Chapter 1055 – Piercing Catcalls
Although the boy had pushed Chen Ge down the stairs, he had also leaked Chen Ge a very important piece of information.
To those people in the world behind the door, Chen Ge was a strange person who kept his eyes closed.
”I probably wasn’t blind, I just didn’t open my eyes.”
With his back against the wall, Chen Ge reached out and touched his eyes, and he could be pretty sure that both of his eyes were open.
”Why is this happening?”
Chen Ge did not have anything in front of him to cover his eyes, he dug his fingernails into the flesh at the corners of his eyes and slowly slid them, it was still pitch black in front of his eyes, he couldn’t even see the blood that he had seeped into his eyelids.
”Pitch black, it seems to be the only color in this world.”
Calm returned to the building, the group of children having run away.
”Perhaps to onlookers, Ying Hitomi has always appeared with his eyes closed, so all the blind people in the world behind his door are images of closed eyes?”
”Could there be a situation where Ying Hitomi is not completely blind even though he keeps his eyes closed, he knows what his brother is doing and pretends to be blind to everything in order to stay alive.”
”His world can have color but he can’t open his eyes?”
”If in reality Ying Chen really did kill someone, then once Ying Chen knew that his brother wasn’t blind, he would definitely create an ‘accident’ to kill Ying pupil!”
”That pervert is capable of doing all kinds of things, I can’t use the good guy’s norms to analyze the bad guy’s logic, for Ying Chen, a blood brother may not represent a relative, but can also represent some kind of tool for pleasure.”
Chen Ge recalled an incident where he had opened the refrigerator in Ying Chen’s house in reality and found chopped meat stuffed underneath.
The bones had been removed and the meat had been processed, so it was impossible to tell what kind of meat those were just from their appearance.
”It would be fine if those meats were animal meats, but I’m afraid they’re not animal meats.” Chen Ge had seen many psychopathic murderers, and in his mind, psychopathic murderers were also divided into different grades; being able to bone, treat, and disguise non-animal meat and refrigerate it underneath one’s own refrigerator was more than just something an average psychopath would do.
”When drinking with me, Ying Chen behaves exactly like a normal person, and is even better at socializing than most people, so if everything I’ve surmised is true, then this guy is terrifying.”
”Ying Chen wears a mask in front of all living people, he only removes his disguise in front of his own brother, Ying Hitomi, and that child has seen such horrific scenes from a very young age, it’s estimated that even if there’s no Underworld Foetus, Ying Hitomi might become a door pusher in the future.”
The degree of terror and distortion of the world behind the door was directly proportional to the despair that the door pusher had endured in reality.
Although Chen Ge didn’t find anything special about this world through his sense of touch and smell right now, perhaps he would see the true horror of this world as soon as he opened his eyes.
”It’s useless to think that much, it’s better to find a safe place to hide first. Of those kids just now, only one kid pushed me, which means that there should still be ones that can communicate among the remaining few, so if there’s really no place to go, I can go and try to convince them.”
Chen Ge didn’t have a clue in his heart, he had actually been paying careful attention to his surroundings, and could take immediate measures when he encountered unexpected accidents.
The reason why he was pushed down the stairs from behind by that child just now was because he really didn’t expect that a child hadn’t left, and the sound of footsteps were all mixed together at that time.
The second point was because that child’s strength was so great that it didn’t look like a child at all.
Having lost his sight, it was a risky thing to determine the identity of the other party through sound alone, so that meant Chen Ge wouldn’t trust anyone until it was absolutely necessary.
”If this place corresponds to reality and Ying Chen’s family lives on the seventh floor, I can determine the floor by the sound of the elevator running later and try to take the elevator.”
The old-fashioned elevator was loud and dangerous once it was activated, but the elevator also represented a third way after all, so if Ying Chen knew that he would only be able to walk down the hallway, the elevator would be his only hope of escaping.
Of course, Chen Ge didn’t want such a scenario to happen, and he didn’t want to confront Ying Chen just yet.
”Let’s assume for a moment that this place is exactly the same as reality, Ying Chen’s family lives on the seventh floor, my current position is at the corner of the third and fourth floors, Ying Chen should be on the first floor.”
”He may be guarding the entrance to the first floor hallway, or he may have already left and run out of the building.”
Not being able to see anything, Chen Ge could only choose his path by guessing.
”Ying Chen doesn’t know that I’m blind, and he previously went up the stairs from the right hallway, so if he realizes something is wrong, he’ll most likely enter the left hallway again to check it out. After all, it seems to him that the person who sneaked into his house left through the left hallway, and it’s possible that he will leave certain clues in the left hallway.”
