Chapter 1075 – Every Room Hides a Secret
Chen Ge and Wen Qing decided to go to the first floor first to look for Master Huang, and they walked through the eerie corridor to the stairway.
The iron handrail painted in red had children’s handprints left on it, and the hallway twisted and rotated downward, the steps were full of black and red liquid that was sticky when stepped on.
The windows in the hallway were boarded up, half-finger-long iron nails exposed, scraping the skin if you touched them accidentally.
”This place is disgusting.” Wen Qing was in a hurry to find Xiang Nuan, but even so, she frowned when she saw the hallway in front of her, “It feels as if someone is constantly dragging tons of garbage up and down the stairs, leaking as they go.”
”You’re thinking too naively, what kind of garbage could form this black and red sticky film on the floor?”
”Then how do you think this thing formed?” Wen Qing picked up the white cat, who seemed to be afraid of it stepping on those disgusting black and red liquids.
”Seriously injured people and bleeding corpses can form a blood-colored mucous membrane, and when the blood coagulates it slowly turns into this color.” Chen Ge looked at the traces on the ground, and his mind somehow recalled an incident that happened a long time ago.
When the door in the toilet cubicle of the horror house first appeared abnormal, Chen Ge had heard the sound of dragging a heavy object through the door panel, and images emerged in his mind.
A monstrous monster with an invisible face, dragging a corpse with some sort of tool, walking through the long corridor and down the hallway.
”This place is getting weirder and weirder, let’s go to the third floor first and be careful.”
Chen Ge carried his backpack, his spirit taut.
After walking around the corner, Chen Ge had just reached the third floor when he heard strange sounds.
”Crunch, crunch ……”
A door was continuously opened and then closed again.
”There’s no wind in the corridor, and the windows in the hallway are boarded up, that door isn’t moving by itself, someone is constantly opening and closing the door.”
Looking sideways towards the third floor corridor, at the end of the darkened hallway, a security door was swaying back and forth, emitting a slightly shrill sound.
”Should we go over and take a look?”
”Look for Grandpa Huang first, and don’t make any extra trouble before accomplishing your purpose, so as to avoid any uncontrollable accidents.” Chen Ge had just finished saying these words when the sound of the door opening and closing disappeared, and he twisted his head to look just in time to see a little boy’s face poking out of the room at the end of the corridor.
The boy’s neck was a bit longer than normal, his head sticking out flat into the room, his eyes staring straight at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.
”He seems to have discovered us.” Wen Qing hugged the white cat, “That kid’s eyes are so scary!”
”Don’t mind him, go to the first floor first.”
Chen Ge dragged Wen Qing and was about to continue walking down, but that weird kid ran out from inside the door, he didn’t say anything and just kept looking at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.
”No need to mind him?”
Wen Qing and Chen Ge walked downwards, and that child also walked downwards, and only after realizing that he couldn’t get rid of him did Chen Ge give up.
He stopped and gripped his backpack tightly, ready to draw his Skull Crushing Hammer at any time.
”What’s your name?”
His fingers were wringing white, and veins could already be seen on the back of his hands, but even so, Chen Ge’s voice remained calm and gentle.
”My name is Wu You, are you here to find someone?” The boy’s voice sounded bizarre, giving off a somewhat unnatural feeling, as if he was rawly imitating someone’s tone of voice.
”Able to communicate?” Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, he had initially thought that the boy was a fool, after all, constantly making noise in such a dangerous place, this behavior was no different from looking for death.
”Yes, we are here to find someone.” Wen Qing was too worried about Xiang Nuan and blurted out.
”Are you guys looking for a little boy?”
”Yes! That’s right!” Wen Qing’s mom’s voice became louder, she was eager to know Xiang Nuan’s whereabouts, “That boy is not tall and has a cute look ……”
”I’ve seen him.” Wu You didn’t wait for Wen Qing to finish, she said with certainty, “He went downstairs.”
”Downstairs? How do you know he went downstairs? Did you see it with your own eyes?” Wen Qing wanted to confirm it again.
”En, I saw it with my own eyes.” Wu You did not look like he was lying.
Wen Qing hesitated slightly and looked at Chen Ge, “Should we hurry downstairs, we might be able to catch up with Xiang Nuan if we go over there now.”
”Good.” Chen Ge always felt that there was something wrong with Wu You, he didn’t want to stay here and dragged Wen Qing towards the stairs.
