Chapter 1098 – The World of Red and Black
The focus of all the questions came all the way back to the Scarlet City, Chen Ge himself was impressed with that city, but he couldn’t understand why everyone seemed to want to build out a city like that.
The old questions were answered, but new questions were soon involved.
Chen Ge took out his cell phone and shot at the wall, he didn’t care if the world would still be able to play after he left the door, he would shoot first.
The four wards on the first floor had all been explored, Chen Ge they did not find the remnants of the rag doll here.
”Brother, you’re not still going to go upstairs, are you? Have we forgotten about our encounter in Building 1 of the Jiu Hong District? There are definitely very dangerous monsters hidden upstairs!” Xiao Sun opened his teeth and claws, trying to dissuade Chen Ge, but unfortunately Chen Ge was never the type of person who could be persuaded, once he decided on something, he would do it all the way to the end, just like when he took over the House of Horrors after the disappearance of his parents, at that time, he couldn’t even earn back the utility bills, and he had to work his ass off to keep it going even though he was pouring money into it.
The skull-crushing hammer in his hand became even heavier, and Chen Ge couldn’t even drag it a bit.
”There must be something lying on my body!”
Green veins sprouted from his neck, Chen Ge swung his fist hard, he hated that feeling of weakness so much.
”Chen Ge, you’d better get some rest. I’m more worried about Xiang Nuan’s safety than you are, but if you try to be brave like this, I’m afraid that you’ll collapse before we can find Xiang Nuan.” Wen Qing had already noticed that Chen Ge’s state was extremely abnormal, not like he was overworked at all, but rather like he was seriously ill.
The companions were advising Chen Ge, but Chen Ge just shook his head, “I have a very bad premonition that the calm is about to be broken, if we don’t have enough cards in our hands before the calamity comes, then we won’t be able to make it to the poker table, can you guys understand what I mean?”
”No, I don’t understand, I only know that you look tired, like a child who participated in a marathon for the first time, his body is at its limit, and he is still holding on hard to try to run the whole course.” Wen Qing wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Chen Ge waving his hand.
”Not being able to finish the marathon can only be considered a regret at most, if we stop here, then I’m afraid that we won’t have the opportunity to step forward again in the future.”
Chen Ge walked out of room 0011 and entered the building.
He didn’t know if it was still an illusion, but he actually smelled a disinfectant odor in the air.
This odor and the stench mingled together to form a very odd and irritating odor that made people involuntarily want to cover their mouths and noses.
”The black iron door into the other children’s worlds also emits the smell of disinfectant water, am I not getting closer to the deepest hidden secret of the Underworld Fetus?”
Grabbing the stair railing, Chen Ge arrived at the second floor, this corridor was completely sealed, all the windows were sealed with cement, what was more interesting was that someone had drawn new windows with blood on the cement sealed windows.
”Blood represents pain and disaster, windows represent the outside world and hope, what is this expression of windows painted in blood?”
The second floor corridor was extremely depressing, like a completely enclosed space, not even a breeze.
Entering the corridor, Chen Ge looked at a door on the wall and he stopped in his tracks.
The doors of the rooms on the second floor were different from the rooms on the first floor, they were no longer ward doors with small windows on top, but rather, they were a solid black iron door.
These doors were much like those used to incarcerate prisoners in a confinement cell, with blood and stains remaining on the doors and a large lock.
”Can’t open it?”
Chen Ge tried with the key he found in the Jinhua neighborhood, and the teeth marks didn’t match up at all.
”Black iron doors, the smell of disinfectant still wafting in the air, the last secret of the Underworld Fetus should be hidden behind these doors.” Forcing back the pain that tore at the corners of his eyes, Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to lie down at the gap of the first iron door to look, everything in the room was pitch black, and there were many toys scattered on the floor that had been broken and dismantled.
Those toys resembled certain toys that Chen Ge had played with when he was a child, and most of them should have been similar toys that the hospital had purchased at the request of the Underworld Fetus.
”All the toys were all smashed, not a single one left, it seems that the Underworld Tire has realized that even if it plays with the same toys as before, it can never go back to what it used to be.”
”It’s no longer anyone’s shadow, it’s a child that’s been driven mad.”
Unable to open the door, Chen Ge could only watch it in this way, and as he retracted his gaze and prepared to walk towards the second door, the entire building suddenly shook again, this time far more than any of the previous tremors!
”Crouch down! Lean against the wall!” Chen Ge grabbed the skull crushing hammer as he failed to stand still and stumbled to the ground, his face frighteningly pale.
The screams and hisses outside the building became more and more intense, and the monsters hiding in the black mist seemed to start attacking the buildings in the small area like they were crazy.
Cracks began to appear on the walls, and there was already black mist escaping into the interior of the building!
”Ah!”
Wen Qing, who was not far away from Chen Ge, let out a scream, her body seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, and someone was trying to yank him downstairs.
