The appearance of the child caused the director to become conflicted and divided. He was always looking into questions related to death but rarely thought about the meaning of life.
No matter where a person went, they were walking toward death. Therefore, the director believed that by measuring the length of death, he would be able to understand the meaning of life.
The special environment that he grew up in had turned him into a monster. The curse had seeped into every single one of his nerves and blood vessels. Even so, when he faced his own child, his ugly heart that was riddled with scars still beat violently.
Whenever he saw his child, there would be two voices in his mind.
One voice told him that the child was a gift from death.
The other voice told him that the child was the continuation of life.
The director could not convince himself. The argument in his mind grew louder and louder, it seriously affected his disguise.
After tasting the sweetness of being a human, the director did not want to be treated as a monster anymore. He tried his best to hide his illness but the result was that he became more divided.
He could not reconcile, not just with his child, no matter what he thought, opposing thoughts would appear in his mind.
For example, when it came to the question of how to treat himself, one voice told him that he should accept treatment, that he was a patient, a monster in other people's eyes.
The other voice urged him to kill his own child to solve the problem from the root.
The director's behavior became more and more strange. During the day, he wore a white coat to treat people in pain and despair but at night, he would change into a patient's garb, lock himself in his room, and talk to the mirror.
Slowly, his wife noticed the abnormality and that was when the most contradictory point appeared.
The voice in his mind that represented humanity told him that the best solution was to come clean with his family, admit that he was sick and actively seek treatment. However, the potential cost of doing so was the destruction of his current home.
He knew his wife very well. He knew that his wife liked the doctor who was elegant and famous in the medical field and had a bright future. Once he admitted that he was sick, his career and family would be ruined.
The other voice in the director's mind kept tempting him, telling him to ignore the monsters' opinions. This was a sick world, he only needed to hide himself like before. If humanity made him feel pain and confusion, then he would destroy the last shred of humanity.
If he wanted to be human, he might lose everything he had.
If he continued to be a monster, he would have more happiness.
The headmaster did not make a choice. His soul became more and more opposed, until one day, the seed of the curse sprouted, and a black flower bloomed in his heart.
That night, he had a dream. He dreamed that he was lying on the bed in a hospital gown, and there was a reflection of himself in a white coat standing in front of the mirror in the bedroom.
It was the same face, but one was a patient, and the other was a doctor.
The hospital director in the hospital gown represented the only remaining humanity and rationality, while the hospital director standing in front of the mirror was completely consumed by curses and malice.
Good and evil had nothing to do with the strong and the weak. In the dream, the patient who represented humanity was being treated by a malevolent and cursed doctor.
The most tragic thing was that as his humanity was "cured" bit by bit, malice would completely take over the dean's body.
The dean had the same dream over and over again.
The mental fragmentation became more and more severe. Slowly, his soul was torn into two.
The director could not tell the difference between dream and reality. He did not know whether he was lying on the bed in reality or the bed in his dream. In any case, he could always see the version of himself in the white coat that was filled with malice.
Gradually, he began to wonder if there was another version of himself in reality.
From his mind and consciousness to his soul and body, the director realized he had been split into two different people.
Both of them were him, but they were complete opposites.
One was evil, the other was good; one had committed a heinous crime, the other was filled with guilt and kept punishing himself; the other was filled with despair and thought he was the god of this sick world, the other longed for happiness and wanted to be a normal person.
The hospital director who represented the curse imprisoned the hospital director who represented humanity in the hospital gown in a nightmare. He did not destroy his own humanity, but he stripped it away completely.
The hospital director who was left with only negative emotions and malice had completely turned into a monster in human skin.
The evil in his body was no longer restrained. The flower of curses bloomed in his heart and released a black fog.
The hospital director had no idea what the black fog represented. This was the first time he had seen the black fog that was filled with despair and death in the human world.
Without the restraint of humanity, the hospital director's usual behavior was flawless. He was a demon in disguise of a human.
