"Xu Yin, this is for you."

Songs were written on the blood-stained music score, and every note revealed a cheerful melody.

The rustling sound of electric current rang in his ears, but Xu Yin did not touch the music score in Chen Ge's hand.

He stood there silently, just like he always did, guarding Chen Ge, saying nothing, indifferent to everything.

Being cheated by the one you love the most, being hurt by the one you love the most, being dismembered by the one you love the most.

It seemed that Xu Yin was no longer herself from the moment the knife pierced her heart.

All the longings, all the happiness, all the love were shattered.

He drank the drink handed to him by his beloved without any precautions, and in a trance he saw his beloved standing next to him with a knife in his hand.

He wanted to scream, but no sound came out. He wanted to struggle, but he couldn't control his body.

He could only look at the face of the person he loved most and let despair slowly consume him.

After Xu Yin became a ghost, he lost his sanity. Every time he encountered an enemy, no matter how powerful the opponent was, he would rush forward like a madman.

He wanted to destroy his soul, he wanted to end the despair and pain, he was actively seeking death.

It was such a person who met Chen Ge.

Whenever he was driven mad with despair, or tortured by the pain to the point of being unbearable, Chen Ge would always help him up despite his injuries.

There was never any fear or disgust in Chen Ge's eyes when he looked at Xu Yin, only tenderness and concern.

In this world, the only person who can truly understand Xu Yin is Chen Ge.

"Take it. I hope you can smile like before rather than becoming stronger."

Chen Ge handed the music score to Xu Yin, but when Xu Yin touched the score, the worn-out score was instantly stained red with blood.

The beautiful songs were distorted and blurred, forming new words.

"I am a bird that has lost its voice. No one can hear my singing."

"My lover plucked all my feathers and stabbed a knife into my heart."

"They held my body in their arms and said it was all for my own good."

"I understand. I know."

"The one she loves, she wants to make with her own hands."

Bloody words appeared on the music score, tearing apart the beauty and revealing a bloody and cruel side.

During the whole process, Xu Yin did not do anything. He just held the old music score.

“I can’t go back…”

The bird, covered in wounds and stabbed by a knife, had lost its clear voice.

The music score that recorded the beautiful music was soaked in blood and slipped through Xu Yin's fingers. When it was about to fall to the ground, it was caught by a pair of hands.

"It's okay. Don't force yourself to accept the good things in the past. You can have your own happiness now."

Chen Ge's eyes seemed to be shining. He patted Xu Yin's shoulder and said, "You have changed a lot since I first met you. I will always be with you."

After finding his heart, Xu Yin's emotions stabilized a lot. He was no longer dominated by pain and despair, and his world began to have other colors.

"One day, I will make you and everyone in this house of horrors happy."

Chen Ge placed the blood-stained music score on the table, his eyes gentle yet full of power.

Standing in front of Chen Ge, Xu Yin opened his mouth, but no sound came out. His pale fingers lightly brushed across the music score, and his body slowly turned into blood.

Xu Yin took the music score, and when his body was about to dissipate, he wrote the last short song on the music score.

"The world kisses me with pain, but I still want to repay it with songs."

The prop room returned to calm, and Chen Ge looked at the place where Xu Yin disappeared.

In the last moment before Xu Yin disappeared, Chen Ge discovered that an extremely terrifying power emerged from Xu Yin's body. He seemed to have broken through some shackles and engraved black lines on his heart.

"Did Xu Yin figure out something? The aura he exudes suddenly becomes stronger, and his aura begins to differ from the other red-dressed people. The black pattern on his heart is very similar to the pattern on Zhang Ya's skirt. Could it be that Xu Yin has planted the seed of a fierce god in himself?"

"Could it be that the thing I drew from the black phone is so useful to the red-clothed one? No, except for the sudden increase in Men Nan's favorability towards me, his own strength has not improved at all. It seems that this thing also varies from person to person."

The items drawn from the turntable seal the past of the evil ghost. Those items can help the evil ghost and Red Clothes become perfect, but they are just external objects after all.

The fundamental reason why Xu Yin had such a big change was Chen Ge.

Who would have thought that a ghost who was determined to "die" would actually meet the most gentle person.

…

At 8:10 in the evening, the door of a grocery store on West Street in the old city was smashed open.

Various snacks and groceries were thrown all over the floor, and not long after, a young man in a white shirt was dragged out of the room.

