She clawed at herself desperately, screaming in agony, hysterically trying to gouge the handprints out.
Unfortunately, even after she had scratched herself to the point of passing out, the baby handprints had not faded.
Blood slid down her flawless skin. Covered in wounds, Han Bao'er collapsed in the center of the room, her body a mess of cuts and gashes that looked genuinely terrifying.
After Han Bao'er fainted, Li Zheng, who had been bewitched by her ghost child, also passed out at the same time.
At that moment, the black phone buzzed lightly, but
Qiu Meng, whose arms had been shattered by his blows, was now like a lamb awaiting slaughter. He was far stronger than Chen Ge, but in terms of real combat experience, he was no match.
"Anything left to say?" Chen Ge looked at Qiu Meng with a slight headache. If
With the outcome already decided, Qiu Meng slumped to the ground and stared at Han Bao'er in the distance, his expression complicated.
"The first person to be hurt was her. If you knew what she went through in the past, you would agree with every word she ever said."
"Then tell me—what exactly did she go through?" Chen Ge was quite curious about Han Bao'er.
"She grew up living with her mother. She was just like those ghost children crawling on the ground, clinging to that vicious woman's side."
"She was a living, breathing person, but everyone except her treated her as nothing more than a commodity."
"Beauty became a sin. It was a despair beyond description. The world was wrong—she was only trying to fight back when she had nowhere left to turn."
Footsteps sounded from the hallway outside. The police had arrived.
Chen Ge wasted no more time. He tried to communicate with
Xu Yin apparently misunderstood Chen Ge's intent. He pressed both hands against Qiu Meng's head, the wound on his arm splitting open as fresh blood seeped into Qiu Meng's body.
Qiu Meng's eyes filled with blood vessels, turning completely crimson. Just as Chen Ge worried his eyes were about to burst, the color drained from them and he passed out.
It seemed as though Xu Yin had taken something from Qiu Meng's mind. A faint trace of color had appeared in the hollow where his missing heart should have been.
"The key to becoming a Red-dressed ghost is connected to living people? What exactly is missing from Xu Yin's heart?"
The security door shuddered under impact. Chen Ge knew the police were here.
He put away all the ghosts, picked a comfortable position, and "fainted" on the floor, beginning to plan how to handle the interrogation to come.
"Hurry! Someone's injured! Call an ambulance!"
Police voices filled his ears. Chen Ge felt his body being moved and cracked his eyes open just enough to see that the entire first squad of the city branch criminal investigation unit had arrived. A long-lost sense of safety washed over him.
Han Bao'er and Qiu Meng were both unconscious. Li Zheng had not woken up yet either. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Ge promptly continued to play dead.
Having not had proper rest for days, Chen Ge fell asleep as soon as he was loaded onto the ambulance.