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My House of Horrors
The hearse with the weird odor slowed to a stop before the
entrance. The sound of pebbles could be heard bouncing on the
ceiling. There were footsteps coming from the corridor, and there
seemed to be someone sawing next door. The door knob to the room
rattled slightly, and the faucet in the bathroom kept dripping even
though it had been screwed shut. There was a rubber ball that rolled
on its own underneath the bed. Wet footsteps started to surface one
after another on the floor.

At 3 am, Chen Ge held a cleaver in his hand as he hid beside the

room heater. The call he was trying to make was finally answered.
“Landlord, is this what you meant by ‘the house can be a little
crowded at night’‽”

Author(s): I Fix Air-Conditioner

Artist(s):
Year: 0
Country: China
Genres: Action, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen, Supernatural
Tags: Calm Protagonist, Carefree Protagonist, Cheats, Clever
Protagonist, Comedic Undertone, Crime, Dark, Determined
Protagonist, Game Elements, Ghosts, Investigations, Mystery Solving,
Seeing Things Other Humans Can't, Skill Assimilation, Special
Abilities, Spirits
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ASIANOVEL VERSION: 3.9

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USER: ItaloYu
DATE CREATED: 2019-05-21
LANGUAGE: English

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Chapter 301: I'll Take Care Of You In The

Future
Source: WEBNOVEL

Try as he might, Chen Ge could not get the third drawer to open.
He pulled out the top two drawers to try to see the contents of the
third drawer from above. However, to his disappointment, there were
wooden boards partitioning the different levels, so he could not see
anything.

"The room is purposely kept clean, and I do not want to ruin it. If
you can hear me, you'd better come out on your own."

This was not the first time that Chen Ge had threatened a ghost,
but he had no idea whether it would work or not. He grabbed the
edge of the drawer and tried to pull, but the drawer seemed stuck on
something.

"Xu Yin!" Chen Ge summoned Xu Yin, and they grabbed the drawer
on both sides. As Xu Yin channeled his strength, the wounds on his
body opened again. The red blood trailed down his white arms to
drop on the edge of the drawer. The drawer that remained unmoved
started to loosen.

"Keep going!"

Xu Yin did not hold back. He would do what Chen Ge told him to.
The wounds on his body tore open, and blood dyed his shirt. His face
was twisted from the exertion, and his hands were covered with his
own blood.

"So painful!"

The tightly-closed drawer finally was pulled open the width of one's

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finger. Xu Yin's power seemed to affect the stuff inside the drawer.
The blood continued to flow, and the drawer was slowly pulled open
by Xu Yin. When the drawer opened to the size of half a palm, several
human hands suddenly reached out from within!

There were male and female hands. They tried to stop Chen Ge
and yanked the drawer close. Surprised, Chen Ge and Xu Yin
released their grip, and the drawer closed shut with a bang.

"Why do you insist on this struggle?" Chen Ge stopped Xu Yin, who

intended to repeat the earlier effort. He picked up the hammer and
said, "I'm trying to be nice. After all, we might work again in the
future.

"I hope you'll give this serious consideration. I can use brute force
to smash the table or use fire to burn everything and look for what I
need in the rubble, but I won't. I'm a kind person, and you can ask
any of my friends to confirm that."

Chen Ge squatted beside the drawer; he was not afraid of the stuff
that might reach out from within the drawer. He gripped the drawer's
handle. "This drawer belongs to me, and I'm just taking it back."

He increased his strength and said, "I will forget what happened
tonight. Even though all of you have tried to trick me again and
again, none of you came for my life. You only wanted to scare me
away. I'm telling you not to waste your time. I'm someone who you
can reason with. If you have any issues, come out and talk to me."

Then Chen Ge's empty hand picked up the hammer. "Like now, you
have no other option. Eventually, you'll need to face me. Why not
lower your guard so that we can start this over the right way?"

The drawer slowly vibrated like the spirits inside it were in a

disagreement. After ten seconds, the drawer voluntarily bounced out
for one centimeter. "Good, I do appreciate cooperative spirits."

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Chen Ge took out the third drawer and placed it on the table. It
contained several comic books. "These are by the artist's hand?"

The notebook said that none of the publishers wanted to work with
the artist, so he probably went the route of self-publication.

"So many ghosts came from these comic books?" Chen Ge thought
back to his experience that night, and he understood certain things.
He flipped through the comic books that looked to be the artist's
work.

The artist had a semi-realistic style, and it was understandable why

no publishers wanted to work with him. The characters in his story
felt uncannily real. The whole comic was made up by five individual
stories. The main character of the first story was a gambler. He was
thin and tall; he looked similar to the man Chen Ge had seen earlier.
The gambler was born in a single-parent family. He had never seen
his father and was raised by his mother. He did not receive any
worthwhile education.

If he did not make anything of himself, it would have been fine, but
he suffered from the vice of gambling. Even in his thirties, he had no
work and relied on his mother. For him, life was meaningless other
than being alive.

However, when he was 37, his peaceful life was shattered. The
mother who took care of him fell seriously ill, and they quickly burned
through his mother's savings. His mother wanted to give up on the
treatment, but the gambler did not agree. He sold everything they
had but the old house that was under his mother's name.

Even so, the surgery still needed some money, and even if the
surgery was successful, she could not do heavy work again. He
thought about it and began to borrow money from loan sharks.

The surgery was successful, but the loan had tripled from the
interest. The loan sharks forced the gambler to sell his mother's

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home to settle the debt. The gambler asked them to give him one
night to consider.

The second day, the loan sharks returned, and they got a shock of
their life when they pushed the door open. There was a basin on the
round table, and it was filled with blood. The gambler's left hand was
chopped off, and he stood next to the table with the cleaver in his
right.

He said that he had not done anything worthwhile for his mother
before in his life. Now that his mother could not do heavy work
anymore, if he sold the house, she would have nowhere else to go.
Therefore, he would never sell the house. If they wanted something
as compensation, then he would give them his life.

He was the one who signed the loan papers. He rushed out of the
bedroom, slashing the cleaver, so no one dared to stop him. They
watched on as the man jumped from the eighth-floor window. The
gambler died on the spot, but the arm that he chopped off was still
not found.

The main character for the second story was an interning English
teacher. The old landlady rented her the living room and the master
bedroom while she stayed in the small bedroom. After her son
passed away, the old lady became quite confused and absent-
minded. The teacher took care of her like she was her real mother.
The two got close, and things were moving toward a positive ending.

The English teacher would conduct tuition at night, so she came

home late. However, when she returned, the old lady would have
dinner prepared for her. She was already old, so she would be asleep
when the teacher returned.

Afraid that she might wake the old lady up, she would advise the
old lady to close the door when she went to sleep. One day, the
teacher came home late again. She did not realize that someone was
following her. Once she left the stairwell, someone reached out from

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behind to clamp his hands over her nose and lips.

She struggled vehemently and tussled with the culprit in the

corridor. Surprised by her vehemence, to prevent her from making
noises and attract attention, the murderer slit her throat. The body
could not be left in the corridor, so he dragged the teacher's body
back into the bedroom. He cut her into pieces to hide them inside the
many drawers.

It was the old lady who found the teacher inside the drawers the
next day.

The killer was caught five days later, but the old lady's condition
worsened. With the neighbor's help, she was sent to the hospital.

It was then that the room welcomed its third tenant. It was a real
estate agent, and he was the main character of the third story.

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Chapter 302: I'll Fulfil Your Dream

Source: WEBNOVEL

Since the old woman was in the hospital for her treatment, she
rented the whole room to the agent. The agent, who was around
thirty, was not a local, and following the company's requirement, he
wore a white formal shirt every day. He was polite and kind.

However, that was hiding a broken man. He was an unlucky man.

No matter what he did, he would fail for some reason. Other than
that, weird things kept happening to him like having nightmares that
his wife had been chopped up and shoved into drawers. It would
haunt him for the whole night, and then he woke up in the morning,
realizing he did not even have a girlfriend.

When he left home, the sun was shining, but the moment he
stepped out, it started to pour. His shirt was soaked, and he decided
to stop at the nearby shop to have breakfast. After breakfast, he
realized that he had left his wallet at home. This meant that he could
not call for a taxi. He walked to the company and was scolded by his
boss for being late. He lost the client because he was late to the
appointment, and when he returned home, he realized that a burglar
had broken into his home.

Such a day of tragedy was an everyday occurrence for the man.

However, compared to these things, the real despairing event was
the realization that his own house was haunted!

He stayed in the old house alone, and whenever he wanted to relax

at night by watching the television, before the punchline, someone
would laugh behind him. There were many similar things. In the
middle of his shower, someone would pass him the shampoo, and
when he was trapped on the toilet without paper, the toilet paper
would roll in on its own.

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He had once been a firm non-believer, but the many things he had
experienced inside the house changed his worldview. To prove that
he did not suffer from a mental illness, he bought a camera and
started to record his own home. One week later, he realized that
there was indeed a ghost inside the home, and it was hiding inside
the drawers!

The agent used wooden planks to seal up all the drawers and
dressers, and the ghost stopped appearing. However, his bad luck
seemed to worsen. About one month later, he was fired from his job,
and on his way home, he died in a car accident.

After he died, the agent realized that a malicious ghost had been
following him, and it was the spirits inside the home who had been
helping him. After he sealed up the drawers and dressers, the
malicious ghost had stopped being affected by the spirits, and it
eventually took the agent's life.

The main character of the fourth story was the old landlady. The
tenants who rented her place had all died from accidents. Her heart
was wrought by guilt, thinking this was all her fault. Slowly, the old
lady's mind twisted. She had this feeling her own son and the two
tenants had not left the room and had stayed to accompany her.

She asked the neighbors, but those who knew about the home's
past gave her a wide berth. They thought that she was a tragic
woman. Some even moved away like the old lady would curse them.
The tenants in the building slowly decreased, and the old lady
retreated into herself.

Slowly, there were rumors that the old residential area was
haunted, and the old lady was equated to the source of these stories.
Everyone stayed away from her, and no one wanted to interact with
her.

This went on for a long time until the old lady met a poor artist
under the bridge. The man's face was wounded like he had just been

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in a physical altercation. The old woman pitied him and asked the
artist to draw a portrait of her dead son.

Initially, she just wanted to find a reason to give the artist some
money so that he could eat, but the finished portrait was not just
similar to her son—he managed to capture his presence, aura, and
gaze. The old lady treasured the portrait and hung it in her house.

To her surprise, there was someone who came to ask her about the
rental the next day, and the newest tenant was the artist. The artist
was surprised that the landlord was the old lady. He went through
the old residential area and found the cheapest room.

Life was constructed by many coincidences. The artist found his

first fan in his life, and the old woman found someone who was not
afraid of her and wished to talk to her. The artist became the home's
latest tenant. The old lady took the rental from him in a symbolic
manner. She treated the artist like her own son, and her favorite
thing to do was talk about his dreams and wishes.

One month later, the old lady found something weird about the
artist. He would converse with his drawings, and every night at
midnight, there would be weird noises coming from his room.

During the third month, the old lady finally followed her curiosity
and sneaked into his room when the artist was out. In the end, inside
the artist's drawer, she found a homemade comic made from a
sketchbook. It had four stories.

The creepy drawing style and scary stories brought the characters
to life, and the most surprising detail was that the first three stories
matched the old lady's son, the English teacher, and real estate
agent perfectly.

The more she read, the more afraid she became. Then she turned
to the fourth story. To her surprise, she was the main character of
the story, and it was telling the events that happened after she met

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the artist. The fourth story ended there, and it was the last story.

The fifth story was very short—it felt more like an epilogue. The
main character was a comic artist. He did not look extraordinary. He
was just like a normal middle-aged man.

The comic introduced his daily life. He woke up at 5:20 am and

gave himself a pep-talk in the mirror. Then he started working. He
would work until 8:20 am. He arranged his draft and personally went
to Jiujiang's local publisher to recommend his story to the editor.

Alas, a month's hard work was denied in less than fifteen minutes.
He left the office like a walking dead. He held the draft and sat by the
road. He looked at the cars that zoomed past him and only returned
home when the sky was dark.

He walked through the busy city and into the darkened staircase.
He pushed the door open to Room 304.

The warm light fell on his body. The landlady cooked him dinner
and said that she had seen the painting that he drew that morning.
She told him it was a masterpiece. The artist could not remember
how many times he had been rejected already. He apologized to the
old lady and promised he would not pick up the paint brush again.

He hid himself in his room and locked the door. Hugging his knees,
he curled up in the corner of the room. He looked at the drawer full of
rejection letters and buried his head in his chest.

He had failed once more. He crumbled the rejected script into a

ball and tossed it inside the dustbin. He kept complaining, saying
that he had no talent, and decided to give up everything. He would
jump from the building before he continued drawing. He talked to
himself until midnight, and the tired artist fell asleep on the mat.

The lights in the room flickered before going out completely.

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The draft in the trashcan floated out on its own, and it flattened
itself out. It was placed carefully into the box under the bookshelf,
and the table was carefully arranged to a tidy state.

The last panel of the comic was black and white. In the small room,
the artist was already asleep, but there were several 'people' floating
around him.

The first was a thin man; he used his remaining right hand to cover
the artist with a blanket, grumbling how worrisome the man was.
Beside him was a woman whose body seemed like it was going to
collapse anytime soon. The woman's beautiful face was locked in a
deep frown. She carefully taped the torn drafts together.

On the other side of the table was a man in a black shirt. He was
using a pen to correct and edit the comic artist's draft.

The night passed by just like that. At 5:20 am the next morning,
the alarm rang punctually, and the comic artist woke up from his
dream. He turned off the alarm and looked at himself in the mirror.
He smiled and gave him the daily pep talk. "A new day has begun.
Give it your best shot! At least you're alive. One day you'll make it!"

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Chapter 303: Lesser Red Specter

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Chen Ge was absorbed in his reading, but when he flipped to the

next page, all he saw was blank. "That's it?"

He looked at the date that was marked by the comic artist and
then picked up the notebook that was sitting beside him.

He removed the yellowed newspaper and compared the dates. The

day after finishing this panel, the artist died. The newspaper was
probably slotted into the notebook by the old landlady or the other
tenant. "That was the day his dream died."

Chen Ge sat on the bed with the homemade comic and a new
appreciation for the few ghosts he had met that night. The comic told
the five stories of the five tenants of Room 304. None of them could
be considered bad people.

Chen Ge's initial guess was that the ghost in the comic had
affected reality, but after reading the comic artist's own story, he
understood the ghosts in reality had entered his comics.

To get all the spirits to look after him, this uncle is quite amazing.

Turning to the fifth story, Chen Ge told the despondent middle-

aged man, "I understand your dissatisfaction. You wished for your
stories to be seen and loved by more people—I can help you do
that."

The ears of the uncle who was hiding in the corner while hugging
his knees perked up when he heard Chen Ge. It felt like he wanted to
turn his head around.

The comic is indeed interesting. It should be something that spirits

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can attach themselves to.

Lingering spirits that were not Red Specter needed to possess a

certain item to ensure their longevity. The comic of the artist had
over thirty empty pages. If this thing could let other spirits inhabit it,
Chen Ge would not need to carry a backpack with him everywhere. In
fact, he could bring the twenty-four students from Mu Yang High
School to go for a stroll whenever he wanted to.

Thinking about this, Chen Ge was intrigued. "Uncle, neither

yourself nor the characters by your hand had your wishes fulfilled.
Why don't you tell me what you need? I can help you undo the
regrets that you still have in this life."

To increase his persuasion, Chen Ge provided many examples like

helping the comic artist publish his work, helping the real estate
agent deal with the malicious spirit that gave him bad luck, helping
the gambler find his missing left hand, or helping the English teacher
meet up with the families she had not seen for many years.

After some time, the middle-aged man in the comic finally turned
his face around. He had a typical middle-aged man, and he looked
like he had no love for life. He stared at Chen Ge with caution and
suspicion.

Several minutes later, the panel underneath him had these few
words surfacing on it. "Please take care of us."

At the same time, the black phone vibrated. Chen Ge did not mind
the middle-aged man, and he opened the message before him.

"Lucky Specter's Favored! You have just obtained a Lesser Red

Specter!

"Yan Danian: A Rare Special-Type Baleful Specter.

"Ability One: Affinity with Baleful Specters (He looks so saddened

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and devastated that he can easily get the pity from other spirits.)

"Ability Two: Spirit Drawing (After seeing a baleful Specter, there's

a chance for drawing it into the comic's sketch book, excluding Red
Specters.)

"Ability Three: ?"

Reading the message on the black phone, Chen Ge's eyes almost
fell out of their sockets. He could not imagine that the middle-aged
man wearing a white shirt, curled up in the corner, with sadness
overflowing from his face could be a Lesser Red Specter!

You really cannot judge a book by its cover!

This was the first time Chen Ge had met a Specter with three
abilities, but the appearance of this Specter shamed all Specters.
Even Xiaoxiao tried day by day to pretend to be scary, but this uncle
had completely given up. He did not have any pride as a Specter. He
did not look scary; he looked sad, tired, despondent, and depressed.

The third ability has not been unlocked yet; it's probably the
reason the uncle is called a Lesser Red Specter. Perhaps it's a power
that allows him to control all the ghosts that are not Red Specters.
Chen Ge understood the comic artist's meaning. He had not fully
trusted him yet. He needed to wait until he finished the uncle's wish
before he could become an official Haunted House employee.

The uncle is familiar with drawing, and his style is a perfect match
for a Haunted House. Other than him, there are other spirits inside
his comics. Buy one, get four for free. I can probably ask them to help
me maintain the props or clean the house. When the situation calls
for it, I'll get them to help around the scenarios. This bunch of actors
will be perfect inside a Haunted House.

A smile formed on Chen Ge's face. He promised sincerely, "Brother,

I understand your wish. Don't worry, I'll definitely help you make it a

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reality!"

Collecting all the drawings, Chen Ge shoved the painting

equipment on the table into his backpack before exiting to the
narrow corridor. "It's time to say goodbye to the past."

He closed the door to Room 304. When he exited the stairwell, a

faded black shadow floated out from behind the nearby bush and
entered the comic. It was the escaped landlady.

Chen Ge returned to New Century Park and headed for Mu Yang

High School. He explained the situation to all the mannequins,
holding the comic, and left without knowing whether his message
had been understood or not.

The Specters inside the comics aren't malicious spirits. They will
help me resolve the lack of manpower inside the Haunted House. Yan
Danian himself has three abilities. After completing his wish and
unlocking the strongest power, he might give me another surprise.

Returning to the staff breakroom, Chen Ge logged into his video-

sharing app's account. His livestream room was still blocked, but his
followers had jumped to 510,000 already. The private messages kept
coming.

Looks like people still care about me.

The Haunted House's first exposure had been through the app, so
Chen Ge did not plan to give up such a wonderful promotional
channel. He opened the comic and snapped the panels that looked
the weirdest.

"Boss, I'm going to show your work to 500,000 people, and that is
first step I'm going to take to help you promote your work.

"Times have changed. A few years ago, you still needed to

personally beg the publishers to look at your work, but this time, I'll
make them come to you."

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Chen Ge did not worry about Yan Danian's popularity. Only those
who had seen his drawing would understand the creepiness that they
radiated. It was a style that could not be changed or mimicked. The
characters looked like they were captured at the time of their death.

Chen Ge shot a few short videos inside the Haunted House to

announce his return and used Yan Danian's name to start a serial
comic called 'Ghost Tenants' on the platform's forum.

Very soon, Chen Ge's comment section exploded. With the

combined promotion of online and offline activities, in less than ten
minutes, Western Jiujiang's House of Horrors became a hot topic
search, and the popularity was still climbing.

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Chapter 304: Ghost Stories Night

Source: WEBNOVEL

Qin Guang and Chen Ge's livestreams were blocked at the same
time, but Chen Ge had announced his return, whereas Qin Guang
was still nowhere to be seen. A bunch of curious viewers swamped
Chen Ge's comments; they wanted to know what had really
happened that day. Chen Ge did not even tell the police about what
really happened inside the Third Sick Hall; naturally, he would not
reveal the secrets to the viewers. He gave a few vague replies before
going offline. It was then that his phone rang; it was a call from Liu
Dao.

Since they were once partners, Chen Ge accepted the call.

"Chen Ge, has the platform approached you to inform when your
livestream will be unblocked?"

"Not yet, but I believe it shall be soon. What's wrong?"

Livestreaming was just another promotional method for Chen Ge, he
did not worry over the details. As the fame of the Haunted House
grew, he had the intention of making the livestream a way of
communicating with his fans, like releasing daily progression of the
visitors and releasing information about new scenarios.

"It's like this. Our previous cooperation was really successful, so I

want to do something similar, but something easier to control." Liu
Dao had not given up yet. His cooperation with Chen Ge was the first
time he had managed to faceslap Qin Guang's studio ever since their
falling out.

"What kind of idea do you have in mind?"

"I will arrange a few of my most popular hosts to enter your

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Haunted House to do a livestream. What do you think?" Liu Dao
anticipated Chen Ge's answer. Before asking Chen Ge, he had made
multiple investigations already.

"It sounds like a great idea, but the timing is not right. You'll need
to wait for a while first."

"Don't worry, we'll definitely give you a number that you'll be

satisfied with. Furthermore, the livestreams will help promote your
Haunted House, won't it?" Liu Dao was an experienced member of
the business, so he knew Chen Ge's concern. "Plus, we will never leak
the content of your Haunted House. They'll use phones to carry out
the livestreams, so the quality will not be that clear."

"I don't have enough scenarios. I'll get back to you." Chen Ge did
not want to expose the details of the Haunted House, so he rejected
Liu Dao in a roundabout way. Even though there were many detailed
guides to Chen Ge's Haunted House online, reading the guide and
experiencing it were two different experiences. One had to
experience terror to know how it would grip one's heart.

After ending the call, before Chen Ge put the phone down, another
call came in. He thought it was Liu Dao, so he was surprised when he
saw that the call was from Captain Yan.

"He won't be bringing me good news," Chen Ge grumbled, having

no idea the other person was thinking the same thing.

"Captain Yan? How can I help you?" Chen Ge lay in bed and sighed.
He was in a good mood that night.

"I heard from Inspector Lee that you went to Lin Guan Village last
night." Compared to Chen Ge, Captain Yan sounded serious. He used
this tone whenever a case was involved.

"Is there a problem with that village?" Chen Ge sat up immediately.

He did not think much of Lin Guan Village, which was at the foot of

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the mountain. After all, the real scary village was Coffin Village inside
the mountain.

"Stay away from Lin Guan Village—don't go there at night."

Captain Yan seemed to have talked to Inspector Lee before making
this call and knew something about Chen Ge.

"Captain Yan, you have to be clearer than that, or you're just going
to make me more interested."

"You should know about the poisoning case at Lin Guan Village,
right? The only survivor of the family of four was a little girl."

"I do. In fact, I just met the girl at the Children's Home."

"The girl's previous caretaker was found dead inside an abandoned

old house at Lin Guan Village." Captain Yan's voice was chillingly
calm, but his suppressed anger could be heard.

"Why would the body be placed in Lin Guan Village?" The first
suspect that came to Chen Ge's mind was Jiang Ling's sister, but he
had interacted with her before. Even though she had a monstrous
exterior, internally, she was no different from a normal person.

"That is a question that confuses me as well. At the time, the case

came to a standstill because of this as well. We traced back all the
victim's words and actions for the few days prior and found
something weird." Captain Yan sounded like he was hesitating over
revealing this sensitive information to Chen Ge. After several
seconds, he sighed. "The victim utilized the channel she obtained
through her career to purchase blood."

"Human blood?"

"Yes, that was our only lead." Captain Yan reminded Chen Ge
again. "Do not go to Lin Guan Village alone at night, at least before
we have a clearer idea of what's going on."

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"Then how long shall I wait?" Chen Ge could wait, but the mission
on the black phone could not. The three-star scenario, Coffin Village,
would disappear in six days. The missions that passed their
expiration date would not be unlockable in the future.

"At least until all the mental patients from the Third Sick Hall have
been caught." Speaking of this, Captain Yan felt a headache coming.
"Initially, they still acted rather normally, but after that incident at
Fang Hwa Apartments, we realized that we've greatly
underestimated their lethality."

Chen Ge heard the message that Captain Yan did not say. "Is there
another related case?"

"I'm standing at the crime scene, dealing with the mess."

"Crime scene?" Chen Ge slowed down. "Someone died?"

"Yes, two deaths to be precise, and the crime scenes are weird to
say the least.

"The first victim was a burglar. According to the camera, the victim
just committed a crime and escaped into the back alley, but he never
exited it. A passing drunk called the police. The victim's eyes had
been gouged out, and he died from an unknown cause.

"The second victim was a fugitive hiding in Jiujiang. He was found

hanging in his rental room. If not for the gouged eyes, we wouldn't
have tied the two cases together."

Listening to the description, Chen Ge was confused. "Why would

they gouge out the victims' eyes?"

"We're dealing with mental patients, so who really knows why?

They're operating on a different worldview." Captain Yan sighed. "In
any case, these kinds of similar cases are due to something in the
killer's history. The gouged eyes could be some sort of ritual, or the
killer might have experienced trauma related to eyes when they

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were young. Or possibly this is just something to throw our
investigation off."

"The chance of childhood trauma is big. The patients at the Third

Sick Hall were all traumatized when they were young." Chen Ge
remembered what Captain Yan said. The killer was most likely the
chairperson; he wanted to try his best to understand this sick man.

"Instead of the eyes, I'm more curious about another thing." There
was a drumming on the table from the other side of the phone,
Captain Yan's habit when he was thinking. "Why would they
purposely target these sinners? Are they trying to tell us they're
different from normal criminals?"

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Chapter 305: Linjiang New

Schistosomiasis Control Station
Source: WEBNOVEL

"They are indeed different from normal criminals. They have a

purpose, and they're more insane." Chen Ge was reminded of a story
he had heard while he was at the ghost stories society. "The bunch of
crazies once drowned a middle-aged man to help cure one of their
partners' illness."

"Killing for the purpose of curing an illness?" Captain Yan could not
believe it.

"The patient was abused since she was a child; her father forced
her head into the water many times. Curses and threats, claiming he
was going to drown her. This left a mental scar that couldn't be
forgotten. After she grew up, she had an irrational fear of water. Even
when she drank normal water, she felt like it was suffocating her
soul. Other patients thus drafted this treatment for her. It was to deal
with the source of the fear. From their perspective, she wasn't afraid
of water but her own father."

This was the story that Chen Ge had overheard when Lychee asked
about other members of the society. "The whole group of patients
from the Third Sick Hall are insane. They know they are not normal
and are sick, but they do not approve of the traditional methods and
intend on using their own methods to cure themselves."

Chen Ge's words caused Captain Yan to think. "Every citizen's

personal safety is protected by the law; no one has the right to
deprive another of their life. No matter their reason, they will never
escape the persecution of the law."

"I'm not giving them a reason; I'm just telling you the truth." Chen

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Ge paced in the room. "All the victims this time are sinners, and their
eyes were gouged. The similarity is too obvious, so I believe this is
another attempt at curing one of their members."

"What kind of belief will link trauma together with sin and eyes?"
Captain Yan thought Chen Ge had a point.

"That, I don't know, but you have to be fast. You've found two
victims, but based on my understanding of these people, their
favorite number is three."

"You mean there will be a third victim?"

"No matter what they do, they always aim for three. I don't
understand why." Chen Ge told the police everything he knew. The
society was his enemy, and helping the police was helping himself.

"Okay, we will pay closer attention to this."

After the call ended, Chen Ge could not sleep. "There are only
three members left. Xiong Qing has been captured, so he isn't one of
the members. Plus, with his personality, he would expose me during
the Wednesday meeting. From the list of patients that escaped from
the Third Sick Hall, only three confirmed living ones remain—Wang
Shenglong; Patient 6, Han Bao'er; and Patient 9, Wu Fei.

"Wang Shenglong was at home during the Wednesday meeting,

and this was confirmed by the police. He isn't a society member, and
the monster possessing him escaped silently from behind the door.
Then this will lead to another problem. Of the three remaining
members, only two came from the Third Sick Hall."

Chen Ge had plenty of information on the ghost stories society. He

was familiar with the chairperson's voice—she was someone he had
seen before—and then No. 10 seemed to know him, but his stance
was still an unknown.

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"When the investigator jumped off the building, his dying words
were Men Nan. Could the last unknown member be Men Nan?" Chen
Ge then soon vetoed this speculation. He could not trust the enemy's
words fully. At the time, the investigator had been under the control
of the society member, so his message could have been to lead him
astray.

"Whether the investigator was lying or not, at least I garnered an

important piece of information from him. The person controlling him
knew about Men Nan, or else he wouldn't have left Men Nan's name
at that crucial moment.

"Wu Fei is hiding in the shadowy corners of the city while Men Nan
is the complete opposite. He's trying to live a normal life and can be
found at any time. Neither of them are my opening." Chen Ge
thought about it and decided to make Han Bao'er his next target. "If I
just send all of them into jail, then I won't need to waste time
guessing who the chairperson is."

Chen Ge cleared his mind and slowly fell asleep.

At 8:30 am, Chen Ge stretched lazily in bed. He went for a shower,

and when he past the first floor toilet, his heart almost stopped.
There was a very thin crack on the cubicle door. It looked like a
narrowed eye looking at the world outside the door with evil
intention.

"Something appeared behind the door at midnight last night and

left this crack."

After Chen Ge sealed the cubicle up with wooden boards, it had

been relatively peaceful. He had thought that the problem was
resolved and tossed it out of his mind.

However, after discovering the crack, the anxiety in his heart

returned.

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"The crack is very even, and the surface is smooth. This should be
a new ghost that I've not seen before."

The world behind the door was still too unknown to Chen Ge, and
he did not want to deal with them yet. "The ghost stories society
knows how to close the door, and Men Nan's main persona should
know some secrets as well. Now that there's a change to this door
inside my Haunted House, the mission for the Third Sick Hall cannot
be delayed anymore."

Chen Ge had a plan after he exited the toilet. The park opened at 9
am, and the resting tent at the door was filled up within twenty
minutes. There were a few familiar faces. They were excited as they
talked with their friends, their voices filled with anticipation.

"Every Haunted House boss would love to see something like this.
Their work is renowned and can bring in many visitors." Chen Ge put
on Doctor Skull-cracker's mask. It had not been easy leading the
Haunted House to this stage; he could not allow everything to go to
ruin due to a door.

"Before the trial mission for Coffin Village disappears, I need to

capture all the society members and get the way to close the door
out of them."

Filled with pointed hatred, Boss Chen gave the visitors a few
authentic experiences. The screams inside the Haunted House rose
like waves and did not stop for the whole day. At 3 pm, Captain Yan
called Chen Ge several times. Chen Ge was busy chasing after
visitors inside the Haunted House, so he did not notice it.

Chen Ge saw it when the park closed, and he immediately returned

Captain Yan's calls.

"Captain Yan, you've caught the killer?" Chen Ge wiped the make-
up from his face and gave Xu Wan the permission to leave.

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Captain Yan was silent, and after a long time, he said, "We've
found the third victim; it's an employee at Linjiang New
Schistosomiasis Control Station. We found him in the same state as
the other two victims."

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Chapter 306: Disappeared

Source: WEBNOVEL

This was not the first time Chen Ge heard the name Linjiang New
Schistosomiasis Control Station, but he had not had the time to go
take a look.

"The time of death was last night?" What Chen Ge predicted did
happen—the ghost stories society seemed particularly obsessed with
the number three.

"The coroner believes the time of death is between 3 am to 4 am

yesterday morning. Cause of death is still currently unknown. The
victim is a worker, and he left work at 6 pm. However, at 11 pm, he
sneaked back to this place. There is no camera inside the building, so
no one knows what really happened. We only know that he didn't
leave after he entered."

"The murders are very symbolic and ritualistic. Since the patients
from the Third Sick Hall have selected this worker, he must have
done something wrong in the past; we should investigate that."

"We did, and the man is squeaky clean. He doesn't have a criminal
record, and the other workers said he's an honest man and doesn't
have any enemies or bad habits."

Captain Yan's words confused Chen Ge. In his mind, the ghost
stories society was very specific on their rituals, and rarely were they
mistaken.

"Could that honesty be just a front? Perhaps he's a sinner within?"

"Our investigation hasn't reached that part yet, so temporarily, we

cannot make any conclusions. However, one thing's for certain—this
victim is slightly different from the rest. Not only were his eyes

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gouged out, a painting was carved into his back."

"Can I take a look at that painting?" Chen Ge's heart skipped. The
crucial clue should be this painting.

"I have to follow the rules. Pictures of the crime scene mustn't be
leaked. If you want to see it, then come here." Captain Yan did not
agree to Chen Ge's demand. He made this call and gave Chen Ge all
this information because Chen Ge was the only person who had
interacted with the patients from the Third Sick Hall. He was the
person who was most familiar with that group of crazies other than
the police.

"Okay, I'll be there in a minute." After hanging up, Chen Ge took

out his phone and sat at the entrance to the Haunted House to think.

After I completed the Nightmare Mission for the first time, the
mirror monster wanted to kill three people, and there was a
corresponding number on the mirror that reflected the blood door. Is
the ghost stories society related to the door in such a way as well?

Chen Ge soon reached Linjiang New Schistosomiasis Control

Station in a taxi. This was somewhere isolated, and people rarely
came here. Chen Ge found the officer on duty and explained his
purpose. The officer did not let him into the crime scene but led him
to one of the adjacent buildings.

"Captain Yan, Chen Ge is here." The officer called out Chen Ge's
name directly. He no longer needed an introduction.

"Thank you." Captain Yan waved for Chen Ge to come closer. He

placed the photos on the table. "This is the most I can do for you."

Chen Ge scanned all the pictures before stopping at a bloody

picture of the victim's back. The victim's back was torn open, and a
half-open door was carved in flesh and blood. Unlike the blood door
Chen Ge saw on the society's flyer, in the middle of this door stood a

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little girl. She poked half of her face out and had a bright smile on her
face.

"Did you discover anything?" Captain Yan agreed to have Chen Ge

come over because he believed that he could get some information
from him.

"This little girl looks very familiar." Chen Ge did not sound like he
was joking. He focused on that bloody picture.

"The blood hasn't even been cleaned yet. Can you really tell
anything from these rough lines?" Captain Yan had studied every
photo on the table for a long time already.

"Yes, very familiar." Chen Ge picked up the picture and when he

leaned in, a sense of familiarity appeared in his mind like he had
seen this image before. He tried this several times before it hit him.
"Isn't this Jiang Ling‽"

Chen Ge focused on the girl's face that was exposed outside the
blood door. It reminded him of Jiang Ling when she ran over to give
him the spider.

"The little girl from Lin Guan Village's poisoning case?" Captain Yan
was part of the investigation team responsible for that case, so he
was familiar with the girl's new name after she moved to Jiujiang's
Children's Home.

"That's right." Chen Ge passed the photo to Captain Yan. "Compare

the face shape of the two children. Even though painting isn't that
detailed, the general frame matches perfectly."

Captain Yan looked at it. Initially, the name Jiang Ling did not even
cross his mind, but now that Chen Ge mentioned it, he also felt it
could be her.

"We've investigated Jiang Ling and her family; they have no

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connection with the patients from the Third Sick Hall."

"They're a bunch of crazies who can do anything. They don't need

reasons or connections." Chen Ge pulled out his phone to call the
nurse. He wanted to make sure of Fan Yu and Jiang Ling's safety. The
painting on the victim's back was hinting that their target was Jiang
Ling. The girl was the only seed remaining from Coffin Village.
Perhaps like Men Nan, she had once opened a door!

The phone rang twice before a slightly alert voice said, "Mr. Chen?
Why are you calling so late at night?"

"Can you give the phone to Fan Yu? I have something to tell him."

"They're in the middle of counselling with Doctor Chen. If this is

nothing urgent, can you wait several minutes?"

"As long as they're safe. Tell Fan Yu to call me back later." Chen Ge
pocketed his phone. He looked at the photos and considered creating
an ambush around Jiujiang's Children's Home.

"Captain Yan, I have a feeling that the murders are just a prelude.
Most of the patients have been detained, and the remaining patients
should be prepared something big."

"Indeed, things might get messy tonight." Captain Yan tapped his
fingers on the table and turned to Chen Ge. "You will stay with us
tonight."

"Me?"

"The real person they want to kill is you."

Thinking about it, Chen Ge realized that Captain Yan had a point.
After all, it was no inconvenience for him; he only swapped a place to
sleep. If that could help capture the remaining ghost stories society's
members, it would be a good thing. Captain Yan nodded after he got
Chen Ge's agreement.

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They talked for another twenty minutes to discuss the details when
Chen Ge's phone rang. He saw that it was from the nurse, so he
picked it up naturally.

"Mr. Chen! Both Fan Yu and Jiang Ling have disappeared! I swear
they were still inside the home this afternoon!" The nurse's urgent
voice came through the phone. "I've already informed the president.
Now everyone is looking for them!"

"Disappeared‽" Chen Ge's eyes turned serious. "Weren't they with

that Doctor Chen? Get him to answer the phone!"

"Doctor Chen has also disappeared. Everything in the room is tidy

and untouched, but the person has disappeared!"

"Wait for me, I'll be there in a minute!"

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Chapter 307: Going Home

Source: WEBNOVEL

Chen Ge knew that the ghost stories society was going to make
their move, but he did not expect it to be so soon!

