Chapter 1068 - Coffin That Buries the Past [2 in 1] (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

When he returned to Coffin Village this time, Chen Ge was admittedly a bit excited. When he last came, he only managed to capture a small number of ghosts, and he let most of them escape from him. Coffin Village was very unique compared to other scenarios. While other scenarios had their basis in urban legends, the ghosts here had their origins from folklore, and that made them stand out from the rest.

“The completion rate at Coffin Village’s mission is also very low. Basically, I just took a look behind the door before I was chased out again. I was not given the chance to give it a good exploration. Perhaps the secret of the woman from the well can be found behind the door.”

The woman from the well had been around for a very long time. She was a very mysterious figure and knew many secrets. In fact, she appeared to have entered the deeper part of the red city through her own blood door before.

The night breeze carried on the wind, but Chen Ge did not feel cold. If anything, he felt refreshed and energized. With Jiang Ling’s elder sister leading the way, Chen Ge entered Coffin Village once more.

Dragging the Doctor Skull Cracker’s Hammer and holding the comic in his hands, Chen Ge entered and checked every single house that they passed like he was a population checking member from the government. Every family in Coffin Village had at least one coffin inside their home. The tradition was used in the past to honor and appease their ancestors. Strange as that was, there was nothing wrong with that culture. However, due to the presence of the lady from the well, this tradition had been twisted, and coupled with the constant influence from the ‘door’, it had caused Coffin Village to become a very scary scenario.

Most of the people in the city would never imagine that such a secluded ‘paradise’ existed in the middle of the mountains.

“Even after so much time, it appears like nothing has changed about this place.” Coming back to Coffin Village, Chen Ge was feeling quite emotional. Looking at the ‘reward’ that he had reaped so far inside his comic, he was feeling quite satisfied. From the mouth of the village to the center of the village, the white lanterns above the houses shook unsettlingly. More and more shadows appeared at the small pavilion that was the city center.

The villagers that stayed there seemed to have been gathered together. However, they did not seem to be there to welcome Chen Ge. Every single one of them looked at him with a dark and empty expression. History repeated itself. When Chen Ge first entered Coffin Village, something similar had happened, but at the time, it was not the villagers and Chen Ge who had been caught in a lockdown at the city pavilion.

“A few of you look familiar.” Chen Ge and Jiang Ling’s sister took one step forward. “Don’t act like that. It’s not like there is a deep gulf of hatred between us. If anything, the last time I was here, I was being chased around the whole village by all of you. So, I should be the one that should be feeling a certain way, not the other way round.”

When Chen Ge spoke, the numerous Red Specters guarded beside him.

This time, the villagers were much more ‘obedient’. They looked and acted like normal villagers from a backward place that were going about their normal life. One of the doors of the bigger houses in the city opened. A woman covered in various accessories walked out from the courtyard. Her surname was Zhu. She was one of the most trusted confidants chosen by the woman from the well. Normally, it was this lady who managed everything that happened in the village.

“Hello, we meet again.” Chen Ge and his employees headed toward Ms. Zhu. The latter had a complicated expression on her face before she decided to receive Chen Ge and his entourage with a smile.

Ms. Zhu forced herself to ask, “Chen Ge, why have you come to us in the middle of the night again?”

“Everything is fine with Jiang Ling, so don’t you worry about that.” Chen Ge first discussed the update with Jiang Ling before he slowly segued into the real reason he was there. “Actually, I am here today because I have something that I wish to discuss with the Red Specter from your village. Don’t worry, I just want to discuss somethings with her. Nothing more.”

The moon was dark, and the wind was harsh. The villagers were huddled together. Ms. Zhu had her brows knitted in a deep lock. Those who did not know the truth would probably think that Chen Ge was some kind of heartless land developer who had gone there to give them an ultimatum—’Move away now, or I would come back tomorrow with the equipment to level this place.’