”Wait, that little boy didn’t go downstairs from here.” Wu You followed again.
”Then where did he go downstairs from?”
”From the window.” Wu You pointed at the sealed window in the hallway, “With a snap, he went downstairs.”
A sucking laugh escaped from his mouth as Wu You danced around, “I was sitting at home, the window was open, and he just ‘whooshed’ down the stairs.”
”What are you talking about?” Wen Qing’s face turned pale, if it wasn’t for Chen Ge stopping her, she might have been about to go up and punch the weird kid in front of her.
”Don’t be in a hurry first.” Chen Ge stood between Wu You and Wen Qing, “This kid lives in the innermost room of the corridor, where 301 is, and the roof of the building happens to be 401, which is your house. So theoretically, what he said could be valid.”
”Xiang Nuan would never do that!” Wen Qing said back with certainty.
”I know, so we’d better go to his house and take a look.” Chen Ge stared at Wu You after he finished speaking, if possible he wanted to go to every house and take a look.
”It’s true, I really saw it, I never lie.” Wu You let out that} human laugh again.
”Are your parents home? Can we go to your house to have a look?” Chen Ge inquired in a low voice.
”My parents don’t let strangers into their house, but they’re not home right now, so I can sneak you guys over there.” Wu You turned around and walked towards the depths of the third floor corridor, looking at his back, Chen Ge and Wen Qing then realized that Wu You’s walking posture was very strange, his legs were of different lengths and his body was extremely uncoordinated.
Only after Wu You walked out for some distance did Chen Ge quietly asked Wen Qing, “Do you have an impression that there is someone who looks like Wu You?”
”There are quite a lot of kids in our neighborhood, I didn’t pay attention, besides, his face is so strange looking, I didn’t dare to look at him more than once.”
Wu You’s looks did give people an indescribably odd feeling, obviously it was about the same features as an ordinary person, but after putting them together on his face it felt very strange.
”Come over here.”
Wu You waved at Chen Ge and Wen Qing as he led the two adults to the entrance of the house.
The not-so-large room was painted in black and white, with toys, paintbrushes, and a lot of newspapers on the floor, and the boy always seemed to be home alone.
”This is where I saw him go downstairs.” Wu You pointed to the window in the living room, which at the moment was closed and the curtains were drawn tightly, “Do you guys want to go over and take a look? After he went downstairs from here, his body has remained on the ground.”
”Don’t go over yet.” Chen Ge pulled Wen Qing back and closed the living room security door with his hand, “Wu You, this is your house, it’s not good for us to mess with your house’s things, it’s better for you to go over there and pull the curtains open for us to take a look.”
”He was head down, downstairs, and waved to me when he passed my window ……”
”Stop it!” Wen Qing couldn’t listen anymore, she crossed the living room, walked over to the window, and pulled open the curtains with one hand.
The glass window was plastered with various patterns of little boys, drawing various expressions of different children, and the most terrifying thing was that every child’s face carried scars, which was extremely scary to look at.
”Isn’t it him? I didn’t lie to you guys, right?” Wu You pointed at one of the boys with a very happy smile on his face.
”Crazy.” Wen Qing was startled by the faces of those children, and it took her a long time to come over to her senses.
She forced herself to look at all the children’s faces and there was no Xiang Nuan’s face in there.
”Chen Ge, let’s go, don’t continue to stay here.” Wen Qing hugged her arms, she felt chilly all over, as if there were countless gazes staring at her from behind at this moment.
”Isn’t the child you’re looking for him?” The smile on Wu You’s face disappeared as he tore off one of the paintings stuck to the window, and held it out in front of Wen Qing: “It’s him, it’s him! This face I haven’t been able to forget for a long time, he was waving at me when he came downstairs!”
A trace of fear flashed across Wen Qing’s face, and she ducked back a bit, “Chen Ge, let’s get out of here!”
”Take it easy.” Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to scan over the paintings on the window and reached out to tear one of them off, “Wu You, where did you see this child?”
”I forget, it could have been in a garbage bag, or in the sewer, or under a table, in a cabinet, I can’t think of anything! There’s just too many! Really too many!” The expression on Wu Yao’s face grew more and more frightening as his body stretched.
