The residential area that Ying Chen lived in was called Ming Yuan. It used to be the most famous residential area in the old city. Those who lived there were all rich people.
However, with the opening of the economy and the rapid development of Jiujiang, the old city had lost its population, and the number of people living there had dwindled.
The once luxurious residential area now looked deserted and old. There was no security guard at the entrance, and the greenery in the residential area was poor. Walking through the residential area, one could smell a faded stench.
"This is the house that my parents bought. They were businessmen. If nothing had happened to them back then, I might be a rich second generation now." Ying Chen joked, but there was a bitterness in his voice. Behind the joke was his real thoughts.
With Ying Chen leading the way, the two of them came to the deepest part of the residential area.
"My house is on the seventh floor. How about I go up to get you some clothes? You can just wait for me downstairs." Ying Chen did not really want Chen Ge to go to his house, so he came up with many excuses.
"It's fine. If you go up to get them, you'll have to come down later to deliver them to me. The white robe is too much of a hassle." Chen Ge ignored him and walked down the stairs. His nostrils twitched. The faded stench seemed to have thickened.
Looking around, Chen Ge noticed that there was an elevator installed in the corridor, but it was an old-fashioned elevator from many years ago.
"Ming Yuan was the only residential area in the old city that had an elevator. It used to have its day, but now, most of the people who are capable have moved away." Ying Chen pointed at the elevator. "Do not take it. The elevator often breaks down, and it occasionally makes a loud noise. It's quite scary."
With Ying Chen's insistence, he and Chen Ge walked up the stairs to the seventh floor.
The whole building gave Chen Ge a bad feeling. It was old and unhygienic. He could not hear any sound, and he could not feel any human presence. Living in a place like this would be very depressing.
"My house is a bit messy. I hope you don't mind." Ying Chen's house was close to the stairs. He took out the key and hesitated for a long time before he opened the door.
The stench in the air thickened. Chen Ge glanced into the house. Ying Chen's house was big, but the decoration was old. Many of the furniture was scratched and broken.
"I prefer cats. My family has adopted quite a few stray cats. These are all their handiwork," Ying Chen said helplessly. "Take a seat. I will go and find some clothes for you."
After entering the house, Chen Ge subconsciously rubbed his nose with his fingers. The sofa, the floor, and the dining table were covered in cat fur, but the strange thing was that there was not a single cat in the house, nor could he hear a cat's meow.
"The stench did not come from the cats. This smell is very similar to the stench in the old city. I smelled it when I entered Yu Jian's room, but when I came out from behind Yu Jian's door, the stench disappeared."
Chen Ge had smelled that strange stench in many places, but he couldn't tell what it was. All he knew was that the stench had something to do with the 'door'.
While Ying Chen went to grab the clothes, Chen Ge used the time to look around.
There was very little furniture in the house, and the decorations were simple. There were five rooms in total, and four of them had their doors tightly shut.
After a while, Ying Chen walked out from the bedroom. He was holding a set of his own clothes. "What do you think of this? It's more formal, and it matches your pants. "
"Thank you. You've helped me a lot this time." Chen Ge looked very happy. "Can I borrow the bathroom?"
"The first room at the door." Ying Chen was quite happy to be able to help Chen Ge. From how he saw it, this deal was already in the bag.
Entering the bathroom, Chen Ge closed the door. He took out the comic from his backpack and summoned Meng Nan.
"You and Tong Tong should hide here for now. Find a chance to send Tong Tong into his phone. Other than that, I will come over before midnight. When that time comes, help me open the door," Chen Ge said softly.
"So, you want me to be the mole?"
"Of all the Red Specters, you are the smartest. Only you can do this job." Chen Ge kept praising Meng Nan, and the latter finally agreed.
After washing his face, Chen Ge walked out from the bathroom. "Ying Chen, thank you so much for your help this time. I will go back and prepare the contract. How about we sign it tomorrow?"
"Sure!" Ying Chen was a man who loved money more than anything. It was unclear whether he was pretending or he really valued money as much as his life.
"It's so comfortable to work with straightforward people. Since I'm here today, let's just go through the process." Chen Ge asked Ying Chen many questions, and most of them were related to the website. It was not until the end that he brought up Ying Chen's younger brother. "I heard you have a younger brother. What happened to the boy's eyes? I know a few excellent ophthalmologists. If you need anything, just give me a call. "
"My brother's eyes weren't born blind. He got an eye disease when he was three or four years old, and his condition got worse and worse. A big part of the reason I worked so hard to earn money was to treat his eyes."
