Chapter 1090: Why are you crying?
”Is the murderer that rag doll again? Was everyone in this building killed by that rag doll?” Wen Qing also saw what was on the yellow paper, “Why did that monster do that?”
”Why?” Chen Ge stared back at Wen Qing’s eyes as he thought for a moment, but he still didn’t say what happened between the Underworld Tire and Xiang Nuan.
Wen Qing did not know that the monster in his mouth was actually related to Xiang Nuan.
As the three stood by the bedside and exchanged words, changes slowly began to appear in the bedroom.
The empty human figure on the bedsheets was slowly sinking downwards, as if a person was lying on the bed.
The stains were moving, and a child’s handprint appeared on the bedsheet, which followed the bedsheet a little closer to Wen Qing.
Chen Ge and the three of them were all standing by the bedside, but that handprint was attracted to Wen Qing.
”Don’t move.”
The handprint eventually stopped in front of Wen Qing, the room was frighteningly quiet and everyone held their breath.
”I feel like there is someone standing in front of me.” After ten seconds or so, Wen Qing opened her mouth, her eyes filled with panic: “Really, something is standing in front of me!”
Taking out the skull crushing hammer, Chen Ge stared at the bed sheet in front of Wen Qing, the child’s palm print staying in place.
”Ah!”
Without warning, Wen Qing suddenly screamed as she jerked backward, her body hitting the wall.
At the same time, the child’s handprints on the bedsheets once again began to move, speedily crawling towards the window.
”Someone touched my face just now, and its hand was very cold!” Wen Qing’s expression did not look like she was lying.
”You can feel its presence?” Chen Ge used his Yin pupil but got nowhere, he didn’t expect Wen Qing to be able to perceive the other party.
”Yes, I can’t see it, I can’t hear it, and I don’t smell any strange odors, but I just feel like there’s someone standing in front of me!” This kind of horrifying experience was rarely experienced by anyone, and Wen Qing was terrified at this point: “Can’t you all sense it? How did it set its sights on me? Could it be that it is treating me as its mother? Just like the two women that were just killed?”
”You are unique to it.” Chen Ge also didn’t know whether to tell Wen Qing about the plutonic fetus, “From the time you left Building A of the Jinhua District, you have continued to see and sense strange things, including the human head floating in the black mist and the owner of that child’s handprint just now ……”
”Xiao Sun also saw it before, didn’t he say that there was a person following behind our team?” Wen Qing slowly calmed down, she gently touched her face, covering the place where she felt strange just now.
”He is a tenant inside the door, it’s normal for him to be able to see weird things, you are from outside the door but saw far more than what he and I saw, that’s a little strange.” Chen Ge wasn’t suspecting that Wen Qing had done anything bad, he just couldn’t figure out one question all along, why was there no Wen Qing in Xiang Nuan’s world behind the door?
The world behind the door was woven based on the memories of the person who pushed the door, the process of this weaving was not something that the person who pushed the door himself could control, the deeper the memories the more likely it was that the person would appear.
Those neighbors in the Jinhua district all appeared, there is no reason why Wen Qing, as Xiang Nuan’s mother, should not appear in the world behind the door.
Could it be that Xiang Nuan had sent the Wen Qing inside the gate to the outside? Or did the Underworld Fetus kill or control the Wen Qing inside the door in order to achieve its own goal?
”What are you thinking?” Wen Qing saw that Chen Ge did not speak for a long time and opened her mouth to ask, the only person she trusted now was Chen Ge.
”If one day, you realize that your child is actually completely different from what you imagined, will you still love him?” Chen Ge said if she had a point.
”Of course, no matter what he becomes, he’s still my child.” Wen Qing said it decisively without the slightest hesitation.
”Even if he turns into the monster that you just feared?” Chen Ge had been looking at Wen Qing when he said this, noting the change in Wen Qing’s expression.
”Even if he turns into a monster, that won’t change the fact that he is my child.” Wen Qing was a bit puzzled, “Why do you keep asking strange questions? Do you suspect Xiang Nuan is the monster inside the building? It can’t be! You haven’t been in contact with him, in fact, he’s really a very good kid.”
”En, I believe he is a very good kid.” Chen Ge had seen that initial memory of the Underworld Fetus in the Square Fish World, in the Western Suburbs House of Horrors, after the young Chen Ge had gone to bed and fallen asleep, Shadow was alone in the house playing with his toys, and it was heartbreakingly lonely in that way.
