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 .
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