Looking at the wriggling blood vessels around the window and the white cloth that was stained with blood, Chen Ge believed that this was a one-sided massacre.
The boy was the scariest presence at Li Wan City's hospital. At the very least, he was a Half Red Specter. The blood stains on the white cloth and the window should have been left behind by him.
"I was wondering why the hospital is so quiet. So, someone beat us to it." Chen Ge's face was filled with regret, and it caused the three behind him to frown.
"It's a good thing that they're fighting among themselves! You didn't sigh when we ran into the ghosts earlier, but now that they've started to kill each other, you, an outsider, are so unhappy. " The drunkard could not understand Chen Ge at all. He did not know that Chen Ge had already treated this place as his property. At least, before Yan Danian's comic was filled, he would not let these ghosts go.
"The ghosts here are not bad by nature, but they've been tricked by the culprit. I really can't bear to see them die. They deserve a better home." Chen Ge inspected the place again. After confirming that there were no more ghosts at the hospital, he led the group away.
"Where are we going now?" The drunkard, the doctor, and Scissors followed behind Chen Ge. They knew that they would not end well if they split up, so they decided to stick together.
"The smiling man killed a whole bus of people and ruined the culprit's plan, so he should have a bad relationship with the culprit there. The red high heels is no weaker than the smiling man. Since she would attack the residents of Li Wan City, it means that she is not on good terms with the culprit as well. These two are both troublemakers in Eastern Jiujiang. If they move on their own, they can help us distract the culprit's attention. " Chen Ge analyzed the situation calmly. No matter how bad the situation was, it would sound different in his mouth like they were the ones who had the upper hand. "There's no need to rush. We'll go to the kennel that you mentioned earlier. I really want to see what a dog that can smile looks like."
"You really want to go there? If I knew that, I wouldn't have told you. "The drunkard led the way unwillingly.
The "kennel" was very close to the hospital. As they approached the building, the expressions of the passengers varied.
The drunkard was anxious, the doctor was cautious, and Scissors pretended to be calm. Only Chen Ge walked forward alone with the hammer in his hand, looking like he was ready to give it a try.
"Is it here?" Chen Ge pushed open the school gate. Before he entered, the white cat meowed. It was very uneasy, as if there was something there that it hated.
"Are cats afraid of dogs? That shouldn't be the case. "Chen Ge stroked the white cat's head and comforted it.
"Big Brother, you better be careful. That monster is very ferocious. I've seen it once. It was on all fours like a hunting dog." The drunkard wanted to say something else, but when he saw that Chen Ge had already entered the yard, he shut his mouth. "Isn't this bro a little too much?"
Actually, Chen Ge was already very careful, but other people could not see that. He had Xu Yin's protection and the white cat's warning. Every bold attempt he made was guaranteed.
"There really is a kennel, and it's beautifully made, but …" Chen Ge carried his backpack and stood at the corner of the yard. He looked at the kennel that reeked of Foul Odor. "This size shouldn't have been prepared for a dog. The space inside is big enough to fit a human."
"When I came in earlier, I also thought it was weird. The place is filled with deodorant. It's supposed to be a place for a human, but it's made to look like a place for a dog, and a place that should be a place for a dog is made to fit a human." The drunkard was incoherent. Whenever he thought about what had happened earlier, his body would shiver involuntarily, and his head would ring. It felt like he would collapse at any moment.
For a normal person, this kind of reaction was normal. Seeing the drunkard's reaction, Chen Ge nodded lightly.
He was not agreeing with what the drunkard said, but he had finally confirmed that the drunkard was a normal person.
Chen Ge had been observing all the passengers on the bus. Now, there were only two people that he could eliminate as a suspect — the drunkard and Scissors.
"It's fine. If you're really afraid, just stand with them." Chen Ge walked through the yard. Suddenly, he felt an itch on his neck. He reached out to scratch it, and he realized that there were several strands of black dog fur in his palm. They were hard and prickly.
"Where did they come from?" Lifting his head to look up, Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. He saw a man's face on the window of the second floor of the attic.
The man was wearing a sheet of dog fur, and there was a strange smile on his face.
This was the first time that Chen Ge had seen that kind of smile. It did not look like something that a human could produce. The way the muscles moved was completely different from a human's, and it caused the whole face to protrude forward.
Looking at the human face on the second floor quietly, Chen Ge's heart started to race when he first saw it, but it only took him two to three seconds to return to normal.
