Chapter 1019: A Person Composed of Curses
None of the people in the rental house noticed that Chen Ge’s shadow began to slowly change shape after absorbing the blood stains on the clay sculpture, like a sleeping woman gently turning over in her sleep.
”You guys rest early, see you tomorrow.” Chen Ge glanced at the watch on the wall, it was now two in the morning.
He came out of the rental house and didn’t go back to New Century Paradise, he directly took a taxi and rushed to the old town.
The dim light from the streetlights shone through the car windows, Chen Ge gazed at the quiet city and tightened his collar.
The old city center late at night was very different from the daytime, you couldn’t see any lights, couldn’t hear any sounds, with the continuous development of Hanyang River, the people living here were getting less and less, most of them moved to the new area.
Walking through the dark streets, Chen Ge only used ten minutes to find the place where Wu Jinpeng had rented before.
The rental house was two streets away from Fan Yu’s home, and the environment on this side was even worse, and the stench in the air was even stronger.
”How have they been living here all this time? Am I the only one who can smell this stench?” Chen Ge recalled that when he came to find Jiang Ming’s mother during the day, the neighborhood committee elder sister and Jiang Ming’s mother didn’t know if they were used to it or what was going on, they didn’t seem to be able to smell the strange stench in the air at all.
Walking out of the alley, Chen Ge held onto the rusty railing to the second floor of a certain old house, and he looked toward the distance, this was not the most remote and shabby place in the old city.
”204…… found it, this is the one.” Chen Ge stopped in his tracks, in front of him was a wooden door painted in red, with a rusty chain attached to the doorknob: “After Wu Jinpeng moved out, this room hasn’t been rented out again?”
Flipping through the comic book, Chen Ge summoned Men Nan out, “Nan, do me a favor, go into this room and take a look, and be careful never to go to the room next to it.”
The innermost room on the second floor, room 205, was the room where Wu Kun once said that there were ghosts, and it was also the tenant of that room who gave Wu Jinpeng the shrine and the clay sculpture, just to be on the safe side, Chen Ge only allowed Men Nan to enter room 204 first, and if there was no luck, then he would conjure up a few more red coats to enter room 205 together.
Blood dripped down the doorway, and Men Nan disappeared for less than a minute before reappearing, “Everything is normal in the house, I can’t see any problems, but I always feel a bit uncomfortable staying in there.”
”You take Xu Yin, take this red high-heeled shoe, and then go to the next room 205 to take a look.”
The three red coats entered room 205, and after a few seconds passed, a strange sound suddenly came out from inside the room, as if a knife had pierced a balloon filled with water, followed by Chen Ge hearing the sound of bones being misaligned and torn.
”What happened?”
Blood threads spread on the door panels, and the thick smell of blood drifted uncontrollably in all directions, Chen Ge knew that Men Nan and the others had encountered something, and decisively flipped through the anime albums wanting to release Boo and Red Raincoat as well.
This side is like hell on earth, five or six meters away from the corridor on the other side of the lights were turned on, you can hear a man’s disgruntled shouting and cursing and footsteps.
Just when that family was about to come out, the door of the rental house 205 in front of Chen Ge was suddenly opened from the inside.
”Chen Ge, come look!”
Dodging into the house, Chen Ge instinctively covered his mouth and nose; the room was filled with a thick stench.
Gently closing the door, Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to survey this rental house.
The area of the hut was small, only thirty square meters, the walls were covered with yellowed newspapers, and there was dust everywhere, this place hadn’t been inhabited for a long time.
”What were you guys fighting with just now?” Chen Ge was a little curious.
”Not something, it’s a curse.” Men Nan tore down the newspaper pasted on the wall, the back of the newspaper, and the walls of the rental house were all covered with fine pieces of hair and small, small pieces of black blood stains, looking very }human.
”These are the curse?”
”En, the broken hair and blood stains came from different people, when we came in just now we saw those cursed black threads entwined together, all over the room, as long as someone comes in accidentally they will be trapped, unknowingly under the curse.” Men Nan signaled Chen Ge to step back and not get too close to the walls.
”Is the curse in this room the same as the one in Liwan Town?”
”Not the same.” Men Nan, who was only as tall as Chen Ge’s knees, hugged her red high heels and said in a serious manner, “According to this sister, the curse in the rented room is just the negativity that escaped from another curse when it was completed.”
”That means that someone had once completed a very terrifying curse in this rental house?”
