Chapter 0986 – A Very Wise Choice
”Don’t worry about how I know, you continue on.” Chen Ge listened intently, unwilling to miss a single word.
”That shadow seems to have been chased by someone, but as he slowly grows up, he is less and less putting those chasing him in his eyes, and in the whole of Hanyue, it seems like the only place he doesn’t dare to go is the western suburbs.”
The more Chen Ge heard, the more he felt that this shadow was the same shadow that he had encountered in Liwan Town, only that the shadow at that time hadn’t yet differentiated into the Underworld Foetus, and his strength stayed at its peak.
”The shadow searched all over Hanjiang and found a total of nine shrines, and this one behind me is just one of them. These nine shrines correspond to nine clay figurines that he made with his own hands, each of which is a person, and each of which represents one of his bodies.”
”Wait, I don’t quite understand what you mean, what do you mean by each clay figure expressing one of his bodies? Does that mean that if I just destroy all the clay molds, I’m saying that I’ve completely killed him?” Chen Ge had now found three shrines, and there were two amongst the Virtual Future Paradise, but one of the shrines didn’t have any clay figurines placed in it, and it was highly likely that it was a forgery.
”I don’t know, but I advise you to better not think that way, that guy is different from the normal severe ghosts, you can’t kill him.” The man also broke down and told Chen Ge everything he knew: “I’ve been carrying this shrine for several years, and I found that the aura of that shadow remains on this shrine, as if the shrine is the shadow itself, I suspect that the shadow is using the shrine to make the clay sculpture adapt to its own aura, so that it can be convenient for the plutonic fetus to parasitize the adult.”
His voice was getting smaller and his breath was weak, “This shrine used to be particularly terrifying, but just a while ago, I don’t know what happened to the shadow, and the aura on the shrine suddenly plummeted and became somewhat ordinary.”
The period of time ago that the man was talking about should be when Chen Ge took out the shadow with Dr. Gao in Liwan Town.
”It seems that the shadow’s death did affect the Underworld Tire to some extent as well.” Chen Ge stood up and looked at the shrine.
The inner walls of the shrine were engraved with dead characters, and unlike the shrine in Virtual Future Land, the shrine in this old mansion was also stuffed with nine paper figures soaked in blood.
”Nine paper figures again?”
There was nothing on the paper figures, no names written on them, and their shapes were all similar.
”Nine shrines, nine clay figurines, nine paper figures, what exactly does this Underworld Fetus want?” Chen Ge stared and contemplated, “If I am the Plutonic Fetus, I must not want to be disturbed by the outside world at the important moment when I am parasitized as a human being ……”
Chen Ge felt that he had caught an important clue, but he didn’t have time to think about it carefully because the man on the ground was about to dissipate.
”Don’t worry about me, I have that person’s curse left on me, and I’m destined to have my soul dissipate the moment I say this.” The man seemed to be looking at it with a very open mind, “I had thought that I would succumb to the curse and end up being compelled to do something to hurt Fang Yu, now this ending is already the best for me.”
”You injured me and my staff, and now you want to walk away? Do you think that’s possible?” Chen Ge let her red high heels watch over the man, drawing the curse out of his body a little bit, “There are still people in this world who remember you, you’re her obsession, no matter what you have to go and see her once.”
”I can’t go.” The man’s attitude suddenly changed, “As soon as she remembers something related to me, the curse that Shadow planted on us will be triggered and she will die!”
The man was unusually resolute, “As I said earlier, the shadow counted on me, and secretly escaped to find Fang Yu when I first saw Fang Yu’s name on the clay sculpture.”
”I’m a ghost, being in the sunlight feels like a living person jumping into a pit of fire, but I still insisted on meeting her during the day in order to suppress the curse on my body from harming her.”
”The orphanage is no longer safe, the entire Hanyang is not safe, she has to leave.”
”I’m well aware of what she’s going through, and I know it’s difficult for her, so I’ve been trying to find ways to help her learn to live on her own.”
