"Hey! Wake up! "
Slowly opening her eyes, the woman sat up in bed. "Where's Xiang Nuan?"
"Calm down first. Do you still remember who I am?" Chen Ge silently put down the hammer.
"Chen Ge?"
"Where was the first time we met?"
"The dam at Eastern Jiujiang Dam. What's wrong with you? Xiang Nuan has disappeared. We need to go and find him! "The woman was very anxious, but Chen Ge did not move from where he was.
"After I said those two words, Xiang Nuan stopped crying."
"I did not catch that clearly. I think it was ghost fetus?"
"One last question. Why would I want to kill Xiang Nuan?" Chen Ge stared at the woman's face. His last question scared the woman.
"You want to kill Xiang Nuan?"
"Looks like you are not the monster behind the door in disguise." The woman's expression was normal. Chen Ge did not explain why he would ask those questions. He turned to walk out of the bedroom and first checked the living room door.
The door was closed. There were only him and Xiang Nuan's mother in the room.
"When I entered the other children's worlds, there would be a black iron door that reeked of disinfectant behind me, but after I entered this door, I did not see that black iron door. What happened between the moment I entered the blood door and the moment I opened my eyes? "Chen Ge was thinking silently when the woman's voice suddenly came from beside him.
"How did I suddenly fall asleep? Where is Xiang Nuan? I can vaguely remember him entering a door, and then I followed him into it. "The woman held her head. She really could not remember what happened after that.
"You sure have a big heart. Only the dead and those who are about to die will enter that door."
"Doesn't that mean my son is about to die? Are those death notices real? "The woman became agitated again. It was clear that she was worried about Xiang Nuan.
"Don't worry about Xiang Nuan. Let me help you sort out the logical sequence. If we want to find Xiang Nuan, we need to ensure our own survival first, right? If we die, does that mean the chance of Xiang Nuan surviving alone will decrease as well? " Chen Ge wanted to make things clear with the woman first. Otherwise, if she did something impulsive and caused both of them to be in danger, it would be terrible.
"Yes."
"Only by staying alive will we be able to find Xiang Nuan. To ensure that we are able to survive, you have to listen to me from now on. Do not let your emotions affect your decisions." Chen Ge's voice was very soft. "This world is different from real life. You can think of this place as Xiang Nuan's nightmare."
"Nightmare?"
"Even though it's a nightmare, if you die here, you'll really be dead." Chen Ge gave the woman a simple 'science' about the world behind the door.
"But I feel that this place is no different from reality?"
"When we see the difference, we'll be in danger." Chen Ge stood inside the room and swung the hammer. He realized that he had exhausted a lot of energy behind the door. Even the slightest movement would cause him to gasp for air. It felt like something was crawling on his back to absorb his energy.
"This place is so dangerous. What should Xiang Nuan do alone?"
"I know you want to save Xiang Nuan, but you have to remember this. Only by protecting your own life will you be able to save Xiang Nuan. I will not repeat this in the future, but I hope you will remember it. " Chen Ge took a deep breath. "Other than that, I have to tell you one more thing. If we run into danger, if I can save you, I will, but if I cannot, I will choose to leave on my own."
Chen Ge was being very practical. After the woman heard that, she nodded. She told Chen Ge softly, "Thank you. I am actually very touched that you were willing to follow me and Xiang Nuan into the door. Because of Xiang Nuan, I have dragged you into this. I am so sorry. "
Hearing the woman say that, it was Chen Ge who did not know how to respond. The woman appeared to have some kind of misunderstanding. She had treated Chen Ge as an innocent bystander who had been dragged into this mess.
"Let's stop this topic here. Even though the world behind the door is dangerous, it is not a dead end. You know Xiang Nuan very well, and you are familiar with all of Xiang Nuan's memories. That is very beneficial to us." The world behind the door was weaved from the door pusher's memory. Exploring the world behind the door was to interpret the door pusher's experience of despair. This time, Chen Ge had the help of Xiang Nuan's mother, so he believed that he should be able to avoid most of the danger.
"We will start our exploration from this room first. Look around and see if there are any places that are different from real life." After saying that, Chen Ge walked out from the bedroom. He rummaged through every item in his backpack and discovered two strange things.
