Chapter 1091 - Why Are You Crying? 2 in 1 (1/2)

“Why, you ask?” Chen Ge turned back to look into Wen Qing’s eyes. He thought about it and finally decided against revealing the connection between the ghost fetus and Xiang Nuan. Wen Qing had no idea that the monster that she was talking about was actually related to Xiang Nuan. When the three were congregated inside the bedroom, having these conversations, the bedroom itself started to slowly change.

The human shape that was hollowed out on the bed started to sink like someone was lying on top of it. The stains were moving. A child’s handprints appeared on the bedsheet, and the handprints were slowly approaching Wen Qing. The three of them were all standing equidistant to the bed, but the handprints appeared to be only interested in Wen Qing.

“No matter what, do not move.” The set of handprints finally stopped before Wen Qing. The room was eerily quiet, and everyone held their breath.

About ten seconds later, Wen Qing opened her lips to speak. Her eyes were overflowing with fear. “I feel like someone is standing in front of me. Really, there is something standing in front of me!”

Taking out Doctor Skull Cracker’s hammer, Chen Ge stared at the bedsheet before Wen Qing. The child’s handprints had stopped moving. They stopped right before Wen Qing.

“Ah!” Without any warning, Wen Qing suddenly screamed. She staggered backward in a hurry, and her body knocked into the wall. At the same time, the handprints on the bed started to move away. They crawled rapidly toward the window.

“Just now, someone was touching my face. The hands were very cold!” Wen Qing’s expression did not look like he was lying.

“You can sense its presence?” Even with the aid of his Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could not see anything, so he was surprised that Wen Qing could sense the thing’s presence.

“Yes, I cannot hear it or even see it. I do not smell anything out of place in the air, but I just felt there was something standing before me earlier!” This kind of experience was extremely rare, and it was little wonder that Wen Qing was in such a flustered state. “Could neither of you sense it? Why would it come after me? Could it be that it has targeted me as its mother? Just like the two women who were brutally murdered?”

“You are a unique existence to it.” Chen Ge also had no idea whether he should reveal the ghost fetus’ backstory to Wen Qing or not. “Ever since we left Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, you kept sensing and seeing these strange things, and they include the human heads floating in the black fog, not to mention the owner of the handprint…”

“But Xiao Sun saw those things as well. Didn’t he say that there was someone following us along the way when we were moving through the black fog?” Wen Qing slowly calmed down. She raised her arm to lightly touch her face, the feel the spot where she was caressed by the strange creature.

“He is an original tenant behind the door, so it is not that unusual for him to see these things. But you come from outside the door, yet you are able to see more of these things than I do. Now, there is something very strange about that.”

It was not that Chen Ge suspected that Wen Qing had done something bad. There was just this question that had been bugging him ever since he entered this door. Why did Wen Qing not exist in the world behind Xiang Nuan’s door?

The world behind the door was made according to the door pusher’s memory. The process of creating the world was not something the door pusher could control, and the deeper the impression the door pusher had of someone, the greater the chance of them appearing behind their door. Basically, all of the tenants in Jin Hwa Apartments had made their appearance. As Xiang Nuan’s mother and caretaker, it made little to no sense that Wen Qing had not appeared behind Xiang Nuan’s door.

Could it be that Xiang Nuan has sent the Wen Qing from inside the door outside the door, or has the ghost fetus killed or taken control over Wen Qing inside the door to accomplish his own goal?

Seeing how long Chen Ge had not said anything, Wen Qing opened her lips to ask, “What are you thinking about?”

The only person whom she could trust in this place was Chen Ge.

“If, one day, you realize that your child is different from what you imagined him to be, would you still love him unconditionally?” Chen Ge asked with heavy insinuation.

“Of course, no matter what happens to him, I will still love him because he is my child,” Wen Qing answered without hesitation. She did not even need a few seconds to think about it.

“Even if he turned into the monster that you were so fearful of earlier?” When Chen Ge tossed out that question, he kept his eyes on Wen Qing to study the change to the woman’s expression.

“Even if he has turned into a monster, it does not change the fact that he is still my son.” Wen Qing was confused. “Why would you keep asking me these strange questions? Do you suspect that Xiang Nuan is the monster inside this building? Impossible! You have not interacted with him before. He is actually a very nice kid.”

“Yes, I believe that he is a very nice kid.” Chen Ge had seen the ghost fetus’ earliest memory in Fang Yu’s world. In Western Jiujiang’s haunted house, after the young Chen Ge fell asleep, the shadow was playing alone with the toys inside the bedroom. The loneliness that the shadow showcased was gut wrenching indeed. Initially, the shadow was pure and innocent, but after leaving Chen Ge, it had started to change. Essentially, Chen Ge’s shadow had died, and in its place was a ghost that was known as the ghost fetus.

“Let’s move on to the next room. The earlier we can find the remaining body parts of the rag doll, the easier we will be able to mount an escape from this place.” Chen Ge did not challenge what Wen Qing said. He did not want to linger on this topic for too long.

“Hey, don’t suddenly change the topic! Why did you ask me all those questions? You have to give me an explanation before we leave!” Wen Qing chased after Chen Ge, but the two of them stopped once they stepped out from the bedroom. The incense burner pots in the four corners had all been knocked over, the bronze basin was flipped over, and the burnt banknotes fluttered in the air.

“Someone has been in here; they were following behind us.”

“If you ask me, the chances of that someone being a ghost are much higher. We’d better leave this place as soon as we can.”

Chen Ge did not explain further. He walked through the living room and looked out at the corridor. There were more bloody handprints on the walls, a sign that the monster had been crawling up and down the corridor.

It was a child’s handprints that appeared on the bed earlier, and outside the room, there are these bloody handprints. They are markedly different though, so do they belong to two different ghosts? Are there two children’s ghosts inside this building, or is there a child’s ghost inhabiting each room?

Behind the door, Jiu Hong Apartments was occupied by dead people; they were the original tenant of this world behind the door. How many of them were there in total? Probably only the ghost fetus knew the answer to that question. The bloody handprints wandered around the third floor before they led a trail back to the fourth floor. It was as if the monster was playing hide and seek with Chen Ge.

“Do we still need to go after it?” Xiao Sun asked with a bitter face. This time, he was really afraid. Chen Ge used his action to answer Xiao Sun. With his eyes staring at the bloody handprints, Chen Ge moved toward the fourth floor.

On the staircase that led from the third floor to the fourth floor, there were many chopped up toys and the carcasses of an exorbitant number of bugs. Most of the bugs were indiscernible because their bodies had been cut up too small. The banknotes stuck to the bottom of their shoes and the air around them felt heavy. There was the sound of something rolling on the ground echoing in their ears.

The three finally arrived at the fourth floor. This floor was not that different from the previous floors, but it looked even more abandoned. The calligraphy on the wall was half torn, but the focal points were the bowls of white rice on the ground. The white rice placed outside the doors of the rooms on the fourth floor had been eaten. The chopsticks stuck out at awkward angles, and the rice littered the ground around the bowls.