Chapter 1067 – The Coffin That Buried the Past
Coming to the Living Coffin Village again, Chen Ge’s mood was a bit excited, he had only collected a small portion of the severe ghosts the last time he came over, and most of them had escaped.
The Living Coffin Village was different from other scenarios, most of the ghosts and monsters here were related to mountain legends, and were highly distinctive.
”My completion level of the Living Coffin Village trial quest was very low, that door I just went in to take a look at it and then came out, I didn’t explore it in depth at all, perhaps the door hides the secret of the Well Throwing Female Ghost.”
The Casting Well Female Ghost had existed for an extremely long time, she was very mysterious and knew many hidden secrets, and seemed to have entered the depths of the Scarlet City through the Blood Gate.
As the night wind blew, Chen Ge didn’t feel eerie, he just felt very cool.
Under the leadership of Sister Jiangling, Chen Ge entered the Living Coffin Village once again.
Dragging his skull-crushing hammer and holding a comic book in his hand, he went in door-to-door just like the staff in charge of the census in the community.
In the Living Coffin Village, a coffin was parked in the main hall of every house, and there was nothing wrong with worshipping ancestors, but because of the existence of the female ghost who had thrown herself into the well, these customs had been distorted, and coupled with the constant influence of the “gate”, it ultimately led to the emergence of this special scene in the Living Coffin Village.
People living in the metropolis would never have imagined that there is such a “paradise” hidden in the middle of the wild mountains.
”After such a long time, the Living Coffin Village still hasn’t changed.”
Revisiting his hometown, Chen Ge was very emotional in his heart, and he was quite satisfied as he looked at the comic book full of harvests.
Sweeping from the head of the village to the center of the village, the white paper lanterns on the gates of the old mansion shook uneasily, and more and more figures began to appear on the small square in the center of the village.
The villagers who lived here spontaneously converged together, and they did not look like they were welcoming Chen Ge, each and every one of them had a gloomy face.
History was strikingly similar, something similar had happened when Chen Ge had first entered the Living Coffin Village, except that it wasn’t him and the villagers who had confronted each other in this square in the first place.
”A few of them look quite familiar.” Chen Ge and Jiang Ling’s sister took a step forward, “Don’t look like you dare to speak out, there’s no deep hatred between us, and the last time I came over, I was also chased by you all the time.”
As Chen Ge spoke, a bit of red clothing protected his side.
The villagers had behaved themselves a lot better, just like a simple folk.
The door to the mansion on the other side of the village was opened, and a woman wearing various accessories stepped out from it, her surname was Zhu, she was one of the most trusted people by the female ghost of the casting well, and she was usually the one who managed the village.
”Hello, we meet again.” Chen Ge and the employees looked towards the woman surnamed Zhu, and the other party looked embarrassed before finally squeezing out a smile.
”Chen Ge, what are you doing here with us in the middle of the night?” The woman surnamed Zhu said stiffly.
”Everything is fine with Jiang Ling, you don’t need to worry.” Chen Ge first chatted about Jiangling for a while before slowly stating his real purpose: “Actually, I came over today because there are some things I want to discuss with the red clothes in your village, don’t worry, just discussing some things.”
The moon was dark and the wind was high, the villagers were huddled together, the woman surnamed Zhu was frowning tightly, those who didn’t know what was going on inside would probably still think that this was some unscrupulous developer who wanted to demolish the ancestral home and seize the land.
”She never came out of that door since she appeared last time, and the ghost baby was taken away.” The woman surnamed Zhu looked at the red clothes behind Chen Ge and hesitated for a moment before speaking the truth.
There were two red clothes in the Living Coffin Village, the female ghost who threw herself into the well was of unfathomable strength, but she had suffered serious injuries from trying to turn into a human being, and as for the ghost baby, her strength was very average, only a little stronger than Men Nan.
”It seems like she might have encountered trouble behind the door.” Chen Ge pondered for a while, “There’s no other way, it’s going to be midnight zero soon, she can’t come out, so we’ll have to enter behind the door to find her.”
If it wasn’t for the fact that he hadn’t been idle, Chen Ge would have long wanted to enter behind that door in the Living Coffin Village again to take a look.
”This isn’t too good, is it?” For the villagers of the Living Coffin Village, the ghost of the woman who threw herself into the well was the god of the village, and they often held rituals just like the ancients worshipping the river god, and that door was equivalent to the place where the “god” lived.
”There’s nothing wrong with it, if we make some things clear, there will be no misunderstandings in the future.” Chen Ge remembered the location of that door, his memory had always been very good.
After asking the woman surnamed Zhu for permission, Chen Ge carried his backpack and went with his employees to the home where the female ghost of the pitcher was born and found the door.
