Chapter 613: 613

“What are you looking at?” The thick appendage moved to point to Chen Ge, stopping before his eyes . The boy seemed to be averse to be gawked at like a spectacle .

“I’m sorry, that was impolite of me . ” Chen Ge pulled his eyes away from the part where the body’s stomach was joined to the spider’s body . Even if the ‘door’ for White Dragon Cave Tunnel was really on the child’s body, he would not tell Chen Ge anyway, so focusing on that point would be useless . Thus, Chen Ge ended that topic quickly . “If you’re not willing to share about that, we’ll talk about something else . “

Chen Ge suddenly turned serious . “This is my last question, and it is related to all of our safety, so I hope you wouldn’t hide anything from me with regards to this question . “

“Go ahead . ” The boy pulled back his scary appendage .

“At midnight several days ago, did you see a shadow enter White Dragon Cave Tunnel?”

The mention of the shadow caused the boy’s expression to shift instantly . “Are you here because of him?”

“Looks like you do know something . ” Chen Ge was excited . He had finally someone who could tell him more about the shadow . The temperature in the tunnel suddenly dropped, and a cold wind drifted out from the deeper part of the tunnel . Neither the boy nor his mother spoke . They were silent for a long time until the boy jumped down from the wall . With his strong appendages holding his large body up, the boy looked down on Chen Ge .

The monster was incredibly large, and the way he stood placed Chen Ge under great pressure .

“Go home . The more you know, the deeper you’ll sink into despair . ” When the boy said that, his voice even quivered slightly .

“Are you afraid?”

“I’m not!” The boy suddenly lost control of his emotions and raised his front appendage to swipe at Chen Ge’s chest . The human faces on the appendage wailed, but it stopped at the last minute .

“We have the same enemy, so I can help you in any way that you might need me to . ” Chen Ge looked at the appendage right before his eyes and slowly lowered his arms . If the boy wanted to hurt him, he would be sent flying already .

After a long time, the boy slowly moved back from Chen Ge and lowered his body to maintain the same eye level with Chen Ge . “That man is crazy . That was not his first time coming to White Dragon Cave . “

“He’s been here before? Was this several years ago?” Chen Ge thought back to the strange ‘memory’ that he had seen in this tunnel, about how his young self was killed .

“Do you know why my mother and I insist on hiding here, unwilling to take one step out of this place?” Uncertainty crossed the boy’s face .

“Is it because of the shadow? Does he want to harm you?”

“Who really knows? The shadow comes every year, and every time, he is stronger than before . I only barely manage to keep him back every time . ” The boy did not sense any threat from Chen Ge, but he felt a strange discomfort from the man’s shadow . “I hate shadows . “

“I met the shadow recently, and in just a week, he has grown much stronger . I have no idea how he did that . ” Perhaps the information revealed by Chen Ge made them uncomfortable . After sharing a look with his mother, the boy told Chen Ge, “I can tell you everything I know, but you have to promise me one thing . “

“No problem . ” Chen Ge gave his promise without even asking what the promise was . His easy-going nature unsettled the boy .

“I need you to wind this spider thread around your neck . ” The appendages on the spider body spread and a gap slowly opened at the joint where the boy’s torso was sewn to the spider body . A thick stench of blood floated into the air, and blood dripped down his body . As the gap grew bigger, the expression on the boy’s face turned scarier . He reached his hand into the gap, and it looked like someone was reaching into his own stomach .

“Tell me your choice . ” The boy slowly pulled out his hand to retrieve several red spider threads from the gap . They were stuck to each other, and with the boy pulling on them, they gradually wound into a thin red rope .

There was no fear in Chen Ge’s eyes as he stared at the thread dripping with blood . His answer was still the name . “No problem . “

Stepping forward, Chen Ge moved to the boy’s side without any hesitation .

His insouciance caused the boy to become suspicious . He studied Chen Ge seriously, and for a moment, he thought this kind-looking man before him could be hiding a devil with self-destructive desire deep inside his heart .

Being close to the boy, Chen Ge finally had a chance to inspect the gap on the boy’s body .

Fresh blood, spider threads that looked like blood vessels, the heavy scent of blood—all these features matched those of a ‘blood door’ .

Accepting the spider thread with both hands, Chen Ge smiled at the boy . He cried for Zhang Ya’s name internally, wanting Zhang Ya to see whether the thread would be threatening to his health or not, but Zhang Ya gave him no reply .

The thread slowly neared Chen Ge’s neck; it was too late to turn back now . Just as the thread was going to wind around his thin neck, the woman in the tunnel stepped forward and shoved the thread away . Perhaps Chen Ge had left a good impression on the woman the last time they interacted, so this time, she came forward to help him .

“Are you really not afraid?” Suspicion appeared in the boy’s resentment-filled eyes . Then he turned around . “Follow me . I know many things about the shadow . Perhaps we can work together this one time . “

Chen Ge had no idea why the boy suddenly changed his mind . He followed the boy, and something brushed against his head . He lifted his head to look, and Chen Ge’s eyes twitched . In the center of the tunnel, at the top of the darkened ceiling, hung many “bodies” .

Their necks were all wound with spider threads, and they dangled from the ceiling like hanging victims .

“If you wind the thread around your neck, your only destination is death . I have no idea why Mommy suddenly decided to intervene, but I respect her choice . ” The boy’s heart was seared by hatred and anger; the only thing that could give him pause in the world was his mother .

The boy crawled onto the wall—this ‘forest of bodies’ was where he rested normally . “I met the shadow a long time ago . At the time, he was not as powerful as he is now; he was just a kid slightly older than me .

“I have no idea where he came from or what his origin was; I only know he’s being looking for many different children, and if I’m not mistaken, he needs to feed these children to something called a ghost fetus .

“He told me that he needed to build a door at Li Wan City . Initially, I had no idea what he meant, but later, I understood that the door he mentioned was this . “

The boy moved his body, and blood splashed . A large gap opened up between his spider body and his human torso . A conspicuous depression could be seen . “I have a distorted door, and the door is stuck inside my body . It was something I edged open little by little when the fire was burning . ”