Thinking of this, Chen Ge decisively left the left hallway, entered the long corridor, and walked towards the right hallway.
”Hopefully, I’m overthinking it, but it’s always good to be cautious.”
The best case scenario Chen Ge envisioned was that Ying Chen heard a commotion in the left hallway when he arrived on the first floor and hurriedly entered the left hallway again, while he ducked into the right hallway, perfectly staggering the other party and smoothly escaping from this building.
After leaving the building, there should be more places to hide.
The idea was beautiful, but the reality was always cold and cruel.
Chen Ge had just entered the third floor corridor when he heard the sound of a door opening, and that sound was very close to him, only two or three meters away.
Holding onto the wall, Chen Ge stood directly on the spot.
The cold wind was whistling, and a foul odor gushed out from that room.
Standing in the corridor was a very dangerous thing for Chen Ge, and after hesitating for a moment, he took a step forward.
It seemed like he stepped on something under his shoes, it was crunchy, like some kind of bug had been trampled to death by himself.
This feeling was very unpleasant, Chen Ge didn’t dare to stay, and as he was about to take a second step, his shoulder was suddenly pressed.
”Are you a new mover?” A middle-aged man’s voice entered Chen Ge’s ears, and it was this person who had suddenly opened the door just now.
”Yes.” Chen Ge’s brain raced, the stench in the air contained the smell of moldy food, the stench of piled up clothing, and the stench on the human body, this uncle beside himself seemed to be very unkempt, and hadn’t tidied up his room for a long time.
”Why is your body so hot if you’re newly moved in? I thought you came in from outside the building to deliver something.” The middle-aged man said something inexplicable.
Body hot? Chen Ge felt that his body temperature was already very low, and this was the first time someone had said that his body was hot.
He didn’t retort, if he stood in the perspective of a living person his body temperature was not only not high, it was also a bit on the low side.
But if he stood in the perspective of the dead, he was indeed different from the other “people”, an anomaly.
Chen Ge was thinking about how to answer the middle-aged man’s question when a cat’s cry suddenly came from his ear.
Sucking in a mouthful of cool air, Chen Ge pricked up his ears and quickly determined the location of the cat’s cry, which was in the hallway on his left!
Without waiting for him to open his mouth, a second cat call came, the sound was even more urgent than the previous one.
”Ying Chen is coming over!”
It was too late to run to the right hallway now, Chen Ge had only one option, he whispered to the middle-aged man, “Older brother, I have something very important to tell you.”
Grabbing his backpack, Chen Ge held onto the wall skin and touched the door frame, “Let’s go in and talk, give me three minutes!”
He entered the middle-aged man’s home without saying a word.
”Who let you in?”
”Close the door!” Chen Ge couldn’t see anything, he could only hear the increasingly shrill sound of a cat’s cry, which sounded as if he was the only one who could hear it.
”What the hell do you do?” The middle-aged man was moving very slowly and grinding, and by this time, the sound of the cat’s cry was as if it was killing the cat, and it had reached the point of being }human.
Chen Ge searched for the sound and grabbed the middle-aged man’s arm, yanking him into the house, “Close the door!”
The sound of the door closing sounded, Chen Ge signaled the middle-aged man to keep quiet, at this time, the sound of the cat’s cry didn’t stop, instead, it became more and more piercing, Ying Chen seemed to have heard the sound of the door closing, and he was walking this way!
”You ……”
”Don’t talk if you don’t want to die!” Chen Ge squeezed these words out from between his teeth, and the middle-aged man finally closed his mouth.
While Chen Ge stood still and didn’t move, the middle-aged man walked past him as if he had entered the middle of the living room.
The sound of footsteps revealed that there was someone inside the house, but Chen Ge couldn’t care less about the other party right now.
The cat’s shrill, agonizing cries reached both ears, and it was impossible to judge the location, as if Ying Chen was now standing in front of Chen Ge.
He didn’t dare to breathe, all he could do now was wait, because Ying Chen was probably standing right outside the door, and he and Chen Ge were separated by a security door.
Chen Ge covered his mouth as his mind spun, “Ying Chen knows that someone has entered his house, but he doesn’t know that it’s me who has entered his house, if you look at it from his point of view, you’ll most likely mistakenly think that it’s the owner of this room who has sneaked into his house, and with Ying Chen’s character he’ll most likely kill this middle-aged man.”
”Assuming that the middle-aged man and Yingchen are just ordinary neighbors, if Yingchen wants to kill the middle-aged man, then the middle-aged man and I can be considered as grasshoppers on a rope.”
