"Friends?" Chi Ren looked at Chen Ge, and then his eyes couldn't help but move to the two people in red. Cold sweat slid down his forehead: "I... am not qualified to be friends with you. We are from two different worlds."
"There are brothers all over the world. I can get to where I am today because I have many friends. You are Dr. Fang's friend, and I am also Dr. Fang's friend. We have the same goals and the same friends. That's enough." Chen Ge was too lazy to talk nonsense on this issue: "Don't waste time. Tell me everything you know about Dr. Fang now."
"You can't save him, he's already been chosen." Chi Ren shook his head: "You can command the red clothes, which is indeed amazing, but you are still far behind them."
"What do they mean?"
"A hospital. Doctor Fang was chosen by that hospital. They want Doctor Fang to be their day shift doctor. I don't know the specific reason, but it seems that a lot of doctors from that hospital have disappeared recently, and now they are short of staff." Chi Ren's words surprised Chen Ge. Chi Ren actually knew all these extremely secret things.
"What is your relationship with that hospital? Don't worry, no one can hear what you say here except us." In order to ensure Chi Ren's safety, Chen Ge even put out his red high heels.
"I can't say it. If I say it, I might die immediately." Chi Ren unbuttoned his shirt. There was a dark black blood vessel near his heart, like a thin black thread embedded in the flesh. "Everyone who has anything to do with that hospital will be cursed. Once the curse is triggered, this black blood vessel will continue to grow and eventually take root in the brain."
"What will happen if this curse is broken?" Chen Ge stared at the black blood vessel, and there seemed to be a crying sound coming from the blood vessel.
"No one can break the curse, not even the most powerful Red Clothes." Chi Ren shook his head.
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the temperature in the whole room suddenly dropped a lot, and a bandaged hand pressed on his chest.
The black blood vessel faded in color and stopped growing.
"You are right. No one can break this curse, but my friend can make it temporarily ineffective without attracting the attention of the curser."
The temperature in the room slowly rose. Chi Ren stood there in a daze. The hand that had just appeared on his chest seemed like an illusion.
"You can speak boldly now." Chen Ge motioned Chi Ren to continue.
After hesitating for a moment, Chi Ren took a deep breath, as if his life was on the line, and said in a very urgent tone: "There is a monster in that hospital that even the red-clothed people are afraid of. Its surname is also Chi, and the curse on us is related to it."
After saying the first sentence, Chi Ren's face turned pale and he stared at the black blood vessels on his chest.
After waiting for a long time, there was no abnormality in the blood vessel.
"The curse has been suppressed!" Chi Ren obviously felt a lot more relaxed, as if a time bomb that had been installed in his body had been dismantled.
Wiping the cold sweat off his face, Chi Ren slowly returned to his normal tone, "There are four types of living people in the Cursed Hospital: patients other than those numbered 100, doctors on the day shift, people with the surname Chi, and Bu Xiao. Among them, Bu Xiao is the director's closest relative, and people with the surname Chi are the family members created by that monster."
The information Chi Ren revealed to Chen Ge was very important. In addition to the Thousand-Faced Evil God that was swallowed by Zhang Ya, there were at least two more evil gods in the cursed hospital.
One is the dean and the other’s surname is Chi.
"Are you a created family?" Chen Ge used his Yin Pupil to look at Chi Ren. He was just an ordinary uncle. There was nothing attractive about him. Chen Ge couldn't understand why the evil spirit took a fancy to him.
"This story started fifteen years ago. At that time, I had just moved to Xinhai. I was young and brave. My relatives who lived in Xinhai found me a job guarding the morgue. It wasn't tiring, but there were more night shifts." Chi Ren talked about his past.
"I have never been to school and I don't have any special skills. I'm very happy if my relatives are willing to introduce me to a job. Besides, the salary is good."
"The hospital leader told me to inspect three times a day at 12:00 a.m., 1:00 a.m., and 2:00 a.m., focusing on the doors at the bottom of the morgue. If I find any loose locks, I must report to him immediately, no matter how late it is."
"But think about it carefully. Who would go to the morgue and pick the lock in the middle of the night? This is a morgue. There's nothing valuable there. There's only corpses. What thief would be so stupid as to come here and steal things?"
