"Why would something like this happen? Most mental illnesses have a trigger. He wouldn't have gotten this illness for no reason. "
Many people suffered from phobias, but it was rare for it to be this serious.
The boy inside the room appeared to have reached a stage where he could not shake off his fear on his own without medication. This situation was very dangerous.
"You're not wrong, but I have no idea how the boy got this illness. I'm just looking after him on behalf of someone else." The woman spoke very slowly. After the boy inside the room took the medication, his condition seemed to have improved, and the woman relaxed.
"He's suffering from a mental illness. To alleviate the illness, we have to find the cause." Chen Ge took several steps toward the woman. He could not see anything, so he could only touch the wall to get closer.
"I also wanted to find the cause, but no matter how I asked, the boy refused to tell me. He did not seem to know himself." The woman sounded helpless. "In the end, I gave up."
"Do you mind if I talk to him for a while? I specialize in mental illness. " Chen Ge was glad that he had met Doctor Gao before. The way he spoke and his demeanor was very similar to the Doctor Gao when he was not corrupted.
A psychiatrist needed to lower the patient's guard before they could slowly walk into the patient's world. Be it his appearance or the feeling he gave, Chen Ge fit this condition perfectly.
"You're a psychiatrist? If I remember correctly, there's no one in this profession here. Are you new here? "
"You can say that. I can promise you that I mean you no harm." Chen Ge pointed at his eyes with a bitter smile. "I can't see anything, and I can't resist. If I do anything to displease you, you can chase me away at any time."
Blindness made Chen Ge a weakness, and he was using this weakness to the best of his ability.
"The boy is more fragile. Just don't talk nonsense." The woman grabbed Chen Ge's arm. "Slow down. The sofa is in front of you. Turn left …"
Chen Ge noticed a problem. These adult tenants were not as bad as the monsters behind the door, but of course, they were not good either. They gave Chen Ge the feeling that they were normal people. "I really do not want to associate them with dead bodies."
With the woman leading the way, Chen Ge entered the inner room. The stench in the air thickened, and to make matters worse, there was an additional stench of rotting meat. This was not present in the middle-aged man's room.
"By the way, can you tell me what your relationship with this child is?"
"Relationship?" The woman thought about it for a while and gave an answer that Chen Ge did not expect. "He can be considered a friend. He has nowhere to go, so I'm taking care of him."
The woman's answer was ambiguous. After that, she walked out, leaving Chen Ge and the boy in the room.
Touching the wall and the closet, Chen Ge's legs touched the bed. He slowly sat down. "Can you hear me? I'm sorry, but I can't see you. If you're beside me, can you say something or give me a light pat on my hand? "
Opening his palm, Chen Ge waited for a long time before he felt a chill in the center of his palm. This kind of chill was different from the chill of a dead body. It was soft to the touch. It did not feel like he was being touched by a human but more like a gust of cold wind.
"Ying Tong?"
Chen Ge uttered the name subconsciously, but there was no reply. Moments later, a boy's voice came from about one meter away from Chen Ge. "My name is Ah Mu."
The boy's voice was about sixty percent similar to Ying Tong's voice in real life. It was very young.
Chen Ge had gone through Ying Chen and Ying Tong's information before. In real life, Ying Tong was already ten years old, but the boy before him sounded more like a four or five-year-old.
"Ah Mu, can you tell me how you met the big sister outside?" Chen Ge wanted to get to the bottom of the adult's identity first. If the woman could be trusted, then he would try his best to win her over to his side. It was too dangerous to be alone in the building.
"Are you talking about Miss Dress?" the boy asked shyly.
"Miss Dress?" The boy's way of addressing the woman was very strange. It felt like the boy had come up with the name on a whim. "Do you usually call her that?"
"Yes, Miss Dress and Mr. Wood have been taking care of me. They are very kind people. They play games with me and do many things with me." The boy's voice was innocent and cute, but when Chen Ge heard it, he felt goosebumps rise all over his body.
From his perspective, all the tenants in this building, other than Ying Tong and Ying Chen, were dead bodies.
Names like Miss Dress and Mr. Wood were obviously given by a child. A speculation appeared in his mind, but because it was too cruel, he did not dare voice this speculation to test Ah Mu.
"Are Miss Dress and Mr. Wood husband and wife?" Chen Ge asked casually.
"No, Miss Dress likes to get angry very much, and her temper is very bad. Mr. Wood does not like her very much." The boy's voice was very timid. "Mr. Wood and I are a little afraid of Miss Dress."
"I heard everything!" The woman's voice came from the living room. "Who taught you all this?"
The woman's temper did not look that good.
