No one in the rental house noticed that Chen Ge's shadow began to slowly change shape after absorbing the blood stains on the clay sculpture, like a sleeping woman gently turning over in a dream.
"You guys rest early, see you tomorrow." Chen Ge glanced at the watch on the wall, it was two o'clock in the morning.
He came out of the rental house, and instead of returning to New Century Paradise, he took a taxi to the old town.
The dim light of the street lamps shone through the car window, Chen Ge stared at the quiet city and tightened his collar.
There is a big difference between the old city in the middle of the night and the daytime. You can't see any lights or hear any sounds. With the continuous development of Hanjiang, fewer and fewer people live here, and most of them have moved to the new area.
Walking through the dark street, it took only ten minutes for Chen Ge to find the place Wu Jinpeng had previously rented.
The rental house was two streets away from Fan Yu's house. The environment here was even worse, and the stench in the air was stronger.
"How do they keep living here? Am I the only one who can smell this stench?" Chen Ge remembered that when he came to 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 whether What's going on, they don't seem to smell the strange smell in the air at all.
Walking out of the alley, Chen Ge held the rusty railing to the second floor of an old house. He looked into the distance, and it was not the most remote and dilapidated place in the old town.
"204... Found it, this is the room." Chen Ge stopped, and in front of him was a red-painted wooden door with a rusty iron chain tied to the door handle: "After Wu Jinpeng moved out, this room will Haven't you rented it out?"
Opening the comic book, Chen Ge called Men Nan out: "Brother Nan, help, go into this room and take a look, and be careful not to go to the room next to you."
The innermost room 205 on the second floor is the room where Wu Kun once said there was a ghost. The tenant of that room also gave Wu Jinpeng a shrine and a clay sculpture. To be on the safe side, Chen Ge only let Men Nan enter room 204 first. Call out a few more people in red to enter room 205 together.
The blood dripped down the crack of the door, and Men Nan disappeared in less than a minute before reappearing: "Everything is normal in the room, and I can't see any problems, but I always feel a little uncomfortable staying inside."
"Bring Xu Yin and these red high-heeled shoes, and then go to the next room 205 to have a look."
The three red clothes entered room 205. After a few seconds, there was an abnormal sound in the room, as if a knife had pierced a balloon filled with water, and then Chen Ge heard the sound of dislocation and tearing of bones.
"what happened?"
Blood streaks spread on the door panel, and the thick bloody smell drifted uncontrollably around. Chen Ge knew what Men Nan and the others had encountered, and decisively flipped through the comic book to release Xiao Bu and the red raincoat.
This place is like hell on earth, but the lights on the other side of the corridor five or six meters away are turned on, and a man can still hear dissatisfied scolding and footsteps.
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!"
Dodging into the room, Chen Ge instinctively covered his mouth and nose, the room was filled with a strong stench.
Closing the door gently, Chen Ge used his Yin pupils to look at the rental house.
The hut is not big, only more than 30 square meters. The walls are covered with yellowed newspapers, and there is dust everywhere. This place has not lived for a long time.
"What were you fighting with 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 walls of the rental house were all covered with shredded hair and small, small pieces of black blood, looking very scary. .
"Are these curses?"
"Well, the broken hair and bloodstains come from different people. When we came in just now, we saw those cursed black threads intertwined and spread all over the room. As long as anyone enters accidentally, they will be attacked and cursed unknowingly." Nan motioned 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." Only Chen Ge's knee-high Men Nan held the red high-heeled shoes and said solemnly: "According to this sister, the curse in the rental house is just another negative emotion that escaped when the curse was completed."
"In other words, someone has completed a very terrifying curse in this rental house?"
"It's understandable. After all, the negative emotions that escaped are only a very small part." Men Nan nodded, he himself is the kind of strict and rigid character.
"A tiny fraction of negative emotions can make a room look like this. How vicious is that curse itself? How terrifying?"
"I can't imagine, at least this sister has never seen such a terrible curse." Men Nan raised the red high-heeled shoes: "Can you help me? To be reasonable, I am definitely not afraid of her, I just feel holding her shoes. not very convenient."
"Can you tell what the curse is related to based on what's 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 information on the wall. This curse consists of nine parts." Men Nan tore off all the newspapers on the innermost wall of the rental house.
On the wall covered with broken hair and blood stains, there was a small figure, and many characters were written slantingly on that person's body.
"What is a man?"
"How to make a person?"
"The eyes that see the world, the ears that hear the voice, the mouth that communicates, the body that holds the soul..."
"People also need to have memories, layer upon layer of the past."
"What is light?"
"Warm, yes, people have temperature."
"They say people should have love. What is love?"
"It seems to be missing something very important. Think about it, what else does he have that I don't have?"
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 puzzled.
"It's not so much a curse, it's more a dream of the house owner. That's what he thinks about most when he curses." Men Nan added after a while: "This curse gives us a very special feeling. It's as if a growing seedling is hidden in the strong breath of death."
"Nine parts, corresponding to nine children, it is very likely that the one who left this curse is the unborn child. He also lived in the old city?"
There were no other clues in the house, Chen Ge called back the red-clothed people and walked out of the rental house.
"It would be a bad thing if someone accidentally went in." Chen Ge locked the house, and he planned to "clean up" the house when he had time in the future.
"It seemed like someone in this room was preparing to come out just now. Since he hasn't slept yet, I just happened to ask him something." Chen Ge walked to the other side of the second floor. This hut is different from the house. There is a security door outside and a wood inside. Door, the house seems to live in unusual tenants.
