Chapter 1002 – I Hear Your Voice
Knowing the way out of the trap, Chen Ge calmed down.
”This door is constantly approaching the boy, and when a red dress appears, it will also make a sound to remind him, no matter which way you look at it, this door has no malicious intent towards Jiang Ming.”
Chen Ge stroked his chin, “There’s clearly something in the door that wants to come out, but I didn’t find that thing when I entered the world behind the door, is he hiding?”
The thing inside the door didn’t want to harm Jiang Ming, so it couldn’t be one of those monsters filled with malice.
”Perhaps Jiang Ming’s lost hearing is here.”
Chen Ge still remembered the mission information on the black phone, “The Underworld Fetus mission is a hide-and-seek that bets on life and death, am I going to have to search for something hidden by the Underworld Fetus when I enter the door this time? Will this be the first showdown between me and the Underworld Tire.”
Chen Ge felt that it was very likely, he took out his black cell phone and was about to finalize the mission once more when footsteps suddenly came from the aisle on the second floor.
Very, very light footsteps, like a child walking on tiptoe, if Chen Ge didn’t possess ghost ears he definitely wouldn’t have heard them.
”Someone is passing by?” The moment this thought popped into Chen Ge’s mind, his eyes widened violently, “Not right! Those monsters behind the door that were formed based on memories won’t make a sound, I’ve already done the test just now!”
With both ears deaf, Jiang Ming couldn’t hear the world, but he could hear his inner voice.
The world behind the door was woven from his memories, and the only person who could make a sound here besides outsiders should be Jiang Ming himself!
Pushing open the door to the toilet cubicle, the toilet was empty with no one in it.
Chen Ge walked out of the toilet carrying a skull crushing hammer and a backpack, and he saw several children standing in the aisle.
The clothes those children wore were much cleaner than the clothes the neighbors wore, and they were holding a variety of toys and seemed to be playing games.
”Jiang Ming is among them?” Chen Ge slowly approached with the Skull Crushing Hammer, and before he could get to him, those children realized Chen Ge.
These children looked sunny, and their clothes were beautiful and clean, but their looks were all over the place.
Their eyes were exceptionally large and their mouths were split to the sides as if they were making faces all the time.
The child in the lead pointed at Chen Ge and then grabbed his ears, and the surrounding children looked at him and all laughed.
Standing in Chen Ge’s perspective, there was no sound around him, and he couldn’t hear those children’s laughter, he could only see their hateful expressions.
”Those guys are laughing at me.”
His pupils slowly narrowed, Chen Ge observed meticulously, and he probably figured out what those kids were saying through their opening and closing lips.
The kids thought Chen Ge was stupid, thought he was different from normal people, and thought that whoever played with him would be deaf as well.
”It seems that Jiang Ming isn’t among them, and it’s impossible for a deaf person to laugh along with them when he hears such a ‘joke’.” Chen Ge raised his skull-crushing hammer, but he didn’t make a move, “It’s no fun to get angry with the kids, when I leave through the door, I’ll go to reality and teach them how to behave, and by the way, I’ll make them apologize to Jiang Ming.”
Those neighbors were unconscious and unable to communicate, one very important reason was that Jiang Ming was just a child and had very little contact with adults, but it was different with his peers.
This group of children’s ridicule and sarcasm Jiang Ming remembered clearly, they should often play together, Chen Ge felt that he might be able to find clues about Jiang Ming from these children.
He crouched his body down and strained to gesture with his hands, trying his best to communicate with the other children without making a sound.
Chen Ge himself didn’t want to go through so much trouble, but as soon as he made a sound, that rotten drunken man would come after him, so it was better to do more than less, so Chen Ge had no choice but to go for it.
After half a day of gesticulating, the group of kids didn’t leak any information to Chen Ge, they only seemed to mock and humiliate as a way to gain satisfaction.
When Chen Ge was ready to give up, one of the kids suggested playing a game, and Chen Ge said he wanted to join in.
The first child “kindly” showed Chen Ge that they wanted to play hide-and-seek, using rock-paper-scissors to determine who would catch someone.
As a result, all of the children had used cloth, but Chen Ge alone had used rock.
This group of kids obviously conspired to try to catch Chen Ge, they scattered and fled, starting to hide, leaving Chen Ge alone on the second floor aisle.
”Bunch of brats, when I catch you, I’ll take you all ……”
Chen Ge unconsciously muttered out, halfway through his sentence he realized something was wrong and looked around, luckily no monsters appeared.
”Getting used to talking, suddenly having to keep quiet is still a bit uncomfortable.” Lifting his backpack, Chen Ge was about to walk forward when his ears suddenly heard a ringing sound, as if someone had accidentally touched a chair.
The direction that the sound came from was exactly where Chen Ge had heard the footsteps earlier.
”Jiang Ming?”
Chen Ge slowly walked towards the end of the corridor, and he noticed that there was a rental house with an unlocked door.
Gently pushing the door open, there were a lot of water embroidery silks unique to the local area of Hanyue thrown in the room, nowadays people who still know how to do water embroidery are few and far between, Chen Ge didn’t expect to see them here.
On the table were colorful cloths, several kinds of embroidery needles of different lengths, and silk threads of different colors.
The entire apartment building was dark in color, and only this room seemed warm and bright.
”The bamboo chair isn’t at the table, and just now it seems like someone just touched it.” Chen Ge closed the door of the rented room as he looked around.
The hut was not big, and the person living here should be an old man, as there was a pair of old-fashioned glasses thrown in the needle and thread frame, and there was also a walking stick beside the bed.
The table was set in the center of the house with two bamboo chairs beside it, where two people were usually expected to work.
Next to the bed in the bedroom is a black and white photo of the old man, with a line written below the frame, a tribute to his late husband.
”The owner of the rental house should be an old woman, and this is both where she lives and works.” Chen Ge circled around the rented house and did not see the owner of the house, “This room is brightly colored and completely different from other rented houses, it should be a very special place for Jiang Ming, he felt warmth here.”
The owner of the house that Jiang Ming remembered must have treated him very well, but the problem was that the owner was not in the rental house at this time.
Chen Ge didn’t want to give up on this, and as he searched for the second time, he heard a sound coming from the bedroom closet.
Quietly approaching, Chen Ge violently opened the closet.
A faint musty odor drifted into his nose, and Chen Ge saw a four or five year old child hiding in the closet.
This child was timidly hiding in the corner of the closet, and unlike the other people in the world behind the door, his features and body were completely normal, without any hint of distortion.
”Jiang Ming?” Chen Ge inquired in a low voice.
Hearing Chen Ge’s voice, the boy’s face was filled with an incredulous expression, in the silent world, someone suddenly said his name!
After a short pause, Jiang Ming finally came back to his senses, and he nodded vigorously!
”This child isn’t congenitally deaf, he has the impression of voices in his head, but why has he become like this?” Chen Ge squatted next to the closet as he carefully surveyed the little boy in front of him.