Chapter 1013 – Daddy’s Playing Games with Everyone

　　”Looking for you? Why would that woman be looking for you?” Chen Ge also walked over to the window, the faceless woman wearing a red hairpin was consciously approaching them.

　　”I don’t know, I don’t know her!” Wu Jinpeng didn’t look like he was lying, he looked at the woman with nothing but fear in his eyes, without any other emotions mixed in.

　　”Then why are you so afraid of this woman?” Chen Ge asked another question that he could not understand, “Does she want to kill you? What would happen if you were caught up with her?”

　　Hearing Chen Ge’s question, Wu Jinpeng instead shot Chen Ge that strange look, “Isn’t being chased by a faceless woman a very scary thing in itself? Brother, if I were really chased by her, would I still be alive to talk to you here?”

　　”What I mean is that there’s no need for us to keep avoiding her, if we don’t go and get to know her, we’ll never be able to defeat her, and sooner or later, we’ll be caught up by her.” Without waiting for Chen Ge to convince Wu Jinpeng, the faceless woman had already arrived downstairs, and her originally lowered head slowly lifted to look upwards.

　　The faceless face was aimed at Wu Jinpeng, and the woman seemed to ignore Chen Ge next to her.

　　The red hairpin seemed to be dripping blood, and the woman’s ill-fitting maternity clothes dragged on the ground.

　　”What are you still standing there for? Hurry up!” Wu Jinpeng dragged Chen Ge into the room next to him, “When she comes up, we’ll jump from the second floor! As long as we disappear from her view, we’ll be at peace for a while.”

　　It wasn’t the first time Wu Jinpeng had done this, he was very skillful in his movements, and his body, which was much stronger than in reality, was strong enough to allow him to perform many difficult maneuvers, so even if he jumped from the second floor, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem.

　　”Come down quickly!”

　　Standing by the window, Chen Ge hesitated for a moment, but after such a short delay, the door behind him suddenly began to vibrate, as if something was slamming the door.

　　He didn’t have a better solution and picked up his backpack and tumbled out of the window.

　　With his feet on the ground and rolling to unload, Chen Ge couldn’t be bothered to check if there was any damage to the things in the backpack, when Wu Jinpeng’s urging voice came to his ears.

　　The two of them climbed up from the ground and ran towards the other side of the street with all their might.

　　”Where are we going now?”

　　”I don’t know, no matter where we run, we will be caught up, we can only stay as far away as possible, wait for her to come over, and then escape somewhere else.” Wu Jinpeng didn’t look back, gasping for breath and running wildly with all his might, he didn’t know when he could get rid of the danger, the whole world seemed to be against him, surrounded by monsters, and being chased by a faceless woman that he couldn’t get rid of, even gasping for breath was a luxury.

　　Chen Ge looked at Wu Jinpeng who was running wildly, and the other party’s back overlapped with the real Wu Jinpeng.

　　This man should have had such a bewildering to overwhelmed experience, every day hand to hand, carrying responsibilities, being chased by life to run forward frantically.

　　Perhaps the Wu Jinpeng in reality has long forgotten, but everything was memorized by Wu Sheng.

　　The boy was somewhat precocious, understanding a lot of things but not being able to fully comprehend them.

　　He was induced by the Underworld Fetus at the critical moment of establishing his worldview, and some sort of change occurred.

　　The child’s behind-the-door world and reality existed in a correlation, and everything in the scene could find its counterpart in people and things, which should be considered a characteristic of the nine children’s behind-the-door worlds.

　　The inextricable relationship between the illusory world behind the door and reality also seemed to be a sign that the Underworld Fetus was walking step by step from behind the door into the midst of reality.

　　In Chen Ge’s opinion, all nine children’s doors were influenced by the Underworld Fetus.

　　Carrying his backpack and following behind Wu Jinpeng, Chen Ge’s brain raced, and the existing evidence pretty much indicated that each child corresponded to a door, which would only appear after that child fell asleep.

