"You two stand here and don't move. If someone falls, remember to catch them."
Chen Ge placed the bag containing the white cat on the ground, and rushed to the seventh floor with the skull crusher in hand.
"Be careful!"
No matter how the drunk shouted, Chen Ge did not stop.
Saving people was just a matter of convenience. Since entering Liwan Town, Chen Ge had no intention of letting Yingzi go.
He can only feel at ease if he catches this guy with such a mysterious background who is inextricably linked to him.
"I can definitely get a lot of information about my parents from Shadow."
When entering Liwan Town, Chen Ge had already anticipated this moment, but he had previously wanted to let the high-heeled shoes and the smiling man to explore the way for him. Unexpectedly, Dr. Gao suddenly appeared and made everything out of control.
"Overall, the situation is still very favorable to me."
Outside the building, Dr. Gao was led away by Xu Yin, which gave Chen Ge a rare opportunity.
"The monster upstairs is waiting for you, don't go up!" This time it was Scissors who spoke. He was not in a good condition, and there were shallow blood spots on his body, as if all the capillaries on the surface of the skin had burst.
"He's waiting for me, and I'm looking for him too!" Chen Ge dragged the skull crusher even faster. Behind him, the white cat also crawled out of the bag and followed him with extremely agile movements.
The kids on the seventh floor were clearly trying to seduce Chen Ge with the help of the scissors. They controlled their movements and immediately let go and ran away when Chen Ge approached.
“Give me your hands!” Chen Ge dragged the scissors and the drunk to a safe place. Neither of them were tied up with ropes, but they looked as if they were allergic to something. The pain was unbearable and it was difficult for them to even stand up.
"Can you walk by yourself?" Chen Ge helped the doctor to the side. The poison in the doctor had not yet been removed.
"Don't worry about us. Shadow doesn't kill us because he wants to use us to drag you down. That guy will do anything to achieve his goal." The doctor said weakly.
"You can speak complete sentences. It seems that your health has improved." Chen Ge was about to ask the doctor what happened to them in Fancong Community when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
Looking back, I saw the tattooed man's head popping out from the eighth floor. His face was covered in blood, his eyes were wide open, and the human head tattoo on his arm had been completely torn off.
Several children with numb expressions surrounded the tattooed man. They held paintbrushes in their hands and were painting next to him with paintbrushes stained with the tattooed man's blood.
"Dead?"
They are more terrifying and numb than those children at the bottom of society, and their attitude towards "toys" is even more frightening.
"The tattooed man is dead. If the higher you go, the worse your fate will be, then could it be that something has happened to Men Nan and Lao Zhou as well?"
Chen Ge was a little worried. It was the first time he realized that these ghosts who accompanied him were so important to him. He had already regarded them as family and companions.
The tattooed man's body was pushed down by several children and fell in front of Chen Ge. A life ended just like that. This is the world behind the door.
In this world woven of despair and nightmares, life and hope are the most fragile things.
Watching the tattooed man's body fall, the kids dispersed as if they had completed their mission, leaving only the painting they had just drawn with the tattooed man's blood in the corridor.
When these children left, the sound of children laughing could be heard from the tenth floor. The children there no longer had numbness on their faces; they were happy, but what they did made Chen Ge grit his teeth.
The cell phone ghost Tongtong was caught by several children, his body was torn and deformed, his cell phone was snatched away, and the messages his mother sent him were also deleted.
Those children who were raised by Shadow could no longer be considered children. They hated beauty and thought that family affection and love were the most disgusting things in the world. Chen Ge even felt that Shadow wanted to train all these children into monsters like him.
Every employee in the horror house has his own story, and the one that touched Chen Ge the most was Tongtong. Taking care of this child is not only about Tongtong's special abilities, but also a promise to his mother.
Tongtong didn't cry or make a fuss. He had long been accustomed to this, whether when he was alive or in the hands of Han Baoer from the Ghost Story Association.
But the more he acted like this, the more distressed Chen Ge felt.
The children knew that Tongtong had attracted Chen Ge's attention, so they grabbed Tongtong and fled to a higher place, obviously wanting to lead Chen Ge to the roof.
"Chen Ge! Don't go over there!" Li Zheng dragged Jia Ming up and said, "Someone is seriously injured here. Let's evacuate them first. I notified the rest of the team when I entered Liwan Town. Reinforcements should be arriving soon."
