When Chen Ge saw Lee Zheng and Jia Ming, the two at the door saw him as well.
"Chen Ge?"
Lee Zheng and Jia Ming said at the same time. Neither of them expected to run into Chen Ge there.
"Why are you here?" Lee Zheng placed one of his hands behind Jia Ming. Even though he was shocked, the hand did not move.
"Don't go over there, he might not be Chen Ge," Jia Ming reminded him softly. Jia Ming reminded him softly. He looked a little scared. "Have you forgotten what I told you before? The shadow looks just like Chen Ge! "
From the perspective of a third party, Jia Ming did have a point. A living person suddenly appearing inside a hotel shrouded in blood fog in the middle of the night, there had to be something wrong.
"You're asking me, but I should be asking you the same question." Chen Ge did not dare get too close to Lee Zheng and Jia Ming. Before he entered Li Wan City, Lee Zheng had sent him a message, telling him that Jia Ming had escaped, and they were currently searching for Jia Ming in the city.
However, in just three hours, Lee Zheng and Jia Ming had appeared together in Li Wan City. No matter how he thought about it, this was very strange.
Lee Zheng's hand had been hiding behind Jia Ming. He was probably pointing the gun at Jia Ming to prevent him from doing something irrational.
The man had a gun, so Chen Ge did not dare act recklessly. A gun was useless against a baleful Specter, but it posed a great threat to him.
"In any case, let's all calm down first." Staying at the hotel would only waste precious time, so Chen Ge decided to reveal his identity first. He took out his phone and showed Lee Zheng all his call history. "Inspector Lee, I'm Chen Ge, that is undeniable. The reason I'm here is because I received a distress call."
Chen Ge pointed at his call history with Fan Cong. "This man once came to visit my Haunted House. He was not in a normal state, and he said many strange things to me. Out of curiosity, I exchanged contact information with him, but to my surprise, he disappeared tonight. I was the last person he contacted. To get to the bottom of this, I rushed over to Li Wan City overnight. "
Lee Zheng asked Chen Ge a few more questions. Seeing that Chen Ge had answered all of them correctly, he relaxed slightly. "Jia Ming escaped from the hospital. We searched the streets, and we confirmed that he was heading toward Eastern Jiujiang."
"Initially, we thought he was planning to escape into the mountains. After expanding the search area, I discovered something very strange through the surveillance."
"When he passed a junction, Jia Ming covered his face. Even though he was still wearing his original clothes, the way he walked became unnatural."
"I've checked the surveillance footage multiple times, and I think Jia Ming might have found someone to take his place at that junction."
"Let the team search according to the original plan. I'll head toward the fork in the road myself."
"The storm was too heavy. It made the search very difficult, but hard work pays off. In the end, I found him in the back alley of the street."
"I chased him all the way to Li Wan City before I managed to capture him."
After hearing what Lee Zheng had to say, Jia Ming quickly waved his hands. "Everything I did was forced by the shadow. If I didn't follow his orders, he would have had a hundred different ways to kill me."
"Forced? How come it feels like you purposely lured me to this godforsaken place? What are you planning with the shadow? Be honest, you've already lost your chance. " Lee Zheng had entered Li Wan City because he was chasing after Jia Ming. From Chen Ge's perspective, this reason was acceptable, but it was a bit far-fetched.
For some reason, he felt like Lee Zheng and Jia Ming were acting strangely, but he could not pinpoint what was so strange about them.
"Inspector Lee, this place is very dangerous. Come in first, don't stay at the entrance for too long." Chen Ge pressed the play button on the recorder and walked toward the hotel entrance. "Did you run into anything scary on the way here?"
"This place is indeed very strange. It's raining outside, but the ground inside the small town is not wet. I believe it has something to do with the blood fog." Lee Zheng did not answer the question. He grabbed Jia Ming and walked into the hotel.
Chen Ge knew very well how scary Li Wan City was. This place was filled with baleful Specters and murderers. If Inspector Lee had a way to deal with them, how was a normal person like him supposed to deal with them?
Based on Lee Zheng and Jia Ming's expressions, they were merely nervous, but there was no fear in their eyes.
Could it be that the shadow is among them? That's why the ghosts in Li Wan City are avoiding them?
One was a police officer, and the other was a criminal. Chen Ge had no idea who the shadow was. I mustn't panic. Both of them might be real people, and the shadow is hiding in a third place.