　　However, among the nine children, Chen Ge himself was an exception, if a door appeared next to his bed when he fell asleep, Xiao Xiao and the white cat would definitely react.

　　No door appeared next to his bed after he fell asleep, but that didn’t exclude Chen Ge from the nine children, because there was a real blood door next to him.

　　Compared to the illusory doors of the other children, the door in Chen Ge’s horror house toilet was a real blood door.

　　”Do you really want me to go into that door and take a look?”

　　Chen Ge recalled a certain moment in the past when he seemed to see three doors in a trance.

　　”One should belong to the Underworld Fetus, one probably belongs to that me who is constantly being killed by the doctor, then who does the last door belong to?”

　　”Aren’t doors only pushed open in the most desperate and agonizing times? The third door was pushed open by me? Was the door in the bathroom of the House of Horrors pushed open by me?”

　　Even with several red clothes, Chen Ge still didn’t have the courage to enter that door, and he still remembered what Dr. Gao had said in the underground corpse vault.

　　”To be able to scare Dr. Gao like that, what’s hidden behind the door must be very scary.” Chen Ge decided to put that door of his haunted house on the last night, if the meddling fetus wasn’t hiding in the other eight children, then that was the only possibility left.

　　He knew that the probability of the Plutonic Fetus hiding behind that door of his own haunted house was very small; after all, the Plutonic Fetus’s main area of activity was the eastern suburbs, and the ghosts and monsters that had come into contact with the Plutonic Fetus said that it had treated the western suburbs as a forbidden area. Chen Ge didn’t think it would venture into the door of his haunted house under these circumstances.

　　”No clues, no clue.” Chen Ge sighed softly, “What kind of mood did the first person who pushed open the door have in mind?”

　　Pushing these thoughts out of his mind, Chen Ge glanced behind him, the faceless woman was still chasing after him, but her speed was not fast, and looking at her, she didn’t look like she was full of resentment to kill Wu Jinpeng.

　　Under Wu Jinpeng’s leadership, Chen Ge ran through the streets of this neighborhood, and he was also more and more sure that this was the old city.

　　”Wu Sheng definitely lived in the old city center before, something happened here that he least wanted to remember, and it was because of that incident that the family moved to the western suburbs.” The world behind Wu Sheng’s door consisted of a few streets, roughly one-fifth the size of the Old Town in reality, with limited places to hide.

　　If they wanted to hide from the faceless woman they had to enter the houses on both sides of the street, but entering the houses would invite the monsters in the houses, they kept hiding and gradually some monsters came out of the rooms and started to chase them as well.

　　”How in the world can we escape?” The fear in Wu Jinpeng’s eyes was almost on the verge of overflowing out of his eyes, and his tall and strong body began to tremble even as he faced the countless monsters.

　　”We’re about to run all over these streets on the east side, why don’t we go to the west side to hide first?” After Chen Ge followed Wu Jinpeng for a few laps, he realized that Wu Jinpeng didn’t go to the west no matter how dangerous the situation was, and he intentionally avoided the streets to the west.

　　”No way!” Wu Jinpeng directly refused, his reply was too decisive instead aggravating Chen Ge’s suspicion.

　　”No problem, I’ll listen to everything you say.” Chen Ge could probably guess why the other party did not forget about going west, and he could understand Wu Jinpeng’s bitterness.

　　”As long as we hold out until dawn, there should be no problem and everyone will return to normal.” Wu Jinpeng kept giving himself mental consolation, “As long as we make it through the dark night, the sky will always be bright.”

　　”En, the sky will always be bright.” Chen Ge patted Wu Jinpeng’s shoulder, “If we can’t go to the west, I suggest that we look for a way out in the streets to the east first.”

　　”Good.” Wu Jinpeng’s had just agreed when a sharp barking sound suddenly came from the west side of the street.

　　Hearing this sound, Wu Jinpeng’s face suddenly changed, he couldn’t care about anything else and immediately ran wildly towards the western street.