"But even though Miss Dress has a bad temper, she has a gentle side. Every time I am sick, she will appear to take care of me. She will even chat with me and tell me stories." The picture that the boy described was very beautiful. When he said that, there might have been a smile on his face, but unfortunately, Chen Ge could not see anything. He could only hear the boy's voice.
"Every time you are sick, she will appear? Did your parents ask her to come and take care of you? "Chen Ge tried to pry open the boy's memory bit by bit.
"Yes, my parents went to a place very far away. When they left, they begged Miss Dress, Mr. Wood, and Miss Red to take care of me."
"Three people?" Even though he said it was three people, Chen Ge was thinking about three dead bodies in his heart.
"Ah Mu, do you mind telling me what the three of them look like?" Chen Ge did not ask anything that would cause the boy pain. He did not mention the boy's fear of sharp weapons, and he did not ask the boy how he got this illness. Instead, he listened to the boy's fairy tale like he was the most loyal listener.
"Miss Dress always wears a long dress, and there are many flowers embroidered on the dress. Each flower feels different when you touch it. Mr. Wood does not like to talk, and his skin is very hard, like the bark of a tree. Miss Red likes to be clean, and her hair is always wet. She likes the color red very much, and everything around her is red. " The boy was not an introverted person. He seemed to like to communicate with others. As if he was showing off, he listed out the names and characteristics of the three people.
Chen Ge did not pay much attention to the introduction of Miss Dress and Mr. Wood, but the last name, Miss Red, attracted Chen Ge's attention.
Miss Dress and Mr. Wood's characteristics could be felt with the touch of the hand, but Miss Red was different. Her name had a red letter in it, and the color was not something that a blind person could tell.
The boy before him called himself Ah Mu. Miss Dress had said earlier that the boy's eyes were normal. He was not blind, so theoretically speaking, he could not be Ying Tong.
But when Chen Ge heard the boy's voice, he felt like the boy's voice was very similar to Ying Tong's. There could not be such a coincidence in this world. He believed that the boy had to be related to Ying Tong, but something had happened in between.
Chen Ge asked for more information about the boy's parents. Through the boy's words, he could tell that the boy missed his parents very much.
In the boy's memory, his parents were very kind to him. They cared for him meticulously and constantly. The boy's parents were like a pair of large and gentle hands that protected and protected him.
At this point, Chen Ge had already noticed the problem. The boy's memory contained many beautiful memories. He once had a very beautiful past, but now that he was reminded of the illness that he suffered from, it felt very strange.
Why would a child who lived in such a warm environment end up with a fear of sharp objects?
Why would he imagine that someone was going to stab his eyes blind whenever he saw something sharp?
What had happened to him? When did the most important change in his life start?
After gaining a general understanding of the boy's life, Chen Ge carefully asked the next question. "Ah Mu, do you know Ying Chen and Ying Tong who live on the seventh floor?"
"I don't know them. I have been staying inside the house. I have never left it."
"You don't know them?" To confirm this, Chen Ge turned to ask Miss Dress in the living room. "Ah Mu has never left this room before?"
"Yes, he suffers from a fear of sharp objects. Even hearing the words sharp or sharp will trigger a reaction, much less seeing sharp objects. How can I allow him to leave this room?" Miss Dress's voice came from the living room. Then, Chen Ge heard the sound of water being poured. After a while, the footsteps came again. "Do you want something to drink?"
"It's fine." Chen Ge did not dare drink water from a stranger, especially when he could not see it. "Ah Mu does not know Ying Chen and Ying Tong, but as a resident here, you should know the two brothers, right?"
"Of course, the two brothers are very pitiful. Their parents died when they were young, and they were raised by their relatives." Miss Dress seemed to know Ying Chen and Ying Tong very well.
"Then, what is your impression of the two brothers?" Chen Ge had finally found a 'person' who was willing to communicate with him, so he quickly seized the opportunity to ask.
"His big brother's character is undeniable. He is kind, passionate, and loves small animals. He is a hard worker and has excellent grades. He is the type that I like. Regarding his younger brother, I do not have much to say about him. I feel like his younger brother is just a burden. He is blind, unable to take care of himself, and he likes to say strange things. He does not appear to have a normal mental state. " Miss Dress's words caused Chen Ge to feel deeply unsettled. In Miss Dress's heart, Ying Chen was so perfect, and Ying Tong's image was very bad.
"Sometimes, what the eyes see is not necessarily the truth." Chen Ge felt like even if he told the woman directly that Ying Chen was a murderer, the woman would not believe him.
"I'm sorry, I forgot that you are blind as well. I do not mean to discriminate against blind people, but his younger brother's personality is very bad. He has always been taken care of by his big brother, and he relies on his big brother to survive. He keeps looking for trouble and sneaking out of the house. He does not want to leave his big brother. How is a blind man supposed to survive? "Miss Dress was very direct with her words.
