Cover your eyes and ears, do not reveal the mission information to anyone, and can only repeat your own name.
Chen Ge walked in the silent darkness for a long time. He tried to recall the map of the horror house, but he slowly discovered a terrifying thing: his current location did not seem to be inside the horror house.
He didn't know where he was, couldn't communicate with anyone, couldn't hear any sound, and there was only darkness all around him.
The biting coldness penetrated into his heart, and Chen Ge finally stopped.
"Am I still in the house of horrors?"
This was the first time that Chen Ge felt unfamiliar with his haunted house.
"Will I leave the house of horrors when I push open a certain door?"
Terrible thoughts popped up in his mind. Chen Ge didn't know what was waiting for him ahead, and he didn't know when he could push open the real door.
Groping in the dark, when there is no hope, try to push open the door you touch.
Chen Ge always felt that he had experienced this scene before. The nightmare-level daily task named "Door" seemed to be trying to tell him something.
In the absolute darkness and silence, time has slowly lost its meaning. Chen Ge's body has become stiff, and his skin is frighteningly cold. Past memories keep flashing through his mind, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity becomes stronger and stronger.
"Chen Ge?"
He called out his own name over and over again, repeating the same action.
The surroundings became increasingly quiet and colder. Chen Ge's steps gradually slowed down. A terrible thought emerged in his mind: if he continued walking like this, he might never be able to go back.
His thinking became slow and his brain began to wander uncontrollably. Chen Ge felt an emotion he had not felt for a long time - despair.
In the past, even when facing the most formidable enemies or the most terrifying opponents, Chen Ge would never give up, because he had his own persistence in his heart, but in this nightmare mission, that persistence is slowly fading away.
There seemed to be a voice in his head telling him that despair was normal.
It was not until this time that Chen Ge realized that hope was just a colorful soap bubble that would shatter with the slightest touch.
He has always been like a child holding a soap bubble, standing stubbornly on the other side of the world, insisting on believing that the world wrapped in the soap bubble is the real world.
His memories were turned over by an invisible hand; coldness, pain, suffocation, and all kinds of memories that did not belong to him surged in his mind.
The feeling was terrible, but he felt surprisingly familiar with it, as if he had experienced such pain before, and more than once.
His steps were getting slower and slower, and there seemed to be a road ahead with no end in sight. All his memories and experiences were "infected" with despair. They wanted Chen Ge to stop and stay here forever.
It's very dangerous ahead, there's no possibility of escape, and the darkness has no end.
While his brain was still clear, Chen Ge reached out and touched his eye patch. He was hesitating whether to take it off.
The mission would fail if he took off the blindfold, but he felt very uneasy if he didn't.
"Have I entered the world behind the door? Only the person who pushes the door can open it at any time other than midnight, but what if I am the person who pushes the door? What if I am the one who pushed open the door in the haunted house?"
With his fingers on the bridge of his nose, Chen Ge finally did not take off the blindfold, but chose to continue walking forward.
"I am experiencing pain that I have never experienced in my memory. I am experiencing a despair that does not belong to me. I don't know what the black phone wants to tell me, but I know that where there is despair in this world, there must be hope."
A desperate person will be anxious even if surrounded by happiness.
A hopeful person, even if he has nothing, can see a colorful world in a soap bubble.
“I have never been treated kindly by this world, but that doesn’t stop me from loving this world.”
Chen Ge thought of Zhang Ya and the other employees of the haunted house for some reason: "Even if you are in the deepest despair, you may encounter the most beautiful surprise."
Without taking off the blindfold, Chen Ge endured the pain he had never experienced before, bearing the double torture of mental and physical torture, and continued to move forward.
Without further hesitation or hesitation, he quickened his pace.
The pain in his body became more and more intense, and the mental pressure became greater and greater. Scenes of Chen Ge being killed appeared in his mind.
Before his death, he struggled helplessly and begged desperately, but all he got in return was death again and again.
