"Calm down!"
Chen Ge silently made his way to the dam. He slowly approached the mother and son, and when he was about five meters away from them, he called out to them.
At this distance, even if the mother did anything rash, he would have enough time to save her.
Hearing Chen Ge's voice, the mother turned to look behind her with surprise. She did not expect someone to come so early in the morning.
"Can we have a little chat?" Chen Ge reached out his hand. He stopped where he was and maintained a suitable distance. That way, he would not give the mother too much pressure.
After experiencing so many things, Chen Ge was no different from a professional suicide intervener.
"Don't tell me you've misunderstood something?" The woman smiled. She held the boy's hand and wanted to return to the dam, but the boy refused. He whimpered and resisted with all his might.
The woman's tone and demeanor were very normal. She did not sound like someone who had been forced into a corner by life.
Sighing in relief, Chen Ge slowly walked toward the mother and son. "How could you climb over the railing with a child? It's too dangerous. What if you slip and fall? This dam is very deep, and I hear there are fish that are almost two meters long living inside. "
"I'm so sorry, I'll be more careful in the future." The woman held the boy's hand and used her body to shield the boy from Chen Ge's view of the boy's face.
"Don't get too close to the water, especially a child." Chen Ge knew there were water ghosts inside Eastern Jiujiang Dam. The boy stood at the edge of the dam and kept reaching out to touch the water. If the water ghost appeared now, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After much effort, the woman finally dragged the boy behind the railing. The boy did not appear to know how to speak. His throat was making muffled noises, and his hands gripped the railing. He kept making a fuss.
"He seems to like the water." Chen Ge felt that something was off.
"It's not that he likes the water. He just likes to come to Eastern Jiujiang Dam to play. I don't know why, but if he doesn't come to Eastern Jiujiang Dam at least once a day, he will make a fuss for the whole day."
"Your child …" Chen Ge's gaze skipped over the woman and looked at the child she was protecting behind her.
The child had a very cute face, but perhaps because he often cried, his eyes were especially red and bloodshot, not as clear as other children's eyes.
"I will be more careful in the future." The woman did not answer Chen Ge's question. She did not want to discuss her child with others.
Holding the boy's hand, the woman gently said to the child, "It's time to go."
There was a hint of heartache and concern in her voice. It was obvious that she loved this child very much, even if this child was different from other children.
"I've heard some things from the dam manager, but I don't know if it's true or not." Chen Ge said softly, "He told me that there are water ghosts in the reservoir and a sunken coffin. Some children saw black grass floating by the water and went to check it out curiously. In fact, the grass was the hair of the water ghost. When the children got close to the water, they were dragged down by the water ghost and locked in the coffin."
As Chen Ge spoke, he kept an eye on the child. He did not notice any abnormal reaction from the boy.
"You still believe in these things? The manager probably wanted to warn the children who came to the dam not to swim in the water. "The woman did not believe in these ghost stories.
"I have some pictures with me." Chen Ge took out his phone. He found the pictures of the police retrieving the dead bodies from the dam and the pictures of the mannequins that were taken out from the coffin.
The morning sun slowly rose, and the light fog above the dam dissipated. The scenery was beautiful, but the people on the dam were not in the mood to appreciate it.
Chen Ge held his phone and showed them the pictures that he had saved.
From other people's perspective, Chen Ge was a strange person. He stopped a mother and son early in the morning, told them scary stories, and showed them scary pictures.
A normal person's reaction would have been to say something and then find an excuse to leave, but the mother was different. She kept rebuking Chen Ge in front of her child.
Even though she had seen the pictures, the woman still did not believe in any ghost stories, and she kept insisting to Chen Ge that all the ghost stories were lies.
Initially, Chen Ge did not mind it, but he slowly felt that something was wrong.
The woman did not seem like she was trying to convince Chen Ge but more like she was trying to convince herself again and again.
Could she know something? But she refused to believe it?
Chen Ge had a good impression of this woman. After experiencing the ghost fetus' mission, he now respected parents who were good to their children.
