The words on the medical record had changed to — 'Die Tonight'. It did not specify who would die that night.
"The cursed hospital wants to harm me. This is their curse."
They did not show their face and hid in the dark. They completed the assassination through the help of unrelated people. Chen Ge gained a new understanding of the cursed hospital.
Normal methods would not work against them. He had to be extra careful.
"The non-smilers and the cursed hospital are clearly trying to stop me. Why would they do that? To claim the ghost fetus for themselves? Isn't that a bit too greedy? "
Chen Ge put the medical record away. After removing the word 'you', this medical record from the cursed hospital should be able to be handed over to someone else.
"Perhaps they just want me to be cursed and weakened. That way, they will have more confidence in completing their plan behind the door."
The appearance of the cursed hospital reminded Chen Ge. Other than being careful of the ghost fetus that night, he also needed to be careful of the cursed hospital's dirty tricks.
"Before even entering the door, they have already started to scheme against each other. These people who live in the shadows of the city sure have dirty hearts."
They were willing to use any means necessary. To fight against such opponents every day, Chen Ge felt like it was not easy for him to be able to maintain his rationality until now.
Chen Ge used the young man's phone to send a message to his family. After telling them his current location, he left.
He had something very important to do that night, so he could not waste too much time here.
At 8 pm, Chen Ge hailed a taxi to Jiu Hong Intermediary. There was not a single light in sight on the whole street. It was dark, and it was very creepy.
"It is only 8 pm now. Do the people here rest so early?"
Jiu Hong Intermediary was already closed. Chen Ge walked toward Jin Hwa Apartments alone.
"When I came in the morning, the walls on both sides of the street did not seem to have so many flyers." Chen Ge stopped moving and glanced at the wall. All the flyers were pasted with Xiang Nuan's mother's picture. They claimed that she was a liar, that she had a promiscuous private life, and that she was a mistress kept by the boss of the intermediary.
"These flyers are all new." Chen Ge tore off a random one. He realized that there were still some edges left under the flyer. "It seems like someone comes to post them every day, and then they are torn down every day. The person who tore down the flyer should be Xiang Nuan's mother, and the people who posted them are probably the tenants here. "
Entering Jin Hwa Apartments, Chen Ge felt uncomfortable. He could smell a faded stench. It was similar to the stench in Ying Tong and Yu Jian's rooms.
"The other children only have this stench in their rooms, but at Xiang Nuan's place, the whole area is filled with this stench.
The situation was not good. Only Chen Ge could smell the stench, and every time he smelled it, something bad would happen.
Tonight, the residential area was exceptionally quiet. Occasionally, a few houses in the two residential buildings in Jin Hwa Residential Area would have their lights on. Jiu Hong Residential Area, on the other hand, was completely dark. It was as if all the buildings were haunted, and no one lived there.
Standing at the entrance of Block A, Chen Ge called Xiang Nuan's mother. The phone rang for a long time before the call was answered.
"Hello, I'm Chen Ge. I came to look at the house this afternoon." Chen Ge gave his name. He could hear the child's crying and the sound of things being broken coming from the other side of the phone.
"I'm sorry, something happened here …" The woman's voice revealed a trace of anxiety.
"Do you need help? I'm downstairs. I'll go up now. " Chen Ge hung up the phone without waiting for the woman's reply. After he entered the stairwell, he realized that the stench had thickened.
The apartment building at Jin Hwa Apartments looked normal from the outside, but it appeared like the interior had not been cleaned for a very long time. Various trash and trash were piled up in the corridor, and various advertisements were pasted on the walls. There were also many flyers that insulted Xiang Nuan's mother.
Every flyer had a picture of Xiang Nuan's mother. The woman in the black and white pictures had a peaceful smile on her face. It was a stark contrast to the profanity on the flyers.
Chen Ge was a good judge of character. After a short interaction, he believed that Xiang Nuan's mother was not that kind of person. Someone was purposely trying to smear her name.
Without taking the elevator, Chen Ge walked down the dirty and messy corridor and arrived at the door of Room 401.
"Are you alright?"
Standing outside the door, Chen Ge could hear the sound of things being broken. Moments later, there was the sound of footsteps, and then the door was pushed open.
Xiang Nuan's mother stood at the door carrying two black trash bags. Her fingers were bleeding, and they appeared to have been cut by glass shards.
