Chapter 1138 - Look Into the Eyes of These Red Spectres and Reconsider Your Answer 2 in 1 (2/2)
“I am going to find that group of people who just left to ask them to return what they owe me.”
“They also owe you money?”
“Money?” The man in the red sheet showed off the stub that was hidden in his shirt sleeve. “They owe me an arm.”
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Inside the VIP room at the Jia Hao Night Club, several couple were grinding with lust and passion. The lights in the room flickered several times before they suddenly went out like someone had cut the wiring.
“F*ck! There’s a blackout? Where is the waiter?”
“Little Leopard! Why did you pick such a horrible place? How come there is not even one person out in the corridor?”
“This f*cking blows!”
The shrieking background music disappeared, and the night club became eerily quiet like everyone’s mouth had been sewn shut.
“Hello? Is anyone there? Motherf*cker! This place is the worst. What the hell are you people doing? Get me your boss over here now!” Brother Leopard and Brother Eagle followed behind a fat man. The three of them walked out from the room, and they turned many corners before they saw a man. The man was sitting in the lobby, wearing a blood red shirt.
“Hey! We’re talking to you! Are you deaf or what?” Brother Leopard kicked the sofa to the side. “Have you seen a waitress or waiter here?”
The man in the red shirt took a sip of the alcohol in the glass. Without even looking at Brother Leopard, he walked directly toward the fat man.
“This man is rather strange.”
“What are you doing! Stop right there!” Brother Leopard stood guardedly before the fat man.
“I owed you money in the past, and my boss told me that I need to return the money that I owe you.” The man in the red shirt took out a credit card from his pocket. “Inside this card, you will find the full amount of the money that I owed you.”
Brother Leopard turned to look at the fat man. The fatty did not ask for details. Since someone was there to deliver free money to them, why would they say no?
“I have received the money, so you can go now.” The fat man had this sneaking feeling that the man before him was rather familiar, and coupling that was a very bad feeling.
“Now that I have returned the money that I owe you, it is time for you to return what you have taken from me.” The middle-aged man had one of his hands placed inside his pocket. He stood in the middle of the lobby. Multiple blood vessels crawled down from the ceiling, and pools of blood spread on the ground.
“What is it that we have taken from you?” The fatty looked at the middle-aged man’s face. His eyes slowly widened. Suddenly, his expression scrunched up in fear as a name that he had almost forgotten floated up in his mind.
Bai Qiulin!
“Do you not remember it anymore?” The middle-aged man’s bloodshot eyes stared at the three in the lobby. The red shirt fluttered like blood, and the air of Yin energy raised the roof. “I have been searching for that arm for so long.”
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At 9:30 pm, Chen Ge summoned all the Red Specters at the underground scenario. After waiting for several minutes, Bai Qiulin finally arrived. The presence that radiated off the man was obviously different from before. The crack that he had from consuming Xiong Qing had been filled. There was now an energy in his eyes that forbade others from looking straight at him. Sensing the change in Bai Qiulin, Men Nan grumbled under his breath, “Great, yet another Red Specter that I cannot defeat. Yay.”
“Alright, everyone is here.” Chen Ge clapped his hands for silence. “I have called you all here because we are going to find and welcome our new colleagues.”
“Who are you lying to‽ Bringing so many Red Specter to welcome new colleagues? Aren’t you afraid they are going to get scared to their second death?” Men Nan gibbered and then turned enviously to look at Bai Qiulin. “When will it be my turn to get stronger?”
“There will be nine new colleagues in total. I have written down their information and unique background. Please memorize them lest we get the wrong person.”
After all the Red Specters had memorized the details, Chen Ge summoned everyone back into the comic and then hailed a cab to leave the haunted house. The first place he visited was an apartment building at the old city. The life tempo here was very slow; the tenants were mainly the elderly and children.
He climbed all the way to the fourth floor and stopped before the door of the public bathroom. The old door was sealed shut by wooden boards. The landlord had even added two large locks and several yellow talismans on the door.
“This should be the place.” Chen Ge took out the hammer from his backpack and broke down the locks. He pushed open the bathroom door and saw the magazine and newspapers that littered the ground. “It appears like this bathroom has been vacated for a long time.”
Following the information provided by the black phone, Chen Ge came to the fourth cubicle. He shook the cubicle door and realized that the cubicle was locked from the inside. Turning to walk to the third cubicle, he gathered the newspapers from the ground to form a pile and stood on them. Over the cubicle wall, he used Yin Yang Vision and looked into the fourth cubicle. Inside the cramped space sat an uncle wearing black-rimmed glasses. The uncle looked tired and disinterested in everything. Even though he had realized that a living person was standing next to him, he could not gather the energy to scare Chen Ge.
“Hey! Would you like to follow me to change your life?” Chen Ge shouted at the uncle.
The middle-aged man sitting on the toilet looked left and right before lifting his head with confusion. He extended his finger to point at himself. “You can see me?”
“Of course, I own a haunted house. Isn’t it perfectly normal for me to be able to see a ghost?” Chen Ge smiled kindly at the middle-aged man. “Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and start a new life?”
“No, I am not.” The middle-aged man lowered his head to turn back to his newspaper. He had no interest in answering Chen Ge.
“I wish for you to welcome your new life with me. How about you become an employee at my haunted house?” Chen Ge flipped through the comic. The sound of pages turning rang out inside the small bathroom.
“Do you have nothing else better to do?” The middle-aged man lifted his head with annoyance. By then, the whole public bathroom was covered in blood vessels. Soon, more than ten Red Specters’ heads floated up, surrounding his cubicle.
“I am serious. Why don’t you look into the eyes of these Red Specters and reconsider your answer?” Chen Ge asked with some sincerity.
Putting down the newspaper, the middle-aged man who was surrounded by the Red Specters blasted out from the cubicle and reached to grab Chen Ge’s hand. “I knew I could find a friend in you once I laid my eyes on you. From today, my life is yours.”
“Er… have you washed your hands?”
“Aristotle once said, those who sit on the toilet might not be pooping. They could be searching for the corner of human life, thinking about the ultimate secret of the universe.”
“You are familiar with the study of philosophy?”
“Er, well, I know one or two things about it.”