”It can be interpreted that way, after all, the negative emotions that escaped were only a tiny fraction.” Mennan nodded, being the strict and stereotypical type himself.
”A very tiny portion of negative emotions can make the room look like this, just how vicious is that curse itself? How terrifying?”
”Can’t imagine, at least this sister has never seen such a terrible curse.” Mennan lifted her red high heels up, “Can you hold them for me? To be reasonable I’m definitely not scared of her, I just don’t feel comfortable holding her shoes.”
”Can you guys tell what that curse has to do with anything based on what’s left in this room? Or can you guys tell who that curse was used to target?” Chen Ge ignored Men Nan’s request.
”We also don’t know who this curse was used to target, but we saw some information on the walls that this curse consists of nine parts.” Men Nan tore down all the newspapers on the innermost wall of the rental house.
A small person was drawn on the wall that was sticky with shredded hair and blood stains, and there were many words written crookedly on that person’s body.
”What is a person?”
”How does one form a person?”
”Eyes that see the world, ears that hear voices, a mouth that can communicate, a body that embraces the soul ……”
”A person also has to have memories, layers and layers of the past.”
”What is light?”
”Warmth, yes, people are warm.”
”They say man should also have love, what is love?”
”It seems to be missing something very important, come to think of it, what else does he have that I don’t?”
Lines of text cut the villain’s body into nine parts, each a different color.
”Is this painting a curse?” Chen Ge was a bit puzzled.
”Rather than a curse, it’s more like the dreaming of the house owner, and that should be what he thought about the most when he was casting the spell.” Men Nan added a moment later, “This curse brings us a very special feeling, as if there is a seedling growing up hidden amongst the heavy aura of death.”
”Nine parts, corresponding to nine children, the one who left behind this curse is most likely the Underworld Fetus, who also lived in the old city?”
There were no more clues inside the house, Chen Ge called the few red clothes back and walked out of the rental house.
”It could be bad if someone accidentally goes in.” Chen Ge locked up the house, he was going to wait until he had time later to “clean up” this hut properly.
”Just now, it seems like someone in this hut was getting ready to come out, since he’s still awake, it’s a good time to ask him something.” Chen Ge walked to the other side of the second floor, this hut was different from the house, with a layer of security doors on the outside and a layer of wooden doors on the inside, the person living in the house didn’t seem to be an unusual tenant.
”Anyone?”
Chen Ge lightly knocked on the door, a few moments later a middle-aged man’s very grumpy voice came out from the house, “Don’t fucking knock!”
The wooden door inside the rental house was opened, and a scruffy middle-aged man with a sweaty odor stood in the doorway, “Were you the one who made such a big noise outside just now? Are you new here? What time is it and you’re still not sleeping, if you keep messing around like that, beware I’ll call the police!”
”There’s no need to bother the police with this little matter, I want to ask you a few questions.” Chen Ge smiled politely, “Not for nothing, if you answer properly, I’ll give you a hundred dollars for each question.”
”Are you sleepwalking? At two or three in the morning you run to my door to ask questions?” The middle-aged man seemed to realize something and looked around, “Are you guys recording a spoof show?”
”First question, who is the landlord of this building?”
”I’m the landlord, what? Are you here to rent a room? Hurry up and leave, I won’t rent to people like you.” The middle-aged man himself was very scruffy, and his eyes were still full of disgust when he looked at Chen Ge.
”Second question, has room 205 at the innermost part of the corridor been rented out recently?” Chen Ge was too lazy to talk nonsense, if it wasn’t for the fact that he was more generous, he would have closed the door and let the red clothes go.
”Room 205 was rented out five or six years ago, the tenant pays me money every year, and he doesn’t often live over here, just let me keep the house for him all the time.” The middle-aged man scratched his hair that was stuck together.
”You didn’t rent it to anyone else in between?”
”No, people always pay me half a year in advance, and they’ll pay more every time.”
”What did that tenant look like? What occupation did you know?” Chen Ge had a feeling in his heart that this tenant was the Underworld Fetus.
”Who am I to tell you? Do you think tenant information is something you can just divulge?” The middle-aged man bristled.
”Tell me the man’s facial features and occupation, and I’ll give you another five hundred.”
”He’s a student, he first moved here five years ago, it seems like he had a fight with his family and ran away from home, it seems like he was just in middle school at that time, and he didn’t have much money on him.” The middle-aged man exposed the 205 tenant’s information in great detail, “He’s very average looking, has long hair, his body isn’t very good, he coughs a lot, and he likes to talk in his sleep.”
