Chapter 0534 – The Appointment
”He was terrified and hurriedly turned the car around and drove it back, but it felt like that road was getting longer and longer, and it seemed like he would never be able to go back.”
”Finally, when he was on the verge of despair, his cell phone suddenly rang, and his grandmother, worried about his safety, asked him why he hadn’t come home yet.”
”He then told him what he had encountered as it was, and the strange thing was that just as he was talking to his grandmother on the phone, the car had unconsciously driven out of the eastern suburbs.”
”It was only after he hung up that he suddenly realized that his grandmother had died of illness in his hometown last year, and at that time he was unable to get away from an important project, so he didn’t go back.”
”It was his sick grandmother who saved his life?” Chen Ge was certain when he heard the bus and the buildings on both sides of the highway appearing to change that this patient probably wasn’t crazy, and he should be telling the truth.
”Rather than his grandmother saving his life, it’s the goodness in his subconscious mind that saved him, analyzing from a psychological point of view, he’s been feeling guilty in his heart because he didn’t go to see his grandmother for the last time, and this guilt has kept him sane when his mind was abnormal.” Dr. Pei inserted his hands into the pockets of his white coat, “I’m only using him as an example because he’s lucky, there are still a lot of unfortunate patients locked up in this hospital, I’m only saying this because I want to tell you that there are a lot of strange things going on over there in the Eastern Suburbs, so be more careful when you go to investigate. I know it’s not very appropriate for me as a doctor to say this, but I still hope you can pay attention.”
”Dr. Pei, you still have a lot of patients here similar to that driver just now?” The more Chen Ge heard, the more he felt that he had come to the right place, “Can you tell me about their experiences?”
”Listening to their stories too much will cause a shock to one’s ideology. In addition, this belongs to the patient’s privacy, even if you’re a police officer I can’t just divulge it.” Dr. Pei rebuffed Chen Ge’s request.
”It’s fine, thank you anyway.” Chen Ge felt that this Dr. Pei was a good person, at least among the psychiatrists he had met, he was considered good.
Leaving the mental hospital, Chen Ge took a taxi back to New Century Paradise and looked at the time to realize that it was just after nine o’clock.
”This time happens to be the departure time of the last bus on route 104, why don’t we go out and try our luck today?” When Chen Ge came back last night, he had charged Fan Cong’s battery car in passing, and he was worried that when Fan Cong came to pick up the car, it didn’t have electricity and was inconvenient to go back.
Only Fan Cong probably had something temporary and didn’t come over during the day.
”Let’s go squatting along the route of bus 104 tonight, no matter if we encounter a red raincoat or the last bus, if it’s too late to get to the eastern suburb, then it’s better to sleep at Fan Cong’s house.” Chen Ge went over the things he needed to do at hand in his mind, “It’s getting closer to the deadline I agreed with Red Raincoat, this is the first priority, and when I’m free later, I’ll send Men Nan back to the third sick building.”
After checking his backpack, Chen Ge rode his electric bike to the entrance of New Century Paradise and greeted the janitorial grandpa.
The janitorial grandpa was already used to Chen Ge going out late at night, and he never asked more than a single question; to put it mildly, the two were actually on very good terms.
After Chen Ge’s parents disappeared, Chen Ge lived in a house of horrors every day, and at night, the only people left in the park were the janitor and Chen Ge.
Sometimes the janitor encountered some things can not be solved will ask Chen Ge to help, usually in a particularly good mood, or in a particularly bad mood, the old man will also get two bottles of wine, with Chen Ge in the middle of the night to run to the paradise cafeteria to secretly fried food, eat a midnight snack.
Many people in this paradise had helped Chen Ge when he was at his most difficult, so when the paradise was in trouble, he would step forward without hesitation.
”Little Chen, you’re at least a boss, this electric car is a bit of a mismatch with your current status.” The oldest man was carrying a teapot, and from a long distance, Chen Ge could smell a smell of alcohol, and it was not water that was poured in the old man’s cup.
”Let’s talk about it later, I’m not getting my license yet, and the people at their driving school have preconceptions about me, saying that I drive too wild.”
”Then won’t you just change your habits? They are also for your own good, safety first.”
”Too lazy to change, I’ll hire a driver specifically to drive for me in the future.” Chen Ge rode the battery car out of the New Century Paradise, and after talking to the janitor, he found a problem: “I really get the 104 road spirit car back, I’m afraid I can only drive in the outskirts of the city, it’s still inconvenient to go to the city. But I’ve heard that the Line 4 subway in the city is haunted, so I can go and take a look at it later when I have time.”
Riding an electric bike, Chen Ge rushed to the nearest 104 road station sign, stood in the cold wind and waited for half an hour, also did not see 104 road hearse and red raincoat appeared.
”Does it have to be a rainy day?”
Chen Ge was a bit reluctant as he drove along the route of bus 104 towards the eastern suburbs.
At eleven o’clock at night, Chen Ge entered the eastern suburb of Jiujiang, and he could clearly feel that this place was different from the rest of the world, and suddenly not a single car could be seen on the road.
”Last time I was here there were still occasional cabs running this way, could it be that because of that thing I did before, now cabs don’t come to the eastern suburb at night?” Chen Ge gently shook his head, he felt that he didn’t have that much energy alone, it should be that something horrible had happened in the eastern suburbs again.
”Not meeting one means that fate has not yet arrived, and it can’t be blamed on me.” Chen Ge would stop for a while at every station he passed.
At first, he was expecting the hearse to show up, but gradually he didn’t hold much hope and rushed to Liwan Town with his head stuffy.
The road conditions were getting worse and worse, and at eleven thirty at night, Chen Ge suddenly felt a coldness in his neck, he stretched out his hand, and raindrops as thin as cow hairs fell in the center of his palm.
”It’s raining?”
Chen Ge took out his own cell phone, he looked up the weather forecast, it clearly said that there was no rain in Jiujiang for the next few days.
”Rain is a good thing, with heavy Yin Qi, the chances of hitting a ghost are high, and the red raincoat is likely to appear.”
Putting away his cell phone, Chen Ge looked around, although he had been to the eastern suburb a few times, he still felt strange looking at the surrounding buildings.
The dim streetlights gave off a faint light, but there was no way to dispel the darkness, and the atmosphere inexplicably became depressing.
”I’m still on the 104 bus route, should I wait for it here at the station for a while?”
The changes that appeared around them were very similar to what Dr. Pei described in the mental hospital, and Chen Ge had a hunch that the hearse was likely to appear tonight.
”Xiao Gu said that the child in the red raincoat is on the 104th hearse, so when the time comes, I just need to get on the train and help her snatch the child off so that she can confirm it.”
Chen Ge had his own plan in his heart, he merely asked Hong Yuyi to confirm it, but did not say that he would give the child to Hong Yuyi, and his agreement with Hong Yuyi in the first place was only to help her find the child, as for whether or not to give it back to her, and how to do so, that was another matter.