Chen Ge looked at the names of his parents on the statues and was silent. No one knew what he was thinking.
The sun rose, and Chen Ge summoned all the Red Specters back into the comic. He held the two statues and stood next to the dam.
"I heard the shadow say something before. When the ghost fetus is born, he might use the whole city as his mother."
The water was so deep that one could not see the bottom. No one knew what kind of scary things were hiding under the clear surface.
"The ghost fetus probably wishes to have his own parents."
Putting away the two statues, Chen Ge turned to leave. "All the shadow's changes started after he entered the world behind the door. The door inside Haunted House changed him completely. After the ghost fetus mission is over, I'll push open the door to take a look. "
He hailed a cab to return to New Century Park. Chen Ge helped his employees do their make-up, and then he entered the staff breakroom to sleep.
He had to conserve his energy, because tonight was the last night.
When the sun rose again, the person who opened his eyes to see the sun might not be himself anymore.
Haunted House was on the right track. He did not need to worry about it anymore. The employees had gotten used to the life there. Their 'lives' had been extended in a different form.
At 1 pm, Chen Ge was woken up by the alarm. He grabbed his backpack and left the staff breakroom in a hurry. Following the address on the name card, he arrived at the old city.
"After so many twists and turns, I'm back here."
The old city was huge, and Chen Ge had only been to a small part of it.
He held the name card and asked around. Finally, he found the woman's workplace next to a very old residential area.
"Jiu Hong Housing Agency?"
The words on the sign were missing, and the glass door was left open like there was some kind of malfunction. It could not be closed properly.
The electric pole that faced the door was covered with many advertisements. There were those for marriage, those for skin diseases, and missing persons.
Several bicycles were parked messily next to the electric pole, and one of them had a punctured tire.
The tiles at the door were neat, but other than the part at the door, the tiles on both sides were cracked. When one stepped on them, black dirty water would leak out from the cracks.
As Jiujiang continued to develop, many places in the old city had been renovated, but this place was obviously an exception.
Chen Ge took the name card and looked into the room. An old man was sighing on the old wooden sofa. He was holding a muddy cup of tea in his hand.
There seemed to be someone arguing in the room. It was so loud that even Chen Ge could hear it clearly from the doorway.
"Big sister, the place you recommended to me is really not suitable for me. No matter what, you have to return it today!"
"Yeah, it's not like we're being unreasonable. The problem is, who would dare to live in such a house?"
"Check out! Don't look for excuses! It hasn't been easy for us either! If you insist on not retreating, then we'll come here every day to cause trouble! "
A few people gathered around the service desk. The crowd was agitated. They seemed to have been cheated by the real estate agent.
"Sir, what are they arguing about?" Chen Ge walked into the house quietly. He did not inform the staff and sat beside the old man as if he was very familiar with him.
"Are you also here to rent?"
"Yes. Why else would I come here?" Chen Ge turned to look at the service desk with curiosity. The boy's mother had a bitter expression on her face as she kept explaining something to the people around her.
"Do not come here to rent a house. You'd better leave now," the old man whispered to remind Chen Ge.
"Why?" Chen Ge asked casually.
"Don't be greedy. Even though the rent here is the cheapest around here, but …" The old man scratched his head and squeezed out four words. "It's a long story."
"Don't tell me half of it. You're making me more and more curious."
"The main reason is that I don't know how to explain it. In any case, his house is very strange. Many things happen to it. In the past, there was a rumor that his family ran a haunted house business." The wrinkles on the old man's face squeezed together. "You know about haunted houses, right? Their boss rented out houses where people died at a low price and did not tell the tenants about it. Coincidentally, the tenant was a ghost story lover. He searched for real ghost stories on the internet every day, and one night, he came across a report on the internet, and the picture used in the report was his home. "
"That was so exciting." Chen Ge realized that the old man was quite interesting. He even knew about real ghost stories.
"It was more than exciting. He was almost scared to death. The bed that he slept in had a dead body lying on it, and the pool that he usually bathed in had been soaked in a dead person's body. Who would be able to take that?" The old man sighed, and the wrinkles on his face deepened.