"That Doctor Chen is suspicious. I've seen that name in the letters
written by the Third Sick Hall's old president, but they were
addressed to Linjiang New Schistosomiasis Control Station." The
surname Chen was very common, so when Chen Ge heard about
Doctor Chen, he did not think much of it. After all, the letter was
addressed to the control station, not Jiujiang's Children's Home.

"Jiang Ling has gone missing?" Captain Yan looked at the picture
on the table; he was getting more intrigued by Chen Ge. The man not
only had very powerful observational skills but also a special instinct
and talent, one that Captain Yan felt the man himself did not realize.

"Three people have gone missing. Fan Yu, Jiang Ling, and the
doctor, who was supposed to be with them."

"The doctor is a patient in disguise?" Captain Yan could not believe

a patient would turn up as a doctor years later.

"We still cannot confirm that doctor's identity." After hanging up,
Chen Ge forced himself to calm down. Based on his analysis, of the
remaining three society members, two were from the Third Sick Hall,
and one of them had met him in real life before. The one who was
familiar with him could be the chairperson!

He had met Doctor Chen once when he visited Jiujiang's Children's

Home, so the chance of him being the chairperson was slim.

"Captain Yan, can you go through all the information on the

workers here starting from five years ago; there might be a detail on

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the killer." The letter at the Third Sick Hall was addressed to this
place, so the old president's correspondent should have working here
back then."

"Okay. I'll get Ol' Wei to follow you to Jiujiang's Children's Home.
Go take a look around and leave the investigation here to me."
Captain Yan called Ol' Wei over on the walkie-talkie. It was Ol' Wei
who had driven Chen Ge when they were saving Gu Feiyu. Chen Ge
did not reject Captain Yan's kindness. He might need to travel to
many places that night, and being with Ol' Wei would be more
convenient.

"Captain Yan, you're looking for me?" Ol' Wei would retire in a few
months. Normally, Captain Yan would not send him to the
frontlines—he wanted to let the senior officer enjoy a few peaceful
months before his retirement.

"You'll be partnering with Chen Ge tonight, take good care of him."

"Understood!"

When Captain Yan brought Ol' Wei up to speed, Chen Ge was still
trying to understand the connection between Jiang Ling, the ghost
stories society, and the New Schistosomiasis Control Station.

Chen Ge leaned against the table. There has to be a reason the

ghost stories society selected their last victim from this place, and
several years ago, the old president was also conversing with
someone working here. The key question is, what is the connection
between the New Schistosomiasis Control Station and the girl from
Coffin Village?

"Chen Ge, don't waste time. Both of you move out immediately."
Captain Yan patted Chen Ge's shoulders. He assumed that Chen Ge
was worried about Fan Yu and Jiang Lin. "I'm sure the two kids are
safe."

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"I'm thinking about something else." Chen Ge suddenly turned
around to face Captain Yan. "You told me before that Jiang Ling's
former caretaker was found inside an old home at Lin Guan Village."

"Yes." Captain Yan did not know where Chen Ge was going with
this.

"That person bought blood before she died!" Chen Ge's eyes
sparkled. "There has to be a connection between Jiang Ling, this New
Schistosomiasis Control Station, and the patients from Third Sick Hall,
and I believe that connection is related to blood."

"You misunderstood something; this New Schistosomiasis Control

Station doesn't have blood storage." Captain Yan shook his head.
"This place mainly deals with prevention of diseases contracted via
blood. You can call it a specialist hospital."

"Then could there be another possibility. They're breeding a special

kind of parasite that needs human blood to survive? Or it's not a
parasite but something else that need human blood to survive. The
patients need this, and Jiang Ling has this!"

Chen Ge voiced his opinion, and it confused Captain Yan and Ol'
Wei. Chen Ge only explained half of his thought; Jiang Ling was Coffin
Village's final seed. Most of villagers from that village were born with
abnormalities, and the rate of occurrence was too high to be
explained by close marriage. Chen Ge now suspected that the
abnormality was caused by this thing.

"Go to the Children's Home first. I'll have someone inspect the
station closely. If there's any update, I'll inform you." Captain Yan
thought about what Chen Ge said, and he believed it could be a good
opening.

"Be careful, it's best if the investigation is done in groups." Chen

Ge was worried. The thing the society wanted might not be a physical
parasite; it could be a curse or even a rare Specter.

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The sky was dark when Ol' Wei drove Chen Ge to the Children's
Home in the police car. When they arrived, the old guard and nurse
were already waiting for them.

"We cannot find them, and the camera at the front door didn't
catch them. They should have slipped out through another channel."
The guard was feeling guilty.

"Bring us to the room where Fan Yu and Jiang Ling were last seen."
If this was really the society, then it was normal for them to miss the
clues.

"Follow me." The nurse led Chen Ge into the counselling room. The
room was painted brightly and could make people feel relaxed as
they walk in.

"At 4 pm, the two children were still playing in here, but when I
came to take a look, they had disappeared," the nurse explained as
she fidgeted all over the place.

"Calm down." Chen Ge did not touch anything in the room and just
looked around. "There's no sign of struggle, and everything is in its
place; the two children probably left voluntarily."

"Could it be Doctor Chen who brought them away? Impossible!

Doctor Chen is a good man. He had saved many children here, giving
them the courage to face life again." The nurse's voice turned loud;
she refused to accept this reality.

"Sometimes a good person and a bad person is just a thought

away." Chen Ge walked to the table where he saw several weird
drawings. In the first drawing, two black people were sitting in the
middle, and a red person with a long body reached in through the
window.

This should be Fan Yu's; he's leaving me clues. Chen Ge picked up

the drawing. The black ones are people, and red ones, ghosts. Looks

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like the society has really targeted Jiang Ling.

He flipped over to the second picture, and a red woman shaped

like a spider tore the ghost that was reaching through the window
apart. She seemed to be feasting. Jiang Ling's sister saved them. Of
course, with Jiang Ling's sister around, unless the society came with
full force, they wouldn't be able to hurt them.

Chen Ge turned to the third drawing. Under the protection of the

spider lady, the two black people walked into a door, and beside the
door was something written in red crayon—Going home.

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Chapter 308: I Want To Go Take A Look

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Since he still had time to draw, this means that both of them
aren't injured. They probably left on their own since they sensed
danger coming." Chen Ge had never treated Fan Yu and Jiang Ling as
normal children.

"What are you looking at?" Ol' Wei and the nurse wandered over.
They saw the writing on the paper. "Going home? What does it
mean?"

"Before they became orphans, they had their own home." When he
saw these words, the first thing that entered Chen Ge's mind was Lin
Guan Village; that was the place Jiang Ling grew up. "Brief the
situation here to Captain Yan; tonight, we might be heading to
somewhere remote."

"Okay."

Chen Ge turned to look at the fourth drawing that was at the very
bottom. It was a broken home drawn in black, and something that
looked like a coffin was leaning against its left wall. The third picture
is entering the door, and this last picture is a home. Fan Yu is trying
to tell me the door's location?

He folded the last drawing and pocketed it. Based on his

speculation, the 'door' that Fan Yu and Jiang Ling entered should be
hiding inside this old home with a coffin. Last time I entered Lin Guan
Village, I didn't see anyone placing coffin outside their door. The
home in Fan Yu's painting should be referring to Coffin Village inside
the mountains.

The people had disappeared, and the only way to clarify this

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speculation was to go Coffin Village personally. Chen Ge took a deep
breath. I have to find them as soon as possible. After entering the
door, it will be difficult for them to leave!

"Mr. Chen, do you think anything will happen to Jiang Ling and Fan
Yu?" the nurse asked with worry. Chen Ge looked at the nurse and
placed the drawings down. There was another question that needed
answering.

None of Fan Yu's four drawings featured Doctor Chen!

What kind of role did the doctor play in this disappearance? If

Doctor Chen was a member of the ghost stories society, why did the
thin monster in Fan Yu's drawing come from outside the window and
not from Doctor Chen's back?

Based on Chen Ge's understanding of the ghost stories society,

after the ghost possessing someone was torn open, the human would
suffer mental pain and faint, but Doctor Chen could not be found at
the scene.

The guy is not simple; I have to be careful.

After consoling the nurse, Chen Ge and Ol' Wei left Jiujiang's
Children's Home. "I've already reported what happened here to
Captain Yan, where are we going now?"

"Back to New Century Park first, I need to go grab some tools." The
society had lost three quarters of their member in a week; they had
been forced to jump the gun, so naturally, Chen Ge would not be
careless. Ol' Wei did not question Chen Ge; the order that he had
received from Captain Yan was just to protect Chen Ge.

When they arrived at New Century Park, Chen Ge rushed into the
Haunted House to grab the hammer, the recorder, Pen Spirit, and
Xiaoxiao. Then he took the comic from Western Jiujiang's Private
Academy and invited the boy with the stench and the hanging

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student to join him.

If Zhang Ya was here, then this wouldn't be so troublesome.

Chen Ge looked at the bulging backpack and sighed. "I still don't
feel safe!"

He glanced at the white cat that was laying on the table biting its
tail. He thought about it and picked up the cat. "There's a saying in
the countryside that ghosts are afraid of cats."

With the white cat looking at him with confusion, Chen Ge placed it
in another bag. "Having fed you for so long, I'll depend on you
tonight."

Before the cat could react, Chen Ge rushed out of the Haunted
House carrying the two large bags.

Inside the car, Chen Ge opened the bag for the cat to breathe. "Ol'
Wei, start the car. Today, we're going to Lin Guan Village at the edge
of the mountain."

Ol' Wei's face turned with curiosity when he saw Chen Ge enter the
car with the two large bags. He thought Chen Ge had overreacted.
After all, from a normal person's perspective, between looking for
missing children and the group of murderers going around gouging
people's eyes out, the latter obviously was more dangerous.

"What are you carrying? Why do I hear a cat meowing?" Ol' Wei
started the car. He had been on the same team as Captain Yan for
the poisoning case, so he knew the village's location.

"My cat can protect us from curses."

"Whatever you say."

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At 10 pm, they finally arrived at Lin Guan Village. As the car
stopped, Chen Ge jumped out of the car and raced into the village
with the white cat trailing behind him.

"Wait for me!" Ol' Wei parked the car, and when he looked out,
Chen Ge had already disappeared. Chen Ge took out Fan Yu's
drawing and compared it to the buildings inside the village.

There was a road leading to Lin Guan Village, but it was a halted
project. It ended at the entrance to the village. The surrounding
buildings were abandoned, and all the houses were locked.

It's only just gone ten, but the village is already completely dark.

Similar to his last visit, Chen Ge could not see another living person
inside the village.

"Don't wander around like this; you're going to cause unnecessary

misunderstanding." Ol' Wei finally caught up to Chen Ge and quickly
rushed over to drag him out of the village.

"Then what do you suggest we do?"

"How about we find someone to ask?" Ol' Wei knocked on one of

the doors. Initially, the man had a bad attitude, but after Ol' Wei
showed his badge, the villager obediently opened the door and
welcomed them in.

"Did you see a middle-aged man around thirty leading two kids
into Lin Guan Village today?" Ol' Wei asked directly.

"A child-kidnapper?" Their host was an honest farmer.

"Just answer the question."

"No, people rarely come to this place anymore." When they were
talking, Chen Ge looked around the room. There was a small shrine,
and on top of it was a black-and-white picture of an old day. Other

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than that, the place was a normal farmer's home.

"Look at this drawing, does this village have something similar?"

Chen Ge placed Fan Yu's drawing before the farmer.

He scratched his head. "What is this? Is that a shelf beside the

house?"

"That's a coffin." Chen Ge said and this caused the other two to go
silent.

"Who would leave a coffin by the door. We don't have that here."
The farmer sneaked a look at Chen Ge. For some reason, he felt
afraid of the man.

"I'll ask you another question, do you know Coffin Village inside the
mountain?"

When Chen Ge said Coffin Village, the farmer's eyes twitched, and
he grabbed the water to hide his panic. "Why are you asking that?
The place was cursed by an epidemic. Those who didn't die escaped.
None of the villagers here dare bring up that name lest we too get
cursed."

"Looks like you do know about the village. Do you know where it
is?" Chen Ge spoke calmly, but his gaze was scary. "I want to go to
take a look."

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Chapter 309: Black And White Photo

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Now? A-are you kidding?" the farmer stammered.

"Yes, now. My two kids are missing, and they might have wandered
into Coffin Village." Chen Ge could not afford to delay this any longer.
The mountains were hard to trek through, and the two kids might get
into some accident.

"Go ask another family." The water in the host's cup spilled out. He
was clearly nervous and afraid. "I've only heard about the stories
from the older generation; I don't really know the location."

He noticed Chen Ge's gaze changing, like it was turning colder, so

he immediately added, "You can ask the seniors in the village. They
must know something. I can bring you to go meet them."

When the farmer said so, Chen Ge nodded. "Please."

"Of course, of course." The farmer wiped the sweat from his brow
and went inside the house to look for a flashlight.

"Chen Ge, be careful, don't scare the poor man," Ol' Wei, who
stood beside Chen Ge, reminded him. To be honest, he was worried
about partnering up with Chen Ge, especially when he thought back
to the things that Chen Ge had done.

"I know what I'm doing," Chen Ge said softly. Now was not the time
to mind the details; they needed to find the children first.

"I've heard from my grandparents that the village once accepted a

group of people who escaped from the mountain; they should come
from Coffin Village." The farmer walked out with the flashlight.
"Those people are staying at the western side of the village, and the

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rest of us live on the east side. Normally, we have no interaction.
Before my grandmother passed away, she used to tell me that those
people aren't clean."

The farmer was honest and did not hide anything from Chen Ge
and Ol' Wei. "At the time, I secretly mocked her for believing in
something like that in this day and age. I just brushed it off as her
superstition, but as time went by, I realized that there was something
off about these people."

"What do you mean?" Chen Ge and Ol' Wei were curious.

"They rarely leave their homes, especially after the sun has fallen,
like there are things waiting to harm them outside," the farmer said
softly. "Every one of their houses has a rope hanging across the
window and a cleaver hidden behind the door. I asked them once
why they did that, and they said it was to prevent thieves."

"That's all?"

"There's also one very strange thing." The farmer's voice turned
even smaller. "Every few days, one of them will go missing, but they
never seem worried. If anything, they appear very happy just like…"

"Like what? Tell us," Chen Ge urged.

"Just like as long as it wasn't them who got caught." The farmer's
words were a bit accusatory, and it made Chen Ge and Ol' Wei silent.

"I'm just sharing my thoughts. Please don't read too much into it!"
the farmer quickly explained. The trio walked to the middle of the
village and turned left. After a short walk, they saw a broken brick
home.

"Here we are." The farmer prepared to knock on the door, but

when his hands fell on the door, it swung open on its own. "Elder
Zhu?"

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He walked into the room, but he only took one step before he
froze. On the dining table facing the door sat an old man's black and
white picture. The old man's face in the picture was looking at the
door, and the scariest thing was, the eyes in the picture were gouged
out.

"Don't panic." Chen Ge patted the farmer on his shoulder. He

strode into the room without putting on the light and picked up the
black and white photo from the table. "The picture looks old, and the
edges are worn. He probably knew this day was coming a long time
ago."

Thinking about what the farmer said earlier, Chen Ge believed that
the old man in the photo had gone missing.

The people who escaped from Coffin Village hang rope across the
window and hid a cleaver behind the door. Obviously, they are afraid
of something getting in. Chen Ge scratched his chin. Could it be the
monster from Coffin Village? Also why are the eyes gouged out in the
picture? This is too similar to the ghost stories society's MO.

"Big brother, can you please put the picture down? I have a feeling
he's looking at me for some reason." The farmer stood at the door
and showed no intention of coming in. "Shall we move on to another
family?"

"Sure, let's go ask them about Elder Zhu." The trio went to the
house next door. Before they reached it, Chen Ge had a bad feeling.
With Yin Yang Vision, he could clearly see that the family's door was
open. As he expected, the family residing there was also missing.
Creepily enough, there was also a black and white picture on the
table, and the eyes were also gouged out.

"Where are they?" The farmer led Chen Ge and Ol' Wei here. The
two outsiders didn't say anything but the local started to panic.

"Let's go look at the other homes first." They looked through other

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homes, and it was as if all the people who escaped from Coffin
Village had disappeared. There were black and white pictures on the
table, and the whole village felt like a ghost village.

"What is going on‽" The farmer's face was blanched, and he turned
to Chen Ge and Ol' Wei for help. Looking at his inquisitive gaze, Chen
Ge pulled out his backpack to grip the hammer. "Everyone has
disappeared, but why are you still here?"

Chen Ge told the farmer that, and it honestly freaked him out. "I
really don't know! The mouth of the village still has a few families
from Bai Family Village; they should be fine."

The farmer was proven right. Only those from Coffin Village were
missing.

"Chen Ge, where do you think those people have disappeared to?
And why did they leave behind these black and white photos?" Ol'
Wei had a feeling that things were heading down a weird direction.

"They probably returned to the Coffin Village." Chen Ge took out

Fan Yu's third drawing, which read—Going home.

"We cannot wait any longer. We need to enter the mountains

now!" He walked to the farmer. "Someone at the village has to know
how to get to Coffin Village, right? Several lives are at risk, please
show us your cooperation."

"Brother, I really want to help you, but the people who knew about
the village are either missing or dead or too old." The farmer
staggered back and stopped beside Ol' Wei.

"Too old?" Chen Ge suddenly thought about a suitable candidate.

He called Ol' Wei and headed for the peach plantation in the
mountain. "Master Bai should know where Coffin Village is!"

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wooden hut. After explaining his intention, the old man pretended
not to know anything. However, when he heard two kids might have
been kidnapped and taken to Coffin Village. He agreed to take them
into the mountain.

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Chapter 310: Move Faster

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Chen Ge, should we wait for Captain Yan's support team to come
before we head into the mountain together?" Ol' Wei looked at his
phone that had no signal—the time shown was 00:50 am.

"It takes at least one hour to come from Jiujiang to Lin Guan
Village. If we need to wait for them to enter the mountain, the sun
will have already risen." Chen Ge's group had been walking through
the forest for almost two hours, but there was still no sign of any
village. All they could see were mountains and mountains.

"But can we do this with just the three of us?" Ol' Wei was worried
that if there was a real altercation, they probably still needed to
worry about Master Bai.

"That shouldn't be a problem." Chen Ge had initially been worried

about Master Bai's physical condition, but after one hour of trekking,
he realized that his worry was unfounded. Master Bai was healthy
since he had grown up in the mountain and knew the local
geography very well.

"What are you two mumbling about?" Master Bai walked in front
with a branch. "A few more steps, and we'll reach a fork in the fork. If
we take the road going over the mountain top, we'll need to walk for
another two hours, but if we take the shortcut that crosses through
the mountain valley, we'll only need thirty minutes before we reach
Coffin Village. Which one should we take?"

"Is the shortcut not an easy path to trek?" Chen Ge clearly

understood that since Master Bai had brought it up, something had to
be wrong with that path.

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"Yes." Master Bai's face was serious. "The mountain valley is
haunted."

"Hauntings are fine. I thought you're going to say that it is home to

wolf dens." Chen Ge patted his backpack, and the white cat poked its
head out with dissatisfaction.

"Now, I'm curious. In your world, why are wolves more terrifying
than ghosts?" Master Bai leaned against the branch. He could not
understand Chen Ge's way of thinking.

"Ghost are immaterial, but wolves are real." Ol' Wei did not believe
in the talk of ghosts.

Chen Ge rolled his eyes but did not argue. "We'll trek through the
valley."

"Are you sure? There are things in this world that can't be
explained." Master Bai once again asked for their opinion.

"Master Bai, did something happen to you before?" Chen Ge saw

the unnatural expression on the old man's face. He was really
reluctant to go through the valley. "You are very familiar with this
path, so you must have taken it more than once already. We're doing
this to save the children, so I hope you won't purposely hide
something from us."

"I'm not trying to, but I'm afraid you won't believe me even if I tell
you." Master Bai shared the events from his youth. "My father knew a
thing or two about medicine. In the forties, when there was an
epidemic of the measles, he trekked through the mountains to help
all the nearby villages, and it was then that he discovered Coffin
Village.

"This village is isolated from the world, and there weren't many
who even knew how to read. They depended on folk remedy for their
sickness, and when my father arrived, the condition of the village

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was very serious. To save the villagers of Coffin Village, my father
paid the place several visits.

"At the time, I was still young, and my father wanted me to take
over his practice. After all, a doctor is more respected than a farmer,
so he would bring me on these visits. Everything was fine the first
few times, but there was that one time my father got into an
argument with one of the villagers. I'm not sure what the cause was.

"Normally, we left at 2 pm, but that day, when we left Coffin

Village, it was already late afternoon. However, since the sun hadn't
fallen, we decided to trek through the valley. Half way through, my
father suddenly urged me to move faster. All I was thinking about
then was the hot meal at home, so I did run faster.

"However, after some time, my father urged me again from

behind, telling me to run even faster. It was then that I realized
something was wrong. I was about to turn around and ask him what
was wrong when he used his hand to cover my eyes.

"All he said was for me to move faster. I peeked through the slit in
his fingers, and I saw someone leaning on my father's back!

"My father's face was white, and he walked behind me, pushing me
forward. Perhaps due to his regular acts of charity, the thing on his
back didn't harm him. However, I remember that when we entered
the valley, the sky was bright, but when we exited it, the sky was
completely dark.

"After that, my father fell seriously ill, and we stopped visiting

Coffin Village. Even now, I have no idea what the source of the
argument was or what the thing that was leaning on his back was."

Master Bai sounded sad when he told this tale. Chen Ge

understood why Master Bai would feel so guilty for not helping Jiang
Ling's sister. He had seen a ghost when he was young, so he believed
these things more than most.

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"Do you still plan to go through the valley?" Master Bai asked.

"The detour will take too much time; we'll take the valley." Chen
Ge gripped the Pen Spirit. "The two of you can walk in, and I'll close
up the back."

"Are you sure you can do that?" Originally, that was the role
assigned to Ol' Wei. He had been making marks on trees as they
moved through the forest. Master Bai wanted to advise Chen Ge, but
he remembered what had happened that night. Chen Ge chased
Jiang Ling's sister out of the room and even seemed like he was
trying to communicate with her. The old man's lips twitched. Now he
suspected that Chen Ge had purposely told them to use the shortcut
through the valley because he heard it was haunted.

"Why are you two looking at me? Don't worry, let's go." Chen Ge
did not feel panic. His backpack had a white cat, so if the ghost
wanted to have someone to lean on, it would attack the white cat
first. He nuzzled the cat's head gently before following Master Bai
and Ol' Wei into the valley.

The trees became more common and twisted like everything

around them was changing.

"Move faster, we must leave within twenty minutes." Master Bai's

emotions were shaking. He looked nervous, probably because the
memory from his youth was returning.

"Chen Ge, you be careful at the back." Ol' Wei walked in the
middle. Although he gave Chen Ge a reminder, he did have some
faith in the lad. They walked for five minutes before the narrow path
became completely covered by brush and branches. They could see
half-buried coffins by the side of the road. The coffins looked like they
were placed there on purpose. Some of them were not even closed.

"Don't be afraid." Master Bai's voice was shaking. He forced

himself to calm down. "This is Coffin Village's tradition. These are all

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empty coffins. They line the side of the road in increasing height,
representing moving higher in life."

"Not really afraid, but I agree that we should move faster."

Chen Ge turned to look behind him, and a shadow seemed to be

trailing them. He did not tell Ol' Wei or Master Bai about this. He
rummaged in his bag for something.

Only one? Don't say I'm bullying you with my advantage in

numbers.

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Chapter 311: You Done Crying?

Source: WEBNOVEL

Master Bai and Ol' Wei rushed ahead but Chen Ge purposely
slowed down to put some distance between them. "This should be
good enough. Ol' Wei and Master Bai are in my sight, I don't need to
worry about losing them."

Chen Ge placed the recorder in his hand but didn't look back. He
just pretended like nothing's happening. The wind in the valley stilled
and the surrounding became quiet like they had gone through some
limit to enter a different world. The temperature dropped and Chen
Ge could feel a cold draft encroaching. "It's coming."

Chen Ge was calm perhaps because he had the white cat as a

meat shield. He walked forward with ease. When the cold draft was
just 3 metres away from Chen Ge, it suddenly stopped like it could
sense something.

"I haven't even opened the recorder yet, why did it stop?" Chen Ge
gauged the distance in his heart. He pretended like he was afraid and
scared, shaking too much to move forward. He slowed down again,
trying his best to "lure" the ghost to attack him.

"Why isn't it coming? Does it want me to lean back to knock into

it?" Chen Ge was seriously considering walking backwards. He had
confident in his acting but he was afraid his unusual movement might
scare the monster off. "I should wait a little while longer."

The road narrowed and it was almost swallowed up by brush and

branches. Even Master Bai and Ol' Wei had to slow down to deal with
the blockage. Chen Ge knew he couldn't make it too obvious. If the
monster was not going to take his bait then so be it. He walked
forward to help Master Bai.

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However, the moment he picked up speed, perhaps it made the
monster panic and it finally made its move. Chilliness climbed all
over his heart and this familiar feeling reminded Chen Ge of his first
date when Zhang Ya stood behind him. The hairs on his neck rose
and the temperature dropped even more as iciness surrounded him.

Before Chen Ge could do anything, the white cat in his backpack

suddenly squeezed its way out. It meowed at him twice before
running away!

"You coward! Didn't they say cats have 9 lives?!" Well, at least the
white cat warned him before it left. The chill grabbed Chen Ge's
shoulders like a pair of hands.

"This feels familiar." A woman's sobbing came from behind Chen

Ge. It sounded scary and sad. Weirdly enough, it seemed like only
Chen Ge could hear this. Master Bai and Ol' Wei were busy with their
own stuff and didn't seem to hear anything.

Iciness curled into his heart and his shoulders slowly slumped from
the pressure. Chen Ge was reminded of Master Bai's story. The old
man's father should be experiencing this kind of pain then. To protect
Master Bai, he forced himself to carry the ghost the entire journey.
His body turned heavier and there was a pulling force coming from
behind him like it was trying to pull Chen Ge into one of the open
coffins.

"Is it what they call a scapegoat?" The air seemed to freeze into ice
and it froze up Chen Ge's lungs. The crying beside his ears influenced
Chen Ge's thought. The trees around him moved like they were
coming alive. The sobbing echoed in Chen Ge's mind and a pale
white face slowly appeared from Chen Ge's back. It leaned towards
Chen Ge's ears but before it could say anything, Chen Ge suddenly
turned around.

"You done crying?"

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"???" The face stopped on Chen Ge's shoulders, its dark abyss of a
mouth wide open.

"If you're done crying, then be on your way." Chen Ge pressed the
recorder and Xu Yin in half a red shirt appeared to yank the monster
off from Chen Ge's back. Before it could resist, it was torn into pieces
and consumed by Xu Yin!

The screams echoed through the woods and even Chen Ge thought
Xu Yin was a bit cruel. "If you're not done crying, why didn't you tell
me? I'm a reasonable person."

When Xu Yin finished his feast, the blood stain on his shirt grew.
Based on this speed, it wouldn't be long until he became a real Red
Specter.

"Chen Ge! What are you doing back there! Don't stay too far from
us!" Master Bai waved at Chen Ge. They didn't notice anything weird
until Xu Yin disappeared. With their sense of alertness, without Chen
Ge, both of them would be pulled into the coffins already.

"Coming!" Chen Ge pocketed the recorder and the white cat that
escaped earlier returned. It jumped on Chen Ge's shoulders and
refused to enter the backpack again.

"A life of contentment has dulled your survival instinct. You weren't
this cowardly before. Looks like I'll need to bring you out with me
more in the future." Chen Ge nudged the cat's face, "This is for your
own good."

After catching up to Ol' Wei, Chen Ge suddenly realized since Xu

Yin was eaten directly by Xu Yin, he didn't even sure what kind of
power it had. "It's probably a normal ghost. There's so many coffins,
it should have friends."

With Master Bai leading way, they used 20 minutes to exit the
valley.

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"Thank God nothing happened." Master Bai was covered in cold
sweat. "We were lucky this time. We'll reach the place after 10
minutes or so. Before entering the Coffin Village, let me go talk to
them first." He stared at Chen Ge, "After we're in the village, no
matter what happens, do not act rashly! I'm considered a village
friend, let me handle this."

"You've been back here for decades already, do you think they will
still give you face? Furthermore, the villagers that knew you might
not even be alive anymore." Chen Ge was telling the truth.

"In comparison, I know about their cultures better than you do.
We're here to find people, not to make a war. It's better not to make
enemy." Master Bai tried his best to advice Chen Ge. He was afraid
that he might do something dumb.

"We'll do what you say." Ol' Wei dragged Chen Ge, "Finding the
children is more important."

Master Bai didn't continue this topic. He pointed the cat on Chen
Ge's shoulders. "Keep your cat inside your bag or else the villagers
will kill it on sight."

"They don't keep cats to deal with rats? Don't you say every family
has a coffin? Aren't they afraid rats might bite through the wood?"
Chen Ge chased the cat for a long time before he caught it and
shoved it inside the bag.

"There are not many living creatures inside this village. In fact, I've
not seen them rear livestock." The old man said and thought about it,
"I'll tell you about it as we walk. The village has many weird taboos
and they look different from normal humans so you better be
prepared."

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Chapter 312: Don't Knock On The Door

At Night
Source: WEBNOVEL

After leaving the valley, his phone completely lost its signal. The
electric compass that Chen Ge downloaded beforehand
malfunctioned as well. Something told him that the world inside and
outside the valley were different. Perhaps because he had met plenty
of ghosts, he was sensitive to these things. He tipped his head back
and glanced through the canopy. There was no moon or stars in the
sky. The night was like a cloth smothering them no matter where
they went.

"Be careful, we've almost reached the place." After another ten
minutes of walking, Chen Ge's group finally left the jungle. They
looked down the horizon, and what they saw confused and shocked
them.

"Those are… lanterns?" Ol' Wei touched Master Bai's shoulder, but
this was also the first time Master Bai had come to Coffin Village at
night.

"I have no clue." He took out a piece of jade and wore it around his
neck. "I'll scout ahead. Stay close to me; don't wander off."

The three of them walked toward the village, and the shapes of the
buildings became clearer and clearer. No one would have expected a
village to be hidden in such a desolate place. All the building were
built in a style from decades ago; they looked old and abandoned,
but the most curious point was every family had a white lantern
hanging before the door.

The lanterns were like white eyeballs, hanging by the side of the
road, staring at the three newcomers.

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There were people inside the village!

This village that was supposedly abandoned decades ago due to an

epidemic still had people living there.

"Master Bai, are you going to enter just like this?" Ol' Wei moved to
stand beside Chen Ge. He still remembered Captain Yan's order. His
mission that night was to protect Chen Ge.

"Let me think about this." Master Bai looked at the empty village
and the white lanterns that lined the road, and his palms were
covered with cold sweat. "In the past, my father always came in the
morning, so I had no idea this is how Coffin Village looks at night."

With the bitter smile on his face, Master Bai's meaning was clear;
he did not want to enter the village. Of the three of them, he was the
only one who had entered Coffin Village before. He understood the
creepiness of the village, and if morning was already so scary, night
did not bear thinking about.

"Don't panic, we don't need to enter directly." Ol' Wei then patted
Chen Ge on his shoulder. "How about we take a look around the
village first?"

Chen Ge did not answer, and he stood at the back of the party
alone. His expression was unreadable.

"What's wrong with you?" Ol' Wei was worried about Chen Ge.
Even though he admitted Chen Ge could be a bit rash, he had to
admit that facing the entrance to this ghost village, standing beside
Chen Ge gave him the most security.

"I'm thinking about something." Chen Ge shrugged and lowered his

head to look at the black phone. When they neared the village, Chen
Ge's black phone had vibrated, and he had received a new message.

"Congratulations, Specter's Favored! You've found Coffin Village

deep inside the mountain. Do you wish to accept the Trial Mission for
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the three-star scenario, Coffin Village?"

"What's on your mind, why don't you share it with us?" Ol' Wei and
Master Bai walked close to him.

"Thanks, but I've already made up my mind." Chen Ge clicked on

the accept key.

"Coffin Village (three-star scenario): Survive until morning inside

Coffin Village, and the new scenario will be unlocked.

"Mission Hint: That day, other than me, they all came."

Memorizing the mission hint, Chen Ge pocketed the black phone

and turned to look at Coffin Village, shrouded in darkness. "Let's go,
we'll go take a look."

"Are you sure?" Ol' Wei grabbed Chen Ge's arm and gave Master
Bai a look, hoping that the old man would help him convince Chen
Ge. However, the night was too dark for Master Bai to see it.

"I've already made up my mind." Chen Ge's consideration was

different from Ol' Wei's.

"Stop arguing. It should be fine for us to enter the village. Even

though the villagers look strange, they're quite kind." Master Bai had
interacted with Coffin Village's people before, so he had the most
right to speak.

"Master Bai, are you sure these kind villagers would light white
lanterns at night?" Of the three, Ol' Wei was the most rational.

Master Bai touched the jade around his neck like he was
remembering something from long ago, "My father once told me, a
bunch of poor people are living inside the village. He said that when I
master medicine, I should go help them."

When Chen Ge's Yin Yang Vision caught sight of Master Jade's Jade

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Necklace, he felt pain in his eye. However, that pain only lasted for a
second. If he was not sensitive enough, he would not have noticed it.

"Master Bai, your father left you the necklace?"

"Yes, he would wear it whenever he went out to help people. After

we came out from Coffin Village for the last time, he gave it to me
and then soon after he fell ill."

There's more to this necklace than meets the eye. Chen Ge wanted
to study it. He had run into ghosts and monsters many times already
and had been trying to find something that could affect them. He had
been searching for weeks, but he had only found a butcher's cleaver.

"My father said that others cannot touch the jade or it'll lose it
powers." Master Bai seemed to be telling the truth. "I cannot give you
the necklace, so you'd better stay close to me tonight."

"Master Bai, can you remember other things that your father told
you?" Ol' Wei asked. "We're entering the village, so you need to tell
us everything."

"That's all I believe. He told me, no matter where I go, I have to

face my conscience and those with a clean conscience will be
protected by both humans and ghosts." When he said so, Chen Ge
understood why the old man was so focused on helping Jiang Ling
and her sister; Master Bai's family was good-hearted people.

Chen Ge had his own philosophy and had been following his own
conscience. He has a point, but ghosts are like people; there are
good ghosts and evil ghosts.

The three walked around the outer perimeter of Coffin Village. The
village was very big. To get an overall view of the village, they
needed to climb up to the adjacent hill.

"There are probably more than a hundred families living inside the

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village. Be careful not to get into an altercation with them." Master
Bai was mainly talking to Chen Ge. "We'll go in through the entrance;
there's no need to hide."

Thus, the three entered Coffin Village. The road was overgrown
with grass, and the houses on both sides were closed. Weirdly
enough, the doors were not pasted with the common pictures of door
guardians but white paper with the character '福' (good fortune)
turned upside down. It looked scary.

"The culture here seems to be the total opposite of the outside

world." Chen Ge stopped before one of the doors. "Shall we go in?"

"It's rude to barge in like that." Ol' Wei moved his hand to the gun
in his holster. This place gave him plenty of pressure.

"We're here to look for the children. Eventually we need to interact

with the villagers. We will need Master Bai's help to liaise with them."
Chen Ge raised his arm, and when his hand almost reached the door,
the white lantern hanging above the door suddenly went out.

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Chapter 313: Three Rooms

Source: WEBNOVEL

The sudden disappearance of the light cast where Chen Ge's group
was standing into darkness.

"What's happening?" Both Master Bai and Ol' Wei were spooked.
Chen Ge's hand hung in midair and did not fall on the door. "I'm not
sure. It doesn't seem like a coincidence."

There was no wind, and the lantern was hung high enough that
they would notice if someone reached out to extinguish the light. The
other white lanterns swayed even though there was still no wind.

It felt weirdly suffocating.

Chen Ge and Ol' Wei turned to look at Master Bai, but he had not
experienced this before either. "Shall we retreat for now?"

He walked two steps back and turned to look down the road, then
he stopped. "Be careful, someone's coming!"

"Who?" Chen Ge looked down the direction Master Bai was looking.
Under the glow of the swaying lanterns, a blurry human-shaped
shadow slowly approached them. "It seems to be waving at us?"

The shadow moved faster, and Chen Ge finally got a good look at
it. It was an old lady who was wearing a dark-colored jacket. She kept
her head lowered as she moved forward, and she only stopped when
she almost ran into Chen Ge.

"You also came from the outside?" The old lady's voice was weird
and made Chen Ge feel uncomfortable.

Noticing the old lady's choice of words, Chen Ge asked in return,

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"Also? There's another party that entered the village earlier?"

"Yes." The woman kept her head lowered when she spoke like she
was afraid of others seeing her face. Chen Ge was reminded of Jiang
Ling's sister. The villagers of Coffin Village were born with
abnormalities, so Chen Ge would not be rude enough to purposely
sneak a look at the old lady's face.

"Was it a middle-aged man and two kids who entered the village
before us?" Chen Ge asked a follow-up question, but the old lady
ignored him. It seemed like she was not there for Chen Ge. Keeping
her head lowered, it felt like the old lady's head was almost falling to
the ground. However, she did not seem bothered by this. "Don't
knock on the door at night. It might not be people who answer the
door."

It was unclear who the old lady was talking to. She blocked them in
the middle of the road, and the lanterns on both sides swayed
harder.