Just as Chen Ge and the woman were trying to convince each other, the boy started to cry for no reason. He grabbed the railing and shook it hard, trying to get closer to the water.
"Did your child encounter something here?" Chen Ge turned his attention to the boy. He felt like he would not be able to get any information from the adult.
"No, the boy has been like this since he was very young. He can only calm down here, and I have no idea why." Once the woman mentioned her child, her voice would soften. It was clear that she did not want to hurt her child, and she did not want outsiders to think that her child was different from other children.
"I once worked at a children's home, and I saw a child like him, but the place the child wanted to go to was a haunted house." Chen Ge walked to the boy's side and squatted down before him. He followed the boy's gaze and looked down. "Are you looking for something? Is there something underwater that bothers you? "
The woman did not want Chen Ge to talk to her child. She pulled her child behind her, but the boy refused to let go of the railing, crying and making a fuss.
However, the woman had probably gotten used to this. No matter how hard the boy cried, she did not get angry, but the worry at the bottom of her eyes could not be hidden anymore.
"Can you tell me your name?" Chen Ge had always thought that he was popular with children, but the boy before him had completely ignored him and kept crying.
"I have toys here. Do you want to play with them?" Chen Ge opened his backpack to take a look and then silently closed it.
"I'm sorry, but we've been out long enough. It's time to go back." The woman picked up the crying boy and tried to take him away.
Chen Ge continued to look at the water and asked probingly, "Are you looking for your past?"
Seeing that the woman was going to take the boy away, Chen Ge stood up and added, "Are you looking for the ghost fetus' past?"
He was just testing the boy. He felt that there was something strange about the boy, that was all. But to his surprise, when he mentioned the ghost fetus, the boy stopped crying.
It was very sudden. Even the child's mother did not expect this.
The wind blew through the dam, and the boy's eyes moved to Chen Ge for the first time. It appeared like the term ghost fetus had a special meaning for him.
"Sir, what did you say earlier?" The woman stopped moving and turned to look at Chen Ge.
"It's nothing." Chen Ge's expression was serious, and he gave off a very scary feeling. It was like a patient who had gone to the hospital because he suspected that he had a terminal illness. After the examination, the doctor held the patient's report and refused to say anything.
That was how the woman felt. The more Chen Ge refused to say, the more curious she became because this had never happened before.
"Fine, it's fine if you don't want to tell me." After a long silence, the woman bowed at Chen Ge. She was about to leave when Chen Ge's voice suddenly came from behind her.
"Are you willing to believe me?"
Stopping again, the woman's expression was rather helpless. "What are you trying to say? Can you stop beating around the bush? "
"Your child might not be your child." When Chen Ge said that, the woman was obviously angered. She ignored Chen Ge and turned to leave.
"I know what I said will make you uncomfortable, but I don't want to lie to you. There seems to be another person living inside your child's body." Initially, Chen Ge just wanted to give it a try. He did not expect that after he mentioned the ghost fetus, the boy would have such a reaction. This meant that there was a memory related to these two words deep inside the boy's mind.
In other words, Chen Ge had a feeling that he had found the last child chosen by the ghost fetus.
Assuming his earlier speculation was not wrong, the ghost fetus had buried his past inside the cave at the bottom of the dam, and the boy would subconsciously come here every day. Obviously, he was attracted by the memory and wanted to search for his past.
The chance of the ghost fetus being inside him was very high. Of all the chosen children, only this boy was attracted by the ghost fetus' memory.
Of course, this was all Chen Ge's own speculation. He could not rule out the possibility that the ghost fetus had set this up.
"I know my child is different from other children, but I think you have crossed the line by saying that." The woman hugged the boy, and there was a trace of tiredness in her eyes. It was as if she had explained this to many people before, but now she was too tired to explain anymore.
"Calm down, I have no intention of harming you or your child. Honestly, I have a lot of experience when it comes to saving children."