"anyone there?"
Chen Ge knocked on the door lightly, and after a while, a very irritable voice of a middle-aged man came from the room: "Don't knock!"
The wooden door in the rental house was opened, and a sloppy middle-aged man with a stench of sweat stood at the door: "Did you make such a big noise outside just now? You're new here? What time is it before you go to bed? If you do this again, be careful and I'll call the police!"
"There's no need to trouble the police with this trivial matter, I want to ask you a few questions." Chen Ge smiled politely: "It's not a question for nothing, if you answer well, I'll give you one hundred yuan for a question. "
"Are you sleepwalking? You ran 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 spoof show?"
"First question, who is the landlord of this building?"
"I'm the landlord, what's the matter? Are you here to rent a house? Hurry up, I won't rent a person like you." The middle-aged man was very sloppy himself, and looked at Chen Ge with disgust in his eyes.
"Second question, has room 205 in the innermost hallway been rented out recently?" Chen Ge's lazy nonsense, if it weren't for others being more generous, this would have been closed long ago and put on red clothes.
"Room 205 was rented out five or six years ago. The tenant pays me money every year, and he doesn't live here often, so I keep the house for him." The middle-aged man scratched and stuck hair together.
"You didn't rent it to anyone else?"
"No, people always pay me half a year in advance, and they pay more every time."
"What does that tenant look like? Do you know what occupation he does?" Chen Ge had a feeling in his heart that this tenant was a ghost child.
"Why should I tell you? Do you think tenant information can be leaked casually?" The middle-aged man pouted.
"Tell me the characteristics and occupation of that person, and I'll give you another five hundred."
"He was a student. He moved in for the first time five years ago. He seemed to have quarreled with his family and ran away from home. At that time, he seemed to have just entered junior high school, and he didn't have much money on him." The middle-aged man exposed 205 in detail. Tenant's information: "He looks average, has long hair, is not in good health, often coughs, and likes to talk in his sleep."
"Is that all? What you said is too general, such children are everywhere on the street, how can I find them?" Chen Ge himself didn't have much hope.
"You want to find him?" The middle-aged man stared at Chen Ge for a while, then stretched out a finger: "Give me a thousand, and I'll tell you a way to find him."
"no problem."
"After he ran away from home for a while, his mother came to me to find him. He was not in the rental house at the time, and his mother told me that if he came back, he would go to Huaai'ai Hospital in the eastern suburbs to find her. His mother seemed to be The head nurse of Huai'ai Hospital." The middle-aged man is no longer so sleepy, although it is almost three in the morning, but when he thinks that answering a few questions can earn two thousand dollars, his eyes are flooded.
"This information is very important, as long as you didn't lie to me." Chen Ge unzipped his backpack.
"How could I lie to you? Hurry up and take the money, I'll do the math, it's all 2,000 yuan!" The middle-aged man saw Chen Ge open his backpack, and his greedy eyes glanced at the backpack unconsciously, and found a bulging person. A living man's spine was inserted diagonally into the backpack.
"?"
Rubbing his eyes, the middle-aged man looked into the backpack again. In addition to the spine of the living person, there was also a pair of bloody women's high heels in the backpack!
madman? abnormal? murderer? Fetish
Cold sweat dripped down the middle-aged man's face, and he took a small step back.
"My phone is out of power, you 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 rose: "Just open a slit."
"No, it's not necessary, just a few questions, how much money do you want?" The middle-aged man took a step back: "I've answered everything that should be answered, and I don't know about the rest. That kid hasn't been for a long time. He's back, I guess he won't come back here in the future, so it's better for you to find him elsewhere."
"Okay." Chen Ge nodded, and in a responsible attitude, he asked the landlord again: "Do you really want money?"
"No, no, really no!" The middle-aged man waved his hands again and again, 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've never heard of Huai'ai Hospital. It should be a private hospital. I'll just go to see it tomorrow."
After stretching, Chen Ge ran out of the old town without looking back.
"When it's dawn, there are only five nights left."
When Chen Ge returned to the staff lounge of his haunted house, it was almost dawn. He was lying in bed and just charging his phone when he saw the message from Li Zheng.
"Urgent! Hurry back when you see the information!"
"Chen Ge, hurry back when you see the information!"
There are many other similar messages. Chen Ge knew that the matter was urgent and immediately called Li Zheng.
After only one ring, the phone was connected, and Li Zheng's voice came from the phone: "Chen Ge, are you alright?"
"How can something happen to me?" Chen Ge was at a loss.
"Yesterday we locked the location of Jia Ming's group and arrested them late at night. The boy's father, Zhen Nao, was killed by the suspect Beiye. The boy's mother, Yu Wangqing, was seriously injured and was being rescued. The suspect Beiye was killed, but Jia Ming and the little boy They weren't there, we blocked all roads and didn't see them."
"How can you escape with a child, Jia Ming?"
"Jia Ming used Kitano and the children's parents as bait from the beginning. He deliberately exposed, and then took the opportunity to move, using the lives of his companions to buy himself time. This guy is vicious and not like a person."
"He really can't be regarded as a human being, but why did you suddenly tell me this, Team Li?" Li Zheng would generally not tell Chen Ge these inside information. Since he chose to tell Chen Ge, it means that what happened later may be related to Chen Ge. .
"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 in his hiding place. Their next target is probably you. !"
"Looking for me? That's really... It's terrible." Chen Ge almost said the words "unrequited".