"Things have been complicated in the village lately. Don't wander

about. Come with me, I'll bring you somewhere to stay." The old lady
turned to head back in the direction she came from. Her steps were
small, but she moved fast. Combined with her head that almost
reached her chest, the whole thing was just weird.

"Shall we follow her?" Ol' Wei turned to look at Chen Ge and Master
Bai. When he saw the old lady earlier, he already wanted to leave.

"Let's follow her for now." It was Master Bai who spoke. "I feel
familiar around the old lady. Is it possible that I've seen her when I
came to visit as a child?"

Master Bai walked ahead, and Chen Ge as well as Ol' Wei followed
behind him. The old lady led them deeper into Coffin Village. They
took several turns before they stopped. "Tonight, you can stay here.
We can discuss the rest when morning comes."

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She still kept her head lowered, and the tone of her voice had not
changed; it felt like they were talking to a puppet. "There are three
rooms inside the house. Each of you can take one. Remember to stay
inside your room, and do not share rooms. Do not touch the rope on
the window or the cleaver behind the door. Stay in bed and wait for
the night to pass."

"One room each? We'll share one room; it'll be fine for one night."
Master Bai had to stay close to Chen Ge. If he did not keep a good
watch on him, he would run off on his own.

"There are three rooms inside the house; each of you can take
one…" To their surprise, when Master Bai said so, the old lady only
repeated her earlier instruction, but this time, her tone was uglier.

"Granny, we're here to look for two children. We have no time to

waste, especially not until morning. Can you bring us to meet the
other group who came from outside?" Chen Ge studied the old
woman and could not find anything weird about her. Could it really
be her face?

When the old lady turned around, Chen Ge bent down to glance at
her face. The face was totally normal.

The eyes are still there, and the face looks normal, but she does
look familiar, Chen Ge thought to himself. He looked at the old lady
and then glanced at Master Bai. "Master Bai, you said the old lady
gives you a sense of familiarity, could she be from Lin Guan Village?"

"I didn't see her face, but based on her attire, you might be right."
Master Bai pushed the door open. The place was not big.

"Looks like someone from Lin Guan Village and familiar to you and
me." Chen Ge thought about it, and his face slowly changed. "Wait, I
know who she is!"

"Who?"

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"Ol' Wei, do you still remember the first home we visited when we
arrived at Lin Guan Village?"

"Yes, the owner was a middle-aged farmer." Ol' Wei had good
memory.

"He has a shrine in his room, and an old lady's black-and-white

photo sat on it." Chen Ge kept his voice lowered. "The old lady who
showed us the way earlier looks exactly like the old woman in that
picture!"

"How is that possible‽ Are you sure?" Ol' Wei couldn't believe Chen
Ge.

"Now that you mention it, she does look like an old lady from Lin
Guan Village!" Master Bai made the connection in his mind. "But that
old lady died a long time ago!"

"No matter what, it has happened." Chen Ge calmed down quickly.

"If the old lady is not a living person, then should we still stay in the
home that she assigned for us?"

The white paper on the door fluttered. Neither Master Bai nor Ol'
Wei could not make the decision.

"Let's go in to take a look first. The old lady had a good relationship
with me before she died; she won't harm us.

"At least, I think she won't."

Chen Ge's group entered the home, and the place was similar to
other houses, but there was not a white lantern outside the door.

"This isn't like what the old lady said; there's only one room in
here." Chen Ge walked in front, and after crossing the empty
courtyard, he opened the inner room door.

A weird smell drifted out from the room. When they got used to it,

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the three of them turned to look inside the room with their eyes
bulging. Inside the home's only room sat three black coffins.

"One home, three rooms? Could the old lady be referring to the
coffins?" Ol' Wei's face was completely white. "Something is seriously
not right with this place; we should leave."

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Chapter 314: Inversion

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Since we're already here…" Chen Ge walked toward the coffins.

"Calm down!" Master Bai grabbed Chen Ge. "Those are for dead
people!"

He was a bit loud, and Ol' Wei came to stop both of them. "This
place is off; we need to be very careful."

"The three rooms mentioned by the old lady should be these three
coffins. She's not a living person, so for her, coffins are rooms." Chen
Ge pried Master Bai's hand off calmly. "Is there something wrong
with my logic?"

"The problem is…" Master Bai and Ol' Wei did not know how to
communicate with Chen Ge.

After a long pause, Ol' Wei asked, "Aren't you afraid around these
things?"

"Of course, I am, but fear is not going to help us in this situation, is
it?" Chen Ge looked at Ol' Wei. "Don't let it get to you. Come help
me."

The three walked to the coffins. They were roughly made, and they
had a layer of dark brown coating. There was a light smell.

"Is that decomposition?" Master Bai looked at Ol' Wei.

"No, decomposition is much worse. This should be the smell of

decaying wood." Knowing Chen Ge would not leave that easily, Ol'
Wei quickly got into the correct frame of mind. After all, he was an
experienced police officer and would be dependable during the

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crucial moment. "Listen to me, we cannot believe the old lady fully.
We'd better be careful.

"When we were led this way, I memorized the route. The three of
us will stay here for now, but if danger comes, we'll run out
immediately. Remember to follow behind me, and make sure not to
get left behind!"

"There's only one way to find out whether the old woman was lying
or not." Chen Ge put his hands on the coffin lid.

"What are you doing?"

"Opening the coffin." Chen Ge pushed, and the lid slid off a little.

"You seriously plan to sleep here with one of the coffins?"

"It depends." Chen Ge pushed the coffin half open, and he peered
in. It had a set of graveclothes at the bottom of the coffin.

"Don't touch it! This is a real taboo. What if you offend the spirits?"
Master Bai held Chen Ge's hands tightly, and Ol' Wei also ran over to
pull Chen Ge back.

"I just want to see what's so mysterious about this place." Ol' Wei
and Master Bai sighed when they finally got Chen Ge to calm down.
However, what Chen Ge said next got them all worried again. "My
plan is to open all the coffins we find in this village. The village's
biggest secret should be inside the coffins."

"Please don't say something like that when you're outside; I'm
afraid the villagers might kill you if they hear you." Master Bai walked
to stand beside the coffin. He thought about closing the coffin, but
when he glanced at the clothes inside, his brows locked. "Why are
their graveclothes bright red?"

"Yes, that confused me when I first saw it too, so I planned to take

it out to have a closer look." Chen Ge joined Master Bai. "White

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lantern above the door, white paper on the door, red graveclothes;
this village seems to invert all the common Chinese practices. This
reminds me of Minghun."

"You even know about Minghun?" Master Bai glanced at Chen Ge.

"One of the scenarios at my Haunted House is Minghun-themed. A

living bride for a dead groom…"

Chen Ge wanted to continue the story when both Master Bai and
Ol' Wei waved at him to stop. "That's enough, it's already scary
enough."

The two of them stood beside the coffin, looking inside at the red
graveclothes, and it just did not feel right.

BANG!

A sudden noise spooked Master Bai and Ol' Wei. They turned and
saw Chen Ge was pushing the other two coffins open. Three coffins
meant three set of red graveclothes. As they shone the flashlight at
them, it looked like the coffins were bleeding.

"All the sizes are different, there's for male and female. Looks like
a family of three." Chen Ge stood beside the coffin, "I'm wondering,
the coffins are inside the house, so where are the bodies?"

He turned to ask Master Bai, "Could this be one of Coffin Village's

cultures? Every family will prepare a living coffin even when they're
still alive?"

"I suppose so." Master Bai could not be sure.

"There aren't any bodies inside the coffins, and if this is really a
living coffin, then it means that the owners are still alive." Chen Ge
scratched his chin. "What do you think the chances are that they will
return tonight? How will they react when they see we're inside their
home?"

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He was just asking that, but Master Bai and Ol' Wei each sucked in
a cold breath.

"Perhaps it'll be good if they return; we can ask them what's going
on with the village." Master Bai still insisted that Coffin Village's
people could be communicated with.

"Special times call for special measures. Would normal people

leave their home in the middle of the night inside a deep mountain?"
Chen Ge gave his suggestion. "I think we should ambush them at the
door and capture them when they walk in. They're a family of three,
and there's three of us. After detaining them, remember to keep their
mouths shut. Shove them inside the coffins, and we'll use the
graveclothes to bind them. Then we can start the interrogation."

Chen Ge gave his plan, but Master Bai and Ol' Wei looked at him
with weird expressions.

"That isn't good, right? They haven't done anything bad to us after
all." Master Bai was an honest man. He moved away from Chen Ge
and stood beside Ol' Wei. At a time like this, he felt better siding with
the police.

"It'll be too late to react when we realize they want to harm us.
This is called taking the initiative." Chen Ge said so and moved to
stand behind the door. He appeared masterful as he readied himself
for the ambush, as if he had done this many times already. "Ol' Wei,
you can hide under the window, and Master Bai, you hide beside the
second coffin. I checked it earlier—that corner is perfectly hidden
from sight."

"Who did you learn all this from?" Ol' Wei and Master Bai moved to
their spots. For some reason, they followed Chen Ge's instruction.

"I operate a Haunted House, and the best skill is to make use of
the geography to scare the visitors." Chen Ge looked through the slit
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been tiring walking for so long already."

"Okay, we'll do this one hour each, so everyone can have the
chance to rest." Ol' Wei suggested.

Master Bai nodded. "No problem, I might be old, but I'm still
healthy. I should be able to survive one sleepless night."

"There's no need." Chen Ge turned back from the door to look at

Ol' Wei and Master Bai. He reached into his backpack to sooth the
angry white cat. "Shush, they're coming."

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Chapter 315: Look Up

Source: WEBNOVEL

Ol' Wei and Master Bai zipped up their lips and held their breath.
Chen Ge grabbed the hammer's handle in his backpack and turned
his eyes back to the door. Along the dark road, a cold misty light was
getting closer. "What is that?"

The light stopped at the front door and filtered into the courtyard
through the slit in the door.

CREAK…

The front door was pushed open. There was nothing outside the
house; there was no one at the door. The only change was an
additional white lantern hanging on the door. When Chen Ge's group
entered the house, there had definitely not been a white lantern.
Inside this village, the lantern seemed to have some special
importance.

"They're coming in?" The white lantern shone a pale light on the
floor. There was no one in the courtyard, but there were three
shadows on the floor, two tall and one short. The shadows flickered in
the courtyard, and they did not seem to notice the three outsiders
hiding inside the room.

A cold draft picked up, and the front door closed on its own. When
the pale light disappeared, three strange creatures appeared. Their
heads were pressed to their chests, and they walked forward on tip-
toe. The unkempt hair blocked their faces, and their clothes were
stained with blood. They were radiating a strange stench.

It's similar to the smell at the Third Sick Hall! They've been inside
the door?

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Chen Ge signaled for Ol' Wei and Master Bai to hide. The three
creatures stood in the middle of the courtyard, and as Chen Ge
expected, there were two adults and one child. The way they were
standing was very weird. They leaned forward like they would topple
into the room at any moment.

The atmosphere was tense.

As time passed, the three creatures outside the room seemed to

sense something. They moved forward at the same time and walked
to the door with a weird gait. Since they were just separated by a
door, Chen Ge could see the pattern on their clothes. The three
shadows did not enter the room but stopped at the door.

The two adults kept their heads lowered, but the child had a paper
doll in its hands. It kept using its fingers to tear on the doll, and
whenever he did so, the paper doll seemed to come alive, its
expression filled with pain as it begged for mercy. However, the child
did not stop. If anything, it continued to find other ways to 'play' with
the doll.

It seems like there's a name on the doll.

With his Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see the name on the doll,
and he felt like he had seen that name in Lin Guan Village. Wait,
could the doll be one of the people who disappeared from Lin Guan
Village?

There was a bunch of Coffin Village's escapees that settled at Lin

Guan Village, but other than themselves, no one knew the real
reason they escaped from Coffin Village. The shadows stopped at the
door for several seconds. Seemingly intent on investigating if there
were people hiding inside the room, one of the shadows walked to
the window.

Chen Ge could clearly see the lowered head stick itself to the
window and use it to push the wooden windowpane open. The sticky

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hair dangled downward. It planned to poke its head in!

At the time, Ol' Wei was squatting below the window. He did not
know there was another head just above his own. Chen Ge looked at
Ol' Wei, but his expression did not change. Ol' Wei saw Chen Ge
looking at him, and based on the young man's expression, he
thought everything was fine.

The hair touched Ol' Wei's neck, and he even reached out to
scratch it. Ol' Wei's hand practically brushed past the face above his
head. Master Bai, who hid behind the coffin, saw everything. His lips
were chattering, and he tried his best to alert Ol' Wei.

Perhaps Ol' Wei also felt that something was wrong. He moved his
eyes away from Chen Ge and turned to Master Bai. Master Bai
reached out one finger, and he kept pointing upward; it was hard to
miss the hint.

Above me? Ol' Wei reached out to touch his head, but he did not
find anything. Since Master Bai kept pointing up, he raised his hands
upward. Behind the door, Chen Ge gripped the hammer. His original
plan had been to wait for the ghost to reach half of his body in before
he made his move, but Ol' Wei had pushed his plan forward.

As Chen Ge expected, under Master Bai's instruction, Ol' Wei's

hands kept moving upward. His fingertips touched something, and it
felt very cold. His neck froze, and Ol' Wei slowly turned his head
upward. He leaded back and looked right into the male ghost's eyes.

"Now!" Chen Ge pressed the recorder and swung the hammer at

the window above Ol' Wei's head!

Almost at the same time, the three ghosts attacked from the door
and window. The ghost that was closest to Ol' Wei peeled his mouth
back. Blood vessels moved within it as he tried to bite Ol' Wei's face.

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earlier, did not have chance to react. He did not even have time to
show fear when the ghost's mouth opened wide. He was about to
scream when a scary-looking hammer flew past his head!

BANG!

Chen Ge did not hold back, and the hammer landed right on the
ghost's face. It sent the ghost flying along with the window frame!

"My god…" Ol' Wei had not even closed his lips, and Chen Ge also
fell out of the room with a man wearing half a red shirt standing
beside him. After the ghost at the window was knocked out of the
room, the two shadows raised their heads. The dead faces exposed
vicious expressions. They wanted to charge into the room, but Chen
Ge was running at them.

The battle ended as soon as it started. In less than one second, Xu

Yin already got two of the shadows on the ground. Xu Yin was
maddened by bloodlust. He did not have the habit of leaving things
alive, so the two shadows soon became blood stains on his shirt.

The last shadow landed on all fours. It was about to clamber out
when it was pressed down from behind by Xu Yin. The whole process
took, at most, ten seconds. During that time, the only thing Chen Ge
could do was turn around to close the door.

Xu Yin seems to have gotten stronger.

The shirt knitted with blood stuck to his body. Xu Yin was like a
lonely pianist, waving his tapered fingers to flick the blood off his
hands. His body disappeared as Chen Ge turned the recorder off.

"What happened earlier‽" Ol' Wei and Master Bai ran out of the
room. They were covered in cold sweat, and panic was apparent on
their faces.

"I don't know either." Chen Ge shrugged. "When I gave chase after

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them, the three shadows immediately left the place."

He pointed at the open front door and picked up the hammer. "We
should be more careful. We made a loud commotion earlier—perhaps
more monsters will be coming."

"Do you know the meaning of the word 'careful'?" Ol' Wei touched
his head as he looked at the hammer in Chen Ge's hand. He could
not believe that thing flew inches away from his head earlier.

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Chapter 316: Graveclothes

Source: WEBNOVEL

"That was to save you." Chen Ge shoved the hammer back into his
backpack. "The escape of the three shadows means that we've been
exposed; we cannot stay here any longer."

"We're finally leaving?" Ol' Wei had been wanting to leave for a
long time already.

"Coffin Village is very quiet at night, so our fight earlier must have
echoed very far. I'm afraid other monsters might hear that and come
to surround us." Chen Ge had his own plan. "The first reaction of the
earlier three monsters when they saw us was to attack. This goes to
show that it wasn't out of kindness the old lady led us here. The
villagers here are not as kind as Master Bai assumed."

Master Bai disagreed with Chen Ge. "I haven't been inside Coffin
Village at night before, but I don't understand this change. In my
memory, Coffin Village's real villagers would not do something like
this; they're no different from normal people."

"Master Bai, you haven't been back here for years already; you
don't know what happened when you were gone, so we'd better be
careful." Chen Ge looked around and bent over to pick up the paper
doll on the floor. The paper doll that had been tormented by the boy
had its limps almost torn off, and its expression was one of pain.

"Zhu Fengxi?" There was a name on the back of the doll. It was
unknown what kind of ink it was, but based on Chen Ge's experience,
it felt like dried blood.

"This name is rather familiar." Master Bai moved close to Chen Ge

to take a look at the doll. "He sounds like one of the escapes from

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Coffin Village."

"The dolls have the names of the escapees." Chen Ge related this
to the weird phenomena he had observed at Lin Guan Village. Many
old houses had a cleaver behind the door and a rope by the window.
Combining that with what had happened to them inside the house,
he had a brief understanding why things were that way.

If a monster tried to crawl in through the window, then the rope

was to tie around their neck, and the cleaver behind the door was for
self-defense. The more isolated the village, the weirder the
tradition—that was the only way Chen Ge could interpret these
traditions.

Those who escaped from Coffin Village spent their days in fear.
Could the thing that cause that fear be the ghost from Coffin Village?
If they were captured, would they end up as paper dolls to be
tormented eternally?

Chen Ge had another question that needed to be answer. Why did

these people escape from Coffin Village in the first place? What kind
of event transpired at this old village to cause a mass exodus?

To know all that, I'll need to find a villager to ask. Chen Ge

pocketed the paper doll. "I have a plan to discuss with you."

"Tell me."

"First, we leave this village."

"Okay." Ol' Wei and Master Bai nodded. They also felt that the
village was too dangerous.

"Then, we'll inspect each house, starting from the ones near the
entrance, moving inwards. No matter what we come across, we must
detain them." There was a sparkle in Chen Ge's eyes. "As long as we
don't make too much noise, we should be able to take them down
one by one."
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Chen Ge had given his plan much thought. Whenever Xu Yin
consumed a ghost, the blood stain on his clothes increased. Based on
this progression, there was a high chance of him turning into a real
Red Specter that night!

There was a great power difference between a normal Specter and

a Red Specter. Without a Red Specter by his side, Chen Ge did not
feel safe.

"You're planning to demolish a whole village?" Ol' Wei was a police

officer, so he frowned when he heard Chen Ge's suggestion.
However, Master Bai had gotten used to Chen Ge's crazy ideas.

"We should leave the village first before we decide what to do."
Master Bai walked ahead, his hand holding the jade. A pale-faced Ol'
Wei followed behind Master Bai, but Chen Ge stood where he was.
After the three monsters were consumed by Xu Yin, the white cat did
not return to normal. It was still hissing and scratching the backpack.

Something is still nearby. Chen Ge looked around him. A human

head seemed to flash across the left wall of the room with the coffins.

The room next door? Chen Ge did not stay and walked out.

White lanterns hung on both sides of the road, shining a pale light.
For some reason, Chen Ge had a feeling the number of white lanterns
had increased. What is the meaning of these lanterns? If there's a
white lantern, meaning the place is occupied?

"Chen Ge, why aren't you coming?"

"Coming." Chen Ge passed the door next door, and he turned to

look. The wooden door was locked, and weirdly enough, there was
not a white lantern on this door. The thing I saw earlier wasn't a
ghost?

Chen Ge maintained his distance from Ol' Wei and Master Bai, but
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corner and Chen Ge would be lost behind the wall, he slowed down,
leaned back, and glanced down the corner. The door had been
opened, and bright red graveclothes dangled at the door.

To not expose himself, Chen Ge stopped for less than one second,
but his heart was gripped with concern. "The graveclothes moved on
their own?"

They continued walking through the weird village decorated with

white lanterns, followed by the red graveclothes. The wind blew, and
it carried out voices from the houses on both sides. It sounded like
laughter and tears. If one paid more attention, there was also the
sound of chewing. As the night deepened, the village became
creepier.

Other places become quieter at night, but this place is completely

different. The later it gets, the livelier it becomes. Chen Ge tried to
remember the ghosts that he had met that night. The ghost who
wanted to drag me into the coffin inside the valley and the family of
three seem to be different. In comparison, the one inside the village
is smarter.

They had been inside Coffin Village less than half an hour, but so
many weird things happened already. Chen Ge suspected that a
blood door was hiding inside this village, and it was a door that was
wide open without anyone watching over it!

If we search the houses one by one, eventually, we'll find that

home in Fan Yu's drawing.

When Chen Ge turned the next corner, he glanced behind him. The
graveclothes were collapsed on the floor and closer to them.

Being chased by clothes worn by dead people doesn't feel good.

Chen Ge reached for the recorder, and he bumped into Ol' Wei. "Why
did you stop?"

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"Something is wrong…" Ol' Wei looked at completely unfamiliar
street, and his face turned paler. "The road that we used earlier
seemed to have disappeared."

"We're lost?" Chen Ge thought about it and patted Ol' Wei on his
shoulder. "Don't worry, we only need to ask for directions."

"This place has more ghosts than people; who are you going to
ask?" Ol' Wei said, but there was no reply. He turned around and saw
Chen Ge walking away with the hammer.

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Chapter 317: Baby

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Don't move away on your own! Slow down!" Ol' Wei grabbed
Master Bai and rushed after Chen Ge. Their combined age was more
than one hundred, but they tried to keep up.

"I'm just trying to ask for directions, why are you guys following
me?" Chen Ge did not want to expose Xu Yin before Ol' Wei, so he
moved his finger away from the recorder.

"There are no living souls in this village; who are you going to ask?"
Ol' Wei was worried that Chen Ge might do something stupid like
using the hammer to break down the door of some of the houses.

"You'll see." Chen Ge told Ol' Wei to keep quiet. He leaned against
the wall by the corner. He counted his heartbeat and tightened his
grip on the hammer. He waited for a full minute, but the red
graveclothes did not show up. Chen Ge leaned forward, and the
clothes had already disappeared. "It ran away?"

It had probably heard Ol' Wei's voice, so it had gone into hiding.
Chen Ge leaned back against the wall and considered his next course
of action.

Coffin Village is a three-star scenario, but the fright level so far

hasn't reached the standard of a three-star scenario. Chen Ge looked
at the many houses that were no different from one another. Making
us lose our way is just the beginning. The monsters inside this village
are slowly waking up.

There had to be a Red Specter in the village somewhere!

That was what Chen Ge worried about the most; he knew how
dangerous those two words could be.

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Temporarily, there is no better option. I'll need to continue this
investigation and feed the stragglers to Xu Yin. If he can transform
into a Red Specter tonight, even if I fail the mission, not all is lost.
Chen Ge was a good person, but he was afraid of running into a bad
Red Specter. If Xu Yin consumed so many spirits inside the village, it
might anger the Specter.

Chen Ge calculated the ghosts that he had, and the only one he
could depend on was Xu Yin. The newly acquired Yan Danian might
be a Lesser Red Specter, but his last power had not been unlocked.
Furthermore, based on his usual appearance, he did not look like a
particularly aggressive spirit. If he was torn apart by the Red Specter,
then Chen Ge would cry for a long time.

I'll need to be careful. Chen Ge reminded himself and turned

toward Master Bai. "The monsters inside the village are rousing.
You've been here before; do you know if there are any special
buildings at this place?"

"There's an ancestral hall at the deepest part of the village; the

place is forbidden to outsiders. The village has many wells, but the
villagers normally go to the other side of the mountain to gather
fresh water instead of using the wells. They gave wells a wide berth."
Master Bai tried his best to jog his memory. "There's also another
strange thing. This village has no village elder; the one who looked
over everyone was a woman. She wasn't old and lived at the largest
house alone."

"Forbidding outsiders from going to the ancestral hall is

understandable, but why are they afraid of wells? Is the water
tainted? Does the water caused the abnormalities?" Chen Ge was
confused.

"The water was fine. My father once used a captured animal to test
it out, and it was normal water. However, the villagers refused to
drink it and even forbade us from doing more testing." Master Bai

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also did not know why.

"We have to pay attention to these places; the more they stop us
from getting close to these places, the higher the chance they're
hiding something."

"Okay, so where shall we go now?" Completely lost with the white

lanterns swaying in the wind, it was scary.

"We'll keep moving on for now." The three went back down the
road, but the old home with the coffins was gone. Instead, there were
homes with white lanterns on their doors.

"Now, we're truly trapped." Master Bai's hand went to the jade
necklace on his neck. "It's not good for us to keep going around in
circles. Why don't we just stay in one of the houses for the night?"

"The houses with white lanterns are mostly occupied by ghosts,

but the information was given by the old lady. She might be trying to
trick us." Ol' Wei thought back to what had happened that night, and
it felt like a dream.

"Shall we go inside to confirm?" Master Bai walked to one of the

homes. He raised his hand but did not dare to knock on it. The
warning given by the old lady reverberated in his mind—Don't knock
on the door at night.

Chen Ge did not stop Master Bai. He was concentrating on what to

do. He might have appeared rash, but that was because, of the three
of them, he knew how dangerous Coffin Village was.

"We cannot stay at the same place anymore; it might attract the
ghosts." Chen Ge was trying to come up with a solution when the
white cat in his backpack suddenly meowed. It was shrill and mixed
with a rare emotion of fear. The last time Chen Ge heard this was at
his Haunted House when the door in the toilet was almost open.

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"Something is coming!" Chen Ge responded immediately. He
grabbed Master Bai and Ol' Wei, and the three of them rushed into
the house with the white lantern.

"Chen Ge, what are you doing?"

"Shush, do not say a word!"

Chen Ge closed the wooden door, and in that instant, there were
the cries of a baby coming from the street.

"It's a child?"

"Quiet!"

Seeing how intense Chen Ge was, Ol' Wei and Master Bai were also
made nervous. They stood where they were, unwilling to move. The
crying sound came closer and closer. Even with their hands over their
eyes, the blood-curdling cries still echoed in their brain.

Chen Ge's upper body leaned forward; he did not dare to make a
move lest he made a sound. He leaned closer to the middle gap in
the door and used his Yin Yang Vision to look out at the street.

The lanterns hanging on the doors darkened like they were dyed
red. The wind stopped howling, and only the baby's crying remained.

It's coming!

A small arm reached out from the corner. Chen Ge's pupils
narrowed as he focused his gaze in that direction. Soon, the monster
showed its face. It looked like a drowned baby. He had no hair, and
his skin was bloated. His facial features were blurry, and he was
swaddled in a red cloth!

A Red Specter? A Red Specter this young‽

The baby continued crying. He crawled speedily on the ground like

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he was looking for something. He crawled until he reached the house
that Chen Ge's group was hiding in.

The boy's face turned up, and the wrinkled skin was pulled back to
reveal his real face. The baby had no eyes and nose but only three
black holes and a weirdly-shaped mouth.

Chen Ge held his breath. He was thankful that he had brought the
white cat with him because without its warning, with the monster's
speed, he would not have had time to start the recorder before he
was assaulted.

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Chapter 318: Series Of Weird Events

Source: WEBNOVEL

His finger pressed on the play button, and Chen Ge slowly bent his
body down. His muscles tensed like a bow ready to fire. The memory
of fighting the ghost stories society's Red Specter was still fresh in
his mind. That day, he had summoned Xu Yin and the Pen Spirt at the
same time, but they could barely stop the Red Specter for ten
seconds. This was the second time he was going to face a Red
Specter without Zhang Ya. Different from Fang Hwa Apartments, this
time, he had brought all of the ghosts inside the Haunted House with
him.

Ten against one, it should be fine!

His hair stood on end; Chen Ge was ready for combat. The ghost
baby outside looked at the wooden door, and its body slowly turned
wrinkled. Pungent red liquid seeped out of his skin, and after it
landed to the floor, it circled around him like tadpoles. All the blood
seemed to possess its own consciousness. It looked similar to the
blood vessels on the monsters possessing the ghost stories society's
member. It was filled with resentment and malice.

"The child looks only several months old—he shouldn't remember

much about life—so how can he carry such strong resentment?"
Chen Ge had not discovered all the details concerning the formation
of a Red Specter. He knew what the key points were: they had to
filled with resentment at the time of death, and they were naturally
aggressive!

Red Specters were the representation of cruelty and violence. The

first reaction when they saw other ghosts was to tear them open and
consume them! Both Zhang Ya and Xu Yin showed this quality. Chen
Ge did not dare let his guard down when facing the Red Specters.

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The light shining from the lanterns dampened, and the street was
slowly dyed red. The baby turned his body around, but he did not
launch an attack directly. Instead, he crawled slowly toward the door.
The blood flowed underneath him like it would rush at the door at
any moment.

Chen Ge rehearsed the event in his mind. He would call out Xu Yin
first and then jump back to use Yan Danian's power. Even if he could
not pull the ghost baby into the comic, at least it would be able to
slow him down. Using that chance, he would summon the other
ghosts in the comic. With the collective power of all the ghosts,
maybe they could ambush the ghost baby. Chen Ge had been
avoiding altercations with Red Specters, but that did not mean that
he was completely helpless.

The risk is huge, but if I can kill the ghost baby for Xu Yin to
consume then he will certainly transform into a new Red Specter!

Thinking about this, Chen Ge made the decision to bet his life on
this chance!

His Yin Yang Vision was radiating with coldness. He was completely
ready when the ghost baby outside the door stopped. His wrinkled
ears moved. A woman's voice was calling his name from somewhere
faraway.

The ugly face showed a trace of fear and concern. The pool of
blood on the floor returned to his body, and the skin returned to its
usual plumpness. The ghost baby then left the scene quickly. When
the ghost baby disappeared, Chen Ge loosened his tightly gripped
fists, and he sighed.

Hard to tell whether his departure is a good thing or a bad thing.

Chen Ge's expression was complicated. The ghost baby's

departure meant that he had avoided a battle that he would have
had a hard time winning, but since the woman's voice could scare

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the baby away, this meant that the village had a Red Specter that
was scarier than the ghost baby.

After all, it is a three-star scenario.

Massaging his fingers, Chen Ge straightened himself and returned

to Ol' Wei and Master Bai. "Temporarily, it's fine. The thing has left."

"What happened earlier? What came? Did it stay outside the door
for a while?" Ol' Wei rubbed his nose. "Even through the door, we
could smell the pungent smell of blood."

"It was a little baby."

"A baby?"

"It's hard to explain," Chen Ge grumbled. "But remember this. If

you see anything wearing red clothes in this village, go into hiding
immediately. Do not try to fight it; running is probably pointless."

"Red clothes…" Ol' Wei nodded and remembered this warning. "So,
where shall we go now?"

"Let's stay here for now." The night deepened, and more and more
scary things started to appear inside Coffin Village, so Chen Ge did
not dare move about wantonly. "This Coffin Village's Trial Mission
only asks me for one thing, but the difficulty is probably higher than
the Third Sick Hall."

Staying alive, two simple words, but for Chen Ge, it was a huge
challenge.

Ghost baby and the woman who summoned the ghost baby away,
Coffin Village has at least two Red Specters, and that woman is
probably stronger than a normal Red Specter.

Chen Ge turned to look at his own shadow. Other than Zhang Ya

and Xu Yin, the other Specters from his Haunted House only looked

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scary on the surface.

Thankfully, there was no fight, or the ten might have lost to the
one.

Chen Ge patted the white cat on its head. The cat had done a good
job, but it still had not recovered from the shock. Its pair of multi-
colored eyes looked at Chen Ge with resentment, and the hair on its
neck was still standing. "Don't worry, tell me if there's danger. I will
not leave you behind."

Chen Ge carried his backpack and stood in the courtyard with the
hammer. The old house was huge. The courtyard was filled with
weeds, and it had two dead trees. "There are lanterns on the door, so
this place probably houses some ghosts. Be careful."

"Chen Ge, wait a minute." Master Bai used the flashlight to shine at
the two trees. "Don't you think these trees are familiar? Dried
branches, exposed roots, and a bulging trunk. Doesn't it look like the
tree that covered the Zhu family's eldest daughter?"

Chen Ge did feel that way after being reminded by Master Bai. At
the time, Zhu Xinrou had been shoved into the hole under the tree
headfirst. He pushed the tree, and the roots were already rotten.
Chen Ge could see roughly someone was buried under the tree.

"Don't knock the tree down." Master Bai stopped Chen Ge. "It is an
ancient tradition to bury cursed people in the ground like this after
they die. People plant a peach tree above their grave because,
according to legend, a peach tree can stop the curse they're
carrying."

"Meaning it is for protection?" Chen Ge touched the trunk, but

something was not right. "Master Bai, these don't appear to be peach
trees."

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the trees as locust trees.

"Locust trees are the most wicked of all the trees; this is the first
time I have seen people planting locust trees above someone's
grave." Master Bai gripped Chen Ge's arm. "Let's not create any
more trouble. We'll stay away from them, and perhaps they will leave
us alone."

"That's hard to say. There are two bodies buried in the courtyard,
so this place is definitely haunted. Perhaps we've already been
targeted."

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Chapter 319: Secret Of Coffin Village

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Why are you so intent on jinxing us?" Master Bai still minded
these things, but Chen Ge was the complete opposite.

"It'll be fine. Just follow behind me." He walked through the

courtyard with the hammer and entered the main room.

The layout of the old house was very interesting. There were
bedrooms on each side of the main room, but there were no beds.
Instead, each bedroom had a coffin in it.

"Have you noticed something peculiar about these houses?" Chen

Ge leaned against the hammer and scanned his surroundings.

"You mean the coffins inside the house?" Master Bai pushed the
door open through his clothes; he did not want to touch anything
there.

Chen Ge shook his head. "Not that.

"The houses don't seem to have an oven or a fire starter."

Ol' Wei looked at Master Bai. If Chen Ge had not brought that up,
they would not have noticed this problem.

"The fire starter is the place where people a light fire and cook
meals. Without that, how are they supposed to eat?" Chen Ge sat on
the chair, and his tone slowed down, "Or do the villagers not need to
eat? Is this a dead person's home? If that is true, then it would make
sense to have coffins instead of beds."

His voice was calm, but it sent chills up his two listeners' spines.

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"The white lanterns, white paper on the door, coffin in the room,
could this whole village be a Ghost Village?"

Chen Ge thought back to the information he found when he was

building the Minghun scenario.

"There was a story about a massacre that happened to a village

deep in the mountains during the war period. Several years later,
people got lost inside the mountain, and they accidentally wandered
inside the village. Then they saw every family was having a funeral,
and the villagers looked weird. The outsiders didn't dare ask any
question and escaped the village in the middle of the night. When
they returned to the village in the morning, the place had been
abandoned for a long time already, and there was no sign of people
living there."

"You mean, we're now inside a Ghost Village?" Ol' Wei asked
uncertainly.

"Coffin Village is scarier than that. I feel this place has a bigger
secret that we haven't uncovered yet." Chen Ge placed the hammer
on his feet and cupped his chin in his palm. "The people in this village
are much more complicated than we think. There are original
villagers that turned into ghosts, escaped villagers who were
captured, and then us outsiders. The old lady's soul had no need to
lie to us about the outsiders. Other than us, other people are also
trapped inside this village. No matter who they were, I think we
should meet up with them."

"But how do we do that? We can't even find a way out ourselves."

"I think we need to be more careful of our surroundings then."

Chen Ge then turned to look outside. He accidentally saw half a
human face lying on the wall.

"Someone's there!" He jumped up immediately. The sudden

warning alerted Ol' Wei and Master Bai.

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"What did you see?"

"There was a human face on the wall. I saw it once inside the
previous home. At the time, it flashed past temporarily, and then I
saw a set of graveclothes walking out the door; it was following us."
Chen Ge told the situation to Ol' Wei and Master Bai.

"He's just next door; shall we go take a look?" Ol' Wei was just
suggesting that; he did not want to wander off.

"If the person wants to run, we won't be able to catch it." Chen Ge
looked at the wall. "I have a feeling it has a reason for following us,
and it didn't seem like it's going to harm us."

He just finished when the front door slowly opened and bright red
graveclothes stood in the middle of the door.

"Don't fret. This is the thing that has been following us."

In the middle of the night, the door was pushed open, and the
graveclothes stood alone. Anyone would have been scared looking at
this.

"Are you a person or a ghost?" Chen Ge stood inside the room and
hid the hammer behind him. The person seemed to struggle for a
long time before coming to a decision. The graveclothes were opened
from the middle, and they were hiding a thin, short man. His lips fell
open, and after a long time, he said, "I'm here to help you."

"Help us? Wonderful, why don't you come in first?" Chen Ge smiled
kindly. He gripped the hammer; he wanted to trick the man to come
into the room first. The man shook his head. He had been following
Chen Ge, so he knew Chen Ge's tricks.

"I'll just stay out here." The man removed the graveclothes, and
when his body completely removed itself from the graveclothes,
Chen Ge saw that the man had one large arm and one small arm.

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"I've seen you when you entered the village, but before I could
accost any of you, you were tricked away by the ghosts. I was
worried, so I trailed behind you while wearing the ghost's
graveclothes. I wanted to find the chance to save you."

The man sounded sincere, but Chen Ge did not believe that the
man would put himself in such danger for a stranger. "You followed
us just so you can save us?"

"Saving you is saving me. You might not believe me, but if we are
unable to leave this village tonight, we're all going to die." The man
lowered his voice, and fear and anxiety were apparent in his tone.
"The door will open tonight, and the thing will come out from behind
the door again."

"The door will open tonight?" Chen Ge frowned. "You're one of the
original villagers here, right? Can you tell us what happened to Coffin
Village? Why did it turn into its current situation?"