In the beginning, the shadow was pure, but after it left Chen Ge, it changed completely.
Chen Ge’s shadow had died, and there was one more ghost on earth called the Underworld Fetus.
”Let’s go to the next room, finding the ragdoll’s limbs earlier will help a lot in the next escape.” Chen Ge didn’t bother to refute what Wen Qing said, he didn’t want to dwell too much on this issue.
”Don’t you suddenly change the topic! What did you mean when you asked that question just now?” Wen Qing chased after Chen Ge, and the two of them stopped just as they walked out of the bedroom.
The incense burners placed in the corners of the living room had all been knocked over, and that copper basin had been lifted, with ashes of paper money thrown everywhere.
”Someone has been in here, and it’s following us.”
”I think the chances of it being a ghost are a bit higher, we’d better hurry up and leave this building.”
Chen Ge didn’t say anything, he looked through the living room to the corridor outside, there were a lot more bloody handprints on the wall, and the monster was crawling back and forth in the corridor.
”The one that appeared on the bed just now was a child’s handprint, and the one outside is a bloody handprint, are these two different ghosts? There are two child ghosts in the building? Or is there a child ghost in every house?”
The Jiu Hong neighborhood behind the door was full of dead people, they were the original inhabitants behind this door, the exact number of them, I guess only the Underworld Fetus knew.
The bloody handprint wandered around the third floor and finally ran to the fourth floor, it was as if it was playing hide-and-seek with Chen Ge.
”Do we still have to chase after it?” Xiao Sun had a bitter face, he was really scared.
Chen Ge answered Xiao Sun with his actions, his eyes tightly stared at the bloody handprints as he walked towards the fourth floor.
In the hallway leading from the third floor to the fourth floor, there were a lot of dismantled toys thrown around, as well as a large number of bug corpses, most of those bugs Chen Ge couldn’t name because they were just too broken.
Paper money stuck to the soles of his shoes, the air was stuffy, and the sound of something rolling on the ground could be faintly heard in his ears.
The three of them came to the fourth floor, which was not very different from the previous floors, only looking even more shabby.
Half of the inverted blessings posted on the corridor walls were torn off, and more critical was the bowl of white rice on the ground.
The white rice outside the door of the fourth floor had been eaten by someone, chopsticks stuck haphazardly in the bowl, rice grains scattered everywhere.
”Someone really did go and eat this.”
”The rice in the bowl is used to feed the ghosts, and the fact that the rice here has been eaten means that there might be a lot of ghosts on this floor.” Chen Ge’s eyes stared at the bloody handprints, which disappeared in the innermost room on the fourth floor: “If you encounter any emergencies later, you two must not run around, following me is the safest thing to do.”
After explaining, Chen Ge walked towards that room on the deepest part of the fourth floor – room 404.
The white rice at the door of this room was almost finished, what was left in the bowl was only some moldy rice grains.
Grabbing the door handle, Chen Ge hadn’t even exerted any force before the door was opened.
”Unlocked?”
He slowly pulled the door open, and halfway through he stopped.
In the living room sat a child in a red dress, her back to the door of the room, facing the window, with white strips of cloth bound to her body.
”Red dress?” Chen Ge was very sensitive to the color red, and when he saw the red dress, he immediately stopped in his tracks.
Before the employee awakened, he simply did not have the qualifications to get tough with the red dress.
”What’s a red dress?” Xiao Sun’s hand rested on Chen Ge’s shoulder, “Why is the meat on this shoulder of yours stiff?”
”Shut up.” Chen Ge stood in the doorway for a while, he realized that he was overthinking, it wasn’t a red dress, it was just a “girl” wearing a red dress.
Entering the house, Chen Ge looked around, there were bloody handprints everywhere in this room, when he looked up there were red fingerprints all over the roof, it was like that monster would crawl all over the room as soon as night came.
”Can I not go in?” Xiao Sun was a bit resistant, Wen Qing didn’t really want to go in either, this room was indeed too scary for ordinary people.
”Following me is the safest, have you two forgotten about the ghosts in the 204 closet? They are always watching us, as long as we separate, they will immediately lay their hands on us and leave us here forever.” Chen Ge took out his skull crushing hammer and slowly approached the girl whose back was to the room door.
He couldn’t feel any aura on the girl, the other party was neither a living person nor a red dress, it was like a work of art.
Walking up to the girl, Chen Ge’s expression became grave, and he didn’t know how to describe this girl.
