Slowing down, the group followed Chen Ge's instructions and walked past the bush.
"How did he know there's someone inside?" When Scissors walked past the bush, he even glanced into it out of curiosity. There was blood seeping out from deep within the bush. There was no wind, but the bushes there were swaying lightly.
Not daring to stay any longer, the group followed behind Chen Ge and entered the building.
"Stand to the side for now. Someone might come out from the elevator. There are too many of us, and we might scare him." Chen Ge was very considerate. He looked at the changing number on the monitor and signaled for the group to hide in the dark.
"If he can be scared by us, he probably isn't that powerful. How about we attack together and take him down directly?" The doctor was very calm, and he voiced his opinion.
"We can't do that for now. I still have the next step of the plan, and we cannot afford to make any mistakes." Chen Ge nudged the doctor back. "There are very scary things inside this residential area. We'd better keep a low profile."
"If even you say we need to keep a low profile, just how scary must the thing hidden here be?" The drunkard started to retreat. "Come on, we shouldn't stay here any longer."
While they were arguing, the elevator was about to reach the first floor. Chen Ge did not waste any more time with the other passengers. He waved for the three of them to hide in the stairwell.
After they hid, Chen Ge turned to the elevator door. "The bad guy hiding inside the elevator is interested in Xiao Bu because Xiao Bu is very weak. For these madmen, bullying and torturing the weak is a kind of enjoyment. If I appear too aggressive, the murderer might hesitate, and if he doesn't follow me upstairs, then I won't be able to carry out the next step of the plan. "
Chen Ge decided to follow the strategy that he had obtained from the Xiao Bu game, to have the murderers and ghosts at the building kill each other. His plan was perfect, but there were many variables when it came to execution.
The number on the monitor finally turned to '1', and the old elevator doors that were covered in stains opened to the sides.
A man in a black raincoat stood in the middle of the elevator, and he was holding a large black bag in his hands.
The bag looked very heavy, and no one knew what was inside.
He didn't seem to expect someone to be standing outside the elevator. He pulled down the hood of his raincoat, completely covering his face.
"Hello." Chen Ge took the initiative to speak. While he was still thinking about how to lure this murderer out, the man had already walked out of the elevator.
The elevator entrance was only so wide. Chen Ge was carrying two large backpacks, and the man in the raincoat was also dragging a large bag. When they passed each other, the bags bumped into each other.
Blood seeped out from the raincoat man's bag. Both Chen Ge and the raincoat man saw the blood stain that was still expanding.
With a slight change of expression, Chen Ge furrowed his brows. His calves trembled slightly, and his body leaned to the side as if he instinctively wanted to move away.
Flustered, Chen Ge quickly walked toward the elevator.
Fear, panic, uneasiness, all kinds of emotions were vividly expressed through his body movements and micro-expressions.
He ran into the elevator and pressed the button on the control panel several times. The flustered movement represented the anxiety in his heart, and his evasive gaze amplified the fear in his heart.
No matter how one looked at it, Chen Ge was a 'qualified' victim.
All of this was seen by the man in the raincoat. He turned around, and the brim of the hood covered his eyes and hair. Chen Ge could only see the corner of the man's lips curl up into a cruel smile.
Chen Ge was very familiar with this expression; it was a smile that would only appear when a beast found its prey.
"He's taken the bait." As the elevator door slowly closed, Chen Ge's expression softened, and he sighed in relief internally. "He will come after me later, right?"
The gap in the elevator door narrowed. Just as Chen Ge started to consider the next step of his plan, he suddenly saw a pale hand reach into the gap!
The elevator door that was about to close opened again, and the man in the raincoat stood outside the elevator with his head lowered.
The atmosphere in the corridor was rather oppressive, and the man in the raincoat's smile became more and more twisted. He slowly raised his leg to step into the elevator.
When he was playing the game of Xiao Bu, the man in the raincoat did not follow him immediately, and that gave Chen Ge the time to make his move.
The dim light in the elevator shone on their faces. The man in the raincoat stood next to Chen Ge, and he radiated a presence that made Chen Ge feel very uncomfortable. It was as if he was not a living person but a beast that had gone berserk.
The metal door closed again, and the gap that symbolized the exit disappeared before Chen Ge's eyes.
