Chapter 1056 – Sharpshooter’s Fear
Chen Ge wanted to go and warn the middle-aged man, but it was already too late, the sound of the cat’s cry gradually became louder, and he hurriedly hid in the hallway next to him.
The elevator stopped on this floor, no footsteps, no breathing.
A few moments later, a knock came from the hallway.
It sounded like it came out of nowhere, without any sign.
”The middle-aged man is likely to spill the beans about me.” The knock on the door was loud, but no one had opened the door, Chen Ge was standing on the steps of the hallway at this moment, even if he had lost his vision he was still very calm. In this situation, he didn’t flee either, but chose to stay.
Ying Chen didn’t know his information yet, and the situation was temporarily more favorable to him.
After knocking continuously for a long time, the security door finally opened and a middle-aged man’s voice came from the corridor.
”Ying Chen? What are you doing here looking for me? Rushing me to pay the property fee?” There was a hint of impatience in the middle-aged man’s words, and he didn’t take Chen Ge’s previous warning to heart.
”My younger brother, Ying Xin, sneaked out of the house to play and hasn’t come home yet, when I went upstairs just now, I heard someone walking on our side, so I wanted to come over and ask, have you seen my brother?” Ying Chen’s voice sounded young, and his image in the world behind the door seemed to be a bit smaller than reality.
The world behind the door was woven from the memories of the person pushing the door, and from this, one could conclude that Ying Chen’s relatively young voice was what Ying pupil remembered the most.
In other words, Ying Chen might have done certain things to Ying pupil a long time ago, and that incident became the deepest shadow in Ying pupil’s heart, and he always remembered his brother’s voice back then.
”Pay more attention if you’re blind, you didn’t close the door yourself, and when something happened, you came to ask others instead?” The middle-aged man had a nasty personality, which could be seen from his previous attitude towards Chen Ge.
”I’m really sorry, this is some date cakes sent by my relatives from my hometown, I still hope you can accept them, if you see my brother I hope you can give me a word, his eyes are not good, I’m really too scared that something will happen to him.”
”Date cakes? The color is so red? Did you put coloring?”
”Purely natural, the taste is especially delicate, you can taste it, if you think it’s delicious, I still have some at home.” Ying Chen was very enthusiastic, he acted just like what the middle-aged man said, like a weak and rotten person.
”The taste is pretty good, completely different from the taste I bought on the street, okay, if I see your brother, I will inform you first.” The middle-aged man chewed something in his mouth as he ate and closed the security door.
”The middle-aged man didn’t reveal my presence, but the problem is that Ying Chen didn’t enter his house either, and right now Ying Chen should be standing in front of his house.”
The sound of the elevator door opening came from the corridor, and Chen Ge was ready to leave, but just then he heard another cat call, which came from the middle of the corridor.
”Ying Chen didn’t get on the elevator!”
Closely clinging to the wall, Chen Ge immediately walked towards the downstairs, he didn’t dare to make a sound, he couldn’t walk fast enough with his blindness, and once he made another sound, then he would 100% be caught by the other party.
He was now completely unable to judge Ying Chen’s position, he only knew that the catcalls were constantly ringing out, and that pervert was heading towards this side of the building.
”Hey!” The security door in the corridor opened again, and the middle-aged man’s voice came from the doorway, “How come there are so many letters in this bag of date cakes?”
”Those were written to me by relatives, sorry, I forgot to take them out.” Ying Chen’s voice sounded right above Chen Ge’s head, and he had already entered the building, except that he was on the fourth floor, while Chen Ge had just walked to the third floor.
Chen Ge was shocked out of a cold sweat, he directly held his breath and stood still.
”I’ll take the letter, remember to give me a word if you see my brother.”
The cat calls stopped, and when Ying Chen’s voice sounded again, he had already left the building and walked over to the middle-aged man.
”Okay.” After the middle-aged man said this, it didn’t take long for him to say another sentence, “Why do you keep looking into my house? Do you suspect that your brother is in my house?”
”That’s not true, I just ……”
The voice in the hallway suddenly disappeared, followed by the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
”Ying Chen went after the middle-aged man?” Chen Ge gritted his teeth, the other party directly struck without saying a word and acted in an extremely decisive manner, such an enemy was very scary.
”I’m going to leave this building in a hurry, it’s best to hide far away before regaining my sight.” Chen Ge didn’t know Ying Chen’s ability, nor did he know what this world was really like, the world perceived through hearing, smell and touch alone was very incomplete.
