None of the people in the rental house noticed that Chen Ge's shadow began to slowly change shape after absorbing the blood stains on the clay sculpture, like a sleeping woman gently turning over in a dream.

"Rest early, see you tomorrow." Chen Ge glanced at the watch on the wall, it was two o'clock in the morning.

He came out of the rental house, did not return to New Century Park, and took a taxi directly to the old town.

The dim light of the street lamp shone through the car window, and Chen Ge looked at the quiet city and tightened his collar.

There is a big difference between the old town at night and during the day, you can't see any lights, you can't hear any sound, and as Hanjiang continues to develop, fewer and fewer people live here, and most of them move to the new area.

Walking through the dark streets, it only took Chen Ge ten minutes to find the place where Wu Jinpeng had rented before.

The rental house is two blocks away from Fan Yu's home, where the environment is worse and the smell in the air is stronger.

"How did they live here all the time? Am I the only one who can smell the stench? Chen Ge remembered that when he came to look for Jiang Ming's mother during the day, the eldest sister of the neighborhood committee and Jiang Ming's mother didn't know if they were used to it or what was going on, they didn't seem to be able to smell the strange stench in the air at all.

Walking out of the alley, Chen Ge leaned on the rusty railing to the second floor of an old house, and he looked into the distance, this is not the most remote and dilapidated place in the old city.

“204…… Found it, this one. Chen Ge stopped, and in front of him was a wooden door painted with red paint, and a rusty iron chain was tied to the doorknob: "After Wu Jinpeng moved out, hasn't this room been rented out again?" ”

Flipping through the comic book, Chen Ge called out Mennan: "Brother Nan, help, go into this room and take a look, be careful not to go to the room next to you." ”

The innermost room 205 on the second floor is the room where Wu Kun once said that there is a ghost, and it is also the tenant of that room who gave Wu Jinpeng a shrine and a clay sculpture, for the sake of insurance, Chen Ge only let Mennan enter room 204 first, and if there is no harvest, he will call out a few more red clothes to enter room 205 together.

Blood dripped down the crack in the door, and Mennan disappeared for less than a minute before it reappeared: "Everything is normal in the house, I don't see any problems, but I always feel a little uncomfortable staying inside." ”

"You take Xu Yin, take these red high heels, and then go to room 205 next to you."

The three red-clothed entered room 205, and a few seconds later, there was a sudden sound in the room, as if a knife had pierced a balloon filled with water, and then Chen Ge heard the sound of bones dislocation and tearing.

"What happened?"

The blood on the door panel spread, and the heavy smell of blood drifted uncontrollably around, Chen Ge knew what Mennan had encountered, and decisively flipped through the comic book to release Xiaobu and the red raincoat.

It was like hell on earth, but the lights on the other side of the corridor five or six meters away were turned on, and a man's dissatisfied shouting and footsteps could be heard.

Just as the family was about to come out, the door of the No. 205 rental house in front of Chen Ge was suddenly opened from the inside.

"Chen Ge, come and see!"

Flashing into the room, Chen Ge instinctively covered his mouth and nose, and the room was filled with a strong smell.

Gently closing the door, Chen Ge used his pupils to look at the rental house.

The size of the hut is not large, only more than thirty square meters, the walls are covered with yellowed newspapers, and there is dust everywhere, this place has not been inhabited for a long time.

"What were you guys fighting against?" Chen Ge was a little curious.

"It's not a thing, it's a curse." Mennan tore off the newspaper pasted on the wall, and the back of the newspaper and the wall of the rental house were all covered with fine pieces of hair and small pieces of black blood, which looked very terrible.

"These are curses?"

"Well, the broken hair and blood stains come from different people, when we came in just now, we saw those cursed black threads entangled, all over the room, as long as someone accidentally came in, they would be tricked, and they were cursed unconsciously." Mennan motioned for Chen Ge to step back and not get too close to the wall.

"Is the curse in this room the same as the curse in Liwan Town?"

"It's different." Only Chen Ge's knee-high Mennan held the red high heels and said seriously: "According to what this sister said, the curse in the rental house is just another curse that escapes from the negative emotions when it is completed. ”

"So someone has done a horrible curse in this rental house?"

