"I never considered them as my enemies. In fact, I knew very well that my only enemy was the hospital."
Chen Ge was definitely not acting on the spot. He had not forgotten anything that happened in the hospital.
On the surface, the hospital claims to be a place of salvation and healing, but in reality it is that hospital that is constantly creating despair and pain in this city.
After a normal person enters the hospital and undergoes treatment, his worldview is directly distorted, the seeds of disease take root in his heart, and finally he turns into a monster.
Chen Ge still doesn't understand why the hospital does these things. They seem to be very keen on creating all kinds of patients.
"In addition to the three most terrifying ghosts, there are a large number of ghosts hiding in the dark corners of this city. I have inquired about it, and there were not so many strange creatures in this city before. Just two months ago, the order was broken, and all kinds of evil spirits and obsessed dead people began to appear, and that time was exactly when you woke up in the hospital, so I guess most of the ghosts in this city are related to you." The writer seemed to have written detective stories before, and he has strong logical thinking and insight.
"How do you know the time when I woke up in the hospital? There were only doctors and nurses around me at the time." Chen Ge was a little confused.
"Zhang Wenyu told me." The writer didn't look like he was lying.
"Tens of thousands of you are named Zhang Wenyu. Your answer is too general."
"Although we are all called Zhang Wenyu, there is only one real Zhang Wenyu. His ability is not inferior to One-Eye, Curse Girl, and even stronger than Scarlet. It's just that he hid in the crowd." The writer had a barely detectable smile on his face: "When he realized the danger, he immediately transferred his memory to all the obsessions he was carrying, so he escaped. He also did not forget his promise to you, but he can't show up for the time being."
"The memory was transferred to the obsession he carried?" Chen Ge felt that this reason could not convince him. After all, all the people and ghosts had lost their memories, with Zhang Wenyu being the only exception. Not to mention Chen Ge, even the hospital couldn't figure it out.
"The people you helped will one day redeem you." The writer glanced at the tenants around him and said, "You will understand it slowly."
Chen Ge sorted out the writer's words. Now he was sure that Zhang Wenyu was protecting him secretly, and the ghosts in this city could get their help through transactions.
"You chose Ping An Apartment. Misfortune will come soon. I hope you can control yourself and try to buy as much time as possible." The writer called several leaders of Ping An Apartment together. To Chen Ge's surprise, the manager of Ping An Apartment was not the steady-looking man named Zhou, but the child who had been following Chen Ge.
"Men Nan is the smartest tenant among us, and he has formidable abilities." The writer's words were recognized by the surrounding tenants, and Chen Ge's eyes when he looked at Men Nan also changed.
To be honest, he didn't feel any threat from the child, he just thought that the other party was a naughty child.
As if sensing the doubt in Chen Ge's eyes, Men Nan did not argue, as if he was disdainful of arguing about the issue of strength.
"Let's discuss our future plans together. Since we have decided to fight, we must go all out. Only in this way can we have a chance of survival." The writer spoke earnestly. He retained some of his memories, so he was very clear about the horror of the hospital.
Compared with that behemoth, the people in Ping An Apartment are nothing compared to them.
"Next, we will use Ping'an Apartment as the center and keep looking for those partners hiding in the shadows and invite them to join us." Although Men Nan looks very young, his style of speaking and doing things is almost the same as that of an adult. He is experienced and shameless towards his enemies, and will do anything to help others out of danger many times. Therefore, he has a high status in Ping'an Apartment.
Sometimes people in the apartment are also wondering, this child is so young, and they don’t know who learned such “bad” things from.
"In addition to the ghosts hiding in the shadows of the city, some of the patients in the hospital can also be targeted." Men Nan walked to the innermost part of the third floor. He looked at Zhang Jingjiu on the ground and said, "There are a large number of patients detained in that hospital. If we can persuade them all to rebel, it will be much easier for us. After all, even the strongest fortress can be easily breached from the inside."
"Men Nan, the patient on the ground is my friend in the hospital. Why is he here?" Chen Ge was very concerned about Zhang Jingjiu's situation.
At this time, Zhang Jingjiu's limbs were fixed with wooden boards, and the broken bones had been corrected. Just now, Lao Zhou was holding a saw to make a splint for Zhang Jingjiu.
