"I do not have much time left here. I will tell you one last thing, the hospital has already discovered that Zhang Ya has been replaced." Doctor Sun's expression was unprecedentedly serious. When the name Zhang Ya was mentioned, even his body was shaking.
"Zhang Ya has been replaced?" Chen Ge was confused. "What do you mean by that? The Zhang Ya beside me is someone from the hospital? "
"The female boss of the haunted house, Zhang Ya, was initially created by the hospital using your own dream to confuse you. The purpose of her existence was to make you lose yourself in the beauty of the world, to make you believe in the reality of this world and refuse to leave. But no one expected this Zhang Ya that was created from your memory to possess her own consciousness! Not only did she not follow the hospital's request to make you lose yourself in the false beauty of the life, she kept pointing out the loopholes in the world! The hospital found traces of the real Zhang Ya on her body and this kind of trace is increasing! "Doctor Sun's words were hurried.
"In other words, this Zhang Ya beside me is the Zhang Ya in my memory?" Chen Ge's heart started to race. Since the first time he met Zhang Ya, there was already a tacit understanding between them.
"She is slowly losing control! No one knows why this is happening! " The scar on Doctor Sun's face was ghastly. "The hospital might not do anything to you in the short term but now all the night doctors have taken an interest in Zhang Ya's condition, they will definitely target Zhang Ya!"
None of the night doctors at the hospital were good people. Chen Ge could still remember how Doctor Gao treated him. To drive him crazy, he even came up with the idea of changing the medication and making him kill his roommates.
A group of people like this had taken an interest in Zhang Ya. When Chen Ge heard what Doctor Sun said, the veins on the back of his hands popped.
"After I interacted with the tenants at Ping An Apartments, I realized their attitude towards Zhang Ya is very unique. What does this name represent?" Chen Ge forced himself to remain calm.
"She represents a ghost, a ghost that is very important to you. Without her resistance, you wouldn't have had the chance to wake up." Doctor Sun's words were cruel but the truth was often cruel. "In other words, she fought for a chance of survival for you at the cost of her own soul."
The walls around them started to twist. Doctor Sun knocked on the door. "That is all I can tell you. You have to survive."
The door was knocked seven times. Doctor Sun pushed the door open on the seventh knock. Chen Ge left the brain maze at the same time.
Opening his eyes, Chen Ge saw that the window of the bathroom was open but Doctor Sun had already disappeared. It was as if he had never been to the Haunted House.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge looked at himself in the mirror and slowly clenched his fists.
"I've just experienced beauty, but I'm told that all beauty is an illusion. I've finally found happiness, but I'm about to lose everything."
Chen Ge's eyes slowly narrowed. His eyes were bloodshot, but he had been holding it in.
"I need to go and inform the tenants at Ping An Apartments that there is a change of plan."
Without wasting any time, Chen Ge grabbed his backpack and left the Haunted House.
Their original plan was to meet at the abandoned hospital at the countryside but due to Doctor Sun's warning, Chen Ge could not wait any longer.
He hailed a cab to arrive at Ping An Apartments. Chen Ge raced all the way and finally found the tenants before the hospital made their move.
He told the tenants part of what Doctor Sun had told him. After they confirmed the contact details, they decided to split up and hide in the corner of the city to wait for their chance.
When midnight arrived, most of the tenants had left.
Tang Jun drove the van and led Chen Ge, Zuo Han, Meng Nan and Lao Zhou to the abandoned hospital at the countryside.
"The hospital seems to have a special meaning in this city. Xin Hai covers a large area but the only hospital that is open is Xin Hai Central Hospital. Don't you think that is very strange?" Zuo Han always had the ability to notice things that normal people would not notice. He had a heart that was always suspicious of everything. From a certain perspective, he did suffer from paranoia.
"These scariest Specters retain part of their instincts. There is a reason why Single Eye chose the abandoned school and Scarlet chose Li Wan Street. If we follow this logic, the Cursed Lady might be related to the hospital. Perhaps she is a patient that escaped from the hospital."
"You have a point."
They did not use the main entrance. Instead, they climbed over the wall and moved through the hospital.
"How come this place feels so familiar to me?" Meng Nan walked at the front. He looked at the pillows that littered the corridor and the human faces that were drawn on the pillows. His expression slowly changed. "I believe I have been to this mental hospital before."
