Blood oozed from the window frame and flowed across the hand-painted landscape, making it very conspicuous.
“Even if you are facing death, I will not deprive you of your freedom. Besides, I have been out of sight for so many years, but I am still living well, right? There is always a way out. There will always be a solution.” Chen Ge has an optimistic personality. Although he looks ordinary, he has an indescribable infectiousness that always brings hope to others.
Xiaobu still had no expression on her face. The words were written on the wall in blood over and over again. She seemed to want Chen Ge to think it over carefully.
For those who have been hurt a lot, they would rather endure physical pain than trust others easily, because they know in their hearts that the feeling of trusting others and then finding out that everything was just a lie is much more painful than being cut by a knife.
"Let's not talk about this for now. You have met my parents. Have they told you anything? For example, what are they going to do? Where will they go next?"
Chen Ge was willing to invest money to maintain the haunted house because he wanted to leave a memory for himself. This was the only thing his parents left him, and he wanted to protect it well.
Finding his parents has become his obsession, so now if there is any clue, he will hold on to it tightly.
Xiaobu seemed to know that Chen Ge would ask these questions. More blood seeped out of the window frame, and another line of blood words emerged. They didn't tell me where we would go next, but they mentioned Xinhai Central Hospital in their conversation.
"That cursed hospital? One of the two new four-star missions that appeared on the black phone?"
Chen Ge leaned against the wall, lost in thought: "The shadow is related to the ghost fetus, and my parents' disappearance is related to Xinhai Central Hospital. Both of these scenes are four-star, but I am not going to touch them for the time being. In addition, the four-star mission of the Psychic Ghost School in the western suburbs is about to expire. After leaving Liwan Town, I must complete it first."
The difficulty of the trial mission in the black phone would increase several times with each star upgrade. Chen Ge himself was actually unsure.
"Forget it. Don't think too much. Let's get through this hurdle first." Chen Ge moved his body towards Xiaobu. He was already very close to him, but Xiaobu didn't dodge or show any impatience. Seeing this scene, Fan Cong was also sweating. After all, that was a genuine red-clothed evil ghost.
"Did my parents tell you anything about Shadow? Like what are his weaknesses?" Chen Ge wanted to get more useful information from Xiaobu, but Xiaobu's reaction made him a little disappointed.
The bloodstains on the wall merged and changed, and finally began to repeat the words at the beginning: People without shadows will not live long.
"This child should know something, but she doesn't want to say it." Chen Ge stood up. When Fan Cong next to him heard him call Xiaobu a child, he was shocked again, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the girl in red was indeed just a child.
"What should I do now?"
Chen Ge turned his head to look at Fan Cong, who smiled bitterly: "Don't ask me, what you just said is what I usually say to you."
Fan Cong had already told Chen Ge everything about the game, and now he still needed to make the decision.
"Those human-shaped stains are a big problem. Compared to ghosts, they are more like evil thoughts deliberately extracted by people. They are composed of pure malice and do not retain any humanity."
This kind of thing has no value in being absorbed. Ghosts and monsters will be assimilated if they touch it, so Chen Ge is unwilling to let his employees take risks.
"Evil spirits can contain and digest them. The more powerful the evil spirit is, the more curses it can digest. If you are worried about this, I can open a way for you." The bloodstains on the wall formed a line of words. Xiaobu proposed a solution: "A small amount of curses can be suppressed, and excessive curses will be assimilated by them."
"You call them curses?" Chen Ge suddenly thought of the cursed hospital in the four-star scene in the black phone.
"The thoughts left behind after a person dies can become several different things: obsession, curse, weirdness, etc. Those stains are curses, curses made up of bad luck and malice."
"What will happen if too much curse is absorbed and assimilated?" Chen Ge asked.
"It becomes a new curse. The more terrifying the evil spirit, the more unsolvable the curse will be." The bloodstains on the wall kept changing. Xiaobu had not spoken the whole time, but communicated with Chen Ge in this way.
"Can curses be controlled? According to what you said, these curses will destroy everything they see. There is no way to control them. So how do shadows control them?"
