Chapter 1054 – Duel with the Unknown
”Misplaced soccer ball? The closet?” The information revealed in Ying Chen’s words caused Chen Ge’s brows to furrow, he had been to Ying Chen’s bedroom and knew that Ying Chen had tied a headless corpse under his bed.
”Could the soccer ball this guy is talking about be the head of that corpse?”
There was a big difference between a human head and a soccer ball, and even a blind person wouldn’t be able to take it wrong, but that was under the premise that his brother was a normal person.
Ying Chen is a pervert, and a pervert with a great desire to display it; he posts cat abuse videos in reverse editing on Love Cat Rescue, and most of the people who watch his videos are cat lovers.
Perhaps he sits in a house full of blood and fur every night, staring at his cell phone screen, watching one of the blessed pop-ups posted by those cat lovers.
This particular experience was probably able to give him some sort of otherworldly pleasure, so it was entirely possible that he would hide the human head in a ball and then watch Ying pupil play around the house.
If he thought about it this way, Chen Ge snapped to the realization that those twisted and horrifying dolls on Ying pupil’s desk might have a deeper meaning.
Chen Ge hadn’t said anything, and both sides probably paused for only a few seconds before Ying Chen on the other side of the phone sensed that something was wrong.
”You …… are not Ying pupil!”
Chen Ge didn’t know how the other party could discover that he wasn’t Ying pupil within three seconds, and this insight and judgment made him even more uneasy.
Among Ying pupil’s memories, his brother Ying Chen must have been a very smart and scary person, and this impression was also mapped to the world behind the door.
”Why are you in my house?”
Ying Chen’s voice barely changed, but it could be heard through the microphone as he walked at a significantly faster pace.
This guy wanted to stabilize Chen Ge with words, but in reality, he was speeding towards his home.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Ge directly hung up the phone.
He could no longer get any useful information from the other party, and even if the other party revealed something, it was probably a trap.
”It’s imperative to leave immediately.”
Both parties were very decisive people, Chen Ge vaguely remembered the location of the living room room door in his mind, and he no longer stayed, carrying his backpack to the living room door.
The cold security door was not closed tightly, Chen Ge pushed the door open and walked out.
The temperature dropped again, and it seemed to be even colder outside the house.
”I can’t see, there’s no staff to help, how can I fight that pervert in this situation?”
Ying pupil’s door was the penultimate third door, and since Chen Ge had directly skipped the one where Nie Xin represented the heart of the Underworld Tire, the difficulty of the world behind the door had now reached an extremely perverted point, and from this, it could also be seen that the Underworld Tire was terrifying as a four-star trial mission.
Layers of fear, gradually deepened, and this difficult night had just begun.
”Ying pupil lives in an old house from many years ago, he grew up here, his main memories should be centered in the Mingyuan neighborhood.”
The building layout was known to Chen Ge, but trying to play hide-and-seek with a pervert in this building in the dark, even he felt the pressure.
Stepping out of his room, Chen Ge hadn’t taken a few steps when something brushed against his ankle position again, as if a cat had followed him and escaped from the house.
”How many cats are there in Ying Chen’s house?” Chen Ge leaned against the wall and slowly entered the corridor: “There is a hallway on the left and right of the residential building, and the elevator is in the middle, provided that this place is the same as reality.”
Chen Ge didn’t know much about Ying pupil, he didn’t know what Ying pupil was most afraid of and couldn’t make targeted prevention, he could only take one step at a time.
”The old-fashioned elevator will make a loud noise once it starts, which is equivalent to indirectly exposing my position, and I can’t see anything right now, so in case I press the wrong button, maybe when the elevator door opens, Ying Chen will be standing outside.”
Without much thought, Chen Ge ruled out the idea of taking the elevator, and he was then faced with a second choice.
Which of the two left and right hallways to take?
Ying Chen’s house was near the left hallway, right at the entrance of the stairs, and Chen Ge felt that if Ying Chen wanted to rush back home in the shortest possible time, there was a high probability that he would come up the left stairs.
”Then I’ll take the right staircase.”
In this world behind the door, any random choice was a matter of life and death.
If Chen Ge chose wrongly and he and Ying Chen met in the hallway, that pervert might silently follow him and then try to kill himself, after all, he knew his secret.
Touching the wall, Chen Ge gradually overcame his fear of the darkness as he began to jog.
