"Save me."
"I'm here. I'm behind you."
"Take me away from here. Help me …"
A woman's voice was mixed in with the crying. Chen Ge thought the voice sounded familiar. "I think I've heard this voice in Li Wan City before."
Chen Ge only had a vague impression of it, but he was not going to turn back. He had no idea what the black fog was. Facing the unknown, the best solution was to hide in a safe place to observe it instead of risking his life.
The voice behind him got closer and closer. Chen Ge picked up his pace, but the faster he ran, the faster the voice chased after him.
Just as he was about to enter the steel door, the woman's voice changed. All the words turned into screams, and they pierced through the black fog like arrows, aiming at his body.
"Get out of the way!"
Chen Ge ignored everything else and ran at full speed. The moment he entered the building, the scary voice disappeared.
He turned back to look. Everything in the black fog had returned to normal. The voice earlier appeared to be his own imagination.
"Wen Qing, did you hear a woman's voice inside the building?"
"No." Wen Qing shook her head. "I only saw you disappear into the black fog. For some reason, it felt like something was tiptoeing behind you. I warned you loudly, but you did not react at all. "
"This black fog appears to be more dangerous than the city shrouded in blood. The city will make people go mad with despair, but this black sea can make people lose themselves completely." Looking at the shadow floating in the black fog, Chen Ge held his hand over his heart. For some reason, he felt like he had experienced that scene before.
"Make people lose themselves? Did Xiang Nuan get lost in this fog? "Wen Qing's eyes were filled with worry.
"As long as he has not left this residential area, we still have a chance to find him." Chen Ge closed the door that led to the rooftop. He shoved the headless mud statuette into his jacket pocket. "It's time to leave."
Returning to the first floor, when Chen Ge reached Uncle Huang's house, the front door opened.
Uncle Huang, who was seriously hunched, stood at the door. He appeared to have been standing behind the door, waiting for Chen Ge for a long time.
"You knew I was coming?"
Uncle Huang did not say anything. He turned around and walked into the house. When he passed the dining table, he picked up the cleaver that was placed on top of it.
He, who was as thin as a match, raised the kitchen knife and slashed at the wall next to the bedroom.
The blade cut into the wall, and blood seeped out. A wound appeared on the wall and the old man's body at the same time.
As he slashed down with his saber, the skin of the wall was broken, and he was covered in wounds.
Uncle Huang's skinny hand no longer had the strength to wield the cleaver, and he collapsed to the ground.
"What's going on?" Xiao Sun put down Jia Fu and ran over, but Uncle Huang seemed to be dying.
"Keeping other people's secrets, enduring the torment in his heart, the wall is like it's made from his own flesh and blood." Chen Ge carried his bag into the room. "Now that the killer is dead, there is no need for Uncle Huang to keep this a secret anymore."
Walking to the side of the bedroom, Chen Ge stopped for a few seconds before continuing forward.
There were two bedrooms in the house. One of them was occupied, and the other bedroom's door was blocked by flesh and blood. Dead bodies were piled up inside.
"Initially, only the landlord's family stayed there. The landlord did not want to be separated from his family, so he would occasionally come to visit, but I did not expect the number of 'people' that the landlord brought with him would increase." Uncle Huang was on his last breath, and he used the last of his energy to say, "Perhaps I shouldn't have agreed to keep his secret from the beginning."
The scene inside the bedroom was like hell. This was the place where all the crimes at Jin Hwa Apartments Block A started, and it was also the building's first secret.
Pushing away the stunned Xiao Sun, Chen Ge entered the bedroom and squeezed into the 'crowd'.
"You subconsciously believe that the landlord is a good person, but have you considered this possibility? What if his family did not die from an accident? "
Chen Ge found the dead bodies of the landlord's family, but unfortunately, he could not tell anything from the surface, and these dead bodies were not the source of the stench.
"This stench that has been bothering me for so long, just where did it come from?" Chen Ge stood alone in the 'crowd', and his action scared the people around him.
Focusing, Chen Ge closed his eyes. He used the talent that he had obtained from the black phone, Spirit Sniff. Following his instinct, he searched around the bedroom and slowly found the spot where the stench was thickest.
Opening his eyes, Chen Ge saw the arm of a rag doll.
