Chen Ge accompanied the father and daughter, and they went through all the attractions at the theme park. At around 4 pm, the girl was tired.
She leaned against her father's side as they sat in the resting hall outside the Haunted House.
Her eyes were closed, and she held a bottle of water in her hands. There was a lingering smile on her face. It was obvious that she had had a good time that day.
The father's face was twisted, and he looked at the girl lovingly. He touched the girl's head lightly, and he suddenly realized that someone had braided a very naughty little braid on the back of the girl's head. He had no idea who had done this, but with this little braid, it felt like the girl had become livelier.
The father and daughter leaned against each other. Even though they were both physically handicapped, one had to admit that the scene was very heartwarming.
"Stay here and rest. Do not wander off. I'll go greet the other employees at the Haunted House, and then I'll send you home." Chen Ge maintained his rationality. One of the reasons he had agreed to accompany the father and daughter to the theme park was because he could use this opportunity to get closer to them and have them lower their guard.
Of course, Chen Ge had no intention of harming them; he just wanted to get to the bottom of this.
The girl leaned against her father. She looked very sleepy, and her eyes were barely open.
There was still some time before the meeting time, so Chen Ge decided to personally send them home and take a look at the situation at home.
He had a feeling that there was a connection between the girl and the water ghost.
When they returned to the Haunted House, Duan Yue and Lao Zhou had gotten used to their new identities. After giving them some instructions, Chen Ge found Xu Wan and told her that the Haunted House would close at 6 pm.
After arranging all that, Chen Ge found his backpack and placed the recorder and comic inside.
Xiao Gu was using the hammer, so Chen Ge did not bring it with him this time.
"Come on, I'll send you home." Chen Ge carried the backpack with one hand, and his sincere expression made it hard for anyone to reject him.
The man scratched his head like he was hesitating. "My, sister, won't, let, other, people, go home."
"Your sister won't let you lead strangers to her house?" Chen Ge smiled. "I understand. He's worried that you two have invited a wolf into the house and attracted a thief or something. But I'm not a stranger. Didn't we have fun together today?"
After much persuasion, the middle-aged man finally agreed.
After sending the two out of New Century Park, Chen Ge called a taxi and got in with the father and daughter.
The little girl fell asleep not long after she got into the car. In order not to disturb her, Chen Ge and the middle-aged man tacitly kept quiet.
Following the middle-aged man's address, the taxi arrived at a run-down residential area at the edge of Eastern Jiujiang.
This place was filled with old buildings of six or seven stories. The paint on the walls was peeling off so badly that it was impossible to tell what the original paint color was.
"From the looks of it, it has been built for twenty to thirty years, right?"
After paying the fare, they got out of the car.
"Your family lives here? Didn't you say Donggang? "
Chen Ge specifically asked the driver in the car. This residential area was still very far away from the Donggang Reservoir.
"My, home," the man mumbled. The man uttered a few incoherent words. Chen Ge had no idea what he was trying to say.
Carrying the sleeping girl with both hands, the middle-aged man walked ahead alone. The man did not chase Chen Ge away, so Chen Ge naturally followed behind him.
The middle-aged man's intelligence was lacking, but he still had basic life knowledge. He walked past the old buildings and came to the innermost part of the residential area. He entered the first building.
The sun was hanging at the edge of the sky, and it was about to set. The surroundings were rather quiet. The sky was not dark yet, but it made Chen Ge feel like the surroundings were dim. Perhaps it was just his imagination.
The roof of the building was low, and one could reach it with a light jump. After entering the building, the first feeling was the pressure.
With the middle-aged man leading the way, they came to the third floor. The man reached into his neck and searched for a long time before he found the key that hung around his neck.
Like a child, he held the key before his eyes and studied it closely before opening the door.
"Can I go in to take a look?"
The man did not answer. After opening the door, he carried the girl into the room. He placed the girl on the sofa and then jogged into the bedroom like he was looking for something.
The room was very clean, different from the mess that Chen Ge had imagined. Even though it was simple, everything was neatly arranged.
