Being a parent was like a human being’s second birth. Sometimes, it was hard to say whether we had given our children love, or our children had taught us love.
The pair of doctors was the scariest ghosts at Li San Hospital. They had eviscerated and sewn back many patients. They were the shadow world’s executioners. They had lost human emotions, but when they saw Ah Fang, their dry hearts were soaked with warm blood. Their eyes changed.
A mother’s instinct compelled the female doctor to want to get close to Ah Fang, but she knew that she couldn’t appear to harm Ah Fang. In contrast, the male doctor was more direct. He pulled back the blades on his body, carried the female doctor and walked out of the torture room. Gao Ming didn’t stop them. Everything that had entered his torture room would be tied to him by fate. Death couldn’t separate them.
Ah Fang looked at the two doctors curiously. He had no malice. He didn’t want to harm anyone. He kept building with the blocks to help the lost ghosts find new homes.
As the two doctors approached, Ah Fang moved back cowardly. The woman in the red dress groaned with a warning. She raised the knife and showed great aggression. The two doctors were not affected by the woman. They didn’t resist. They merely called Ah Fang’s name softly.
The two doctors welcomed the woman’s blade. The female doctor took out a cradle from her chest. Before this, the two doctors sewed the cradle inside the meat mountain. The cradle was the heart of the meat mountain. This was why the two doctors were forced to serve Situ An and Lu Zang.
The chimes above the cradle swayed in the wind. Ah Fang’s eyes widened. He remembered this sound from his memory. The female doctor hid her scary face behind the male doctor. She hummed a lullaby that she often sang when she was pregnant with Ah Fang. Back then, she was afraid and nervous, but whenever she touched the new life in her stomach, she would calm down. They were a happy family, but everything changed when the shadow world infiltrated.
Hearing the chime and the female doctor’s humming, Ah Fang let go of the school bag’s strap. He slowly walked out from behind the woman. He couldn’t recognise the female doctor, but he could remember those sounds. He stared at the two doctors with his round eyes. No matter how scary the ghosts were, Ah Fang was never scared. However, he was anxious at that moment. He held the edge of the woman’s dress and appeared flustered.
There was a force preventing him from getting close to the doctors. In his fate, he would never see his biological parents. He would spend his whole life searching but never finding them. Ah Fang had many toys, but he was also fate’s toy.
When he said that, Ah Fang’s expression suddenly twisted with pain. Something was rapidly growing inside his tiny body!
“Not good!”
Gao Ming, who had been watching instantly knew something was wrong. He threw out the chains and dragged the two doctors back!
At that moment, a giant black arm reached out from Ah Fang’s dinosaur pyjamas. The arm that was covered in rocks almost pierced the two doctors, destroying them before Ah Fang’s eyes.
“When Ah Fang was born, did Situ An and Lu Zang place something from the shadow world into his body?” Just as Gao Ming had that thought, he and the two doctors saw something unbelievable.
As Ah Fang screamed in pain, a barren night sky appeared behind him. The sky was covered in bones and corpses. It was shrouded by endless darkness. The occasional buildings of horror peeked through. Some of the buildings were dragged by Red Spectres, and there were islands that were carried by giant whales. There were also dotted stars that were formed from fallen Gods.
“It is not a specific ghost hidden inside Ah Fang’s body but a part of the shadow world’s will after it had fallen!”
Gao Ming didn’t expect Lu Zang and Situ An to do something like this, but probably only the partial consciousness of the shadow world could suppress so many mud figurines at the bottom of the black lake at Li San Hospital.