"Xu Yin, this is for you."
Many songs were written on the blood-stained music sheet, and every note was filled with joy.
The sound of static echoed in his ears, but Xu Yin did not touch the music sheet in Chen Ge's hand.
He stood where he was silently, just like how he had always been, guarding beside Chen Ge. He did not say a word, and he did not care about anything.
He was deceived by the person he loved the most, hurt by the person he loved the most, and dismembered by the person he loved the most.
It was as if from the moment the knife pierced into his heart, Xu Yin was no longer himself.
All the hope, all the happiness, all the love had been shattered.
He drank the drink handed to him by the person he loved the most, and in his daze, he saw the person he loved the most standing next to him with the knife.
He wanted to scream, but he could not make a sound. He wanted to struggle, but he could not control his body.
He could only look at the face of the person he loved the most, and let despair slowly swallow him.
After Xu Yin became a Specter, he lost his mind. Every time he encountered an enemy, no matter how strong the enemy was, he would charge forward like a madman.
He wanted to destroy his own soul, he wanted to end the despair and pain, he had been actively seeking death.
It was this kind of person who met Chen Ge.
Whenever he was driven mad by despair or tortured by pain, Chen Ge would help him up from the ground.
There was no fear or disgust in Chen Ge's eyes when he looked at Xu Yin, only warmth and concern.
In this world, the only person who could truly understand Xu Yin was Chen Ge.
"Take it. Compared to making you stronger, I hope you can smile like before."
Chen Ge handed the music sheet to Xu Yin, but when Xu Yin touched the music sheet, the tattered music sheet was instantly dyed red.
The songs that recorded the good times twisted and blurred, forming new words.
"I am a bird that has lost its voice, no one can hear my cry."
"My lover plucked out all my feathers and stabbed a knife into my heart."
"They hugged my body and said that it was all for my own good."
"I understand, I know."
"The person she loves, she wants to personally create."
The bloody words appeared on the music score, tearing apart the beauty and revealing the bloody and cruel side.
Throughout the entire process, Xu Yin did not do anything. All he did was hold onto the music score.
"I can't go back …"
The bird was riddled with scars and its body was pierced by a knife. It had already lost its crisp voice.
The beautiful music score was soaked in blood and slipped through Xu Yin's fingers. Just as it was about to fall to the ground, a pair of hands caught it.
"It's okay. Don't force yourself to accept the beauty of the past. You can have your own happiness now."
There was light in Chen Ge's eyes. He patted Xu Yin's shoulder. "Compared to when I first met you, you have changed a lot. I will always be by your side."
After finding his own heart, Xu Yin's emotions stabilized. He was no longer dominated by pain and despair, and his world started to take on other colors.
"One day, I will give you and everyone in the Haunted House happiness."
Chen Ge placed the bloodied music sheet on the table. His eyes were gentle but filled with power.
Standing before Chen Ge, Xu Yin opened his mouth, but no sound came out. His pale fingers brushed over the music sheet, and his body slowly dissolved into blood vessels.
Xu Yin took the music sheet. When his body was about to disappear, he wrote the last short song on the music sheet.
"The world kisses me with pain, but I am willing to repay it with song."
Silence returned to the Prop Room. Chen Ge looked at the spot where Xu Yin had disappeared.
At the last moment before Xu Yin disappeared, Chen Ge noticed a very scary power surging out from Xu Yin's body. He seemed to have broken through some kind of barrier and carved a black pattern on his heart.
"Has Xu Yin figured something out? The presence around him suddenly grew stronger, and his presence started to change from other Red Specters. The black pattern on his heart is similar to the pattern on Zhang Ya's dress. Could it be that Xu Yin has planted a seed of a Demon God for himself? "
"Could it be that the item that I drew from the black phone is so useful to a Red Specter? No, other than the increase in affection toward me, Meng Nan's power did not increase at all. Looks like this thing differs from person to person. "
The items that were drawn from the Wheel of Fortune sealed the Specter's past. They could help a Specter or a Red Specter become more perfect, but ultimately, they were just external objects.
The reason why Xu Yin had changed so much was because of Chen Ge.
Who would have thought that a Specter who wished to 'die' would meet the kindest person?
…
At 8: 10 pm, the door of a grocery store on the old city's Western Street was smashed open.
Various snacks littered the ground. Not long after that, a young man in a white shirt was dragged out from the room.
"Brother Leopard, Brother Ying, this has nothing to do with my family. Like we agreed, I will give you the money." The young man's face was covered in blood, but he struggled to get up from the ground like he could not feel the pain.