"I don't know. Maybe the shadow has its own methods, or maybe the shadow itself is a curse." The bloody words on the wall surprised Chen Ge again.
"Could the shadow itself be a curse?" Chen Ge thought about it and felt that it was possible. It was impossible for his parents to lose his shadow for no reason. He probably got cursed when he was a child, and his parents put the curse into his shadow.
However, he didn't say these things out loud, he just knew them in his heart.
"If the shadow itself is a curse, then it is easy to understand why he chose Liwan Town. He wants to take advantage of the deep malice and curse buried beneath this town." The curse is the shadow's trump card, and this is the problem facing Chen Ge.
"You don't have to worry too much. Even the curse itself can't control itself, so the control of the shadow is more like a switch. It can't specifically control the actions of individuals. As I said just now, curses are full of malice. They will attack everything they see until they all become curses. There are many strange things in Liwan Town. They can help us share some of the pressure. We just need to escape before they all become curses."
Chen Ge looked at the bloody words on the wall, and his eyes gradually softened. The fact that Xiao Bu could say so much to him showed that the distance between him and her had shortened a lot.
"Okay, let's leave here first and go outside to see the situation before making the next decision."
In the room, Fan Cong looked at Chen Ge and Xiao Bu, and the fat on his body couldn't stop shaking.
He knew in his heart that Chen Ge was one of his own, but he just couldn't control his fear. The scene before him was too weird.
A man holding a weapon, with a limbless ghost in red standing next to him. The ghost was silent. The man looked at the bloody words that kept appearing on the wall with a gentle look on his face.
"Oh, I really want to go home..."
Led by Chen Ge, they walked to the elevator: "There are so many rooms in the basement, have you missed anything?"
Looking at the closed rooms, Chen Ge smiled and said, "Xiaobu, you have been here for so long. Do you have any neighbors? We can take them with us."
Xiaobu shook her head. She was not used to Chen Ge's excessive enthusiasm.
Fan Cong pressed the elevator control button and covered his mouth and nose when the elevator opened.
The old-fashioned elevator was covered in blood and hacking marks, and the people who had just gone up were all gone.
"It's okay, you'll get used to it." Chen Ge didn't know why he comforted Fan Cong like this.
Several people entered the elevator and slowly approached the ground, but the strange noises on the ground disappeared.
Returning to the first floor, Chen Ge held the skull crusher across his body the moment the elevator door opened.
The hall was silent. No screams or wails were heard, and no corpses or blood were seen.
"Where are the people?"
Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to look around. The blood mist became thinner and black shadows could occasionally be seen swaying on the street, but they all seemed to be heading in a certain direction.
"Something is attracting those human-shaped stains."
"All the curses are moving towards the door." Xiaobu still didn't speak. She raised her hand, and the blood mist directly gathered into a few words.
As the person who pushed the door open, she was actually the real owner of the blood mist, but all of it was stolen by the shadow.
"How much mist can you snatch from Shadow now?" Chen Ge had a plan in mind.
"Half, my limbs and head were hidden by Shadow outside Liwan Town, which is a place I cannot influence. My heart is also in Shadow's hands. He wants to use that heart to control the out-of-control door." Every bloody word contains Xiaobu's pain, which makes Chen Ge and Fan Cong feel distressed.
"No wonder Shadow insisted on building another haunted building outside Liwan Town. Liwan Town is used to collect despair and negative emotions, and Mingyang Community is used to suppress Xiaobu and make Xiaobu obedient. He really has a good plan." Chen Ge asked Xiaobu not to control the blood mist first, so as not to alert Shadow: "Several of my friends have left Liwan. It will probably not be long before they bring back your limbs and head. When that time comes, you will suddenly explode and we will work together to kill Shadow."
Chen Ge’s plan was good, but Xiao Bu was not very interested: “You can’t kill him.”
"Why?" Chen Ge asked Xiaobu the reason, but Xiaobu did not answer. Later, when Chen Ge asked other questions, Xiaobu did not speak again.
