The boy's voice traveled far and wide. When Chen Ge heard it, his face blanched. At that moment, the 'psychopathic murderers' at the end of the corridor were dismembering the bodies. With the boy's shout, the whole third floor knew that he had arrived.
"Big brother, you're sweating so much. Are you feeling hot?"
The boy was definitely a bad egg. There was cunning in his eyes but he had to maintain an innocent expression on his face.
Without wiping away the sweat on his forehead, Chen Ge prepared to leave at the first moment. He had reacted very quickly, and normally speaking, this was the best solution he could come up with.
Turning to run, Chen Ge only took a few steps when he saw the charred doors on the third floor being pushed open. Tenants with faces as pale as the dead poked their heads out.
"Big brother, where are you going?" The boy chased after Chen Ge relentlessly. He had a big smile on his face.
Shadows walked out from the rooms. There were students in school uniforms and strange people with broken bodies. They blocked Chen Ge's way out.
"What should I do now?"
Cold sweat slid down the bridge of his nose. Chen Ge's brain worked to its limit but he could not come up with a good solution.
"Didn't I tell you to stay in your room?" The saw scratched against the wall. The middle-aged man called Lao Zhou walked over.
His pair of eyes that were devoid of emotion stared coldly at Chen Ge. "Now, you won't be able to leave even if you want to."
Chen Ge did not expect there to be so many people living in the empty apartment building, and most of them lived on the third floor that had been burned down.
"I believe everyone has misunderstood." Even in this extreme situation, Chen Ge found himself very calm. His eyes turned to the saw in the middle-aged man's hand. There were sawdust left on the blade but there was no blood.
This meant that the man was not using the saw to saw a person but something like wood.
"Misunderstanding?" The smile on Lao Zhou's face turned cruel. He seemed to be able to accurately grasp Chen Ge's mind and slowly applied pressure. "What is the misunderstanding?"
"Actually, I'm the same as you guys." Chen Ge had his reasons for making such a judgment. He was friends with Zuo Han and Zhang Wenyu, and the friend of a friend was most likely a friend.
Other than that, this group of tenants had pinned the doctor from the cursed hospital to the wall. The two parties were definitely mortal enemies. The enemy of an enemy was probably a friend.
Chen Ge spoke very sincerely, but the people around him didn't have much of a reaction when they heard what he said.
"I'm telling the truth." Chen Ge wanted to explain, but the middle-aged man interrupted him.
"Are you the same as us? But who told you we were human? " The child following behind Chen Ge was smiling happily. He seemed to enjoy scaring people and kept following behind Chen Ge.
The tenants surrounded Chen Ge tighter and tighter. Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the second floor. "Calm down! He is not your enemy; he was once your best friend. "
The author came to the third floor. He thought for a long time before using the word friend. Actually, he could not describe the relationship between Chen Ge and the tenants. They were like colleagues, friends, and family.
"Zhang Wenyu?" Seeing the author, the tenants parted for him. Lao Zhou also put down the saw in his hand. "Of all of us, you are the only one who still has most of your memory. Do you know this man?"
"We are not that close. We've only met a few times, but I can tell you for sure that he is very important to all of you." The author walked to stand before Chen Ge and nodded with relief. "I really didn't expect you to come. If someone asked me to make such a choice, I would rather live in a false beauty."
"Who are you? What is the meaning of the name Zhang Wenyu? Why do I see more than ten thousand medical records with the name Zhang Wenyu on them? " There were many questions in Chen Ge's mind. "How come all of our memories have been tampered with but you are the only exception?"
"It's not convenient to answer outside so I called you here to tell you the truth." The author stood in the middle of the crowd. He raised his arm to point at the people around him. "Now in this apartment, other than you, everyone else, including me, are dead people."
"Dead people?" Chen Ge was not surprised when he heard that answer. He was just suddenly reminded of something Zhang Ya once said. That day when they parted, Zhang Ya said she dreamed of a city filled with dead people. She even said Chen Ge was the only ghost in the city with warmth.
