Although the boy pushed Chen Ge down the stairs, he also revealed a very important message to Chen Ge.
In the eyes of those people in the world behind the door, Chen Ge is a weirdo who always keeps his eyes closed.
"Maybe I'm not blind, I just haven't opened my eyes."
With his back against the wall, Chen Ge reached out and touched his eyes. He was sure that his eyes were open.
“Why did this happen?”
There was nothing blocking Chen Ge's vision. He dug his fingernails into the flesh at the corners of his eyes and slid them slowly. It was still pitch black in front of him. He couldn't even see the blood seeping into his eyelids.
"It's pitch black. It seems like there's only one color in this world."
The corridor returned to calm and the group of children had run away.
"Perhaps in the eyes of others, Ying Tong always appears with his eyes closed, so in the world behind his door, all blind people appear with their eyes closed?"
"Could it be possible that although Ying Tong has one eye closed, he is not completely blind, and he knows what his brother is doing, so he pretends to be blind in order to survive?"
“His world can be colorful, but he can’t open his eyes?”
"If Ying Chen really killed someone in reality, once Ying Chen knew that his brother was not blind, he would definitely create an 'accident' to kill Ying Tong!"
"That pervert is capable of doing anything. I cannot use the good guy's criteria to analyze the bad guy's logic. For Yingchen, brothers may not represent relatives, but may also represent some kind of tool for entertainment."
Chen Ge recalled an incident. He once opened Ying Chen's refrigerator in real life and found that the bottom of the refrigerator was filled with chopped meat.
The bones have been removed and the meat has been processed, so you can't tell what the meat is just by looking at its appearance.
"If the meat is from animals, it's not a big deal. But I'm afraid it's not animal meat." Chen Ge has seen many perverted killers. In his mind, perverted killers are divided into different levels. Being able to debone, process, and disguise non-animal meat and store it in the refrigerator at home is not something that ordinary perverts would do.
"When drinking with me, Yingchen behaved exactly like an ordinary person. He was even better at socializing than most people. If all my speculations are true, then this guy is really scary."
"Ying Chen wears a mask in front of all living people. He only takes off his disguise in front of his brother Ying Tong. That child has seen such a horrific scene since he was very young. Even if there is no ghost fetus, Ying Tong may become a door pusher in the future."
The horror and distortion of the world behind the door is directly proportional to the despair experienced by the person who pushes the door.
Although Chen Ge did not find anything special about this world through touch and smell, perhaps once he opened his eyes, he would see the true horror of this world.
"It's useless to think so much. It's better to find a safe place to hide first. Among those children just now, only one child pushed me, which means that there should be some children who can communicate with me among the remaining children. If there is really no place to go, I can try to persuade them."
Chen Ge was unsure, but he had actually been paying careful attention to his surroundings, so he could take immediate measures if any unexpected incident occurred.
The reason why he was pushed down the stairs from behind by the child just now was that he really didn't expect that there was a child who didn't leave, and the footsteps were mixed together at that time.
The second point is that the child is very strong and doesn't look like a child at all.
Without vision, it is very risky to determine the identity of the other person only by voice, so Chen Ge will not trust anyone unless it is absolutely necessary.
"If this place corresponds to reality, Yingchen's family lives on the seventh floor. I can judge the floor by the sound of the elevator running and try to take the elevator."
The old-fashioned elevators were very noisy and dangerous when started, but they did represent a third way. If Yingchen knew that he could only walk along the corridor, the elevator would be his only hope of escape.
Of course, Chen Ge did not want such a scene to happen, and he did not want to confront Ying Chen yet.
"Let's assume that this place is exactly the same as reality. Yingchen's family lives on the seventh floor. I am currently at the corner of the third and fourth floors. Yingchen should be on the first floor."
"He may be guarding the entrance to the first floor corridor, or he may have left and ran out of the building."
Unable to see anything, Chen Ge could only choose his own path based on guesswork.
"Ying Tong doesn't know that I'm blind. He went upstairs from the right corridor before. If he realizes something is wrong, he will probably go into the left corridor to check. After all, in his opinion, the person who sneaked into his house left through the left corridor, so he might have left some clues there."
