Sitting in the taxi, Chen Ge called Xiao Gu twice more, and only after he was sure that Hong Yuyi had not come back did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"The first priority tonight is to bring Xiao Gu back safely. We can deal with the matter in the eastern suburbs later."

Chen Ge had his own concerns. The taxi driver and Xiao Gu were both ordinary people, and Chen Ge didn't want to implicate them.

The rain hit the car window, blurring my vision. Outside the window was dark clouds, and it felt like the entire night sky was falling down.

"The weather forecast is not accurate. It said it would be a light rain. How long has it been raining?" The driver was a young man, who looked about the same age as Chen Ge. He stared intently at the road ahead. Because of the weather, he did not dare to be distracted in the slightest.

"When we get there, I'll pick someone up and then come back in your car. Don't worry, I won't let you drive away empty-handed." Chen Ge retracted his gaze.

"I'm not worried about the fare." The driver didn't look back. "Do you think the rain today is weird? The further we drive to the east suburbs, the heavier the rain gets. The roads are flooded. I can't even see the curb now."

"What's so weird about this? Are you too sensitive?" Chen Ge laughed softly.

"It's better to believe it than not to believe it. Some things can't be explained clearly." The driver pointed to the Buddhist beads hanging under the rearview mirror and said, "I've driven passengers from the eastern suburbs before. People there are very superstitious and have many rules. For example, if there is a newborn at home, the man must stomp his feet at the door before entering the house; if you dream of bad things, you must turn your pillow over when you wake up; if you receive a call after midnight, don't speak first; if you see a strange car passing by at the scene of a car accident, don't get close to it, etc. I didn't believe in these things at first, but later I was scared by them."

The lights on both sides of the road were getting dimmer and dimmer. The driver looked at the windshield wipers swinging left and right, a little nervous: "They have a most frightening legend here. It's very easy to get lost when walking on the road at night when it's raining heavily. You may seem to be walking towards home, but in fact you are walking further and further away, and finally you will end up in a completely unfamiliar place."

"There is such a thing?" Chen Ge perked up. Many urban legends actually have certain reasons. Most of them are related to reality and are not completely made up by humans.

"Although there haven't been any major crimes in the East Suburbs, four-fifths of the disappearances in Jiujiang every year happen in the East Suburbs. This place is like a cannibal."

The driver's words were very weird. Chen Ge took them to heart and said, "Drive carefully. If we encounter anything weird, we will call the police directly."

"Call the police?" The driver was a little uncomfortable with Chen Ge's jumping thoughts: "Okay, I'm just reminding you out of kindness. It's best not to go to the eastern suburbs alone in the middle of the night. This place is quite deserted..."

Halfway through his speech, the driver suddenly shut his mouth, squinted his eyes and looked forward, then suddenly turned the steering wheel!

The taxi suddenly changed direction and Chen Ge's body hit the door. Without saying a word, he reached into his backpack and decisively pressed the switch of the recorder.

The car slowed down and the driver was breathing heavily, his forehead soaked with sweat.

"What's going on?"

"There seemed to be a person standing in the middle of the road just now."

"You must have seen it wrong? It's raining heavily and it's so dark around. Who would stand in the middle of the road?" Chen Ge fumbled in his backpack with both hands, as if he had grabbed something.

"Impossible." The driver wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked to the side. It was pitch black outside the window.

"Then can you describe to me what that person looks like? Is she wearing a red raincoat?"

"Without a raincoat, it's just a shadow. Maybe I really saw it wrong." The driver rubbed his head, took off the Buddhist beads hanging on the rearview mirror and put them on his wrist, then continued driving forward.

"Don't drive too fast. There are many rivers in the eastern suburbs. Safety comes first." Chen Ge was not afraid of evil spirits. What he was worried about was that the evil spirits would attack the driver. If the driver had an accident while the vehicle was driving at high speed, he would also die.

A rustling sound of electric current was heard inside the taxi, and the raindrops outside the window seemed to intentionally avoid the taxi.

The two arrived at the East Suburb Water Plant safely. Chen Ge asked the driver to wait at the gate. He put on a raincoat and hat, opened the car door, and walked into the rain.

As soon as he got off the car, Chen Ge felt inexplicably depressed, and everything he saw gave him a strange feeling.

It was very familiar, as if I had experienced this scene before, or had dreamt about it.

Being in the midst of a rainstorm, the sound of raindrops falling in his ears slowly faded away. Chen Ge frowned slightly and took out his cell phone to call Xiao Gu.

The ringtone reached his ears, but no one answered. The rain was getting heavier, but Chen Ge could not hear the sound of raindrops hitting the ground. The only sound in his ears was the busy tone of the phone.

He seemed to be isolated from the world. Darkness surged in from all directions, and the only thing left in his sight was the dilapidated door of the water plant.

The iron gate was shaking due to the wind, and the sounds of children's laughter and crying could be heard, many and mixed.

Small footprints began to appear on the puddle. Something rushed out of the water plant. They ran and jumped, surrounding Chen Ge.

His body stiffened, and a memory buried deep in his heart slowly emerged.

When Chen Ge was very young, his parents told him not to go to the East Suburbs, but one time when a school outing was scheduled, the chosen location happened to be in the East Suburbs.

While playing near a reservoir, he heard someone calling his name. Later, accompanied by his teacher, he walked through the woods and saw a blood-red house at the end of the road. There were many children playing and frolicking around the house. They were either crying or laughing. The scene at that time was the same as it is now.

"It seems that most of the anomalies in the eastern suburbs are related to the red house. Could the out-of-control door in Liwan Town also be related to the red house?"

The footprints slowly approached, and Chen Ge's pupils shrank, but even though he had Yin pupils, he still couldn't see those things clearly.

"These little ghosts seem to blend in completely with the surrounding environment."

The child's crying and laughter came from far away, and then he came to his side, hugged his legs, and then slowly climbed onto his body.

Chen Ge clenched the skull crusher tightly, and when he was about to call Xu Yin out, the cold feeling on his body disappeared again.

The children cried and ran away from him, and at the same time, a familiar voice came from a distance.

"Chen Ge..."

Looking up, Chen Ge found a figure standing inside the water plant, who was about the same height and build as himself.

"Who are you?"

"Me?" The figure raised his hands, slowly stabbed his own chest, and pulled out another child from his body.

The child's face was blurry, and he looked about three or four points like Chen Ge when he was a child. His neck was twisted, as if someone had strangled him.

"I am the child you killed..."

"Killed by me?" Chen Ge dragged the skull crusher and pondered for a long time: "But why don't I have any impression of it? How about you come closer so that I can take a closer look at your face?"