“After her last appearance, she has not appeared from behind the door. Even the ghost baby has been taken away.” Ms. Zhu looked at the Red Specters behind Chen Ge before she decided to tell the truth. There were two Red Specters at the Coffin Village. The woman from the well was unimaginably strong, but she had been seriously injured in her desire to reincarnate as a living human. On the other hand, the ghost baby was only slightly stronger than a normal Specter. In comparison, he was almost as powerful as Men Nan.

“That sounds like she might be in trouble behind the door.” Chen Ge thought about it for some time. “There is no other choice. Midnight is coming soon. Since she is unable to come out to see us, we will have to enter the door to find her.”

If not for the fact that he had been busy with every other thing in his life, Chen Ge would have returned to Coffin Village and visited the world behind its door a long time ago.

“Is that really a good idea?” For the villagers of Coffin Village, the woman from the well was almost their deity. They would make sacrifices and conduct ceremonies in her name, like how the traditional people would praise the river god, and that door was equal to the place where their ‘god’ lived.

“There is nothing wrong with it. When you lay everything out in the open, there won’t be any misunderstanding anymore.” Chen Ge remembered the location of the door. If there was one thing that he was proud of, it was his memory. After getting permission from Ms. Zhu, Chen Ge carried his backpack and led his employees to the home where the lady from the well had stayed when she was still alive. They found the door. When midnight struck, he pushed the door open with the aid from several Red Specters.

A thick blood fog rolled over to envelope his body. Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, and he soon discovered something was wrong.

“How is this possible?” Coffin Village behind the door had practically been leveled!

Scary scratches could be seen everywhere, and there were multiple lashes on the ground and walls that were probably left behind by chains and shackles!

“Coffin Village behind the door has been destroyed?” Chen Ge found it hard to believe his own eyes. He had his employees guard beside him, and he went on very high alert. “Blood vessels and curses have soaked into the ground. Just standing here puts me in a very unsettling feeling.”

Chen Ge took a careful look around. His eyes moved between the chains, the residual blood vessels, and curses.

“Is this Doctor Gao’s doing? When I met him at Li Wan City, he was hugging the skull of his own wife, and his whole body was wreathed in thick, iron chains.”

When Chen Ge encountered Doctor Gao at Li Wan City, he had already been a Top Red Specter, but after sharing the shadow’s heart with Zhang Ya, perhaps he had already transformed into a Demon God just like Zhang Ya.

“The Ghost Stories Society once visited Coffin Village, but they had returned empty-handed that time because of my interruption…”

The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more he was confident that the culprit behind this devastation was Doctor Gao, but he could not wrap his head around why Doctor Gao, who was already a Top Red Specter, would return to Coffin Village.

“Could it be that the woman from the well has really mastered the method to help a ghost reincarnate? Be it in life or after death, to raise his wife from the death has been the great obsession of Doctor Gao. To that end, it is possible that he would doing to make that happen.”

Humanity was a complicated thing, but something it could be incredibly simple. Doctor Gao was the perfect example. He was the best psychologist in Jiujiang, but at the same time, he was also the scariest madman in Jiujiang.

Standing at the destroyed village, Chen Ge’s expression was one of worry and concern.

“When I was doing the mission at Coffin Village, I ran into people from the Ghost Stories Society. One of them was Wu Fei, and the other one should have been carrying the dead body of Doctor Gao’s wife.

“At the time Doctor Gao was busy fighting outside the village, while Wu Fei entered the door. This arrangement had no problem. It was extremely logical…”

If the suspect was not Doctor Gao, Chen Ge would not have wasted so much time analyzing everything.

“Is it possible that Doctor Gao predicted his ending a long time ago? Was he prepared to become a Red Specter when he was still alive? After Wu Fei was led into the door in Coffin Village by the lady from the well, he became the opening for the woman to get to know the Ghost Stories Society, but at the same time, it became how Doctor Gao managed to confirm the location of the door at Coffin Village and the coordination of Coffin Village in the world behind the door.”