Chapter 1090 - Again and Again 2 in 1 (1/2)

“It looks like my dead child. At least from the back, they look the same.

“My family saw it as well, it was not an illusion; it really exists. But why does it always face away from us? Which family does it come from, and why does it appear at the staircase every time at midnight?

“My husband said that he would go out to take a look, but he never returned after leaving the house. He has abandoned me and run away on his own.

“What should I do? It was getting closer and closer to me. It always leaned on the door and window, and eventually, it would come into the house.

“After I woke up, I saw it appear in our living room. It did not seem to notice me. It was standing in the middle of the living room, facing away from me.

“I finally saw its face. Why would a rag doll pace around my house? What is it looking for? Why does it come to my house? What is its purpose for coming here?

“It is too disgusting. I have never seen such a disgusting doll in my life. Its arms are filled with trash and bodies of small birds. Its stomach has a reeking heart, its face is sewn together from different skin, and its legs were bent, stuffed with bones that it picked from who knows where. It was radiating this horrible smell. The pitiable face makes it look that much scarier!

“I realized there is one thing that is very strange about this doll. Its shadow is not the shadow of a normal doll. When the light hits it, the shadow that is reflected is a boy that is much taller than the doll itself.

“Everyone hates it. Does the doll not know that? Why does it refuse to go? Why does it appear like it is trying to endear itself to me? This is crazy!

“It seemed to have treated this place as its own home, this blasted doll!

“I am not its mother, and I am not its family!

“I have to chase it away no matter what! I must!

“I have torn it into pieces, stuffed it inside the trash bags, and buried them in the ground. I thought that was the end of everything, but when I woke up, it had appeared in my room again!

“I already do not have a family life—why does this strange creature refuse to leave me be‽

“I have sent it away again and again. But he started to appear at various places at my house. Inside the closet, under the bed, inside the cover, underneath the desk—it could be hiding at any places inside my house!

“What do I need to do to chase it away!”

The blood handwriting at the end had become completely twisted and hard to red. The handwriting was mixed with blood vessels and fingernails. It showed that the mental condition of the writer was at the edge of insanity. In fact, Chen Ge could easily imagine a woman with disheveled hair, biting on her nails, tearing at the cover, writing these sentences with her bloody fingers. Chen Ge moved to the last bloody sheet, and the content caused his spine to tingle in discomfort.

“I’ve finally understood what it wants. I am not its mother, and it does not want me to be its mother; he merely wanted to crawl into my stomach. When I woke up in the middle of the night, dazed, I saw the smiling face in my stomach. It was then that I realize I probably will never be able to send it away anymore.”

The blood messages on the bedsheet ended there. Just by reading them, Wen Qing beside Chen Ge felt extremely uncomfortable. Probably because they were both women, she could empathize further with the desperation and pain of the owner of the house.

“Are these bloody messages trying to warn us that the monster inside this building is actually a rag doll?” Even though Xiao Sun always found himself with his foot in his mouth, the young man was not dumb. Especially when they were in danger, his brain was able to work exceptionally fast.

“I believe so.” Chen Ge looked at the bloody sentences, and his eyes stared at one of the many statements—’Its shadow is not the shadow of a normal doll. When the light hits it, the shadow that is reflected is a boy that is much taller than the doll itself.’

When he saw these few words, a speculation arose in Chen Ge’s heart.

The ghost that possessed the rag doll might be my own shadow. After he escaped from me, he became the shadow of this rag doll. But the rag doll itself had no consciousness. In fact, the rag doll might be the body that he had made for himself.

Inside Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, the rag doll’s broken arm was the source of all the stench that lingered in the building, but it was also possible that it was due to the presence of the broken arm that the building was safe from the infiltration of the black fog.

The rag doll should be a body that the ghost fetus had once used in the past. Based on the description on these bloody messages, he had gone through quite a bit of trouble for the sake of this ugly body that he had made for himself.

Behind Fang Yu’s door, Chen Ge was given a glimpse of a small part of the ghost fetus’ past. The ghost fetus then was completely different from the ghost fetus now. The shadow took one step after another to become a Demon God, but it had now completely lost itself, and the sign of its former self was no longer there. The bloody messages recorded quite clearly that the rag doll did not do anything to harm the tenants inside the building at the beginning. But its presence was in itself a type of ‘sin’. It was because the owner kept trying to throw him away that the rag doll took revenge. That seemed the inevitable outcome.

“Jin Hwa Apartments recorded Xiang Nuan’s life, and the ghost fetus’ past might be buried among Jiu Hong Apartments.” Chen Ge’s shadow first made its appearance at Western Jiujiang’s haunted house. Some clues as to what happened next to the shadow might be found in these few buildings. Chen Ge did not move to close the closet door; instead, he took out all the clothes from inside the closet. He did not see the monster. It seemed to have left the room.

“There are children’s clothes inside the closet, and there are three pair of shoes on the shoe rack, two large pairs and one small pair. All of these signs point toward a boy once lived inside this apartment.” Chen Ge placed the bloody bedsheet on the ground. “The tenants at Room 204 once had a child. That was quite clear from the messages that were left on the sheet. After their child died, this strange doll started to appear. The rag doll did not appear to wish to harm them initially. If anything, it seemed to hope that it could live together with them.”

“Do you think that was possible? Based on the description, the rag doll was a scary monster—who would want to stay with that kind of thing?” Xiao Sun could not wrap his head around what Chen Ge was saying.

“Both you and the owner of the house thought the rag doll was a monster, but have you tried to consider this from the rag doll’s perspective? Do you think it will see itself as a monster?” Chen Ge pointed at the bloody words on the sheets. “Bones in its legs, heart in its stomach, and it even has a face albeit one that is sewn together. This proves that the doll has been trying its best to mimic a human with the only resources made available to him.”

“How come it just sounds scarier when you put it that way?”

“The rag doll wants to be a person; it desires to have a life like a normal being. It desires after family and love, but he has greatly underestimated the difficulty of becoming a human.” Chen Ge was being very rational. “It had no idea what a human being was, and it had even less of an idea what it represented to those around him. Actually, you could see it as a child, but due to the seduction by the demon, it had become a very scary child.”

“No matter what, it is the truth that he eventually killed the owner of this house. I do not care what his intention was. If anything, I feel like he has had horrible intentions from the very beginning. I even suspect that the child of the owner’s family was killed by this doll.” Wen Qing’s face had some color returned to it, but she still did not wish to look at the bloody messages any longer.

“I admit that is one of the possibilities as well.” Chen Ge folded the bedsheet and carried it in his hands. “We have searched most of this house already. It is time to move on to the other houses.”