Ever since he obtained the black phone, the shadow was the most difficult opponent that Chen Ge had encountered. He had a feeling that the shadow had summoned both Lee Zheng and Jia Ming at the same time to distract him.
Chen Ge was wary of Lee Zheng and Jia Ming, and neither of them completely trusted Chen Ge. They already knew that the shadow had the ability to change and imitate others. Perhaps from their perspective, the Chen Ge before them was most likely the shadow in disguise.
"Sit anywhere you want. Wait here for a moment, I have a few friends upstairs." Chen Ge walked up to the second floor.
He turned around and heard Jia Ming whisper to Lee Zheng, "I've told you everything about the shadow. Now that you've seen him with your own eyes, it proves that I'm not lying. The shadow is Chen Ge! Leave now, or else it'll be too late. He'll kill us to silence us! "
"You spent so much effort to bring me here just to show me this?" Lee Zheng's tone was cold and serious. "Since you have a way to lure me here, then you must have a way to trick Chen Ge here as well. Now, it's hard to tell whether he's the shadow or not."
"It's already so obvious, but you still don't believe me?" Jia Ming's voice rose. "Think about the things that the man has done. Do you think that's something a normal person would do? He's just using you, using you to cover up his sin. "
"Cover up his sin? Do you know what the definition of sin is? " Lee Zheng pressed Jia Ming to the side of the table. "Be honest. Don't say things that you shouldn't say, and don't do things that you shouldn't do. I have my own judgment."
Lee Zheng and Jia Ming conversed softly. Chen Ge slowly walked away. When he reached the second floor, someone knocked on the door of the hotel again.
"Is anyone there?" A young man carrying a black backpack stood at the door. He looked rather frail. "I wish to stay here for the night."
He seemed to be in puberty. His voice was rather awkward, but other than that, he looked normal. He looked like a high school student who had run away from home.
Pushing on his glasses, he avoided Lee Zheng and Jia Ming and carefully walked to the front of the counter. "Is anyone there? I'd like to stay. "
Chen Ge stood on the second floor, and he saw everything. "This child looks the same as the one I saw on the high school student's phone. He should be either Bei Wen or Bei Ye."
When he took the bus on Route 104, Chen Ge had run into a high school student with a wooden face. He had boarded the bus to look for his missing classmate, and he had shown Chen Ge his classmate's picture.
Coincidentally, Chen Ge had heard Gu Feiyu describe the missing person on the phone. To prevent any accidents from happening to the high school student, Chen Ge had chased him off the bus and promised to help him find out the truth if it was within his power.
"When I was playing Xiao Bu's game, I did see a high school student inside the hotel scenario." Chen Ge gripped the handrail, and his eyes wandered between the high school student and Lee Zheng. "In Xiao Bu's game, there are four customers inside the hotel — the woman, the high school student, the police officer, and Xiao Bu. Now that the police officer and the high school student have appeared, shouldn't it be the woman's turn to appear next?"
The world behind the door was woven from the door pusher's memory. Xiao Bu's game recorded Xiao Bu's own experiences, and now that the door had gone out of control, all the nightmares that she had experienced had become reality.
"Why would Xiao Bu want people to play this game? Just to prove that she's innocent? To resonate with others? Is this her tool to escape? Or is there a key hidden in the game that can free her? "
With Chen Ge's help, Fan Cong had cleared the game, but that was when the change happened. The shadow had targeted his family. Now that Fan Cong had disappeared, his older brother, Fan Dade, might have been replaced by the shadow.
"The shadow should know about the existence of Xiao Bu's game, but why didn't he stop it? Could it be that there is something inside Xiao Bu's game that he needs? "
"The door to Li Wan City was pushed open by Xiao Bu, so to gain full control of this door, Xiao Bu's full cooperation is needed. Now that I think about it, the shadow is casting a long line to catch a big fish. The most important thing now is to find Fan Cong — he is the only person at the scene. "
Chen Ge had taken over the hotel, and he had summoned the glutton monster away. This place was just an empty shell, so there was no reason for him to stay.
Pushing open the guest room door, Scissors and the drunkard huddled next to the window with a rope that they had made. They had tied the doctor up so that if there was a problem, they could send the doctor out first.
