The familiar cigarette brought back Chen Ge's memories. He was not a sentimental person, but at this moment he still stopped.

"You left me all alone and ran to such a dangerous place. How many things are you hiding from me?"

He knocked on the door, but received no response. Chen Ge whispered, "Is anyone there?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a surprised voice came from inside the door.

"Boss Chen?!"

The iron chain behind the door slid and the spring popped open. After a long time, this seemingly ordinary door was finally opened.

Fan Cong, wearing pajamas, stood behind the door with tears on his face. When this 200-pound fat guy saw Chen Ge, he rushed over and wanted to give Chen Ge a bear hug.

"Please control yourself." Chen Ge took a step back. He could see that Fan Cong was very excited.

"I knew you would come! Boss Chen, I almost never saw you again!" Fan Cong even had a hint of tears in his voice as he spoke. He had a lot of things he wanted to tell Chen Ge, but he didn't know where to start. He walked back and forth in the room, his fat belly trembling slightly with his body.

"Calm down first. Do you have your phone with you? We talked on the phone a few hours ago. Let me see your call records." Chen Ge was testing Fan Cong. When Fan Cong disappeared, his phone was left in the room. Later, Fan Dade had a brief exchange with Chen Ge through Fan Cong's phone.

"It's not here with me. I dropped it in the room when I was in such a hurry to escape." Fan Cong pointed to his oversized pajamas, which had no pockets.

Chen Ge nodded and looked into the room. It was just an ordinary rental house with a bed, a table, and an electric fan. There was nothing special about it.

"Why are you hiding in this place? Who brought you here?" Chen Ge had always thought that Fan Cong was kidnapped by Shadow, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"To be honest, I can't believe it myself." Fan Cong moved his fat body and walked to the window.

"On the second underground floor, what's the point of repairing a window? Are you kidding yourself?" Chen Ge tightly grasped the skull crusher and blocked the door of the room.

"She brought me here." Fan Cong pulled open the thick curtains. On the cement wall behind him was a painting made of cheap watercolors. There were mountains, water, bright sunshine, flowers that would never wither, and family members with smiles on their faces.

Chen Ge's gaze followed the curtains and finally stopped at one side of the window frame, where a little girl was sitting.

She was dressed in red, staring blankly at the painting on the cement wall.

"Xiao Bu?" Chen Ge had seen this girl more than once, but each time she gave her a different feeling, warning, coldness, and this time helplessness.

"She was the one who took me away when we were on the phone." Fan Cong's eyelids twitched, and he seemed to be a little scared when he recalled the scene at that time. "It was not my brother who came back that night, but someone else. I really can't believe that I didn't notice it at all and stayed in the same house with him for so long."

"Your brother was replaced by a shadow?" Fan Cong's words matched Chen Ge's previous speculation: "Did Xiaobu tell you this?"

"Well, my brother didn't come back that night, and I'm a little worried about him now." Fan Cong sat on the bed, and the shabby bed board creaked, as if it would collapse at any time.

Compared to his body size, the bed seemed even smaller.

"These beds are for children." Fan Cong explained and secretly glanced at Xiaobu. He was also worried that he would collapse the bed.

"Prepared for the children?" Chen Ge keenly caught the key words in Fan Cong's words: "You told me on the phone that after completing the game, Xiaobu entered this building. Is this building special? It looks like its internal structure is no different from other buildings in Liwan Town."

"I also heard from Xiaobu that many years ago there was an epidemic in Liwan Town, and this building was the only one avoided by the infectious patients."

"The only one who was avoided? What does that mean?" Chen Ge didn't quite understand.

"It's a long story. If you complete Xiaobu's game, you will know everything. That game is set in Liwan Town, and it truly restores the Liwan Town at that time." Fan Cong has conquered all the side quests and knows all the game plots: "Human nature is very complicated. It can sacrifice itself like the scorching sun to bring warmth to the weak, or it can be like the abyss, dark and gloomy, with no bottom line."

"The source of the outbreak was Liwan Hospital. The hospital was helpless against the disease. The patients knew they could not survive, so some of them began to take revenge by secretly putting their own blood and other things on fruits and medical equipment. Soon the disease spread."

"First it spread to other patients, then to doctors, and finally to half of Liwan Town."

"The disease is rampant and people are in panic. Many people who have symptoms are like crazy. Although they don't kill people directly, innocent people die because of them. They are actually not much different from those murderers."

"The whole Liwan town was in chaos at the time, except for this building."

