Chapter 1086: Like a Black Sea or Not

　　Chen Ge’s movements were too fast, the three people surrounded him, and one moment they were talking nicely, the next moment someone had already fallen to the ground.

　　In the blink of an eye, the three people had turned into two, and the remaining two still had injuries all over their bodies.

　　Dr. Li and Big Head were originally standing on either side, and after seeing Qu Win being smashed down, they subconsciously moved closer to each other and stood together.

　　The two of them were holding sharp knives, and the twisted expressions on their faces slowly solidified.

　　Their line of sight hovered between the knives and the skull crushing hammer, and in terms of professionalism alone, the man in front of them seemed to be more of an incorrigible madman, while the two of them could only be considered patients with psychological problems.

　　Equally perverted, but fundamentally different, even in the movies they rarely saw a character that would carry such a hideous hammer hidden with them.

　　”You guys are tired too, get some rest and don’t do bad things in your next life.”

　　Chen Ge dragged the skull crushing hammer towards Dr. Li and Big Head, those two people’s eyelids jumped straight up, they looked at the thick blood stains on the skull crushing hammer, their faces were poor to the extreme.

　　Chen Ge had been blocking the door, Big Head and Dr. Lai knew that the other party didn’t want to let themselves go at all, they only had a chance to survive if they fought to the death.

　　All along they had thought that they had the advantage, only now did they wake up with a jolt, it was not Chen Ge who had fallen into the trap step by step, but themselves.

　　Both pupils narrowed, Chen Ge didn’t have any nonsense, dragging the skull crushing hammer and rushing towards Dr. Lai.

　　Big Head had a wound on his stomach and couldn’t run fast, even if he escaped alone, Chen Ge was confident that he could catch up, so Chen Ge’s target was very clear and directly locked onto Dr. Li.

　　Dr. Lai, whose face was twisted and mentally insane, held the knife in his hand, he had never encountered anything like this before, normally Chen Ge’s current position should belong to him.

　　”Boom!”

　　Dr. Lai fought back as hard as he could, but the sharp knife in his hand didn’t even have a chance to touch Chen Ge.

　　The nearly one meter long Skull Crushing Hammer was very flexible in Chen Ge’s hand, he was really too skilled.

　　Dr. Lai and Big Head fell down one after another, Chen Ge didn’t let go of Qu Win’s girlfriend, he tied up the incapacitated few people with the wires in the house, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

　　Dragging the skull crushing hammer with one hand, his gentle chest rose and fell slightly, “Physical strength has indeed slipped a lot, I’ve been building up my strength all the way, I didn’t expect to be so tired after just a few swings of the skull crushing hammer.”

　　Walking through the middle of Dr. Lai and Big Head, Chen Ge looked towards the stunned Wen Qing and Xiao Sun, “I lied to them about what I said just now, I’m also scared to face such a vicious and perverted criminal, so I can only be a little bit more fierce so that I can overwhelm the other party in terms of momentum.”

　　Dragging the shattered skull hammer that was left with fragments of clothes and blood stains, Chen Ge’s expression was very natural, as if he had just done a trivial and insignificant thing.

　　”I can understand what you mean, but how do you explain this fellow in your hand? Was it always in your backpack?” Xiao Sun’s voice was trembling, he felt that he had just escaped from the wolf’s den and fell into the tiger’s den again, his situation was worrisome.

　　”You mean this hammer, huh?” Chen Ge used the murderer’s clothes to wipe away the blood, “Although it looks fierce, it’s actually just a prop from the haunted house.”

　　”A haunted house prop? I guess ghosts won’t believe you? What kind of haunted house would use this as a prop?”

　　”The Horror House of the New Century Paradise in the suburb of Hanyangsi.” Chen Ge wiped clean the blood on the skull crushing hammer, he walked to Wen Qing’s side, whether Xiao Sun believed what he said or not had little impact, the key was Wen Qing: “I should have said it to you before.”

　　”Said it, but it’s not quite the same as I thought.” Wen Qing’s eyes widened, she had always felt that Chen Ge was well-mannered and should be a highly intelligent person who relied on his mind to eat, until the sound of Qu Win’s bones shattering rang out, she realized how wrong she was.

　　Chen Ge had used less than a minute before and after from taking out the skull-crushing hammer to the collapse of the three building occupants, a speed so fast that Wen Qing hadn’t even thought about what kind of expression she should use to face Chen Ge.

　　”There is always a difference between imagination and reality, don’t worry about those details, you just need to know that I won’t harm you and I want to bring Xiang Nuan back to reality.” Chen Ge gave Wen Qing a reassuring smile, there was a special charm about him that made people feel especially reliable no matter when.

