Thick blood vessels spread throughout the operating room, like the roots of an old tree, enveloping everyone.

The organs on the wall were contracting and beating, and the ceiling was inlaid with human faces, making it look like a large human puzzle.

Chen Ge had thought of countless scenarios of meeting Dr. Gao, but he had never thought it would be under such circumstances.

Blood dripped onto the white coat without leaving any trace. Doctor Gao was the most special existence in this world. He stood among flesh and blood and corpses, but he was wearing a white coat that symbolized salvation and hope.

With a calm expression, Dr. Gao looked at Chen Ge and said the first sentence: "You came later than I expected."

"Did you guess I would come?"

"I knew you would come. I had this feeling the first time I saw you on the 24th floor of Fanghuayuan Community. You gave me a strong sense of crisis."

"So that's why you kept speaking up for me at that time to prevent me from having conflicts with other members of the Ghost Story Association?" Chen Ge recalled the scene at that time. Number 10 had been helping him all the time, and finally left a note under the table, telling him the location of the Linjiang Blood Prevention Station.

Doctor Gao nodded: "You are all my patients. Isn't it normal for a doctor to consider his patients?"

"Patient?" Chen Ge shook his head. "You are not qualified to say that. In my opinion, you are the one with the most serious illness. The world behind the door does not lie. This completely distorted nightmare made of flesh and blood is a true reflection of your inner world."

"A mind filled with blood and flesh residue is not a disease. Everyone has deformed parts in their hearts. If this is a disease, then we all have it, and you are no exception." Doctor Gao smiled. He seemed to like chatting with Chen Ge. The young man in front of him was different from ordinary people in terms of his thoughts and perception of things. Doctor Gao found a sense of "kindness" in Chen Ge: "I am a psychologist and have seen countless deformed and twisted minds. The reason why they become like this is actually not their own fault in many cases."

The voice paused, and the smile on Dr. Gao's face slowly faded: "When you came here, did you look at the photos on the wall?"

Chen Ge nodded: "Those victims are the crimes committed by the Ghost Story Association in the past five years, right?"

"Victims?" Doctor Gao looked up at the faces on the ceiling. "In my opinion, they are the perpetrators. They act recklessly without considering the consequences. They live around us in human skins and constantly create misfortunes. Each of them has a reason to die, and all I do is to make their deaths more meaningful."

"But is this fair to them?" Chen Ge stood from a third-party perspective, and he did not deliberately favor anyone. "I saw a half-dead man in the laboratory. According to your doctors, in order to conduct experiments, he will be kept in this state for a long time. While he is being treated, new wounds will be added to his body. He endured this endless torture just because he bullied a classmate in elementary school and stabbed his classmate's thigh with a pen. Do you think this punishment is fair?"

"You question fairness only because you don't consider things from the patient's perspective. You can't see the trauma in the patient's heart, you can't understand the despair in their hearts, and you can't understand the pain of being unable to breathe and wanting to tear themselves apart." Dr. Gao spoke faster, as if he was thinking of himself: "That kind of pain is long-lasting, and it penetrates into every nerve. It tortures you all the time. It follows you, just like countless tiny bugs filling your body. You know they are in your body, occupying every inch of your body, but you just can't release them."

"No matter what you do, they follow you, multiplying in your body and eating every nerve in your body. You can hear your memory being torn apart bit by bit, until your head is filled with those disgusting bugs. You can see them as long as you close your eyes, and you will think of them as long as you are alive."

"Can you understand this feeling? This is the pain that a person with a damaged heart has to endure 24 hours a day. Do you still think there is something wrong with my approach?"

Doctor Gao looked into Chen Ge's eyes and said, "Even with such pain, they still try their best to live. However, what they get in return is not relief, but even greater pain."

"People can be called human beings because they have developed self-awareness. When a person can affirm himself with the word 'I', he becomes a human being. My patients are slowly losing themselves because the pain is slowly eating away their 'I'."

This was the first time that Doctor Gao said this in front of Chen Ge. His words not only involved psychology, but also seemed to be related to sociology and philosophy: "Humans are advanced beings composed of many contradictions. This is not a simple term, so the harm and pain they suffer cannot be measured by the word fairness."

After listening to what Doctor Gao said, Chen Ge clenched the skull crusher. Perhaps due to the huge gap in their educational level, he did not understand what Doctor Gao meant.

With a look of help, Chen Ge turned around and glanced at Doctor Wei beside him. It seemed that the doctor was also hearing these things for the first time. He coughed lightly and said to Chen Ge: "Don't pay too much attention to what the mentally ill say, and don't think too deeply about the worldview they tell you, otherwise you will go crazy sooner or later."

"Don't use madness as an excuse. When you see something incomprehensible, you always describe it as abnormal. But have you ever thought about who defines what is normal and what is abnormal?" Doctor Gao stood on the blood pool. He was the center of the room. "What are you looking for when you stare at a human figure? What makes a person a person is not the sound, movement, or appearance he makes, but the soul. Everything revolves around it."

Although Chen Ge didn't understand what Doctor Gao said, he always felt that what he said made sense. This was an extremely dangerous signal.

Once a person accepts a madman's worldview, he is not far from being crazy.

"Doctor Gao, no matter how reasonable your words are, there is one thing you cannot deny. They died because of you, your hands are stained with blood, and you have violated the law." Blood began to drill under the skin. Chen Ge didn't have much time. He opened the comic book and released all the employees of the haunted house: "You are one of the few people I admire. Because of this, I can't let you go on. Doctor Gao, you are already sick. Since you opened this door, you are no longer yourself. Even if your wife comes back to life, she will feel strange when she opens her eyes and sees your current appearance. This is not the you she wants to meet."

