Chapter 987 - A Bright Choice [2 in 1] (1/2)

The man’s body was fading like his spirit was leaving. He was not long for this world. It was only a matter of time before his spirit dispersed into nothingness.

“My nightmare started then. The house was surrounded by fresh flowers and filled with laughter, but it was really a house of nightmares. We were all the shadow’s playmates, but everyone’s laughter was forced. The shadow planted the curse on everyone, but since I let Fang Yu go, he hated me a lot, and for that, he planted many curses on me. I suffered more pain than anyone else but that also made me stronger than the rest. In a way, the shadow didn’t act like a Specter. He was in fact growing like a real person.

“Eventually, he stopped having any use for imaginary friends. What he needed was a guardian. He slaughtered all his previous ‘family’ because he only needed one survivor.

“After surviving the most pain and curses, I was the last ‘survivor’, the shadow seemed to like that a lot. At the time, I didn’t know why, but later, I realized that it was all part of his plan. The shadow kept coming and going until the day he brought this altar.”

The man glanced behind him. “There was a mud statuette inside it, and it had Fang Yu’s name on it. When I saw her name, I had a bad feeling. I needed to leave this place and tell Fang Yu to leave Jiujiang, but everything was within the shadow’s calculations. He purposely let me get close to Fang Yu so that the curse could be planted on her and her body could be made into his.”

The man’s words surprised Chen Ge. That was something Chen Ge did not expect. “The shadow wanted to turn Fang Yu into his own body?”

“Yes, there appeared to be something else inside his body. The thing possessed his memory and emotions. He seemed like he wanted to use Fang Yu’s body to nurture that thing.”

“A ghost fetus?”

“Yes, I think I heard the shadow mention something like that.” This time, it was the man’s turn to get shocked. “How is it possible that you know that?”

“You don’t need to know how I know that. Just keep on telling your story.” Chen Ge kept his focus sharp and pointed. He refused to miss even the smallest word. This was the chance that he was given to get as much information as he could on the shadow and the ghost fetus.

“The shadow appeared to be being chased by someone or something, but as he continued to grow, he stopped caring about those things that had been chasing him. Of the entire Jiujiang, there was one place that he did not dare to go—Western Jiujiang.”

The more Chen Ge listened to the man’s story, the more he felt like the shadow in the story was the shadow that he had encountered in Li Wan City. But the shadow in the man’s story still had not separated himself from the ghost fetus, and his power was at its prime.

“The shadow searched all over Jiujiang and found nine altars in total. The one behind me is one of them. The nine altars contain nine mud statuettes that he personally made with his own hands. Each mud statuette relates to one person. Each represents one of his bodies.”

“Wait a minute, I do not think I get what you are saying. What do you mean by each mud statuette represents one of his bodies? Does it mean that I will have killed the shadow if I manage to destroy all the mud statuettes?” Chen Ge now had found three altars. There were two altars inside the futuristic theme park, but one of them did not contain a mud statuette, so that was probably a fake. They probably made a replica of the altar from the real altar that the shadow or someone from the management at the futuristic theme park had moved into the Reincarnation Haunted House.

“I have no idea what will happen after you destroy all of the mud statuettes, but I would advise you not to do that. The shadow is different from any other Specter. You won’t be able to kill him. No one is able to kill him.” The man did not hold back any information. After all, he had nothing to lose. He was going to die from the curse that the shadow had planted on his body. He told Chen Ge everything he knew. “I have been carrying this altar for many years. Eventually, I noticed that the shadow left his presence on the altar, like the altar is an extension of the shadow itself. I suspect that the shadow is using the altars to have the mud statuettes inside them get used to his presence so that it will be more convenient for him to attach the ghost fetus to the candidates.”

His voice was getting softer and softer, his breath getting ever weaker. “This altar used to be very scary, but some time ago, I don’t know what happened to the shadow, but the presence around the altar suddenly weakened, and it became a lot more normal.” This period that the man mentioned should be around the time when Chen Ge cooperated with Doctor Gao to deal with the shadow in Li Wan City.

Looks like the shadow’s death has caused a certain influence on the ghost fetus.

Chen Ge stood up and looked into the altar. The inside walls of the altar had the word ‘Death’ carved all over then, but different from the altars at the futuristic theme park, there were nine blood soaked paper dolls stuffed inside this altar at the old house.

“Yet another nine paper dolls?” There was nothing on the paper dolls. They had no names, and they all looked about the same. “Nine altars, nine mud statuettes, and nine paper dolls. What is the ghost fetus planning to do with all these?”

Chen Ge’s brows creased in thought. He tried to put himself in the shoes of the ghost fetus and see things from his perspective. “If I were the ghost fetus, at the most important moment when I’m about to reincarnate into a living person, I will ensure that there is no interruption from the outside world…”

Chen Ge felt like he had touched upon an important clue, but he did not have the time to figure it out because the man on the ground was about to fade away. Chen Ge turned his focus back to the man and tried his best to help him.

“You do not need to care about me. Just leave me be. The shadow’s curse still lingers on my body. When I exposed this information to you, it was destined that I would fade away and die.” The man seemed to have accepted his fate. “I thought I would surrender to the curse in the end, would be forced to do something that would harm Fang Yu, but this… this is the best ending that I could have hoped for.”