Chapter 988 - I’m Sorry, But Do You Know Fang Yu? [2 in 1] (1/2)

“First, you need to follow me to meet Fang Yu. I have promised her that I will bring you to meet her.” Chen Ge opened the comic. “I believe that you want to meet her as well too, right?”

The man nodded. “Yes, but I am afraid.”

“You want to meet her, and she wants to meet you; that is enough. We will work together to overcome any difficulty on the way.” Chen Ge communicated with Yan Danian and pulled the man into the comic. Taking out the black phone, Chen Ge had not received a new message. Even though the man agreed temporarily to listen to Chen Ge, he had not become an employee at the Haunted House. That was probably because he did not completely believe Chen Ge.

“Let’s go. This trip to the dam has reminded me that one can’t be too careful. This period is a very sensitive period; the ghost fetus is about to be born, so I have to stay on my toes.”

Chen Ge felt like there was a need for him to keep Doctor Skull Cracker’s Hammer on him at all times. He did not have any actual physical power that could threaten a ghost, but if he had the hammer, at least he had a chance to strike back. As the number of Trial Missions he had completed increased, Doctor Skull Cracker’s Hammer changed. Thin threads of blood vessels appeared on the grip, and the blood grooves in the hammerhead had collected some deep dark substance.

“It will be inconvenient to bring the hammer around everywhere with me, but now is not the time to be concerned about that.”

Putting away the red high heels and the boy with the stench, Chen Ge and Xu Yin once again returned to the altar. This time, without any other interruptions, they planned to give the altar a close study. The altar was definitely ‘older’ than Chen Ge. The shadow had probably found it from some blasted place, and it was not made by the shadow himself.

“Perhaps there was originally some Demon God that occupied the altar, but currently, the shadow has taken over their homes.”

Chen Ge was reminded of the painting that he had seen at the futuristic theme park, the completed evil demon that was constructed from the body parts of twenty-four other demons.

“If these nine paper dolls correspond to the nine missing evil demon pictures, can I establish that the ghost fetus is trying to use these nine paper dolls to construct his own body? The picture of the demon has appeared at many places before. Both Doctor Gao and Chang Wenyu knew about it. And now even the ghost fetus has dabbled with the use of this demon. It appears like this demon is a symbol of something important.”

Without any evidence and with too few clues, Chen Ge could only make some speculations. He wanted to take the altar home with him, but he was stopped by both Xu Yin and the headless woman. Getting such a reaction from the Red Specters surprised Chen Ge. The altar that was filled with the death characters appeared to be a very cursed object. Without touching the altar, Chen Ge placed the mud statuette with Fang Yu’s name on his own shadow. The black blood on the mud statuette slowly disappeared as if it was being absorbed by Chen Ge’s shadow.

“There must be more than these few altars in Jiujiang. I will try my best to find more mud statuettes. Hopefully, that means Zhang Ya will be able to wake up earlier.”

Chen Ge was somewhat stressed inside even though he did not show it on the surface. Normally, after a Red Specter consumed another Red Specter, they would hibernate for a long time, but due to many various reasons, even after Zhang Ya had a feast, she would only need a short time to rest before she returned to normal. Other than that, there were times that she had awakened from her hibernation due to certain incidents like when they were at the School of the Afterlife.

Even though the shadow had been separated from the ghost fetus, the shadow himself was a Top Red Specter. After he was split and ingested by Zhang Ya and Doctor Gao, Zhang Ya had awakened after a few days of hibernation, this caused serious damage to the Red Specter. Taking a tour around the house, after making sure Chen Ge did not miss any clues, he left the place. He was unable to get a taxi near the damn. To get back to the city as early as he could, Chen Ge raced down the highway.

Finally, he ran into a van driver who was kind enough to drive him to the city. Chen Ge returned to the residential area where Fang Yu stayed at around 11:45 pm. The sky was still drizzling, and through the hazy yellowish glow from the streetlights, the scenery took on a sepia tone. Chen Ge had no idea which floor Fang Yu stayed at. He first knocked on the door of the elder, and then with the elder leading the way, he went to the fourth floor. The fat aunty had not gone to sleep; she had been waiting for Chen Ge to come back with news.

The doors were pushed open. The aunty’s expression became very excited when she saw that it was Chen Ge. “Did you find the person?”

Chen Ge first returned the umbrella to the aunty and then looked into the room. “Is Fang Yu here?”

“She lives in the innermost room. I’ll get her.”

“There is no need.” Chen Ge took out the comic from his backpack. He walked to the bedroom door and knocked lightly on the door. “I have found Fang Yu.”

The door was pulled open in that instant. Fang Yu, who was dressed in pajamas, stood at the door. Her exposed skin was tattooed with the name Fang Yu. The first impression it gave was horror, but as he looked at it longer, he felt something like pain and sadness.

“Where is he?”

Chen Ge’s gaze leaped over Fang Yu and looked into the room. Inside the room that was not that big, all the items were neatly organized. There were paper notes stuck to wall, and the notes contained reminders that could not have been more normal for a person. ‘Put on your clothes after waking up’, ‘brush your teeth’, ‘wash your face’, ‘place your identification card inside your wallet’, ‘place your wallet inside your left pocket’…

Fang Yu tried her best to live her life, repeating every day that was a new day for her. Taking one step forward into the room, Chen Ge closed the door and locked it. He pulled the curtains shut. Sniffing the scent of flower in the room, he reached out to switch off the light. With Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see Fang Yu clearly in the dark. Suddenly being placed in the darkness, Fang Yu was quite afraid. Flipping the comic pages, a man’s figure appeared in the bedroom.

The streetlight filtered through the curtain, and it shone a weak light into the room. The gentle light fell on the spot behind Chen Ge, and the silhouette of a man could just about be picked out. Ten years ago, when they parted at the junction, the man had retained the look from that day, and Fang Yu had been repeating the memory of that day. The man that appeared inside the room at that moment overlapped with the person from Fang Yu’s memory.

When they last met, Fang Yu had stood at the junction. She had turned back to look like usual, but she had failed to find the man who was supposed to stand there. She had stood alone at the junction before she was swallowed by the bustling city crowd. A decade had passed, but time did not seem to leave any trace on these two individuals. The room was very quiet. No one spoke, and it passed like that for several minutes.

The man and Fang Yu suddenly looked at one another, and they both uttered the same name.