One Thousand and Four Chapters Wake up From the Nightmare (Four Thousand)
"Snail? The old lady just reminded me to be careful of 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 into his pocket, Jiang Ming took Chen Ge's hand and walked out of the old man's hut.
The child took Chen Ge to run around in the shared apartment building. They went to the window sills on the roof, the storage room where coal briquettes were piled up, and the garbage compartment. As long as they found a snail, Jiang Ming would be very happy.
Chen Ge didn't know why Jiang Ming worked 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 only found four snails. Jiang Ming put them all in his pocket, then took Chen Ge's hand and ran towards the first floor.
As long as you don't make a sound, those strange neighbors won't come over. Jiang Ming's father didn't show up 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 cord.
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 when she saw Chen Ge, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, as if she was frightened by the arrival of a stranger.
This woman sign language with Chen Ge, she also seems to be a deaf-mute.
Chen Ge couldn't understand complicated 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 ran up to the woman excitedly. He took out snails one by one from his pocket as if to show off.
The woman stroked 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 him, Chen Ge couldn't blend into it at all. The woman's face was the same as that of an ordinary person, but her body was covered with patches.
Looking at it from a distance, Jiang Ming's mother looked like a rag doll. Only her hands that needed work and her face had no patches. The rest of her body was mended, and her skin was like a worn-out coat.
Chen Ge didn't dare to imagine what happened to the woman to appear in such an image in the child's memory.
The woman gestured with both hands, as if she was praising Jiang Ming, but the cheerful atmosphere in the room quickly disappeared.
The light at the door came on again, and the doll's 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 wine poured into the nostrils, and a ferocious 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. The drunk glared fiercely at the rag doll woman.
The woman gestured in sign language, but the drunk had already lost the patience to watch and pushed her away.
Seeing the drunk man come in, Jiang Ming took out the snails from his pocket and trotted to the drunk man.
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 slapped Jiang Ming's arm aside.
The snail shell falls to the ground,
The snail that Jiang Ming worked so hard to find was crushed.
The drunk man stared at the broken snail on the ground, his face turned red, and his veins bulged out. He seemed even more angry.
There was nowhere to vent that anger. He overturned the small table in the living room. The water bottle on the table almost hit Jiang Ming, but fortunately the doll woman blocked it.
The hot water spilled on the ground, and part of it splashed on the drunk man. His whole body turned red, and he grabbed the ragdoll woman by her hair and pressed her down.
The woman's first reaction after she fell was to wave at Jiang Ming, telling him to hide in the house.
The drunk dragged the woman's legs, and the arms that were attached to the wine bottle kept falling down.
The boy stood in the messy living room. He didn't know what he did wrong. The snail on the ground was crushed, and the doll mother was pushed down.
His shoulders were shaking with fear, he didn't know who to ask for help, he looked at his mother in pain, he wanted to help that 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 drunk man, and when the drunk man and the ragdoll woman separated, he swung the skull smasher and smashed it on the drunk man's shoulder.
"Boom!"
The drunk crashed into the door of the rental house. Chen Ge didn't give the opponent a chance and chose to continue the attack.
"Jiang Ming, look clearly, he is not invincible, he is just a weak coward, you don't have to be afraid of him at all!"
The body of the drunk who was knocked down was recovering rapidly, 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 when the door opens, you all have to escape!"
In order to buy time for Jiang Ming and the doll woman, Chen Ge could only knock down the drunk over and over again.
Every time he was knocked down, the appearance of the drunk would become more terrifying. His body was constantly expanding, and his back was pressed against the wall, slowly blending into the entire room.
In Jiang Ming's memory, the words "home" and "father" are closely related, so Chen Ge was not surprised that this happened. The only thing that worried him was that Jiang Ming and the doll woman did not escape from the room.
Cracks appeared in the walls, chunks of the ceiling began to fall off, the ground shook, and the light behind the door flickered a few times before suddenly going out.
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's body, which had swelled several times, touched the ceiling. At this moment, the roof of the rental house collapsed as a whole.
The stench hits the nostrils and something that overwhelms the home appears!
With its threaded crust and slimy body, a giant blood-red snail crawls above the home.
A steady stream of negative emotions poured into the drunk man's body, and a hole was opened under the slightly smaller tentacles of the giant snail, and there were densely packed teeth that were innumerable.
The huge body protruded from the shell, and the blood-colored snail bit Chen Ge.
"Snail? Why is there such a scary 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 ooze blood, and the apartment building seemed to collapse at any moment.
"Go upstairs and find that old grandma!" Chen Ge took Jiang Ming and the doll woman upstairs, and those neighbors who were similar to monsters also became crazy under the influence of the bloody snail.
At the beginning, this world gave Chen Ge only absurdity, like a very young child sketching with a paintbrush, but since the appearance of the bloody snail, this world has become bloody and cruel, 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 hard on the door.
"Grandma, I'll take you and Jiang Ming away! I know the way out!"
The door opened in response, and the old lady stood at the door leaning on crutches. She saw the crazy neighbors and the bloody snail crawling this way.
