"Did you hear their voices? They were telling me about their pain. Even though they died, their obsession remained."

The man slowly opened his arms, and half of his ever-changing face finally froze into his own appearance.

He looked at Chen Ge: "I once witnessed such an incident. A girl stood on the edge of a building. The firefighters patiently tried to dissuade her, but the people watching downstairs were making a fuss. They regarded the girl's death as a kind of fun. I know it's not appropriate to say this, but it's true. They took out their phones to take pictures, urged the other party to jump down, and then after recording everything, they might even post a circle of friends and add a few words of sympathy."

"People like this are not isolated cases. It is precisely because of their existence that some people who should not have died are forced to die in the end."

Chen Ge looked at the man on the other side of the track. He understood him very well, but that didn't mean he completely agreed with him. "My friend, I know there are a lot of dirty people and things in this world. They are all around us, but besides them, there are many more beautiful things in this world. Good and bad are intertwined to make up our lives. I think what your teacher said makes sense. You are a person who truly cares about patients and a good person, but you are not a qualified operator."

"You yourself said that you can change a person's ability to absorb and release love, but have you noticed that you have been subtly changed by the person seeking help? Your world is occupied by those dirty things, and your eyes can only see those ugly and disgusting things. In fact, the world itself has not changed. It has always been like this. The person who has changed is you."

The man in red on the other side of the railway track was a kind-hearted person. It was also the first time that Chen Ge saw such a kind-hearted person become a man in red after his death.

He became Red Clothes not because of extreme hatred or extreme love, nor because of hatred and all kinds of negative emotions, but simply because of kindness. An ordinary person wants to shoulder the painful past of all suicide victims. This is simply an impossible thing in Chen Ge's view, but the man in front of him did it.

In a sense, this girl in red may have greater potential than Zhang Ya, but she just doesn't know how to use it.

The man didn't expect Chen Ge to refute his point of view. He stared at Chen Ge with his eyes fixed on him. There was a special emotion in his eyes. His calmness was broken and he seemed a little excited: "Do you know why I told you this?"

"Why?" Chen Ge didn't think he could convince the other party with just a few words. He simply felt that this man had a hard time, both in life and after death. Perhaps he could try a different way of living.

"The number saved in your phone is the number I used to use. The people who answered your call were the ones who asked for help when my intervention failed." The man's tone and demeanor became increasingly strange, and his facial features gradually twisted. If he initially gave Chen Ge the same feeling as a living person, then now the last bit of his humanity had disappeared.

"The first few people were a test for you. If you didn't help them, or laughed at their deaths, or just turned a blind eye to them, you will soon become a shadow behind me."

The man has gone from one extreme to another, and his thinking is very dangerous.

"It seems that I am still quite lucky. Have I passed the test now?" Chen Ge knew that the Red Dress was not so easy to obtain. Before, Yan Danian and Xu Yin, two ordinary evil spirits, had also made him spend a lot of effort. In order to obtain the Red Dress Zhang Ya, he even put all the happiness of his second half of life on it.

If you want something in return, you must give first. Everything in the black phone is an equal exchange.

"You would have met seven people asking for help. I didn't expect you to be able to determine the location of one of them through some sounds and find me. I couldn't do that before." The man's expression was still horrible and ferocious, but his eyes softened a little. "I didn't expect you to risk your life to save a stranger. You even dared to rush onto the railroad tracks before the truck arrived without knowing whether the other person was a human or a ghost. Have you ever thought about it? If you were a few seconds slower, you would have lost your life."

"No matter whether it's true or not, I will go to save her because human lives are involved and I can't take the gamble. Even if I know in my heart that this is 99% a scam, I am willing to be deceived." Chen Ge's voice was calm but full of power, making people feel inexplicably comfortable.

"Then you are really a fool." The man paused, with a complicated look in his eyes.

"I'm a fool, so be it. I've done a lot of stupid things like this before. Many people have said this to me, and I'm used to it." The atmosphere eased a little, and Chen Ge asked tentatively, "Now that I've passed your test, what do you want to tell me next?"

He looked expectantly at the man in red across the tracks, his eyes shining as he scanned the dense mass of black figures behind the man.

Being stared at by Chen Ge, the man frowned and said, "This has never happened before. This number is just a tool for me to appease the hatred of the suicide victims. I will use it to screen out the bastards who laugh at the dead and take them away. You passed the test, which only means that you can continue to live."

"You used this number to kill someone?" Chen Ge's voice froze. He really didn't expect that the number that was once used to save people and was someone's last hope would now become a tool for killing.

The man handled the same number differently before and after his death, which made Chen Ge feel a little regretful.

"I know you'll find it strange, but doesn't this just fit what some people want?" The man smiled on his ferocious face. "After I got into trouble, those lunatics said this number, which had saved countless lives, was cursed by the devil. Anyone who dialed this number would eventually become unfortunate, encounter an accident, and die on the street. They even made me into a horror story. What I'm doing now is just turning their made-up horror story into reality."

There was no sense of revenge in his voice, just indifference.

Chen Ge understood what the man was thinking. He had never intended to harm anyone, but in the end he was the one who got hurt. Even after death he still couldn't rest in peace. This would be unreasonable if the man's character had not changed.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ge slowly said: "Actually, you and I are the same kind of people. We are both fools who risk our lives for others, and we are both the kind of people who think wholeheartedly for others, but end up losing ourselves."

The man's frown relaxed a little after hearing Chen Ge's words. He was about to say something but was interrupted by Chen Ge.