"Brother Leopard, Brother Eagle, this matter does not involve our family. We agreed before that I will give you the money." The young man had blood on his face, but he seemed not to feel any pain and struggled to get up from the ground.

"Do you think we will still believe you? A cunning rabbit has three burrows! If you hadn't kept changing places to hide, would we have found you here?" He smashed the beer bottle in his hand and a shirtless middle-aged man walked out of the house. He had a scar at the corner of his eye and a leopard head tattooed on his arm.

"Brother Bao! Three days at most! I will definitely collect the money and give it to you!" The young man lay on the ground, emphasizing repeatedly.

"What are you going to give me back?" Brother Leopard grabbed the broken beer bottle and thrust the sharp end towards the young man's face. "I think your lame grandpa's store is still worth a bit of money. Let him buy the store, and maybe we can get the money back."

"No! Absolutely not! This is my grandfather..."

"What are you talking about! What qualifications do you have to say no?" The other man patted his waist, as if there was a knife hidden there.

"Don't mess with my family. I will give you the money no matter what! Three days, give me another three days!"

"Okay, if you don't give me the money in three days, I'll take your hand." Brother Bao grabbed the young man's hair and asked the young man lying on the ground to look into his eyes. "Before, someone also wanted to default on his debt. Later, I cut off his hand. The blood flowed all over the ground and I couldn't stop it. Do you want to see that hand? I've kept it as a souvenir."

"No, no, I will find a way to pay you back." The young man knelt on the ground humbly until Brother Leopard and Brother Eagle left.

He wiped the blood off his face, lowered his head and pushed open the door of the grocery store.

Drinks and wine bottles were broken all over the floor, shelves were overturned, and a lame old man was sitting in the middle of the small room.

The old man was old and had been hit on the head by a wine bottle, and the blood was very conspicuous among his white hair.

"Who are you?"

In addition to the old man, there was a middle-aged man in a red coat in the hut. He took alcohol and cotton swabs and carefully removed the broken glass from the old man's wound.

"Why did those people only beat your grandfather and not you?" There was no emotion in the red-clothed man's voice.

"My grandfather wanted to protect this small shop, so he fought with them..."

"How much do you owe them?"

"Three hundred thousand. Actually, I owed them fifty thousand at the beginning. With the interest compounded, they are asking me to pay back three hundred thousand now." The young man ran to the old man and helped to treat his wound. He kept holding the old man's hand. His heart was not as calm as he appeared on the surface: "I have already paid them seventy thousand, but they are still asking for payment. I really have no money."

"Why do you owe them money?"

"because……"

"Do you like gambling?" The middle-aged man in red spoke without even raising his head.

"I... um." The young man didn't dare to speak anymore, and he didn't dare to look at the old man's face.

"People who like to gamble can't win." The middle-aged man in red stood up and stared at the young man with his scarlet eyes: "If you can find a job and work steadily, I can help you pay off your debts."

"Are you willing to help me?" The young man was desperate. He looked at the man in red with mixed feelings: "Thank you, I will definitely return the money to you! Can you tell me your contact information?"

"I help you because in you, I see myself, the humble self who once lay on the ground. I was once desperate, but no one helped me at that time." The red-clothed man's eyes were full of bloodshot: "I don't need you to repay the debt, I just need you to take good care of your grandfather. If you gamble again in the future, I will take your life."

The man in red walked out of the store, and the young man hurriedly chased him out the door: "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go collect the debt from the group of people who just left."

"Do they owe you money, too?"

"Money?" The man in red held out his arm from his pocket. "They owe me a hand."

…

In the VIP box of Jiahao Nightclub, several couples were partying wildly. The lights in the box flashed a few times and then suddenly went out, as if someone had cut off the circuit.

"Fuck! The power is out? Where's the waiter?"

"Little Leopard! What kind of crappy place did you choose? Why is there no one in the corridor?"

"What a bummer!"

The shrill singing disappeared and the nightclub became eerily quiet, as if everyone's mouths were sewn shut.

"Is anyone there? Damn it! It's pitch black, what the hell is going on?!"

Brother Leopard and Brother Eagle followed a fat man. The three of them walked out of the box. They wandered around for a long time before they saw someone.

The man was sitting in the hall, wearing a blood-red coat.

"Hey! I'm calling you! Are you deaf?" Brother Leopard kicked the sofa aside: "Have you seen the waiter here?"

The man in red took a sip of the wine in the glass. He didn't even look at Brother Leopard and walked straight towards the fat man.

"This guy is a little strange."

