Chapter 0654 – Evil Guests Gathering
As Chen Ge saw Li Zheng and Jia Ming, the two men at the door also saw him.
”Chen Ge?”
Li Zheng and Jia Ming spoke in unison, neither of them expected to meet Chen Ge here.
”Why are you here?” One of Li Zheng’s hands was placed behind Jia Ming, and even in great surprise, that hand remained unmoving.
”Don’t go over there, he might not be Chen Ge.” Jia Ming whispered a reminder, he looked a little scared, “Have you forgotten what I told you before? The shadow looks just like Chen Ge!”
Considering it from a third party’s perspective, what Jia Ming said did make sense, a big living person suddenly appeared in the middle of a hotel shrouded in blood mist in the middle of the night, there was definitely a problem hidden in it.
”You’re asking me, I still want to ask you guys.” Chen Ge also didn’t dare to venture close to Li Zheng and Jia Ming, before entering Liwan Town, Li Zheng had sent him a message telling him that Jia Ming had escaped, and that they were now searching for Jia Ming all over the city.
But after only two or three hours, Li Zheng and Jia Ming appeared together in Liwan Town, which was bizarre no matter how one thought about it.
Li Zheng’s hand had been hidden behind Jia Ming, and he was probably holding his gun against Jia Ming to prevent him from doing anything irrational.
The other party was holding a gun, and Chen Ge didn’t dare to act rashly, the pistol was of little use to the Li Ghost, but it was a great threat to himself.
”Anyway, all calm down first.” Stalemate in the hotel would only waste precious time, Chen Ge decided to take the lead in identifying himself, he took out his own cell phone and showed all the call records to Li Zheng: “Team Li, I’m Chen Ge, there’s no doubt about it, the reason why I appeared here was because I received a distress call.”
Chen Ge pointed to the call records of himself and Fan Cong, “This person once came to visit my haunted house, he was in a very abnormal state and said a lot of strange things to me, out of curiosity I left each other’s contact information with him, but what I didn’t expect was that he disappeared tonight, his life and death were unknown, I was the last person he contacted. In order to investigate clearly, that’s why I rushed to Liwan Town overnight.”
Li Zheng asked Chen Ge a few more questions, seeing that Chen Ge answered all of them correctly, he then relaxed a little, “Jia Ming escaped from the hospital, and we searched along the streets, eventually determining that he came this way towards the eastern suburbs.”
”We initially thought that he was preparing to escape into the mountains, after expanding our search, I discovered something very strange through the surveillance.”
”When he passed a certain fork in the road, Jia Ming covered his face, and although he was still wearing his original clothes, his walking posture became somewhat unnatural.”
”I repeatedly compared the surveillance and felt that there was a possibility that Jia Ming had found someone to replace himself at that fork in the road.”
”Let the team members search according to the original plan, while I myself tracked towards the fork in the road.”
”The rainstorm was just too heavy, making the search very difficult, but the effort was not enough, and it eventually led me to him in the back alleys of the street.”
”Chasing furiously all the way until Liwan Town before I caught this kid.”
After hearing Li Zheng’s words, Jia Ming waved his hands repeatedly, “Everything I did was forced by Shadow, and if I didn’t do what he asked, he had a hundred different ways to get me killed.”
”Forced? Why do I get the feeling that your brat is intentionally luring me to this hellish place? What exactly are you and that shadow planning? Be honest, you guys don’t have a chance anymore.” Li Zheng had entered Liwan Town because he was chasing Jia Ming, a reason that seemed acceptable to Chen Ge, but was a bit far-fetched.
He always felt that the Li Zheng and Jia Ming in front of him looked a bit strange, but he couldn’t tell exactly what was strange.
”Team Li, this place is dangerous, you guys come in first and don’t stay at the entrance for long.” Chen Ge pressed the repeater switch and took the initiative to walk towards the front door of the hotel, “Didn’t you guys encounter anything scary on your way here?”
”This ghost place is indeed strange, it’s raining heavily outside but the ground inside the town isn’t even wet, I guess it’s probably related to the blood mist.” Li Zheng replied, as he grabbed Jia Ming with one hand and entered the middle of the hotel.
Chen Ge was very clear about how scary Liwan Town was, it could be said that there were severe ghosts and homicidal maniacs everywhere, if the homicidal maniacs Li team still had a way to deal with them, then how did he, an ordinary person, subdue those severe ghosts?
Looking at Li Zheng and Jia Ming, they were merely nervous, with no fear in their eyes.
”Could it be that the shadow is among them? That’s why the ghosts in Liwan Town actively avoided them?”