The elevator started to move upward. In this completely enclosed environment, Chen Ge had no chance of evading.
To prevent his vision from being obstructed, the man in the raincoat pulled off the hood of his raincoat, revealing the scar on his forehead. There was a birthmark near his left eye, and it looked very ugly.
Sensing the man's movement, Chen Ge moved to the corner of the elevator, but the space inside the elevator was only so big. Where could he hide?
"Did you see the thing inside my bag?" The man in the raincoat turned to look at Chen Ge. The birthmark on his face was pulled, and it looked quite scary.
"No, I really didn't." Chen Ge was telling the truth. He only saw the blood that leaked out from the bag.
"Is that so?" The man in the raincoat tossed the bag away, and a knife appeared in the hand that he had been hiding behind him. "It's fine if you didn't see it. When I put you inside, you'll know what's inside this bag!"
He looked at Chen Ge with a strange smile, and he enjoyed the despair in Chen Ge's eyes. He swung the knife at Chen Ge's body.
He was ready to hear Chen Ge's scream, but when his knife was half a meter away from Chen Ge, he saw the young man before him 'gripping' one end of the backpack with both hands and swinging it at him.
He had no idea what was inside Chen Ge's backpack, just like how Chen Ge had no idea what was inside his backpack. From his perspective, Chen Ge's backpack only contained some daily necessities, so it would be fine even if he was hit, but the knife in his hand was different. One slash, and blood would flow.
The expression on his face turned even grimmer. Then, the man saw the young man before him slam the backpack heavily on his arm.
Kacha!
The sound of bones breaking was clear. The man's eyes were focused on Chen Ge. He did not even have the time to tell where the sound came from.
The huge force caused his whole body to sway, and the knife fell to the ground.
Pain shot through his body, and the man was like a crazed beast. His eyes were bloodshot, and he used his uninjured hand to fight for the knife.
The sharp blade was right in front of him. When his hand touched it, a shoe stepped on the blade.
The man lifted his head to look and saw the young man pull open the zipper of the backpack with a despairing expression.
"Even though the strategy is useful, there's no need to rely on it." Chen Ge lowered his head to look at the man in the raincoat, and he smiled brightly. All the anxiety, fear, and despair on his face were swept away. He mimicked the tone that the man had used earlier. "Did you see what's inside my bag?"
"No! Wait a minute! "
The zipper opened, and Chen Ge grabbed the handle of the scary-looking hammer. He pulled it out. "It's fine if you didn't see it. After I crush you and put you inside, you'll know what's inside this bag."
"Wait a minute!"
…
The elevator returned to the first floor, and Chen Ge dragged the unconscious man out from the elevator. "He looks so thin, but how come I can't fit him inside? Is it because there aren't enough broken bones? Never mind, just incapacitating him is enough. There's no need to break all his bones; it's such a waste of time. "
Seeing Chen Ge walk out from the elevator, the other passengers ran over.
When they saw the man in the raincoat, who was foaming at the mouth and had no strength in his limbs, they all shivered.
"You saw it yourself. It was he who insisted on following us into this place. There was nothing I could do." Chen Ge dragged the man and his bag to the pile of trash and used it to cover him up.
"What are we going to do next?" The other passengers had no idea what Chen Ge was trying to do.
"Since we've been exposed, let's change our strategy." Chen Ge dragged the hammer and walked toward the bushes. "Follow me."
The cold wind brushed past his neck, but Chen Ge did not slow down. He walked into the bushes.
A creepy sound came from the swaying bushes. Someone was dealing with something.
Slowing down, Chen Ge, who was covered in blood, saw the murderer in the bushes.
The man looked much scarier than the man in the raincoat. There were many gray patches on his body like he had contracted some kind of skin disease or livor mortis.
"Gray skin?" Chen Ge stared at the gray patches on the murderer's body, and he was reminded of the ghosts and living humans that he had encountered in Li Wan City. They all had something in common — their skin was an abnormal gray.
These people seemed to have stayed in Li Wan City for too long, and they were corrupted by the world behind Li Wan City's door, causing their bodies to change.
"The gray patches are moving." After using Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could see clearly that the gray patches seemed to have a life of their own. They kept expanding, using the human body as their breeding ground. "They should be the negative emotions that have accumulated behind the door. These emotions attach themselves to the human body and cause them to go berserk."