There was no clutter placed in the hallway, and Chen Ge was about to come to the right stairway when a cat’s cry suddenly came from in front of himself.
A very, very low cat cry, and that sound came from the right stairway entrance.
”There’s a cat there?”
If it was in reality, Chen Ge would definitely not be so nervous when he encountered a cat, but this was in the world behind the door.
The cat itself was a complex contradiction, possessing multiple symbols and different meanings in the eyes of different people, so it was difficult for Chen Ge to judge for a while.
Ying Chen had adopted a large number of stray cats, but he had only adopted cats to satisfy his own twisted and perverted interests, and if the cats were strong enough to resist, they would definitely be the first to kill Ying Chen.
Unfortunately, whether in reality or in the world behind the door, Ying Chen was alive and well, which meant that even in the world behind the door, he had the ability to easily kill the cat.
While Chen Ge was thinking, there was another cat’s cry coming from the entrance to the right side of the building, and this time the sound was much louder than the previous one.
His ankle seemed to have been rubbed by something, and before Chen Ge had time to react, a third cat call came, this time from right beside him.
The intervals between the cat calls became shorter and shorter, and the sound sounded more and more shrill, like a small baby crying.
”Are they reminding me?”
Ying Chen was a cat abuser, cats shouldn’t go to help him, so thinking about it, the probability of Ying Chen being in the right hallway was very high!
Whether to trust the cats or trust his own judgment, Chen Ge had to face another life and death decision.
After a short pause, Chen Ge gritted his teeth and turned around, quickly running towards the left hallway.
Behind him, the cat’s cries became more and more piercing and shrill, like cries and laughter, very scary.
After stumbling and losing his vision, Chen Ge felt uncomfortable with even basic running.
He did his best to get to the left hallway and hid on the steps in the middle of the two floors.
Crouching on the stairs, Chen Ge grabbed the handrail and minimized his center of gravity so that even if someone pushed him from behind, he wouldn’t fall straight down.
Chen Ge didn’t dare to move around, he stayed here and wanted to verify a very important thing.
”If the door to the room is pushed open in a while, that means Ying Chen went back home, and he went up the stairs from the right passageway, so that will prove that the cat is helping me! The louder the cat’s cry means that Ying Chen is closer to me!”
Chen Ge was very bold, and in order to grasp what little initiative he had, he hid in the left hallway.
Knowing that Ying Chen’s house was right at the entrance of the left hallway, one slip up and he would be discovered.
As time passed, sweat slowly appeared on Chen Ge’s palms, he hadn’t been this nervous in a long time.
After about a minute or so, the door to Yingchen’s house rang without warning, it seemed that someone had opened the security door and walked in.
Hearing this door slam, Chen Ge’s clenched hand slowly loosened, “It should be Ying Chen coming home”
Quietly retreating towards the downstairs, Chen Ge’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed together even though he had gambled correctly and confirmed the guess in his heart.
After a simple photo shoot, he had come up with a few points of information.
First, and most importantly, with the help of the catcalls, it seemed that Ying Chen’s location could be deduced.
Second, Ying Chen walked without any sound, Chen Ge had already used his ghost ears just now, but he didn’t hear any footsteps, only the sound of the door opening, it was as if Ying Chen had suddenly appeared at the door.
Thirdly, Ying Chen could have returned to his house the fastest by going up the left hallway, but he did the opposite and picked the right hallway.
If this wasn’t an accident, it could only mean that Ying Chen was very cunning and he was predicting Chen Ge’s choice.
”How am I going to look for Ying pupil if I lose my vision?” This place should not be stayed for a long time, when Ying Chen went home, he would definitely realize that someone had entered his house and found the body, he would definitely come after him.
Touching the stair railing, Chen Ge moved downward a little bit.
He was ready to leave this building for the time being, he even wanted to leave this neighborhood if he could.
Chen Ge had memorized all the paths he had taken in his mind, an average person might have completely panicked at this point, but he was still actively looking for a way out.
Three floors down, Chen Ge heard the security door of Ying Chen’s house being opened again, and Ying Chen seemed to be coming out of the house.
”Not good.”
He had to prevent himself from falling and also try not to make any noise, so he couldn’t walk fast at all in the hallway.
If Ying Chen came after him at this time, the odds were that he would be caught.
”That guy walks without making a sound, he probably grabbed a knife and other tools when he got home.”