One was a police officer and the other was a criminal, Chen Ge wasn’t sure who the shadow was actually in, “We can’t mess with ourselves, it’s also possible that both of them are real people and the shadow is hiding in a third place.”
Since obtaining the black phone, the shadow was the toughest opponent Chen Ge had ever encountered, he felt that the shadow had gotten Li Zheng and Jia Ming here at the same time just to interfere with him.
Chen Ge was wary of Li Zheng and Jia Ming, and Li Zheng and Jia Ming didn’t completely trust Chen Ge, they already knew that the shadow had the ability to change and mimic, perhaps in their opinion, the Chen Ge in front of them was most likely the shadow in disguise.
”Feel free to sit down, you guys wait a bit, I have a few more companions upstairs.” Chen Ge walked towards the second floor.
After he turned around, he heard Jia Ming say to Li Zheng in a very low voice, “I’ve already explained clearly about the shadow, and now that you’ve seen him here with your own eyes, it proves that I didn’t lie and that the shadow is Chen Ge! Hurry up and go, if you don’t leave it’ll be too late, he’ll definitely kill to silence him!”
”You went through all the trouble to bring me here just to show me this?” Li Zheng’s tone was cold and serious: “Since you guys have a way to lure me here, you must have a way to trick Chen Ge as well, it’s still hard to say if he’s a shadow or not.”
”It’s already so obvious, but you still don’t believe me?” Jia Ming’s voice turned louder, “Think carefully about what that person has usually done, do you think that’s something an ordinary person could do? He’s just using you guys, using you to cover up his sins.”
”Covering up sins? Do you know how sin is defined?” Li Zheng pressed Jia Ming next to the table, “Be honest, don’t say what you shouldn’t say, don’t do what you shouldn’t do, I have my own judgment.”
Li Zheng and Jia Ming conversed in whispers as Chen Ge slowly walked away, when he reached the second floor, the door of the first floor restaurant was once again knocked on.
”Anyone?” A young man with a black school bag stood at the door, looking a bit civilized, “I want to stay here for the night.”
He seemed to be in the middle of a voice change period, his speaking voice was a bit awkward, but otherwise it was ordinary, looking like a high school student who had run away from home.
Holding up his glasses a bit, he avoided Li Zheng and Jia Ming from afar and carefully walked around to the front of the counter, “Anyone here? Staying at the store.”
Chen Ge stood on the second floor, taking it all in, “This kid matches the appearance of the kid I saw in that high school student’s cell phone, he should be one of Beiwen and Beino.”
When he came over on bus 104, Chen Ge had met a mute-looking high school student, the other boarded the hearse to look for his missing classmate, and showed Chen Ge his classmate’s picture.
Coincidentally Chen Ge happened to have heard Gu Feiyu describe the missing person on the phone, and in order to prevent the high school student from having an accident, Chen Ge kicked him off the bus and promised to help him find out everything he could.
”When I played the Boo game, I did see a high school student in the hotel scene.” Chen Ge gripped the armrest, his gaze hovering between the high school student and Li Zheng: “In the Xiao Bu game, there are four customers among the restaurant, the woman, the high school student, the police, and Xiao Bu, now that the police and the high school student have appeared, is it the next turn for the skin-changing woman to make her appearance?”
The world behind the door was woven from the memories of the person who pushed the door, Boo’s game recorded Boo’s own experiences, and now after the door went out of control, all the nightmares she experienced all became reality.
”Why would Boo let someone play this game? Simply trying to prove her innocence? Wanting to resonate with others? Is it a tool for her self-escape? Or is there a key hidden in the game that can free her?”
Fan Cong had cleared the game with Chen Ge’s help, but the change came at this time as well, Shadow had preyed on his family, and now Fan Cong himself was missing, and his brother, Fan Da De, might have been replaced by Shadow as well.
”Shadow should know about the existence of the Boo Game, but why didn’t he block it before? Could it be that there’s something he needs in the Boo Game as well?”
”The door of Liwan Town was pushed open by Boo, to completely control this door you must have Boo’s complete cooperation, so think about it Shadow should be putting in a long line to catch a big fish. It’s still imperative that we find Fan Cong, he’s the only one who was at the scene.”
Chen Ge took over the hotel, he put away the Overeating Female Ghost, the place was just an empty shell now, there was nothing to stay.
Pushing open the door of the guest room, Scissors and the drunken man grabbed homemade ropes and huddled by the window, they had tied up the doctor so that they could get him out first if anything went wrong.
