<h4>Chapter 1147 Ghost Stories Reviewer – Chen Ge 2 in 1</h4>
“Did you hear? There are rumors that a ghost visited the male dormitoryst night! There was a student who always bullied his roommate found dazed in his bed. Both pee and poop were found staining his shorts!”“Howe I heard it was the female dormitory that had a problemst night? The surveince camera was covered by a ck shadow, but the manager said she saw many different human faces flutter into the dormitory through the blurry camera! There was a female student who was found in the corridor. She was incognizant. People said she was sleep walking!”
“Yes, yes. This morning, I saw someone was sent to the hospital. The ambnce stopped for a while before the female dormitory. Now, everyone is talking about how the students who often bully their ssmates are being cursed! This is karma rearing her ugly head!”
A few girls were standing together, whispering and gossiping among themselves. The most beautiful among them did not say anything; she just looked at the rest of them with derision in her eyes.
“Chen Wen, you’d better take this as a warning. If you continue to go cause trouble, be careful. You might also run into a ghost at night.” A female student with a coarse voice and a rather unisexual appearance turned to warn the student who had not spoken.
“Do you think I’ll believe these ridiculous stories?” Chen Wen crossed her arms. She guarded at the backdoor of the ss like she was waiting for someone. The bell for ss rang. Most of the students returned to their seats, and at that moment, a female student who was very casually dressed stepped into the ss. She was wearing clothes that were bought at the market. She did not know how to dress herself. Her eyes darted everywhere but her deskmate, Chen Wen. The first ss of the day was over. The girl did not dare leave her seat even though she wanted to go to the toilet. She kept herself glued to her seat, as if the moment she left the ssroom, something bad would happen to her.
“You seem to have some issues with me, huh?” Chen Wen moved her chair to the girl’s side. If one was not close enough to hear the content of her voice and the tone of her voice, just looking at them, one might think they were very close friends.
“No.” The girl held her pen and kept flipping through her notes.
“Where are your manners? I am talking to you. Look at me. Look at me!” Chen wen’s armnded on the girl’s shoulder. “How about we go to y together after school? Don’t be such a good two shoes. You’ve been wanting to make friends, right? After this afternoon, we will be friends.”
“But I have something to do...”
“Okay, so that is a promise. If you dare skip out on me, there will be hell to pay. I will see youter.” Chen Wen let go of her arm and took out her phone to start chatting with someone.
Her deskmate gripped the pen in her hand tightly. She was very afraid, but she did not know who to share her problem with. She did not know what Chen Wen wanted from her, but she was sure it was nothing good. Without any actual evidence, even if she went to the teacher, the school would not intervene to deal with Chen Wen. Furthermore, even if the teacher did choose to believe her, all the school could do was leave Chen Wen a warning. As long as they did not kick her out of school, Chen Wen and her friends would only make it their mission to make the girl’s school life more miserable.
This was the saddest point about the victims of school bullies. They were the victims, but they were the ones being ostracized, and sometimes, they might even suffer secondary damage from their family and the school. Her head was filled with what Chen Wen had said; the girl could not even pay attention in ss. She did not dare speak up, so she stared at her textbook quietly. During the physical education ss, the girl requested a break from the teacher with the excuse that she was not feeling well. She returned to the ssroom to rest on her own.
“Should I tell the teacher? The girls being targeted by Chen Wen either be her friend or transfer from this school. She appears toe from a very powerful family.” The girl’s family had just moved to Xin Hai not that long ago. She had the feeling of self-deprecation of a neer. “I cannot create more trouble for my parents anymore, but... what should I do?”
“Chang Wenwen?”
The girl suddenly heard someone calling her name. She turned her head to the source of the voice. There was a young man standing at the ssroom window with a smile. The sun created a halo around the young man, and the young man’s smile was as warm as the sun.
“That should be her! Quick! Pull me back into theic! My body is about to dissolve under the sun already!” There was a shadow behind the young man who was struggling and pleading, but of course, the girl could not see that.
Pulling Chang Gu back into theic, Chen Ge pushed open the backdoor of the ssroom. “Please do not be afraid. I ampleting a request for a friend, and I am here because I need a favor from you.”
The girl was utterly confused. She had no idea what Chen Ge was talking about at all.
“Have you ever had this dream before?” Chen Ge stood at the backdoor and softly spoke. “You dreamed about a blood red door. Inside the door, there was a school that only had its sses at night. All the students and teachers at the school were ghosts. When you were lost and in despair, a female senior appeared to help you.”
The words jogged the girl’s memory, and her face was overwhelmed by surprise. “How do you know about that?”
“Do you still remember what kind of promise you made that female senior?” Chen Ge followed what Chang Gu said and was slowly leading the girl step by step.
“She would help me escape from the nightmare, and in exchange, I would help her look after something.” The female student was very innocent, and she did not even consider hiding any information from Chen Ge.
