Chapter 1089: Appearing Again and Again
”It came again today, still standing at the door, I don’t know what it’s doing, it seems to be trying to get in.”
”It looked like my dead child, at least the back looked like it.”
”My family saw it too, it wasn’t an illusion, it was really there. But why does it always have its back to us, whose child is it and why does it appear in the hallway late at night?”
”My husband said he was going out to see it, but when he went out he never came back, he left me and fled on his own.”
”What am I to do? It’s getting closer and closer to me, always laying on the doorways and windows, it’s sure to come in!”
”After I woke up from my sleep, I saw it appear in the living room, it didn’t seem to notice me, it stood in the middle of the living room with its back to me.”
”I got a good look at its face, why was a rag doll walking around my house? What was it looking for? Why did it stay here all the time!”
”It was disgusting, I’ve never seen such an ugly doll. Its arms are filled with garbage and bird carcasses, it has a stinking heart hidden in its stomach, its face is made from a patchwork of different skins, and his legs are bent and stuffed with scavenged bones. It reeked with a foul odor, and its pitiful appearance was especially horrifying to look at!”
”I noticed another strange thing about this rag doll, his shadow was not that of a rag doll, the light found its way to it and cast a shadow of a boy much taller than him.”
”Doesn’t it know that about itself that everyone hates it? Why doesn’t it go away yet? Why does it even try to deliberately curry favor with me? It’s really crazy!”
”It seems to have made this place its home, the damn doll!”
”I’m not its mom, I’m not her family!”
”It must be removed, by all means!”
”I dismantled it, put it in a garbage bag and buried it in the dirt, I thought I would finally be able to get a good night’s sleep, but when I woke up, it was once again in my house!”
”I don’t have a family anymore, so why won’t this freak just leave me alone!”
”I have sent it away over and over again and it has started appearing in various places in my house, in the closet, under the bed, among the quilts, under the desk, it could be hiding anywhere in my house!”
”What on earth can I do to send it away!”
The words written in blood had been completely distorted in the back, with blood and nails remaining in the font, the mental state of the person who wrote the words should have already reached the edge of collapse.
Chen Ge could visualize a cloaked woman, biting her fingers and tearing the bed sheet, writing a sentence on it.
Slowly, Chen Ge saw the last piece of the bedsheet filled with bloody words, and the words on it sent shivers down the spine of the crowd.
”I finally know what it wants to do.”
”I’m not its mother, and it doesn’t want me to be its mother, it just wants to burrow into my stomach.”
”When I woke up in the middle of the night in a haze and saw the smiling face on my stomach, I knew I was afraid I would never be able to give it away again.”
The words in blood on the bed sheet ended all here, just looking at the words in blood, Wen Qing next to her felt uncomfortable, probably because she was a woman of the same gender, she could better understand the pain and despair that the owner of the house felt at that time.
”Are these blood characters reminding us that the real monster inside the building is a rag doll?” Although Xiao Sun often said the wrong thing, he was not stupid, especially when he was in danger, his mind turned quickly.
”Pretty much.” Chen Ge looked at the bloody words, and his gaze stayed fixed on one of the sentences – that ragdoll’s shadow was not a ragdoll, but a boy who was much taller than it.
Seeing these words, a speculation bubbled up in Chen Ge’s mind, “The ghost clinging to the ragdoll might be my shadow, who made the ragdoll’s shadow after escaping from me. And a rag doll is not conscious, that rag doll might be the body he made for himself.”
In Building A of the Jinhua District, the ragdoll’s severed hand was the source of the stench in the entire building, and it was probably because of that severed hand that the building was not infested by the black fog.
”The rag doll should be the body that the Underworld Fetus once used, looking at the description on the blood writing, it didn’t suffer much for this cobbled together ugly body.”
In the world behind Fang Yu’s door, Chen Ge saw a small part of the Underworld Tire’s memories, and the Underworld Tire in the memories was completely different from the present.
The shadow had become a Fierce God step by step, and had come so far that it had long since changed its face, becoming no longer itself.
It was clearly written in blood that the ragdoll did not harm the residents of the building at first, but its very existence was a “sin”.
It was almost a foregone conclusion that the owner of the building, in the process of discarding it, would eventually welcome the ragdoll’s vengeance.
