Chapter 1100: There’s Already Someone Else in My Shadow

　　Sitting on the edge of the bed, Chen Ge leaned against the wall and reached into his backpack with one hand, tilting his head back to look at the monster on the ceiling.

　　Instead of fear, there was a hint of confusion in his eyes, a look the monster had never seen before either, and they just stared at each other, neither of them making a move.

　　”Wen Qing was saved by the invisible child, if that child is the Underworld Tire, then why is he concerned about Wen Qing’s safety at all times? With Underworld Tire’s character, he’s not the type of guy who can pay for other people’s mothers, and in the world behind other children’s doors, he’s never gone to save those children’s families either.”

　　Chen Ge pondered for a while, the most likely explanation was that Xiang Nuan and the Stygian Fetus had already fused into one, or that Xiang Nuan didn’t exist in the world from the beginning, and that Xiang Nuan was the Stygian Fetus.

　　Rustling sounds kept coming from above his head, a monster made up of human heads crawled on the ceiling, a black silk thread emitting a strange odor stuck out from the seven orifices of the human heads.

　　The monster was much more cautious than Chen Ge had imagined, a pair of malevolent eyes staring at Chen Ge, it hesitated for a long time before it began to approach the not-so-normal looking prey in front of it.

　　The stench was overwhelming and a human head was close at hand, a scene that could drive an adult crazy with fear was only a frown to Chen Ge.

　　”The black fog doesn’t seem to be quite the same as the ghosts and monsters in the Scarlet City, and it all brings me a completely different feeling.” The confusion in Chen Ge’s eyes dispersed, and he was like a real-life zoologist who was taking a close look at an endangered species he had never seen before.

　　”Most of the ghosts and monsters among the Scarlet City are stained with blood, the stern ghosts, half-red and red, you can tell the strength of a monster according to the bloodstains and grudges, but the monsters in the black mist are different, their strength has nothing to do with the amount of bloodstains, and they carry with them a strong desire for abhorrence and destruction.”

　　”The essence of a stern ghost is obsession, I don’t feel disgusted when facing stern ghosts, I even go so far as to sympathize with them sometimes, but the monsters in the black mist instinctively annoy me, and these guys don’t seem to have any possibility of becoming employees at all.”

　　Mind alive, Chen Ge looked at the monsters in front of him and finally said what was in his heart, “Can’t give up on every ‘person’ so easily, when the staff are all awakened I can try to capture a few of the monsters in the black mist alive and see if I can help them correct their wrong outlook on life. ”

　　Chen Ge also knew that it would be extremely difficult to do so, but he still wanted to try, and this might be another way of interpreting “teaching without class”.

　　The monsters in the black fog are almost inhuman, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to think, these guys are very cunning.

　　The human head on the ceiling tried again and again, and finally determined that Chen Ge could not bring it any threat, and the feeling of being deceived made it very angry, and all the heads that made up the body opened their mouths.

　　Truth be told, the scene in front of them was very frightening, a dozen or so heads were twisting against Chen Ge’s face, and a black silk thread was hanging down from the monster’s body, they wanted to penetrate Chen Ge’s body with the thread and then wrap around Chen Ge’s body like a snake.

　　This image made people feel uncomfortable just by thinking about it, being entangled by the python would at most suffocate them, but if they were to be entangled by this monster, one of the faces on the monster’s body would stick to their body, and the gaping mouths would keep tearing at their bodies.

　　”Unable to communicate, without any empathic ability, with only evil and destruction in their eyes, why would such monsters exist in the world? What is the meaning of their existence?” Chen Ge looked at the human head that was almost sticking to his face, the hand he had been hiding in his backpack finally reached out, and in his palm he was still grasping a red high-heeled shoe that was covered in blood.

　　The shoe reached in front of the monster’s face, and before the monster could react, Chen Ge had already swung his arm and smashed the sharp heel into the monster’s face.

　　”This thing is quite sharp.”

　　The human-headed monster was attacked by such a weapon for the first time, and its ripped open mouth gushed out fine threads of silk, and all the heads seemed like piranhas that had seen raw meat, pouncing on Chen Ge like crazy.

　　But just as they were about to bite into Chen Ge’s body, a bizarre pattern emerged from the red high heeled shoe that had pierced into the monster’s face.

　　On each of the patterns, there was a person who had died in vain begging for mercy, and if you looked closely, you could see that all of the patterns were twisted from living human faces, harboring their most vicious curses and deepest despair.

　　The black lines spread across the human-headed monster, and in less than a second it was as if a large net had trapped the creature.