The bloody and despairing diary entries in Zhang Ya's storybook had disappeared. Only the last diary entry remained.
The other thing was related to the red high heels. All the other items were covered in a layer of dust, but the red high heels were an exception. On the surface of the red high heels, there were faint black patterns that were gathering.
"The restriction on the red high heels behind this door is very weak. Could it be because she has consumed too many of the ghost fetus' curses?"
The ghost fetus had chosen nine children in total, and most of the curses behind half of the children's doors had been consumed by the red high heels. Especially behind Ying Tong's door, her power had been greatly enhanced.
"That is the only good news for now." Chen Ge was about to explore other places when Xiang Nuan's mother's voice suddenly came from the bedroom.
"Chen Ge! The chopsticks that I placed under Xiang Nuan's bed have all disappeared! "
Hearing the voice, Chen Ge ran into the bedroom. He saw Wen Qing squatting down beside Xiang Nuan's bed. She pulled back the bedsheet, and there was nothing under the bed.
"What do those chopsticks represent to Xiang Nuan?"
"I have no idea. The child cannot communicate with others, and he does not know how to express himself. It is like he has been living in a world that only belongs to him."
"Other than the chopsticks, have you discovered anything else?" Chen Ge picked up the white cat and took out the medical records from the cursed hospital from his backpack. He wanted the white cat to memorize the smell of this paper, but the white cat did not show any reaction.
"The death notices for Xiang Nuan have disappeared as well, and the school bag that I bought for Xiang Nuan …"
"School bag?"
"Yes. When I first brought Xiang Nuan to Pei Zhi School, I bought him a school bag. That day, I thought that everything would be fine."
"Looks like the school bag might represent something beautiful, but what do the chopsticks represent? Why are these two things missing inside the house? "
He thought about it for a long time, but there was no answer. In the end, Chen Ge gave up. He inspected the house carefully and found the key to the front door and a fruit knife inside the house.
Chen Ge shoved the key into his pocket and handed the knife to Wen Qing. "Take this to protect yourself."
Other than the knife and the key, Chen Ge did not find any clues left behind by Xiang Nuan, and he did not find anything related to the cursed hospital.
"The non-smilers must have entered the world behind the door as well. They might have appeared somewhere else. If only I could find them earlier." All Specters would be bound by the world behind the door. The people from the cursed hospital were either unable to appear or had lost most of their power. They were not much different from Chen Ge, so now was the perfect time to kill them.
"This room should be safe. Next, we will go outside. Follow behind me. No matter what you see, do not say anything."
"Understood."
Chen Ge carried the backpack. He did not leave through the living room door directly but walked to the window to pull back the curtain.
"This …"
The scene before him was extremely scary. The buildings were twisted and twisted, and they were entangled with each other. Their surface was mottled like they were filled with scars that were slowly healing.
Narrowing his eyes, Chen Ge looked further away. The few buildings were all wrapped in thick black fog like they had fallen into a black ocean.
"The windows can be opened. If we want to go to other rooms, we do not have to go through the door. But the area outside the building should be very dangerous. There appears to be something very scary hidden inside the black fog. "
Chen Ge could not tell what was hidden inside the black fog. The presence that the thing gave off was different from a Specter, but it could trigger the most basic fear in a person's heart.
"Are they the monsters that originally lived behind the door?"
He pulled back the curtain. After a long time, the feeling of fear finally disappeared.
"This place is too strange."
Chen Ge called Wen Qing, and the two of them came to the living room door. When the white cat, who had been playing dead, saw that Chen Ge was about to leave, it quickly 'came back to life'.
He opened the anti-theft door. Just as the iron door opened a gap, Chen Ge was hit by a pungent stench. He had a feeling that the stench that had troubled him for a long time was coming from this residential area.
Pushing the door open a third of the way, Chen Ge walked out first.
There were all kinds of trash and trash in the corridor. The ground was covered in black stains and not-so-obvious blood stains.
Yellowed flyers were pasted on the wall. The flyers were filled with insults about Wen Qing. However, unlike real life, the black and white picture on the flyers was no longer of Wen Qing but of a headless woman.
The whole corridor was covered with flyers about the headless woman. Just looking at them was enough to make one's skin crawl.
The sound of a sharp intake of breath came from behind Chen Ge. Wen Qing's face was pale, and her eyes were glued to the flyers on the wall.
