Chapter 30
Si Chen didn’t really want to answer the phone.
But after waiting for 3 minutes, the phone was still ringing. It was very persistent.
Si Chen swiped the screen to choose to hang up but it didn’t work.
He thought for a moment and chose to answer.
He wanted to see just what his ghost was that was calling.
Over the phone, came a very prim and proper male voice, “Welcome to the phone-in consultation of the House of the Mind. I am your attending physician. You can call me Doctor.”
Si Chen said expressionlessly, “You made a mistake, I didn’t call.”
But the voice on the phone was unfazed. “The lucky ones use their childhood to heal their lives and the unlucky ones use their lives to heal their childhood.”*
“The protagonist of this story is one of my patients, his name is Si Chen.”
“Si Chen is a foundling. No one knows who his parents are. Not surprisingly, the people sent him to a state orphanage in Zhuangshan District.”
“There are 13 state orphanages in Zhuangshan District. Si Chen was adopted into state orphanage No. 13 and he slept in bed No. 13.”
“Ever since he was a child, he has been smart, cute, cold-blooded, vicious, and scheming.”
Si Chen turned a deaf ear to the voice. Because he couldn’t hang up the phone, he tried smashing it by knocking the phone on the edge of the flower bed. He wanted to see if he could end this supernatural event.
The phone was nearly bent into an acute angle due to the impact and the broken circuit board and chips rained to the ground.
But still, the voice remained, sounding through the speaker. Now, it was mixed with an electric kind of sound, upping the strangeness of the tone.
“When he was only five years old, Si Chen already knew how to pretend to be sick, to deceive sympathy from the nurses. He did this so as to get more care and resources…”
With this somewhat gloomy words, a familiar feeling of weakness suddenly appeared in Si Chen’s body.
He covered his mouth and let out a few muffled coughs, those that escaped from the gap between his fingers.
Si Chen hasn’t coughed for a long time, not since he became an Evolutionary.
There was a burning pain in his lungs, a faint taste of rust in his throat.
The Eternal Life Abyss inside him let out a doubtful “squeak”.
“Xiao Si Chen knows that love is a good thing. He really wants others to love him.”
“But he didn’t know that Mr. Nurse, who looked gentle and kind, was actually… a black-hearted agent who loved making human skin dolls.”
The voice on the phone paused, followed by a malice-filled chuckle. “Do you remember, Si Chen?”
The call was dropped at this point.
Si Chen frowned slightly, thinking about his past life in the state orphanage.
But before the age of six, his mind was a blank. Only a few sporadic images flashed.
Needles, medicine… chains… blood, electric shocks, locks…
Si Chen’s temple suddenly hurt.
Human forgetfulness is a great thing. It is a protective mechanism of the body.
Only by forgetting those trivial, sharp pains; only by becoming dull can we live better.
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Under the street lamp, a man in a nurse uniform appeared.
His face was a complete blank and he held a long chain in his hands. The chain was rusty and stained dark red with blood.
“Xiao Chen,” The nurse spoke, his voice rough like gravel on the river bed. “Didn’t I ask you to stay after school? Why are you so disobedient? The doctor even said that you’re not in good health and you need to take medicine.”
Si Chen raised his hand and shot the nurse without hesitation.
In the spiritual world, new energy guns are somewhat ineffective but they aren’t completely useless. After all, no matter what kind of High-Dimensional creature, its essence is composed of “energy”.
The bullet passed through the nurse’s head. The nurse fell to the ground, thrown back, his head almost touching the ground.
It suffered from pain. It took a few breaths and then slowly stood up straight.
A blasted and battered bloody hole appeared on the nurse’s blank face.
It screamed and rushed towards Si Chen. The iron chain in his hand spread like a net.
Si Chen turned to avoid it but the slender chain automatically turned to follow Si Chen’s figure.
The iron chain sank into Si Chen’s body.
No wounds appeared on his body but the rusty iron chain still ran through his chest.
A chill spread to all his limbs. Si Chen’s body went so stiff that he almost couldn’t hold the gun in his hand.
The nurse pulled Si Chen towards him like it was tugging an animal.
It obviously had no facial features but Si Chen could feel it was grinning.
Si Chen grabbed the iron chain running though his chest and yanked it in his direction.
On his arms, black blood flowed through his veins and surfaced on his skin, like strangely-patterned tattoos.
The nurse didn’t seem to have expected him to be so fierce, to be so fearless. It struggled to back away.
But this iron chain not only connected Si Chen, it was also connects to its hands.
With all his strength, Si Chen dragged the nurse to him.
The iron chain scratched his palms and black liquid flowed out. Like sulfuric acid, when it dripped to the ground, fine bubbles appeared on the asphalt road.
According to the experiences recorded on the official website, in supernatural civilizations, there is no need to panic when encountering High-Dimensional Creatures. After all, ghosts are only scary before they appear. Their attack methods are also very simple.
There aren’t many spiritual creatures that are truly capable of directly killing an Evolutionary… At least, it would be difficult to encounter one in a low-risk area.
And to deal with supernatural High-Dimensional Creatures, it is best to use products from the supernatural civilization.
Si Chen punched the nurse in front of him but his hand only hit air.
It was very cold, as if his arm was immersed in ice water for an instant.
The nurse let out a strange laugh. “Go to hell! Go to hell!”
The gray-black iron chain was gradually dyed red and the paint was Si Chen’s blood.
This iron chain seemed to come alive. Si Chen could even feel how it was like a greedy leech, lying on his chest and sucking blood continuously.
Si Chen wanted to pull out the iron chain running through his chest, but the iron chain seemed to go on endlessly. Every pull felt like a blunt knife cutting flesh.
Si Chen tied the iron chain around the nurse’s neck.
He couldn’t touch the nurse but the iron chain could.
