Chapter 0461 – That Man
”Do two red coats count for much?” Chen Ge didn’t raise his head and continued eating his meal.
Hearing his words, Dr. Chen was momentarily speechless, he thought of some of the rumors he had heard about Chen Ge earlier and shook his head with a bitter smile, “It’s already scary for me.”
”Dr. Chen, I have other things to do later, I came over today because I want to ask you something, I hope you can answer truthfully for the sake of me saving your life.” Chen Ge put down his boxed lunch and took a sip of water, his movements and demeanor were completely at odds with what he would be saying next, “You once told me in the underground corpse vault that your own last name wasn’t Chen, it was because you were entrusted by someone, and the other party wanted you to do something in the western suburbs of Jiujiang with that last name.”
”Did I tell you that too?” Dr. Chen hesitated and did not retort, “Yes.”
”Who is that person? Why did you use the surname Chen? What did he ask you to come to the western suburbs of Jiujiang for?”
Chen Ge asked three questions in a row, Dr. Chen pondered for a moment before giving Chen Ge an answer, “I know the old dean of the Rehabilitation Center and have worked for him, when the door to the third patient building first appeared, the old dean and I had exchanges, and I later went to check near the door in person, and even entered the world behind the door.”
Dr. Chen bowed his head and thought for a while, “I should be the first person other than Men Nan to enter the world behind the door, I saw many strange and weird things there, it was like a nightmare, I only told two people about this secret, the old dean and my best friend, Dr. Gao.”
”The three of us decided to seal the door with cement at first, but then we realized that it was very ineffective, the door would still appear, and the blood penetrated the nearby siding, and began to spread as soon as night came.”
”Maybe because of having entered the world behind the door, I felt as if I was being haunted by something, once midnight passed in the wee hours of the morning, there were always fingers underneath my bed scratching the bed boards, there was no one in the bathroom, but when I looked in through the half-open bathroom door, I realized that there was a dark shadow standing in the mirror, it was facing my bed, and it seemed to be preparing to walk out of the mirror. ”
”I am a psychiatrist, and the first thing I did when these things appeared was to examine myself and make sure that they were not my own hallucinations.”
”Psychiatrists end up in mental hospitals themselves for real, so I thought at first that something was wrong with me.”
”But then something happened that completely changed my mind.”
”On the third night out from behind the bloody door, I saw a man standing outside my window with his head facing my bed.”
”I live on the third floor of my house, there is no security net installed on the second floor, and the air conditioning outboard unit is not in this location, so I ruled out all the possibilities and finally came to the conclusion that the man was at least over three meters tall.”
”The man looked at me for a long time, and finally drilled into the home on the second floor.”
”I immediately called the police, but the police didn’t find the suspicious man on the second floor, and I was taken away by the police to be questioned about something amidst the complaints of the neighbors on the second floor.”
”The next morning, it was at the police station that I heard the news of the second floor neighbor’s suicide.”
”The victim died in a very bizarre manner, with sunken shoulders and a horrified expression, having been in shock before his death.”
”I suspected that my neighbor’s death had something to do with the man I saw last night, and I explained everything to the police, but the police officer on duty thought I should see a psychiatrist.”
”I remember it well, and I showed him my psychiatrist’s credentials at the time.”
”There were some things that couldn’t be said, and the policeman didn’t believe it at all, but it was an older, cheerful-looking man in the room who was interested in what I had to say. I thought at first that he was also a police officer and talked to him in detail for half a day before I finally realized that that person had just received public order education a few days ago for filing a false police report, impersonating a police officer, and speeding, and was only released today.”
Dr. Chen’s tone was somewhat helpless, “I didn’t dare to go home, and tried my best to stay at the police station for a few more days, and only had to leave the police station after the hospital I worked at started circulating rumors that I had gone crazy.”
”When I arrived home, the figure of the man at the window would always come to my mind, and I was worried that I would be the next victim, so I stayed directly in the middle of a hotel in the busiest area of the city.”
”It went on like that for a month, that man never appeared again, and my life returned to normal.”
”It’s not a good idea to keep living in a hotel, I’m going to sell my previous house and buy a new one in a more prosperous part of the city.”
”Actually, I had this plan a long time ago, after paying the down payment, I contacted a moving company in the eastern suburbs and prepared to take advantage of the daytime to move some of the more valuable things first.”
”The new house is on the fifteenth floor, and I purposely chose the top floor.”
”After all the furniture was delivered, it was already evening, I invited the mover for a meal and had a few glasses of wine myself, ready to live in my new home and start a new life.”
Speaking here, Dr. Chen paused slightly, “Back in my new home, I lay down on my familiar bed and quickly fell asleep.”
”It was about twelve o’clock in the morning when I felt a little cold in my body, tightened the covers, and when I opened my eyes to look to the side, I suddenly realized that there seemed to be a man standing in the house.”
”I was instantly woken up with a fright, and when I took a closer look, the man standing in my house was the monster I had seen before!”
”He was more than three meters long, his upper body was straight up, and his lower body was slowly drilling out from under the bed, with a strange smile on his face, and his mouth was saying that he had finally waited for you.”
”I really didn’t expect this monster to keep hiding under my bed, I ran towards the outside like crazy.”
”I couldn’t even care about my shoes, I rushed towards the door of my room.”
”I didn’t dare to turn back, I ran into the corridor and shouted for help, but not a single person responded.”
”My shoulders were getting heavier and heavier, the monster seemed to be stepping on top of my shoulders.”
”Laughter came from above my head, my vision began to blur, the hallway was as if it was twisted, I felt like I would fall at any moment.”
”Forcing myself to endure all the discomfort, I made it to the stairway, and as I was on the verge of being stripped of all five senses, the sound of a lighter suddenly came to my ears.”
”The steel wheel rubbed against the flint, and a dancing flame appeared in the midst of my vision, and I saw a man leaning against the mouth of the stairway, lighting himself a cigarette.”
”This man looked a little familiar to me, and on closer inspection, it was the same man I had met at the police station who had received a public order education for impersonating a policeman and speeding.”
”The cigarette in his hand burned slowly, and as the ashes fell, a mournful plea for mercy came from my shoulder.”
”A cigarette burned out and the monster on my shoulder disappeared completely.”
”It was him who saved me, I talked to him a lot that night, he told me that there was another side to this world that was hidden, he taught me how to close the door to the third sick bay, and he was also the one who asked me to use the surname Chen to help him do something in the western suburbs of Jiujiang.”
Dr. Chen said this and took a sip of water, he silently looked at Chen Ge and said his last words, “That man looks a lot like you, and that thing he instructed me to do is also related to you.”