"You have been here before?"
"Yes." Meng Nan nodded. He did not stop at the first two buildings but ran directly to the Third Sick Hall.
The interior of the Third Sick Hall, which was located at the deepest part of the hospital, was very strange. Various curses were written on the walls and steel cages were placed inside the rooms. This did not look like a hospital at all but more like a prison used to imprison criminals.
"Door, window …" Relying on the fragmented memory in his mind, Meng Nan arrived at the third floor of the Third Sick Hall.
There was not a trace of light in the dark corridor. It was chilling like the esophagus of a giant deep sea fish.
"Don't make me lead the way! I am just a child! " Meng Nan, who had been walking at the front of the group, suddenly stopped. He grabbed Lao Zhou and Chen Ge's hands and an innocent expression appeared on his face. "Let's go in together."
Chen Ge did not reject him. Every nerve in his body was pulled taut.
Entering the corridor, time seemed to slow down. Endless screams and wails seeped out from the walls. This place gave Chen Ge a feeling that it was more dangerous than the abandoned school and Li Wan Street.
After who knew how long, Meng Nan stopped before a door that was carved with curses. He sensed something and raised his hand to push the door lightly.
However, the moment his finger touched the door, the black words on the door seemed to come alive, and they rushed toward Meng Nan.
Men Nan, who was so weak that he could not even stand up to a gust of wind, displayed extraordinary decisiveness. He used a blood thread to cut off his finger.
The broken finger was consumed by the black words when it fell to the ground. Meng Nan looked at this with a pale face. He waved his hand, and the blood vessels weaved together to form a new finger.
"She is slightly stronger than I am." Holding his hand, Meng Nan retreated to stand behind Lao Zhou and Chen Ge.
The door had been pushed open a gap by Meng Nan earlier. Chen Ge picked up the pillow that had a human face drawn on it and used it to push the door open.
As the door slowly slid open, the curses in the corridor all boiled. They morphed into black and red threads. Like a web weaved by a giant spider, they surrounded the entire Third Sick Hall.
All the doors and windows were sealed, and the escape route was completely cut off.
Just as the few of them were panicking, all the screams and wails inside the sick hall disappeared.
In the dead silence, suddenly there was the sound of footsteps.
That was the sound of high heels stepping on the ground.
The sharp high heels stepped on the floor that was covered in blood. Stepping on the faces that were twisted by the curses, she arrived before the few of them.
"The Cursed Lady?"
Looking at the red high heels before them, the few of them did not dare move. The presence that the woman gave off was far stronger than Single Eye and Scarlet.
"Aren't they on the same level? Why is the Cursed Lady so scary? "
Chen Ge dared to move around freely before Single Eye, he dared to communicate with Scarlet but beside the Cursed Lady, he did not even dare to breathe too loudly.
It was an indescribable pressure. It was as if if she willed it, she could kill every single person and baleful Specter here in the blink of an eye.
The pressure in the corridor increased. Chen Ge felt like his body was about to collapse. Just as everyone was about to give in, Meng Nan who had been hiding at the back walked out.
The smallest and thinnest Meng Nan stood before the few adults. His current performance made Chen Ge look at him in a different light.
No wonder he was one of the strongest baleful Specters at Ping An Apartment!
Lao Zhou wanted to stop him but it was already too late. Meng Nan appeared to have made up his mind. The blood vessels behind him floated. Suppressing the anxiety in his heart, he walked to stand before the red high heels.
His bright eyes stared at the pair of shoes that were covered in blood. Meng Nan used all the energy in his body to ask.
"Are you my mother?"
The Third Sick Hall gave Meng Nan the feeling of home. Most of his memory had disappeared. He could only vaguely remember that he and his mother had once stayed here.
With anticipation, Meng Nan wished for the red high heels' response but the next moment, he was tossed aside by the threads weaved by the curses.
The dangerous-looking words imprinted themselves on Lao Zhou, Tang Jun and Zuo Han. The few of them collapsed to the ground. Only Chen Ge was still standing where he was.
Moving forward step by step, the pair of red high heels appeared to only care about Chen Ge.
The bone-chilling hand touched Chen Ge's heart. His heart almost stopped beating instantly.
The red high heels appeared to be trying to confirm something. After she touched Chen Ge's heart, the cursed threads in the whole sick hall started to boil. It was as if she had finally found what she was looking for.