Doctor Gao stood there without moving. His expression was calm, but the blood vessels under his feet began to rise and fall violently, the organs on the wall were also beating wildly, and the faces on the ceiling above his head showed expressions of fear.

The world behind the door is constructed based on Dr. Gao's inner world. Everything here seems to be connected with him. When his mood changes, the whole world will change accordingly.

"You are not her, so how can you know what she is thinking?" Doctor Gao does not show his emotions, but the world behind the door, which has undergone tremendous changes, has already revealed many problems. This top psychologist in Jiujiang can no longer maintain his own calm.

"You know it well in your heart." Chen Ge took a small step to the side and made way for the door behind him. "The whole world is filled with stinking meat and dirty blood, except for the door facing the blood pool. If I'm not mistaken, your wife should be in the blood pool, right? You hope that she can see her former home the first thing she sees when she wakes up, instead of seeing all the twisted and deformed things around her."

"Doctor Gao, stop running away. People can only push open the door when they are most desperate. The other side of the door is not salvation, but an even more desperate world."

"You are trying to redeem yourself with ten or even a hundred times the despair. This is simply impossible."

Chen Ge wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Doctor Gao: "You don't have to continue, I already understand what you mean."

He returned to his original expression, with a hint of indifference in his eyes: "I told you all this because I thought you might understand my feelings."

Doctor Gao stared at Chen Ge and told him the last secret: "Since the first time I saw you, I started to use all my connections to investigate you. I found that you are really like me, in every sense. You think I am crazy for being alone in the underground morgue with corpses for five years, but do you know that in my eyes, you are also a complete lunatic?"

Chen Ge never thought that he would be so highly regarded in Dr. Gao's heart. He always felt that he was very ordinary and there was nothing special about him.

"The deeper I investigate, the more I find problems with you. You may not even be aware of it, but I can tell you very clearly that the madness in the deepest part of your heart is even hotter than mine. It is a flame that never goes out and can burn everything to ashes."

"Is this the one you're talking about?" Chen Ge had no idea why Dr. Gao said this, and the other party didn't seem to have any reason to lie to him.

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it. The method to verify it is very simple. There is a 'door' in the bathroom of your haunted house. Push it open and you will see your true self." Dr. Gao's eyes were still cold, but there was a smile on his face: "That night, I entered that door and saw your world, so I know very well that if we compare the two of us, you are the real lunatic."

"That door is related to me?" Chen Ge didn't know whether Dr. Gao was leading him in the wrong direction or really wanted to reveal some information to him: "According to what you said, I also pushed open a 'door'?"

Only when you are in the deepest despair can you have the opportunity to open the "door". Chen Ge did not think that there was anything desperate in his first half of life. In his opinion, that "door" should be opened by others. "

"I can be sure that it was you who pushed open that 'door' because I saw yourself inside that 'door'." There was a subtle fear hidden in Dr. Gao's smile, and his lips looked a little unnatural.

"I'm the one who pushed the door?!" Chen Ge's heart sank: "What else do you know?"

"I know a lot more. As long as you promise to help me do three things, I will not only tell you everything I know, but I will also go into that 'door' with you and help you find what you need most?" The blood vessels in his head were surging, and the floor was full of blood. Bubbles began to emerge from the blood pool behind Doctor Gao. Obviously, his mood had changed at this time, and he seemed to be expecting Chen Ge's answer.

"This is a mutually beneficial process. I believe you will not refuse it, right?"

Chen Ge was indeed very curious about the world behind his door. While he was thinking, his eyes swept across the blood pool that was still changing.

"When I came in just now, the color of the blood pool was not so bright." Chen Ge looked elsewhere. The organs on the surrounding walls were withering like flowers and becoming dim. Something kept pouring into the blood pool from the blood vessels, as if preparing to pour all the "nutrients" in the entire blood-colored world into the blood pool: "Is Doctor Gao deliberately delaying time?"

Chen Ge thought about it and came up with a more reliable method. As long as he could control Dr. Gao, or his beloved wife, he would be able to take the initiative.

"What are the three things? Tell me first, and then I'll consider whether to agree." Chen Ge took a few steps forward while saying this, as if to show his sincerity.

"When you took steps, your steps were one-fifth smaller than usual, which means you wanted to accomplish something you were not sure of. The hand holding the hammer was stronger than before. Although you tried your best to appear relaxed, before you realized this, your knuckles subconsciously clenched the hammer handle for about 0.3 seconds." Doctor Gao took out a black wooden box from his pocket. "It seems that you have realized that I am stalling for time, but it's okay this way. I did this not because I am not sure of winning, but just to give you a chance, a choice."

The wooden box was opened, and the strong smell of blood dissipated the original stench in the room. The surrounding blood vessels began to break, and countless blood threads flowed out and gathered into the wooden box.

About a second or two later, a blood-red hand covered with scars stretched out from the wooden box.

Filled with hatred and rage, a monster with half of its body twisted and horribly covered with scars crawled out.

The red eyes stared at Chen Ge, and the half of his face that seemed to have been burned by fire cracked into an ugly smile.

Without any instructions from Dr. Gao, it rushed towards Chen Ge like crazy.

"Xiong Qing?" Chen Ge clenched the skull crusher with both hands and did not retreat a single step: "You came just in time. If I eat you, I will have another Red Clothes!"