"Snails? The old lady just reminded me to be careful about snails. Why did Jiang Ming take out the snail's shell?"
Chen Ge was a little confused, but he knew that the old man would definitely not harm Jiang Ming.
Carefully putting the snail shell back in his pocket, Jiang Ming took Chen Ge's hand out of the old man's hut.
This kid took Chen Ge to run around in the shared apartment building. They went to the window sill on the roof, the storage room where briquettes were stacked, and the garbage compartment. As long as they found the snail Jiang Ming, they would be very happy.
Chen Ge didn't know why Jiang Ming tried so hard to find the snail. He just looked at Jiang Ming's serious look and couldn't bear to interrupt.
Silently accompanying Jiang Ming, they ran all over the apartment and found only four snails. Jiang Ming put them all into his pocket, then took Chen Ge's hand and ran towards the first floor.
As long as they don't make a sound, those strange neighbors will not come over, and Jiang Ming's father has never appeared again after being beaten by the old lady.
"Are you going home?"
Jiang Ming nodded happily. He led Chen Ge to stand outside the rental house with the wooden sign, and stretched out his hand to pull the light rope.
After the lights in the house flickered a few times, the door of the rental house was opened, and a slender woman with pale "skin" appeared behind the door.
She saw Jiang Ming come back safely, with a gentle smile on her face, and then after seeing Chen Ge, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, as if she was scared by the arrival of a stranger.
This woman sign language with Chen Ge, she seems to be deaf and mute too.
Chen Ge couldn't understand complex sign language, so he could only keep smiling to make himself appear more approachable.
The door of the rental house opened slowly, and Jiang Ming excitedly ran to the woman's side. He took out snails from his pocket as if to show off.
The woman touched the boy's head, with a gentle smile on her face, quietly watching Jiang Ming's happy appearance.
"This should be Jiang Ming's mother."
Entering the house, Chen Ge closed the door.
Looking at the harmonious picture in front of her, Chen Ge couldn't blend in at all. The woman's face was the same as that of an ordinary person, but her body was covered in patches.
From a distance, Jiang Ming's mother looked like a rag doll. She only had her hands to work and her face had no patches. The rest were sewed and mended, and her skin looked like a worn coat.
Chen Ge couldn't imagine what happened to a woman to appear in such an image in the child's memory.
The woman gestured with her hands, as if praising Jiang Ming, but the happy atmosphere in the room soon disappeared.
The light at the door came on again, and the doll mother and the young Jiang Ming both looked at the door. Finally, Jiang Ming's mother walked to the door and opened the door of the rental house.
The pungent smell of alcohol poured into the nostrils, and a grim-faced drunk appeared at the door.
The muddy body was pressed against the door frame, and the arm that grew together with the wine bottle pointed at Chen Ge, and the drunk stared at the rag doll woman fiercely.
The woman gestured with sign language, but the drunkard had no patience to look at it, and pushed her away.
Seeing the drunk come in, Jiang Ming took out the snails from his pocket and trotted to the drunk.
He held the snail in both hands, and wanted to let the drunkard take a look, but before he could stretch out his hand, the drunkard fanned Jiang Ming's arm to one side.
The snail shell fell to the ground, and the snail Jiang Ming had worked so hard to find was trampled to pieces.
The drunk stared at the shattered snails on the ground, his face turned red, and his blood vessels bulged, and he seemed to be even more angry.
There was nowhere to vent his anger, he overturned the small table in the living room, and the water bottle on the table almost hit Jiang Ming, but luckily the ragdoll woman blocked it.
The hot water spilled on the ground, and part of it splashed on the drunkard. His whole body became red, and he directly grabbed the ragdoll woman's hair and pressed her down.
The woman's first reaction after the fall was to wave at Jiang Ming and tell him to hurry into the house.
The drunk dragged the woman's legs, and the arms that grew together with the wine bottle kept falling.
The boy was standing in a messy living room, he didn't know what he had done wrong, the snails on the ground were trampled to pieces, the doll mother was knocked down.
His shoulders were shaking with fear, he didn't know who to turn to for help, he looked at his mother in pain, he wanted to help the woman, but there was nothing he could do, he couldn't even speak.
"Don't be afraid."
Chen Ge patted Jiang Ming's trembling shoulder lightly: "I'll help you."
Chen Ge kicked the drunkard with one foot, and when the drunkard and the ragdoll woman separated, he smashed the drunkard's shoulder with a skull crusher.
"Bang!"
