Chapter 1002

Chapter 1002: Absurd World Made from Memories

“He is a literal representation of ‘as drunk as a pile of mud’ . ” Chen Ge stared at the slowly approaching monster . He pressed on the recorder and called Xu Yin’s name . To his surprise, Xu Yin did not show up, but the whole apartment started to bleed, and small cracks appeared on the wall . After communicating with Xu Yin, Chen Ge found that he was stopped by some unknown force . He was trying to break through it, but he needed some time .

“When I entered the door behind the underground morgue, I ran into the same situation, but this place is no match at all for Doctor Gao’s underground morgue . ” Placing the recorder back in his bag, Chen Ge took out the hammer and stood in the corridor . “There is no need to run and hide . ”

The scary-looking hammer grated on the peeling wall . When the monster got close enough, he aimed right at the monster’s arm . The bottle that grew out of the arm shattered, the glass shards flew everywhere, and some embedded into the monster’s body .

“Can we communicate?”

The monster could not feel pain . Even though his arm was broken, he moved faster . After he got close to Chen Ge, he reached out his other arm to grab Chen Ge’s head, trying to slam into Chen Ge .

“Looks like the thing is not sentient . ”

Holding the hammer with both hands, Chen Ge swung it vertically on the monster’s chin . The already malformed head was almost blown off the rest of its body . It was attached to the neck by a thin layer of flesh . The smell of alcohol thickened . After the monster was injured, it became uglier and more aggressive . While Chen Ge was contemplating how to deal with this monster, he felt a chill coming from behind him . He turned his head slowly .

The rental doors on the side had been opened, and several twisted looking monsters appeared silently behind Chen Ge . They were very close to him!

“The original tenants behind the door will not make any sound no matter what happens . They can hear me, but I can’t hear them . ” He thought about it and realized that was exactly what Jiang Ming was experiencing . He was deaf, so no matter what other people said, he could not hear them, but if he made any sound, the people around him would react to him immediately . “So, I am taking Jiang Ming’s perspective in this world?”

This was the first time that Chen Ge had encountered such a strange world behind the door . He felt troubled . The enemies could approach him silently, and they were hard to kill, but if he made the smallest sound, the enemies could hear him .

“I’ll deal with this one before me first . ” After the drunkard was injured, his face had become as red as blood, and thick capillaries had puffed up on his face . He became more violent . The arm attached to the bottle waved around, and Chen Ge realized that the arm would join itself to whatever it came in contact with .

“The world behind the door is weaved from Jiang Ming’s memory, so this man should be an important character in his memory . A violent drunkard that exploded when resisted and would grab anything nearby to start attacking . ” Chen Ge looked at the drunkard and stared into that ugly face . “This is such a horrible human being!”

Raising the hammer, Chen Ge aimed it heavily at the monster’s head . The hammer sank into the monster’s shoulder, and he gave him another kick . Chen Ge gave no chance for the monster to react . He hit him repeatedly . “If he can still stand up after this, I’ll have to consider something else . ”

The drunkard collapsed on the ground . His face became redder like it was about to explode, and his body was still expanding . “If this drunkard is the boy’s father, then in the young boy’s memory, his father was someone unbeatable and unshakeable . ”

Chen Ge turned back to look . The neighbors all looked strange with twisted appearances . Their ears and mouths were comically enormous . Depending on the boy’s memory of them, each of them had a special trait that separated them apart from the rest . One reeked of cheap perfume, while another had short limbs and a round belly . These neighbors were distinct from each other, but their reaction when they saw Chen Ge fight with the drunkard was surprisingly similar . They stood at their doors, peeling their ears to listen and whispering to each other . They would only turn Chen Ge’s way when Chen Ge made some noise . If Chen Ge kept quiet, they appeared too lazy to give him any attention .

“I wonder if these neighbors can be killed . ” Being stared at by the group of monsters, Chen Ge felt pressure . The scariest part about the scenario was that he could not hear the sound of these monsters approaching . He could turn around to a wall of faces looking at him . “I can’t hear their voices . This world is too quiet for me . ”

The drunkard was most likely Jiang Ming’s biological father . He was very hard to kill, but the neighbors might be different . Chen Ge’s plan was to first kill the drunkard and then massacre the rest of the neighbors before he could explore the rest of the place in peace . The plan was simple and direct .

He raised the hammer and entered the room that was closest to him . Inside was a middle-aged man wearing a tank top . His limbs appeared to have atrophied; they were at least half the size of normal limbs . In contrast, his belly was bulging, filled with fat . There was a thin, wiry old woman in the room as well . The old woman wandered around the room as if possessed, cleaning this and that . There were several plastic tubes that were stuck into her body, and the tubes were joined to some medicine bottles that were collected in a dirty corner of the room .

A kipper[1]?

The memory world of Jiang Ming was different from a real adult world . It was absurd and strange . Chen Ge could not be sure that he had read this situation correctly . The neighbors were monsters born out of his twisted memory, so Chen Ge did not need to hold back . The hammer slammed heavily . The injured middle-aged man crawled into the room . He grabbed the plastic tubes that were originally placed in the medicine bottles and started to suck . The old woman who bustled in the room shrank before Chen Ge’s eyes . After a while, the man stood up again . He waved his short limbs as if taunting Chen Ge .

These things can’t be killed, or at least, the hammer is not strong enough to kill them .

The drunkard had almost fully recovered, and he was becoming more aggressive than before . Chen Ge hammered the man several more times before he leaped over the drunkard and headed to the second floor . After learning from his previous lesson, this time, he moved quietly and did not make any noise .

I’ll hide for now .

Chen Ge entered the toilet on the second floor . He sneaked into it and contacted Xu Yin through the recorder . After communicating, Chen Ge found out that this world behind the door was very unstable . It required the power of five Red Specters to tear down the boy’s memory, and then he would be able to escape . However, Chen Ge would not do that unless necessary because the ruination of the memory might cause irreparable damage to the boy .

[1] Kipper is an acronym for “kids in parents’ pockets eroding retirement savings” .

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