"All the workers at the hospital have the surname Chi as well. Perhaps there is some kind of connection between them. I should not stay here for long."
Chen Ge looked at the blood stains on the ground. He abandoned his meal and left the restaurant.
He walked down the small path for about 100 meters. When Chen Ge turned back to look, all the lights in the shop had been switched off. The surroundings were dark and he could not see anything.
"This is a city that looks so beautiful to me but Chi Longtou said this city is used to punish the sick. Also, he mentioned the word 'door', does' door 'have some kind of special meaning in this city?"
Chen Ge was reminded of the door inside Zhang Ya's Haunted House's toilet. Every time he opened the cubicle door, the next time he entered the toilet, he realized the cubicle door would be closed.
Other than that, when he was receiving treatment at the hospital, when Doctor Gao pulled him into the brain maze, the key turning point was pushing open the door.
After pushing open the door, the hospital outside was eerie and scary. It was like the world inside and outside the door were two different worlds.
"Perhaps the exit to escape from this city is one of the doors that is hidden inside the city."
Following the location provided by Zuo Han, Chen Ge finally found Ping An Apartments at 11: 40 pm.
It was an old apartment that was almost abandoned. It was located behind an abandoned village at the western countryside of Xin Hai. The location was extremely secluded.
"Why did both the author and Zuo Han tell me to come here? Have they met in advance? "
The leaves rustled. Chen Ge walked through the abandoned village. There was not even a shadow around him.
"It feels like I have been here before." Chen Ge looked at the tombstones outside the village and the old locust tree that was leaning like a ghost at the village entrance. Such a scary scene did not cause any ripples in his heart.
"What have I been through before? Why is it that when I see these things that a normal person would be afraid of, not only do I not feel fear, I even feel a sense of kinship? "
Chen Ge did not think there was anything wrong with him, he merely believed that there had to be a deeper reason for this kind of mentality.
When he reached the back of the village, Chen Ge was about to move forward when he suddenly saw a person squatting on top of the tombstone next to him.
He appeared to have appeared out of nowhere but he appeared to have been there all along.
When Chen Ge saw the person, he also saw Chen Ge. The two shared a look. Neither of them felt like there was anything wrong with this. Neither of them said anything and they walked away.
The man continued to squat on the grave. Chen Ge, on the other hand, took a few steps before he realized that the man who squatted on the grave earlier looked rather familiar.
When Chen Ge turned back to look, there was only a lone grave left behind him.
"Where is he?"
"It's the middle of the night, and there's a person squatting on top of a grave. How can I accept such an abnormal thing so easily? "There is a man squatting on top of a grave in the middle of the night, but why I am Chen is of of of of of.
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Next to the road, there was a sign with the words' No Entry 'written on it.
However, due to years of disrepair, the sign was crooked and the handwriting was very blurry.
"What kind of people insist on staying at the apartment when it is already so dilapidated?"
Walking on the bumpy road, Chen Ge looked around curiously. The two sides of the road were decorated with flower wreaths and spirit banners. There were many paper money scattered on the ground. Some of the paper money was half buried in the mud. It was obvious that they had been scattered here a long time ago.
The tree trunks were wrapped in white cloth. Among the trees, one could see the tombstones. The mounds of the tombstones flickered in and out of sight. It gave Chen Ge a very uncomfortable feeling.
If this was a normal citizen from Xin Hai City, they would have turned around and left already.
"The decorations are so scary. It feels like they are purposely hiding something to prevent people from getting close to them."
The road before him appeared to lead straight to hell. Chen Ge had no idea how long he had been walking before he finally reached the end of the road.
There was an old apartment building deep inside the forest. It had three floors in total. It was not that tall. All the windows on the third floor were boarded up, and traces of fire could be seen on the walls.
The place appeared to have been caught in a fire. Probably due to a lack of funds, the owner only renovated the bottom two floors. The third floor was left in its original state.
"Ping An Apartments?"
Walking through the small courtyard that was overgrown with weeds, Chen Ge saw the sign at the front of the apartment building.
The building appeared to have had many names in the past. The words on the sign kept changing, so it looked very messy.