There are only two pairs of slippers, one big and one small, and there are only two toothbrushes in the bathroom. Looks like the man's sister does not live with them. Normally, it is this mentally deficient man who takes care of the child.
A man with a mental deficiency was able to take care of a child who was just as intellectually deficient, and he managed to organize everything so neatly. This surprised Chen Ge.
He looked into the bedroom, and the man was kneeling on the ground. He opened the bedside table and took out a towel.
As if afraid of messing up the things inside, he was very careful. After taking the blanket, he tidied everything up before walking out from the bedroom.
The middle-aged man only had the girl in his eyes. He pulled the blanket over the girl and sat down on the other side of the sofa. He looked at the girl lovingly and completely ignored Chen Ge, who was still standing in the room.
No wonder your sister doesn't allow you to bring a stranger home. If you run into a bad person, you won't even know the house has been emptied. Chen Ge started to walk around the room. The room was not big; it only had a bedroom and a small living room. It was simple, but it was warm.
Suffering from a family disease and being abandoned by his only normal wife, he is still able to stay so strong. That's quite impressive.
Chen Ge walked into the bedroom, and when his eyes scanned the bedside table, he was surprised to see a picture.
He reached out to pick it up. The picture that was framed was quite strange.
On the sunny grass, the middle-aged man was grinning like a fool, and the girl was chasing a butterfly. There should be another person standing next to them, but the person had been cut out, and there was a gap in the picture.
Is that the girl's mother?
He wanted to find more clues, so he opened the bedside table and found a notebook hidden under some clothes.
Flipping through it, Chen Ge realized that there was not a single word in the notebook, but it was obvious that many pages had been torn out of the notebook.
"Whose notebook is this?" Looking at the notebook, Chen Ge was reminded of something else. Even though the girl suffered from a genetic disease and her intelligence was lower than her peers, she knew how to write. At the Haunted House, Chen Ge had seen her write down the word 'big sister' with his own eyes.
Who taught her how to write? Is it her father or someone else? "
When the middle-aged man's sister heard the word 'big sister', her expression changed drastically. This word should be a taboo in their family, so the person who taught the girl to write this word was probably not her family.
Closing the notebook, Chen Ge placed it back where it was. He closed the cupboard door and was about to leave when he realized that the middle-aged man was standing at the bedroom door.
Perhaps due to the pressure on his cranial nerves, his face was slanted, and the eyes that looked at Chen Ge were filled with confusion.
"Picture …" Chen Ge did not know how to change the topic, so he picked up the picture frame from the bedside table.
Before he could come up with a reason, the man walked into the room. He did not seem to mind what Chen Ge was doing. He walked past Chen Ge silently and picked up the pillow from the bed.
Throughout the whole process, he did not say a word to Chen Ge. After taking the pillow, he walked out and placed it behind the girl's head.
After the false alarm, Chen Ge continued to wander around the room, but he did not find anything valuable.
"I'm relieved that you've arrived safely. If you still want to come to New Century Park in the future or need help, feel free to come and find me." Chen Ge found a pen and paper, wrote down his phone number, and placed it on the coffee table.
The girl fell asleep on the sofa. For a whole day, the black phone did not send any messages. The mission that this special visitor carried was not triggered by Chen Ge.
However, Chen Ge was not in a hurry. He had confirmed the person's identity and address, so he would have plenty of chances in the future.
After bidding farewell to the middle-aged man, Chen Ge left the place.
Closing the door, Chen Ge was about to go downstairs when a voice came from the corridor.
"Hey."
Stopping moving, Chen Ge looked around. He realized that the door of the house opposite the middle-aged man had been pushed open a sliver, and the sound had come from inside.
"Are you calling me?"
"If you don't want any trouble, you'd better stay away from their family."
This time, Chen Ge heard it even more clearly. It was an old lady who spoke, and her voice was stern.
"I'm not afraid of trouble, but their family looks so pitiful. It's best if I can help them." Chen Ge took several steps toward the door that the old lady was in.