"I might not be able to go with you to look at the house today. Xiang Nuan's illness suddenly acted up. Even the medicine is not working." The woman was panicking. She placed the trash bags at the door and prepared to close the door. However, Chen Ge grabbed the door before she could.
"You won't be able to handle this alone."
When the door was pushed open, Chen Ge was hit by a pungent Foul Odor. This stench was stronger than any of the children's homes that he had visited before.
"Where is this stench coming from?" Chen Ge had smelled this stench a long time ago, but he had never been able to pinpoint its source.
Initially, he suspected that the stench came from the children who had been chosen, but after he entered the door and helped the children find their missing body parts, the stench disappeared from the children's bodies.
Therefore, until now, he still could not pinpoint the source of the stench. However, he had a feeling that this question that had been bothering him for a long time might finally be answered that night.
The living room was a mess. The floor was covered in water stains and trash. The cheap sofa had holes bitten out of it, the light fixtures were broken, and the drawers had been pulled out from the cupboard. They were thrown together haphazardly. There were also cold leftovers on top of them.
The woman originally wanted to stop Chen Ge, but the boy's painful screams came out from the bedroom. She ignored Chen Ge and hurried into the bedroom.
"Xiang Nuan, what's wrong with you? Can you please tell your mother? "
The answer to the woman's plea was the sound of the lampshade shattering. Xiang Nuan appeared to have lost control of himself. His lips kept making strange noises as he ran around like he was looking for something.
"He is afraid. He is afraid of something."
Fear, fear, anxiety, Chen Ge had seen this kind of emotion on many visitors' faces before, but Xiang Nuan's reaction was more thorough than those visitors'. The feeling of fear appeared to come from the bottom of his heart, and it was slowly consuming him.
Chen Ge looked at the messy room and reached out to pull the woman away.
"Have there been any strange people who have come to your home recently?"
"No. Other than you, no outsider has come into this home for a long time." The woman was agitated. As a mother, seeing her child in such pain was a torment for her.
"Has he ever lost control like this in the past?"
"Normally, he would lose control, but just like what you saw this afternoon, he would return to normal after a little coaxing. He has never been like this before. Even the medicine did not help him." The woman was on the verge of tears. "Should we call the ambulance? I am afraid that he might hurt himself. "
"If he still does not recover in fifteen minutes, then we will have no choice but to send him to the hospital." Chen Ge did not have a better idea.
The boy only stopped his crazy actions when he was exhausted. He lay on the chopsticks that littered the floor. Like a fish that had been abandoned on the shore, his chest rose and fell rapidly.
What concerned Chen Ge was Xiang Nuan's current expression. He gritted his teeth, and his throat kept making noises. His face was twisted with hatred, but his eyes were filled with tears.
"He appears to be asking for help."
The woman had already run over to pick up Xiang Nuan. Like usual, she comforted Xiang Nuan.
In his mother's embrace, Xiang Nuan's expression slowly returned to normal. He closed his eyes like he had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
The woman placed Xiang Nuan on the bed. She stood beside him and looked at Xiang Nuan silently.
Xiang Nuan, who had calmed down, was no different from other children. In fact, he was cuter than most children.
This scene was rather sad to watch. Chen Ge did not disturb them but stood guard at the door.
The woman cleaned up Xiang Nuan's bedroom and busied herself until 9 pm before leaving the room.
She looked very tired, and the exhaustion radiated from the bottom of her heart. It appeared like she had not had a good rest for a long time.
After cleaning up Xiang Nuan's room, the woman still had to clean up the messy living room. She had already cleaned up this place earlier that morning.
"Let me help you. I like to do chores at home."
"Aren't you going to help the tenants look at the place? It is already 9 pm. If you continue to drag this out, they will get impatient. "
"It's fine." Chen Ge worked very fast. He only used ten minutes to clean up the house with the woman. At the same time, he used this opportunity to inspect Xiang Nuan's home.
Unfortunately, the result was to his disappointment. This was a very normal house. There was nothing out of the ordinary inside.
"You clean every day, and you work so hard every day. Don't you feel wronged?" Chen Ge did not dare talk about the flyers on the wall directly. He wanted to take a roundabout way and slowly lead the woman to tell the truth.
"I don't know." The woman placed the third bag of trash at the door. She pressed lightly on her finger that was covered with a band-aid. "Before Xiang Nuan, I did not even know how to cook. At the time, if I thought about this kind of life, I probably would have banged my head against the wall and killed myself. But after Xiang Nuan, seeing him grow up day by day, I feel like I have changed from the person I used to be. "
"Is it because you have become a mother?"
