Chapter 123 Dark Passage

Opening the passage entrance, a foul odor assaulted his nostrils, like rotting corpses piled high, yet somehow different.

Frowning, Chen Ge stared into the darkness swallowing the passage. After a moment of thought, he slowly entered.

If the haunted house maze above had some light, then this unknown underground passage was complete darkness, devoid of any light, as if covered by a vast black curtain, blocking all light and hope in the world.

Chen Ge stood still, listening intently. His breathing and heartbeat became exceptionally clear in the darkness, as if right next to his ear.

Even his Yin Yang Vision was useless in this darkness, unable to see anything, not even knowing where he was, or what was in front of him.

For humans accustomed to light, the sudden loss of it, falling into eternal darkness, was unsettling even for Chen Ge, who was often accompanied by the night.

Of course, he understood this was a normal reaction.

"This is really the shallow layer of the dream? And whose dream could this be?" Standing in the dark, Chen Ge cautiously explored while pondering in his mind.

It was true that the Spider Boy introduced other people's dreams when weaving his own, but if his dream contained such bizarre scenes, he should have told Chen Ge.

But in reality, the Spider Boy had given him no special hints. This dream he was in seemed like a connection to all the dreams in the world, entering this place no matter where they came from.

"Abnormal."

Chen Ge felt increasingly uneasy, even with the black phone on him. This daily task was strange and bizarre from the start, as if a large hand was pushing everything forward.

"The Yin Yang Vision can't see through this darkness, but the Ghost Ear is unaffected. I can use my hearing, far superior to ordinary people, to make judgments." After slowly adjusting to the complete darkness, Chen Ge calmed down.

"Move as lightly as possible." Chen Ge controlled his body as he moved forward. Darkness enveloped his eyes, forcing him to rely on his ears to discern, and the most terrifying thing was that in this darkness, he couldn't be sure if there were "others" standing around him.

In the air, the rotting stench stimulated his sense of smell. Even the time in the underground morgue couldn't compare to this. It was hard to imagine that a seemingly bright and thriving amusement park had an underground that resembled a mass grave, filled with the stench of decaying corpses everywhere.

His fingertips brushed against the wall beside him, and Chen Ge slowly moved forward. He didn't walk fast. In the darkness, the more panicked he became, the easier it was for fear to take hold. What he needed most now was calm.

"Hoo..."

In the dark passage, cold winds occasionally blew past, blowing through the darkness, but unable to carry away the pervasive stench.

The passage seemed empty. After walking for a long time, Chen Ge hadn't encountered anything other than the walls. The source of the cold wind also didn't seem to be getting any closer or further away.

It felt more like the source of the cold wind was standing right in front of him, maintaining a fixed distance.

Terrifying scenes flashed through his mind, but Chen Ge never stopped, cautiously moving along the wall, adapting as he walked slowly.

Darkness symbolized the unknown and danger, amplifying the fear in people's hearts. Moving his body little by little, he didn't know how long it had been, but his fingers suddenly touched something different from the wall—a doorknob!

"A door?!" He would never forget a special door like this. Its appearance surprised him, but also made him more vigilant.

Suddenly, a door appeared in the empty passage. What was behind the door? In the current darkness, he couldn't see anything. If there were "things" behind the door that could threaten his life, wouldn't he be walking right into a trap?

But the appearance of this door was the only clue he had found after being in the underground passage for so long, and if he missed it, he might never find it again. After pondering for a moment, Chen Ge slowly turned the handle. Unexpectedly, the door opened directly.

The stench became even stronger. If he hadn't heard any movement, he would have suspected that he was standing right next to a corpse. After waiting for a moment, when nothing unusual happened, Chen Ge held onto the doorframe and slowly walked into the room.

One hand held onto the wall, while the other cautiously groped around. His heartbeat was exceptionally clear at this moment. Even for him, it was difficult to maintain absolute calm in complete darkness.

His fingertips brushed over a light switch, touched a shoe cabinet, and felt a sofa…

The room wasn't big, but it took Chen Ge a long time to explore. After half an hour, he roughly understood the layout—it was like a two-bedroom apartment, and he was in the living room. As for other places, he hadn't explored them yet.

What secrets could be hidden in a room resembling a residence under an amusement park?

"Moreover, the layout of this room..."

Chen Ge's heart beat faster and faster. When he roughly outlined the layout of the room in his mind, he felt increasingly familiar, like the layout of the room he had first entered in the dream!

Although he had only briefly explored it back then, he could still remember the general layout, so when he roughly figured out the layout of the living room, he became increasingly horrified.

The initial room had appeared under the amusement park, as if reflecting his memory, or rather, this dream was woven in such a way that everything was destined from the moment he entered the shallow layer of the dream.

"The bedroom!"

He was most familiar with the first room that appeared, and he remembered its layout very clearly. If this was really that room, then the bedroom might unlock the mysteries in his heart.

Groping for the location of the bedroom in his memory, Chen Ge slowly turned the handle, and the door slowly opened at that moment.

It was still enveloped in darkness, and he still didn't know what was in the room. Entering the room, Chen Ge's hand slowly groped and touched the objects in the room. The wind in front of him still didn't stop, and he now suspected that the "source of the wind" was standing in front of him.

His finger pressed the computer's power button, but this time it didn't turn on.

Opening the window, the outside was equally pitch black. Groping outwards, he couldn't touch anything else, as if it were an abyss. Anything that fell out would disappear without a trace.

As for the things on the desk, they were exactly the same as in the room that morning, but in the darkness, this place was no longer warm and cozy, but filled with strangeness and the unknown.

Chen Ge gradually adapted to the darkness, so his speed also increased, but he quickly stopped!

Cold, slightly elastic, and slightly damp on the surface, this feeling was very similar to the anatomical specimen he had touched in the underground morgue—an arm, not a mannequin, but a real human hand.

It was just lying on the edge of the bed, as if it had fallen out of the covers, hanging down, as if telling Chen Ge that there was another "person" on this bed!

"If it's real..." He couldn't imagine that someone might have actually died in that warm and cozy room that morning!

Suppressing his discomfort, Chen Ge grabbed the arm and moved it little by little. As expected, the blanket on the bed seemed to be covering something, bulging upwards. Chen Ge seemed to see a corpse lying on the bed in his mind, cold and lifeless.

"The difficulty of this task is really..." This was only the shallow layer of the dream. In theory, it was only the first stage, but it was already something he had never experienced before—groping forward in complete darkness. This feeling was not good at all.

"Moreover, there's still no clue about that special door." This was the worst part. He felt that the situation underground was getting worse and worse, but he hadn't found the door leading to the middle layer of the dream yet.

Complete darkness was too unsettling. He now felt like he was experiencing blindness, and any danger was difficult to detect in advance.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a loud noise came. Chen Ge's heart jumped. It was the sound of the door being opened. Something had come in!