"What's the situation outside? Earlier, I felt like the whole building was shaking like there was an earthquake. "When the drunkard saw Chen Ge walk in, he leaned toward Chen Ge nervously.
"The boss and the chef were killed by the headless woman, and then they died together with a baleful Specter inside the hotel kitchen."
"The ghost inside the hotel is dead as well?" The drunkard gave a long sigh. "Then, we can rest here peacefully. After the sun rises and the blood fog disperses, we should be able to leave this place easily."
"This hotel is not safe. Without a baleful Specter to guard it, more people and monsters will come." Chen Ge walked to the doctor's side and lowered his head to inspect his body. "Can you still walk?"
The veins on the doctor's neck were popping. He tried his best to move his head slightly. "I'm much more awake now, but I can't use my limbs, and there's one more thing …"
Scissors seemed to know what the doctor was going to say. He reached out to pull up the cloth on the doctor's pants. There was a patch of skin on the outside of the doctor's thigh that had turned gray.
"When I first came to Li Wan City, I heard people say that if you stay too long on the other side of the door, gray spots will grow on your body. Once that happens, it'll be impossible for you to leave." The doctor sounded pessimistic. "I won't be able to leave this place."
"Your feet are on your body. If you want to leave, no one will be able to stop you." Chen Ge's original plan was to drive the bus on Route 104 directly to Fan Cong's residential area and use the red high heels and the smiling man to force their way through the shadow's trap, but the situation had obviously changed. The blood fog covered Li Wan City, and the door that had gone out of control had been activated before they arrived. Chen Ge had no choice but to change his plan. He would make use of the Xiao Bu game to first consume the troublesome ghosts in Li Wan City and use the enemies to strengthen himself.
Chen Ge had visited the few locations that were mentioned on the black phone, and he felt like that was enough.
"There are other customers coming in from downstairs. They might be the original residents of this place, or they might be ghosts in disguise. Be careful later. There's nothing wrong with being careful."
After giving a few more orders, Chen Ge had the drunkard carry the doctor, and the group left the room.
When they returned to the first floor, Chen Ge realized that other than the police officer, Jia Ming, and the high-schooler, there was another woman in the hotel.
She had a sexy body and a sweet face. She was dressed conservatively in a long shirt with long sleeves and gloves that covered almost all of her skin.
"Where's the boss? Give me a single room. " The woman dragged a large suitcase. She ignored everyone else and walked toward the kitchen with a smile. "This time, I've brought what you want."
She walked past Chen Ge's group. There was no scent of perfume on the woman. Instead, there was a light stench of decay.
"The boss has gone out to deal with something. He's not in the kitchen." Chen Ge reached out to stop the woman.
"Who are you? Are you familiar with the boss? " The woman's small nose leaned close to Chen Ge like she had smelled something special on Chen Ge.
When the woman got close, Chen Ge saw the woman's collar. There was a complicated scar around her neck that looked like a tattoo. It was as if the skin under her shirt was sewn together.
"I'm not familiar with the boss, but I hope you'll behave yourself. I'm in charge of this place now." Chen Ge replied politely. Actually, if not for the fact that there were other people around them, he would have summoned his employees to restrain the woman and start to interrogate her for information about Li Wan City.
The woman stood on her tiptoes to look at the kitchen. Chen Ge had his employees clean up the place, but she could still see some problems.
"It doesn't matter who's in charge. I just want to know if you're still doing business here." The woman dragged the suitcase closer to her. "Recently, the number of people coming in from outside has been decreasing. It wasn't easy for me to get this thing."
Chen Ge had a general idea of what was inside the suitcase. "You're still doing business. Leave the suitcase behind, and you can stay here anytime you want."
"Thank you. Can I go to the kitchen to make something to eat? This time, the blood fog is much thicker than before. I'm quite hungry. "The woman came up with many reasons to go to the kitchen.
"Find a place to sit. The food will be here soon." Chen Ge waved at the drunkard. He had him and Scissors go to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.
After the group entered the kitchen, the restaurant door was pushed open again, and a man with a strange smile on his face walked in.
There was a blood stain on his shirt like he was injured. After entering the restaurant, he did not say anything and found a corner to sit down.
Not long after that, the sound of dripping came from the restaurant door, and the smile on the smiling man's face froze.
Several seconds later, a woman in a red raincoat entered the restaurant with her head lowered.
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