"A person without a shadow?" As long as it was a person, they would have a shadow, unless they were not a person, or they were someone's shadow that had snuck out.
Chen Ge confirmed with the old lady again. "Did you see him clearly?"
"Yes." In the old lady's memory, the strange man looked exactly like Chen Ge. She looked at Chen Ge before her, and she had a strange feeling. "That day, he stood outside the door. I asked him everything, but he didn't answer me. He seemed to be mumbling a person's name."
"A person's name? Can you still remember that name? " To ease the old lady's suspicion, Chen Ge took out his phone and turned on the flashlight to shine on himself. His shadow appeared behind him. "Granny, I have a shadow. The person you saw only looked similar to me."
"I can't remember that clearly. I'll tell you when I do." The old lady exchanged phone numbers with Chen Ge.
"Granny, other than the name, do you remember anything else about that person? How long did he stand outside the door? After he left, did anything happen to this building? " Chen Ge was worried that there was a trap left behind by the shadow inside the building. The enemy had set up the whole of Eastern Jiujiang, so he had to be careful when dealing with them.
"After Gu Ming ran out, the person outside the door disappeared as well. After he left, I didn't lose anything, but I keep feeling like something is missing. I can't explain it, like something very important has been taken away by the man. " The old lady sighed. With her back hunched, she walked slowly around the room. "I've searched the whole building, but nothing is missing. However, that feeling won't go away. It's quite uncomfortable."
"Why do I feel like something is missing?"
"I've said everything that I need to say. When you leave, remember to close the door for me." The old lady seemed to be reminded of something sad. She stopped talking to Chen Ge and walked out shakily.
Chen Ge was about to leave with the old lady when someone pulled on his shirt.
Turning back to look, five crooked fingers gripped the corner of Chen Ge's shirt, and the female ghost crawled out from under the coffee table.
"I didn't plan to leave …" Chen Ge's eyes scanned the female ghost and the child. He was suddenly reminded of something. After he entered the room, he only saw the female ghost and the child, but he did not see the old man's son. "A family of three got into a car accident. The wife and child are here, so there is no reason for the husband to not show up."
He thought about what the old lady had said earlier. After the shadow left, she felt that she had lost something very important.
Could it be that her son had been taken away by the Shadow?
Chen Ge decided to give it a try. After a moment of silence, he asked, "A few years ago, you should have seen the evil spirit that looked similar to me. Can you tell me anything about him?"
The two malicious spirits lay in the distance, staring straight at Chen Ge. No one knew what they were thinking.
"If I don't kill him, one day, I will be killed by him. If you have been harmed by him before, then he is our common enemy." Chen Ge bent down and reached out his hands. He wanted to hold the female ghost's crooked, bloodied fingers. "I can help you. I'm not just saying that."
When the female ghost sensed that Chen Ge was going to shake her hand, she immediately moved away.
The room became very quiet. Moments later, the boy ran into the bedroom and pulled out an old school bag from under the bed.
He took out a pen and paper and placed them on the coffee table. The female ghost's messy hair curled around the pen, and she started to write crooked words on the paper.
"He's alive. He's not completely dead. The shadow is only a part of him. To make us leave, my husband stayed behind. He ate my husband, and he's growing stronger. "Chen Ge read the words on the paper.
"What does he mean by alive? The shadow is still alive? He's a human? But how could a human be eaten by a ghost? " Chen Ge had no idea what the female ghost's definition of death was. It should be different from the medical definition of death, but even so, it was enough to shock Chen Ge. "The shadow's original form cannot be considered a ghost, or rather, he's different from a normal ghost. This enemy sure is hard to read."
When he was fighting with the Society of Strange Tales, even though the members were all mysterious, at least Chen Ge could confirm that they were all living people.
The Society of Strange Tales was based on living people, and ghosts were just tools.
However, this culprit in Eastern Jiujiang gave Chen Ge a completely different feeling. Until now, he had no idea whether the culprit was a human or a ghost. After reading the handwriting, Chen Ge was even more confused.
"That's all?"
Chen Ge put down the paper, and the female ghost's hair curled around the pen as she continued to write. "When he ate my husband, he said that with each death, the resentment in his heart will intensify, and with each consumption, he will get closer to that person. One day, he will return to Western Jiujiang and push open that door with his own hands."
The words on the paper were illogical, but it made Chen Ge's heart skip a beat. This sentence revealed a lot of information, especially the last sentence. The shadow said that he would personally push open the door in Western Jiujiang.
Chen Ge suspected that the door that the shadow wanted to push open was the door inside the Haunted House's toilet.
Currently, the Haunted House was on the rise, but once the door inside the toilet was pushed open, the situation would change. In other words, all the effort that he had put into obtaining the black phone would go to waste.
"Just who is this thing?"
The door inside the Haunted House was Chen Ge's taboo. Whoever dared to touch that door, he would not rest until one of them was dead. This was related to his foundation, and there was no room for negotiation.
The female ghost did not know what Chen Ge was thinking. She continued to write on the corner of the paper. "There are ten places in Eastern Jiujiang that are very haunted. The man has consumed the ghosts at five of them, and it was not until he was at White Dragon Cave Tunnel that he was injured for the first time. The shadow only appears at night, and he hates light and the sound of children crying. "
After the ghost finished writing, she looked at Chen Ge deeply and then disappeared from the room with the boy.
"The people in Eastern Jiujiang are all superstitious. I've heard about these ten ghost stories before, but I didn't expect there to be only five left. But then again, the shadow's first encounter was at White Dragon Cave Tunnel. Last night, Jia Ming fainted at the entrance of White Dragon Cave Tunnel. Could he have fainted there on purpose to lure me into the tunnel to investigate and then use me to kill him? "In Chen Ge's mind, the shadow was an extremely cunning person, so he had to consider the worst-case scenario.
"He hates light and the sound of children crying. I can make use of those two weaknesses." Chen Ge shoved the paper on the table into his pocket. When he was about to leave, he remembered that he had forgotten to ask the girl if she was willing to come with him to move to a bigger and more comfortable environment.
After giving it some thought, Chen Ge took out another piece of paper from the boy's bag and wrote on it with the pen that the ghost had used earlier. "If you run into any trouble, you can come find me at the Haunted House at Western Jiujiang's New Century Park. Think about it. The boy is not young anymore, and there are many professional teachers and friends of his age at my Haunted House. Sometimes, you should think about his future."
After placing the paper at the most obvious spot, Chen Ge turned to leave the room.
The sound of his footsteps was small, a result of his training during many Trial Missions.
When he reached the first floor, the door to the old lady's room suddenly opened.
"Granny? How can I help you? "
The old lady looked at Chen Ge and hesitated. In the end, she shook her head and returned to her room.
Chen Ge stood outside the door. He could guess that the old lady had realized that her family had not left, but neither of them had said anything.
"They also do not wish for you to live in this lonely world alone." Turning to leave the building, Chen Ge hailed a cab to return to the park. A new day had begun.
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