He was obviously made from malice and curses, but he had forged himself into the embodiment of humanity and rationality.
The patients who did not know the truth thought he was a kind doctor, his colleagues thought he was a good leader, his wife thought he was the perfect husband.
The hospital director would only remove his disguise before his newborn child. The appearance of life was the root cause of the hospital director's split. The hospital director who was completely made up of curses was also filled with curiosity about his child.
He started to 'treat' and 'experiment' on his own child. His biological son became his first real patient.
After endless experiments, the hospital director discovered the existence of the black fog. This black fog was born in the depths of nightmares. It drifted through the human heart. Its essence was the memory that people were most unwilling to face, it was made up of forgotten pain and despair.
The discovery of the black fog made the hospital director ecstatic. He felt like he had touched the real world.
He originally thought this was the unique ability of the cursed seed. Only he could see the black fog and become a bridge to the black fog.
However, in the subsequent experiments, he placed his own child into the black fog. The innocent child's life became distorted under the invasion of the black fog. The newborn heart was also planted with the seed of curse, and it began to emit the black fog continuously.
It was then that the hospital director slowly realized the existence of the black fog in everyone's heart. With the right method, everyone could become a bridge to the black fog.
The hospital director started to collect the black fog in the dark. He enjoyed the process of spreading misfortune and despair, he experienced the joy of being treated as a savior.
He was the one who caused the pain, he was the one who eased the pain and he was the one who sent the patients to their deaths.
This life lasted for a long time until his child slowly grew up and became a deformed monster.
The child who did not know how to hide almost exposed the hospital director's secret. To continue hiding in the dark, the hospital director killed his own child. But before he killed the child, he sent his son's consciousness into the black fog in his heart.
He had always been curious about the source of the black fog.
Using the monster that he had cultivated, the hospital director saw a sea of black fog deep inside his nightmare.
All the despair in the world gathered together. They were forgotten by people, but they would never disappear.
The sea of fog was filled with monsters that would only appear in nightmares. Other than that, there were many lost people.
The director became more and more interested in this world. He felt like he was born here, and he was filled with despair.
He was no longer satisfied with using the child's consciousness to enter the sea of fog. He started to use different patients to enter the sea of fog through the bridge in their hearts.
About one year later, he met a patient from Jiujiang.
This young man by the name of Chen Xiao was hit by a car because he was trying to save someone, and he was in a severe coma.
The man that Chen Xiao saved had the surname Luo, and his family was in business. To save Chen Xiao, he spent a lot of money to hire many doctors, and one of the doctors was the hospital director.
The hospital director wanted to enter the black fog through Chen Xiao's heart, but after he succeeded, he realized with a shock that the patient was standing at the edge of the world of the black fog.
On one side of him was the thick black fog of despair, and on the other side was a city that was built from flesh and blood.
If the black fog was pure despair and pain, then the blood city was the only hope in the world of the black fog, a hope that could not be called hope.
When a despairing memory was forgotten, the despair and pain dissolved into the black fog, and the remaining hope and struggle would be absorbed into the blood city.
The black fog was filled with scary monsters, and the blood city was filled with wounded people.
The hospital director felt that this patient was very special, and there had to be some kind of secret hidden in him.
He found Chen Xiao, and after many attempts, he realized that only his consciousness could leave successfully, but he could not take Chen Xiao with him.
After giving it some thought, the hospital director believed that the reason was probably because of the hospital director.
He was the first person to split his consciousness. The hospital director had entered the edge of the blood city, but the hospital director was imprisoned somewhere else. There was a constant connection between the two.
The white-robed director told Chen Xiao his treatment plan. In order to split the opposing consciousness, Chen Xiao had endured unimaginable torture in the blood city and the black fog.
In the end, the young patient's consciousness separated, and the side that retained his humanity was named Chen Xiao. The side that was bound by the blood city and filled with negative emotions was named Chen Xiao.