　　”The Knight Ghosts don’t seem to be able to directly devour the monsters in the black mist, and it’s more difficult to even kill them.” The red high-heeled shoes hadn’t completely broken free from the world behind the door and couldn’t appear out of the host, so Chen Ge could only use this method to finish off the monster in the black mist.

　　He also dared to do so because the first time his palm touched the red high-heeled shoes, the blood and curses on the shoes actively entered his body to help him find the cause of his constant weakness.

　　At that time, he knew that the red high heels could already use some of its abilities even though it couldn’t leave its host.

　　The human-headed monster was writhing like a giant centipede in the living room, and as he watched its agonizing appearance, Chen Ge took out another high-heeled shoe from his backpack and smashed the heel hard into the human-headed monster’s neck.

　　”Although the red high-heeled shoe can only use a small portion of her abilities, she is close to the existence of a top-tier red coat, how could a human-headed monster in the district not be killed for such a long time?”

　　Chen Ge definitely didn’t mean to underestimate Red High Heels, he just felt that the monsters in the black fog were very difficult to deal with, the human-headed monster could only be considered a relatively ordinary monster, and he had also seen incomparably large shadows in the black fog.

　　The black lines that enveloped the human head monster’s entire body slowly shrunk, it took ten minutes for the human head monster to be completely killed, its body crumbled, countless black silk threads drilled out of its head into black smoke, and again became part of the black fog.

　　Picking up the high heels, Chen Ge looked at the increasingly clear lines on them, and he knew that the red high heels were about to break free from their bonds.

　　After the human-headed monster’s body crumbled, the black fog in the room became thicker, giving the impression as if it wasn’t dead, but had just changed its form of existence.

　　Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge found some black particles in the place where the human-headed monster had stayed just now, like ashes left over after something had burned.

　　”What is this?”

　　Chen Ge found a thermos cup in the room and filled it with those black particles, he didn’t know what the use of this thing was, he was just going to bring it back and study it slowly, maybe he could discover some secrets about the black fog from it.

　　Moving his body, Chen Ge’s hands and feet were cold, his body temperature was very low right now, but that feeling of exhaustion emanating from the depths of his soul had diminished a lot.

　　”After that invisible child took away Wen Qing, my physical strength has also begun to slowly recover, it seems that the abnormality that happened to me is indeed related to him.” Chen Ge’s eyes were calm as he entered the world behind the door of the other children, those children were unwilling to help the Underworld Fetus, they and the Underworld Fetus were hostile to each other, and in the end, they always ended up being Chen Ge’s helpers, but Xiang Nuan’s door was different.

　　From the moment he entered the world behind the door, Xiang Nuan seemed to be on the side of the Underworld Tire.

　　In reality, Xiang Nuan was a child who never interacted with the world, no one knew what the real him was really like, even his mother actually didn’t know enough about him.

　　”Before my staff awakened, I followed Wen Qing, who was protected by the Underworld Fetus, and I was able to fox around to avoid some dangers. Now that my employees are close to awakening, there’s no need for me to be with them anymore.” Without his employees, Chen Ge wasn’t much stronger than an ordinary person, but with the help of his employees, the situation was completely different.

　　”The power of the staff is my power, I’m still myself, but the abilities I have are constantly increasing, this should be considered my greatest advantage.” The power of the House of Horrors was getting stronger, but Chen Ge was not overwhelmed by this power, and he shone with the light of humanity, something that all of his opponents did not possess.

　　Strong as the cursed hospital, which had completely twisted humanity in order to achieve its goals, their patients had almost become synonymous with monsters.

　　Smart as Dr. Gao, who saw the limits of human beings early on, he counted from life to death for his own purposes, not only abandoning his humanity, but even giving up his qualifications to be a human being.

　　Chen Ge was also getting stronger, but his path was different from everyone else’s, the path he chose was very dangerous, almost completely handing over his life and death to the Li Ghosts, out of what kind of trust would a person dare to make such a choice.

　　He tried to stuff the high heels into his pocket, and after half a day of stuffing them in, he realized that he just couldn’t fit them in, so he had to put them back into his backpack.

　　”The skull crushing hammer is considered a disguise, the real killing move is the red high heels, I guess no one would have thought that my weapon would be a pair of high heels.”

　　Dragging the Skull Shattering Hammer, Chen Ge rested in the house for a while longer, and only after the building was hit and the tremors intensified again did he decide to leave.

　　”That hospital obviously came prepared, they were definitely better prepared than me, this time it’s a robbery for the Underworld Tire.”

　　That hospital had a clear goal from the start, and in Building A of the Jinhua District, when they realized that Chen Ge was stirring up trouble, they decisively left, directly avoiding a conflict with Chen Ge.