It wasn’t long before the old elevator made a noise, it seemed that someone was taking the elevator and was rushing downstairs.
”Ying Chen probably thought that I chose the left hallway at first, so I guess he thought that I had already left the building, that’s why he took the elevator and wanted to catch up with me as fast as possible.” Chen Ge couldn’t see anything in this world behind the door, but Ying Chen didn’t know this, he was following normal human thinking to speculate on Chen Ge’s course of action.
”Definitely can’t let Ying Chen know that I can’t see, otherwise he’ll definitely play me as Ying Chen, and then that pervert full of bad taste will be able to do anything horrible.”
Chen Ge had seen many perverted murderers, Ying Chen wasn’t the most cunning or dangerous among them, but he was the most expressive.
What was more crucial was that now Chen Ge was in the world behind the door, a world woven from Ying pupil’s memories, and his brother Ying Chen represented a fear that he could not get rid of or resist.
The noise from the old-fashioned elevator quickly stopped, and it seemed to have stopped at the first floor.
”Unable to determine Ying Chen’s exact location, this is too passive.”
Chen Ge slowly came to the corner of the stairs, he was about to continue walking down suddenly heard footsteps coming from the corridor.
”Someone is running in the corridor? There’s more than one?”
Ying Chen walked without footsteps, it was unlikely that the person coming over was Ying Chen, Chen Ge froze in place, to be honest he was now truly experiencing the helplessness of the blind.
Living in the same world, just because you can’t see, sometimes you can’t even resist.
Footsteps approached at a rapid pace and soon appeared in front of Chen Ge.
He gripped the skull-crushing hammer in his backpack tightly, his body pressed against the wall, carefully on guard.
The footsteps stopped not far from Chen Ge, and a moment later a boy’s voice entered Chen Ge’s ears.
”What are you doing sitting in the hallway?”
The boy’s voice sounded normal, like a very ordinary boy, with words of curiosity and doubt.
Chen Ge thought for half a day, not knowing what to say, his intuition told him that this was an opportunity for him to temporarily hide in a certain child’s house, locking the door to avoid Ying Chen’s pursuit.
But reason told Chen Ge that he should never trust the “people” behind the door, these harmless children’s voices could be very scary, maybe they are just monsters with children’s voices, and if he left with them, he would be eaten straight away.
”What a strange man, let’s just stay away from him.” Another boy spoke up, “Let’s keep going to Ying pupil, my favorite thing to do with him is to play hide and seek, I never have to worry about him playing tricks.”
”Yeah, he’s too stupid, I hid behind him last time and he never found me.”
”Every time we let him come and catch us, it would end up being the few of us going to find him, I really don’t understand why you guys still bring him to play.”
A few kids were talking and laughing, Chen Ge heard Ying Xie’s name, and he lowered his head to memorize every word those kids said.
”It’s hide and seek again, every time I’m behind a door, I encounter hide and seek, this really echoes the description of the Underworld Fetus mission on the black phone, it’s a hide and seek between life and death.”
Those few kids were also looking for Ying pupil, they didn’t know Ying pupil’s location, so Chen Ge didn’t open his mouth to inquire with them.
Seemingly thinking that Chen Ge was boring as a person, those few kids ran away again as they talked.
The sound of footsteps faded away, Chen Ge touched the wall and slowly got up, his intuition honed from entering the world behind the door many times told him that this building was very dangerous, it was best to leave as soon as possible.
He took a step downwards, his left foot had just lifted up when suddenly someone violently pushed him from behind!
His body lost balance, and Chen Ge fell down the stairs with his backpack.
Drilling pain came from all parts of his body, Chen Ge protected his head and gritted his teeth to stabilize his body.
Not caring about anything else, he immediately rose from the ground and half crouched down, holding onto his backpack for dear life.
”No wonder he kept his eyes closed, so he’s blind.”
A little boy’s voice came from the stairs, this voice Chen Ge had heard just now, the one who pushed himself was one of those few children just now.
”The strength is so strong, did something like this happen to Ying pupil as well?”
The sound of footsteps moved away from Chen Ge, the kid ran away after pushing Chen Ge down the stairs.
Moving his wrists, Chen Ge didn’t go after the kid, instead, he was thinking about what the kid had just said, “No wonder he kept his eyes closed? Could it be that in the eyes of those people in the world behind the door, I haven’t been opening my eyes? If that’s true, then what do I have to do to open my eyes?”