"All the nurses in the hospital have the surname Chi. They may have some kind of connection with each other. We should not stay here for long."

Chen Ge looked at the bloodstains on the floor and left the restaurant without even bothering to eat.

After walking more than a hundred meters along the path, when Chen Ge looked back, all the lights in the store had been turned off. It was pitch black all around and he could not see anything.

"It seems to me to be a very beautiful city, but Chi Longtou said that this city is used to punish patients. He also mentioned the word 'door'. Does 'door' have some special meaning in this city?"

Chen Ge thought of the door in the bathroom of Zhang Ya's haunted house. Every time he opened the cubicle door, he would find that it was closed the next time he entered the bathroom.

Also, when he was receiving treatment in the hospital, when Dr. Gao pulled him into the brain maze, the key turning point was pushing the door.

After pushing open the door, the hospital outside was gloomy and terrifying, and it was like two different worlds inside and outside the door.

"Perhaps the way to escape from this city is a door hidden in the city."

According to the location provided by Zuo Han, Chen Ge finally found Ping An Apartment at 11:40 pm.

It was an almost abandoned old-style apartment building, located behind a deserted village in the western suburbs of Xinhai, in an extremely remote location.

"Why did the writer and Zuo Han ask me to come here? Have they met in advance?"

The leaves rustled as Chen Ge walked through the abandoned village. There was not even a ghost around.

"I feel like I've been here before." Chen Ge looked at the graves outside the village and the old locust tree at the entrance of the village that leaned crookedly like a ghost. Such a horrifying scene did not stir up any ripples in his heart.

"What on earth have I experienced before? Why am I not afraid of these things that normal people would be afraid of? I even feel a sense of familiarity with them?"

Chen Ge didn't think there was anything wrong with him, he just felt that there must be deep-seated reasons for the formation of this mentality.

Arriving at the back of the village, Chen Ge was about to continue walking forward when he suddenly saw a person squatting on a grave next to him.

He seemed to appear suddenly, yet he seemed to have always been there.

When Chen Ge saw that person, he also saw Chen Ge. The two looked at each other, but neither of them felt that there was anything wrong. No one said anything, and they just walked away.

The man continued to squat on the grave. Chen Ge took a few steps before he suddenly realized that the man squatting on the grave looked familiar.

When Chen Ge looked back again, there was only a lonely grave behind him.

"Where are the people?"

"It was late at night and there was a person squatting on top of a grave. How could I easily accept such an abnormal thing? The person squatting on the grave did not make me feel bad."

Since he made up his mind to come to Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge gradually found that more and more things he couldn't understand began to happen around him.

To get to Ping An Apartment, one must pass through the deserted village. After Chen Ge passed a cemetery, a dirt road filled with branches and garbage appeared in front of him.

There is also a sign next to the road with the words "No Entry" written on it.

However, due to years of disrepair, the sign is crooked and the words have become very blurred.

"Who are the people who insist on living in such a shabby apartment?"

Walking on the bumpy dirt road, Chen Ge looked to both sides curiously. There were wreaths and soul flags hanging on both sides of the road, and a lot of paper money was scattered on the ground. Some of the paper money was half buried in the soil, obviously it was scattered a long time ago.

White cloth was wrapped around the tree trunks, and tombstones could be vaguely seen in the woods. The grave mounds were looming, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.

If it were an ordinary resident of Xinhai City, he would have turned around and left by now.

"It's so scary, it feels like they're deliberately hiding something and don't want people to get close."

The path in front of him seemed to lead directly to the underworld. Chen Ge didn't know how long he had walked, but he finally reached the end of the road.

Deep in the jungle there is a dilapidated apartment building with three floors. It is not very tall. All the windows on the third floor are sealed with wooden boards, and traces of fire can be seen on the walls.

It seems that there was a fire here. The owner may have been short of funds, so he only renovated the lower two floors, and the third floor was almost kept in its original state.

"Safe Apartment?"

Walking through the weed-covered yard, Chen Ge saw the sign at the entrance of the apartment building.

This building seems to have had many names in the past, and the font on the sign has been constantly changed, making it look very messy.

