Holding an umbrella, Chen Ge entered the rainy city. He didn't know whether he was there for the mission or to help the woman, or maybe both.

They took a car to Hanjiang Welfare Home. Although the visiting time had passed, Chen Ge knew the gatekeeper for various reasons and was also familiar with a teacher at the welfare home who took care of Fan Yu.

After waiting outside the door for a few minutes, Chen Ge was brought into the welfare home by the teacher.

"Are you here to pick up Fan Yu? The child's condition has improved a lot now. I don't know what happened. He no longer locks himself in the little room and starts trying to communicate with others. His paintings are not so scary anymore. In addition to black and red, he also starts to use other colors." The teacher was very happy and she kept praising Fan Yu.

Chen Ge didn't know whether Fan Yu's change was related to the painter from the Psychic Ghost School. Maybe his heart knot was untied, or maybe the painter secretly walked out of the door after leaving the Psychic Ghost School and met Fan Yu.

Everything is possible; the painter himself is an unfathomable being.

"I'm here for other things." Chen Ge and the teacher entered the house together. He put away his umbrella and took out the photo from his backpack. "Can you take me to see the dean? I have something very important to ask him."

"The director has gone home. You can ask me if you want. There is nothing in this orphanage that I don't know."

"What I want to know is what happened ten years ago. At that time, this welfare home was still a private orphanage. You should still be in school then, right?"

"Ten years ago?" The teacher thought for a while and said, "Why don't you ask the doorman. He is the longest-serving employee here. He has been the doorman since the orphanage was a private one."

"Okay." Chen Ge invited the gatekeeper into the house. He handed the photo to the old man and asked, "Do you have any impression of this boy?"

"There's no face, how can I look at it?" The gatekeeper held the photo in front of his eyes, wrinkling his face: "Who can remember clearly what happened ten years ago?"

"Think carefully, was there a girl with a poor memory in the orphanage at that time? This boy should be the best friend of that girl."

Hearing Chen Ge's words, the wrinkles on the doorman's face deepened. He thought for a while, and suddenly patted Chen Ge's arm: "It seems there is such a girl! Let me see the photo again!"

The gatekeeper held the photo in both hands and looked at it for a long time. "I still can't remember this boy, but I remember the girl you mentioned. She was abandoned by her parents when she was very young. It is said that the reason for her abandonment was that she was born with insufficient brain function, had a poor memory, was forgetful, and was very stupid."

"Congenital cerebral insufficiency?" This was a new term to Chen Ge. He heard it for the first time.

"I heard about it, too. The girl was very pretty and well-behaved, but she always forgot things. Many children were adopted, but she stayed in the orphanage." The gatekeeper slowly recalled more things: "From the age of two or three to her teenage years, she lived in the orphanage for more than ten years. Maybe because she missed the best time for treatment, the girl's illness became more and more serious."

"At first, she could remember the names of her friends and teachers. With the teacher's training, she was not only able to take care of herself, but also help with some things. Although this girl has a bad memory, she is very hardworking and never fights back when she is bullied, so the orphanage tacitly allowed her to stay and help."

"But who knew that her condition would get worse and worse, she couldn't even remember faces, she only had the most basic living skills, and couldn't do anything more complicated."

"She is old and can't help with anything. She still needs others to take care of her. Slowly, people's attitude towards her has changed."

"The children in this private orphanage were all small, so she stood out. Later, I didn't know what the leaders of the orphanage were thinking. They knew that the girl had a bad memory, but they still let her guard the gate with me."

"The leader said that he wanted to find her a job and didn't want her to become a useless person in the future, but I always felt that his real intention was to give up on her and even hoped that she would get lost." At this point, the gatekeeper sighed.

"Hope he gets lost? How do you know the hospital has this intention?" If this is true, then the nature of the matter has completely changed. Chen Ge feels that Fang Yu's change may have started from that time.

"The orphanage always assigned me some long-distance delivery tasks. I ran around everywhere, leaving her alone to watch the door. One time when I came back, the girl was not at the door or in the house. I ran around the orphanage and finally found her under a big tree in the back hill."

"I was very angry and asked her why she was running around. She said there was a kite flying high up."

"I was really a little scared, but luckily the kite finally got stuck on the tree and didn't fly far away." Even after so many years, the old man still felt a little emotional when he thought about it. The girl left a deep impression on him.

"Uncle, when she was guarding the door with you, was there any boy who came to accompany her? Perhaps he was very enthusiastic towards her?"