"There won't be any reinforcements. You and Jia Ming take them downstairs first. Remember to stay away from here." Chen Ge frowned slightly, opened a page in the comic book, and then quickly returned to normal. The whole process took only a few tenths of a second.
"Aren't you going to leave with us? What are you going to do?" Li Zheng tried his best to stop Chen Ge.
"I'm not good at educating children, so I can only treat those guys who bully children as adults. It would be much easier if they were adults." Chen Ge picked up the skull crusher and whispered a name.
A strong smell of blood wafted through the narrow corridor. A pair of deformed and twisted arms appeared from Chen Ge's side and gently rested on his shoulders.
"Catch them, take them back, and educate them slowly."
The head hanging diagonally on the shoulders slowly rose up. The body, which had been completely deformed due to the car accident, had returned to normal when the head was raised.
The red-clothed female ghost that Chen Ge brought out of the Bailong Cave Tunnel was awakened. She seemed very curious about the world outside the tunnel. The drifting blood mist stimulated her body, making her want to kill everything in front of her.
Xu Yin led Doctor Gao away. Bai Qiulin was too weak to cope with the sudden situation. In order to ensure his own safety, Chen Ge used a trump card, the tunnel ghost.
Only when the red-clothed man is leading the way can he act with impunity.
No matter what time or place, the people in red are extremely terrifying.
When the children in the building saw the man in red, they began to hide instinctively.
The bad kids who grabbed Tongtong also put away their smiles, and seemed to have completed their mission, as they wanted to lead Chen Ge to the rooftop.
"The rooftop is dangerous! Don't go over there!" Li Zheng shouted anxiously from behind. He seemed to have learned some information from Jia Ming.
In a hurry, he didn't care about saving the scissors and the drunkard on the ground, and chased after Chen Ge.
With the red-clothed man leading the way, Chen Ge finally didn't have to focus all his attention on guarding against possible dangers around him. He calmed down and thought about some very important issues.
"In the painting that Pen Fairy and Yan Danian showed me, Lao Zhou and Men Nan were hiding in a small house. They were not caught, but were temporarily trapped. That is to say, Shadow did not have complete control of the situation. He had been fighting with Doctor Gao until he disappeared from my sight and hid in the Underworld Tower. What kind of horrible trap could he have set up in such a short time?"
"Shadow has fought with Zhang Ya before, and he knows that I have a top-level red robe on me, so he can only set up a trap that can threaten top-level red robes to kill me 100%. Such a trap is not so easy to set up."
Chen Ge was very clear about this. He narrowed his eyes and a small incident that had just happened flashed through his mind.
"I see!"
Without slowing down at all, Chen Ge rushed upstairs without stopping.
The higher they went up the stairs, the more resentful the children became. Their resentment turned from obsession to evil spirits. After the eleventh floor, some children's coats began to show bloodstains. Chen Ge even saw a little boy in half a red shirt.
If there were no help from the female ghost in the tunnel, he and Bai Qiulin might only be able to reach the eleventh floor.
However, even with the female ghost in the tunnel, their journey was not easy.
Dense pictures began to appear on the wall, using a special black pigment. Chen Ge had seen this pigment before from the hotel owner. It could affect the red-clothed girl. Chen Ge regretted why he used such a precious thing to anger the headless female ghost.
At first glance, all the paintings on the wall were painted with this black **, which made people feel very uncomfortable walking among them.
"All the patterns are very sloppy, as if they were casually drawn by a bored child. Could it be that these drawings were made by a ghost?"
The female ghost in the tunnel walking in front bore most of the pressure and she was not in a very good condition.
"Even the Red Dress can be suppressed. Are these **related to the existence above the Red Dress?" Chen Ge looked at the patterns. Most of them were just recording the trivialities of life, but Chen Ge's scalp tingled and his body was covered with goose bumps. He didn't know why he was afraid of these things: "Could the paintings on the wall be things I have experienced? But why don't I have any impression of them? No, these should be the memories of the ghost fetus, and have nothing to do with me."
"Chen Ge! What are you daydreaming about? Come downstairs with me now!" Li Zheng and Jia Ming followed behind. Ordinary people were not so sensitive to those paintings. They could not feel the deep fear and malice in them.
"The employee is still in their hands. How could I, as the boss, abandon him and run away alone?"
Under pressure, the tunnel ghost and Chen Ge came to the top floor of the residential building, but Tongtong was nowhere to be seen. Chen Ge only saw that the door to the roof was half open.
