He remembered correctly that he had to find No. 44 Wudeng Road, enter room 444 on the 4th underground floor, and fall asleep before 4:44:44 AM.

A uniform series of "4s," leaving absolutely no way out.

Looking at Jiang Xuan, he said helplessly, "What if the place I need to go to has a lot of '4s'?"

Jiang Xuan was silent for a moment, then looked at Chen Ge and said, "Then I can only wish you good luck."

"Isn't there any other way?" Chen Ge didn't believe the black phone would give him a mission that was guaranteed to kill him. Even a nightmare level shouldn't be this outrageous.

Jiang Xuan shook his head, indicating he didn't know any more.

Chen Ge's heart sank. Now it seemed he could only first find a way to bring his haunted house employees in and then make other plans.

After a simple breakfast, Jiang Xuan also took Chen Ge and the others to "find" a place to live.

"There are many empty houses in this city, but not every one is habitable. Some houses are empty, but they actually have owners." Jiang Xuan's words were a bit roundabout, but a little thought made his meaning clear. Those houses with owners might not be inhabited by people.

Even during the day, few people ventured out in this city. The vast city lacked vitality, and those walking in the city also had pale faces.

This was not difficult to understand. Surviving in such a dangerous city was good enough. As for other things, who would consider so much?

But precisely because of this, Chen Ge felt that Jiang Xuan was too special. He seemed like the master of this city. He was not afraid of the darkness that ordinary people feared to the extreme, and he could even fall asleep peacefully.

They quickly arrived at the neighborhood administrator's office. After Jiang Xuan explained their purpose to the administrator, the other party directly gave him a set of keys.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the rooms." Jiang Xuan shook the keys in his hand and walked towards a building in the neighborhood.

Chen Ge and the four of them followed closely behind. Now Chen Ge was less suspicious of the boss and the others. The performance of these three people was clearly different from ghosts and monsters. They were more like living people, but they had come to the dream world for some unknown reason.

"Click!"

Jiang Xuan held the key and opened room 4101 in Building Four, leading Chen Ge and the others inside.

"There are many houses like this that look empty in this city, but as I said, in the dark of night, the urban legends in this city will become reality. So you can't just judge whether a room is safe based on its surface."

Jiang Xuan explained to Chen Ge as he looked around the room, "I don't think you want to fall asleep in the middle of the night, only to have your house suddenly become noisy, or even have a lot of 'strangers' appear."

His words made Da Yu and Shen Luo shudder, imagining the scene of the night falling and several "strangers" appearing in their house, discussing how to swallow them alive.

"How do you determine if a room is safe?" Chen Ge didn't feel anything about this. He slept with ghosts every day. He couldn't sleep soundly without ghosts around him in Shenzhen.

"Look!" As they spoke, Jiang Xuan didn't stop, but kept looking around the house. Hearing Chen Ge's question, he pointed to the living room floor.

The living room floor was no different from other places, mainly gray. But strangely, there was a black shadow on the floor of this room.

The shadow resembled a person, someone who was burned by flames,狰狞(zhengning) and begging for help in the sea of fire. Seeing it, Chen Ge seemed to smell a burnt odor.

"It is the owner of this house." Jiang Xuan pointed to the shadow on the ground and said, "Let's go, this place is not safe, we'll go to the next room."

They soon arrived at another room. Compared to other rooms, this room had a touch of color, a red pen, which was particularly obvious in this gray-dominated world.

"These are two kinds of unsafe rooms. One, there may be a black shadow in a corner of the room, and the other is that there is an extra color that shouldn't be there."

Jiang Xuan pointed to the red pen and said, "The main color of this city is gray. If all the empty rooms are safe, there will be no other colors."

"And once there are other colors in the house, it means that this room has an owner. I don't know what the consequences will be if you force your way in," Jiang Xuan explained with a smile. "And don't think that you can just throw them away and be done with it. This is their home, and you kicked them out. The consequences will be even worse than moving in directly."

There were too many taboos in this city. It was like an isolated island floating between reality and illusion, with no safety to speak of. Any action required caution.

"Let's go, while it's still daylight, we have to hurry up and find a safe room." Jiang Xuan urged. There were still many empty rooms in this building, but these empty rooms might not be unoccupied. It was not easy to find a completely safe house before dark.

After all, this couldn't be rushed. Every room had to be carefully searched to make sure there was no danger before anyone could live in it.

"Another dangerous room..." Jiang Xuan shook his head and glanced at the watch on his wrist. They had started looking for a place to live very early, but after a few hours, the rooms they had seen basically had problems.

"No, I'll live here." Chen Ge's voice shocked the others. There was a blood-stained tape recorder in this room. When the switch was pressed, there was a "shasha" sound coming from it, and vaguely, a boy could be heard shouting "It hurts."

"Are you crazy?" Even the boss and the others thought Chen Ge was crazy. Jiang Xuan had made it very clear that no other colors could appear in any empty room in this city, let alone a blood-stained tape recorder.

"Do you know the origin of this thing?" Jiang Xuan was a little puzzled when he saw Chen Ge holding the tape recorder tightly.

Chen Ge thought for a while and finally nodded, saying, "He is my friend."

The boss and the three of them were confused. Who would regard a tape recorder as a friend? But Jiang Xuan's eyes flashed with a strange color.

"Interesting, how do you prove it?" This was the first time Chen Ge had seen Jiang Xuan show this expression, as if he was expecting it, or as if he had been waiting for this moment all along.

"Xu Yin!" Chen Ge pressed the tape recorder, and a vague voice of "It hurts, it hurts so much" came from it. The voice became louder and louder, as if it was about to rush out of the tape recorder, and the temperature of the entire room dropped sharply.

But perhaps because it was daytime, the power could not truly break through the shackles. It seemed to have reached a certain critical point and could not continue to change.

But Jiang Xuan didn't show a trace of disappointment when he saw this. Instead, he said, "It seems that you are really his friend. Ghosts and people can actually become friends. You are really an interesting person."

Chen Ge looked at the somewhat surprised Jiang Xuan and became more and more certain of some of his thoughts. The "person" in front of him was definitely not ordinary.

Jiang Xuan looked at the tape recorder in Chen Ge's hand and said after a moment, "Turn it off. In the city during the day, except for a few restricted areas, no ghosts are allowed to appear, and your friend has obviously not reached the level of transcending this rule."

Hearing this, Chen Ge also turned off the tape recorder. He didn't expect that his employees in reality had already "entered" the dream. The so-called bringing them into the dream was actually finding them in this city.

"Transcending the rules? What level is that?" Chen Ge asked. He knew that Xu Yin was now a top-level Red Specter (Hong Yi), extremely powerful, but even so, Xu Yin could not break the rules of this city.

And the only existence that could break the rules that Chen Ge could think of was—a Fiend God (Xiong Shen)!

Jiang Xuan looked at him, revealing a smile, and said, "To build a complete restricted area in this city, independent of the city's rules, that kind of existence cannot be described in words."

Chen Ge nodded. This was the same as the Fiend Gods he knew. Even mentioning them could lead to being entangled in their curse. Once provoked, there was no way to get rid of it.

"But at least it's a start." Finding "Xu Yin" also gave Chen Ge more confidence in surviving in the middle layer of the dream. Now, even when facing those evil and strange beings, he might not be without the power to fight.