The community where Yingchen lived was called Mingyuan, which was once the most famous community in the old city, and all the people who lived here were wealthy.
However, with the opening up of the economy and the rapid development of Hanjiang New District, the old city's population declined and fewer and fewer people lived here.
The once high-end residential area now looks very deserted and dilapidated. There is no security guard at the door, and the greenery in the community is also very poor. You can even smell a faint strange odor when walking in the community.
"This is the house my parents bought. They are in business. If nothing had happened to them, I might be a rich second-generation now." Ying Chen was joking, but his voice was bitter. His true thoughts were hidden behind the joke.
Under Yingchen's leadership, the two of them came to the deepest part of the community.
"My house is on the seventh floor. How about I go upstairs to get your clothes and you just wait downstairs?" Ying Chen didn't really want Chen Ge to go to his house, so he tried all kinds of excuses.
"It's okay. If you go upstairs to get it, you will have to come down to give it to me later. It will be too much trouble for Baipao to make one trip." Chen Ge went straight into the corridor without saying anything. The faint stench seemed to become stronger when he puffed at the wings of his nose.
Looking around, Chen Ge discovered that there was an elevator installed in the corridor, but it was an old-fashioned elevator from many years ago.
"Mingyuan was the only residential area in the old city that had an elevator installed. It was once prosperous, but now most of the capable people in the community have moved away." Ying Chen pointed at the elevator and said, "Don't take it. It often breaks down and occasionally makes a loud noise, which is very scary."
At Yingchen's strong request, he and Chen Ge walked up the stairs to the seventh floor.
Chen Ge felt bad about the whole building. It was run-down and unhygienic. He couldn't hear any sound and didn't feel any people. Living in such a place must be very depressing.
"My house is a bit messy, I hope you don't mind." Yingchen's house was near the stairs. He took out the key and took a long time to open the door.
The stench in the air became stronger. Chen Ge took a look inside the house. Yingchen's house was big, but the decoration was shabby and many of the furniture were torn.
"I like cats more. I have adopted several stray cats at home. These are their masterpieces." Ying Chen said helplessly: "Please sit down. I will find clothes for you."
After entering the house, Chen Ge subconsciously rubbed his nose with his fingers. The sofa, the floor, and the dining table were all covered with cat hair, but the strange thing was that there was no cat in the house, nor could he hear any cat's cry.
"That stench wasn't coming from the cat. It was very similar to the stench in the old city. I also smelled it when I entered Yu Jian's room. When I came out from behind Yu Jian's door, the stench had disappeared."
Chen Ge had smelled that strange odor in many places, and he couldn't tell what exactly the odor came from. He only knew that the odor should be related to the "door".
While Yingchen was getting his clothes, Chen Ge took the opportunity to look around.
There was little furniture in the house, which was simply decorated. There were five rooms in total, and the doors of four of them were tightly closed.
After a while, Ying Chen walked out of the bedroom, holding a set of his own clothes: "How about this one? It's more formal and matches your pants."
"Thank you very much. You really helped me this time." Chen Ge looked very happy: "Can I use the bathroom?"
"The first room at the door." Ying Chen was very happy to be able to help Chen Ge. In his opinion, this deal was almost certain to win.
Entering the bathroom, Chen Ge closed the door, took out a comic book from his backpack and called Men Nan out.
"You and Tongtong hide here first, and find a chance to send Tongtong into his phone. Also, I will come before midnight, and you can help me open the door in the room then." Chen Ge said in a low voice.
"Just let me be the inner ghost?"
"You are the smartest among all the people in red. Only you can do this job." Chen Ge kept praising Men Nan, and the other party finally agreed.
After washing his face, Chen Ge walked out of the bathroom: "Yingchen, thank you so much this time. I will go back and prepare the contract. How about we sign it tomorrow?"
"Okay!" Yingchen is a money-loving person. It is unknown whether he is pretending or really values money more than his life.
"It's comfortable to work with straightforward people. I'm here today, so let's just go through the process." Chen Ge asked Ying Chen many questions, most of which were about the website. Until the end, he mentioned Ying Chen's brother intentionally or unintentionally: "I heard that you have a younger brother. What's wrong with the child's eyes? I know several great ophthalmologists. If you need anything, just give me a call."
"My brother was not born blind. He developed an eye disease when he was three or four years old. His condition got worse and worse. A big part of the reason I work hard to make money is to get his eyes treated."
"Your brotherhood is really touching." Chen Ge put down his backpack and said, "The sooner the eye disease is treated, the better. Can I see your brother?"
