"Stand here and don't move. If someone falls, remember to catch them."
Chen Ge placed the bag with the white cat on the ground. He grabbed the hammer and rushed toward the seventh floor.
"Be careful!"
No matter how the drunkard screamed, Chen Ge did not stop moving.
Saving someone was just a convenience. Ever since Chen Ge entered Li Wan City, he did not plan to let the shadow go.
A person with such a mysterious background and so many connections to him — only by capturing him would he be able to feel at ease.
I should be able to get a lot of information about my parents from the shadow's mouth.
When he entered Li Wan City, Chen Ge had already predicted this moment. However, he had planned to have the high heels and the smiling man scout the way for him, but who would have expected this accident, Doctor Gao, to appear out of nowhere and cause everything to spiral out of control?
Overall, the situation is very favorable to me.
Outside the building, Doctor Gao was lured away by Xu Yin, and this gave Chen Ge a rare opportunity.
"The monster is waiting for you upstairs. Do not go up there no matter what!" This time, it was Scissors who spoke. He was not in a good condition. Shallow blood spots appeared on the surface of his body like the capillaries on the surface of his skin had all exploded.
"He is waiting for me, and I am also looking for him!" Dragging the hammer, Chen Ge moved even faster. Behind him, the white cat crawled out from the bag and followed behind him with great agility.
The few children on the seventh floor were obviously using Scissors and the rest to lure Chen Ge away. They controlled their movements, and when Chen Ge got close, they immediately let go and ran.
"Give me your hand!" Chen Ge dragged Scissors and the drunkard to a safe place. They were not tied up, but from the looks of it, they looked like they were allergic to something. The pain was unbearable, and it was difficult for them to even stand up.
"Can you walk on your own?" Chen Ge helped the doctor to the side. The doctor was still poisoned.
"Ignore us. The shadow didn't kill us because he wants to use us to slow you down. To achieve his goal, he will stop at nothing," the doctor said weakly.
"It seems that your health has improved since you can speak a complete sentence." Chen Ge was about to ask the doctor what had happened to them at Fan Cong Apartments when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
Turning back to look, the tattooed man's head poked out from the eighth floor. His face was covered in blood, and his eyes were wide open. The human head tattoo on his arm had been completely torn off.
A few children with numb expressions surrounded the tattooed man. They held paintbrushes in their hands and were painting with the tattooed man's blood.
"Dead?"
They were even scarier and more numb than the children at the bottom, and their attitude towards "toys" was even more frightening.
"The tattooed man is dead. If it's said that the higher you go, the worse your fate will be. Could it be that something has happened to Meng Nan and Lao Zhou as well?"
Chen Ge was worried. This was the first time he realized how important these ghosts were to him. He had already treated them as his family and friends.
The tattooed man's body was pushed down the stairs by the children, and it fell before Chen Ge's eyes. A life ended just like that. This was the world behind the door.
In this world weaved from despair and nightmares, life and hope were the most fragile things.
Seeing the tattooed man's body fall, the children seemed to have completed their mission. They scattered, leaving behind only the paintings that they had drawn with the tattooed man's blood.
When the children left, the sound of laughter came from the tenth floor. The faces of the children were no longer numb. They were happy, but what they did caused Chen Ge to grit his teeth.
The phone spirit, Tong Tong, was captured by the children. His body was torn apart, his phone was snatched away, and the messages that his mother had sent him were deleted.
Under the shadow's care, the children could no longer be considered children. They hated beauty and thought that love and kinship were the most disgusting things in the world. In fact, Chen Ge had a feeling that the shadow was trying to raise these children to become monsters like him.
Every employee of Haunted House had their own story, and the one that touched Chen Ge the most was Tong Tong. Taking care of this child was not only a scheme for Tong Tong's special power but also a promise to the boy's mother.
Tong Tong did not cry or make a fuss. He had gotten used to this, be it when he was alive or when he was with Han Bao 'er at the Society of Strange Tales.
However, the more he behaved like that, the more it made Chen Ge's heart wrench.
The children knew that Tong Tong had attracted Chen Ge's attention. They grabbed Tong Tong and ran up the stairs. Obviously, they wanted to lure Chen Ge to the roof.
"Chen Ge! Don't go there! " Lee Zheng dragged Gu Ming and ran up the stairs. "There are people here who are heavily injured. We need to evacuate them first. When I entered Li Wan City, I notified the rest of the team. Reinforcements should arrive soon. "
"There won't be any reinforcements. You and Gu Ming should bring them downstairs first. Remember to stay away from here." Chen Ge frowned slightly. He communicated with the comic and opened a page before returning to normal. The whole process only took less than a second.