"This patient named Zhang Jingjiu seemed to have no more use. The doctor discarded him as garbage. He was discovered by Zuo Han who was hiding in the garbage chute at the time. He stole Zhang Jingjiu." Men Nan checked Zhang Jingjiu's injuries and said, "Since leaving the hospital, this patient has been in a coma. In order to save his life, we tried to ambush a doctor, but unfortunately this doctor knew nothing."
Chen Ge found that he might have underestimated the power of Ping An Apartment. Under the leadership of Men Nan, they were able to capture a doctor alive and had not been discovered by the hospital. This was already very impressive.
"So what are you going to do with this doctor? If you keep him, the hospital might come looking for you."
"Let's use him for experiments for now. The Curse Girl is very interested in the black silk threads on doctors' bodies. If we give this doctor to her, maybe we can get a favor in return." Men Nan was calculating in his mind, and he was ready to squeeze all the value out of this unfortunate doctor.
The two sides chatted for a long time, but Zuo Han did not come back until dawn.
Lao Zhou and the writer both had a bad feeling, so they asked Chen Ge to leave as soon as possible and agreed to meet at Liwan Street in the eastern suburbs of Xinhai after midnight tomorrow.
Taking advantage of the night, Chen Ge left Ping'an Apartment.
He didn't know that after he left, all the ghosts on the third floor were staring at his back.
"Do we really want to bet on him?" Men Nan glanced at the writer: "Are you in cahoots with him?"
"I'll just ask you a simple question. When you appeared behind him, you had plenty of time and opportunities to kill him, but did you ever have this thought in your mind?" the writer asked Men Nan. After he finished speaking, he also looked at the other tenants.
No one spoke, and finally Lao Zhou stood up and said, "He gave me a very special feeling, inexplicably. From the first moment I saw him, I thought he was trustworthy."
"I have a similar feeling." The female teacher wearing glasses said, and a woman next to her who was holding her head also raised her hands and nodded.
"I really can't do anything about you, so just trust him this time." Men Nan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone felt the same way.
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After leaving Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge's mind was filled with all kinds of questions.
"There are really ghosts in this city. Dr. Gao's answer is completely different from the writer's." Chen Ge once asked Dr. Gao about whether there are ghosts in the world. The people in the hospital wanted to create a normal world, but it was too difficult for them to deceive Chen Ge.
For Chen Ge, the more challenging part was not identifying the trap, but how to avoid being discovered by the doctors in the hospital after identifying the trap.
"Zhang Ya's dream might be true. Why has she been dreaming since she met me? On the contrary, I have hardly ever dreamed. Did Zhang Ya take away my ability to dream?"
Before I could figure out the answer to the previous question, the next one popped up.
"All the tenants of Ping An Apartment are ghosts, but why do I feel more comfortable being with ghosts than being with living people?"
“They should be trustworthy.”
After leaving the deserted village, Chen Ge walked around for a long time and returned to the specialty restaurant.
There was no taxi along the way and it started raining again, so Chen Ge had to run to the entrance of the hotel to take shelter from the rain.
The lights were off in the shop, and it was pitch black. Chen Ge didn't plan to disturb the owner. He wanted to leave after the rain stopped, but as soon as he approached the door of the restaurant, he smelled a faint smell of blood.
"Is the owner killing game?" Chen Ge tried to push the door with the back of his hand, but he didn't expect it to be closed.
He saw tables and chairs overturned in the restaurant, blood everywhere, and a severed hand lying on the ground at the kitchen door.
"Eat the dragon head?!"
Chen Ge's heartbeat quickened. He carefully avoided the bloodstains on the ground, took out a tool hammer from his backpack, and moved closer to the kitchen.
"There's too much blood. If I try to get through, I'll definitely leave shoe prints." Chen Ge didn't move forward. He found an angle and turned his head to look towards the kitchen.
The fat man who ate the dragon's head was stuffed into the jar of sauce, with only his head sticking out.
"He was nearly 1.9 meters tall and obese. It was impossible for his body to fit completely into the jar. He was taken apart."
If the other person was still breathing, Chen Ge might have risked going in and called the police for help, but now the other person was dead, and going in would only bring trouble to himself.
It's in the wilderness with no one around, and there's a big chance that he will be mistaken for the murderer!
The person who had spoken a few hours ago is now a corpse.
