Chapter 0588 – Using the city as a mother
”I can give you the child, but you have to think clearly, if things like this aren’t completely resolved, it will happen again in the future, and the next time it might not be me holding the child.” Chen Ge put Wen Wen down, this child’s hand was still grasping the shampoo bottle, she seemed to have gotten used to staying with her sister, as long as she left her sister, she would be very insecure.
”Don’t bother, I will take good care of Wenwen.” The woman looked over at Raven, the little girl had calmed down, she didn’t try to hurt the woman anymore, but she didn’t follow her either.
”Go home with your aunt, I will help her fulfill her wish.” Chen Ge pointed to the shampoo bottle, “Trust me.”
Wen Wen let go of the shampoo bottle after a long time and silently held her aunt’s hand.
Seeing Wen Wen return to normal, the woman was also relieved.
”You guys go back early, just leave the next thing to me.” Chen Ge stuffed the shampoo bottle into his backpack and looked at the dark river.
Noticing that his tone was off, the woman pulled Wen Wen behind herself, “What do you want? We didn’t ask you to help, and don’t be a fool to investigate.”
Through the woman’s words, Chen Ge felt that Wen Wen’s aunt must know something else, only that she hadn’t said it for various reasons.
”You are all victims, and those who turned the tragedy into a fiasco are the real culprits. If we don’t stop them, there will be more families suffering the same pain as you, despair is contagious, and it will be harder and harder to end it later.” Chen Ge gripped the railing on the bridge with both hands, and he didn’t know if he was saying all this in order to extract useful information to facilitate the completion of his trial mission, or if he wanted to change this not-so-perfect world by virtue of his own minuscule share of power.
”Take care of yourself then, I have to work tomorrow, so I won’t be fooling around with you.” The woman held Wen Wen’s hand and walked towards the distance, after taking a few steps she suddenly stopped again, stayed in place for a few seconds, turned towards Chen Ge and said, “All kinds of things need three things, seed, fetus, and mother, planting a child’s life into another child’s body, that’s all kinds of things, if you plant a lot of people’s lives into a person’s body at the same time, and use the whole city as the mother body, then when the seed takes root and germinates, what kind of monster will grow?”
Chen Ge was thinking about things when the woman suddenly said this, and he almost thought that he had misheard.
”After my parents left that night, I secretly followed them to Liwan Town and saw something.” The woman seemed to be talking to herself, and after she finished speaking, she held Wen Wen’s hand and left.
Chen Ge stood by the bridge, looking at the woman’s back and watching her walk away.
”Using an entire city as a mother?” Chen Ge gripped the railing with both hands as he realized that the matter was even more serious than he had guessed, “With the lives of countless children and desperate living people as the seed, and the city as the mother, the fetus could be the Underworld Fetus.”
”The difficulty of Liwan Town is three and a half stars, the difficulty of the Underworld Fetus is four stars, what is the relationship between the two?” Chen Ge’s mind was filled with countless doubts, “Wen Wen’s family might just be a most elementary experiment to prove that all sorts of things do produce certain effects, Liwan Town is the real testing ground for the black hand behind the scenes, and it’s highly likely that Boo is the ‘fetus’ selected by the black hand behind the scenes, but why does it have to make an Underworld Fetus? Could it be that it wants to be reborn in the same way as the female ghost who threw herself into the well in the Living Coffin Village?”
The door to Liwan Town had gone out of control, and Chen Ge couldn’t figure out how strong Boo was, perhaps she was also a very different kind of red dress, which was why she was seen by the black hand behind the Eastern Suburbs.
”The limit of the three-star scene is the top red clothes, three and a half stars is a bit hard to say.”
Thinking back to the woman’s last meaningful words, Chen Ge pondered carefully, and he discovered some previously forgotten details, “If the black hand behind the Eastern Suburbs is preparing to use the entire city as the Matrix, and all the living people as seeds, then he definitely needs a medium to get in touch with everyone. I first saw the shadow is in the eastern suburbs of the water plant, all kinds of coincidentally happened in the water plant not far from the Donggang Reservoir, the water plant is purified Donggang Reservoir water, these two sites and all in the 104 bus line, is the black hand behind the idea of drinking water? The man from the fishing association said that he saw a large number of water ghosts in the reservoir, under normal circumstances this shouldn’t be the case, could Donggang Reservoir be a link in the plan of the black hand behind the scenes?”
The situation was much worse than he thought, Chen Ge stopped a cab and rushed directly to Donggang Reservoir.
The dark water occasionally rippled, and it was already past eleven at night when Chen Ge arrived at Donggang Reservoir.
”Anyone?” He knocked lightly on the door of the reservoir administrator’s room, and after ten seconds or so, the house was lit up.
”Who is it?” The voice carried a hint of caution, and the other party did not open the door immediately after getting out of bed.
”Brother Zhang, we’ve met once before ah, wasn’t there someone fishing for the king that day? In the end, I was the one who sent the fishing rod over.”
”I have an impression, what are you doing running to the reservoir at night?” Probably because he thought Chen Ge’s voice sounded familiar, the man’s voice obviously eased up.
”I want to borrow our boat.” Before Chen Ge finished speaking, the door to the room was opened.
The administrator, Zhang Dapo, was draped in a coat with a slightly surprised expression, “Borrowing a boat?”
”Yes, I want to make sure of one thing, to salvage something in the reservoir.” Chen Ge’s gaze was firm and his tone was undeniable.
”I don’t care what you want to be sure of, but it’s not okay for you to not take your life seriously. There’s a King Fish in the reservoir, and you’re running in the middle of the night to salvage it, what if there’s an accident?” Zhang Dapo shook his head and refused.
”Brother Zhang, when I went to deliver the fishing rods the other day, I found out that there was a dead body buried in the house of the man who fished, the police might be looking for you soon.”
”They came today during the day.” Zhang Dapo looked at Chen Ge with a bitter smile on his face, “It scared me too, I was surprised that I was alone with a murderer for so long.”
”Actually, I’ve always been in contact with the police, you can go online and search for the Western Suburbs House of Horrors owner, I’ve cooperated with the police to solve many big and serious cases. This time, I borrowed your boat to probe something as well.” Chen Ge took out his own cell phone and opened his address book, and in the pitifully small list of contacts, contacts with police, officers, and captains in their names accounted for more than half of them.
After a good deal of persuasion, Zhang Dapo finally agreed: “The boat can be lent to you, but I won’t be accompanying you.”
”Okay.”
”By the way, what are you planning to salvage by borrowing the boat?” Zhang Dapo was a bit curious.
”Salvaging a corpse, a little girl’s corpse.”
This answer was obviously different from what Zhang Dapo thought, he rubbed his hands together and didn’t know what to say.
Opening the door of the warehouse, Zhang Dapo took out all the oars, harpoons and ropes, “Wait a moment.”
He turned into the management room and took out a flashlight from it, “Don t mind the breakage, the light from this thing can travel a long way at night, if you are in danger, just shake it a few times against the shore, and I …… will help you call the police.”
”Thanks a lot.” Chen Ge placed a large pile of things on the bow of the boat, then pressed the repeater switch and jumped onto the boat himself.
”Usually corpse salvage is a cooperation of several squads, can you do it alone?” Zhang Dapo felt that Chen Ge’s approach was a bit unreliable.
”Don’t worry, I’m not working alone either.” Taking a seat on the boat, Chen Ge took out the comic book and put the cylinder ghost into the water.