Cooked meat would harden after being exposed to the air for some time.
Chen Ge aimed the camera on his chest at the duck and reached out to touch it. The skin was soft, and it was still warm.
"This duck was cooked less than an hour ago." He moved his body to remove the duck from the cage. "The internal organs were not cleaned, and the neck was chopped off. I can't find the head."
Chen Ge flipped the duck's body. There were teeth marks on the half-cooked meat, and the stomach was torn open. There was no duck feather on the ground. The creature that bit the duck seemed to have eaten the duck feather as well.
"There are large dogs inside the cage?" Placing the duck back, Chen Ge turned to look at the other end of the cage.
Outside the cage with the ducks, there were two plastic bowls filled with a colorless liquid.
"Why would there be two bowls outside the same cage? There are two dogs inside the cage? "The two bowls looked the same. Chen Ge picked one up and sniffed it.
The liquid in one of the bowls was colorless and odorless, probably normal water, but the liquid in the other bowl gave off a light, pungent smell.
"It smells like rat poison." To prevent rats from chewing through the props, Chen Ge's Haunted House had bought rat poison before, so he was familiar with this smell.
"Two bowls that look the same, one filled with water and the other mixed with rat poison. Isn't the breeder afraid that the animals inside the cage might drink the wrong stuff? "
The scene before him was indeed a bit weird. Chen Ge recorded everything into the camera. He glanced at the phone screen, and the chat kept moving. There was a comment that had a lot of words that flashed before his eyes. He could vaguely make out the words' iron cage 'and' human '.
There were too many comments, so Chen Ge did not scroll back. He inspected every rebar of the cage and realized that there was a large oil stain on the cage's exit. It looked like someone was holding on to the rebar with both hands, unwilling to be taken away.
"Is it not an animal inside the cage but a human being?"
Old medicine bottles were scattered all over the nurse's station, and paper bags with patients' names were littered all over the place. Some of the paper bags still had pills of different colors.
"A mental hospital that's been abandoned for four to five years actually has living people living in it, and it looks like there's more than one."
Chen Ge became even more careful. All the preparation he had done during the day was to deal with the ghosts, and he had neglected the patient's own danger.
Walking out of the nurses' station, Chen Ge focused on inspecting the walls on both sides.
The guy in the cage had been forcefully taken away. His hands were covered in grease, and there were definitely some traces left behind during the struggle.
After walking a few steps, Chen Ge saw that the skin of the wall had been scratched and the oil stains were mixed with blood.
"Injured?"
Chen Ge followed the trail to the second floor of the sick hall. There, the stairs split into two. One led to the inner part of the first sick hall, and the other led to the second sick hall.
The whole rehabilitation center was a conjoined building, and the interior of the three sick halls were connected.
Using twenty minutes, Chen Ge walked through the entire First Sick Hall. There were few places in the building that could hide people. He did not find the person in the cage, and he did not find any signs of living people living there.
"Could the guy have been taken to another sick hall?" As Chen Ge walked down the stairs, the phone in his pocket vibrated. It was Liu Dao.
"What's up?" Chen Ge's nerves were taut. Any movement would affect him greatly.
"Chen Ge, you're moving too fast! It's only been twenty minutes, and you've already run through the whole sick hall. What are you going to do for the rest of the livestream? " Liu Dao kept an eye on Chen Ge's livestream. "Qin Guang's viewership just reached 600,000, and you haven't reached 50,000 yet. Don't just focus on exploring, try to communicate with your viewers."
Chen Ge listened to Liu Dao and returned to the first floor. When he looked down the corridor, his pupils narrowed. "Why is the steel door of the sick hall closed? I remember it was open when I came in. "
"What are you talking about?" Liu Dao paused. "The situation is not looking good for us. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Just do whatever you want."
"We'll talk later. I'm hanging up now." Chen Ge pocketed his phone and ran toward the steel door with the mallet. When he passed the nurse's station, he subconsciously glanced inside.
"Something has changed."
Worried about the door, Chen Ge did not jump into the nurse's station to check. Instead, he ran to the door and shook it.
"It's locked! When did this happen? "
Chen Ge leaned through the gap of the door and looked out. Someone had added a new lock on the handle of the iron door.
He slammed against the door, but it did not budge. There seemed to be something supporting it.
"Ring lock, support, it's obvious it's a repeat offender." There were living people living in the abandoned mental hospital, and Chen Ge suspected that the former patients had returned. They were not normal lunatics; some of them were smarter than most normal people, so they should not be underestimated.
Chen Ge tried to use the mallet to pry open the lock, but it was to no avail. He entered the sickrooms on both sides, and the windows were all sealed shut.
At that moment, Chen Ge could empathize with the feelings of the patients who were sent to the mental hospital. This place was like a special prison.
Call for help? Call the police?
Chen Ge glanced at his phone. The livestream was still growing. If he left now, the livestream would be ruined.
Furthermore, he still had a Trial Mission. He needed to survive until dawn in the Third Sick Hall. Once he called the police, the interrogation would take up several hours.
I remember the windows on the second floor don't have anti-theft nets. I can leave from there, so there's no need to call the police. To complete this Trial Mission and find clues to his parents' disappearance, Chen Ge was going all out.
Returning to the nurse's station, when Chen Ge passed by, he noticed that there was a slight change inside.
He climbed inside, and the plastic bowls outside the iron cage had been emptied, and all the liquid inside had been poured away.
Is he afraid that I'll find out one of the bowls is laced with rat poison? Chen Ge could not understand why the man would do that. He was about to stand up when he saw a few lines of words written on the wooden board under the counter.
To get a closer look, Chen Ge bent down to poke his head into the counter. Before he could get close, he felt an itch on the top of his head like a bug had crawled into his hair.
He reached out to scratch it, and the back of his hand brushed against something.
Turning his head to look, Chen Ge's heart skipped a beat.
There were handfuls of long, black hair stuck to the bottom of the counter!
Some were long, some were short, and Chen Ge had no idea where they came from.
Why is there hair under this? Does it belong to the person in the cage?
Before Chen Ge could figure it out, a shrill meow came from outside the nurse's station. He quickly crawled out from under the counter and looked out.
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