"I was almost scared to death when it happened once. Do you think I dare to continue living there? Now I rent a house here and sleep at my friend's house at night." The tall man frowned: "I came to Hanjiang to make money. I haven't even settled down in my job yet, but I'm almost going crazy."

"I understand. How about this? I'll go home with you tonight and we'll go to the haunted house and take a look." Chen Ge gave his phone number to all the tenants: "Everyone go home tonight. I'll check each room one by one. I hope everyone can cooperate."

"Can't you go over and take a look now? To be honest, I don't dare to enter that room at night. As soon as I go in, I always feel my heart trembling, as if someone is staring at me." The tall man seemed to have suffered a psychological trauma from being scared.

"You can wait outside first, and I will go in with you later." Chen Ge asked the people who checked out in detail about the strange things they had experienced before, wrote down all of them, and finally persuaded them to leave.

Looking at the paper full of records, Chen Ge also felt strange.

If all the tenants were not lying, then the density of ghosts in this neighborhood was comparable to that of his two-star haunted house.

Weird things happened in almost every room, and they were all very creepy, the more you thought about them, the scarier they became.

"Do you really want to give them back their money?" The little boy's mother poured Chen Ge a cup of tea and said, "I know you want to help me, but I advise you not to get involved blindly."

"It's not easy for them either. I'll help if I can." Chen Ge has been eyeing this community since he joined the agency, so even if the tenants don't have any difficulties, he will create difficulties to help them. This is the highest level of being helpful.

"Those tenants don't actually trust you. They just thought you were willing to help return the rent, so they made up some stories to deceive you." The little boy's mother handed the freshly poured tea to Chen Ge.

"Do you think they're telling a story?"

"Of course, I've been working as an agent here for many years. If it was really haunted, I would have quit long ago." The woman sighed: "The industry is in a downturn. They are just looking for an excuse to cancel the booking."

"You've been working for so many years and you've never encountered anything strange?" Chen Ge was a little surprised. The neighborhood the woman described was very different from the neighborhood described by the tenants.

"It was indeed wrong for our company to conceal the haunted house, but we are also victims. The landlord deceived us."

"You are negligent for not investigating the origin of the house. Put yourself in their shoes. If you were living in a haunted house with your child, would you feel uncomfortable?"

"My child and I live in a haunted house now. We bought it ten years ago at a price much lower than the market price, and nothing bad has happened in the ten years we've lived there. In fact, most of the time this is just a psychological effect. As long as you don't think too much about it, it really doesn't matter whether it's a haunted house or not." The woman is very courageous and cheerful, has a strong heart, and speaks gently. It can be said that she has a very good personality.

"You live in a haunted house too?" Chen Ge raised his head slowly and looked at the woman: "And you've lived in it for ten years?"

"It may be difficult for you to understand this, but as a real estate agent like me, I am used to it. Not everyone cares about haunted houses."

"I mean, you haven't encountered anything strange in these ten years? Has your child ever said anything special to you?"

Speaking of children, the woman lost the desire to chat: "He has never called me mom since he was a child. What special words can he say? I thank you for helping me persuade them to leave, but you can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep. They are just trying to trick you. They will definitely come to you tomorrow to ask for the deposit and rent."

"That's not necessarily true." Through the brief conversation, Chen Ge discovered the problem with this woman. Not only did she not believe in the existence of ghosts, she also subconsciously ignored all abnormal events.

So many tenants said that there were problems with the community, but the woman stubbornly believed that they were just looking for reasons to move out.

Moreover, Chen Ge didn't think the woman's expression was fake. She felt from the bottom of her heart that the tenants were causing trouble and didn't think too deeply about it.

"I won't bother you anymore. I'll go check out where the tenants live." Chen Ge took the white paper covered with words and prepared for tonight's mission.

The woman’s child is likely to be the ninth child chosen by the ghost fetus. Knowing more about the child and his living environment can effectively reduce the difficulty of the task.

"I'll go with you. There are no guests right now anyway, and even if there were, they would be scared away by the old tenants." The woman packed up, picked up a bag, and walked out of the service desk.

"Is it appropriate?"

"We have a service here where we accompany customers to view properties. If you really refund their rent, then you will be our big customer."

