Chapter 1072 – The Notification Slip
The words on the case sheet became – Died Tonight, with no designation saying who would die tonight.
”The Cursed Hospital tried to get at me, and this is their curse.”
Without showing his face, hiding in the shadows, and being able to complete the killings simply through unrelated people, Chen Ge had a new understanding of the Cursed Hospital.
Ordinary methods couldn’t deal with them, and they had to be doubly careful to do so.
”The Unsmiling and the Cursed Hospital are picking a fight to stop me, why are they doing this? Wanting to monopolize the Underworld Fetus? Isn’t this appetite a bit too big?”
Chen Ge put away the case sheet, after removing the word “you”, this case sheet from the cursed hospital should be able to be passed on to someone else.
”Perhaps they just want to get me wrapped up in the curse and make me weak so that they’ll be more certain of accomplishing their plans behind the door.”
The Cursed Hospital appearing at this time gave Chen Ge a wake-up call, he had to be careful of the Underworld Fetus tonight in addition to preventing the Cursed Hospital from laying their hands on him.
”Before we even enter the door, we’re already hooking up, these guys living in the shadows of the city really do have hearts one dirtier than the other.”
Doing whatever it takes, doing whatever it takes, fighting with such opponents every day, Chen Ge felt that it was already not easy for him to keep his sanity unaffected until now.
Chen Ge took the young man’s cell phone and sent a message to his family, telling the young man where he was at the moment before leaving.
He had something very important to do tonight and couldn’t waste too much time here.
At eight o’clock in the evening, Chen Ge took a taxi to Jiu Hong Intermediary, not a single light could be seen on the entire street, it was pitch black and very }human.
”It’s only eight o’clock at night, do people here rest that early?”
Jiu Hong Intermediary had already closed its doors, and Chen Ge walked towards Jinhua neighborhood alone.
”When I came during the day, it seems like there weren’t so many flyers posted on the walls on both sides of the street.” Chen Ge stopped and glanced at the walls, all the flyers were labeled with Xiang Nuan’s mother’s picture, calling her a liar, saying that she was a mistress adopted by the agency owner because of her indiscretions in her private life.
”These flyers are all newly posted.” Chen Ge casually tore off a leaflet, and he realized that there were still some edges left underneath the leaflet: “It seems that every day someone would come over to post it, and then it would be torn off every day. The person who tore off the flyer should be Xiang Nuan’s mother, and the person who posted the flyer is most likely a resident in the neighborhood.”
Entering the Jinhua neighborhood, Chen Ge felt a little uncomfortable, he could smell a faint stench, the odor was the same as the stench in Ying pupil and Yu see’s room.
”The other selected children only had that stench in their rooms, but here in Xiang Nuan, it’s the entire neighborhood that’s saturated with that stench.”
The situation was bad, that stench could only be smelled by Chen Ge himself, and every time he smelled that stench something bad would happen.
Tonight’s neighborhood was extraordinarily quiet, the two residences in the Jinhua neighborhood could still occasionally see a few families with lights on, next to the Jiuhong neighborhood there was darkness, just as if all of them were ghost buildings with no occupants.
Standing at the entrance of Building A, Chen Ge dialed Xiang Nuan’s mom’s phone, and the ringer rang for a while before the other party answered.
”Hello, I’m Chen Ge, I came to see the house in the afternoon.” Chen Ge reported his name, and he heard the sound of a child crying continuously from the other side of the phone, as well as the sound of things being broken.
”Sorry, something has happened on my side ……” The woman’s voice contained a hint of urgency.
”Do you need any help? I’m downstairs from you, I’ll go up right now.” Chen Ge directly hung up the phone without waiting for the woman to reply, and after he entered the building, he found that the stench had become even more intense.
The outside of the residential building in Jinhua District looked normal, but the inside seemed like it hadn’t been cleaned for a very long time, with all kinds of debris and garbage piled up in the hallway, all kinds of advertisements plastered on the walls, and a lot of leaflets abusing Xiang Nuan’s mother.
Each flyer had a photo of Xiang Nuan’s mom, and the woman in the black and white photo had a calm smile on her face, which contrasted sharply with the unspoken dirty words on the flyers.
Chen Ge could read people very accurately, and after a short contact, he felt that Xiang Nuan’s mom was not that kind of person, and this should be someone deliberately smearing her.
Without taking the elevator, Chen Ge walked through the dirty and messy hallway and came to the door of room 401.
”Are you okay?”
Standing outside the door Chen Ge could hear the sound of something being dropped and smashed, a moment later footsteps sounded, followed by the door to the room being opened.
Xiang Nuan’s mom stood in the doorway carrying two black garbage bags, her fingers were bleeding as if they had been cut by glass slivers.