”How’s the situation out there? Just now I felt like the whole building was shaking, just like an earthquake.” The drunkard saw Chen Ge come in and approached Chen Ge with a nervous face.
”The store owner and the cook were killed by the headless female ghost, and then they died with one of the severe ghosts in the hotel’s kitchen.”
”The ghost in the hotel died too?” The drunkard let out a long sigh of relief, “Then we can rest here in peace, and when the blood mist clears after dawn, we should be able to leave this haunted place quite easily.”
”This hotel isn’t safe, without the stern ghosts guarding it, more and more people and monsters will come.” Chen Ge walked over to the doctor and lowered his head to check his body, “Still can’t walk?”
The veins on the doctor’s neck bulged, and he could only slightly shake his head with all his strength, “Much more awake, but I can’t use my limbs, and there’s also a point where ……”
The scissors next to him seemed to know what the doctor wanted to say, and reached out to lift the rags on the doctor’s pants, and a piece of skin on the outside of his thigh turned grayish-black.
”When I used to come to Liwan Town, I heard someone say that if you stay on the door side for a long time, you’ll grow gray spots on your body, and once you grow this, you’ll never be able to leave again.” The doctor was a bit pessimistic: “I can’t get out.”
”The foot is on you, as long as you want to get out, no one can stop you.” Chen Ge’s original plan was to drive the 104 bus directly to the neighborhood where Fan Cong was located, and with the help of the red high heels and the smiling man to break into the shadow’s trap the hard way, but now that the situation had obviously changed, with the blood mist shrouding Liwan Town, and the out-of-control door having been activated before they arrived, Chen Ge could only change his plan and use the Boo game to swallow the tricky ghosts and ghouls of Liwan Town first, and use the enemies to strengthen himself.
The few locations mentioned on the black cell phone were strolled by Chen Ge, and he felt that he was almost done.
”There are other customers coming in downstairs, they could be the aborigines here, or they could be the severe ghosts in disguise, you guys pay more attention later, it’s never wrong to be careful.”
After explaining a few things, Chen Ge asked the drunkard to carry the doctor on his back, and the few of them walked out of the room.
When they returned to the first floor, Chen Ge realized that in addition to the police, Jia Ming, and the high school student, there was another woman in the restaurant.
She had a sexy body and sweet looks, and was dressed very conservatively, with a long coat, long sleeves, and gloves that covered almost all of her skin.
”Where’s the boss? Give me a single room.” The woman was dragging a large suitcase, she directly ignored the others and smiled as she walked towards the back kitchen, “This time, I’ve brought what you guys want.”
She passed by Chen Ge’s several people, the woman couldn’t smell perfume, instead, she carried a faint putrid odor.
”The boss has something to go out and is not in the back kitchen.” Chen Ge reached out and stopped the woman.
”Who are you? Are you familiar with the store owner?” The woman’s small nose came close to Chen Ge, as if she smelled some special odor on Chen Ge.
As the woman approached, Chen Ge saw the woman’s collar, and there were intricate scars as if they were tattoos on her neck, as if the skin under her clothes was sewn together.
”I don’t know the owner well, but I want you to be honest, I’m in charge of this place now.” Chen Ge politely replied back, in fact if it wasn’t for the fact that there were other people around, he would have already summoned his employees to take control of the woman and start pressing for information about Liwan Town.
The woman stood on her tiptoes and looked over towards the kitchen, Chen Ge had the employee roughly clean it up a bit, but he could still tell something was wrong.
”Whichever one of you is in charge doesn’t affect me much, I just want to know if you’re still doing business here?” The woman dragged the box in front of her, “In recent times there have been fewer and fewer people coming from the outside, and I had a hard time getting this guy.”
Chen Ge already roughly understood what was in the box, “Do, the box stays, and you can stay as long as you like in this place from now on.”
”Thanks a lot, can I go to the kitchen to get some food? This time the blood mist is going to be much bigger than before, I’m a bit hungry.” The woman found various reasons to want to go to the kitchen.
”Find a seat, the food will be here soon.” Chen Ge gave the drunkard a wave and told him and Scissors to go to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat and get out some random food.
After a few people turned around and entered the kitchen, the restaurant’s door was once again pushed open, and a man who kept a weird smile on his face walked in.
A bloodstain remained on his upper shirt, he seemed to be injured, and after entering the restaurant, he didn’t say anything, and directly found a corner to sit down.
It wasn’t long before the sound of ticking came from the hotel’s front door, and the smile on the smiling man’s face stiffened a bit.
A few seconds later, a woman wearing a red raincoat, hanging her head low, also entered the middle of the hotel.