The two walked through the dilapidated street and entered the old residential area next to it.

"Jinhua Community and Jiuhong Community were separated before, but later for some reason, the wall between the two communities was demolished and the two communities were connected together."

The woman was very capable in her business and had memorized all the information about each apartment. "The one with the new white paint on the outside is Jinhua Community. It was built 26 years ago. Most of our tenants are concentrated here. It is divided into two buildings, A and B. Each building has nine floors. It was considered a relatively tall building in the old city at that time. It is equipped with an old-fashioned elevator. By the way, my home is here."

"The gray, short and dilapidated buildings next to it are Jiuhong Community, which has a total of four buildings. The developer boasted that it would build 100 residential buildings, but problems arose after only building the fourth one. However, the name Jiuhong Community was retained."

After entering the community, the woman's mental state improved significantly: "In fact, Jiuhong Community is also a very good community. It is close to the Chengzhong River in the east and west, there is a fruit forest in the south, and it is adjacent to Jinhua Community in the north. Except for the poor lighting, it is very suitable for living overall."

"Are all you real estate agents so talkative? This place is obviously remote and there's hardly anyone to be seen, yet you tell me the environment is good?" Chen Ge looked around. Jiuhong Community was located in a very remote area, separated from the urban area by a small river on the east and west sides, and a large gloomy forest to the south. If the woman hadn't said it before, he would never have thought that it was a "fruit" forest.

"At least the air here is very good and pollution-free. It is so precious to have such a piece of pure land in a bustling big city."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, she saw Chen Ge stopped. She followed Chen Ge's line of sight and found that Chen Ge was looking at a notice posted outside Building A in Jinhua Community. The general message was that this place was haunted and people should never rent a house here.

"The tenants are just venting their emotions." The woman tore off the notice calmly.

After a tour, Chen Ge figured out the layout of the community. Jinhua Community and Jiuhong Community were connected, with a total of two entrances and exits.

The largest and most formal exit is in the Jinhua community. The other entrance and exit is in the south of the Jiuhong community, leading to the gloomy orchard.

"What's the point of having the gate over there? Do people often enter that orchard?"

“In the beginning, the plan for Jiuhong Community was to turn the south side into an ecological garden, but it was not successful. This concept was a bit ahead of its time and many people disagreed, so it was eventually abandoned.” A dilapidated, old and gloomy community turned into a paradise in the woman’s mouth. Perhaps this is her occupational disease.

"Don't beautify this place on purpose. I'm here to solve the problem, not to rent a house."

Jinhua Community is relatively normal. At first glance, it is a very ordinary community. There are no other problems except that there are relatively few owners and it is very quiet.

But the Jiuhong community next door is different. It has a completely different atmosphere from the Jinhua community. There is no one to be seen around and the entire community is deserted.

"I mean, is there no one living in your community?"

"The people are nice, but there are still some old tenants. The rent here is very cheap, and the surrounding prices are also low. If you get used to living here, you will feel very comfortable."

"Anyone who can get used to living here must be no ordinary person." Chen Ge's pupils shrank as he scanned the dilapidated buildings. With just a casual glance, he discovered some terrifying details.

There was a row of wigs hanging on the third-floor balcony of the first building. The owner of the house seemed to be a hairdresser. This was the first time Chen Ge had seen people drying hair.

“Is that row of hair?”

"There's a man who runs a hairdressing training class living on the third floor of Building No. 1 in Jiuhong Community. After his training class went bankrupt, he moved all the heads and wigs back home. There are many water networks here and it's a bit humid, so he occasionally takes out the wigs to dry in the sun to prevent them from getting moldy." The woman was indeed an agency employee who had worked for many years and knew most of the residents here.

"Do the neighbors have any problem with him drying his hair on the balcony like this?"

"They only dry the clothes during the day, so it doesn't affect anyone else."

There were three layers of wigs hanging, which was scary but acceptable.

Looking up, Chen Ge saw the fourth floor. There was a figure hidden in the area covered by the curtains. Ever since Chen Ge came in, the figure had been standing there motionless.

"Do you know who lives on the fourth floor?"