"Not really." The woman touched her injured finger. "I did not think about it that much. I just hope that one day, Xiang Nuan will call me mother."
Chen Ge nodded and stood up. "Why don't you give me my number? If you run into any trouble in the future and you can't solve it, feel free to call me."
"Thank you."
"I will go take a look at the other tenants first. If there are any problems, I will contact you."
The woman walked Chen Ge to the front door. Once she opened the front door, she saw the flyers that were pasted on her door.
The corridor was filled with her pictures. At that moment, even Chen Ge felt like she had been wronged.
"Is it because you refused to refund the rent that the tenants started this?" Chen Ge asked softly.
"I don't know." The woman shook her head. She was on the verge of breaking down. "I have no idea who started this rumor. Every morning, after I left the house, the corridor would become like this. Even if I tore down all the flyers, they would reappear the next day."
"With so many flyers, there must be a lot of people working together. Have you not noticed this before?"
"No, these flyers only appeared after I returned home."
"To be able to know when you returned home, the people who posted these flyers probably live in this residential area. In fact, they might even be your neighbors." Chen Ge lowered his voice. "Are they trying to chase you away?" "That is possible.
Xiang Nuan often yells and screams, and all the neighbors hate him. "
"Other than posting flyers that insulted you, did they do anything worse?" Chen Ge slowly got the feeling. "Don't try to hide it. These encounters are probably one of the reasons for Xiang Nuan's illness."
"I have also received some letters …"
"Letters?" Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. "Are they threatening letters? Can I take a look at them? "
"Why don't you go to the other tenants first? I will help you look."
"Okay." Chen Ge stood at the top of the stairs. Before he left, he reminded her, "There might be other people coming to find you tonight. You'd better not open the door for them."
That night was the ghost fetus' last night. Everyone who was involved would do their best. As Xiang Nuan's mother, this woman would definitely be dragged into this as well.
"I will be careful."
After the door closed, Chen Ge took out the comic and summoned Xiao Bu and Meng Nan. He had them stand guard outside Xiang Nuan's door.
The cursed hospital might have their eyes on Xiang Nuan as well, so Chen Ge had to be careful.
Trying to recall the room numbers of the tenants, Chen Ge called one of them. This tenant also stayed at Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, and his room was just above Xiang Nuan's.
"No one is answering? Didn't you say you would go to his place tonight? " Chen Ge walked up the stairs. The flyers on the wall had decreased a lot, and he soon reached the door of the tenant's room.
"Is anyone home?" Before Chen Ge's raised hand landed on the door, he saw an old envelope stuck on the door.
"People still send letters in this day and age?" A very bad feeling suddenly appeared in his heart. Flipping through the comic, Chen Ge summoned the Red Specter. "Go and open the envelope."
The Red Specter had no idea what Chen Ge was up to. He tore open the envelope and took out a medical record that was stained with blood.
"A death notice?" The Red Specter very innocently opened the medical record and read it aloud. "Please hand this notice to Xiang Nuan within three days, or else the next one will be you."
Chen Ge took a step back. "Are you sure Xiang Nuan's name is the only one written on it?"
"Yes." The Red Specter held the envelope and stood where he was. "How come I have a feeling that something is not right?"
"Looks like the non-smilers have not only cursed me but also Xiang Nuan …" At this point, Chen Ge suddenly stopped. He stood in the corridor and looked around. With a start, he realized that similar envelopes were stuck in the gap of most of the doors. "The letter that Xiang Nuan's mother mentioned, could it be one of these cursed letters? The cursed hospital appears to have distributed letters to all the neighbors! "
He hurried back to Xiang Nuan's door and knocked heavily on it.
Moments later, Xiang Nuan's mother opened the door. She was holding a large paper box in her hands, and it was filled with old envelopes.
"Chen Ge? Why have you come back? "
"The letters that you were talking about earlier are these letters inside the paper box?" Looking at the letters, Chen Ge's scalp went numb. "Have you opened them all?"
"I have only opened part of them. They are all filled with Xiang Nuan's death notices." The woman's face was dim. She did not know that the cursed hospital had used these letters to focus the hatred of everyone in the entire residential area on Xiang Nuan.
Everyone was cursing him, everyone was an accomplice, and everyone wanted him dead.
Looking at the letters inside the paper box, for some reason, Chen Ge felt that this scene was very familiar.
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