"I don't have much time left here. Let me tell you one last thing. The hospital has discovered that Zhang Ya has been replaced." Doctor Sun's expression was more serious than ever. His body trembled when he mentioned Zhang Ya's name.
"Zhang Ya was replaced?" Chen Ge was a little confused: "What do you mean by this? Is the Zhang Ya next to me a hospital employee?"
"Zhang Ya, the female boss of the haunted house, was originally created by the hospital using your own dreams in order to confuse you. The purpose of her existence is to make you indulge in beauty, believe in the reality of this world, and be unwilling to leave from the bottom of your heart. But no one expected that this Zhang Ya woven with your memory has her own consciousness! Not only did she not let you indulge in a false and beautiful life as required by the hospital, she also kept pointing out the loopholes in the world! The hospital found traces of the real Zhang Ya on her, and such traces are gradually increasing!" Doctor Sun spoke hurriedly.
"In other words, the Zhang Ya next to me is the Zhang Ya in my memory?" Chen Ge's heartbeat began to speed up. He had a spiritual understanding with Zhang Ya since the first time he met her.
"She is slowly losing control! No one knows why this is happening!" The scars on Doctor Sun's face were hideous and terrifying. "The hospital may not kill you in the short term, but now all the doctors on night shift are interested in Zhang Ya's condition. They will definitely target Zhang Ya!"
None of the night shift doctors in the hospital were good people. Chen Ge vaguely remembered how Dr. Gao treated him. In order to drive himself crazy, he even came up with a treatment plan of changing the medication and letting himself kill his roommate.
Such a group of people became interested in Zhang Ya. When Chen Ge heard what Doctor Sun said, veins popped out on the back of his hand.
"After I met the tenants of Ping An Apartment, I found that their attitude towards Zhang Ya was very special. What does this name represent?" Chen Ge forced himself to stay calm.
"She represents a ghost, a ghost that is most important to you. Without her desperate resistance, you would have no chance of waking up." Doctor Sun's words were cruel, but the truth is often cruel: "You can say that she bought you a glimmer of hope at the cost of her own soul."
The surrounding walls began to twist. Doctor Sun knocked on the door: "This is all I can tell you. You must survive."
There were seven knocks on the door. Doctor Sun opened the door when the knock came for the seventh time. Chen Ge also left the brain maze at the same time.
Opening his eyes, Chen Ge saw that the bathroom window was open. As for Dr. Sun, he had disappeared long ago. It was as if he had never been to the haunted house.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge looked at himself in the mirror and slowly clenched his hands.
“I just felt the beauty, but was told that all beauty is an illusion; I finally met happiness, but I am about to lose everything.”
His pupils slowly shrank, and bloodshot appeared in Chen Ge's eyes. He was enduring it.
"First, go inform the tenants of Ping An Apartment that the plan has changed."
Without wasting any time, Chen Ge left the haunted house with his backpack.
They had originally agreed to meet at an abandoned hospital in the suburbs, but because Dr. Sun had tipped off Chen Ge in advance, he couldn't wait any longer.
Chen Ge took a taxi to Ping An Apartment and ran all the way, finally finding the tenants before the hospital took action.
He told the tenants some of what Dr. Sun said. After everyone confirmed the contact information, they decided to split up into small groups, hide in the corners of the city, and wait for the opportunity.
It was almost midnight, after most of the guests had left.
Tang Jun drove a van and led Chen Ge, Zuo Han, Men Nan and Lao Zhou to an abandoned hospital in the suburbs.
"Hospitals seem to have a special meaning in this city. Xinhai covers a very large area, but the only hospital in operation is Xinhai Central Hospital. Don't you think this is strange?" Zuo Han can always discover things that ordinary people can't notice. He has a heart that is skeptical about everything. To some extent, he does have a bit of paranoia.
"These most terrifying evil spirits retain some of their instincts. There are reasons why One-Eye chose to abandon the school and Scarlet chose Liwan Street. By analogy, the Curse Girl is likely related to the hospital. She may also be a patient who escaped from that hospital."
“That makes sense.”
Instead of going through the main gate, several people climbed over the wall and walked through the hospital.