”What’s recorded in the Jinhua neighborhood is Xiang Nuan’s life, what’s buried amongst this Jiu Hong neighborhood is probably the past of the Underworld Fetus.”
The first time Chen Ge’s shadow appeared to change was in the Western Suburbs House of Horrors, and what it had experienced next could perhaps be traced within these buildings.
Without bothering to close the closet door, Chen Ge took out all the clothes in the closet, and there was no sign of the monster, it was as if it had already left from this room.
”There are children’s clothes in the closet, and there are two large and one small, three pairs of slippers in the shoe cabinet, all signs indicate that a boy once lived in this room.” Chen Ge placed those bed sheets with blood characters on the floor: “The tenant of 204 once had a child, and through the blood characters on the bed sheets, it can be seen that this weird rag doll appeared after that child of theirs died. The rag doll didn’t hurt them at first, and seemed to hold out a glimmer of hope that it wanted to live with them.”
”Do you think that’s possible? Looking at the description, that rag doll is a completely horrible monster, who would want to live with that thing?” Xiao Sun couldn’t understand what Chen Ge said.
”You and the owner of the house both think that the rag doll is a monster, but have you ever put yourselves in the rag doll’s shoes? Would it feel like a monster?” Chen Ge pointed to the bloody words on the bed sheet, “With bones stuffed in its legs, a heart in its stomach, and a pieced-together face, this rag doll is trying to become like a human being according to its own ideas.”
”Why do I feel so horrible when you say that?”
”The rag doll wants to become a human being, what it desires should be to live like a human being, it desires a family, it desires love, but unfortunately it underestimates the difficulty of being a human being.” Chen Ge was very rational: “It doesn’t know what a human being actually is, and it knows even less what it represents to the next person. It is actually considered a child, only to be seduced by the devil and become the most terrifying child.”
”Anyway, he ended up killing the master of the house, I don’t think it was expressing itself, it had bad intentions from the start, I even suspect that the master of the house’s child was killed by the ragdoll.” Wen Qing’s face recovered a bit, she didn’t dare to look at the sheets with the bloody words.
”What you said is also possible.” Chen Ge organized the bedsheets on the floor and held them in his hands, “This room is pretty much searched, let’s go to the other rooms now.”
”Are you going to take those broken bedsheets out?” Wen Qing and Xiao Sun asked at the same time, “That thing is unlucky, why don’t you put it back where it belongs.”
”Just as well.” Chen Ge’s backpack had limited space, and he reluctantly put those sheets back into the closet, “The comic book can’t be used right now, so it won’t be too late to make a trip over after the staff wakes up.”
The ghost of 204 never appeared, it was as if the room hadn’t been inhabited for a long time.
Walking out of room 204, Wen Qing, who was the first to step out of the room, paused at the door.
”What’s wrong?”
”There is blood on the floor ……”
A few people looked along the place where Wen Wen’s cell phone shone, there was a streak of fresh blood remaining at the door of room 204, when they searched the house just now, it seemed like there was something standing right at the door looking at them and stood there for quite a while.
”There’s blood on the walls too, you guys! So many handprints!” Wen Qing pointed to the wall next to the doorframe, where there were many fingerprints resembling a baby’s, which seemed to have crawled quickly across the siding.
”There are quite a lot of weird things in this building.” Chen Ge used his Yin pupil and followed the bloody handprints until he reached the entrance of the building, “Heading to the third floor?”
”Still want to continue up? Why don’t we go back to Building A of the Jinhua District, let’s lock the door so that people outside can’t get in, and how about waiting until dawn to come back?”
”Then what if it won’t get light?” Chen Ge ignored Xiao Sun as he quickened his pace and directly entered the building.
A faint smell of mold and stench began to appear in the air, the building was still quiet, but this quiet was completely different from normal quiet, as if there was something indescribable that was hollowing out the heart and digging out one’s soul a little bit.
Chen Ge’s five senses were sharp, and he experienced this feeling most deeply, it seemed that as long as he entered this building, his soul would be imprisoned here forever without him realizing it.
Walking from the second floor to the third floor, he didn’t take a few steps at all, but the temperature suddenly became much lower.
There was paper money everywhere on the floor, white fortune words were posted on the walls from house to house, and instead of a door god, two sheets of white paper were pasted on the door of the dilapidated room.
”The door god is used to guard the door of the house, what is the meaning of posting two pieces of white paper?”
