Chapter 0658 – I’m Among You
The drunkard’s sentence put the tattooed man in a dilemma, and he didn’t know why the hooked souls didn’t mimic Chen Ge’s shadow, this situation had never happened before.
He stole a glance at Chen Ge, wanting to ask but not daring to open his mouth, and finally gave an awkward smile and excused himself, “Just be careful not to stare at them, the Hook Souls seldom appear on a large scale, but every time they appear in large numbers, it’s a sign that something big will happen.”
While the two were arguing, Chen Ge did not interject, he looked at the several shadows across the road and his eyes gently narrowed.
His true inner thought was, “If I capture all of these shadows into the haunted house, wouldn’t that create a special scene? Let the visitors see themselves in the middle of the scene, use these shadows to interfere with the line of sight, if utilized well, then the more visitors there are in the scene, the stronger the horror effect will be, true or false, no one knows whether it’s a teammate or a ghost around them.”
”Let’s leave quickly, these things are very difficult to deal with, they are not easy to kill yet, hurry up while they don’t react now.” The tattooed man was very nervous, he was constantly urging Chen Ge.
”What’s the rush? They’re not easy to kill just so they can be kept and slowly tempered, I’ll turn all of them into useful people to this society, I’ll let them realize their value and let them feel the joy of devotion and people’s respect.” Other people didn’t know the reason why the shadow didn’t dare to imitate, but Chen Ge himself knew clearly in his heart that Zhang Ya was hiding in his shadow, instead of saying that those monsters didn’t dare to imitate Chen Ge’s shadow, it would be better to say that they were afraid of Zhang Ya.
”Listen to my advice, don’t stay in this place, there’s no need for us to tangle with them, these are just minions, they’re just shadows used to stall for time, the real killers are in the back. The longer we stay, the more fully the shadow will set up, do you understand what I mean?” The tattooed man was getting more and more skeptical about whether he had made the right decision to follow Chen Ge or not.
This man was lean, witty, and smart, but could become cunning, brutal, and despicable if he needed to.
He never adhered to the morals that were recognized by the public, he had his own principles of action, but at the same time seemed unable to restrain his behavior, he was keen on pursuing intense excitement, loved novelty, and seemed to have a violent gene hidden in his bones.
The tattooed man had seen many movies about perverted murderers, and as a typical example of a perverted personality disorder, he knew that the characters in those movies and TV shows were overly exaggerated, and that even the most ferocious criminals would not display such obvious mania.
The real perverts were people like Chen Ge, who you wouldn’t even notice, much less guess at, their inner derangement after they brushed past you on the street.
Their inability to control their innate aggressiveness and the fact that they rarely showed remorse or sympathy for their violent acts was a commonality possessed by the vast majority of psychopathic murderers, and coincidentally the tattooed man saw this commonality in Chen Ge, and even more horrifyingly, he didn’t seem to have realized just how horrific he really was.
The tattooed man had never looked at Chen Ge squarely, there was no sign of contempt, he simply didn’t dare to gaze into Chen Ge’s eyes.
He was the earliest person to live in Liwan Town, and he had seen the shadows many times, and he didn’t know if it was an illusion or not, but he would always see certain qualities from Chen Ge that were the same as the shadows.
”Well, now really isn’t the time, let’s find that runaway door first.” Chen Ge led the others and continued towards the neighborhood where Fan Cong was.
After walking through the intersection for about a few minutes, Li Zheng’s voice suddenly came from the end of the group, “Stop! Someone is missing!”
Li Zheng was the one with the most special status amongst all of them, and everyone stopped in place after he spoke.
”Who’s missing?” The tattooed man looked back and realized that the woman dragging the large box, disappeared into the blood mist, “Escaped?”
”There’s no need to look, she can’t come back anymore.” Kitano spoke indifferently as he pointed towards the other side of the intersection, “She’s over the road.”
Looking in the direction of the high school student’s finger, the box the woman was dragging had disappeared, and only half of her own body remained.
The woman’s body showed signs of stitches, all of her skin was a normal color, the woman appeared to have cut off the skin with the grey spots and stitched on the victim’s normal skin.
”How did she break away from the group? Was she just about to run away?” In an effort to stabilize the troops, the tattooed man took a few hard steps back as he tried to ascertain the woman’s condition.
”I don’t know, I didn’t see it clearly, the woman was walking at the end of the line, something seemed to have dragged her away just now.” The high school student was carrying his own black school bag with a spring-loaded knife hidden in his palm, he had already removed his glasses, anyway, his old self had already been uncovered by Chen Ge, so he didn’t bother to disguise himself anymore.
”There’s something else in the blood mist staring at us, everyone get closer, especially the ones in the back.” Chen Ge didn’t care about the life and death of Bei Ye and that woman, but he cared about Li Zheng, this CID team leader had helped him many times.
”Could the murderer be the woman in the red raincoat?” Jia Ming whispered, “When we came out of the restaurant, I saw the red raincoat following us with my own eyes, but by the time we got to the intersection, she had disappeared, that guy has a key suspicion.”
Chen Ge understood in his heart that the murderer couldn’t be Red Raincoat, but he didn’t want to expose the relationship between himself and Red Raincoat yet, so he didn’t reply and just urged the others to continue forward.
The blood mist was getting thicker and thicker, and this weird and scary town seemed to be slowly waking up, the evil hidden in the corners was staring at them with scarlet eyes.
After walking along the street for about 20 minutes, several people finally arrived at Fan Cong’s neighborhood.
The blood mist here was several times thicker than the rest of the area, and standing a few meters away, one could only see a vague outline.
”It went too much smoother than I expected, the exit is right here!” The tattooed man looked a little excited.
”Calm down, the closer we get to the exit, the more dangerous it might be.” He had finally reached his destination, but Chen Ge was acting unusually calm.
He raised his head and glanced towards Fan Cong’s house, but the blood mist was too big, and even with Yin pupils, he couldn’t see anything.
”Fan Cong, Fan Da De, all of them are missing, and the computer with Boo’s game might be out of order as well. The Shadow has laid a killing game here, and I have to be if cautious at every next step.”
”Look at this! There’s blood writing here! Someone seems to have known in advance that we were coming!” The drunken man stopped at the entrance of the neighborhood and saw several blood letters filled with malice on the gate of the neighborhood: “I am among you?”
The blood had not yet coagulated and was running down the iron gate.