Chapter 1018 – Bad Neighbors in the Old Town
”You don’t have to worry about this aspect of interpersonal relations, I will definitely get along with my colleagues, but you give me a salary in accordance with the intern’s standard, it’s not too late to wait for me to really make achievements and then transfer to the correct position.” Wu Jinpeng’s attitude was sincere.
”I don’t have interns there, or the internship period is relatively short, and it’s usually the first time we meet that we can tell if the person is a good fit.” Chen Ge’s haunted house had an induction ceremony for new employees, which was to follow the tourists around all the scenes in the haunted house after completely gaining Chen Ge’s trust, and as long as they could be rescued, then it meant that the employee was great and could stay and work.
”OK, then I’ll send Wu Sheng to the school tomorrow and then go through the resignation procedure first, it just so happens that we’re laying off people over there, at noon the leaders will probably be able to approve the note, I’ll go to our haunted house in the afternoon. By the way, where is our haunted house?”
”Hanyanxi suburb of the new century paradise horror house.” Chen Ge looked at Wu Jinpeng, this was the fifth living employee that he personally gated the recruitment of, in the future, no matter if he went to Xinhai to open a branch, or deal with various things, Wu Jinpeng should be able to help a lot.
The shadows were given to the severe ghosts to take care of, and the sunlight was served by the living people, a good haunted house must have both hands together to work.
When Wu Jinpeng’s induction ceremony was over, he would be considered a real one of his own, and Chen Ge had always treated his employees like family.
”Brother Peng, let me ask you one last thing.” Chen Ge got up and walked over to Wu Kun, “Has your brother been like this since he was a child? Did you take him to treatment when your parents were still around?”
”My parents took him for treatment when he was a child, and the results were very poor, but even though he can’t live or work independently, he can do some housework, my brother is very kind, and he sometimes takes the initiative to help me with favors.” Wu Jinpeng also sat next to his brother, “For a period of time, I worked during the day and went to a bar to reside at night, it was my brother who accompanied Wu Sheng, both of them, although both of them were physically defective, but they were very good friends to each other.”
”Very good friends? That’s a bit strange.” Chen Ge didn’t want to hide anything: “The world behind Wu Sheng’s door is filled with all sorts of imagery, all the imagery and all the reality is related, but I didn’t see your brother Wu Kun’s imagery behind the door, it’s as if there is no Wu Kun this person in Wu Sheng’s memory world.”
”That can’t be, the two of them stay together every day.”
”This is just the first thing that makes me feel strange, the second thing that makes me feel strange is the fan in Wu Kun’s hand, why would he keep talking about the fan?” Chen Ge pointed at Wu Kun’s somewhat frightening hand, “Although your brother’s intelligence is defective and below normal, he is by no means a deranged lunatic, he doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would stick his hand into a fan, so I think it’s very likely that there were other people present on the day of the accident!”
”You’re saying that my brother’s hand was pressed into the fan by someone?” Wu Jinpeng clenched his teeth at once.
”Why else would he keep talking about fans, fans, he was most likely reminding you.” As soon as Chen Ge’s words fell, Wu Jinpeng woke up Wu Kun.
Wu Kun who didn’t know anything leaned against the corner holding the fan, scared and angry.
”Little Kun, brother is here, your hand is being bullied? Don’t be afraid, have you forgotten that when you were little, brother helped you fight? Whoever dares to bully you, brother will go and beat up whoever, you tell brother okay?”
Wu Jinpeng spoke very fast, he was too angry and as a result, he directly scared his brother.
Wu Kun hugged the electric fan, draped in a thin blanket, crawling around on the ground while screaming.
”Do you still let people sleep!”
The soundproofing of the rental house was poor and the neighbors had an opinion, Chen Ge and Wu Jinpeng hurriedly combined their efforts to control Wu Kun.
”Little Kun, don’t be afraid, brother is by your side.” Wu Jinpeng touched Wu Kun’s head, but his eyes looked at Chen Ge: “When you reminded me like this, I really remembered something, my brother’s condition has always been very stable, but ever since his hand was injured by the fan, his condition has worsened a lot.”
”After that incident, did your brother have any other unusual behavior?”
Wu Jinpeng thought for a while, “There really are, I came back from work several times, I saw my brother hiding in the corner alone staring at his own shadow, and sometimes he would sneakily hit his own shadow a few times.”
”The one who injured Wu Kun is the shadow of Liwan Town? But according to the shadow’s character, if Wu Kun got in his way, he would directly kill Wu Kun and wouldn’t stay at all, could it be that he was careless?” Chen Ge didn’t expect to find clues from Wu Jinpeng’s younger brother, “Apart from the fan, did Wu Kun say anything more strange?”
”You let me think about it.” Wu Jinpeng’s double eyebrows wrinkled, “Right, at that time we lived in the old town, Wu Kun would always run very fast when he went out, seemingly unwilling to stay on the floor we lived on, I once asked him why, he pointed at our neighbor’s door, shouting ghost, ghost, ghost one after another!”
”Old Town? Where did your family first live in Old Town?”
”We first lived in Happy East Street in the old town of Hanjiang, then we moved to the eastern suburb of Hanjiang, and after living there for a while, we moved to the western suburb of Hanjiang again because of our work.” Wu Jinpeng told Chen Ge all the addresses that he had rented.
”Your family has lived in the old city center, Jiang Ming also lived in the old city center, Fan Yu also lived in the old city center when he was a child, is the old city center that evil?” Chen Ge memorized the detailed address of Wu Jinpeng’s previous residence, and he was ready to go there now to take a look.
”Wait a moment, I remembered another thing.” Wu Jinpeng opened the wooden case of his guitar and took out a clay figure with Wu Sheng’s name written on it from inside, which was black and seemed to be made of clay mixed with blood and pinched, “When we lived in the old town at that time, that strange neighbor gave my family a shrine, saying that as long as it was placed in the house, Wu Sheng would surely be able to speak within nine years.”
”What about that shrine?”
”The shrine was so big and inconvenient to hold that we left him in our rental house in the eastern suburbs when we moved for the second time, and the new tenants felt that the shrine was unlucky and moved him to the basement again.” Wu Jinpeng handed Chen Ge the clay sculpture in his palm, “But the clay sculpture that was previously offered in the shrine, we always carry it with us.”
Everything all matched up, Chen Ge took the clay sculpture and placed it on his shadow, “Brother Peng, the shrine was not for a god, you guys were victimized by that neighbor in the old town.”
”Could it be that neighbor of mine who pressed Wu Kun’s hand into the fan?”
”Can’t be sure for now, I’ll investigate this matter clearly, you guys take an early rest, I’ll leave you alone.” Chen Ge picked up the clay sculpture that was placed on his shadow and returned it to Wu Jinpeng: “Remember to come to work tomorrow.”
Strangely enough, not long after the clay figure was placed on Chen Ge’s shadow, all the black and red blood stains on the clay figure disappeared.