The drunk slammed into the door of the rental house. Chen Ge didn't give the opponent a chance and chose to continue the attack.
"Jiang Ming, you can see clearly, he is not invincible, he is just a weak coward, you don't have to fear him at all!"
The drunken man who was knocked down was recovering quickly, his arms grew together with the furniture in the room, and his expression became more and more fierce.
"I'll lead him to the back room, and as soon as the door opens, you can quickly escape!"
In order to buy time for Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman, Chen Ge could only knock down the drunk again and again.
Every time he was knocked down, the appearance of the drunk became more terrifying. His body was constantly expanding, his back was attached to the wall, and he slowly merged with the whole room.
In Jiang Ming's memory, the words "home" and "father" were closely related, so Chen Ge was not surprised at all. The only thing that worried him was that Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman did not escape from the room.
Cracks appeared in the walls, large pieces of the ceiling began to fall off, the ground shook, and the lights behind the door flickered a few times before suddenly turning off.
The light disappeared, and a thick stench wafted from above in the dimly lit room.
The cracks in the roof were getting bigger and bigger, and the drunk man's swelled body touched the ceiling. At this moment, the roof of the rental house collapsed as a whole.
The stench wafted through the nostrils, and the things that overwhelmed the home appeared!
With a threaded hard shell, a slimy body, a giant blood-red snail crawls above this home.
A steady stream of negative emotions poured into the drunkard's body, and the giant snail's slightly smaller tentacles cracked open, and inside were densely packed and innumerable teeth.
The huge body protruded from the shell, and the blood-colored snail bit towards Chen Ge.
"Snail? Why is there such a terrifying thing in Jiang Ming's dream?"
Chen Ge protected Jiang Ming and retreated. The whole world behind the door completely changed after the snail appeared. The walls began to seep blood continuously, and the apartment building seemed to collapse at any time.
"Go upstairs and find that old grandmother!" Chen Ge ran upstairs with Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman, and the neighbors who were similar to the monster became crazy under the influence of the bloody snail.
At first, the world gave Chen Ge a sense of absurdity, like a small child holding a paintbrush and sketching casually, but since the appearance of the blood-colored snail, the world has become bloody and cruel, and it is getting closer and closer to the real door. post-world.
After the three came to the room where the old man lived, Chen Ge knocked on the door hard.
"Grandma, I'll take you and Jiang Ming away! I know the way to escape!"
The door opened in response, and the old lady was standing at the door with a cane. She saw the crazy neighbors and the blood-colored snails crawling this way.
"You are still obsessed, and you have something to worry about. You shouldn't stay here. Let's go with us." Chen Ge had already made a decision, and he took out the comic book.
The old man hesitated, she opened her mouth and said a few words, but Chen Ge couldn't hear her voice at all.
"I'll take it as you agree." Chen Ge turned to protect the old lady and Jiang Ming's mother and son behind him, he stared at the blood-colored snail that was slowly crawling here: "This snail is the culprit that crushed Jiang Ming's entire family. , is also the incarnation of all the negative emotions and disasters in Jiang Ming's mind, if he can get rid of this thing, Jiang Ming may not be confused anymore."
Pressing the switch of the repeater, Chen Ge shouted softly, "Xu Yin!"
The blood-red pattern quickly spread around with Chen Ge as the center, the blood-colored snail sensed the threat, and all the crazy deformed neighbors ran here.
"Five red clothes can destroy this incomplete scene, and the extra red clothes can be used to maintain the basic framework of this scene."
Flicking through the comic book, more and more blood-colored patterns emerged, and they were surprisingly aggressive, spreading to the entire scene in a very short period of time.
The blood-red snail has stopped moving forward, and it feels threatened, but Chen Ge's hand turning over the comic book has not stopped.
More and more blood-colored lines almost covered Jiang Ming's world behind the door. Finally, at a certain moment, the critical point was broken, and the thick bloody smell was surging like a sea of blood pouring backwards!
One figure after another began to appear beside Chen Ge. The red clothes were like blood, and he didn't need to say more. Those red clothes were like sharks smelling fishy, and they rushed towards the blood-colored snails.
The digital red clothes joined forces, and the hard shell of the snail was shattered. At this time, Chen Ge saw an extremely terrifying scene.
In the deepest part of the snail's hard shell, there is a baby face with closed eyes!
That face was exactly the same as the one he saw in the shadow of Liwan Town.
"Unborn child?"
The baby's eyes slowly opened, and there was pure evil in his eyes.