　　Between the Underworld Fetus and Chen Ge, their choice was the Underworld Fetus, and they seemed to have been planning for this day for a long time.

　　Chen Ge’s strength was slowly recovering, the blood color on the comic book was getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of rustling electricity could be faintly heard when the repeater switch was pressed.

　　The employees were about to wake up, good news came one after another, and Chen Ge’s expression slowly returned to normal.

　　”Zhang Ya is a Fierce God, there might also be a Fierce God or an existence close to a Fierce God there in the cursed hospital, it’s very difficult for the Underworld to rely on the rules of the world behind their door to suppress them at the same time, it shouldn’t last long.”

　　With the red high heels protecting him, Chen Ge wasn’t so afraid of the black mist, and he walked slowly through the building, listening to the sounds of the violent exchanges outside the building.

　　”Make a scene, make a scene, let’s see who can have the last laugh.”

　　Walking down the stairs to the first floor, Chen Ge looked back as he left the second building of the Jiu Hong neighborhood.

　　This building originally hid the head of a rag doll, behind every door of the building were the memories of the Underworld Fetus, although it had turned into a monster, it had not forgotten bits and pieces of its past, and every time it pushed open a door, it would be able to see a person who had once been it.

　　”The Underworld Tire is still like this, why would I forget those important things, is it someone who doesn’t want me to recall those things?”

　　Standing at the entrance of the building, Chen Ge did not rush out, the world outside the building had become different.

　　The black fog shrouded everything, but the color of blood vaguely emerged in the fog, the entire world behind the door was like an abstract painting depicting a nightmare, red and black intertwined and twisted all the “people” behind the door.

　　”Before the world behind the door goes completely out of control, the Underworld Tire will definitely send Wen Qing to a safe place, and when Wen Qing is safe, the most likely thing it will do is come back to me.” Chen Ge thought from the Underworld Fetus’s perspective: “Now is the most crucial moment for it to descend, and no matter how much it is interfered with, he will definitely make descending his life his primary goal.”

　　Chen Ge didn’t know exactly what form the Underworld Fetus would descend in right now, but he felt that the Underworld Fetus would definitely come to it, and his own body could be said to be the Underworld Fetus’ best choice.

　　”There’s no need for me to have a head-on conflict with the Underworld Fetus, just drag it out slowly.”

　　For the current Chen Ge, the interior of the residential building dominated by the Stygian Tire was rather less safe than in the black mist.

　　The employees were on the verge of awakening, and with the red heels still able to use some of their abilities, he was now able to defend himself, and was completely able to hide in the black mist that was not controlled by the Underworld Tire until all of the employees had broken through the boundaries of the world behind the door.

　　”If that child hadn’t chosen to save Wen Qing, I’m afraid my body would have been mostly taken over by it by now.”

　　There was something that could not be denied, that child cared very much about Wen Qing.

　　According to Wen Qing, Xiang Nuan had barely said a complete sentence to her, nor had he ever called her mom.

　　However, from all the ways that child had behaved behind the door, it could be seen that in his heart Wen Qing was irreplaceable.

　　Walking alone in the middle of the black fog, Chen Ge carried his bag, dragging the skull-crushing hammer in one hand and holding his high heels in the other, as he quietly arrived at the neighborhood greenbelt.

　　Hiding in it, Chen Ge tilted his head and looked at the scene in front of him that seemed like the end of the world.

　　Tall buildings tilted, huge shadows crawled on the outer walls of the buildings, the ground shook, and screams constantly came from everywhere in the red and black world.

　　Chen Ge was mesmerized by what he was watching when he suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his palm, twisting his head to look, he found that his red high heeled shoes were bleeding continuously.

　　”Is someone coming over?” As if Chen Ge sensed something, he turned around violently, and his pupils instantly shrunk to a point.

　　Behind him stood a child, and that child stood right on his shadow, as if he had long gotten used to staying in that position.

　　”Found you.”

　　The boy hung his head low, his face couldn’t be seen, and just by listening to his voice it felt very similar to Xiang Nuan’s voice.

　　Chen Ge subconsciously took a step back, but just as he took a step back, the boy took a step forward.

　　The distance between the two remained the same, just like a person and his shadow, no matter how much they moved, they could not be separated.

　　Seeing that he couldn’t avoid it, Chen Ge didn’t try to do anything futile, his eyes were very calm, as if he had known that such a thing would happen, only the expression on his face was slightly more complicated, “The one who took the initiative to run away was you, why did you still come back for me?”

　　The boy didn’t say anything, he hung his head low and seemed to be gazing at Chen Ge’s shadow.

　　”Get out of the way, from the moment you fled, there is nothing between you and me.”