"He is a middle-aged man who lives alone. He rarely goes out and I don't know what he does, but all the clothes he wears are brand names."

"There's something very wrong with this person. How could he choose to live in your shabby neighborhood when he's wearing all those designer clothes?" Chen Ge had already memorized the location of that person's room.

"Maybe it's to avoid debt?"

Continuing to look upwards, Chen Ge made another discovery on the fifth floor.

The curtains in the leftmost room on the fifth floor were not drawn tightly, revealing half of a telescope and a camera.

If Chen Ge didn't have Yin pupils, he wouldn't be able to see that thing clearly: "Peeping?"

He habitually looked towards the building opposite. On the balcony on the fifth floor of Building No. 2, women's underwear were hung out to dry. The colors and sizes seemed to be different.

If it were just that, Chen Ge wouldn't care. The problem was that he also saw several large black plastic bags on the balcony where underwear was hung out to dry, and he didn't know what was inside.

"Hey! It's very rude of you to stare at me like that." The woman reminded quietly, "There is a pair of sisters living on the fifth floor of Building No. 2. They are young, from the countryside, and simple and honest."

"Simple and pure?" Chen Ge stood in the community, feeling a bit overwhelmed. The problems in this community were much more serious than he had imagined.

Most of the normal tenants had moved out, and he felt that the remaining tenants were more or less abnormal.

"In addition to being careful of evil spirits, you also need to be careful of your tenants."

There were many factors to consider, and it was extremely difficult to find out what was wrong with the little boy. However, Chen Ge had no choice but to go ahead.

After walking for about half an hour, Chen Ge's forehead was sweating and he felt a little tired.

"Your physical condition is not good. How long have you only walked?" The woman and Chen Ge continued to interact and found that the man in front of her was actually quite good. Although his words were not very reliable and he was always suspicious, at least he was interesting in conversation and had good character.

Chen Ge wiped the sweat from his forehead. He himself felt a little strange. Before, his physical strength had always been very good and he rarely felt tired. But as the ghost fetus mission continued, his physical fitness began to decline unconsciously.

"To become a human, two conditions must be met. The coffin that buries the past and the body that holds the new life. Could the missing body of the ghost fetus be me? Or when he is truly complete, I will become incomplete?"

Today is the last day of the Ghost Fetus mission. Chen Ge knows that daydreaming will not help him at all, but he just can't control it. It seems that his body instinctively senses that something bad is going to happen.

"You look terrible, are you suffering from heat stroke? Do you want to go to my house and rest for a while?"

"Okay."

The woman didn't expect Chen Ge to agree directly. She was stunned for a moment, and then took Chen Ge into Building A of Jinhua Community.

They took the old elevator to the fourth floor, and before they got out of the elevator, they heard a child crying.

"Oh no!" The woman trotted to the door of 401, opened it and rushed in.

The room was in a mess, plastic cups were thrown on the sofa, water stains were everywhere, the fruit bowl on the coffee table was overturned, and all kinds of fruits rolled on the ground.

Chen Ge followed the woman into the house. He found that all the lights in the room were turned on, all the drawers and cabinet doors were opened, and even the refrigerator door was open. It seemed that someone was looking for something in the house.

Avoiding the fruits and garbage on the ground, Chen Ge entered the bedroom and saw a heart-wrenching scene.

The child's eyes were swollen from crying, he made terrible noises from his mouth, his teeth were clenched tightly together, and his face had a very painful expression.

He seemed unable to control his emotions. He slapped the woman with his arms and kept biting her shoulder with his teeth.

"Do you need help?"

"It's okay, Xiang Nuan is just scared."

The shoulder had been bitten and bleeding, but the woman still maintained her movements. The boy beat the woman's body hard, while the woman gently hugged the boy and slowly patted the child's back with her fingers.

After crying for a few minutes, the boy returned to normal. He sat on the ground, fiddling with the woman's sleeves with an innocent expression.

"How long has this condition lasted? Why don't you send him to a special school?" Chen Ge had a lot of questions in his mind, but in order not to disturb the woman, he waited for a long time before asking.

"I don't know how to tell you." The woman covered her shoulder and looked at the boy on the ground: "Xiang Nuan is different from other children."