Chen Ge pulled back the hood of the black robe, and underneath it was a ruined face.
"Who is your chairperson?"
"It's not me." A smile appeared on the black robe's face, and his lips curled into a smile. "Take your time to guess. You will definitely meet him before you die."
Then, blood vessels leaked out from the black robe's mouth. The blood vessels seemed to have a life of their own, crawling out from his body.
Green veins popped on the surface of his skin. The black robe seemed to be enduring a pain that was beyond the limit of his senses. His mouth was open, and his upper jaw and throat were covered in blood vessels.
"The blood vessels in his body seem to be consuming him." Chen Ge gripped the hammer, and he wanted to give the black robe a try, but he was stopped by the woman next to him.
The blood vessels crawled out from the black robe's body and wrapped around him. One could only make out the shape of a human.
"The chairperson is right beside you. He has been paying attention to you. Of all the people he has met, you are the most interesting one."
A hoarse voice came out from the black robe. Chen Ge and the woman in the red coffin watched as the black robe was slowly consumed. It turned into a part of the blood vessels that crawled into the red soil.
"What are those blood vessels?"
"You can think of them as a part of a Red Specter's body." The woman picked up the black robe from the ground like she had found something interesting inside it. "Take the two children and leave. If you stay too long inside the door, you won't be able to go back."
The woman grabbed the black robe and disappeared into the red fog. Chen Ge looked in the direction that she had left, and he was confused. "What is hiding inside that black robe? How come I can hear a trace of surprise in her tone? "
Chen Ge found the white cat on the roof of the ancestral hall. Even now, it did not understand what had happened. It bit on the bottle, and its white fur was standing on end. It was obviously spooked.
"Come down, everything's fine now." The white cat jumped down from the roof after a long time. When Chen Ge caught it, he realized that the white cat seemed to have gotten heavier. "Why does your cat stuff everything into its mouth?"
Chen Ge pried open the white cat's mouth to take a look, but there wasn't even a trace of blood.
"That thing was prepared by the Society of Strange Tales for a Red Specter. Will there be a problem if a cat eats it?"
This was the first time that Chen Ge had encountered something like this. He noticed that there was nothing wrong with the white cat, so he shoved it back into his backpack. Then he led the two kids back to the bedroom that the woman had once lived in.
"The blood door is in front of her room. It's obvious that every time this door opens, it's a nightmare for her."
The blood door in front of him was already closed. Chen Ge pushed it a few times but to no avail.
"Let me do it. Jiang Ling taught me how to open the door."
Fan Yu pressed on the door. The bracelet that the woman had given him was bleeding, staining his palms red. He slowly pushed the door open.
When he left the blood door, Chen Ge took out the black phone and glanced at it. He had been waiting for a notification.
There was a high chance that the man in the black robe was Patient 9 from the Third Sick Hall — Wu Fei!
However, after the man's death, the black phone did not receive any notification.
Every time a patient from the Third Sick Hall was killed, the completion rate of the Third Sick Hall's Trial Mission would increase, and when the completion rate was over ninety percent, one would be able to obtain the hidden item for this three-star scenario!
When Xiong Qing was captured and the Demon Man was killed, the black phone had received the notification, but after Wu Fei's death, there was no notification.
"Is there a problem somewhere?" Chen Ge thought back to all the details of his encounter with the black robe, and he felt like he had missed a crucial point.
"The black robe has been following us. He only made his move after making sure that Zhang Ya was asleep. When he saw me, he changed his tone to mimic the investigator who jumped off the building." Chen Ge frowned. The black robe did not seem to have done anything suspicious. "Is he still alive? Did the blood vessels wrap around his soul and escape? Or did he hide a part of his consciousness somewhere else? Just like how he controlled the investigator? "
Chen Ge was reminded of the strange reaction the woman had when she found the black robe, and he felt like there was something wrong with the black robe as well.
"Such a pity." Since Zhang Ya was asleep, he did not have the confidence to ask the woman for the black robe. "The person who pushed open the door seems to be much stronger than a normal Red Specter in the world behind the door."
After exiting the house, Chen Ge gave it some thought and decided not to go to the well. He planned to find a safe place to hide until morning.
With the two children, Chen Ge came to the center of the village. He followed the hidden path inside the ancestral hall and entered the two-story building.
"Granny, are you asleep?"
Chen Ge carried the two children into the building. When he got to the second floor, he realized that the old lady was not in the cubicle.
"Where is she?" Chen Ge put down Jiang Ling and grabbed the hammer. "The old lady's legs have atrophied, and she can't move on her own. Did someone else come in here other than me?"
All the furniture in the room was untouched. The table and chairs were the same as when he first came in. If the old lady had been forcibly taken away, the room would not be so clean.
Chen Ge patted Fan Yu on his shoulder. "Did you see anyone in this room?"
"No." Fan Yu shook his head.
"Then, where could she have gone?"
The crying of the baby echoed in the room. The building was not big, and they looked everywhere, but they could not find the old lady.
"This is strange." Chen Ge placed the unconscious Jiang Ling on the bed and sat on the ground. He was about to catch his breath when a gunshot came from the western side of the village!
"Gunshot? Is that Ol 'Wei? "Chen Ge crawled up from the ground." They're back? Did something happen to them, or did reinforcements arrive? "
The gunshot only came once, and then silence returned.
Worried about Master Bai and Ol 'Wei's safety, Chen Ge led Fan Yu and Jiang Ling out of the house and headed toward the western side of the village.
By then, the sky at the end of the mountain was starting to glow. The night was about to pass.
When Chen Ge returned to the western side of the village, No. 10 had already left. Xiong Qing and Ghost Baby were nowhere to be seen, and only the collapsed villagers were left.
"What happened here after I left?" Chen Ge grabbed one of the villagers to ask, but the man seemed to have been traumatized. He was delirious, and his mouth kept repeating, "Cracked, cracked."
Chen Ge could not tell if it was the local dialect or if something had really cracked.
He looked around and saw the Zhu woman lying beside the well. Her hair was disheveled, and she looked very pitiful.
"Can you hear me?" Due to his occupation, Chen Ge was very good at treating fainting patients. With his help, the Zhu woman slowly woke up.
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