The familiar cigarette evoked Chen Ge's memory. He was not a sentimental person, but he still stopped at this moment.
"Leave me alone, and come to such a dangerous place by yourself, how many things do you have to hide from me?"
Knocking on the door, there was no response, Chen Ge whispered, "Is anyone there?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a surprised voice came from the door.
"Boss Chen?!"
The chain behind the door slid, and the circlip opened, and it took a long time for this seemingly ordinary door to be opened.
Fan Cong, who was wearing pajamas, stood behind the door with tears on his face. When this fat guy of more than 200 pounds saw Chen Ge, he rushed over and wanted to give Chen Ge a bear hug.
"You give me some restraint." Chen Ge took a step back, he could see that Fan Cong was very emotional.
"I knew you would come! Boss Chen, I almost never saw you again!" Fan Cong said with a hint of tears. He wanted to tell Chen Ge a lot of things, but he didn't know. He started walking around the house, his belly full of fat trembling gently with his body.
"Calm down first, do you have your phone with you? We talked on the phone a few hours ago, let me see your call records." Chen Ge was testing Fan Cong. When Fan Cong disappeared, the phone was left in the room, and later Fan Dade also had a brief communication with Chen Ge through Fan Cong's mobile phone.
"I'm not here, I was in a hurry to escape, and I fell into the room." Fan Cong pointed to his oversized pajamas, which had no pockets.
Chen Ge nodded and looked into the room. This is a very ordinary rental house, with beds, tables, fans, and nothing special.
"Why are you hiding in this place? Who brought you?" Chen Ge always thought that Fan Cong was kidnapped by the shadow, but now it doesn't seem to be the case.
"I can't believe it myself." Fan Cong moved his chubby body away and walked to the window.
"Second floor, what's the use of repairing a window? Are you lying to yourself?" Chen Ge clenched the skull crusher and blocked the door of the room.
"She brought me here." Fan Cong opened the thick curtains, and someone painted a picture with cheap watercolors on the cement wall behind. There were mountains, water, bright sunshine, and those that never fade. Flowers, and family members with smiles on their faces.
Chen Ge's eyes moved with the curtains, and finally settled on the side of the window frame, where a little girl was sitting.
She was dressed in red and stared blankly at the painting on the cement wall.
"Xiaobu?" Chen Ge has seen this girl more than once, but every time the girl brings her a different feeling, there are warnings, coldness, and helplessness this time.
"She was the one who took me away when we called." Fan Cong's eyelids twitched, and he seemed a little scared when he remembered the scene at the time: "It wasn't my brother who came back that night, but another person, I really didn't dare Imagine being in the same house with him for so long without even realizing it."
"Your brother was replaced by the shadow?" Fan Cong's words matched Chen Ge's previous speculation: "Is this what Xiaobu told you?"
"Well, my brother didn't come back that night at all, and I'm a little worried about him now." Fan Cong sat on the bed, the shabby bed board made a creaking sound, as if it would be crushed at any time.
Compared with his body size, the bed board is even smaller.
"These beds are for children." Fan Cong explained and glanced at Xiao Bu secretly. He was also worried that he would crush the bed.
"For the children?" Chen Ge keenly captured the key words in Fan Cong's words: "You told me on the phone that after the game was cleared, Xiaobu entered this building, is this building special? It looks like the internal structure is no different from other buildings in Liwan Town."
"I also heard Xiaobu say that there was an infectious disease in Liwan Town many years ago, and this building is the only one that was avoided by infectious patients."
"The only thing that was avoided? What do you mean?" Chen Ge didn't quite understand.
"It's a long story. If you completely clear Xiaobu's game, you will know everything. That game is based on Liwan Town, and it truly restores Liwan Town at that time." Fan Cong has attacked all the branches, and he knows all the games. Plot: "Humanity is a very complicated thing. It can sacrifice itself like a blazing sun to bring warmth to the weak, or it can be like an abyss, dark and dark, with no lower limit."
"The source of the outbreak of infectious diseases was Liwan Hospital. The hospital was helpless against the disease. Those patients knew that they could not survive, and some of them began to deliberately retaliate by stealing their blood and other things on fruits and medical equipment, which quickly spread the disease. The disease spreads."
"First it was other patients, then the doctor, and finally it spread to half of Liwan Town."
"Diseases are rampant and people are panicking. Many people with symptoms are like crazy. Although they didn't kill people directly, innocent people died because of them. They are actually not much different from those murderers."
"The whole Liwan Town was in chaos at that time, only this building was different."