"Why do I feel familiar with this place?" Men Nan walked in front. He looked at the pillows thrown on the corridor and the faces drawn on them. His expression slowly changed: "I seem to have been to this mental hospital before."
"Have you been here before?"
"Yeah." Men Nan nodded. He didn't stop in the first two buildings and ran directly to the third ward.
The interior of the third ward in the deepest part of the hospital is very strange. Various curses are written on the walls and there are steel welded cages in the room. It doesn't look like a hospital at all, but more like a prison for imprisoning criminals.
"Door, window..." Relying on the scattered fragments of memory in his mind, Men Nan came to the third floor of the third ward.
There was no light in the dark corridor, and it was chilling, as if it was the esophagus of a giant deep-sea fish.
"Don't let me lead the way! I'm just a kid!" Men Nan, who had been walking at the front of the team, suddenly stopped. He grabbed Lao Zhou and Chen Ge's hands, and a long-lost innocent expression appeared on his face: "Let's go in together."
Chen Ge did not refuse. Every nerve in his body was tense.
Entering the corridor, the flow of time seemed to slow down, and countless screams and wails seeped out from the walls. This place gave Chen Ge the feeling that it was more dangerous than the abandoned school and Liwan Street.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Men Nan stopped in front of a door engraved with curse words. He felt something in his heart, so he raised his hand and gently pushed the door.
But the moment his fingers touched the door panel, the black words on the door seemed to come alive and rushed towards Men Nan.
Seeing the frail Men Nan, he showed extraordinary decisiveness at this time. He directly cut his finger with blood.
The severed finger was swallowed by the black text as it fell. Men Nan watched it all with a pale face. He waved his hand, and a new finger appeared in blood.
"She is a little stronger than me." Covering his hand, Men Nan retreated behind Lao Zhou and Chen Ge.
The door had just been opened a crack by Men Nan. Learning from his mistakes, Chen Ge picked up the pillow with a face painted on it and used it to push the door open.
As the door slowly opened, all the curse words in the corridor boiled over. They turned into black and red silk threads, like a web woven by a giant spider, blocking the entire third ward.
All the doors and windows were sealed, and the escape route was completely cut off.
When a few people were panicking, all the wailing and screaming in the ward disappeared.
In the dead silence, there was a sound of footsteps suddenly.
That was the sound of high heels hitting the ground.
With pointed high heels, she stepped on the blood-stained floor tiles and the cursed and distorted faces as she came in front of the few people.
"Cursed girl?"
Looking at the red high heels in front of them, several people didn't dare to move. The terrifying aura emitted by the other party was far greater than that of One-Eye and Scarlet.
"Aren't they on the same level? Why is the Curse Girl so scary?"
Chen Ge dared to walk around freely in front of One-Eye and talk to Feihong, but next to the Curse Girl, he didn't even dare to breathe too hard.
It was an indescribable suppressive force, as if she could kill all the people and evil spirits here in the blink of an eye as long as she wanted.
The corridor became more and more oppressive, and Chen Ge felt that his body was about to collapse. When everyone was about to be unable to bear it, Men Nan, who had been hiding in the back, came out.
The smallest one, Men Nan, stood in front of several adults. His performance at this time impressed Chen Ge.
He is indeed one of the most powerful ghosts in Ping An Apartment!
Lao Zhou wanted to stop it, but it was too late. Men Nan seemed to have made a great decision. Blood was flowing behind him. He suppressed his uneasiness and came to the red high heels.
Looking at the pair of blood-stained shoes with bright eyes, Men Nan used all his strength to ask.
"Are you my mother?"
The third ward gave Men Nan the feeling of home. Most of his memories were gone, and he only vaguely remembered that he and his mother had lived here.
With anticipation, Men Nan longed for the response from the red high heels, but the next moment, he was thrown aside by the cursed silk thread.
Dangerous words were engraved on Lao Zhou, Tang Jun and Zuo Han. They all fell to the ground, and only Chen Ge was still standing.
Step by step, the pair of red high heels seemed to only care about Chen Ge.
The icy cold hand touched Chen Ge's heart, and his heart almost stopped beating instantly.