Thinking of this, Chen Ge decisively left the corridor on the left, entered the corridor, and walked towards the corridor on the right.
"I hope I'm overthinking it, but it's always better to be cautious."
Chen Ge's best-case scenario was that Ying Chen heard some noise in the left corridor after reaching the first floor, and hurried into the left corridor, while he hid in the right corridor, perfectly avoiding him and successfully escaping the building.
Once we leave this building, there should be more places to hide.
The idea is beautiful, but the reality is always cold and cruel.
As soon as Chen Ge entered the corridor on the third floor, he heard the sound of a door opening. The sound was very close to him, only two or three meters away.
Holding onto the wall, Chen Ge just stood there.
The cold wind was blowing, and a foul smell came out of the room.
Standing in the corridor was a very dangerous thing for Chen Ge. After hesitating for a moment, he took a step forward.
It felt like I stepped on something under my shoe, something very brittle, like a bug that I had crushed to death.
This feeling was very uncomfortable, and Chen Ge did not dare to stop. When he was about to take the second step, someone suddenly held his shoulder.
"Are you new here?" A middle-aged man's voice came into Chen Ge's ears. It was this man who suddenly opened the door just now.
"Yes." Chen Ge's brain was working rapidly. The stench in the air included the smell of moldy food, the smell of piled clothes, and the smell of human body. The uncle next to him seemed to be very sloppy and had not tidied the room for a long time.
"Why do you feel so hot when you just moved in? I thought you were coming in from outside the building to deliver something." The middle-aged man said something puzzling.
Hot body? Chen Ge felt that his body temperature was already very low. This was the first time someone said that his body was very hot.
He did not refute. From the perspective of a living person, his body temperature was not only not high, but also a little low.
But from the perspective of a dead person, he is indeed different from other "people" and is an outlier.
Chen Ge was thinking about how to answer the middle-aged man's question when he suddenly heard a cat's meow.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge pricked up his ears and quickly determined the location where the cat's meow came from. It was in the corridor on the left!
Before he could open his mouth, a second cat meow was heard, more urgent than the previous one.
"Yingchen is coming!"
It was too late to run to the right corridor now. Chen Ge had only one choice. He whispered to the middle-aged man: "Brother, I have something very important to tell you."
Holding onto his backpack, Chen Ge leaned against the wall and touched the door frame: "Let's go in and talk. Give me three minutes!"
He entered the middle-aged man's house without saying a word.
"Who let you in?"
"Close the door quickly!" Chen Ge couldn't see anything. He could only hear the increasingly shrill sound of the cat's meow, as if he was the only one who could hear it.
"What on earth are you doing?" The middle-aged man moved very slowly and hesitantly. At this time, the cat's cry sounded like he was killing a cat, which was already creepy.
Chen Ge followed the sound and grabbed the middle-aged man's arm, pulling him into the house: "Close the door!"
The sound of a door closing was heard, and Chen Ge signaled the middle-aged man to keep quiet. At this time, the cat's meow did not stop, but became more and more shrill. Ying Chen seemed to have heard the sound of a door closing, and he was walking towards this side!
"you……"
"Don't talk if you don't want to die!" Chen Ge squeezed out these words from between his teeth, and the middle-aged man finally shut up.
Chen Ge stood still, but the middle-aged man walked past him and seemed to enter the living room.
The sound of footsteps revealed that there was someone in the house, but Chen Ge had no way of controlling the other person.
The cat's sharp and painful cry reached his ears, and he couldn't tell where it was. It was as if Ying Chen was standing in front of Chen Ge.
He didn't even dare to breathe. He could only wait because Ying Chen might be standing outside the door. There was a security door between him and Chen Ge.
Chen Ge covered his mouth, thinking: "Yingchen knew that someone entered his house, but he didn't know that it was me who entered his house. If you look at it from his perspective, he might mistakenly think that the owner of this room sneaked into his house. With Yingchen's personality, he might kill this middle-aged man."
"Assuming that the middle-aged man and Yingchen are just ordinary neighbors, if Yingchen wants to kill the middle-aged man, then the middle-aged man and I can be regarded as grasshoppers on the same rope."
