Chapter 0494 – I’m the Child You Killed
Sitting in the cab, Chen Ge talked to Xiao Gu on the phone twice more, and only after he was sure that the red raincoat hadn’t come back again did he breathe a sigh of relief.
”Tonight’s priority is to bring Xiao Gu back safely, and take care of the matter in the eastern suburbs slowly later.”
Chen Ge had his own concerns, the cab driver and Xiao Gu were both ordinary people, Chen Ge did not want to implicate them.
The rain hit the windows of the car, blurring the line of sight, the clouds outside the window were so dense that it felt like the entire night sky was falling downwards.
”The weather forecast was never accurate, it said it was a light rain, how long has it been raining?” The driver was a young man, looking about the same age as Chen Ge, he stared intently at the road in front of him, because of the weather, he didn’t dare to have the slightest distraction.
”When we arrive at the place in a while, I’ll pick up someone and then also take your car back. Don’t worry, I won’t let you run an empty car.” Chen Ge retracted his gaze.
”I’m not worried about the fare.” The driver didn’t turn around, “Do you have the feeling that this rain is falling wickedly today? The more you run towards the eastern suburbs, the heavier the rain gets, the roads are flooded, and I can’t even see the street teeth now.”
”What’s so evil about it? Are you too sensitive?” Chen Ge laughed softly.
”It’s better to believe it than not, there are some things that can’t be said.” The driver pointed to the Buddha beads hanging below the rearview mirror, “I used to drive passengers from the eastern suburbs, people over there are very superstitious and have a lot of rules. Like what there is a newborn baby at home, the man has to come home and stomp at the door before he can enter the house; dreaming of something bad, when you wake up, you have to turn the pillow over; when you get a phone call after twelve o’clock at night, don’t open your mouth first; at the scene of a car accident, when you see a strange car passing by, don’t go near it, and so on. At first I didn’t believe in these things, and then I was hard scared by them.”
The lights on both sides of the road were getting dimmer and dimmer, the driver looked at the windshield wipers swinging from side to side, a little nervous: “There’s also a most frightening legend on their side, when you walk at night when it’s raining heavily, it’s very easy to get lost, it looks like you’re walking in the direction of your home, but in reality it’s getting farther and farther away, and you will end up in a completely unfamiliar place.”
”There’s still this?” Chen Ge came to his senses, a lot of urban strange stories were actually created for certain reasons, most of them were related to reality, not entirely made up by people.
”Although there hasn’t been any major vicious cases in the eastern suburb, four-fifths of the annual disappearances in the whole of Jiujiang happen in the eastern suburb, it’s as if this place can eat people.”
The driver said something very evil, Chen Ge also memorized the driver’s words in his heart after hearing it, “Drive well, if we really meet something strange, we will directly call the police.”
”Call the police?” The driver is a little uncomfortable with Chen Ge’s jumpy thinking, “It’s okay, I’m just kindly giving you a wake up call, it’s best not to run to the eastern suburb in the middle of the night by yourself in the future, it’s a rather deserted place ……”
Halfway through his speech, the driver suddenly closed his mouth, he squinted his eyes at the front, and suddenly hit the steering wheel sharply!
The cab changed direction violently, Chen Ge’s body hit the door, he did not say a word, his hand reached into his backpack and decisively pressed the repeater switch.
The speed of the car slowed down, and the driver gasped for air; his forehead was drenched in sweat.
”What’s going on?”
”I think there was a man standing in the middle of the road just now.”
”You’re looking at it wrong, aren’t you? It’s raining heavily and the surroundings are dark like this, who would stand in the middle of the road?” Chen Ge fumbled with his hands in his backpack as if he had grabbed something.
”It can’t be.” The driver wiped the sweat from his forehead and glanced to the side, the window was pitch black.
”Then describe to me what that person looks like? Was she wearing a red raincoat?”
”No raincoat, just a cloud of shadows, so maybe I’m really mistaken.” The driver rubbed his head and removed the Buddha beads hanging from the rearview mirror and put them on his wrist, then continued driving forward again.
”Don’t drive too fast, there are more rivers on this side of the eastern suburb, safety first.” Chen Ge wasn’t afraid of the Lich Ghosts, what he was worried about was the Lich Ghosts laying their hands on the driver, if the driver had an accident while the vehicle was traveling at a high speed, he would have to follow and get killed as well.
Rustling electric current sounded inside the cab, and the raindrops outside the window seemed to intentionally avoid the cab.
The two of them arrived at the Eastern Suburbs Waterworks without any danger, Chen Ge let the driver wait at the gate, put on his own raincoat and hat, opened the car door, and walked into the middle of the rain.
As soon as he got out of the car, Chen Ge inexplicably felt depressed, and everything he looked at created a strange feeling.
It was familiar, as if this scene had been experienced before, or had been dreamed of in a dream.
Being in the middle of a rainstorm, the sound of raindrops falling in his ears was slowly stripped away, Chen Ge gently frowned as he took out his cell phone and dialed Xiao Gu’s number.
The ringing tone came into his ears, but no one answered, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, but Chen Ge couldn’t hear the sound of the rain falling to the ground, the only thing left in his ears was the busy tone from his cell phone.
He seemed to be isolated from the world, darkness came from all directions, and only the dilapidated door of the water plant was left in his sight.
Blown by the wind, the iron door shook, from which came the sound of children’s laughter and crying, a lot, very mixed.
A small footprint began to appear on the puddle, something rushed out from the waterworks, they ran, jumped, and surrounded Chen Ge in the center.
The body stiffened, and a buried memory slowly surfaced.
When he was very young, Chen Ge’s parents had instructed him not to travel to the eastern suburbs, but there was a school excursion where the chosen location happened to be in the eastern suburbs.
While swimming next to a certain reservoir, he heard someone call out his name, and later on, accompanied by his teacher, he walked through the woods, and at the end of the road, he saw a blood-red house, which was surrounded by a lot of children playing and frolicking, who were either crying or laughing, and the scene was the same then as it was now.
”It seems that the vast majority of anomalies in the eastern suburbs are related to that red house, could Liwan Town’s runaway door also be related to the red house?”
The footprints slowly approached, Chen Ge’s pupils narrowed, but even though he had Yin pupils he still couldn’t see those things clearly.
”These little ghosts seem to have completely merged with their surroundings.”
The cries and laughter of children came from far and near, coming up to his side, hugging his legs, and then slowly crawling up his body.
Chen Ge gripped the skull crushing hammer tightly, and as he was about to call Xu Yin out, the cold feeling on his body disappeared again.
Those children cried out and fled from him, and at the same time, a somewhat familiar voice came from the distance.
”Chen Ge ……”
Looking up, Chen Ge realized that there was a silhouette standing inside the waterworks, about the same height and size as himself.
”Who are you?”
”Me?” The figure raised his hands and slowly stabbed into his chest, yanking out another child from among his body.
The child’s face was blurred, resembling Chen Ge when he was a child by three or four degrees, and his neck was crooked as if it had been pinched off by someone with force.
”I am the child that you killed ah ……”
”Killed by me?” Chen Ge dragged the skull crushing hammer and pondered for half a day, “But why don’t I have any impression at all? Why don’t you come over a little more, so I can take a closer look at your face?”