Chapter 0947: The One Who Killed Me
Lifting his leg and then falling, a very simple action, but for the current Chen Ge it was a bit of a struggle, he felt dizzy, his body seemed to be pressed with a lot of things, and there was a force in the underworld that wanted to drag him back.
Chen Ge didn’t know what was hidden in the darkness, nor was he sure if there were any ghosts or monsters around him, in fact, sometimes it was quite good to be invisible, at least it wouldn’t add to the panic.
It took a few minutes to walk from the seventeenth floor to the eighteenth floor.
When Chen Ge managed to come to the eighteenth floor, he almost fell down.
”The body is a bit cold and my head is dizzy.”
Chen Ge was very tired, and that exhaustion originated from his spirit, as if he had tensed his nerves and worked continuously for more than ten hours.
”I should be on the top floor now.” Chen Ge held onto the wall, and he still didn’t open his eyes.
Just to be on the safe side, he bent down and used his hands to brush over the floor and walls bit by bit, not letting go of any corners.
Having finally reached the roof of the building after nine deaths, he absolutely couldn’t make any mistakes at the last minute.
While Chen Ge was groping around, the sound of a door opening suddenly came from downstairs, the sound in the silent hallway was very abrupt.
The iron door was slowly pushed open, and two footsteps appeared in the hallway.
”Someone is walking upwards?” Chen Ge’s heart lifted, “The location where the sound of the door opening came from is probably on the 14th or 15th floor, are those neighbors chasing after them?”
The footsteps were urgent, rapidly approaching the roof of the building, it was as if they were forcing Chen Ge to hurry up and open his eyes to end the mission.
”The sound has reached the sixteenth floor.”
Chen Ge’s forehead was sweating as he leaned his back against the wall, and there was a hint of urgency in his heart.
”Should I open my eyes? Theoretically, it’s already at the top floor now, and I haven’t touched the steps to continue further up.”
While hesitating, the footsteps had already reached the seventeenth floor, Chen Ge stood in the corner, he was facing the hallway, his eyes still tightly closed.
At this time the footsteps downstairs were getting faster and faster, they appeared at the corner between the seventeenth and eighteenth floors, which meant that they had already seen Chen Ge at this point.
”I was discovered by them, but the footsteps didn’t stop, their target shouldn’t be me.”
The child’s familiar laughter sounded in his ears, and soon those two footsteps in front and behind passed by Chen Ge, and then a certain door on the eighteenth floor was opened!
The wind blew on Chen Ge’s face, and the exhaustion on his body slowly dissipated, as if the thing that was originally lying on top of him had left.
”Is it over?”
He wanted to open his eyes, but he could still hear the sound of footsteps and a child’s laughter in his ears.
The laughter brought him a strange feeling that he couldn’t put his finger on, he couldn’t feel joy in it, it was hollow, the other person was just laughing.
Touching the open door of the room, Chen Ge stood in the doorway, a child’s voice came from the other side of the door.
”Uncle, I had another dream, I dreamt that there was a blood red city floating in the black sea, people coming and going in the city had knives, they cut off their bodies and buried all their memories.”
”Uncle, memories are there because of people, but people forget them, do memories get angry?”
”Uncle, are you listening to me?”
The child’s voice was right in front of Chen Ge, Chen Ge even had the feeling that the child was speaking to himself, and he was about to open his mouth when a strange man’s voice appeared.
”I’m listening.” The man’s voice didn’t carry any emotion, cold} human, cold as if it was a machine, “Memory doesn’t get angry, it’s destined to be forgotten when it appears, that’s the end of memory.”
”Destined to be forgotten?”
”En, just like you.” After the man finished speaking, the child laughed again.
”Why do you like to laugh so much?” There was a hint of boredom in the man’s voice.
”Because it’s happy, my dad said that everything I see is a nightmare, that all those horrible, bad things are dreams and when I wake up they’ll be gone, shouldn’t that be happy?” The child’s voice was innocent.
”Nightmares?” The man’s tone became even colder, “If one day you realized that those weren’t nightmares, that all the ones you dreamed about were real, would you still be able to laugh?”
”I don’t know, maybe I could.”
”And if you found out that one day you were left behind in that blood red city, never to return, would you still be able to laugh like you are now?”
”I ……”
”You certainly wouldn’t be able to smile again, you’d be cursing madly, just like those memories discarded by their owners, wrapped in negativity, sinking deeper and deeper into that sea of blackness.” A hint of excitement crept into the man’s voice, a somewhat twisted soul hidden beneath his icy tone.
”No, it won’t.” The child’s childish voice contained a maturity that didn’t match his age, and he seemed to have seriously thought for a long time before continuing, “If one day I’m really forgotten in a nightmare, I’ll paint a window on that black ocean, push open a door in the blood-red city, and I’ll make all the eyes accustomed to darkness, see light.”
After the boy finished the last word, Chen Ge suddenly felt that the words were very familiar, as if they were something he had said before.
Eyelids fluttering, Chen Ge unconsciously took a step forward, and out of instinct, he wanted to catch that voice.
”Where there is light, there must be darkness, you want the darkness to see the light, then the light will become dark.” The man seemed to grab the child.
”Let go of me!”
”You’re the one who should let go, don’t come back!”
”Let go! Help! Help!”
”You will eventually be forgotten, so be at ease and go out to die!”
As the man said to go out and die, Chen Ge’s body went cold, and a voice screamed in the bottom of his heart.
”Help!”
His tightly closed eyes snapped open, and Chen Ge saw a doctor in a white coat at the edge of the building, pushing his young self off the roof!
He desperately rushed towards the edge of the building, but when he reached his hand over, everything disappeared.
His entire body’s strength exhausted in an instant, Chen Ge sat paralyzed at the edge of the building, his clothes already drenched in cold sweat.
”When I was doing that nightmare level quest in the tunnel, I also saw my younger self being killed for the second time. The murderer’s backs are almost identical, it should be the same person, he’s wearing a doctor’s uniform, it’s probably the same doctor who came over from Xinhai, but why did he kill me? And what was the meaning of the conversation between them?”
With a splitting headache, after closing his eyes for so long, Chen Ge was still a bit uncomfortable right now.
He curled up against the wall and rubbed his eyes, and when his vision returned to normal, he twisted his head to his side, wanting to carry the white cat down.
But just as his head turned halfway, his body froze.
Two withered arms were resting in front of his face, and the tunic that was as bright red as blood almost touched the tip of Chen Ge’s nose.
There was a red coat picking at Chen Ge’s shoulders and lying on his back!
”You left that half-pushed open door in the Jiangyuan neighborhood, didn’t you?” A child’s voice came out from behind Chen Ge.
”I don’t remember.” Chen Ge didn’t see the white cat on his shoulder that was about to cry in fear until then, the cat didn’t dare to move a muscle, and those who didn’t know probably thought it was a specimen.
The white cat had been there all along, but hadn’t given himself a reminder, indicating that the red coat had most likely appeared from the time he closed his eyes.
The white cat was lying on his left shoulder, so perhaps he was lying on his right?