"It can be understood that after all, the negative emotions that escape are only a tiny part." Mennan nodded, he himself is the kind of rigorous and rigid character.

"The tiniest fraction of negativity can make a room look like this, but how vicious is the curse itself? How scary? ”

"I can't imagine it, at least this sister has never seen such a terrible curse." Mennan held up the red high heels: "Can you help me get them?" To be reasonable, I'm definitely not afraid of her, but I don't feel comfortable holding her shoes. ”

"Can you tell what the curse has to do with what remains in this room? Or can you see who the curse is for? Chen Ge ignored Mennan's request.

"We don't know who this curse is for, but we see some information on the walls, and the curse is made up of nine parts." Mennan tore off all the newspapers on the innermost wall of the rental house.

On the walls covered in broken hair and blood was a small figure with many words written crookedly on the body.

"What is a person?"

"How can I make a person?"

"The eyes that see the world, the ears that hear sounds, the mouth that can communicate, the body that contains the soul......"

"People also need to have memories, layers of the past."

"What is light?"

"Warmth, yes, people have temperature."

"They say that people should also have love, what is love?"

"It seems that there is something very important missing, think about it, what else does he have that I don't have?"

Lines of text cut the villain's body into nine parts, each of which was a different color.

"Is this painting a curse?" Chen Ge was a little puzzled.

"It's not so much a curse as the owner's dream, and that's probably what he thinks about the most when he casts the curse." Mennan added after a moment: "This curse gives us a very special feeling, as if a growing seedling is hidden in the thick aura of death. ”

"Nine parts, corresponding to nine children, it is likely that the one who left this curse was the Underworld, who also lived in the old town?"

There were no other clues in the house, so Chen Ge called back a few red-clothed people and walked out of the rental house.

"If someone accidentally gets in, that's a bad thing." Chen Ge locked the house, and he was going to wait for time in the future to "clean up" the hut.

"It seems that someone in this room is about to come out just now, and since he hasn't slept yet, I just asked him something." Chen Ge walked to the other side of the second floor, this cottage was different from the house, with a layer of security doors on the outside and a wooden door on the inside, and it seemed that the people living in the house were not ordinary tenants.

"Anyone?"

Chen Ge knocked lightly on the door, and a moment later a middle-aged man's very irritable voice came from the room: "Don't knock!" ”

The wooden door inside the rental house was opened, and a sloppy middle-aged man with the smell of sweat standing at the door: "Did you make such a big noise outside just now?" You're new here? What time is it and you don't go to bed, you do this again, be careful I call the police! ”

"There's no need to trouble the police for this little thing, I want to ask you a few questions." Chen Ge smiled politely: "It's not for nothing, if you answer it well, I'll give you a hundred yuan for a question." ”

"Are you sleepwalking? At two or three o'clock in the morning, you ran to my door and asked questions? The middle-aged man seemed to realize something, and looked around: "Are you recording a spoof show?" ”

"First question, who is the landlord of this building?"

"I'm the landlord, what's wrong? Are you here to rent a house? Let's go, I won't rent someone like you. The middle-aged man himself was very sloppy, and his eyes were full of disgust when he looked at Chen Ge.

"Second question, has room 205 in the innermost part of the hallway been rented out recently?" Chen Ge's lazy nonsense, if it weren't for the generosity of others, he would have closed the door a long time ago.

"Room 205 was rented out five or six years ago, and the tenant paid me every year, and he didn't live here often, so I kept the house for him." The middle-aged man scratched his sticky hair.

"You didn't rent it to anyone else?"

"No, people always pay me half a year in advance, and they will give more each time."

"What does that tenant look like? Do you know what a profession to do? Chen Ge had a feeling in his heart that this tenant was a ghostly fetus.

"Why should I tell you? Do you think tenant information can be leaked casually? The middle-aged man pouted.

"Tell me that person's appearance characteristics and occupation, and I'll give you another five hundred."

