Chapter 0590 – The Second Way to Die
The fog isolated Chen Ge from the riverbank, and the boat slowly turned in place, slowly losing its direction.
”Chen Ge ……”
Once again, that familiar voice came from his ears, Chen Ge’s brows furrowed as he tried his best to recall it, but there was no memory of this voice in his mind.
It was very kind and familiar, as if this voice had accompanied him for a long time.
”Could it be my parents? That’s not right! How could I not even hear my parents’ voices.”
Amidst the fog, Chen Ge was in a bit of a trance, and he bit the tip of his tongue fiercely.
”This battle doesn’t look like something a two-star trial quest would have, I might have encountered an ambush.” Chen Ge quickly calmed down, he knew in his heart that he had repeatedly sabotaged the plans of the black hand behind the Eastern Suburbs, and the other party definitely hated him with a passion.
The shampoo bottle in the backpack vibrated more obviously, a trace of black hair crawled out from the gap of the bottle mouth, wrapping the bottle up, looking very strange and }human.
”Do you have something to tell me?” In Chen Ge’s opinion Wen Wen’s sister was the victim, she shouldn’t be able to help the person behind the scenes to deal with herself.
The black hair spread and tangled together as if it was a signpost, pointing Chen Ge in a direction.
”She’s showing you the way, the body is over there.” Old Zhou spoke up.
”The situation has changed, don’t rush over yet.” Chen Ge would not move until he figured out that voice in the mist.
The mist was still getting thicker, Chen Ge took out his cell phone and looked at it, there was no signal, he couldn’t contact the people on the shore, and he couldn’t call for help, at this time, he could only rely on himself.
”Old Zhou, did you hear someone shouting my name in the fog?” Chen Ge sat in the middle of the boat, listening to the voices in the fog, slowly creating an indescribable feeling of loneliness. It seemed like someone was telling him the reality that he had always been alone and would always be alone in the future.
”No.” Old Zhou shook his head.
His tone of voice was the same as usual, and his demeanor and movements hadn’t changed much, but all of this became different in Chen Ge’s eyes, and as he looked at Old Zhou’s face, he felt a hint of eeriness and indifference, as if Old Zhou was hitting on some bad idea, wanting to plot against his own life.
”Chen Ge ……” a cry came out as if the closest people were reminding him to stay away from those ghosts and monsters.
”For ordinary people staying away from ghosts and monsters is the right thing to do, but my family’s situation is rather special, both my parents and myself have different attitudes towards ghosts and monsters than ordinary people, especially in my current situation, where I can’t survive at all without relying on the power of ghosts and monsters.” Chen was clear in his heart, “I consider ghosts and monsters as my friends, so how could I possibly feel that my friends are dangerous? Besides, compared to people, sometimes it’s still the ghosts and monsters that are a bit more affectionate.”
Looking at the water, Chen Ge’s eyes were firm, “I don’t know who you are, but still, you are a little too eager, wanting to provoke the relationship between me and the ghosts and ghouls, then you’re hitting the wrong target.”
Although his spirit was slightly in a trance, Chen Ge’s attitude towards ghosts and monsters hadn’t changed, this was a concept that he had built up since he was a child, and with the help of his parents and his black cell phone, his perception of ghosts and monsters was completely different from that of ordinary people.
”Your voice makes me feel familiar and kind, but what you’re asking me to do is harming me in a hundred ways, the one who really wants to kill me is you, stop playing these little tricks, come out and let me see your true colors.”
The fog blocked the reservoir, the boat turned ghostly, and as the water waves floated and sank, the memories in Chen Ge’s mind gradually became blurry.
”Chen Ge ……”
This kind of shouting voice made Chen Ge feel intimate, which was also the most terrifying part, he didn’t recognize such a person at all, there was absolutely no existence of this voice in his memory, and that kind of familiarity had nothing to do with the memory, as if it was branded in the middle of his body.
A similar encounter had happened to him before, when he was doing the tunnel nightmare quest, after taking forty-four steps out, there was also a voice calling out his name from the depths of the tunnel.
The same tone, the same timbre, Chen Ge clenched his hands into fists as he vaguely recalled something.
The tunnel mission after hearing that voice, he had seen an incredible scene where he himself had once been killed at a very young age.
That peculiar experience of witnessing his own death was something he could never forget.
Thoughts gradually sank into the middle of his mind as he uncontrollably began to remember what had happened then.
”I once entered the depths of the tunnel when I was very young, and the person who killed me was standing right behind me, looking as if he was still familiar with me.”
