The situation was already at its worst, but Chen Ge not only did not give up hope, he even encouraged the people around him.
Ever since he obtained the black phone, he had been through too many desperate situations. Pain and tragedy had tempered his mind, giving him a mental fortitude that a normal person would not have.
"Ying Tong, leave this building and walk through that door. You will be able to see the outside world. You will no longer need to seal yourself up."
Not many people would talk to Ying Tong about the outside world. The place that Chen Ge mentioned that was filled with color and light made Ying Tong yearn for it.
The boy slowly perked up, and he started to tell Ah Mu the story of his big brother.
For as long as Ying Tong could remember, his mother had forbidden him from playing with Ying Chen. As long as the two brothers were together, one of his parents would be watching from the side.
At the time, Ying Tong only thought it was strange. He liked to play with his big brother. His big brother was a very interesting person. He always came up with new and interesting games. He had many friends in the residential area, and everyone liked to hang out with him. At the time, Ying Tong was like Ying Chen's shadow.
When his parents saw the close relationship between the two brothers, they did not feel happy. If anything, they were worried.
Ying Tong was born with a problem with his eyes. His vision was not as good as other children. When they went out to play, it was his big brother who took care of him, and he was very grateful to his big brother.
But one day, after they returned from playing hide-and-seek, Ying Tong's mother angrily dragged Ying Tong into the room. Ying Chen's crying came from outside the room. It sounded like his father was beating Ying Chen.
Ying Tong, who was inside the room, had no idea what had happened. He even begged his mother not to beat his big brother.
His mother did not tell him why his big brother was beaten. He only found out what had happened that day through the help of the nanny.
When they were playing hide-and-seek, Ying Chen had dragged Ying Tong out of the apartment and sneaked into a building that was not yet completed. Then, Ying Chen had Ying Tong stand on the balcony of the third floor.
The balcony did not have a fence. If Ying Tong moved, he might have fallen. Thankfully, he was seen by the workers and stopped in time.
Ying Tong could not understand why his big brother would do something like that. He was afraid. He kept having nightmares, and he could not sleep. When he was young, he was reminded of the warning his parents had given him, and the image of his big brother in his mind slowly changed.
A few months later, when Ying Tong woke up in the morning, he realized that his big brother's room was empty. His parents told him that his big brother had been sent out for treatment.
The young Ying Tong's understanding of illness was still limited to the biological level, so he did not manage to read too much from his parents' sad expressions.
After another half a year, one month before Ying Tong's parents died, Ying Chen was brought home.
After the treatment, Ying Chen had become even more 'normal' than a normal person. Seeing Ying Chen in this state, Ying Tong's father could not help but feel worried.
One month later, Ying Tong's parents got into a car accident. Ying Chen and Ying Tong were taken care of by their relatives.
According to Ying Tong, even though the relative was a bit greedy and stingy, he was a good person. He took good care of the two brothers, and this was completely different from the description that Ying Chen had given him.
The early death of Ying Tong's parents meant that he was much more mature than other children his age. When he was five, he understood that death represented the departure of his parents forever.
During the time that he was living with his relatives, Ying Tong gradually discovered another side of his big brother.
Ying Chen had a unique hobby. He liked to make insect specimens. He would dismember the insects and then reassemble them. There were many similar specimens in his bedroom.
This hobby continued for a while. Suddenly, one day, Ying Tong saw a bird specimen in Ying Chen's bedroom.
To perfectly recreate the appearance of a bird when it was alive, it required many tools. Ying Tong had opened Ying Chen's drawer, and it was filled with all kinds of strange objects.
He told this to the relative, but the relative was ultimately an outsider, so he did not interfere with Ying Chen's hobby.
In the following days, Ying Chen returned home later and later. He was always carrying scratches on his body. Some of them were scratched by cats, and some were bruised.
This continued for a long time. One day, the people from the community came to visit. They suspected that the relative was abusing Ying Chen and Ying Tong.
Even though Ying Tong tried his best to deny it, it was unclear what Ying Chen told the people from the community. The people did not believe Ying Chen's words. If anything, they pitied Ying Chen.
The relative was warned by the community. That night, the relative got into a heated argument with Ying Chen. The next day, the people from the community came again.
Ying Chen joined many anti-domestic violence group chats. It was then that he started to manage his social media account. He portrayed himself as a poor child whose home had been taken over by an outsider.
The incident grew bigger and bigger. About half a year later, the relative was chased away.
