The old alleys crisscrossed with each other. Chen Ge was afraid of losing them, so he picked up his speed.
After a few turns, a row of short two-story buildings appeared in front of them. The skinny woman and the boy had disappeared from here.
The gutter gave off a horrible stench, and the red letters for demolition were written on the walls. The corners were filled with all kinds of trash.
Chen Ge walked to the bottom of the building, and the questions in his mind appeared one after another.
The woman and the boy lived in such a poor environment, so their living conditions had to be bad. However, at the entrance of the Haunted House, the woman had decisively taken out one hundred RMB so that the boy could visit the Haunted House. This showed how much she loved the boy, but the boy's attitude toward her was cold. The boy only said two sentences after he arrived at the Haunted House, and they were both directed at Chen Ge. He seemed to dislike the woman.
"Is it a personality disorder that prevents him from accepting other people's love, or is there something else?"
There was only one family living on the second floor. Clothes and pants were hung on the railing, and the corridor was clean. It was much cleaner than the one downstairs.
"Is anyone home?" The door was open, and Chen Ge did not dare enter. He knocked on the door.
"Wait a minute."
Footsteps came from inside the room, and soon, the woman walked out. When she saw Chen Ge at the door, she paused.
"Why are you here? Did we bring you trouble by visiting the Haunted House? "the woman asked cautiously.
"No, I'm just interested in the boy's situation, and I wish to ask him some questions." Chen Ge stopped at the door. He realized that the woman had no intention of inviting him into the room, so he continued, "Don't misunderstand, I have many friends at Western Jiujiang's Medical University. Perhaps they can help you."
"Thank you, but there's no need."
The woman rejected him without hesitation, and Chen Ge felt like he was being too rude. "I'm really not a bad person, and I mean no harm. You can look at your phone and find today's Jiujiang morning news."
Seeing the woman's lack of response, Chen Ge took out his phone and found a random news article about him helping the police solve the case at Ping An Apartments.
"Look, I once provided the police with a key clue and was awarded a medal."
Chen Ge passed the phone to the woman, and the woman glanced at it. "Haunted House Host Rescued by the Police? Haunted House Owner Caused Disaster at Midnight? "
"The headlines aren't important; my picture should be in there."
Chen Ge explained again and again before the woman's suspicion disappeared. She returned the phone to him. "Come and sit in the living room. Leave the door open."
"Okay."
The woman led Chen Ge to the living room. Instead of a living room, it was more like a thirty-square-meter room with a dining table and a bed.
"I didn't expect anyone to come, so I didn't clean up. Sorry for making you laugh. Do you want something to drink?" The dark skinny woman was a little embarrassed. Her appearance was very similar to that of the little boy.
"There's no need. I just want to ask about the child's parents. The more detailed, the better." Chen Ge took out his phone and prepared to record anything useful.
"It's been so long, why are you asking about that?" The woman sat across from Chen Ge and recounted what happened at Mu Yang High School three years ago.
Three summers ago, before Mu Yang High School was closed, there was a storm. When the boy's parents returned home, they realized the boy had disappeared. They braved the rain to look for him, but who knew that would be the last time they saw each other.
The woman repeated what she had told the police three years ago to Chen Ge.
"Looks like the real reason behind the boy's parents' disappearance lies with the boy himself." Chen Ge memorized the key points that the woman had told him on his phone. He tried to reconstruct what had happened.
When the parents returned home from work, they realized the boy had disappeared. They went out to look for him. The crime scene was still unclear, but the place where the bodies were hidden was probably inside the well at Mu Yang High School. The whole process was probably witnessed by the boy; he was the only witness.
It was probably because he saw that scene that the boy became so abnormal.
Chen Ge stared at the table, and he suddenly felt like something was wrong. He took out the black phone from his pocket and found the few side missions for the School of the Afterlife. The description for Side Mission No. 6, Deep Well, was — 'The little brother and little sister did not return home after school. Where did they go?'
The black phone's mission system could not have made a mistake, so what was the meaning of the little brother and little sister? Based on the information that he had, it should be the boy's parents who were shoved into the well. Where was the problem?
Chen Ge put the phone away. Looking at the woman with red eyes, he asked with uncertainty, "Is Fan Yu an only child? Does he have a little brother and little sister? "
The moment the question left his lips, the woman's expression changed. Her fingers dug into her palms, and her tears fell uncontrollably. "If nothing happened to my two children, Xiao Yu would have a little brother and little sister by now."
"Your children?" Before Chen Ge entered the room, he had seen the clothes hanging on the balcony. There were only the boy's and the woman's, not the man's, so he had thought that the woman was not married.
"They died when they were very young." The woman was losing control of her emotions. She apologized and crawled into the kitchen.
"Fan Yu does have a little brother and little sister, but based on the woman's description, they should have passed away a long time ago, so why would the black phone say that they did not return home after school? How could they go to school when they were not there? Is the black phone wrong, or is the woman lying? Or is Fan Yu hallucinating? "
The woman was looking for something in the kitchen, but she did not come out. Chen Ge stood up and walked toward the only room in the room. Fan Yu should be there; the boy was the center of everything.
Pushing open the door, Chen Ge saw that the bedroom was very clean. Fan Yu was standing before the study table, and he seemed to be writing something.
Chen Ge walked to the back of the boy and realized that the boy was drawing. He seemed to like red and black.
"Xiao Yu, what are you drawing?" Chen Ge was afraid that he might scare the boy, so he asked very softly.
The boy turned to look at Chen Ge, but he did not answer and continued to draw.
As he continued to paint, the picture on the paper became clearer.
Inside the pure black house, there were several red people standing.
After he was done, the boy crumpled the paper into a ball and tossed it on the ground before starting to draw something else.
Chen Ge studied the boy for a long time, and he realized that the core of the boy's drawing was a black house and red people.
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