Chapter 1070 – Nightmare Neighborhood

　　”I was scared to death when it showed up once, do you think I’d dare to continue living there? Now I’m all over here renting a house and then going to sleep at a friend’s house at night.” The tall man looked sad: “I came to Hanjiang to earn money, my job hasn’t stabilized yet, and I’m about to be driven crazy.”

　　”Understood, let’s do it this way, I’ll go home with you tonight, let’s take a look in that murder house.” Chen Ge told all the tenants his phone number: “Everyone go back tonight at ease, I’ll check room by room, I hope you can cooperate.”

　　”Can’t you go over and look now? To be honest, I really don’t dare to go into that room at night, once I go in I always feel my heart trembling, as if someone is staring at me.” The tall man seemed to have been scared out of his mind.

　　”You can guard outside first, and I’ll go in with you when the time comes.” Chen Ge inquired in detail about the strange events that the check-out people had experienced before, recorded all the strange events, and persuaded them to leave only after a good deal of persuasion.

　　Looking at the paper full of records, Chen Ge also felt strange.

　　If all the renters hadn’t lied, then the density of ghosts and monsters in this neighborhood was already on par with his haunted house 2-star scene.

　　There were strange things happening in almost every room, and all of them were the kind of things that were very }human, and the more you thought about it, the more scared you got.

　　”You’re really going to give them a refund?” The little boy’s mom poured Chen Ge a cup of tea, “I know you want to help me, but I advise you that it’s better if you don’t blindly follow and get involved.”

　　”It’s not easy for them, so I’ll help if I can.” Chen Ge had been hitting this neighborhood since he entered the agency, so even if the tenants didn’t have difficulties, he still had to create difficulties to help each other, which was the highest level of being helpful.

　　”That group of tenants don’t actually trust you, they just think you’re willing to help refund the rent, so they’re making up stories to trick you.” The little boy’s mom handed Chen Ge the freshly poured tea.

　　”You think they’re telling stories?”

　　”Of course, I’ve been working as an agent here for years, if it was really haunted I would have quit a long time ago.” The woman sighed, “The industry is in a slump, they’re just looking for reasons to check out.”

　　”You haven’t encountered a single strange incident in all your years of work?” Chen Ge was a bit surprised, the neighborhood the woman described was very different from the neighborhoods the tenants told about.

　　”It is indeed our company’s fault for concealing the murder house, but we are also victims, the landlord deceived us.”

　　”Not properly investigating the source of the house is your dereliction of duty, think about it differently, if you were living in a murder house with your child, would you feel a little uncomfortable in your heart?”

　　”What my child and I are living in now is a murder house, bought ten years ago, the price is a big lower than the market price, and we haven’t had any bad things happen to us in the ten years we’ve been living there. In fact, it’s all in the mind most of the time, as long as you don’t think about it, it really doesn’t matter if it’s a murder house or not.” The woman was bold and cheerful, strong inside, and soft-spoken, so it could be said that she had a very good personality.

　　”Your family lives in a murderous mansion as well?” Chen Ge slowly raised his head and looked at the woman, “And lived in it for ten years?”

　　”Maybe for you this matter is hard to understand, but for a real estate agent like me, I’ve long since seen it, not everyone cares about murder houses.”

　　”I mean you haven’t encountered anything strange in those ten years? Has your child said anything special to you?”

　　At the mention of her child, the woman lost her desire to chat, “He hasn’t even called me mom when he grew up, what special words could he have said? I thank you for helping me talk them out of it, but you can’t wake up someone pretending to be asleep, they’re just screwing you over, and they’ll definitely be coming over tomorrow to ask you for the deposit and rent.”

　　”That’s not certain.” Through the short conversation, Chen Ge discovered the problem in this woman, not only did she not believe in the existence of ghosts and monsters, she would subconsciously ignore all abnormal events.

　　So many tenants had said that there were problems in the neighborhood, but the woman stubbornly believed that it was just people looking for reasons to want to check out.

　　Moreover, Chen Ge saw that the woman’s expression didn’t look like she was faking, she was thinking from the bottom of her heart that the tenants were messing up, and didn’t even think deeper.

　　”I won’t bother you anymore, I’m going to take a look at where the tenants live now.” Chen Ge took the piece of white paper filled with writing and prepared for tonight’s mission.

　　The woman’s child was likely to be the ninth child chosen by the Underworld Fetus, and knowing more information about the child and his surrounding living environment could effectively reduce the difficulty of the mission.

　　”I’ll go with you, there are no guests now anyway, and even if there were they’d be scared off by the old tenants.” The woman cleaned up, lifted a bag, and walked away from the desk.