"The brotherhood between you two sure is touching." Chen Ge put down the backpack. "The earlier the eye disease is treated, the better. Can I see your little brother?"
Chen Ge's request was rather sudden, but Ying Chen did not think too much of it. After some hesitation, he stood up and walked to the room next to the bathroom. "Chen Ge? What are you doing? "
"I'm sleeping." A very soft voice came from inside the room.
"Then go to sleep. I won't disturb you anymore." Ying Chen opened his arms and looked at Chen Ge apologetically. "The boy is sleeping. I'm so sorry."
"It's fine, it's fine." Chen Ge might have said that, but his heart was already filled with suspicion.
When Ying Chen asked Ying Tong what he was doing, Ying Tong's answer in the room was that he was sleeping. It was as if they had discussed this beforehand.
If Ying Tong was really sleeping, he would have paused for a while before answering, and there was no hint of drowsiness in Ying Tong's voice.
Ying Tong appeared to be very afraid of his big brother. There was some kind of secret between the two brothers.
"Alright, then I won't disturb you anymore. Tomorrow morning at 9 am, I will come with the contract."
"Brother Chen, take care."
The door closed. Ying Chen and Chen Ge's expressions turned cold at the same time.
Chen Ge stood at the door and did not leave. Instead, he leaned against the door to listen. Soon, the sound of the bedroom door opening came from inside the room, and then there was the sound of a child crying.
"This guy is really rotten to the core."
Without any concrete evidence, Chen Ge did not act recklessly. Meng Nan and Tong Tong were inside the room. If something bad really happened, they would definitely stop it.
Standing alone in the corridor, Chen Ge glanced at the stairwell and the elevator next to him before leaving through the corridor.
"If Ying Tong is the child chosen by the ghost fetus, then this door has to be hellish difficulty."
"Jiang Ming has lost his hearing, so I cannot hear the voices of the ghosts behind his door. Fang Yu's memory is very poor, and my memory behind her door is slowly disappearing. Based on that, my vision must be limited behind Ying Tong's door as well. The biggest possibility is that the ghosts are right beside me, but I cannot see them."
Vision was very important for a normal person. For someone who was used to seeing the world with their eyes, being suddenly trapped inside a dark maze would be very uncomfortable.
"Zhang Ya has not woken up yet. This door is very dangerous for me. For safety's sake, I'd better bring the Tunnel Lady's son with me."
If not for the lack of time, Chen Ge would have brought the well woman from Coffin Village with him.
After leaving Ming Yuan, Chen Ge waited until night fell before he went to White Dragon Cave Tunnel. He found the Tunnel Lady's son deep inside the tunnel.
They had made a deal earlier, and the Tunnel Lady's son did not go back on his word.
However, just as Chen Ge was about to pull the Tunnel Lady's son into the comic, something unexpected happened.
Perhaps because there was a door inside his body, Yan Danian's comic was unable to pull him inside. This was the first time that Chen Ge had encountered something like that.
The two discussed for a long time. The Tunnel Lady's son wanted to hide inside Chen Ge's shadow, but he stopped next to Chen Ge's shadow for a long time. Then, for some reason, he voluntarily gave up on that idea.
They tried many different methods. In the end, the Tunnel Lady's son opened his almost two-meter-long legs and wrapped them around Chen Ge from behind.
This kind of restraint from the Red Specter Spider was not a good feeling. Chen Ge's body was cold, and his body temperature was dropping.
The whole process lasted for about one minute. The Tunnel Lady's son disappeared, and an incredibly large and scary tattoo of a spider's face appeared on Chen Ge's entire back and legs.
This tattoo could only be seen in the shadows, and it was very scary.
His body was cold, and Chen Ge hated this feeling. However, finding the ghost fetus was the most important thing, so he did not mind it too much.
At 11 pm, Chen Ge returned to Ming Yuan Apartments at the old city, but even at 11: 30 pm, he still had not received a message from Tong Tong.
"There won't be a problem, right? With the protection of a Red Specter like Meng Nan, the other party is just a normal person. Could it be that the non-smiler from the cursed hospital has come as well? "
The only people who could deduce that Ying Tong were Chen Ge and Lee Zheng. Chen Ge believed that the chance of the non-smiler making a move was very small.
For the sake of caution, Chen Ge entered the stairwell. He had just reached the fourth floor when his phone vibrated.
'Ying Chen' had sent him a message. 'He is holding the tools and preparing to leave the house!'
It should be Tong Tong and Meng Nan who were controlling Ying Chen's phone. With their previous experience, this time, their cooperation was flawless. Ying Chen did not seem to notice anything at all.
