Chapter 340 - It Split (2/2)

The black robe has been tailing us and only made his move after he made sure Zhang Ya was asleep. When he saw me, the second sentence out of his mouth was uttered in the voice of the investigator. Chen Ge frowned. There was not anything particularly suspicious about the black robe. Is he still alive? The blood vessels carried his soul and escaped? Or did he hide his real consciousness somewhere else, like how it was with that dead investigator?

Chen Ge thought back to the woman’s reaction when she picked up the black robe and realized the key might have been that robe.

“This is such a waste.” Zhang Ya was asleep, and he had no power to demand the robe from that woman. “The one who pushed open the door seemed to be more powerful than a normal Red Specter inside the door.”

Chen Ge gave it some thought after leaving the old home. He decided not to return to the well but find a place to hide until dawn. Chen Ge led the two children to the middle of the village. He crawled through the secret tunnel to reach the two-story building.

“Granny, are you asleep?” Chen Ge carried the two children into the room, and when he went upstairs, the old lady was not in the small room.

“Where is she?” Chen Ge put down Jiang Ling and grabbed the hammer. “The old lady’s legs are seriously atrophied, so she couldn’t move on her own. Someone got here before me?”

All the furniture in the room looked tidy and untouched. If the old lady had been forcefully taken away, the place would not have been so clean. Chen Ge tapped Fan Yu’s shoulder. “Can you see anyone inside this room?”

“No.” Fan Yu shook his head.

“Then where can she disappear to?”

A baby’s crying filled up the room. The place was not big. Chen Ge ransacked the place, but he could not find the old woman.

“This is weird.” Chen Ge placed the unconscious Jiang Ling on the bed. He sat on the ground. He was about to take a breather when a gunshot was heard from the western end of the village!

“A gunshot‽ Is that Ol’ Wei?” Chen Ge climbed up from the ground. “They’ve returned? Or have some accidents befallen them? Or has backup arrived?”

There was only one gunshot before the world became quiet again. Chen Ge was worried about Master Bai and Ol’ Wei’s safety, so he led Fan Yu and Jiang Ling out of the house and headed for the western part of the village. By then, the sun was coming up.

When Chen Ge arrived at the western part of the village, No. 10 had left. Xiong Qing and the ghost baby had disappeared. Only the fainted villagers remained.

“What happened here after I left?” Chen Ge grabbed a villager to ask, but the man was too traumatized to say anything other than the repeating, “It split. It split.”

Chen Ge was not sure whether that was local slang or something really did split. He looked around and saw the Zhu woman collapsed next to the well. Her hair was a mess, and she looked horrible.

“Can you hear me?” Due to his work, Chen Ge was very good at treating fainting spells. With his aid, the woman slowly awakened.

“Don’t worry, the black robe has already left.” Chen Ge held the weakened woman in his arms. “Can you tell me what happened here? Where is the black robe carrying the wooden box?”