Chapter 1088 – Grave House
Chen Ge looked towards the house along the doorway, even though he possessed Yin pupils, he still couldn’t see clearly.
Listening with his ears, there was no sound inside the house, and the entire building was frighteningly quiet.
”What a spooky feeling.”
Bowls of white rice were placed in the empty residential building, anyone who looked at it would feel uncomfortable.
”This building doesn’t seem to be for the living.” Chen Ge retracted his gaze, he had seen a lot and speculated based on the experience he already had.
”If it’s not for the living, can it still be for the dead?” Xiao Sun covered his hindquarters as he came between Wen Qing and Chen Ge, and from time to time, he would look in other directions, as if something horrible would burrow out there at any time.
”There are yang mansions, and there are yin mansions, there’s nothing strange about preparing accommodation for the dead.” Chen Ge looked at Wen Qing: “We are now in the middle of the Jiu Hong neighborhood, what is the difference between the Jiu Hong neighborhood and the Jin Hua neighborhood as you remember?”
”There isn’t any difference, the Jinhua neighborhood was built a few years later than the Jiu Hong neighborhood, that’s all.” Wen Qing recalled.
”Think about it again, don’t leave anything out.” The problems in Jiu Hong Subdivision were obviously much bigger than Jin Hua Subdivision, although Jin Hua Subdivision was dangerous, at least there were people present, the residential buildings in Jiu Hong Subdivision were basically dead.
”Nine Hong neighborhood is the earliest neighborhood built in the old city, the age of the house is very long, the house itself often have problems, now there are almost no tenants, usually I will rarely take people over to see the house.”
”The house itself often have problems?”
”Water leakage, bad lighting, noise, etc.”
”There aren’t even many tenants left, so why is there noise?” Chen Ge asked Wen Qing dumbfounded by one sentence.
”This …… our company is not too clear, at that time the boss went over to check, and did not find the source of the noise, and then this matter was left unsettled.”
”Your company is really bold, I doubt that you are even doing business with dead people?” Chen Ge had been to the real-life Jiu Hong neighborhood, and even in the daytime, the place was eerie.
”Don’t you dare joke about this, we are a serious agency.” Wen Qing’s face turned pale, she seemed to have suddenly remembered something: “The first group of householders in the Nine Hongs neighborhood have all moved out, the company is not sure for what reason, many of them left without saying goodbye, and we can’t contact them at all, so most of the houses in the Nine Hongs neighborhood are empty so far, and the small number of tenants has something to do with this. ”
”Those who moved out of the head of household did not come back again?”
”No, many of them left overnight, not even taking their house furniture with them.”
”Does this look like they’re moving to you?” Chen Ge was quite speechless.
”Once these strange events are publicized, who would dare to rent their house? At the very least, I definitely won’t!” Xiao Sun covered his hindquarters, he was one of the victims.
”I’m now somewhat interested in your agent’s boss, what kind of person dares to take over the Jinhua and Jiu Hong neighborhoods? I remember that the name of your company is Jiu Hong Agency, does he have any relationship with Jiu Hong neighborhood?” Chen Ge wanted to ask clearly before he started exploring.
”Our boss is very powerful, his surname is Jiang, and he has a lot of industries, not only in Hanjiang, but also in Xinhai. The Jiu Hong Agency was founded by him a long time ago, and it’s completely in a state of free-range, unless the company is about to collapse, then he’ll throw a sum of money over.” In Wen Qing’s mouth, their boss was a very powerful person.
”Jiu Hong Agency has been losing money, why does he still have to maintain this shitty place? Does he know any secrets?” Chen Ge looked at Wen Qing, “What’s your boss’s name?”
”Jiang Jiu, he’s also one of the major shareholders of the Eastern Suburbs Virtual Future Paradise, and he works with several companies.”
”Jiang Jiu?!” Hearing this name, Chen Ge sort of understood that the so-called Jiu Hong Agency was the conspiracy of Jiang Jiu and the Underworld Tire, and during these ten years, they were presumably screening tenants all the time and arranging some of them among the fixed rooms.
Thinking about it this way, maybe the owner of Jinhua Company was also related to the Underworld Tire, and that landlord was under the Underworld Tire’s compulsion to gradually become sick.
”Boss Jiang is very nice, he’s the one who let me work here in the first place, and he also helped me out with a place to live so that I could have my own home.” Wen Qing had a good impression of Jiang Jiu, but she didn’t understand that all the gifts in life had actually been secretly marked with a price long ago.
All the threads were strung together, the Jiu Hong neighborhood was prepared for Xiang Nuan, and this place was supposed to be used to cultivate the one who was most suitable to become an Underworld Fetus.