The moment their consciousness separated, the white-robed dean brought Chen Xiao away from Blood City, leaving the uncontrollable, cruel, and tyrannical Chen Xiao behind.
After returning to the real world, the hospital director was very interested in Chen Xiao. He was curious why Chen Xiao's heart was connected to the edge of the blood city.
He observed and recorded everything in the dark, and no one knew that he was a demon in human skin.
A few years later, Chen Xiao's child was born.
The child had a pair of blood red eyes. It was as if he could see through people's hearts and see things that adults could not.
Other children loved to cry, but he was always smiling, as if there was nothing in the world that could make him sad.
Chen Xiao knew why his child was so different. To escape from the blood city, he had paid a heavy price, and that included being attacked by countless negative emotions and experiencing unimaginable despair.
Looking at the newborn in his arms and the innocent smile on his face, Chen Xiao gave his child a name with a special meaning — Chen Ge.
The world kisses me with pain, but I return it with song.
As he grew older, Chen Ge showed more and more abnormalities. He would enter the world of the black fog in his sleep and return to the real world when he woke up.
He saw all kinds of people and ghosts of all shapes and sizes.
Perhaps it was because of his bloodline or because of his father, even though Chen Ge's consciousness was not separated, he could freely travel through the black fog, the blood city, and the real world. The hospital director saw all of this.
The hospital director had a special medical record. He listed Chen Ge as Patient 1, Chen Xiao in the blood city as Patient 2, and Chen Xiao in the real world as Patient 3.
After hiding in human skin for decades without being discovered, the Dean's ambition grew. He wanted to cure this sick world from the root.
He started to interact with Chen Ge's parents behind Chen Ge's back. He wanted to use Chen Ge's ability to bring the forgotten despair and pain back to the human world.
As the seed of the curse, he believed that the world of the black fog was the real world, and the real world was just a disguise for the sickness.
The hospital director approached Chen Ge carefully. He used decades of experience to help Chen Ge push open a door in the blood city.
The door connected the blood city to the real world. Even though it only existed for a short time, it gave the hospital director hope.
He kept coming into contact with Chen Ge in the blood city and the world of the black fog, and it eventually alerted Chen Xiao.
However, to complete his plan, the hospital director did not care about that. He had a crazy idea. He wanted to split Chen Ge's consciousness into good and evil.
He wanted to leave the good for Chen Xiao, and he wanted to take away the evil.
To create the opposing consciousness, he tortured Chen Ge in the world of the black fog, but he failed. In the end, he was chased by Chen Xiao.
Seeing that he had been exposed, he personally brought the monster that he had cultivated to Jiujiang to kidnap Chen Ge.
The hospital director did everything he could. He lured out Chen Ge's consciousness and tried to kill Chen Ge again and again, but even so, he failed.
No matter what he did to Chen Ge's consciousness, he could not tear it apart or kill Chen Ge's consciousness. When the sun rose, Chen Ge's consciousness would return.
Chen Ge's consciousness could not be separated, so the hospital director had to come up with another plan. He was a top expert in manipulating people's minds, and he had spent decades exploring the black fog. He knew that place better than anyone else.
After careful planning, the hospital director lured the black fog to create a scary black tide.
To save the wounded and forgotten memories in the blood city, Chen Ge chose to merge with the blood city. He tried to influence the blood city.
After the black tide passed, the forgotten memories did not disappear, but Chen Ge's consciousness could no longer leave the blood city.
The hospital director stole part of Chen Ge's flesh and organs, and the rest was taken away by Chen Xiao.
Inside the cursed hospital, the memories that filled the sky shattered at that moment, and the hospital director's past started to disappear.
The crimson-clothed man with the blood-red key in his hand stared at the dean in the black fog with a frightening killing intent.
He stabbed the key into the altar, and black blood that reeked of Foul Odor leaked out from the altar.
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