Chapter 1040: My Family Members
Luo Ruoyu was the guardian spirit of New Century Paradise and Chen Ge’s childhood playmate.
They grew up together, and Chen Ge’s parents treated Luo Ruoyu as their own daughter, and this nonexistent family member received no less love than Chen Ge.
Normally Luo Ruoyu hid in the muppets that Chen Ge made when she was a child, and then in the Eastern Suburbs Reservoir Luo Ruoyu helped Chen Ge block a robbery, which caused her to be seriously injured, and once she left New Century Paradise, she would lose all of her abilities.
Chen Ge didn’t expect that he would be able to meet Luo Ruoyu behind the door of Yumi, and still in this form.
”Dinner is ready.”
The man poured the pig’s trotters into two bowls and stir-fried a few more dishes, the atmosphere was quite serious when they first started eating, and they didn’t know when it started, but everything became cozy.
Chen Ge and the man both had smiles on their faces, perhaps this was the feeling between family members.
”Chen Ge, why did you come back so late today? Is it because you didn’t dare to come home because your exam results were so bad?” The man hadn’t eaten much of the pig’s trotters and had been eating vegetables, and he looked much older than his actual age.
”No.” Chen Ge didn’t know what to say, the closer the person was, the more unable he was to speak, he didn’t want to be treated like a weirdo by his own father, so it was fine to maintain this false coziness.
Moving his body, Chen Ge looked towards the inner room, he didn’t answer the man’s question, but asked casually, “Where’s my mom? How come I haven’t seen her?”
After saying these words, Chen Ge had some regrets, he saw his father’s eyes instantly become dark, as if the entire person was devoid of light.
”Are you not coming home because you miss her?” The man obviously misunderstood Chen Ge’s meaning, “I miss her too, but people can’t come back from the dead.”
He didn’t continue the topic, finishing the rest of his meal in a few bites and turning around to enter the kitchen.
Sitting in the living room, Chen Ge compared his current situation to the Yu See of that time, “A single-parent family, the most important person other than his parents is a teacher, these are all things that happened to Yu See. Now I can be certain that he is melting my memories into his own encounters and then letting me experience his past.”
”What was his purpose in doing this? Trying to make me understand him? Or trying to drive me crazy and become like him?”
”The world behind Yu See’s door is too peaceful and normal, with all the beautiful things in my memories appearing all around me, if one day all of these things were to be taken away and torn to shreds, I would surely suffer and despair as well.”
While Chen Ge was thinking, his hand was suddenly grabbed, Luo Ruoyu was lying on the dining table with her eyes wide open, and some soup stained her clothes.
”Get up quickly.”
”I, also miss mom, mom, but I, I won’t run around, I’ll wait for her here.”
”En, we’ll wait for her here.” Chen Ge hugged Luo Ruoyu’s head, this home was too cozy, and was originally a memory treasured deep in his heart.
After finishing his meal, Chen Ge cleared the table and lifted his backpack to return to his room.
He lay on the bed and looked at the night sky outside the window, even at night the sky still seemed to be cloudy, no stars or moon could be seen, all the light came from the lights in his memories.
”It always feels like something bad will happen.” Although Chen Ge was also sleepy, he wasn’t bold enough to sleep behind the door.
After there was no movement outside his room, Chen Ge wrote a note and carried his backpack and quietly came to the door of his house.
”Can’t waste all my time, Yu See must be hiding somewhere in this town, he’s probably watching me from the shadows.”
Pushing open the door to his room, the night faded and dawn broke the moment the door panel opened.
Chen Ge stood still holding the door handle, he looked to the window in the hallway, the sky outside was gray, piled with thick dark clouds.
”How come the sky is bright as soon as I open the door? Does every time I go out the door represent a new day? Is this home the place to start?”
”Why are you up so early today?” Chen Ge’s father, who was fully dressed, walked out of the house and was surprised to see Chen Ge.
”I want to get up early once in a while.” Chen Ge was ready to experiment, he walked out of the room and stood outside for a while re-entering the house and closing the door.
While closing the door, Chen Ge looked at the window of the house, the sky outside was already dark.
His father hadn’t gone out at all, but was full of fatigue and had more tiny black particles under his skin.
”As soon as I return home and close the door to the house, darkness immediately descends. When I push the door open, a new day on the other hand, will immediately begin.”
Chen Ge pushed the door open once again, and his father said the same thing, only that the tired look on his face was even more obvious, and those tiny black particles seemed to have become more numerous.
”It’s not right! Every time I open and close the door, although it doesn’t affect me much, it causes invisible trauma to the other people in the town.”
”Time is limited, perhaps after a few pushes on the door, everything I hold dear will all be torn to shreds, I have to find Yuumi and figure out the secrets of this place before something unexpected happens!”
The acquaintances that appeared in the town were all people Chen Ge couldn’t forget, they were all woven from Chen Ge’s memories, and if they had an accident, perhaps Chen Ge’s memories of them would be erased as well.
”What are you doing standing at the door all the time? Don’t want to go to school?” Chen Ge’s father came to the door fully dressed, he was about to go out but was stopped by Chen Ge, “What’s wrong?”
”If you really are the person I remember, then you will definitely believe me, right?” Chen Ge seemed to be talking to himself.
”What are you talking about?”
”In this town, you should always be on the lookout for a person called Yu See, all the misfortune and pain originates from him.”
”Yuumi?”
”I may come home late for the last period of time, and I may do things that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, but I hope you can trust me, no matter what.” Chen Ge grabbed the man’s arm, and he squeezed very hard.
”It seems like you did encounter something.” The man patted Chen Ge’s shoulder, “I believe in you, but you have to believe in your family as well, so go home if you really can’t solve it.”
The sound in his ears, the touch of his fingertips, the picture in front of him, everything was too real, Chen Ge even had an illusion at a certain moment, as if this was the reality.
”En.”
Carrying his backpack, Chen Ge walked out of his house, he decided not to push that door of his house for a long time to come, only then could he prolong his time as much as possible.
”Liwan Town is not too big and not too small, so it’s too difficult to carpet search.”
Chen Ge decided to start searching from the school first, Yu See’s transformation started from the school, and that black iron door was also in the school, all the signs indicated that there was a high probability that Yu See was hiding in the school.