”Is that old fox’s construction of the virtual future paradise in Hanyue also the meaning of the Underworld Fetus? Or did he know certain hidden secrets through the Underworld Fetus and that’s why he wanted to build a paradise in Hanjiang?” Chen Ge had already memorized Jiang Jiu’s name in his heart, he didn’t have any intention to do anything to Jiang Jiu, he just wanted to wait until he left this door to go and make friends with Jiang Jiu: “Since the other party can cooperate with the Underworld Tire, there’s a possibility that they can cooperate with me as well. No matter what, I’m going to go for it and listen to what he has in mind.”
After figuring out these things, Chen Ge had a whole new understanding of the neighborhood in front of him, Xiang Nuan was different from the other children, at least in the Underworld Tire’s mind.
”We’ve stayed here long enough, let’s get ready to go upstairs.”
There were no door locks installed on the building, but the black fog outside couldn’t spread in, as if every building was protected by some kind of special power.
”There must be the remnants of a ragdoll here as well.”
Chen Ge led Wen Qing and Xiao Sun to the second floor, which looked even more dilapidated, with paper money thrown sporadically on the ground and a white inverted blessing pasted on the corner of the building.
”It doesn’t look like every household is having a funeral, why is there a bowl of white rice in front of every household? Who exactly is this rice for?”
The chopsticks were inserted right in the center of the white rice, not off to the side, and it was impossible to tell if it was for the people in the house or the people outside the house.
There wasn’t much difference between the second floor and the first floor compared to the first floor except for an extra fortune sign in the hallway, and even the scratches on the door of the room were more or less the same.
Being cautious, Chen Ge still pushed the door from room to room.
The doors in the Jiu Hong neighborhood were all wooden doors, some of the locks were already loose, and the gap between the door panel and the door frame was very large.
From left to right, the second floor of these households are numbered 201 to 204.
Chen Ge didn’t feel anything when he pushed the door of room 201, but when he pushed the door of room 203, he sensed that something was wrong.
When he pushed the door hard, the door plate did not move at all, and when he stopped pushing for a while, the door plate would vibrate slightly.
It was as if when he pushed the door, someone inside the door was also pushing against the door, and only after he left did the person inside the door slowly remove the force.
Taking out the skull crushing hammer from his backpack, Chen Ge touched the door handle of room 204.
This door was already very worn out, the door surface was full of children’s muddy handprints and not very obvious scratches, there was also a two centimeter gap between the bottom of the door panel and the ground, and the whole door was very loose, and it seemed to be very difficult to close it tightly.
”You two don’t come over first, keep an eye on the side of the building, don’t let anyone break our back.”
After Chen Ge finished speaking, he slowly walked to the side of the door panel, he reached out and pushed the bowl on the ground to the side, and when he was halfway there, he slammed down on the ground and looked inside along the gap underneath the door panel!
Eyes full of white flickered and black hair disappeared from beneath the doorway.
”Someone!” Chen Ge wasn’t sure if that was a tenant in the building, perception told him that what he had just seen wasn’t a person, or even some sort of thing woven from memory.
”Big brother, don’t be so startled, okay?” Little Sun jumped in shock, tearing the wound on his back and baring his teeth in pain.
”Quiet, don’t talk.” Chen Ge stood up again, he took out the comic book from his backpack and glanced at it, then slowly gripped the skull crushing hammer.
The employees hadn’t woken up yet, but there were already “ghosts” in the building, and now it was a situation he hated.
”Da da da da ……”
While Chen Ge was thinking, a strange sound came from the hallway, as if there was a child running inside the building, the sound quickly disappeared.
”It should be coming from the top floor, should we go over and take a look?” Xiao Sun was full of reluctance, but still spoke up.
”Don’t be in a hurry, one step at a time. In case the roof of the building is very dangerous, we don’t even have a place to escape.” Chen Ge didn’t choose to leave, he grabbed the door handle and shook it a few times with force, and after realizing that he couldn’t open the door, he kicked at the door lock!
”Boom!”
The door of the room opened in response, but the person who was lying under the doorway was nowhere to be seen.
”No offense, please forgive me.” Chen Ge slowly entered the house with the skull crushing hammer, “You guys pay attention, don’t touch the bowl of white rice next to you.”
This was Chen Ge’s first time entering a room in the Jiu Hong neighborhood, the floor area of the house was much smaller than that of the Jin Hua neighborhood, and the house was extremely dilapidated, it didn’t look like it was inhabited at all.
