The theme park opened at 9 am. There was not much time left for Chen Ge, so he decided to go and scout out the place.
Chen Ge had no idea when Jia Ming would wake up. After giving Lee Zheng some advice, he left the room. "Inspector Lee, don't let your guard down. This person is very dangerous. He is definitely not as harmless as he appears to be. Don't treat him like a normal mental patient."
He hailed a cab to head to the place where Jia Ming first rented. The sun had just risen, and there were very few people on the street. Occasionally, a few cars would pass by.
Chen Ge did not sleep the whole night. First, he went to the rehabilitation school to chase the water ghost, then he went to the dam to fish up the body, and then he returned to the hospital to cooperate with the police to investigate Jia Ming. He made full use of the night, and he did not rest for even a minute.
His head was heavy, and drowsiness washed over him. Chen Ge took a nap in the cab, and he was woken up by the driver when he reached his destination.
He only slept for a few minutes, but it was useless. Chen Ge felt like his brain was filled with water.
Rubbing his face, he entered the alley, and a chill hit him in the face. Perhaps due to the layout of the building, the light from the outside did not shine into the alley.
No wonder Jia Ming did not dare to stop after escaping from the building. He only relaxed when he reached the road.
This was the old city, and the surrounding buildings were not tall. Most of them were small buildings with two or three floors. They looked old, and some of the walls had the red word 'demolition' written on them.
The things that Jia Ming told me at the hospital should have happened several years ago. I hope the old lady hasn't moved away, and the house is still there.
Following the address provided by Lee Zheng, he searched the alley for a long time before he found the old lady's house.
The neighbors on the left and right had moved away, and one of the windows had a large hole in it. It was probably deserted for a long time.
This place is quite hard to find. Chen Ge entered the stairwell and saw a few pots of flowers placed in the corner. Probably because they had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time, most of the flowers had withered, and the leaves were yellow.
"Is anyone home?" Chen Ge knocked on the door on the first floor and called softly.
There was no answer, and only his voice echoed in the stairwell.
Turning his head to look upstairs, Chen Ge had a feeling that the place was weird.
He tried to pull the door, and the anti-theft door on the first floor was pulled open.
"No lock?" Chen Ge was curious and opened the door completely.
A strong musty smell wafted out of the room. There were some old things piled up in the room. The sofa was the kind that was wrapped in cloth from more than 20 years ago. The wall clock and the low dining table looked quite old.
"There is no dust on the doorknob, and the clock in the room moves normally. There should be someone living here." Without permission, Chen Ge would not enter someone else's house. He shouted again from outside the house, but there was still no response. However, there was a special sound coming from the roof, like a deflated ball rolling on the ground.
"On the third floor?" Chen Ge walked upstairs. When he passed the second floor, he found that the door on the second floor was also open, but there was no smell inside. It was as if someone cleaned it every day.
After stopping at the entrance of the second floor for a while, Chen Ge continued up.
The window at the corner of the corridor was covered with black cloth, and there were no lights on the walls. The sky outside was already bright, but the corridor was still dark.
"Is anyone there?"
The strange voice crawled into his ears. Chen Ge was like the main character in a horror movie, and he walked step by step towards the source of the voice.
Stepping on the stairs, his body moved deeper into the darkness. He held the railing, and he felt the chill that came from his palms.
There was no light on the third floor of the old house. Chen Ge took out his phone and turned on the flashlight.
He shone it at the source of the voice, and when the light swept over it, something scurried away.
His muscles tensed, and Chen Ge scanned the third floor. The door here had been removed, and the room was filled with all kinds of junk. The most eye-catching thing was a piano covered in dust.
There were fewer keys, and it looked like an old man whose teeth were about to fall out had opened his mouth.
"Their family used to have a good life. They have a three-story house, and they should have been able to afford a piano." Chen Ge walked to the piano. His fingers pressed on the keys, but the melodious sound that he expected did not appear.
Chen Ge turned to look inside the piano. A large pile of hair was shoved inside the piano. Perhaps it was his imagination, but Chen Ge realized that the hair appeared to be moving, shrinking into the interior of the piano.
Reaching his hand into the piano, Chen Ge pulled out a handful of hair with a calm expression. "There are black and white hairs, and the edges of the cut are neat like they were cut off. Was this something that the landlady purposely collected?"
The landlady's daughter-in-law was very young when the accident happened, so her hair could not have been white.
"Why would the landlady stuff so much hair inside the piano?" Chen Ge tossed the hair back into the piano, but when he pulled his arm back, his eyes caught a flash of a gray face inside the pile of hair. It appeared to have been lying inside the hair, looking at Chen Ge.
"What is it?" The third floor was the room for the departed spirits, so for Chen Ge, this kind of supernatural phenomenon was normal.
He did not panic. He placed the phone aside and aimed the light at the interior of the piano. Then he reached into the pile of hair. "Are you still inside?"
No one knew what was hidden under the hair, and no one knew what they would find later. It did not feel good to touch the hair with one's fingers.