Waiting for midnight zero hour to arrive, he pushed the door in with the help of a few red coats.
A dense blood mist wrapped around his entire body, Chen Ge’s pupils slowly narrowed, and he quickly noticed that something was wrong.
”How is it possible?”
The Living Coffin Village behind the door was almost leveled!
Terrifying scratches remained everywhere, as well as countless traces of chains scratched through!
”The Living Coffin Village behind the door is destroyed?”
Chen Ge could hardly believe his eyes as he had his red-robed employees guard his side on high alert.
”Blood filaments and curses have soaked the earth, just standing here makes one feel deeply uneasy.” Chen Ge looked carefully for a long time, his eyes moving over the chains, the lingering curses, and the blood filaments, “Did Dr. Gao do this? I saw him once in Liwan Town, and at that time, he was holding his wife’s head, and his body was wrapped in black iron cables.”
Dr. Gao was already a top redcoat when he was in Liwan Town, and he and Zhang Ya shared Shadow’s heart equally, and now he might have become a murderous god just like Zhang Ya.
”The Weird Tales Association did come to the Living Coffin Village back then, but they returned that time to no avail because of my stirring ……”
The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more he felt that the murderer was Dr. Gao, but he didn’t understand why Dr. Gao, who was already a top redcoat, would come to the Living Coffin Village.
”Could it be that the female ghost who threw herself into the well really mastered the way to bring the dead back to life? Dr. Gao wanted to bring his wife back to life no matter if he was alive or dead, this is his biggest obsession, and he is likely to do anything for this obsession.”
Human nature is complex, but sometimes human nature is also simple, and Dr. Gao is a perfect example.
He was the best psychiatrist in Hanjiang, and at the same time, the most terrifying madman in Hanjiang.
Standing on top of the ruins, Chen Ge’s expression was cloudy: “When I was doing the Living Coffin Village quest, I encountered people from the Weird Tales Association, one of them was Wu Fei, and the other should be Dr. Gao who was carrying his wife’s corpse. At that time, Dr. Gao was fighting outside and Wu Fei entered behind the door, so the arrangement looked like it didn’t have any problems and was very logical ……”
If the suspect wasn’t Dr. Gao, Chen Ge wouldn’t even bother thinking about it.
”Could Dr. Gao have predicted his downfall a long time ago? Did he start making preparations to become a red coat from a very early stage? After Wu Fei was brought into the Living Coffin Village Gate by the Well-Throwing Woman Ghost, he became a breakthrough for the Well-Throwing Woman Ghost to understand the Weird Tales Association, but he also became the coordinates for Dr. Gao to determine the location behind the Living Coffin Village Gate.” The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more fearful he became, “Right! Before Dr. Gao committed suicide, he also set up a special scheme to run into that door of my haunted house and carved an evil ghost pattern on the door, which counts as one of the coordinates he left behind!”
”Starting from the living to plot, and then executing after death, this is a layout that centers around an entire city spanning life and death?”
Goosebumps rose on Chen Ge’s neck, “What exactly does Dr. Gao want? Just how many hidden secrets does he know?”
This former president of the Weird Tales Association made Chen Ge a bit flustered as well.
If it were anyone else, Chen Ge might have thought about grabbing the other party and using various means to force them to speak the truth.
But this method wouldn’t work on Dr. Gao, he didn’t even dare to think deeply about Dr. Gao’s words after knowing his true identity, and the other party would probably reverse brainwash him without even realizing it.
For someone like Dr. Gao whose IQ crushed his own, Chen Ge’s countermeasure was not to listen, not to look and not to think, and if he was able to catch it, he would just let Zhang Ya swallow it.
”If Dr. Gao regains his senses, the situation will become even more confusing.”
Chen Ge knew he was close to the truth, but the more the time came, the more cautious he had to be, “All the secrets are intertwined, everyone has their own obsessions, if someone will win, someone is bound to lose.”
Searching the Living Coffin Village behind the door with the employees, Chen Ge did not find anything related to the female ghost who threw herself into the well and the ghostly baby, the Living Coffin Village behind the door was about to be assimilated by the blood mist, it was as if the memories that wove the scene were slowly dissipating.
Fortunately, the door to the Living Coffin Village was about to shatter, so Chen Ge and the others could easily return the same way.
”The female ghost who threw herself into the well might have been to that blood-red city, and Dr. Gao might have been there as well, they must know something.”
Before coming to the Living Coffin Village, no one had expected something like this to happen, and after a fruitless search Chen Ge left the world behind the door with the help of the many red clothes.
The woman surnamed Zhu was standing right outside the door, in her opinion Chen Ge just went in for a while and came out, “Have you seen her?”