　　”Is it appropriate?”

　　”We have a service here that accompanies customers to view properties, and if you do give them a refund on their rent, then you’ll be a big customer for us.”

　　The two walked through the dilapidated streets and entered the somewhat older neighborhood next to them.

　　”The Jinhua and Jiu Hong neighborhoods used to be separate, but then for some reason, the wall in the middle of these two neighborhoods was removed and the two neighborhoods were connected together.”

　　The woman was very good at business, and she knew all the information about each suite by heart, “The one with the new white paint outside is the Jinhua Subdivision, built twenty-six years ago, where most of our tenants are concentrated, divided into two buildings, A and B, each with nine floors, which was considered a relatively high building in the old town at that time, and was equipped with an old-fashioned elevator, which is where my house is located, by the way. ”

　　”Next to those gray ‘short broken small’ is the nine Hong neighborhood, a total of four buildings, the openers when the grandiose words to build nine residential buildings, only built to the fourth building results in problems, but the name of the nine Hong neighborhood is retained.”

　　Entering the district after the woman’s state of mind obviously become better: “In fact, the nine Hong district is also very good neighborhood, east and west by the city river, south is a fruit forest, north and Jinhua neighborhood adjacent, in addition to lighting is not very good outside, overall very suitable for living.”

　　”Are all of you agents so articulate? This place is obviously so remote that you can barely see a single person, and you’re telling me that the environment is great?” Chen Ge looked around, Jiu Hong neighborhood is located in a very remote location, the east and west are separated from the city by two small rivers, to the south is a large eerie forest, if the woman didn’t say it before, he wouldn’t have thought that it was a “fruit” forest at all.

　　”At least the air here is good, no pollution, in the busy big city can have such a piece of pure land, is a rare thing.”

　　The woman had just finished speaking when she saw Chen Ge stop, she followed Chen Ge’s line of sight and realized that Chen Ge was looking at a notice posted outside of Building A in the Jinhua District to the effect that this place was haunted, and that one should never rent a house here.

　　”It’s all tenants venting their emotions.” The woman tore the notice away without moving.

　　After turning around, Chen Ge figured out the layout of the neighborhood, the Jinhua neighborhood was connected to the Jiu Hong neighborhood, with two entrances and exits.

　　The largest and most formal exit was there in Jinhua Subdivision, and the other entrance and exit was to the south of Jiu Hong Subdivision, leading to the eerie fruit forest.

　　”What is the significance of the neighborhood gate opening over there? Do people often enter that fruit forest?”

　　”In the beginning, the planning of the Jiu Hong neighborhood was prepared to make the south side into an ecological garden, but it didn’t work out, the concept was a bit ahead of its time, and a lot of people didn’t agree with it, so in the end it didn’t work out.” And broken, old and gloomy a neighborhood, in the woman’s mouth turned into a piece of paradise, perhaps this is her occupational disease.

　　”You don’t want to intentionally glorify this place, I’m here to solve a problem, not to rent an apartment.”

　　The Jinhua neighborhood was fairly normal, at first glance it looked like a very ordinary neighborhood with no problems other than relatively few owners and very quiet.

　　But the Jiu Hong neighborhood next door was different, it was a completely different atmosphere from the Jinhua neighborhood, not a single person could be seen around, and the whole neighborhood was empty.

　　”I said are there no people living in your neighborhood?”

　　”There are fewer people, but there are still some old tenants, the rent here is very cheap, and the prices around are low, so if you get used to living here you will feel very comfortable.”

　　”I’m afraid that the people who can get used to living here are not simple.” His pupils narrowed, Chen Ge swept over the several broken buildings, and just by hitching a casual glance, he discovered some very scary details.

　　There was a row of wigs hanging on the third floor balcony of the first building, the owner of the house seemed to be a hairdresser, and it was the first time Chen Ge had seen a scene like this drying hair.

　　”Is that row of hair?”

　　”The third floor of the first building of the Jiu Hong neighborhood houses a man who runs a hairdressing training course, and he moved all those heads and wigs home after his training course closed down. This side of the water network is dense and a bit humid, so he would occasionally take those wigs out to dry to prevent mold.” The woman, true to form, had worked as an agency clerk for years and knew the vast majority of the residents here.

　　”The neighbors don’t have a problem with him drying his hair on the balcony like that?”

　　”People only dry their hair during the day, and it doesn’t affect anyone else.”

　　Hanging wigs on the third floor was scary, but it was acceptable.

　　Moving his eyes upwards, Chen Ge saw the fourth floor, where there was a silhouette covered by the curtains, and that silhouette had stayed there motionless since Chen Ge came in until now.

