Chapter 1074 – Weird Neighbors
”Hey! Wake up!”
Slowly opening her eyes, the woman sat up from the bed at once: “Where’s Xiang Nuan?!”
”Calm down first, do you remember who I am?” Chen Ge silently put down the skull crushing hammer.
”Chen Ge?”
”Where did we first meet?”
”The embankment of Donggang Reservoir, what’s wrong with you? Xiang Nuan has disappeared, let’s go find him quickly!” The woman was anxious, but Chen Ge stood still.
”Which two words did Xiang Nuan stop crying after I said them at that time.”
”I didn’t hear it clearly, it seems to be the two words Underworld Fetus?”
”Last question, why did I kill Xiang Nuan?” Chen Ge stared closely at the woman’s face, his last question stunned the woman.
”You want to kill Xiang Nuan?”
”It seems that you are not the monster behind the door posing as one.” The woman’s expression reacted normally, Chen Ge did not explain why he asked those questions, he turned around and walked out of the bedroom, checking the living room door first.
The doors and windows were closed, and he and Xiang Nuan’s mom were the only two people in the house.
”When I entered the world behind other children’s doors, a black iron door that smelled like disinfectant would appear behind me, but I didn’t see that black iron door after I entered this door. What exactly happened between the moment I entered the blood door and the moment I opened my eyes?” Chen Ge was silently thinking when the woman’s voice suddenly came from beside him.
”Why did I suddenly fall asleep? Where is Xiang Nuan? I vaguely remember him entering a door, and then I followed him in.” The woman covered her head, she really couldn’t recall what happened behind her.
”You’re also really big hearted, that door is only entered by the dead and dying.”
”Doesn’t that mean my son is dying? Are those death notices real?” The woman became anxious again and could tell that she was really worried about Xiang Nuan.
”Don’t worry about Xiang Nuan, let me help you clear up the logical order, if we want to find Xiang Nuan, first of all, don’t we need to ensure that we ourselves survive? If we die, wouldn’t the probability of Xiang Nuan surviving alone become smaller as well?” Chen Ge was prepared to speak clearly to the woman first, otherwise it would be bad if the other party did something impulsive, causing both of them to be in a critical situation.
”En.”
”We can only find Xiang Nuan if we stay alive, in order to be able to live well, you must listen to me next, don’t be impulsive.” Chen Ge’s voice was low: “This world is different from reality, you can interpret this place as Xiang Nuan’s nightmare.”
”Nightmare?”
”Although it’s a nightmare, but if you die here, it’s a real death.” Chen Ge briefly “popularized” the world behind the door to the woman.
”But I feel like there’s no difference between here and reality?”
”By the time we see the difference, we’ll be in danger.” Chen Ge stood in the room and swung the skull crushing hammer, he realized that he was physically exhausted behind this door, and he would gasp for breath just by moving around, as if something was lying on his back and frantically absorbing his vitality.
”It’s so dangerous here, what should Xiang Nuan do alone?”
”I know you want to save Xiang Nuan, but remember one sentence, only by saving your own life can you save Xiang Nuan back. This sentence I I won’t repeat in the future, I hope you can keep it in mind.” Chen Ge took a deep breath, “In addition, I have to tell you one more thing, if I encounter danger, I will definitely save you if I can, but I will choose to leave on my own if I really can’t save you.”
Chen Ge spoke realistically, the woman nodded when she heard this and spoke softly to Chen Ge, “Thank you, I’m actually touched that you were able to follow me and Xiang Nuan into the door. Because of Xiang Nuan’s matter, I ended up dragging you down as well, I’m really sorry.”
When the woman said this, Chen Ge was instead at a loss as to what to say back, the other party seemed to have created some misunderstanding, treating Chen Ge as an innocent passerby who had been implicated.
”Let’s stop this topic, although the world behind the door is dangerous, it’s not completely without a way out, you know Xiang Nuan very well and are familiar with all of her memories, this is very favorable to us.” The world behind the door was woven from the memories of the door pusher, exploring the scene behind the door was interpreting the desperate experiences of the door pusher, this time Chen Ge had Xiang Nuan’s mother’s help, he felt that he should be able to circumvent most of the dangers.
”Let’s start exploring from this room first, you look around to see if there is anything different from reality.” Chen Ge said and walked out of the bedroom, he rummaged through every item in his backpack and found two strange things.