"Your obsession has not dissipated, and there are things you care about. You shouldn't stay here. Come 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 your agreement." Chen Ge turned around to protect the old lady and Jiang Ming's mother and son, staring at the bloody snail that was slowly crawling this way: "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 we can get rid of this thing, Jiang Ming may not be confused anymore."
Pressing the repeater switch, Chen Ge softly shouted: "Xu Yin!"
The blood-red lines spread rapidly around Chen Ge, the blood-colored snail sensed the threat, and all the crazy and deformed neighbors ran towards here.
"Five red clothes can destroy this incomplete scene, so the extra red clothes can be used to maintain the basic framework of this scene."
Flipping through the comic book, more and more bloody lines emerged, and they spread to the entire scene in a very short period of time with an astonishing aggressiveness.
The blood-red snail has stopped moving forward, it feels threatened, but Chen Ge's hand flipping the manga book has not stopped.
More and more bloody lines almost covered Jiang Ming's world behind the door. Finally, at a certain moment, the critical point was broken, and the strong smell of blood surged 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 anything, those red clothes were like sharks smelling fishy, and they rushed towards the bloody snail.
The digital red clothes teamed up, and the snail's hard shell 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's face with its eyes closed!
That face was exactly the same as the face he saw on the shadow of Liwan Town, it was the appearance of a ghost fetus!
"A ghost fetus?"
The baby's eyes slowly opened, pure evil in his eyes.
Sharp laughter sounded, the body inside the snail's hard shell exploded instantly, the baby's face was turned into blood stains, and only a wooden toy was left on the ground.
"It seems that the ghost fetus is not attached to Jiang Ming."
Although no ghost fetus was found, at least one option was ruled out.
Chen Ge walked to the snail corpse and picked up the toy on the ground.
He still has an impression of this toy, which was given to him by his father when he was very young, but one day he suddenly couldn't find it.
"Did it be taken away by the shadow?"
After the snail exploded, the world behind Jiang Ming's door began to shake violently. The deformed neighbors gradually disappeared, and the foundation of this world was shaken.
Chen Ge asked the other red clothes to temporarily stabilize the shaking world, and he walked to the old lady and Jiang Ming: "It's time to say goodbye to these pains, and I will 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 doll woman's hand.
The woman who survived in memory gently pushed Jiang Ming away, and she waved her hand gently at Jiang Ming, her body gradually became illusory, and finally disappeared.
"After leaving here, I will take you to find her in reality. She must miss you very much."
After closing the manga book, Chen Ge took Jiang Ming's hand and returned to the first floor accompanied by several red clothes.
The scene collapsed, and they opened the locked iron door.
When Chen Ge stepped out of that door, Jiang Ming, who was lying on the bed in reality, opened his eyes. He sat up from the bed, and happened to see Chen Ge who was still keeping his legs up by the bed.
The door behind him was completely shattered. Chen Ge held his backpack in one hand and looked at Jiang Ming quietly.
Sitting on the bed, Jiang Ming was neither crying nor fussing. He seemed to recognize Chen Ge.
"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 pen and paper, and wrote down the words "Mother": "Sleep well, I will take care of you tomorrow." You go find her."
In order to prevent Jiang Ming from being illiterate, Chen Ge wrote while gesticulating.
It took Jiang Ming a while to understand, and for the first time a happy smile appeared on his face.
"Have a good rest, good night."
After touching the boy's head, Chen Ge opened the manga book and released the old lady, "Grandma, can you hear my voice now?"
The old lady kept her eyes on Jiang Ming, her body was almost transparent.
"I have always been curious about one question. Why is there such a scary snail in Jiang Ming's world behind the door? Does he have a psychological shadow on the snail? Could it be that he was teased by other people with a snail when he was young?" Chen Ge had Lots of assumptions, none of which hold true.
"That snail is not a real snail." There was a hint of distress in the old man's voice: "Jiang Ming's mother was congenitally deaf-mute, and her family hated her when she was young. When she grew up, her family married her for a little gift money. Jiang Ming's father."
"Later, Jiang Ming was born. Although he was not congenitally deaf and dumb, he also had hearing defects. The doctor suggested a cochlear implant, 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 also had ear problems, his attitude towards the mother and son has changed a lot. He even wanted to abandon Jiang Ming. Fortunately, Jiang Ming's mother stopped him every time."
"You have also seen what happened later. Jiang Ming's mother learned water embroidery from me, and saved up money to perform cochlear surgery on Jiang Ming. His father liked to gamble and drink, and even stole the money saved by Jiang Ming's mother. Just grab it."
"Jiang Ming grew up in such an environment. He was too young to know what cochlear surgery is. Perhaps in his world, snails represent the hope of being able to hear sounds. He tried everything to find snails, and he longed to be able to Hearing 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, the absurdity reveals the bloody reality.
"Grandma, do you know where the child's parents live?"
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm going to teach the father of the child how to behave, and I also want to help the mother of the child." Chen Ge took out his wallet from his pocket: "If conditions permit, I also hope that Jiang Ming can hear voices in the future. "
"You want to fund this child's surgery?"
"What's the matter? Don't look at my ordinary clothes, but I'm actually an entrepreneur."
After Chen Ge finished speaking, he opened the zipper of the backpack, and stuffed the skull hammer into the bag at an angle.