Chapter 82 - The Only Witness (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Fan Yu likes to visit Haunted Houses because he likes the company of ghosts? Chen Ge came to this unlikely answer after listening to all of Teacher Gao’s reasoning.

“I don’t dare diagnose this patient so easily. If you have time, you can bring him to see me.” Teacher Gao also had not come across such a patient before, and he wished to inspect him in person. “Psychological illnesses are very complicated, and there are too many uncertainties to their causes. It could be related to the boy’s living environment, personal trauma, or even genetic inheritance.”

Chen Ge did not answer. When he came up with the conclusion that Fan Yu liked the company of ghosts, an extremely scary thought cropped up in his mind!

He peeled open his raincoat to retrieve Fan Yu’s drawing from inside his pocket. The black house and the red little humans.

Before arriving at Mu Yang High School, Chen Ge had assumed that this referred to one of the buildings at the school, but none of the building there fitted Fan Yu’s drawing. If anything, the squat dilapidated room shared by Fan Yu and his aunt had a closer resemblance to the drawing.

If Fan Yu is really drawing about the house he’s living in and these red people… Even the hairs on Chen Ge’s arms stood on end. Fan Yu’s house is filled with ghosts‽

He was reminded of the scene when he went to visit Fan Yu that morning. The aunt had been incredibly worried while Fan Yu locked himself up in his bedroom with the door and window closed, his head lowered, fully focused on his drawing.

Every time, he only used the two colors, red and black. All of his drawings were about a black house and red people, but each drawing had a slight difference. Chen Ge’s lips paled. He clearly remembered that the position of the red people was different in every drawing.

He had originally thought that was Fan Yu just scribbling, but now thinking back, they represented the dirty things moving inside the house.

Fan Yu can see them?

Chen Ge sucked in a cold breath, and more details from when Fan Yu was inside his Haunted House continued to surface. When Chen Ge was talking to the little boy, the latter had kept looking behind Chen Ge, especially at his shadow.

Fan Yu had said two sentences inside the Haunted House, and both of them had been directed at Chen Ge. At the time, Chen Ge had assumed that the kid had taken a liking to him, but now he realized that the boy probably treated him as kindred spirit.

No wonder he’s afraid of sunlight and likes to visit Haunted House. The boy’s perception has been seriously twisted. Chen Ge gripped the phone tightly. He did not know why Fan Yu had turned out that way, but the boy’s various curious actions and the testimony from the woman had led Chen Ge to a scary speculation.

In a similarly rainy night a few years ago, the boy had disappeared. Tragedy had befallen his parents after they went to look for him. To able to kill two grown adults and deal with their bodies and crime scene on a stormy night required plenty of careful planning and preparation.

Although, viewing this from another perspective, if someone did have the intention to harm Fan Yu’s parents, why would a killer with the ability to hide the bodies perfectly and clear their every trace from the crime scene let Fan Yu go?

When his aunt told Fan Yu that his parents had gone to heaven, Fan Yu had examined the well closely because he said that heaven was inside the well. This meant that he knew his parents’ bodies were inside the well. He had seen everything—he was one of the witnesses—so the killer had no reason to let him live.

Chen Ge narrowed his eyes slightly as a chill coursed through his body. That is unless the killer knew the boy or was the boy himself!