Memories floated and his body rocked with the boat, and when Chen Ge broke free from that memory, he suddenly realized that there was nothing left on the small boat but himself.
The backpack, Old Zhou, Xu Yin, and Wen Wen’s sister were all gone, and there was only himself on the small boat.
The fog shrouded everything, as if Chen Ge had been abandoned by the world, and an indescribable feeling of loneliness welled up from the bottom of his heart.
The temperature kept dropping, and his exposed skin was covered with a layer of water stains, which was cool to the touch and very different from a living person.
”What’s going on here? A special ability of an unknown ghost?” He sat on the boat and grabbed the oars, even at such a time, Chen Ge still didn’t give up and was ready to fight.
”Chen Ge ……”
That voice came once again, this time Chen Ge could hear it clearly, and he realized that it was getting closer to him.
”Strange feeling, I heard this voice in the tunnel; when I just obtained the black phone and did the first nightmare level quest, this voice also came from the mirror; when Dr. Gao in the underground corpse vault destroyed the entire scene and connected to the outside world’s blood-colored city, I felt a hint of familiarity; even that door in the haunted house’s bathroom sometimes gives me a familiar feeling, as if behind the door there is something calling to me.” His brain was stuffed with all sorts of information, and Chen Ge felt his head ache: “Am I forgetting something? Is this related to my parents’ disappearance?”
”Chen Ge ……”
The voice sounded again, just a few meters away from Chen Ge.
Taking a deep breath, he put the oars into the water and paddled the boat, deciding to take a look.
After rowing forward two or three meters away, Chen Ge saw a blurry shadow in the fog.
Not very tall, it should be a child.
”Wen Wen’s sister’s body?” He was still thinking about the black cell phone’s mission even now, and it had become an instinct for him.
The boat continued to move forward, and after closing the distance, the fog spread out to the sides and the outline of the shadow became clear.
It wasn’t the body of Shizuku’s sister, it was a young boy.
At the sight of the boy’s face, Chen Ge subconsciously gripped the oars in his hands tightly, and he felt a cool air running up his spine behind him.
This child was exactly him when he was a child, familiar features, kind voice, the difference was that the child’s neck was broken, his head was almost hanging on his shoulders, and his features were all deformed, carrying a kind of sinister and resentfulness that he had never seen before in Chen Ge’s body.
”Yes, this is my own voice.”
Chen Ge had always found that voice to be intimate and familiar, and he didn’t wake up with a start until he saw the child in the fog; the voice that had been calling out to him was none other than his own voice.
”Why am I calling out my own name? And who is this fellow? Why does it look exactly like me as a child?”
With his brain about to explode, Chen Ge pressed his temples hard, “Is it because I’ve forgotten something?”
Actually, from the moment that door appeared in the bathroom of the haunted house, Chen Ge had begun to suspect.
Only a person in utter despair could have pushed the door open, and there happened to be a door in the haunted house, who pushed that door open?
Was it his parents, or was it himself?
As Chen Ge fell into self-doubt, the child in the mist lifted his head and looked at Chen Ge on the boat.
The child’s eyes were hard to describe, there was resentment, jealousy, and a hint of a very complex emotion.
This was a very lonely child who had no way to communicate with anyone, his body was cold and ugly, and his heart was twisted and filled with the desire to destroy.
”Chen Ge, save me ……”
A familiar voice came out from the child’s mouth, his eyes stared at Chen Ge, followed by his feet leaving the water, and another person’s figure surfaced behind him.
Judging from his physique, it should be an adult, who grabbed the shoulders of the young Chen Ge and lifted the child high into the air before throwing him into the reservoir.
As the adult figure left, Chen Ge vaguely heard his voice – he was definitely dead this time, and shouldn’t come back.
The water rippled as the adult figure disappeared, and Chen Ge stared blankly at the scene in front of him.
When doing the Tunnel Nightmare quest, Chen Ge had similarly seen his younger self being killed by an adult, and now when doing the Water Ghost quest, he realized that his younger self had once again been killed by the same adult.
”What the hell is going on?”
He rowed the boat to the place where the child’s body had been dumped and looked underwater, his pupils narrowing as the scene before him was somewhat brutal.
The child with twisted limbs and his head hanging over his shoulder sank silently.
The face that looked similar to Chen Ge’s looked at Chen Ge through the water, his expression became more and more hideous, all the pain was all turned into hatred, it seemed that he was unwilling to sink into the dark water, his mouth slowly opened, and his twisted arms waved upwards.