"What are you doing! Stop!" Brother Ying stood in front of the fat man.

"I owed you money before, and my boss asked me to pay it back." The man in red took out a card from his pocket: "This is the money I owed you."

Brother Ying looked at the fat man, and the fat man didn't ask any further questions. It was a good thing when someone gave him money, so why not accept it?

"I have received the money, and you can leave now." The fat man always felt that the man in red in front of him looked familiar, and he had a very bad premonition in his heart.

"I have paid back the money I owe you, now it's time for you to return the things you took from me." The middle-aged man in red put one hand in his pocket. He stood in the middle of the hall. Countless blood threads were dripping from the roof, and scarlet blood was spreading on the floor.

"We take your things..." The fat man looked at the middle-aged man's face, his eyes slowly widened, his expression suddenly became distorted, and a name that was almost forgotten appeared in his mind.

Bai Qiulin!

“Don’t you remember?” The middle-aged man stared at the three people in the hall with his scarlet eyes. Their red clothes were as red as blood, and the evil aura lifted the roof.

"I've been looking for that hand for a long time."

…

At 9:30 in the evening, Chen Ge gathered all the people in red clothes in the underground scene.

After everyone waited for a few minutes, Bai Qiulin finally arrived. The aura he exuded had obviously changed compared to before. The defects left by swallowing Xiong Qing disappeared, and there was a kind of power in his eyes that made people dare not look directly at him.

Seeing the changes in Bai Qiulin, Men Nan curled his lips and said, "There's one more red-clothed man I can't beat. I'm so annoyed."

"Okay, everyone is here." Chen Ge clapped his hands and signaled everyone to be quiet: "I called you here today to pick up our new colleague."

"You are kidding me! Bringing so many red clothes to welcome new colleagues? Aren't you afraid that the newcomers will die suddenly?" Men Nan muttered quietly, and then looked at Bai Qiulin enviously: "When can I become stronger?"

"There are nine new colleagues in total. I have written down all their information and characteristics. Everyone should take note of them so as not to find the wrong person later."

After taking note of all the people in red, Chen Ge picked up the comic book and put everyone in it, then took a taxi and left the horror house.

He first went to an apartment building in the old town. The pace of life here was very slow and most of the people living there were elderly people and children.

After climbing to the fourth floor in one breath, Chen Ge stopped at the door of the public toilet.

The shabby door was sealed with wooden boards. The landlord also added two big locks on it, and there were several pieces of yellow paper pasted on the door.

"This should be it." Chen Ge took out the skull crusher from his backpack and unlocked the door of the public toilet.

He pushed open the bathroom door and saw various newspapers and magazines scattered on the floor.

"It seems like no one has been in this bathroom for a long time."

According to the information provided on the black phone, Chen Ge came to the fourth cubicle. He shook the cubicle door a few times and found that the cubicle was locked from the inside.

Turning and entering the third cubicle, he stepped on the toilet with a newspaper as a cushion, held onto the partition, and used his Yin Pupil to look towards the fourth cubicle.

In the cramped compartment sat a *middle-aged man.

The uncle's face was full of fatigue, and he seemed to be uninterested in anything. Even when he found a living person lying next to him, he had no intention of scaring the other person.

"Hey! Do you want to change yourself with me?" Chen Ge shouted at the uncle.

The middle-aged man sitting on the toilet looked around, then raised his head in confusion and pointed at himself: "Can you see me?"

"Of course, I run a haunted house. Isn't it normal to see ghosts?" Chen Ge looked at the middle-aged man with a smile: "Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and start a new life?"

"I don't want to." The middle-aged man lowered his head and continued to read his newspaper, with no intention of paying any attention to Chen Ge.

"I want to make changes with you. Become an employee of my haunted house." Chen Ge flipped through the comic book, and the sound of turning pages rang out in the cubicle.

"Are you sick?" The middle-aged man raised his head impatiently. At this time, the entire public toilet was covered with blood. After a while, ten heads in red clothes appeared beside the partition.

"I am serious. Please look into the eyes of the ten people in red and think about it carefully." Chen Ge said sincerely.

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, the middle-aged man surrounded by ten people in red rushed out of the cubicle and grabbed Chen Ge's hand: "We hit it off right away. From today on, my life belongs to you."

"Um...did you wash your hands?"

"Aristotle once said that a person sitting on a toilet is not necessarily taking a shit. He may be looking for a corner of life and thinking about the ultimate mystery of the universe."

"You also understand philosophy?"

"I know a thing or two."