"I have never treated them as my enemy, actually I know very well that my only enemy is the hospital."
Chen Ge was definitely not putting up an act, he had not forgotten the things that he had experienced at the hospital.
On the surface, the hospital used the banner of salvation and healing but in reality it was the hospital that continued to create despair and pain in this city.
After a normal person entered the hospital and went through treatment, their worldview would be twisted, the seed of sickness would germinate in their heart and finally they would turn into a monster.
Until now Chen Ge still did not understand why the hospital would do these things, they seemed to be very passionate about creating different kinds of patients.
"Other than the 3 scariest ghosts, there are many other ghosts hiding in the dark corners of this city. I have asked around, there were not so many strange existences in this city before this. About 2 months ago, the order was broken, various kinds of ghosts and dead people with lingering spirits started to appear. That time coincided with the time you woke up at the hospital, so I believe most of the ghosts in this city are related to you. "The author appeared to be a detective writer, he had a very strong sense of logic and observation.
"How did you know the time I woke up at the hospital? At the time, there were only the doctors and nurses around me. "Chen Ge was confused.
"It was Zhang Wenyu who told me." The author did not look like he was lying.
"You have over 10,000 people with the name Zhang Wenyu, that answer is too general."
"Even though all of us are called Zhang Wenyu, there is only one real Zhang Wenyu. His power is no weaker than Single Eye and the Cursed Lady, in fact he is even stronger than Scarlet but he is hiding among the crowd." There was an almost undetectable smile on the author's face. "When he sensed the danger, he immediately transferred his memory to all the lingering spirits that he was carrying, that was how he managed to escape. He did not forget the promise he made to you but he is temporarily unable to show himself. "
"He transferred his memory to the lingering spirits that he was carrying?" Chen Ge felt this reason was not convincing enough. After all, every human and ghost had lost their memory, only Zhang Wenyu was an exception. Not only Chen Ge, even the hospital could not understand this.
"The people that you have helped will one day save you." The author scanned the tenants around him. "Slowly you will understand."
Chen Ge arranged the author's words. Now he could confirm that Zhang Wenyu was protecting him in the dark, the ghosts in this city could be traded for their help.
"You have chosen Ping An Apartment, misfortune will soon descend upon you. Hopefully you can control yourself and try to buy as much time as possible." The author called the few leaders of Ping An Apartments together. To Chen Ge's surprise, the manager of Ping An Apartments was not the man with the surname Zhou who looked more mature but the boy who had been following behind Chen Ge.
"Men Nan is the smartest tenant among us, and his own power is very scary." The author's words received the agreement of the other tenants, and the way Chen Ge looked at Men Nan changed.
Honestly, he did not sense any threat from the boy, he merely thought the boy was a naughty child.
As if sensing the confusion in Chen Ge's eyes, Meng Nan did not explain, it was as if he did not want to argue about who was stronger or weaker.
"Let us discuss our future plan. Since we have decided to resist, then we have to give it our all. Only then will we have a chance of survival." The author said with sincerity. He had retained part of his memory so he was very familiar with the horror of the hospital.
Compared to that giant, the people at Ping An Apartment were nothing.
"Next, we will use Ping An Apartment as the center and keep searching for those friends hiding in the shadows and invite them to join us." Even though Men Nan looked very young, the way he talked and acted was similar to an adult. He was experienced, and with his despicable and unscrupulous ways to deal with his enemies, he had saved everyone from danger many times. Therefore, he had a very high status in Ping An Apartments.
Sometimes the people at the apartment would wonder where the boy had learned to be so 'bad' at such a young age.
"Other than the ghosts hiding in the shadows of the city, some of the patients at the hospital can also be recruited." Meng Nan walked to the innermost part of the third floor. He looked at Zhang Jingjiu who was lying on the ground. "That hospital has a large number of patients. If we can get all of them to join us, things will be much easier for us. After all, even the sturdiest fortress can be easily taken down from the inside."
"Meng Nan, the patient on the ground is my friend from the hospital, why would he appear here?" Chen Ge was very concerned about Zhang Jingjiu's condition.
Currently, Zhang Jingjiu's limbs were fixed by wooden planks. The broken bones had been corrected. Earlier, Lao Zhou was holding the saw to make a splint for Zhang Jingjiu.