　　”What happened?” Chen Ge also hurriedly followed him, he possessed Yin pupils and spotted several silhouettes appearing on the western street from a long distance away, “Don’t go over there!”

　　Chen Ge’s reaction was fast enough, but he still didn’t stop Wu Jinpeng, who recklessly rushed into an alley on the west street.

　　At the end of the alley there was a dilapidated utility room, the airy wooden board door was half-open, and there was a little boy standing helplessly in the doorway.

　　He was much thinner than children of the same age, wearing ill-fitting clothes, with a pair of big beautiful eyes constantly blinking, seemingly curious about everything.

　　Wu Jinpeng was relieved to see that the child was fine, he greeted Chen Ge and picked up the child to hide in the hut.

　　”Dad, Big Yellow ran out.” The child’s voice was low, he seemed to rarely speak.

　　”You stay in the house, daddy will go get Rhubarb back.” Wu Jinpeng touched the little boy’s head, from him which could still see a trace of fear, his eyes were calm and gentle, just talking there was still a little gasp.

　　”En.” The boy nodded obediently.

　　While the father and son were conversing, the miserable barking dog sounded again, this time it was already very close to them.

　　In addition to the dog’s barking, the noisy people’s voices in their ears slowly became more and more, and all sorts of harsh sounds drilled into Chen Ge’s ears.

　　”Where did the stray dog come from! What if it bites someone? Nobody cares!”

　　”My child is still young, who will be responsible if he gets hurt? Who’s responsible!”

　　”Get out of here, dead dog! I’m sick and tired of it!”

　　”Beat it! My mom says stray dogs are full of infectious diseases!”

　　Chen Ge initially thought that only he would hear these voices, and when he turned to look, he realized that both Wu Jinpeng and the little boy should be able to hear them, and Wu Jinpeng had already covered the little boy’s ears with his hands at this point.

　　He still had a smile on his face as he gently held the little boy in his arms.

　　”Daddy, they’re beating up Big Yellow, they said that Big Yellow is a stray dog.”

　　”Don’t worry, daddy will go and rescue Big Yellow, you stay here obediently.” Wu Jinpeng finished grabbing Wu Sheng’s hands and made Wu Sheng cover his ears, “Close your eyes, when you open your eyes again, Big Yellow will be back.”

　　”Really?”

　　”Of course.”

　　Seeing Wu Sheng cover his ears and close his eyes again, Wu Jinpeng then stood up.

　　”You’re not really going over there, are you?” Chen Ge possessed Yin pupils, and he could see clearly that there were a dozen or so figures standing on the street right now.

　　”I promised my son.” Wu Jinpeng pushed open the air-permeable wooden board door, “Brother, can you do me a favor later?”

　　”What favor?”

　　”I’ll go attract their attention, after I lure them away, you go save Big Yellow.”

　　”Good.”

　　Wu Jinpeng and Chen Ge ran out of the hut one after the other, Wu Jinpeng who was walking in front did not look back, while Chen Ge who was walking behind glanced towards the hut, and the little boy was still following what his father had said, with his eyes closed and his hands covering his ears.

　　The sound of shouting and cursing in his ears grew louder and louder, the rhubarb was continuously screaming miserably, a group of people surrounded the street, they seemed to be preparing to beat the rhubarb to death alive right there on the street.

　　”Don’t let it escape!”

　　”Beat it to death!”

　　”This stray dog runs quite fast!”

　　”With its legs limped, where else would it want to drill?”

　　”Every day it rummages in the garbage for food, stray dogs are full of viruses! Stop playing and kill it!”

　　Various voices drilled into Chen Ge’s ears, sounding incomparably harsh, as if they weren’t voices at all, but knives.

　　”Stop!”

　　A twisted figure avoided the way, and Wu Jinpeng saw the rhubarb in the crowd that was covered in stitches, and his eyes instantly turned red: “Rhubarb is not a stray dog! It’s a dog I raised! It has never hurt anyone, and it never goes to the garbage to find food!”

