Chapter 0576: I Need a Ghost That Can Dive
During the time that he had obtained the black cell phone, Chen Ge had also mastered many abilities that had nothing to do with opening haunted houses, such as tracking and counter-surveillance.
Holding a fishing rod, he kept his distance from the fishing man and trailed behind him.
The fishing man was scared out of his wits and ran all the way, not realizing Chen Ge.
Not far from the reservoir there were a few low-rise private houses that looked shabby.
The fishing man sneakily stopped next to a certain private house, took out the key, saw no one on the left or right, and dodged into it.
”Running quite fast.” Chen Ge waited for the man to enter the house before he went over, he leaned over the doorway and looked inside, the private house was much bigger than he had imagined, and it came with its own yard.
”Knock on the door and go in under the guise of returning the fishing rod, or just roll in?” As Chen Ge pondered, a loud noise suddenly came from the private house.
His pupils slowly narrowed as he continued to look inside along the doorway.
The fishing man fell on his knees in front of his refrigerator, his hands pressed on the ground, and his mouth continuously cried out, as if he was praying for someone’s forgiveness.
”What kind of excitement did he get in the reservoir? Why is he crying out to the refrigerator? Could it be that the refrigerator is hiding the murder victim?”
What happened next indirectly proved Chen Ge’s guess.
The fishing man kowtowed to the refrigerator and confessed, dust and tears blurring his face.
It lasted for about ten minutes before the fishing man calmed down, he wiped his face with his sleeve and got a shovel from the inner room.
”What’s he going to do?”
Chen Ge watched clearly from outside the door as the fishing man couldn’t take a break and gasped for breath as he dug out a large pit in the small yard.
”Digging a pit? Hide a corpse?”
Things were once again guessed by Chen Ge, the fishing man opened the refrigerator door and took out several large black bags from inside.
His arms trembled and he kowtowed to the black plastic bags a few more times before throwing them into the middle of the earthen pit.
”I’ll never fish again, and every year from now on I’ll burn you paper money, I’ll burn you as much as I want.”
Muttering strange words, the man picked up a shovel and prepared to fill the dug out pit.
Chen Ge felt that he couldn’t wait any longer, but if he didn’t, he would have to do it again himself to dig up the pit that the man had filled in.
”Is anyone there?” Chen Ge lightly knocked on the door of the private house, and he suddenly shouted so loudly that the fishing man was so scared that he directly fell down and sat in the pit he had dug out, and cold sweat brushed out on his face.
”I’m the guy who fished with you next to the reservoir just now, you forgot to take away your fishing rod, the administrator asked me to give it to you to bring it to you.” Chen Ge then stared at the other person through the doorway, “Older brother, how is your body recovering? Do you need me to call 120 for you?”
Hearing Chen Ge want to call 120, the man couldn’t sit still and staggered up, “No no no, just throw the fishing rod you put in the doorway, I’ll go get it myself later?”
”Older brother, listen to your voice is not quite right! Is there something wrong with you?”
”Nothing! I’m fine! Just put the fishing rod down and go!” The fishing man was sweating anxiously as he yelled while frantically pushing the dirt next to him into the pit.
”I can’t leave, you’re in a bad way! Open the door and let me take a look, if you’re really fine, I’ll leave immediately.” Chen Ge was just relying on the door and wouldn’t leave, and the fishing man’s heart was bursting with foul language.
How did he meet such a person?
He hurriedly covered the black bag with dirt, then panted and opened the door a crack, “I’m fine, give me the fishing rod.”
”But you look so bad.”
”Give me the fishing rod! Give it to me!” The fishing man was about to be driven mad and yelled, probably overly excited, the fish float in his pocket fell out when his body shook.
The special glow-in-the-dark drift fell to the ground, Chen Ge hadn’t tightened it before, and the piece of pinky fell out.
The fishing man reacted even faster than Chen Ge and directly blocked Chen Ge’s line of sight with his body.
”What was that?”
”You saw it? It’s just a ham sausage, this is my exclusive bait.” The fishing man reloaded the fish float, and he suddenly calmed down, changing from his earlier grumpiness, and even gave Chen Ge a smile.
Only this forced smile, combined with his dead fish eyes, would make people feel uncomfortable when looking at it.
”This fishing rod of mine is also specially made and very expensive. Thank you for being able to bring it back to me, why don’t you come inside and have a seat.” The man was adjusting his breathing and his tone sounded odd.
”Sure.” Chen Ge had a naive and honest look without any heart, he quietly pressed the switch of the repeater in his backpack and entered the private house.
The large pit in the yard hadn’t been filled in yet, and yellow mud was scattered everywhere.
”I’m going to plant some vegetables in this, just turned the ground over.” The man suddenly became enthusiastic: “Come inside and sit down, I caught a few river fish this morning, I’ll let you taste my handiwork later.”
Chen Ge walked ahead defenselessly, and when he entered the house, the man following him quietly locked the door and then raised the shovel in his hand.
The smile on his face was gone, and the fishing man’s eyes were filled with resentment and hatred as he stared at the back of Chen Ge’s head, looking for an opportunity to sneak attack Chen Ge from behind.
But before he could find the opportunity, the man in front of himself suddenly removed his backpack, and then without warning and without any reason, he smashed the backpack into his face.
It was too sudden, and it was completely different from his previous plan.
The bridge of his nose was smashed by the package, the man’s field of vision was blocked, not waiting for him to slow down, a sharp pain came from his stomach, as if he had been kicked hard.
His body slammed against the door of the room, the shovel fell to the side, and before he knew what had happened, pain came from all over his body.
Someone was beating him violently, the thought flashed through his head, he felt puzzled and even a little aggravated.