"I felt strange but didn't dare to ask. Everything was normal for the first week."
"There were no mobile phones at that time, and it was boring to be on duty alone. Plus, it was very cool in the morgue at night, without even a mosquito, so I thought of a way to be lazy."
"I only patrol once a day, and then I hide in there to sleep. The room is so cool, just like the air conditioner is on. Sometimes I even need to cover myself with a blanket."
"About two weeks later, I started having nightmares, very real nightmares."
"I dreamed that after I fell asleep, a circle of people stood by my bed and watched me. I also dreamed that I was pushed into the crematorium as a corpse. These dreams were fine until the third week, when I dreamed of a child."
"The child had no eyes or nose on his face, just a mouth. He stood beside my bed and asked me to tell him a story."
"I was scared, but I didn't dare to refuse, so I told him about the strange things that happened in my hometown village."
"He seemed to be addicted to listening to me. He would appear in my dreams every day. Later, I really had no more stories to tell, but the kid with only a mouth was still not going to let me go."
"He not only appeared in my dreams, but also began to appear in reality."
"When I was at my wit's end and completely collapsed, a monster with a mouth occupying its entire face appeared, holding the child."
"He asked me if I was willing to become his family, and I didn't dare to refuse." Chi Ren looked painful: "It seems that he has been looking for his family, but he hasn't found them."
"After I became that monster's family, he left. Then I found a black blood vessel growing out of my heart. I had to do something according to his request. No matter how unwilling I was, I would die if I went against his wishes."
Chi Ren finished his story and looked at Chen Ge again: "You are the first person I have met who is able to suppress his curse."
It is very difficult to suppress the curse of the evil god. Red High Heels possesses an extremely rare talent related to curses. In addition, she has swallowed and inherited everything from the evil god's underworld fetus, so she is already a top-level red-dressed girl.
At the same time, she met a variety of harsh conditions, so she was able to suppress the curse of the monster that eats people.
"What's the relationship between that monster named Chi and the dean?" Chen Ge wanted to try to separate them. After all, Zhang Ya could only hold back one of the monsters, and the other monster could take advantage of this time to torture and kill all the employees of the haunted house.
"Very good, sometimes we even feel that they are the same person." The curse was controlled, and Chi Ren gradually became bolder. He had been holding these words in his heart for too long, and now he could finally say them out.
"Everyone?"
"I'm not the only one named Chi in Xinhai. The boss of Shilixiang is also named Chi. We are all victims of the cursed hospital. We can only live under the shadow of the curse for the rest of our lives. We dare not reveal any secrets and have to meet some of their demands." Chiren clenched his teeth. He seemed to think of something very painful: "Some of the demands are very excessive. The boss of Shilixiang was punished for one thing and was forced to eat a kind of meat. There was also a person who entered the hospital to find his daughter, but not only did he not find his daughter, but his memory was modified and he became a pitiful puppet."
Veins popped out on his cheeks, and Chi Ren was very regretful: "Yes, we are all monsters."
"As long as you retain your humanity, you are still a human being." Chen Ge comforted Chi Ren, but he was thinking about something else in his heart.
The dean and the Chi surnamed evil god have a very good relationship, just like one person. It is very difficult to separate them. If Chen Ge wants to fight against them, he must get the help of the two evil gods.
And this is just the qualification for a head-on confrontation. The cursed hospital has existed for twenty years. No one can tell exactly how many evil spirits there are.
Even a relatively peripheral victim like Chi Ren knew that there were two evil spirits. The actual number of evil spirits in the Cursed Hospital was likely to be more than Chen Ge had expected.
"Zhang Ya is the evil spirit, Red High Heels is the top red-clothed warrior, and Xiaobu can also display the strength of a top red-clothed warrior in Liwan Town, but he is still a little short of the top red-clothed warrior in other people's worlds behind the doors." These three are the top combat forces of Chen Ge's horror house. Red High Heels and Xiaobu are also the red-clothed warriors most likely to become the evil spirits in a short period of time.
"The difference in strength is too big, I still need to borrow strength." Three names emerged in Chen Ge's mind - Doctor Gao, the painter, and Chang Wenyu.