”I taught her to sew the things she has to do every day on her clothes, I got her into the habit of putting her wallet, ID, and contact information in a regular pocket before she goes to bed, and everything I did was so she could get by without me.”
”But I didn’t realize that it fell right into Shadow’s trap, and it seems that those who are chosen by him have to voluntarily cooperate with him in order to complete the final steps, and he’s been using me all along.”
The man was no longer able to struggle, there was anger, remorse, and despair in his eyes, “Traces of the curse had begun to appear on the Fang Fish, I didn’t know what I was supposed to do, I could only get her to forget about me, which should have been a simple thing for the Fang Fish to do.”
”I cleaned out the orphanage, scribbled out pictures of myself, and lied to Fang Fish when I accompanied her to the park for the last time.”
”Every time she met with me she would ask my name again, and after hearing my answer she would be happy, seemingly because she hadn’t forgotten me yet.”
”But on the last day, when she asked me my name, instead of saying my name, I gave her name. I gave her that my name was Square Fish, and I wanted her to remember herself and never get lost.”
”We stayed late at the park and I didn’t take her home that day, I watched her walk across the intersection and left myself alone.”
The man’s story filled in the last piece of the gap, and the fullness of Fang Yu’s life appeared in the middle of Chen Ge’s mind.
Both Fang Fish and the boy grew up in an orphanage, one with a poor memory, always forgetting the past; the other with a speech impediment, always repeating the same words over and over again.
The two kept each other company until one day they went to the Eastern Suburbs Reservoir, where the boy sacrificed his life to save Fang Yu.
Stimulated, Fang Yu’s condition became more and more serious, but just then the boy was set up by Shadow to sneak out of the reservoir hut, wanting to take Fang Yu away from Hanjiang.
According to the memories of the orphanage’s caretaker, Fang Yu would sneak out of the orphanage during that time, and the grandfather asked Fang Yu about it, and Fang Yu mentioned the word kite.
Thinking back carefully, the day the boy disappeared was when the orphanage organized a spring trip to the eastern suburbs, and everyone was flying kites.
The kite itself was an important piece of information, but it was a pity that the janitor didn’t think deeper at the time.
The boy knew that he was burdened with a curse and couldn’t stay by Fang Yu’s side forever, so he was constantly helping Fang Yu to live independently.
This was supposed to be the happiest time for them, but it didn’t last long, the boy found out about Shadow’s plan and finally had to get Fang Fish to forget about himself.
The boy returned to the hut and was abused by Shadow in all kinds of ways, with countless curses inflicted on him, turning him into a faceless monster.
On the other hand, Fang Yu, whose memory was getting worse and worse, went to that small park every day to wait.
Gradually, she might have forgotten who she was waiting for, the look and voice of the person she was waiting for, and only one name remained in her mind – Fang Yu.
Until one day, when the park was going to be demolished and she could no longer wait for that person, Chen Ge found her.
Their story wasn’t very pretty, but it still touched Chen Ge in some way.
He stood up and extended his hand towards the man on the ground.
”You’re worried that the curse will hurt Fang Yu, so I’ll help you get rid of the curse, and you’re worried that the Underworld Fetus and the Shadow will retaliate, so why don’t we join forces to finish them off so that no one can hurt you guys anymore.”
The man didn’t think Chen Ge could take out the Underworld Tire, he thought Chen Ge was just comforting him.
”The shadow you were afraid of before has already been divided in Liwan Town, let me think about what day that was?” Not a moment later, Chen Ge accurately stated a date, which happened to be the day the breath on the shrine dissipated.
The man hadn’t told Chen Ge the exact time before, but Chen Ge had said it on his own, and only then did he believe that Chen Ge wasn’t lying.
His eyes hovered between Chen Ge and the four red clothes, and the man finally touched Chen Ge’s hand gently, “What do you want me to do? I’ll listen to you.”