What made Chen Ge even more puzzled was still behind, the door lock of room 301 was completely broken and could not be closed at all. The door panel was hidden, a bowl of white rice with chopsticks was placed outside the door, and a copper basin full of ashes was placed inside the door.
If you wanted to enter the door, you had to step over the basin, which in itself was nothing, but Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to see clearly that there were a few words written on the rim of the basin – those who stepped over the basin would be tortured by the mountain of swords and fire, and would taste the pain of gouging out the eyes and plucking out the heart.
Chen Ge himself didn’t believe in these things, but in the world behind someone else’s door, it was useless for him to believe or not, the key was to see whether the person pushing the door believed in these or not.
”Is this a curse?”
The door was open, but Chen Ge didn’t dare to venture in, he just pushed the door open and looked inside.
There were traces of being burned inside the house, unburned paper money was thrown everywhere on the ground, what was noteworthy was that there were four small incense burners placed in the four corners of the house, which had a very peculiar shape, it was a small person kneeling on the ground and seemed to be atoning for his sins as if he was atoning for his sins.
”Can you guys see what this is doing?” Wen Qing asked Xiao Sun and Chen Ge, who stood in the doorway with a nervous expression.
”It’s probably doing some kind of spell to exorcise ghosts.” Xiao Sun looked at the paper money all over the floor, and didn’t have the slightest idea of wanting to enter the house.
”No matter what this is doing, they definitely didn’t succeed in the end.” Chen Ge pressed his finger on the door lock that had completely fallen off, “Look at the place where the lock and the doorframe are in contact, it was obviously opened with violence, the people inside the house didn’t drive the ghosts away, instead, they completely enraged them.”
He moved the copper basin to the corner of the wall, “This way entering the house again won’t count as stepping over the top of the copper basin, if this thing is useful, we can consider taking it away, whether it’s placed in the middle of the building or in the entrance hall of one of the rooms it’s quite good.”
Wen Qing and Xiao Sun already didn’t know how to comment on it, they didn’t feel it was quite appropriate, but when they thought about it, Chen Ge’s statement was quite logical.
Entering room 301, for safety reasons, Chen Ge didn’t let everyone separate again this time, and they all went over together if they wanted to go to any room.
”There are copper coins hidden underneath the sofa cushions, there is vermillion sand underneath the cabinet, there are incense burners placed in the corners of the room, and there are some grains of salt sprinkled along the walls, all of these are things to ward off evil spirits.” Chen Ge knew these things like the back of his hand, when he first obtained his black cell phone, he had read almost all kinds of psychic forums, and in the end, he found that ninety percent of these things didn’t work, and the remaining ten percent didn’t mean that they would definitely work, but because they were too hard to get, he hadn’t tried them yet.
The three of them all stopped as they walked through the living room and arrived at the bedroom door.
The wooden door in front of them was full of children’s bloody handprints, as if in the wee hours of midnight, there was a child standing outside the bedroom, constantly slapping the door of the room.
Chen Ge pushed the bedroom door open a little bit, and there was a large bed in the room, the sheets were covered with black particles like drug residue, and the center was empty in the shape of a person.
There were a few pieces of yellow paper scattered around the bed, and there were some words sporadically written on the paper.
”The first time I saw it was outside the window, it was lying on the windowsill, and I waited until I was fully awake to realize that this was the third floor.”
”The second time I saw it was behind my door, I didn’t notice it when I opened the door, but when I closed it, it followed me in and stood right behind my door.”
”The third time I saw it was in the baby’s toy pile and it was mimicking my child’s every move. That was the same time I threw that dirty doll away.”
”The fourth time I saw it was on the night of the third time when I heard a noise in the living room and when I opened the bedroom door, I found it sitting in the living room playing with my child’s toys. My husband and I were so scared that we turned on the lights, burned it with fire and threw the remains in the trash.”
”The fifth time I encountered it was in the middle of the hallway when it pushed me from behind, then the sixth and seventh time …… the creature completely haunted me and I didn’t know what to do to get rid of it.”
The words on the yellow paper seemed to be used by the owner of the house to ask for help, but unfortunately, judging from the results, she didn’t succeed until the end.
Chen Ge took the yellow paper and took another look at the dense bloody handprints on the bedroom door, and the appearance of that horrible doll came to his mind.