Negative emotions could turn a normal person into a madman, and the scariest thing was that the living human body would also emit negative emotions to feed the gray patches. If this continued, the skin of the living human body would be invaded by the gray patches.
Chen Ge had entered the world behind the door, and he understood the horror of that world. If one was unable to resist the negative emotions, one would eventually become a puppet of the negative emotions, and then they would never be able to leave.
"Based on the information given by the doctor, the shadow has once released many despairing passengers into the world behind the door. This madman should be one of them."
Those who had come with despair had come with the last hope of survival, but what welcomed them was complete despair.
The shadow did not even think about saving them; he merely treated them as nutrients for the world behind the door.
The man in the bushes also noticed Chen Ge, but probably because he saw the hammer in Chen Ge's hands, he did not act recklessly.
He was a madman, not an idiot. He sensed an indescribable terror from Chen Ge.
"There's really a person hiding here? How did you see him from so far away? " Scissors followed. In terms of appearance, he did not lose to any madman. At least, he gave off a scary first impression.
Holding the scissors, he humbly accepted Chen Ge's suggestion and grabbed the middle of the scissors.
"F * ck! This is too bloody! "The drunkard poked his head out to take a look before hiding behind the doctor.
"Can you stop hiding behind me?" Using the scarf to cover his nose, the doctor's brows were deeply furrowed.
Four people had appeared at the same time, and they were standing around like they were spectators. The madman in the bushes had not experienced something like this before. He breathed heavily and picked up the tools that he used to deal with the dead bodies.
His eyes were filled with pure evil. If given the chance, he would not hesitate to kill these people before him.
"Don't worry, I just want to ask you a few questions and ask you a favor." Chen Ge tossed the white cat aside and pressed the play button on the recorder. Even though the man before him was a living person, perhaps because he had lived here for too long, his body had been seriously corrupted by negative emotions, and now he was more like a monster.
"How long have you lived here? How many other living people like you are in this small town? Have you met the manager of this place? " Chen Ge was about to ask the fourth question when the man seized the moment when Chen Ge blinked and charged at him. He raised the weapon in his hand to slash at Chen Ge's neck.
His speed was obviously faster than a normal person's. Thankfully, Chen Ge was prepared for this. His reaction was not slow, and he used the handle of the hammer to block the man's attack.
The hammer was very heavy, and it was not flexible enough at crucial moments, so Chen Ge could only use the handle to block the attack.
To his surprise, when he was attacked, Scissors did not retreat in fear but raised the weapon in his hand to help Chen Ge block the attack.
"Not bad, but your reaction is too slow." Chen Ge pulled away from the man. Holding the hammer with both hands, he swung it at the madman in the bushes. In terms of presence, he had the upper hand.
"I just want to ask you a few questions, and you're going to take my life?"
Running through the bushes, Chen Ge held the hammer and chased after the madman. They ran three laps around the building. Eventually, the man ran out of stamina and was subdued by Chen Ge.
"In terms of endurance, you're still lacking." Chen Ge had a good physique, but of course, that had to do with the fact that he was chased by ghosts every day.
Coming to the trash can, Chen Ge found some rope to tie up the madman. "Be careful, we're going to face real danger soon."
"Aren't these madmen dangerous enough?" The drunkard really did not want to stay there anymore. He felt like the longer he stayed, the more abnormal he would become.
"You'll know when the time comes," Chen Ge said as he swung the hammer at the raincoat man hiding inside the trash can.
"Don't look at me like that. There are other living people in Li Wan City whose hands are covered in blood. I'm doing this because I'm afraid this man might go on a rampage after he wakes up. Even though most murderers are lone wolves, it's never wrong to be careful." After saying that, Chen Ge led the murderer who was hiding in the bushes into the building. "Just wait downstairs. When I tell you to run, just run out of the residential area."
"How come that doesn't sound so reliable?" The drunkard wanted Chen Ge to explain, but unfortunately, Chen Ge had already gone upstairs.
He led the madman to Xiao Bu's home. Looking at the familiar scene, Chen Ge had a feeling that the game and reality had merged together.
"I'll go in to take a look. If there's no clue, I'll try to lure the Red Specter out from the neighbor's house."
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