"Yes, ghosts are real, at least that is the case in this city." The author had Chen Ge and Lao Zhou stand together. "You used to run a Haunted House. They are all your employees. You are like family to them."
The author's words once again confirmed Chen Ge's earlier speculation. The cruel memories in his mind that were locked up were the real memories that belonged to him.
"What else do you know?"
"The reason you cannot remember these things is because your memory has been consumed by a mouth. It is a power that I cannot comprehend at all." The author shared the memory that he had about Chen Ge. He did not hide anything. "Let me tell you something even more despairing. This city is a prison and all of us are prisoners trapped inside it. I do not know the way to leave but I know the key to escape lies with you. "
When the author said that, his eyes kept looking at Chen Ge. "You have chosen us, that means you have voluntarily abandoned the beautiful illusion. From the moment you stepped into Ping An Apartment, your life was about to change."
Combining the author's words, Chen Ge was reminded of the information given by Doctor Sun.
The hospital had prepared two treatment plans for Chen Ge. One was for him to personally kill the people that were most important to him, to drive him insane and then to imprison him in the deepest part of the hospital.
The other was to erase all of Chen Ge's past memories and give him the beautiful illusion. Without him knowing it, he would become a happy puppet that the hospital could manipulate.
With the cooperation of Doctor Sun, the current treatment plan for Chen Ge was to make him lose himself in the beautiful illusion. But once the hospital realized that Chen Ge was not immersed in the illusion and was constantly thinking of resistance, then they might change their treatment plan.
The most evil thing about the hospital was after giving Chen Ge the beautiful illusion, they would personally tear it apart and dismember it. That would cause even deeper pain and despair to Chen Ge.
"After I have chosen you, will something happen to Zhang Ya?" Even though he was in danger, the first thing that came to Chen Ge's mind was still Zhang Ya. The one month that he had left the hospital was the happiest time in his life. That kind of strange feeling was something that he had rarely experienced even in his past memory.
When the name Zhang Ya was mentioned, the whole apartment building instantly became silent. The noisy tenants all shut their mouths.
They looked at each other, they were all confused. They themselves had no idea why they would suddenly feel nervous.
"Zhang Ya is the boss of the haunted house at Xin Hai theme park, right?" The author did not think there was anything special about the name Zhang Ya. "I really wish to lie to you but there is no point in lying. I can tell you with absolute certainty, the tragedy will definitely come after her. Everything and everyone that you value will be haunted by the tragedy. "
"I have an idea." Chen Ge raised his hand and pointed at the doctor who was pinned to the wall at the end of the corridor. "But before that, can you ask that doctor to leave for a moment?"
"It's fine, his eyes and ears have already lost their function. There is no need for you to worry, just tell us what you want." The boy by the name of Meng Nan sidled to Chen Ge's side. He used the most innocent tone and said the cruelest thing.
"Both me and Zuo Han came from Xin Hai Central Hospital and my illness is much more serious than him. To give me a direct example, he takes the medicine twice a day, each time he takes half a pill, there was a period where I took the medicine 4 times a day, each time I took 5 pills … "Chen Ge told them everything that had happened to him at the hospital. Other than the 7 glass jars and Doctor Sun, he did not hide anything else.
"The few important patients and doctors are all related to me. After I arrived here, every single one of you felt familiar to me. In fact, I even suspected that this city was built specifically to treat me." Chen Ge's words caused the tenants to sink into contemplation. If it was anyone else who said that, they would have become a dead body by now but Chen Ge was different.
When all the tenants saw Chen Ge, an indescribable feeling rose in their hearts. They appeared to be unwilling to harm Chen Ge from the bottom of their hearts.
Lao Zhou had pretended not to see Chen Ge many times because he did not want to drag Chen Ge into this. He had lost his memory but his natural instinct told him to still take care of Chen Ge.
This was already very strange. Combined with the author's words, all the tenants started to seriously consider it.
