After the cooked meat is exposed to air for a period of time, the texture of the meat will change.

Chen Ge pointed the fixed camera on his chest at the duck and reached out to touch it. The skin was soft and still had a hint of warmth.

"This duck was cooked no more than an hour ago." He moved his body and took the duck out of the cage: "The internal organs were not cleaned out, the duck neck was cut off directly, and the duck head was not found."

Chen Ge turned the duck's body over. There were teeth marks on the half-cooked meat. Its stomach was torn open and there were no duck feathers on the ground. It seemed that the creature that tore the duck apart had eaten the duck feathers as well.

"Are there large dogs in the cage?" After putting the duck back in its place, Chen Ge looked towards the other end of the cage.

Outside the iron cage where the ducks were kept, there were two plastic bowls filled with colorless liquid.

"Why are there two bowls outside the same iron cage? Are there two dogs in this cage?" The two bowls were exactly the same in color and shape. Chen Ge picked up the bowl and put it to his nose to smell it.

The liquid in one of the bowls was colorless and odorless, probably ordinary water, while the liquid in the other bowl gave off a faint pungent odor.

"It seems like rat poison was used." In order to prevent rats from chewing the props, Chen Ge's haunted house had also bought rat poison before, so he was very familiar with the smell.

"Two identical bowls, one filled with water and the other mixed with rat poison. Isn't the breeder afraid that the animals in his cages will accidentally drink the wrong one?"

The scene in front of him was indeed a bit strange. Chen Ge captured all of this on camera. He glanced at the screen of his phone, and the comments were sliding rapidly. Among them, a long message flashed before his eyes, with the words "iron cage" and "person" vaguely visible.

There were too many comments, so Chen Ge did not turn back. He checked every steel bar in the cage and found a large oil stain on the cage exit, as if a person was desperately grabbing the steel bar with both hands, unwilling to be taken away.

"Could it be that the cage contains people instead of animals?"

Used medicine bottles were dumped all over the floor in the nurses' station, and small paper bags with patients' names on them were scattered everywhere. Some of the bags still contained pills of various colors.

"In a mental hospital that has been abandoned for four or five years, there are actually living people, and it seems that there are more than one."

Chen Ge became more cautious. All the preparations he made during the day were to deal with ghosts, and he ignored the danger posed by the patient himself.

Walking out of the nurses' station, Chen Ge carefully checked the walls on both sides.

The guy in the iron cage was taken away by force. His hands were covered in oil stains, and there must have been some marks left during the struggle.

After walking a few steps, Chen Ge saw that the wall was scratched and there were blood spots mixed in with the oil stains.

"Injured?"

Chen Ge followed the trail all the way to the second floor of the ward. Here, the corridor was divided into two, one leading to the first ward and the other leading to the second ward.

The entire rehabilitation center is a connected building, with the three wards internally connected to each other.

It took Chen Ge nearly twenty minutes to walk through the first ward. There were few places in the building where people could hide. He did not find the person in the cage, nor did he find any signs of more living people living here.

"Could that guy have been taken to another ward?" Chen Ge walked downstairs, and the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated. It was Liu Dao calling.

"Is there something wrong?" Chen Ge's nerves were tense. Any disturbance would have a great impact on him.

"Chen Ge, you're walking too fast! Tonight's live broadcast is all night long, and only 20 minutes have passed, and you've already run through the entire hospital building. How are you going to proceed with the rest of the live broadcast?" Liu Dao kept an eye on Chen Ge's live broadcast: "Qin Guang's popularity has just exceeded 600,000, and your popularity has not even reached 50,000 yet. Don't just focus on exploring, communicate more with your fans."

Chen Ge listened to Liu Dao's words and returned to the first floor. When he looked at the end of the corridor on the first floor, his pupils shrank slightly: "Why is the iron door of the ward closed? I remember that the main door was open when I came in."

"What are you talking about?" Liu Dao paused and said, "The current situation is not optimistic for us. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Just broadcast according to your own ideas."

"Let's talk later. I'm hanging up now." Chen Ge put away his phone, raised his tool hammer and ran towards the iron gate. When he passed the nurses' station, he subconsciously took a look inside.

"It seems like something has changed."

Worried about the door of the ward, Chen Ge did not immediately go to the nurses' station to check. He first ran to the door of the ward and shook the iron door vigorously.

"It's locked! When did it happen?"

Chen Ge lay down at the crack of the door and looked out. Someone had added a big lock to the handle on the outside of the iron door.

He slammed the iron door hard, but it seemed like something was supporting it from the outside and the door didn't move at all.

"Ring locks, supports, it's obvious that they are repeat offenders." There are living people in the abandoned mental hospital. Chen Ge suspects that former patients have returned here. They are not lunatics in the general sense. Some of these guys may be smarter than most normal people and should not be underestimated.

Chen Ge tried to pry the door lock with a hammer, but to no avail. He then entered the wards on both sides, and found that all the windows were sealed with iron fences.

At this moment, Chen Ge could better understand the feelings of those patients who were sent to the mental hospital. This place was like a special prison.

Call for help? Call the police?

Chen Ge glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. The popularity of the live broadcast was still growing. If he left now, the live broadcast would be ruined.

Besides, he still had a trial mission to complete. He had to enter the third ward before midnight and survive until dawn. Once the police were called, several hours would be wasted just on questioning.

"I remember that the windows on the second floor don't have burglar bars, so it's the same if I leave from there. There's no need to call the police for now." In order to complete this trial mission and find clues to his parents' disappearance, Chen Ge risked his life.

Back at the nurses' station, Chen Ge noticed slight changes when he passed by.

When I climbed inside, I found that the plastic bowl outside the iron cage had been emptied and all the liquid inside had been poured out.

"Is he afraid that I'll find out there's rat poison in one of the bowls?" Chen Ge couldn't understand the other party's behavior. Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly saw a few lines of small words written on the wooden board under the counter.

In order to see the words clearly, Chen Ge bent down and put his head into the counter. Before he got close to the words, he felt an itch on the top of his head, as if a small insect had crawled into his hair.

He stretched out his hand and scratched it, and the back of his hand accidentally touched something.

Turning his head and looking upward, Chen Ge's heart skipped a beat.

There were clumps of long black hair stuck to the partition under the counter!

Some are long, some are short, and I don’t know where they came from.

"Why is there hair down there? Is it from the guy in the cage?"

Before Chen Ge could figure it out, a sharp cat cry suddenly sounded outside the nurse's desk. He quickly crawled out from under the counter and looked outside.

The white cat bared its teeth towards the corner stairs on the second floor, its heterochromatic eyes fixed on a certain spot.