"Is anyone there?" Chen Ge unzipped his backpack, reached into the bag, and carefully walked into the corridor.

The interior of the apartment was extremely shabby, with cracked floor tiles and gaps in the walls, and occasionally black bugs could be seen crawling in them.

"It looks quite small from the outside, but I didn't expect there are so many rooms inside." Chen Ge didn't dare to move casually in the corridor. His eyes swept across the doors and finally walked towards door 101.

After knocking on the door, Chen Ge stood at the door for a long time but no one opened it. He leaned on the door and listened attentively.

The room was so quiet, as if no one lived there.

"What are you doing?"

A man's voice suddenly sounded from behind Chen Ge, startling Chen Ge. He immediately turned around and looked behind him.

"It's you! The one who was squatting on the grave before!" Chen Ge immediately recognized the man behind him.

"This is not the place for you. Leave now before you disturb the other tenants." The man was standing a few steps behind Chen Ge. He walked without making any sound. Chen Ge had no idea when the other person came over.

"It's too late, and there are no cars leaving now. Can I stay here for one night?" Chen Ge stared at the man, remembering his every move.

"This place is full." The middle-aged man kept urging Chen Ge to leave: "Let's go, even if you live outside, it's better than living here."

"Full house? But why do I feel like all the rooms here are empty?"

"Just because no one lives here doesn't mean there are no tenants..." Before the man could finish his words, something seemed to fall from the third floor and rolled on the stairs like a ball.

Chen Ge turned his head to look, but the man blocked his view with his body.

"Did something fall just now?"

"A tenant's belongings have fallen. I'm going to help her. You stand here and don't move." The man turned the corner of the corridor. Chen Ge didn't listen to him, but followed him directly.

When he reached the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw the middle-aged man put something on a woman.

"Thank you..." The woman stroked her neck with both hands and looked at Chen Ge curiously.

The strange thing was that after she saw Chen Ge's face, she couldn't take her eyes away. It was not until the middle-aged man coughed several times that the woman realized something and turned away.

Being stared at by that strange woman, Chen Ge broke out in cold sweat.

Just now he clearly saw the middle-aged man put something on the woman, but there was nothing in the woman's hands or on her body that could make the sound of a ball colliding.

Chen Ge stared at the back of the woman's neck. Her neck was twisted unnaturally and her head didn't seem to fit completely against her neck.

"You should go." The middle-aged man stood on the stairs, looking down at Chen Ge. His face was an abnormally blue color, like a corpse in a morgue.

"Actually, I came here to look for my friend." Chen Ge didn't want to hide it. This place was too weird, so he thought it would be better to tell the truth.

"Your friends can't be here, and the tenants living here can't be your friends either." The middle-aged man walked up to Chen Ge and said, "This is the second time you and I have met tonight. I pretended not to see you the first time, and I can still pretend not to see you now. Leave now, there won't be a third time."

"You've been pretending not to see me? What would happen if you saw me?"

“You’ll become a tenant here and it’ll be hard to leave.”

The middle-aged man and Chen Ge were in a stalemate in the corridor. After a while, a door on the second floor near the corridor was opened, and a woman wearing glasses walked out of the room. She happened to see Chen Ge and the middle-aged man.

The woman's eyes changed when she saw Chen Ge. She seemed to have a good relationship with the middle-aged man. She walked directly to the middle-aged man and whispered in his ear: "Old Zhou, has this man been to Ping An Apartment before?"

The middle-aged man called Lao Zhou shook his head: "I'm chasing him away."

"If more tenants see it, he might not be able to leave." The woman with glasses said this and walked past Chen Ge as if she didn't see him at all, heading towards the third floor.

Chen Ge also found that the people in Ping'an Apartment had a strange attitude towards him. He guessed that it might be because of Zhang Wenyu and Zuo Han.

"Um...Brother Zhou, is there a tenant named Zuo Han among your tenants? He and I are fellow patients." Chen Ge mentioned Zuo Han's name. He originally wanted to know more, but who knew that after he said this, the middle-aged man's attitude towards him immediately changed.

