That day, he told me many things, things that he would not normally say to me. "
"The person that you're talking about, is he still in this building?" Chen Ge could hear the trembling in the voice beside him.
"He moved out, and he hasn't been back for a long time."
"Then, do you wish to see him again?" Chen Ge tugged on the edge of his shirt. "I believe you have many things that you wish to tell him. After all, it was he who made you feel cold all over."
"I …"
"It's fine. I will help you. I will definitely help you." Chen Ge held the wall as he slowly stood up. "If he hasn't left Jiujiang, I will bring him back within a week. After you see him, I can bring you to a warmer place. "
The woman did not answer, but Chen Ge was not in a hurry. "Now I have another reason to live. You can keep the jacket. I will return."
Moving his feet, Chen Ge was about to move up when the woman's voice rang out behind him again. "Don't go any further. You won't be able to come back."
"I won't be able to come back? Why? "
"Because above the thirteenth floor is the fourteenth floor."
A jacket was shoved into Chen Ge's hands, and the cold and damp feeling slowly dissipated.
"What is she trying to tell me?" Chen Ge gripped the jacket in his hands. "The buildings at Jiang Yuan Apartments don't have fourteenth floors. Above the thirteenth floor should be the fifteenth floor, but she said that above the thirteenth floor is the fourteenth floor? In other words, the fourteenth floor actually exists? "
At this point, Chen Ge would not retreat. He knew that he was very close to the truth.
Counting the number of steps in his heart, Chen Ge came to the thirteenth floor. This floor was very quiet. It was like a normal apartment building; there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Moving toward the fourteenth floor, when Chen Ge was halfway there, his nose twitched. He smelled the aroma of rice.
He had no idea what it was made of, and he had no idea what kind of dish it was, but his brain seemed to recognize that it was the aroma of rice in that moment. It was like it was imprinted in his memory.
"It came from the fourteenth floor. Is someone cooking?"
Step by step, Chen Ge felt that there were a lot of steps between the thirteenth and fourteenth floors. He didn't know if it was because he had used up too much of his stamina or because he was too tired mentally.
Even though the number of steps was the same as the other floors and the number of times he raised his leg was the same, it still took him more time.
His fingertips fell, and cracks appeared on the originally smooth wall. There seemed to be a lot of junk in the corridor.
Everything around him gave Chen Ge a sense of familiarity and strangeness.
He mechanically repeated the action of lifting his leg and putting it down. Smelling the fragrance of the rice, he finally arrived at the fourteenth floor.
Just as he steadied himself, the axle in the corridor turned, and a steel door opened. Then a man's voice came from the end of the corridor. "Chen Ge, you're home?"
The moment he heard the voice, Chen Ge's mind went blank. He quickly turned around and faced the corridor.
He had heard this man's voice for more than 20 years. He didn't know how many times he had heard this sentence since he was young.
He had memorized this voice in his heart and carved it into his bones.
"The meal is ready. When you came upstairs, your mother heard your footsteps."
His nails dug into his flesh. Chen Ge slowly raised his arms and grabbed the black cloth that covered his eyes.
He wanted to take a look. He had never wanted to open his eyes so badly.
His hands that gripped the black cloth tightened, and greenish-black veins surfaced on the back of his hands.
"How does it feel to go to school alone for the first time?"
"Other children have been sent to and from school!"
"No one bullied you, right?"
"Did you make any friends? Your personality is so similar to mine, so you shouldn't be so unpopular, right? "
"Wash your hands, wash your hands, don't run around …"
The sentences came from the end of the corridor until the axle turned again, and the steel door closed.
The man's voice disappeared, and the voices of other people came from the corridor. There were men and women, young and old.
"What's wrong with the new family? They wait for the child to fall asleep every night before going out. No wonder the child has nightmares every night. "
"Did you hear that? The house is filled with laughter in the morning and crying at night. Isn't the child afraid of being alone in the house?"
"This is weird. I saw the family of three go out in the morning with my own eyes today. How come there is a child crying in the house at night?"
"My brothers! I've realized something. It's not the adults that have problems with the new family, it's the child that has problems! I saw with my own eyes a doctor from some hospital in Xin Hai come to treat the child! Don't let your own child play with him! "
"How come it feels like the child's illness has worsened after being treated by the doctor? Do you know? The child tells his parents his nightmares in the morning, and when his parents are not home at night, he tells his own shadow about the nightmares. It's so scary! "
"That can't be right. He doesn't sleep at night or day, so when did he start having nightmares? Are the children really talking about dreams? "
"Don't scare me. Never mind, they are moving away soon anyway. Just wait a few more days."
"Moving away?"
"Yes, I heard they're moving to Western Jiujiang. The child's parents are going to work at a theme park."
The voices in his ears slowly disappeared. Chen Ge was still standing where he was. His hands were still gripping the black cloth that blindfolded his eyes.
After a while, Chen Ge took a deep breath. "I only remember the beautiful things. I have forgotten most of the things that the neighbors told me, but there are a few key points that I need to pay attention to.
When I was very young, I came into contact with a doctor from Xin Hai Hospital. It was after he treated me that I started to tell my shadow the nightmares.
It was then that my shadow became strange, and the key to everything was that doctor.
"The doctor came from Xin Hai, and the cursed hospital is between Xin Hai and Jiujiang. Is this a coincidence?"
Standing on the fourteenth floor, Chen Ge silently turned around to face the corridor that was filled with all kinds of voices.
His hands that gripped the black cloth slowly tightened. Finally, he removed the slightly damp black cloth. At that moment, his eyes were still closed.
"I wish I could see all of you the moment I open my eyes, but I know that is impossible." Chen Ge did not turn around. With his hand on the wall, he continued to move upward. "You once gave me everything you had. Now, I will use everything I have to find you."
In the dark corridor, Chen Ge's back was slightly different from usual.
Fifteenth floor, sixteenth floor, seventeenth floor …
Counting the number of steps in his heart, Chen Ge knew that he had arrived at the seventeenth floor. Theoretically speaking, this was the top floor of this building, but he did not hurry to open his eyes.
"The fourteenth floor does not exist, but the girl with the cold body said that the fourteenth floor is above the thirteenth floor. This building originally had seventeen floors. Adding the extra fourteen floors, there should be a total of eighteen floors. It is like the eighteen levels of hell. "
After saying that, Chen Ge moved his feet along the wall. Soon, the tip of his shoes touched the stairs that led up.
"There is indeed an eighteenth floor."
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