"Aren't you going to leave with us? What are you going to do? "Lee Zheng tried his best to stop Chen Ge.
"I'm not good at educating children, so I can only treat these people who bully children as adults. It would be much easier if they were adults." Chen Ge picked up the hammer and mumbled a name.
In the narrow stairwell, a heavy scent of blood drifted in the air. A pair of twisted arms appeared next to Chen Ge and landed lightly on his shoulders.
"Capture them. Bring them back and educate them slowly."
The head that hung on his shoulders slowly rose up. The body that had been completely deformed due to the car accident had returned to normal when the head was raised.
The Red Specter that Chen Ge had brought out from White Dragon Cave Tunnel was awakened. She seemed to be curious about the world outside the tunnel. The blood fog stimulated her body, and she had the urge to kill everything before her.
Xu Yin led Doctor Gao away. Bai Qiulin was too weak to handle an emergency, so to ensure his own safety, Chen Ge used his trump card — the Tunnel Lady.
With a Red Specter leading the way, he could do whatever he wanted.
No matter the time or place, a Red Specter was a very scary presence.
When the children in the building saw the Red Specter, they instinctively avoided her.
The few bad kids who held Tong Tong stopped smiling. Like they had completed their mission, they lured Chen Ge to the rooftop.
"The rooftop is dangerous! Don't go there! "Lee Zheng yelled anxiously from behind. He seemed to have gotten some information from Jia Ming.
In the heat of the moment, he ignored Scissors and the drunkard on the ground and chased after Chen Ge.
With the Red Specter leading the way, Chen Ge did not have to worry about the danger around him anymore. He calmed down and started to consider several important questions.
In the painting that the Pen Spirit and Yan Danian showed me, Lao Zhou and Meng Nan were hiding inside one of the small houses. They were not captured, but they were temporarily trapped. In other words, the shadow did not have full control of the situation. He has been fighting with Doctor Gao and only disappeared from my sight to hide inside the ghost apartment. What kind of scary trap could he have set up in such a short time?
The shadow has fought with Zhang Ya before, so he knows that I have a Top Red Specter with me. Therefore, he has to set up a trap that can threaten a Top Red Specter to have a one hundred percent chance of killing me. This kind of trap is not that easy to set up.
Chen Ge knew this very well. He narrowed his eyes, and the small incident that had happened earlier flashed across his mind.
"I understand now!"
Without slowing down, Chen Ge rushed up the stairs.
The higher they went, the heavier the resentment in the children's hearts. They turned from lingering spirits to baleful specters. After the eleventh floor, some of the children's clothes started to have blood stains. Chen Ge even saw a boy in half a red shirt.
Without the help of the Tunnel Woman, with just him and Bai Qiulin, they would only be able to reach the eleventh floor.
But even with the help of the Tunnel Woman, it was not that easy for them.
Many pictures appeared on the wall. They were painted with a special kind of black liquid. Chen Ge had seen this kind of paint before at the hotel owner's place. It could affect Red Specters. Chen Ge had regretted using such a precious thing to agitate the headless woman.
At first glance, the pictures on the wall were all painted with this black liquid, and it made one uncomfortable to walk among them.
All the pictures are so messy, like they were drawn by a bored child. Could these pictures have been drawn by the ghost fetus?
The Tunnel Woman who walked at the front took most of the pressure. She was not in a good condition.
Even a Red Specter can be suppressed. Is this liquid related to something above a Red Specter? Chen Ge looked at the pictures. Most of them were records of daily life, but they caused Chen Ge's scalp to go numb, and goosebumps rose all over his body. He had no idea why he was so afraid of these things. Could the pictures on the wall be things that I have experienced? But how come I have no memory of them at all? No, these should be the ghost fetus' memory. They have nothing to do with me.
Chen Ge! Why are you spacing out? Follow me downstairs now! " Lee Zheng and Gim Ming followed behind him. A normal person was not that sensitive to these pictures. They could not sense the deep hatred and fear in them.
My employee is still in their hands. As the boss, how can I abandon him and run away on my own?
Resisting the pressure, the Tunnel Woman and Chen Ge reached the highest floor of the building, but Tong Tong was nowhere to be seen. Chen Ge saw that the door that led to the rooftop was half-open.
