My House of Horrors

461-470

Chapter 461: The Man

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

"Are two Red Specters that scary?" Chen Ge continued eating without raising his head.

Hearing that, Doctor Chen was speechless. He had heard some rumors about Chen Ge before, and he shook his head with a bitter smile. "That is very scary for me already."

"Doctor Chen, I still have other things to do, but I'll come back later to ask you some questions. Hopefully, you'll answer them honestly since I've saved your life." Chen Ge put down the boxed lunch and took a sip of the water. His action and expression was different from what he was going to say next. "Down at the underground morgue, you once told me, your surname is not really Chen Ge. You only go by that name because someone asked you to use it to do something for him in Western Jiujiang."

"I told you that?" Doctor Chen hesitated but did not deny it. "That's right."

"Who is that person? Why the surname Chen? What is the favor that he asked of you to do in Western Jiujiang?" Chen Ge asked three questions at the same time.

Doctor Chen thought about it, and he gave Chen Ge the reply. "I knew the old director from the Third Sick Hall and once worked under him. When the door there first appeared, the old director approached me. I personally went to look around the door and even went behind it."

Doctor Chen lowered his head in thought. "I should be the first person to have entered the world behind the door other than Men Nan. I've seen many things there; it was like a nightmare. I've only told this secret to two other people—the old director and my best friend, Doctor Gao.

"The three of us decided to seal up the door with cement, but the effect was not so good. The door would still appear, and the blood would seep through the adjacent walls at midnight.

"Perhaps because I've been to the world behind the door, I felt like it was being possessed by something. Whenever midnight arrived, I could hear the scratching of nails underneath my bed. There was no one in the toilet from the half-open door, I could see a black shadow in the mirror. It was facing my bed like it was trying to crawl out from the mirror.

"I was a psychology student, so when these things first appeared, the first thing I did was diagnose myself to ensure that these were not part of a hallucination. There have been cases of psychologists ending up in the psychiatric ward before, so I thought something had happened to me. However, a series of things that happened later changed my mind.

"On the third night after coming out from the blood door, I saw a man standing outside the window, his head facing my bed. My house was on the third floor, and there was no security net on the second floor—that was not where the air-conditioning machine was placed. After taking away all the possibilities, the only conclusion was that the man was at least three meters tall. The man looked at me for a long time before crawling into a family's apartment on the second floor.

"I immediately called the police, but they couldn't find that suspicious man on the second floor. With the complaints from the downstairs neighbor, the police brought me away to be interrogated instead. The next morning, when I was at the station, I heard the news of my downstairs neighbor committing suicide. The victim's death was very strange. His shoulders were sunken, and his expression was filled with terror.

"I suspected that the man's death had something to do with that man I saw. I told the police everything, but the police officer suggested I go for a psychiatric consultation. I remember showing him my ID.

"The police still refused to believe me. Instead, a brother at the station who looked friendly got interested in my story. Initially, I thought he was also an officer, but after a long conversation, I realized the man was just released from lockup due to impersonating law enforcement, speeding, and so on."