"A child that can't be killed no matter what?" Chen Ge tilted his head, his gaze piercing through the gray canopy of trees toward the sickly white sky.
Even if he was willing to befriend that child, the child still wouldn't have any friends—because he might very well be that child.
"I don't believe such a child exists in this world. If he really did, I'd befriend him." Chen Ge's answer was resolute. After speaking, he turned to the girl. "By the way, how do you know he can't be killed no matter what?"
The moment Chen Ge finished his question, a long crack appeared on the transparent fishbowl, and the water inside began trickling out through the gap.
What was notable was that the clear water inside the bowl turned into a murky light gray the moment it seeped through the crack.
The water level dropped lower and lower, and the blood-red goldfish thrashed even more violently. Wounds began appearing on its body, and the water in the bowl gradually turned red.
"I killed him." The girl's voice had completely changed. "I wanted to become him, but when I jolted awake from my sleep, he was back."
"Then do you know how he did it?" Chen Ge's heart was pounding, yet his consciousness was growing fuzzy, as though he was forgetting something critically important. The most dangerous part was that he didn't even know what he was forgetting.
"Right…" The girl turned her head, her face now directed at Chen Ge. At this moment her features had gone completely blurred, and a new face was slowly emerging. "How did he do it?"
Cold light fell upon them. The two of them stood on either side of the forest's exit, and from there they could see the buildings in the distance bleeding.
The buildings on the girl's left side were crawling with ominous black threads, while the buildings on Chen Ge's right were nearly drenched in blood, cracks running everywhere.
Fang Yu's door world had become almost indistinguishable from a true door world, but it still couldn't withstand the rampage of nearly ten Red Dress ghosts.
The moment he had stepped inside and noticed this world differed from other door worlds, Chen Ge had immediately ordered all his employees to act.
He already knew Fang Yu's past, so there was no need to explore it slowly. His gamble had paid off.
"You're the vessel Ming Tai left behind this door, aren't you?"
He had begun to suspect as much from the moment he first saw Fang Yu.
If the Fang Yu inside the door world had truly given up all resistance—as this girl pretended—then the Fang Yu outside the door would never have tattooed her name all over her body, nor would she have gone to that park every single day to wait.
The real Fang Yu had never given up.
To further verify his guess, he had first tested her with Zhang Yi. The girl showed no reaction at all, while the blood-red goldfish in the fishbowl continued swimming about.
After that, Chen Ge pressed on with his probing questions, and ultimately confirmed that the girl before him was not Fang Yu.
In Fang Yu's amnesiac world, the only "person" besides herself who could speak and possessed memories could only be Ming Tai.
The girl had probably long realized she was seen through, but she didn't care.
"What makes you so certain I'm not Ming Tai?"
"This door world is more stable than the previous ones, but it's still far too fragile for an evil god. It'd be like trying to stuff a whale into a household fish tank." Chen Ge hadn't believed Ming Tai would hide here even before entering Fang Yu's world. Something Zhang Yi had once told him had proven invaluable. Besides, if he were Ming Tai, he would have hidden himself inside an ordinary person with no significant physical defects.
The other eight were all decoys. Even if their door worlds were destroyed, it would only cost him a portion of his power. As long as he could stall until his true birth, the tide would turn in an instant.
The girl's original features were wiped away, and the face of an infant slowly emerged.
His eyes were shut tight. Blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, his ears, and his nose, yet he didn't cry or fuss, as though he felt no pain at all.