After searching for a long time, Chen Ge still could not find the person. He pulled his hands back and glanced at the clock next to him. The watch was very similar to the one at the landlady's home, but only the second hand was moving.
It turned again and again, but the time on the watch did not change. It was fixed at 3: 44 pm.
"Is it 3 pm or 3 am? What happened at this time?" Just as Chen Ge's attention was attracted by the clock, something ran out from under the piano. The sound of a ball rolling echoed in the room. When Chen Ge reacted, the sound had already reached the second floor.
"It ran away? No, it should be leading the way for me. "Chen Ge returned to the second floor. For some reason, he felt like something was staring at his back.
The sound disappeared on the second floor, and coincidentally, the angle of the door on the second floor was obviously different from before.
"It's hiding inside the room?" Chen Ge pushed open the door on the second floor. This was the room in Jia Ming's story.
However, different from Jia Ming's description, all the windows in this room were boarded up. Even though it was clean and tidy, it gave off a very creepy feeling.
Entering the room, Chen Ge headed straight for the bathroom with the heaviest Yin energy in the building.
Pushing open the door, he scanned the room briefly before stopping before the mirror.
Staring at his reflection in the mirror, Chen Ge looked for a long time.
If a person looked at themselves in the mirror for a long time, their brain would develop the illusion that the person in the mirror was becoming more and more different from themselves. In fact, there would be an indescribable sense of strangeness and fear.
After looking at the mirror for a whole five minutes, Chen Ge did not notice anything wrong with the mirror. He suspected that the shadow had left after achieving his goal and did not leave any traps in the mirror.
However, for safety's sake, when Chen Ge prepared to leave, he used his Yin Yang Vision again. The moment his pupils narrowed, his eyes caught a pair of gray legs.
A child whose head was about to touch the ground was standing at the door of the bathroom, looking at him.
Whipping his body around, Chen Ge realized that there was nothing behind him. He glanced at the mirror again. This time, even with his Yin Yang Vision, he could not see the child's shadow in the mirror.
"Where did it go?"
When Chen Ge walked out from the bathroom and looked toward the living room, his expression shifted. The door to the living room was closed.
The windows were boarded up, and now the door was closed as well. The room was suffocating.
"Is this the child's doing?" He walked to the living room door and turned the lock, but he realized that the door was locked from the inside. Without the key, he could not open it.
Just as Chen Ge was struggling with the lock, a soft sound came from a corner of the living room. Then, the sound of static crawled into Chen Ge's ears.
He turned back to look, and in the dark and depressing room, the television that had been turned off had been switched on.
A distorted image that alternated between blue and white appeared on the screen, and it would flicker occasionally.
"This scene has appeared in Jia Ming's story before." Chen Ge's voice was calm, but his heart was racing.
Before he finished, the television screen flickered even more violently, and a blurry shadow could be seen in the blue and white image.
The shadow seemed to be slowly approaching Chen Ge. Initially, it was only the size of a fist, but it gradually grew to the size of a head. As it got closer, Chen Ge could see it more clearly.
It was the shadow of a woman. Her body was twisted into the shape of a fried dough twist, and her clothes were squeezing into her skin. Her chin was broken, and her eyes were bulging out of their sockets.
The screen flickered faster and faster, and with each flicker, the blurry woman would be one step closer to him. Chen Ge's heart started to race uncontrollably.
When the woman grew to the size of a real person, and the television screen could not capture her whole body, Chen Ge stopped hesitating. He reached behind him and mumbled two words.
"Xu Yin!"
His fingers reached behind him, but there was nothing there. Chen Ge's heart skipped a beat.
He was suddenly reminded that he had just received a call from Lee Zheng that morning, and he had to go to the hospital to cooperate with the police.
Time was tight, and his backpack was wet from the dam. Furthermore, it was almost dawn, and he was going to find the police. There would not be any danger, so he did not bring his backpack.
With his frozen fingers hovering behind him, Chen Ge slowly raised his head to look at the television.
Cold sweat slid down his face, and his eyes slowly moved up. Finally, he saw the screen.
There was only a flickering blue and white image on the screen, but the woman's figure had disappeared.
The pressure disappeared instantly, and Chen Ge sighed in relief. However, at that moment, a numbness came from the back of his neck like someone's hair had accidentally brushed against his skin.
His eyelids twitched. Chen Ge had heard this scene before from Jia Ming's story.
He slowly turned around, and out of the corner of his eyes, a pair of pale eyes were looking at him from behind.
The woman whose body was twisted into the shape of a fried dough twist, her chin broken, and her eyes bulging out of their sockets was standing behind him.
His face twitched, and Chen Ge felt like the air had frozen. He looked at the woman's messy hair that appeared to have been pulled madly, and he slowly took a step back.
His feet tripped over something, and Chen Ge collapsed onto the sofa. He looked at the approaching shadow and said instinctively, "If I told you I'm here to help you, would you believe me?"
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