Chen Ge felt a deep chill: "Is this the disaster the writer mentioned?"
He stepped back, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground, making sure he didn't leave any shoe prints.
When leaving the hotel, Chen Ge looked at the door he had touched: "Fortunately, I pushed the door with the back of my hand, so it won't leave fingerprints. But to be on the safe side, it's better to clean it up."
After wiping the small piece of door panel that had been touched and carefully checking it, Chen Ge quickly left the scene.
Chen Ge did not show too much shock after seeing the corpse of the dragon head eater, but this does not mean that he is cold-blooded.
In fact, it was just the opposite. The death of Chilongtou really stimulated him.
If he doesn't escape from this city as soon as possible, the next person to be sucked into the jar of sauce might be the people around him.
In order to clear himself of suspicion, Chen Ge took a long detour, avoiding most of the surveillance cameras, and then took a taxi from another place back to Xinhai Amusement Park.
After entering the haunted house and taking a cold shower, Chen Ge packed up everything, opened the haunted house fence, and prepared to start today's business.
It was eight o'clock in the morning when Zhang Ya and her parents arrived at the haunted house, and they immediately got busy.
Everyone's makeup was done, and at half past eight, the park management suddenly came to the door of the haunted house and informed Zhang Ya's parents that the park would be closed for the day.
The haunted house business had only been booming for a few days, and now was the time when it made the most money. Zhang Ya's parents were very confused.
They went to the park management to argue, and the reason they gave was that the haunted house had not passed the safety inspection and some of the equipment posed a safety hazard.
The haunted house was shut down just like that. Zhang Ya and her parents had no choice but to conduct a self-inspection.
The park opened at nine o'clock, but the door to the haunted house was tightly closed. Many tourists expressed their incomprehension, as some of them came specifically to play in the haunted house.
Zhang Ya and her father patiently explained to the tourists outside, while Chen Ge squatted on the first floor, watching everything silently.
"Is this also part of the disaster?"
Zhang Ya's mother noticed that Chen Ge was not feeling well and quietly walked over to him: "Are you feeling unwell?"
Chen Ge shook his head: "I'm a little worried that our haunted house will not be able to operate normally in the future."
"It's okay. The park is regularly inspected and will be able to reopen in two days." Zhang Ya's mother was a very kind person. She was worried, but she came over to comfort Chen Ge: "Everything will be fine."
"Yeah." Chen Ge entered the scene, sorting out the props in the scene while thinking about the next plan.
"I can't do anything too abnormal. I must not let the hospital find out that I still retain some of my old memories."
The haunted house was forced to close for renovations, and the specific opening time is yet to be determined. However, Zhang Ya's family was not too pessimistic, as they seemed to have experienced similar things before.
The park was bustling with people and tourists coming and going, but the area near the haunted house became deserted again.
The fast-paced life suddenly slowed down. The haunted house was closed and there was no income for the time being. However, this also gave Zhang Ya and Chen Ge more time to spend together.
Although most of the time, Chen Ge was the one making the equipment silently, and Zhang Ya was helping him, they both felt very happy just with that.
At night, Zhang Ya's mother gave the key to the haunted house to Chen Ge. After they left, Chen Ge was the only one left in the huge haunted house.
It stands to reason that staying alone in a haunted house would definitely be scary, but Chen Ge found that he only felt at ease in a haunted house.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Ge packed his backpack and prepared to go to Liwan Street to keep his appointment, but what he didn't expect was that Zuo Han climbed in through the toilet window again.
When they met again, Zuo Han looked even more miserable than last time, with several hideous scars on his body.
"Chen Ge, I need you to do me a favor."
"Let me bandage your wound first. I'm afraid you won't be able to hold out for long in this state."
Chen Ge wanted to get the medicine box, but his hand was grabbed by Zuo Han: "There is no time. Come with me now."
"Where are you going?"
"Xinhai Xijiao Private College." Zuo Han gritted his teeth, he seemed to be enduring the pain in his body: "I made a deal with One-Eye with my heart. If I die unexpectedly, I hope you can take my soul and complete what I am going to do next."
"Betting with your life? Are you crazy?" Chen Ge stood still.
"At least I can still bet my life now. If I delay any longer, I'm afraid I won't even have the freedom to die." Zuo Han pleaded in his eyes: "Help me this time, and I will take you to see the truth of the world."