”I may not be able to go with you to see the house today, Xiang Nuan suddenly got sick, taking medicine doesn’t work now.” The woman was in a hurry, she placed the garbage bag at the door and spoke before she was ready to close the door and go back, but Chen Ge grabbed the security door first.
”You can’t be busy alone.”
As the door to the room opened, Chen Ge smelled a pungent stench, which was stronger than the stench from any of the children’s homes before.
”What exactly is this stench emanating from?” Chen Ge had smelled the stench a long time ago, but he had been unable to determine the source of the stench.
At first, he suspected that the stench was emanating from those chosen children, but as he entered the gate and helped those children retrieve the missing parts of their bodies, the stench disappeared from those children.
That’s why he couldn’t determine the source of the stench until now, but he felt that this question that had been bothering him for a long time might be answered tonight.
The living room was a mess, the floor was full of water stains and garbage, the cheap cloth sofa had holes chewed out of it, the lamps were broken, the drawers had been yanked out of the cabinets and thrown together haphazardly, and there were still cold leftovers on top.
The woman had wanted to stop Chen Ge, but with the boy’s agonizing cries coming from the bedroom again, she couldn’t be bothered with Chen Ge and rushed into the bedroom.
”Xiang Nuan, what’s wrong with you? Tell mommy okay?”
Answering the woman’s plea was the sound of a lampshade being shattered, Xiang Nuan seemed unable to control himself, he kept making odd syllables out of his mouth and running around as if he was looking for something.
”He’s afraid, afraid of something.”
Terrified, fearful, uneasy, this kind of emotion Chen Ge had seen on the faces of many tourists, only that Xiang Nuan was showing it more thoroughly than those tourists, that feeling of fear seemed to be spreading out from the bottom of his heart, and was devouring him step by step.
Authorities are obsessed with onlookers, Chen Ge looked at the messy room and reached out to pull the woman away.
”Have any strange people come to your house lately?”
”No, other than you, no outsiders have come into this home for a long time.” The woman was emotional, it was torture for her as a mother to watch her child in such pain.
”Has he ever lost control like this before?”
”Usually it would be out of control, but like you saw this afternoon, a little coaxing would bring him back to normal, he’s never been like this before, even medication doesn’t work.” The woman was on the verge of tears, “Why don’t we call the emergency number? I’m afraid he’ll hurt himself.”
”If he hasn’t recovered within fifteen minutes have passed, then we can only send him to the hospital.” Chen Ge didn’t have a better solution.
The boy continued until he was exhausted before he finally stopped his frantic behavior, and he lay on the chopsticks all over the floor like a fish thrown on the shore, his chest heaving violently.
What made Chen Ge somewhat concerned was Xiang Nuan’s expression at this moment, he was clenching his teeth and still making noises in his throat, his features were distorted and full of hatred, but his eyes were full of tears.
”He seems to be asking for help?”
The woman had already run over first and hugged Xiang Nuan, she comforted him as she always did.
In his mother’s embrace, Xiang Nuan’s expression slowly returned to normal, he closed his eyes and seemed to have fallen asleep from exhaustion.
The woman placed Xiang Nuan on the bed, she stood next to him and silently looked at Xiang Nuan at this moment.
The calmed down Xiang Nuan did not have any difference from other children, and was even more adorable than the vast majority of children.
This scene was a bit heartbreaking to watch, Chen Ge didn’t bother them, so she stood guard at the door.
The woman simply tidied up Xiang Nuan’s bedroom and was busy until nine o’clock in the evening before she walked out of the room.
She looked very tired, that kind of fatigue emanated from the bottom of her heart, she seemed to have not had a good rest for a long time.
After cleaning up Xiang Nuan’s house, the woman still had to clean up the messy living room, which she had just cleaned up once during the day.
”Let me help you, I usually enjoy doing chores at home.”
”Aren’t you going to help those tenants look at the house? It’s nine o’clock now, they’re probably going to be waiting if we keep putting it off.”
”That’s okay.” Chen Ge worked very fast, and it only took him ten minutes to clean the house with the woman, and at the same time, he also took this opportunity to properly inspect Xiang Nuan’s house.
Unfortunately, the results made him a little disappointed, it was a very ordinary house, there was nothing strange in the house.
”Don’t you feel aggrieved when you clean so much and get so tired every day?” Chen Ge didn’t dare to directly talk about those flyers on the fence, he wanted to meander a bit and slowly guide the woman to tell the truth.
”I don’t know.” The woman placed the third bag of garbage at the door and gently pressed her band-aided fingers, “Before I had Xiang Nuan, I didn’t even know how to cook, and at that time, if I had thought that I would live like this in the future, I would probably have run headlong into the ground. But after having Xiang Nuan, watching him grow up day by day, I feel like I’ve become different from before.”
