Chapter 1104 - She Is Stepping on a Blood Red City 2 in 1 (1/2)
“The past? The monster’s name is the Past?” Even though Chen Ge had been paying close attention to the ghost fetus, but the current situation had gotten fully out of his control. All the plans and tricks appeared so harmless and pointless before the ten years of preparation that had gone into the Demon God’s set up. The giant shadow in the sky suppressed all the buildings behind the door. The ground started to crack, and the floor was sinking downward. The other monsters that hid in the shadow dispersed to save themselves. Echoes of harrowing screams filled the air.
The giant body hidden in the black fog continued to press down until Chen Ge finally saw it for what it really was. This monster by the name of the Past had a horrifying appearance. It was like a cicada that was about to crawl out from its giant shell. Its body was made up from shredded flesh. It contained various human body parts as well as innumerable abandoned and forgotten memories. The ginormous upper body leaned steadily on the top of the two main buildings from Jin Hwa Apartments. Behind its body, it was dragging a shell that was even larger than all of Jin Hwa Apartments combined.
The monster appeared to be trying to crawl out from its shell, but how could the Past abandon its shell so easily?
Its body was running with black-colored blood. The wounds were like gaping maws, and every monster that was unlucky enough to get too close would be torn open by the mouths and then consumed by them. With each consumption of the monster, its body would grow slightly bigger. It appeared that the monster wanted to use this method to grow big enough to break its shell from the inside, but the shell had joined to its flesh. It had already become part of its body. No matter what it did, it was unable to shake off that heavy and restrictive shell.
Sinking in the past and unable to move forward, every person and every memory that constructed its body was continuously torturing itself. In the end, it was this curious combination that created this strange amalgamation of a monster. The shell of the past grew into the flesh, but the surface still maintained the shape of a human. But with a slight movement, the shell would cut the body, and the wounds would bleed out black blood. The giant monster had overshadowed all the buildings. It had no actual facial features to speak of, but there was a child situated at the middle of its head. The child’s body was bitten by multiple human faces and held in place by many arms. He was deep inside the monster’s head. He had a face that looked identical to Xiang Nuan’s.
“Xiang Nuan!” A heart-wrenching scream came out of Jin Hwa Apartment’s Block A. Wen Qing’s shout shattered the stunned silence of the night. Everyone present heard her cry and scream, but no one dared respond. The heart-breaking voice was a great contrast to this world that fed on cruelty; it was clear that she did not belong to this place.
After the boy who stood behind Chen Ge heard Wen Qing’s voice, the smile on his face disappeared. A trace of emotion that should not have been present crossed his eyes, but he soon returned to normal. When everyone was on high alert, the boy suddenly reached out and rushed toward Chen Ge without warning. His eyes tore open, and black blood leaked out from all of the boy’s orifices. His body suddenly picked up speed. The speed was at least ten times faster than before. Instantly, he broke through Chen Ge’s employees’ shield. It appeared like he would do anything to grab hold of Chen Ge!
The boy’s hands touched the blood vessels left behind by the employees. This time, his hand easily passed through the layers of them. The face locked in an ugly grimace rammed past Xiao Bu and the red high heels. He had paid everything just to touch Chen Ge!
His body was shredded by the sharp blood vessels. His face was torn open, and black blood dropped to the ground, but one of his arm successfully breached through the employees’ defense and reached Chen Ge’s face. The fingers that were covered in black blood started to break out in wounds. The maggot-like curses crawled out of the wounds and slithered toward Chen Ge’s eyes. They wanted to crawl into his eyes.
“The former me! Look closely! This will be your future body!” the boy shouted loudly at the monster in the sky. Xiang Nuan, who was encased deep in the monster’s head, appeared to have a focus in his eyes, which were previously soulless, after he heard the boy’s voice. In the dark pupils, the curse threads wiggled like worms. Xiang Nuan turned to look at where Chen Ge was standing. At the same time, the whole upper body of the giant monster moved as if the monster had set its target on Chen Ge as well.