"No, she has always been alone."

"This is difficult." Chen Ge looked at the photo in his hand, thinking back to the previous conversation, trying to find the clues he had missed: "Uncle, you just said that Fang Yu got lost the first time because she saw a kite, so she chased after it. According to her personality, she shouldn't run around everywhere, but why did she chase after a kite after seeing it? Does she like kites very much? Could this kite be some kind of signal?"

"You're overthinking it." The old man was about to say something when he suddenly opened his eyes wide, "Oh, right! Feng Kite! There was indeed a boy in the orphanage who had a very good relationship with Fang Yu. That boy was a chatterbox and seemed to have some kind of disease. He always liked to say the same thing over and over again. It was okay the first time you heard it, but anyone would get bored if they heard it every day."

"So that boy found Fang Yu?"

"Yes, Fangyu has a bad memory. She would forget the things the boy said repeatedly the next day, and it would be like the first day every time." With Chen Ge's reminder, the old man finally remembered some things in the past: "They should be considered friends, but their fates are different. Fangyu's illness is getting worse, but the boy's illness is getting normal as he grows older. But even if the boy is normal, he still likes to be with Fangyu. He is three years older than Fangyu, and he will be the first to rush to anyone who bullies Fangyu."

"But what does this have to do with kites? Where is that boy now?" Chen Ge felt that the ghost he was looking for was that boy.

"I forgot which year it was, but the teacher took the children from the orphanage on a spring outing. Everyone was flying kites next to a reservoir in the eastern suburbs. The kites of the boy and Fang Yu fell into the woods, and they went in to look for them. Then the boy disappeared, and we only found the unconscious Fang Yu."

"Missing?" Chen Ge frowned. If the boy was missing, then his clues would be gone.

"After Fang Yu woke up, we asked her about it. She said that she and the boy went into the woods to look for the kite and saw a path leading to a house full of flowers. There were also many children laughing there. The kite fell on the fence of the house. When they went to get the kite, a group of unfamiliar children grabbed them and tried to drag them into the house. The boy pushed Fang Yu out at the last moment, and then he took the initiative to close the door."

Others might not feel anything when hearing the old man's words, but it was different for Chen Ge. He had been to the small house full of flowers next to the Dongjiao Reservoir before!

At that time he was in primary school and had just moved from the eastern suburbs to the western suburbs for a year.

His parents had always strictly forbade him to go to the eastern suburbs of Hanjiang, but that day was an outing organized by the school.

Still at the Dongjiao Reservoir, I saw the house in the woods full of flowers and children's laughter.

The reason Chen Ge was able to escape that time was entirely because he had with him a puppet he had made himself. Inside that puppet lived Director Luo’s daughter, who is now the guardian spirit of New Century Park.

“It should be the same place!”

Chen Ge didn't expect that Fang Yu and that boy had also been there. Their past and his own past intersected.

"The items I drew this time don't seem to be that simple." Chen Ge picked up his backpack, but he didn't act rashly: "You two, I still need you to do me a favor."

"Go ahead." The teacher had a good impression of Chen Ge and thought that Chen Ge was a very caring person.

"Can you find the boy's information? I have a date here, which might be his birthday." Chen Ge flipped the photo and saw December 21 written on the back.

"I'll try my best, but don't hold your hopes too high."

"Thank you for your help." After saying goodbye to the teacher and the gatekeeper, Chen Ge opened his umbrella and ran out of the welfare home with his backpack.

"It's not too late to avenge the elementary school days."

He went straight to the Dongjiao Reservoir by taxi.

"Every time I come to these remote places in the eastern suburbs, the weather is bad, either it rains or it's windy."

The taxi dropped Chen Ge off outside the reservoir and then sped away. He walked alone on the roadside for a long time holding an umbrella.

My memories of my childhood are a bit fuzzy, but luckily not much has changed here.

The river flowed quietly, raindrops dripped on his body, and the surroundings were pitch black. Because Chen Ge had Yin pupils, he did not turn on the lights, as if he had merged into the darkness.

“I remember entering this forest.”

Chen Ge didn't know what had happened near the reservoir over the years. It had become more desolate than before. The original residents had moved away, and the forest had merged with the back mountain.

After pressing the switch of the repeater and opening the comic book to summon the headless female ghost and the stench, Chen Ge entered the forest.

The rain fell on the leaves, and the dripping sound rang in my ears. The dense forest and the outside world seemed to be two different worlds.