Chapter 124 - Possible Red Specter (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

One hour later, the middle-aged man came back to Hai Ming Apartments with the young man from Room 302. The young man had a bandage on his head, and his pupils were still quite unfocused.

“You’re finally home.” Chen Ge walked out from Room 304, his hand still holding the mallet. “Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt you, I just want to ask you some questions.”

The young man’s eyes darted about evasively before opening the door to his room. “Come in then.”

There was a thick stench in Room 302. Even the middle-aged man whose room was far from tidy had his hand over his nose. “How long has it been since you cleaned this place? Has some food gone sour or something?”

Chen Ge was confused. The room looked tidy, and the young man kept up his appearances; he did not look like a sleazy type of person.

“The things that have happened to me for the past two months felt like a dream.” The young man walked to his bed holding his head. He pulled out a black plastic bag from underneath it. It was filled with the carcasses of small animals. “It’s true, like a nightmare that I could not wake up from.”

Chen Ge glanced into the bag before his gaze fell back on the young man. “Now that your nightmare is over, you can tell us the things that you’ve been hiding.”

The young man dropped the bag aside and began with apology. “When I moved into this room three months ago, the landlady said that if I didn’t feel comfortable or ran into something weird, I could move out freely. That first night itself I had a nightmare; I dreamed about a leaking window. In the dream, I went to close it and saw a man standing inside the room next door.

“Initially, I didn’t pay it much attention, but after this dream repeated itself for a few times, one day, I suddenly realized that the man who was supposed to be in the room next door had entered my room. I tried to resist, but I couldn’t do anything. However, the man didn’t hurt me. He told me that he merely wanted some help from me.

“After that dream, my focus was lost for the whole morning. In the end, I decided to spend a night over at a friend’s place, but the man seemed to have attached himself to me. This time, in my dream, he appeared directly beside my bed.

“The man told me that there was no way I could escape. He said that as long as I helped him, he would stop bothering me. I believed what he said, so I started following his demands to capture some living small animals and threw them into Room 303. They were alive when I dropped them in, but when I went to take a look the next morning, the animals were all dead.

“There were no visible wounds on their bodies, so I had no idea what had killed them.” The more he continued, the more afraid the young man became. “I wanted to escape from the man in my dream, but his appetite grew. Initially, he just wanted a sparrow or a rat, but one week later, he asked me to leave him stray dogs, and the last time, he asked me to lure a living person into Room 303 after midnight.

“When I refused, he started to force me, threatening to kill me in my dream. I was at my wit’s end.”

The young man’s eyes were red and he lowered his head. “I told my friends about the dream, and the few of us entered Room 303 late at night, but nothing happened that night. Then, they stopped believing me, thinking I had lost my mind.

“I had no one to turn to, and the man’s presence became more solid. Even in the morning, I could feel him standing beside him, watching me.”

The young man’s hands moved to grip the bandage on his head. “At the time, I only wanted to get rid of him, so I did try to lure someone into Room 303, but it was too difficult.”