Chapter 1137 – Please look into the eyes of the ten red coats and say it again
”Xu Yin, this is for you.”
A song was written on the blood-stained sheet music, each note dripping with a cheerful tune.
Rustling electric currents rang in his ears, and Xu Yin didn’t touch the sheet music in Chen’s hand.
He stood silently in place, just as he had always done, guarding Chen Ge’s side, not saying a word, indifferent to anything.
Deceived by his favorite person, hurt by his favorite person, dismembered by his favorite person.
Xu Yin seemed to have stopped being herself from the moment the knife pierced her heart.
All of his longings, all of his joys, all of his love was shattered to pieces.
He unsuspectingly drank the drink handed to him by his favorite person, and in a trance he saw his favorite person standing over him with a knife.
He wanted to scream, but could not make a sound. He wanted to struggle, but could not control his body.
He could only look at the face of his favorite person and let despair slowly engulf him.
Xu Yin had lost his sanity after becoming a stern ghost, and every time he encountered an enemy, no matter how powerful the other party was, he would charge at them like a madman.
He wanted his soul to be scattered, he wanted to end the despair and pain, and he had been actively seeking death.
It was such a person who met Chen Ge.
Whenever he went crazy with despair and was tormented by pain to the point of being unable to endure it, Chen Ge would always help the bruised and battered man up.
Chen Ge never looked at Xu Yin with fear or disgust in his eyes, only tenderness and concern.
In this world, the only person who could truly understand Xu Yin was Chen Ge.
”Take it, rather than you becoming stronger, I prefer that you can smile like before.”
Chen Ge handed the sheet music to Xu Yin, but when Xu Yin touched the sheet music, the worn sheet music was instantly dyed red with blood.
A song that had recorded beauty twisted and blurred, forming new words.
”I am a bird that has lost its voice, no one can hear my chirping.”
”My lover plucked all my feathers and stabbed a knife into my heart.”
”They took my body into their arms and said it was all actually for my own good.”
”I understand, I know.”
”The one she loved, she had to make with her own hands.”
Words of blood surfaced on the score, tearing apart the beauty and revealing the bloody cruelty.
Throughout the entire process, Xu Yin didn’t do anything, he was just holding the sheet music that was once there.
”Can’t go back ……”
The bird, scarred and pierced by a knife, had lost its crisp sound.
The sheet music that recorded the beauty was soaked with blood and slipped through Xu Yin’s fingers, being caught by a pair of hands as it was about to fall to the ground.
”It’s okay, don’t force yourself to embrace the beauty of the past, the current you can also have your own happiness.”
Chen Ge’s eyes seemed to harbor light as he patted Xu Yin’s shoulder, “Compared to when I first met you, you’ve changed a lot, I’ll always be there for you.”
After finding his heart, Xu Yin’s emotions stabilized a lot, he was no longer dominated by pain and despair, and other colors began to appear in his world.
”One day, I will make you, and everyone in the House of Horrors, happy.”
Chen Ge placed the blood-stained sheet music on the table, his eyes gentle yet full of power.
Standing in front of Chen Ge, Xu Yin opened his mouth but did not make a sound, his pale fingers gently brushed the sheet music as his body slowly turned into blood.
Xu Yin took away the sheet music, and as his body was about to dissipate, he wrote his last short song on that sheet music.
”The world kissed me with pain, and I am still willing to return the favor with a song.”
Calmness was restored in the prop room, and Chen Ge looked at the place where Xu Yin had disappeared.
In the last instant of Xu Yin’s disappearance, Chen Ge realized that an extremely terrifying power surged out from among Xu Yin’s body, and he seemed to have broken through some kind of shackles, carving black lines on his heart.
”Did Xu Yin figure something out? The aura he exudes has suddenly strengthened, and the aura on his body is starting to create a difference from the other red coats, and the black lines on his heart are very similar to the pattern on Zhang Ya’s skirt, could it be that Xu Yin has planted a seed of the Fierce God for himself.”
”Could it be that what I drew from the black cell phone is so useful to the red clothes? No, Men Nan there didn’t have any increase in her own strength other than her favorability towards me skyrocketing, so it seems that this item also varies from person to person.”
The items extracted from the carousel sealed Knight Ghost’s past, and those items were able to help Knight Ghost and Red Clothes become perfect, but they were ultimately just external objects.
The fundamental reason why Xu Yin had changed so much was because of Chen Ge.
Who would have thought that a ghost who is determined to die would meet the gentlest of people?
……
At 8:10 p.m., the door of a grocery store on West Street in the old town was smashed open.
Various snacks and groceries were thrown all over the place, and not long after, a young man wearing a white shirt was dragged out of the room.