"But we are not exactly the same. The path I chose is different from yours. You silently carried everything in your heart until you couldn't bear it anymore and collapsed."

"In fact, you don't need to be so tired. You can't change everyone. The only person you can change is yourself."

"I'm not trying to make you a bad person. I'm just trying to make you realize your own importance."

Chen Ge used his own personal experience to convince the other party: "I have met many bad people, of all kinds. Some of them wantonly deprive others of their lives in order to cure their own mental illness. Some of them are willing to destroy everything around them for some obsession. There are also those who are born bad to the core and build a wall around the love they can't get. I have seen many such people."

His tone was steady and calm. Chen Ge had indeed experienced a lot during this period of time.

The man looked at Chen Ge and found that he didn't seem to be lying: "You have seen so many bad guys, why did you risk your life to save a dead person? Did you see that this was a trap and figured out my intention in advance, so you did this on purpose?"

In the man's eyes, Chen Ge was a very smart person. He was able to determine the location of the suicide victim just from some noise on the phone. He now had doubts about Chen Ge and thought that this might be a self-torture trick by Chen Ge.

"I have seen a lot of bad guys, but I was not influenced by them. I have my own way of living and my own persistence. No matter what those people say or do, I only need to do one thing well." Chen Ge stood opposite the man in red. Their strength was completely not on the same level, but their auras were comparable.

"What's the matter?" The man himself had been in this confusion before, so he asked without thinking too much.

"Just be yourself." Chen Ge has an ordinary appearance, but his smile is very sunny and he can always bring encouragement to others: "Society is cruel, but I will keep my warmth. I don't care about those messy things. I just want to enjoy my life to the fullest, be sincere and kind, and that's enough."

"Is that all?" The man opened his mouth to say something, but the train passed by at this moment, instantly separating him and Chen Ge.

The ground shook, and amid the rumbling sound, Chen Ge did not hear what the man said next.

The train sped away into the distance, the light gradually disappeared on the horizon, and everything around was swallowed up by darkness again.

In the pitch-black night, Chen Ge and the man in red stood on either side of the railroad tracks, just like when they first met.

Neither of them spoke again. Chen Ge didn't know if his persuasion was useful. He really wanted to help the man in red and also prepare to go to the eastern suburbs to save more people in the future. He felt that his goal was exactly the same as the man in red, and a man and a ghost should unite.

“Don’t be so miserable. There are still many things in this world that you haven’t enjoyed yet. There are so many people standing behind you. They place their last hope on you. You should live a life that they have never lived before. Carry out their wishes and obsessions and become the person they want to be. I think this is what they want to see.” With his hands in his pockets and the night breeze blowing his hair, Chen Ge said everything he wanted to say.

Standing in the darkness, no one could see the dense crowd of people behind the man. He stood there for a long time, then walked over from the other side of the railway track.

With every step he took, the bloody smell on his body dissipated a little. When he stopped in front of Chen Ge, the red clothes had turned back to normal color, and he looked almost exactly like a normal person.

If he hadn't known it in advance, Chen Ge wouldn't have guessed that this was actually a special red-clothed person who carried the obsession of countless suicide victims.

"You shouldn't confine yourself to that small circle. You are not alone. You should let them feel happiness and sunshine as well. After all, this is what they desire most in their lives." Chen Ge saw the man nod slightly in agreement with his words, and he also smiled kindly: "An interesting life is the best seasoning. Why don't you follow me first? I will introduce you to some new friends and let you slowly find those happiness and warmth."

"Follow you?" The man's tone was a little surprised. Most people would avoid ghosts, but the young man in front of him seemed different: "I'm surprised that you are not scared by me. Don't force yourself."

"No need to force it." Chen Ge didn't expect that the man was still thinking about him at this time, but he couldn't show too much enthusiasm for fear of scaring him away.

"You just consider others too much. I have taken in many homeless 'friends', and they should welcome you." Chen Ge is going to East Suburb to make a big profit in a few days, so he must keep the other party. Besides, the man in red can become almost exactly the same as a normal person, which is a very powerful ability in Chen Ge's view. Others think he is just an ordinary person or an ordinary evil spirit, but after he turns his face, they find that he is actually an extremely terrifying man in red.

No matter how Chen Ge tried to persuade him, the man did not reply. He was different from the other people in red. He had retained all his memories before his death. Unlike Zhang Ya and Xu Yin, he had his own ideas.

"I will go to see where you live, but not now." The man smiled, "When I have fulfilled the wishes that were weighing on me, I will do as you said and become a better person again."

"The last wishes of all suicide victims?" Chen Ge thought of the dense crowd of figures behind the man. If every figure left a last wish to be fulfilled, it would probably be several years before the man and Chen Ge met again.

Chen Ge didn't want to wait for several years before using the red robe he had just drawn. He thought for a while and said, "Can you fulfill so many wishes by yourself?"

"This is what I promised them, and I will do it no matter what."

"You misunderstood me." Chen Ge waved his hand: "I mean, how about I come with you to fulfill their last wishes? This way it will be faster. You don't want the souls of those who committed suicide to be unable to rest in peace for a long time, right?"

"You help me?" The man was really moved this time. No one had ever been like Chen Ge.

"Don't worry, I have no other request, I just want you to understand that even if the world abandons you, there will always be someone willing to stand with you." Chen Ge stretched out his hand to the man: "By the way, I haven't asked your name yet, what should I call you?"

The man was silent for a long time, then held Chen Ge's hand and said, "My name is Zhang Wenyu."