"Who are you? Have you seen us mother and son here before? "
"I know it is pointless to say anything more, but I hope you can trust me this once." Chen Ge opened his phone and clicked open the previous news on Jiujiang's local legal channel. "This is an article about me. I mean you and your child no harm."
It was difficult to gain the trust of a stranger, but Chen Ge had an advantage, and that was his' reputation 'in Jiujiang's law enforcement system. With the legal channel's guarantee, most people were willing to trust Chen Ge.
The woman's attitude softened a little. She looked at the articles one by one and suspected that they were all fake. She took out her phone to search online and found Chen Ge's real job — the boss of a Haunted House. This made things even more interesting.
"I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"You are quite famous." The woman looked gentle on the surface, but after spending some time with her, Chen Ge realized that the gentleness was just her camouflage. This woman was not willing to trust others. She appeared to have been relying on herself.
"Now, we can have a good talk." Chen Ge turned to the boy. "When did he become like this?"
"I don't know when it started. Perhaps he was born different. I don't think it's his fault. It's probably because we haven't learned how to accept him." The child was the softest spot in the woman's heart. It was the spot that made her strong, but it was also the spot that worried her the most. "The doctor said that my child is autistic and suggested early treatment, but I feel … Oh well, the doctor should be right. I'm just overthinking things."
The woman was hiding something. She was still unwilling to say it, and Chen Ge did not force her.
"Can you bring me to the place where the child usually lives?" Chen Ge wanted to go to the girl's home to see if he could find any clues, but it was not polite to say that directly, so he used a more roundabout way of saying it.
"That's not a problem, but I need to go to work. How about we meet at noon?" The woman handed Chen Ge a name card. Then, unwilling to waste any more time, she left in a hurry.
"A real estate agent?" Chen Ge glanced at the name card and placed it inside his backpack. "New Century Park is about to open. It's not practical for me to enter the dam alone."
He carried the backpack and found a spot that was away from the sun. He flipped through the comic and summoned Xu Yin, Xiao Bu, Meng Nan, and the water ghost.
"I have a favor to ask of you." Chen Ge stared at the water ghost. "In a bit, bring the three Red Specters with you into the dam. I need you to find a coffin. There is a big hole under the coffin. Go into the hole to look around and see if there is anything hidden inside."
"I can go alone. There's no need to trouble them." The water ghost's attitude was good, completely different from when he first met Chen Ge.
"Don't think that I'm asking them to follow you because I'm worried that you might run away. I want them to protect you. The hole is very dangerous, so don't let your guard down. "Chen Ge sent them into the dam and then stood next to it to wait.
Half an hour passed, and the Red Specters still did not return.
"Has there been an accident? That's impossible. With Xiao Bu around, even if we run into a Top Red Specter, we should be able to escape unscathed. "
After waiting for a long time, just as Chen Ge was about to have the other Red Specters explore the hole, the smell of blood thickened in the air, and the few Red Specters silently appeared beside Chen Ge.
"Did you find anything?" Seeing how pale the water ghost's face was, Chen Ge had a bad feeling in his heart.
"The hole seems to be connected to a few other rivers in Jiujiang. There are many forks in the road, and we've been walking for a long time, but we still haven't reached the end." Meng Nan was the first to speak. "And there seems to be something very scary inside the hole. Even Xiao Bu feels threatened by it."
"Even Xiao Bu feels threatened by it? That is not something a normal Red Specter can do. "
"The thing giving off that scary presence does not appear to be a Red Specter." The water ghost's face was pale. Initially, he had wanted to find a chance to escape, but once he entered the hole, he became obedient and followed closely behind Xiao Bu.
"Then, what do you think it could be?"
"I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be a ghost or a lingering spirit. By the way, we also found these inside the hole … "The water ghost took out two crude hand-carved statues, one male and one female. The names of Chen Ge's parents were vaguely carved on them.
"Where did you find them in the hole?"
"There were statues of the two of them everywhere in the cave, but all of them were broken. It was as if someone had deliberately smashed them after they were carved. We searched for a long time before we found two that were still relatively intact."
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