"Then, did the landlord let him return the room?"
"If he did, then he wouldn't have been exposed. The landlord refused to give him a refund. He only promised to move the tenant to another room. The tenant was here to work, and he did not have much money on him, so he agreed. Then, the worst happened." The old man put down the cup. "He started moving in the afternoon, and it was not until night fell that he arrived at his new home. When he arrived, he started to search online to see if there were any murders related to his new home, and the result …"
"And the result?" Chen Ge was curious. He had a feeling that the tenant would not be that 'lucky'.
"The previous room was a homicide, and this room was a suicide. When the wall was peeled back, there was hair hidden inside." The old man found it hard to continue.
"This is too much. Is the landlord purposely trying to scam the tenant?" Chen Ge put down his backpack and leaned against the back of the sofa. He changed into a more comfortable position. "Then, did the landlord move the tenant to another room?"
"The tenant was scammed twice, so of course he wouldn't dare stay here anymore. He would definitely ask for a refund and leave."
"This time, the landlord will give him a refund, right?"
"Do you see the tall man at the innermost part of the room? If the landlord had promised to give him a refund, he wouldn't have come here to cause trouble. "The old man smiled bitterly.
"So, it's him!" Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision to study the man. The man had dark circles around his eyes. Even though he looked tall, he was lacking in Yin energy, and his Yang energy was weak.
"He was not the only one who was scammed. The landlord refused to give a refund, so everyone had to band together to demand an explanation. In the end, the landlord refused to show up, and the black-hearted boss of the agency went into hiding, leaving only the receptionist on duty every day. " The old man sighed. "We've been here many times already, but they just won't give us a solution. Every day, I return to my own home in fear."
"I think you can call the police or contact the local reporters. This is indeed the agency's fault."
"We've tried everything we can, but there's nothing we can do because each of us has a different reason for checking out. Even though we all know that we're not lying, the people outside don't think so." The old man's words triggered Chen Ge's curiosity again.
"Each of you has a different reason for checking out?"
"Yes, for example, me. I can be considered the oldest tenant here. I can hear the bell every night at 12 o 'clock. I've been used to it for so many years. But recently, I realized that all the tenants around me can't hear the bell. I'm the only one who can hear the bell. " The old man sighed helplessly. "If we didn't know about this, we would've stayed here, but now that we know, who would dare to stay here? Furthermore, no one will believe this reason. They'll think that I've gone senile. Just thinking about it makes me angry! "
The old man stared at the cup of murky tea. "It's not easy to find a place to stay, but there's no helping it. The number of tenants around here is decreasing, and it's getting scarier when I go home at night."
As Chen Ge chatted with the old man, the people at the service counter started to argue. The boy's mother kept apologizing. She was used as a shield by the boss.
"Sir, then why did they want to check out of their rooms? It can't be that everyone's place is haunted, right? "
"Only the tall man's place is haunted. The other people's reasons are similar to mine," the old man said softly. The old man said in a low voice, "The couple who quarreled the most fiercely are new here. They live on the fourth floor. Young people like to stay up late and always sleep very late. One day, when they were playing a game, the man heard the window creak. He thought the window was not closed properly, so he ran over to take a look. Then he saw a shadow waving at him from the fourth floor of the opposite building. It seemed to be inviting him over. "
"Shadow? What happened next? "
"He liked to play games. At the time, he did not pay much attention to it, but now that he thought about it, it was quite scary. The next day, he volunteered to stay by the window. At 2 am, he saw the shadow waving at him from the fourth floor, asking him to go over. " The old man had a talent for storytelling. The cadence of his voice was able to draw Chen Ge into the story.
"Did he go over?"
"Who would dare go at night? He waited until noon the next day before he went over, but the people at the building told him that the room was empty. It had been vacant for a long time. "The old man lowered his voice." Do you think that's the end of it? The night he returned, he stayed by the window again. There was no one waving at him from the opposite building, but the glass window at his home kept creaking in the middle of the night. It sounded like someone was crawling outside the building, trying to pry open his window. "
"What the f * ck, that's so scary." Chen Ge held his heart. "Could it be a psychological effect?"
