"calm!"

Chen Ge quietly climbed onto the embankment, slowly approached the mother and son, and shouted when he was five or six meters away from them.

At this distance, even if the other party does something impulsive, he will have enough time to rescue him.

Hearing Chen Ge's voice, the mother looked behind her in surprise. She didn't seem to expect that someone would come here so early in the morning.

"Can we talk?" Chen Ge stretched out his hand. He stopped where he was, keeping a suitable distance so as not to bring too much psychological pressure to the other party.

After going through so much, Chen Ge is now almost like a professional suicide interventionist.

"Did you misunderstand something?" The woman smiled and took the boy's hand and wanted to go back to the embankment, but the boy disagreed. He made a whimpering sound and resisted with all his strength.

The woman's tone of voice and expression when she spoke were very normal, not like someone who had been forced into a dead end by life.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Chen Ge slowly walked towards the mother and son. "How could you bring your child over the guardrail? It's too dangerous. What if he slips and falls? This reservoir is very deep. It is said that there are big fish nearly two meters long living in it."

"I'm really sorry. I'll be more careful next time." The woman held the boy's hand and blocked his body in front of him, as if she didn't want Chen Ge to see the child's face.

"Don't get too close to the water, especially children." Chen Ge knew that there was a water ghost in the Donggang Reservoir. The little boy was standing on the edge of the dam, trying to reach out and touch the water. If a water ghost appeared at this time, the consequences would be disastrous.

It took a lot of effort for the woman to drag the boy behind the fence. The child seemed unable to speak. He made indistinct sounds in his throat, grabbed the railing with both hands, and kept making a lot of noise.

"He seems to like water very much?" Chen Ge felt something was wrong.

"It's not that he likes water, he just likes to play in Donggang Reservoir. I don't know why, but if he doesn't come to Donggang Reservoir once a day, he will make a fuss all day long."

"Your child..." Chen Ge's eyes passed over the woman and looked at the child she was protecting behind her.

The child had a very cute face, but perhaps because he cried frequently, his eyes were particularly red and bloodshot, not as clear as other children's eyes.

"I'll be careful next time." The woman did not answer Chen Ge's question. She didn't want to discuss her child with others.

Holding the boy's hand, the woman said to him gently, "It's time to go."

There was a hint of heartache and care in her voice. It was obvious that she loved this child very much, even though this child was different from other children.

"I heard something from the reservoir manager before, but I don't know if it's true or not." Chen Ge said softly, "He told me that there are water ghosts in this reservoir, and there is also a sunken coffin. Some children saw a bunch of black grass floating by the water, and they went to check it out out of curiosity. In fact, those water grasses are the hair of the water ghosts. When children get close to the water, they will be dragged down by the water ghosts and locked in the coffin."

When Chen Ge said these words, he was keeping an eye on the child. He did not notice any abnormal reaction from the boy.

"You still believe these? The administrator should want to warn the children who come to the reservoir to play not to let them swim in the water casually." The woman did not believe these legends about ghosts.

"I have some photos here." Chen Ge took out his mobile phone. He found the photos of the police salvaging the bodies from the reservoir, as well as the photos of the large number of dolls taken out of the coffins.

The early sun slowly rose and the light mist over the reservoir dissipated. The scenery here was beautiful, but the few people on the dam had no intention of appreciating it.

Chen Ge took out his mobile phone and showed the photos he had saved.

In the eyes of others, Chen Ge was also a very strange person. He stopped a passing mother and child early in the morning, told them scary stories, and even took out horrifying photos.

A normal person's reaction might be to make a few evasive remarks and then leave with an excuse, but the mother's approach was a little different. She kept refuting Chen Ge in front of her child.

Even after seeing the photos, the woman still didn't believe in any legends about ghosts, and she kept emphasizing to Chen Ge that all legends about ghosts were lies.

Chen Ge didn't care at first, but he gradually felt something was wrong.

This woman didn't seem to be trying to convince Chen Ge, but more like trying to convince herself over and over again.

Could it be that she knew something, but didn't want to believe it?

