Chapter 1001 – A Dystopia Woven by Memory
”He’s kinda royally pissed off with this look.” Chen Ge stared at the slowly approaching monster and pressed the repeater switch as he called out Xu Yin’s name in a low voice.
However, to his some surprise, Xu Yin did not appear, only that the entire apartment building began to bleed, and thin cracks surfaced on the walls.
Chen Ge realized after communicating with Xu Yin that he seemed to be blocked by a force and was forcing a breakthrough, but it would take some time.
”I encountered a similar situation when I entered the world behind the door of the underground corpse vault, but the scene behind this door is not comparable to Dr. Gao’s underground corpse vault at all.”
Putting the repeater into his backpack, Chen Ge took out his skull crushing hammer and stood on the aisle.
”It feels like there’s no need to dodge.”
The hideous giant hammer scuffed against the old wall skin as Chen Ge waited for the monster to get close and then smashed it against the monster’s arm.
The bottle that had grown in the flesh was smashed with a loud bang, and glass slag splattered everywhere, sinking into the monster’s body.
”Can you communicate?”
The monster couldn’t feel any pain, his arm was smashed, but he walked faster and faster. After he got close to Chen Ge, he stretched out his other arm to grab Chen Ge’s head, and his entire body pressed over.
”Looks like he has no self-awareness.” Holding a hammer with both hands, Chen Ge struck the monster’s chin hard from the bottom up.
The already deformed head was almost knocked off, leaving a thin layer of skin hanging from the neck.
The smell of alcohol in the air was getting stronger and stronger, and after the monster was injured, it became even more furious and ugly.
Chen Ge was still thinking about how to solve this monster when his back suddenly felt a chill, and he slowly twisted his head to look.
The doors of the rental houses on both sides of the aisle had been opened at some point, and several twisted-looking monsters silently appeared behind Chen Ge, and they were very close to him!
”The aborigines behind this door don’t seem to make a sound no matter what they do, they can hear the sounds I make, but I can’t hear the sounds they make.”
Thinking carefully, Chen Ge realized that wasn’t this exactly Jiang Ming’s situation?
He was deaf in both ears, so no matter what others did, he couldn’t hear them, but as long as he himself made a noise, the people around him would immediately react.
”I’m now standing in Jiang Ming’s perspective?”
This was the first time Chen Ge had encountered such a strange world behind the door, and he felt somewhat troubled.
The enemy could approach him without a sound and still be hard to kill, while he only had to make a little noise for the other party to be able to spot him.
”Let’s solve this one in front of us first.” After the Rotten Drunk Man was injured, his face was red as blood, bulging with a thick vein, and he became even more frenzied, that hand that had originally grown with the bottle waved in all directions, fusing with whatever it touched.
”The world behind the door is woven according to Jiang Ming’s memories, this man should be one that the boy remembers fondly, alcoholic, violent, and falling into a frenzy after being met with resistance, copying whatever he can grab and continuing to launch attacks.” Chen Ge looked at the rotund man close at hand and stared at the hideous face, “Such a person is really bad!”
Raising his Cranium Breaking Hammer, Chen Ge smashed it heavily against the monster’s head, the head of the hammer smashed directly into the monster’s shoulder, he kicked at the monster’s stomach again, not giving the other party a chance to resist at all, smashing the monster’s body with hammer after hammer.
”If he can still stand up here, I’ll have to consider other methods.”
The drunken man collapsed to the ground, his vein-covered face became even redder, as if he was about to explode, and his body was still slowly swelling.
”If this drunken man is the boy’s father, in a young child’s memory, the father is indeed invincible and cannot be gotten rid of.” Chen Ge glanced back, those neighbors also looked very strange, one had distorted features, their ears and mouths were much larger than normal.
Perhaps it was because of the different impressions they left on the boy, each of them showed different characteristics, some of them smelled strongly of bad perfume, and some of them had short limbs and very large stomachs.
These neighbors were different, but their reactions when they saw Chen Ge and the rotten drunken man fighting were surprisingly consistent, standing in front of their respective doors, listening with their ears perked up and whispering.
They would only move towards Chen Ge after he made noise, and they seemed to be too lazy to bother with Chen Ge as long as he didn’t continue to make noise.
”I wonder if those neighbors can be taken out.” Being watched by such a group of monsters, Chen Ge also felt the pressure, the most terrifying part of this scene was that one had no idea when those things would approach.
It was possible that the moment one turned around, several faces would follow behind them.
”I can’t hear them, the world is too quiet for me.”
The rotten drunk man was most likely Jiang Ming’s real father, and he would be hard to take out, but those neighbors weren’t so sure.
Chen Ge’s plan was to hammer down the rotten drunk man first, then take out all the neighbors, letting the world completely clear before slowly exploring it.
The plan was simple and straightforward, and he walked towards the tenant closest to him with the skull crushing hammer.
It was a middle-aged man in a tank top, with limbs that seemed to have degenerated as if they were shorter than normal by a large margin, while his stomach was high and full of fat.
In the room next to him was another withered old woman, the old man walking around the house cleaning as if he were possessed, several plastic hoses stuck in her, those straws connected to medicine bottles filled with sewage in the corners.
”Gnawing?” The world in Jiang Ming’s memory was completely different from the world in the eyes of adults, absurd and bizarre, and Chen Ge couldn’t guarantee that his guesses would be correct.
The neighbors were just monsters twisted out of memory, so Chen Ge moved without any psychological pressure.
The skull crushing hammer fell heavily, the middle-aged man who was seriously injured crawled towards the house a little bit, he grabbed those hoses that were placed in the medicine bottles and sucked them up, the old lady who was busy in the house became even more dry and thin in size.
Not a moment later, that middle-aged man stood up, he waved his short limbs as if he was provoking Chen Ge.
”These things can’t be killed, at least there’s no way to finish them off with just the skull crushing hammer.”
The body of the rotten drunk man that he had just knocked down was about to recover well, and he became even more terrifying and violent than before.
A few more hammers were thrown at the man, and after whacking him, Chen Ge directly leaped over the rotten drunk man and ran towards the second floor of the apartment.
Learning from the previous lesson, this time he was light-handed and didn’t make any more noise.
”Hide and shelter first.”
Chen Ge came to the bathroom on the second floor and quietly hid inside, he took the repeater and communicated with Xu Yin.
After inquiring, Chen Ge realized that this world behind the door was very unstable, and as long as the five red coats erupted at the same time they could tear the boy’s memories and get out of the trap.
However, Chen Ge would not do so as a last resort because tearing the memories might hurt the boy.