"Shadow has gone to so much trouble just to lure me here?" The door leading to the rooftop was covered with black paintings, but the content of the paintings was different from those on the walls. There were no trivial matters of life, but death scenes that were repeated again and again, so cruel that one could not bear to watch them.
The child in the painting has experienced various deaths, but he is still alone. He does not know the meaning of his existence. It seems that he is living just to wait for the next more painful death.
Standing in the distance, the black paintings finally formed the outline of a person, and the outline of this person was exactly the same as Chen Ge.
The color of the painting below the human figure is lighter, and gets darker as you go out. Chen Ge feels as if the monster will come back here every few years as he gets older, and fill his growing body with paintings.
This humanoid silhouette should have been just a child at first, and then gradually grew up to be like Chen Ge.
It’s just that what accompanied Chen Ge as he grew up were sunshine and hope, while what grew up with the man at the door were all kinds of more exaggerated and horrifying ways of dying.
"Tongtong is behind the door." Chen Ge looked at the door leading to the rooftop, his mind a little dazed. All those ways of death drilled into his head, as if they were forcing themselves into his own memories.
"I have never experienced this! This is not my memory!" Chen Ge raised the skull crusher and prepared to smash the door in front of him, as if smashing the door would dissipate the painful memories that did not belong to him.
His expression was distorted, and when the skull-crushing hammer was about to fall, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if he was pricked by a needle.
The intense pain woke Chen Ge up. In just a short moment, his back was already soaked.
Reaching into his bosom, Chen Ge took out two halves of the same key from his pocket.
"The key to self-control?"
The rust on the key was much less, but Chen Ge still hadn't figured out the true use of the self-control key. But it seemed that this key had woken him up just now.
"When his memory merges with my memory, the consequences will be disastrous." Chen Ge put down the skull crusher and looked at the half-open door. He muttered to himself like a madman, "Who are you? Why do you hate me so much?"
"We can't stay here for long, let's leave first!" Li Zheng looked around vigilantly, his hand touched his police gun, and just as he was about to escape, he saw Chen Ge slowly turn around, and then stared at him intently.
"Who are you?" Holding the skull crusher, Chen Ge's eyes were red.
"Me? Chen Ge! What's wrong with you?" Li Zheng held his pistol with his hand. He wanted to pull it out, but he soon found that Chen Ge was ready. As long as he touched the pistol, Chen Ge would probably attack immediately.
"You are not Li Zheng." Chen Ge said hoarsely, "You just said that you notified other team members when you entered Liwan Town. At that time, you were acting alone to hunt down Jia Ming. When we first met in the hotel, I didn't see a walkie-talkie on you. In addition, the range of walkie-talkies is limited, so you probably used a mobile phone to notify other team members."
“What’s wrong with using a cell phone?”
"I received your message before entering Liwan Town. Your voice and tone of voice are exactly the same as Captain Li's. But I happened to be in a special situation at that time and didn't answer your call, so I asked you to send me a message. Your handwritten message is different from Captain Li's style. From that time on, I suspected that Captain Li might have been replaced by Shadow." Chen Ge's eyes were always full of bloodshot, but his voice slowly calmed down: "When Doctor Gao and Shadow were fighting, it was also the time when you disappeared. Now that Shadow and Doctor Gao's battle has ended, it is also the time when you appear, so Shadow must be among you missing people."
Li Zheng wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Chen Ge.
"You were worried about being exposed, so you used your trump card in advance and let those curses help you take away all the people left outside, so that you can continue to hide your identity." Chen Ge took a step forward, and the red-clothed people in the tunnel protected him: "I was just suspicious at first, until just now I was really sure that you were Shadow."
He opened the comic book and released a sickly little black dog.
The dog was very happy to see Chen Ge, but suddenly became confused when it saw Li Zheng.
"You are the most special existence to it. You can deceive us, but you can't deceive the 'person' who regards you as his whole world." Chen Ge released the little black dog he brought out of the "kennel".
Seeing the black dog, Li Zheng slowly loosened his hand that was holding the gun. The anxiety and anger on his face slowly dissipated, replaced by a calmness like a deep pool.
"It's ridiculous. I've only done this one good thing in my life, but it turned out to be the key to your success." Li Zheng glanced at the black dog calmly. His cold eyes scared the dog so much that it curled up on the ground. "We should have killed it. We just thought it would be fun to play like that."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zheng closed his eyes and collapsed to the ground, but his shadow stood behind him, maintaining the same posture as before.