No one in the rental house noticed that after absorbing the blood on the clay sculpture, Chen Ge's shadow began to slowly change its shape, as if a sleeping woman was gently turning over in her dream.
"You guys go to bed early and see you tomorrow." Chen Ge glanced at the clock on the wall. It was two o'clock in the morning.
When he came out of the rental house, he took a taxi directly to the old city without going back to New Century Park.
The dim light from the street lights shone on him through the car window. Chen Ge stared at the quiet city and tightened his collar.
The old town at night is very different from the daytime. You can't see any lights or hear any sounds. As Hanjiang continues to develop, fewer and fewer people live here, and most of them have moved to new areas.
Walking through the dark streets, it only took Chen Ge ten minutes to find the place where Wu Jinpeng had rented.
The rental house is two streets away from Fan Yu's home. The environment here is worse and the smell in the air is stronger.
"How come they have been living here? Am I the only one who can smell this stench?" Chen Ge remembered that when he came to find Jiang Ming's mother during the day, the eldest sister of the neighborhood committee and Jiang Ming's mother didn't know whether they were used to it or not.
What's going on? They don't seem to be able to smell the strange smell in the air.
Walking out of the alley, Chen Ge held on to the rusty railing and reached the second floor of an old house. He looked into the distance and saw that this was not the most remote and shabby place in the old city.
"204... Found it, this is it." Chen Ge stopped. In front of him was a wooden door painted with red paint. A rusty iron chain was tied to the door handle: "After Wu Jinpeng moved out, this room
Have you never rented out the room again?"
Opening the comic book, Chen Ge called Men Nan out: "Brother Nan, help me, go into this room and take a look. Be careful not to go to the room next to it."
Room 205, the innermost room on the second floor, is the room that Wu Kun once said was haunted. It was also the tenant of that room who gave Wu Jinpeng the shrine and clay sculpture. To be on the safe side, Chen Ge only let Men Nan enter room 204 first. If nothing was gained, he would
Call out a few more people in red clothes and enter room 205 together.
Blood dripped along the crack of the door. Men Nan disappeared for less than a minute and then reappeared: "Everything is normal in the house and there is no problem, but I always feel a little uncomfortable when I stay in it."
"Take Xu Yin and these red high-heeled shoes and go to the room 205 next to you."
The three men in red clothes entered Room 205. A few seconds later, a strange sound suddenly came from the room, as if a knife had punctured a balloon filled with water. Then Chen Ge heard the sound of bones dislocating and tearing.
"what happened?"
Blood streaks spread on the door panel, and the strong smell of blood spread uncontrollably to the surroundings. Chen Ge knew that Men Nan and the others had encountered something, and decisively flipped through the comic book in an attempt to release Xiao Bu and Hong Yuyi.
This place is like a hell on earth, but the lights on the other side of the corridor five or six meters away are turned on, and a man's dissatisfied yelling and footsteps can be heard.
Just when the family was about to come out, the door of the rental house No. 205 in front of Chen Ge was suddenly opened from the inside.
"Chen Ge, come and see!"
After entering the room, Chen Ge instinctively covered his mouth and nose. The room was filled with a strong stench.
Gently closing the door, Chen Ge looked at the rental house with his dark eyes.
The hut is small in size, only about thirty square meters. The walls are covered with yellowed newspapers and there is dust everywhere. No one has lived in this place for a long time.
"What were you fighting just now?" Chen Ge was a little curious.
"It's not a thing, it's a curse." Men Nan tore off the newspaper pasted on the wall. The back of the newspaper and the wall of the rental house were all covered with fine hair and a small piece of black blood. It looked very scary.
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"These are curses?"
"Well, the broken hair and blood stains come from different people. When we came in just now, we saw those black threads of curses intertwined and spread all over the room. As long as someone comes in accidentally, they will be hit, and they will be cursed unknowingly."
Nan signaled Chen Ge to step back and not get too close to the wall.
"Is the curse in this room the same as the curse in Liwan Town?"
"It's different." Men Nan, who was only as high as Chen Ge's knees, hugged the red high heels and said seriously: "According to what this sister said, the curse in the rental house is just the negative emotions that escaped when another curse was completed."