"Coffin Village? I guess the name fits." The man closed the door
and walked to the middle of the courtyard. It was hard to tell how old
he was from his looks. "No one can remember this village's original
name. The reason it has become like this has plenty to do with a
woman.

"Our village is hidden deep inside the forest, and this isolates us
from the rest of the world. It was very difficult for a man to find an
unrelated wife, so we settled with close marriage. However, that led
to many abnormalities.

"The elder at the time worried that we would die out eventually, so
after a discussion with the villagers, they decided to 'kidnap wives'
from the outside. The first few times were perfectly fine. If the new
wife refused to listen, they would be locked up, starved, and beaten.
Eventually, they would learn.

"However, the last time, they caught the young lady of a scholar's

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family. She was stubborn and refused to submit. She escaped several
times, and she was almost beaten to death every time. It was not
until she was pregnant that she stopped running away. The villagers
thought that was the end of her resistance.

"But just as the girl's new family was preparing to celebrate the
happy occasion, she jumped into the well."

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Chapter 320: Sacrifice!

Source: WEBNOVEL

"One body, two deaths. All the villagers said that the woman was
unlucky, so they found a few young fellas to come crack open the
well to haul the body up. However, weird things happened then. The
woman's head was facing downward when she jumped, but half way
through the digging, people saw the woman's face turning upward.

"The dead person's face was soaked until it was white. Her eyes
were bulging, staring at the people outside the well. With guilt
suffocating their hearts, the young men were all spooked, and none
had the courage to continue digging.

"But they couldn't just leave the body inside the well. The elder
discussed this with the girl's new family, and they would provide the
money to hire outsiders to dig the well. However, when they returned
to the well the next day, the body, which had been facing upward,
changed to legs facing upwards. It looked like she was trying to swim
deeper into the well.

"Those who saw this reported it to the elder. To prevent panic, the
elder said the earlier digging must have affected the water flow and
the body slipped down on its own. No one bought this excuse, and on
the third day, the villagers discovered that the body inside the well
had disappeared!

"There are in total four wells around the village. They were built on
top of the same underground river. Since the body had disappeared,
they thought it might float up in any one of them. Then weird things
continued to happen. The well that the woman died in was the west
well, so to avoid her, many people went to the east well.

"The water looked normal, but when they used it to cook rice, they

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would discover woman's long hair in the rice. One week later, those
who lived near the well heard the sound of water splashing in the
middle of the night like something was climbing up the wall of the
well.

"The villager looked out the window and saw a red shadow
climbing out the well!

"The following day, the villagers discovered the woman's husband

dead in his own bedroom. The woman's husband was one with a
deformity; he had a problem on his face and his arms. When he died,
his head was shoved inside a water barrel, cause of death was
drowning. This sent a wave of panic through the village. The elder
called everyone and suggested calling a doctor from outside to take
a look, but before the doctor arrived, the livestock in the village
started to die by massive numbers.

"Some who were afraid uprooted and left. However, the scariest
thing was, every night, those deserters would be found deposited at
the valley in front of the village with various causes of death.

"It appeared like whoever drank the well water would be dragged
back and killed. The villagers didn't have time to build coffins and
have funerals because there were too many dead people, so they
just left them half-buried.

"Escaping the village meant certain death, and staying behind

wasn't going to save us either. The villagers tried many things, but
they couldn't do anything to the female ghost. Her resentment was
too deep, and every night, one or two families would be found dead.

"The number of deaths soared. The people here were superstitious,

and we believed if the dead weren't buried inside coffin, they would
return as a hungry ghost. No one knew who would die next, but
death was coming. Therefore, every family started to make their own
coffins, and this was why each family had coffins instead of beds.

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"One month later, the woman finally stopped, but by then, there
was no normal looking person left in the village. She had killed every
normal person and sinner in the village.

"Then, people understood what she was trying to do. It was

because the villagers were afraid of the effects of consanguineous
marriages on the future generations that they started kidnapping
outside women. Thus, the female ghost would kill all the normal
villagers and leave behind the abnormal monsters inside the village.
Her message was—let the villagers only show themselves as
monsters!"

The more the man got through his story, the more agitated he
became. He waved his arms of different lengths. "The ancestry's
lineage has been corrupted, and only monsters remain in the village.
Those who were born normal were killed, and only deformed
creatures please the woman and might escape her wicked claws."

The man's story was rather heavy. Chen Ge did not say anything; it
was Ol' Wei who spoke first. "My identity aside, there's no one I hate
more than human kidnappers."

"That happened many years ago, and the people have been
punished and killed. Now, only the innocent are being affected." The
man waved his arm. "No one wishes to be a monster. When I saw my
reflection in the water, I wanted to die, but I'm not satisfied!"

He clenched his fists, and it looked funny, but no one was laughing.

"If this was one year ago, I wouldn't have thought to resist, but
things are different." There was an indescribable expression on his
despair-filled face. "I have my own child, a little boy with no
deformities."

"You have your own child?"

"Yes, it is miracle. Two monsters with their own child." The man

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sighed. "I cannot leave him here; he'll be targeted by the woman.
Even if the woman doesn't discover my child, the other monsters in
the village will sacrifice him to her to save their own lives."

Chen Ge heard the anomaly in the man's words. "The other

villagers will sacrifice your child?"

"The people here have gone insane. No, they can't even be known
as people anymore." The man's nails scratched his skin. "Many years
ago, when the ghost massacred the village, only one family escaped
her vengeance. The family had a single daughter. The family was the
Zhu family.

"It was this Zhu woman who aided her first escape. After the
woman got caught, even the Zhu daughter suffered the same fate
and got tied up and beaten. Then, when the woman got bullied, it
was often this Zhu woman who came to her aid. That was probably
why Zhu family was spared.

"As the number of villagers dwindled, the remaining villagers asked

the Zhu woman to become the new elder to protect themselves.
They wanted her to communicate with the female ghost. The
villagers thought she would help them beg for mercy, but reality was
different. The Zhu woman sided with the ghost, and she became the
tool for the ghost to manage the village.

"To enjoy better torment, the ghost demanded that whenever we

spot a normal newborn, we have to carry it to the Zhu woman. If
someone dares to hide that secret, they will be tortured and killed!

"No one knows what happens to the babies after they are brought
to the Zhu family. We only know that after the Zhu woman carries
the babies into her darkened home, they never return."

His eyes were filled with fear and uncertainty. The man clasped his
abnormal hands together. "This rule persists until today. My boy's
situation has been exposed to the villagers, so I can only choose to

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collaborate with you outsiders. Please take my son out of this place
before it is too late!"

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Chapter 321: Ghost Village

Source: WEBNOVEL

Chen Ge's group of three looked at the man before them, and each
of them had a different expression.

"Is what you're saying real?" Master Bai was shocked. He and his
father had come to Coffin Village a long time ago. At the time, he had
only thought the villagers looked weird, but other than that, they
were no different from normal people. He did not expect they would
be hiding such a scary secret.

"Yes, it's all real." The man took several steps forward and stood
inside the inner room's door. "I could keep all this to myself, but I told
you everything. This is proof of my sincerity."

It was quite curious to hear a deformed man saying these words

inside a village filled with coffins. Master Bai and Ol' Wei looked at
each other before their gaze collectively fell on Chen Ge.

"Wait a minute, I want to ask him a question first." Chen Ge asked

for the man to move forward. "How shall I refer to thee?"

"You can call me Ah Qing."

"Okay." Chen Ge walked to the man, dragging the hammer. "You

can get us out?"

"Yes, I know the way, and I have that power." The man was urgent,
like he was running out of time.

"In that case, why didn't you leave the village with your son on
your own?" From Chen Ge's perspective, they were using each other.
Since Ah Qing had volunteered his service then there had to be
something useful on the outsiders for him, "You're afraid of being

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chased by the spirits, so you're planning to use us as bait?"

"No, that's really not my intention!" Ah Qing waved his hands. He

was trapped inside the village and had little interaction with the
outside world. His expression was obvious, and it showed his real
thoughts easily.

"Then, why do you need us?"

"The first month after a baby is born, the Zhu woman pays the
family a visit personally to inspect the baby. If the baby is normal,
she takes the baby away, but there was an exception." An Qing
counted on his finger. "Every year, on the day the female ghost
jumped into the well, the village will hold a sacrificial ceremony.
Around that time, the Zhu woman collects all the babies born in the
village for the past three months. She will carry them into a room and
let the female ghost choose the sacrifice."

"Let the ghost choose?" Chen Ge frowned. This female ghost is

possibly the scariest Red Specter!

"Today is the day she jumped into the well. The ceremony is
starting soon; this is our chance! When the ceremony starts,
everyone will be summoned by the ghost, but as long as we manage
to sneak into the building to steal the baby away before she wakes
up, it'll be fine!"

"You sure are optimistic." Chen Ge interrupted the man. "The

female ghost, you're saying, has the power to wipe out an entire
village with her own power. Even if we manage to escape, I don't see
why she would leave us be."

"This is the best solution." Ah Qing's nails dug into his flesh. "The
female ghost's resentment is only directed at this village; she doesn't
seem interested in outsiders."

"Is that true?"

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Ah Qing nodded with difficulty. "Just as she has never harmed the
Zhu woman, I've never seen the female ghost attack an outsider.
When you see my child, bring him away, and I will go back to the
village. If you're accidentally exposed, I'll try my best to buy you
some time."

"But the key problem is, your child is a villager. If we bring him
with us, it might get us targeted by the female Specter."

"If she chases after you…" Ah Qing released his tightened hand
and sighed with resignation. "Then you can put my son down and run
away on your own."

Master Bai felt pity for the man. "Why don't we promise him for
now? After all, we don't have any better options."

"The man's words have too many holes," Ol' Wei commented. "He
said that female ghost wouldn't hurt outsiders, but count the amount
of times we've been assaulted since we entered this village. I believe
he just wants to take our lives as bet. If we're really chased by the
female ghost, both us and the child won't be safe."

"The things that happened to you so far have nothing to do with

the female ghost." An Qing sighed. "There are fewer and fewer living
souls in the village, and this attracted plenty of Yin energy. This is not
something that I can explain easily. In summary, the population of
this village is ten percent living, ten percent dead and eighty percent
ghost."

Ol' Wei still wanted to ask something when Ah Qing put the
graveclothes back on. "The ceremony is starting soon. If you miss
this chance, there will be no chance of leaving in the future!"

"Why don't we follow him? After all, it's unsafe to stay here, and
the ghost baby knows that we're here." Chen Ge put the hammer
inside his backpack.

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"Er… why don't you leave your bag here?" Ah Qing's voice came
out from the graveclothes. "The graveclothes of Coffin Village can
hide you from the detection of the ghosts to a certain degree, but
your backpack is too obvious."

"It'll be fine." Chen Ge took out the recorder and walked into the
adjacent bedroom.

"What are you doing? We don't have much time."

"Taking some graveclothes. It won't take much time." Chen Ge

closed the bedroom door and hit the play button. One minute later,
Chen Ge exited the room with two sets of graveclothes he found
inside the bedroom.

"These are for both of you. Consider putting them on when the
situation calls for it." Chen Ge passed them to Ol' Wei and Master Bai.
Master Bai had the protection of the jade necklace, so Chen Ge did
not worry that much about him. The issue was Ol' Wei; he did not
want something bad to this retiring policeman.

"You took these from the coffin?" Ah Qing looked at the clothes
Chen Ge was holding. The fabric still had signs of nail clawing. Since
the man was perfectly unscathed, the claw marks were probably
made by the original owner of these graveclothes.

"Yes, I saw them deserted, so I picked them up." Chen Ge smiled.

"Don't worry, if there's a chance, I'll return them in the future."

Ah Qing moved his gaze away, not daring to meet Chen Ge's eyes.
The man gave him a unique feeling. Standing in the dark, he was
filled with power and hope, like the sun was surrounding him.

"Follow me closely, and put on the graveclothes or you might run

into ghosts," Ah Qing said as he moved forward. He stuck to the left
wall and turned left at every corner. After eight minutes, different
buildings appeared on both sides of the street.

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"We've left the maze?" Wearing the graveclothes, Ol' Wei looked
so tired.

"I'll bring you to the center of the village; the ceremony will start
there." Ah Qing led Chen Ge's group into an old home. "I hear
outsiders will be participating in this year's ceremony. I will find some
way to contact them, to hear what they have to say."

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Chapter 322: It's Only Just Beginning

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Other outsiders?" The main reason Chen Ge's group had entered
the village was to search for Fan Yu and Jiang Ling, so when they
heard there were other outsiders, their ears perked up.

"Before you arrived, two kids accidentally entered the village

because they were lost." Ah Qing tried to remember the details. "A
boy and a girl. The boy is very thin and of average height. The girl
looks about four; she's just like a China doll, very cute."

"Fan Yu and Jiang Ling!" Hearing Ah Qing's description, Chen Ge's

speculation was confirmed. He grabbed Ah Qing's graveclothes.
"Where are they now? Bring me to see them!"

"I don't think that's possible." Ah Qing tried to pry Chen Ge's hand
away, but he realized that the thin-looking man before him was quite
strong. "When they entered the village, they were spotted by the
other villagers. Then the Zhu woman appeared and personally
arranged a place for them to stay. She paid special attention to the
girl."

"Jiang Ling? Why?" Chen Ge was confused.

"According to rumors, that Zhu woman plans to have the girl join
the ceremony. At the time, I was also confused. This is the first time
in decades that someone from the outside has joined the ceremony."
Ah Qing finally stopped struggling and allowed Chen Ge to grip his
shoulder.

Did the woman notice Jiang Ling's history? She plans to gift Jiang
Ling to the female ghost? Chen Ge started to think. Zhu Xinrou is
staying by Jiang Ling's side, and she wouldn't let any harm come to

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Jiang Ling, so there are only two possibilities. Either Zhu woman has
some method to suppress Zhu Xinrou, or Jiang Ling joined the
ceremony voluntarily.

On the drawing that Fan Yu had left behind, he had written two
words—Going Home. There had to be a reason they returned to
Coffin Village that night. Coincidentally, that day was the day the
ghost stories society made their move and placed their target on
Jiang Ling. All roads led back to Coffin Village.

Other than the villagers at Coffin Village, I have to be cautious of

the society's members. Chen Ge released his grasp and patted Ah
Qing's shoulder lightly. "If possible, try to bring that thin boy out."

"Understood." Ah Qing rubbed his shoulder. "When the ceremony

starts, the whole village will be affected. The maze will automatically
be deactivated, and the sleeping monsters will awake. You'll see this
village's real face."

He spoke very fast, and he kept looking around. "There have been
too many deaths in this village, collecting a heavy amount of Yin
energy. It's the perfect birthing ground for ghosts and monsters.
They will wake up following the ceremony. You have to be careful,
don't taunt them. After stealing the baby, leave immediately."

"But how are we supposed to steal the baby?"

"The ceremony starts at the ancestral hall that is in the middle of

the village. All the children will be taken inside the ancestral hall, and
then the procession will move toward the well that the woman died
in. All you need to do is sneak into the ancestral hall after the
procession leaves to find a baby with a copper coin around his neck
and bring him away with you." Ah Qing paused and took out a cloth
from his pocket with hesitation. "The village layout can get quite
complicated. Some roads lead to hidden monsters and ghosts. If you
want to leave, follow this map."

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He handed the cloth to Chen Ge. "You have to save my son!"

After that, Ah Qing left in a hurry. Chen Ge looked at the cloth in

his hand. It was a simple map for Coffin Village, and more than
twenty spots were marked with a red cross.

"He trusts us so much to leave the map with us? Isn't he afraid
we'll leave without saving his child?" Master Bai looked at the map,
and his heart was chilled. He had been to many places with crosses
when he was young, but at the time, it had been during the day.

Chen Ge shook his head. "The man has planned this for a long
time. He wouldn't commit such a careless mistake. This could be a
fake map and the real one is probably on the baby."

The streets outside started to change. All the white lanterns were
extinguished at once, casting the whole village into darkness. In the
silence of the night, someone's house was pushed open, and a
woman's voice rang in the dark.

She seemed to be calling someone's name like she was trying to

rouse them. The doors were pushed open, and footsteps echoed on
the street. The deformed villages exited their homes with masks on
their faces. They held white lanterns in their hands, but none spoke.
They passed the door of the old home Chen Ge's group was hiding in
and stopped about ten meters away. The woman's screamed became
clearer, and the weird village was shedding its disguise.

Night fell like silver, suffocating those underneath it. Blood stains
started to surface on the village's clean walls, and scratch marks as
well as knife marks appeared on the ground. The things that once
happened at this village had been bloodier and scarier than Ah Qing's
described. The story he told was probably part of the whole truth.

The maze was broken, and where all the streets intertwined was an
old ancestral hall. Standing just next to this building was a bright red
coffin!

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The woman's voice stopped. The deformed villagers stood before
the ancestral hall. They looked like soulless puppets with their heads
lowered and hands holding the lanterns. No one spoke; the place was
deathly quiet.

Creak…

A door of a two-story building next to the ancestral hall was pushed

open. The building was the tallest inside the village and was also the
best preserved. The darkened home puffed out a cold draft. Several
minutes later, a woman in a bright red dress came out of it. Her face
was white and lips purple like a frozen dead person.

Her eyes scanned all the villagers as she walked to the ancestral
hall. She gesticulated to the coffin three times, mumbling some local
language. When she was done, several villagers come out of the
crowd holding bamboo baskets. The baskets were covered with a
layer of fabric, and the crying of babies came out from underneath it.

The woman walked past them one by one, lifting the cloth off to
inspect the product closely. When she came to the forth basket, she
stopped and opened her lips to say something. The one holding the
fourth basket was Ah Qing in his mask. His arms of different lengths
shuddered like the woman was telling him something scary. After
looking at all the babies, the woman pulled out a bloodied scissors
from inside her sleeve.

She stood beside the coffin and had the first villager place the
basket in the middle of the ancestral hall. Then she walked into the
hall with the pair of scissors. The door closed, and the baby cried.
The plaques in the hall creaked, and all the villagers lowered their
head with despair. Only the red coffin at the door emitted the echoes
of a laugh.

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Chapter 323: Only Kindness

Source: WEBNOVEL

The door of the ancestral hall opened again. The scissors in her
hands were dripping with blood, matching the color of her dress.
Seeing this, the villager who sent the basket into the ancestral hall
collapsed to the ground. She tried to hold it in, but she still cried. No
one came to help her; no one even dared raise their head to look.

The woman walked out the ancestral hall to stop beside the coffin.
She whispered to the coffin like she was communicating with the
thing inside it. Then, she turned to speak to the villagers.

The villager who held the second basket kept shaking her head like
she was unwilling to give her child away. The woman held out three
fingers; before she finished the countdown, the villagers beside the
second villager grabbed the basket away from her and placed it
before the woman.

The hand that held the scissors lifted up the basket. With the smell
of blood surrounding him, the baby cried harder, but no one dared to
stop this travesty. The woman entered the ancestral hall, and the
door slammed shut. No one knew what happened inside.

The ceremony continued. As the babies' cries rose, Coffin Village

turned creepier and creepier. Strange eyes opened in the dark.

Chen Ge and Ol' Wei, who were hiding in the room, also faced a
problem. The relatively quiet courtyard started to move. The soil
loosened like something was trying to crawl out. The pieces of fabric
that were tied to the beam fluttered in the wind. Some of them
seemed to be covering twisted faces. Shadows were cast on the
windows, and there were weird noises inside the room like someone
was knocking on the wooden bedframe from underneath the bed.

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The ghosts were waking up, and horror gripped every villager's
heart. The old door of the ancestral hall was pushed open, and the
crying stopped. The blood trailed down the scissors, and even against
the red of her dress, one could pick out the blood stains.

That's the second one. Chen Ge kept his gaze on Ah Qing. The
man's arms kept shaking. The woman stood beside the coffin. A
woman's cackles could be heard coming out from the coffin; it was
like a curse that could not be broken.

The hand that held the scissors rose. The woman seemed to
understand the meaning of the red coffin. She turned to look at the
villager holding the third basket.

Detached, aloof, and hopeless, the villager voluntarily placed the

basket before the woman. When the woman took the third basket
inside the hall, the ceremonial table shook, and the plaques all fell to
the floor like they could not witness this anymore.

The door slammed shut, and the baby's crying intensified before it
stopped suddenly. Blood seeped out from the door, and various
voices echoed around the village like the ground itself was crying.

The old house Chen Ge's group was in started to change. The
coffins in the bedroom creaked. The eyes of the people in the
pictures on the wall flew open, and their expressions twisted with
pain. The female ghost seemed to be tormenting the people inside
the village. Even when they were dead, they were not going to have
their release.

The woman came out of the ancestral hall for the third time. Blood
trailed down her dress, and Chen Ge finally understood why she was
wearing such a bright red dress. With every step, a bloodied footprint
formed on the ground. The woman asked the coffin, but only laughter
was her answer.

Hearing this sound, Ah Qing's quivering legs finally gave. He

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crumbled to the floor, and his arms of uneven length held tight to the
bamboo basket. The woman held out her three fingers, and the other
villagers wearing the masks forcibly separated Ah Qing from the
basket. Before the countdown finished, the basket was handed to the
woman.

The ancestral hall's door closed. No one knew what the woman did
to the baby, but they knew all the souls in the village were crying.
The forgiveness that the villagers prayed for did not happen. It was
not until all the babies were carried inside the ancestral hall that the
laughter inside the coffin stopped.

The woman's dress was completely drenched. She put the scissors
away and had the villagers open the red coffin. There was no body
inside the coffin but a set of jewelry. They were probably what the
woman had been wearing when she was kidnapped to Coffin Village.
The woman put the jewelry on piece by piece. The more she added to
her body, the chillier her presence became, and even her skin turned
whiter.

After putting on all the jewelry, the woman walked into the crowd.
The villagers moved away, and only a pair of boy and girl remained in
the center of the ground. The boy was thin, and even though he was
surrounded by such a creepy environment, he did not feel fear.

The girl's reaction was completely different from the boy. Her body
was shaking, and she looked pitiable like a newborn kitten. The
children were Fan Yu and Jiang Ling.

"Welcome home, no one will be able to harm you here." The

woman touched Jiang Ling's head. She held her hand and led her
toward the village entrance. The other villagers followed behind with
the white lanterns. The crowd soon left the center of the village,
taking Fan Yu and Jiang Ling with them.

Based on the woman's tone, it doesn't sound like they will harm
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to harm him either.

With his Yin Yang Vision, he could see the wounds on Fan Yu's
body. His shirt had been torn apart by branches, his arms were
scratched, and there were mosquito bite marks on his face. To
protect Jiang Ling, he had suffered quite a bit.

The woman said no one can harm Jiang Ling here, so it does look
like Jiang Ling and Fan Yu had to run back here to protect
themselves. Chen Ge thought about it from another perspective. In
Jiujiang, the only party that can cause Jiang Ling's sister such
pressure that they had to escape is probably the ghost stories
society.

The village was still changing. Chen Ge did not dare to delay. He
called Master Bai and Ol' Wei as they headed for the ancestral hall.
Once he pushed the door open, the smell of blood hit them like wave.
The scene they saw made them frown.

"Would the woman have… those babies…"

Chen Ge entered the ancestral hall. The ceremonial table was

covered with dust like it had not been cleaned for a long time
already. The plaques were on the floor. Some were cracked, but no
one had cleaned them up.

"Chen Ge, this blood probably didn't come from the babies." Ol'
Wei touched the blood on the floor. "When the woman entered the
ancestral hall, she was holding a pair of scissors. If that was from a
murder, the blood splatter wouldn't have been so uniform."

"In other words, the babies might be safe?" Chen Ge followed the
trail of blood and eventually stopped at the corner of the hall where a
bunch of trash was piled up. He moved it away and discovered an
underground tunnel.

"Stay out here. I'll go take a look." Chen Ge pressed on the

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recorder and climbed into the tunnel. The tunnel was only three
meters wide, and the end was covered by a wooden board. Chen Ge
pushed the board aside and found himself inside the two-story
building next to the ancestral hall.

Isn't the home for the Zhu woman?

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Chapter 324: Approved By The Spectres

Source: WEBNOVEL

Chen Ge crawled out of the tunnel and looked around. There were
no windows in the room, and not far from the mouth of the tunnel
were a few livestock that had just died.

"She used animal blood? This can trick the baleful Specter?" Chen
Ge muttered to himself.

Hearing the faded sound of a baby crying, he followed the voice

and went up to the second floor. The room felt obviously feminine.
There was simple furniture in the room. Different from other village
homes, there was not a coffin but a wooden bed.

Pulling the heavy curtain back, there were several bamboo baskets
placed next to each other on the wooden bed, and each baby's lips
were covered with a piece of grass. The grass seemed to have some
sort of tranquilizing effect. Even though the babies were taken away
from their parents, they did not cry that heavily.

"The reason the Zhu woman takes the babies away every time is to
save them?" Chen Ge found a notebook underneath the pillow. He
flipped it open and realized it recorded a list of names and address.
The author of this notebook was probably barely literate, so most of
the pages were represented by symbols.

"The Zhu woman outside looks to be in her thirties or forties, but

this book is already yellowed; this should be from many years ago."
Chen Ge read through the book, but he could not understand the
content. It looked like Chinese, but Chen Ge could not recognize the
characters. "The addresses are fuzzy. I can recognize a few of the
names. Could they be the children that were rescued?"

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"You're right. These are all the children that I've managed to
smuggle out." An old lady's voice suddenly came out from behind
him. Chen Ge turned with his finger on the recorder. "I should be the
one that's afraid, or do you think this old lady that has one foot in the
grave can still harm you?"

The old lady's speech was off, probably because she had no teeth.
Chen Ge walked deeper into the room with the recorder. In a small
room, he found a seriously hunchbacked old lady with wrinkled face.
She was leaning against the wooden bed. Both of her legs and one
arm had severely atrophied, and she could only barely move her
head and the remaining arm.

"Madam, you are?" The woman looked so old that Chen Ge felt the
need to show her respect. The senior looked at Chen Ge and smiled.
"I'm someone who is favored by the Specters."

Hearing that, Chen Ge's mind woke up. He could not have been
more familiar with that term!

"You have this sense of familiarity about you. You have interacted
with them before, yes?" The 'them' on the old lady's lips naturally
referred to the baleful Specters.

"You're right. I've not only interacted with them; I've built them a
home to give them a place to live."

"Then, you're much stronger than I am." The old lady tried her best
to express her goodwill. "Come, take a seat. I didn't hear the door
open, so you must have entered from the tunnel connected to the
ancestral hall. I believe you're here to smuggle the babies away while
the ceremony is ongoing?"

"Yes, that is the plan." Chen Ge did not get close to the old lady,
but he did move his finger away from the recorder.

"It is as I thought; those who are favored by the Specters have

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something approved by the Specters." The woman's voice was flat
but comforting.

"Something approved by the Specters?"

"Yes." The old woman nodded with difficulty. With Chen Ge

pressing her, she told Chen Ge what really happened that year. It
was similar to what Ah Qing had said, the only difference being the
baleful Specter was not completely inhumane. She still had some
humanity left. The old woman had once told the woman 'three times',
so she promised to do three things for her that were not out of
bounds.

She was also showed some kindness to the old lady, like she would
never enter the old lady's home, and whenever a Specter in the
village tried to harm the old lady, she would consume them.

"She massacred the village, and all the sinners were killed. I can
understand why she did that. In fact, I agreed with her actions, but
what happened next unsettled me." The old lady's physical condition
was weak. She needed to rest after speaking for some time. "A red
door suddenly appeared at the family home that she stayed in, and
only she can open the door. She planned to leave the village and let
go of her resentment after massacring the village. She planned to
enter the door before leaving the village, and that was when the
problem started.

"When she exited the door, resentment consumed her, and her
eyes were filled with venom; she had morphed into a different
person. I don't know what happened behind the door, but I could see
that she was filled with hatred. She planned to trap the future
generations of sinners here and force them to live their lives as
monsters. Her mind became so twisted that those who looked normal
became sinners in her eyes."

There was deep pain in the old lady's voice. "I have no power to
stop her; the only thing I can do is use my own method to save some

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innocent children when she was in a rage. Like what you saw today,
every year, she will awaken to enter the world behind the door. If the
children were placed somewhere else, she will definitely kill them, so
the only safe refuge for these innocent lives is my home. After
surviving tonight, once she exits the door, she will go back to sleep."

The old lady did not know what was behind the door; all she knew
was that the ghost would enter the door every year around this time.

"Then why didn't you escape, leave the village altogether?" Chen
Ge asked.

"Those who drank the well water will never escape; she haunts us
forever. That is the reason I only save newborns."

"Forever? But around one and a half decades ago, some villagers
managed to escape, and nothing happened to them." Chen Ge was
referring to Jiang Ling's father and the rest.

"That was an accident. Around one and a half decades ago, she
entered the door, but that night, she did not return. The villagers
lived the whole month in fear. When they found out she still hadn't
returned, some thought she had died behind the door.

"At the time, two voices appeared within the village: one was to
stay inside the mountain, and the other was to use this opportunity
to escape. In the end, those with minor deformities chose to escape.
On the third day of their escape, she returned.

"I begged her to let them go. I used two favors in exchange for
twenty years of safety for them."

The old lady started to cough violently. Chen Ge did not dare press
her anymore; he had found out enough from the senior.

"Madam, please take a good rest. I'm not going to disturb you
anymore. I'll only take one of the babies; that is a promise I made

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with one of the villagers." Chen Ge turned to find Ah Qing's boy.

However, he only took several steps before the old lady spoke
again. "Actually, there's another reason why I called for you."

"Is it related to the female ghost?" Chen Ge had found the baby
with the coin around his neck. He looked so cute.

The old lady shook her head. She kept her gaze on Chen Ge's face.
"Did you discover that your body temperature is dropping?"

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Chapter 325: Crying Soul

Source: WEBNOVEL

His hand hanging over the bamboo basket, Chen Ge slowly turned
around. Starting from several days ago, he had discovered the
changes to his body. Even if he had only three to four hours of sleep,
he would still wake up refreshed the next morning, his senses were
extra sensitive in the dark, and his mind turned agile. The only
drawback was the sudden chill that gripped his body. It would not be
alleviated even if he wore thick layers.

"Looks like you've noticed it." The old lady raised her arm to reveal
the row of red pieces of string that were tied around her wrist. Each
string was attached to a small jade pearl. "Of course, a living person
will not be able to digest the Specters' favors. A few years after the
village massacre, probably due to my constant interactions with
ghosts, weird things started happening to my body, the most obvious
being the drop in body temperature. No matter the season, my body
rarely feels warmed."

Chen Ge had the condition the old lady described, but there was a
small difference between them. Chen Ge held the basket that carried
Ah Qing's children and returned to the small room. "Granny, you
noticed the drop in your body temperature a few years after dealing
with the Specters?"

"To be accurate, it was ten years later, and at the time, I was just
like you; I didn't pay it much attention." The old woman sounded
kind. "Your condition is still light, so you must have started
interacting with them several years ago, right?"

"Several years?" Chen Ge's eyes twitched, and after some

hesitation, he told the truth. "I saw my first baleful Specter several
weeks ago."

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The room became silent. The old lady stuttered, probably due to
old age, "Sev… several weeks ago?"

"In any case, it's less than a month." Chen Ge touched the back of
his hand, and it did feel colder than normal.

"I live in a haunted village and thus interact with ghosts often; the
noticeable changes occurred a few years later. You only saw Specters
several weeks ago, so how come the body temperature changed so
soon?" There was confusion in the old lady's voice. "Did you garner
the attention of many ghosts at the same time?"

"Not really." Chen Ge counted in his heart. "Those directly related

to me are like ten."

The old lady was silent as she processed this message.

"Probably it has to do with my home. I live inside a Haunted House,

so you can consider them my housemates." Chen Ge turned to look
at his shadow. "Right, there's also a Red Specter hiding in my
shadow; she sticks close to me."

The old lady did not speak. Using her own arm as support, she
nudged backward like she was trying to get away from Chen Ge.
Noticing the changes to the old lady's behavior, Chen Ge was
unsettled. "Granny, how did you resolve the problem? If the issue
isn't solved, what will happen in the future?"

"Our situations are not the same; I don't think I can help you." The
old lady removed a piece of string from her wrist. "Extended
exposure to ghosts will gather Yin energy inside the body. The bead
on this string is made from Heat Jade. The people rear the jade, and
the jade rears the people. If you wear this long enough, the Heat Jade
will balance the Yin and Yang energies in your body. Other than that,
you'll need to go to crowded palaces and absorb the sunlight."

"I'll remember that." Chen Ge nodded. There would be crowds at

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New Century Park in the morning, and the number of visitors would
only increase.

"Be careful, my legs became like this because I didn't pay close
attention to this." The old lady tied the string back on her wrist.
"Actually, I planned to give you several jade beads, but based on
your situation, even if I give you all of my Heat Jades, it won't be
useful. The key now lies in you." She looked at the row of babies on
the wooden bed. "There is a difference between humans and ghosts;
make sure that line is still there."

"Okay." Chen Ge was frustrated, but he had no solution. He did not

tell the senior that Specters' Favored was just the beginning for him.
After winning five baleful Specters, his title might upgrade!

"If there's nothing else, take the child and leave. The person
hosting the ceremony is called Zhu Shumei; she's my handpicked
successor. She's a kind woman, and as long as you do not purposely
show up before her, she will not harm you." The old lady raised her
hand. "After midnight, the creatures inside this village will rouse. Be
careful when you leave the village, do not enter doors that are open,
do not answer when people call your name, hide when you see bright
lights, and do not touch any of the coffins."

After thanking the old lady, Chen Ge grabbed the basket and
retraced his step. He could sense the pure kindness inside the old
lady, so he did not doubt what she said.

Just like I thought, those who are favored by the Specters have
pure, kind hearts.

He crawled out of the tunnel, and the cold gripped Chen Ge. There
was only a wall of difference, but the world changed.

"You've found the child? Let me hold him." Master Bai took the kid.

When he saw the leaf on the baby's lips, he tried to take it off but

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was stopped by Chen Ge. "That leaf seems to be able to stop the
baby from crying, don't touch it."

Chen Ge had wasted some time inside the old lady's home. Chen
Ge waved for Master Bai and Ol' Wei to join him at the ancestral
hall's door. He pulled out Ah Qing's map. "The ceremonial procession
will pass the wells around the village; we must be careful not to run
into them."

The trio soon decided their route, left the ancestral hall, and
walked down the street. The ceremony was still ongoing, and the
village had changed. Those who had left returned, and death was in
the air. All the old houses became creepy, like their original owners
had returned for the night.

There were knockings coming from inside the coffin, and unknown
footprints could be seen on the streets. The blood on the walls turned
vibrant like time was returning to that night. Chen Ge's group turned
a corner when Master Bai, who carried the baby, suddenly stopped.

"Did you hear that? Someone is calling my name." The cold wind
brushed against their faces, and there was a wispy female voice that
resounded in their ears.

Reminded of the old lady's warning, Chen Ge told Master Bai,

"Ignore it. No matter what she says, do not answer back."

The three continued to move forward. The previously-clean roads

were filled with paper money, and the white paper on the doors of
old house fell off. The wooden boards creaked. The sound of the
woman became clearer, and it felt like it was coming from all sides.
They could not tell where she was coming form, but they did know
she was getting closer.

This village is hiding a Red Specter and many tortured souls. Since
the Red Specter hasn't awakened yet, these souls will probably
attack us so that they can take over our bodies and leave this place.

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Chen Ge knew that with the awakening of the many ghosts, the
real horror of this three-star scenario was showing itself.

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Chapter 326: Dangerous Roads!

Source: WEBNOVEL

The woman's voice circulated around their ears, and it made them
panic. The harder they tried to ignore it, the sharper the sound
became, as their brains tried to figure out what the female voice was
saying. Bloody handprints appeared on the wall. The street that Chen
Ge's group was going down seemed to have been the setting for one
heavy tragedy before this.

"Don't listen to it! Move!" Chen Ge felt something was chasing

after them. With his trusty hammer in hand, he stood at the back of
her group, carrying the backpack. These tortured souls did not want
to be tormented by the female ghost anymore, and this was their
only chance to escape her control.

Invisible rain seemed to fall from the sky, and there was moisture
in the air. A light smell of blood touched their nostrils as the street
turned complicated. The woman slowly approached, and her voice
changed; it overlapped with a voice in their memory. She called after
them like family calling them home.

"That sounds like my daughter?" Master Bai tried to turn behind

him to look. "Is that real or fake?"

Chen Ge grabbed his shoulders. "Do not turn back! Do not

answer!"

He had just told Master Bai that when Ol' Wei screamed at the
front of the group, "Look up at the house on the left!"

Ol' Wei kept his hand on the holster, his emotions running wild.

"Look up‽" Chen Ge looked up, and his pupils narrowed. There was
someone squatting on the top of the building!

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The man's body was very thin, and his arms very long; he looked
like a monkey.

"What was that‽" Chen Ge had not seen a monster like that before;
it did not look like a ghost.

"I've heard my father tell stories about them before—they're called

Eaves Ghosts." Master Bai's face was white. "They will lie in wait on
top the eaves at night. After the home owner falls asleep, they will
crawl in through the window to steal the owner's belongings and suck
their blood dry. It's a common rumor in villages, but no one has really
seen them."

Chen Ge moved his gaze away from the monster. As long as it was
not a Red Specter, there was nothing he was afraid of. "Ignore it,
we'll run past him!"