Compromise, goodwill, and trust were all betrayed, and the final outcome was only despair.
Veins bulged on his arms, but Chen Ge endured it all silently. He did not stop and continued to move forward.
"No matter who this despair belongs to, I will keep going."
Before Chen Ge got the black phone, most of the memories left in his mind were good ones, and his parents wanted him to live like this.
In fact, he made a choice when he first got the black phone. If he opened the phone screen and chose to refuse to accept it, he would live with this beautiful memory.
But Chen Ge chose another path. He wanted to know the truth and was willing to endure despair and search for his parents step by step.
As he gets closer to the truth, the hidden despair will slowly be recalled, but he has no regrets.
Only Chen Ge himself knew how difficult this journey was.
He keeps his days and nights reversed, runs around every day, searching for a glimmer of hope between life and death, and hangs out with evil spirits and people in red all day long.
Dancing on the edge of a knife is not enough to describe Chen Ge's situation. He was a little careless and now he has become a corpse.
He chose the most difficult path, and he also came to the place closest to the truth.
This was not luck given to him by anyone, but something he fought for from the torrent of fate.
"I will not change because of these despairs, nor will I give in or betray my past. No matter what happened, I will face it!"
Images of death flashed through his mind again and again, and Chen Ge felt as if his whole body was torn apart. He endured the double torture of mind and body, and moved forward firmly in the boundless darkness.
Can't see around me, all alone.
I can't hear any sound and I can't feel the passage of time.
He kept calling out his own name and pushing open doors.
"Chen Ge..."
When he opened the door in front of him, he didn't know how many times he had called out this name when another voice suddenly came from in front of him.
"I never thought that one day you would actually be able to walk here."
Chen Ge's own voice came from a few steps away. At that moment, Chen Ge almost took off his blindfold. His body was shaking uncontrollably.
"Everyone wants to kill me. You are my last hope. Please find me."
Something was stuffed into my palm, and the sound became smaller and smaller.
"I'm in the house of horror in that city. Please make sure you find me!"
"That city? The bloody city? There is also a horror house in the bloody city?" Holding the thing tightly in his hand, Chen Ge could no longer control himself. He opened his mouth and wanted to ask the doubts in his heart: "You..."
But when he said the first word, the chill around him instantly dissipated, and his raised arm touched the door handle.
Pushing open the door in front of him, the memories that did not belong to him began to dissipate, and he seemed to have returned to the world from hell.
The phone in his pocket began to vibrate. Chen Ge was stunned for a moment, then slowly took off his eye mask and earplugs.
The first thing he saw was that all the haunted house employees were standing in front of him, staring at him in surprise.
"Am I... in the bathroom?" Looking around, Chen Ge found himself standing in a cubicle in the horror house's bathroom, his hands still grasping the cubicle door.
“I’m not in the underground scene?!”
"You went into the toilet with your eyes covered, then locked yourself in the cubicle and never came out. We thought you were possessed by a ghost, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that no ghost would do such a thankless thing." Men Nan stood at the door. After he saw that Chen Ge was fine, he pushed through the crowd and left: "Go away, go away, you're fine."
"I didn't enter the underground scene, but was in the toilet cubicle the whole time. That means, from the moment I pushed open the toilet cubicle door, I entered the world behind the door!" Chen Ge broke out in a cold sweat. He lowered his head and looked at his palm. Before the voice disappeared, a key full of cracks was stuffed into his hand.
"Key? Self-control key?" Chen Ge exerted a little force, and the key in his palm fell off with large pieces of rust, breaking into two sections: "I just entered behind the door? Can I leave the world behind the door of the horror house normally with the self-control key?"
Chen Ge had obtained two self-control keys before, but he never figured out how to use them.
"It shouldn't be that simple. The person behind the door might want to use the key to remind me of something."
Chen Ge kept thinking about the last words of the voice, but he didn't frown. "Is there a horror house in that bloody city? He is hiding in the horror house in the bloody city? He still regards me as his last hope?"