　　”You entered that door with me, it’s me who dragged you down. I did get a bit startled just now, but don’t worry, I will absolutely trust you one hundred percent. Without you, let alone going to look for Xiang Nuan, I might have been killed by these people long ago.” Wen Qing calmed down, she knew very well that in this world behind the door, Chen Ge was the most trustworthy person.

　　”What exactly is the situation between you two? I don’t see your relationship as siblings? Are you courting her?” Xiao Sun’s gaze hovered over Chen Ge and Wen Qing, and after hearing his words, Wen Qing hurriedly started to explain again, while Chen Ge turned back to his shadow, he looked at it for more than a minute before taking out Zhang Ya’s diary, which didn’t have anything extra on it.

　　”I guessed it? So you’re not siblings, you’re siblings?” Xiao Sun felt like he had once again analyzed the truth.

　　”Can’t you live well?” Chen Ge put the diary back into the backpack compartment, he felt that there was a reason why Xiao Sun would disappear in reality, “You’d better stop talking nonsense from now on, we are considered a team, if you attract trouble beyond my ability, I won’t care about you.”

　　Chen Ge took the skull crushing hammer and had a good heart-to-heart talk with Xiao Sun, he also knew all of Xiao Sun’s secrets, the main reason this college student would move into the Jinhua neighborhood was because he was poor.

　　He was being used by the landlord, thinking that he had taken advantage of him, but in fact, the landlord had treated him as a prey from the very beginning, and the rent he delivered was not money, but life.

　　Xiao Sun’s story brought Chen Ge great inspiration, and an idea arose in his mind, if he could go back alive this time, he could let the tourists experience what happened to Xiao Sun and see how long they could last.

　　Walking out of room 1001, Chen Ge looked back at the TV placed in the living room again, and he thought back to Xiang Nuan on the screen.

　　That child seemed to have said one word at that time at the crowd behind the door – go.

　　”He probably said that to Wen Qing.”

　　Closing the security door, Chen Ge took the keys he had seized from Dr. Li and Big Head and led Wen Qing, Xiao Sun and Granny Li towards the stairs.

　　Blood flowed in the hallway, and a room door was violently pried open; none of these doors were the ones Chen Ge was looking for, but they hid the same ugliness and despair behind them.

　　When a person walks next to an abyss, he may never be able to turn back as long as he is given a gentle push.

　　As for what pushes him, it may be an inadvertent detail in his life, a word from a stranger, or a memory of what he himself once was.

　　Chen Ge used the key to open the door to Dr. Lai’s house, and found a large number of human bone specimens inside, as well as the key left behind by the landlord, and several bottles of medicine with unknown effects.

　　”Finally able to leave.”

　　Before leaving, Chen Ge turned around to the door of Aunt Ding’s room again, gave Aunt Ding the same treatment as Dr. Lai, and saved that child in Aunt Ding’s house in the meantime.

　　Under Aunt Ding’s torture, the boy was delirious and only knew his name as Jia Fu.

　　Chen Ge found a family photo in his possession, and the scene on the photo was chilling.

　　The grinning Aunt Ding and Jiafu stood in the center of the photo, and next to the two was a wooden box with a photo pasted on it with a person’s name – Jia Le, Jia An, Jia Mei ……

　　Jiafu’s legs are amputated and there is no way for him to leave with Chen Ge. Wen Qing and Xiao Sun disagree on how to deal with Jiafu.

　　Xiao Sun wants to carry Jia Fu and leave with him, while Wen Qing thinks they should find Xiang Nuan first and then come back, after all, Jia Fu has no way to walk on his own, so it’s inconvenient to bring him along.

　　In the end, it was Chen Ge who made the call, he decided to send Jiafu to the first floor to Grandpa Huang first.

　　Walking down the stairs, Chen Ge purposely went to 301 take a look after reaching the third floor, the child called Wu You was sitting in the living room, looking at one of the paintings posted on the window.

　　”Come with us, I’ll take you to mom and dad.” There weren’t many good people in the whole building, Wu You could survive in such an environment even Chen Ge found it unbelievable, so he wanted to take Wu You with him, so that a few people could take care of each other.

　　”I won’t go with you.” What Chen Ge did not expect was that Wu You decisively rejected him.

　　”Why? Haven’t you always wanted to see your dad and mom?” Chen Ge was a little curious, for children, as long as they moved to help find their parents, few would refuse.

　　”Because the last thing my dad and mom said to me the day they left was that no matter what, don’t leave this home, they will come back, and anyone who uses looking for them as an excuse to try to come to me, then he must be lying to me.” Wu You raised his head, “You’re lying to me? Right?”

　　Chen Ge did not say anything, from Wu You’s words he heard something deeper.

　　Wu You’s parents probably knew that they were going to die when they walked out of the house, that’s why they said something like that, that no one in the world could find them anymore.