The group ran past the Eaves Ghost carrying the baby. The thing
on the eaves seemed to be particularly interested in living humans.
Its elongated arms grabbed the pillar as it swung downward. It
moved between beams as it chased after Chen Ge's group. The thing
was very clever; it maintained its distance, staying not too close and
not too far. It was biding its time. Soon, a second Eaves Ghost
appeared. Their appearance was different from a living human. Their
skulls protruded outward, their eyes were small, and their mouths
were filled with sharp teeth.

"Chen Ge, we cannot just keep running blindly!" This was the first
time Ol' Wei had seen something like this. If given a second chance,
he would never follow Chen Ge to come to this isolated village.

"Ignore everything, just focus on running." Chen Ge did not mind

those Eaves Ghosts. The only thing he was afraid of was the Red
Specter and the voices that circulated around their ears. The danger
that they could see was not really dangerous; what they could not
see was the real fatal threat.

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They ran for several meters, and when they about to turn the
second corner, the Eaves Ghosts who were tailing them finally got
impatient. However, they were cunning and careful. They did not
attack the living humans directly but placed their focus on the
backpack Chen Ge was carrying.

Several thin hands reached for the backpack, and Chen Ge finally
lost his patience. He swung the hammer to smack the Eaves Ghosts'
arms away and pressed on the recorder.

"Let's get this over with quick!"

When Zhang Ya was asleep, Xu Yin was Chen Ge's biggest combat
power. This young man would pursue his target relentlessly when he
was let out. Chen Ge was afraid that Xu Yin might be led away, so he
did not summon him until the last moment. He wanted to keep a
trump card for him. However, the incessant provocation from the
Eaves Ghosts had erased his patience.

After releasing Xu Yin, Chen Ge grabbed Ol' Wei and Master Bai's
shoulders to tell them to slow down. When the two Eaves Ghosts saw
Xu Yin, they turned and ran. With red in his eyes, Xu Yin grabbed one
of them and tore it into pieces. When he finished his meal, the other
Eaves Ghost was already several meters away. Xu Yin was in a
bloodlust; without waiting for Chen Ge's order, he leaped forward to
chase after his dinner.

The tape in the recorder continued to play. Chen Ge's group had to
leave the village before the ceremony ended; the time was limited,
so they could only force themselves to move forward. Master Bai and
Ol' Wei followed Chen Ge's instruction. They covered their ears to
ignore the woman's voice carried by the wind and focused on running
forward.

The distance was slowly pulled away. Neither one of them

discovered the faces that appeared on the wall before them. The
expressions on the faces were all different. They looked like mural

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and were inconspicuous in the dark. They chose to strike when their
targets were close enough by reaching out their hands from the wall!

"The baby!" Master Bai's first reaction was to use his body to
protect the baby. He exposed his back to the wall. The many arms
reached for the old man; all of them wanted to take over his body.
Due to the great number, it felt like the arms were trying to tear
Master Bai apart.

"Watch out!" Due to desperation, Chen Ge slammed the hammer

into the wall without thinking twice. The hammer made contact with
the wall, creating a loud noise that echoed throughout the village.

"We're definitely exposed now. The villagers of Coffin Village and

the hidden members of the ghost stories society will definitely
confirm there are other outsiders in the village," Chen Ge said calmly;
there was no panic in his eyes. "Since we're already exposed, there's
no need to hide anymore."

He aimed the hammer crazily at the wall of faces. The faces cried
for mercy. "Don't stop, keep moving!"

Regardless of whether the monsters inside the walls reached out

for them or not, whenever Chen Ge saw a wall with human faces, he
would greet them hammer first. The man's madness stunned even
Master Bai and Ol' Wei. Master Bai used his palm to cover the baby's
eyes.

Chen Ge turned to yell at Master Bai, "Are you alright‽"

"I'm fine. Those looked like Wall Spirits. In other words, people who
died close to walls. Their power is limited; they just look scary."
Master Bai waved his hands repeatedly. He was worried about the
Wall Spirits.

The three continued to move forward. By then, Xu Yin had

returned, and he had two more small blood stains on his shirt. The

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tape in the recorder made some white noise. This time, Chen Ge did
not tell Xu Yin to return to the tape. He had made the decision to
level Xu Yin up to a Red Specter that night!

"The whole village of malicious spirits, if we fight our way out, it

should be enough to dye your whole shirt red!" They continued to
move forward as paper money fluttered on the street.

The old house's front door was blown open, and a voice floated out
from within. "Help me, my death is so unjust…"

BANG!

The old wooden door was kicked open by Chen Ge. He rushed into
the house with the hammer and Xu Yin!

"Where are you‽ I'm here to deliver your justice!"

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Chapter 327: Why Do You Run?

Source: WEBNOVEL

The layouts of the old homes were similar to one another. There
were two dead locust trees in the courtyard, a large water tank under
the tree, and beyond that was the inner room and bedrooms. The
wooden door slammed open; Chen Ge's kick almost broke the door.
"Tell me about your injustice!"

He walked forward, and the soil in the courtyard started to loosen.

The dead locust trees started to lean like something was trying to
crawl its way out. Chen Ge walked to the locust tree. The soil fell off
to reveal a shallow grave, and a pair of arms were trying to reach
out.

"You want to come out? Fine! I'll help you!" Chen Ge looked at the
venomous gaze of the body, and he raised the hammer. "I'll smash
your skull so that you won't get stuck!"

The hammer fell, and a series of creepy voices came out from the
old home. It was worth noting that the other locust tree stopped
moving, and the soil flowed backwards. After he was done, Chen Ge
and Xu Yin yanked the ghost out from underneath the tree. After that
brief exercise, Chen Ge turned his attention elsewhere. "They were
hiding under the tree earlier, so it wasn't them who called for help."

The voice earlier came from inside the old home, but once Chen Ge
entered it, the voice stopped. He looked around and noticed a round
rubber ball floating inside the water tank. The weird thing was the
ball slowly sunk downward like it was trying to drown itself. "The ball
is sinking on its own?"

Chen Ge walked to the water tank with the hammer. He looked into
it and saw the ghost hiding inside the tank. Its body was bloated from

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being soaked in water, and its bloated head floated on the surface
like a rubber ball. "Was it you who called for help me? If you have
some injustice in your heart, you have to say it out loud!"

The hammer smashed the tank, and water flew everywhere. Chen
Ge left Xu Yin to help the ghost with its 'injustice', and he walked into
the inner room. The room was filled with paper money like they had
just held a funeral. There was a dark coffin sitting in the middle of the
room, and weird pictures hung on the walls.

"Where are you? Why aren't you talking?" Chen Ge stared at the
pictures for quite some time. The villagers here did not pray to Gods
but spirits of the mountain. The pictures on the wall were all creepy-
looking monsters. "They look so real."

They were paintings, but there was something about them that
made Chen Ge feel there was more than met the eye. Chen Ge was
not sure whether it was because he had stared at them for too long
or it was due to another reason, but he saw one of the eyes in one of
the paintings move.

Wait, it moved! Are the ghosts hiding in the painting?

While Chen Ge was contemplating, Xu Yin walked in with half of his

red shirt. At the same time, several shadows escaped the paintings
and rushed into the bedroom. Xu Yin gave chase immediately. When
he entered the bedroom, the coffin in the middle of the room
shuddered, and the lid of the coffin was pushed open slightly.

A ghost with some blood stains on its body looked at Xu Yin

cautiously before pushing the coffin lid open and running for its life!

"There are blood stains on the body. This ghost also has the
potential to become a Red Specter?" Chen Ge called Xu Yin and gave
chase. The black shadow discovered Chen Ge and Xu Yin chasing
after it, and it ran faster. The old home was filled with the sound of
soil moving, glass shattering, water splashing, and the coffin bursting

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open. Master Bai and Ol' Wei stopped outside the front door and did
not dare go in.

"Who is Chen Ge talking with inside? Why hasn't he come out yet?"
Ol' Wei was worried. He gathered some courage and walked to the
door. Before he got close, a black shadow with flashes of red blasted
past him.

"What was that‽" Ol' Wei's heart gripped. Before he recovered, he

saw a bloodshot Chen Ge ran out, waving the scary-looking hammer
in the air.

"Stop right there!" The death flags on the streets were snapped,
and Chen Ge's voice echoed down the street.

"What's going on…" Ol' Wei and Master Bai stood at the door
holding the baby. They looked at the whole hide-and-seek and felt it
looked perfectly normal.

"Xiao Chen is chasing after the person in front?"

"Looks like it."

"But shouldn't we be the party on the run? Why is he chasing after

some other people?"

"I'm not quite sure, perhaps because he looks scary?" There was
another sound of the hammer hitting the wall. Master Bai and Ol' Wei
immediately ran after them.

The black shadow moved very fast. Chen Ge could barely keep up,
but Xu Yin slowly closed the distance. The movement speed is so
fast, so its power must be quite high. After consuming it, Xu Yin
might become a Red Specter!

Inside this creepy village, he had to have a Red Specter to

accompany him before he could feel safe. If Xu Yin can become a Red
Specter, then this mission will have been worth it!

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The black shadow did not dare slow down, but its escape route
seemed predetermined; it was heading toward one of the buildings
inside the village. The atmosphere turned heavy. The paper money
became less common, and in their places were the 'joy' characters
cut from white paper.

After another ten meters of chasing, at the end of the street, Chen
Ge saw a wedding sedan. The red sedan and the white 'joy'
characters formed a great contract, and the sedan was radiating a
heavy sense of resentment. The wind fluttered the curtain, and the
woman's voice came again. The shadow stopped at the door where
the sedan was placed before it ran into the old home.

"It knows how to ask for help? This ghost is clever." Chen Ge lifted
the curtain on the sedan, but there was nothing inside. He followed
the black shadow and ran into the old home. The old home looked
grander than other homes, but the lingering blood stains and signs of
struggles were also more numerous than others.

"Could this be the village elder's home?" Chen Ge pushed open the
door, and there were white 'joy' characters everywhere. This looked
like a wedding where an accident had cut it short.

"When the shadow stopped at the door, I saw clearly it was

wearing the groom's outfit. He came back to find his wife?" Chen Ge
waved the hammer and scoffed. "What a man."

He entered the inner room, and the woman's voice in his ear
intensified; it influenced Chen Ge somewhat.

"The thing that has been calling is the shadow's wife?"

The woman's voice seemed to drill into the body and curled around
the heart like strings. With every beat of his heart, the familiar notes
flowed to every part of his body following the blood. The voice felt
very close, and it made one lower one's guard involuntarily.

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Looks like the shadow's wife is the one with the greater ire.

Chen Ge was considering whether the wife could be the Red

Specter when the door closed, and the candles on the ceremonial
table were lit on their own, shining an eerie red light.

Cast in the light, a woman in bright red wedding dress poked her
head out from inside the bedroom. She was wearing a pair of
embroidered shoes and looked rather scary.

A Red Specter? Chen Ge gripped the hammer until the veins on the
back of his hands popped.

Walking forward, the woman revealed the lower half of her body.
The wedding dress was not completely drenched by blood. It was half
torn to reveal the dirtied underclothing.

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Chapter 328: Tonight, I'll Let You See

Source: WEBNOVEL

The wedding candles gave off an eerie red light, making the old
home look even creepier. At the bedroom door, the woman in a
tattered wedding dress looked at Chen Ge. Her lips moved, and the
voice echoed in Chen Ge's mind. The memories were muddled, and a
weird feeling gushed up his heart. She seems to be calling my name.

When he was young, Chen Ge once heard the elders of his family
say that there was a kind of ghost in the world that called
passersby's names in the middle of the night and then transformed
into the person who was the most memorable in the passerby's mind
to approach them and harm them.

This female ghost has a similar power?

The voice that they had been hearing amplified; it disturbed Chen
Ge's power of thought. He tried to focus, but his body relaxed
completely. He raised his eyes to look, and the woman's face
changed. There was a general outline, but it slowly turned familiar
like he was looking at someone from his memory.

The wonderful memory was sewn together by threads, and the

dead woman lifted her sleeves lightly to cover her face. She walked
out of the bedroom gracefully. The embroidered shoes stepped on
the white paper. The woman's wedding dress glowed redder. She
lowered the sleeve slightly, and the originally scary face became
exquisite and beautiful. The facial features slowly formed, and there
was a sense of familiarity comforting Chen Ge. She should be
someone important in my life.

The woman's voice sneaked into his bone marrow like strings
controlling Chen Ge's body, stopping his means of harming the other

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party. His mind froze, and his body moved on its own. Chen Ge took
a step forward like someone in his mind was urging him to not give
this opportunity up lest he regretted it forever.

Such a familiar voice, who is she?

The memory buried in his heart was pulled to the surface, and
Chen Ge felt like his soul was leaving his body. The voice echoed in
his mind, and the hall stopped being scary. The surrounding melted
away, and with the voice leading him forward, Chen Ge took his
steps.

The distance between the two closed, and the woman's bright-red
sleeves slowly lowered. The pale face shifted as she flipped through
Chen Ge's memory and found the woman who loved him the most.
The blurry facial features became clear and flawless. Even the
pickiest artist would gasp and say, "Beautiful!"

With the familiar face, the exquisite expression, the woman lifted
her head to look at Chen Ge in anticipation. Their eyes met, and
Chen Ge, who was under the woman's spell, felt struck by lightning!

His body shook continuously, and his heart raced. An indescribable

terror tore through the memory and romance. "Zhang Ya‽"

A strong survival instinct made Chen Ge jump backward. No matter

how the woman called for him, it was useless. The flickering
candlelight extinguished, and facing the extreme fear, the woman's
voice had lost its power over Chen Ge. The woman's face turned back
to normal. She was holding a pair of scissors and red string, standing
the middle of the room.

She used her power to morph into the most memorable woman in
Chen Ge's memory. She used that to weave a trap for Chen Ge to
walk into. Initially, everything was going according to plan. The man
was under her full control, so she could not understand why, when
the man saw the woman who loved him deeply, his reaction would be

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so drastic‽

Chen Ge gasped greedily for air. This was the first time he had felt
the true meaning of fear since he entered Coffin Village. He did not
expect to see Zhang Ya's face when she was slumbering. The voice in
his mind disappeared. Chen Ge wiped the cold sweat off his forehead
and calmed down again.

That was most likely the ghost's special power. The ghost was
powerful, her voice carried his own memory and could enter a normal
person's mind with being noticed to make others lower their guard
around her. That was a hard threat to deal with; it was because of
pure luck that Chen Ge managed to survive this time.

When Chen Ge escaped the ghost's control, even the ghost herself
was injured. Her voice stopped, and a part of memory was left in
Chen Ge's mind. Chen Ge thus gained a new understanding of this
ghost who had the potential to become a Red Specter.

She was the village elder's daughter, and the night of her wedding
was also the night of the massacre. Her whole family had been torn
apart, and there was not enough of them left to become ghosts. She
was the only survivor. Her resentment kept her alive, and as the
years passed, she became more and more powerful… until she met
Chen Ge.

The ghost in the wedding dress was several steps away from Chen
Ge, and her face twisted with a pair of eyes burning with vengeance.
Xu Yin was battling the groom, but it was not much of a match. All
the groom could do was buy time. Their original plan was probably to
possess Chen Ge and then cooperate to kill Xu Yin. Unfortunately, the
ghost's plan ran into some trouble.

Looking at Chen Ge, who had regained his sanity, the ghost was
irrationally angered. Her hands reached out from underneath the
sleeves, and her wounded palms were tied with red strings. She
screamed, and the red strings that flowed out from her flesh rushed

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at Chen Ge.

The door was sealed, and the hammer did not have much use
against the red strings. Xu Yin, who was some distance away, saw
the situation Chen Ge was in, so he tore the groom's arm off and
turned to fight the ghost in the wedding dress.

The red strings stuck into Xu Yin's body, but it did nothing to stop
him. The greater the pain, the stronger Xu Yin got. Fresh blood
spurted out, and it almost dyed his shirt. Both Xu Yin and the bride
were half Red Specters, and they were equally powerful.

His senses returned, and Chen Ge could feel the weight of the
hammer in his hand again. He circled the outskirts of the battle,
trying to find a chance to help Xu Yin, but did not anticipate the
ambush from the groom. Xu Yin was unable to help Chen Ge, and the
groom realized this was a perfect chance.

His cracked face revealed a dirty smile. He walked toward Chen Ge

like he planned to return all the damage that he had suffered from
Xu Yin's hands to Chen Ge.

"Going for the weaker party? Then you've got the wrong target."
Chen Ge did not retreat. He was also quite mad that day. "Even if you
have the potential to become a Red Specter, as long as you're not a
Red Specter now, you possess no threat to me!"

Chen Ge's calm voice sounded like a bluff to the groom. He hugged
the torn arm and walked toward Chen Ge with a wicked grin!

"Don't believe me?" Chen Ge did not fight back as the groom
approached. In fact, he put his only weapon, the hammer, down on
the floor. "Actually, compared to a duel, I prefer a brawl."

Chen Ge took out the comic from his backpack. He flipped through
it, and a heavy stench covered the old home. "Tonight, I'll let you see
what the real meaning of strength in numbers is!"

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The stench coagulated to form a large fatty, and more shadows
appeared from the comic!

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Chapter 329: Sedan Kids

Source: WEBNOVEL

In the blink of an eye, Chen Ge was surrounded by several

shadows. They had different expressions; some were curious, some
harsh, some cunning, and some quivering with fear. The ghosts filled
up the courtyard, and the old home became several times scarier
than before!

Chen Ge put the comic back and pointed at the groom. The
situation changed instantly as the shadows surrounded the poor
man. "It's time for dinner."

Chen Ge picked up the hammer and charged ahead. The battle

was not fair from the beginning. The groom was slightly more
powerful than normal ghosts, but he could not fight so many of them.
The wounds on his body increased, and his body started to fade.
When he was almost at his limits, the groom tried to lean toward the
bride like he was trying to get his wife to help him.

However, the bride was locked in the battle with Xu Yin and did not
have the time to deal with him. Chen Ge saw this opportunity to
attack. The groom had already been injured by Xu Yin earlier; one of
his arms had been torn off, and he could not even fight back. The
ghosts tore him apart. He wanted to run, but the door was sealed. He
had nowhere to escape to.

There's still an advantage in numbers. Chen Ge took a step back

after making sure his workers could handle the groom just fine. Ten
seconds later, the groom who acted as bait was consumed by Chen
Ge's workers.

"Don't just stand there, go help Xu Yin!" Chen Ge ordered again,

but only the fatty marched obediently forward. The rest of them

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jumped back when they saw the heated battle between Xu Yin and
the bride. "Stop wasting time! Attack together!"

Xu Yin had been cruelly murdered by his loved ones, so he had a

great amount of dissatisfaction and resentment to begin with. He had
consumed so many ghosts, but he only fought to a stalemate with
the bride.

The bride has a very powerful special power, and she is herself
quite strong. If only she could become a worker at the Haunted
House.

Realizing how fitting the bride was to the Minghun scenario, Chen
Ge's interest was piqued. However, he thought about it from a
different perspective. The bride was filled with resentment, and it
was probably caused by her desire to take revenge for her family.
That meant killing the Red Specter that jumped into the well.

That was too much to handle for Chen Ge.

The Haunted House workers have to be completely obedient so

that they won't hurt the visitors. This particular one is too unruly, and
her wish cannot be fulfilled. Even if I forcibly take her back, it'll only
cause more problems. Chen Ge never suffered from hesitation. He
called the other ghosts to help Xu Yin.

"Rest in peace. Actually, if you didn't attack me in the beginning,

this wouldn't have happened."

The red strings were soaked with Xu Yin's blood. With the aid from
the other ghosts, Xu Yin finally found the break he was looking for. A
blood-curdling scream echoed through the old home, and several
minutes later, everything returned to normal.

Afraid that they might influence Xu Yin, Chen Ge held the other
ghosts back. The bride was consumed fully by Xu Yin. The red strings
on the ground lost their color, and the bright wedding dress turned

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old and dusty.

Chen Ge anticipated the change to Xu Yin, wishing that he would

turn into a Red Specter in that instant. Standing in the middle of the
room, the wounds on Xu Yin's body recovered, but the blood that
drenched his shirt did not recede. He raised both of his hands to look
at his palms before turning to look at Chen Ge. His body slowly faded
as he returned into the tape. "So painful…"

The recorder's play button bounced back. Xu Yin seemed to have

exhausted all of his power to deal with the bride.

"Wait, something's wrong. If Xu Yin also slumbers…" Chen Ge

looked at the shadows that might even be afraid of himself, and his
lips twitched. "What am I supposed to do tonight?"

After collecting the ghosts into the comic, Chen Ge grabbed the
hammer and raced out of the old home. "I need to leave this village
as soon as possible."

He ran out of the front door and saw Ol' Wei and Master Bai. They
were walking around a sedan, talking among themselves.

"Let's go, we must leave this village immediately." Chen Ge took

out the map given by Ah Qing and started to study it. "Follow closely,
don't wander off. This place is getting more and more dangerous!"

You have the map. We've been following you!

Before Ol' Wei and Master Bai could say that, Chen Ge hollered,
"This way."

According to the map, they were still quite far away from the
perimeter of the village.

The three prepared to leave when the sedan at the door started to
shake. Two kids appeared beside the sedan, and they were humming
some kind of lullaby. Their faces were painted with something that

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looked like blood, and they were wearing clothes that were black and
red.

Hearing the song behind him, Master Bai turned to look. He rushed
forward from the back, holding Ah Qing's baby. "Quick, run! Those
are Sedan Kids!"

Chen Ge and Ol' Wei did not even turn back to look and raced
down the street. The sedan shook, and the two children smiled
happily. They clapped their hands and danced some weird dance.

"Master Bai, that's a dead-end! Stop!" Chen Ge pulled Master Bai.

"It's safe now. The two kids didn't chase after us."

"Good…" Master Bai sighed. As healthy as he was, the strain on his

body was becoming clear. "Thankfully, we ran fast. If we're haunted
by Sedan Kids, it's over."

"What do you mean? Those children are that scary?"

"These are stories I heard when I was small. Sedan Kids hide under
sedans and wear masks and uniforms from Chinese opera. They
show up whenever there's a ceremony. It's okay if you don't run into
them, but if someone exposes them, they will find said person's
home and use different faces to play with you." Master Bai felt better
after the short rest.

"But didn't you call out their names earlier?" Ol' Wei was worried.

"Yes, I regretted it right after. Who knew things from legend will
appear in real life!" Master Bai gave himself quite a fright.

"Master Bai, where did you hear these stories from? Do you know
other stories? Why don't you share them with us so that we can be
prepared?" Chen Ge held the hammer. Now that Xu Yin had returned
to the tape, he had lost a powerful trump card.

"My father told me those. He was a wandering doctor, so he had

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been to many places and heard many things. He shared these stories
with me. I thought he made them up, but who would thought I would
run into them one day‽" Master Bai laughed bitterly. He felt like the
night was a dream.

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Chapter 330: Scared To Death

Source: WEBNOVEL

The three slowed down. Before Master Bai could finish, the sound
of a nursery rhyme came from behind them. Master Bai turned to
look behind him. The two kids with red paint on their faces did not
come close, like they were afraid of something. They just stood a
distance away to look at Chen Ge's group.

"Talk as we move." Master Bai dragged Ol' Wei and Chen Ge to

move forward. He combed his mind to come up with the stories that
his father had once told him. "These kinds of villages deep in the
mountain will be filled with various monsters at night. Other than the
Pillar Ghost, Sedan Kids, Wall Spirit, the more difficult ones include
the Pillow Ghost, Mummy Wraps, and Skull Lantern."

"Skull Lantern? Can you tell us specifically what these three look
like?" Chen Ge and Ol' Wei had not heard of this before.

"In these villages, the pillows that people sleep on have to be

burned after the person passes away. This is to prevent the
formation of a Pillow Ghost. This kind of ghost is normally the
lingering spirit of the dead person remaining in the pillow. If one falls
asleep on these pillows, they will be tormented by nightmares and
even hear the person whispering in their ears.

"If you're lucky, you might sleep until morning, but if you're not,
you might wake up in the middle of the night and find someone lying
beside you, sharing the pillow, and that person will be the Pillow
Ghost." The senior did not have a talent in storytelling; the
description was rather dry. However, Chen Ge made a not of the
details of this Pillow Ghost—perhaps he could use it in his Haunted
House in the future.

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"Pillow Ghost cannot stray too far from the pillows, so as long as
we don't enter these houses, it should be fine. The things that really
concern us are the Mummy Wraps and Skull Lantern," Master Bai said
carefully. He was worried these thing might really appear in real life.

"Mummy Wraps are more difficult to deal with compared to Pillow

Ghosts. These are the clothes that villagers put the dead person in
when they carry out the burial. There are taboos and traditions to
abide by for the clothes that dead bodies are buried in. If they are
not followed closely, it might form the Mummy Wraps. They will
wander the street when the Yin energy gathers. They look like a
person, but it is actually only a layer of cloth.

"They will attack by wrapping themselves around the body of a

living person. They make the living person wear the clothes of a dead
body and use it to control the living human. If you see someone
wearing a new set of clothes but they smell weird, remember to stay
away from them because they might be wearing a dead person's
clothes."

Master Bai looked around him. The ceremony was still ongoing,
and the streets were empty. Only the two Sedan Kids trailed behind
them with hesitation. Master Bai hugged Ah Qing's baby and sped up.
He continued to explain, "The skull lantern is the scariest ghost from
all the stories my father has told me.

"No one knows how they're formed, but people have seen them
inside abandoned villages or places where high concentration of
resentment gathers. Those rushing in the night would see lights
inside a village. They rushed over, thinking it's human activity, but
the light kept moving away from them.

"They called for the light to stop, and it did. When they got close, it
was actually a floating head, and it was biting a lantern with its teeth.
According to legend, Skull Lanterns are spirit trying to seek help, so
they float about with the lantern."

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After Master Bai finished the last story, he realized that neither Ol'
Wei nor Chen Ge replied. "What's wrong with the two of you? I still
know quite a bit of this village folklore."

"Master Bai, you said the Mummy Wraps look just like normal
people?" Ol' Wei looked at the street behind them.

"Yes, they look just like humans because the clothes will take on
the shape of a human. However, they have no face or hands; they
are only clothes." Master Bai had a very bad feeling.

"Then did you father tell you what to do if we run into Mummy
Wraps?" Chen Ge grabbed the hammer and similarly looked behind
Master Bai. Master Bai did not dare turn back, but his face paled. "My
father said, if we come across these things, we need to run."

Xu Yin was digesting the bride, so Chen Ge grabbed hold of the

hammer and thought about it. "Looks like we have to change a
different route."

The three of them turned down a different street. Behind them,

them old sets of clothes with weird smell stood in the middle of the
road. The nursery rhyme beside their ears did not stop, and new
things appeared. As the ceremony continued, more monsters woke
up from the night. The number was unimaginable.

This is the real three-star scenario! Chen Ge compared Coffin

Village and The Third Sick Hall. When he arrived at Third Sick Hall,
most of the patients had already left, like the Devil and Wu Fei. The
craziest ones had joined the ghost stories society; only those normal
ones were left behind to watch over the blood door. This was the
biggest difference between Third Sick Hall and Coffin Village. In other
words, this was the first time Chen Ge had entered an actual three-
star scenario.

Various monsters were crawling out from their hiding spots,

gnashing their sinister teeth.

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This village has all sort of monsters. If they're fully replicated inside
the Haunted House, the visitors will be scared to death!

Chen Ge was quite excited. Coffin Village was different from the
Haunted House theme that was currently popular on the market. The
style was unique and would be one of a kind if Chen Ge had it inside
his Haunted House. The key was, the scenario would be three-star,
and it would be enough for the visitors to explore it for a long time.

Chen Ge scouted ahead. He followed the complicated roads that

was mapped out on the cloth. They walked for some time when bits
of light appeared before them. The old lady in the two-story building
had warned him to evade the bright lights. Master Bai's story also
had similar effect.

They stopped where they were as the monsters slowly surrounded

them. The lights swayed in the wind and formed blurry human faces.
Ol' Wei and Master Bai did not look so good. They had not
encountered scenes like this before, so they involuntarily turned their
attention to Chen Ge.

"What should we do?"

Holding the hammer, Chen Ge felt the pressure. "We have no other
choice but to power ahead. Stay close to me and try not to get
separated."

The three of them had just confirmed the route when a loud boom
occurred at the western part of the village. It was much louder than
the sound Chen Ge had made earlier.

"A fight has happened? The ghost stories society is fighting with
the ceremony?"

Coffin Village's peace was completely shattered. The night

thickened. As long as they survived this, dawn would not be far away.

"Chen Ge, should we avoid the eastern exit and take a longer

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detour?"

"We don't have time! Let's charge out of this place first!"

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Chapter 331: Give The Child A Future

Source: WEBNOVEL

No one knew for sure how many ghosts were hiding inside Coffin
Village. Chen Ge was reminded of what Ah Qing had said—Coffin
Village had ten percent dead people, ten percent living people, and
eight percent ghosts. Based on that percentage, we've only seen a
small part.

Chen Ge's situation was not that optimistic. The three sets of dirty
clothes floated toward them, the two kids with red paint on their
faces bounced happily toward them, the door of the old house next
to them creaked open, and something that looked like a human face
poked out from underneath the pillow. All the roads were blocked off.
They could only move forward, but what waited ahead seemed to be
creepy bright lights.

Using his Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see these were swaying
human skulls. He charged ahead with the hammer. He did not plan to
slow down. Rushing ahead meant he needed to deal with some of the
ghosts, but if they stayed, they would be surrounded by all the
ghosts.

"Chen Ge, slow down! It was so dark earlier; the sudden

appearance of lights has to be a trick. Those are probably the Skull
Lanterns that Master Bai mentioned earlier!" Ol' Wei was not
consumed by fear, and he tried to warn Chen Ge.

"Don't worry, I got a good look. Those are just normal lights.
Charge ahead! Don't be afraid!" Chen Ge's footsteps did not slow
down. The three ran with all their might. The baby in Master Bai's
arms started to wail, which drew more monsters to them. With the
light from the Skull Lantern, the surrounding darkness was banished,
and they could clearly see the advancing shadows.

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Weird footsteps echoed down the street. Chen Ge raised his head
to look. A dark coffin was moving through the alley. The coffin was
carried on all four sides by villagers who had their heads lowered.
They looked like normal villagers, but their expressions were
extremely scary. Their lips cracked open with creepy smiles like they
were not carrying a coffin but food.

"The Pallbearers‽ Xiao Chen! Stop! Chen Ge! Don't go any closer!"
Master Bai hugged the bamboo basket and used his arm to shield the
baby. He could not stop Chen Ge.

Running at the front, Chen Ge saw the four weird men carrying the
coffin, but he could not stop himself anymore.

The four Pallbearers walked out of the alley, and the coffin blocked
Chen Ge's way. It looked like a coincidence, but it could have been
premeditated too. Chen Ge was not one to underestimate his enemy,
even if they were ghosts. Since they were unwilling to let them past,
he had to find a way to push through. Only by disrupting the
opponent's plan could they be safe.

"Don't mess with the Pallbearers!" Master Bai yelled, but his
warning fell on deaf ears. "We'll talk later!"

The hammer fell right on the coffin. Splinters flew, and all the
ghosts stopped.

"Quick!" Ol' Wei grabbed the baby from Master Bai and hopped
over the coffin. He had been a police officer for about twenty years,
and this was the first time he had met someone as rash as Chen Ge.
The four Pallbearers slowly raised their heads. The smiles froze on
their faces as they looked at the shattered coffin lid. Green surfaced
on their pale faces!

Shrill screams echoed down the narrow street, and the four
Pallbearers chased after Chen Ge. The lingering spirits escaped from
the coffin. They bowed toward Chen Ge before disappearing. Chen

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Ge had no idea what he had done. At the time, he only wanted to
smash the coffin; he did not even turn to look at the aftermath.

The three raced down the road. They got close to the lights. Ol'
Wei, who carried the baby, realized that something was wrong.
Behind the bright lights, there appeared to be something circular like
a ball.

"Chen Ge, are you sure those are normal lights?" The baby in his
arms cried, and a cluster of ghosts chased behind them. Ol' Wei did
not dare slow down.

"I'm sure!" Chen Ge dragged Master Bai to follow Ol' Wei. The
lights swayed. They moved for another few meters, and even Master
Bai, with his poor eyesight, could see the pale faces behind the
lights. "Chen Ge, stop! Those are Skull Lantern!"

Master Bai pulled for Chen Ge to stop, but the man's speed did not
decrease. If anything, he dragged Master Bai forward. "Skull Lanterns
are still lanterns, right?"

The hammer waved, and the first Skull Lantern that floated toward
them was sent flying before it even managed to attack!

The candle fell to the ground and extinguished next to Chen Ge's
feet. "Follow me!"

The three raced through the group of human heads, and there was
suddenly the sound of a marching band. They turned to look. Inside
the street that Ah Qing had marked with a red cross on a map was a
group of people. They were blowing sad music on the trumps, and
people were wearing mourning clothes. They wailed and wailed, but
there were no tears. Paper money fluttered in the wind, and the
death flag waved. They held paper dolls that were bright red as they
headed for Chen Ge's group.

"This is bad!" Master Bai's heart was racing. His fists tightened,

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and he was so nervous that he could not finish a normal sentence.

"These are different from normal ghosts?" Chen Ge also realized

something. When the funeral procession appeared, the Skull Lanterns
floated off immediately—the Sedan Kids and Mummy Wraps also
stopped. Only those four Pallbearers became more insane.

"Of course, this is the Death Funeral, the dead holding a funeral for
the dead! The Pallbearers are part of the Death Funeral. If the coffin
is not delivered, the Death Funeral procession cannot end," Master
Bai explained.

"Then, we'd better get a move on."

The Skull Lanterns had been scared off by the Death Funeral, so

the three made use of this opening to charge ahead. There was a
split in the road. The left was an empty road, and the right led to the
Death Funeral.

"Go ahead, I'll stay back to buy us some time." Chen Ge shoved
the map into Master Bai's hands. He had memorized the map. The
ghosts that were at the front of the Death Funeral had already
caught up with the Pallbearers. When they saw the coffin that Chen
Ge had shattered, their expression was amusing.

"Go on, I have a feeling I'm being targeted." Chen Ge felt the gazes
of the ghosts on him. He stood in the middle of the road, holding the
hammer, like he was telling them he was the culprit. Chen Ge was
made uncomfortable by the hatred that collected on him. "Quick! I'll
delay them! Just leave me be!"

He slid the comic in his chest. Chen Ge did not want them around
because it might affect the real power of his workers. However, his
words had a different effect on Master Bai and Ol' Wei.

"Don't be stupid! We'll go together!" Ol' Wei grabbed Chen Ge's

arm, and he sounded urgent.

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"I'll catch up in a bit, go!" Chen Ge was calling Xu Yin and Zhang
Ya's name internally, and Xu Yin seemed to respond.

"No!" Ol' Wei and Master Bai said at the same time. They did not
think Chen Ge would make such a choice; they could not handle the
pressure.

"We don't have time to argue." Chen Ge pushed Ol' Wei's hands
away as he said seriously, "Do this for the sake of the baby. He was
born in the darkness and hasn't had the chance to see the sun. You
have to get him out of this place!"

Then Chen Ge charged into the fray. He was like a moth flying
toward the flame. Seeing the young man submerged in the sea of
monsters, Master Bai and Ol' Wei's eyes were red. In this starless
light, his figure was like the only brightness.

"Chen Ge…" Ol' Wei and Master Bai could not speak. There was
really such an honorable person who would sacrifice their lives to
save others. Ol' Wei hugged the baby tightly. "Looks like I've
misunderstood him. We were mistaken!"

Chen Ge rushed at the Death Funeral and immediately ran down

the other direction. There was a whole group of ghosts chasing after
him. Of course, he did not dare to turn around. As he called Xu Yin's
name, he flipped through the comic. "Uncle! Are you there? Help
me!"

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Chapter 332: Fight For The Well

Source: WEBNOVEL

Without Master Bai and Ol' Wei holding him back, Chen Ge ran
much faster. He raced through the village filled with monsters and
screamed Xu Yin and Yan Danian's names. Zhang Ya was
hibernating, so she gave no response. Xu Yin did give some
response, but he was in the middle of a crucial transformation, so he
could not help Chen Ge.

Yan Danian was the only ghost Chen Ge could rely on, but this
Lesser Red Specter was cowering in the corner of his comic. He
picked up his pen and drew circles on the floor, pretending not to
hear anything. It was obvious that he was more scared than Chen Ge.

It was understandable. The uncle had locked himself inside the

drawer and refused to interact with people. The first time he had
chosen to trust some and exit his comfort zone, Chen Ge brought him
to Coffin Village. The village that was filled with monsters and danger
unsettled the uncle. The world that he had in mind was not like this.

The ceremony had reached its end. All the monsters inside the
village had awakened. He could turn down any corner, and he would
see dangerous monsters.

"There are only two relatively safe places left in this village. One is
the small building next to the ancestral hall. The Red Specter cares
about the old lady who lives there, so none of the ghosts dare get
close. The second is to meet up with the ceremony procession. Jiang
Ling and the Zhu woman are there. Based on the loud commotion
earlier, they're probably fighting with the ghost stories society."

Chen Ge thought about it and decided to head to the loud noise.

There was an old lady living inside that building next to the ancestral

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hall. If something happened, the old lady would suffer with him.
Therefore, he decided to bring this chaos to the ghost stories society.
Chen Ge ran for his life, and the monsters behind him continued to
gather. Chen Ge was feeling wronged; all he did was wreck a coffin,
why were these spirits so relentless?

