"Snail? The old lady just reminded me to be careful with snails. Why did Jiang Ming take out the snail shell?"
Chen Ge was a little confused, but he knew that the old man would definitely not harm Jiang Ming.
After 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 led Chen Ge around the shared apartment building. They went to the window sill on the roof, the storage room where briquettes were piled, and the garbage compartments. As long as they found the snail Jiang Ming, they 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 around the apartment but only found 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 he didn't make any noise, those strange neighbors would not come over. Jiang Ming's father did not appear 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 a 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. Then when she saw Chen Ge, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, as if she was scared by the arrival of a stranger.
This woman was gesturing with Chen Ge in sign language. She seemed to be deaf-mute as well.
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 to the woman excitedly. He took out the snails one by one from his pocket as if to show off.
The woman touched the boy's head, with a gentle smile on her face, and quietly looked at Jiang Ming's happy appearance.
"This should be Jiang Ming's mother."
After entering the house, Chen Ge closed the door.
Looking at the harmonious scene in front of him, Chen Ge couldn't blend into it at all. The woman's face looked like that of an ordinary person, but her body was covered with patches.
From a distance, Jiang Ming's mother looked like a rag doll. She only had hands that needed work and no patches on her face. The rest of her body was patched, and her skin was like a shabby coat.
Chen Ge couldn't imagine what happened to the woman to appear like this in the child's memory.
The woman gestured with her hands, seemingly praising Jiang Ming, but the cheerful atmosphere in the room quickly disappeared.
The light at the door turned on again, and both the doll's mother and the young Jiang Ming 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 nose, and a ferocious-looking drunk appeared at the door.
The mud-like body was pressed against the door frame, and the arm attached to the wine bottle was pointed at Chen Ge. The drunkard glared at the rag doll woman fiercely.
The woman was gesturing in sign language, but the drunk man had no patience to read and pushed her away.
Seeing the drunkard come in, Jiang Ming took out the snails from his pocket and trotted to the drunkard.
He held the snail in both hands and wanted to let the drunkard take a look, but before he could reach out his hand, the drunkard slapped Jiang Ming's arm aside.
The snail shell fell to the ground, and the snail Jiang Ming had worked so hard to find was trampled to pieces.
The drunkard stared at the broken snail on the ground, his face turned red, 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. Fortunately, the ragdoll woman blocked it.
The hot water spilled to the ground, and some of it splashed on the drunkard. His whole body turned red, and he grabbed the rag doll woman's hair and pushed her down.
The woman's first reaction after falling was to wave to Jiang Ming and tell him to hide in the house.
The drunkard dragged the woman's legs, and the arm that was connected to the bottle kept falling.
The boy stood in a messy living room. He didn't know what he had done wrong. The snails on the floor were crushed and the ragdoll mother was pushed down.
His shoulders were shaking with fear, and he didn't know who to turn to for help. He looked at his mother in pain, and he wanted to help the woman, but he was powerless, and he couldn't even speak.
"Don't be afraid."
Chen Ge gently patted Jiang Ming's trembling shoulder: "I'm here to help you."
Chen Ge kicked the drunkard. When the drunkard and the ragdoll woman separated, he swung the skull-crushing hammer and hit the drunkard on the shoulder.
"Bang!"
The drunkard hit the door of the rental house. Chen Ge did not give the opponent a chance and chose to continue the attack.
"Jiang Ming, you see clearly, he is not invincible, he is just a weak coward, you don't need to be afraid of him at all!"
The drunkard who was knocked down was recovering quickly. His arms were growing together with the furniture in the room, and his expression was becoming more and more fierce.
"I'll lead him to the back room, and when the door opens, you can escape quickly!"
In order to buy time for Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman, Chen Ge could only knock down the drunkard over and over again.
Every time he was knocked down, the drunkard's appearance became more terrifying. His body continued to expand, his back pressed against the wall, and he slowly merged with the entire room.
In Jiang Ming's memory, the words home and father were closely linked, so Chen Ge was not surprised at all that such a situation would occur. The only thing that worried him was that Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman did not escape from the room.
Cracks appeared on the walls, large pieces of the ceiling began to fall off, the ground was shaking, and the light behind the door flashed a few times and then suddenly went out.
The light disappeared, and a thick stench wafted from above in the dark room.
The cracks in the roof became bigger and bigger, and the drunkard's body expanded several times and touched the ceiling. At this time, the entire roof of the rental house collapsed.
The stench hits your nostrils, and the thing that overwhelms this home appears!
With a threaded hard shell and a slimy body, a giant blood-red snail crawled above the home.
A steady stream of negative emotions poured into the drunkard's body, and a hole opened under the giant snail's slightly smaller tentacles, which contained countless densely packed teeth.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The huge body stretched out from the shell, and the bloody snail bit Chen Ge.
"Snail? Why is there such a terrifying thing in Jiang Ming's dream?"
Chen Ge protected Jiang Ming and retreated. The entire world behind the door completely changed after the snail appeared. The walls began to seep blood, and the apartment building seemed to collapse at any time.
"Go upstairs and find that old lady!" Chen Ge took Jiang Ming and the ragdoll woman and ran upstairs. The neighbors who were similar to monsters also became crazy under the influence of the bloody snail.