"Leaving the house at 11: 30 pm? And he's holding the tools? "
After receiving the message, Chen Ge quickly hid in the middle of the floor to avoid running into Ying Chen.
He kept his eyes on the stairwell. Not long after that, he saw Ying Chen, who was wearing a cap and carrying a large black bag, walk down the stairs.
"Could it be a dead body inside the bag? Based on the size, it looks more like a cat. "
Ying Chen's unusual action once again deepened the suspicion that Chen Ge had toward him.
The ghost fetus' door would appear punctually at midnight. Chen Ge did not care about anything else. He waited for Ying Chen to come down the stairs and ran to Ying Chen's door.
The door was not locked from the inside. Chen Ge summoned Lao Zhou to open the door from inside and sneaked in.
The lights were not on in the house, and it appeared cold and eerie. Chen Ge stood at the window and looked down the stairs.
Ying Chen carried the black bag and walked out of the residential area. He entered an abandoned construction site.
"A body burial?"
Ying Chen would probably return soon, so Chen Ge did not waste any time. He and Lao Zhou quickly searched the house.
The toilet and kitchen were normal, but the bottom layer of the fridge was stuffed with minced meat.
The other rooms looked fine on the surface. Ying Chen's own bedroom was very clean. There was not a single strand of cat hair to be seen. This was completely different from the other rooms.
Next to Ying Chen's bedroom was the workshop. Chen Ge had seen it on video before. Most of his videos were shot in this room.
Next to the workshop was a locked room. Chen Ge had Lao Zhou go in to take a look. There were several stray cats tied up with ropes inside the room, and two of them were on the verge of death.
The last room in the room was Ying Tong's bedroom. Chen Ge had Lao Zhou go in to investigate.
After confirming that Ying Tong had fallen asleep, Chen Ge had Lao Zhou open the door from the inside.
The moment the bedroom door was opened, the Foul Odor hit Chen Ge's nose. The stench in this room was even stronger than Yu Jian's room.
Covering his nose and mouth, Chen Ge looked into the room.
Ying Tong's bedroom was very small. The window was boarded up, and there were no lightbulbs installed in the lamps. There were many colorful handprints on the wall, and there were many bloodied cotton swabs littering the floor. There was a radio and a music box on the table, and there were many strange-looking dolls.
Even from the perspective of an adult, Chen Ge could see that the dolls looked very twisted and scary. They were not suitable for children. They would be more suitable to scare people inside a haunted house.
Ying Tong did not notice Chen Ge come in. He was sleeping soundly, and he seemed to be tired.
Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision and noticed some bruises on Ying Tong's body, but they were not serious.
"The boy does not seem to have a sense of security. When he sleeps, his body is always pressed against the wall."
It was uncomfortable to sleep against the wall, but Ying Tong seemed to have gotten used to it. He curled up, and his arms were wrapped around a picture frame. Inside the frame was a picture of Ying Chen.
"The two brothers have such a good relationship? Ying Tong hugs his own brother's picture even when he sleeps? "
There were many questions in Chen Ge's heart. From how he saw it, Ying Tong was more afraid of his older brother than the love between family members.
He studied it closely and realized that the size of the picture frame did not match. The picture appeared to have been shoved in later. As for where the original picture in the frame had gone, probably only Ying Chen knew.
The bedroom was sealed, and it was isolated from the outside world. At first glance, there did not seem to be anything special about it.
Ying Chen was about to return, but Chen Ge did not leave. He stood inside Ying Tong's bedroom, waiting for the 'door' to appear.
At midnight, a door that was completely covered in blood silently appeared next to Ying Tong's bed.
The lock on the door trembled slightly, and black patterns appeared on the door. No one touched it, but the door appeared to open on its own.
The sound of footsteps came from outside the room. The front door of the living room was pushed open. Ying Chen had returned.
Carrying his backpack, Chen Ge did not hesitate. He pushed open the blood door and stepped into it.
…
His body seemed to sink into quicksand, and he continued to sink. Chen Ge struggled with all his might. The air in his lungs decreased, and the feeling of suffocation intensified.
Just when he thought he was going to die, he suddenly opened his eyes.
Every time he entered the ghost fetus' door, it felt like he was walking on the edge of life and death. Before Chen Ge could catch his breath, his expression changed again.
"This is …"
His surroundings were shrouded in darkness. He could not see any light. The world behind the door appeared to be covered by a large black curtain, and it felt like he had fallen into an eternal night.
Chen Ge stood where he was without moving. The world behind the ghost fetus' door became more and more dangerous and strange. He could not afford to be careless.
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