The fog isolated Chen Ge from the shore. The boat slowly turned and slowly lost its direction.
"Chen Ge …"
The familiar voice appeared in his ears again. Chen Ge frowned. He tried to think, but there was no memory of this voice in his mind.
It was very familiar and familiar, like this voice had been with him for a long time.
"Could it be my parents? That can't be right! How could I not recognize my own parents' voices? "
In the fog, Chen Ge was dazed, and he bit on the tip of his tongue.
"This doesn't look like something a two-star Trial Mission would have. I've probably run into an ambush." Chen Ge soon calmed down. He knew that he had ruined the plan of the culprit in Eastern Jiujiang so many times, so the culprit must have hated him to the core.
The shampoo bottle in his backpack vibrated even more. Strands of black hair crawled out from the gap of the bottle to wrap around the bottle. It looked very strange and creepy.
"Is there anything you want to tell me?" From Chen Ge's perspective, Wen Wen's sister was the victim, so she would not help the culprit deal with him.
The black hair spread and tangled together like a road sign, pointing a direction for Chen Ge.
"She's giving you directions. The body is over there," Lao Zhou said.
"The situation has changed. There's no hurry to go there." Before getting to the bottom of the voice in the fog, Chen Ge would not move.
The fog was still thickening. Chen Ge took out his phone to look at it. There was no signal, so he could not contact the people on the shore. He could not call for help, so he could only rely on himself.
"Lao Zhou, can you hear someone calling my name in the fog?" Chen Ge sat in the middle of the boat, listening to the voice in the fog, and an indescribable sense of loneliness slowly formed in him. It was like someone was telling him the reality that he had always been alone, and he would always be alone.
"No." Lao Zhou shook his head.
His tone was the same as usual, and his demeanor and actions hadn't changed much. However, all of this was different in Chen Ge's eyes. He looked at Lao Zhou's face and felt a trace of gloom and coldness. It was as if Lao Zhou was plotting something bad and wanted to kill him.
"Chen Ge …" The cries sounded like the people closest to him, reminding him to stay away from the ghosts.
"For normal people, staying away from ghosts is the right thing to do, but my family's situation is more unique. Be it my parents or myself, our attitude toward ghosts is different from normal people, especially with my current situation. Without relying on the power of ghosts, there is no way I can survive." Chen Ge knew this very well. I treat ghosts as my friends, so why would I think that my friends are in danger? Besides, compared to humans, ghosts are sometimes more amiable. "
Looking at the water, Chen Ge's eyes were filled with determination. "I don't know who you are, but I'm still too impatient. If you want to sow discord between me and ghosts, you've made a mistake."
Even though his mind was wavering, Chen Ge's attitude toward ghosts did not change. This was a concept that he had established since he was young. With the help of his parents and the black phone, his understanding of ghosts was completely different from normal people.
"Your voice is familiar and kind, but the things that you want me to do will only bring me harm and no benefit. The real person who wants to kill me is you. Stop playing these little tricks. Come out and let me see your real face."
The fog sealed off the dam. The boat slowly turned, and with the waves, the memory in Chen Ge's mind started to blur.
"Chen Ge …"
This kind of voice gave Chen Ge a sense of familiarity, and that was the scariest part. He did not know this person at all, and this voice did not exist in his memory at all. The sense of familiarity had nothing to do with his memory; it was like it was branded into his body.
He had experienced something similar before. During the nightmare mission, after he took forty-four steps, there was also a voice calling his name from deep inside the tunnel.
The same tone, the same timbre. Chen Ge gripped his fists, and he was reminded of something.
During the tunnel mission, when he heard that voice, he saw something unbelievable. He had been killed when he was very young.
That strange experience of witnessing his own death was something that he could never forget.
His thoughts slowly sank into his mind, and he could not stop himself from recalling what had happened back then.
"When I was very young, I once entered the deepest part of the tunnel. The person who killed me was standing behind me, and from the looks of it, they were very familiar with me."
The memory floated, and his body swayed along with the boat. When Chen Ge escaped from that memory, he realized that other than himself, there was nothing else on the boat.
His backpack, Lao Zhou, Xu Yin, and Wen Wen's sister had all disappeared. He was the only person on the boat.