The rag doll's arm was covered in blood and dirt. The stuff that was stuffed inside the arm was not the normal stuffing that could be found on the market but various trash and bird carcasses.
"What is this thing?"
Chen Ge was about to pick up the rag doll's arm when an extreme sense of danger appeared in his mind. Then, like an earthquake, the whole building shook slightly.
"The rag doll's arm is the source of the stench?" Before Chen Ge could figure it out, he heard the sound of someone pounding on the door. Someone was knocking on the large steel door in the corridor from the outside.
Chen Ge stood up and did not touch the arm anymore. The knocking and the tremors disappeared instantly.
"It can affect the whole residential area. When I was about to pick it up, I felt like something was about to wake up in my mind. This probably does not belong to Xiang Nuan; it probably belongs to the ghost fetus. "
This did not happen behind the other doors, so Chen Ge had to be more careful.
"Back in Li Wan City, the shadow separated Xiao Bu's body into different buildings and used Xiao Bu to complete his own conspiracy. Everything is too similar. This rag doll's arm might be similar to Xiao Bu's. The ghost fetus separated it into different buildings to use as a foundation to stabilize this residential area. "
Chen Ge memorized the location of the broken arm. He decided to leave immediately and go to the other buildings to take a look.
Walking out from the 'crowd', Chen Ge was also covered in the stench. The stench would only dissipate after he left the door.
"Earlier, someone knocked on the door from outside the building. Could it be that they have discovered the abnormality inside the building?"
"We'll know when we go out to take a look." Chen Ge grabbed the backpack and turned to Xiao Sun. "Do you plan to leave with me to find the truth? Or do you plan to stay here and wait for the neighbors from the other buildings to come to find you? "
"Why do I feel like you're not giving me a choice in your words?" Xiao Sun helped Uncle Huang back to the bed. "I'll leave with you, but someone has to stay behind to take care of them, right?"
"Granny Lee, stay." Chen Ge placed Granny Lee's bowl next to Uncle Huang. "Granny, I'll leave this place to you. If we can survive and find the way out, we will definitely come back to fetch you."
He gestured for a long time before Granny Lee stopped following him.
"This granny hasn't lost her mind, has she?" Xiao Sun grumbled softly beside him.
"She's only pretending to be crazy to survive inside this building. What's so surprising about that? There are definitely more people pretending to be crazy in real life than behind the door. " Chen Ge came to the stairwell and found the key to open the lock. "The road between the two buildings will be very dangerous. You have to follow me closely. Grab my shoulders and don't let go no matter what."
The key slid into the keyhole, and with a crisp click, the iron lock on the door was opened.
"Follow me!"
Chen Ge took out Doctor Skull-cracker's hammer from his backpack and charged into the black fog without much hesitation. Xiao Sun and Wen Qing followed closely behind him.
His superhuman senses were activated to their maximum. Before Chen Ge opened the door, he had already confirmed his target through the window. The building closest to Jin Hwa Apartments Block A was a small six-story building.
This building was situated between Jin Hwa Apartments Block A and Block B, and its location was very unique.
The residential area behind the door was different from the one in real life. Even though the number of buildings had not changed, the appearance and location of the buildings had changed.
The few buildings from Jiu Hong Apartments were attached to the two buildings from Jin Hwa Apartments. They were twisted and slanted, like giant corpses in strange shapes.
After walking several meters down the stairs, Chen Ge saw a shadow not far away. The person did not seem to have noticed them.
"I think I hear someone calling my name?" Xiao Sun whispered.
"If you don't want to die, then shut up." Chen Ge did not even turn his head around. He gripped the handle of the hammer and moved faster and faster.
The stairwell behind them was slowly blocked by the black fog. The buildings before them became blurry. The world appeared to be swallowed by the black fog, and they could not see anything.
Two different forces came from his shoulders. Chen Ge could feel it. Wen Qing and Xiao Sun were very nervous and afraid. They saw Chen Ge as their only hope.
The distance between the two buildings was less than ten meters, but it felt like a long walk for Chen Ge's group.
"We're almost there!"
With his Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see the outline of the stairwell. The building before them was much older than Jin Hwa Apartments Block A.
"This is a residential building at Jiu Hong Apartments. Even in real life, it is a more chaotic place than Jin Hwa Apartments."
