"It came again today, and it was still standing at the door. I have no idea what it is doing, but it seems like it wants to come in.
"It looks like my dead child, or at least it looks like it from the back.
"My family saw it too. It is not an illusion; it really exists. But why is it always facing away from us? Whose child is it? Why would it appear in the stairwell at midnight?
"My husband said he wanted to go out to take a look, but he never came back. He abandoned me and ran away on his own.
"What should I do? It is getting closer and closer to me. It keeps leaning against the door and the window. I'm sure it will come in!
"After I woke up, I saw it appear in the living room. It did not seem to notice me, and it stood in the middle of the living room with its back facing me.
"I saw its face clearly. Why would a rag doll wander around my home? What is it looking for? Why is it still here! "
"This is too disgusting. I have never seen such an ugly doll in my life. Its arms are filled with trash and bird carcasses, and its stomach is hiding a stinking heart. Its face is made from different pieces of skin. Its legs are bent, and they are stuffed with bones that it has picked up. It reeks of Foul Odor, and its pitiful appearance is scary to look at!
"I noticed something strange about the rag doll. Its shadow is not the doll's shadow. When the light hits its body, it casts a shadow of a boy that is much taller than it is.
"Everyone hates it, but does it not know that? Why hasn't it left? Why is it trying to please me? It has lost its mind!
"It seems to treat this place as its home, this damn doll!
"I am not its mother; I am not its family!
"I have to chase it away, and I have to do everything I can!
"I dismantled it, placed it inside a trash bag, and buried it in the ground. I thought I could finally have a good night's sleep, but when I woke up, it reappeared inside my room!
"I have no family, so why is this monster still unwilling to let me go?
"I have sent it away again and again, but it has started to appear everywhere in my house. In the closet, under the bed, under the blanket, under the study table, it could be hiding anywhere!
"What should I do to send it away?"
The bloody words were completely distorted towards the end. There were traces of blood and fingernails in the words. The person who wrote this must have been on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Chen Ge could imagine a woman with disheveled hair biting her finger and tearing at the bedsheet to write words on it.
Slowly, Chen Ge came to the last bedsheet that was filled with bloody words. The words that were written on it caused everyone to shiver.
"I finally know what it wants to do."
"I'm not its mother, and it doesn't want me to be its mother. It just wants to be in my stomach."
"When I woke up in the middle of the night, I saw the smiling face on my stomach. I knew I would never be able to send it away again."
The bloody words on the bedsheet ended there. Just looking at the bloody words made Wen Qing feel very uncomfortable. Perhaps it was because they were both women, she could understand the pain and despair that the homeowner must have felt at the time.
"Are these bloody words trying to remind us that the real monster inside this building is a rag doll?" Even though Xiao Sun often said the wrong thing, he was not dumb. Especially when he was in danger, his brain worked fast.
"Something like that." Chen Ge looked at the bloody words, and his eyes were glued to one particular sentence. The shadow of the rag doll is not a doll but a boy who is much taller than it.
Seeing these words, a speculation appeared in Chen Ge's heart. "The ghost that possessed the rag doll is probably my shadow. After he escaped from my body, he became the rag doll's shadow. But the rag doll has no consciousness, so perhaps the rag doll is the body that he made for himself. "
Inside Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, the broken hand of the rag doll was the source of the stench. Perhaps it was because of the existence of the broken hand that the building was not invaded by the black fog.
"The rag doll should be the body that the ghost fetus once used. Based on the description on the bloody words, it has suffered quite a lot to maintain this ugly body."
In the world behind Fang Yu's door, Chen Ge had seen a small part of the ghost fetus' memory, and the ghost fetus in the memory was completely different from the current one.
The shadow had slowly turned into a Demon God, and now, it had changed beyond recognition. It was no longer itself.
The bloody words recorded it very clearly. Initially, the rag doll did not harm the tenants inside the building, but its very existence was a 'sin' in itself.
In the process of abandoning it, the rag doll eventually came for its revenge. That was an inevitable result.