The fog covered everything. Chen Ge felt like he had been abandoned by the world, and an indescribable sense of loneliness surged from the bottom of his heart.
The temperature kept dropping, and his exposed skin was covered in a layer of water. It was cold to the touch, very different from a living person.
"What's going on? Is this the special power of an unknown ghost? " He sat on the boat, holding the oars. Even at a time like this, Chen Ge did not give up. He was ready to fight.
"Chen Ge …"
The voice came again, and this time, Chen Ge could hear it clearly. He realized that the voice was getting closer and closer to him.
"This is a very strange feeling. I've heard this voice before in the tunnel. When I first obtained the black phone and did my first Nightmare Mission, this voice came from the mirror as well. When Doctor Gao destroyed the whole scenario at the underground morgue and connected it to the red city outside, I also felt a sense of familiarity. Even the door at the Haunted House's toilet sometimes gives me a sense of familiarity like something is calling me from behind the door." His mind was filled with many different information, and Chen Ge felt like his head was pounding. "Have I forgotten something? Is this related to my parents' disappearance? "
"Chen Ge …"
The voice came again, and it was several meters away from Chen Ge.
Taking a deep breath, he placed the oars into the water and started to row the boat. He decided to go take a look.
After rowing for three meters, Chen Ge saw a blurry shadow in the fog.
The shadow was not tall, so it should be a child.
"Wen Wen's sister's body?" He was still thinking about the mission given by the black phone. This had become part of his instinct.
The boat continued to move forward. After closing the distance, the fog parted, and the shape of the shadow became clearer.
It was not Wen Wen's sister's body but a boy's.
When he saw the boy's face, Chen Ge's grip on the oars tightened, and he felt a chill crawl up his spine.
The boy was his younger self. He had the familiar face and the familiar voice, but the difference was that the boy's neck was broken, and his head was practically hanging off his shoulders. His face was twisted, and he carried a venom and resentment that Chen Ge had not seen before.
"Yes, this is my own voice."
Chen Ge had always felt that the voice was familiar and familiar. It was not until he saw the boy in the fog that he realized that the voice that had been calling him was his own voice.
"Why would I call my own name? Who is this person? Why does he look exactly like me when I was younger? "
Chen Ge's head felt like it was going to explode. He pressed hard on his temples. "Have I forgotten something?"
Actually, when the door at the Haunted House's toilet appeared, Chen Ge had started to suspect it.
Only those who had lost all hope would push open the door, and there was a door at the Haunted House. Who pushed open the door?
Was it his parents or himself?
Just as Chen Ge was sinking into self-doubt, the boy in the fog raised his head to look at Chen Ge.
The boy's eyes were hard to describe. There was resentment, jealousy, and a very complicated emotion.
This was a child that was not Chang Gu's only child. He could not communicate with anyone. His body was cold, ugly, and his heart was twisted, filled with the desire to destroy.
"Chen Ge, save me …"
The familiar voice came from the boy's lips. His eyes stared at Chen Ge. Then his feet left the water, and the shadow of another person appeared behind him.
From the size, it should be an adult. He grabbed the young Chen Ge by his shoulders, raised the boy high into the air, and tossed him into the dam.
When the adult's shadow left, Chen Ge could still hear his voice. This time, he is definitely dead, and he will not return.
The water rippled, and the adult's shadow disappeared. Chen Ge looked at this scene dumbly.
When he was doing the Tunnel Nightmare Mission, Chen Ge had also seen his younger self being killed by an adult. Now, when he was doing the Water Ghost Mission, he realized that his younger self was once again killed by the same adult.
"What is going on?"
He rowed the boat to the spot where the boy's body was dumped. He looked down into the water, and his pupils narrowed. The scene before him was rather cruel.
The child's limbs were twisted, and his head was dangling from his shoulders.
The face that looked similar to Chen Ge looked at Chen Ge through the water. His expression became more and more twisted, and all the pain turned into hatred. As if unwilling to sink into the dark water, his mouth slowly opened, and his twisted arms waved upward.
The small body started to float up, and the scary yet familiar face grew larger in Chen Ge's sight.