Ying Tong remembered clearly what happened that day. Before the relative left, he keyed his phone number into Ying Tong's phone for the blind and told Ying Tong one thing.
When Ying Tong was still a baby, Ying Chen once sneaked to the side of Ying Tong's crib. No one knew what he wanted to do that day. They only knew that he was holding something in his hand.
It was Ying Chen's father who told this to Ying Chen's attending doctor. Later, the attending doctor told this to Ying Chen's relative. As one of the people involved, Ying Tong was the last to find out.
Ying Tong was also afraid. From that day on, he tried to distance himself from his big brother, but his big brother still acted like he always did. He invited him to go out to play with him, but he never went out with his big brother again.
After the relative left, Ying Chen became more and more reckless. Various strange smells started to appear in the room, but at that time, Ying Chen did not do anything to harm Ying Tong. In fact, he even took good care of Ying Tong.
Every day, he would massage Ying Tong's eyes and then ask Ying Tong how his vision was recovering.
Actually, after the early treatment, Ying Tong's vision had partially recovered, but he did not dare tell his big brother about this. Just like when they were young, he kept telling Ying Chen that he could not see anything.
Ying Tong was lying, but the scariest thing was that Ying Chen might know that he was lying, but he did not expose the lie.
From bugs to birds to stray cats, just as Ying Tong thought that his big brother would not do anything worse, he discovered bloody hair inside his big brother's bag.
Ying Chen returned home later and later. He changed all the locks on his few rooms, and he kept all the keys with him.
Ying Tong hid inside his room. He could hear the door outside his room creaking in the middle of the night. Ying Chen's footsteps wandered between the kitchen, the bedroom, and the bathroom. Occasionally, he could hear some very scary noises.
This continued for a while. One night, when Ying Chen went out to 'take out the trash', Ying Tong realized that Ying Chen's bedroom door was open. He entered the room, and then he saw something that he would not forget for the rest of his life.
An arm poked out from under Ying Chen's bed. It was a dead body that had been processed.
As for what happened that night, Ying Tong did not go into detail. He only told Chen Ge and Ah Mu that from that moment on, he had made up his mind to escape.
Ying Tong did not have the key to his house. Normally, he was locked inside his room by his big brother until his sixth birthday. Ying Chen said that his relative had come to visit him. At that moment, the relative was waiting for him downstairs with a gift and a cake.
Ying Tong left home with hope, but when he reached the bottom of the stairs, he did not see his relative. He took out his phone for the blind and called the number that his relative had left for him. After it rang for a few times, his big brother's voice suddenly came through the phone. "Look behind you."
He turned his head subconsciously, and he saw his big brother standing not far away from him, holding a phone and a pair of scissors.
That kind of fear could not be hidden, especially for a six-year-old child. The change in Ying Tong's expression was captured clearly by Ying Chen.
Ying Chen knew that Ying Tong was not completely blind, so he decided to modify his little brother according to his own ideas.
When Ying Tong said that, Ah Mu, who was in the small room, acted up again. He cried and screamed, and he struggled to catch his breath. It was as if there was a sharp object piercing into his eyes again and again, and someone was forcing him to open his eyes wide to see what was happening.
The door kept shaking. Ying Tong told Ah Mu the real reason why the boy had a phobia of sharp objects.
The night of his sixth birthday was one of the few memories that he did not want to remember the most.
"I have escaped three times in total, and Ying Chen has used three different methods to warn me." Ying Tong's voice came from beside the sofa. "This is the fourth time I have escaped. I have no idea what he will do to me this time."
"The first time you tried to escape, it caused you to develop a phobia of sharp objects, and it led to the emergence of the suppressed personality, Ah Mu. There are still Ah Ying and Ah Tong inside the building. These three people should correspond to the three times you have escaped." Chen Ge leaned against the sofa and used all his strength to block the door. Inside the room, Ah Mu had already lost control. He was gasping for air. If this continued, his life might be in danger. "Ying Tong, go and look in the bedroom. I remember Miss Dress fed Ah Mu the pills inside the bedroom. There might be some pills left on the table."
Chen Ge had talked for a long time, but Ying Tong did not move. He was still standing where he was.
"Ying Tong?"
Inside the room, Ah Mu's screams grew louder. The door shook harder and harder. Ying Chen, who was outside the door, appeared to be getting anxious.
Of everyone, only Ying Tong stood in the living room with a cold expression. He was like a bystander.