”Brother Panther, Brother Eagle, this doesn’t involve family, as we agreed before, I’ll give you the money.” The young man had blood on his face, but he struggled to get up from the ground as if he couldn’t feel the pain.
”Do you think we will still believe you? What a cunning rabbit! If you hadn’t kept changing places to hide, would we have found us here?” Breaking the beer bottle in his hand, a bare-chested middle-aged man walked out of the house, with a scar at the corner of his eye and a leopard’s head tattooed on his arm.
”Brother Panther! Three days at most! I will definitely get the money together and send it to you!” The young man slumped to the ground, emphasizing repeatedly.
”What will you pay back?” Brother Panther grabbed the broken beer bottle and stuck the sharpest end in front of the young man’s face, “I see that your crippled grandpa’s little store is worth a few bucks, so let him sell the store, and he might be able to come up with that amount.”
”No way! Absolutely not! This is my grandfather ……”
”What words are you wasting! What qualifications do you have to say no?” The other man patted his waist, as if there was a knife hidden there.
”Don’t mess with my family, I’ll give you the money no matter what! Three days, give me three more days!”
”Fine, if you don’t hand over the money to me after three days, then I want one of your hands.” Brother Panther grabbed the young man’s hair and made the young man lying on the ground look at his eyes, “There was a man who also wanted to renege on his debt before, then I chopped off one of his hands, the blood flowed all over the place, and I couldn’t stop it, do you want to take a look at that hand? As a souvenir, I’ve kept it.”
”No need, no need, I will definitely find a way to pay back the money.” The young man humbly knelt on the ground until Brother Panther and Brother Eagle left.
He wiped the blood from his face and pushed open the door of the grocery store with his head down.
Drinks and bottles were broken all over the place, shelves were overturned, and a crippled old man sat in the center of the modest room.
The old man was old and had been hit on the head with a bottle, the blood very visible in his white hair.
”You are?”
In addition to the old man in the hut, at some point there was also a middle-aged man in a red tunic, who was holding alcohol and cotton swabs, and was very careful to remove the broken glass slag from the old man’s wound.
”Why did that group of people only hit your grandfather and not you?” There was not the slightest bit of emotion in the man in red’s voice.
”My grandfather wanted to keep this small store, so he fought with them ……”
”How much do you owe them?”
”Three hundred thousand, in fact, I owed them fifty thousand at the beginning, and the interest rolled over they are now making me pay back three hundred thousand.” The young man ran to the old man’s side and helped treat the old man’s wounds, he kept grabbing the old man’s hand, his heart wasn’t as calm as it appeared on the surface, “I’ve already paid them back seventy thousand, but they’re still coming to call for the money, I’m really out of money.”
”Why do you owe them money?”
”Because ……”
”You like to gamble?” The middle-aged man in red spoke directly without lifting his head.
”I …… en.” The young man didn’t dare to speak again, and he was even more afraid to look at the old man’s face.
”Those who like to gamble can’t win.” The middle-aged man in red stood up, his scarlet eyes staring at the young man, “If you can find a job and get down to work, I can help you pay off your debt.”
”You are willing to help me?” The young man was already desperate, he looked at the man in red with an incredibly complicated mood, “Thank you, I will definitely pay you back! Can you tell me your contact information!”
”I’m helping you because in you, I see that humble self that was once lying on the ground. I was also desperate, but no one helped me at that time.” The man in red’s eyes were filled with blood, “I don’t need you to pay back your debt, I just need you to take care of your grandfather, and if you still gamble in the future, I will take your life.”
The man in red walked towards the outside of the small store, the young man hurriedly chased out of the room, “Where are you going?”
”I’m going to go and collect a debt from the group of people who just left.”
”Do they owe you money too?”
”Money?” The man in red held out his arm in his pocket, “They owe me a hand.”
……
Several pairs of men and women were having a forgetful orgy in the VIP box of Jia Hao Nightclub, when the lights of the box flashed a few times and then suddenly went out, as if someone had pinched the circuit.
”Groove! Power outage? Where’s the waiter!”
”Little Leopard! What kind of shitty place did you pick? Why is there no one in the hallway?”
”What a bummer!”
The ear-piercing singing disappeared, and the nightclub was frighteningly quiet, as if everyone’s mouths were sewn shut.
”Anyone? Numb! It’s pitch black, what the hell!”
Brother Panther and Brother Eagle followed behind a big fat man, the three of them walked out of the box, they wandered around for quite a while before they saw someone.
The man was sitting in the hall, wearing a blood-red tunic.
”Hey..! Calling you! Are you deaf?” Panther kicked the couch aside, “Have you seen the waitress here?”
The man in red took a sip of the wine in his glass, he didn’t even look at Brother Panther and walked straight towards the big fat man.
”This man is a bit strange.”
”What are you doing! Stop!” Brother Eagle blocked in front of Big Fatty.