The skinny body began to float upwards, and that horrible yet familiar face zoomed in Chen Ge’s field of vision.
”Chen Ge ……”
With his mind in a daze, a thought inexplicably appeared in Chen Ge’s mind – it had returned.
The inability to control his body, or that particular call, had affected Chen Ge’s thinking.
The child under the water had his arms outstretched, no one knew what he had gone through in his lifetime, his arms were a little longer than an ordinary person’s, and it seemed that the bones and joints had been pulled apart.
The pale and twisted arms drifted towards the water, and the face was getting closer and closer to Chen Ge, the purple-tinged lips gently opened, and he called out Chen Ge’s name underwater.
The surface of the water was like a mirror, on one side was the adult Chen Ge, and on the other side was the Chen Ge who was filled with hatred and grudges and had been killed at a young age.
Across the water, two completely different lives seemed to meet at this moment.
”Chen Ge, I am you …….”
He couldn’t hear any particular emotions from that voice, and his body couldn’t help but probe into the water, as if he was looking at himself in the mirror.
Twisted arms stretched out of the water, pale fingers grasping at Chen Ge’s face, the underwater child’s movements were very light, and Chen Ge didn’t know if he was trying to drag himself underwater, or if he just wanted to touch himself.
”Who the hell are you? Why do you keep calling out my name?”
Chen Ge could feel a trace of familiarity from the other party, a connection that transcended bloodlines, as if the two were originally one person.
”Who killed you? Who turned you into this appearance?”
Chen Ge kept asking the questions in his heart, the underwater child did not answer, his fingertips were getting closer and closer to Chen Ge’s face, and when he was about to touch Chen Ge, another hand rested on Chen Ge’s shoulder.
With five slender fingers, blood and cracks like demonic tattoos, the first impression of this hand was beautiful.
The fog around the boat suddenly disappeared, and an air that was chilly and terrifying to the limit appeared from behind Chen Ge.
The blood-soaked black hair slid over Chen Ge’s body, stabbing into the pitch-black water like a steel needle.
An indiscriminate attack that penetrated deep into the water, seemingly churning the entire reservoir.
Chen Ge felt the hand on his shoulder getting harder and harder, and his body tilted toward the water was yanked back a little.
An ear-piercing scream came from under the water, and the child that had the same appearance as Chen Ge’s childhood turned into a black shadow and fled towards the distance.
After it disappeared, Chen Ge also came to his senses, as if he had just been pulled out of the water, his body was drenched in cold sweat, and he breathed in fresh air.
Opening his eyes again, the fog on the reservoir had already dispersed, Chen Ge saw Bai Qiulin and Old Zhou trembling and huddled behind Xu Yin, and the always gloomy and silent Xu Yin’s expression was somewhat unnatural at this time.
”Was it Zhang Ya who appeared just now?” He touched his shoulder, remembering a hand on his shoulder, his pale skin crisscrossed with blood and cracks, “Hasn’t her injury healed yet?”
The other three stern ghosts on the ship did not dare to reply, as if the woman in Chen Ge’s shadow was a taboo to them that could not be mentioned.
Standing up, Chen Ge looked in the direction the child had fled.
After he used his Yin pupil, he found a person on the riverbank, and the other person was pushing a battery car. The person was very vigilant, and after noticing Chen Ge’s gaze, he immediately rode away.
”Battery car?” Chen Ge looked at the person’s back and another person’s figure came to mind, “He kind of looks like Huang Ling’s husband.”
Xiao Gu had accidentally taken bus number 104 and saved Huang Ling, but then Chen Ge found out that the woman’s husband was actually dead, and the person she was now sharing her bed with was another person.
”Why is Huang Ling’s husband here? Is he the one behind the Eastern Suburbs? Impossible.” Chen Ge looked at the electric car and remembered another thing.
Some of the limbs had been taken when he went to the Mingyang neighborhood with Team Yan to look for those limbs, and at that time, he had seen an electric car drive into the middle of the Mingyang neighborhood from upstairs (see the end of Chapter 513 for more details).
”The person who stole the limbs late that night was also him?” Chen Ge had initially thought that Huang Ling’s husband was just a minion, but now it looked like the other party’s identity was not simple.
He couldn’t be bothered to salvage the body and sent a message to Team Yan and Li Zheng, wanting to inquire about Huang Ling and her husband.
While waiting for a reply, Chen Ge looked at the water alone and couldn’t control his mind to recall what had just happened, “The last time we fought at the water plant, the shadow also turned into my appearance when I was a young child, is this his special ability, or does he really have a relationship with me as a child?”