Unable to resist, when Chen Ge regained his consciousness, he saw a woman in a red dress standing before him.
The woman's dress was filled with human names weaved from the curses. The pale skin that was exposed was wrapped in black and red bandages. She was wearing a pair of high heels that had some kind of unique pattern carved on them.
"Cursed Lady …"
Chen Ge could not help himself from uttering this most horrifying name. But the next moment, the blood vessels on his arms started to twist. The dense black threads formed many ghastly words on the surface of his skin.
"That is not my name."
The words that the Cursed Lady wanted to say were like a curse that could not be shaken off. They appeared on Chen Ge's body. He had no idea how the woman managed to do this.
Forcing himself to remain calm, Chen Ge looked at the black threads on his arms. Enduring the intense pain, he said, "I have lost my previous memory but I have a feeling that we should have known each other."
"I have also lost part of my memory like my name." The black threads wiggled on Chen Ge's flesh. They kept forming new words. The scene looked very strange. "Through the curse that I placed on myself, I found out that I lost my memory at the hospital. I have searched through all the abandoned hospitals and captured many patients and hospital workers but I was unable to retrieve my memory."
"The culprit that caused you to lose your memory is Xin Hai Central Hospital. Both of our memories were lost there. It is our common enemy!" Chen Ge had gotten used to the pain so his tone did not change that much. "If you wish to retrieve your memory, you will need to enter the deepest part of the hospital."
"Other than the method that you mentioned, I have another method that can help me retrieve my memory." The Cursed Lady stood before Chen Ge. The bandages on her face peeled off layer by layer. Scary black threads leaked out from her entire body. "Do you know what a curse is?"
The black and red threads were filled with crying human faces. The Specter before him had cursed who knew how many people. Her power was magnified infinitely inside this city, it had reached a ridiculous level.
"Paying a painful 'cause' as the price, reaping a bloody 'effect', that is the curse and it is also my only power." The Cursed Lady's pale hand strangled Chen Ge's neck. "My memory is hidden inside your heart. With your heart as the price, I will be able to retrieve my memory."
Even at that moment, Chen Ge still maintained a surprisingly calm demeanor. "I bet that you will not do that. A curse is very difficult to reverse. Since I have your memory inside my heart, then I must be one of the people who is very important to you."
On the surface, Chen Ge's expression did not change but he was actually panicking inside his heart. Other than Scarlet, these Specters were too scary.
The Single Eye wanted Chen Ge's left eye and now the Cursed Lady wanted Chen Ge's heart.
"With my life as the price, after you have obtained your memory, you realized that the important person in your memory is already dead. Is that really the memory that you want?" Chen Ge spoke faster and faster. He did not want to give the Cursed Lady too much time to think.
"Even if I pluck your heart, you will not necessarily die. Even if I do not do that now, you will beg me to do that in the future. " Every single word that the Cursed Lady left on Chen Ge's arm was filled with complicated emotions. She appeared to know something but she did not say it out loud.
"I will voluntarily seek death?" Chen Ge did not quite understand. Everything that he was doing now was for the sake of survival, why would he seek death?
"All the Specters in this city, including myself, not only have their memory been stolen, they have also had most of their power taken away. In order to recover these, the only way is to go to that hospital. But the paradox is that they who have lost their memory and power are no match for the hospital. " The Cursed Lady had no reason to lie to Chen Ge. If she was willing, she could directly pluck Chen Ge's heart out now and not stay here to communicate with Chen Ge.
"Even if everyone in this city joins forces, they are still no match for the hospital?" Chen Ge felt a trace of despair.
"Unless I can recover my lost memory and power, then there is no possibility." The Cursed Lady's blood red eyes stared at Chen Ge. "Not only my memory is hidden in your heart, there are other people's memories as well. Let me use everything that belongs to you to curse you, in exchange for everyone's memory and power other than yours."
The Cursed Lady did not force Chen Ge, she merely gave Chen Ge a choice.
"Just now you said that even if I pluck out my heart, I will not necessarily die?" Chen Ge was seriously considering the Cursed Lady's words.
"In this false beauty, as long as you still retain your real memory, you will not die."
"Let me think about it."
"Tragedy has arrived, I will wait here for your answer." The black and red threads retreated like the receding tide. The Cursed Lady pulled away from Chen Ge.
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