Not daring to stay where he was, Chen Ge sped up and headed downstairs.
”The middle-aged man should be dead, it would be perfect if Ying Chen could mistake him for me, but with Ying Chen’s intelligence, he will definitely be suspicious, I have to prepare for the worst.”
Holding onto the wall, Chen Ge made his way down, as he silently calculated the floors in his mind.
”Assuming that Ying Chen’s family lives on the seventh floor, I should have reached the first floor by now.”
There would be a corner in the middle of two floors, and it was absolutely impossible to miscalculate, but when Chen Ge took a step towards the next floor, the ground under his feet was actually not flat, but stairs!
”Does Ying Chen and his family’s building have a basement?” Chen Ge carefully recalled and came to a terrible conclusion, he clearly remembered that the building Ying Chen’s family was in did not have a basement.
”The world behind this door doesn’t correspond exactly with reality! Damn!”
Originally invisible, Chen Ge hadn’t been discovered by Ying Chen until now, and apart from relying on the sound of a cat’s cry, another important reason was that he had been here before and had a basic topographical map in his head.
By comparing it to the map in his head, he wasn’t completely lost.
But now that he realized that there was a discrepancy between the map in his mind and the world behind this door, that terror of the unknown was instantly amplified.
”Should I continue walking down, or knock on the door and ask for help from the building’s occupants? There’s clearly no basement in reality, but this hallway continues downward, so I wonder where it will eventually lead to?”
He should have already reached the first floor, but the steps were not finished, and in the absence of a basement, Chen Ge did not know where the problem was.
”Could it be that there are seven floors above ground and seven floors below ground here? It’s as if there’s a door inside and a door outside? Everyone is normal on the seventh floor above ground, and the seventh floor underground is completely bloody and haunted?”
Standing in the hallway, Chen Ge took a few more steps down, he didn’t feel uncomfortable or different, the surroundings didn’t seem to have changed in any way.
”It shouldn’t be the seventh floor above ground and the seventh floor below ground, so is it possible that this is an infinite loop with no end to the building?”
”The lowest floor of the building connects to the top floor of the building, and the top floor of the building connects to the lowest floor of the building, for a blind person, repeating the action of descending the stairs in the darkness will psychologically create a very special sense of despair, as if there is no end to everything, and he or she is just struggling in vain.”
The average person wouldn’t have this experience, but Chen Ge was different, just a while ago he had done a nightmare level mission in the Jiangyuan neighborhood, and happened to experience what it was like for a blind person to go up a flight of stairs while blindfolded.
Darkness, loneliness, the unknown, everything would fester in the bottom of the heart, breeding a demon that represented fear and eventually devouring itself.
”Can’t keep going down, this world behind the door is different from the real terrain, I have to be more cautious.”
Chen Ge retreated to what he thought was the “first floor”, touching the walls and moving through the corridors, he ran through this floor and found something very desperate.
”There’s no exit, there’s no way out of here.”
Despair grew in his heart, and Chen Ge realized that he had still underestimated the difficulty of the world behind this door.
”Am I now experiencing what Ying pupil once encountered? The neighborhood clearly has an exit, but to him, this building is completely closed, this building is his entire world, there is no way to escape.”
Biting his tongue lightly, Chen Ge used the pain to calm himself.
”It seems that the hope of breaking the game lies in Ying pupil, he is the gate pusher of this world should know the way to ‘open my eyes’, I have to find Ying pupil before Ying Chen finds me!”
Without any clues, without any help, in a closed building, a blind man has to find another blind man while being chased by a psychopathic murderer, this kind of difficult task Chen Ge had never encountered before.
”From now on, I have to keep in mind every step I’ve taken, every position I’ve been in, every direction I’ve faced.”
Reality and the world behind the door were different and could not be compared, so Chen Ge wanted to draw out a new map in his own mind.
It was very difficult to do so, but in order to increase his chances of surviving Chen Ge could only do so.
He couldn’t see, so he had to memorize all the paths he had traveled in order to do so.
As long as he was familiar with the terrain, he could also run and even set traps to take out Ying Chen.
It was never Chen Ge’s style to just hide, he wanted to utilize everything around him to solve the danger once and for all.
Although he had lost his vision, if Ying Chen only treated him as an ordinary blind man and played with him in a cat-and-mouse attitude, he would definitely suffer a big loss.