"This patient by the name of Zhang Jingjiu seems to have lost all his value. The doctor abandoned him like trash but he was discovered by Zuo Han who was hiding inside the trash tunnel at the time. He stole Zhang Jingjiu out." Meng Nan inspected Zhang Jingjiu's injuries. "Ever since he left the hospital, this patient has been unconscious. To save his life, we came up with a way to ambush a doctor but unfortunately this doctor does not know anything."
Chen Ge realized he might have underestimated the power of Ping An Apartment. Under the leadership of Meng Nan, they were able to capture a doctor alive and not be discovered by the hospital, that was already very impressive.
"Then what do you plan to do with this doctor? If we keep him alive, perhaps the hospital will come after us. "
"For the time being, we will use him as an experiment. The Cursed Lady is very interested in the black threads on the doctors. If we gift this doctor to her, perhaps she will be able to do us a favor." Meng Nan was calculating in his mind. He planned to squeeze all the value out of this unlucky doctor.
The two parties chatted for a long time but even when the sun was about to rise, Zuo Han still did not return.
Both Lao Zhou and the author had a bad feeling about this. They told Chen Ge to leave as soon as possible and then they made a promise to meet up at Li Wan Street at the eastern countryside of Xin Hai after midnight.
Using the cover of the night, Chen Ge left Ping An Apartment.
He did not know that after he left, the ghosts on the third floor were all staring at his back.
"Are we really going to place our bet on him?" Meng Nan glanced at the author. "Don't tell me you are in cahoots with him?"
"Let me ask you a very simple question. When you appeared behind him, you had enough time and opportunity to kill him but did that thought cross your mind?" The author asked Meng Nan in return. Then he turned to look at the other tenants.
No one spoke. In the end, it was Lao Zhou who stood out. "He gave me a very unique feeling. It was a strange feeling. From the first time I saw him, I thought he was very trustworthy."
"I have the same feeling." The bespectacled female teacher said. The woman next to her who was hugging her own head also raised her hands and nodded.
"If there is nothing we can do, then we will trust him this once." Seeing that everyone shared the same feeling, Meng Nan also sighed in relief.
…
After leaving Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge's mind was filled with many questions.
"There are really ghosts in this city. Doctor Gao's answer is completely different from the author's." Regarding the question of whether there were ghosts in this world, Chen Ge had asked Doctor Gao before. The people at the hospital wanted to create a normal world but it was too difficult for them to trick Chen Ge.
For Chen Ge, the challenge was not to see through the trap but how to avoid being discovered by the doctors at the hospital after seeing through the trap.
"Zhang Ya's dream might be real as well. Why has she been dreaming ever since she met me? But I have not had any dreams at all? Could it be that my ability to dream has been taken away by Zhang Ya? "
Before he could come up with an answer to the previous question, the next question popped up.
"The tenants at Ping An Apartment are all ghosts but how come I feel more comfortable with ghosts than with living humans?"
"They should be trustworthy."
Exiting the abandoned village, Chen Ge took a long detour before he returned to the restaurant.
He did not run into any taxis along the way and the sky started to rain again. Chen Ge had no choice but to run to the entrance of the restaurant to hide from the rain.
The lights inside the restaurant were not on and it was pitch black. Chen Ge did not plan to disturb the owner. He planned to leave after the rain stopped but once he got close to the restaurant, a light scent of blood hit him.
"Is the owner hunting for wild animals?" Chen Ge tried to push the door with the back of his hand but to his surprise, the door was not closed.
He saw the tables and chairs inside the restaurant were toppled over and there was blood everywhere. There was a broken arm lying on the ground at the entrance to the kitchen.
"Dragon Head Eater?!"
Chen Ge's heart raced. He carefully avoided the blood stains on the ground. He took out the mallet from his backpack and slowly moved toward the kitchen.
"There's too much blood. If I try to get there, I'll definitely leave behind footprints." Chen Ge did not move forward. He found an angle and turned his head to look at the kitchen.
The fatty Dragon Head Eater was stuffed inside the jar, only his head was sticking out.
"He was about 1.9 meters tall and very fat. His body couldn't have been stuffed inside the jar in one piece. He's been dismembered."
If the man was still breathing, Chen Ge might have taken the risk to rush in and call the police for help but now that the man was dead, he would only bring trouble to himself.
In the middle of nowhere, there was no one around, he might be treated as the killer!
The man who was talking to him a few hours ago had now become a dead body.
Chen Ge felt a chill run down his spine. "Is this the tragedy that the author talked about?"