Chen Ge had a good impression of this woman. After going through the doors of the Ghost Fetus mission, he now respected those parents who were very good to their children.

While Chen Ge and the woman were trying to convince each other, the little boy started crying again for no apparent reason. He grabbed the railing and shook it hard, trying to get closer to the water.

"Has your child ever encountered anything here?" Chen Ge turned his gaze to the child again. He felt that he could not get anything out of the adult.

"No, this child has been like this for a long time. He can only calm down here. I don't know the specific reason." When the woman mentioned her child, her voice became gentle. It can be seen that she did not want to hurt her child, nor did she want outsiders to think that her child was different from other children.

"I worked in an orphanage for a while before and saw a similar child, but the place that child particularly wanted to go was a haunted house." Chen Ge walked to the boy, squatted in front of him, and looked into the distance following the boy's gaze: "Are you looking for something? Is there something underwater that you are concerned about?"

The woman didn't want Chen Ge to talk too much with her child, so she pulled her child behind her, but the boy held on to the railing tightly and refused to let go, crying and making a fuss.

But the woman might have already gotten used to all this. No matter how much the boy cried, she didn't get angry. But the worry in her eyes could no longer be hidden.

"Can you tell uncle what your name is?" Chen Ge always thought he was popular with children, but the boy in front of him completely ignored him and just kept crying.

"Uncle, I have some toys here, do you want to play with them?" Chen Ge opened the backpack and took a look, then silently closed it.

"Sorry, we've been out long enough, it's time to go back." The woman picked up the crying boy and tried to take the child away by force.

Chen Ge continued to look at the water and asked tentatively: "Are you looking for memories of the past?"

Seeing the woman about to take the boy away, Chen Ge stood up and said, "Are you looking for the past of the ghost fetus?"

He was just testing the child and thought that the child was a little strange, that was all. But what he didn't expect was that after he said the word "ghost fetus", the child actually stopped crying.

It was so sudden that even the child's mother was caught off guard.

The river breeze blew across the reservoir, and the child's gaze moved to Chen Ge for the first time, as if the words "ghost fetus" had some special meaning to him.

"Sir, what did you say just now?" The woman stopped and turned to look at Chen Ge.

"Nothing." Chen Ge's expression was solemn, giving people a very scary feeling, just like a patient who suspected that he had a terminal illness and went to the hospital. After the examination, the doctor held the medical record with a serious face and did not speak.

That was how the woman felt now. The more Chen Ge was reluctant to speak, the more curious she became, because such a situation had never happened before.

"Okay, forget it if you don't want to talk about it." After a long stalemate, the woman bowed to Chen Ge and was about to leave when she suddenly heard Chen Ge's voice from behind.

"Are you willing to believe me?"

The woman stopped again, her expression somewhat helpless: "What exactly do you want to say? Can you please stop keeping me in suspense?"

"Your child may not be your child." When Chen Ge said this, the woman was obviously angry. She ignored Chen Ge and turned around to leave.

"I know you will feel uncomfortable when I say this, but I don't want to lie to you. It seems like there is another person living in your child's body." Chen Ge just wanted to try it out at first. He didn't expect that the little boy would react after he said the word "ghost fetus", which means that he has memories of these two words deep in his mind.

In other words, Chen Ge felt that he might have found the last child chosen by the ghost fetus.

Assuming that the previous speculations were correct, the ghost fetus buried its past in the cave under the reservoir. The child would come here subconsciously every day. It was obvious that he was attracted by the memories and wanted to trace his past.

The probability of the ghost fetus being in him is very high. Among all the chosen children, only this boy is attracted by the memory of the ghost fetus.

Of course, all of this is Chen Ge's own speculation, and he does not rule out the possibility that the ghost fetus set up a trap to mislead.

"I know my child is indeed different from other children, but I think it's really too much to say that." The woman held the boy, with a hint of fatigue in her eyes, as if she had explained this to many people before, and now she was tired and too lazy to explain again.

"Calm down. I don't mean any harm to you or your child. Frankly, I have a lot of experience in rescuing children."

