Chapter 1062 - Face Your Fear [2 in 1] (2/2)

At this point of the story, Ah Mu room started to act up in the small behind the door. He started to cry so badly that his breath was catching in his throat. It felt like he was being held hostage and had his eyes pulled wide open while someone use something sharp to stab his eyes again and again. The fear of the tip of the scissors as they slowly approached the eyes before they stopped at the very last moment burned and singed his brain, and this experience was repeated again and again.

The front door kept shaking. Ying Tong had revealed to Ah Mu the real reason behind his aichmophobia. The night of his sixth birthday was one of the few memories that he was most unwilling to remember.

“I have tried to escape three times in total, and Ying Chen used three different kinds of methods to warn me each time,” Ying Tong said. “Now I am attempting my fourth escape. Who knows what he will do to me next?”

“The first time you tried to escape, he caused you to suffer from aichmophobia, and that led to the creation of the persona Ah Mu. There are still Ah Ying and Ah Tong inside this building. They should correspond to your other two escapes.” Chen Ge squeezed his body against the sofa and tried his best to push against it. Ah Mu had already lost all control. His breathing was coming unevenly. If they did not do anything soon, the boy would be in fatal danger. “Ying Tong, I need you to go inside the bedroom to look. I remember Miss Dress fed Ah Mu his medicine inside the bedroom. Perhaps there are still some pills left on the bedside table.”

Chen Ge waited for a long time, but Ying Tong did not budge. He stood frozen where he was.

“Ying Tong?”

The louder Ah Mu screamed, the more violently the door shook. It felt like Ying Chen was getting desperate as well. Of all the people present, Ying Tong stood in the living room like the chaos was beyond him, like he was looking in from the outside. Chen Ge wanted to reach over to give Ah Mu a comforting pat on his back, but when his hand touched Ah Mu, he noticed that Ah Mu’s body was deconstructing. His joints were broken, and his limbs were getting twisted like the dolls placed on Ying Tong’s bedside table.

“What’s going on?”

“When I was conversing with Ah Mu earlier, I was reminded of something.” Ying Tong’s voice started again. He was standing next to Chen Ge. “Do you know what the medicine that Ying Chen gave them is made of?”

“What is it?” Chen Ge had no idea why Ying Tong would suddenly bring this up. The most urgent thing to do now was to save the boy.

“It was made from my flesh and blood.” Ying Tong gave a gory answer. “Ah Mu is the representation of my pain and my anxiety, but he is also the obedient kid that I have presented myself before Ying Chen…”

The door vibrated harder and harder. Hearing Ah Mu’s spine-tingling screams, it seemed to have spurred Ying Chen on.

“They are me, and I am them. I will accept their pain because they are originally a part of me. I cannot separate myself from them. I have been searching for them throughout the building. Only by finding them will I become a complete person, and I will no longer be a monster who has been ‘dissected’ by Ying Chen.”

Ying Tong held Chen Ge’s hand and then went over to hug the thin and weak Ah Mu. He was embracing his own past, listening to his past self’s screams and wails. This continued for some time. When the screaming finally stopped, both Chen Ge and Ying Tong felt a jolt of pain through their heart.

The darkness before their eyes seemed to have dissipated slightly. It was still blurry and hard to discern, but there appeared to be pinpricks of light.

Due to his fear of Ying Chen, even though Ying Tong had already recovered his power of sight, he had to act like a blind person. If he wanted to open his eyes, he needed to first face his innate fear of Ying Chen. Only by accepting the memories from the past would he have the chance to open his eyes.

Ah Mu had disappeared. What was left behind was a doll with a contorted body beside Chen Ge and Ying Tong. They reached out to touch it. The doll was very small, and there was an uneven depression on its face. It probably meant that it had an ugly face. Chen Ge placed the doll into Ying Tong’s pocket. Honestly, he did not know how to feel at that moment. Ah Mu had already been accepted by Ying Tong, and some blurry light had returned to their sight. Their eyes had recovered slightly but only ever so slightly.

“Looks like to fully recover our sight, we need to find Ah Ying and Ah Tong.”

The only person in the room who was not blind had turned into a doll. Ying Chen was still waiting to pounce on them outside the door. The situation had not changed. If anything, it had only gotten worse. Chen Ge took Miss Dress’ phone. He could feel the heft of the phone in his grasp, but he could not see it. In his line of sight, in the world of darkness, there was only a small halo of light that appeared to be very far away.

“Ah Mu found Mr. Wood’s number through the contact list. After I ended the call with Mr. Wood, the phone should have returned to the contact list number.” Chen Ge was trying to give Mr. Wood another call when the vibration of the front door suddenly stopped.

The shrill cat’s meowing was fading away as well. Ying Chen appeared to be leaving the door in a hurry. “He’s left?”

It was impossible for Ying Chen not to have heard the great commotion coming from inside the room. He would know that Ah Mu had been accepted by Ying Tong, so he would continue to search for the other two kids. Chen Ge grabbed his backpack with one hand and Ying Tong with another. He knew that this was their chance.

“We are on the ground floor, Miss Red is on the sixth floor, and Mr. Wood is on the second floor. If Ying Chen runs to the second floor, we will go downstairs to find Miss Red. If Ying Chen goes to Miss Red, we will go to second floor to find Mr. Wood. We only have a window of a few seconds.”

Staying in this room was too dangerous, the door might be broken through at any time, so Chen Ge was ready to leave.

“Ying Tong, be prepared. No matter what happens, you have to stay close to me.”

Chen Ge trained his focus as he moved to the door and grabbed hold of the doorknob. The cat’s noises were getting smaller, but strangely enough, it unsettled Chen Ge that they had not completely disappeared. Ying Chen had left, but he could be waiting at a spot not far away from the door. In fact, he could be hiding in the stairwell.

“The b*stard is waiting for me to open the door and then he’ll jump out at us, huh?”

After a few minutes, the cats’ meows disappeared completely, but Chen Ge was still too worried to leave.

“Ying Chen keeps moving away. He must have noticed something already. Even though he has already left, there might be another person standing outside the door.” Chen Ge held his breath and focused on his hearing. “Assuming the words that he said outside the door earlier were purposely meant for me to hear, it appears like he has ordered his helper to go to the second floor, but in reality, his helper might have switched off the music box and currently be waiting for us outside the door.”