The desperate and bloody diary entries in Zhang Ya’s storybook had disappeared, leaving only the last diary entry still intact.
The other thing was related to the red high heels, all the other items were covered in a layer of gray, only the red high heels were an exception, there were black lines converging faintly on the blood red surface.
”The red high-heeled shoes are bound very little behind this door, could it be because she swallowed too many curses from the Underworld Fetus?”
The Underworld Fetus had chosen a total of nine children, and a large portion of the curses behind the children’s doors had been swallowed up by the red high heels, especially after Ying pupil’s door, her ability had been qualitatively improved.
”This is kind of the only good news right now.” Chen Ge was about to look elsewhere when Xiang Nuan’s mom’s voice suddenly came from the bedroom.
”Chen Ge! Those chopsticks I put under Xiang Nuan’s bed are all gone!”
Hearing the voice, Chen Ge ran into the bedroom, he saw Wen Qing squatting beside Xiang Nuan’s bed, lifting the bed sheet with one hand, and there was nothing underneath the bed as it was empty.
”What do those chopsticks represent to Xiang Nuan?”
”I don’t know, that kid can’t communicate with anyone and doesn’t know how to express himself, it seems like he’s been living in a world that’s only his own.”
”Besides the chopsticks, do you have any other findings?” Chen Ge picked up the white cat and took out the case sheet from the cursed hospital from his own backpack, he wanted the white cat to remember the smell of the paper, but unfortunately the white cat did not have any reaction.
”Those death notices written to Xiang Nuan are also gone, as well as the book bag I bought for Xiang Nuan ……”
”Book bag?”
”Eh, I bought Xiang Nuan a book bag when I first took him to Peizhi School, and that day I had thought that everything was going to be fine.”
”It seems like the book bag might represent some kind of good yearning, and what kind of things do the chopsticks represent? Why are these two things missing from the house?”
After thinking for a long time without an answer, Chen Ge had to give up, he carefully inspected the hut and found the key to the security door and a fruit knife inside the house.
Chen Ge stuffed the key into his pocket and handed the knife to Wen Qing, “Take it for defense.”
Other than the knife and the key, Chen Ge did not find any clues left behind by Xiang Nuan, nor did he find anything related to the cursed hospital.
”No Smile must have entered the world behind the door as well, they might have appeared somewhere else, if only I could have found them earlier.” All the Lich ghosts would be bound by the world behind the door, those guys from the Cursed Hospital either couldn’t appear now or they had lost most of their abilities, similar to Chen Ge, so now was a good opportunity to finish them off.
”This room should be safe, next we’ll go outside, you follow behind me, no matter what you see don’t talk nonsense.”
”Understood.”
Chen Ge carried his backpack, he didn’t directly leave through the living room door, instead he walked to the window and pulled open the curtains first.
”This ……”
The scene in front of him was extremely terrifying, a building was twisted and crooked, intertwined with each other, and their surfaces were speckled as if they were full of scars that were healing.
Both pupils narrowed, Chen Ge looked further away, several buildings were all wrapped in black fog, as if they were trapped in a black ocean.
”The windows can be opened, you don’t necessarily have to go through the door if you want to go to other rooms. But the outside of the building should be very dangerous, there seems to be something very scary hidden in that black fog.”
Chen Ge couldn’t say what was hidden in the black fog, the aura those things gave off was different from that of a stern ghost, but it could inspire the most essential sense of fear in a person’s heart.
”They were originally monsters living behind the door?”
Drawing the curtains, it took a long time before that palpitating feeling disappeared.
”This place is too weird.”
Chen Ge called up Wen Qing, and the two of them came to the door of the living room, and the white cat that had been pretending to be dead saw that Chen Ge was ready to leave, and also hurriedly “came to life”.
Open the security door, the iron door just staggered a gap, Chen Ge smelled the pungent stench, he felt that the source of the stench that had plagued him for a long time was in this neighborhood.
Pushing the door open to one-third, Chen Ge walked out first.
The hallway was lined with all sorts of debris and garbage, and the ground was littered with black stains and not-so-obvious blood spots.
The walls were plastered with a yellowed flyer that was full of words abusing Wen Qing, except that unlike in reality, the black and white photo on the flyer was no longer of Wen Qing herself, but had been replaced with a headless woman.
The entire corridor was plastered with flyers of headless women, and just looking at them made one’s heart skip a beat.