”Chen Ge!” The panicked Wen Qing called out for help towards Chen Ge, at this time, the building was still trembling, Chen Ge had no good solution, he could only watch Wen Qing being dragged downstairs.
”Little Sun! Let’s follow!” Using his hands and feet, Chen Ge had rarely been in such a sorry state, he and Xiao Sun chased after Wen Qing to the first floor, then they saw Wen Qing being dragged into room 0097 by a force.
”Let’s go in too!”
Chen Ge and Xiao Sun had just entered room 0097 when they heard a loud bang coming from one of the floors above their heads, and it seemed that one of the iron doors had been opened and the door panel hit the wall.
”Something ran out of the room?”
The three of them hid in the middle of room 0097, and Chen Ge stood close to the door of the room as he focused all his attention on the corridor outside.
There was a constant thumping sound coming from the hallway, and that sound was getting closer and closer.
After a few seconds, Chen Ge saw an almost completely deformed head flash through the doorway.
Underneath that head was a body that was completely made up of curses, strands of filaments that emitted an unsettling aura were intertwined and emitted a thick stench.
”Was that the rag doll’s head that ran out of the building just now?”
That head was so fast that Chen Ge didn’t see the other side’s front face, only the back of the head that was full of suture marks.
After that head rushed out of Building 2 of Jiu Hong District, the building Chen Ge and theirs were in shook even more violently, as if it would collapse at any moment.
”The remnants of the rag dolls were placed in different buildings to stabilize the entire neighborhood, why did the head in Building 2 run out on its own? Could it be that the situation has reached a precarious point?”
Chen Ge realized that he had underestimated the people from the Cursed Hospital, they knew the Underworld Tire very well, this entry behind the door should have been carefully planned, the pressure they brought to the Underworld Tire was very high.
”It looks like most of the Underworld Tire’s energy is probably going to be on the Cursed Hospital’s side, which is good news for me.”
Leaning his back against the door of the room, Chen Ge slowly sat down on the ground, he was extremely tired right now, the exhaustion seemed to be pouring out of his soul, no matter how much he rested, it was useless.
”I can’t gloat, my current state isn’t good enough either, this is after all the world behind the door of the Underworld Fetus, maybe it wants to take me and the people in the cursed hospital out at the same time, solving the scourge once and for all.”
The ground was shaking, the entire building seemed to start tilting, a crack emerged on the wall, and a black mist continuously penetrated into the building.
”Oh no, after that head left, there’s no way to block the black mist inside the building, and this place isn’t safe anymore.”
Chen Ge struggled to stand up, but he was too tired, his muscles couldn’t make any effort, and sleepiness kept coming into his brain, it was as if his body was trying to take back all the potential that he had squeezed out before.
The white siding began to peel off, exposing walls that were completely red with blood, and the room they were in, room 0097, was like a fruit that had been peeled open, except that instead of tasty flesh, there was blurry blood underneath the beautiful outer skin.
”Push the table and closet over, let’s hide in the corner.” Chen Ge’s knowledge of disaster prevention and earthquake release that he had learned in the paradise a long time ago came in handy as they huddled in the corner of the most solid wall of the house, “The black fog may penetrate later, and the monsters in the black fog will come over, so you must pay more attention to your surroundings.”
”Can we only passively stand guard here?” Little Sun weakly spoke.
”What? You still want to take the initiative?”
”No, I think we’d better go back to Building A of Jinhua District, that building is considered the safest in comparison.”
”Don’t worry, I will definitely go back when the time comes, my cat is still there.” Chen Ge had never been this weak before, he was even panting a bit now as he spoke.
Not only did the shaking not stop, the tremors were getting stronger, Xiao Sun and Wen Qing were worried that the old building wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would just collapse.
Chen Ge didn’t care about this, the main body of the building was the memories, unless something went terribly wrong with the Plutonium, the buildings would definitely not collapse easily.
”Don’t be nervous for now, there are a few questions I want to ask clearly.” Chen Ge looked at Wen Qing: “You were the first to run just now, and I see you as if you were dragged by someone ……”
”It seemed like Xiang Nuan.” Without waiting for Chen Ge to finish, Wen Qing returned, her hands clasped in front of her chest, “When he was very young, once I held his hand and crossed the street, just halfway there, he desperately yanked me back, I stopped before I understood what was going on, an out of control sedan sped past in front of me, and it was said that the owner of the car had drunk a lot of alcohol.”
Slowly raised his hand, Wen Qing fingers clasped together, “The feeling of my hand being held just now, it’s the same as it was back then, he will only take the initiative to grab my hand when he is in the most danger, that kid usually seldom lets adults hold his hand.”
”That means Xiang Nuan is beside us, but we can’t see it, is this Xiang Nuan the Xiang Nuan we are looking for or not?” Chen Ge’s sentence confused Xiao Sun and Wen Qing around, they didn’t realize what Chen Ge was worried about.
