He covered his eyes and ears. He could not reveal the mission to anyone, and he could only repeat his name.
Chen Ge walked in the darkness for a long time. He tried to remember the map of the Haunted House, but he slowly realized something scary. He was not inside the Haunted House anymore.
He had no idea where he was. He could not communicate with anyone, and he could not hear any sound. There was only darkness around him.
A bone-chilling chill crawled into his heart, and Chen Ge finally stopped moving.
"Am I still inside the Haunted House?"
This was the first time that Chen Ge had felt so unfamiliar with his own Haunted House.
"Could it be that when I opened one of the doors, I had already left the Haunted House?"
Many scary thoughts appeared in his mind. Chen Ge did not know what was waiting for him, and he did not know when he would be able to open the real door.
Groping in the darkness, when there was no hope, he tried to push open the door that he touched.
Chen Ge had a feeling that he had experienced this before. The Nightmare Mission with the name 'door' appeared to be trying to tell him something.
In absolute darkness and silence, time slowly lost its meaning. Chen Ge's body froze, and the surface of his skin was frighteningly cold. Memories from the past flashed through his mind, and the strange sense of familiarity grew stronger.
"Chen Ge?"
He called his name again and again, repeating the same action.
The surroundings became quieter and colder. Chen Ge's footsteps slowed down, and a scary thought appeared in his mind. If he continued to walk like this, he might never be able to return.
His mind slowed, and his brain started to overthink. Chen Ge felt an emotion that he had not felt for a long time — despair.
Before this, no matter how scary the enemy was, no matter how scary the opponent was, Chen Ge would not give up because he had his own determination, but in this Nightmare Mission, that determination was slowly disappearing.
There seemed to be a voice in his mind telling him that despair was normal.
Only now did Chen Ge realize that hope was like a colorful soap bubble that would burst at the slightest touch.
He had always been like a child holding a soap bubble, stubbornly standing on the other side of the world, insisting that the real world was wrapped in the soap bubble.
His memories were flipped by an invisible hand. Coldness, pain, suffocation, all kinds of memories that did not belong to him surged in his mind.
It was a terrible feeling, but he also felt a sense of familiarity. It was as if he had experienced this pain more than once.
Chen Ge's footsteps became slower and slower. There seemed to be an endless road ahead of him. All his memories and experiences were 'infected' by despair. They wanted to make Chen Ge stop and stay here forever.
It was very dangerous ahead, and there was no way to escape. The darkness was endless.
While his mind was still clear, Chen Ge reached out and touched his blindfold. He hesitated whether he should take it off or not.
If he took off the blindfold, he would fail the mission, but if he didn't, he would feel very uneasy.
Could I have entered the world behind the door? Only the door-pusher can open the door after midnight, but what if I'm the door-pusher? What if I'm the one who pushed open the door?
With his finger on his nose, Chen Ge did not remove the blindfold but chose to continue moving forward.
I'm experiencing pain that I've never experienced before in my memory. I'm experiencing a kind of despair that doesn't belong to me. I don't know what the black phone is trying to tell me, but I know that if there's despair in this world, then there must be hope.
Those who were in despair, even if they were surrounded by happiness, would feel anxious.
Those who had hope, even if they had nothing, could see a colorful world inside a soap bubble.
I've never been treated kindly by this world, but that doesn't stop me from loving this world.
For some reason, Chen Ge was reminded of Zhang Ya and the other employees at the Haunted House. Even when I'm in the deepest despair, I might run into the most beautiful accident.
Without removing the blindfold, Chen Ge endured the pain that he had not experienced before. He endured the mental and physical torture and continued moving forward.
Without hesitation, without hesitation, he picked up his pace.
The pain on his body intensified, and so did the mental pressure. Scenes of Chen Ge being killed appeared in his mind.
Before he died, he struggled helplessly and begged for mercy, but in exchange, he died again and again.
Compromise, kindness, and trust were all betrayed, and the result was only despair.
