Chapter 300: Collector
“I’ll bring you to meet your real parents.”
Ah Fang’s death portrait was connected to Ah Fang. The closer the two were, the clearer the characters inside the portrait. The elevator moved up. Gao Ming was ready to encounter a supervillain on Situ An and Xia Yang’s level. In all his death memories, the boy was never once featured. Even though he was also a child of shadow, he seemed to have chosen a path completely different from the other twelve.
“In the picture, the boy is cute and innocent. However, he must be special to have appeared in the death portrait of the bloodred city.”
The elevator paused on the 16th floor. He was like a big brother coming to fetch his younger brother. Holding a bag of toys, he ignored the anomalies around him as he walked past the doors. Gao Ming looked down at Ah Fang’s picture and the rooms rolled by him. When he raised his head again, the room before him was Room 1601. Gao Ming knocked on the door lightly. This was the first time he was so polite inside an anomaly, “Is anyone home?”
Several old newspapers fluttered in the dark corridor. They recorded the horrible murders that happened at the apartment many years ago. The mad woman, covered in blood, ran down the corridor, brandishing a knife. She carried the corpse of her child. Tears flowed down her face, but she couldn’t stop laughing. There was more than one victim. There were more than five murders. Every murder appeared on the newspaper front page.
“Ah Fang? I’m here on your parent’s behalf.” Blood oozed out of the black-and-white newspaper. The woman in the article slowly turned around. Her hand that held the black knife appeared to reach out of the paper.
The lock turned. The old door was opened from the inside. A boy in a dinosaur pyjamas stood at the door. His eyes were pure and flawless. He looked scared. Compared to ghosts, human strangers scared him more. Ah Fang lifted his head, and the pyjama cap covered his forehead. He looked at Gao Ming’s face with confusion.
“Ah Fang?” The kid was similar to the one inside the picture. Gao Ming didn’t think things would go so well. “Your parents have been looking for you. I’ll bring you to meet your mom and dad.”
“Mom and Dad… But…” Ah Fang looked shyly behind Gao Ming, “Isn’t my mother standing behind you now?”