The rag doll in the thirteenth picture was quite pitiful. It had been picked up by the girl from the trash and then abandoned there.
"There are no other pictures in the drawer, so this is the last one." Chen Ge looked at the picture on the table. The heavily damaged family picture formed a sharp contrast to the rag doll that had been abandoned in the trash.
"This should be the first time it has been abandoned." Chen Ge was just speculating. The rag doll was willing to trust others, so it meant that it had not completely followed the path of the ghost fetus.
It believed that it could befriend the girl, and perhaps the girl did treat it as a friend at one moment, but reality gave it a heavy blow.
"The girl's family should have all been killed by the ghost fetus, and the girl herself has become the rag doll's doll." Chen Ge closed the drawer and walked toward the living room.
The girl leaned against the chair. She seemed to be unable to stand. If not for the white cloth, she probably would not have been able to sit up on her own.
"Can you hear me? If you can, can you blink or nod? "Chen Ge helped the girl remove the white cloth. Throughout the process, the girl did not react at all. She allowed Chen Ge to do whatever he wanted with her like a toy that did not have a mind of its own.
When all the white cloth was removed, the girl's body toppled to the side. When Chen Ge reached out to catch her, several blood red pictures fell from the girl's body.
These pictures were different from the pictures in the drawer. They were taken at midnight, and the background was blood red. The main characters were the girl's family, and they had died in different ways.
"This is its revenge?" Chen Ge studied the pictures closely, and he noticed something strange. Other than the girl's family and the rag doll, there was another person in the blood red pictures.
One of the pictures had a room number on it. It was taken at the door of Room 504. The girl's father was lying on the ground, and his remaining leg was being hugged by the rag doll. Other than the two of them, there was a doctor in a white coat standing inside Room 504.
"He is the tenant of Room 504?"
The doctor's face was scratched, so he could not be seen clearly. However, the white coat he was wearing was very unique. It was full of small holes caused by soot, and there was a large smear that looked like fat on it.
"The rag doll was abandoned, and it looked very pitiful, but it did not seek revenge at the first moment. It still stayed in the trash pile on its own. Could its sudden change be related to this doctor?" Chen Ge felt like he had found another crucial clue. The shadow's first change was because he had entered the world behind the door of the Haunted House, and the second change was probably because of the doctor.
"Wen Qing, has there ever been a doctor living in Jiu Hong Apartments before?"
"Yes, but I can't remember." Wen Qing thought about it for a moment. "I'm not sure if they're doctors or not, but when I first started working at Jiu Hong Agency, I often saw people in white coats walking out from Jiu Hong Apartments."
"There is such a thing?"
"Yes, but ever since Xiang Nuan and I moved to Jin Hwa Apartments, we rarely see those doctors in white coats around."
"Understood." A speculation appeared in Chen Ge's heart. He held the few blood red pictures. "Let's go to Room 504 to take a look. The answer should be there."
Ever since he found out about the existence of the cursed hospital, Chen Ge had become very interested in the profession of a doctor. For some reason, whenever he saw a person in a white coat, he would have the urge to follow them.
"Xiao Sun, are your wounds better?" Chen Ge suddenly turned to look at Xiao Sun.
"I feel like the wounds have worsened, and the pain is getting worse. There is no sign of it healing." Xiao Sun shook his head. "Why are you so concerned about me?"
"I was thinking of asking you to carry the girl on your back, but since your wounds have not healed, then forget it." Chen Ge placed the girl on the sofa.
"Aren't we going to bring her with us?" Wen Qing did not have the heart to do that. The girl looked so pitiful, like a rag doll that had been abandoned by its owner.
"Earlier, we managed to recreate part of the scene through the pictures, but there are many details that we do not know. It is too dangerous to bring her with us." Chen Ge gave a very simple example. "What if she suddenly wakes up when we are running away and grabs you by the neck to stop you from leaving?"
"Fine, then we should leave her here for now."
"After we have explored the whole building and confirmed that there is no more danger, we will come back to pick her up."
Chen Ge took the few blood red pictures and left Room 404. He noticed that the bloody handprints on the corridor had increased.