He retreated step by step. His eyes stared at the ground to make sure that he did not leave behind any footprints.
When he left the restaurant, Chen Ge looked at the door that he had touched. "Thankfully, I used the back of my hand to push the door open, so there won't be any fingerprints left. But for the sake of safety, I'd better clean it up."
After wiping the small piece of door that he had touched, Chen Ge quickly left the scene after giving it a close inspection.
Chen Ge did not show too much shock when he saw Dragon Head Eater's body, but that did not mean that he was cold-blooded.
In reality, it was the opposite. Dragon Head Eater's death had greatly stimulated him.
If he did not escape from this city as soon as possible, the next person to be soaked in the sauce jar might be the people around him.
To clear his suspicion, Chen Ge took a long detour to avoid most of the surveillance cameras. Then he hailed a cab from another location to return to Xin Hai Theme Park.
After entering the Haunted House and taking a cold shower, Chen Ge cleaned up everything. He opened the gates and prepared to start the day's business.
At 8 am, Zhang Ya and her parents arrived at the Haunted House. The few of them immediately got to work.
Everyone's make-up was done. At 8: 30 am, the management of the theme park suddenly came to the entrance of the Haunted House to inform Zhang Ya's parents that the Haunted House would be closed for the day.
The Haunted House's business had only been booming for a few days. Now was the time to earn the most money. Zhang Ya's parents were very confused.
They went to find the management of the theme park to reason with them. The reason they gave was that the Haunted House had not passed the safety inspection and some of the equipment had safety issues.
The Haunted House was closed just like that. Zhang Ya and her parents had no choice but to investigate.
The theme park opened at 9 am, but the door to the Haunted House was tightly shut. Many visitors expressed their confusion. Some of them purposely came to visit the Haunted House.
Zhang Ya and her father patiently explained to the visitors while Chen Ge squatted on the first floor and observed everything silently.
"This is also part of the tragedy?"
Zhang Ya's mother noticed that Chen Ge was not in a good state. She walked over silently. "Are you not feeling well?"
Chen Ge shook his head. "I am afraid that our Haunted House will not be able to operate normally in the future."
"It'll be fine. The theme park will conduct regular inspections. We will be able to reopen in two days." Zhang Ya's mother was a kind person. Even though she was worried, she ran over to comfort Chen Ge. "Everything will be fine."
"Okay." Chen Ge entered the scenario. As he arranged the props, he considered the next step of his plan.
"I cannot do anything too abnormal. I cannot let the hospital find out that I still retain part of my previous memory."
The Haunted House was forced to close for renovation. The actual reopening date was still to be determined. However, Zhang Ya's family was not too pessimistic. They had been through something like this before.
The theme park was bustling with activity. Visitors came and went, but the Haunted House became quiet again.
The fast-paced life suddenly slowed down. With the closure of the Haunted House, there was temporarily no income. However, this meant that Zhang Ya and Chen Ge had more time to spend together.
Even though most of the time, it was Chen Ge silently making the equipment while Zhang Ya helped beside him, even that was enough for the two of them.
At night, Zhang Ya's mother passed the key to the Haunted House to Chen Ge. After they left, only Chen Ge was left in the large Haunted House.
Theoretically speaking, being alone in a Haunted House should be scary, but Chen Ge realized that only when he was inside the Haunted House would he feel safe.
At around 9 pm, Chen Ge packed his backpack and prepared to go to Li Wan Street. However, to his surprise, Zuo Han jumped into the Haunted House from the toilet window.
When they met again, Zuo Han's appearance was even more pitiful than before. There were several more ghastly scars on his body.
"Chen Ge, I need you to do me a favor."
"Let me bandage your wounds first. I'm afraid you won't last long in this state."
Chen Ge wanted to grab the first aid box, but his hand was grabbed by Zuo Han. "There's no time. You have to come with me now."
"Where are you going?"
"Xin Hai Western Countryside's Private Academy." Zuo Han gritted his teeth. He seemed to be resisting the pain on his body. "I used my heart to make a deal with Single Eye. If I die accidentally, I hope you can take my soul with you to complete what I'm about to do."
"Use your life as a bet? Have you lost your mind? "Chen Ge stood where he was without moving.
"At least I can still use my life as a bet. If this drags on, I'm afraid I won't even have the freedom to die." Zuo Han's eyes were pleading. "Help me this time, and I will bring you to see the truth of the world."
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