”Because you became a mother right?”
”Neither.” The woman touched her injured finger: “I didn’t think about that much, I just hoped that Xiang Nuan would call me mom one day.”
Chen Ge nodded and stood up, “Leave my phone number, in the future, if you encounter any difficulties that you really can’t solve, you can call me.”
”Thanks.”
”I’ll go to the other tenants first, I’ll contact you if there are any problems.”
The woman sent Chen Ge to the door of her room, and as soon as she opened the security door, she saw the advertisement flyer that had been pasted on her doorstep.
There were pictures of her all over the building, and at that moment Chen Ge felt that she was very aggrieved.
”Is it possible that the tenant is messing with you because you won’t return the rent?” Chen Ge asked in a low voice.
”I don’t know.” The woman shook her head as she broke down a little, “I don’t know who’s causing the rumors, every morning after I leave the house, the building will turn out like this, even if I tear up all the flyers, they’ll reappear the next day.”
”Posting so many flyers, it must take quite a few people together, you usually don’t notice?”
”No, these flyers all appeared after I got home.”
”The person who can clearly know when you’re coming home and posting the flyers has a high probability of living in this community, and may even be your neighbor.” Chen Ge lowered his voice: “They want to force you out?”
”It’s possible, Xiang Nuan yells a lot, and the neighbors all hate him very much.”
”Besides posting flyers abusing you, did they do anything more excessive?” Chen Ge gradually found a feeling: “Don’t hide it, these encounters are likely to be one of the reasons why Xiang Nuan developed.”
”There have also been some letters received ……”
”Letters?” Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, “Threatening letters? Can you show me?”
”Why don’t you go to the other tenants first, I’ll find them for you.”
”Good.” Chen Ge stood at the entrance of the stairs, and on his way out, he added a word of advice, “There might be other people coming over to look for you tonight, so it’s best if you don’t open the door for them.”
Tonight was the last night of the Underworld Fetus, all the people who were in the game would go all out, and this woman, as Xiang Nuan’s mother, would definitely be implicated as well.
”I will pay attention.”
After the door to the room closed, Chen Ge took out the comic book and summoned Xiao Bu and Men Nan to have them guard Xiang Nuan’s door.
The cursed hospital was most likely targeting Xiang Nuan as well, so Chen Ge had to be on guard.
Recalling the room numbers of those tenants in his head, Chen Ge dialed the phone number of one of the tenants, who also lived in Building A of Jinhua District, and his room was just above Xiang Nuan’s house.
”No one is answering? Didn’t we agree to check out his house at night?” Chen Ge walked towards the upper floor, there were a lot less flyers on the walls, and he quickly arrived at the door of that tenant’s room.
”Is anyone there?” Before Chen Ge’s raised hand could fall, he saw a worn envelope tucked in the security door.
”People still send letters these days?” A very bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart, flipping through the comic book, Chen Ge called out Water Ghost Redcoat, “Go open that letter and take a look.”
Not knowing what Chen Ge was up to, Water Ghost Redcoat tore open the envelope and fished out a blood-stained case sheet from it.
”Death notice slip?” Water Ghost Redcoat opened the case sheet innocently and read it out, “Please give the notification sheet to Xiang Nuan within three days, or else you’ll be next.”
Chen Ge took a step back, “Are you sure that only Xiang Nuan’s name is written on it?”
”En.” Water Demon Red Clothes stood still with the envelope, “Why don’t I feel right?”
”It seems that Bu Liao and the others have not only cursed me, but also Xiang Nuan ……,” Chen Ge said and suddenly stopped as he stood in the corridor and looked around, violently realizing that most of the floor occupants had similar envelopes stuffed on their doorways: “The letter Xiang Nuan’s mom was talking about, it can’t be this kind of cursed letter, right? That cursed hospital seems to have distributed letters to all its neighbors!”
He hurried back to Xiang Nuan’s door and knocked hard on the door.
A few moments later Xiang Nuan’s mom opened the door to the room, she happened to be holding a large cardboard box in her hand at that moment, which was densely filled with worn out envelopes.
”Chen Ge? Why are you back again?”
”The letters you just mentioned are these letters in the carton?” Looking at those envelopes, Chen Ge’s scalp tingled: “Did you open them all and read them?”
”Only opened part of them, all of them are Xiang Nuan’s death notices.” The woman’s face was dark, she didn’t know that the cursed hospital had focused the malice of everyone in the entire neighborhood on Xiang Nuan through these letters.
Everyone cursed him, everyone was an accomplice, everyone wanted him dead.
Looking at the envelopes in the carton, Chen Ge didn’t know why she felt that the scene was déjà vu.