"Doctor Gao destroyed the door to the Living Coffin Village. He can move freely in the Bloody City. Maybe he has become a fierce god. The relationship between him and me is very complicated. We are both members of the Ghost Story Association. I also have a relationship with Gao Ruxue. I should be able to convince him."
"The painter himself possesses strength close to that of a fierce god, and he is followed by many red-clothed men. Because of Fan Yu, he and I are not enemies."
"Although Chang Wenyu has used me, she now relies on me to repair her obsession. Among the three people, she is the one who is most likely to become my friend."
Chen Ge knew that it would be difficult to threaten the Cursed Hospital by himself, so he decided to contact all the forces.
"Thinking about it this way, I still have a chance of winning."
After communicating with Chi Ren, Chen Ge decided to solve Chang Wenyu's problem today and help Chang Wenyu recover as soon as possible, which would also be beneficial to him.
"With the current power comparison, if the Cursed Hospital goes all out to hunt me down, I may not be able to escape."
Many of the employees in the horror house were dressed in red, but Chen Ge was just an ordinary person. It was too easy for that hospital to kill an ordinary person.
"So the plan has to be advanced. We can't give the hospital more time." Chen Ge looked at Chi Ren again: "During the time you have been a family member of the Chi monster, have you ever met doctors and patients who were away?"
"Yes."
"Going out on a mission will definitely lead to danger. Is it possible that they will ask you for help? After all, you are also related to the cursed hospital and you all carry a curse." Chen Ge asked patiently.
"We, the ordinary people with the surname Chi scattered in the corners of the city, are the pawns of the hospital. Whether they are patients or doctors, as long as they feel the curse on us, they will ask us to do something, and we usually agree unconditionally." Chi Ren said with a bitter face: "We are not qualified to refuse."
"That means people with the surname Chi have the lowest status in the hospital?" Chen Ge came up with a bold idea.
"You could say that."
"You stay in this room first. I can assure you that as long as you don't leave this room, you won't be in danger." Chen Ge didn't sleep all night, but he didn't feel sleepy at all now, and his eyes were full of excitement.
"Are you leaving? By the way, I still don't know what to call you?" Chi Ren was still confused. The Cursed Hospital and Chen Ge were both people he couldn't afford to offend. In comparison, Chen Ge seemed more reliable and friendly.
"There are the cooked food and beer I bought yesterday on the table. The bathroom is next door. If you are sleepy, have a good sleep. Don't leave this building before I come back." Chen Ge left the two people in red clothes behind, and ran to a scene on the first floor to call Xiao Sun out.
"How's your study going?" Chen Ge looked at Xiao Sun expectantly.
"I never thought that I would have to accept rote learning even though I'm already dead..." Xiao Sun felt like he had lost a lot of weight and his body was a little more transparent. "I've learned everything I should learn and memorized everything I should memorize. Now even if Patient 101 is resurrected, I can't act like him."
"Very good, get ready, I will send you to the Cursed Hospital in the next few days."
"So fast?" Xiao Sun's face turned pale instantly.
"Listen to my plan first."
Chen Ge planned to use the Chi man to send Xiao Sun to the cursed hospital. He first communicated with Xiao Sun and then took Xiao Sun out to scout the place.
After spending a whole morning, they tracked down a man named Chi in the suburbs of Xinhai.
"Get familiar with the environment first, and then take action tonight."
At around 1:00 p.m., when Chen Ge returned to Nightmare Academy, he found that Zhang Jingjiu and Qu Changlin had already arrived.
"From now on, Zhang Jingjiu will be the acting store manager, Qu Changlin will be the chief designer of props and scenes, and Xiaodie, you will be the foreman." There are three living employees in the haunted house, and Chen Ge assigned each of them a job that sounds impressive: "Everyone, please sort out the useless props and old scenes in the haunted house first, and start business in three days depending on the situation."
After assigning the work, Chen Ge asked Xiaodie some more questions about her brother, and then he rushed to Xinhai No. 1 High School with his backpack.
The Xinhai No. 1 High School where Xiaodie's younger brother attends happens to be the school where Chang Wenyu's remaining soul resides.