Chapter 1055 - Duel with the Unknown [2 in 1] (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Football that I have carried? The cupboard?

The information revealed by Ying Chen in his words caused Chen Ge’s brows to crease. He had just been to Ying Chen’s bedroom earlier, and he knew that there was a headless carcass strapped to the underside of his bed.

The football that this man is talking about is not the head of that body, is it?

1A human head was wildly different from a football, even a blind person would not mistake them, but the premise here was that his own elder brother was not a normal person. The man was a full-on psycho. Ying Chen was a crazy man and one that had a streak of exhibitionism in him. He uploaded the videos of the tortured cats in reverse chronological order onto the website to ask for aid from cat lovers. Most of his audience members were people who loved cats. Perhaps every night, he would sit inside the room filled with fur and blood, stare at the phone screen, and read through the well wishes that he had received from these innocent people who did not know better.

This kind of unique experience would probably be able to provide the man with some kind of rush and satisfaction, so there was a very high possibility that he would hide a human head inside a normal ball and watch his own younger brother play with it. As that thought crossed his mind, Chen Ge suddenly realized that the twisted dolls and disproportionate bodies on Ying Tong’s table might carry a deeper meaning than he had previously believed.

Chen Ge had been staying quiet all this while. The man was silent for a few seconds before Ying Chen on the other side of the line realized that something was wrong.

“You… are not Ying Tong!” Chen Ge had no idea how the man was able to come the conclusion that he was not Ying Tong within three seconds of non-conservation. In any case, this sharp observation and analytical skill caused Chen Ge to become even more unsettled. In Ying Tong’s memory, his elder brother, Ying Chen, must be a very clever and scary person, and that would be manifested in the same way behind the door. “What are you doing in my home?”

Ying Chen’s voice did not undergo any change, but through the background echo, Chen Ge managed to pick the increased pace of the man’s walking. The man was trying to use a level tone to trick Chen Ge, to hide the fact that he was hurrying home. Chen Ge did not hesitate for even a moment; he hung up the phone immediately. He was no longer able to get any useful information from the man. In fact, now that his cover was blown, anything that the man might say could be some kind of vicious trap.

“I need to leave this place as soon as possible.”

Both parties were quick thinkers and fast movers. Chen Ge’s mind still had a blurry memory of the location of the front door. He did not stop anywhere. He grabbed his backpack and moved to the door. The door that felt strangely cold to his touch was not locked. Chen Ge pushed open the door and walked out. The temperature around him decreased even further; the air outside the house seemed to be even chillier.

“I can’t see anything, and I still cannot form a link with any of my employees. How am I supposed to deal that madman in such a condition?” Ying Tong’s door was the third door from the last. Since Chen Ge had directly skipped over the door that represented the ghost fetus’ heart, the difficulty of the world behind the door had reached an incredibly crazy level. In a way, this went to show the horror of a four-star Trial Mission. This ghost fetus mission was not that simple. The horrors were layered upon each other, and it deepened with each layer. This long night was just beginning.

“Ying Tong lives in a building that was built many years ago. He grew up here, so his main memory will be around the Ming Yuan area.” Chen Ge knew the layout of the nearby buildings, but to play hide and seek with a madman when he was unable to see anything, even Chen Ge felt the enormous pressure. Walking out of the front door, Chen Ge had not moved too far away from Ying Chen’s house when he felt something brush against his ankle. It appeared like one of the cats had followed him and escaped from the house as well.

“Just how many cats are inside Ying Chen’s house?” Chen Ge leaned against the wall and slowly walked down the corridor. “The stairwell bookends the corridor on both sides, and there is an elevator in the middle, provided this world behind the door is a true reflection of the situation in real life.”

Chen Ge was not that familiar with Ying Tong. He did not know what the man’s biggest fear was, and thus, he could not prepare to handle it. The only thing he could do was take one step at a time. Caution and taking it slow would be his saving grace.