”What I’m going to do now is to wait for Yingchen to leave, then test the middle-aged man and slowly tell him the truth to see how he’ll react.”
The catcalls went on for a full minute or so before stopping, and Yingchen left.
Wiping away the cold sweat on his forehead and the blood on the corner of his brow, Chen Ge called out towards the house, “Big brother, are you still there?”
Ying Chen was most likely going home to fetch certain things and make preparations to kill the middle-aged man.
This was a residential building, and the scuffle would definitely attract other people’s attention, Chen Ge felt that Ying Chen would most likely drug the middle-aged man first and wait for him to lose consciousness before striking a fatal blow.
The stench inside the house was overwhelming, Chen Ge didn’t care that much now, in his mind as long as this place didn’t stink of corpses then it was already considered a good place.
”Big brother, I know it’s rude for me to suddenly enter your house, but I hope you’ll let me finish my sentence.” Chen Ge took a deep breath, he knew that once he said this sentence the situation might become even more complicated, and the things to predict would once again become more numerous, “There is a household on the seventh floor with two brothers living there, the younger brother is blind, and the older brother likes to raise stray cats, do you have any impression?”
There was still no sound in the house, and it was as if the middle-aged man had disappeared into thin air.
”Today when I was passing by, I found that the door of his house was left open, after I went in, I found a corpse hidden under the brother’s bed, he’s a murderer!”
After Chen Ge finished this sentence, there was finally movement in the house, the middle-aged man’s voice came from somewhere in the living room, “Impossible, I know that person, his name is Ying Chen, he’s stupid and dull, and often does things that don’t please him with his efforts, such as being in charge of the neighborhood’s gardening, adopting stray cats, and so on.”
”Silly and dull? You think Ying Chen is such a person?”
”Yeah, a rotten good guy, according to his own words, he is trying to do more good deeds and accumulate more virtues in the hope of touching the heavens to let his brother’s eyes recover earlier, do you think he is dumb and stupid?” The middle-aged man didn’t believe Chen Ge’s words at all, in his opinion killing someone like this had absolutely nothing to do with Ying Chen.
”Knowing a man’s face is not knowing his heart, you’ve only seen the side of him that he displays, that’s his disguise.” Chen Ge didn’t expect that after he had made his words so clear, the other party would think that he was joking.
”I don’t know why you’re talking about him like that, if that’s really the case, let’s call more people to go up together and take a look.”
”Absolutely not.” Chen Ge didn’t want to expose his existence, once he was targeted by Ying Chen, he wouldn’t be able to see anything, and he probably wouldn’t even know how to die when the time came.
”What exactly are you here for?” The middle-aged man’s hand grabbed Chen Ge’s hair, “Do you keep your eyes closed because there’s something wrong with your eyes?”
”I’m telling the truth, Ying Chen killed someone, and there was more than one dead person.”
”You really look like a crazy person to me, your eyes are blind, how did you see the corpses?” The middle-aged man didn’t believe what Chen Ge said, to him Chen Ge looked more like a lying outsider.
”I touched it with my hands, it was tied under his bed, a headless corpse!”
”And touched a corpse? You don’t have a lot of guts?” The middle-aged man’s arm exerted force, he didn’t welcome Chen Ge, grabbed Chen Ge’s hair and pushed him to the doorway, “Compared to a murderer, you, a guy who sneaks into people’s houses and touches corpses seems a bit more disgusting, right?”
His hair was being yanked and his scalp was raw, Chen Ge grabbed the middle-aged man’s arm, he originally wanted to shake off the middle-aged man’s hand, but when his fingertips touched the middle-aged man’s skin, his face changed.
The middle-aged man’s body was cold and had no body temperature, and more crucially, the surface of his skin was uneven, and there was something similar to a plaque.
”Corpse spots?” These two words surfaced in his mind, Chen Ge immediately loosened his hand, “This uncle is a dead man?”
”Get out of here right now, if I see you in this neighborhood again, there’s no good fruit for you to eat, got it?”
Chen Ge was pushed out of the room by the middle-aged man, standing in the corridor, a chill rose in Chen Ge’s heart.
”In Ying pupil’s memories the middle-aged man appeared as a dead man, which means that in reality he might have been killed, so what was the reason he was killed as a neighbor? Did he discover Ying Chen’s secret? Or was it that Ying Chen had secretly told him something, but he didn’t believe it, which resulted in him being killed?”
Many things in the world behind the door were interconnected, Chen Ge stayed at the door for a short while before he suddenly heard the sound of an old-fashioned elevator running, while at the same time the sound of a cat purring sounded once again.
”Ying Chen came over on the elevator.”