The people who were fighting probably also did not expect Chen
Ge to cause the whole village to chase after him. Seeing the group
that grew behind him, Chen Ge stopped caring about the red crosses
on Ah Qing's map. He ran past them; his only wish was to leave as
soon as possible. This caused the group trailing behind him to get
bigger.

Gradually, the chaos that he had caused was not smaller than the
commotion near the outskirt of the village. The cold wind caressed
his face, and the wails echoed endlessly behind him. Chen Ge forced
his way through the Coffin Village. Probably because it had taken
down so many spirits, blood trails appeared on Doctor Skull-cracker's
hammer, and it looked even scarier.

Chen Ge leaned against the wall and took in big gulps of air. Even
if he was physically stronger than most, he was fast approaching his
limit. He turned to look back, and what he saw made his scalp tingle.

The quantity was unbelievable. In this situation, even Xu Yin broke

through to Red Specter, it would not change the situation. Chen Ge
needed Zhang Ya's help. "I knew a three-star scenario wouldn't be so
simple!"

There was still some time to dawn, but Chen Ge did not think he
could hold on any longer. "If I fail to unlock this three-star scenario, it
won't appear again. I have to give it my all."

With a grit of his teeth, Chen Ge raced down another street and
finally reached the western side of the village, the place where he
heard the sound of fighting. Dragging the hammer, leading the host
of ghosts, when Chen Ge exited the street, the two forces that were

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fighting stopped at the same time. When they saw Chen Ge, Chen Ge
also saw them.

There were four wells around Coffin Village. The ceremony started
at the western well. The ceremony then rounded the village and
ended back at the western well.

The Zhu woman was hugging a Red Specter ghost baby with no
facial features but few apertures on his face. Jiang Ling and Fan Yu
were standing behind her. Facing them were two people wearing
black robes. Their whole bodies were covered by the robes.

Ghost stories society!

These words appeared in Chen Ge's mind when he saw the black
robes.

Two at once? Could the chairperson be among them?

The continuous murders, the trek into the mountain, it looked like
the ghost stories society was determined to finish something that
night. For the sake of their goal, they even went head-to-head with
law enforcement.

Since it's something so important, the chairperson who has been

hiding behind the veil might do this personally.

The situation was chaotic. The ghost stories society and the Zhu
woman seemed to be fighting for the well. Standing next to the well,
wearing a white and red shirt, was the spider-like Zhu Xinrou who
was fighting a uniquely-shaped thin monster.

The thin monster, which symbolized human desire, was the most
common monster inside the society. The stronger the monster, the
longer its body and the more human faces it had on its body.
However, this monster that was fighting Jiang Ling's sister was
slightly different. It was sewn together by 6 shadows, but they shared
the same lower body. It looked weird but was very strong. It had the

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upper hand when fighting Jiang Ling's sister.

The fight was bloody, and both had numerous wounds on their
bodies. However, Zhu Xinrou, who had less fighting experience, was
slowly losing. These two Specters looked to be stronger than Xu Yin,
but they're not Red Specters.

Chen Ge initially thought that Zhu Xinrou was a Red Specter, but in
comparison to the ghost baby, the difference was quite obvious.
When the ghost baby showed up, the whole street's lanterns turned
red; the presence was completely different.

Looks like I've underestimated the terror of a Red Specter.

Due to Zhang Ya, Chen Ge thought Red Specters were quite

common. However, after witnessing the fight between these two
Specters, he realized the gap between Red Specters and normal
ghosts.

Jiang Ling's sister was barely hanging on, but the Zhu woman held
the ghost baby tightly. It did not seem like she was going to help Zhu
Xinrou. She did not turn to look at the adjacent battle. Her eyes were
on the black robes.

The only threat that can make a Red Specter cautious is another
Red Specter. The black robe opposite from the Zhu woman has to
have a Red Specter on them.

The society's power surprised Chen Ge. The patient known at the
Devil had two Red Specters, and now this black robe had another
Red Specter. The society had three remaining members, but there
were only two before him—the most dangerous one was probably
still in hiding!

The two parties stood around the well; they were trying to feel
each other out, and no one made a move.

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Their plan was probably wait for Zhu Xinrou to lose, and then the
situation would be bad for the Zhu woman. However, neither party
anticipated Chen Ge's arrival. The scariest part was, this intruder was
leading half the village's ghosts with him!

In just a few seconds, Chen Ge understood what was happening.

He waved the hammer and yelled over his shoulder, "Come and get
me!"

With numerous ghosts following behind him, Chen Ge led them to

rush at the two black robes.

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Chapter 333: Chaos

Source: WEBNOVEL

The members of the ghost stories society were surprised by Chen

Ge's sudden appearance, but when they saw the stampede following
Chen Ge, they had difficulty calming down. One Chen Ge was not
that scary, but a whole village of angry ghosts was. There were so
many of them!

The two members had chills run up their spine. The ghosts led by
Chen Ge rushed at them like tsunami; the whole process only took
several seconds. They were not even sure whether the ghosts were
following Chen Ge or chasing after him.

As an outsider, the two naturally treated Chen Ge and the ghosts

behind him as enemies. The monster that was sewn together from
six thin monsters forced Zhu Xinrou back as it tried to return to the
black robes. However, it was just one monster, so it was powerless
before the wave of angry ghosts. Only a Red Specter could suppress
a whole village of ghosts!

The black robes knew this fact well. They shared a quick word, and
the one who had been staying back sighed lightly as he took out his
hand from his sleeve. He was holding a wooden box in his palm.
When the black robe showed his hand, Chen Ge's eyes narrowed. The
blood in his body sped up, and he was reminded of the Wednesday
meeting. "Very fair skin, tapered fingers, I've seen this hand
before—the owner of this hand was just next to me!"

The familiar event appeared in his mind, and Chen Ge couldn't

control himself anymore and shouted, "No. 10! You're ghost stories
society's No. 10!"

When Chen Ge shouted out the number, the hand shook before it

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quickly recovered. The black robe was not affected by Chen Ge and
opened the wooden box. The box was similar to the box Zhang Ya
had snatched from the devil; there was a piece of black blood left on
the edge.

As the box opened, the ghost baby in the Zhu woman's arm
seemed to sense something. Its body started to leak blood like it was
ready for battle. However, since the member dared to take out the
wooden box, they had naturally come prepared. They did not mind
the ghost baby but put their focus fully on the box. "Xiong Qing, you
can come out now. Your wish will be fulfilled."

Chen Ge's heart shook when he heard that. "Wasn't Xiong Qing
injured by the police and is currently hospitalized?"

He remembered this patient with hemi syndrome. Half of his face

was covered with wounds, and the other half was normal. When he
was at the Third Sick Hall, Chen Ge had chased this Xiong Qing
throughout the building. The black robe continued to call, and the
black blood at the edge of the box slowly dissipated as a strong
stench leaked out from the box.

The blood vessels crawled out from the box and knitted
themselves together to form a man in a red patient's garb. Half of
this man was no different from normal while his other half was made
up from pulsing blood vessels. It looked like the one half of the man
had been torn apart when he was alive. The blood vessels tried to
coagulate several times, but they failed.

Just how much pain was he in before he passed away?

Xiong Qing suffered from hemineglect, so his worldview was

different from others. From how he saw it, the whole world was
slanted, and only he had the means to fix it. He had once been the
doctor at the Third Sick Hall and tried to do that to his patients. Now
it appeared like he was trying to fix himself.

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His eyes slowly open, and his bloodshot eyes fell on Chen Ge.
Xiong Qing's resentment toward him was palpable, and even after his
death, he wanted to kill Chen Ge!

What's going on? Didn't Inspector Lee say Xiong Qing has been
captured? Then why would his soul show up here? And in the form of
a Red Specter?

Rushing toward a Red Specter was the last thing Chen Ge thought
to do, but now he had no other choice. If he ran in any other director,
the ghosts behind him would follow him, and the members of the
society would discern the problem.

The chance was slipping. For Chen Ge, his only chance of survival
was to make the ghost stories society and the ghosts at the village
fight one another. He yelled Xu Yin and Yan Danian's names as he
rushed at the black robes!

Leading the innumerable ghosts, Chen Ge charged at Xiong Qing

with the hammer. Xiong Qing was completely different from when he
was alive. When he smiled, half of his lips raised slightly, but the
other half broke to his ears. This was probably the most 'correct'
image in his mind.

Many blood vessels curled out from the left side of Xiong Qing's
body. It seemed like he was going to bind Chen Ge and slowly pull
him into his body. The blood vessels blocked his way like a
carnivorous flower, waiting for Chen Ge to jump into it.

Shielding himself with the hammer, Chen Ge aimed for the spaces
between the vessels. He tried to jump through them, but Xiong Qing
expected that, and the blood vessels knitted themselves together.

Chen Ge was charging right into a beast's mouth and tried to

squeeze through the gap between the teeth. He had zero point
something seconds to do this, but Xiong Qing did not give him the
chance. The smile on his face was filled with malice. Xiong Qing

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started to pull the vessels back; he was trying to pull Chen Ge into his
body!

The vessels closed, and the road ahead narrowed. Chen Ge only
managed to reach one of his arms out when the blood vessels almost
consumed him. However, at this time, the comic in his pocket moved
on its own, and a heavy sigh escaped from it.

The uncle hiding in the corner raised his pen and took up the
comic. He flipped to an empty page and sketched Xiong Qing's face.
When he was finished, Xiong Qing, who was now a Red Specter,
stopped for a second like he was knocked in the head. A force tried
to pull him away, but it only took Xiong Qing one second to undo the
force.

However, with this one second, Chen Ge managed to squeeze

through the blood vessels!

He held the hammer and rushed ahead without turning back to

look. He did not have any intention of fighting the black robes, so he
picked up his pace.

When they saw this, the two black robes understood something.
Chen Ge was not there to fight them but use them as the scapegoat!

Chen Ge had survived certain death and charged ahead. He only

dared to stop after putting some distance between them. Behind
him, Xiong Qing, who had been stumped by Yan Danian, was
angered, and he got into a battle with the ghosts from Coffin Village.

The Zhu woman also realized this was a great chance. She had the
ghost baby and Zhu Xinrou ambush the black robes. The three-sided
battle was complete chaos, and there were screams everywhere.

Yet, the instigator of this battle hid in the corner and watched the
battle like a spectator. Hugging the hammer, Chen Ge's shirt was
drenched.

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That was too close!

The Red Specter suddenly paused… this is Yan Danian's power‽

Chen Ge flipped the comic open to thank uncle in person, but he

was in a low mood. Tonight's experience had completely shattered
the hope toward life that Yan Danian had just regained. The uncle
seemed to lose all hope and pick up his pen to draw circles in the
corner.

Chen Ge looked at Yan Danian in the comic seriously. "Uncle,

please cheer up! I promise you, tonight is really an accident! Your
choice to follow me is really the correct one!"

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Chapter 334: Losing

Source: WEBNOVEL

After a long day of consolation, Yan Danian finally found the

courage to face the world again. He told Chen Ge it was his power
that paused the Red Specter earlier, Spirit Drawing. There was a
chance for him to drag the ghost that was seen into the comic, but
for a Red Specter, he could only delay them for less than a second.

Temporarily, Chen Ge did not know what kind of limitation this

power had, but he realized there were not many empty pages in the
comic, so the number of ghosts that could be stored was limited, and
the success rate of the power was low. This power was not enough
for Yan Danian to become a Lesser Red Specter; that hidden power
was the most exciting for Chen Ge.

However, no matter how hard Chen Ge tried to convince Yan

Danian, he did not reveal any information; it felt like he himself did
not know he had that power. Xu Yin and Zhang Ya were asleep, so he
still needed the uncle's help today. Therefore, Chen Ge did not press
any further. After comforting the uncle, he put the comic away.

"Uncle Yan is not bad, just a little withdrawn." When Chen Ge was
trying to console Uncle Yan, he felt like he was speaking the truth.
"The things that happened tonight caught you by surprise, but after
experiencing this several times, you should be able to get used to it."

Looking at the rampaging ghosts and Red Specter around the well,
Chen Ge nodded slightly. "This kind of scenery is only visible if you
stay with me. Perhaps in the future, you will understand my
intention."

When he recovered, Chen Ge took the comic and hammer to circle

around the outside of the battle. He called out his employees from

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the comic to have them pull the stragglers into the corner. Chen Ge
believed that he was a reasonable person. He would have his
employees beat the ghost until they were almost dead before asking
whether they would join the Haunted House. If they were willing, it
was a win-win situation as the ghosts entered the comic. If they were
not willing, they would be food for his employees.

I will need quite a number of ghosts from this village if I want to

complete the three-star scenario. I'm doing this for the sake of the
visitors.

Initially, the employees in the comic did not know how to

cooperate, but with Chen Ge's guidance, they slowly learned what to
do. In the end, without Chen Ge's intervention, they would drag the
isolated ghosts to their corner.

"Very talented." Chen Ge was satisfied with his employees'

performance. He held the hammer and hid in the corner as his eyes
narrowed on the two black robes.

"No. 10 is probably someone who knows me in real life. The chance

of him being the chairperson is very high. If I can knock him
unconscious, Xiong Qing will be somewhat affected." Xiong Qing was
a hurdle that he had to take down if he wished to harm the members.
Therefore, Chen Ge's gaze returned to Xiong Qing. When he arrived
at Coffin Village, he had received the call from Inspector Lee saying
that Xiong Qing had been captured around New Century Park.

However, two days later, Xiong Qing had appeared before Chen Ge
as a Red Specter. The conditions to form a Red Specter were very
harsh. This was observable from Xu Yin. They had to be tortured at
the time of their death, filled with ire and resentment, and be highly
aggressive.

Half of Xiong Qing's body was almost torn apart. If this is how he
was when he died, then it's quite obvious how much pain he was in,
but the key question was, why did he wander around New Century

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Park alone? Was it a coincidence that he was captured by the police?
Where were the other members of the society when he was
captured?

With these questions, some speculation appeared in Chen Ge's

mind. Was it the society's plan to abandon Xiong Qing from the very
beginning? To make him lose the last bit of hope and then slowly
torture his body? Then, using his pain and resentment and the black
blood inside the wooden box, they would create a Red Specter?

The ghost stories society had retained access to a blood door for as
long as five years, so they knew about more secrets than Chen Ge.
Creating a Red Specter could be one of them. They purposely
abandoned Xiong Qing to make him lose all hope? But how did they
complete the rest of the transformation after Xiong Qing was
captured? How did they gain access to Xiong Qing inside police
detention?

This confused Chen Ge. He looked at Xiong Qing, whose body was
breaking apart, and his gaze darkened. Did the society rely on
ghosts, or is someone cooperating with them?

Regardless of the process, it was an undeniable truth that Xiong

Qing was now a Red Specter. The society had managed that, and
they had to have a bigger reason for coming to Coffin Village. What is
their plan?

While Chen Ge was deep in thought, the scenario at the well

started to change. The ghosts attacked everything in sight, their
resentment exploding. A Death Funeral was very common at Coffin
Village. It had been a tradition for many years, and no one dared to
disturb the Death Funeral. However, that day, not only did someone
interrupt the ceremony, he even smashed their coffin!

This was an offense that they could not stomach; all the ghosts
were in a frenzy. The two members of the ghost stories society who
were trapped by Chen Ge were angry as well. They felt seriously

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wronged. The boss of the Haunted House had done something
horrible to provoke the entire village of ghost, but they were left to
face the consequences.

If possible, the black robes wanted to reason with the ghosts to call
for a truce so that they could work together to deal with the most
horrible individual. However, the Zhu woman did not give them the
chance. When she saw the village ghosts tangle themselves with
Xiong Qing, she had the ghost baby crawl over to deal with the two
black robes.

The members of the society were familiar with human psychology,

at least better than the people trapped in this isolated village. When
Chen Ge led the group of ghosts, they already anticipated this, so
they called the special thin monster back to block the rampaging
ghosts and had Xiong Qing deal with the ghost baby.

The two Red Specters fought, and their battle was different from
normal Specters. Similar to other ghosts from the society, Xiong Qing
used the blood vessels that came out from half of his body to change
into different shapes to try to consume the ghost baby.

The ghost baby's tactic was weirder. His baby started to leak
blood, which formed tadpoles that swam toward Xiong Qing. They
tried to crawl into his body. Both of them were fast, but they
purposely avoided the well during their fight.

The situation was worsening for the society. The thin monster was
slightly stronger than Jiang Ling's sister, but it was ultimately not a
Red Specter. Facing the village of ghosts, it was slowly losing.

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Chapter 335: Wu Fei

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Ever since we ran into that guy, everything started to derail; this
cannot be a coincidence."

No. 10 was looking at the corner that Chen Ge had disappeared to.
His face was hidden inside the robe, so no one could tell his
expression.

"Who can tell for sure?" The black robe standing beside No. 10
laughed. "I have something I forgot to tell you, but I suppose now is
as good a time as any."

"If it's bad news, then you can spare it. I've heard enough
recently." No. 10 squeezed on the wooden box until it had a noise.

"Several days ago, when I used my scapegoat to escape Fang Hwa

Apartments, I was spotted by the man."

"I've already warned you to not do unnecessary things." No. 10

turned around. His voice was raspy and throaty. Even with his
accomplice, he was using a fake voice.

"That's where you're wrong. That scapegoat had a worthwhile

death because I got some valuable information from his mind." The
black robe's voice was laced with laughter. Even though the situation
was looking bad, he did not seem worried.

"What information?"

"That door at his Haunted House is currently unoccupied. This

means that the door-pusher has already left."

"The door-pusher left? He's not the one who opened the door?"

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There was a discernible change to No. 10's voice, but it returned to
normal seconds later. "Why did you wait until now to tell me such an
important thing?"

"The Red Specter in his shadow is not weaker than the female
ghost haunting this village. The difficultly is almost the same; that's
why I didn't tell you anything." The mention of the Specter in Chen
Ge's shadow ended the cheeriness in the black robe's voice. He
turned to look in the direction Chen Ge escaped. "However, he has
just revealed several details, and this, I feel, is a chance."

The black robe's voice turned chilly. "The people that we sent to
kill him haven't returned. All the Specters should have been
consumed by the Red Specter in his shadow already."

He took in a deep breath and turned to look at No. 10. "Including

the Devil's two Red Specter children."

No. 10 understood immediately. "Overconsumption of Specters will

lead to hibernation. However, no Specter dares to consume so many
things at once. Have you considered the possibility that Devil's two
children have been made into puppets and the Red Specter in his
shadow isn't asleep? This could just be a trap for us to walk into."

"You have a point. He does feel like someone who would do

something like that." The black robe made a fluttering laughter.
"Actually, I admire the man. He's wicked, cruel, and cunning but
manages to disguise himself so perfectly and live a harmless life
under the sun."

Regarding Chen Ge, the black robe gave a very good comment.
No. 10 nodded and agreed, "The enemy is too cunning, so we have to
be careful. Actually, I also wanted to take him down, but you saw it
yourself. Earlier, when Xiong Qing wanted to kill him, he suddenly
stopped. Only a Red Specter can affect a Red Specter. No matter
whether the Red Specter in his shadow is asleep or not, the man is
hiding yet another Red Specter!"

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"So, are you willing to give up? If we can control all of them, then
we can get two doors." The black robe was very persuasive.

"This is not a question of whether we're willing or not." No. 10

glanced at the black robe coldly. "Several days ago, the society still
had twelve people, but how many of us remain today?"

An answer appeared in the black robe's mind. He was silent and

did not answer.

"Only three of us remain, and he only taken five days to do that.

Therefore, we cannot afford to be too careful when dealing with this
man." No. 10's heart was bleeding. Each of the numbers was a living
person, a valuable 'patient' that they had handpicked from the
society.

"Then, we shall proceed according to plan."

"Let's move on before things change again."

"Okay." The black robe moved his neck. Ignoring the ghost baby
and Xiong Qing as well as the rampaging ghosts, he walked toward
the well.

"Jiang Ling, have your sister stop him," the Zhu woman said. Jiang
Ling, who stood behind him, called for her sister, and after a while,
the wounded Zhu Xinrou rushed at the black robe.

"Do you think I'm afraid of you?" The laughter in the black robe's
voice increased. He pulled off the robe, and a blood red monster
made from faces appeared!

"I don't think I'm that clever, but people around me are too dumb."
He pointed at Zhu Xinrou, and the faces monster blocked her way.

Chen Ge saw this, and his heart shook. "The society has another
Red Specter!"

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When he heard what the black robe said earlier, he had a good
guess as to this man's identity. This black robe was most likely Wu
Fei from the Third Sick Hall. Jiang Ling's sister was already wounded,
and she was facing a Red Specter, so the battle was concluded
before it even started.

Wu Fei and the Devil were the most dangerous patients of the
Third Sick Hall, and both of them carried Red Specter. No one dared
stop him as he walked toward the well. He looked in and took out
another wooden box from his chest. He opened it to reveal the black
blood stain. Several minutes later, the water in the well did not
change. The man smiled. "No Red Specter can resist this black blood.
They cannot remain calm like this. It is as I suspected—the female
ghost has already left the well!"

He closed the wooden box and turned to look at the Zhu woman.
"If she's not inside the well, where can she be?"

The man's eyes were cold and icy; they felt like the eyes of a
scorpion. He slowly walked toward the ceremony procession. The Red
Specter that was covered with faces had completely apprehended
Zhu Xinrou; they were not on the same level.

"We've been investigating this village for half a year. The ghost has
already left the well; you've been lying to the villagers." The black
robe glared at the Zhu woman, his gaze sharp as knife that stuck into
one's heart. There was no chance of lying before him.

Hearing that the ghost had left the well, the first to speak were the
deformed villagers. They were stunned before they got angry for
being lied to. One of them wanted to demand an explanation from
the Zhu woman, but before he could say anything, the Red Specter
with faces dragged him away.

"I don't like to be interrupted." The black robe's voice lowered

dangerously. He walked up to the Zhu woman. "You have to know
where the ghost in the well has escaped to, right?"

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Chapter 336: The Start Of The Nightmare

Source: WEBNOVEL

"She's inside the well. She just hasn't awakened yet." The Zhu
woman did not get scared off but stood firmly, shielding the two
children.

"In that case, I'll go look for her myself." The black robe waved at
the Red Specter beside him. The ghost that was just faces crawled
into the villager's body. In less than one second, the villager
collapsed to the floor, dead.

"Looks like it's not him." The black robe raised his head. "She was
forced to her death by the villagers, so even if her ghost form might
disperse, she would not possess a villager, then who could it be?"

Instead of contemplation, it sounded more like the black robe was

trying to see the Zhu woman's reaction. Before entering Coffin
Village, the ghost stories society had gathered a lot of information,
but it was vague and needed confirmation. Hearing what the black
robe had to say, the Zhu woman was anxious.

"She hates the villagers, but there is one lady by the surname Zhu
who is the sole exception." The black robe called the Red Specter to
return. His finger stroked the creature's hair gently like he was
treating his lover. "If I were that woman, I would leave my spirit with
the person I trusted the most."

He patted the Red Specter's forehead lightly, and his tone changed
as he pointed at the Zhu woman. "Kill her!"

The crazy man was still talking about something else the last
moment, but the next second, he turned aggressive. The Zhu lady
did not expect this turn of events. During the crucial moment, the
jewelry that she took out from the red coffin changed. Each of the
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jewels was hiding a half Red Specter; this was the woman's last
trump card.

She whispered something to Jiang Liang before turning to focus on

controlling the ghosts to deal with the man's Red Specter. Jiang Ling
and Fan Yu heard what the woman had to say and slowly retreated.

The Red Specter with faces elicited a creepy laugh. This Red
Specter was different from others; it was more like a coagulation of
people's resentment, and it had most likely come from behind the
'door'. The ghosts that came out of the jewelry were torn apart, and
all the faces on the monster made the same small action—they
opened their mouth to bite at the Zhu woman.

The black robe seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a
long time already. His voice was shaking. "We're going to consume a
top Red Specter. This was unimaginable in the past!"

The man finally said the real reason the society came to Coffin
Village. They had managed to find out there was an injured powerful
Red Specter in Coffin Village through some means, and their plan
was surrounding this Red Specter. After consuming a powerful Red
Specter, the society would have their own powerful Red Specter.

The mouths bit on the woman's body. After two to three seconds,
the face monster stopped.

"She's not on here?" The black robe was surprised as he moved his
gaze to Jiang Ling and Fan Yu. "This is rather troublesome. In that
case, we'll just need to slaughter everyone."

The face monster charged at Jiang Ling while the black robe stood
where he was. He seemed to already know the result, so he did not
care about the rest and started to do his own stuff. He reached into
his robe to search for something. He took out a handful of paper
dolls, and each of them had a pained expression on their face.

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"All 34 villagers of Lin Guan Village are here. According to their
answers, all the villagers that escaped from Coffin Village decade ago
had some connection to the Zhu woman. It even included her own
progeny." The man slowly stood up and looked at Jiang Ling. "Of all
the deserters, only that little girl wasn't made into a paper doll by
me. In that case, there's a very good chance the ghost is in her
body."

Fan Yu grabbed Jiang Ling's hand as they raced into the village, but
how could the two kids outrun a Red Specter? As the face monster
approached then, Fan Yu suddenly heard a familiar voice coming
from the corner ahead. "This way!"

Chen Ge shoved the hammer and comic into his backpack. He

stood before them with both of his hands empty. He looked like he
was ready to run.

"Chen Ge?" Fan Yu slowed down. He was surprised, and this was
also the first time he had said Chen Ge's name.

Before he reacted, Chen Ge grabbed them off the ground. "How

rude! Call me big brother!"

One in each arm, Chen Ge raced down the village. The same thing
happened several minutes ago, but this time, the burden on Chen Ge
increased, and the thing chasing him was a Red Specter.

Chen Ge called Xu Yin, Zhang Ya, and the uncle's name. Zhang Ya
gave no response; Xu Yin wanted to help but could not. When Uncle
Yan saw the Red Specter, he hid himself immediately.

To drag the time until dawn, Chen Ge purposely ran through the
dangerous spots that he could remember. The map given by Ah Qing
was immensely helpful. Chen Ge ran through all the spots that were
marked by a red cross, but even so, the distance between them and
the society's Red Specter did not increase.

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"I cannot run anymore! Is there anything you want to tell me‽"
Chen Ge felt like there was a ball of fire in his chest, and his legs
were getting numb.

"Uncle, put us down. We can walk on our own." Fan Yu's voice lost
its usual coldness.

"If you cannot do this anymore, run to the western side of the
village and go into the third house on the left." Jiang Ling's voice
appeared the same time as Fan Yu. However, it startled Chen Ge
because the girl's tone was completely different from before. She
sounded like a young woman talking.

The society is right? The Red Specter is hiding inside Jiang Ling?
This thought flashed across Chen Ge's mind. He had been hiding next
to the well, so he knew what had happened.

"Okay! We'll go that way!" He changed direction and raced to the

third home. "What now‽"

"Go in the house and place me before the door to the left
bedroom." Jiang Ling's voice was becoming weird.

Chen Ge kicked open the wooden door to enter the inner room.
There was no coffin in this home and no furniture either. Even the
walls were peeling. There was no time for Chen Ge to consider why.
He placed the girl on the door of the left bedroom and then collapsed
to the ground. He had raced throughout the village with all his might.
Even if he was made of steel, he could not run anymore.

A wicked laugh echoed outside the house. The faces squeezed

through the front door. The Red Specter had arrived.

"I know who has been kind to me. After we deal with this thing, I'll
thank you personally." Jiang Ling looked at Chen Ge as she bit on her
thumb. She allowed the blood to soak her palm. "I just want to be a
human, why is that so hard?"

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She leaned lightly against the wooden door. When her body
touched the door, the simple door started to get covered with a thick
layer of blood.

"It was me who left this layer of blood; this home was the start of
my nightmare."

Jiang Ling pushed the wooden door open, and there was a blood
red world behind it.

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Chapter 337: Other Than Myself, They All

Came
Source: WEBNOVEL

Jiang Ling held Fan Yu's hand as she walked into the door. Chen Ge
had no other choice. Compared to the Red Specter that was just
faces, the world behind the door felt safer. The moisture in the air
thickened, and a stale smell of blood hung into the air. Chen Ge's
sight was affected like he was standing in a world of fog.

This is different from the door in the Third Sick Hall.

This was the second time Chen Ge had entered the blood door. The
world behind the door in Coffin Village was covered by a blood fog,
and he could only see three meters before him.

"Be careful not to get lost. There are man-eating creatures in

here." Jiang Ling had completely shed her disguise. Her childish voice
was laced with undeniable strength.

"Understood." Chen Ge had a hard time believing this. "This is hard

to process. A little girl who cannot hit me even if she jumps her
highest is a powerful Red Specter."

"Even if you've saved me, please watch your mouth, or I might

need to repay your kindness only in death." Jiang Ling looked at Chen
Ge coldly. After entering the door, her dress started to change. The
blood in the fog surrounded her like she was the master there. Chen
Ge's eyes twitched slightly because the words were very familiar. It
reminded him of Zhang Ya's love letter.

After Chen Ge got in, Jiang Ling closed the door. When she opened
it again, the scene outside the door had changed. It was a blood red
village, and the fog covered up the sky.

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"The Red Specter will arrive soon. This door will not stop it for that
long." When the blood fog got close to Jiang Ling, it would seep into
her body. However, probably because she was injured, she could not
summon the fog on her own. With Jiang Ling leading the way, the
three headed into the village. The closed door behind them
shuddered slightly, and there were echoes of growling coming from
behind it.

"Where are you taking us?" The blood fog had no effect on Jiang
Ling, but it made Chen Ge and Fan Yu feel uncomfortable. It felt like
they were submerged in a swamp.

"Be quiet." Jiang Ling signaled for them to hide inside the small
hut. They waited for several seconds, and a curious monster walked
past them in the fog. The monster was large, and his arms were
deformed. His facial features were twisted, and he wore a roughly-
sewn coat. He looked around like he was searching for something.

The monster soon walked past them and disappeared.

"What was that?" Chen Ge pointed at the monster.

"The villagers." The hatred in Jiang Ling's eyes could not be

eclipsed. "They are how the villagers look in my eyes."

"The villagers in your eyes? The blood red world was constructed
with your psyche in mind?" Chen Ge valued any information related
to the world behind the door.

"I'm not sure how this world is formed, but this world is very similar
to a nightmare that I once had. In that nightmare, all the villagers
look like that, deformed and creepy. They're constantly looking for
me, trying to drag me back." Jiang Ling did not continue. She
changed direction and headed for the inner part of the village.

There was a blood red world behind the door, but even now, Chen
Ge had no idea whether these worlds were connected or isolated.

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Based on the suicidal investigator, everyone had a door in their
heart, and only at the most despairing moment could one push open
the door.

The door at the Third Sick Hall was pushed open by Men Nan, and
the world behind it reflected how Men Nan saw the world—the
mummified patients, twisted doctors, and broken arms that formed
from fear. The world behind Coffin Village's door was covered by
blood fog and populated by the villagers that wanted to capture her.
This fitted the girl's understanding of the village.

The world behind the door reflects the human heart? Is it a real
nightmare? Chen Ge was reminded of the door at his own Haunted
House. Then what about the door at my Haunted House? Who left
that door behind?

The sound of fighting came from the fog. It was likely the society's
Red Specter fighting the villagers behind the door.

"Let them fight, we need to find something."

Wading through the fog, Jiang Ling led Chen Ge and Fan Yu to the
center of the village. The fog there was light, and in the middle of the
village, a group of villagers were kneeling. Their bodies were heavily
deformed, and their faces looked ugly. Even though they were
wearing human clothes, they could not be considered humans.

"What are they doing?"

"Repenting."

The monsters had their heads lowered, and their bodies were
facing the ancestral hall. Right in front of it was a red coffin!

Different from real life, the coffin behind the door blocked the
entrance to the ancestral hall. The hall was the place where the
villagers sent respect to their ancestors, but the coffin blocked the
entrance fully.
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"We'll be able to survive after we open that coffin." Jiang Ling
walked around the crowd to slowly head toward the ancestral hall.
"Do not awaken these monsters."

The three held their breath as they moved slowly toward the
ancestral hall. The fog moved like it could sense the presence of
living humans. Some of the monsters slowly raised their heads.

Fan Yu and Jiang Ling walked ahead, and Chen Ge covered them
from behind. His heart chilled as he looked at the monsters on the
ground. Red paper money covered the floor, and the monsters
looked like they were attending a funeral. They were forced to make
sad expressions, but the tears could not be forced out.

A funeral?

After Chen Ge entered the Coffin Village, he realized that the

village had many traditions related to funerals, like the white lanterns
that hung on the street, paper money, and coffins.

Both in real life and the world behind the door, there was a funeral,
a funeral that had not ended until today. Chen Ge took out his black
phone to take a look. Even after I entered the world behind the door,
the phone didn't say that the mission has failed. Looks like as long as
I am inside the village, regardless of whether it is inside the door or
outside of it, the mission is still in effect.

He looked for the mission message. He saw the name Coffin Village
on the black phone. Initially, he had thought this name was weird,
and he did not think much of it. However, after concluding the stuff
that he saw at the village, he had some ideas.

The screen moved, and Chen Ge looked at the details provided by

the mission. "That day, other than myself, they all came."

The mission hint was short. Chen Ge slowly narrowed his eyes. He
finally understood what it meant. These people came to 'my' funeral

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to cry on 'my' behalf. That is why there's a myself. The hint is telling
me that the key is the funerals.

Chen Ge turned to look at the ancestral hall, and Jiang Ling had
already reached the red coffin.

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Chapter 338: Where Did The Cat Come

From?
Source: WEBNOVEL

The small, fair hand pressed on the cold, antique coffin lid. When
Jiang Ling touched the red coffin, all the kneeling monsters stopped
mourning, and the twisted, scary faces started to rise.

"Come help me!" Jiang Ling screamed shrilly. Her face had lost the
usual cuteness, and her expression looked scary.

BANG!

The solid coffin lid fell to the ground, and everyone turned to look
inside the coffin. A woman was lying inside the large red coffin. Wet
dark hair stuck to her slim body. Her skin was pale, and her face was
handsome. Chen Ge would not describe her as pretty, but there was
definitely something unique about her.

"Help me buy some time." Jiang Ling walked into the red coffin and
stared at the woman in the coffin. The villagers all stood up. They
were conversing in a local language, and they looked so happy.

"How do you expect me to buy time?" Chen Ge turned to look at

Jiang Ling, and he got another surprise. Jiang Ling lifted her hair back,
and there was a bone missing from the back of her skull. Her head
curved inwards. This is the only deformity on Jiang Ling's body?

Walking forward, Jiang Ling rubbed her own blood on the woman's
hand and then placed the hand on the back of her head. The blood
vessels reached out from the woman's palm and crawled into Jiang
Ling's head through the depression.

What is she doing now? Has she reincarnated into Jiang Ling, or is

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she just possessing her body?

When the villagers saw the woman sleeping in the coffin, they
charged at her like a bunch of crazed animals.

"This is why I hate children!" Chen Ge took out the hammer from
his backpack and shielded himself before the red coffin. He felt
himself being the target of a mob. Seeing the group of monsters
charging at him, Chen Ge was flustered. The only thing he could do
then was give it his best and call for Zhang Ya to appear.

When the crazed monsters had almost reached Chen Ge and the
red coffin, laughter came from the blood fog. "If the female ghost
doesn't come out to save you at a time like this, she must really be in
a slumber."

A red wave made from faces blasted through the fog, knocking
Chen Ge and the villagers away.

The society's Red Specter!

Chen Ge was just brushed by the monster, but his face felt frozen.
He looked at his chilled left hand. In the urgency of the moment, he
raised both of his hands to shield his head, and his elbow brushed up
against the Red Specter.

"I've been tailing you for this particular moment." The faces
coagulated to form the monster again. A black robe walked out from
behind him. The man stopped beside the red coffin and turned to
look at Chen Ge. "Surprised to meet again so soon?"

The black robe said the last sentence in a different voice. He was
mimicking the voice of the investigator.

"So, it's you." Chen Ge still had a trump card on him—Yan Danian's
power—but he could not use it willy-nilly because his opponent had
seen this power before, and they might have prepared for it already.

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"Two birds, one stone. You're one of our targets. You're too
dangerous; we cannot let you leave this place alive." The black robe
took out a small vial from his sleeve. It was half-filled with blood. He
swirled it lightly, and the liquid parted to form individual vessels.
"Enjoy your last few moments of freedom. In a bit, it'll be your turn."

The face monster had stopped the crazed villagers, so the black
robe did not waste time and opened the cap, pouring the vial over
Jiang Ling's head.

"These blood vessels were found behind the 'door'. They're

extremely precious and extremely useful. They also hide the biggest
secret with regards to Red Specter." The situation was in the black
robe's full control. He stared at the vessels that crawled out of the
vial with extreme focus. "As long as they're touched by these blood
vessels, even Red Specter won't be able to escape."

Chen Ge stared at the vial as the vessels slid down its wall and
touched Jiang Ling's hair.

"If the ceremony between Jiang Ling and the woman is interrupted,
it's over for me." Chen Ge patted his backpack and surreptitiously
tapped the white cat's head. "It's your time to shine. Snatch that vial
away. Remember, it's that glass thing in the man's hand!"