"Who can say for sure? The key thing is, we are not the only ones who have encountered strange things." The old man pointed at a student who was filling out a document to the left of the counter. "That student kept hearing a woman whispering to him upstairs, like she was whispering something. He thought that the soundproofing on the floor was bad, so he did not pay much attention to it. After a week, his upstairs neighbor came down to warn him not to talk to anyone in the middle of the night. It was then that he realized that the woman's voice did not come from upstairs, but probably from somewhere inside his home. "
"That might not be the case. Both upstairs and downstairs can hear it so clearly. Perhaps the woman is hiding in the middle of the floor, hiding a body inside the wall?" Chen Ge analyzed the situation out of habit.
"Now that you put it that way …" The old man's expression shifted. "That's possible!"
"I was just saying. Don't take it to heart."
"Then how can I not take it to heart?!" The old man stood up and walked toward the counter. His determination to check out became stronger.
To share the pressure with the boy's mother, Chen Ge also hurried over. "Everyone, please calm down. I will help you solve your problem."
To be honest, the boy's mother did not have a good impression of Chen Ge at first, but when she was surrounded by a group of people, Chen Ge had stepped forward to save her, and that had changed her view of Chen Ge.
"Who are you?" This was the first time that many of the tenants had met Chen Ge. They were angry, and the anger in their hearts was directed at Chen Ge.
"Who I am is not important. The important thing is that I can help you solve your problem." Chen Ge carried his backpack and stood before the crowd. "Can you give me one night? There's no point in you making a scene like this. Why don't you trust me this once? "
The few tenants were also conned by the black-hearted boss. They did not trust Chen Ge at all. "This is ridiculous. Why should we trust you? You keep dragging it out, and you come up with all kinds of excuses and excuses. In any case, you just don't want to help us solve our problem …
"If I can't solve your problem tonight, I will rent all of your rooms. I will pay for the deposit that the agent keeps, and I will refund the rent that the landlord refuses to refund. If you still don't believe me, we can sign the contract now. It will be written in black and white, and whoever breaks the contract will have to pay ten times the compensation. " After Chen Ge said that, the whole room became quiet, and all the tenants who were checking out turned to look at him.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course, but before you leave, you have to tell me everything you've experienced while renting the house, word for word." This was a business that did not cost Chen Ge anything. Not only would he be able to recruit potential employees, he would also be able to help desperate tenants, and he would be able to obtain the most direct and accurate information. "Line up, one by one."
The old man wanted to persuade Chen Ge to calm down, but seeing how excited the tenants were, he shook his head and did not say anything.
The experience of the students and the couple was similar to the old man's description.
The main focus was the tall tenant. He was in a very bad mental state. Two bad renting experiences had drained him. "Both of the places that I rented were haunted. The landlord and the agent worked together to lie to us. If they refuse to refund the rent, I plan to use legal means to protect my rights."
"Is there something that you haven't told the rest of us?" Chen Ge had a feeling that the man was acting strangely, like he was hiding something.
Suddenly being questioned by Chen Ge, surprise flashed across his eyes. After a long hesitation, he said, "I don't think you'll believe me, but in my dream, a dead person spoke."
"Anything can happen in a dream."
"The problem is, when I woke up, I opened my eyes and saw the dead person lying on the ceiling." The man did not seem to have told the other tenants about this. When he said that, everyone felt a chill run down their spine.
"Then, do you remember what the dead person told you in your dream?"
"Big brother, don't you think your focus is too strange? When you open your eyes and see the dead person lying on the ceiling, can you still remember what he said? "The man gasped. The mention of this sent chills down his spine.
"In other words, you've already forgotten what they said?" Chen Ge nodded and asked the next question. "Then, this kind of thing happens often, right? Or does it happen once in a while? "
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