"Do you think we will still believe you? A cunning rabbit has three burrows! If you didn't keep changing places to hide, do you think we would have found this place? " Smashing the beer bottle in his hand, a middle-aged man with a bare upper body walked out from the room. There was a scar at the corner of his eye, and a leopard's head was tattooed on his arm.
"Brother Leopard! Three days at most! I will definitely gather the money and deliver it to you! "The young man lied on the ground and promised.
"How are you going to pay me back?" Brother Leopard grabbed the broken beer bottle and pointed the sharpest end at the young man's face. "I see that this Grandpa Cripple's shop is worth some money. Have him buy the shop, and perhaps we can gather the money."
"No! Definitely not! This is my grandfather's … "
"What are you talking about! What right do you have to say no? "The other man patted his waist like there was a knife hidden there.
"Don't mess with my family, I will pay you back no matter what! Three days, give me three more days! "
"Fine, if you don't give me the money in three days, then I will cut off one of your hands." Brother Leopard grabbed the young man's hair and forced him to look into his eyes. "There was a man who wanted to go back on his word, so I chopped off one of his hands. The blood flowed all over the ground, and I couldn't stop it no matter what I did. Do you want to take a look at that hand? As a souvenir, I have kept it. "
"There's no need, there's no need. I will find a way to pay you back." The young man knelt on the ground until Brother Leopard and Brother Ying left.
He wiped the blood off his face, lowered his head, and pushed open the door of the grocery store.
The bottles and drinks were shattered on the ground, and the shelves were overturned. In the middle of the small room sat an old man with a limp.
The old man was old, and his head had been smashed by a bottle. The blood was conspicuous among his white hair.
"You are?"
Other than the old man, a middle-aged man in a red coat had appeared in the room. He was holding a cotton swab and rubbing alcohol. Very carefully, he removed the glass shards from the old man's wound.
"Why did the group of people only beat up your grandfather and not you?" The man in the red coat's voice was devoid of emotion.
"My grandfather wanted to protect this little shop, so he got into a fight with them …"
"How much do you owe them?"
"300,000. Actually, I owed them 50,000 from the beginning, and now they want me to return 300,000." The young man ran to the old man's side and helped him tend to the old man's wound. He kept holding the old man's hand, and his heart was not as calm as he appeared. "I've already returned them 70,000, but they still come to chase me. I really don't have any money left."
"Why do you owe them money?"
"Because …"
"You like to gamble?" The middle-aged man in the red coat asked without raising his head.
"I … Hmm." The young man did not dare speak anymore, and he did not dare to look at the old man's face.
"Those who like to gamble will never win." The middle-aged man in the red coat stood up. His red eyes stared at the young man. "If you can find a job and work hard, I can help you pay back your debt."
"You are willing to help me?" The young man was at his wit's end. He looked at the man in the red coat with complicated emotions. "Thank you, I will definitely return the money to you! Can you give me your contact number? "
"I am helping you because in you, I see the small version of myself that was once crawling on the ground. I was once at my wit's end, but at the time, there was no one to help me. " The man in the red coat's eyes were bloodshot. "I do not need you to pay back the debt. I only need you to take good care of your grandfather. If you still dare to gamble in the future, I will take your life."
The man in the red coat walked out of the shop. The young man quickly chased after him. "Where are you going?"
"I am going to find the group of people that just left to collect their debt."
"Do they owe you money as well?"
"Money?" The man in the red coat reached out his arm that was stuck in his pocket. "They owe me an arm."
…
Inside the VIP room of Jia Hao Nightclub, several couples were having a wild night. The lights in the room flickered several times before going out like someone had cut the circuit.
"F * ck! The power is out? Where is the waiter? "
"Xiao Bao! What kind of place did you pick? How come there is no one in the corridor? "
"This is so f * cking disappointing!"
The shrill singing disappeared, and the nightclub became eerily quiet like everyone's mouth had been sewn shut.
"Is anyone there? F * ck! It's so dark. What the hell is going on? "
Brother Bao and Brother Ying followed behind a large man. The three walked out from the room, and they wandered around for a long time before they saw a single person.
The man was sitting in the middle of the hall, wearing a blood red shirt.
"Hey! I'm talking to you! Are you deaf? "Brother Bao kicked the sofa to the side." Do you see the waiter here? "
The man in the red coat took a sip of the wine in his glass. He did not even look at Brother Bao as he walked directly toward the large man.
"This man is a bit strange."
"What are you doing? Stop right there! "Brother Ying blocked the man's way.