”The middle-aged man we just encountered had something similar to a corpse spot on his body, he had a very low body temperature, he is definitely not a living person, inferring from this, could all the residents in this building be dead people?”
”The deaths of some of them are estimated to be related to Ying Chen, and some of their deaths could be related to the Underworld Fetus.”
”In their eyes Ying Chen is a good person, I need to think of a way to reverse Ying Chen’s image in their eyes now, and ideally I can earn their trust and help.”
The cat’s cry did not sound, Ying Chen was far away from here, Chen Ge walked to the corner of the “first floor” and gently knocked on the door near the hallway.
In the dark and quiet world, the monotonous knocking sound was repeated over and over again, and Chen Ge himself felt creeped out, as if someone was peering in the darkness.
”No one?”
Chen Ge switched to the next house, after knocking for half a day still no one opened the door, there wasn’t even a sound inside the house.
After knocking on five doors in a row, none of them opened, Chen Ge gradually became impatient.
”After Ying Chen disposes of the body he will probably continue to walk around the building looking for Ying Xin, if he hears the knocking he will definitely come over to check, now is my best chance.”
Moving faster, Chen Ge kept knocking until he reached the seventh door, when an iron door on the other side of the hallway was suddenly opened.
”Are you looking for someone? Keep knocking on the door?” A woman’s voice came out from behind Chen Ge, startling him.
Adjusting himself, Chen Ge turned around, “Yes, I am looking for a child, his name is Ying Hitomi.”
”Ying Hitomi?”
”That’s the kid who lives on the seventh floor, he’s blind in both eyes ……”
”I know him, the question is what are you looking for him for? This isn’t the seventh floor?” The woman was conversing with Chen Ge when a child’s agonizing scream suddenly came from the house behind her, a scream that was somewhat similar to the sound of Ying Xie’s voice in Chen Ge’s memory.
He couldn’t be sure if the child in the woman’s house was Ying pupil, because he had only heard Ying pupil say one sentence outside the door.
Footsteps sounded as the woman walked toward her house, while Chen Ge followed her.
The woman seemed to be in a hurry and didn’t close the door when she entered the house, and Chen Ge stumbled and touched the doorframe to follow her in.
”Why is it this stench again?”
The woman’s room, like the middle-aged man’s room, was wafting with the stench of all sorts of things mixed together, very pungent.
The cries and screams of a child kept coming from the inner room, Chen Ge was worried that the commotion would be too loud to attract Ying Chen, and he touched the security door and closed it behind him.
”Why are you sick again? Wasn’t it fine just now? What did you see?” The woman’s voice was anxious as she rummaged through the house and started looking for something.
Although Chen Ge thought that the child’s voice was a little bit similar to Ying Xie’s, he heard the woman say – What did you see?
Ying pupil was blind, while the child in the woman’s house was not blind.
”Stay here and don’t move, I’ll go get you medicine!”
Footsteps sounded in the house, coming towards the door of the room, Chen Ge wanted to get out of the way, but as a result, he didn’t expect that he would directly bump into the woman when he moved.
”Sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose.” In the midst of the darkness, Chen Ge wanted to assist the woman, and in his panic, he grabbed the woman’s arm.
The woman’s arm was very thin and showed an unnatural twist.
Chen Ge’s hand was quickly shrugged off by the woman, who seemed to be a little angry, and her tone of voice changed: “We’ll talk about your business later, I’m going to go upstairs to borrow some medicine.”
The security door was opened and the woman walked out, then the security door was closed again.
”Medicine?”
The child’s cries and screams slowly diminished, and the room grew quiet.
”This woman’s body is deformed, just like those twisted dolls in Ying pupil’s bedroom, in addition she has a very low body temperature ……”
Ten minutes later, the security door was opened again and the woman with the twisted arms entered the house.
Chen Ge heard the sounds of pouring water and swallowing, and only after the child’s crying stopped completely did he move towards the house, “Can I ask what kind of disease your child is having? Don’t think too much, I’m actually a doctor.”
”A normal doctor couldn’t cure him of this disease.” The woman came out of the inner room, she walked over to Chen Ge, “Have you ever heard of sharps phobia?”
”A type of phobia?”
”Pretty much, this kid will get sick whenever he sees something sharp, agitated, desperate, crying, noisy, he will always fantasize about a scene where someone takes that thing and stabs him in the eye.”