Chen Ge pointed at the black robe's palm. He did not know

whether the white cat understood him or not. The blood vessels
might affect the Red Specter's psyche. If the female ghost was
controlled by the black robe, then there was definitely no chance for
Chen Ge to survive the night. This was his last bet. He was going to
use everything he had to protect Jiang Ling and the woman in the
coffin.

Chen Ge did not have much time left. He was not one to hesitate.
Just as the vessels were about to crawl into Jiang Ling's head, he
grabbed the hammer and charged at the black robe!

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"Such incompetence." The black robe did not move and maintained
his posture. When Chen Ge was two meters away, the face monster
burst through the village and blocked Chen Ge with a weird laugh.

"Yan Danian!" The uncle in the comic knew if he did not do

anything now, he would also be affected, so he picked up his pen to
draw the face monster in his comic. When he finished, the Red
Specter stopped, and Chen Ge charged at the black robe. This was
the chance he was looking for!

"We will not fall for the same trick twice." The black robe used his
empty hand to send a bunch of paper dolls flying at Chen Ge's face.
The paper dolls screamed and cried as they tried to climb on Chen
Ge.

Chen Ge's movement was affected, and the Red Specter had
already recovered. His situation was dire, but Chen Ge was
exceptionally calm. He grabbed his backpack and threw it at the
black robe.

"So god damn stubborn." The black robe used his free hand to grab
the backpack, but when he did so, a white shadow flew out from
within!

Even though he had created many ghost stories, he was stunned.

"What was that?"

The distressed white cat did not really understand what Chen Ge
told it. It just thought there was something special about the vial. It
opened its jaw and bit the vial. It then bounded away from the black
robe and climbed onto the roof of one of the buildings.

"A cat‽" The crazed villagers, the black robe, and Chen Ge were all
looking at the white cat. Its pure white coat was a great contrast to
the blood red world.

"Well done!" Chen Ge cheered, but what happened next stunned

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him.

The white cat looked at the people underneath it as the vial

dangled from its lips. Its little head swung left and right, and the
blood vessels that were at the mouth of the bottle slid down its
throat.

The white cat did not seem to realize the vial was empty. It blinked
several times like it was trying to find Chen Ge among the crowd.

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Chapter 339: Owe You A Favor

Source: WEBNOVEL

According to the black robe, the blood in the vial was the most
precious thing they had found behind the door. It carried the Red
Specter's secret and seemed to be the main method the ghost
stories society used to control Red Specters. However, to everyone's
surprise, it was swallowed by a cat.

"It ate it?" The black robe was so angry that his fingers were
shaking. He really did not expect that someone would bring a cat to a
place like this. "Get it to vomit it out!"

The black robe's voice turned shrill; this appeared like it was his
real voice.

The white cat's ears were pressed against its skull. It sensed the
aggression from the black robe and prepared to escape.

"Go and catch it! I want to split its stomach open and squeeze
every drop of blood from its body!" The face monster beside him
heard the order and rushed to the roof. The arrival of the Red Specter
made the cat run immediately. It jumped over the rooftop before
disappearing among the group of deformed villagers. The village was
a mess. The black robe gritted his teeth. He was a careful person, but
even he did not expect a turn like this.

"I need to catch it; that was the last bottle." The black robe saw the
Red Specter that was led away by the white cat, and the distance
between them grew bigger. After the Red Specter was ten meters
away from him, the black robe had a black feeling starting in his
heart. He turned over his shoulders and saw Chen Ge charging at him
with the hammer.

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"Enjoy your last minute of freedom! That was what you said
earlier." Chen Ge found the opening he needed.

"I hate people like you who need to rely on others the most.
Humans have to rely on themselves!" Chen Ge roared with the
hammer flailing. "If you dare, let's hash this out among ourselves!"

The black robe looked at the hammer in Chen Ge's arms, and he
sucked in a cold breath. "This madman."

He turned to run, and Chen Ge followed close behind. The Red

Specter had been lured away; this was the perfect opportunity, and
Chen Ge definitely would not let it pass so easily. The black robe no
longer had the ease to maintain the sense of mystery. He kept his
hands on the hood as he called for the Red Specter to return.

This situation was similar to how it had been at Fang Hwa

Apartments. After the Red Specter was lured away, those who were
possessed opened themselves up to being attacked.

Looks like the Red Specters aren't omnipotent. Chen Ge, having
experienced this twice, realized the problem. That's right, a single
Red Specter is not enough. Looks like I need to befriend a few more
of them!

They were both parties protected by ghosts, but the black robe's
physical condition was much worse than Chen Ge's. This was
probably because the way they interacted with ghosts was
completely different. Chen Ge used tricks and goodwill to make the
ghost accept him while the relationship between the society and
their ghosts was more like a contract.

The black robe slowed down after some running. When Chen Ge
noticed this, he picked up the pace!

"Today, I shall avenge the dead investigator!" Those who did not
respect life would not be respected by life. The Red Specter heard

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the black robe's call for aid, and it quickly hurried back.

However, when it passed the red coffin, the expression on all its
faces changed like it had seen something very dangerous. The black
robe was in grave danger, but the Red Specter did not go over to
help him. It stopped beside the red coffin on high alert.

The blood fog in the village thickened. The deformed villagers

seemed to feel something; they all turned to look at the red coffin,
and their bodies shook.

"Another failure."

The voice came from inside the red coffin, and the woman inside
slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes were different from a normal
person's, reflecting the shadow of the little girl, Jiang Ling. "In the
end, I cannot sever my relationship with you."

The blood vessels crawled into her palm, and the woman touched
the back of the girl's head lovingly. "I owe you a piece of your skull,
so I owe you a favor."

Jiang Ling collapsed to the ground, and the woman turned her gaze
to the Red Specter that was covered with faces. "Since you refused
to give me the opportunity to be a human, then I shall refuse you the
chance to be a ghost."

When she finished, the blood fog turned and formed invisible
shackles controlling everyone present. The woman walked out of the
red coffin, and there were numerous blood vessels trailing behind
her. The face monster tried to struggle, but the blood fog kept it
firmly in place. Half a village's fog morphed into blood water to stick
on the society's Red Specter.

"Still want to fight me in the world behind my door?" The woman

reached out to touch the thing's faces. When her fingers reached into
its body, all the faces started to scream, but it was pointless. What

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happened next was gory and bloody. The woman peeled the faces off
one by one and threw them right into the red coffin.

"Now, it's your turn." The woman controlled the blood fog to lift up
the kneeling villagers. The louder they begged, the happier she was.

With the woman's laughter ringing beside his ears, Chen Ge, whose
movement was also impaired, shivered involuntarily. He looked at
those villagers in pain and shook his head. "Those who you've injured
would eventually turn into your nightmare."

The blood fog seeped into the woman's body. After she finished
tormenting the villagers, she carried Jiang Ling off the floor and
walked to Chen Ge.

"You said I cannot hit you even if I jump?" The woman looked at
Chen Ge with a faded smile.

"Did I say something like that? I don't remember anything like

that." The hair on Chen Ge's body stood on end. The woman before
him had a vengeful heart, and she was much more difficult to deal
with compared to the ghost stories society.

"If you can't remember it, then so be it." To Chen Ge's surprise,
this vengeful and scary woman did not trouble him. She moved
several steps to the left and squatted down before Fan Yu. "You
discovered me a long time ago, didn't you?"

Fan Yu nodded. He was just a child, so he did not think about lying
at all.

"Then why did you choose to stay by my side?" The woman leaned
her face close to Fan Yu like she was trying to see his expression
closely.

"It was you who accompanied me. I don't have that many friends."
Fan Yu pointed at Chen Ge. "Unless you count him."

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The woman smiled and took out a jade bangle from her sleeve.
"You can see them. Wear this, and they won't harm you anymore."

Standing up, the woman placed Jiang Ling beside Chen Ge. "Take
her and leave. This village is going to be buried forever."

Chen Ge did not quite get what the woman was saying. He carried
Jiang Ling and grabbed Fan Yu's hand. "I can leave?"

"Yes."

"Then can I bring him with me?" Chen Ge pointed at the black
robe. "I have something to ask him."

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Chapter 340: It Split

Source: WEBNOVEL

Chen Ge lifted up the hood, which was hiding a ruined face. "Who
is your chairperson?"

"It's not me." The black robe's face was filled with a smile. "Have
fun guessing. You'll definitely see him before you die."

Then, blood vessels crawled out of the man's lips. The blood
seemed to have a life of its own. Veins popped up on the man's skin;
he seemed to be experiencing some kind of extremely painful
torture. His lips fell open, and his throat and mouth were filled with
blood vessels.

The blood in his body seems to be consuming him. Chen Ge

gripped the hammer and wanted to give him a whack but was
stopped by the woman beside him. After the blood crawled out from
his mouth, it wrapped the man up fully, and only his general shape
remained.

"The chairperson is just next to you. He has been watching you and
is the most interesting person among all the people you've met." The
black robe croaked. Chen Ge and the woman watched as the black
robe was slowly consumed from within. He gradually become a pool
of blood and seeped into the blood-soaked ground.

"What are those blood vessels?"

"You can understand them as part of a Red Specter." The woman

picked up the black robe and seemed to discover something
interesting within. "Take the children and leave. If you stay too long
inside the door, you'll be trapped here forever."

The woman held the black robe and disappeared amid the blood

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fog. Chen Ge looked in the direction she had disappeared, and his
heart was filled with confusion. "What was inside that black robe?
How come I heard traces of joy in her voice?"

Chen Ge found the white cat on the rooftop of the ancestral hall. It
still did not understand what had happened. It held the vial in its lips,
and its white fur was standing on end. Obviously, it was spooked.

"Come down here, it's safe now." The white cat eventually jumped
down from the beam. When Chen Ge caught it, he realized that the
cat had gotten heavier.

"Why do you have to eat everything?" Chen Ge pried the cat's

mouth open to take a look, but he could not see anything off about it.

"That thing was prepared by the ghost stories society. Is it harmful

to a cat if consumed?" This was the first time Chen Ge had come
across such a problem. Realizing there was nothing wrong with the
white cat, he placed it inside his backpack and led the two children to
the bedroom where the woman had once stayed.

"The blood door is her room door, so for her, every time this door is
opened, it's the return of her nightmare." The blood door was closed.
Chen Ge tried pushing it several times, but it would not budge.

"Let me. Jiang Ling has taught me how to open the door." When
Fan Yu pressed against the door, the bangle gifted by the woman
started to bleed, and the blood covered his palm. Slowly but surely,
the door was being pushed open.

After they left the blood door, Chen Ge took out his black phone to
take a look. He had been waiting for the message on his phone. The
black robe was most likely Patient 9 from the Third Sick Hall—Wu Fei!

However, the black phone did not update after the man's death.
Whenever one of the patients from Third Sick Hall was killed, the
mission completion rate would increase, and after gaining a ninety

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percent completion rate, he would receive the hidden item for this
three-star scenario!

When Xiong Qing was captured and the Devil was killed, the black
phone updated, but this time, there was no update after Wu Fei's
death.

What's wrong? Chen Ge thought back to the events with the black
robe and felt like he had overlooked something important.

The black robe has been tailing us and only made his move after
he made sure Zhang Ya was asleep. When he saw me, the second
sentence out of his mouth was uttered in the voice of the
investigator. Chen Ge frowned. There was not anything particularly
suspicious about the black robe. Is he still alive? The blood vessels
carried his soul and escaped? Or did he hide his real consciousness
somewhere else, like how it was with that dead investigator?

Chen Ge thought back to the woman's reaction when she picked up

the black robe and realized the key might have been that robe.

"This is such a waste." Zhang Ya was asleep, and he had no power

to demand the robe from that woman. "The one who pushed open
the door seemed to be more powerful than a normal Red Specter
inside the door."

Chen Ge gave it some thought after leaving the old home. He

decided not to return to the well but find a place to hide until dawn.
Chen Ge led the two children to the middle of the village. He crawled
through the secret tunnel to reach the two-story building.

"Granny, are you asleep?" Chen Ge carried the two children into
the room, and when he went upstairs, the old lady was not in the
small room.

"Where is she?" Chen Ge put down Jiang Ling and grabbed the
hammer. "The old lady's legs are seriously atrophied, so she couldn't

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move on her own. Someone got here before me?"

All the furniture in the room looked tidy and untouched. If the old
lady had been forcefully taken away, the place would not have been
so clean. Chen Ge tapped Fan Yu's shoulder. "Can you see anyone
inside this room?"

"No." Fan Yu shook his head.

"Then where can she disappear to?"

A baby's crying filled up the room. The place was not big. Chen Ge
ransacked the place, but he could not find the old woman.

"This is weird." Chen Ge placed the unconscious Jiang Ling on the

bed. He sat on the ground. He was about to take a breather when a
gunshot was heard from the western end of the village!

"A gunshot‽ Is that Ol' Wei?" Chen Ge climbed up from the ground.
"They've returned? Or have some accidents befallen them? Or has
backup arrived?"

There was only one gunshot before the world became quiet again.
Chen Ge was worried about Master Bai and Ol' Wei's safety, so he led
Fan Yu and Jiang Ling out of the house and headed for the western
part of the village. By then, the sun was coming up.

When Chen Ge arrived at the western part of the village, No. 10

had left. Xiong Qing and the ghost baby had disappeared. Only the
fainted villagers remained.

"What happened here after I left?" Chen Ge grabbed a villager to

ask, but the man was too traumatized to say anything other than the
repeating, "It split. It split."

Chen Ge was not sure whether that was local slang or something
really did split. He looked around and saw the Zhu woman collapsed
next to the well. Her hair was a mess, and she looked horrible.

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"Can you hear me?" Due to his work, Chen Ge was very good at
treating fainting spells. With his aid, the woman slowly awakened.

"Don't worry, the black robe has already left." Chen Ge held the
weakened woman in his arms. "Can you tell me what happened
here? Where is the black robe carrying the wooden box?"

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Chapter 341: Seamstress' Wedding Dress

Source: WEBNOVEL

The woman blinked several times before she fully regained

consciousness. She gripped Chen Ge's sleeves, and the first sentence
out of her lips was… "It split open. The person's body split open!"

"Huh? Slow down. There's no need to rush." Chen Ge patted the

woman on her back and slowly helped her to sit upright.

"After you left with the two children, the six-headed monster was
torn apart by the village's ghosts, and throughout the process, the
black robe didn't move a finger." The Zhu woman's body was weak,
and her words came slow and stunted. "After the village's spirits
shared the monster, they turned their attention to the black robe, but
the moment they got near, they screamed and ran away."

"The ghosts were afraid of him?"

"Yes, red blood started to seep from his body, and after the robe
was peeled off, I saw that he was carrying a dead woman on his
back."

The woman's description made Chen Ge think of himself, but

Zhang Ya had been hiding in his shadow. "When he pulled off the
black robe, did you see his face?"

"No, actually, it felt like it was the female body that yanked the
robe off."

"Are you sure it's a female body? Not a female ghost in a red
outfit?" In Chen Ge's mind, the difference between a female body and
a female ghost was still big.

"I can still tell the difference between something like that.

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However, there's something unique about that body that is different
from all the dead bodies that I've seen before." The Zhu woman tried
her best to explain the situation, but since she had spent her whole
life cooped up in Coffin Village, the words just could not come to her
as easily. "The body looked like it had been dolled up. It looked more
like a display than a body."

"The society is indeed filled with mad people." Chen Ge was

suddenly reminded of something and he asked, "Was the body
beautiful?"

So far, other than Wu Fei and Wang Shenglong, only Han Bao'er
was still unknown. The comment of the Third Sick Hall's doctor about
this female patient had been—Just how harsh must God be to make a
woman as beautiful as this?

Chen Ge paid attention when he saw this message. Xiong Qing was
made into a Red Specter, so Han Bao'er might have been made into
something else. It's hard to understand the world of the crazies.

"I don't think you can call the body pretty." The woman also did not
understand why she was being asked to judge a body's beauty, but
she suddenly stopped. "I almost forgot, the body didn't show any sign
of decay, but the skin looked weird, radiating an aura of death."

The more she described, the stranger it became. The thing No. 10
was carrying seemed to be different from everything he had seen so
far.

"What happened next? Why did all of you say the person split
open?" Chen Ge was curious about this.

"The woman's body was made up from numerous red threads, and
regardless of whether it was living or dead, she shoved everything
into her mouth like food. When she ate, her lips could split until
here." The woman pointed at her ear. "The woman's body could split
open any place it wished. In a way, she looked like a moving body of

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lips."

Listening to the Zhu woman's description, the monster sounded

like a Red Specter, but if it was a Red Specter, there was no way the
Zhu lady and the villagers could have survived.

"So why did the monster leave?"

"The black robe wanted to capture the baby before turning to deal
with us, but right then, someone entered the village."

"Was it the police?"

The woman shook her head. "It was a doctor. He was wearing a
white doctor's garb, and many playing children surrounded him."

When this image crossed his mind, Chen Ge was weirded out. "A
bunch of children circling the doctor?"

"All those children are ghosts. They seem to treat the doctor as
their father." Now that the woman said that, it reminded Chen Ge of
someone—Doctor Chen from Jiujiang's Children's Home!

"The doctor looks around forties, has a square face and thick
eyebrows?"

"I was too far away to tell." The woman thought about it. "After the
doctor entered the village, he headed right for the black robe. They
seemed to be nemeses."

"Did they exchange any conversation?"

"No, when the black robe saw the doctor, he immediately left. We
were attacked by the children following the doctor. However, they did
not harm us; they merely knocked us out."

"One last question. Was it you who transferred the babies from the
ancestral hall to your home through the secret tunnel?" Chen Ge

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stood up and prepared to leave.

"You even know that?" The woman did not deny it. "Whenever the
female ghost returns for the annual massacre, only my place is
relatively safe."

"I heard that from the old lady. Is she your family?" Chen Ge asked,
but there was no answer. He turned to realize there was a weird
expression on the woman's face. "What's wrong?"

"My grandmother passed away a long time ago; you couldn't have
spoken with her."

Even though he had suspected that, Chen Ge's heart still skipped a
bit.

"But don't you worry, she probably had something she wanted to
tell you." The woman signaled for Chen Ge to inspect the western
side of the village. "Before I fainted, I saw the black robe and the
doctor heading that way."

"The gunshot came from that side as well. They probably ran into
Ol' Wei and Master Bai." Chen Ge was worried about the almost-
retired police officer and quickly rushed ahead. He ran for a while and
started to hear the sound of a baby crying. Following the voice, he
saw Master Bai and Ol' Wei collapsed next to a dirt wall with the
basket between them.

They were not injured, and to Chen Ge's surprise, Ol' Wei's gun
was sitting snugly in his holster. Chen Ge lifted the gun to take a
look, and there was a shot missing.

"There is no slug around here. Did the thing that was shot get
taken away?" He stayed on guard beside Ol' Wei and Master Bai until
they woke up.

It felt like a nightmare. Master Bai could still remember some of

the details from the night before, but the situation with Ol' Wei was
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slightly more complicated. He looked worried and kept telling Chen
Ge that something scary had happened to him. When Chen Ge asked
him about it, he had no recollection of said event.

Ol' Wei was clearly traumatized. He had forgotten everything that

had happened in Coffin Village, but he kept saying that something
was not right.

The night dispersed, and the sun was coming up. Chen Ge received
the message that his mission had been completed.

"Congratulations, Specters' favored! You've completed the random

three-star mission—Coffin Village! A new scenario has been
unlocked!

"You have successfully completed the mission within the allocated

time. Congratulations for winning the reward—Seamstress' Wedding
Dress!"

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Chapter 342: Who Stole My Memory

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Seamstress' Wedding Dress. My bone as the needle, my blood as

the thread, my skin as the cloth—hopefully, you won't mind my blood
red wedding dress.

"Congratulations for obtaining the special-type baleful

Specter—Seamstress' lingering spirit!

"The three-star mission for Coffin Village has been completed.

Completion rate: seventy percent—unable to obtain the hidden
item."

Chen Ge looked at the message on the black phone twice to make

sure he did not see incorrectly. The completion rate is only seventy
percent? I've run through the village several times already tonight,
and I've been to all the places. How come the completion rate is only
seventy percent?

The black phone would never make a mistake, so he started to

think. The ghost stories society's interruption caused the Coffin
Village's ceremony to fail. Could that be a reason why?

The key to completing the mission should be the female ghost.

Either help her complete the ceremony or killing her will bring two
different results—that should be the core of the mission. The woman
said, since they refused to let her be a human, she wouldn't give
them a chance to be ghosts. This shows that the Red Specter's desire
has changed; she wants a rebirth!

Either helping her or stopping her would increase the completion

rate, but due to the arrival of the society, before Chen Ge could
commit to any choice, he had to start running for his life.

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Safety first. As long as I'm alive, there's a chance to raise the
completion rate in the future. Chen Ge leaned against the wall and
slid the phone in his pocket. But what shall I choose in the future?
Help her get her rebirth or stop her?

Coffin Village was hiding a large secret. The whole village could be
seen as a tomb—all the villagers were paper doll sacrifices, the Zhu
woman was the tomb guard, and the only dead buried here was the
Red Specter!

Rebirth is impossible. Possessing others to create a nightmare is

more likely, but if I stop her, we'll turn into enemies, and it will be an
endless battle. Chen Ge turned to look at Fan Yu. The boy had his
head lowered as he toyed with the jade bangle on his wrist. Inside
the jade bangle were lines of red blood.

The ghost seems to value Fan Yu a lot, and she has given him a
precious bangle. She is Fan Yu's friend, and Fan Yu is my friend, so in
a way, I'm also her friend. That's not so bad. Even though the woman
is a vengeful spirit, she knows right from wrong, and she deserves
the help. Furthermore, as a Haunted House boss, isn't it my job to
befriend souls from the other side?

Chen Ge very quickly convinced himself. He told Fan Yu to try to

keep that Red Specter big sister as happy as possible. For today's
Trial Mission, Chen Ge was just an observer. Zhang Ya was asleep,
and Xu Yin was in the middle of his transformation. That meant that
he had lost the right to join the battle. Thankfully, the result was not
so bad. The scenario was unlocked, and Xu Yin had a high chance to
become a Red Specter. Even the white cat that swallowed the
society's blood might experience some special change in the future.

I've been running for a whole night, but how come I feel I've been
heavily rewarded?

The day was starting. It was 5 am. Chen Ge calculated the time.
Even if he rushed nonstop, it would be hard for him to reach New

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Century Park before 9 am.

Director Luo has given everything for this promotion; I cannot let
him down. I'd better return as soon as I can. Chen Ge found the Zhu
woman to discuss the issue regarding Ah Qing's son with her. In the
end, Chen Ge did not take the baby away but left him to be taken
care of by the Zhu woman.

Ol' Wei also asked the woman many questions, but the woman
sided with the Red Specter in the well. She did not reveal any
information. She said that this was just a normal village with a unique
ceremony during that time of year. Ol' Wei felt like he had forgotten
something. It was as if he had drunk too much the night before and
could not remember what had happened.

Chen Ge was afraid that Ol' Wei was affected by the society, so he
led him to a room and had his employees check on him. They
discovered that he was just fine. The gunfire from the night before
should have come from Ol' Wei's gun. He must have seen something
and fired. It was probably that thing that stole his memory. Only Ol'
Wei had seen the thing that stole his memory, but he could not
remember what that thing was.

Chen Ge told Ol' Wei to be careful and advised him from going out
alone. He was worried that the death of the investigator might repeat
itself.

The villagers hated the outsiders—probably because they were

afraid that others would see their abnormalities—so they stayed far
away from Chen Ge's group. At 6 am, Chen Ge, Ol' Wei, and Master
Bai led the two children out of Coffin Village. They walked for one
hour through the forest before Ol' Wei and Chen Ge's phones rang.

"Finally, there's signal!" Ol' Wei recovered and called to report the
situation to Captain Yan. The two kids had been discovered, but the
doctor at the Children's Home had disappeared. Based on Ol' Wei's
understanding, he suspected that this was a premeditated

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kidnapping; the two children had probably been kidnapped by Doctor
Chen to be sold.

Captain Yan also relaxed when he found out that Ol' Wei and Chen
Ge were safe and the kids were found. He had them bring the kids to
the station.

When Ol' Wei reported the situation to Captain Yan, Chen Ge

logged into his social account. He realized from 1 am to 3 am, He San
and Gao Ru Xue had messaged him many times. They seemed to
have urgent things to tell him.

Chen Ge called He San and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Boss! Why didn't you answer earlier? Something big has

happened!" He San was so loud that even Ol' Wei could hear him.

"Don't act so flighty, slow down." Chen Ge walked ahead to

introduce some distance between them.

"Do you still remember Gao Ru Xue? It was the senior who joined
me to visit your Haunted House. Someone has disappeared from her
dorm!" Even though He San had lowered his voice, it still caused
Chen Ge's ear some pain.

"In that case, you have to go to the police. Why come to me?"

"The person didn't disappear. I don't know how to explain this. The
person looks the same, but the personality is completely different,
like the soul has been exchanged!"

"A ghost possession?"

"Yes, just like that! Boss, do you want to come to our school to take
a look tonight? This thing is just weird, and now my senior really
needs your help."

"Temporarily, I don't have time." Chen Ge thought about it but did

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not reject directly. "I'll call Gao Ru Xue to ask for more details."

After hanging up, Chen Ge took out the black phone. The last side
mission for the four-star scenario School of the Afterlife was at
Jiujiang's Medical University.

I should give myself some time to rest. At least I have to wait until
Xu Yin wakes up first.

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Chapter 343: Look Behind You

Source: WEBNOVEL

When Chen Ge ended the call, Gao Ru Xue's call came in. He San
had probably contacted her. "Is it that urgent?"

Chen Ge answered the call, but before he could say anything, Gao
Ru Xue's purposely suppressed voice came through. "I'm not wearing
earphones, and my roommate is just outside the corridor, so don't
raise your voice."

Gao Ru Xue did not sound like she was in a good state—Chen Ge
could hear uncertainty and anxiety in her voice. "I just heard from He
San that your roommate is possessed?"

"It's scarier than that. I feel like she has changed into a completely
different person."

"Is it because of change in habit?"

"She acts like normal, but I can feel that it's not her!" Gao Ru Xue
sounded confident. "Listen to me. This is related to legend at our
school. There's a stone statue underneath the old education block
whose eyes can bleed. According to legend, as long as you can find it
before midnight, you can ask it a question.

"I have two roommates. One of them is Ma Xin, and the other is Liu
Xianxian. That night, they went out together."

"Why did they want to go look for that statue? Just out of
curiosity?" Chen Ge interjected with a question.

"Liu Xianxian has fallen in love with a man that she shouldn't. She
has been wondering whether she should get together with him or
not. She comes from a single-parent family, so she lacks security.

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She would fall for anyone who treats her slightly better. We've tried
to advise her, but she refused to listen.

"She stubbornly thought the man also loves her deeply but cannot
be together with her due to multiple reasons. She wanted to have a
clear answer, but she was afraid to ask the man, so she thought to
ask the statue to see whether the man's love for her is sincere or
not."

Chen Ge was inexperienced in the field of relationships, so he did

not comment. "Then what about the other girl?"

"Ma Xin has a big sister, and she managed to get into Jiujiang's
Medical University five years ago. However, during her second year,
she disappeared while she was on the way home and has remained
unfounded to this day. She wants to find out about her sister's
location, her whole family do. When she heard about this rumor, she
yearned to give it a try."

Gao Ru Xue was halfway through when another female voice came
from the corridor. It sounded like it was rushing her. After she
answered, Gao Ru Xue spoke faster into the phone. "The two wanted
to find the statue, but they're both scared, so they dragged me with
them.

"We departed last week and entered the old education block's
underground rooms at 11 pm. The place was filled with so many
abandoned materials, so it was hard to find a statue. We searched
the majority area on the first night but didn't find anything.

"On the second night, I thought they would give up, but they
dragged me with them again. Since we've been roommates for so
long already, I didn't have the heart to reject them, so I followed
them underground a second time. However, this time, things were
different. We didn't walk too far into the place before I heard
something laughing.

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"I asked them about it, but both of them said they didn't hear
anything. I had a feeling something was wrong, so I forcibly dragged
them out with me. I thought it would end then, but on the third night,
they told me they still wanted to go.

"That was the first time I realized something off about them. I

warned them if they insisted on doing this, I would report them to the
school and dormitory security. Realizing I was serious, they
unwillingly went back to bed.

"The real event that sent a chill down my spine happened on the
morning of the fourth day. When I opened my eyes, both of my
roommates were already awake. They lay in their beds, looking at
me, with smiles on their faces.

"On the fourth night, they didn't show any signs of going out, but I
just felt something was not right. I lay in bed and pretended to fall
asleep. At 2 am, they sat up simultaneously and sneaked out of the
room like this was something planned.

"I didn't dare chase after them. They returned at 3:30 am. They
went back to bed like nothing had ever happened.

"The same thing happened on the fifth and sixth nights, but last
night, things changed. They also left at 2 am and returned at 3:30
am, but when they returned, three of them returned—not two!

"The light in the bedroom was off, so I could not see clearly, but it
felt like all three of them were dressed similarly. They walked to the
three beds and lay down, and the strangest thing happened!

"There were only three beds in the room, so this meant that one of
them crawled into my bed. I didn't dare move throughout the whole
night. I used my hands that were hidden inside my bed to call and
send messages. You might not believe me, but this is the truth.

"All the replies, no matter who it was, was—Look behind you. Only

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when I messaged you did the system reply normally. The additional
person should have been lying behind me, and at the time, I could
only message and call you, but you were unreachable.

"I stayed put until morning. When I looked behind me, there was
nothing on the bed. One hour ago, my roommates woke up, and they
acted like normal, calling me to breakfast and class, but…"

"Aren't you ready yet?" There was another female voice on the
phone, and it sounded like a door had been opened.

"Coming, just talking with a friend on the phone." Gao Ru Xue's

voice changed; she sounded calm.

"You rarely talk so much even to us; this isn't like you. You sure it's
just a friend?" The other girl commented with a laugh. "In any case,
don't just chat on the phone. Today's autopsy class is quite
important."

"Okay." Then Gao Ru Xue spoke into the phone. "If you have time,
why don't you come over for dinner tonight? This is the first time I'm
inviting someone over, so you'd better think about it."

"Hurry on to your class. I'll be over tonight." Chen Ge sounded

magnetic on the phone like a confident, mature man.

After hanging up, Chen Ge's expression changed. Gao Ru Xue

asked me to meet her in person tonight, looks like this thing has
really spooked her. Then again, why could only my contact be
reached normally?

He placed both of his phones in his palm, but he could not figure it
out.

Statue, the additional person, phone message…

Actually, Chen Ge wanted to ask Gao Ru Xue if that underground

room had anything to do with a morgue or not.

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No. 10 was carrying a body on his back. Could that body be related
to the underground morgue at Jiujiang's Medical University?

Chen Ge examined all the clues in his mind, and the dots started to
line up.

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Chapter 344: Open For Business!

Source: WEBNOVEL

"When I see Gao Ru Xue tonight, I'll warn her that it might be time
to move out of that bedroom." There was something scary buried
underneath Jiujiang's Medical University that Gao Ru Xue did not
know about.

After pocketing the phone, Chen Ge ran out of the mountain. Chen
Ge reached Lin Guan Village at 9 am, and Xu Wan's phone call came,
asking him why he was not at the Haunted House and if something
happened to him. Chen Ge brushed her off with some random
excuses, and Xu Wan told him some good news—Gu Feiyu had
gotten out of the hospital already.

This young security had been assaulted by the ghost stories

society at Fang Hwa Apartments and only recovered recently. He had
already reported for duty at New Century Park early in the morning.
"Xiao Gu is quite a responsible worker, and the Haunted House does
need the manpower."

Chen Ge told Xu Wan that he would arrive at the park within three
hours. He hoped that she would be able to calm the visitors down.
Bringing the two kids into the police car, Ol' Wei planned to drive
them to the station, but with Chen Ge begging him, he finally agreed
to drop Chen Ge at New Century Park first. Chen Ge caught a quick
forty-winks inside the police car and arrived at the park at around 11
am.

He had been rushing throughout the night, and his clothes had
been torn open by branches and trees. There was a dirty cat on his
shoulders. He looked rather worse for wear. "So sorry I'm late."

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were the steps. Many visitors came purposely for the Haunted House.
The visitors were filled with complaints since they had been waiting
for so long, but when they saw Chen Ge, the complaints were stuck
in their throat.

"Xiao Chen, you're so late! Don't you know the time?" Uncle Xu had
the park workers hand out some free gifts and water, and then he
asked the question that was on everyone's mind. "Where have you
been all night?"

Many visitors came closer to listen. After all, they were intrigued by
Chen Ge appearance.

"Last night, two kids went missing from Jiujiang's Children's Home,
and I went to help them look for the missing kids. We followed the
trail into the deep mountain and discovered a village filled with
deformed people. The whole village is just like a tomb where joyful
occasions are shunned, and funerals are welcomed. There are white
lanterns and paper money everywhere. When I arrived, they were in
the middle of a ceremony with babies in bamboo baskets and a red
coffin standing upright. The woman at the village held a pair of
scissors in her hand as she carried the babies into the ancestral hall.
When she exited, her clothes are drenched in fresh blood…"

"Okay, you can stop now." Uncle Xu quickly grabbed Chen Ge's
arm. There was already a group of visitors around them. They were
originally filled with displeasure, but the story was quite interesting.

"Why did you tell him to stop‽ What happened next?"

"What kind of ceremony is this bloody? Is this village real?"

"Let's leave, the boss has gone insane."

Uncle Xu tried to calm the crowd, but Chen Ge spoke louder.

"That's not even the scariest thing!"

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He grabbed the loudspeaker that the worker used to maintain
order and stepped on the railing to climb onto the Midnight Ticket
Counter. He was dressed normally, but he grabbed everyone's
attention.

"After some deeper investigation, I realized the village is a ghost

village!

"A place for the living in the day but for the dead at night. After
midnight, the whole village is filled with ghosts!

"You definitely have not seen things like that before! Dead people
holding a funeral for dead people, the funeral procession moving
through the village!

"If you think that's all, then you'd be mistaken! The most
dangerous thing about this village was the houses. The courtyards
were planted with locust trees, and they had weird-looking monsters
buried underneath them. If you're lucky enough to escape into the
inner room, don't be happy so soon!

"Every room in the village is placed with a coffin, and a set of red
graveclothes is placed inside each one. Regardless of whether you
touch them or not, the clothes will crawl out of the coffin to follow
you!

"You have to be careful with your every breath because, at any

given moment, someone will call your name. If you answer the call,
you'll enter the wedding night, and your partner will be a bride
wearing a wedding dress made from human skin!

"Death funeral, ghost village, skull lantern! All sorts of monsters

reside in this village!

"A unique setting! Scary design! You only need to pay 30 to

experience such an interesting scenario! That's the reason I'm late
today; I've been busy building this new scenario!

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"This latest three-star scenario will be opened for a limited period!
Believe me, this is definitely the scariest village-themed scenario on
the market!"

When Chen Ge finished, his voice still echoed through the park.

"It was just a sales pitch, but why do I feel so excited?"

"What was I trying to say earlier?"

"Since you have a new scenario and a special offer, I'm willing to
forget that you're late. Losing memory…"

"I want to try it out, but I'm afraid. This is so hard!"

The update speed of Chen Ge's Haunted House would scare his
competition out of the market. Chen Ge nodded in satisfaction,
looking at the visitors in deliberation. The new scenario and limited
time offer would save him from being late. He jumped down from the
ticket counter and returned the loudspeaker to the worker. He
opened the Haunted House's doors.

"We're open for business!"

Chen Ge had Gu Feiyu change into the doctor's outfit and handed
him the upgraded hammer. He was tasked with acting as the serial
killer in Murder by Midnight. Xu Wan was tasked with handling the
Minghun scenario.

The two one-star scenarios above ground had someone looking

over them, and the underground Mu Yang High School had the
twenty-four students. Uncle Xu was selling ticket, and Chen Ge was
left with nothing to do.

I should find more spirits like Uncle Yan and the students. They
aren't malicious. If this continues, I can rest myself at the counter
daily, with the sole responsibility of counting my income.

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Chen Ge rested at the door after sending the visitors in. He wanted
to ask Gao Ru Xue for an update when he saw someone looking for
him on WhatsApp.

"Ye Xiaoxin?" That was the professional critic who entered Chen
Ge's Haunted House with the people from Tian Teng Medical School.
She had been scared until she almost vomited. Then, she gave Chen
Ge's Haunted House a very high remark online and asked for his
contact, saying she planned to help him do the promotion online.

"What's wrong? How can I help?"

"Lately, there have been many comments trying to give your

Haunted House a bad review online. I searched high and low and
finally found the culprit." Ye Xiaoxin sent Chen Ge several pictures.
"One of them is also a Haunted House reviewer. We share quite a
rocky relationship. As long as it's a Haunted House recommended by
me, she will critic it heavily. They might be visiting your Haunted
House soon, so be careful. Among the pictures that I've sent to you,
there's the reviewer's selfie that she posted on the platform."

Millman: Late chapter because I was at my little cousin's birthday

party, and they live quite far away. The second daily chapter will be
released tomorrow morning GMT time as it's quite late now.

Also, don't worry, the remaining two bonus chapters will be

released this weekend (•̀o•́)ง

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Chapter 345: The Kind Boss Chen

Source: WEBNOVEL

Chen Ge glanced at the picture. This woman looked just like a good
little girl; she was wearing a cute dress in the picture and was a
complete opposite to the tomboyish Ye Xiaoxin. He moved the
picture, and when Chen Ge saw the second screenshot, he started to
get unsettled.

