"What's that?" The doctor frowned. Just from the name, he felt like this society was not that friendly.
"It's a mutual aid society. Just like us, the members have their own stories." Chen Ge originally wanted to say it was a mutual aid society for mental patients, but afraid of giving a bad first impression, he changed it at the last minute.
"I'm not used to being in a crowded place." Various rumors had forced the death of his loved one, and from then on, the doctor refused to communicate with others. The reason he had spoken so much to Chen Ge on the bus was because he had a hunch that the people on the bus had a worse story than he did.
The doctor rejected him in a roundabout way, and Chen Ge did not force him. After all, anyone who heard about such a strange society would have to wait and see.
"If one day, your body really can't take it anymore, but you still wish to see your wife, you can call me." Chen Ge left his phone number with the doctor.
The doctor thought that was weird, but he still memorized Chen Ge's number.
"Brother, you mentioned earlier that there's a ghost apartment in Li Wan City. Do you mind telling me more about it?" Chen Ge wanted to get more information from the doctor, and that was helping the doctor, so Chen Ge did not feel guilty.
"You'll need to enter the small town to find that apartment, and sometimes …" The doctor was halfway through his sentence when the bus suddenly came to a screeching halt. All the passengers leaned forward, and his words were cut off.
The e-bike swayed and tilted to the side. It knocked into a woman in a patient's garb with her head lowered.
Her black hair completely covered her face, and her facial features could not be seen. When the e-bike knocked into her body, she maintained her posture and did not move.
"Did I hurt you?" Chen Ge quickly moved to steady the e-bike. He looked at the four women sitting in the middle of the bus, tilted his head, and slowly squatted down.
He wanted to see the four women's faces to confirm their identities.
With one hand on the scooter and the other on the back of the seat, Chen Ge adjusted his angle, but he still could not see the women's faces. The four patients appeared to have hair growing from the back of their heads to the front of their faces.
However, Chen Ge did not come up empty-handed. He saw the hospital's name on the female patient's gown.
There were four words on it, but she couldn't see the first word clearly. The last three words were — Heart Hospital.
Chen Ge scanned through the local hospitals in Jiujiang. The more famous ones were Central Hospital, People's Hospital, and Jiujiang Maternity and Child Hospital. He had never heard of any hospital with the word "Xin" in their name.
"Why did they leave the hospital in the middle of the night?"
These four female patients were definitely not alive. When Chen Ge approached them, his hair stood on end instinctively. He was already used to this feeling.
"Four ghosts sitting together, why would they go to Li Wan City?"
Chen Ge had figured out the reason why the living had gone to Li Wan City, but Chen Ge still had no idea why the dead had gone to Li Wan City.
"I've already stuck my face close to her hair, but why haven't they reacted? At least take a look at me. " Ghosts were different from living humans. They could not be brought back to the Haunted House. They had to be observed and understood for a long time before they could be allowed to stay inside the Haunted House.
Just as Chen Ge was about to get more information from the four female patients, the announcement came from inside the bus. They had arrived at the next stop.
The door opened, and the rain was blown into the bus by the cold wind. It landed on Chen Ge's back.
"It's raining so hard already? The weather forecast is so bad. "Chen Ge turned around. He looked at the stop outside the bus. With just one glance, he was unable to move his eyes away.
The rain poured down, and a woman in a red raincoat stood alone in the middle of the bus stop.
The rain slid down the brim of her hat, and it drenched her hair.
"It was you who called me that day?" Chen Ge stood inside the bus and looked at the woman outside.
Hearing this familiar voice, the woman in the red raincoat slowly raised her lowered head. A pair of strange eyes looked at Chen Ge through the gap of her long hair.
"I promised to help you find your child within a week, and that's why I risked my life on this bus. I have not forgotten my promise to you." Chen Ge's voice was convincing.
The way the woman in the red raincoat looked at Chen Ge was different from how she looked at Xiao Gu. She stood where she was and did not take another step forward.
The announcement came from inside the bus. The driver, Tang Jun, looked at Chen Ge communicating with the woman in the red raincoat through the rear-view mirror, and cold sweat poured down his face. He pressed the button to close the backdoor and hurry to the next stop.
"Wait a minute!"
When the backdoor was about to close, Chen Ge stuck his backpack in the middle of the door. "I still have something to deal with."
"That … is not a good idea. Everyone is on the same bus. You can't make everyone wait for you, right?" The driver was worried about what Chen Ge would do. Whenever he heard Chen Ge's voice, he would panic.
"You still know it's a bus? Then why didn't you let me get on the bus earlier? " Chen Ge walked to the front of the bus. He did not make things difficult for the driver but stopped next to the middle-aged woman.
At that moment, everyone on the bus was looking at Chen Ge, wondering what he was going to do.
"Do you need something?" The middle-aged woman moved deeper into the seat, and her voice involuntarily lowered.
Chen Ge did not waste time with her. He was not the type to waste time. Since the woman in the red raincoat had already appeared, there was no need to drag this out any longer.
"Is the boy next to you your child?" Chen Ge rarely used such a tone. There was no emotion in it, and it sounded quite scary.
"Yes, yes." The middle-aged woman stood before Chen Ge and the boy to stop Chen Ge from getting close to the boy.
"I'll ask you again, is this your child?" Under the shocked gaze of everyone on the bus, Chen Ge took out the hammer from his backpack.
The middle-aged woman looked at the driver and the other passengers with pleading eyes, but no one dared to speak.
Her mouth fell open, and after a long hesitation, she said, "This is my relative's child. Their whole family works in Jiujiang, and they are very busy, so I'm the one taking care of the child."
"So, it's your relative's child again?" Chen Ge swung the hammer. "Wake the child up. I have a few questions to ask him."
The commotion was loud, but the child remained asleep, and there was no sign of him waking up.
The middle-aged woman looked troubled. She pushed the boy a few times, but the boy did not respond.
"The child is quite a sleeper …"
"Is it a sleeper? Or did you give him some kind of medicine? "Chen Ge gripped the hammer with one hand." Let me take a look at the child. "
The middle-aged woman's panicked face slowly lowered, and her expression was changing.
She seemed to know that she could not escape this. Her hand reached into her pocket like she was going to take something out.
"Xu Yin!"
Chen Ge did not give her any chance. When he noticed the change in the woman's expression, he called for Xu Yin.
"I'll say it one last time. Give me the child!"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
