Chapter 1099 - Red and Black World 2 in 1 (2/2)

“Move the table and closet over here. We will hide at the corner of the wall.” The earthquake safety knowledge that Chen Ge had learned in kindergarten came into use then. The trio squeezed themselves in the corner of the room that should be the most structurally stable. “Later, more black fog might seep into the building, and that means the monsters inside the black fog will follow it as well. We have to be more careful of our surroundings.”

Xiao Sun opened his lips to ask weakly, “Can we only stay here passively and wait for this to pass?”

“Why? Do you have an idea that can help us to fight back?”

“No, I just think that it might be safer for us to return to Jin Hwa Apartments Block A. That building appears to be relatively safer than this place.”

“Don’t worry, when the time is right, we will definitely return to that place. After all, my cat is still there.” Chen Ge had never felt so drained in his life. Now, even talking was a taxing exercise. The quake not only did not stop, it only started to get more intense. Both Xiao Sun and Wen Qing worried that this old building would not be able to survive, and it would tumble upon itself. Chen Ge was not worried about that. The main buildings were made up from the ghost fetus’ memory. Unless something serious happened to the ghost fetus, these few buildings would not crumble so easily.

“Do not panic for now. I have a few questions that I need to clarify with the both of you at this moment.” Chen Ge turned to Wen Qing. “You were the first to run earlier. I saw that you appeared to be pulled by someone…”

“It felt like Xiang Nuan.” Before Chen Ge finished, Wen Qing already provided him with an answer. She hugged her arms in front of her chest. “When he was very young, I was leading him cross the road. Halfway through, he started to pull me back with as much force as he could muster. I stopped moving, and before I could ask him why he was doing that, a car that appeared to have gone out of control flew past the spot where I was standing earlier. Later, I heard from the news that the driver was drunk out of his mind when he was behind the wheel.”

Slowly lifting her hands, Wen Qing crossed her fingers together.

“The feeling reminded me of that when I was pulled along by the invisible hands earlier. He would only reach out to grab me voluntarily when the situation was at its most dangerous. The child rarely allows other adults to touch him, much less taking the initiative to reach out and grab another person’s hand.”

“In other words, this proves that Xiang Nuan has always been by our side, but we are unable to see him. But is this Xiang Nuan the same Xiang Nuan that we are looking for?” Chen Ge’s one sentence had completely befuddled Wen Qing and Xiao Sun. They had no idea what Chen Ge was talking about or worried for. His physique was greatly decreasing like someone was continuously feasting on his energy. He suspected that someone was Xiang Nuan. The thing was invisible, but he was definitely there.

I am one of the nine children, but I still do not understand what I represent. Perhaps the ghost fetus wishes to take over my body. After all, it has shown many times that it has wanted to become me.

Leaning against the wall, Chen Ge’s body vibrated alongside the whole building. He closed his eyes and an extremely scary thought crossed his mind.

Could the ghost fetus have predicted that the people from the cursed hospital and myself would enter his door at this time? He probably predicted that we would have found the other children before entering this last door and took the power away from the children.

The powers of those children were incredibly attractive to the people behind the door. After all, they represent part of the power of a demon god. Most of the patients would attempt to take the power for themselves when they were faced with the children with that power, just like the monsters from the cursed hospital and Jia Ming. If we’d taken all the powers for ourselves and then entered this last door at the same time, doesn’t that also mean that we have helped the ghost fetus gather all his power and then bring them back to him inside his door? After killing all of us, the ghost fetus will be able to complete a perfect rebirth!

Chen Ge was frightened by his own thought, but moments later, he calmed down again.

The people from the cursed hospital might have killed the children to take the power for themselves, but I did not do that. I returned the children’s powers back to them so that they can return to a normal life.

Wiping away the cold sweat that slid down his forehead, Chen Ge did not expect his accidental acts of kindness to possibly become his saving grace behind this door.

I was not greedy, so the ghost fetus was destined to be deprived of a perfect rebirth. It will be missing many important powers. There is still a chance.

More cracks appeared on the wall, and the black fog in the corridor thickened.

Bang!

The fog gushed down the corridor, and it carried some strange noises.

“Chen Ge, do you hear children crying?”

“No.” When Chen Ge turned around, he saw Wen Qing standing beside him. Her hands were lifted up in the air like someone was pulling her along. “What is going on with your hands?”

“He is here. He is just standing in front of you…” Just as Wen Qing finished, her body leaned forward. The door of Room 0097 was pulled open, and Wen Qing ran out.

“Has the woman lost her mind?” Xiao Sun was still kneeling on the ground. He was confused by this turn of events. He had no idea what Wen Qing was up to.

“Follow her!” Chen Ge gritted his teeth as he forced himself to stand up. He grabbed Xiao Sun by his shoulders. “This place is probably not safe anymore.”

The black fog rushed into the corridor. Rows of human heads lined up together in the fog. They crawled along the wall like some kind of centipede.

“What kind of monsters are those?”

Holding each other as support, Chen Ge and Xiao Sun rushed out from the black fog and headed upstairs. The monsters were unable to leave the protection of the black fog, but they seemed to have discovered Chen Ge and Xiao Sun. They kept wiggling their disgusting and ugly bodies in the fog. When they reached the fourth floor, Chen Ge’s condition could not have been worse. It was Xiao Sun who had been carrying him up the stairs and brought him to the sixth floor where Wen Qing had gone. From the third floor onward, all the doors were the black iron door. Most of them were locked; only the end room on the sixth floor was open.

“The rag doll’s head probably ran out from his room.” Chen Ge did not give it much thought, but after he entered the room, he was stunned because the interior decoration of the room was similar to Chen Ge’s bedroom that was in the attic of the haunted house from ten years ago.

The head is where the memory is stored. The ghost fetus has been living in my old room? Does it not know that this is just a part of the illusion that it has created for itself?

Every black iron door should be hiding the ghost fetus’ memory, and this last door was no exception. Chen Ge just did not expect the ghost fetus to still have such fresh memory of his own home. Lying on the familiar bed, Chen Ge’s memory was fuzzy. When he was young, both his and his parent’s bedrooms were situated on the top floor of the haunted house. After he moved out for school and work and when he returned to take over the business, his parents had already disappeared, and the attic of the haunted house had been transformed into a storage room. Actually, most of Chen Ge’s childhood memories were related to the attic as well. More than that, it was in the attic that he had found the black phone and the first doll that he made himself.

I have already forgotten this feeling, but the ghost fetus still remembers it. This is quite surprising.

With this thought in mind, Chen Ge suddenly sat up. He struggled to open the other door in the room. This was the bathroom that was attached to his bedroom. With his hands on the sink, Chen Ge lifted his head to look at the mirror above the sink!

Everything is similar to how I remembered it. Even this mirror and you inside the mirror have not changed…

Chen Ge’s hands were popping with veins. His pupils narrowed as he stared straight at the mirror before him. The surface of the mirror that was stained dirty reflected the faces of two children that looked identical to each other.

But one of them had a soft countenance and a light that refused to be extinguished in his eyes, while the other had hollowed sockets, and the eyes appeared to be a vessels for all the sins that existed in the world!