"Chen Ge …"
His mind was blank, and a strange thought appeared in Chen Ge's mind — it had returned.
Unable to control his body, or rather, that special calling affected Chen Ge's thinking.
The child underwater opened his arms. No one knew what he had been through before he died. His arms were longer than normal, and the joints seemed to have been pulled apart.
The pale, twisted arms floated toward the water, and the face moved closer and closer to Chen Ge. The purplish lips opened slightly, and he called Chen Ge's name underwater.
The surface of the water was like a mirror. On one side was the adult Chen Ge, and on the other side was Chen Ge, who was murdered when he was young, filled with hatred.
Separated by the water, the two completely different lives appeared to be merging at this moment.
"Chen Ge, I am you …"
He could not hear any special emotion from the voice. His body moved toward the water involuntarily, and it was like he was looking at himself in the mirror.
The twisted arms reached out from the water, and the pale fingers reached for Chen Ge's face. The child's movement was very light, and Chen Ge could not tell whether he wanted to drag him underwater or just wanted to touch him.
"Who are you? Why do you keep calling my name? "
Chen Ge could sense a trace of familiarity from the child. This was a connection that went beyond blood, like the two of them were originally the same person.
"Who killed you? Who turned you into this? "
Chen Ge kept asking the questions in his heart, but the child underwater did not answer. His fingertips moved closer and closer to Chen Ge's face. Just as they were about to touch Chen Ge, another hand landed on Chen Ge's shoulder.
The five fingers were long, and the blood vessels and cracks were like seductive tattoos. The first impression that this hand gave was that it was very beautiful.
The fog around the boat suddenly disappeared, and an extremely cold presence appeared behind Chen Ge.
The black hair that was soaked in blood slid past Chen Ge's body, and they stabbed into the dark water like needles.
The attack was indiscriminate, and it reached deep into the water like it was going to turn the whole dam upside down.
Chen Ge felt the hand on his shoulder tighten, and his body that was leaning toward the water was slowly pulled back.
A shrill scream came from the water. The child who looked like Chen Ge morphed into a shadow and escaped.
After it disappeared, Chen Ge also woke up. He felt like he had just been pulled out from the water. His body was soaked in cold sweat, and he gasped for fresh air.
When he opened his eyes again, the fog above the dam had dissipated. Chen Ge saw Bai Qiulin and Lao Zhou huddled behind Xu Yin, shivering. Xu Yin, who was usually silent, had an unnatural expression on his face.
"Was it Zhang Ya who appeared earlier?" He touched his shoulder. In his memory, there was a hand on his shoulder, and the pale skin was crisscrossed with blood vessels and cracks. "Has her wound not recovered yet?"
The other three Specters on the boat did not dare answer. It was as if the woman in Chen Ge's shadow was a taboo that they could not bring up.
Standing up, Chen Ge turned to look in the direction that the child had escaped.
He used his Yin Yang Vision and saw someone by the riverbank. The person was pushing an electric scooter. The person was very cautious. When he sensed Chen Ge's gaze, he immediately left on the scooter.
"An electric scooter?" Chen Ge looked at the person's back, and the image of another person appeared in his mind. "He looks like Huang Ling's husband."
Xiao Gu had accidentally taken the bus on Route 104 to save Huang Ling, but then Chen Ge realized that the woman's husband was already dead, and the person sharing her bed was someone else.
"Why would Huang Ling's husband be here? He is the culprit in Eastern Jiujiang? That's impossible. "Chen Ge looked at the scooter and was reminded of something else.
When he and Captain Yan went to Ming Yang Residence to look for the broken limbs, some of them had been taken away. At the time, he had seen an electric scooter enter Ming Yang Residence from upstairs.
"The person who stole the limbs that night was him?" Initially, Chen Ge had thought that Huang Ling's husband was just a small fry, but now, it appeared like the man's identity was not that simple.
He did not care about salvaging the body. He messaged Captain Yan and Lee Zheng to ask about Huang Ling and her husband.
While waiting for the reply, Chen Ge looked at the water alone, and his mind could not help but think back to what had happened earlier. "When we fought at the fresh water plant, the shadow turned into my younger self. Is this his special power, or is he really related to me when I was younger?"
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