"Jin Hwa Apartments records Xiang Nuan's life, but this Jiu Hong Apartments probably contains the ghost fetus' past."
The first time Chen Ge's shadow changed was at Western Jiujiang's Haunted House. As for what it experienced after that, perhaps he could find some clues from these few buildings.
Without closing the cupboard, Chen Ge took out all the clothes inside the cupboard. He did not see the monster. It appeared like it had already left the room.
"There are children's clothes inside the cupboard, and there are three pairs of slippers inside the shoe cupboard. All these signs point to the fact that a boy once lived in this room." Chen Ge placed the bedsheets with the bloody words on the ground. "The tenants of Room 204 once had a child. Based on the bloody words on the bedsheets, this strange rag doll only appeared after the death of their child. Initially, the rag doll did not harm them. It appeared to be holding on to a glimmer of hope and wanted to live with them. "
"Do you think that's possible? Based on the description, the rag doll is a scary monster. Who would want to live with something like that? "Xiao Sun could not understand what Chen Ge was saying.
"Both you and the owner think that the rag doll is a monster, but have you ever considered it from the rag doll's perspective? Does it think that it is a monster? " Chen Ge pointed at the bloody words on the bedsheets. "Its legs are stuffed with bones, its stomach is filled with a heart, and it has a face that is pieced together. This rag doll is trying its best to become like a human being based on its own will."
"How come you sound so scary to me?"
"The rag doll wants to become a human being, so it should want to live like a human being. It longs for a family and for love, but unfortunately, it has underestimated the difficulty of being a human being." Chen Ge was very rational. "It does not know what a human being is, and it has no idea what it represents to other people. Actually, it is a child, but it has been seduced by the devil to become the scariest child. "
"No matter what, it did kill the homeowner in the end. I don't think it was trying to express its own thoughts. From the beginning, it had a bad intention. In fact, I suspect that the homeowner's child was killed by the rag doll." Wen Qing's face recovered a little. She did not dare look at the bloody words on the bedsheet.
"You're right." Chen Ge straightened the bedsheets on the ground and held them in his hands. "We're almost done with this room. Let's go to the other rooms."
"Are you going to take those bedsheets out with you?" Wen Qing and Xiao Sun asked at the same time. "That thing is unlucky. How about we put it back where it was?"
"That's not a bad idea." Chen Ge's backpack had limited space, so he reluctantly placed the bedsheets back into the dresser. "Now that the comic is out of commission, it won't be too late to come back after the employees wake up."
The ghost in Room 204 did not show up. It felt like the room had been abandoned for a long time.
Exiting Room 204, Wen Qing, who was the first to step out, paused at the door.
"What's wrong?"
"There's blood on the ground …"
The group turned to look at where Wen Qing's phone was shining. There was a pool of fresh blood at the door of Room 204. When they were searching the room earlier, it felt like something had been standing at the door watching them, and it had been there for quite some time.
"There are blood stains on the wall as well. Look! There are so many handprints! " Wen Qing pointed at the wall next to the door. There were many fingerprints that looked like a baby's. It looked like it had been crawling on the wall before.
"There are so many strange things inside this building." Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision to follow the bloody handprints. He walked to the staircase. "They've gone up to the third floor?"
"Should we continue going up? Why don't we return to Jin Hwa Apartments Block A? We'll lock the door so that the people outside won't be able to come in. How about that? "
"What if the sun doesn't rise?" Chen Ge ignored Xiao Sun. He picked up his pace and entered the staircase.
A faded smell of mold and stench started to appear in the air. The building was still very quiet, but this kind of silence was different from normal silence. It felt like something indescribable was hollowing out one's heart and slowly digging out one's soul.
Chen Ge's five senses were very sensitive, and he was the most familiar with this feeling. It felt like once one entered this building, one's soul would be trapped here forever.
He walked from the second floor to the third floor. He only took a few steps, but the temperature suddenly dropped.
There were paper money everywhere on the ground, and white 'fu' characters were pasted on the walls. There were no door gods on the old doors, but instead, there were two pieces of white paper.
