Chapter 179

Breathing became difficult like he had walked into a thick fog . He felt moisture on his skin, and everything had a sheen of red to it . This is the world behind the door?

Chen Ge remembered Men Nan’s advice . He kept his mouth shut, and with the cleaver and hammer in his hands, he looked around . The walls, ceiling, and decorations in Room 3 were identical to the one in the real world .

He turned around, and what he saw made his heart race . The door of Room 3 was open, but the scene outside the corridor did not reflect what it was in the real world . The difference was drastic; it was a corridor without any trash, clean and well-kept .

The mattresses and dolls that littered the floor were nowhere to be seen, and it felt like there were cleaners who cleaned the place every day . Chen Ge nudged toward the door carefully . He reached his arm out, and his arm did not disappear; the door appeared to only work one-way!

Since he had been warned to not speak, Chen Ge could not call Zhang Ya . Bracing himself, he walked out of Room 3, and as he stepped out, he ran into something on the corridor . It was not a monster as he expected, not a zombie or a dead body, but a doll made from bedsheets and pillows . And there was more than one .

They stood along the corridor like scarecrows . Their drawn expressions had a blank smile, and Chen Ge could not tell whether they were happy or sad . Why are there such things in the world beyond the door?

Chen Ge assumed that the dolls buried inside the mattresses were just a silly prank, but after seeing this, his opinion changed . The nurse would feed the patients their medicine every night . She even had a special notebook to record each patient’s name and medical history .

Most crucially, all these patients had died in the real world, so these dolls probably carried their lingering spirit . Lingering spirits were a lot weaker than baleful specters, but when the number of lingering spirits was at least ten times the baleful specters, the baleful specter might not win .

When Chen Ge studied the doll, one of them seemed to sense him . Its head that was lowered suddenly raised, and its body turned . Its face that looked like it was drawn on by the hand of a child looked at Chen Ge, and Chen Ge started to sweat .

The doll’s body slowly moved, and Chen Ge raised the cleaver . The distance between the two closed, but the doll did not seem to pay Chen Ge any attention . With its wiggling gait, it walked to the other end of the corridor .

It did not seem to have any purpose . It walked down the corridor aimlessly and stopped to lean against the wall when it was tired . It reminded Chen Ge of a mannequin puppet . Chen Ge had met many lingering spirit . The reason for their formation was a deep compulsion that they could not let go of . It caused them to remain in the real world .

However, the lingering spirit inside the doll was completely different . It seemed to have lost its memory, or it had completely silenced its heart . Since the doll did not attack Chen Ge, there was no reason for him to provoke them . He slid silently out of Room 3 and inspected the walls on the corridor .

The wall had obvious scratch marks on it; they had probably been caused by Zhang Ya . Chen Ge followed the marks up to the second floor, and when he exited the stairwell, Chen Ge almost screamed from shock .

Various dolls teetered on the second-floor corridor . They wandered about aimlessly and paid no need to their surroundings . There was a great number of them; some of them were fallen on the floor with black scratch marks on them, a sign that Zhang Ya had passed through this way .

Walking amid the tipsy dolls, Chen Ge had this weird sensation that perhaps he was the crazy one . If one was surrounded by mad people, would the normal one think he was the crazy one?

The further he walked, the harder it was for Chen Ge to breathe . There was a heaviness on his body like he was being tossed into the ocean and s sinking . Thankfully, no one attacked him . Chen Ge successfully reached the end of the second-floor corridor, and the scratch marks ended there .

At the end of the corridor was a special room . Chen Ge had not had the time to examine it in real life before he was chased by the nurse to the first floor . This room that he had missed was the electroshock therapy room .

After pushing it open, the scene that he saw surprised him . It was different from what he had expected . There was only one bed in the room, and a boy about five years old was tied to it . Chen Ge walked to the bed, and after comparing the picture, he was sure this was the young Men Nan .

A question surfaced in Chen Ge’s mind . Why is he here?

Based on the memory left in Men Nan’s mind, Chen Ge had a bold speculation . An accident did happen to Men Nan’s main persona inside the door, and it was because the door had lost its guardian that it started to go out of control .

The scratch marks disappeared here, so this proved that she had been here before, but there was no sign of a struggle inside the room .

Chen Ge had no idea where Zhang Ya had disappeared to, but since he had found Men Nan’s main persona, he decided to rescue him first . Only by waking up the boy would he gain a new understanding of the world behind the door and perhaps a new helper .

That was the ideal situation, but what would really happen, no one knew . Chen Ge could only hedge a bet on it going well . The cleaver slit open the binders easily, and Chen Ge lightly nudged Men Nan’s body .

It was unknown whether the boy was caught in a deep sleep or unconscious . No matter how hard Chen Ge shook him, his eyes remained closed . He could not speak inside this blood world, so Chen Ge tried other methods to wake the boy up .

He did not know what happened to the boy, and his brain tried to fill in the blanks . The culprit did not kill the boy but detained him inside the electroshock therapy room . This meant that the boy was still useful to the culprit, so they would not see any harm come to the boy .

A crazy thought flashed across Chen Ge’s mind . Chen Ge silently raised the cleaver . He moved the blade up and down several times . He narrowed his eyes at the space close to the boy’s neck and waved the cleaver downwards!

The blade did not make contact with the bed . When it was about two centimeters away, a hairy hand appeared to block Chen Ge’s cleaver . Chen Ge had been paying full attention, but he still did not know where the arm came from .

Chen Ge pulled the cleaver back and put some distance between them . Chen Ge saw the monster in its full form . It had no body; it was only a broken arm .

The arm seemed to be protecting the boy . To try out this theory, Chen Ge unleashed another attack at the boy .

His every slash was blocked by the arm, and as this repeated itself, the arm started to crack . Just as Chen Ge thought the arm was about to disappear, many other broken arms appeared from underneath the bed .

The tussle between the two parties grew louder, and about ten seconds later, there was a slight twitch on the sleeping boy’s face .