"I owe you money, and the boss told me to pay you back." The man in the red coat took out a card from his pocket. "This is the money that I owe you."
Brother Ying turned to look at the large man, and the latter did not ask for more details. It was a good thing that someone had come to give him money, so why would he not accept it?
"I've received the money, so you can leave now." The large man had a feeling that the man in the red coat looked familiar, and he had a very bad feeling in his heart.
"I've paid back the money that I owe you, so now it's time for you to return the things that you've taken from me." The middle-aged man in the red coat had one hand in his pocket. He stood in the middle of the hall. Endless blood vessels fell from the ceiling, and the red blood spread across the floor.
"We took your things …" The large man looked at the middle-aged man's face, and his eyes slowly widened. His expression suddenly twisted, and a name that he had almost forgotten appeared in his mind.
Bai Qiulin!
"Don't you remember?" The middle-aged man's red eyes stared at the three people in the hall. The red shirt was as red as blood, and the air around him shook the roof.
"I've been looking for that hand for a long time."
…
At 9: 30 pm, Chen Ge summoned all the Red Specters in the underground scenario.
After waiting for several minutes, Bai Qiulin finally arrived. The presence that radiated off his body had obviously changed from before. The flaw left behind by consuming Xiong Qing had disappeared, and there was an additional power in his eyes that made people afraid to look him in the eye.
Seeing the change in Bai Qiulin, Meng Nan pouted. "Now there's one more Red Specter that I can't defeat. This is so annoying."
"Okay, everyone is here." Chen Ge clapped his hands to signal for them to quiet down. "The reason I've called you here today is to welcome our new colleagues."
"Who are you trying to fool? Bringing so many Red Specters to welcome new colleagues? Aren't you afraid of sudden death? " Meng Nan grumbled softly before turning to look at Bai Qiulin with envy. "When will I become stronger?"
"There are nine new colleagues in total. I've written down all their information and characteristics. Please take note of them lest we get the wrong people."
After all the Red Specters had memorized their names, Chen Ge summoned everyone into the comic and then hailed a cab to leave the Haunted House.
He first went to an apartment building in the old part of the city. The pace of life here was slow, and most of the tenants were old people and children.
He climbed to the fourth floor in one go, and Chen Ge stopped at the door to the public bathroom.
The old door was sealed with wooden boards, and the landlord had added two large locks on it. There were several pieces of yellow paper pasted on the door.
"This should be the place." Chen Ge took out the hammer from his backpack and opened the lock on the bathroom door.
He pushed open the bathroom door and saw the various newspapers and magazines scattered on the ground.
"No one has been in this bathroom for a long time."
Following the information provided by the black phone, Chen Ge came to the fourth cubicle. He shook the cubicle door several times and realized that the cubicle was locked from the inside.
He turned to enter the third cubicle. He stepped on the toilet with the newspaper under his feet, leaned against the partition, and used Yin Yang Vision to look into the fourth cubicle.
Inside the small cubicle sat a middle-aged man.
The man looked tired like he was not interested in anything. Even when he saw a living person lying next to him, he did not have the intention to scare the person.
"Hey! Do you want to change yourself with me? "Chen Ge yelled at the man.
The middle-aged man sitting on the toilet looked left and right. Then, he raised his head in confusion and pointed at himself. "You can see me?"
"Of course, I'm the owner of a Haunted House. Isn't it normal to see ghosts?" Chen Ge looked at the middle-aged man with a smile. "Are you willing to walk out of your comfort zone and start a new life?"
"No." The middle-aged man lowered his head to continue reading his newspaper. He did not respond to Chen Ge at all.
"I want to make a change with you. Why don't you become my haunted house employee?" Chen Ge flipped through the comic, and the sound of pages turning echoed inside the cubicle.
"What's wrong with you?" The middle-aged man raised his head impatiently. By then, the whole toilet was covered in blood vessels. Soon, the heads of ten Red Specters appeared next to the cubicle.
"I'm serious. Please look into the eyes of the ten Red Specters and think about it," Chen Ge said with sincerity.
Putting down the newspaper, the middle-aged man who was surrounded by ten Red Specters rushed out from the cubicle. He grabbed Chen Ge's hand. "You and I are like old friends. From today onward, my life is yours."
"Er … have you washed your hands?"
"Aristotle once said that those who sit on the toilet are not necessarily taking a sh * t. They might be searching for the corner of life and pondering the ultimate mystery of the universe."
"You know philosophy?"
"I know a thing or two."
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