"Before the building was built, there was an orphanage. The developer thought that the eastern suburbs would develop very fast in the future, so they bought the land and built a new building. At that time, they promised very well that they would build new homes for all orphans and staff and keep the orphanage. Only after it was actually built did we know that they used the first and second floors of the basement to house the orphans."

"After the disease broke out, all the staff of the orphanage strictly prohibited the children from coming out, and then they themselves guarded the entrance to the underground. They had made up their minds not to let anyone in, including themselves."

"After a day and a night, someone came from above. No one knew the specific solution, and no information could be found online. The game only said that all the orphans were rescued and no one was infected."

When Fan Cong said this, his voice changed slightly: "To be honest, I admire the staff of the orphanage very much. They can be said to be the only good thing in Liwan Town."

Human beings are a very special kind of life. Even in the dirtiest and ugliest environment, they can still bloom beautiful flowers of kindness.

"No wonder there are human-shaped stains in all buildings except this one." Chen Ge figured out the first problem, but then more questions popped up: "But why did Xiaobu enter this building in the end of the game? Does it mean that she is dedicated to doing good?"

Those who can open the door are all deeply in despair, and it is extremely difficult for them to redeem themselves.

"You should have noticed the posters in the basement corridor, right? There was a branch line in the game where a young couple entered Liwan Town, found Xiaobu, and turned this building into Xiaobu's shelter." Fan Cong tried his best to recall the last few clips of the game: "They wanted to help Xiaobu, but they asked Xiaobu to agree to one condition."

"Conditions?" Chen Ge knew that the young couple Fan Cong was talking about were his parents. They smoked familiar cigarettes, carried haunted house posters with them, and wished that the whole world would come to the haunted house to play. Only his family could do this.

"Yes." Fan Cong turned around and looked at Xiaobu. Seeing that Xiaobu didn't react, he continued, "They hope that Xiaobu can become the shadow of their child."

"Tell me in detail." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes.

"You've seen the conversation in the game, it's hard to interpret, but it roughly means that their child's shadow is lost, so they hope Xiaobu can become their child's new shadow. I know this is incredible, but that's what it says in the game. In the game, Xiaobu didn't agree immediately, so they built a shelter in Liwan Town, saying that if Xiaobu thought it through, he could go into the shelter and wait for them, and then they would help Xiaobu get rid of the shadow." Fan Cong didn't know how much of an impact his words had on Chen Ge.

"They really thought of using a red-clothed person as the shadow." Now that Xiaobu has entered the shelter, it means that he has agreed to be Chen Ge's shadow. However, not only did his parents not get rid of the shadow as agreed, but they also made him disappear. This made Chen Ge a little unsure about how to face Xiaobu: "Don't think too much about it. As long as the shadow can be killed, no matter who does it, it will be considered as fulfilling the agreement."

Entering the room, Chen Ge walked to the window. Xiao Bu looked only seven or eight years old. Her blood-red clothes formed a sharp contrast with her pale face. Just by approaching her, Xu Yin issued a strong warning.

"She looks very strong." This was the first time Chen Ge had seen an out-of-control door. He had no idea what impact the out-of-control door would have on the person pushing it. However, judging from the current situation, it seemed that the person pushing the door would become even more terrifying after the door got out of control.

"It was my parents who made the agreement with you before. I am the one who lost his own shadow in their words."

Hearing Chen Ge's words, the girl who had been in a daze moved her eyelashes slightly. She slowly turned around, and a sense of oppression that made Chen Ge almost suffocate came from in front of her.

"this……"

The red dress fluttered, Xiaobu had no hands or arms, and her heart was also empty.

"This child is the same as the door! The part where the door was removed corresponds to her body except that the head was replaced with the heart."

Looking at each other silently, no one would voluntarily give up their freedom. Chen Ge finally understood why Xiaobu fled into the shelter.

Chen Ge took another step forward despite the pressure and Xu Yin's warning. There was a trace of heartache in his eyes. "I didn't come here for any promise. You have been hurt too much. I can't understand even one thousandth of your pain. So I won't comfort you from the perspective of a bystander. I know that such consolation is in vain."

"Blood debt must be paid with blood. I will help you kill the shadow, and then you will no longer be alone." Chen Ge stopped in front of Xiaobu, slowly squatted down, and looked straight at the numb face: "The scenery in this window is a painting. After getting rid of the shadow, I will take you outside the door, to all the places you want to go, and see all the scenery you want to see."

Chen Ge no longer mentioned any agreement, and he would not let Xiaobu be his shadow.

Perhaps realizing that Chen Ge was not lying, Xiaobu blinked. Blood oozed from the window frame, and the blood drops gathered into a few words: "People without shadows will not live long. Are you sure you don't want me to be your shadow?"