Chapter 21

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao flagged a taxi and said a location.

Ten minutes later, he alighted at a residential area.

It was an old residential area, similar to the place where Chen Hao’s rented apartment was at. It belonged to a more dilapidated area of the Stone City.

Nowadays, the development of the city was determined by what its citizens wanted.

At places where people loved to gather, there would be all kinds of retail stores and land prices would surge. That would, in turn, attracted more people, and the cycle repeated, developing that area.

And at some places, although it looked good, if people did not frequent it, the land would be worthless. Even if you lowered the price, people wouldn’t want it. The only choice was to keep it and wait till it got into the favor of the rich.

The old estate area looked dilapidated. The houses were all from the seventies and city planning wasn’t done properly. The place would flood whenever it rained. Most people who resided at this place were either the elderly or people who rented houses in the area.

Chen Hao followed the road signs and walked along the streets into the innermost area.

A few minutes later, he stopped outside an old and shabby yard.

The yard was even older than the surrounding buildings, similar to the yards of tile-roofed houses in villages.

At that moment, the door was sealed with a strip of paper—it was evident from the worn color of the paper that it had been there for quite some time.

This was the third location.

Chen Hao chose this location not because he wanted to see ghosts, but rather because he was curious.

The cases here were extremely strange. There were no deaths, but two people were driven crazy.

About five years ago, the owner of this yard was an elderly who died alone in the hospital, after which said elderly’s three children suddenly appeared to fight over the property.

After all, Stone City back then was developing at a rapid rate, so the prospects were great. The three children of the elderly—two sons and a daughter—all felt that if such a big yard was developed, it would bring in a lot of cash. Naturally, none of them would want to give it up.

In the end, the eldest kid who was already working was the most vicious. He used some unscrupulous means to chase his younger siblings away and occupied the yard on his own.

This was just a common story of unfilial children fighting for inheritance.

But after the eldest child moved into the house with his girlfriend, he never left it.

Three days later, the second child who was dissatisfied with the conclusion wanted to try again. Upon entering, he gasped before calling the police immediately.

What he saw was his brother and his girlfriend with unkempt clothes and strange expressions. They were tearing and biting at each other, screaming that they were hungry… In that situation, there wasn’t even a need to describe how scary it was.

When the police arrived later, the eldest child and his girlfriend were diagnosed as mentally unsound. It had been three days since they ate, so when they saw the police, they almost bit them.

But no one knew how they became crazy. There were no signs of fighting in the house, nor were there any signs of destruction or burglary, removing any possibility of it happening due to crime.

The second and third children were not upset and rejoiced instead. After all, without their selfish brother, the house would belong to the two of them.

But on the same night, both the second and third child ran to the yard, screaming at the top of their voices, “Ghosts… Ghosts…”

This situation was evidently different, so the police came to investigate once again. From the statements of the second and third children, the police understood that they saw their deceased father. Said father questioned them relentlessly and even wanted to drag them to death. This scared the living hell out of the two people, who obviously decided to run.

This mysterious phenomenon was outside the control of the police. They tried several times but did not see the said ghost, so they could only seal the house to prevent such accidents from happening again.

Afterward, perhaps because Stone City’s development wouldn’t expand over, the price of the land wouldn’t increase, so the second and third children stopped appearing as well.

For these kinds of cases that didn’t escalate to murder cases, it must have been quite an effort for Zhou Gang to find it.

The reason why Chen Hao came was to see what drove the people mad.

It was all nonsense to say that it was a ghost. If someone who had just passed on could appear in front of others this easily, Liu Yue’e wouldn’t need his help to deal with Wang Hu.

Not only that, but those were also two adults, one of whom was a vicious character who could drive his biological siblings away. For him to go crazy, there must be something else.

The entrance was locked, so he couldn’t enter.

He looked at the space above the yard. It was where all sorts of energies crossed each other, but there was no dark energy or evil energy… No, what was this!

Chen Hao squinted as he analyzed in detail.

It was a pale red and weak sort of energy. It came from the house and was carried away by the other energies, dissipating almost instantly. But this red energy was exceptionally odd. Chen Hao was unable to tell its origins.

Isn’t this fun.

The appearance of this energy meant that it was a new type. With the magical artifact protecting him, Chen Hao had no fear and started finding a way to get in.

At this time, Chen Hao found a destroyed part of the wall on the east side of the house. It was only two meters high with things piled in front, making it easy to climb over.

Ensuring that there was no one around him, Chen Hao quickly made use of the junk to climb over the wall.

Entering the yard, he could see the weeds. Evidently, it had been left empty for a long time.

Chen Hao’s gaze was locked on the red energy as he sought its origin.

The red energy was present everywhere in the yard, but it was always in strands, completely incomparable to the various dark energy he had seen before this. It was even weaker than the dark energy he saw at Stream Mountain.

As he walked and looked around, he quickly reached beside the red energy.

After a short hesitation, Chen Hao reached out to touch it.

Upon touching it with his finger, a strange feeling surged up. It wasn’t the evil feeling of evil energy, but it wasn’t the cold feeling from dark energy as well. Rather, it felt demonic.

Yes, it was demonic energy!

Chen Hao confirmed. His gaze shifted as if thinking of something.

At this time, Chen Hao felt someone’s gaze on him. He turned around quickly, only to spot a cat.

It was a plump black cat, prowling on the walls. Its green eyes stared straight at Chen Hao.

The moment their gaze met, Chen Hao felt his eyes blurring as he wobbled unsteadily.

At that moment, Chen Hao felt a warmth on his wrist before the dizziness went away.

Chen Hao paled.

Hell! He fell for it. This cat had strange abilities!

Before he could react, the black cat puffed up considerably and it screeched before jumping off the wall.

Chen Hao’s expression shifted as he chased after the cat with gritted teeth.

Going over the wall, the black cat was already nowhere in sight.

But Chen Hao could see the strands of red energy floating in the air.

As expected, the red energy came from the black cat. Hell, did this tiny thing become a spirit?

Chen Hao shuddered with fear but was excited as well.

Demons were things he had only seen in television dramas. In a time where even cultivators were rare, who would have thought that he could find a cat demon?

Definitely not letting it run.

With that thought, Chen Hao chased after the red energy.

After several twists and turns, Chen Hao quickly reached an old building. The black cat’s red energy was coming from within.

Just when Chen Hao was about to step in, he paused.

From within, a sixteen- to seventeen-year-old girl stepped out carrying a black cat.