Chen Ge's request was a bit abrupt, but Ying Chen didn't think much about it. After a little hesitation, he stood up and walked to the room next to the bathroom: "Ying Tong? What are you doing?"
"Go to bed." A very soft voice came from inside the room.
"Then go to sleep. I won't disturb you." Ying Chen spread his hands and looked at Chen Ge with a little apology: "The child is sleeping. I'm really sorry."
"It's okay, it's okay." Chen Ge said it was okay, but he actually had doubts in his heart.
When Ying Chen asked Ying Tong what she was doing, Ying Tong in the room instantly answered "sleeping", as if they had discussed it in advance.
If Ying Tong was really sleeping, he would at least pause for a while before answering, and there was no sign of sleepiness in Ying Tong's voice.
Ying Tong seems to be very afraid of his brother. There is some secret hidden between the brothers.
"Okay, I won't bother you anymore. I'll come with the contract at nine tomorrow morning."
"Brother Chen, take care."
The door closed, and the expressions of the ministers and Chen Ge inside and outside the room turned cold at the same time.
Chen Ge stood at the door and did not leave. Instead, he leaned against the door and listened. After a while, the sound of the bedroom door being opened was heard from inside the house, followed by the sound of a child crying.
"This guy is really rotten."
Without solid evidence, Chen Ge did not act rashly. Men Nan and Tong Tong were in the room, and if something really bad happened, they would definitely stop it.
Standing alone in the corridor, Chen Ge glanced at the corridor and elevator next to him, and finally left along the corridor.
"If Ying Tong is the child chosen by the ghost fetus, then this door must be of hell-level difficulty."
"Jiang Ming is deaf, so I can't hear the voices of ghosts in his world behind the door. Fang Yu has a poor memory, and my memory in her world behind the door is also fading. Based on this, my vision must be limited in Ying Tong's world behind the door. The most likely possibility is that the ghosts are right next to me, but I can't see them."
Vision is very important for normal people. If someone who is used to seeing the world with his eyes is suddenly locked in a dark maze, he will feel very uncomfortable.
"Zhang Ya hasn't woken up yet. This door is very dangerous for me. To be on the safe side, it's better for me to bring the son of the female ghost in the tunnel with me."
If time was not insufficient, Chen Ge would even want to bring along the female ghost from the Living Coffin Village who jumped into the well.
After leaving Mingyuan, Chen Ge waited until dark and went directly to the Bailong Cave Tunnel, where he found the son of the female ghost deep in the tunnel.
The two parties had already made an agreement, and the son of the tunnel ghost girl did not go back on his word.
However, when Chen Ge wanted to include the son of the tunnel ghost girl into the comic book, an unexpected scene occurred.
Maybe it was because there was a door in his body that Yan Danian’s comic book could not include him. This was the first time Chen Ge encountered such a situation.
The two sides discussed for a long time. The son of the tunnel ghost wanted to hide in Chen Ge's shadow, but he stayed beside Chen Ge's shadow for a long time, and then for some reason he gave up the idea.
They tried several methods, and finally the son of the tunnel ghost spread out his nearly two-meter-long ferocious legs and wrapped around Chen Ge from behind.
The feeling of being imprisoned by the red spider was not pleasant. Chen Ge's whole body was cold and his body temperature was constantly dropping.
The whole process lasted about a minute. The son of the tunnel ghost disappeared, and an extremely huge and terrifying ghost face spider tattoo appeared on Chen Ge's entire back and legs.
This tattoo can only be seen in the shadows, which is very scary.
Chen Ge hated the feeling of having a cold body, but finding the ghost fetus was the most important thing right now, so he didn't care too much about it.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Chen Ge returned to Mingyuan Community in the old city, but he had not received any message from Tongtong until 11:30 in the evening.
"Nothing will go wrong, right? We have the protection of the red-clothed Men Nan, and the other party is just an ordinary person. Could it be that Bu Xiao, who cursed the hospital, is here too?"
The only people who deduced that it was Ying Tong were Chen Ge and Li Zheng. Chen Ge felt that the probability of Bu Xiao taking action was very small.
To be on the safe side, Chen Ge entered the corridor. As soon as he reached the fourth floor, his cell phone started vibrating.
"Yingchen" sent him a text message - he was holding his tools and ready to go out!
The people who controlled Yingchen's phone should be Tongtong and Men Nan. With the experience from last time, they cooperated perfectly this time and Yingchen seemed to be completely unaware.