"That means someone has completed a very terrifying curse in this rental house?"
"It's understandable. After all, the negative emotions that escape are only a very small part." Men Nan nodded. He himself has a rigorous and rigid character.
"A tiny amount of negative emotion can turn a room into this. How vicious and terrifying is the curse itself?"
"I can't imagine it. At least this sister has never seen such a terrible curse." Men Nan raised the red high heels: "Can you help me take it? To be honest, I am definitely not afraid of her, I just feel like holding her shoes
not very convenient."
"Can you tell what the curse is related to based on the things left in this room? Or can you tell who the curse is aimed at?" Chen Ge ignored Men Nan's request.
"We don't know who this curse is aimed at, but we saw some messages on the wall. The curse consists of nine parts." Men Nan tore off all the newspapers on the innermost wall of the rental house.
A small figure is painted on the wall covered with broken hair and blood stains, with many words written crookedly on the figure's body.
"What is a human being?"
“How does one form a person?”
"Eyes that see the world, ears that hear sounds, mouths that can communicate, and bodies that contain souls..."
"People still need to have memories, layers upon layers of the past."
"What is light?"
"Warmth, yes, people have warmth."
"They say people should still have love. What is love?"
"It seems that something very important is missing. Think about it carefully, what else does he have that I don't have?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Lines of text cut the villain's body into nine parts, each with a different color.
"Is this painting a curse?" Chen Ge was a little confused.
"It's not so much a curse as it is the owner of the house talking in his sleep. This is probably what he thought about the most when he was casting the curse." Men Nan added after a moment: "This curse gives us a very special feeling.
It’s like there’s a growing seedling hidden in the thick smell of death.”
"Nine parts correspond to nine children. The person who left this curse is probably the underworld fetus. He also lived in the old city?"
There were no other clues in the house, so Chen Ge called back the red clothes and walked out of the rental house.
"It would be bad if someone accidentally gets in." Chen Ge locked the house and planned to "clean up" the hut when he had time later.
"It seems that someone in this room was ready to come out just now. Since he hasn't slept yet, I just want to ask him something." Chen Ge walked to the other side of the second floor. This small room is different from the house. It has a security door on the outside and a layer of wood on the inside.
Door, it seems that the tenant living in the house is not an ordinary tenant.
"anyone there?"
Chen Ge knocked on the door lightly, and a moment later a middle-aged man's very irritable voice came from the room: "Stop knocking!"
The wooden door inside the rental house was opened, and a slovenly middle-aged man stinking of sweat stood at the door: "Did you make so much noise outside just now? Are you a new mover? What time is it and you still don't go to bed?
If you do this again, I’ll call the police!"
"There's no need to trouble the police for such a small matter. I want to ask you a few questions." Chen Ge smiled politely: "It's not in vain. If you answer it well, I'll give you one hundred yuan per question.
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"Are you sleepwalking? You came to my door at two or three in the morning to ask questions?" The middle-aged man seemed to realize something and looked around: "Are you recording a prank show?"
"First question, who is the landlord of this building?"
"I'm the landlord, what's wrong? Are you here to rent a house? Leave quickly, I won't rent to someone like you." The middle-aged man himself was very slovenly, and he looked at Chen Ge with disgust.
"Second question, has room 205 at the end of the corridor been rented out recently?" Chen Ge said lazily. If not for the magnanimity of others, he would have closed the door long ago and released red clothes.
"Room 205 was rented out five or six years ago. The tenant pays me money every year. He doesn't live here very often. He just asked me to keep the house for him." The middle-aged man scratched his finger.
Hair together.
"You didn't rent it to anyone else in the meantime?"
"No, they always pay me half a year in advance, and they give me more every time."
"What does that tenant look like? Do you know what his occupation is?" Chen Ge had a feeling in his heart that this tenant was a ghost fetus.
"Why should I tell you? Do you think tenant information can be leaked casually?" The middle-aged man curled his lips.
"Tell me that person's appearance, characteristics and occupation, and I will give you another five hundred."