The unassuming girl kept creating chaos online. One could find her
on all the reviews Ye Xiaoxin had ever released. This was particularly
obvious with Chen Ge's Haunted House review. Initially, it was 9.7,
but after a wave of negative reviews, it was pushed down to 8.9.
Thankfully Chen Ge's Haunted House had its own fans and many
good reviews, or the point would have been lower.

The other screenshots showed the woman going around to bring

down the reviews for other Haunted Houses and raise the ratings for
the ones she reviewed. The main point was that many online users
were tricked by her looks and supported her no matter what.

The comparison was quite obvious. The reviews on her main page
were all maintained above 9, but the other reviews pointed out how
unfair they were. However, she showed no sign of changing them. In
Ye Xiaoxin's review, the highest was Chen Ge's Haunted House, and
the second highest was only 6.

"It's one thing if you make enemies with Ye Xiaoxin, but you've
flooded my Haunted House with negative reviews. In that case, I'll
need to fight for myself or else it'll be unfair to my loyal employee."
Chen Ge glanced at this woman's ID and even remembered what she
looked like. There were many other screenshots. Other than this
woman, there were parties purposely talking about New Century Park
on forums and websites. It felt like they were trying to attempt

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something bad.

"I should tell Director Luo about this. After all, the Haunted House
is now the park's main attraction, so the lowering in the Haunted
House's review will affect the park's name."

Sitting at the door, watching the visitors being led into the
scenarios, and listening to the screams that escaped from within,
Chen Ge felt quite accomplished.

Earlier, Chen Ge had been calling all day, saying that the three-star
scenario was temporarily open to public, but most of the visitors
were experienced. They would google the review before they entered
the Haunted House. For most, a three-star scenario was like a taboo
for living humans. Chen Ge sat at the door until noon. He almost fell
asleep when he was shaken awake by Uncle Xu.

"What's wrong? Uncle Xu?" Uncle Xu coughed twice and pointed

behind him. "These few visitors want to challenge that new scenario
that you mentioned."

"The environment is passable, four points. The worker is so lazy

that he fell asleep at work, two points." Five visitors stood at the
door, three males and two females. One of the females was typing on
her phone. When he saw the woman's face, Chen Ge stunned before
he turned habitually to a smile. "Welcome, the new scenario hasn't
been tested before. You're so lucky."

"It's too late to change your attitude now. I want to see the most
authentic experience your Haunted House has to offer." The woman
raised her head. She had a baby face, but her voice was coarse,
revealing her actual age.

"Aren't you here to visit the Haunted House?" Chen Ge pretended

like he did not know what she was talking about.

"You can call me Cassie. I'm a professional Haunted House

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reviewer, and I have several hundred thousand fans online. If I feel
like your Haunted House is not bad and I place it on my
recommendation page, your visitor number will increase by 33
percent." The woman was prideful. "Of course, you have to make me
believe your Haunted House is worth it, but so far, it is not living up
to its name."

Chen Ge was too lazy to listen the woman's boasting. "Do you have
a Chinese name? Like Tie Zhu or Gou Dan 1, something easier to
remember."

The woman's face fell immediately, but she did not get into an
argument with Chen Ge. This girl would maintain her persona around
her friends. She did not speak, but the two men saw how hurt she
was and walked forward to defend her.

One of them had a head of hair dyed yellow, with an earring and
nose ring. He looked like a hippie. The other was more normal, but he
was around 1.9 meters tall.

"Fine, since you're here, you're my visitors. Let's not waste time,
sign these disclaimers." Chen Ge did not want to get into an
altercation with them. He gave them the contract to sign, and the
excitement in his voice made the hair on Uncle Xu's body stand
upright.

"Xiao Chen, they just want to give an objective review, don't act
recklessly."

"Haunted House has been open for long already, don't you know
me? When have I been reckless before?" Chen Ge pushed Uncle Xu
out the door. "Don't worry."

"You say that every time." Uncle Xu did not voice his real opinion
since there were outsiders around, but there was obvious worry in his
eyes.

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The five visitors noticed the look in his eyes, and for some reason,
they felt creeped out. Is this uncle also employed at the Haunted
House? He's such a good actor! Just a look can express so many
complicated feelings.

After sending Uncle Xu away, Chen Ge's smile grew brighter.

"Come, sign the disclaimer. Coffin Village is open for the first time for
visitation, so you have to be careful of safety. If you come into any
danger, do scream, and the worker will come save you."

Chen Ge's attitude was flawless, but the more he acted like this,
the more worried the five visitors became.

"The new scenario is just a gimmick; there's nothing to be afraid of.

Actually, this is just a trial. A uniquely eastern haunted house
experience I made using local folklore; it's completely different from
the western and Japanese horror houses," Chen Ge explained theme
of Coffin Village briefly.

When the visitors heard it was not the western and Japanese horror
theme that were common on the market, they sighed in relief.
Actually, there were few eastern-themed Haunted Houses in the
country, but probably due to budget and inexperience, the effect was
lacking.

"An eastern-themed scenario? Earlier you also mentioned it was a

haunted village, right? That's very rare." The one who spoke was the
other woman. She had pigtails and looked quite young. Chen Ge
glanced at the woman's name on the disclaimer. It was rather
common—Zhang Lan.

"That's why I'm interested to give it a try." Chen Ge collected all

the disclaimers carefully. It felt like he knew they would come into
use eventually. "Come with me. The new scenario is underground."

"Wait a minute." The woman suddenly spoke. She was a cunning

one. Before she arrived, she had looked over all the information on

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Chen Ge's Haunted House. Furthermore, they were challenging a
three-star scenario, so she had to be careful. "I hear for scenarios
above two-stars, you accept teams of ten. There's only five of us
now; why don't we wait for other visitors to join us?"

Chen Ge thought about it and agreed. "Then let me go see if there

are any other visitors who wish to join."

"Thank you." The woman smiled sweetly.

"It's nothing. Our Haunted House always put our visitor's request
first." Chen Ge turned and walked out. After Chen Ge left, the few
visitors started to talk among themselves.

"Sister Mao, what are you afraid of? The five of us have cleared
how many Haunted Houses already? Other visitors will only drag us
down," the yellow hair grumbled with dissatisfaction.

"This guy is friends with Ye Xiaoxin. I'm afraid he might trap us

inside the Haunted House. If there are other visitors, he won't do
something like that." The woman took out her phone and added,
"The worker has attitude, three points."

Five minutes later, Chen Ge pushed open the door. He slid the
comic into his pocket, and three people followed behind him.

Two guys and one girl.

The woman was very pretty, but her body was unsteady. One of
the guys had his left hand stuck in his pocket, and the other was
wearing a black shirt, grumbling about his recent bad luck.

"You're so lucky. These three visitors also want to visit the new
scenario, so the eight of you can experience it together." A smile
hung on Chen Ge's face like serving the visitors was a very happy
thing for him.

Footnotes:

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Tie Zhu means iron rod; Gou Dan means dog's ball. However,
rather than insulting her with rude names, she is more offended just
by him being too lazy to remember her actual name.

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Chapter 346: Wave Of Ghosts Coming

Through
Source: WEBNOVEL

"I've already introduced the scenario. Three-star scenario, there's

no path to follow, and it's completely open. All you need to do is find
a blood red wedding dress and bring it out." Chen Ge came up with
the rules on the spot. After all, this was his Haunted House; his words
were the rules.

"That simple?" The young hair turned back to ask Chen Ge, "Are
there any hidden conditions? Some Haunted Houses will design
multiple side missions to make the experience more enjoyable. They
allow the visitors to explore the place on their own, to increase
playability."

"There are many hidden plots inside my Haunted House. You can
explore it to your heart's content." Chen Ge's smile was like the sun,
it made people feel warmed.

"Then how about time requirement for clearing the scenario?" The
large man chimed in. It was quite obvious that they were
experienced players. They knew the ins and outs of Haunted Houses.

"Since this is the first time the place has been open to the public,
I'll give you more time. As long as you can find the wedding dress in
forty minutes, I'll consider it a success." Chen Ge was kind. He
wanted the visitors to experience Coffin Village fully, so he purposely
extended the time limit.

"We won't need forty minutes." The young hair flicked his bangs
back. He too was a prideful man. "We've reviewed many Haunted
Houses, and the longest we've taken was thirty minutes."

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"Forty minutes is indeed too long, but this way we can look
around." The leading woman still held her phone, having no intention
of putting it away. When Ye Xiaoxin entered the Haunted House, she
had used her paper and pen for her notes. Based on this alone, one
could see they were not on the same level. Actually, Chen Ge knew
what the woman was up to. The Haunted House review was just a
gimmick. She wanted to use the scary atmosphere to create a
contrast to her cute demeanor. She was a lesser reviewer compared
to Ye Xiaoxin, who knew and respected the rules of Haunted Houses.

"Yes, go look around, you might find more hidden joys." Chen Ge
was so kind that even the three 'visitors' following him could not
stand it. After he had the three new visitors sign the disclaimers, he
led the eight of them to the end of the corridor and lifted up the
wooden boards. A blast of cold air came from underground, causing
them to shiver.

"Only a wooden board is used to separate the scenarios. It's too

rough, minus one point for set design." The woman added another
note to her phone.

Chen Ge was not angry. He was so nice that even his reminder was
given with a kind smile. "Our Haunted House doesn't allow the usage
of phones and other recording devices. Please do mind that."

"I'm a certified reviewer. The phone is just to record data. Don't

just assume stuff."

"Understood, when you start your review, please be kind." Chen Ge

politely sent the eight into the scenario. "The one on the left is the
two-star scenario Mu Yang High School; the one behind the steel door
on the right is the Third Sick Hall. Coffin Village, which you're
challenging today, is just ahead."

When Chen Ge entered the underground earlier, he had seen a

meandering path appearing between the Third Sick Hall and Mu Yang
High School. At the end of the path was a pale light.

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"Coffin Village is at the end of the path. This is where I'll leave you,
have fun." Chen Ge stood at the mouth of the path and sent the
visitors away. It's nice that the three scenarios are separated, but
after the expansion turns the Haunted House into a maze, all the
underground scenarios might join together to create a large scary
scenario.

After three expansions, the Haunted House would morph into a

Maze of Terror. It had been expanded twice already, and the third
time was not that far away. Chen Ge looked down the other two
scenarios. Inside the Mu Yang High School, the sealed classroom's
door was pushed open. A mannequin head peeked out as if to see
whether Chen Ge had already left or not. When it saw Chen Ge, it
rolled back into the classroom and closed the door.

Those students sure are naughty. I'll need to have them memorize
the worker's rules later. Chen Ge returned to the surface and headed
to the props room. He ransacked the place and finally found the
reward at the corner—Seamstress' Wedding Dress. The tattered
wedding dress was red as blood. It was possessed by a hatred-filled
spirit. If one leaned close enough, one might even hear the weeping
of a woman. If the visitors saw this, they would be so angry. Chen Ge
had not even placed the thing that they were supposed to look for
into the scenario. The happiness in finding it after looking for a long
time is the real fun of the game.

He wrapped the wedding dress inside a black cloth. Chen Ge

entered the changing room. This was the unique construct that he
had obtained after the Haunted House's second expansion. None of
the visitors had tried it before. Chen Ge selected one of the less
conspicuous outfits and put on some make-up. "This is not bad. I look
normal from afar, but upon closer inspection, it's quite scary."

Chen Ge entered Coffin Village again. He used the black phone to

inspect the hidden tunnels and pathways inside the village and took
out the comic. When the ghost stories society was battling the Zhu

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woman, Chen Ge had made use of the opportunity to collect a few
ghosts into the comic. After a whole night of 'education', the lingering
spirits had been reformed.

"I've told you it's a good decision to follow me. This is the new
home I've arranged for all of you. The whole village is yours. You can
feed on the visitors' fear and screams, but remember one thing, you
cannot harm the visitors and no physical contact, understood?"

Chen Ge walked through Coffin Village and tossed out the ghosts
as he went. "The completion rate for the mission is only seven
percent, which means the scariest thing at this scenario hasn't
arrived. Thankfully, I remembered to carry some ghosts from the
village itself."

Looking at the village that came back to 'life', Chen Ge flashed a

satisfied smile. "Even though it is quite harsh and demanding, all the
sacrifice is worth it to give the visitors the best experience."

Chen Ge felt like he was the kind that worked in the background. If
he revealed all the effort he had done, the visitors would be so
touched.

Amid creepy music and a heavy atmosphere, when the eight

visitors reached the end of the path, what they saw stunned
them—rows of old houses, intertwining streets, fluttering paper
money, and the white paper lanterns giving off pale light hanging at
the door.

"This is Coffin Village?" The leading woman shrunk back and

silently hid behind her companions.

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Chapter 347: There's No Need To Go Fast

Source: WEBNOVEL

"Such a real setting," the large man mumbled. "How did he do

this?"

"Of course, he has to be talented to have opened a Haunted

House. Furthermore, Ye Xiaoxin gave this place such a high review.
This means this Haunted House has its positive points." The woman
stood behind the yellow hair. She walked toward the other three
visitors with a friendly smile.

"Are the three of you together?" The woman was good at

socializing. Her tone and attitude were very friendly.

"No," the man with his arm in his pocket replied coldly before he
walked away.

"Be careful, this is a three-star scenario!" The woman grabbed the

thin man's sleeves. The man turned back to glare at her, and she
quickly staggered back. "I just want to remind you."

"Sister Mao, just ignore him. When he is spooked until he wets his
pants, he'll come back to us." The yellow hair stood between the man
and the woman.

"It's alright. Since we're in the same group, we should help one
another." The woman did not seem to mind the man's offensive
behavior. She walked back to him. "My name is Cassie, but you can
call me Sister Mao like the rest of them if you like."

The thin man thought about it and accepted her kindness. "The
name's Bai Qiulin. My mood has been very awful lately, so I came to
this Haunted House for stress release."

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"Understood, a Haunted House is a place like that, right? To
scream and release stress." Sister Mao nodded with understanding
before she turned to the other two visitors. "Then how about the two
of you?"

The man in black shirt looked smart, and he was very friendly. "My
name is Zhou. I'm a real estate agent. I came with my girlfriend
today…"

"Who's your girlfriend?" The woman beside him smacked his arm.
She did not have any make-up on, but she looked pretty.

"Well, it's only a matter of time." Mr. Zhou winked at the woman as
he grabbed the woman's hand. "This is my girlfriend, Duan Yue. She's
a high school English teacher. Normally, she has no break and has to
tutor kids at night. It's rare that we both have a day off, so I brought
her here to relax."

"You two sure are sweet." Sister Mao smiled. There was a trace of
resentment in her eyes, but she hid it very well. "Later, the three of
you can follow along. This way, we'll be able to be on the lookout for
one another."

"You sound very professionally. Are you all professional Haunted

House visitors?" Mr. Zhou asked.

"I'm a Haunted House reviewer. I have tons of fans online, and

these guys are members of my team." Sister Mao introduced the
people around her. The yellow hair was Huang Xing, the large man
Ma Tian, and the other girl was Sister Mao's assistant, Zhang Lan.
Sister Mao didn't introduce the last man, who looked older than the
rest of them, in detail, but she called him Brother Wong.

Each of them had a different personality. The only reason they

could work together was because they had Sister Mao as the
mediator.

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"You all are indeed professionals. Then today we'll be depending
on you." Mr. Zhou was a people person as well. He continued to chat
happily with Sister Mao like he could not see the fiery gaze Duan Yue
was directing his way.

"Don't worry, we've completed more than ten of such Haunted

Houses already." Huang Xing was the bravest and the rashest of the
group, so he walked ahead.

"Come on. The online review for this place is very high. I want to
see how good it is." To make it convenient for recording, Sister Mao
walked into the scenario with her phone on. A wind of unknown origin
picked up the paper money from the floor. The white lanterns swayed
as the pale light washed the street white.

"There are three main elements to a Haunted House's

design—story, setting, and atmosphere. For this setting, I can give
him six points, but alas, without a story to go with it, it's difficult for
visitors to feel invested. The atmosphere is the worst; I don't feel
afraid at all. It's such a waste of these realistic props," Sister Mao
said and the two men next to her nodded.

Only Zhang Lan kept turning back to look at Bai Qiulin. She felt
something was wrong with this man. How come he keeps his left
hand inside his pocket?

The eight of them squeezed together, and five of them were

professional players. Naturally they were not afraid.

"The boss said there's a time limit. The place is so big, why don't
we split into two groups?" Mr. Zhou thought about it and voiced his
suggestion.

"Forty minutes is more than enough for us to clear this game. For a
Haunted House, especially one that is open like this, it is crucial not
to fall into their tempo." The yellow hair looked experienced. "The
two of you just follow behind me. To tell you the truth, I've always

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been brave. Even if a real ghost appears, I'll fight them with my bare
hands, much less Haunted House actors."

"Impressive." Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue followed behind the yellow
hair. Sister Mao walked with the tall guy while Zhang Lan stood
between Brother Wong and Bai Qiulin. She realized Bai Qiulin had
many habits that were quite abnormal. For example, his neck was
slightly twisted like it was sprained.

"What are you looking at?" Brother Wong glanced at Xiao Lan. He
seemed to have his own reason to be there. He was not familiar with
Sister Mao's team members. It was the first time Zhang Lan had met
Brother Wong. She also had no idea why he was tagging along. "It's
nothing. By the way, I'll be following you later. Sister Mao told me
that."

The group walked ahead, and Bai Qiulin looked at their backs with
a smile on his face. The pale light pulled their shadows long as they
formally entered Coffin Village. When they stepped into Coffin
Village, the white lanterns lining the street on both sides started to
sway. The village turned darker like something was waking up.

CREAK…

Yellow hair pushed open the door to the first old home. The empty
courtyard had nothing.

"That's all?" He sounded disappointed. With Mr. Zhou and Duan

Yue accompanying him, the three entered the inner room together.
There was a black and white picture sitting on the altar. The person
in the picture had their eyes gouged out. There was painting of a
mountain spirit on the walls, and a coffin sat in the middle of the
room.

"The decoration is simple; there's nothing particularly scary." The

yellow hair turned around the room. He picked up the picture on the
altar and started to study it. "Why did they gouge out the eyes? Is it

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hiding the clue to clear the scenario?"

He undid the frame and took out the picture. "The person looks like
he's crying?"

The man prepared to examine closer when Mr. Zhou's voice came
from behind him. "What are you looking at?"

"It's nothing, just looking around. I like to clear all the stories inside
a Haunted House—it's more fun that way."

"I feel like we shouldn't be wandering about. The crucial thing is to

find the wedding dress. What if we run out of time?" Mr. Zhou and
Duan Yue walked over on tip-toe.

"Don't worry, there is enough time." The yellow hair flicked his hair
back and raised two fingers. "We can finish this place in twenty
minutes, but there's no need to. It won't be fun that way."

He faced Mr. Zhou, so he did not notice the ghosts in the pictures
that were all looking at his back.

"You're right. Taking it slow is more fun." Mr. Zhou silently moved
the black and white picture away. The position of the man inside the
picture had changed like he had moved one step forward.

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Chapter 348: Something's Wrong

Source: WEBNOVEL

Reaching out to press the face of the man in the picture, Mr. Zhou
agreed with the yellow hair. "Indeed, why should we be in such a
hurry? It's rare that we have the chance to come in here, so we
should make the most of it."

Mr. Zhou was actually talking to the spirit inside the picture, but
yellow hair thought the man was talking to him, so he concurred.
"That's right. That's the spirit you should have when you're inside a
Haunted House! Come on, I'll bring you to go visit some other places.
This Haunted House is not that scary; it's probably just a hoax
online!"

Yellow hair led the two out of the old home. They searched through
many homes before they reached the center of the village.

"The scenario is rather big. With our current speed, we might not
be able to finish it in forty minutes. If we cannot find the wedding
dress before forty minutes, it'll be such a shame," the large man told
the rest. "I think we should split up. With this ancestral hall as the
center, Sister Mao, Mr. Wong, and myself will go to the left, and the
rest of you go to the right."

"Why should you be with Sister Mao? I think it's better if we switch
places." The yellow hair was unhappy. In the end, it was Sister Mao
who convinced him to let it go.

"Then it's decided." Ma Tian's group walked down the meandering

road, leaving the rest in the middle of the village.

"We should plan this out as well. Xiao Lan, you go with the couple,
and I'll stick with the other guest. This way, we can save time and

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hopefully find the wedding dress before them." Yellow hair took up
the leadership role naturally.

"I don't think that's a good idea. We're already split. What if we run
into danger?" Zhang Lan walked to stand beside the yellow hair,
hoping he would change his mind.

"Listen to me, this Haunted House's atmosphere is not bad, but the
scares are horrible." The insouciance in yellow hair's tone made
Zhang Lan anxious. She wanted to tell yellow hair, The visitor that
you're pairing yourself with is quite abnormal!

However, she did not want to say that before Bai Qiulin.

"It'll be fine, let's go." Yellow hair extended his hand toward Bai
Qiulin, wanting to shake his hand, but Bai Qiulin did not show any
intention of pulling his hand out of his pocket—he just nodded.

"You sure are something else. Later, don't come to me with tears,
begging me to help you out." Yellow hair was quite angered. He took
back his hand and walked ahead on his own. Bai Qiulin trailed behind
him and still kept his hand inside his pocket. Zhang Lan saw this
clearly, and her painted brows creased. "Something is just not right."

"What is not right?" The friendly Mr. Zhou came to stand beside
her.

"By the way, I have some questions to ask you." Zhang Lan pointed
at Bai Qiulin, who walked away. "That man came together with you.
When you were in the lines outside, did he do anything weird? Or
something out of the ordinary?"

"When we were in the lines?" Mr. Zhou scratched his chin in

thought. "When Boss Chen shouted that there was a special discount
for visitation of this three-star scenario, we were closest to the
entrance, so we were selected. I don't have any special impression of
the man. He's probably just a normal visitor."

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"I hope so." Zhang Lan was still worried. "Let me tell you
something. There was one time when I accompanied Sister Mao to
review a Haunted House, and a mental patient sneaked into it. He
looked just like a normal person, but he acted up inside the Haunted
House. You have no idea how scary it was."

"Why don't you tell me?" Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue were curious.

"He slathered himself with the fake blood inside the Haunted
House and then grabbed the prop to assault the other visitors. The
worst thing was initially the visitors thought he was an employee at
the Haunted House. They were afraid, but they did not resist. This
caused many injuries." Zhang Lan still had nightmares of that
experience.

"How could something like that even happen‽" Mr. Zhou's hand
went to his lips. His action was quite exaggerated.

"That's why I'm worried about Huang Xing. He might be hard to

deal with, but he's my companion." By then, yellow hair and Bai
Qiulin had already disappeared from their view.

"If I were you, I would be worried, too." Mr. Zhou very naturally
took up Duan Yue's hand and turned to look at her with love. "If you
went missing, I would look all over the world for you."

Duan Yue's reaction was cold. She only said one word. "Lies."

"You two sure are a loving couple." Zhang Lan laughed. She had
just come to visit a Haunted House—she did not expect to be fed dog
food. "Let's start moving as well. The earlier we find the wedding
dress, the sooner we have the upper hand."

The mention of the mission made Zhang Lan turn serious. "I'm
Sister Mao's assistant. I investigated this Haunted House before we
arrived. The information I've found is quite scary. The reviews from
actual visitors are all above 8. Minus the trolls, all the reviews said

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this place is scary. We've reviewed many Haunted Houses before,
and this is the first time we've seen something like this."

"Meaning this Haunted House is very scary?" Mr. Zhou looked

around him. "I don't think it's that scary so far, just a bit cold."

"Don't let your guard down. I suspect the boss is just biding his
time." Zhang Lan took out her phone to click open a page. "Look at
the online review for the boss."

Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue glanced at Zhang Lan's hone and saw
about ten anonymous reviews.

"The boss is insane! Like a serial killer, he discovered me but didn't

say anything, trailing behind me silently. The man followed me for
ten minutes! If not for my friend who screamed, I really didn't know
there's something behind me!"

"Don't ask me why I'm an Anon, I still want to see tomorrow's

sunrise… The boss is too scary."

"My friend asked why I brought extra underwear with me to a

Haunted House. I say, if you want to prepare diapers, it's also fine."

Reading all the anonymous reviews, Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue's
expressions changed. They had a new understanding of Chen Ge.

"Scary, right?" Zhang Lan pocketed her phone. "So, I say we better
find the wedding dress as fast as we can and leave this place."

"Okay." Mr. Zhou arranged his emotions. "Then, what shall we do

next?"

"I'm a little worried about Huang Xing. Let's go meet up with him
first." Zhang Lan pointed toward the road that yellow hair had
headed down earlier. Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue followed behind her.

By then, yellow hair and Bai Qiulin had reached the end of the

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street. They found a sedan at the corner.

"A bridal sedan?" Yellow hair was excited. "Looks like the wedding
dress will be nearby! I've found the right place!"

He ignored Bai Qiulin and walked into the house where the sedan
was parked alone. "There's white paper everywhere. Is this a
Minghun?"

Yellow hair looked left and right but forgot to look behind him. The
sedan that he had passed earlier started to move on its own.

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Chapter 349: Where Is My Hand?

Source: WEBNOVEL

After yellow hair entered the home, two children with painted faces
poked their heads out from the sedan. Bai Qiulin acted like he did not
see this creepy scene and walked past the sedan. The white lantern
above the door swayed several times before they went out, throwing
the home into darkness.

White celebratory posters were pasted on the wall, and yellow hair
stood in the courtyard alone. "This place is larger than the others.
Plenty of traps must be around here."

He might be reckless, but he was not dumb. The atmosphere in the

home was slightly off—he had already noticed that.

"Huang Xing…" Someone was calling his name. It sounded

ethereal and seemed to come from the inner room.

"Someone's calling me?" He tried to follow the voice, but it

disappeared as if he had imagined it. "It should be some kind of
surround sound system. I'm surprised such a dilapidated set design
has high-end equipment."

Without him realizing, Huang Xing was nervous, and he pushed the
door open carefully. White draperies covered the room. It was a
wedding, but the place was decorated like a funeral. "It really is a
Minghun, such an old, used theme."

"Huang Xing…"

Yellow hair talked to himself when that weird noise appeared

again, and this time, he heard it clearly. "The voice is familiar!"

It was a strange feeling. It sounded like a familiar person who

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called his name, but he could not remember who it was. The old
home, the paper money, the white decoration—there was no change
to the surroundings, but Huang Xing felt like everything had shifted,
like it had turned creepier. A draft picked up behind him to chill the
back of his neck. He turned around instantly. "Who is it?"

"Why are you panicking? It's just me." Bai Qiulin had his hand in his
pocket and started to look around the room.

Seeing a second visitor, Huang Xing sighed in relief. "Did you hear
a woman's voice earlier?"

"I don't think so." Bai Qiulin 'studied' the decorations, but he made
sure to stay close to the door.

"But I did hear someone calling my name." Yellow hair looked

outside the door, and there were two children with blood red paint on
their faces running through it. "Someone's outside!"

Bai Qiulin also looked out the front door. There was only an empty
street. "What are you talking about? Where are the people?"

"But they're there! There were two kids with something painted on
their faces." Huang Xing tried his best to describe the features of the
two kids.

"Do you think the Haunted House would employ children to scare
people? If it was not mannequins, then you were definitely
mistaken." When Bai Qiulin turned away, the two children poked their
heads through the front door again.

"No, I'm not mistaken!" This time, Huang Xing matched the gaze of
the two children and ran out immediately. "Wait for me, I'll catch
them for you to see!"

Huang Xing rushed to the front door, but the two kids had
disappeared. The street was empty other than the paper money and
the creaking bridal sedan. "Where are they? I only took several
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seconds to run out here. Where can they disappear to?"

"Huang Xing…" Yellow hair shivered, and the woman's voice came
again. "Why does it sound like the voice is closer when I'm outside? It
feels like she's talking into my ear."

He took out his phone to use the torch to find the hidden audio
system, but when he turned the torch on, the woman's voice picked
up again.

"Huang Xing…"

This time, the voice was even closer, like it was trying to drill into
his mind.

"This is cursed, too cursed." Yellow hair had been to many Haunted
Houses, and this was the first time he had run into something like
this. "I cannot stay here alone. I need to find the wedding dress and
meet up with Sister Mao."

He turned back into the inner hall and discovered something even
scarier—Bai Qiulin had disappeared! How could a live person
disappear just like that!

"Where is he?" A rare emotion rose in yellow hair's heart—fear.

"Bai Qiulin!" Yellow hair called the man's name as he moved into
the bedroom. The room was different from others. The bed and
mattress were red in color, but it did not feel auspicious; if anything,
it felt bloody. It was not paint but blood that dyed the fabric.

"This looks like the room of the bride. The wedding dress should be
here, right?" Yellow hair walked forward, and he saw many red
threads on the ground. They were particularly conspicuous in the
room filled with paper money.

He walked over those red threads to the bed. The red pillows were
tossed in a messy way, and there were needles, thread, and scissors

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left on the bed. However, there was no wedding dress. The place that
should have had the wedding dress did not have it. Huang Xing
gritted his teeth. "I knew it wouldn't be so simple."

He lifted up the mattress, and there was an obvious bloodstain. It

looked real.

"Huang Xing, look down…" When he was focused on his search,

the woman's voice appeared in his mind without warning again.
When a person was highly tense, they would be spooked by a tap on
the shoulder, much less a voice in their head. Yellow hair almost fell
to the ground, and he grabbed the edge of the bed to stop himself
from falling.

He took a deep breath, and his fists tightened. "That wasn't an

audio system! It couldn't be!"

He twisted his arms, and his heart raced. "That voice said
something else. Yes! She said look down!"

Huang Xing looked on the ground, and he realized all the red
threads led to the space underneath the bed. "Underneath the bed?"

His Adam's apple moved as he slowly squatted down. He held the

edge of the bed with one hand, and his other supported his weight on
the ground as he lowered his head. His sight slowly lowered, and his
senses were taut. He gritted his teeth, and just as his head was about
to reach the ground, a hand suddenly reached out at him!

"F*ck!" Huang Xing collapsed to the ground. He crawled backwards

with fear in his eyes. "That was a chopped hand! There was no arm,
just a hand!"

He had not recovered from his shock when he knocked into

something on his back. Turning back to look, yellow hair saw Bai
Qiulin standing behind him. "Are you trying to kill me‽ Where have
you been!"

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"Just walking around. By the way, what did you see under the
bed?" Bai Qiulin asked with curiosity.

"A chopped hand. It doesn't feel like it was remote-controlled. It

just poked out from underneath the bed." Yellow hair wiped the cold
sweat from his forehead, his calves still shaking. "We need to leave
this place, come give me a hand."

Huang Xing reached out to grab Bai Qiulin's left hand, but he
missed. Holding the empty sleeve in his hands, yellow hair's face was
blank. His brain could not process the information. "Where… where is
your hand?"

His neck snapped like he had fallen headfirst from a tall building,
and blood seeped from Bai Qiulin's mouth and nose. He turned to
look at his empty left sleeve, and a happy smile was on his face.
"You're right, where is my hand?"

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Chapter 350: Triple The Happiness

Source: WEBNOVEL

His eyes bulging out of their sockets, yellow hair felt like he was
about to faint!

"Have you seen my hand?" Bai Qiulin looked down at him when his
neck snapped, and his head fell to the ground. "Where is my hand?"

Zhang Lan's group, who were heading toward Huang Xing, heard
the man's scream that came from the corner. The scream pierced
through their ear drums. Just what had the man been through to
make him scream like that?

"This is bad!" Hearing that, Zhang Lan's face changed. She told Mr.
Zhou and Duan Yue, "Something happened to Huang Xing! I told you
something is wrong with that Bai Qiulin!"

"Isn't it normal to scream inside a Haunted House? It probably has

nothing to do with Bai Qiulin," Mr. Zhou said.

"If it was a prop, then he would scream continuously. There

wouldn't be a brief shout like this," Zhang Lan analyzed as she
walked forward.

"Understood." Mr. Zhou remembered what Zhang Lan said. "So

you're saying that Bai Qiulin is a real mental patient?"

"Not necessarily." Zhang Lan's expression was serious. "Actually,

I've been hiding something from you."

She stopped moving and turned to Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue.
"According to internet rumors, this Haunted House is really haunted."

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"Haunted? You're trying to say Bai Qiulin is a ghost?" Mr. Zhou and
Duan Yue stopped together. "You're kidding, right? Who would
believe that in this day and age?"

"I also don't think so. When a person is past their fear threshold,
other than fainting, they might see illusions," Duan Yue said that, but
it was obvious that she was afraid, too. She held Mr. Zhou's hand,
and she looked panicked.

"Regardless, this Haunted House is scary. The boss knows

psychology. Even if there's no ghost, he can make the visitors feel
like there is one." Zhang Lan slowed down to walk beside Mr. Zhou
and Duan Yue. The three turned the corner and saw the sedan at the
end of the street. The curtains were open.

"Huang Xing and Bai Qiulin have been here." Zhang Lan did not
dare go into the old home alone. For support, she dragged Mr. Zhou
and Duan Yue with her. When she pushed open the front door, they
saw Bai Qiulin coming out from the inner room.

"Stand there and don't move!" Zhang Lan screamed. "Where is

Huang Xing? Weren't you two together earlier?"

"How am I supposed to know? We got separated, and I also just

rushed here when I heard his scream." Bai Qiulin had his hand inside
his pocket, and he seemed impatient. He was offended by the
interrogation.

"Then what did you find?" Zhang Lan was very cautious. She did
not take a step toward Bai Qiulin.

"I've searched the house inside out, but I cannot find him," Bai
Qiulin said and walked toward them.

"Don't come any closer!" Zhang Lan warned him again.

"Xiao Lan, we're all visitors. There's no reason to do this." Mr. Zhou
tried to ease the tension.

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"You don't understand. I've seen the review that said the boss once
had his worker join the visitors to 'play' with them! The man's
insane!" Zhang Lan pointed at Bai Qiulin. "Something must be wrong
with this man! You have to believe me; the most dangerous threat is
often just standing next to you!"

"You suspect I'm a Haunted House employee?" Bai Qiulin chuckled.

"Have you lost your mind?"

"If not, why do you keep your left hand inside your pocket? Is it
because it's painted, or is it holding some remote control?" Zhang
Lan had the support of the two visitors, so she was not afraid. "If you
dare take out your hand and there's nothing wrong with it, then I'll
take back everything I've said."

Bai Qiulin narrowed his eyes. "You sure?"

"Yes! I'm sure! You're definitely not a normal visitor!" Zhang Lan
sounded confident.

"Fine, as you wish." Bai Qiulin pulled out his left arm; it was only an
empty sleeve. "Can't a disabled person visit the Haunted House?
Must you tear open my wound again? Now are you satisfied?"

Zhang Lan was stunned. She really did not expect Bai Qiulin's left
sleeve to have nothing.

"Xiao Lin, you've crossed the line this time." Mr. Zhou came
forward to try to calm everyone down. He smiled apologetically at Bai
Qiulin. "This girl doesn't mean anything bad. I understand what
you're feeling—I've been through something similar."

"This is just a misunderstanding." Duan Yue tried to persuade

Zhang Lan. "Stop being so suspicious. Isn't it the biggest taboo to
scare yourself inside a Haunted House?"

"No, I still think something is wrong with him. The two of you,

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follow me. We'll investigate the house together. I suspect he's lying
to us." With Zhang Lan leading the way, Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue
walked into the inner room. The paper money flew into the air.

"Not in this room." Zhang Lan walked into the bedroom. "The
mattress has been moved; someone has been in here before. That
Bai Qiulin was indeed lying! Mr. Zhou, you go and keep an eye on
him outside. Don't let him out of your sight."

"Okay," Mr. Zhou promised. He left the room with Duan Yue.

"I'll need to inform Sister Mao about this." Zhang Lan took out her
phone. She looked around the room before settling on the wooden
bed, "The only place large enough to hide someone is under the
bed."

The phone rang briefly before it was accepted by Sister Mao. "Xiao
Lan, I was about to call you, what happened to Huang Xing? We could
hear his scream from here. Did some accident happen?"

Zhang Lan squatted beside the bed. Her voice was urgent. "That
Bai Qiulin is suspicious! Do you remember that mental patient that
we ran into at the Haunted House overseas? I suspect either Bai
Qiulin is an employee or a madman on a rampage!"

"Okay, I understand. Where are you now? We'll meet up with you."

"There's a sedan outside this old home…" Zhang Lan looked below
the bed, and multiple red threads intertwined forming a web of sorts.
In the middle of the web was a man covered with a red wedding
dress.

"Huang Xing?"

"What's wrong? Xiao Lan, have you found Huang Xing?" Sister Mao
asked on the phone. Zhang Lan was about to reply when a cold hand
suddenly reached out from underneath the bed to grab at her!

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Zhang Lan's phone flew from her grasp. She wanted to go grab it
when she noticed a person standing beside her. The man's spine was
twisted, his neck snapped, but his bloody face made Zhang Lan feel
familiar.

"Bai Qiulin!" Zhang Lan was scared. She did not understand how
Bai Qiulin walked into the room with Mr. Zhou and Duan Yue
watching the door. She called out instinctually, "Mr. Zhou! Come help
me!"

The chopped hand silently ended the call. Hearing Zhang Lan, Mr.
Zhou and Duan Yue walked into the room. However, their looks had
completely changed. All three 'humans' squeezed inside the room to
give Zhang Lan triple the 'joy'.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."

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