Chapter 73 Red and Black



The dilapidated alleys crisscrossed each other, and Chen Ge was afraid of getting lost, so he quickly increased his speed.

After turning a few corners, a row of low two-story buildings appeared in front of them, and the thin dark woman and the boy disappeared here.

The sewer was emitting a foul smell, the wall was written with big red words "demolition", and the corners were filled with all kinds of garbage.

Chen Ge walked to the bottom of the small building, and doubts emerged in his mind one after another.

The dark-skinned woman and the little boy lived in such a poor environment, and their living conditions must not be very good. But at the door of the haunted house, the woman decisively took out a hundred dollars in order to let the little boy enter the haunted house for a visit. It can be seen that she was very doting on the little boy, but the boy's attitude towards her was very cold. The boy only said two sentences after entering the haunted house, and these two sentences were all said to Chen Ge. He seemed to be very disgusted with the dark-skinned woman.

"Is it because of a personality disorder that he can't accept the love and care of others, or is there something else going on?"

I went upstairs and saw that there was only one family living on the second floor. Clothes and pants were hung on the railings and the corridor was swept clean, much cleaner than downstairs.

"Is anyone there?" The door was not closed. Chen Ge did not dare to go in and knocked on the door.

"Hold on."

Footsteps were heard in the house, and soon a dark and thin woman walked out from the inner room. When she saw Chen Ge at the door, she paused for a moment.

"Why are you here? Did our visit to the haunted house cause you any trouble?" the thin dark woman asked cautiously.

"No, I'm just interested in the little guy's situation and want to ask him something." Chen Ge stopped at the door. He found that the woman had no intention of inviting him into the house, so he had to continue speaking shamelessly: "Don't get me wrong, I have many friends in Jiujiang Medical College, maybe I can help you."

"Thank you, but no thanks."

The woman refused without thinking, and Chen Ge felt that his behavior was a bit abrupt: "I'm really not a bad person, and I have no ill intentions. You can check your phone and find today's Jiujiang morning news."

Seeing that the woman was indifferent, Chen Ge took out his mobile phone and randomly found a news report about him helping the police solve the Ping An Apartment case.

"You see, I once provided the police with key clues to solve a case and was awarded a medal."

Chen Ge handed the phone to the thin dark woman, who took it and glanced at it: "The ghost hunting anchor got into trouble in the mountains and was rescued by the police? The owner of the haunted house almost caused a disaster by committing suicide at midnight?"

"The titles don't matter, they should have my picture in them."

After Chen Ge explained again and again, the thin dark woman put away her suspicion and returned the phone to him: "Come sit in the living room, and don't close the door."

"OK."

The thin dark woman led Chen Ge to the living room. It was called a living room, but it was actually a relatively large room of 30 square meters, crowded with a dining table and a bed.

"I didn't expect anyone to come, so I didn't clean up. I'm sorry to embarrass you, would you like something to drink?" The thin dark woman looked a little embarrassed. She looked very similar to the little boy.

"No, I just want to ask about the child's parents. The more details the better." Chen Ge took out his mobile phone, ready to record useful information at any time.

"It's been so long, why are you asking these questions?" The thin dark woman sat opposite Chen Ge and recounted what happened at Muyang Middle School three years ago.

In the summer three years ago, Muyang Middle School had not yet been closed. It rained heavily that day. When the little boy’s parents returned home, they found that the boy was missing. They went out in the rain to look for him, but who knew that this would be a farewell forever.

The woman repeated to Chen Ge what she had told the police three years ago.

"It seems that the root cause of the boy's parents' disappearance lies with the boy himself?" Chen Ge wrote down the key points said by the thin dark woman in his mobile phone. He was trying to reconstruct what happened.

It was pouring rain, and Fan Yu's parents found their child missing after returning home from get off work, so they went out in the rain to look for him. The scene of their murder was not clear at the moment, but the place where the bodies were hidden was most likely in the well of Muyang Middle School. And the whole process was most likely seen by the little boy, who was the only witness.

It is probably because of the scenes he saw that the little boy became abnormal.

Chen Ge stared at the table. He suddenly felt something was wrong. He took out a black phone from his pocket and found several side quests of the Psychic Ghost School. The description of the side quest Six Deep Wells was: Sister and brother did not return home after school. Where did they go?

The black phone's task system couldn't have made a mistake, so what did this brother and sister mean? According to the information we have now, the people who were stuffed into the well should be the boy's parents. What went wrong?

Chen Ge put away his phone, looked at the thin dark-skinned woman with red eyes, and asked uncertainly: "Is Fan Yu an only child? Does he have brothers and sisters?"

As soon as the question came out, the dark and thin woman's face changed. Her fingers dug into her flesh fiercely, and tears could not stop flowing down: "If nothing happened to my two children, Xiaoyu should have a brother and sister now."

"Your child?" Chen Ge looked at the clothes drying on the balcony before entering the room. There were only boys' and women's clothes, but no adult men's, so he thought the woman was not married.

"He died when he was very young." The thin, dark woman was a little out of control. She said sorry and went into the kitchen.

"Fan Yu does have a brother and sister, but according to the woman's description, his brother and sister should have been gone a long time ago. Why did the black phone say that his brother and sister did not go home after school? How could someone who was not there go to school? Was the black phone wrong, or was the woman lying? Or was Fan Yu hallucinating?"

The woman was rummaging around in the kitchen and didn't come out. Chen Ge stood up and walked towards the only single room in the house. Fan Yu should be there. This little guy was the center of the whole thing.

Pushing open the door, the bedroom was very clean. Fan Yu was standing in front of the desk, seemingly writing something.

Chen Ge walked behind the child and took a look. He found that the child was drawing. He seemed to particularly like red and black.

"Xiao Yu, what are you drawing?" Chen Ge spoke in a low voice for fear of scaring the child.

The boy turned his head and looked at Chen Ge, but did not answer and continued drawing.

As he continued to paint, the pattern on the paper gradually became clearer.

In the pure black house, there are several little red figures standing.

After finishing the painting, the boy crumpled up the white paper and threw it on the ground, then started drawing another picture.

Chen Ge looked at it for a long time and found that the core contents of this child's painting were just two - a black house and a red man.

"What's the meaning?" Chen Ge picked up the painting from the ground, flattened it, and after looking at it for a moment, he secretly put it into his trouser pocket.

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