Chen Ge's voice was calm, and he was asking the boy seriously.
"Have you forgotten everything? Then let me give you another hint. " The boy with the blurry face reached out his hands to strangle his own neck. "At the time, you tricked me into an abandoned tunnel. You said you heard someone calling your name, but after we entered the tunnel, you stood behind me and suddenly strangled me like this!"
The boy's head tilted to the side, and his hands twisted his neck. His face slowly swelled, and green veins popped on his forehead. "Do you remember now? At the time, your fingers slowly sank into my skin, and you kept squeezing … "
The boy's voice echoed in Chen Ge's ears. Fragmented images flashed across his mind, and the scene before him felt like it had happened before.
To Chen Ge's confusion, when he saw the boy's neck being strangled, his body instinctively felt a sense of familiarity, like he was really the killer.
"I've killed someone before?" The rain soaked his hair, and Chen Ge shook his head. He was reminded of something else.
When he was doing the fourth Nightmare Mission inside the tunnel, he saw his younger self and an adult entering the tunnel.
The scene before him was very familiar, but it was different from what the boy had said. He was the victim, and it was not him who had killed someone — someone had tried to kill him!
If he had not done that Nightmare Mission and seen that scene inside the tunnel, even if Chen Ge did not believe he was the killer, his heart would have been shaken.
"Perhaps he is the killer, or else he wouldn't know these things," Chen Ge mumbled to himself. He nudged toward the boy, trying to close the distance.
Noticing that Chen Ge was still calm, the boy let go of his hands, and his head rested on his shoulders. "Looks like you really don't remember anything?"
The boy's face slowly became clearer under the rain. The expression on his face was very strange. He looked at Chen Ge like he was looking at himself in the mirror. "It was you who killed me. You killed me with your own hands. I will not forget that feeling, and soon, you will experience it as well."
The child retreated, and the figure behind him stuffed the boy back into his body and stood there quietly.
Chen Ge was now less than ten meters away from the figure. Just as he was about to get closer, a pale hand lightly rested on Chen Ge's shoulder.
The recorder made a static noise, and Xu Yin in a red shirt appeared next to Chen Ge. He shook his head lightly and stopped Chen Ge from moving forward.
"Is he dangerous?" Chen Ge had something else to rely on. When he lifted his leg, his thigh was tightly hugged by someone. He looked down and saw a three or four-year-old boy blocking his way with his teeth bared.
"Meng Nan?" After the boy was taken out of the Third Sick Hall by Chen Ge, he did not have the time to return him, or rather, Chen Ge had selectively forgotten about this and kept Meng Nan in the comic.
"Two Red Specters stopping me at the same time? This figure doesn't look like a Red Specter; it looks more like a shadow. "
Chen Ge stopped moving and did not continue forward.
Moments later, children's footprints started to appear around the figure. The children's laughter and crying slowly disappeared, and the figure's body started to solidify.
When the last child's crying disappeared, the figure looked at Chen Ge silently. He had the same height and build as Chen Ge; he was like Chen Ge's own shadow.
"You're the one who killed me."
The body was that of an adult, but the voice that came out of the shadow's mouth was that of a child. It was eerie, cold, and filled with malice.
After saying that, his eyes skipped over Chen Ge and looked behind Chen Ge before disappearing into the rain.
"He left just like that?" Chen Ge followed the shadow's gaze. Under the light from the phone, he could see that the shadow had morphed into the shape of a woman.
"Is he afraid of Zhang Ya? Doesn't seem like it. He seems to be afraid of something else. " The sound of the rain grew louder, and everything returned to normal. The storm swept the land, and the shadow had already disappeared.
"Two Red Specters stopped me, and Zhang Ya also felt threatened. What was that thing?" Before this, Chen Ge only had two concepts of ghosts. If he saw a Red Specter, he would run; if not, he would chase. Now, he had run into a third type of ghost, a shadow that claimed to have been killed by Chen Ge.
"This ghost is quite unique. So many people disappear in Eastern Jiujiang every year, and it probably has something to do with him. The scariest ghost story that the driver mentioned earlier should be him."
The shadow had already left. Chen Ge did not waste any more time. He called Xiao Gu and rushed to the water plant. "Xiao Gu, I'm here. Where are you? "
"You're here?" Xiao Gu sounded surprised. "The one who stood motionless at the entrance of the water plant was you?"
"Of course, where are you?"
"We'll be there in a minute!"
After hanging up, Xiao Gu and a drenched woman ran out from the bushes next to the water plant. "Boss!"
Xiao Gu was excited, but the woman refused to come.
She looked at Chen Ge, who was standing in the rain, wearing a raincoat and dragging the hammer, and she felt uneasy.
In the middle of nowhere, the rain was pouring. The drenched woman held her hands before her chest, and her body shook uncontrollably.
"Why is there a woman?"
"She was also a passenger on the bus." Xiao Gu briefly explained Huang Ling's situation to Chen Ge.
"There were other living people on the bus other than you?"
"Not only me and Huang Ling, there was a student at the back of the bus. He helped me on the bus, so he doesn't look like a bad person." Xiao Gu regretted it. "I was too far away from him when I got off the bus, or else I would have gotten off with him."
"Not everyone who helps you is human, and not everyone who harms you is a ghost." Chen Ge stared at Huang Ling for a long time before waving. "The taxi is outside. Let's go together."
When they reached the roadside, Chen Ge noticed that the window was covered in children's muddy handprints, and the poor driver had fainted in the driver's seat.
"Don't panic, he's still breathing. He probably fainted from fear." Chen Ge placed the driver in the backseat and dragged the hammer to stand outside the door to think. After a long time, he turned to look at Xiao Gu and Huang Ling.
"Which one of you knows how to drive?"
Xiao Gu shook his head. "Boss, don't you know how to drive? I remember you drove the van back to the theme park last time. "
"I know how to drive." Chen Ge paused. "But I don't have a driver's license, and the taxi is equipped with a recording device and camera. If the driver calls the police, it'll be troublesome."
"Er … why don't I drive?" Huang Ling walked to Xiao Gu and Chen Ge, and she hesitated. "I'll drive you back to your destination, but before that, can you come to my home? I'm worried about my husband. "
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