"He was a student. He moved here for the first time five years ago. He seemed to have had a quarrel with his family and ran away from home. He seemed to have just entered junior high school at that time and didn't have much money on him." The middle-aged man exposed 205 in detail.
Tenant's information: "He looks very average, has long hair, is not in good health, coughs frequently, and likes to talk in his sleep."
"Is that all? What you said is too general. Children like this are everywhere on the street. How can I find them?" Chen Ge himself didn't hold out much hope.
"You want to find him?" The middle-aged man stared at Chen Ge up and down for a while, then stretched out a finger: "Give me one thousand, and I will tell you a way to find him."
"no problem."
"After he ran away from home for a while, his mother came to me to look for him. He was not in the rental house at the time. His mother told me that if he came back, she would ask him to go to Dongjiao Huai'ai Hospital to find her. His mother seemed to be
Head nurse of Huai'ai Hospital." The middle-aged man is no longer so sleepy. Although it is almost three o'clock in the morning, his eyes are shining when he thinks that he can earn a small two thousand by answering a few questions.
"This information is very important, provided you didn't lie to me." Chen Ge unzipped his backpack.
"How could I lie to you? Get the money quickly. Let me do the math. It's already two thousand yuan!" The middle-aged man saw Chen Ge open his backpack. His greedy eyes unconsciously glanced into the backpack and found that it was full of money.
A living human spine was inserted diagonally in the backpack.
"?"
After rubbing his eyes, the middle-aged man looked into the backpack again. In addition to the living spine, there was also a pair of bloody women's high heels in the backpack!
Madman? Pervert? Murderer? Fetishist?
Cold sweat flowed down the middle-aged man's face, and he took a small step back.
"My phone is out of battery. Open the door and I'll give you cash." Chen Ge pressed his body against the iron door outside, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised: "Just open a small crack."
"No, it's not necessary. It's just a few questions. How much does it cost?" The middle-aged man took a step back again: "I have answered all the questions that need to be answered. I don't know the rest. That boy hasn't been there for a long time.
Now that he's back, I guess he won't come back here again, so you'd better go find him somewhere else."
"Okay." Chen Ge nodded, and with a responsible attitude, he asked the landlord again: "Do you really not want the money?"
"No, no, really no!" The middle-aged man waved his hands repeatedly, and then closed the wooden door inside.
"It seems that there are still many good people in the world." Chen Ge walked downstairs with his backpack: "I have never heard of Huai'ai Hospital. It should be a private hospital. I will go and take a look tomorrow."
After stretching, Chen Ge ran out of the old city without looking back.
"When daybreak comes, there are only five nights left."
When Chen Ge returned to the employee lounge of his haunted house, it was almost dawn. He was lying on the bed and had just charged his phone when he saw the message from Li Zheng.
"Urgent! Return as soon as you see the message!"
"Chen Ge, please reply as soon as you see the message!"
There were many similar messages. Chen Ge knew that the matter was urgent and immediately called Li Zheng.
The call only rang once before it was answered. Li Zheng's voice came from the phone: "Chen Ge, are you okay?"
"How could something happen to me?" Chen Ge was confused.
"Yesterday we locked the location of Jia Ming and his group and arrested them late at night. The little boy's father Zhen Nao was killed by the suspect Beiye. The little boy's mother Yu Wangqing was seriously injured and is being rescued. The suspect Beiye was shot dead, but Jia Ming and the little boy
But they were not at the scene, we blocked all the roads and did not see them."
"How could Jia Ming escape with a child?"
"Jia Ming used Kitano and the children's parents as bait from the very beginning. He deliberately exposed himself, and then took the opportunity to move around, using the lives of his companions to buy time for himself. This guy is so vicious that he doesn't even look like a human being."
"He is indeed not a human being, but Captain Li, why are you suddenly telling me this?" Li Zheng usually would not tell Chen Ge these internal information. Since he chose to tell Chen Ge, it means that what happened later may be related to Chen Ge.
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"Jia Ming and the others didn't leave Hanjiang because they were looking for something. We don't know what he was looking for at the moment, but we found a lot of information about you where he was hiding. Their next target is probably you.
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"Looking for me? That's really... terrible." Chen Ge almost said the four words he wished for.