"Do you hate Ying Tong that much? Then, don't you think that Ying Tong looks very similar to Ah Mu? " Chen Ge could not see, but he felt like he could guess something from the sound alone. But Miss Dress did not seem to notice the connection between Ah Mu and Ying Tong at all.
"Stop joking. Ah Mu just celebrated his sixth birthday, and Ying Tong is almost ten. Their size and height are completely different."
"I am talking about their looks. Why did you bring up their height?" Chen Ge wanted to verify his speculation, so he kept pressing.
"I really cannot tell from their looks. Ying Tong's face is very scary, and it is completely different from Ah Mu." What Miss Dress said next sent a chill down Chen Ge's spine. "Ying Tong rarely leaves the house. I remember the first time he sneaked out from home, he fell from a pile of rubble. There was a large bruise on his face, and there was a nail stuck close to his eye. If not for his big brother finding him in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable."
"Disfigurement?" Chen Ge had a feeling that this was an accident created by Ying Chen. Ying Tong probably knew about this, and that was why he had escaped again and again.
But the reality was that Ying Tong had escaped again and again, but he was captured by Ying Chen again and again.
What he was experiencing now was exactly what Ying Tong had experienced. As a blind man, it was too difficult to hide from Ying Chen.
"Fine, even though their looks and height are different, have you noticed that their voices are very similar?" Chen Ge still refused to give up. It was not easy for him to find a reliable 'person', and he did not want to give up so easily.
"Yes, their voices are slightly similar, but that does not mean anything. It is normal for boys to sound similar before they go through puberty."
"How come you don't get it?" Chen Ge wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead. "Fine, we will not discuss this anymore. Then, can you tell me what is going on with Ah Mu's parents? Why would they ask you to take care of Ah Mu? "
"Do you really not get it, or are you just playing dumb?" Miss Dress appeared to be quite dissatisfied with Chen Ge. She grabbed Chen Ge by his arm and dragged him out of the room.
"What are you doing?"
The woman closed the door. After making sure that Ah Mu could not hear her, she whispered, "Didn't Ah Mu tell you that his parents have gone to a faraway place? Why would you ask something like that? I seriously doubt that you are a psychiatrist. "
"Have Ah Mu's parents passed away?"
"Yes, Ah Mu is an orphan, an orphan that Ying Chen found outside the residential area. He had no one to take care of him. In the end, the tenants of our residential area came up with a plan and decided to adopt them together."
"Them?" Chen Ge caught the keyword in the woman's words.
"They are triplets, Ah Mu, Ah Tong, and Ah Ying. All three of them were discovered by Ying Chen. He felt sorry for the children, but he did not have the ability to take care of them, so he asked us to take care of them for him. After the paperwork was done, he would send the three children to the children's home." What Miss Dress said made Chen Ge suck in a cold breath.
"Ying Chen asked you to take care of these three children?"
"What do you think? In such a cold society, people as kind and selfless as Ying Chen are hard to come by. He has given so much time and energy to take care of these three children. "Miss Dress had a very good impression of Ying Chen. It was not something that could be changed with just a few words.
"Then, do all three children suffer from some kind of disease?" Chen Ge went through the surface and asked a crucial question.
"How did you know that? Then again, if they were not physically impaired, they would have been adopted a long time ago, "Miss Dress said softly. "Ah Mu suffers from a phobia of sharp objects; Ah Tong suffers from a very serious case of claustrophobia. He will go crazy if he is left alone in a room. Ah Ying suffers from an even rarer disease. It's called phobia of screaming. Whenever he hears screams or screams, he will suffer from it."
"Have you ever wondered why these three children would suffer from such a disease? And why was it Ying Chen who first discovered them? "
"I have not considered that question before. Perhaps it has something to do with the children's biological parents."
"But in Ah Mu's memory, his parents were very kind to him. That is the warmest part of his memory."
At this point, Chen Ge's face had taken on an ugly shade of color.
With just these few clues that he had, a very bold conjecture had formed in his mind.
Miss Dress, Mr. Wood, and Miss Red were all victims who were killed by Ying Chen in real life. Ying Tong, who was imprisoned, knew the truth, but he did not dare reveal it to anyone. In the end, he even became 'friends' with the three dead bodies.
From Chen Ge's perspective, even though Ying Tong had a problem with his eyes, it was not that he was completely blind.
The child had been forced to live under Ying Chen's prank, and it had caused him to suffer from many mental illnesses. But he knew very well that he could only survive as a blind man. So, he sealed away his weakness, fear, and the remaining good memories to form the innocent Ah Mu, Ah Ying, and Ah Tong.
As for himself, he continued to be a blind man and kept looking for a way to escape.
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