn't encountered a ghost that could speak normally in all this time.
If he could hire a talking ghost as an employee, it would save him a lot of management costs and make fighting easier in the future, which would solve Zhang Ze's urgent problem.
The only thing that Zhang Ze vaguely felt was strange was...
This backstory sounds so familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before.
Isn't this a remake of Freddy Krueger's story from "A Nightmare on Elm Street"?
The mother of a mentally ill man, who was burned to death.
Even the straw hat looks a lot like Freddy's; all that's missing is the steel claw knife he wears on his hand.
"The third ward version of Freddy Krueger."
"Interesting. If I could recruit them as employees, they would be invaluable right-hand men."