The sound of inhaling came from behind Chen Ge, and Wen Qing’s face was pale, her eyes looking straight at those leaflets on the wall.
Gesturing a silent gesture, Chen Ge slowly walked forward a few steps.
The stench in the hallway was strong, and it was still a bit humid, and something would occasionally fall overhead, like a small spider or a willow floss, which could be felt, but just couldn’t be seen exactly what had fallen on them.
”Each door has a door number written on it, Xiang Nuan’s house is still number 401, let’s just go with the fourth floor of building A here.”
Behind the door, all the buildings in the Jiu Hong and Jin Hua neighborhoods twisted together, and the first thing Chen Ge had to do was to re-establish his position.
”401, 402 …… “When Chen Ge walked to 405, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
There were many black garbage bags placed on both sides of this door, and a large portion of the stench in the building emanated from these garbage bags.
Chen Ge walked silently to the side of the garbage bags, he opened one of the garbage bags and saw that it was filled with blood-stained bandages and toilet paper, as well as a large number of broken needles.
”Why are there so many broken needles?” He was about to open the other garbage bags to take a look, when the door of room 405 suddenly made a noise, and that iron door was opened from the inside.
A tall and fat middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway carrying a black plastic bag, her body was full of fat, her face was painted with very thick makeup, and her hands had a lot of Band-Aids on them, with oil residue on her fingertips.
She carried a strong odor of bad perfume, and the smell almost masked the stench emanating from the black garbage bag.
”What are you doing?” The middle-aged woman’s voice sounded a little frightening.
”Sorry, my cat is a bit naughty and likes to pick at things everywhere.” Chen Ge picked up the white cat while his line of sight leapt over the middle-aged woman at the same time and looked at the interior of the 405 room.
The entire room was painted pink, there were bloodied stitches left on the floor tiles, the TV screen reflected the figure of a boy on the sofa, the child looked very weak, covered with a thin quilt from the waist down, and notably, the middle of the quilt was stained red with blood there.
”Why do you even keep it if it won’t listen? I hate these little things.” The woman casually tossed the garbage bag in her hand to the door before going back inside and closing the door.
”That woman looks so fierce.” Wen Qing whispered, “But her face is somewhat familiar to me, a little bit like the tenant of 405 in reality.”
”She should be the 405’s tenant, only her appearance is distorted by the door.” Chen Ge lowered his voice, he had just opened the black plastic bag not even a few seconds before the middle-aged woman opened the security door to throw the garbage, indicating that the other party was probably standing at the door at that time and heard the commotion outside.
”If it’s really her, then we might be able to ask her for help.”
”That woman is trustworthy?”
”The tenant of 405 in reality is a woman who lives alone, petite, people don’t talk much, but she has a good temper, especially tolerant to children, not only does she not hate Xiang Nuan, she often takes the initiative to find Xiang Nuan to talk to and make Xiang Nuan happy.”
”You’ve been tricked by her, the 405 tenant might be a human trafficker.” Chen Ge’s voice was pressed even lower as he whispered in Wen Qing’s ear, “When I opened the door just now, the screen of her TV reflected on the sofa, and there was a pale boy lying on that sofa.”
”Boy? Is it Xiang Nuan?”
”The age is a bit older than Xiang Nuan, and the face is completely different.”
”Not Xiang Nuan? Then how do you know she’s a human trafficker?” The neighbor who usually kept her head down was a human trafficker, Wen Qing was a bit unable to accept it.
”The boy’s waist was covered with a quilt, which collapsed underneath, and the most crucial thing is that the middle of the quilt there was soaked with blood, and the blood was still spreading, obviously soaked from the inside.”
”He’s injured?”
”He’s not injured, he was amputated from the thigh down, and the bleeding hasn’t completely stopped.”
Chen Ge’s words made Wen Qing’s sweaty hairs stand on end.
”In reality these people hide themselves under human skin, but behind the door, they will reveal their true appearance. We must be careful or we will die a very painful death.”
After leaving room 405, Wen Qing’s face was still very poor, and her gaze would always sweep over the black garbage bag at 405’s entrance intentionally or unintentionally, “Chen Ge, I’m very worried about Xiang Nuan right now.”
”There’s no use being anxious, we’re going to find Master Huang on the first floor now, he should be the only person in this neighborhood who is willing to help us.” Chen Ge’s thoughts were very clear, his will was like steel and would rarely be disturbed by external factors.