Making a shushing gesture, Chen Ge slowly took several steps forward.
The stench was thick in the corridor, and it was rather damp. Occasionally, something would fall from the ceiling. It looked like a small spider or a catkin. He could feel it, but he could not see what it was that had landed on him.
Every door has a number written on it. Xiang Nuan's home is still Room 401, so for now, this place should be the fourth floor of Building A.
Behind the door, the buildings of Jiu Hong Apartments and Jin Hwa Apartments were all twisted together. The first thing that Chen Ge needed to do was to reconfirm his location.
401, 402 … When Chen Ge reached Room 405, he suddenly stopped moving.
There were many black trash bags placed on both sides of the door. Most of the stench in the corridor came from these trash bags.
Chen Ge silently walked to the trash bags. He opened one of them and saw that it was filled with blood-stained bandages and toilet paper. There were also a large number of broken needles.
Why are there so many broken needles? He was about to open the other trash bags to take a look when the door to Room 405 suddenly creaked open. The iron door was opened from the inside.
A tall and rotund middle-aged woman appeared at the door carrying a black plastic bag. Her body was covered in fat, and her face was covered in heavy make-up. Her hands were covered in bandages, and there were oil stains on her fingertips.
She was covered in the thick smell of cheap perfume, and the smell almost covered up the stench that came from the black trash bags.
"What are you doing?" The middle-aged woman's voice was rather scary to hear.
"I'm sorry, but my cat is quite mischievous. It likes to scratch things everywhere." Chen Ge picked up the white cat, and his eyes skipped over the middle-aged woman at the same time to look into the interior of Room 405.
The whole room was painted pink, and there were bloody needles and threads on the floor. The television screen reflected the shadow of a boy on the sofa. The boy looked very weak. His waist was covered by a thin quilt, and it was worth noting that the middle of the quilt was dyed red with blood.
"Why are you keeping it if it doesn't listen to you? I hate these little things the most. "The woman tossed the trash bag that she was holding next to the door. Then she returned to the room and closed the door.
"That woman looks so scary." Wen Qing whispered, "But I am quite familiar with her face. She looks quite similar to the tenant of Room 405 in real life."
"She should be the tenant of Room 405, but her face has been distorted by the door." Chen Ge lowered his voice. He had only opened the black plastic bags for a few seconds, and the middle-aged woman had opened the front door to toss the trash out. This meant that she had been standing at the front door at the time and had heard the commotion outside.
"If it is really her, then perhaps we can ask her for help."
"Is that woman trustworthy?"
"In real life, the tenant of Room 405 is a woman who lives alone. She is small in stature and does not like to talk much, but she has a good temper, especially toward children. She not only does not dislike Xiang Nuan, she would often actively approach Xiang Nuan to talk to him and make him happy."
"You have been tricked by her. The tenant of Room 405 is probably a human trafficker." Chen Ge lowered his voice even further. He whispered into Wen Qing's ear, "When she opened the door earlier, her television screen reflected the sofa, and there was a boy with a pale face lying on the sofa."
"A boy? Is it Xiang Nuan? "
"He is slightly older than Xiang Nuan, and his face is completely different."
"It is not Xiang Nuan? Then how do you know she is a human trafficker? "Wen Qing was having a hard time accepting the fact that her neighbor was a human trafficker.
"The boy's waist is covered by a blanket, and the blanket is falling down. The key thing is that the middle of the blanket is soaked in blood, and the blood is still spreading. It is obvious that the blood is coming from the inside."
"He is injured?"
"He is not injured. His legs have been amputated, and the bleeding has not stopped."
Chen Ge's words caused the hair on Wen Qing's body to stand on end.
"In real life, these people hide themselves under human skin, but behind the door, they will expose their real appearance. We have to be careful, or else we will die a very painful death. "
After leaving Room 405, Wen Qing's face was still pale. Her eyes would occasionally wander to the black plastic bags at the front door of Room 405. "Chen Ge, I am very worried about Xiang Nuan."
"There is no point in worrying. We should go and find Uncle Huang on the first floor now. He should be the only person in this residential area who is willing to help us." Chen Ge's mind was very clear. His will was like steel, and he was rarely affected by external factors.
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