With the phone on speaker, Xiao Gu heard Chen Ge's words loud and clear. When he heard Chen Ge say, "I only have one request from you, and that is to release my employee," his nose twitched, and his hands gripped tightly together.
He felt like he was a very unlucky person. No matter where he went, he would cause trouble. It was the same at Fang Hwa Apartments, and it was the same even after he became an employee at the Haunted House.
Even so, his boss had never looked down on him and said something like that at the most crucial moment.
The rain was heavy, but Xiao Gu's heart was warm. He felt like he had found a home in Jiujiang that he could rely on.
The woman in the raincoat heard Chen Ge as well. She stood in the rain, and her body slowly returned to normal. The rain slid down her red raincoat.
After a long time, the woman turned her head toward the phone and leaned close to it. "Have you seen my child?"
"I'll let you see your child within a week," Chen Ge promised easily.
The woman did not say anything else. She slowly lowered her head and left Eastern Jiujiang Fresh Water Plant with Xiao Gu's clothes. She seemed to be heading to the next station.
Seeing the woman disappear, Xiao Gu collapsed in the muddy water like he was about to collapse.
"Boss, she's gone! We're saved! "Escaping death, Xiao Gu sounded excited.
"Don't wander off. Find a place to hide from the rain, and I'll come get you in a bit. Also, make sure to keep the battery on your phone and set my number as a one-button dial. "
"Okay."
"I'll hang up now. I still have to do what I promised her."
After hanging up, Xiao Gu obediently set Chen Ge's number as a one-button dial.
After everything was done, he pocketed his phone and walked toward the other unlucky passenger — Huang Ling.
"It's fine now." He reached out toward Huang Ling. Huang Ling, who was too scared, took a long time to grab Xiao Gu's hand and climb up from the ground.
"What … was that just now?" Huang Ling didn't know where to start. Her eyes were filled with fear. She couldn't accept it at all. Just two hours ago, she was still being harassed by a client at the company. Now, two hours later, she was sitting on a bus full of dead people in the suburbs.
"I can't explain it clearly. When my boss comes, I'll ask him to explain it to you. He knows a lot of things." Xiao Gu led Huang Ling to the outside of the water plant and stood under the eaves to shelter from the rain.
Huang Ling's clothes were soaked and the makeup on her face was ruined. However, she didn't care about it at all. She held her phone and kept dialing a number, but no one answered.
"Are you calling your husband?" Xiao Gu overheard the conversation between Huang Ling and her husband on the bus. The two of them had an argument, and Huang Ling seemed to have the idea of divorce.
Huang Ling nodded. She felt an inexplicable fear in her heart. This fear was completely different from the fear she felt just now. It was more uneasy and painful.
"Why not? What is he doing? Answer the phone. "
Xiao Gu looked at Huang Ling, who was calling her husband madly, but he didn't say anything.
On the bus earlier, Huang Ling's husband had called her madly to ask where she was, and in the end, he had yelled that the bus was filled with ghosts.
Her husband had not been on the bus, so how did he know that Huang Ling had boarded a hearse? And how did he know that the bus was filled with ghosts?
Huang Ling probably knew the answer to this question herself, and that was why she was calling her husband madly.
Xiao Gu looked at Huang Ling silently. This mature woman, who was much older than him, leaned against the wall, and she was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Lightning flashed, and the rain slid down her chin.
…
After hanging up on Xiao Gu, Chen Ge stood inside the mannequin workshop. He took out an old phone that could be used to insert a large SIM card.
"Tong Tong, was the ghost on the other end a Red Specter?"
After Chen Ge found out that something had happened to Xiao Gu, he summoned the phone spirit to keep an eye on Xiao Gu.
The thin phone spirit's reaction was strange. He did not answer Chen Ge's question and picked up the phone that was about to be phased out.
Several seconds later, Chen Ge received a message from the phone spirit. There were only three words.
"Don't go there."
"She's dangerous? A Red Specter? " Chen Ge believed that the phone spirit knew nothing about the power of his Haunted House, so he tried to stop him. "Even if it's a Red Specter, it's fine. After all, there's only one of her."
The phone spirit shook his head and sent another message.
"I've seen her before. She died in Li Wan City. That place is very dangerous."
Looking at the message, Chen Ge was reminded that the phone spirit's body was also found on the roof of one of the apartments in Li Wan City. The boy seemed to know Li Wan City very well.
"Ghosts that die in Li Wan City are different from ghosts that die in other places?" Chen Ge was very curious about Li Wan City. Before Doctor Gao committed suicide, he had asked Chen Ge to close the door that had gone out of control in Li Wan City. "Is it because the door has gone out of control that the ghosts have become different?"
The phone spirit shook his head again. He did not seem to know how to describe it.
Looking at the phone spirit, Chen Ge felt uneasy. "Li Wan City is in Eastern Jiujiang, and the memory that I saw in the tunnel also happened in Eastern Jiujiang.
"At the time, I was just a child. Someone wanted to kill me, but they failed.
"The game that Fan Cong talked about in the morning seems to be set in Eastern Jiujiang, and the main character is a child.
"Wait, I think I've noticed something similar.
"The raincoat woman's child went missing in Eastern Jiujiang, and the phone spirit was kidnapped to Eastern Jiujiang. In fact, in the picture that Doctor Gao showed me, my parents were talking to a girl in a red dress in Eastern Jiujiang.
"How come it feels like everything related to Eastern Jiujiang is a child?"
The phone vibrated, and the phone spirit sent another message to Chen Ge. "I don't know, but you can bring me with you. I'll lead the way."
"Okay." Chen Ge put away the phone spirit, locked the workshop, and returned to the Haunted House in the rain. He packed up, put on his backpack, and left in a hurry in his raincoat.
Standing at the junction, Chen Ge waited for a whole fifteen minutes before he flagged down a taxi.
Even though he was wearing a raincoat, half of his body was wet. This made him even more desperate to find a specialized vehicle for his Haunted House.
"I need to bring Xiao Gu back first. There's no need to rush the investigation in Eastern Jiujiang."
Sitting in the taxi, Chen Ge took out his phone to communicate with the phone spirit. They followed the route of the bus on Route 104 and chased after it one stop after another.
The rain grew heavier. When they entered the countryside, the lights on the sides of the road dimmed like there was a large black curtain covering everything.
"The peace in Eastern Jiujiang must be a facade purposely created by something. The situation here is probably very serious." Chen Ge had not seen a door that had gone out of control before. He looked out the window expressionlessly, and no one knew what he was thinking.
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