Perhaps it was because Wen Qing and Xiao Sun had shared the pressure, but this time, Chen Ge was not affected by the monster in the black fog. It was only after he entered the stairwell that he realized something was wrong.
"Are you two alright?"
Chen Ge's shoulder was scratched by Wen Qing. The woman's face was pale, and her eyes were hollow like she had just seen something very scary. At that moment, she could not even form a complete sentence.
Xiao Sun's condition was even worse. There were five new wounds on his back. It felt like a hand had grabbed him from behind, but he did not feel anything at all.
Blood continued to leak out, and Xiao Sun's shirt was dyed red. The five wounds were very shallow, but they would not heal no matter how hard he tried.
"When I turned back, I saw someone following behind me. He was very close to me, but I could not see his face. It was like he did not exist and was formed from the black fog." Xiao Sun had come into close contact with the monster in the black fog. His words provided Chen Ge with some clues.
"Do you feel anything strange on your back?"
"It's just pain, a heart-wrenching pain."
"Just bear with it." Chen Ge did not have a better solution. He turned to Wen Qing. "Are you feeling better now? Did you see something scary just now? "
"I saw above our heads …" The fear in Wen Qing's eyes was almost overflowing. "It was filled with human heads, and they were tearing at a large patch of shadow. Some of the human heads noticed us, and they were looking at us from inside the black fog …"
"Human heads? Do you mind being more specific? "
"I can't really explain it, but when I saw them, my heart was filled with disgust and fear. If not for my grip on your shoulder, I might not even have had the courage to take a step forward." Wen Qing's face was pale.
"Both of you saw something inside the black fog, but I did not see anything. My five senses are much sharper than the two of you." Chen Ge kept a reminder in mind. "Let's not worry about that for now. There is no iron door installed at the entrance to this building. The situation inside might be different from Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, so please do not wander off."
"Based on the building's exterior and staircase, this should be one of the buildings at Jiu Hong Apartments." Wen Qing leaned against the wall. She raised her head to look around the staircase, and moments later, she finally found something. "Chen Ge, look at that sign. What does it say?"
"Jiu Hong Apartments Block 1?"
"That sign is the apartment number. It was nailed there many years ago." Wen Qing was the agent, so she was very familiar with these two residential areas in real life.
"Let's go in and take a look. Hopefully, this place is different from the building that I rented and does not have so many strange neighbors." Xiao Sun felt like after experiencing so many things, he was already immune to all kinds of 'poison'. There was nothing that could scare him anymore.
"I do hope that there are still people like that living in this building. In the world behind the door, those people are already the easiest to bully." Chen Ge held the hammer and walked ahead. Once he entered the staircase, he smelled a faded stench. It was similar to the stench that came from the broken hand. "This building should be hiding a part of the rag doll's body. What does the rag doll mean to the ghost fetus? Could it be that the ghost fetus once possessed that doll's body? "
There was no light in Jiu Hong Apartments Block 1, and there was no sound. It was like a dead building.
He walked down the stairs, and he only took a few steps when Chen Ge stopped again.
There were four rooms on each floor of Jiu Hong Apartments. Chen Ge noticed that each of the four rooms had a bowl filled with white rice placed at the door, and there were two chopsticks stuck into the bowl.
However, that was not the strangest thing. Chen Ge approached carefully, and he realized that the chopsticks stuck into the rice were similar to the ones at Xiang Nuan's home.
"Does this mean that a bowl of rice represents a family, and a pair of chopsticks represents a dead person?" Chen Ge looked at the four bowls of rice that were arranged neatly in the staircase, and his mind was reminded of the pile of chopsticks under Xiang Nuan's bed. The boy had once used chopsticks to cover his bedroom, and chopsticks were his favorite toy.
"Hey, don't you think this bowl is very similar to the bowl that Granny Lee is holding?" Xiao Sun was injured on his back, so he used a lot of energy to squat down next to Chen Ge.
"Yes, they are." Chen Ge's thought process was more comprehensive than Xiao Sun's. He was reminded of the video that he had seen at the owner's house on the tenth floor. Granny Lee's fifty-something son had slammed Granny Lee's portrait and tributes on Granny Lee's body before strangling her.
"What is the meaning of this scene? Why do I have a bad feeling about this? "Chen Ge evaded the bowl on the ground and leaned his body against the gap of the door.
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