“I am that female senior’s friend. She asked me toe to you to reim that item.”
Chen Ge did not look like a bad person. After a moment’s hesitation, the female student undid the first button of her blouse and took out something that looked like a pouch from around her neck. “All this time, I have been wondering whether that was a dream or not. If it was not a dream, howe I cannot remember more details about it? If it was a dream, how I do exin this thing that appeared in my grasp after I woke up that night?”
The girl opened the pouch. Inside was a red stone, and in the middle of the stone was a strand of hair that had been balled up.
“This should be the thing.” Chen Ge epted the stone. The several Red Specters inside theic gave him warnings at the same time as if this thing was extremely dangerous. “Thank you, I shall take this with me. From now on, your luck will slowly be better.”
Before the school security arrived, carrying the stone, Chen Ge hurriedly left the grounds of Xin Hai First High.
“Chang Gu, I have already obtained the object. What should I do next?” Chen Ge carried his backpack to the shadows of arge tree. It was as if he was talking to himself.
A shadow behind Chen Ge opened his lips to say, “That strand of hair is thest lingering spirit of my little sister. The red stone is formed from the blood of her heart, the most important drop of blood for a Top Red Specter.”
“Are you not afraid that I’ll have the other Red Specters consume her by revealing to me such an important information?”
“Naturally, I am afraid of that, but there is nothing I can do about it,” Chang Gu said with a bitter smile. “Even if I hid that information from you, your other Red Specters employees would notice it.”
“Don’t worry, I will fulfil the promise that I have made. I just hope that you siblings will do the same for me.” Chen Ge tossed the blood stone lightly into the air, and that caused Chang Gu to get immensely worried. “With just this lingering spirit and blood stone, your younger sister cane back to life?”
“She still need to consume some Specters first, but I have no idea the exact number of ghosts that she needs to consume.” Chang Gu lowered his head. He did not dare look at Chen Ge.
“In other words, you two nned to rope me into the role of her nanny, huh? I think I finally understand Chang Wenyu’s n now. Her enemies are all in Jiujiang, so she chose a girl who just moved to Xin Hai and left herst shred of lingering spirit with her. After she awakens, she can consume the ghosts in Xin Hai to recover her power, and when she is at her full strength again, she can easily return to Jiujiang.”
Chang Wenyu was indeed very clever, but she had seriously underestimated Zhang Ya. She had failed to anticipate that Chen Ge would have a Demon God with him.
“Boss, we were indeed in the wrong at the School of the Afterlife. I hope you will help her one more time.” Chang Gu was basically begging Chen Ge. During this period when they were together, his opinion of Chen Ge had kept improving. He felt like Chen Ge was someone trustworthy.
“Don’t worry.” Chen Ge put away the blood stone and creased his brows. “To awaken Chang Wenyu, she needs to feed on ghosts. To improve my employees’ abilities, I also need ghosts and Specters.” After giving it some thought, Chen Ge took out his phone and started to search for ghost stories rted to Xin Hai. He created a throwaway ount and snuck into a local supernatural forum. Inside a pinned thread, he found the thing that he was looking for.
‘The collection thread for the ghost stories in Xin Hai! Come and review and vote your top ten scariest ghost stories from Xin Hai!’
Chen Ge surveyed the thread post by post. His pupils slowly narrowed as he silently recorded all the information. Chang Gu, who stood next to him, did not dare speak. When his boss looked through these ghost stories, it was like a customer looking over the menu at the restaurant. The serious expression on the man’s face caused his heart to shiver with fear.
“This thread is still updating. Thetest post was posted about two minutes ago. Looks like I havee across a treasure of a thread.” Chen Ge bookmarked the page. He had already memorized the addresses of some of the ghost stories, and he nned to visit them that night.
Returning to the Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge did not have time to greet his employees but directly rush back into the headmaster’s office. He asked Chi Ren some questions again and confirmed some information about Doctor Fang and people with the surname Chi before he left.
“Failure to n is nning to fail, but sometimes, luck ys a huge part of it as well. Xiao Sun, you will run into many kinds of danger on this journey of yours, but I believe in you because you are different from the others.” Chen Ge personally inspected the final result of Xiao Sun’s special training and taught Xiao Sun a few more tricks.
Once the sky darkened, Chen Ge, who was all prepared, carried the ‘heavily injured’ Xiao Sun to the countryside of Xin Hai. The secret of the people with the surname Chi was only known to the people with the surname Chi, and this secret was one that they could not share. Due to the curse of the Demon God, once the person revealed the secret, not only would they die, the Demon God would be apprised of the situation there almost immediately.
The cursed hospital did not expect the red high heels to inherit everything that belonged to the ghost fetus and be a Top Red Specter, and Chen Ge was currently making use of this. Chen Ge created an ident so that the people with the surname Chi who lived at the countryside very coincidentally run into Patient 101 Xiao Sun, who was about to dissipate. After using some words and actions to convince the man, Chen Ge watched the man carry Xiao Sun out of Xin Hai with his own eyes. The ce that they were heading to was the border between Xin Hai and Jiujiang. There were many ghost buildings and barrennds there. It had been abandoned for many years already.