The veins on his arms bulged, but Chen Ge endured it silently. He did not stop and continued to move forward.
No matter who this despair belongs to, I will continue to move forward.
Before Chen Ge obtained the black phone, most of the memories left in his mind were beautiful, and his parents wanted him to continue living like that.
In reality, when he first obtained the black phone, he had made a choice. If he had chosen to reject the phone, he would have continued living with this beautiful memory.
However, Chen Ge chose a different path. He wanted to know the truth, and he was willing to endure the despair to find his parents one step at a time.
As he got closer to the truth, the hidden despair would slowly resurface, but he did not regret it.
Only Chen Ge knew how difficult the journey had been.
Day and night were reversed, and every day, he ran for his life, trying to find a chance of survival between life and death. He mingled with Specters and Red Specters every day.
Dancing on the tip of a knife was not enough to describe Chen Ge's situation. If he had been careless, he would have become a dead body.
He had chosen the hardest path, and he had reached the place that was closest to the truth.
This was not luck that someone had given him; it was something that he had fought for himself against the flow of fate.
"I will not change because of this despair, and I will not surrender and abandon my past. No matter what has happened, I will face it!"
The images of death flashed in his mind again and again. Chen Ge's body felt like it was being sliced apart. He endured the mental and physical torture and continued to move forward in the endless darkness.
He could not see his surroundings, and he was alone.
He could not hear any sound, and he could not sense the passage of time.
He kept calling his own name as he pushed open the doors.
"Chen Ge …"
Pushing open the door before him, he did not know how many times he had called his own name when another voice suddenly appeared before him.
"I did not expect that one day, you would really be able to reach this place."
His own voice came from several steps away from Chen Ge. At that moment, Chen Ge almost removed his blindfold. His body was shaking uncontrollably.
"Everyone wants to kill me, and you are my last hope. Please, you have to find me."
Something was shoved into his palm, and the voice became smaller and smaller.
"I am inside the Haunted House in that city. Please, you have to find me!"
"That city? The red city? There is a Haunted House in the red city? " Gripping the thing in his palm, Chen Ge could not control himself anymore. He opened his lips to ask the question in his heart, "You …"
But when he said the first word, the chill around him disappeared instantly, and his raised arm touched the doorknob.
Pushing open the door, the memory that did not belong to him started to disappear. It was like he had returned to the human world from hell.
The phone in his pocket started to vibrate. After being startled for a moment, Chen Ge slowly removed his blindfold and earplugs.
The first thing he saw was all the employees standing before him, and they were all staring at him with confusion.
"I'm … inside the toilet?" Looking around, Chen Ge realized that he was standing inside the cubicle of the Haunted House's toilet, and his hand was still holding onto the cubicle door.
"I'm not in the underground scenario?"
"You entered the toilet with your eyes blindfolded and locked yourself inside the cubicle. We thought you were possessed, but now that we thought about it, no ghost would do something so unrewarding." Meng Nan stood at the door. After seeing that Chen Ge was fine, he pushed his way through the group of 'people'. "Let's go, let's go. I'm fine."
"I didn't enter the underground scenario; I've been inside the toilet cubicle. In other words, when I pushed open the cubicle door, I entered the world behind the door!" Chen Ge was covered in cold sweat. He lowered his head to look at his palm. Before the voice disappeared, it had shoved a cracked key into his palm.
"A key? The self-control key? " Chen Ge exerted some force, and the key in his palm broke into two pieces. "I entered the world behind the door? Can I leave the Haunted House's world with the self-control key? "
Chen Ge had obtained two self-control keys before, but he had not figured out how to use them.
"It shouldn't be that simple. Perhaps the person behind the door wants to use the key to remind me of something."
The last words of the voice echoed in his mind, but Chen Ge did not frown. "There's a Haunted House inside the red city? He's hiding inside the Haunted House at the red city? He still treats me as his last hope? "
Chen Ge leaned against the door. His back was already soaked in cold sweat, and he felt like he had lost all his energy.