Chen Ge naturally knew who the woman surnamed Zhu was talking about, he closed the door of the house and made sure that the villagers outside couldn’t hear before speaking, “I have some very unfortunate news for you, the Living Coffin Village behind the door was razed to the ground, there were curses and bloodstains everywhere, I didn’t find that woman.”
”Didn’t find?” The Zhu woman’s face changed at once.
”Don’t be nervous for now, it’s also possible that she went somewhere else, but it’s best if you don’t tell anyone about this matter.” Chen Ge sighed, “Didn’t find her, then I have some questions I can only ask you.”
”Ask away, I’ll tell you whatever I know.” After learning that the female ghost who threw herself into the well was not inside the door, the Zhu woman’s attitude became better.
”That female ghost had a miserable life in life, and she had no peace after death, so she always wanted to be reincarnated as a human being, as the person who knows her best in the village, do you know what she has done in order to be reincarnated as a human being?” Chen Ge was curious himself.
”I don’t know the exact method, but I’ve heard my grandma say that as long as I prepare a coffin for her to bury the past and hold the newborn body, she won’t give me a hard time.”
”A coffin to bury the past? Holding a newborn body?”
”En, that coffin will bury all the memories and misfortunes, after that coffin is buried, you will lose everything you had before, which means you will no longer be yourself from that moment on.” The woman surnamed Zhu recalled what her ancestral grandmother had once said, “Holding a newborn body on the other hand refers to a newborn baby, I’m not sure exactly how to do it, but I know that every ten years the village will choose a baby girl who is free of defects and allow her to enter this room.”
”Putting a baby girl into the room where the ‘door’ exists? You leave a baby alone with a red-clad ghost?”
”She is gentle like a mother in front of the baby, but in front of the others ……” The woman surnamed Zhu glanced at the door of the room and didn’t dare to continue.
”I probably understand, for a female ghost who throws herself into a well, reincarnation and resurrection requires two conditions, firstly, a thorough burial of the past, and secondly, a suitable body.” Chen Ge stood in the room, everything that once happened in Liwan Town was now finally all tied together, “The so-called variety I heard about in the eastern suburb is planting a soul into the heart of another child, those cases in the eastern suburb should all be meditative fetuses making an attempt.”
For the Underworld Fetus, the body that greets the newborn is one of the nine children he chooses.
The female ghost who threw herself into the well could only choose from the village of living coffins, so she had been failing, but the Underworld Fetus was picking from the entirety of Hanyue, and there was a good chance that he would succeed.
As for the coffins that buried the past, this hint reminded Chen Ge of an incident that had happened in the eastern suburbs earlier.
When he was doing that quest related to all sorts of things at Donggang Reservoir, he had found a floating coffin underneath Donggang Reservoir.
Inside the coffin were countless dolls with names engraved on them, and the water ghost body he was looking for at that time was also among the coffins. (See Chapters 591 and 592 for details)
What was even more terrifying was that there was a large hole underneath that coffin, not knowing where it would lead to, but Chen Ge remembered very clearly that Xu Yin was constantly urging him to leave at that time.
”The past of the Underworld Tire is buried in that coffin?”
Chen Ge didn’t think that a coffin was enough to bury the Fierce God’s past, and he felt that the Stygian Fetus’s past was most likely buried in that hole at the bottom of the river.
”This is a very crucial piece of information!”
Chen Ge asked the Zhu woman some more things, then left the Living Coffin Village with Jiang Ling’s sister.
Not counting this night, he only had one night left, so he wanted to hurry to the Donggang Reservoir to take a look.
After traveling over the mountains, it was already dawn by the time Chen Ge returned to Hanjiang.
He rushed to Donggang Reservoir again without stopping, the place was so desolate that almost no cabs were willing to go there, and he was delayed on the road for some more time.
It wasn’t until a little after seven o’clock in the morning that Chen Ge finally arrived at his destination, and his body was about to collapse from exhaustion when he got out of the cab.
The Underworld Fetus Mission lasted for nine nights, and Chen Ge had entered several doors in a row during these nine days and nine nights, and this kind of tiredness wasn’t just physical, but more on a spiritual level.
Blowing in the river wind, Chen Ge carried his backpack towards the reservoir.
The air in this place was particularly good, and the only drawback was that it was very desolate and sparsely populated.
Chen Ge found the room of the reservoir administrator based on the memories in his mind, and he was about to knock on the door when he suddenly saw a mother with a child over the guardrail on the embankment of the reservoir.
The mother was holding the child’s hand and silently looking at the deep water.
”What do they want?” Chen Ge was worried that they would do something impulsive and rushed over.