Chapter 0124 – Red Clothes That Might Exist
More than an hour later, the middle-aged man helped the 302 young man back to Haiming Apartment.
The young man’s head was wrapped in gauze, and his eyes were still a bit confused.
”You’re finally back.” Chen Ge walked out of the 304 living room with a tool hammer in his hand, “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you, I just want to ask you a few questions.”
The young man’s gaze averted, and he helplessly opened the door to his room, “Both of you come in.”
A strong stench wafted through 302, even the unkempt middle-aged man covered his mouth and nose: “How long has it been since you cleaned this house? Is there something that puts out the stench?”
Chen Ge also felt strange, the house looked very neat, and this young man was dressed cleanly, not like the kind of person who was particularly sloppy.
”What happened to me in these two months is like a dream.” The young man covered his head and walked to the side of the bed, taking out a few black plastic bags from underneath, inside were the corpses of some small animals, “Really, it’s a nightmare with no way to wake up.”
Chen Ge glanced towards the bags and refocused his gaze on the young man, “Now that the nightmare is over, you can feel free to tell everything.”
The young man threw the bag to the side with a few apologies on his face, “When I first moved into this room three months ago, the landlord told me that I could check out if I wasn’t used to living here or if I encountered anything strange. As a result, the first night I moved in, I had nightmares about how the window couldn’t be closed, and in the dream when I went to close the window, I realized there was a man standing in the room next to me.”
”At first I didn’t care, then after having this dream for a few days in a row, one day I suddenly realized that the man who was supposed to be standing in the room next to me had run into my house.”
”I tried to fight back in the dream but couldn’t do anything, but the man didn’t hurt me. He just told me that he wanted me to do him a favor.”
”After I woke up from the dream, I was in a trance for the rest of the day and finally decided to hide out at a friend’s house for the night. But who knew that the man seemed to haunt me, and not only did I dream about him again, but this time he showed up right next to my bed.”
”The man told me I couldn’t get away with it, that if I helped him he would never pester me again. I believed him and did as he asked, tying up some small living animals and throwing them into room 303.”
”The animals were still alive when they were first thrown in, but after a night, when I went back the next day, the animals were all dead.”
”There were no wounds to be found on the body, and I don’t know how those animals died.” The more the young man spoke, the more scared he became, “I wanted to get rid of the man in my dream, but who knew that his appetite was getting bigger and bigger, at first he only wanted a sparrow or a mouse at a time, and after only a week he started to ask me to catch stray dogs for him, and finally he even asked me to lure living people into room 303 after twelve o’clock in the middle of the night.”
”When I couldn’t do it, he pushed me, threatened to kill me in my sleep, and I almost broke down.” The young man’s eyes were red as he lowered his head, “I told my friends about it that day, and a few of us braved entering room 303 at night, but strangely nothing happened that night, and further down the line people didn’t believe me anymore and thought I was mentally ill.”
”I was at the end of my rope too, that man was insatiable, day and night I could always feel him standing over me.” The more he spoke the more pain he felt, his hands grasping the gauze on top of his head, “All I could think of at the time was that I could get rid of him, even if I did manage to trick someone into entering the 303 it would be good, but unfortunately it was too difficult.”
After a long time he adjusted his state and continued, “After spending a few days like this, I inadvertently saw an advertisement seeking to share a room in the school’s posting bar, and then you all know what happened later. Men Nan didn’t want to live in the dormitory because of his own quirks, and his monthly living expenses weren’t much, so I recommended Haiming Apartment to him.”
”So Men Nan would live in room 304 because of you?” Chen Ge didn’t expect any surprises.
”I gave him a reminder at the time, but he didn’t care about it as much as I did at first.” After saying all the words in his heart, he also felt better.
”All of this is in the past, whether or not to pursue it specifically, wait for Men Nan to wake up.” Chen Ge took out the rusty key from his pocket, “The following I ask you these questions, you have to answer honestly, know is know, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t know.”
”You ask.”
”Did you ever see the man’s proper face in your dream?”
”Saw it once.” The young man hesitated for half a second before speaking, “He had two faces, like two people put together, and the two of them would talk and argue.”
”Did they ever talk about anything other than asking you to do various things?” This was an excellent opportunity to learn about another world, so Chen Ge naturally didn’t want to miss it.
”The most they did was curse each other, and one time one of the faces was particularly angry, saying that if he wasn’t afraid of being discovered by Redcoat, he would rather die than coexist with a piece of trash.”
”Red Clothes?” Chen Ge heard a somewhat familiar term from the young man’s words.
He took out his black phone and tapped on the favorability page, and after the tiny name, it said Knight Ghost, while Zhang Ya’s name was specifically labeled Red Clothes Knight Ghost.
Don’t look at it as just two more words, Zhang Ya had her own exclusive page in the black cell phone.
Chen Ge was in the middle of contemplation, the monster that Wang Haiming had brought out from the third sick building knew about the existence of red clothes, which meant that there was probably a red-clothed stern ghost in the third sick building!
”A stern ghost on the same level as Zhang Ya.”
Chen Ge felt a headache just thinking about it, the first Mirror Ghost he encountered was played alive by Zhang Ya, thus showing that ordinary ghost remnants were powerless in the face of the red clothes.
He sighed lightly and signaled the young man to continue on.
”In addition to the red clothes, I also summarized a few of their weaknesses, and had thought to use them again when the fish died in the end.” The young man sat on the edge of the bed, and didn’t mind the stench from the black bag next to him, “Those monsters rarely appear before twelve o’clock in the middle of the night, they are afraid of bright lights, they don’t like noisy environments, and most importantly, they seem to be afraid of cats.”
”Afraid of cats?” Chen Ge came to be interested.
”Yes, the man in the dream had me prepare many living things, only no stray cats, so I think it’s possible that they are afraid of cats.” What the young man said was not unreasonable, but this was after all just speculation and no one had verified it.
If it was possible, Chen Ge didn’t want to be the first one to verify it, “Should I go back to my own haunted house and try it?”
The young man saw that Chen Ge didn’t open his mouth for half a day, and he didn’t dare to speak, but it was the middle-aged man who had an uncertain look on his face, listening to the two men’s conversation with his eyes wide open.