At first, the world gave Chen Ge only the feeling of absurdity, like a very young child drawing with a paintbrush. But since the appearance of the bloody snail, the world has become bloody and cruel, getting closer and closer to the door of reality.
Post-world.
After the three of them arrived at the room where the old man lived, Chen Ge knocked hard on the door.
"Grandma, let me take you and Jiang Ming away! I know the way to escape!"
The door opened in response, and the old lady stood at the door with a cane. She saw the crazy neighbors and the bloody snails crawling this way.
"You have lingering obsessions and concerns about something. You shouldn't stay here. Come with us." Chen Ge had already made his decision and 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 assume you agree." Chen Ge turned around and protected the old lady and Jiang Ming's mother and son behind him. He stared 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 this thing can be killed, Jiang Ming may not be confused anymore."
Pressing the switch of the repeater, Chen Ge shouted softly: "Xu Yin!"
The blood-red lines spread rapidly around Chen Ge. The blood-red snail sensed the threat, and all the crazy deformed neighbors ran towards it.
"Five red coats can destroy this incomplete scene, so the extra red coats can be used to maintain the basic framework of this scene."
Flipping through the comic book, more and more bloody lines emerged. They were surprisingly offensive and spread to the entire scene in a very short time.
The blood-red snail has stopped moving forward. It feels threatened, but Chen Ge's hand has not stopped turning the comic book.
More and more bloody lines almost covered the world behind Jiang Ming's door. Finally, at a certain moment, the critical point was broken, and the strong smell of blood surged in like a sea of blood!
One after another, figures began to appear around Chen Ge. The red clothes were like blood. Without him saying anything more, those red clothes were like sharks smelling the fishy smell and pounced on the bloody snails.
Several red-coated men joined forces 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 eyes closed!
That face was exactly the same as the face he saw on the shadow in Liwan Town, it looked like a fetus during its infancy!
"A ghost fetus?"
The baby's eyes slowly opened, with pure evil in his eyes.
Sharp laughter sounded, and the body inside the snail's shell exploded instantly. The baby's face turned into blood, leaving only a wooden toy on the ground.
"It seems that the ghost fetus is not attached to Jiang Ming."
Although no dead fetus was found, at least one option was eliminated.
Chen Ge walked to the snail's body and picked up the toys on the ground.
He still has 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.
"Did the shadow take it away?"
After the snail exploded, the world behind Jiang Ming's door began to shake violently. Each of his deformed neighbors slowly disappeared, and the foundation of the world was shaken.
Chen Ge asked the other men in red to temporarily stabilize the shaking world. He walked to the old lady and Jiang Ming: "It's time to say goodbye to this pain. 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 grabbed the doll woman's hand and refused to let go.
The woman who survived in her memory gently pushed Jiang Ming away. She waved her hand gently towards Jiang Ming. Her body slowly became illusive and finally disappeared.
"After you leave here, I will take you to find her in reality. She must also miss you very much."
After closing the comic book, Chen Ge took Jiang Ming's hand and returned to the first floor accompanied by several people in red.
The scene collapsed and they opened the locked iron door.
When Chen Ge walked out of the 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 raising his legs beside the bed.
The door behind him completely collapsed. Chen Ge was holding his backpack in one hand and looking at Jiang Ming quietly.
Jiang Ming was sitting on the bed neither crying nor fussing. He seemed to recognize Chen Ge.
"Just think of 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 the words "Mom": "Sleep well, I will take care of you tomorrow."
You go find her."
In order to prevent Jiang Ming from not knowing the words, 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.
"Have a good rest and good night."
After 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 is a question I have always been curious about. Why is there such a scary snail in Jiang Ming's world behind the door? Does he have a psychological shadow on snails? Could it be that when he was a child, he was teased by others with snails?" Chen Ge had.
Many assumptions, but none of them hold true.
"That snail does not refer to a real snail." There was a hint of distress in the old man's voice: "Jiang Ming's mother was born deaf and mute. Her family disliked her since she was a child. When she grew up, her family married her off for a small amount of gift money.
Jiang Ming’s father.”
"Later Jiang Ming was born. Although he was not born deaf and mute, he also had hearing defects. The doctor recommended a cochlear implant surgery, 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 surgery is done, the better, but Jiang Ming's mother can't afford the money, and his father can't even hope for it."
"Ever since Jiang Ming's father found out that Jiang Ming also had ear problems, his attitude towards the mother and son has changed a lot, and he even wanted to abandon Jiang Ming. Fortunately, Jiang Ming's mother stopped him every time."
"You have seen what happened next. Jiang Ming's mother learned water embroidery from me, and saved money to perform cochlear surgery on Jiang Ming. His father liked gambling and drinking, and even stole the money saved by Jiang Ming's mother. Finally,
Just grab it openly."
"Jiang Ming grew up in such an environment. He was too young to know what cochlear surgery was. Maybe in his world, snails represent the hope of being able to hear sounds. He tried his best to find snails, and he longed for them.
He 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 truly understood the world in this child's eyes. The absurdity was filled with bloody truth.
"Grandma, do you know where this child's parents live?"
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm going to teach the child's father how to behave, 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 voices in the future.
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"You want to fund this kid's surgery?"
"What's wrong? Don't look at me dressed in ordinary clothes. In fact, I am also an entrepreneur."
After Chen Ge finished speaking, he unzipped his backpack and stuffed the Skull Crusher into the bag at an angle.