”Is this face something you’ve seen in room 405?” The painting in Chen Ge’s center depicted a boy who had lost his legs and was trying to crawl in some direction, seemingly trying to escape.
The boy in the painting reminded Chen Ge of the boy in room 405, and if you looked closely, the boy in the painting did look similar to that boy.
”405? Auntie Ding? The boy seems to have gone upstairs with her! Right! The boy still had feet at that time!” Wu You’s words revealed a cruel message, at first the boy was normal, then the boy in Wu You’s painting lost his feet, and the boy Chen Ge had just seen in front of the 405 entrance was missing from the thighs down.
”Think back more carefully, did the boy say anything to you?”
”He asked me to save him, he said he was homesick, no, he didn’t say that, and I didn’t hear it, he didn’t tell me anything! I don’t know anything!”
”Then can you tell me about Aunt Ding ……”
”Auntie Ding is a good mother, she cooks brown sugar water for me to drink, she loves and adores children, she only gets angry at bad children, Auntie Ding doesn’t let me lie, Auntie Ding even buys me toys, Auntie Ding is even better than my mother.” It was as if Wu You was memorizing by rote, without any emotion, and very sharply uttered a large paragraph.
This made both Chen Ge and Wen Qing feel very surprised.
”Auntie Ding doesn’t let the children go out alone at night, the children can only go out at night if they are carried by Auntie Ding, Auntie Ding’s favorite thing is to be with the children ……”
Wu You kept repeating some words, speaking faster and faster, and those boy drawings on the window made a rustling sound, as if every piece of paper wanted to come off the window.
”Chen Ge! Let’s leave! This boy is too scary!” Wen Qing was terrified and she kept urging Chen Ge, but Chen Ge calmed down.
”I seem to have some understanding that the tenants in this building are connected to each other. The reason why Wu You became like this is most likely because he peeked at certain things about Auntie Ting, and he was scared crazy by Auntie Ting.”
What had happened in reality Chen Ge didn’t know, but inferring from the information obtained behind the door, the truth should be like this.
Chen Ge didn’t leave, he took the initiative to walk in front of Wu You and pressed his hands on Wu You’s shoulders, “Don’t think about that person, she’s not here, there’s only a few of us in the room, there’s only a few of us in …… the room.”
After saying a lot, Wu You slowly recovered to normal, he re-pasted the torn down painting to the window, then pulled the curtains again, people who didn’t know couldn’t see that there was a problem here.
”Wu You, when are your father and mother coming back? Do they know about those kids on the window?”
”Mom and dad haven’t been back in a while, I’ve been opening the door and waiting for them.”
”What were they planning to do the last time they left the house?”
”I don’t know, the neighbors said that mom and dad left because I liked to lie too much and couldn’t stand me.” Wu You had an odd smile on his face, “I obviously never lie, but they all say I’m a liar, that my mouth is full of lies.”
”Luckily, the adults all know that you are a ‘lying spirit’, otherwise you probably wouldn’t be able to live until now.” Chen Ge was somewhat unable to see through Wu You, he felt that this child was very smart. He wanted to cooperate with Wu You, but he couldn’t figure out what Wu You was really thinking.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ge decided to leave first, Wu You was not trustworthy for the time being.
”You continue to wait here for your parents, we might meet again tonight.”
Walking out of Wu You’s house, Chen Ge was about to explain something to Wen Qing when the security door across 301 was suddenly opened.
A middle-aged man with messy hair poked his head out, his expression was somber as he stared in the direction of room 301, then whispered to Chen Ge, “Stay away from that kid, he’ll get you killed.”
”Why?” When Chen Ge entered the house, he closed the security door in his hand, unless this man was lying on Wu You’s doorway at that time and eavesdropping, otherwise he should not know what Wu You had just said in the house.
”That kid is not normal, his parents were killed by him, you’d better stop talking to him.” The middle-aged man was about to close the door when he finished speaking, but Chen Ge took this time to sneak a look towards the man’s house.
The strong smell of alcohol in the room masked the stench, and the room was messy, with all sorts of garbage and clothes thrown on the sofa, and pictures of scantily clad women plastered all over the walls.
”Boom!”
The door to the room closed, and Chen Ge signaled Wen Qing to leave the third floor first.
”What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with that man too?”
”A married man shouldn’t have that kind of photos plastered all over his room, but if he’s not married, then what’s with all the women’s underwear on his sofa?”