Exhausting everything, the boy’s finger that was coated in black blood finally managed to touch Chen Ge. Just as the sticky liquid was about to make contact with Chen Ge’s eyelash, an extremely overpowering presence swept all over Jin Hwa residential area like a lashing whirlwind!
The calm shadow started to boil, and gray soil bubbled with blood. The black fog around Chen Ge was dispersed as if a Demon God had opened her eyes!
Not only the monster in the sky, even Chen Ge himself was surprised. Everything had happened too suddenly.
“Zhang Ya?” Turning back, Chen Ge looked at his own shadow. In that bottomless darkness, it appeared to be someone looking gently and softly at him. This was a gaze that had not been felt by Chen Ge before. It was unclear whether it was because Zhang Ya had gained access to a wider range of emotions after she became a Demon God or this was the aftereffect of the memory that Chen Ge had experienced with her in Yu Jian’s world.
When Chen Ge was focusing on his own shadow, the faceless doctor who was not far away gave out a startling scream. The development there was completely different from what was happening to Chen Ge. The coat that he was wearing appeared to come to life and wrapped tightly around him. The human faces started to tear into the faceless doctor’s body like it was a free-for-all feast until all traces of life had dissipated from the doctor’s physical body. His whole body was covered in blood, and the coat that was made of human faces became his new layer of skin.
Different wounds started to surface on the face that did not have any facial features. The presence that radiated off the faceless doctor was now completely different from before. Currently, all the monsters at the residential area were attracted by Zhang Ya and Chen Ge. The faceless doctor made use of this opportunity to make his move. After he showed up, he made the determination to go after the ghost fetus’ heart. The heart specimen that was stuck with nails appeared to be something very important. The Demon God on the faceless doctor had decided to show himself just to take it back as soon as possible. The faceless doctor finally did not hold back. Every face on his body gave off the presence of a Red Specter. With their combined effect, he pushed through the black fog easily.
The broken rag doll was about to regain its heart, so naturally, it would not allow the faceless doctor to do what he wanted, but it was too weak to stop the faceless doctor. They were now on completely different power levels!
Seeing as the nailed heart was about to be taken away, the rag doll suddenly had a smile appear on its face. It tore off its left arm voluntarily. This appeared to be some kind of signal. After the left arm was torn off, this world behind the door started to crumble. The buildings teetered, and the ground shook. In the space between Jiu Hong Apartments and Jin Hwa Apartments, a body that was stuffed with trash, cotton, toys, and pictures crawled out from the ground. This appeared to be the body that the rag doll was missing!
After the body crawled out, it was as if some kind of barrier had been lowered. The black fog rushed madly into the residential area. The buildings from Jiu Hong Apartments that were situated at the fringe were easily knocked over by this surging wave. The chain effect continued, and the other buildings were shaking precariously. The rag doll’s body appeared to be the foundation of the whole world behind the door. When it had left the ground, it meant that the foundation of this world had been shaken.
Two legs, the head, the body, and the right arm—the rag doll appeared to have returned to its most original form in its memory. It had turned back to the poor child who had just escaped to Jiu Hong Apartments and was desperate to use the trash heap to form its own body. The shadow had lived for a long time inside the rag doll’s body, so the rag doll possessed its most painful and despairing memories and experiences. In the world behind the door, both despair and pain represented a great store of power.
The presence that surrounded the rag doll was no weaker than the faceless doctor’s. It had given up maintaining the stability of this world behind the door. It had taken back most of its body, other than its left arm. The rag doll appeared to purposely place its left arm back into Jin Hwa Apartments Block A. It had abandoned the whole world, but it would do anything to protect that one building.
The button that was sewn on the face was twined together by blood vessels. The eyeball that nobody knew where it came from was showing the extreme evil within humanity. The rag doll had suffered all the pain of the shadow, and it had also inherited the most powerful ability of the shadow—the power to curse.