"No matter where I wandered to, whenever the sun rose and I woke up from my dreams, I would tell myself that today would be a new beginning.
But the moment I opened my eyes, it felt like a monster had woken up inside me. It tore at my wounds without a care in the world, and the bone-piercing pain kept reminding me.
I was the child's killer, the source of all misfortune.
"I sought help from a psychiatrist, but they told me that the monster was my conscience and guilt. I was torturing myself.
They suggested that I shift my focus and find a place where my heart could rest.
"I was afraid of human contact, so I consumed drugs, flipped through books, and tried to offer my faith.
"I had a small hope in my heart, that perhaps God would forgive me and grant me redemption.
"In everyone's eyes, I was a murderer who had killed my own child, but the God that I believed in did not. I placed everything I had on God.
"After three years, I finally stopped feeling pain. Perhaps due to the drugs, my body even started to grow in reverse.
"My heart became calmer and calmer. In the autumn of the fourth year, the police came to me with a stranger.
The stranger was one of the culprits who had hurt my wife.
"He came to me to ask for my forgiveness.
"But why would I forgive him?
My wife had lost three children, and the day after she was hurt, she left me forever.
"I won't forgive him. I definitely won't!"
The stranger cried to me about his tormented heart, but I did not pity him. I just felt like the punishment he had received was not enough.
"People like that should not be forgiven.
"After the stranger said that, he seemed to feel better. Seeing his relieved expression, I was angry.
"I charged at him, and in the fight, the pendant around his neck was torn off. The necklace with the carving of God fell to the ground.
"He appeared to see his most precious thing being trampled on, and he used his body to protect the pendant, confessing to the God on the pendant.
"I saw my own reflection on him, and it was very familiar, including the God on the pendant.
"I had a pendant that looked exactly like him, and we believed in the same God!
"Why would the God that had become my sole focus forgive my wife's killer?
"After the stranger left, I smashed the pendant around my neck and burned everything that was related to God."
"The monster in my body has awakened again after four years. Wounds opened up on my body. Actually, I've been covered in wounds for a long time. I've just been lying to myself."
"It's all good now. I won't have to suppress that monster that's tearing at my wounds anymore."
"I found a knife in the kitchen and chased after the stranger."
"God forgave him, but I did not."
The bloody words covered the wall, and there were many more at the back. Unfortunately, they became more and more sloppy, and many of them could not be read smoothly. It was more like the venting of a patient.
The more Guo Miao looked, the more scared he became. Could this be Mr Chen's past? The patient in Ward 10 has experienced growth reversal before. Could this be the face he used before? "
Guo Miao panicked. It can't really be human skin, can it?
He gritted his teeth, held his breath, and reached out to touch the face.
Just as his fingertips were about to touch the face, an ear-piercing scream came from the corridor!
"There's someone! I saw it! A broken face! There's a face inside Room 3! "
While he was concentrating, the shrill female scream caused Guo Miao to shiver. His legs buckled, and he collapsed to the ground.
His heart pounding, Guo Miao clutched his chest. Just as he was about to yell at the people outside to stop yelling, something caught his eye.
He was kneeling before the face, and from this angle, he could see that there was a yellowed piece of paper stuck between the face's mouth and the wall.
"What is this?"
With shaking hands, he reached into the face's mouth. The paper was stuck to the wall, and with much effort, he managed to pull out the palm-sized piece of paper without damaging the face.
"The Society of Strange Tales?"
The paper appeared to be a flyer. The background was a blood red half-open door. The top half was written with the words "Society of Strange Tales", and the bottom half introduced the method to enter the Society of Strange Tales.
"Looking for a twenty-four story building? Taking the elevator at midnight? "
Guo Miao held the flyer, and his heart continued to race. He could no longer tell what was real and what was fake.
When he found the flyer, Chen Ge, who had just entered Room 3 from the director's office, stopped, and the black phone in his pocket vibrated.
"Why is there a message at this time?" Chen Ge retreated into the corridor, closed the steel door, and took out the black phone to check.
"Third Sick Hall's Hidden Mission, Society of Strange Tales, triggered!
"This will be the first opponent you'll face before you gain control of your nightmare! Find them!
"Mission Hint 1: The Society of Strange Tales is inside one of the rooms on the twenty-fourth floor.
"Mission Hint 2: Why would there be twenty-four numbers on a twenty-three story building?
"Mission Hint 3: You can only take the elevator at midnight to reach the twenty-fourth floor.
After reading the message on the black phone, Chen Ge was immediately reminded of something!
When he was waiting for the elevator at Fang Hwa Apartments Block 3, he had accidentally realized that the building only had twenty-three floors, but the elevator had twenty-four numbers on it!
"The Society of Strange Tales is inside that building?"
Inside Room 10, Guo Miao moved the phone closer to the flyer. "You can only take the elevator after midnight to reach the Society of Strange Tales. After entering the elevator, press the button for the twenty-third floor. When you reach the twenty-third floor, press the button for the second floor. When you return to the second floor, go to the twenty-second floor. Stop at each floor before pressing the button for the twenty-fourth floor."
"This is a prank, right? It's the middle of the night, and outside the elevator is the corridor. What if something really comes in? "
Guo Miao was scared just looking at it. He folded the flyer and shoved it back into the human face's mouth.
"This place is too weird. We can't stay here any longer. Ol 'Song, give me a hand. We're leaving! "
Chen Ge stood in the middle of the corridor. He put away the black phone and shook the hammer. "The hidden mission has been triggered by the visitors. How did they do that?"
Before the Third Sick Hall opened to the public, Chen Ge had searched every corner of the Third Sick Hall. In fact, he had inspected Room 10.
However, the paper was hidden at a very tricky angle. One could only see it when one looked up at the face in the wall and succumbed to fear. Guo Miao had accidentally discovered it due to fear.
In contrast, when Chen Ge first saw the face, he had gone over to pinch the man's nose and cheeks to get a feel of it.
Throughout the whole process, he did not feel any fear. If anything, he was overjoyed. He felt like he had found the shape of Patient 10's face and was one step closer to solving the puzzle.
"The hidden mission has been discovered by the visitors. Looks like I'll have to thank them."
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