Chen Ge leaned against the door, his back was already wet with cold sweat, and he had no strength left in his body.
"He should be the one who pushed open this door in the horror house." Chen Ge looked at the door of the compartment and pushed it gently, but the door did not change at all.
Only the door pusher can operate the door. Chen Ge himself cannot push the door open. He was able to enter the door just now. It might be that the real "door pusher" opened the door in some way.
"Wait! Is it possible that the person pushing the door is divided into two parts, and the door can only be pushed open when these two parts touch the door at the same time?"
Getting up from the ground, Chen Ge gave the employees a brief explanation, then asked Lao Bai to continue guarding the bathroom while he ran back to the employee lounge.
As soon as he opened the door, Chen Ge saw the white cat stealing the high-quality cat food in the cabinet. However, he was in no mood to care about the white cat now. He simply took out his black mobile phone and swiped the screen.
"Lucky Red Patron! Congratulations on completing the nightmare-level daily task - Door! You will receive a special talent reward - Troublesome Mouth!"
"Trouble comes from the mouth (innate ability): Trouble comes from the mouth. From the moment you obtain this innate ability, they can hear everything you say."
"Lucky Red Patron! It's incredible that you have six innate abilities at the same time: Burial Face, Dark Eyes, Spiritual Smell, Ghost Ears, Troublesome Mouth, and Living Doll. Now you can be who you want to be."
Looking at the messages on the black phone, Chen Ge shuddered for some reason. He felt that the last message was hinting at something.
"Now I can make myself whatever I want? I want to make myself with my own hands? What does that mean?"
Chen Ge has not yet improved these six talents to their limits. Except for the Yin Pupil, he has not used the other abilities much. He has always felt that these talents are a bit useless, but the actual situation does not seem to be the case.
"Forget it, let's not consider it for now." Chen Ge knew very well that, apart from anything else, if he wanted to truly bring out the innate ability of the living puppet, he must first find a living person to experiment with.
A perfect living puppet requires a living human life, which is something Chen Ge would never try.
"Maybe in the future I'll change my mind, but I hope that day never comes."
Chen Ge put away his black phone. Tonight's nightmare-level mission had brought him too many doubts. He needed to adjust his state.
"Is the despair I felt during the mission the experience of another me? What kind of existence is he? Is all my despair in him?"
Feeling upset, Chen Ge saw the white cat still stealing food, so he grabbed it and touched its soft fur. His heart slowly calmed down.
"Even cats know to seek benefits and avoid harm, but I chose to take the most difficult path. What's more desperate is that it seems that this is the only path in front of me."
Being held by Chen Ge, the white cat was nervous. It seemed to know that it had just done something wrong, and now it was behaving well, like a good baby.
"The white cat swallowed the blood of the Ghost Story Association. The blood was originally prepared by Doctor Gao for the female ghost who jumped into the well. It is considered Doctor Gao's property." Chen Ge touched the white cat's belly: "Can I track Doctor Gao through the blood in the white cat? Or can I let Doctor Gao come to me through the blood of the white cat?"
There are at least two evil spirits in the cursed hospital. Chen Ge feels that he is not enough to deal with the hospital alone, so he wants to contact Dr. Gao to work together.
Chen Ge traced his fingers on the white cat's belly. The white cat was frightened by his actions and twitched continuously: "The blood thread may have merged with the white cat's body. It seems that I can only take it with me into the door."
Chen Ge gently touched the white cat's head and said, "You are too timid. You need to exercise more."
Looking at the time, it was still a long time before dawn. Chen Ge held the white cat in one hand and found the graduation certificate of the Psychic Ghost School in the prop room.
"I haven't been back for a long time. I wonder if there have been any changes in the Psychic Ghost School."
The cursed hospital brought a lot of pressure to Chen Ge, and he decided to unite all forces to fight against the hospital together.
"The Bloody City is very close to the Psychic Ghost School. If you're lucky, you might even run into a lost stranger in red."