The underground building of Xin Hai Central Hospital was very complicated. The space inside was huge, and twisted handwriting could be seen everywhere.
The air was filled with the stinging smell of disinfectant. The ground was littered with stained patient garbs and various kinds of trash. Occasionally, there were signs that said 'No Entry' at the junction of the corridor, but the wooden signs were already rotting, and there were marks left behind by fingernails.
"Why can't I see anyone? Could it be Xiao Sun's doing? But no matter how powerful Xiao Sun is, he shouldn't have been able to clear out the entire place! "
Chen Ge walked down the corridor for a long time and saw many rooms that were not locked. It was then that he realized that all the doors at the hospital were not locked, and they could all be opened.
He had no idea what this meant, but he had a feeling that something was not right.
"I need to be careful of the 'door'."
The atmosphere at the hospital became more and more strange. The feeling of oppression became stronger. It was as if the building that they were in was slowly falling into an abyss, and none of the people inside the building could escape.
"If we walk any further, we will reach the quarantine zone. Everyone who is captured by the hospital, be it the doctors or the patients, will be sent to the quarantine zone first." Xue Rong's eyes were moving, and her pupils were bloodshot.
"Then you should have been sent to the quarantine zone before. Do you still remember what is inside the quarantine zone?" Chen Ge suspected that the hospital's ultimate weapon was hidden inside the quarantine zone.
"The quarantine zone is mainly used to observe the patient and help him understand himself. After his condition has stabilized, he will be released." Xue Rong did not answer the question of what was inside the quarantine zone. She only introduced the function of the quarantine zone.
"How can a normal person understand themselves? How can a person who was not sick in the first place stabilize his condition? "Chen Ge frowned." What is inside the quarantine zone? "
Chen Ge did not tell Xue Rong that he had discovered Xiao Sun was inside the quarantine zone.
"I really have forgotten. After leaving the quarantine zone, I cannot remember anything that happened inside the quarantine zone." Xue Rong did not appear to be lying. "I only know that after I left the quarantine zone, I started to agree with the hospital's philosophy and volunteered to stay and work."
"You have forgotten?" Chen Ge thought back to the last part of the ghost fetus' scenario. He did not see anything related to the quarantine zone at the building where the ghost fetus' memory was buried. The ghost fetus' memory started from the moment he moved into the sickroom.
According to what Xue Rong said, when a newcomer was brought to the hospital, he would first be sent to the quarantine area and not to a ward.
"The ghost fetus has also forgotten what happened to him at the quarantine zone?"
Chen Ge continued to walk forward. There was not a single trace of light in the surroundings, nor was there any sign of human activity. A strange feeling slowly rose in his heart.
The underground building of the cursed hospital was similar to the underground scenario of his own Haunted House. The atmosphere was very similar. It was eerie and scary. It kept creating nightmares and sucking in various negative emotions.
"It feels like both the black phone and the cursed hospital are trying to create the same thing, but the method that they chose is completely different."
At the end of the corridor, before Chen Ge was a staircase that led deeper underground. On the wall at the corner of the staircase, the words' quarantine zone 'were written in a crooked manner.
The signal from the wedding ring on his finger became clearer. Chen Ge was on high alert as he slowly entered the second basement floor.
"So, this is the quarantine zone?"
Chen Ge looked around the sickrooms on both sides of the staircase. The rooms were filled with various kinds of old clothes and shoes. Some of the designs were already out of print. They were from more than ten years ago.
"I saw a similar scene at the old hospital's storeroom where Chi Ren was. The racks were filled with all kinds of shoes." At the time, that scene had quite a big impact on Chen Ge. Every pair of shoes appeared to represent a person. After entering the storeroom, he felt like there were many dead people squatting on the racks.
Walking down the corridor, the few storerooms were filled with old clothes.
"Just how many people has the cursed hospital 'treated' in the past twenty years?"
Temporarily, Chen Ge did not notice anything special about the quarantine zone. He only noticed that the sickly words on the walls were increasing. They were so dense that even if he did not pay close attention to them, they would be imprinted in his mind.
The smell of disinfectant in the air had reached a point where it stung his nostrils. The thing that alarmed Chen Ge even more was that even such a heavy smell of disinfectant could not cover up the stench that was drifting in the air.
He was very familiar with this stench. He had smelled it behind the ghost fetus' door before. This was a stench that only he could smell.