"He was a student, he moved here for the first time five years ago, and it seemed that he had a quarrel with his family and ran away from home, and he seemed to have just entered junior high school at that time, and he didn't have much money on him." The middle-aged man exposed the information of the 205 tenant in detail: "He looks very average, has long hair, is not in good health, often coughs, and likes to talk in his sleep." ”

"Is that all? What you said is too general, such children are everywhere on the street, how can I find them? Chen Ge himself didn't have much hope.

"You want to go to him?" The middle-aged man stared at Chen Ge up and down for a long time, and then stretched out a finger: "You give me a thousand, and I'll tell you a way to find him." ”

"No problem."

"After he ran away from home for a while, his mother came to see him. He was not in the rental house at the time, and his mother told me that if he came back, he would ask him to go to Huai'ai Hospital in the eastern suburbs to find her, and his mother seemed to be the head nurse of Huai'ai Hospital. The middle-aged man was not so sleepy anymore, although it was almost three o'clock in the morning, his eyes were shining at the thought of earning two thousand less by answering a few questions.

"This information is crucial, as long as you don't lie to me." Chen Ge opened the zipper of his backpack.

"How could I lie to you? Hurry up and get the money, I'll do the math, it's all two thousand yuan! When the middle-aged man saw Chen Ge open the backpack, his greedy eyes unconsciously glanced into the backpack, and found that a living person's spine was obliquely inserted in the bulging backpack.

“？”

Rubbing his eyes, the middle-aged man looked into the backpack again, in addition to the spine of the living person, there was also a pair of bloody women's high heels in the backpack!

Lunatic? Perverted? Murderer? Fetishist?

Cold sweat ran down the middle-aged man's face, and he took a small step back.

"My phone is out of battery, you open the door, I'll give you cash." Chen Ge's body was pressed against the iron door outside, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose: "Just open a thin slit." ”

"No, there's no need, it's just a few or a few questions, what kind of money do you want?" The middle-aged man took a step back: "I answered everything that should be answered, and I don't know the rest, that kid hasn't come back for a long time, I guess he won't come back here in the future, so it's better for you to go to other places to find him." ”

"Okay." Chen Ge nodded, and in a responsible attitude, he asked the landlord again: "Do you really want money?" ”

"No, no, really not!" The middle-aged man waved his hand again and again, and then closed the wooden door inside.

"It seems that there are still a lot of good people in the world." Chen Ge walked downstairs with his backpack: "I haven't heard of Huaiai Hospital, it should be a private hospital, I will go over tomorrow to have a look." ”

Stretching his waist, Chen Ge ran out of the old city without looking back.

"By daybreak, there will be only five nights left."

When Chen Ge returned to the staff lounge of his haunted house, it was almost dawn, and he was lying on the bed and had just charged his mobile phone when he saw a message from Li Zheng.

"Urgent! Come back as soon as you see the message! ”

"Chen Ge, see the information and return quickly!"

There are many similar messages, Chen Ge knew that the matter was urgent, and immediately called Li Zheng's phone.

The phone was connected after only one ring, and Li Zheng's voice came from the phone: "Chen Ge, are you okay?" ”

"How could anything happen to me?" Chen Ge was confused.

"Yesterday we locked the location of Jia Ming and his party, and arrested them late at night, the little boy's father Zhen Lao was killed by the suspect Kitano, the little boy's mother Yu Wangqing was seriously injured and was being rescued, the suspect Kitano was killed, but Jia Ming and the little boy were not at the scene, we blocked all roads and did not see them."

"How could Jamin escape with a child?"

"Jia Ming used Kitano and the child's parents as bait from the beginning, he deliberately exposed it, and then took the opportunity to transfer, buying time for himself with the lives of his companions, this guy is vicious and doesn't look like a person."

"He really can't be regarded as a human being, but Team Li, why did you suddenly tell me this?" Li Zheng usually doesn't tell Chen Ge these internal information, since he chose to tell Chen Ge, it means that what happened later may be related to Chen Ge.

"Jia Ming, they didn't leave Hanjiang because they were looking for something, we don't know what he's looking for for the time being, but we found a lot of information related to you in his hiding place, and their next target is likely to be you!"

"Looking for me? That's a ...... It's horrible. Chen Ge almost said the four words "I can't ask for it" directly.