There was no difference from an ordinary person, but it was as if she had lost her soul and turned into an empty shell.
This girl’s body was fixed to the chair by a white cloth, her head was leaning crookedly against the back of the chair, blood-tinged rice grains remained at the corners of her mouth, and her eyes were very wide open, but there was no expression in them, just like two dark holes.
”What’s your name?” Chen Ge tried to talk to the girl, but unfortunately the other party didn’t have any reaction, she was more like a rag doll made from a living person than an ordinary person, except that this rag doll was much too cute than the one made by the meditating fetus.
”This child is a resident of the Jiu Hong neighborhood?” Wen Qing also walked over, “Can you untie the rope for her? She might know something.”
”Let’s see if there are any other clues in the house first, it’s not too late to make a decision after we’re sure there’s no danger.” Chen Ge didn’t find anything on the girl’s body, so he started looking around the house again.
This room was very shabby, with rudimentary furniture and a poor environment, not as bad as rooms 301 and 204 that Chen Ge had been to before.
”Why are there bloody handprints everywhere in this room? The Underworld Tire must have encountered something in this room to be right.”
As his eyes swept across the entire room, Chen Ge gradually realized something.
Room 404 was the only room that didn’t even have a sofa, and the owner of the house was so poor that there weren’t a few pieces of furniture, most of which were poor-quality obsolete goods.
It was difficult for them to secure even the basics of life, but there were tons of toys in the house, all sorts and varieties.
”There isn’t even an electric fan in this house, and the owner of the house is willing to buy so many toys for his children?”
Pushing open the bedroom door, a pair of crutches slid down from behind the door, smashing right on the top of Chen Ge’s shoes.
Picking up the crutches, Chen Ge saw a family photo on the desk.
A man with only one leg was holding his son, a woman was carefully protecting her son, and on the other side of the man’s body stood a little girl.
Only the girl’s face was normal in the photo, the faces of the remaining three people were covered in a series of indentations, as if they had been dug out with their fingernails.
”Why is the girl the only one of the family of four whose face photo is not scratched?” Chen Ge picked up the photo and he saw a sentence written on the back of the photo – I’m the one who is your family.
”The handwriting is similar to the name engraved on the chest of the clay figure, so it should be from the hand of the Underworld Fetus.”
Putting down the family photo, Chen Ge opened the desk drawer, and he didn’t expect that drawer to be stuffed with all kinds of photographs, each of which still had the date and crooked writing on the back.
Chen Ge arranged the photos according to the date, and the first photo was taken more than ten years ago, that is, when Shadow had just left Chen Ge not long ago.
The girl was the only one in the photo, she was cute looking but dressed similarly to a boy.
This photo was taken at the entrance of the neighborhood building, and when it was almost dark, the girl was running towards the building with a broken sandbag.
The second photo was taken a few days later, and the girl still looks like a tomboy as she stands next to a trash pile, holding a tattered rag doll in both hands.
In the third photo, the girl stands resignedly outside room 404, where the doll has been thrown in the hallway and the girl’s parents are reprimanding her.
In the fourth photo, the girl is hiding under the shade of a tree with toys and dolls she has never played with before. She is smiling happily, and that carefree smile is like a spring breeze that can heal all wounds.
In the fifth photo, the younger brother took away the girl’s toys, the mother seemed to be questioning the girl and kept nodding her head, while the father, who was missing a leg, was holding a broom with a grim expression, they seemed to suspect that the girl had stolen the family’s money and then went to buy the toys.
In the sixth photo, the younger brother is sitting in a pile of toys, and the girl’s back is against the door of the room, with half of the rag doll’s face showing behind the door.
The first few photos were normal, but from the seventh photo on, everything changed.
All kinds of wounds began to appear on his brother’s body, and his parents could do nothing about it. Anxious, they took their anger out on the girl, perhaps in their opinion, the girl didn’t take care of his brother, or perhaps the girl was the one who got those wounds.
The next photos were more brutal than the next, until the eleventh photo, a rag doll pressed his brother’s head and pushed him to the window, the girl screamed and stopped the doll.
In the twelfth photo, the brother was hiding behind his parents, crying and screaming, and the girl was punished by standing in the doorway, dragging the ragdoll in her hidden hand.
In the thirteenth photo, the rag doll is once again thrown in the garbage, and it looks no different than any other piece of garbage, except that the rainstorm that falls on its face, which is made up of a patchwork of different skins, makes it look like a child with tears streaming down its face.