"The hospital wants to treat me for some reason. They have given me two treatment plans. If one of them is ineffective, they will immediately switch to the second plan. My idea is for everyone to investigate this in secret and I will cooperate with you in private. On the surface, I will still act like I am intoxicated by the fake beauty. " Chen Ge's tone was firm. "After we have gathered enough clues or we have the power to face the hospital head on, then we will have a direct showdown."
"That is a good idea but the hospital will not give you that chance." The author walked deeper into the corridor and picked up a steel nail from the ground. "Do you see this doctor nailed to the wall? After Zuo Han escaped from the hospital, the hospital workers started to move. After Zuo Han accidentally injured one of the workers, the hospital's night doctors joined in the chase. These night doctors look like humans on the surface but they are actually ghosts, very scary ghosts. "
The author raised his hand and pierced the nail into the doctor's chest. Blood slowly flowed out. When the bleeding reached a certain level, black threads started to emerge from the doctor's body. "All of you have had your memories consumed so you have no idea how scary these things are. When the two sides are not on bad terms, they will still maintain their normal facade but once the hospital gets serious, the few of us will not be their match."
Even though he was mentally prepared, when Chen Ge saw the black threads protruding from the doctor's chest, he still felt uncomfortable.
But he was thankful for the fact that when he was at the hospital, he had the urge to fight the doctors and then force his way out. Thankfully he did not do that. He had been putting on a disguise or else he would not have had the chance to lie to the doctors at the hospital.
"The few of us are no match for the hospital so we will have to find more people. There are definitely more people in this city who have opinions about the hospital than the few of us." Chen Ge was reminded of the cupboard full of patient's records.
"There are many people who have opinions about the hospital but the problem is those people are scarier and crueler than the hospital." The author appeared to be the first person to escape from the hospital, he was very familiar with the dark side of this city. "To achieve some kind of goal, the hospital will often maintain order on the surface but those people are different. You should have met Zuo Han, right?"
"Yes, in just a short month, he has become a completely different person." Chen Ge looked around but he did not see Zuo Han.
"When Zuo Han was cornered by the night doctor, he ran into a woman. The woman said that as long as Zuo Han made a deal with her, she would help Zuo Han escape from danger. "
"So Zuo Han lost his left eye?"
"Yes, the condition for her help was to gouge out Zuo Han's eye. You can also go to her for help but the prerequisite is that you have to be prepared to sacrifice your body. "
The author thought that with that explanation, he would be able to stop Chen Ge from thinking about it but to his surprise, after Chen Ge gave it some thought, he asked very seriously, "What is the woman's name? Where can I find her? "
"No one knows her name, everyone calls her Single Eye. She is hiding inside an abandoned school at Western Jiujiang." The author shook his head. "The three scariest ghosts in this city are Single Eye, Cursed Lady and Scarlet. Compared to Single Eye and Cursed Lady, Scarlet is much easier to talk to. If you are really at the end of your rope, you should go to Eastern Jiujiang's Li Wan Street to find her."
Chen Ge memorized the names of these three ghosts. "If I make a deal with all three ghosts at the same time, will I have the chance to face the hospital head-on?"
"I don't know, perhaps there is a one in ten chance." The author advised Chen Ge patiently. "Don't think about something so unrealistic. Making a deal with three ghosts at the same time, you are using your own life as a wager. Even if there is a one in ten chance that you will win the bet, you will become a broken monster in the future."
"At that stage, even if I become a monster, it is not that big of a deal." Chen Ge answered very decisively.
"Perhaps there is another way. All the ghosts in this city have lost their memory, there are two ways to recover their memory, the first is to kill the person who took away their memory, the second is to consume each other to piece together the memory fragments in all the ghosts' minds. The person who stole our memory has a very sinister motive, he wants us to kill each other but this indirectly proves one point, even if we were not friends before this, at least we have the same standpoint. " The author hoped that Chen Ge would calm down. "You cannot treat them as your enemies, if we are on the same side, then there is a chance of persuasion."
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