The handprints did not follow any pattern. They appeared to be crawling around them.
"I have a bad feeling about this. Let's pick up the pace. We are going to the fifth floor!"
The broken toy pieces on the ground had increased. No matter how much strength they used, they would make a sound when they stepped on them. In the quiet corridor, the sound of footsteps was rather shrill.
With Chen Ge leading the way, they did not stop and went straight to the fifth floor.
The stench in the air thickened. This floor was obviously different from the previous floors. The walls were covered in large and small bloody handprints, gouging marks, and simple graffiti.
The graffiti looked like it was drawn by a child. The lines were extremely simple, but the content was quite scary. This kind of harmless horror would have a huge impact on an adult.
Other than that, Chen Ge noticed something strange. There were many 'Fu' characters pasted on the walls of the fifth floor as well, but they were all pasted on the fifth floor.
"Every family pasted the 'Fu' upside down during Chinese New Year. It is a homonym for the word 'Fu', and it carries a good meaning. The lower floors are all 'Fu' characters, but the fifth floor is pasted on the wall. Could it be that they are trying to tell others that the 'Fu' is on this floor? "Xiao Sun had seen too many 'Fu' characters, so when he saw the 'Fu' character pasted on the wall, he found it rather unfamiliar.
Chen Ge ignored him and walked straight to the door of Room 504.
All the bloody handprints in the corridor eventually gathered here. Chen Ge gestured, and he felt like all the bloody handprints had crawled out from here before they all crawled back to this room.
"The secret of the whole building should be inside Room 504." Chen Ge stopped outside the door. He looked at the half-open door, and his eyes scanned the room number.
Xiao Sun and Wen Qing also walked over. The three stood together, and they were ready.
Raising his arm, Chen Ge grabbed the doorknob. Before he could push, the door suddenly opened a gap.
Something grabbed Chen Ge's wrist, and Wen Qing screamed. Xiao Sun stumbled back in fright. Chen Ge was also startled, but he recovered almost instantly.
He was about to reach out to grab the person when a ball of cloth fell out from the gap.
"Did you see that? It opened on its own! "Xiao Sun pointed at the door." Do we still need to go in? "
Xiao Sun and Wen Qing stood behind Chen Ge. They did not get too close to the door. Chen Ge looked at the spot where his wrist had been grabbed earlier. He could no longer feel the spot. It was cold to the touch, like a block of ice.
"We've already come this far. Of course, we should go in to take a look." Chen Ge squatted down and picked up the ball of cloth that had fallen out from the gap.
It was a piece of cloth that had been scrunched together. There were three bloody words written on it — 'Not Well Return.'
"The monster appears to be warning us not to go in. Is it doing that on purpose?" Xiao Sun looked at the words on the cloth. "We'd better leave as soon as possible. The ghost inside the building has already warned us. If we don't leave now, won't we be being a bit ungrateful?"
"Wait a minute!" When she saw the words on the cloth, Wen Qing's emotions were stirred. "Don't go yet. The words on the cloth look like they were written by Xiang Nuan."
Wen Qing moved the cloth closer to her eyes. After she looked at it, she finally confirmed it. "Xiang Nuan does not know how to write that many words. He always writes' Enter 'as' Well '! That's right! This is written by him! "
Gripping the cloth tightly, Wen Qing's eyes turned red and swollen. "Xiang Nuan is inside the room! He's inside the room behind the door! "
"Don't get so worked up just yet." Chen Ge signaled for Wen Qing to calm down, but Wen Qing could not calm down no matter how hard she tried. "There are bloody handprints everywhere inside this building. The ghost who left behind the bloody handprints must have had blood on his hands, but the hand that reached out from the gap earlier was invisible. Other than the bone-chilling cold, there was no blood on its fingers. From this, we can deduce that he is different from the other ghosts inside this building."
"So, he is Xiang Nuan!" Wen Qing hurried to open the door, but she was stopped by Chen Ge.
"Have you really thought this through? The thing that you saw behind the door might not be Xiang Nuan but something else. " Chen Ge wanted to clarify things. When they were in Room 301, they had seen the white handprint appear on the bed. At the time, Chen Ge had been wondering why the ghost would have such a thing for Wen Qing.