"Fellow patient? Are you from that hospital too?" Old Zhou stared at Chen Ge.

"We were in the same ward, so his escape from the hospital was also related to me."

"Zuo Han hasn't come back yet. If you are his friend, then go to his room and wait for him." After Lao Zhou learned that Chen Ge came from that hospital, he changed his mind. He personally led Chen Ge to the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor: "Zuo Han lives here. The door lock of his room happens to be broken. You can go in and wait for him."

Chen Ge was not polite either. He pushed the door open and saw blood-stained bandages and gauze all over the floor.

"These were replaced by Zuo Han. He went out to meet a friend today and hasn't come back yet."

"The friend he went to meet was me." Chen Ge pointed at himself.

"Oh? He went to see you, but he didn't come back, and you came here to look for him?" The man called Lao Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Before he comes back, you'd better not run around. This apartment building is quite lively after midnight. No matter what you hear, don't leave the room. Just cover your ears and go to sleep."

The middle-aged man turned and left after he finished speaking, and Chen Ge stayed in the room alone.

The house was simply decorated, but Chen Ge felt very familiar with it.

It felt like the first time I came to a strange place, but it seemed like I had dreamed of this place before.

Sitting in the bedroom, Chen Ge held onto his backpack all the time: "I seem to have been to this place before. I don't remember what happened specifically, but I remember that something bad happened."

Chen Ge waited in the room until late at night, but Zuo Han still didn't come back.

Feeling sleepy, Chen Ge rubbed his bloodshot eyes and said, "It is impossible for a normal apartment to be opened behind a graveyard in a deserted village. There must be something wrong here."

If Chen Ge had followed the hospital's original treatment plan, and the influence of his past memories had been eliminated, his current condition should be the same as that of an ordinary person who came to the apartment for the first time.

But unfortunately, the appearance of Dr. Sun caused a loophole in the hospital's treatment. Chen Ge knew that he could never completely trust his own eyes, so he always maintained a calmness beyond human limits.

Around two o'clock in the morning, Chen Ge suddenly heard a strange noise coming from upstairs, as if someone was cutting something with a saw.

He kept Zhou's words in mind and stayed in the house obediently. The cutting sound gradually weakened, and the sound of wall debris falling and faint screams began to appear above his head. Chen Ge also vaguely heard the name Zhang Wenyu.

"He doesn't let me go out, there must be a reason." Chen Ge still sat in the bed without moving, but after a few minutes, he overheard a familiar name from the conversation upstairs - Zhang Jingjiu.

Thinking back carefully, the scream just now was very similar to the sound of Zhang Jingjiu.

Chen Ge could no longer sit still. He picked up his backpack, quietly slipped out of the room, and came to the third floor of the apartment.

There were signs of burning everywhere, and a large amount of badly damaged furniture and various burnt garbage were piled on the ground.

The sounds of conversation and sawing came from deep in the corridor. Chen Ge walked forward slowly. A faint smell of blood drifted past his nose. The world in front of him was gradually replaced by blood.

The charred wall was covered in blood, and in the dark corridor, several figures could be vaguely seen swaying.

Chen Ge was concentrating his attention. There were a lot of debris on the ground, and if he wasn't careful, it would make noises.

"What are they doing?" Chen Ge approached slowly. When he reached the middle of the corridor, he saw the wall at the end of the corridor.

His pupils shrank instantly, and Chen Ge discovered that a doctor in a white coat was nailed to the wall at the end of the corridor.

The doctor's coat was stained with blood, and at his feet lay a patient with twisted limbs.

"Zhang toasts?"

His breathing became rapid. Chen Ge never expected that he would meet the doctor from the hospital and Zhang Jingjiu here.

"Did someone in the apartment tie them up and take them out? That's impossible!"

Chen Ge's brain was working rapidly. Before he could come up with a solution, he suddenly heard a slight sound behind him.

Looking back suddenly, Chen Ge found a child standing behind him.

The child was short and thin, but his face had a cunning and maturity that did not match his age.

"My name is Men Nan, big brother, what's your name?"