webnovelfull Chapter 764: Strange Fire
Chapter 764: Strange Fire
The casino was bustling with people, and the slot machines and baccarat tables were packed with people.
Chen Yile found an inconspicuous place to sit down, his eyes fixed on the gambling table in the center.
The man with silver-rimmed glasses was still sitting there, with chips piled up in front of him.
He slowly raised his hand and wiped his glasses with a snow-white handkerchief.
At this moment, Chen Yile's eyes fell on the man's hand.
His fingers were long and white, but there was a faint scar on the palm of his hand, shaped like some ancient rune.
What shocked Chen Yile even more was that the moment the man took the dice out of his pocket, he seemed to see something wrong.
Was it an ordinary dice? No, in the moonlight, it seemed to have an eerie sheen, its surface covered with fine vein-like lines, like a living thing.
"Three sixes!" the dealer's voice rang out.
The man with silver-rimmed glasses waved his hand gently, and the dice rolled a few times in the dice cup before stopping.
When the dice cup was opened, the three dice were neatly arranged together, all showing sixes.
The whole hall was boiling with cheers.
But Chen Yile felt a chill running down his spine. He looked down at his amulet, a jade charm that was the only relic his mother had left him.
At this moment, the amulet was surprisingly hot, as if warning him of something.
"Something's wrong." Chen Yile muttered to himself.
Just then, he caught a glimpse of something glowing at the bottom of the dice cup.
He took a closer look and almost screamed out in surprise. At the bottom of the dice cup, there was a piece of bone fragment the size of a baby tooth!
The bones were a strange white color, glowing faintly under the light.
Chen Yile's heart almost stopped beating. He realized that this was no ordinary gambling game. The man with silver-rimmed glasses must have some unspeakable secret.
That night, Chen Yile decided to look up information about Jinding Entertainment City and the man with silver-rimmed glasses.
He found an old archive on the edge of the city, where various documents and records of Yunyang City over the past decades were kept.
The archives were dark, with only the light in the old administrator's office on.
Chen Yile knocked on the door and an old man with a hunched back opened it.
The old man wore thick glasses and held an old-fashioned fountain pen in his hand.
"I need to check the fire records of Jinding Entertainment City three years ago." Chen Yile asked tentatively.
The old man's eyes suddenly lit up. "Oh, you're talking about the fire. The entire entertainment city burned down, and many people died."
Chen Yile's heart beat faster.
He took out a photo and asked the old man if he recognized it.
The old man sighed and said, "I recognize him. This man is Zhou Wenyuan, the owner of the entertainment city. His wife died in the fire when she was eight months pregnant."
Chen Yile's hands began to tremble. He finally understood why the man with silver-rimmed glasses cared so much about the baby. It turned out that the baby was his child!
"I heard that the fire was very strange," the old man continued. "Some people said they saw a woman with disheveled hair walking around in the fire, and others said..."
"What?" Chen Yile asked anxiously.
The old man lowered his voice and said, "Some people say that the woman was holding a baby."
After hearing what the old man said, Chen Yile rushed back to the abandoned church overnight.
The night wind whistled past, making his clothes rustle. The church door was still closed, but the air was filled with a strong smell of incense.
He pushed the door open and walked in. The moonlight shone through the broken stained glass windows onto the ground, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground.
The interior of the church was even more eerie and damp than last time, with a faint smell of burning hanging in the air.
Chen Yile carefully searched every corner of the church. Suddenly, in the shadow behind the statue of the Virgin Mary, he found half of an ultrasound report.
The date above shows that it was three years ago and the fetus was already eight months old.
Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the other side of the church.
Chen Yile hid behind a huge pillar and held his breath.
"Who's there?" a hoarse voice asked.
Chen Yile's heart beat faster. That was the voice of the man with silver-rimmed glasses!
He heard footsteps getting closer and closer, and finally stopped in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary.
"You again." There was a hint of anger in the voice of the man with silver-rimmed glasses.
Only then did Chen Yile discover that there was a pile of burning paper money in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary.
The firelight cast strange shadows on the man's face, making him look less like a living person.
"What are you doing?" Chen Yile asked bravely.
The man with silver-rimmed glasses did not answer, but slowly turned around.
The moonlight shone on his face through the broken glass window. Behind the pair of silver-rimmed glasses, a pair of blood-red eyes were staring at Chen Yile.
"Do you want to know the truth?" The man's voice was low and strange.
Chen Yile felt his throat dry and couldn't speak.
“That night three years ago…” the man’s voice suddenly became hoarse and sorrowful, “My wife was eight months pregnant, but we were trapped in the fire.”
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the church.
The man's face suddenly turned pale: "They are coming!"
The man suddenly turned around and rushed to the other side of the church. Only then did Chen Yile discover that there was a secret passage behind the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Shortly after the man disappeared into the secret passage, a group of men in suits and ties rushed into the church.
The leader was Mr. Xu, the owner of the entertainment city. He had a strange smile on his face: "Zhou Wenyuan, you can't escape."
Only then did Chen Yile realize that the fire was not an accident at all!
It is very likely that Boss Xu deliberately set the fire and put the blame on Zhou Wenyuan in order to take over Jinding Entertainment City!
At this moment, a baby's cry was heard from deep in the secret passage.
Boss Xu's expression suddenly turned ferocious: "We found him!"
Chen Yile knew that something was wrong and immediately rushed out of the church.
A shrill cry came from the night wind, as if it came from hell.
After Chen Yi escaped from the Le Church, his heart was filled with doubts and fear. He knew that he had fallen into a dangerous vortex, but he could no longer stop.
The next morning, he was still wearing ordinary clothes and blending into the crowd in the entertainment city.
The casino was still bustling with gamblers coming and going and chips flying on the table.
Chen Yile's eyes were always fixed on the man wearing silver-rimmed glasses - Zhou Wenyuan.
He noticed that Zhou Wenyuan looked a little tired today and coughed from time to time.
Every time he coughed, a trickle of blood would flow out from the corner of his mouth, and mixed in the blood were some tiny things that looked like baby hair.
Chen Yile's heart twitched suddenly, and he remembered the baby he saw in the church yesterday and the half ultrasound report.
Could it be that Zhou Wenyuan's wife is really pregnant? Could that baby be...