Raising his arm, Chen Ge also smiled at the face. "Stay there and don't move. I'll go find you now."
There was a person on the attic, but Chen Ge could not sense any presence that belonged to a living person from him.
"Li Wan City is so big. I don't have much time to visit every building." Chen Ge entered the second floor. When the doctor and the rest prepared to follow, he waved his hands. "Just stay outside."
"We should all go in together. At a time like this, don't try to act tough!" The drunkard knew how powerful the monster was, and he was worried about Chen Ge.
"That's fine, but the space inside the room is small. Don't get too close to me, or I'll hurt you." The drunkard's casual remark made Chen Ge think that the man was a good person. He should pay more attention to him and try to bring him out alive.
"Understood, we won't give you any trouble." The drunkard glanced at Chen Ge's hammer, and he sighed internally. This man before him was truly a reckless man who did not care about his own life.
The passengers all entered the room. Walking down the narrow corridor, they were about to head to the second floor when the sound of a wind chime entered their ears. The half-open door closed on its own.
"Oh no!" The drunkard and the doctor turned to look behind them at the same time. Their escape route had been blocked.
The group stopped where they were. Scissors did not look so good either. He said darkly, "This is the most classic scene in a horror movie. The door closes on its own, and it usually means that the ghost is coming. It might be right around us."
"I told you not to act so rashly!" The drunkard started to panic. "Should we find a room to hide? There are so many of us, so the ghost won't attack all four of us at the same time."
"You have a point." The doctor nodded in agreement. After the discussion, they all turned to look at Chen Ge, asking for Chen Ge's opinion.
"What are you guys talking about? Why do we need to hide? Can't we just open the door after it closes? "Chen Ge shook his head lightly. He had no idea what the other passengers were thinking.
Hearing Chen Ge's answer, the drunkard wanted to say something else, but Chen Ge did not give him the chance. He rushed to the door and swung the hammer down.
The sound was loud, and the whole building could hear it clearly.
After the door was opened, Chen Ge did not stop. He aimed at the joint of the door lock and kept hammering until the whole door was removed.
"Now it won't be able to close anymore." He kicked the deformed door to the side and dragged the hammer to the group. "Don't keep thinking about hiding. We need to learn how to analyze things."
Chen Ge thought that Scissors was a good candidate, so he decided to train him. "I saw the man on the second floor earlier. Now that the door on the first floor has closed on its own, this means that he is not the only ghost in the room. This so-called classic scenario from a horror movie can actually give us a lot of information about ghosts. We need to learn how to use them to analyze things that are useful to us."
Listening to the sound of the wind chime, which sounded like someone was walking down the corridor, Chen Ge turned back to look. "Sometimes, ghosts will use common things in life to lure out the fear in our hearts, like that wind chime. Actually, what we need to do now is very simple."
Chen Ge walked to the door, removed the wind chime, and shoved it inside his backpack.
After the wind chime was inside his backpack, the strange sound disappeared completely.
"It's that simple." When Chen Ge said that, the doctor and the drunkard were shocked. They both pointed behind Chen Ge.
"Brother! There's something on your back! It came out from the wind chime! "
"Ghost! There's a ghost! "
Chen Ge turned around and saw a face filled with hatred and vengeance. Interestingly enough, this face looked exactly like the man on the second floor.
At that moment, the man's lower body was inside Chen Ge's backpack, and his upper body was trying to crawl out. However, numerous hands reached out from the backpack behind Chen Ge. They pulled him back into the backpack.
The man's pained soul disappeared. Chen Ge turned his head back and told the other passengers with a smile, "That was just an illusion. This is the second point that I need to tell you. Ghosts often use some kind of trick to make us fall into self-doubt."
The other passengers were silent. Logically speaking, when the male ghost appeared, they were only afraid, but when they saw the male ghost wail and struggle to disappear behind Chen Ge, their scalps went numb, and chills ran down their spines.
"If you're really afraid, then stay on the first floor." Looking at the deodorant that littered the floor, Chen Ge did not give them time to think and headed to the second floor alone.
The male ghost inside the wind chime looked just like the man on the second floor. Chen Ge suspected that the male ghost was actually the owner of the body, but due to some unknown reason, the soul of the male ghost had been swapped with the soul of the dog, and now it was a dog that was controlling the body.
"This is quite a good ghost story." As the chairperson of the Society of Strange Tales, Chen Ge felt like he had the responsibility to collect all the ghost stories.