　　”Do you know who lives on the fourth floor?”

　　”It’s a middle-aged man who lives alone, he seldom comes out and doesn’t know what he does, but he wears all name brands.”

　　”This person has a big problem ah, all famous brands would choose to live in your shitty neighborhood?” Chen Ge had memorized the location of the man’s room in his mind.

　　”Maybe it’s to avoid debts?”

　　Continuing to look up, Chen Ge made another discovery on the fifth floor.

　　The curtains of the leftmost room on the fifth floor were not drawn tightly, revealing half a telescope and a camera for filming.

　　If Chen Ge didn’t possess Yin pupils, he wouldn’t have been able to see that clearly, “Peeping Tom?”

　　He habitually looked towards the building across the street, the balcony on the fifth floor of the second building was drying women’s underwear in different colors and seemingly different sizes.

　　If it was just this, Chen Ge wouldn’t have cared, the problem was that he also saw several very large black plastic bags on the balcony where the underwear was drying, and he didn’t know what was inside.

　　”Hey! It’s rude for you to stare like that.” The woman whispered a reminder, “There’s a pair of sisters living on the fifth floor of the second building, not too old, from the countryside, pristine and simple.”

　　”Pristine and simple?” Chen Ge stood in the neighborhood, feeling a bit headstrong, the problems in this neighborhood were much more serious than he had imagined.

　　Most of the normal tenants had moved out, and the tenants that stayed he felt were more or less abnormal.

　　”In addition to being careful of the Knight Ghosts, we need to watch out for the tenants as well.”

　　There were many factors to consider, and it was very difficult to identify the little boy’s abnormality, but Chen Ge had no choice but to go up there.

　　After turning around for about half an hour, Chen Ge’s forehead was sweating and he felt a little tired.

　　”You can’t do anything with this physical quality, how long has this been going on?” The woman and Chen Ge kept contacting before realizing that the man in front of her was actually quite good, although he didn’t talk very reliably and was always suspicious, but at least he talked interestingly and his character was also very good.

　　Chen Ge wiped away the sweat on his forehead, he himself was also a bit strange, before, his physical strength had always been very good, and he would rarely feel tired, but as the Underworld Fetus mission continued to go on, his physical fitness began to decline without him realizing it.

　　”There are two conditions to fulfill in order to become a human being, a coffin to bury the past and a body to hold the newborn, could the body that the Underworld Fetus is missing be me? Or perhaps when he is truly complete, I will become crippled?”

　　Today was the last day of the Underworld Fetus mission, Chen Ge knew that rambling thoughts wouldn’t help him, but he just couldn’t help it, as if his body instinctively sensed that something bad was about to happen.

　　”You look terrible, are you suffering from heat stroke? Do you want to go to my house first to rest for a while?”

　　”Good.”

　　The woman didn’t expect Chen Ge to agree directly, she froze for a moment, then led Chen Ge into Building A of Jinhua District.

　　They took the old-fashioned elevator to the fourth floor, and before they even stepped out of the elevator, they heard the cries of a child.

　　”Oh no!” The woman jogged to the 401 door, opened the door and rushed in.

　　The house was a mess, plastic cups were thrown on the sofa, water stains were everywhere, the fruit bowl on the coffee table was overturned, and various fruits rolled on the floor.

　　Chen Ge followed the woman into the house, he found that all the lights in the room were all turned on, all the drawers and cabinet doors were all opened, even the refrigerator door was open, it seemed that someone was looking for something in the house.

　　Avoiding the fruits and garbage on the floor, Chen Ge entered the bedroom and saw a heartbreaking scene.

　　That child’s eyes were swollen from crying, his mouth was emitting a very terrible scream, his teeth were clenched together, and his face had a very painful expression.

　　He seemed to be unable to control his emotions, his arms desperately slapping the woman, and he kept using his teeth to bite the woman’s shoulder.

　　”Do you need help?”

　　”It’s fine, Xiang Nuan is just scared.”

　　The shoulder had already been bitten out of blood, that woman still maintained her movements, the boy pounded the woman’s body hard, while the woman gently hugged the boy, her fingers slowly patting the boy’s back.

　　After a few minutes of crying, the boy returned to normal, sitting on the floor, his expression pure as he fiddled with the woman’s sleeve.

　　”How long has he been in this condition? Why don’t you send him to Peizhi School?” Chen Ge had a lot of questions in his mind, but in order not to disturb the woman, he waited a long time before asking.

　　”I don’t know what to tell you.” The woman covered her shoulders and looked at the boy on the ground, “Xiang Nuan, is different from other children.”