"The building used to be an orphanage. The developers thought that the east suburbs would develop very fast in the future, so they bought the land and built a new building. At that time, they promised very well that they would build new homes for all orphans and staff and keep the orphanage. The existence of it. It was only after it was actually built that we found out that they used the first and second basement floors to house orphans.”
"After the outbreak of the disease, all the staff of the orphanage strictly prohibited the children from coming out, and then they themselves guarded the entrance to the underground. They have made a decision not to let anyone in, including themselves."
"After a day and a night, someone came from above. No one knew the specific solution, and I couldn't find any information on the Internet. The game only said that all the orphans were rescued, and no one was infected."
When Fan Cong said this, his voice changed slightly: "To be honest, I admire the staff of the orphanage very much. They can be said to be the only beauty in Liwan Town."
Humans are a very special kind of life. Even in the most filthy and ugly environments, they can still bloom beautiful flowers with good intentions.
"No wonder there are human-shaped stains in all buildings, but this building does not." Chen Ge figured out the first question, but then more questions emerged: "But why did Xiaobu finally enter this building in the game? ? Representing her wholeheartedly towards kindness?"
Those who can open the door are in deep despair, and self-salvation is extremely difficult for them.
"You should have noticed those posters in the basement corridor, right? There was a branch line in the game that a young couple entered Liwan Town, they found Xiaobu, and arranged the building as Xiaobu's shelter." Fan Cong tried his best to recall the last few clips of the game: "They want to help Xiaobu, but they ask Xiaobu to agree to a condition."
"Conditions?" Chen Ge knew that the young couple Fan Cong was talking about were his parents, smoking familiar cigarettes and carrying posters of haunted houses with him.
"Yes." Fan Cong looked back at Xiaobu, seeing that there was no response from Xiaobu, then continued: "They hope that Xiaobu can be the shadow of their children."
"Tell me in detail." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes.
"You've seen the dialogue in the game, it's hard to interpret, it probably means that the shadow of their child is lost, so I hope Xiaobu can become the new shadow of his child. I know it's incredible, but that's what it says in the game. In the game, Xiaobu did not agree immediately, so they built a shelter in Liwan Town, saying that if Xiaobu thought about it, he would enter the shelter and wait for them, and then they would help Xiaobu solve the shadow." Fan Cong added I don't know how much impact what I said on Chen Ge.
"It's really a shame they thought of getting a red shirt as a shadow." Now Xiaobu has entered the shelter, indicating that they have agreed to be Chen Ge's shadow, but not only did his parents not remove the shadow as agreed, but instead made himself available Missing, this made Chen Ge a little unsure how to face Xiaobu: "I don't want to do so much, as long as I can kill the shadow, no matter who did it, it will be considered a fulfillment of the agreement."
Entering the room, Chen Ge walked to the window. Xiao Bu looked only seven or eight years old. The blood-like red clothes contrasted sharply with her pale face. Just approaching, Xu Yin issued a strong warning.
"She looks very strong." This is the first time Chen Ge has seen a door that is out of control. He doesn't know how it will affect the person who pushes the door after the door is out of control. However, from the current situation, it seems that after the door is out of control, the door will be pushed open. People will also become more terrifying.
"It was my parents who had an agreement with you before, and I was the one who lost their shadow in their mouths."
Hearing Chen Ge's words, the girl who had been in a daze moved her eyelashes slightly, she turned around slowly, and a sense of oppression that made Chen Ge almost suffocate came from in front of her.
"This… "
The red dress floated up, Xiaobu had no hands and no hands, and her heart was empty.
"This child is the same as that door! Where the door was removed, except for the head replaced by the heart, everything else corresponds to her body."
Looking at each other silently, no one would take the initiative to give up their freedom, Chen Ge finally knew why Xiaobu fled into the shelter.
Under the pressure, ignoring Xu Yin's warning, Chen Ge took another step forward, and there was a hint of distress in his eyes: "I didn't come here for a promise, you have suffered too many injuries, I ask myself that I can't appreciate you. One of the pains, so I will not stand on the sidelines to comfort you, I understand that those comforts are futile."
"Blood and blood, I will help you kill the shadow, and then make you no longer alone." Chen Ge stopped in front of Xiaobu, slowly squatted down, and looked at the numb face: "The scenery in this window is Painted, after the shadow is solved, I will take you outside the door, go to all the places you want to go, and see all the scenery you want to see."
Chen Ge no longer mentions any agreement, and he will not let Xiaobu be his shadow.
Perhaps realizing that Chen Ge was not lying, Xiaobu blinked, blood seeping from the window frame, and the blood droplets converged into a few words - a person without a shadow will not live long, you are sure not to let me be you shadow