When he reached the second floor, he summoned Xu Yin to stand beside him. He was ready to fight, but what happened before him surprised him.
The strange man who had smiled at him earlier was standing in the middle of the second-floor corridor.
He was wearing dog skin and had a creepy smile on his face, but strangely enough, Chen Ge did not sense any hostility from him. It was like the man and Chen Ge knew each other.
"When I was outside earlier, did he show himself because he noticed me?" Chen Ge had Xu Yin test the man, but the man did not show any sign of resistance. However, there was confusion in his eyes like Chen Ge should not have attacked him.
"This man knows me? That's impossible! This is the first time I've met him. Is this the effect of the title of Specter's Favored? " When Chen Ge got close to the man, the man did not evade. He was very obedient, like a tamed pet.
"This is strange." Chen Ge was someone who could be persuaded by reason but not cowed by force. The man did not fight back even if he wanted to bully him, and that was very strange to Chen Ge.
He tried to use the comic on the man, but it did not work. The man had a living body, so he could not be pulled into the comic.
In other words, the man was still alive, but he had used the soul of a dog to live on.
Chen Ge tried to communicate with him, but it was useless.
"What is this man trying to do?" Chen Ge had Xu Yin keep an eye on the man while he entered the room next door to search.
In the room that the man had been in earlier, he found something.
The walls of the room were covered with pictures. They recorded the story of a man, or rather, a dog.
The pictures started with a young man torturing various animals in various cruel ways, and the pictures recorded his crimes.
Until one day, he picked up a black puppy. This puppy's vitality was very tenacious. No matter how he tortured it, it was lucky enough to survive in the end.
The man felt that this dog was not normal, so he kept it in his home. While torturing it, he would kill other animals.
Even the puppy saw how he tortured and killed them, all the way until the puppy grew up.
One time, after the man tortured the black dog, he thought the dog was dead, so he did not lock it up.
That night, the dying black dog crawled back up and crawled into the bedroom.
Chen Ge looked at the last few pictures. The black dog used all its strength to fight the man. Both the man and the dog collapsed in a pool of blood.
In the end, the black dog collapsed forever, but when the man sat up from the pool of blood, the expression on his face had turned into the expression of a dog.
After looking at the pictures, Chen Ge understood why the man had become like this, but there was one question that he did not understand. Why did the man not show any hostility toward him?
After looking at the pictures again, Chen Ge discovered the problem.
When the black dog first appeared, other than the owner and the black dog, there was a shadow that looked like him.
He flipped through the other pictures, and almost all of them had the shadow's presence.
The black dog did not die from the torture, so could it be that the shadow is secretly protecting it? The shadow looks like me, which explains why the black dog did not show any hostility toward me. He mistook me for the shadow! He mistook me for the shadow!
Chen Ge had a general speculation. "Is the shadow really me when I was a child? Is he using a different method to grow?
If an outsider had mistaken him for the shadow, it might have been a coincidence, but now even a resident of Li Wan City had mistaken him for the shadow. This made Chen Ge realize the severity of the problem. The shadow was one hundred percent related to him!
"Maybe he really is like me, but it's only in certain aspects." Looking at the pictures on the wall, Chen Ge had rescued abused animals before, like the white cat. In that aspect, he did share some similarities with the shadow.
However, their personalities and ways of dealing with problems were completely different.
After Chen Ge saved the white cat, he brought it back to the Haunted House to adopt it, but after the shadow saved the black dog, he not only did not adopt it, he allowed it to continue to be abused until it killed its owner.
Resentment, despair, pain, and hostility — from the way the shadow helped the black dog, one could see the shadow's personality.
This man is too dangerous. Chen Ge pasted all the pictures back and walked out of the room.
The man squatted on the ground and tilted his head to study Chen Ge. He seemed to realize that something was wrong.
I have to keep this thing. The shadow can change his appearance and disguise as other people. Perhaps I can use the black dog to find the shadow's real identity. If possible, I wish to have a good talk with the shadow.
Chen Ge squatted down before the man and stared into his eyes. He used Yin Yang Vision to see through the soul underneath the man's skin.
"Come out, you need a new home."
Chen Ge kept persuading him, and the man's expression slowly changed.
Several minutes later, a black dog that was covered in wounds struggled to crawl out from the man's body.
Using the comic, Chen Ge pulled the black dog into it. The moment he did, the black phone in his pocket vibrated again.
He took out the phone and swiped the screen. There were five unread messages.
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