"The door gods are used to guard the door, so what is the meaning of these two pieces of white paper?"
To Chen Ge's confusion, the lock on the door of Room 301 was completely broken, and it could not be closed. The door was ajar, and a bowl of rice with chopsticks was placed outside the door. Inside the door, there was a copper basin filled with ashes.
To enter the door, one had to step over the copper basin. That was nothing on its own, but with his Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see clearly that there were several words written on the edge of the copper basin — Those who step over this basin will be tortured by a mountain of knives and a sea of fire. They will taste the pain of having their eyes gouged out and their heart gouged out.
Chen Ge did not believe in these things, but behind other people's doors, it did not matter whether he believed it or not. The key was whether the door-pusher believed it or not.
"Is this some kind of curse?"
The door was open, but Chen Ge did not dare barge in recklessly. He pushed the door open and looked inside.
There were burn marks inside the room, and unburned paper money littered the ground. The most noticeable thing was that there were four small incense burners placed at the four corners of the room. The incense burners looked very strange. They were in the shape of small people kneeling on the ground like they were atoning for their sins.
"Can you understand what is going on?" Wen Qing asked Xiao Sun and Chen Ge. She stood at the door with a nervous expression.
"Perhaps they are performing some kind of ritual to exorcise ghosts." Xiao Sun looked at the paper money on the ground, and he had no intention of entering the room at all.
"No matter what they are doing, they did not succeed in the end." Chen Ge's finger pressed on the door lock that had completely fallen off. "Look at the spot where the lock and the door frame come into contact. Obviously, the door was opened with brute force. The people inside the room did not chase the ghost away but instead angered it."
He moved the copper basin to the corner. "This way, we won't have to walk over the basin to enter the room. If this thing is useful, we can consider taking it with us. It doesn't matter if we place it in the middle of the corridor or at the entrance of one of the rooms."
Wen Qing and Xiao Sun did not know how to comment anymore. They felt like it was inappropriate, but thinking about it, Chen Ge's explanation was quite logical.
After entering Room 301, for the sake of safety, this time, Chen Ge did not have them split up. They all went together to whichever room they wanted to go to.
"There are copper coins hidden under the sofa cushion, cinnabar under the cupboard, incense burners in the four corners of the room, and some salt scattered on the wall. These are all things to ward off evil spirits." Chen Ge knew these things like the back of his hand. When he first obtained the black phone, he had browsed through all kinds of supernatural forums, and he realized that ninety percent of these things were useless. The remaining ten percent might not necessarily be useful, but they were too difficult to obtain, and he had not tried them yet.
The three walked through the living room, and when they reached the bedroom door, they all stopped.
The wooden door before them was covered in children's bloody handprints. It was as if a child was standing outside the bedroom at midnight, banging on the door.
Chen Ge slowly pushed the bedroom door open. There was a large bed inside the room, and the bedsheet was covered in black particles that looked like herbal dregs. In the middle of the sheet was the shape of a person.
Several pieces of yellow paper were scattered around the bed, and some words were scribbled on them.
"The first time I saw it was outside the window. It was lying on the windowsill. I only realized that I was on the third floor when I woke up.
"The second time I saw it was behind my door. When I opened the door, I did not see it, but when I closed the door, it followed me into the room and stood behind the door.
"The third time I saw it was among the baby's toys. It was mimicking my child's every movement. It was also at that time that I tossed the dirty doll away.
"The fourth time I saw it was on the third night. I heard a sound coming from the living room. When I opened the bedroom door, I saw it sitting in the living room, playing with my child's toys. My husband and I were so scared. We turned on the light and burned it with fire. Then we tossed the remains into the trash.
"The fifth time I saw it was in the stairwell. It pushed me from behind, and then the sixth, seventh … The monster was completely obsessed with me. I did not know what to do to escape from it."
The words on the yellow paper appeared to be a plea for help from the owner, but from the results, she did not succeed.
Chen Ge held the yellow paper and glanced at the bloody handprints on the bedroom door, and the image of the scary doll appeared in his mind.
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