A sharp laughter sounded, and the body inside the snail's hard shell exploded instantly, the baby's face was stained with blood, and only a wooden toy was left on the ground.
"It seems that the fetus is not attached to Jiang Ming."
Although no fetus was found, at least one option was ruled out.
Chen Ge walked to the snail's body and picked up the toy on the ground.
He still had an impression of this toy. It was given to him by his father when he was very young, but one day he suddenly couldn't find it.
"Is it taken by the shadow?"
After the snail exploded, Jiang Ming's world behind the door began to shake violently, the deformed neighbors slowly dissipated, and the foundation of this world was shaken.
Chen Ge asked the other red clothes to temporarily stabilize the shaking world. He walked over to the old lady and Jiang Ming: "It's time to say goodbye to these pains, I'll take you away."
Opening the comic book, Chen Ge wanted to include the old lady and Jiang Ming in it, but Jiang Ming was unwilling to let go of the rag doll woman's hand.
The woman who survived in the memory gently pushed Jiang Ming away, she gently waved at Jiang Ming, her body slowly became illusory, and finally disappeared.
"After leaving here, I will take you to find her in reality. She must miss you very much too."
After closing the comic book, Chen Ge took Jiang Ming's hand and returned to the first floor accompanied by the digital red clothes.
The scene collapsed and they opened the locked iron door.
When Chen Ge stepped out of the door, Jiang Ming, who was lying on the bed in reality, opened his eyes. He sat up from the bed, just in time to see Chen Ge, who was still keeping his legs raised beside the bed.
The door behind him shattered completely. Chen Ge held his backpack in one hand and looked at Jiang Ming quietly.
Jiang Ming, who was sitting on the bed, didn't cry or make trouble. He seemed to recognize Chen Ge.
"Just take what happened just now as a dream." After Chen Ge finished speaking, he realized that Jiang Ming couldn't hear him at all. He took out a paper and pen and wrote the words "mother": "Go to sleep, I will bring it with me tomorrow. You go to her."
In order to prevent Jiang Ming from not being able to read, Chen Ge gestured and wrote at the same time.
It took a while for Jiang Ming to understand, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
"Rest well, good night."
Touching the boy's head, Chen Ge opened the comic book and released the old lady: "Grandma, can you hear my voice now?"
The old lady's eyes were always on Jiang Ming, her body was almost transparent.
"There's a question I've always been curious about. Why is there such a terrible snail in Jiang Ming's world behind the door? Does he have a psychological shadow on snails? Could it be that he was teased by other people with snails when he was a child?" Chen Ge has Lots of assumptions, but none of them hold.
"That snail doesn't mean a real snail." There was a hint of distress in the old man's voice: "Jiang Ming's mother was born deaf and mute, and her family despised her since she was a child. When she grew up, her family married her for a little betrothal money. Jiang Ming's father."
"Later Jiang Ming was born. Although he was not congenitally deaf, he also had hearing defects. The doctor suggested a cochlear implant operation, but the cheapest cochlear implant costs tens of thousands, and the more expensive ones cost hundreds of thousands."
"The doctor said that the sooner the operation is done, the better, but Jiang Ming's mother can't afford the money, let alone his father."
"Since Jiang Ming's father knew that Jiang Ming's ears also have problems, his attitude towards their mother and son has changed a lot. He even wanted to abandon Jiang Ming. Fortunately, Jiang Ming's mother stopped him every time."
"You can also see what happened in the future. Jiang Ming's mother learned water embroidery with me and saved money to do cochlear surgery for Jiang Ming. His father likes to gamble, likes to drink, and steals the money saved by Jiang Ming's mother. Just grab it."
"Jiang Ming grew up in such an environment. He is too young to know what cochlear surgery is. Perhaps in his world, snails represent the hope of hearing voices. He tried his best to find snails, and he was eager to Can hear other people's voices, but at the same time there is an unavoidable fact that his family was crushed by that snail."
After listening to the old lady's words, Chen Ge really understood the world in the eyes of this child, and the absurdity was full of bloody truth.
"Grandma, do you know where the child's parents live?"
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm going to teach the child's father how to be a man, and I also want to help the child's mother." Chen Ge took out his wallet from his pocket: "If conditions permit, I also hope that Jiang Ming can hear the voice in the future. "
"You want to fund this child's surgery?"
"What's the matter? Don't look at the ordinary clothes I wear. In fact, I am also an entrepreneur."
After Chen Ge finished speaking, he opened the zipper of his backpack and stuffed the Skull Smasher into the bag diagonally.