　　Hearing Wu Jinpeng’s voice, all of the figures turned to look at him, their icy gazes falling on Wu Jinpeng, but no one cared about what he said as the needle and thread continued to pass through Big Yellow’s body.

　　”I’ll take care of it! My child has also been playing with it and has never been hurt, rhubarb is very well-behaved, you guys give it back to me.”

　　From the voice to the tone, every word was incomparably true, as if Wu Jinpeng had said such words in reality as well, and had been memorized by Wu Sheng in his heart.

　　”Give it to you? What can you, a vagabond, do to guarantee that this beast won’t hurt anyone? You’d better take care of yourself first.”

　　”Laughing to death, isn’t a dog raised by a hobo a stray dog?”

　　”Yeah, I see him looking for food in the garbage himself.”

　　The voices became more and more shrill, Wu Jinpeng’s body was constantly shaking, but he remained rational and said, “My child’s health is not good, that dog is his only playmate, to us that dog is like our family.”

　　”You still have a child, huh? Begging and cheating for money with a child?”

　　”No wonder he didn’t want people to say the dog was a stray, a dog raised by a bum is a stray, so isn’t a child raised by a bum a stray?”

　　”My child is not a stray!” Wu Jinpeng’s hands were shaking, his eyes were red, he grabbed the miscellaneous objects on the ground and threw them at the group, “As long as I live, the dog I raised is not a stray dog, my child is not a stray child!”

　　A twisted figure stared at Wu Jinpeng, the mouths of those monsters were all sewn shut with needles and threads, but he didn’t know why even though their mouths were sewn shut, the piercing sound didn’t disappear.

　　After being attacked, all those monsters took out long needles and black threads from their pockets and surged towards Wu Jinpeng.

　　According to the plan, Wu Jinpeng lured the monsters away, Chen Ge came out from the other side at this time, and he picked up Big Yellow on the ground.

　　Big Yellow’s body was covered in needles and threads, blood was flowing out from all parts of its body, it had been killed alive.

　　This rhubarb and the real rhubarb hair color is different, if everything is real, the real rhubarb should be Wu Jinpeng later adopted the second dog.

　　Holding the dead dog in his arms, Chen Ge looked up at the dilapidated hut, the boy in the house still covered his ears, but his eyes were open.

　　He had witnessed everything, and those eyes that were curious about everything were now gazing at the dog in Chen Ge’s arms.

　　”This scene did hit Wu Sheng a little too hard.”

　　Chen Ge didn’t know what to do, he felt that he would be too cruel to that child if he went back now, even in the world behind the door he didn’t want Wu Sheng to go through that kind of despair again.

　　”A child who doesn’t know what death means yet is going to see death in this form?”

　　Chen Ge put Big Yellow’s body into his backpack and then returned to the hut with his hands on the backpack.

　　”Where’s Big Yellow?” The child tilted his head to look at Chen Ge.

　　”It’s a bit sleepy and fell asleep.”

　　A few minutes later, footsteps came from the alley, and Wu Jinpeng pushed open the wooden door, “I’ve ditched it for now, I’ll go and lure them all to East Street later.”

　　”I’ll go with you, you can’t handle it alone.”

　　”Thanks a lot.” Wu Jinpeng glanced gratefully at Chen Ge, he was about to leave when the edge of his clothes was suddenly grabbed by the little boy.

　　”Why are they chasing you?” The boy looked at Wu Jinpeng.

　　”Daddy is playing hide and seek with them, do you want to play together?” Wu Jinpeng touched the little boy’s head.

　　”En.”

　　”Then you hide in this wooden box, don’t run around and don’t make any noise, understand?”

　　”Understood.” The little boy jumped into the wooden box and obediently sat in one corner of the box.

　　Wu Jinpeng gently wrinkled the boy’s nose: “Brat, don’t be caught, be sure to hold out until dad comes over.”