Chapter 21 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao flagged a taxi and said a location.

Ten minutes later, he alighted at a residential area.

It was an old residential area, similar to the place where Chen Hao’s rented apartment was at. It belonged to a more dilapidated area of the Stone City.

Nowadays, the development of the city was determined by what its citizens wanted.

At places where people loved to gather, there would be all kinds of retail stores and land prices would surge. That would, in turn, attracted more people, and the cycle repeated, developing that area.

And at some places, although it looked good, if people did not frequent it, the land would be worthless. Even if you lowered the price, people wouldn’t want it. The only choice was to keep it and wait till it got into the favor of the rich.

The old estate area looked dilapidated. The houses were all from the seventies and city planning wasn’t done properly. The place would flood whenever it rained. Most people who resided at this place were either the elderly or people who rented houses in the area.

Chen Hao followed the road signs and walked along the streets into the innermost area.

A few minutes later, he stopped outside an old and shabby yard.

The yard was even older than the surrounding buildings, similar to the yards of tile-roofed houses in villages.

At that moment, the door was sealed with a strip of paper—it was evident from the worn color of the paper that it had been there for quite some time.

This was the third location.

Chen Hao chose this location not because he wanted to see ghosts, but rather because he was curious.

The cases here were extremely strange. There were no deaths, but two people were driven crazy.

About five years ago, the owner of this yard was an elderly who died alone in the hospital, after which said elderly’s three children suddenly appeared to fight over the property.

After all, Stone City back then was developing at a rapid rate, so the prospects were great. The three children of the elderly—two sons and a daughter—all felt that if such a big yard was developed, it would bring in a lot of cash. Naturally, none of them would want to give it up.

In the end, the eldest kid who was already working was the most vicious. He used some unscrupulous means to chase his younger siblings away and occupied the yard on his own.

This was just a common story of unfilial children fighting for inheritance.

But after the eldest child moved into the house with his girlfriend, he never left it.

Three days later, the second child who was dissatisfied with the conclusion wanted to try again. Upon entering, he gasped before calling the police immediately.

What he saw was his brother and his girlfriend with unkempt clothes and strange expressions. They were tearing and biting at each other, screaming that they were hungry… In that situation, there wasn’t even a need to describe how scary it was.

When the police arrived later, the eldest child and his girlfriend were diagnosed as mentally unsound. It had been three days since they ate, so when they saw the police, they almost bit them.

But no one knew how they became crazy. There were no signs of fighting in the house, nor were there any signs of destruction or burglary, removing any possibility of it happening due to crime.

The second and third children were not upset and rejoiced instead. After all, without their selfish brother, the house would belong to the two of them.

But on the same night, both the second and third child ran to the yard, screaming at the top of their voices, “Ghosts… Ghosts…”

This situation was evidently different, so the police came to investigate once again. From the statements of the second and third children, the police understood that they saw their deceased father. Said father questioned them relentlessly and even wanted to drag them to death. This scared the living hell out of the two people, who obviously decided to run.

This mysterious phenomenon was outside the control of the police. They tried several times but did not see the said ghost, so they could only seal the house to prevent such accidents from happening again.

Afterward, perhaps because Stone City’s development wouldn’t expand over, the price of the land wouldn’t increase, so the second and third children stopped appearing as well.

For these kinds of cases that didn’t escalate to murder cases, it must have been quite an effort for Zhou Gang to find it.

The reason why Chen Hao came was to see what drove the people mad.

It was all nonsense to say that it was a ghost. If someone who had just passed on could appear in front of others this easily, Liu Yue’e wouldn’t need his help to deal with Wang Hu.

Not only that, but those were also two adults, one of whom was a vicious character who could drive his biological siblings away. For him to go crazy, there must be something else.