"Now what I have to do is wait for Yingchen to leave, then test the middle-aged man, slowly tell him the truth, and see how he reacts."
The cat's meowing lasted for more than a minute before it stopped, and Yingchen left.
Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead and the blood from his eyebrows, Chen Ge shouted into the house: "Brother, are you still there?"
Yingchen was most likely going home to get something in preparation for killing the middle-aged man.
This is a residential building, and a fight would definitely attract other people's attention. Chen Ge felt that Ying Chen would most likely drug the middle-aged man first, and then deliver a fatal blow after he lost consciousness.
The house was filled with a foul smell, but Chen Ge didn't care too much about it now. In his mind, as long as there was no stench of corpses, it was already a good place.
"Brother, I know it's rude of me to suddenly enter your house, but I hope you can let me finish what I'm saying." Chen Ge took a deep breath. He knew that once he said this, the situation might become more complicated and there would be more things to predict. "There are two brothers living on the seventh floor. The younger brother is blind and the older brother likes to raise stray cats. Do you remember them?"
There was still no sound in the room, and the middle-aged man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
"Today when I passed by, I found that his door was not closed. When I went in, I found a body hidden under my brother's bed. He is a murderer!"
After Chen Ge finished speaking, there was finally movement in the house. The voice of a middle-aged man came from somewhere in the living room: "Impossible, I know that person. His name is Ying Chen. He is stupid and dumb. He often does thankless tasks, such as being in charge of community gardening, adopting stray cats, etc."
"Stupid and dumb? Do you think Yingchen is such a person?"
"Yes, he is a pushover. According to him, he wants to do more good deeds and accumulate more virtues, hoping to move God and let his brother's eyes recover soon. Do you think he is a fool?" The middle-aged man did not believe Chen Ge's words at all. In his opinion, killing people had nothing to do with Yingchen.
"You can't judge a person by his appearance. You only see the side he shows, which is his disguise." Chen Ge didn't expect that his words were so clear, but the other party actually thought he was joking.
"I don't know why you said that about him. If that's the case, let's get more people to go up and take a look."
"Absolutely not." Chen Ge didn't want to expose his existence. Once he was targeted by Yingchen, he wouldn't be able to see anything, and he would probably die without knowing how he died.
"What on earth are you doing here?" The middle-aged man grabbed Chen Ge's hair and said, "You keep your eyes closed because there is something wrong with your eyes?"
"What I said is true. Yingchen killed people, and there is more than one dead person."
"You look like a lunatic to me. You are blind. How can you see the corpse?" The middle-aged man did not believe what Chen Ge said. In his opinion, Chen Ge looked more like a lying outsider.
"I felt it with my hands. It was tied under his bed. It was a headless corpse!"
"You're still touching a corpse? You're really brave." The middle-aged man used force on his arms. He didn't welcome Chen Ge. He grabbed Chen Ge's hair and pushed him to the door. "Compared to a murderer, you're more disgusting for sneaking into someone's house and touching a corpse, right?"
His hair was being pulled and his scalp was hurting. Chen Ge grabbed the middle-aged man's arm. He originally wanted to shake off the middle-aged man's hand, but when his fingertips touched the middle-aged man's skin, his expression changed.
The middle-aged man's body was cold and had no body temperature. More importantly, his skin surface was uneven and had something like plaques on it.
"Corpse?" These two words popped up in his mind, and Chen Ge immediately let go of his hand: "Is this uncle dead?"
"Get out of here right now. If I see you in this neighborhood again, you'll be in trouble. Do you understand?"
Chen Ge was pushed out of the room by the middle-aged man. Standing in the corridor, Chen Ge felt a chill in his heart.
"In Ying Tong's memory, the middle-aged man appeared in a private image, which means that he may have been killed in reality. Then why was he killed as a neighbor? Did he discover Ying Chen's secret? Or did Ying Tong secretly tell him something, but he didn't believe it, which led to his death?"
Many things in the world behind the door are interconnected. Chen Ge stayed at the door for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of an old-fashioned elevator running. At the same time, the cat's meow sounded again.
"The minister is coming here in the elevator."