“The old-fashioned elevator will make too much noise, and that will inadvertently expose my location. I am unable to see anything now. If I press the wrong button, I might end up on the wrong floor, and the elevator doors could open to Ying Chen waiting for me outside.”

With that in mind, Chen Ge rejected the idea of taking the elevator. Then he was faced with a second choice. Should he take the stairs on the left or the right?

Ying Chen’s home was closer to the stairs on the left. In fact, the house was right next to the staircase. Chen Ge felt that if Ying Chen wanted to get home in the shortest time possible, there was a very high chance that he would take the stairs on the left.

“In that case, I will take the stairs on the right.”

In this world behind the door, every seemingly unimportant choice could be a matter of life and death.

If Chen Ge made the wrong choice and encountered Ying Chen in the stairwell, the madman might decide to trail behind him noiselessly while he came up with an idea to torture and kill him. After all, Chen Ge had found out about his secret, and the safest way was to kill Chen Ge to guarantee his silence.

Keeping his hands on the wall, Chen Ge slowly overcame his fear of the darkness, and he started to jog. There was no trash littering the corridor, so Chen Ge did not trip over anything. When Chen Ge was about to reach the right stairwell, a cat’s meow suddenly came from the direction before him. It was a very soft meow, and Chen Ge was certain that it came from the mouth of the right hand stairs.

“There’s a cat there?” If this was in real life, Chen Ge would not have been so nervous to have run into a cat, but this was the world behind the door. A cat was a contradictory creature. It had been a symbol of many things through the history of mankind. In different people’s eyes, cats represented different meanings, so Chen Ge had a hard time telling what the cat’s intention was by meowing to him.

Ying Chen had adopted many stray cats, but the reason for that was for him to satisfy his twisted and pathological desire. If the cats had the power to resist, the first thing they would have done would be to kill Ying Chen. Alas, in both real life and the world behind the door, Ying Chen was perfectly fine. In other words, it meant that even behind the door, he had the power to easily dispose of the ‘cats’.

While Chen Ge was contemplating, there was another cat’s meow coming from the right staircase, and this time, it was slightly louder than before. Something seemed to bounce against his ankle. Before Chen Ge could react to it, the third meow occurred, and this time, the cat was calling from right beside him. The cat’s meowing became more and more insistent, and the sound became shriller and shriller. It sounded like the cries of a small baby.

“Are they warning me?”

Ying Chen was a cat torturer. The cats had no reason to help him, so if that was the case, the chance of Ying Chen being on the right staircase was incredibly high!

To trust the cats or to trust his own instincts, Chen Ge was faced with another choice. After a moment’s hesitation, Chen Ge gritted his teeth and turned around. He ran as fast as he could to the left staircase. The cat’s call from behind him became sharper and shriller. They sounded at once like both crying and laughter. It was quite spine-tingling.

Knocking and bouncing against the wall, after losing his sight, Chen Ge had trouble even running without bumping into anything. He tried his best to get to the staircase on the left, and he hid himself on the landing between the two floors. Kneeling on the ground, Chen Ge grabbed onto the railing and lowered his center of gravity as low as possible. This way, even if someone tried to push him from behind, he would not roll down the stairs that easily. Chen Ge did not dare move aimlessly. He stayed motionlessly because he wanted to confirm something very important.

“If the door is pushed open, then it will prove that Ying Chen has come home. He came from the staircase on the right, and that will indirectly prove that the cats were helping me! The louder the cats were, the closer Ying Chen was to me!”

Chen Ge was very courageous. Then again, it was not like he had much choice. To gain the little initiative that he could, he hid on the landing inside the left stairwell. Ying Chen’s house was just right next to his hiding place. If he was not careful, he would be discovered easily. As the time moved forward, Chen Ge’s palms started to get slick with sweat. He had not been so nervous for such a long time. After about a minute, Ying Chen’s house door clicked without warning. It appeared that someone had opened the front door and walked in. Hearing that click, Chen Ge’s hands that gripped around the railing slowly relaxed.