"Shadow spent so much effort just to lure me here?" The door that led to the rooftop was covered in black pictures, but the content was different from the pictures on the wall. There were no details of daily life but scenes of death that were so cruel that one could not bear to look at them.
The child in the pictures had experienced many deaths, but he was still alone. He did not know the purpose of his existence. It felt like he was living to wait for the next death that would be more painful.
Standing at a distance, the black pictures eventually formed the shape of a person, and the shape of this person was identical to Chen Ge.
The color of the picture below the human shape was lighter, and it darkened further away. It gave Chen Ge the feeling that the monster would return to this place every few years and use the pictures to fill up his growing body.
This human shape should have started out as a child, and as it slowly grew, it would eventually become the same size as Chen Ge.
However, the things that accompanied Chen Ge's growth were sunshine and hope, but the things that grew with the person on the door were many more exaggerated and scary deaths.
"Tong Tong is behind the door." Chen Ge looked at the door that led to the rooftop, and his mind was in a trance. The many ways of death crawled into his mind like they were trying to forcibly assimilate into his own memory.
"I have not experienced these things! These are not my memories! " Chen Ge raised the hammer and prepared to swing it at the door before him. It was as if by smashing the door, the painful memories that did not belong to him would disappear.
His expression was twisted. Just as the hammer was about to fall, he felt a sharp pain in his heart like he was being poked by a needle.
The intense pain woke Chen Ge up. In that short moment, his back was drenched in sweat.
Reaching into his shirt pocket, Chen Ge found the two halves of the same key from his shirt pocket.
"Self-control key?"
The rust on the key had faded a lot. Chen Ge still had not figured out how to use the self-control key, but it was this thing that had woken him up.
"When his memory merges with mine, the consequences will be unimaginable." Chen Ge put down the hammer and looked at the half-open door. He mumbled to himself like he had lost his mind, "Who are you? Why do you hate me so much? "
"We shouldn't stay here for long. We should leave this place first!" Lee Zheng looked around cautiously. His hand reached for the gun, and he was about to run when he saw Chen Ge slowly turn around and stare at him.
"Who are you?" Holding the hammer, Chen Ge's eyes were red.
"Me? Chen Ge! What's wrong with you? " Lee Zheng's hand pressed against the gun. He wanted to pull it out, but he soon realized that Chen Ge was ready. Once he touched the gun, Chen Ge would make his move.
"You're not Lee Zheng." Chen Ge's voice was hoarse. "Earlier, you said that when you entered Li Wan City, you notified the other members. At the time, you were hunting Jia Ming alone. When we first met at the hotel, I did not see a walkie-talkie on you, and the range of a walkie-talkie is limited, so you probably used a phone to contact the other members."
"What's wrong with using a phone?"
"Before I entered Li Wan City, I received your message. Your voice and tone matched Inspector Lee's perfectly, but due to the situation, I did not answer your call and asked you to send me a message. Your handwritten message was different from Inspector Lee's, and from then on, I suspected that Inspector Lee had been replaced by the shadow. " Chen Ge's eyes were bloodshot, but his voice slowly calmed down. "When Doctor Gao fought the shadow, it was also when you guys disappeared. Now that the battle between the shadow and Doctor Gao has ended, you guys appeared, so the shadow has to be among the missing members. "
Lee Zheng still wanted to say something, but he was interrupted by Chen Ge.
"You were afraid of being exposed, so you used your trump card and had the curses help you bring away all the people outside. That way, you could continue to hide your identity." Chen Ge took a step forward, and the Red Specter guarded him. "Initially, I only suspected it, but just now, I confirmed that you're the shadow."
He opened the comic and released a sickly little black dog.
The dog was happy to see Chen Ge, but when it saw Lee Zheng, it suddenly became confused.
"You're the most unique existence to it. You can trick us, but you can't trick the 'person' who sees you as his whole world." Chen Ge released the black dog that he had brought out from the 'kennel'.
Seeing the black dog, Lee Zheng's hand that was holding the gun slowly relaxed. The anxiety and anger on his face disappeared, and in its place was a calmness that was as deep as a lake.
"How laughable. I've only done one good deed in my life, and it became the key to your plan." Lee Zheng glanced at the black dog, and the chill in his eyes caused the dog to curl up on the ground. "I should have killed it. I just thought it would be fun to play with it."
As he said that, Lee Zheng's eyes closed, and his body collapsed to the ground. However, his shadow stood behind him, maintaining the same posture as before.
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