After he closed his eyes, darkness covered everything, but this darkness did not represent despair and loneliness. Instead, it made him feel like he was placed inside a giant bubble that could contain all kinds of fantasies.
Memory and reality intertwined like a dream. As he moved forward step by step, the hard shell of the real world was peeled open.
Now Chen Ge understood why all the Nightmare Missions required him to close his eyes to complete them.
He wanted to walk into another world, and he wanted to see the lingering spirit that was hiding in the shadow of the real world.
Counting the steps in his heart, Chen Ge held the wall and soon reached the second floor.
His fingertips could feel the dust on the wall, his nose could smell the faded smell of mold, and his own footsteps echoed in his ears. At that moment, the impassable visual barrier was gone, and the world became different.
There's nothing wrong with the white tiger, which means that I haven't run into any danger yet. The first and fourth floors are equipped with lights, but the real trouble lies above the fourth floor.
Going up the stairs blindfolded was not that difficult for Chen Ge. He could recreate the scene inside the stairwell in his mind, and his body had gotten used to the height of the stairs. What he needed to do now was to focus and not be distracted by anything as he slowly moved to the top floor.
I should be on the second floor now.
Moving his feet, Chen Ge was about to go to the third floor when he suddenly heard an intense argument coming from one of the rooms in the corridor on the second floor.
"All you do is drink! Has your family ever cared about the life and death of me and the child? Ever since I became pregnant, you guys have not asked a single question. Every time I go for a checkup, I have to spend my own money. Also, I have had enough of your mother's attitude! "
"If you feel wronged, then get lost! If not for the fact that you left the door unlocked, Da Bao wouldn't have been lost! "
"Now you're blaming me, right? You left in the middle of the night, and I was still pregnant with Er Bao. Has your heart been eaten by a dog? "
"Don't pester me. I repeat, I need to go to work that day!"
The soundproofing of the building was not bad, but the couple was arguing fiercely, and they appeared to have gotten physical.
About ten seconds later, Chen Ge heard the door open, and someone walked out from the room. Judging from the footsteps, the person was wearing leather shoes, so it should be the man.
The quarrel continued. The man cursed and slammed the door shut.
Footsteps echoed down the corridor, and a heavy stench of alcohol closed in on Chen Ge. After the man entered the stairwell, he suddenly stopped cursing. He seemed to be startled by Chen Ge, who was standing in the corridor.
The footsteps paused for a moment, then they went downstairs, and soon disappeared.
"How much did this guy drink?"
The surroundings became quiet again, but the smell of alcohol did not completely dissipate.
Chen Ge continued up. He silently counted the steps. When he reached the third floor, he suddenly felt a little strange.
"Why do I smell alcohol?"
"If the man had already left, the smell of alcohol should have completely dissipated, unless he was following me!"
A picture appeared in Chen Ge's mind. He was blindfolded, and behind him was a drunkard with a twisted mind and a hideous face.
"When people are under great pressure, they will indeed gain pleasure by bullying the weak." Chen Ge did not turn around. If the man was a bad person, then it would be fine, but he was afraid that it might be something else.
"On the way here, I heard from the driver that there was a murder at this building not long ago. The victim was drunk, so the person following me might not be a human."
His nose could clearly smell the smell of alcohol, but his ears could not hear anything.
"I ran into a problem when I reached the third floor, and I still have to go up another ten floors …"
Fear could be overcome, but what was hard to overcome was the unknown. Chen Ge was stuck in a dilemma.
This Nightmare Mission was much more difficult than he expected. He had just reached the third floor. If he gave up on the mission and escaped, it should not be a problem.
But if he continued to go up, the risk of giving up on the mission would only increase.
"The chance of a Nightmare Mission spawning is very low. If I give up this time, who knows when I'll run into it again?"
After stopping for a while on the third floor, Chen Ge moved up to the fourth floor.
When he got close to the light, even with his eyes closed, Chen Ge could feel the change in the light. He was sure that he was on the fourth floor.
"I've walked a quarter of the way down, and there are no problems for now."
Holding onto the wall, Chen Ge carefully moved up to the fifth floor. When he raised his leg, his shoe knocked over something.
The sound was crisp, like a porcelain bowl.
He slowly squatted down and searched the ground. His fingertips touched an apple, cooked white rice, and two wooden chopsticks.
The chopsticks appeared to be stuck in the rice. He could feel that one end was sticky.
"Serving rice in the stairwell? Something happened on this floor? "
Of the entire building, only the first and fourth floors were equipped with lights, which inevitably made people think too much.
Putting the bowl back, Chen Ge bowed at the table. "I'm so sorry, please forgive me. If you want compensation, you can follow me home when I leave. You can take whatever you like. "
Then, Chen Ge left the fourth floor and headed for the fifth floor.
The last ray of light disappeared. Facing away from the light source on the fourth floor, Chen Ge slowly moved up the stairs.
Fifth floor, sixth floor, when he reached the seventh floor, the smell of alcohol disappeared.
"Has it left?"
"If it's the man who died a few days ago, and he suddenly left after reaching the seventh floor, it means that there might be something scarier than him on the seventh floor, and he did not dare come up.
"The other possibility is that something scary is standing before me now, and it was this new thing that scared the man away."
He knew what was before him, but he could not see it, and that was a very uncomfortable feeling.
"The white cat did not warn me, so it's still acceptable."
Chen Ge bent down slightly to lower his center of gravity to prevent himself from tripping.
Slowing down, Chen Ge slowly moved up, but when he raised his arm and put it down, he froze where he was.
The sensation that came from his fingertips was no longer the cold wall, but it was elastic like human skin.
After standing there for a few seconds, Chen Ge's hand slowly slid down. Based on the sensation that came from his fingertips, he was sure that he was touching a human face!
His Adam's apple moved, and Chen Ge's body seemed to have frozen.
If it was someone else, they would have screamed already, but Chen Ge did not. He still maintained a surprisingly calm demeanor.
His fingers exerted some force, and through the touch, Chen Ge understood two things.
One, this was a child's face; two, the skin was bone-chilling like it had just been taken out from the fridge, so it was definitely not a human.
"The nose is very sharp, but I have an impression of this face."
Chen Ge was reminded of the missing person notice that he saw on the wall when he first entered the stairwell.
The child on the notice had a similar face.
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