The red high heels seemed to be confirming something. After she touched Chen Ge's heart, the curse threads in the entire ward began to boil. It was as if she had finally found what she wanted.
Unable to resist, when Chen Ge regained consciousness, he saw a woman in red standing in front of him.
The woman's coat was covered with names woven with curses. The pale white skin exposed outside was wrapped in black and red bandages, and she was wearing a pair of high heels engraved with some special patterns.
"Cursed Girl..."
Chen Ge couldn't help but utter this most terrifying name, but the next moment, the blood vessels in his arm began to twist, and fine black threads formed hideous words on the surface of his skin.
"That's not my name."
The words that the curse girl wanted to say came to Chen Ge like an inescapable curse. He didn't even know how she did it.
Trying to stay calm, Chen Ge looked at the thin black lines on his arm and endured the severe pain: "I have lost my previous memories, but I feel like we should have known each other before."
"I also lost some of my memory, such as my name." Black lines twisted on Chen Ge's flesh and blood, constantly forming new words. The scene looked very strange: "I cast a curse on myself and found out that my memory was lost in the hospital. I searched all the abandoned hospitals and captured several patients and nurses, but I couldn't find my memory back."
"The culprit that caused you to lose your memory is Xinhai Central Hospital. We all lost our memories there. It is our common enemy!" Chen Ge was already used to the pain, and his tone did not change much: "If you want to regain your memory, you have to go deep into the hospital."
"In addition to the method you mentioned, I have another way to regain my memory." The Curse Girl stood in front of Chen Ge. The bandages on her face fell off layer by layer, and black terrifying lines emanated from her body. "Do you know what a curse is?"
The thin black and red lines were all filled with crying human faces. The evil spirit in front of him had cursed countless people. Her abilities were infinitely magnified in this city and had reached an exaggerated level.
"Paying a painful cause as a price, reaping a bloody result, this is the curse, and it is also my only ability." The curse girl's pale hand pinched Chen Ge's neck: "Your heart contains my memories. In exchange for your heart, I can regain my memories."
Even at this time, Chen Ge remained surprisingly calm: "I bet you won't do that. The curse is difficult to reverse. Since I have your memory in my heart, I must be one of the important people to you."
On the surface, Chen Ge remained calm, but he was actually a little panicked. Apart from Feihong, these evil spirits were really scary.
The One-Eye wanted Chen Ge’s left eye, and now the Curse Girl wants Chen Ge’s heart.
"You gained your memories at the cost of my life, but found out that the important people in the memories were already dead. Is this really the memory you wanted?" Chen Ge spoke faster and faster. He didn't want to give the Curse Girl too much time to think.
"You may not die if I take your heart. Even if I don't do it now, you will ask me to do it in the future." Every word left by the curse woman on Chen Ge's arm contained complex emotions. She seemed to know something but just didn't say it.
"Will I ask for death?" Chen Ge didn't quite understand. Everything he was doing now was to survive. How could he possibly ask for death?
"The evil spirits in this city, including me, have not only lost their memories, but also most of their abilities. If they want to get them back, they have to go to that hospital. But the contradiction is that they are no match for that hospital after losing their memories and abilities." The Curse Girl had no need to deceive Chen Ge. If she wanted, she could just take Chen Ge's heart now instead of communicating with him here.
"Even if everyone in the city joined together, they would still not be a match for the hospital?" Chen Ge felt a hint of despair.
"Unless you recover your lost memories and abilities, there is no chance." The Curse Girl looked at Chen Ge with her blood-red eyes: "You not only have my memories in your heart, but also the memories of others. Let me use everything you have to curse, and I can get back the memories and abilities of everyone except you."
The curse girl did not force Chen Ge, but only gave Chen Ge a choice.
"You just said that even if you took my heart, I wouldn't necessarily die?" Chen Ge thought seriously about what the curse girl said.
"In this false beauty, as long as you still retain your true memories, you will not die."
"Let me think about it."
"The disaster has come. I will wait for your reply here." The black and red silk thread receded like the tide, and the Curse Girl and Chen Ge distanced themselves from each other.