”I used to owe you guys money, and the boss said I should pay it back.” The man in red took out a card from his pocket, “This is the money I owed you guys back then.”
Eagle looked at Big Fatty, and Big Fatty didn’t ask in detail, it’s a good thing for someone to come and send money, where is the reason not to accept it?
”I received the money, you can also leave.” Big Fatty always felt that the man in red in front of him looked somewhat familiar, and he had a very bad premonition in his heart.
”I’ve paid back the money I owe you, now you should also return the things you took from me.” The middle-aged man in red had one hand in his pocket as he stood in the center of the hall, countless strands of blood hanging down from the roof, scarlet blood roiling on the floor.
”What we took from you ……,” Big Fatty looked at the middle aged man’s face, his eyes slowly widened, his expression suddenly became twisted, and a name that was about to be forgotten surfaced in the middle of his mind.
Bai Qiulin!
”Don’t remember?” The middle-aged man’s scarlet eyes stared at the three people in the hall, his red clothes were like blood, and his sinister aura lifted the roof.
”That hand, I’ve been looking for it for a long time.”
……
At 9:30 pm, Chen Ge summoned all the red clothes in the middle of the underground scene.
After everyone waited for a few minutes, Bai Qiulin came late, the aura emanating from his body had also changed significantly compared to before, the flaws left behind by devouring Xiong Qing disappeared, and there was an additional power in his eyes that made people not dare to look directly at him.
Seeing the change in Bai Qiulin’s body, Men Nan skimmed his lips, “There’s one more red coat I can’t beat, annoying as hell.”
”Good, everyone is here.” Chen Ge clapped his hands, signaling everyone to be quiet, “I called you all here today to pick up our new coworkers.”
”You’re lying to the devil when you say that! Bringing so many red clothes to welcome a new coworker? Aren’t you afraid that the newcomer will die suddenly?” Men Nan muttered in a small voice before glancing enviously at Bai Qiulin, “When will I be able to become stronger?”
”There are a total of nine new coworkers, I’ve written down all of their information and characteristics, so everyone take notes so that you don’t find the wrong person when the time comes.”
After all the red coats had written it down, Chen Ge picked up the comic book and included everyone in it before taking a taxi and leaving the House of Horrors.
The first place he went to was a certain apartment building in the old town, where the pace of life was very slow and most of the people living here were some old people and children.
Climbing to the fourth floor in one breath, Chen Ge stopped at the door of the public restroom.
The dilapidated door was boarded up, and the landlord had added two large locks on it, with a few pieces of yellow paper stuck on the door head.
”This should be the place.” Chen Ge took out the skull crushing hammer from his backpack and opened the lock on the public bathroom door.
He pushed open the bathroom door and saw various newspapers and magazines scattered on the floor.
”It seems like no one has come in this bathroom for quite a while.”
Following the information provided on the black cell phone, Chen Ge came to the fourth cubicle, and he jiggled the cubicle door a few times, realizing that the cubicle had been locked from the inside.
Turning around and entering the third cubicle, he padded the newspaper and stepped on the toilet, picking at the partition and using his Yin pupils to look towards the fourth cubicle.
Inside the cramped cubicle sat an older man wearing black-framed glasses.
The uncle was full of fatigue and didn’t seem to be interested in anything, even if he found a living person lying next to him, he didn’t have the idea of scaring the other person.
”Hello! Do you want to change yourself with me?” Chen Ge shouted at the older man.
The middle-aged man sitting on the toilet looked around, then raised his head in puzzlement and reached out to point at himself, “You can see me?”
”Of course, I run a haunted house, isn’t it a normal thing to be able to see ghosts?” Chen Ge looked at the middle-aged man with a smile, “Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and start a new life?”
”No.” The middle-aged man lowered his head and continued to go read his own newspaper, not bothering with Chen Ge at all.
”I want to make a change with you, become my haunted house employee.” Chen Ge flipped through the anime picture book, and the sound of clattering pages resounded in the cubicle.
”Are you sick?” The middle-aged man raised his head impatiently, at this time, the entire public restroom was wrapped in blood, and not a moment later, ten red-clad heads emerged next to the partition.
”I’m serious, please look at the eyes of the ten red clothes and think about it again.” Chen Ge said rather sincerely.
Putting down the newspaper in his hands, the middle-aged man surrounded by the ten red coats rushed out of the cubicle and grabbed Chen Ge’s hand, “You and I are like old friends at first sight, my life is yours from today onwards.”
”Did that …… you wash your hands?”
”Aristotle once said that the person sitting on the toilet isn’t necessarily taking a shit; it’s also possible that he’s searching for the corners of life and pondering the ultimate mysteries of the universe.”
”And you know philosophy?”
”A little.”