The diary in Room 0011 was missing many pages, so Chen Ge could only speculate as he read.
It took him nearly half an hour to finish reading the diary.
"How is it? Did you find anything? " Wen Qing noticed the change in Chen Ge. In her mind, Chen Ge would be able to remain calm no matter what happened, but when he read the diary, his expression changed many times.
"I've understood something very important. All the effects that I'm seeing now are probably because of the cause that was planted in the beginning."
Chen Ge shoved Doctor Gao's diary into his backpack and placed it next to Zhang Ya's storybook. His physical condition was not good, and his emotions were fluctuating wildly.
From the Society of Strange Tales to Eastern Jiujiang's Li Wan City, there had been a tacit understanding between the ghost fetus and Doctor Gao. Chen Ge did not understand it before, but now he understood the reason.
"Perhaps the members of the Society of Strange Tales were patients who escaped from that hospital. They knew that they were sick, and they wanted to use their own method to cure it.
"None of the patients at that hospital had their own names, only their patient numbers. It was the same for the Society of Strange Tales. Every member only had their own number.
"There are many similar points. So, from the very beginning, some clues have been presented to me."
Chen Ge sat on the sofa and held his chin to think. "Doctor Gao knew the ghost fetus' name was Chen Ge, so when I first went to the Society of Strange Tales, he did not make things difficult for me and allowed me to join the society. That was the only chance he had to kill me. Even with Zhang Ya, I wouldn't have been able to face so many members at the same time.
"Could it be that Doctor Gao knows some other secrets, like the information of the first ten patients? Is it possible that his interest in me has something to do with the first ten patients? "
Chen Ge was deep in thought when the building suddenly shook like there was an earthquake!
This time, the tremor was stronger than the previous three, and it lasted for a long time.
"Another rag doll body has been found inside another building?"
There were changes in the building, and the stench in the air slowly increased. Everyone felt like there was an additional lock on their necks, and even breathing became difficult.
Strange noises kept coming from outside the building, as if some kind of monster was ramming into the building. The terrifying roars drilled into his ears, and even if he covered his ears tightly, he could still hear them clearly.
After the building stopped shaking, the first thing Chen Ge did was take out his comic. "The rag doll's broken body is the pillar of this world behind the door. Once the foundation is shaken, this world will become unstable, and the restrictions on my employees will become smaller and smaller."
Flipping open the comic, he saw that it was covered in blood. Every page was covered in blood vessels, and he could vaguely make out many ghastly faces.
Seeing such a terrifying scene, Chen Ge finally smiled. "Soon, they're coming out!"
His tone was slightly deranged. Holding the bloody comic, Chen Ge mumbled to himself, and there was a smile on his face that normal people would not understand.
Wen Qing and Xiao Sun subconsciously moved away from the sofa. They felt that the current Chen Ge was quite scary. The presence that he gave off was no weaker than the monsters behind the door.
"The fourth tremor should be the work of other non-locals. They have now found the location of the two rag dolls' broken body parts. Looks like I'll have to move faster."
Standing up, Chen Ge carried his backpack and dragged the hammer toward the door.
"Chen Ge, why don't you rest a little longer? You're not even walking properly." Wen Qing wanted to support Chen Ge, but Chen Ge rejected her.
"It's fine."
Exiting Room 0011, Chen Ge came to the last room on the first floor. The number on the door was 0005.
"Patient No. 5?" Chen Ge originally thought that Patient No. 11 should be the rag doll's memory limit, but he did not expect to see Patient No. 5's room in this building. "Based on the description in the diary, the first ten patients are completely different from the other patients, but since Patient No. 5's room has appeared here, could there be a room for Patient No. 1 upstairs?"
His heart was pounding. For some reason, whenever he thought of Patient No. 1, the blood in Chen Ge's body would start to race.
Pushing open the door to Room 0005, Chen Ge stepped into the room.
Everything inside Room 0005 was covered in a layer of blood. The furniture was badly damaged, and there was not a single thing that was intact inside the room.
"It must be a vandal who lives in this room." Wen Qing carefully avoided the trash on the ground and walked to Chen Ge's side.
"Don't stray too far away from me. The three of us should look around the room together to see if there are any important clues."
The first three sickrooms had been painted over. Even though there were large patches of blood stains inside the room, at least they were covered up. But Room 0005 was completely different. It was too lazy to even cover up, and the main color scheme of the room was black and red.
Chen Ge looked around. He did not find any diary inside this room, but he did see many small handwriting carved out by fingernails on the bedroom wall.
Most of the handwriting was covered in scabs of blood, and it looked very scary.
"I really wonder what kind of state he was in when he wrote these things. This is too crazy." Xiao Sun hid at the back of the group. His worldview had been shattered again and again that day, and now there was not even a speck of it left.
While Xiao Sun and Wen Qing were gasping in shock, Chen Ge had already walked to the wall. As he carefully cleaned away the blood stains on the wall, he started to read the words that were written on it.
"I have started to forget many things. A few days ago, I could still remember my own name, but now, there is only a number left in my mind.
"I know I have forgotten more and more things, but there is one sentence that I cannot forget — kill the hospital director!
"I do not know why I would have such a thought, and I do not know why this thought would appear in my mind. Perhaps the hospital director is the one who has turned me into this, but what has he done to me? Why can't I remember anything?
"The new roommate died next to my bed. When I woke up, he was already dead. There was no one else in the room, so excluding the possibility of suicide, the person who killed him should be me, but how come I have no memory of that?
"The doctor said that my condition was very serious, but why did they not give me any treatment but kept changing my roommate so that I would wake up to a different body every morning?
"I had gotten used to seeing dead bodies every morning until one day, when my wife moved in. She was just as beautiful as she used to be.