"There must be something hateful about those who are pitiful. I advise you not to get too close to them. Be careful not to get into trouble."
The old lady's words attracted Chen Ge's interest. The woman seemed to know many things.
"Granny, their family suffers from a hereditary disease. It's congenital …"
"I see that you're a kind person, so I'm reminding you. How you want to do it is up to you."
The old lady prepared to close the door, but Chen Ge grabbed the door before she could. "Granny, don't leave me hanging! You're making me nervous. "
The old lady probably thought that Chen Ge was a kind person, so she paused for several seconds before opening the door fully. "Come in."
"Okay." Now that things had taken a turn for the better, Chen Ge naturally made use of this opportunity.
After entering the old lady's home, Chen Ge realized that something was wrong. The old lady's house was covered in various kinds of scary talismans, and the door was taped with various things to ward off evil.
This room was completely different from the middle-aged man's room.
"Granny, your room …"
"Don't be afraid, these talismans are meant to deal with evil spirits. They're harmless." The old lady's tone was confident, but Chen Ge shook his head. The ghost on him did not show any fear toward these talismans, so he was certain that the old lady had been tricked.
"You've gotten involved with that family, so you might be haunted by some evil things in the future. Before you leave, I can give you two."
"Evil things? There are really ghosts in this world? "Chen Ge scratched his chin." Granny, you've seen them with your own eyes? "
"It's a sin, it's a sin." The old lady thought about it and nodded. "It's inside this building. Every midnight, there will be the sound of water dripping down the stairs, like it's raining. Then you'll hear the sound of a wet mop sliding on the ground, but think about it, who would use a wet mop to mop the stairs at 1 am? "
"Are there really ghosts?" Chen Ge cooperated with the old lady, and he showed a shocked expression.
"One time, I couldn't sleep because of the noise, so I peeked through the peephole on the door."
"What did you see?"
The old lady seemed to be reminded of something very scary. The wrinkles on her face squeezed together, and her expression was very serious. "I'm not lying to you. At the time, I saw a woman who was soaking wet walking up the stairs. She stopped at the opposite door. Her skin was white from being soaked in the water, and that was not the skin of a living person. There were some water plants and strange things wrapped around her body. Her hair trailed on the ground, and she kept repeating the name of the girl next door. "
"A woman who was soaking wet? Repeating Wen Wen's name? "A thought crossed Chen Ge's mind, and he blurted out," Big sister? "
The old lady did not expect Chen Ge to say that, and her expression softened. "Looks like you know about his family."
"I don't." Chen Ge took out the piece of paper that the girl had left behind at the Haunted House from his pocket. "I'm an employee from New Century Park. The park noticed that the father and daughter were not in good health, and they were worried about their safety, so they sent me to escort them home safely. The reason I know about big sister is because the girl once wrote that word inside one of our entertainment facilities. "
Looking at the crooked word on the paper, the old lady's lips were pursed, and she signaled for Chen Ge to move away from the door.
The two walked into the living room, and the old lady lowered her voice to say, "I won't hide it from you. Actually, many people at the old building know about this. His family used to plant seeds, and now it's karma."
"Planted seeds?" Chen Ge did not quite understand.
"The first seed means to plant, and the second means to plant a seed. Their family has a genetic disease, and it's said to be passed down to the male, but the family insisted on a healthy male to continue the family line. In the end, they found a folk prescription, and someone came up with the idea to have them plant seeds. " The old lady explained to Chen Ge, "The method sounds cruel, but first, they find a child, use her as a seed, and then plant it inside another child's body. I don't really understand the actual method, but I do know that their family tried it before, but it failed. Not only did they fail to give birth to a boy, the girl also suffered from a genetic disease. "
"But what does that have to do with the ghost that you saw?"
"The child that was used as a seed by his family was their first child, the big sister. They used their first child as a seed, and the second child that was planted was Wen Wen."
What the old lady said made Chen Ge suck in a cold breath. He had a vague understanding of why the Trial Mission was called Twin Water Ghost.
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