"Leaving home at half past eleven? And still carrying tools?"
After receiving the message, Chen Ge quickly hid on the floor to avoid meeting Ying Chen.
He quietly watched the entrance of the corridor, and soon he saw Yingchen, wearing a baseball cap and carrying a large black bag, walking downstairs.
"Is there a body in that bag? Judging from its size, it looks a bit like a cat."
Yingchen's abnormal behavior once again deepened Chen Ge's suspicion of him.
The door of the ghost fetus will appear on time at midnight. Chen Ge didn't care about anything else. He waited for Yingchen to come downstairs and ran directly to Yingchen's door.
The other party did not lock the door, so Chen Ge called Lao Zhou to open the door from inside the house and sneak in.
There was no light in the room, making it seem cold and gloomy. Chen Ge stood at the window and looked downstairs.
Yingchen carried the black bag and walked out of the community and entered an abandoned construction site nearby.
"Bury the body?"
Ying Chen would probably be back soon, so Chen Ge didn't waste any time. He and Lao Zhou did a quick search of the house.
The toilet and kitchen were in working order, except that the lower shelf of the refrigerator was filled with finely chopped meat.
On the surface, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the other rooms. The bedroom where Yingchen lived was very clean, without a single cat hair to be seen, which was completely different from the other rooms.
Next to Yingchen's bedroom is the workroom. Chen Ge has seen it on video. Most of his videos were shot in this room.
Next to the workshop was a locked room. Chen Ge asked Lao Zhou to go in and take a look. There were several stray cats tied up with ropes in the room, two of which were already dying.
The last room in the house was Ying Tong's bedroom. Chen Ge first asked Lao Zhou to go in and check it out.
After learning that Ying Tong had fallen asleep, Chen Ge asked Lao Zhou to open the door from the inside.
The moment the bedroom door opened, a foul odor hit my nose. The stench in this room was even stronger than that in Yu Jian's room.
Covering his mouth and nose, Chen Ge looked into the house.
Ying Tong's bedroom was very small, the windows were sealed with wooden boards, there were no light bulbs in the lamps, there were handprints of various colors on the walls, there were many blood-stained cotton swabs scattered on the floor, there was a radio and a music box on the table, and many strange-looking dolls.
Even if Chen Ge looked at it from an adult's perspective, the dolls looked extremely distorted and scary, and were definitely not suitable for children to play with. They would be more likely to scare people if they were placed in a haunted house.
Ying Tong didn't notice Chen Ge coming in. He was sleeping soundly and seemed a little tired.
Chen Ge used Yin Tong and found that Ying Tong had some bruises on her body, but none of them were serious.
"This child seems to be very insecure. He always presses his body against the wall when he sleeps."
It was very uncomfortable to sleep against the wall, but Ying Tong seemed to have gotten used to it. He curled up his body, holding a photo frame in his hands, which contained a photo of Ying Chen.
"The two brothers have such a good relationship? Ying Tong even hugs her brother's photo when she sleeps?"
Chen Ge had many doubts in his mind. In his opinion, Ying Tong was more afraid of her brother than having family love.
He looked carefully and found that the size of the photo and the frame were not quite suitable. The photo seemed to have been stuffed in later. As for where the original photo in the frame went, probably only Yingchen knew.
The bedroom is enclosed and isolated from the outside world, and at first glance there is nothing special about it.
Ying Chen was about to come back, but Chen Ge did not leave. He stood in Ying Tong's bedroom waiting for the "door" to appear.
At midnight, a door covered entirely in blood appeared silently beside Ying Tong's bed.
The door lock trembled slightly, and black lines appeared on the door panel. No one touched it, but the door seemed to open by itself.
There were footsteps outside the house, the security door of the living room was opened, and Yingchen came back.
Carrying the backpack, Chen Ge did not hesitate and pushed open the bloody door to enter.
…
His body seemed to be trapped in quicksand, sinking continuously. Chen Ge struggled desperately, but the air in his lungs gradually became less and less, and the feeling of suffocation became more and more intense.
When he almost thought he was going to die, he suddenly opened his eyes.
Every time he entered the door of the ghost womb, it was as if he was walking on the edge of life and death. Before Chen Ge could catch his breath, his face changed again.
"This is……".
It was pitch black all around, with no light in sight. The world behind the door seemed to be covered by a huge black curtain, as if it had fallen into eternal night.
Chen Ge stood there motionless. The world behind the door of the ghost fetus became more and more dangerous and strange, and there was no room for carelessness.