The nurse’s laughter stopped abruptly.
The chain tightened close around and tighter and the nurse began to struggle under him, giving an ear-piercing scream. After a while, it began to cry and beg for mercy. “Si Chen, have you forgotten how much I loved you in the past! I was just fascinated for a while, Xiao Chen, obsessed…I love you…I couldn’t let them sell you!”
Si Chen was unmoved.
The nurse’s head snapped and it fell to the ground.
The bloody iron chain snapped from his chest.
Si Chen touched his chest. There was no blood, let alone a wound.
He silently hung the nearly two-meter-long iron chain on his arm.
This time there was no mobile phone but there was a burst of melodious music sounding through the empty street.
Si Chen raised his head and looked towards the source of the sound. It was the broadcast system at the entrance of a supermarket.
“The nurse gave Xiao Si Chen an anesthetic. He took him back to the basement and tied him to a chair with an iron chain. He then showed Si Chen his collection.”
“This is Xiao Ming’s hair. These are Xiao Mei’s eyes and this is Xiao Ke’s skin. They were all children adopted from the state orphanage and they’ve been stitched into a doll!
“You’re the most beautiful child I’ve ever seen,” said the nurse. ‘You could make a whole doll yourself. I can’t wait.’
In a trance, Si Chen heard the laughter of children.
The laughter came from far and near, accompanied by footsteps.
“But unfortunately…the nurse suffered from sudden death before he could do anything.”
“Was it really sudden death? No one knows. Let’s just call it sudden death.”
“The nurse’s body started to rot. It stank. Maggots appeared. Neighbors only found the body a week later.”
The body of the fallen nurse decomposed rapidly. In just a few seconds, the maggots grew and gave off a sickening stench.
“And our Xiao Si Chen was tied to the chair, made to stay with this corpse for a week.”
“That was also the first time he saw White Dress. He was very scared and he kept talking to White Dress.”
“Yes, you guessed it right! He — is — craaaaazy!”
Numerous noisy voices rang in Si Chen’s ears. The white of his only remaining eye turned bloodshot.
The voice on the radio was getting slower and slower.
“White Dress said, ‘Don’t be afraid, little boy. Let’s make a deal.”
“Ugh… urk!” The announcer seemed to have encountered some problem. He was suddenly cut off, unable to speak.
When he was next heard, his previously soft and malicious voice, was unexpectedly filled with fear.
In the next second, a howl blared from the speakers. The sharp feedback sound shook people’s eardrums.
The announcer’s voice faded away.
Si Chen waited under the street lamp for a while but heard no other sounds.
Instead, the body of the nurse lying on the ground turned into a ceramic doll with a detached head.
This ceramic doll was broken.
Si Chen stomped on the broken pieces. The ceramic pieces didn’t explode or cause any hurt. Apparently it had lost its supernatural properties.
This Space Fold was weirder than all the other High-Dimensional Invasions he’d experienced before.
But Si Chen could be sure of one thing. The High-Dimensional Creature who called himself “Doctor” must be the final boss who opened this Space Fold.
There are two ways to leave a Space Fold. The first is to wait for the energy of the Space Fold to run out; the second is to kill the final boss.
Si Chen decided and chose the second path. Most importantly, he was really curious about whether the story “Doctor” was telling was true.
Si Chen turned on the scanning mode of his prosthetic eye and continued walking in the dark.
He found several lifelike dolls along the road. They looked like miniature versions of people; even if their faces are stitched together, covered in traces of sewing threads.
They were all fallen to ground at sixes and sevens with sharp knives in their hands.
If it weren’t for the blood on the knives, these dolls would look cute.
Si Chen knelt down, picked up one of them and squeezed it.
The doll actually spit out human words. “Hehe. I hugged you back at the orphanage!”
Si Chen was taken aback: “…?”
He searched the street and found four dolls in total.
Each doll has a different voice line once you squeeze it.
“Hehe. I hugged you back at the orphanage!”
“I stole your medicine, sorry.”
“They bullied you, I saw it. I complained to the director, but he said that was normal.”
“I’m the most expensive, this year’s King of Kids. I sold for 700,000. What about you?”
Si Chen was lost in thought.
He knew that in the supernatural civilization, he didn’t shouldn’t let things bother him. There was no logic here. But for some reason, he felt his hands and feet grow cold.
It wasn’t because he was afraid but because he was curious why forgot.
……Never mind.
They were all dead anyway.
Even Thirteen, the only survivor, died. The fire burned everything. The past was meaningless to Si Chen.
He dug a hole and buried the dolls in the ground. He even placed a wildflower in the pit.
When he put in the last one, the King of Kids, it said, “Thank you. You have to go up; don’t look back.”
The author has something to say:
*The original sentence comes from the Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler.
Okay. This fold is really crazy….. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
really wondering if this is something that really happened or just the creature that made it looks like it… though i’m pretty sure the “white robe” was there anyway, and it looks pretty darn strong too
This Space Fold is scary… Thanks for the chapter 🌹
Doctor on the rest, khm
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ooo Si Chen’s past seems interesting! I want to see him go insane again after he gets his memories back if those are really his memories and not just to make the dimension more spooky.
Thanks for the chapter!!
Is it real? It’s so exciting!!!!
Since the dolls are recreating stuff from his memories I feel something we don’t yet know about must’ve happened and not all the kids were bad.
I’m still kind of freaked out when about when the little abyss saw a version of Si Chen wearing a white dress, and now this thing talking about “White Robe” appears. sigh
and it’s such a random footnote in the large picture of things but the idea that a “King of Kids” existed and was determined by how much a kid was sold for is chilling. Like, selling kids?? and the “highest sold” is given such a weird fucking title.
The idea that somehow certain “adopted” kids were made into dolls is also really creepy. Poor kids