”Is that all? What you said is too general, kids like this are everywhere on the street, how am I going to find them?” Chen Ge himself didn’t hold much hope.
”You want to go find him?” The middle-aged man stared Chen Ge up and down for a while, then stretched out a finger: “You give me a thousand, and I’ll tell you a way to find him.”
”No problem.”
”After he ran away from home for a while, his mom came to my place to look for him. At that time, he wasn’t in the rented house, and his mom gave me a message that if he came back, let him go to the eastern suburb of Huai Ai Hospital to look for her, and his mom seems to be the head nurse of Huai Ai Hospital.” The middle-aged man wasn’t that sleepy anymore, and even though it was almost three in the morning, his eyes were glowing at the thought of earning a small two thousand dollars for answering a few questions.
”This information is rather crucial, provided you haven’t lied to me.” Chen Ge pulled the backpack zipper.
”How could I possibly lie to you? Hurry up and take the money, let me do the math, this is two thousand dollars!” When the middle-aged man saw Chen Ge open the backpack, his greedy eyes unconsciously glanced into the middle of the backpack and realized that there was a spine of a living person inserted diagonally into the bulging backpack.
”?”
Rubbing his eyes, the middle-aged man looked towards the backpack again, and apart from the spine of the living person, there was also a pair of bloody female high-heeled shoes in the backpack!
Crazy man? Pervert? Murderer? Fetishist?
Cold sweat ran down the middle-aged man’s face and he took a small step back.
”My cell phone is out of battery, open the door and I’ll give you cash.” Chen Ge’s body was pressed against the iron door outside, the corner of his mouth slowly rose, “Just open a thin crack.”
”No need, there’s no need, it’s just a few, a few questions, what do you need money for?” The middle-aged man took another step back, “I’ve answered everything that should be answered, I don’t know about the rest, that kid hasn’t come back for a long time, I guess he won’t even come back here in the future, so it’s better for you to look for him somewhere else.”
”Alright.” Chen Ge nodded, and in a responsible attitude, he asked the landlord once more, “You really don’t want the money?”
”No, no, really no!” The middle-aged man waved his hands repeatedly before closing the wooden door inside.
”Looks like there are still more good people in the world.” Chen Ge carried his backpack and headed downstairs: “I haven’t even heard of Huai Ai Hospital, it should be a private hospital, so I’ll just go over there tomorrow to take a look.”
Stretching his back, Chen Ge ran out of the old town without looking back.
”By the time dawn comes, there will only be five nights left.”
When Chen Ge returned to his haunted house staff lounge, the sky was already about to lighten, and he was lying on his bed just charging his cell phone when he saw a message from Li Zheng.
”Urgent! Return as soon as you see the message!”
”Chen Ge, hurry back when you see the message!”
There were many more similar messages, Chen Ge knew that the matter was urgent and immediately dialed Li Zheng’s number.
The phone was picked up after only one ring, and Li Zheng’s voice came from the other side of the phone, “Chen Ge, are you alright?”
”How could I be okay?” Chen Ge was confused.
”Yesterday we locked in on the location of Jia Ming and his group and made an arrest late at night, the little boy’s father, Zhen Thief, was killed by suspect Beiye, the little boy’s mother, Yu Wangqing, was seriously injured and is in the process of being resuscitated, and suspect Beiye was killed, but Jia Ming and the little boy weren’t at the scene, and we blocked off all the roads and didn’t see them.”
”With a child how could Jia Ming have escaped?”
”Jia Ming used Kitano and the child’s parents as bait from the start, he deliberately exposed them and then took the opportunity to move, using his companion’s life to buy time for himself, this guy is so vicious that he can’t be considered a human being.”
”It’s true that he can’t be considered a human being, but why are you suddenly telling me this, Team Lee?” These internal news Li Zheng normally wouldn’t tell Chen Ge, and since he chose to tell Chen Ge, it meant that what happened back there might have something to do with Chen Ge.
”Jia Ming and the others didn’t leave Hanjiang because they were looking for something, we’re not sure what he’s looking for for the time being, but we found a large amount of information related to you in the place where he’s hiding, and it’s likely that their next target will be you!”
”Looking for me? That’s …… terrifying.” Chen Ge almost said the four words “seek” directly.