"I asked the doctor about my wife's condition, but the doctor only told me that she was sick and did not give me any more information.
"I tried to communicate with my wife, but she could not say a word. I could see that she was afraid. She was afraid of the unfamiliar environment, afraid of me.
"Why would she be afraid of me? She was the person I loved the most in my life, so why would I hurt her?
"That night, I did not sleep. When the sun rose, my wife was still curled up in the corner. She was still alive!
"I defeated myself. I banged on the steel door, wanting the doctor to move my wife to another room, but the corridor was empty, and I could only hear the echo of my own voice.
"What should I do? No one could tell me the answer. I tried my best to keep myself awake, but I only got more and more sleepy.
"I could not remember when I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes again, I was sent to the other side of the door.
"At the deepest part of hell, the line between life and death became blurred. The time that I was awake decreased. Most of the time, I did not know what I was doing, or rather, I was not myself at all. There was a monster hiding inside my body.
"All the patients and doctors around me had seen that monster before, but I had not.
"Everyone was afraid of that monster, but I was the only one who wanted to see it because I had to ask, was my wife still alive?
"Whenever I was conscious, the doctors would make me suffer various kinds of curses. Every curse was extracted from the bodies of strangers. They died because of the curses, and the curses carried their memories and despair.
"Suffering other people's curses meant carrying their past. These things were pain for me, but they appeared to be nourishment for the monster inside my body.
"Muddling through the life behind the door, there were only a few simple words left in my mind — kill the hospital director, my wife, and my patient. Just as I thought this was going to continue, I ran into a doctor in a patient's garb.
"His surname was Gao, and he was accompanied by a rag doll that reeked of Foul Odor. The stench was so thick that it was indescribable.
"We were all trapped in the nineteenth layer of hell. There were no friends or family in this world of black and red. It was very dangerous to speak here because no one knew what would happen next. When I saw him, there was pity in my eyes because I knew that when I woke up again, he would be a dead body.
"When I opened my eyes again, I woke up from my slumber. I did not expect the doctor to be standing next to me, and he was still alive! This meant that my wife might be alive as well!
"He seemed to have the ability to read people's minds. Before I could say anything, he voluntarily mentioned my wife.
"Only from him did I know exactly what I had done."
"My wife was already dead. She was personally killed by the monster inside my body.
"I started to hate my body. I thought about taking the monster with me, but I was stopped by Doctor Gao.
"He convinced me that killing my wife was not my fault but the monster's, and the monster was planted inside my body by the hospital director, so everything was the hospital director's fault!
"I could die, but that would have to be after I killed the hospital director.
"After conversing with Doctor Gao, I finally understood why the words' kill the hospital director 'lingered in my mind. He was the culprit! He had to die!
"I started to pretend to cooperate with the hospital's treatment. With Doctor Gao's suggestion, I pretended to be unconscious and acted as my other self.
"To convince the doctor of my clumsy acting, Doctor Gao suggested that I kill the first doctor who entered the room. I did as I was told, and that was my first murder.
"It was ironic, wasn't it? My hands were stained with blood, and I had sinned so much. The first time I killed someone was to pretend to be a monster. At the time, I did not know that once something started, it would be hard to stop.
"The reaction of the night doctor was within Doctor Gao's expectations. For the first time, I was sent to the deepest part of hell when I was fully conscious.
"Opening the dark iron door, I saw a monster that carried the whole hospital on its back.
It moved in the endless black fog, and it had a face similar to a normal person's.
"I did not dare look at it because my body was shaking uncontrollably. I could be exposed at any moment due to fear.
"The doctors conversed beside me. They spoke in a language that I could not understand. It appeared like only by carrying all the sin would one gain the corresponding power.
"Not everyone in this world can bear the sin. The hospital had been searching for that unique soul. Me, Doctor Gao, and the doll that reeked of Foul Odor were all their targets.
"But none of us fit the requirements of the hospital. Their real goal appeared to be to build a blood red city. They needed a soul that could shoulder all the sin in the city.
"I had no idea why they wanted to do that, and I did not have the time to think about it. The black fog awakened the monster inside me, and it consumed me bit by bit."
There were still many words on the wall, and most of them were illegible. Chen Ge tried his best to decipher them.
"I have no idea what he's talking about? This kind of madman should be locked up. "Xiao Sun stared at the bloody words on the wall, and his back was covered in cold sweat.
"What if they were all normal people from the beginning?" Chen Ge did not have a good impression of that hospital. If they thought a person had potential, they would use many methods to drive the person crazy and then slowly 'cure' them.
Leaning against the wall, Chen Ge combined the content of all the diary entries, and he noticed a very coincidental point.
"Doctor Gao consumed the door of the underground morgue and voluntarily took on all the sin of the underground morgue. The morgue itself is fine, but Doctor Gao used the Society of Strange Tales to create so many sins. A person as smart as he is would have known what that means. It feels like he is voluntarily taking on the sin of the whole Society of Strange Tales.
"Let's look at the ghost fetus. He rebuilt Jiu Hong Apartments behind Xiang Nuan's door and locked the sins inside the buildings to resist the black fog. It formed a deserted island of humanity. It feels a little like a blood red city."
"The last one is the hospital. Patient No. 5 saw a monster that carried the sin of the whole hospital behind the hospital's door. It moved forward in the black fog and the hospital's ultimate goal appeared to be to build a blood red city."
"Everyone is moving toward that blood red city. What is it about that city that is attracting them? Could it be that in order to build such a city, one person must stand up and bear the sins of the entire city? "
With this thought in mind, Chen Ge suddenly looked at his hands. "I followed the black phone's guidance and walked step by step. It seems like I have unconsciously shouldered the past of all the ghost employees. Could it be that the black phone's real goal is to build a Blood City? "
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