"Is anyone home?" Chen Ge pulled open the zipper of his backpack. He reached his hand into the bag and carefully entered the stairwell.
The interior of the apartment was very old. The tiles were cracked, and there were cracks on the walls. Occasionally, one could see black insects crawling through the cracks.
"It looks quite small from the outside, but I did not expect there to be so many rooms inside." Chen Ge did not dare move around the corridor. His eyes scanned the many doors before he walked toward Door 101.
He knocked lightly on the door. Chen Ge stood at the door for a long time, but no one answered the door. He leaned against the door and perked up his ears to listen.
The room was quiet like there was no one living there.
"What are you doing?"
A man's voice suddenly came from behind Chen Ge. It gave Chen Ge quite a fright. He immediately turned to look behind him.
"It's you! The man who was squatting on the grave earlier! "Chen Ge recognized the man behind him immediately.
"This is not a place you should be at. Before you disturb the other tenants, you'd better leave now." The man stood several steps behind Chen Ge. His footsteps were so silent that Chen Ge had no idea when the man arrived.
"It's too late. There are no more cars to leave now. Can I stay here for the night?" Chen Ge stared at the man and memorized his every move.
"This place is already full." The middle-aged man kept urging Chen Ge to leave. "Go, even if you have to stay outside, it's still better than staying here."
"Full? But how come it feels like none of the rooms here are occupied? "
"That doesn't mean there are no tenants in the rooms …" Before the man finished, something seemed to fall from the third floor, and it rolled down the stairs like a ball.
Chen Ge turned to look, but the man used his body to block Chen Ge's view.
"Did something fall down earlier?"
"One of the tenants dropped her personal belongings. I'll go help her. You stay here and don't move." The man walked to the corner of the corridor. Chen Ge ignored him and followed behind him.
When they reached the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw the middle-aged man place something on a woman's body.
"Thank you …" The woman touched her neck with both hands and glanced at Chen Ge curiously.
The strange thing was, when she saw Chen Ge's face, she was unable to move her eyes away. It was not until the middle-aged man coughed several times that the woman realized something and turned to leave.
Being stared at by the strange woman, Chen Ge's back broke out in a cold sweat.
Earlier, he clearly saw the middle-aged man place something on the woman's body, but there was nothing on the woman's hands or body that could make the sound of a ball hitting against a wall.
Chen Ge's eyes stared at the back of the woman's neck. The woman's neck was twisted unnaturally, and her head did not appear to be fully attached to her neck.
"It's time for you to leave." The middle-aged man stood on the stairs and looked down at Chen Ge. His face was strangely green, like a dead body in a morgue.
"Actually, I came here to look for my friend." Chen Ge did not want to hide it. This place was too strange, so he felt like it was better to tell the truth.
"Your friend can't be here, and the tenants here can't be your friend." The middle-aged man walked to stand before Chen Ge. "This is the second time we've met tonight. The first time, I pretended not to see you, and now, I can still pretend not to see you. Leave now, there won't be a third time. "
"You've been pretending not to see me? What will happen if you see me? "
"You'll become a tenant here, and it'll be hard for you to leave."
The middle-aged man and Chen Ge were caught in a stalemate in the stairwell. Moments later, a door on the second floor that was closest to the stairwell was pushed open. A woman wearing glasses walked out from the door, and she saw Chen Ge and the middle-aged man.
When the woman's gaze saw Chen Ge, her eyes changed. She appeared to have a good relationship with the middle-aged man. She walked directly to the man's side and whispered into his ear, "Lao Zhou, has this man been to Ping An Apartment before?"
The middle-aged man who was called Lao Zhou shook his head. "I'm chasing him away."
"If more tenants see him, he might not be able to leave even if he wants to." After the woman said that, she brushed past Chen Ge like she did not see him at all. She walked up to the third floor.
Chen Ge also noticed the strange attitude that the people at Ping An Apartment had toward him. He speculated that it was probably because of Zhang Wenyu and Zuo Han.
"Er … Zhou Ge, is there a person by the name of Zuo Han among the tenants here? I'm his roommate." Chen Ge mentioned Zuo Han's name. His original intention was to find out more about this man, but who would have thought that after he said that, the middle-aged man's attitude toward him would instantly change.