"Who are you? Have you seen us here before?"

"I know it's useless to say more, I just hope you can believe me this time." Chen Ge turned on his phone and clicked on the past news of the local legal channel in Hanjiang: "This is a report about me. I have no ill will towards you or your child."

It is difficult to gain the trust of a stranger, but Chen Ge has an advantage, that is his "reputation" in the Hanjiang Public Security System. With the guarantee of the legal channel, most people are willing to believe Chen Ge.

The woman's attitude softened a little. She read the news one by one, and even suspected that they were fake. She took out her mobile phone and searched the Internet, and found Chen Ge's job - haunted house owner. This made things even more interesting.

"I didn't lie to you, did I?"

"You're quite famous." The woman seemed gentle, but after spending some time with her, Chen Ge discovered that her gentleness was just her protective color. This woman was not willing to trust others, and she seemed to have always relied on herself.

"Now we can have a good talk." Chen Ge looked at the child: "When did he become like this?"

"I don't know when it started. Maybe he was different from birth. I don't think it's his fault. It's probably because we haven't learned how to accept him." A child is the softest part of a woman's heart. It makes her strong, but it's also the most worrying part. "The doctor said my child is autistic and recommends early treatment, but I feel... Oh, forget it. The doctor should be right. I think too much."

The woman was hiding something and she was still unwilling to say it, and Chen Ge did not force her.

"Can you take me to where this kid usually lives?" Chen Ge wanted to go to the other party's home to see if he could find any clues, but it was not polite to say it directly, so he used a more euphemistic way of saying it.

"That's no problem, but I have to go to work. How about meeting at noon?" The woman handed Chen Ge a business card, and then left quickly without wasting a moment.

"Real estate agent?" Chen Ge glanced at the business card and put it into his backpack. "New Century Park is about to open, so it's not realistic for me to enter the reservoir by myself."

He carried his backpack and found a place where the sun was not shining. He flipped through the comic book and called out Xu Yin, Xiaobu, Men Nan and the water ghost Hongyi.

"I have something to ask of you." Chen Ge stared at the water ghost in red clothes: "Take the three red-clothed people into the reservoir later. I need you to find a coffin. There is a big hole under the coffin. Go into the hole and check if there is anything hidden inside."

"I can go alone, there's no need to trouble them." The water ghost in red was very nice, which was completely different from when he first met Chen Ge.

"Don't think that I asked them to follow you because I'm worried that you'd run away. I want them to protect you. That cave is very dangerous, so don't be careless." Chen Ge sent them into the reservoir, and then stood beside it waiting.

Half an hour passed and the men in red still hadn't returned.

"Did something happen? That's impossible. With Xiaobu here, we can escape unscathed even if we encounter a top-level red-clothed enemy."

After waiting for a long time, just as Chen Ge was flipping through the comic book and preparing to let the other red-clothed men go to investigate, the smell of blood in the air became stronger, and several red-clothed men appeared beside Chen Ge silently.

"Did you find anything?" Chen Ge saw that the water ghost looked very bad, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"That cave seems to be connected to several other large rivers in Hanjiang. There are many forks in the road. We walked for a long time but still couldn't reach the end." Men Nan was the first to speak: "And there seems to be a very scary thing in the cave. Even Xiaobu felt threatened."

"Even Xiaobu feels threatened? This is not something an ordinary red-clothed person can do."

"The thing that exudes that terrifying aura doesn't seem to be Red Clothes." The water ghost Red Clothes looked very bad. At first he was still thinking about finding a chance to escape, but after entering the cave he instantly became obedient and followed Xiaobu closely.

"So what do you think it might be?"

"Not sure, but it shouldn't be a ghost or an obsession. Oh, we also found this in the cave..." The red-clothed water ghost took out two rough hand-carved statues, one male and one female, with the names of Chen Ge's parents vaguely engraved on them.

"Where in the cave did you find it?"

"The cave was filled with statues of the two of them, but all of them were incomplete, as if they were carved and then deliberately broken. We searched for a long time before we found two that were relatively intact."