Chapter 119 - He Has Returned (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Use his head to hit the wall? Like something had drilled into his brain?”

Chen Ge thought about what the man had said and realized that Wang Haiming’s condition was rather similar to Zhang Peng’s. They were both possessed by something, but Zhang Peng had chosen to cooperate while Wang Haiming had decided to struggle.

Midnight was the time of the day when the Yin energy was most concentrated and thus the time when those things were at their most active. It explained why Wang Haiming acted up every day near midnight.

Chen Ge decided to continue this line of questioning. “Boss, other than the nightly madness, did Wang Haiming perform any other weird actions?”

“When he first came out of the mental hospital, he felt normal, a little reticent if anything. However, after prolonged interaction, we discovered how weird he really was. He seemed fine in the day and sometimes would even greet others, but he changed into a different man as night fell. Banging his head against the wall, talking to mirror and the walls, strangling his own neck until his face was purple, but he still would not let go.”

Through the man’s description, Chen Ge discovered a thing or two about Wang Haiming’s past. Wang Haiming’s second wife cheated him out of all his money and sent him to a mental hospital. If this was a set up, then Wang Haiming had probably been totally normal before he entered the hospital. A normal person entered the hospital and came out not normal.

He probably brought the thing back from the hospital. An answer slowly settled in Chen Ge’s heart, and he asked another question, “Do you mind giving me the details of Wang Haiming’s death?”

The man raised the bottle in his arm to take a big gulp. “I don’t know why you’re so interested in a dead man, but listen to me, get out while you still can; the place is cursed.”

“Thank you, but I know what I’m doing.”

After more persuasion from Chen Ge, the man finally loosened his lips. “Before this, whenever Wang Haiming acted up, we could hear his screaming, and the tenants would go over to help or call the place. However, on the day of his death, none of us heard him. The next morning, when the landlady went to drop him food, his body had already gone cold.”

“What did the scene of his death look like?” Chen Ge asked. This was crucial if he wanted to reconstruct what happened to Wang Haiming.

The man gave Chen Ge a curious look. He could not understand why this young man was so interested in these things. “At the time, I was also there. There was a large hole on Wang Haiming’s forehead, and blood was splattered all over the wall between 303 and 304. His face was purple like he had died from asphyxiation. There were finger prints around his neck, but according to the police, they came from Wang Haiming himself.”

“So, he strangled himself to death?”

“The room was locked, and he was alone. The door and windows weren’t tampered with, so that seemed like the logical conclusion.” The man finished the beer and tossed the empty bottle away. “You done? Since the sun is still up, I want to go down to buy some beer.”

“Since the sun is still up?” Chen Ge glanced at the darkening sky and finished the conversation. “One last question, after Wang Haiming’s death, have there been any weird happenings around here?”

Chen Ge noticed the man’s face shift when he asked that question. The man glanced at the money in his palm and whispered to Chen Ge, “Many old tenants swear that they have seen Wang Haiming return.”

“But isn’t he dead?”