Carefully entering the deepest part of the quarantine zone, Chen Ge finally stopped next to a door.
This was the fourth basement floor of the cursed hospital. It was the place where the stench was the thickest, and it was also the place where the signal from the wedding ring was the strongest.
Xiao Sun appeared to be behind the door.
"There is not a single person in the whole hospital. Why would they purposely leave Xiao Sun behind the door? Could it be that Xiao Sun has been exposed? Or not only Xiao Sun, all the ghosts from the cursed hospital are behind this door? "
The situation at the cursed hospital was too strange. Chen Ge did not dare let his guard down. He thought about it for a moment, and before he pushed the door open, he silently called Zhang Ya's name in his heart.
The shadow behind him rippled. Zhang Ya did not notice anything strange about this hospital. She did not sense any presence of danger. This appeared to be a normal abandoned hospital.
With a Demon God around, Chen Ge felt much braver. He signaled for Xue Rong to go and open the door at the deepest part of the quarantine zone.
Xue Rong was one of the more powerful Red Specters. She was very powerful, and she could protect herself when she was in danger. Other than that, she was on the verge of going berserk at any moment, and she could not fully follow Chen Ge's orders. Therefore, even if there was an accident, it would not affect the overall combat power of the Haunted House that much.
Chen Ge considered all the possibilities before he had Xue Rong push open the door. Xue Rong did not reject him. Her memory of the quarantine zone was blank, and she wanted to fill in the missing pieces.
The finger that was covered in wounds landed on the door. Xue Rong slowly pushed. She had just pushed the door open a sliver when the shadow behind Chen Ge started to spread like a black ocean!
An indescribably scary presence boiled to its peak. A pale hand pierced through reality and illusion, dragging an endless wave of blood toward the door!
At the same time, the door before Xue Rong had been pushed open. An arm that was covered in black human faces blocked Zhang Ya's blood wave. Then another blood red arm reached out from behind the door and grabbed Chen Ge's shoulder!
"Two Demon Gods!"
The black hair curled around Chen Ge's body, and he became the focus of the battle between the three Demon Gods.
The surface temperature of his body dropped to its lowest. Chen Ge's body twisted. Just as he was about to be torn apart by the three Demon Gods, the black hair completely wrapped around Chen Ge. Zhang Ya hugged him from behind and rammed him into the door!
Zhang Ya's diary inside the backpack disintegrated into dust, and the lines of words were carved on Chen Ge's body.
At the same time, the blood on Yan Danian's comic started to fade. All the pictures disappeared, and the Specters and Red Specters were sucked into the door. As the owner of the comic, when the comic disappeared to the last page, Yan Danian held a ballpoint pen that was covered in tape and started to draw something madly.
Before he was sucked into the door, the last drawing that he drew also appeared on Chen Ge's back.
The world spun, and his body felt like it was being torn apart and reconstructed. Chen Ge hugged his head with both of his hands. Many memories in his mind were shattered, and many painful memories that did not belong to him started to surface.
"This is a sickened world, and you know that yourself!"
In less than half a minute, the fourth basement of the hospital returned to normal. It was silent, oppressive, and eerie. There was not a single trace of hope.
…
Slowly opening his eyes, his vision was blurry. Chen Ge tried several times before he could find the focus.
His body was hurting, and the pain came from all parts of his body, but the most painful part was his head.
Chen Ge could not control his body. He forced his eyes to move, and he realized that he was lying inside a sickroom.
The sun shone into the room through the window that was installed with iron mesh. It was warm and comfortable.
The sickroom was not big, and there were other people in the room. Chen Ge could hear their conversation.
"C-reactive protein, homocysteine, male hormones, head CT, pituitary CT, chest X-ray, and nerve conduction velocity showed no obvious abnormalities …
"Before he fainted, he went for a checkup. His mind was clear, and there were no obvious abnormalities in his heart and lungs. There were no positive signs in his nervous system, and his limbs were moving normally.
"There should have been some improvement, but after treatment, his condition suddenly worsened.
"The patient is paranoid schizophrenia, and it is accompanied by severe paranoia …"
Following the voice, Chen Ge slowly turned his neck to look beside him.
Two doctors in white coats were talking. When one of the younger doctors noticed that Chen Ge had woken up, he immediately shut up and walked out with the document in his hand.
The other middle-aged doctor walked to Chen Ge's bedside. "How was your sleep last night?"