”Stop! Stop hitting! My day!” Hands protecting his head, the shovel long ago thrown somewhere, he was writhing on the ground, but the other party didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping at all.
For several minutes he was beaten, and only when the other party felt tired did the pain on his body diminish.
With a bruised nose and swollen face, the fishing man slumped in the corner of the living room, looking at Chen Ge with a face full of fear: “You’re sick! Why did you hit me?”
”Because you wanted to kill me.” Chen Ge picked up the shovel on the floor and sat on the sofa.
”Which eye did you see that I wanted to kill you?!”
”I saw in your eyes that you had this intention.” Chen Ge was too lazy to talk nonsense with the fishing man, “I will ask you a few questions below, answer honestly.”
”You came here with me just to ask a few questions?”
”First, what exactly did you just see in the reservoir?” Chen Ge got right to the point, he didn’t want to delay.
The man hesitated for a moment and opened his mouth, “There is no fish king inside the water, what I saw was a human being.”
”People?”
”En, with limbs and hair.” The fear in the man’s eyes almost overflowed, “There was more than one, there were so many similar things floating upwards underwater as I threw the bait into the water.”
”A large number.” Chen Ge nodded, “Second question, I already know what your bait is, tell me why you chose to use it as bait, and how you know they like this bait.”
”I don’t know what you’re talking about.” The fishing man was still denying it.
”It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to answer this question, the police will ask more detailed questions than I. The third question, have you ever been to Liwan Township, and have you ever taken the last bus on route 104?” All sorts of things have to do with the plutonic fetus, and the water ghosts in Donggang Reservoir are all sorts of ghosts and monsters produced, Chen Ge wanted to make sure that the fishing man was fishing for water ghosts out of his own preference or for another purpose.
”Liwan Town?” The man’s expression was blank, not like a disguise, he should have nothing to do with the mastermind behind the eastern suburbs.
After asking a few more questions, Chen Ge directly reported the case to the police: “You go tell the police the rest.”
Twenty minutes later, the Dongcheng police station that received the report arrived at the scene.
”You should also come back with us.”
”No need to be so troublesome, I suggest you learn more from the West City Police Station, keep everything simple, we’ll have many more opportunities to meet in the future.”
After simply taking a statement, from the police, Chen Ge also knew the process of the fishing man’s crime.
The body in his yard came from Ming Yang neighborhood, the man had a somewhat perverted personality, and on his way home some time ago, he clashed with a homeless man.
Missed and injured each other, the homeless man threatened to retaliate, so that he could not live in peace in the future.
After many conflicts, the fishing man followed the homeless man to determine the other side of the residence, and then came to the abandoned Mingyang neighborhood to kill the other side.
In the night when the body is thrown, the man found the reservoir more than a meter long shadow emerged, and that was the first time he knew Donggang Reservoir “king of the fish”.
Leaving from the fishing man’s house, Chen Ge already knew what he wanted to know, and he took a taxi back to New Century Paradise.
”The girl quest about on the black cell phone still hasn’t been triggered, but it’s safe to assume that she’s connected to the water ghosts, and that sister of hers is probably one of the ‘fish kings’ among the reservoir.”
This two-star trial quest was a bit harder than Chen Ge had imagined, the water ghosts were hiding in the reservoir, and if he wasn’t careful, he would probably be dragged down, which was completely different from being on land.
”I wonder if Xu Yin’s strength will be affected in the water.” Chen Ge carried his bag to the side of the park’s water program and pressed the repeater switch.
The night breeze mixed with a faint smell of blood, and Xu Yin, dressed in red, appeared at Chen Ge’s side.
”Still haven’t found your heart?” Chen Ge could always see a hint of melancholy on Xu Yin’s face, sometimes he didn’t understand what exactly Xu Yin was pursuing, all he could do was hope that Xu Yin would be happier.
After driving Xu Yin into the pool and having her body submerged by water, Chen Ge realized that the connection between himself and Xu Yin had weakened a bit, and it seemed that the other party’s perception had been affected to some extent.
”This happened with just a pool, I’m afraid it will be even more troublesome if I have to jump into the reservoir, Xu Yin stays by my side and can’t wander off, I still need a ghost that can dive underwater now.”
Entering the haunted house, Chen Ge took out his comic book and thought about the ghosts he could use right now.
After Yan Dainian, Stinky Boy, and Bai Qiulin …… were ruled out one by one, Chen Ge suddenly thought of a very nonexistent ghost.
He rushed into the middle of the underground living coffin village scene with his bag and pushed open the door of a certain old house.
There were two acacia trees planted crookedly in the mansion, and a large water tank was placed next to one of them.
”My haunted house also has a ghost that lives in water!” Chen Ge walked towards the water tank and could see a globular object floating on the tank, when Chen Ge got closer, the globular object slowly sank into the middle of the tank, leaving only a string of bubbles on the water surface.
This ghost was brought out by Chen Ge from the Living Coffin Village, and it seemed to be called the tank ghost, which had been hiding in the middle of the water tank and usually brought a lot of surprises to the visitors.
”The haunted house has brought you not a little, today it’s time for you to contribute to the haunted house.”
Chen Ge and Xu Yin stood on both sides of the water tank, they looked at the ghost that was cowering at the bottom of the tank, hugging his knees and continuously spitting out bubbles, and gently shook their heads.
”You’re facing a vicious water ghost, it’s not good to be such a wimp.” Chen Ge asked Xu Yin to fish the cylinder ghost out of the water, and summoned the other ghosts and monsters, asking them to give the cylinder ghost an emergency special training.
”I’m not asking for you to be able to fight one against a hundred, but at the very least, you should be able to run fast and bring me the news after scouting.”