His physical strength was slipping severely, as if someone was constantly eating away at his body, and he suspected that person was Xiang Nuan.
Unseen, but it did exist.
”I’m also among the nine children, I just don’t know what I represent, perhaps it’s my body that the Underworld Fetus wants to take away, after all, he’s always wanted to be me.”
Leaning against the wall, Chen Ge’s body trembled along with the entire building, he closed his eyes as an extremely frightening thought flashed through his mind.
”Could the Underworld Tire have predicted that the Cursed Hospital and I would enter behind the door at some point?”
”He might have guessed that we would find those children ahead of time and take away the children’s stripped abilities.”
”Very few people behind the door are calm in the presence of those abilities, after all, they represent the power of the Fierce God, and most of the patients will think of taking those abilities for themselves when they see them, just like the Cursed Hospital and Jamin did.”
”If we take all those abilities for ourselves and then enter this last door at the same time, wouldn’t that be the equivalent of bringing all the abilities back into the middle of a door again? As long as we are killed, the Underworld Fetus can still be perfectly born!”
Chen Ge was startled by his own thoughts, and after a moment he calmed down again, “The cursed hospital killed those children and took away the abilities, but I’m different, I gave all of those children’s abilities back again and let them go on to be normal people.”
Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Chen Ge didn’t realize that his unintentional act of kindness would probably save his life behind the door, “I’m not greedy, so the Underworld Foetus is not destined to be born perfectly, it will lack many kinds of abilities, and there’s still a chance for everything.”
The cracks on the walls grew more and more, and the black fog in the hallway gradually became thicker.
”Boom!”
The fog surged through the building’s hallways, in which strange noises were constantly coming out.
”Chen Ge, did you hear the cries of a child.”
”No.” When Chen Ge turned around, he realized that Wen Qing was standing next to him, her hand hanging in mid-air as if she was being held; “Your hand?”
”He’s here, right in front of you ……,” Wen Qing’s body tilted forward as soon as she spoke, the door to room 0097 was opened, and Wen Qing ran straight out.
”This woman is crazy, right?” Xiao Sun was still squatting on the ground, he was confused and did not understand what Wen Qing was doing.
”Follow her!” Chen Ge gritted his teeth and stood up, he grabbed Xiao Sun’s shoulder, “It might not be safe here anymore.”
Black fog poured in from the entrance of the building, and in the fog there were rows and rows of shadows of human heads connected together, as if they were centipedes crawling on the walls.
”What kind of monsters are these?”
Chen Ge and Xiao Sun helped each other as they both escaped the black fog and ran towards the upper floors.
The monster couldn’t leave the black fog, but it seemed to have discovered Chen Ge and Xiao Sun, and kept twisting its ugly and horrible body in the fog.
By the time they ran to the fourth floor, Chen Ge’s state was already poor to the extreme, and it was Xiao Sun who carried him and hard brought him to the sixth floor where Wen Qing was.
On the third floor upwards, the doors of all the rooms were those black iron doors, and the vast majority of them were locked, only the innermost door on the sixth floor was open.
”The rag doll’s head should have run out of this door.” Chen Ge didn’t think much about it and entered the house before he froze violently, the house was decorated in the same way as Chen Ge’s bedroom on the top floor of the haunted house more than ten years ago.
”With the head preserving its memories, has the Underworld Fetus kept itself locked up in the home I used to be in? Doesn’t it know that this is just a scene it made up?”
Behind every black door hid the memories of the Underworld Fetus, and this last door was no exception, Chen Ge just hadn’t thought that the Underworld Fetus still remembered its former home.
Lying on the familiar bed, Chen Ge’s memories were a little trance-like, when he was a child, he and his parents’ bedrooms were on the top floor of the haunted house.
Later, he went out to school and work, and when he came back again, his parents had disappeared, and the top floor of the haunted house had been transformed into a utility room.
All of his memories were stacked on the top floor by Chen Ge, and that’s where he found his black cell phone and his handmade rag doll.
”I’d forgotten about this feeling, but I didn’t expect the Underworld Fetus to remember it.”
Thinking of this, Chen Ge suddenly sat up, and he struggled to open a door next to him, which was the bathroom in his bedroom.
Propping his hands on the sink, Chen Ge looked up at the mirror above the sink!
”Everything is the same as it was in my memory, even this mirror and the you in it haven’t changed ……”
Chen Ge’s hands were bruised, his pupils narrowed, and he stared at the mirror in front of him with a deadly stare.
On the stained mirror surface, the faces of two children were reflected, and they looked exactly the same.
Only one of them had soft facial lines, and his pupils seemed to harbor a light that would never be extinguished, while the other had deeply concave eyes, and those eyes seemed to hold the sins of the entire world!