Chapter 0073 – Red and Black
The dilapidated alleys were crisscrossed, Chen Ge was afraid of losing them and increased his speed quickly.
After rounding a few corners, a row of small, low-rise two-story buildings appeared in front of them, where the black and thin woman and the boy disappeared.
The sewage ditch emitted a foul odor, the walls were written with big red letters of demolition, and the corners were piled with all kinds of garbage.
Chen Ge walked to the bottom of the small building, doubts appearing one after another in his mind.
The black and thin woman and the little boy lived in such a poor environment, their living conditions were definitely not too good. However, at the entrance of the haunted house, the woman took out a hundred very decisively in order to be able to let the little boy enter the haunted house to visit, and it could be seen that she was exceptionally doting on the little boy, but the boy’s attitude towards her was very cold. The boy only said two words after arriving at the haunted house, and these two words were still all for Chen Ge, who seemed to resent the dark and thin woman.
”Is it a personality disorder that can’t accept other people’s love, or is there something else going on?”
Going up the stairs, only one family lived on the second floor, clothes and pants were drying on the railing, and the aisle was cleaned, it was much cleaner compared to downstairs.
”Anyone?” The door to the room was not closed, Chen Ge did not dare to venture in and knocked on the door panel.
”Wait a moment.”
Footsteps sounded inside the room, and soon the black thin woman walked out from the inner room, she obviously paused for a moment when she saw Chen Ge at the door.
”Why are you here? Was it our visit into the haunted house that brought you trouble?” The dark and thin woman cautiously inquired.
”No, I’m just more interested in the little guy’s situation and want to ask him something.” Chen Ge stopped at the door, he realized that the woman didn’t have any intention of inviting him into the house, so he had to shamelessly continue to speak, “Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of friends in the Jiujiang Medical College, so I might be able to help you.”
”Thank you, no need.”
The woman refused directly without considering, Chen Ge also felt that his behavior was a bit abrupt: “I’m really not a bad person, and I don’t have any malicious intentions, you can look at your phone and find today’s Jiujiang morning news.”
Seeing that the woman was indifferent, Chen Ge took out his own cell phone and casually found a news story about him helping the police solve the Ping An Apartment case.
”Look, I had provided key clues for the police to solve the case and was even awarded a medal.”
Chen Ge handed the phone to the dark and thin woman, and the other party took it and scanned it, “Spirit-detecting anchor in danger deep in the mountains rescued by the police? Haunted house owner’s midnight death risked a major disaster?”
”These headlines don’t matter, there should be a picture of me inside.”
Chen Ge explained again and again before the dark and thin woman gathered her suspicions and returned the phone to him, “Come sit in the living room, and leave the door open.”
”Okay.”
The black thin woman led Chen Ge to the living room, said living room, but it was actually a relatively large room of thirty square meters, crowded with a dining table and beds.
”I didn’t expect anyone to come, so I haven’t been tidying up, I’ve made you laugh, would you like something to drink?” The dark and thin woman was a bit embarrassed, her look was quite similar to the little boy’s.
”No need, I just want to ask about the child’s parents, the more detailed the better.” Chen Ge took out his cell phone, ready to record anything useful.
”It’s been so long, why are you asking about this?” The black and thin woman sat across from Chen Ge and told him what happened in Mureyang Middle School three years ago again.
Three years ago in the summer, Mureyang Middle School had not yet been closed, that day there was a heavy rainstorm, the little boy’s parents returned home and realized that the boy had disappeared, so they went out to look for him in the pouring rain, but who knew that this trip would be goodbye forever.
The woman repeated what she had told the police three years ago to Chen Ge.
”It seems that the root cause of the boy’s parents’ disappearance is still in the little boy himself?” Chen Ge memorized the key points the dark and thin woman said in his cell phone as he tried to restore what happened.
Heavy rain poured down, Fan Yu’s parents came home from work and found their child missing, then went out in the rain to look for him, the first scene of their murder was unclear for the moment, but the place where they hid the body was most likely in the well of Mureyang Middle School. And the whole process, it is highly likely to be seen by the little boy, he is the only witness.
It was probably because of seeing those scenes that caused the little boy to become less normal.
Chen Ge’s eyes looked at the desktop, he suddenly felt that something wasn’t quite right, he took out his black cell phone from his pocket, and found a few side quests of the Psychic Ghost School, in which the description of the side quest Six Deep Wells was – The younger sister and the younger brother didn’t go home after school, where did they go?
It was impossible for the black cell phone’s quest system to get it wrong, so what was the meaning of this brother and sister? According to the information available now, the ones who were stuffed into the well should be the little boy’s parents, where did it go wrong?
Chen Ge put his cell phone away and looked at the black and thin woman with reddened eyes, and asked with less certainty, “Is Fan Yu an only child? Does he have any younger brothers and sisters?”
Just after she asked, the black and thin woman changed her face, her fingers gripped hard into her flesh, and she couldn’t stop her tears from flowing down, “If my two children didn’t have any accidents, then Xiao Yu should have a younger brother and sister by now.”
”Your children?” Chen Ge had looked at the clothes drying on the balcony before entering the room, there were only boys’ and women’s, and no adult men’s, so he had assumed that the woman was not married.
”Died young at a very young age.” The dark, thin woman lost some of her emotions as she said she was sorry and dug into the kitchen.
”Fan Yu did have a younger brother and sister, but according to the woman’s description, his brother and sister should have been long gone, but why would the black cell phone say that his brother and sister didn’t come home after school? How do people who aren’t there go to school? Was the black cell phone mistaken, or was the woman lying? Or maybe Fan Yu is hallucinating?”
The woman was rummaging for something in the kitchen and didn’t come out. Chen Ge got up and walked towards the only single room in the house, Fan Yu should be there, the little guy was the center of the whole thing.
Pushing open the door to the room, the bedroom was cleaned up, Fan Yu was standing in front of the desk, seemingly writing something.
Chen Ge walked behind the kid and took a look, realizing that the kid was drawing, and he seemed to particularly like red and black.
”Little Yu, what are you drawing here?” Chen Ge’s voice was soft for fear of scaring the child.
The boy twisted his head to look at Chen Ge, didn’t answer, and continued to draw again.
As he continued to scribble, the pattern on the paper slowly became clear.
Inside the pure black house stood a few red villains.
After finishing the drawing, the boy crumpled the white paper into a ball and threw it on the ground, and began to draw something else.
Chen Ge looked at it for half a day, and he realized that there were just two core elements to the boy’s drawing – the black house and the red villain.
”What’s the moral?” Chen Ge picked up the painting from the ground, laid it flat and folded it, and after examining it for a moment, he secretly stuffed it into his pants pocket.