　　”There’s food on the tenth floor, the building is a lot safer now, you can go to the old man on the first floor if you run into trouble.” Chen Ge touched Wu You’s head, this child was very smart: “Your parents are right, they will come back, until they do, you have to take care of yourself.”

　　Chen Ge turned to leave, he was about to walk to the second floor when Wu You’s voice suddenly came from the hallway.

　　”Hey!”

　　”What’s wrong?”

　　”I want to tell you something.” Wu You was lying on the doorway of his room, his gaze looking towards Wen Qing, “Xiang Nuan is lost, and he seems to be waiting for his family to find him as well.”

　　”What?”

　　The door that 301 never closed, was closed by Wu You, and there was no other sound in the hallway anymore.

　　”Does that kid know something?” Wen Qing was a little agitated.

　　”Maybe he and Xiang Nuan are friends?” Xiao Sun carried Jia Fu on his back and instinctively began to speculate.

　　”You guys wait for me here for a bit.” Chen Ge carried his backpack and resumed walking towards the third floor.

　　”What are you doing!”

　　”Just open the door and ask, won’t you? What kind of mystery is a six or seven year old kid playing on me? I hate people who talk in halves.”

　　”He’s just a six or seven year old kid!”

　　Ten seconds later Wu You met Chen Ge again, and he was surprised.

　　Repeatedly asking, Chen Ge finally got the information he wanted.

　　The electrician was the first person in the building to discover the landlord’s secret, and he found out because Xiang Nuan had slipped a videotape stolen from the landlord’s house into his newspaper box.

　　Xiang Nuan left the building that night, but before he left, Wu You had seen Xiang Nuan make a trip to the roof.

　　Giving Wu You a thank you, Chen Ge carried his backpack and called only for Wen Qing, and the two of them ran to the roof of the building together.

　　”This is it.”

　　The iron door leading to the rooftop on the tenth floor was locked, and Chen Ge searched through a large pile of keys for half a day before finding the corresponding key.

　　”Stay away from me, once you open the door, the black fog outside might come pouring in, and there are monsters hiding in that fog.”

　　Only after Wen Qing left did Chen Ge pull the iron door open a crack.

　　The black fog outside wasn’t as thick, but that fishy odor in the fog hadn’t changed at all.

　　Taking out his skull crushing hammer, Chen Ge pulled the iron door open a little bit, and when he saw the complete world outside, his eyes slowly widened.

　　Building A of Jinhua District was the tallest building here, and standing on the rooftop, he could look down on the entire district.

　　Boundless black fog enveloped this twisted building as if it was a black ocean, while the twisted together Jinhua Cell and Jiu Hong Cell were like isolated islands floating in this black ocean.

　　Huge shadows vaguely flickered in the black fog, Chen Ge’s throat rolled, and his hand gripping the skull crushing hammer was drenched in sweat.

　　”Is this the world behind the door?”

　　The world behind the door to Nuan was different from any door Chen Ge had entered before, not shrouded in blood, but instead wrapped in this black mist.

　　Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge looked at the shadows looming in the black mist, and he suddenly remembered an incident that happened when he was doing a nightmare quest in the Jiangyuan neighborhood.

　　At that time, he came to the roof of the building blindfolded and heard his own voice twenty years ago in his ears.

　　When he was about to be killed by the doctor, the young man said – to push open a door in the Scarlet City, to paint a window on the black ocean.

　　”Does the Scarlet City refer to that city, and could the Black Ocean refer to this infinite black fog?”

　　Looking up at the dark sky and comparing it to the huge shadow in the black fog, Chen Ge felt so small.

　　”Xiang Nuan went to the roof when he left, if Wu You didn’t intentionally try to harm me, then there should be a message left behind by Xiang Nuan here.”

　　Chen Ge knew that there were terrifying monsters hidden in the black fog, the middle-aged man on the third floor was killed instantly in the black fog.

　　”Can’t let go of this clue, since I’ve entered this door, I’ll have to come into contact with the black fog sooner or later ……” Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge put on his backpack, took the skull crushing hammer, and took a step into the middle of the black fog.

　　Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge started searching on the rooftop, and he didn’t go out far before he saw a badly broken clay figure.

　　This clay sculpture was roughly made, very similar to the clay sculptures Chen Ge had seen in reality, except that this clay sculpture did not have a head, as if it had been smashed by someone who kept dropping it, and finally smashed the clay sculpture’s head down hard.

　　Chen Ge’s gaze moved to the chest of the clay figure, where two words were written – Xiang Nuan.

　　”This is Xiang Nuan’s clay figure? Why is his clay sculpture in the world behind the door? Did he break the clay sculpture himself?”

　　One question after another surfaced in his mind, and before Chen Ge had time to think about it, the cries of }people suddenly came to his ears.

　　”Is it the monster in the black mist?” Not daring to stay long, Chen Ge took the clay figurine and immediately began to rush back.