Several people walked on the streets of Liwan Town. Xiaobu knew Liwan Town very well. This was the door she opened. Normally, the world behind the door was woven according to her memory.
With Xiaobu's help, Chen Ge and Fan Cong avoided all dangers and came to the outside of the community where Fan Cong lived.
Four-fifths of the blood mist in the entire Liwan Town was concentrated here. What was even more terrifying was that all the curses that had been accumulating in Liwan Town for who knows how long had also poured into the blood mist.
They turned into black silk threads and wrapped around a figure in the center of the blood mist, blocking that person's progress.
"Xiao Bu, how many curses can the red-clothed ghost bear at most?" Chen Ge was afraid that Xiao Bu would not answer, so he added: "The one who is fighting with the shadow now can be said to be the most terrifying ghost in red. He once carried all the negative emotions behind a door. Can such a being bear all the curses of Liwan Town?"
Xiaobu shook his head: "No, but it should be able to last for a while."
"Understood." Chen Ge asked Fan Cong to move back: "Let them fight first."
"We're just going to stand by and watch?" Fan Cong was puzzled. "They are in a stalemate now. This is an opportunity for us. Whether we can escape or launch a surprise attack, we have to do something!"
Chen Ge came over aggressively, then took a quick look at the situation and prepared to find a safe place to watch. This was really not a decent move.
"We will wait until they decide who lives and who dies before we take action. These two guys have many hidden cards, so we must not be careless. Besides, the longer we delay, the better it will be for us. Once we find all the missing parts of the door panels, we will have the initiative." Chen Ge looked at the blood mist that had gathered over half of Liwan Town and said calmly, "They are not my friends, so I can only win if I take them all."
"Are you going to kill them all?" Fan Cong covered his heart, not daring to speak or ask any more questions.
"Shadow relied on the blood mist of Liwan Town and the curse buried deep underground to hold out against Doctor Gao. If he didn't have any other trump cards, he would be the first to give in in the end." Chen Ge understood that it would take some time for the curse to break out, and during this time, Doctor Gao should be able to get rid of Shadow.
"Shadow? Doctor Gao? So they are all your acquaintances?" Fan Cong also expected Chen Ge to answer, and his voice was very low.
The Ghost Story Association's flyer was on Xu Yin. Maybe Dr. Gao felt the flyer approaching, he became even more irritable. In the blood-red ocean, the iron chains across the bars made a rustling sound.
"How did Doctor Gao become so strong? What did he experience behind the door? Did he eat a lot of red clothes?" Chen Ge couldn't figure it out. When he was in the Living Coffin Village, the red-clothed woman who jumped into the well also became very strong behind the door, but she was different from Doctor Gao. She only wanted to start a new life and did not put all her thoughts on strengthening herself.
While Chen Ge was thinking about something, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
He quickly took it out to check, and there was an unread text message on it.
"Sent from Tongtong? Did they succeed?"
After sliding the screen and seeing the message, Chen Ge frowned.
There was only one line of text on the message: So many children! Come quickly!
"It looks like something happened over there." Chen Ge put away his phone and without wasting any time, he called Fan Cong and Xiao Bu and started running towards the outskirts of Liwan Town.
Just as Chen Ge made this decision, the sea of blood behind them suddenly exploded, and a shadow similar in size to Chen Ge rushed out and headed straight for the Ming Tower outside Liwan Town.
The blood mist dispersed, and a voice that seemed to float from the depths of hell rang in everyone's ears: "Chen Ge..."
The white coat was dyed red, a red that was more glaring than blood.
Dark black chains were wrapped around the "white coat", and half of the man's body was constantly dissolving, dripping dark red blood. He was seriously injured, but he didn't seem to feel any pain.
He raised his head slowly. The pair of eyes that were once calm, deep and full of wisdom had now turned scarlet, with Chen Ge and his shadow reflected in his pupils.
"Chen Ge..."
Dr. Gao!
Chen Ge quickened his pace and ran off into the distance: "He seems to have lost his mind, but why did he still remember me in this situation? Did I leave too deep an impact on him?"