Chapter 1002 - Absurd World Made from Memories (2/2)

The drunkard collapsed on the ground. His face became redder like it was about to explode, and his body was still expanding. “If this drunkard is the boy’s father, then in the young boy’s memory, his father was someone unbeatable and unshakeable.”

Chen Ge turned back to look. The neighbors all looked strange with twisted appearances. Their ears and mouths were comically enormous. Depending on the boy’s memory of them, each of them had a special trait that separated them apart from the rest. One reeked of cheap perfume, while another had short limbs and a round belly. These neighbors were distinct from each other, but their reaction when they saw Chen Ge fight with the drunkard was surprisingly similar. They stood at their doors, peeling their ears to listen and whispering to each other. They would only turn Chen Ge’s way when Chen Ge made some noise. If Chen Ge kept quiet, they appeared too lazy to give him any attention.

“I wonder if these neighbors can be killed.” Being stared at by the group of monsters, Chen Ge felt pressure. The scariest part about the scenario was that he could not hear the sound of these monsters approaching. He could turn around to a wall of faces looking at him. “I can’t hear their voices. This world is too quiet for me.”

The drunkard was most likely Jiang Ming’s biological father. He was very hard to kill, but the neighbors might be different. Chen Ge’s plan was to first kill the drunkard and then massacre the rest of the neighbors before he could explore the rest of the place in peace. The plan was simple and direct.

He raised the hammer and entered the room that was closest to him. Inside was a middle-aged man wearing a tank top. His limbs appeared to have atrophied; they were at least half the size of normal limbs. In contrast, his belly was bulging, filled with fat. There was a thin, wiry old woman in the room as well. The old woman wandered around the room as if possessed, cleaning this and that. There were several plastic tubes that were stuck into her body, and the tubes were joined to some medicine bottles that were collected in a dirty corner of the room.

A kipper[1]?

The memory world of Jiang Ming was different from a real adult world. It was absurd and strange. Chen Ge could not be sure that he had read this situation correctly. The neighbors were monsters born out of his twisted memory, so Chen Ge did not need to hold back. The hammer slammed heavily. The injured middle-aged man crawled into the room. He grabbed the plastic tubes that were originally placed in the medicine bottles and started to suck. The old woman who bustled in the room shrank before Chen Ge’s eyes. After a while, the man stood up again. He waved his short limbs as if taunting Chen Ge.

These things can’t be killed, or at least, the hammer is not strong enough to kill them.

The drunkard had almost fully recovered, and he was becoming more aggressive than before. Chen Ge hammered the man several more times before he leaped over the drunkard and headed to the second floor. After learning from his previous lesson, this time, he moved quietly and did not make any noise.

I’ll hide for now.

Chen Ge entered the toilet on the second floor. He sneaked into it and contacted Xu Yin through the recorder. After communicating, Chen Ge found out that this world behind the door was very unstable. It required the power of five Red Specters to tear down the boy’s memory, and then he would be able to escape. However, Chen Ge would not do that unless necessary because the ruination of the memory might cause irreparable damage to the boy.

[1] Kipper is an acronym for “kids in parents’ pockets eroding retirement savings”.