If the white handprint was Xiang Nuan, then perhaps he had been following Wen Qing all this time, but no one could see him. Only Wen Qing could sense his presence when she was very close to him.
"I am ready. No matter what, I will go in." Wen Qing's attitude was firm. No matter what Chen Ge said, she would not listen.
"You want to go in because you want to find him, but he has given you hints that he does not want you to go in." Chen Ge sighed. "Never mind. The two of you stay behind me. If you run into any danger, retreat from the room as fast as you can. Do not hesitate."
Holding the doorknob, Chen Ge slowly pushed the door of Room 504 open.
The door shook, and a pungent smell of Foul Odor hit them in the face.
"Looks like part of the rag doll's body is hidden inside this room."
Once the door opened, Wen Qing shone her phone into the living room. When she saw the scene inside the room, her face froze.
The small room was completely occupied by bloody handprints. Other than the children's handprints, there were many children's faces printed on the walls. The faces were all red. They were expressionless, and they looked different from each other.
"How come it feels like every face represents a living child? It feels like they will open their eyes at any moment! "Xiao Sun stood at the back of the room and sucked in a cold breath.
"Xiang Nuan!" Wen Qing kept screaming into the room.
"Can you two keep quiet?" Chen Ge carried his backpack and gripped the hammer with both hands. He was on high alert.
Room 504 was decorated with various kinds of furniture and many chairs. If one did not know better, they might have thought this was some kind of cram school.
There were many smiley masks placed on the chairs. The material used to make the masks should be similar to the paper money on the ground, they were all yellowed white paper.
Chen Ge picked up a random mask to take a closer look. This smiley mask that was cut out from white paper was a huge contrast to the faces of the children on the wall. One was always smiling, and the other was trapped in great pain.
After rummaging through the room, Chen Ge found many files inside the drawer under the television. These files were numbered, and they looked like they were from more than ten years ago.
Finding the first file, Chen Ge stood in the living room and opened it.
The stench in the room thickened. Chen Ge poured the contents of the file onto the coffee table. There were several documents with pictures attached to them, and there was a dried bird carcass.
"A patient's record?"
Chen Ge turned to look at the document. It was a record written by a doctor.
"It does not have a name. I found it in a garbage dump, so for now, I will use the term 'trash' to refer to it.
"Trash has a strong desire to live like a human being. It is pursuing something that it cannot explain. Through its description, I personally believe that what it is pursuing is a feeling of happiness.
"Trash wants to obtain happiness, but it does not know what happiness is. To cure its illness, the first thing to do is to teach it what happiness is.
"Trash cannot understand words that involve human emotions, so I can only teach it from a different perspective.
"Unhappiness is a kind of illness. Unhappiness is like a small cut on the heart, and all the happiness will slip away. Happiness is like a wound that has healed.
"Explaining happiness from my perspective, Trash understood it very quickly. It started to look for wounds on other people. It is really a good child. The first thing that it wanted to do when it understood happiness was not to create misfortune but to search for happiness.
"It searched for a long time, but it could not find happiness. To make it easier for it to understand, I persuaded it to create misfortune first, and then slowly observe what happiness is.
"Trash chose a bird. With my help, it removed the bird's wings. Blood soaked the feathers, and the bird cried. That is the sound of misfortune.
"Under Trash's careful care, the bird's wound healed, but it lost its wings and the sky forever. I told Trash, that is the price of happiness.
"To obtain happiness, one must lose something. It is very fair."
The first document ended there. Chen Ge then opened the second file. Other than the document, there was an eyeball that was frozen in glue.
"Trash is the most perfect patient that I have ever seen. I do not want to share it with other doctors. For now, I will not take it back with me. I will treat it here.
"Trash is very smart. He made a beautiful body for himself. The materials were found on the bodies of those unfortunate people.
"Even with all the words that I have, I cannot describe the beauty of that body. Trash's sense of beauty is the same as mine. I did not teach it that; it learned it on its own.
"With a beautiful body, Trash can do more things, and I can also give him more in-depth treatment."
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