Chen Ge wanted to pat Ah Mu on his back to comfort him, but when his hand touched Ah Mu, he realized that Ah Mu's body was twisting and turning, just like the mannequins that were placed on Ying Tong's bedside table.
"What's going on?"
"When I was talking to Ah Mu earlier, I was reminded of something." Ying Tong's voice rang out again. He was standing next to Chen Ge. "Do you know what the medicine that Ying Chen gave them was made from?"
"What was it made from?" Chen Ge had no idea why Ying Tong would suddenly bring that up. The most important thing at hand was to save Ah Mu.
"It was made from my blood and my flesh." Ying Tong gave a rather startling answer. "Ah Mu is my pain, my fear, and my anxiety. He is my obedient self before Ying Chen …"
The door kept shaking. Hearing Ah Mu's heart-wrenching screams, Ying Chen appeared to be getting more and more anxious.
"They are me, and I am them. I will accept their pain because they are an inseparable part of me. I have been searching for them inside the building. Only by finding them can I be considered a complete person. Only then will I no longer be a monster that has been 'dismembered' by Ying Chen. "
Ying Tong's hands held onto Chen Ge, and then he hugged the frail Ah Mu.
He hugged his past self and listened to the screams that came from his past self. This continued for a long time. When the screams disappeared from inside the room, both Chen Ge and Ying Tong felt a bone-piercing pain.
The darkness before their eyes seemed to have been chased away a little. Blurry and blurry, they seemed to be able to see a bit of light.
Due to his fear of Ying Chen, even though Ying Tong had regained his sight, he had to pretend to be blind. If he wanted to open his eyes, he first had to overcome his fear of Ying Chen.
Only by accepting the scary memories of his past would he have the chance to open his eyes.
Ah Mu had disappeared. What was left next to Chen Ge and Ying Tong was a mannequin with a twisted body. The two used their hands to touch it.
The mannequin was small, and its face was full of holes. It had a very ugly face.
Chen Ge placed the mannequin inside Ying Tong's bag. He was feeling rather conflicted.
Ah Mu was accepted by Ying Tong. A blurry light appeared in Ying Tong's and Chen Ge's vision. Their vision had recovered a little, but it was only a little.
"Looks like only by finding Ah Ying and Ah Tong will our vision recover."
The only person in the room who was not blind had been turned into a mannequin, and Ying Chen was blocking the door. The situation had not only not changed, it had worsened.
Chen Ge held Miss Dress's phone. He could feel the presence of the phone, but he could not see it with his eyes. In his sight, in a world of darkness, there was only a very faint light that could be seen in the distance.
"Ah Mu found Mr. Wood's number through the contact list. After my call with Mr. Wood is over, the phone should have returned to the contact list." Chen Ge was about to try to call Mr. Wood when the sound of the door shaking suddenly disappeared.
The shrill meowing of the cats also became softer. Ying Chen appeared to be flying away from the door.
"He has left?"
It was impossible for Ying Chen not to hear such a loud commotion in the room. He had to know that Ah Mu had been accepted by Ying Tong, and he would definitely go to find the other two children.
Chen Ge grabbed the backpack with one hand and Ying Tong with the other. He knew that his chance had come.
"I am on the first floor, Miss Red is on the sixth floor, and Mr. Wood is on the second floor. If Ying Chen runs toward the second floor, I will go down to find Miss Red. If Ying Chen goes to find Miss Red, I will go to the second floor to find Mr. Wood. I have about ten seconds. "
This room was too dangerous. The door could be opened at any moment, so Chen Ge had to plan ahead. "Ying Tong, be prepared. No matter what happens, you have to hold on tight to me."
Chen Ge focused. He leaned toward the door and grabbed the doorknob.
The meowing of the cats became softer and softer, but to Chen Ge's surprise, the meowing did not stop.
Ying Chen had left, but he stopped at a spot not far away from the door. He was probably hiding somewhere in the stairwell.
"The man wants to wait for me to open the door before coming over?"
Several minutes later, the meowing completely disappeared, but Chen Ge did not dare go out.
"Ying Chen has been pulling away from me. He seems to have realized something. Even though he has left, there might be another person standing outside the door." Chen Ge held his breath and perked up his ears to listen. "Assuming that what he said outside the door earlier was purposely meant for me to hear, his helper might have gone to the second floor. It looks like his helper went to the second floor, but in fact, his helper might have turned off the music box and been standing outside the door. "
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