"You're just going to leave him alone? You're going to leave him here alone? "Chen Ge did not think that leaving Wu Sheng alone was the best choice.
"I'll lure them away. I'm the one who started this. It has nothing to do with the boy. I can't let him suffer pain that he shouldn't." Wu Jinpeng closed the lid of the wooden box and ran out.
Chen Ge looked at Wu Jinpeng's retreating back and then turned back to look at Wu Sheng.
The boy was hiding inside the box with his hands over his mouth. He did not say a word but silently watched Wu Jinpeng run out.
"The boy hasn't spoken. Is it because of his father's request?" Chen Ge felt like he had missed something. "Never mind. As long as I follow Wu Jinpeng closely, everything will be solved."
In Wu Sheng's eyes, he was just a child hiding under his father's protection. He saw all the difficulties that this family faced, but he was just a child. He was powerless. He could only watch his father walk ahead of him and bear the pressure alone.
Chen Ge was afraid that he might expose Wu Sheng's location if he ran too slowly. He did not dare stay in the small room for too long. He closed the old wooden door and chased after Wu Jinpeng.
There were no stars or moon in the night sky. The attics on both sides of the street gave off a faded stench, making one feel suffocated.
Wu Jinpeng rushed ahead. He had no idea what was ahead of him, but he had no other choice. To prevent his dog from being treated as a stray and to prevent Wu Sheng from becoming a homeless child, he had no choice but to run forward.
"Other than the neighbors, the monsters with sewn mouths should represent the difficulties in life."
More and more monsters were chasing after Wu Jinpeng. They were all dressed differently. There were urban white-collar workers in bright clothes, vagrants in tattered cotton-padded jackets, thieves with knives hidden in their hands, and even more people in ordinary clothes. They looked like strangers in real life.
Rolling eyes, condescension, bullying, with the influence of the ghost fetus, the evil was magnified infinitely.
Chen Ge did not dare imagine what would have happened if Wu Jinpeng did not exist in Wu Sheng's world.
How was such a young child going to face so many scary monsters? Chen Ge suspected that Wu Sheng would be trapped in this despairing world forever and become the ghost fetus' most suitable host.
"Fortunately, he has a great father. Wu Jinpeng is the only light in this dark world."
Wu Jinpeng ran down the endless dark street, chased by a monster with a sewn mouth. There was nowhere to hide and nowhere to run. Even so, Wu Jinpeng still tried his best to buy time.
"I'm afraid this is why humans are humans."
The ghost fetus lured the chosen children into despair and opened an illusory door for them, but the world behind these children's door was different from the real world behind the door. No matter how despairing and painful the children's world was, there was a ray of light that could not be extinguished.
Jiang Ming's world was guarded by the old lady and his mother, and Wu Sheng's world was guarded by Wu Jinpeng. In their memories, there was always a safe haven that they could stop at.
Running behind Wu Jinpeng, Chen Ge slowly gained a deeper understanding of many things. When he first obtained the black phone, he knew that there was a door inside his Haunted House. At the time, he was only afraid of the door. That was the natural fear of the unknown.
But as he learned more, Chen Ge's view of the door kept changing.
The door was pushed open by those in despair. On the other side of the door was not a world of redemption but an abyss of despair. The door was evil and scary.
Initially, Chen Ge did not want to get close to the door, but with the threat from the Society of Strange Tales, when his life was threatened, he had no choice but to get close to the door.
After some contact, he realized that the door did not represent fear, and it was not the same as despair.
He would not control the door like the Society of Strange Tales and gain benefits from it, but subconsciously, he did not hate the door that much anymore.
At the School of the Afterlife, Chen Ge met the painter behind the door. The madman wanted to build a heaven behind the door, to grow a small flower on the soil of despair.
The painter failed in the end, but what he did once again shook Chen Ge's view of the door and the world behind it.
The thing that really made Chen Ge start to reflect happened at Jiang Yuan Apartments. When he saw his young self being pushed down a tall building by a man in a white coat, when he heard what he had said before, his view of the door really started to change.
"Perhaps the children's world behind the door is no different from the real world behind the door. The real world might have light behind the door as well …" Chen Ge looked at Wu Jinpeng, who was running, and the monsters chasing after him. "The light behind the child's door is chased by countless monsters. If there is light behind the door in the real world, then he will be chased by something even scarier and darker."
"What is the light behind the door like?" The image of his parents flashed across his mind, and Chen Ge was suddenly reminded of something that had happened a long time ago. He took out the wooden toy that had been stolen by the ghost fetus from the hidden compartment of his backpack.
"This toy was given to me by my father before he went to bed. At the time, he wished me a happy birthday, but he had already given me a birthday present during the day and wished me a happy birthday. There was no reason for him to say it again at night when I was about to fall asleep. Furthermore, at the time, he did not pass this present to me but placed it directly on the bedside table behind me. "Chen Ge thought back to more details." Was this originally meant for the shadow? "
Looking at the bloody toy in his hand, Chen Ge slowed down. "This is a birthday present for the shadow? Then, the last happy birthday was also meant for the shadow? Could it be that he had already discovered something at the time, but neither I nor the shadow realized it? "
"Stop spacing out! Run! " Wu Jinpeng was already out of breath. Seeing that Chen Ge had slowed down, he enthusiastically pulled on Chen Ge's sleeve. "Don't stop! I know a place where we can shake them off! "
Wu Jinpeng led Chen Ge to a junction at Western Street. There was a private hospital there.
It was not that big, and the decorations were simple, but even though it was small, it had all the necessary facilities.
"There is a back door at the hospital. Last time, that was where I shook them off. Those people did not dare come in."
"If the monsters did not dare come in, doesn't that mean that there is something scarier than them inside this hospital?"
"Let's go in first."
Wu Jinpeng led Chen Ge into the hospital. When the monsters saw them enter the hospital, they all stopped at the junction.
After they ran into the hospital, the various noises around Chen Ge's ears disappeared, and only the sound of children crying remained.
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