Chen Ge raised his head with difficulty. When he saw the middle-aged doctor's face, his mouth opened slightly, and he could not say a word.
"Have you forgotten again?" The middle-aged doctor seemed to have gotten used to this. "I am your attending physician. My name is Gao Ming. You can call me Doctor Gao."
"Doctor Gao?" Chen Ge slowly uttered these few words. His throat was completely hoarse, and it was difficult for him to even speak.
"Looks like you've woken up." Doctor Gao untied the straps that bound Chen Ge's limbs. "When your illness acted up last night, it really tormented me and the hospital workers."
"Me? Acted up? " Whenever Chen Ge tried to think about it, a sharp pain would come from his head, like a knife had been stabbed directly into his brain.
"Take the medicine and rest well. When your condition completely stabilizes, I will apply to transfer you to the normal sickroom." Then Doctor Gao fed Chen Ge two white pills. After swallowing the pills, Chen Ge did not feel that much pain in his head anymore.
Seeing Chen Ge swallow the pills, Doctor Gao prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute, Doctor Gao." Drowsiness washed over him, but Chen Ge still called out to Doctor Gao. "What is this place?"
"Xin Hai Central Hospital."
"Who sent me here?"
"Have a good sleep. Don't think about those things anymore, it will only aggravate your condition." Doctor Gao left after saying that.
The sickroom became quiet. Occasionally, one could hear the chirping of birds outside the window.
The warm sunlight shone on Chen Ge's body through the barbed wire. He tried his best to sit up, but he was unable to do so.
"My head hurts so much …"
His brain was slow. Whenever he tried to think, pain would come. Chen Ge could only lie in bed obediently.
After who knew how long, the sickroom door was pushed open. A young nurse walked in with a tray of food.
When he saw the nurse's face, Chen Ge almost blurted out, "Xu Wan?"
Hearing Chen Ge's voice, the nurse appeared to be quite surprised. She placed the tray on the bedside table and sat down next to Chen Ge. "You still remember my name? I have not wasted my time taking care of you for the past half a year. "
The nurse had a kind personality. She had a cute face and a pleasant voice.
"Half a year? You have taken care of me for half a year? "Chen Ge frowned. His brain felt like it was being poked by needles.
Seeing how much pain Chen Ge was in, the nurse quickly stood up. "Your condition has not stabilized, do not overthink things."
"Tell me, can you tell me …" The pain twisted Chen Ge's face, but he gritted his teeth and kept repeating that sentence.
"I cannot provoke you anymore. Do not overthink things. I will go call the doctor now!" Xu Wan turned to leave, but Chen Ge grabbed the corner of her shirt.
Turning around, Xu Wan saw Chen Ge's eyes that were filled with pain.
"Who sent me here? What has happened to me? "
Xu Wan did not have the heart to leave. She sat down by the bed and held Chen Ge's arm, which was bulging with veins. "If you can calm down, I will tell you. This is my responsibility to you."
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge forced himself to stop thinking, and the pain slowly disappeared.
His facial expression returned to normal. Chen Ge was like a wounded stray dog. His eyes were filled with exhaustion and pain after a long struggle.
"Can you tell me now?"
"Half a year ago, you drove your parents to the hospital, and there was a car accident on the way. In the end, you were the only one who was saved." At this point, Xu Wan paused to observe Chen Ge's condition. Seeing that Chen Ge did not react in any way, she continued. "Your brain was heavily damaged, and you were in a coma for a long time. When you finally woke up, it was replaced with a serious case of paranoia."
"Paranoia?"
"Yes, you refused to admit that your parents had already left. You kept running away from reality, living in the memory that you had made up." Xu Wan looked at Chen Ge with concern. "Sometimes you would act crazily, and sometimes you would throw a tantrum. When you were conscious, you would tell us about a world where humans and ghosts coexisted. You even said that you wanted to find your parents, that you would one day find them."
"That was not a story; it was not made up." Without thinking, Chen Ge said that subconsciously.
"I do not wish to shatter the dream that you had made up, but living in the dream, you will only be accompanied by pain forever. There is no escape." Xu Wan sighed softly. "Actually, you understand that some things are fake. For example, in your story, you never really found your parents, and because of the car accident, you are subconsciously afraid of driving, so in your story, you rarely drive yourself to a certain place. It is not that you do not understand it, but you have been avoiding it. "
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