"This door inside the Haunted House should have been pushed open by him." Chen Ge looked at the cubicle door. He pushed it lightly, but the door did not budge.
Only the door-pusher could control the door. Chen Ge could not open the door himself. The fact that he was able to enter the door earlier probably meant that the real door-pusher had used some kind of method to open the door.
"Wait a minute! Is there a possibility that the door-pusher is split into two parts, and only when the two parts touch the door at the same time can the door be pushed open? "
Climbing up from the ground, Chen Ge gave his employees a simple explanation. He then had Ol 'Bai continue to guard the toilet while he ran back to the staff breakroom.
Once he opened the door, Chen Ge saw the white cat eating the high-grade cat food inside the cupboard. However, he was not in the mood to deal with the white cat. He took out the black phone and swiped the screen.
"Red Specter's Favored! Congratulations for completing the Nightmare Daily Mission — Door! You have obtained a special talent — Mouth of Misfortune!
"Mouth of Misfortune (Talent): Misfortune comes from the mouth. Ever since you obtained this talent, they can hear everything you say.
"Red Specter's Favored! This is unbelievable. You have obtained the six talents of Mortician's Make-Up, Yin Yang Vision, Spirit Sniff, Ghost Ear, Mouth of Misfortune, and Dollmaker. The current you can already create the version of yourself that you want. "
Reading the message on the black phone, for some reason, Chen Ge shivered. He had a feeling that the last message was hinting at something.
"The current me can already create the version of myself that I want? I need to create a version of myself? What does that mean? "
Chen Ge had not trained these six talents to their limit. Other than Yin Yang Vision, he did not use the other talents that much. He had always thought that these talents were rather useless, but that did not seem to be the case.
"Oh well, I should stop thinking about it for now." Chen Ge knew very well that to fully utilize the power of the Dollmaker, he had to first find a living human to experiment on.
A perfect Dollmaker needed a living human life, and that was something that Chen Ge would not try no matter what.
"Perhaps in the future, I'll change my mind, but I hope that day will never come."
Chen Ge put the black phone away. The Nightmare Mission that night had given him too many questions. He needed to adjust his mental state.
"The despair that I felt during the mission, is that what the other me experienced? What kind of existence is he? Is all my despair on him? "
With his mind in a mess, Chen Ge saw the white cat that was still stealing food. He grabbed it and placed it on the bed. Stroking the cat's soft fur, his heart slowly calmed down.
"Even a cat knows how to avoid danger, but I have to walk down the most difficult path, and the most despairing thing is that this appears to be the only path before me."
Being hugged by Chen Ge, the white cat was worried. It seemed to know that it had done something wrong earlier, and now it was behaving like an obedient child.
"The white cat has swallowed the blood vessels from the Society of Strange Tales. The blood vessels were originally prepared by Doctor Gao for the well woman. In a way, they belong to Doctor Gao." Chen Ge touched the white cat's stomach. "Can I use the blood vessels inside the white cat's body to track down Doctor Gao? Or can I get Doctor Gao to come and find me through the white cat's blood vessels? "
There were at least two Demon Gods at the cursed hospital. Chen Ge believed that he alone was not enough to deal with the cursed hospital, so he wished to contact Doctor Gao to help him.
His finger moved across the white cat's stomach. Chen Ge's action caused the white cat to twitch uncontrollably. "The blood vessels might have already merged with the white cat's body. Looks like I'll have to bring it with me through the door."
Chen Ge gently touched the white cat's head. "You are too cowardly. You need to train more."
Looking at the time, there was still some time before dawn. Chen Ge hugged the white cat with one arm and found the graduation certificate from the School of the Afterlife inside the Prop Room.
"I haven't been back for a long time. I wonder if anything has changed at the School of the Afterlife."
The cursed hospital gave Chen Ge a lot of pressure. He decided to gather all his power to fight against the hospital.
"The red city is very close to the School of the Afterlife. If I'm lucky, I might run into some strange Red Specter who is lost."
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