"Roommate? You're also from that hospital? "Lao Zhou's eyes stared closely at Chen Ge.
"We stayed in the same sickroom. His escape from the hospital was partly due to me."
"Zuo Han has not returned yet. If you're his friend, why don't you go to his room and wait for him?" After Lao Zhou found out that Chen Ge came from that hospital, he changed his mind. He personally led Chen Ge to the deepest part of the second-floor corridor. "This is where Zuo Han stays. Coincidentally, the lock on his room is broken. You can go in and wait for him."
Chen Ge did not hesitate. He pushed the door open and entered. He saw the bandages and gauze that were covered in blood.
"These were all replaced by Zuo Han. He went out to meet a friend today and has not returned yet."
"The friend that he went to meet is me." Chen Ge pointed at himself.
"Oh? He went to meet you but he did not return and you came here to find him? " The man who was referred to as Ol 'Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Before he returns, you'd better not wander off. This apartment building gets busier after midnight. No matter what you hear, don't step out of your room. Just cover your ears and go to sleep."
The middle-aged man then turned to leave, leaving Chen Ge alone in the room.
The room was decorated simply, but Chen Ge felt a sense of familiarity.
It felt like this was the first time he had come to a strange place, but it felt like he had been here before in his dream.
Sitting on the bed, Chen Ge kept his hand on his backpack. "I seem to have been here before. I cannot remember what happened, but in my memory, it was not something good."
Chen Ge waited in the room until midnight, but Zuo Han still did not return.
Drowsiness washed over him, and Chen Ge rubbed his bloodshot eyes. "A normal apartment would not open behind a graveyard in a deserted village. There has to be something wrong with this place."
Based on the hospital's original treatment plan, by now Chen Ge would have gotten rid of the influence his memory had on him, so he should be no different from a normal person who had just arrived at the apartment for the first time.
But unfortunately, Doctor Sun's appearance caused a flaw in the hospital's treatment plan. Chen Ge knew that he could not trust his own eyes at any time, so he had been maintaining a calmness that was beyond human limits.
At around 2 am, Chen Ge suddenly heard a strange noise coming from upstairs. It sounded like someone was using a saw to cut something.
He remembered the man's warning and stayed inside the room obediently. The sound of cutting slowly weakened, and the sound of peeling walls and a barely discernible scream came from above him again. Faintly, Chen Ge heard the name Zhang Wenyu.
"There has to be a reason why he doesn't want me to leave." Chen Ge did not move from his bed, but several minutes later, he heard a familiar name from the conversation upstairs — Zhang Jingjiu.
Thinking back, the scream earlier sounded very similar to Zhang Jingjiu.
Chen Ge could not sit still anymore. He grabbed his backpack and silently slipped out of the room. He came to the third floor of the apartment.
There were signs of burning everywhere, and there were a lot of seriously damaged furniture and burnt trash on the ground.
The sound of conversation and sawing came from the deepest part of the corridor. Chen Ge slowly moved forward. A faded smell of blood drifted past his nose, the world before his eyes was slowly replaced by the color of blood.
There were bloodstains all over the charred walls. In the pitch-black corridor, one could vaguely see a few figures moving about.
Chen Ge was highly focused. There was a lot of trash on the ground, if he was not careful, there would be a lot of noise.
"What are they doing?" Chen Ge slowly approached. When he reached the middle of the corridor, he saw the wall at the end of the corridor.
His eyes narrowed instantly. Chen Ge realized there was a doctor in a white coat pinned to the wall at the end of the corridor.
The doctor's coat was dyed red with blood, and there was a patient with twisted limbs lying under his feet.
"Zhang Jingjiu?"
His breathing hastened. Chen Ge did not expect to run into a doctor from the hospital and Zhang Jingjiu here.
"It was the people from the apartment who kidnapped them? That's impossible! "
Chen Ge's brain turned quickly, but before he could come to a conclusion, he suddenly heard a soft sound coming from behind him.
Whipping his head around, Chen Ge realized there was a child standing behind him.
The child was not tall, and his body was thin and weak, but there was a cunning and maturity on his face that did not match his age.
"My name is Meng Nan, big brother, what is your name?"
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