”Chen Ge, look at this.” Wen Qing pointed to the wall calendar behind the door, which had a cross drawn on it with a red pen, looking very hideous: “There’s no year on the calendar, and most of it is still missing, but there are a few days with words written on them ……”
There was no light in the room, Wen Qing took her own cell phone to illuminate it, she suddenly screamed when she put her face on the wall calendar.
”What’s wrong?”
”There’s, there’s hair.” Wen Qing’s cell phone fell to the ground, and the light shone on Chen Ge and Xiao Sun’s faces, reflecting their faces in white.
”Sorry.” Wen Qing apologized and hurriedly picked up the phone, but she didn’t know why, the scene just now would always come back to her mind, Chen Ge and Xiao Sun’s faces turned white and stared at her standing in the doorway, “They seem to be a class of people ……”
Xiao Sun didn’t pay attention as he walked around the house, but Chen Ge heard the words Wen Qing just said, he looked at Wen Qing’s shaking shoulders and didn’t go over.
”You guys take care not to get too far away from me, the three of us must make sure that we are in each other’s line of sight at the same time.” Chen Ge started looking for clues in the living room after he finished speaking, Xiao Sun entered the kitchen, while Wen Qing held onto the wall and slowly approached the bedroom.
The wooden bed was covered with moldy bedding, and the bedding seemed to be wrapped in something that was bulging.
The bed was leaning against the wall, with white mosquito nets hanging from the corners.
”I also have a mosquito net at home, when Xiang Nuan saw the mosquito net for the first time, he still refused to go in, crying and fussing.” Thinking of Xiang Nuan, Wen Qing’s heart slowly calmed down, she entered the bedroom and opened the closet next to her.
There were a few pieces of very badly moth-eaten clothes hanging in the worn-out cabinet.
”Never seen such clothes before, is it a cheongsam?” She reached into the closet with her hand, wanting to remove one to take a look.
Her fingertips touched the dress, and Wen Qing was about to take it out with force when suddenly five fingers reached out from somewhere in the closet and grabbed her hand!
Her face instantly turning pale, Wen Qing didn’t even have time to scream before that hand disappeared.
”Chen ……” Wen Qing wanted to speak, but she suddenly realized that she couldn’t open her mouth, she slowly looked down and found that there was a pair of pale hands that were strangling her neck to death.
A strange sound appeared in the closet that was only a few centimeters away from Wen Qing, the clothes that were hanging together were slowly squeezed apart, black hair seeped out from the cracks of the clothes, and then a pale face slowly squeezed away from the clothes and came a little bit closer.
Unable to speak, Wen Qing’s body was slowly yanked towards the closet by those hands, and Wen Qing saw that in those eyes full of whites, her own horrified and distorted face was now reflected.
”Boom!”
Just when her body was about to be dragged into the closet, the door was violently slammed shut.
With both eyes open, Wen Qing was startled, and it was only then that she realized that she was just standing in front of the closet, her hands maintaining the position of grabbing the door.
”Are you alright?” Chen Ge dragged the skull crushing hammer into the bedroom.
”It’s fine.” Wen Qing shook her head, she wasn’t sure if what she had just seen was an illusion or something that had really happened, ever since she had entered the black mist, she had felt that there was something wrong with her body, like those human heads in the black mist, it seemed like she was the only one who could see them.
”You don’t look like you’re fine.” Chen Ge pressed Wen Qing’s shoulders, “Don’t hold anything back, tell me everything you know.”
Many horror movies would have similar sequences where someone didn’t feel quite right, but when asked, he wouldn’t say anything, which would present a great hidden danger, and Chen Ge would never let such a thing happen to him.
So once he found an abnormality, he was bound to get to the bottom of it.
Under Chen Ge’s insistence, Wen Qing finally told the truth: “I just seemed to open the closet when I was in a trance, and there was a pale face hidden inside, he had all the whites of his eyes, a little bit of it squeezed out of his clothes, and he also choked me with his hand, and I had no way to call for help.”
”Only the whites of the eyes?” Chen Ge nodded.
”Do you have any clue?”
”No, I just think that his way of scaring people is quite worth learning.” Chen Ge looked to the closet next to him, “Let’s just call him the cabinet ghost for now, is it still inside this cabinet?”
”Probably.”
”What did you do just now?”
”Just as soon as I opened the door and then put my hand in the middle of my clothes, it appeared.”
Wen Qing saw Chen Ge open the closet before his words fell and put his hand among those clothes.
”Like this?”
”En.”
”But why hasn’t it come out yet?” Chen Ge fiddled with the clothes in the closet, and instead of waiting for the cabinet ghost, he instead had a harvest in the pockets of those torn clothes.
He found a few torn sheets, which were covered with bloody words.