“God will smile on the faithful. Hopefully, Xiao Sun will make something of himself at the cursed hospital.” For some unknown reason, after sending Xiao Sun away, Chen Ge unconsciously sighed in great relief.
“What I need to do next is improve my employees’ ability as fast as I can and try to get the red high heels to be a Demon God.” It was extremely difficult for a Red Specter be a Demon God, but Chen Ge had no other choice. Only by having the red high heels be the Demon God would he have the right to fight the cursed hospital.
Logging back into the supernatural forum, Chen Ge noticed that the thread was still updating. The forum users had gotten into an argument about the ranking of the ghost stories. No party wished to back down. In the end, some of them even swore that they would go to the locations of the ghost stories to record a video to show the other users how scary the ce was.
“Ultimately, the ce is a big city. The people are always busy.” Jiujiang had simr forums, but the number of active users was pitiably small. The poptions of both cities were not on the same level. “The ce with more people will have more despair and thus more ghost stories. Theoretically, that should be the case, but it appears like Jiujiang is an exception to the rule.”
Chen Ge had also had noticed that the number of ghost stories in Jiujiang was abnormally high. If he was to rte a city to a person, then Jiujiang was like Sun Xiaojun. It had the love of a thousand Specters.
“It has been quite a few days since I arrived in Xin Hai. It is about time I go pay them a visit.” Chen Ge hailed a cab to head to his destinations. “Sir, please drive faster. I am in a hurry. I have to visit a few ces tonight.”
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By 11 pm, of the top ten Xin Hai Ghost Stories, Chen Ge had already visited three of them, but unfortunately, he was not rewarded. He also slowly realized that the ghost stories with great word of mouth in reality would have a very low chance of actually hiding a Red Specter. If an actual Red Specter with great resentment was behind these ghost stories, there would not be any survivors to spread the ghost stories. Without any survivors, there naturally would not be any witnesses, and the ghost story would not even be known.
With a spirit of not wanting to miss anything, Chen Ge had recorded all the ghost stories on the pinned thread. Among them, he had found a few special ghost stories. The descriptions were not that detailed, but he could pick out specific terms like bloody clothes and red.
“Xin Hai Ghost Stories Rank Twenty-Seven. A crying well in a developing part of the city—it was supposed to be an abandoned well, but there was a crying sounding from inside it. And there were witnesses iming they saw bloody hair crawling out from inside the well. This sounds promising. It is worth a visit.”
cing his phone on his knee, Chen Ge used his pen and some paper to help with his note-making. Those who did not know better probably thought he was really reviewing these ces.
Ten minutester, Chen Ge arrived at a developing construction site. Due to many reasons, the construction progress was halted, and the well was at the foot of the hill behind the construction site. Walking through the bushes and trees, Chen Ge finally found the well. The well was made from stone, and not far away from the well were a few old and abandoned houses.
“This should be the ce.” Before Chen Ge even got near, he could hear a wispy crying sound. “It’sing from inside the well?”
There was a magical power about the crying. Chen Ge appeared to lose control of his body as he slowly moved to the mouth of the well. The pale moonlight shone on the surface of the water. Chen Ge looked into the well. There was endless ck hair floating on the surface of the water. Without any attempt atmunication, the ck hair gathered together and tried to grab Chen Ge around his neck, intending to drag him into the well!
“You asked for it!” His palm flipped through theic. The moon turned red as blood flushed right into the well. Momentster, the water ghost reappeared beside Chen Ge holding Chang Wenyu’s blood stone.
“There was a Half Red Specter inside the well, but it appeared to have been cursed. It cannot be rationallymunicated with. It did not even seem to realize it was a ghost.”
“It was cursed?” Whenever Chen Ge heard the term ‘curse’, he was immediately reminded of the cursed hospital.
“After swallowing the Half Red Specter, the blood stone has deepened in color. I predict it will need to swallow at least two more Red Specters before she can awaken. Other than that, there’s something else at the bottom of the well. I think you’d better go and look at it yourself.”
The water ghost and Xu Yin led Chen Ge into the old well. At the bottom of the well, they encountered a tomb. Inside the tomb was a set of well-preserved clothing, and among the folds of the clothes, there was a patient record. On the back of the patient record was written—’This is a sickened world. Why have you not discovered that fact? I vow to cure you!’
“This statement again?” Chen Ge had once seen this sentence before at Lan Xiaochen’s home. “This is a sickened world. Why have you not discovered that fact? I have a feeling that question is meant for me.”
Putting away the patient record, Chen Ge crawled out from the old well. “It’s pointless to think about it now. We should hurry to the next location of ghost stories instead.”