After listening to the doctor, Chen Ge understood that the passengers on the hearse all had their own unspeakable past. They had secrets buried in their hearts, and the reason they had taken the bus to the last stop at midnight was because they were searching for that sliver of hope.
They were a group of pitiful people, and Chen Ge was considering whether he should tell them the truth or not.
If he did not tell them, they might still have hope and try their best to survive.
But if he did, these passengers might break down because they had lost their last hope.
"The last stop of the bus is Li Wan City. It is a place influenced by the world behind the door. It is filled with despair and evil. All their efforts are destined to be in vain. I cannot watch them fall deeper and deeper. Those who have sacrificed so much should be treated kindly by life. "
Telling them the truth would only cause them to break down, but if he gave them new hope, it would be a different story.
After giving it some thought, Chen Ge decided to use his own method to help them.
"What are you thinking about?" the doctor asked softly when he saw Chen Ge suddenly spacing out.
Chen Ge did not answer. His mind was spinning, and in a few seconds, the stories of Wang Qi, Xu Yin, and Doctor Gao appeared in his mind. The things that they had experienced, he could use any one of them to fool the doctor.
"It's fine if you can't tell me. Perhaps we'll meet again on this bus in the future." The man's eyes scanned Chen Ge, and his lips moved. "This is your first time taking this bus, right?"
"Yes." Chen Ge nodded.
The doctor nudged closer to Chen Ge, and he lowered his voice to a whisper. "When we get there, if someone asks you to choose between giving and accepting, remember, you have to choose accepting."
"What do you mean?" Chen Ge very sensitively noticed that something was wrong. I want to find my friend, but I need to give and endure something else? Brother, what is at the last stop? "
The doctor slowly turned his head around to look around before he said, "There is a ghost apartment in that small town. Inside the apartment, you can hear the voices of the people that you want to meet. To find them, you have to pay a certain price."
Chen Ge memorized what the doctor said. The man had revealed a very important clue — there was a ghost apartment in Li Wan City.
He lowered his voice as well. "Brother, I just want to see my friends. Do I have to pay a price just to see them?"
"There is no one-sided gain in this world. To see your friends, you have to bear something or pay a price." The doctor did not appear to be a bad person. He removed his gloves and peeled back his sleeves. There were red threads tied around his thin arms. "These are used to ward off evil spirits. Every time I enter the ghost apartment, I choose to shoulder the burden. When I come out from the ghost apartment, it feels like my shoulders are very heavy, like something is crawling on my back and following me out."
Chen Ge understood what the man meant by 'accept responsibility'. No wonder the doctor's body was radiating coldness and weakness. The culprit was using these despairing people to raise ghosts, using them as vessels for the ghosts.
This was similar to the members of the Society of Strange Tales, but there was a difference. These passengers did not know that their bodies had become the ghosts' home and their emotions had become the ghosts' food. They did not have the power to control the ghosts, so they could only accept it passively. That was easier to control.
"Then what do you mean by 'accept'? Why won't you let me choose that? "
"The idiot father next to me chose to accept responsibility. Initially, you only need to give your nails and hair, but the more you choose, the scarier the things you have to give, like your teeth, fingers, your conscience, and the beautiful side of humanity." The doctor's voice was very soft. If not for Chen Ge's Ghost Ear, he would not have been able to hear him.
"Even conscience can be sacrificed?"
"It will make you go to the small town to do things like steal, rob, or even kill certain things. After you choose to accept responsibility, you will realize that you are becoming less and less like yourself." The doctor saw the curious look on Chen Ge's face. He did not seem to be afraid at all, so he was too lazy to explain. "You only need to remember, those who chose to give everything, after they gave everything, they never walked out of that building again."
"So, they have given themselves away?" Without conscience, humanity, and memory, they had already lost themselves in the process of giving.
Chen Ge felt like these people were similar to the murderers in the game. They were filled with malice, aggressive, and dangerous.
If the small town in the game represents the world behind Li Wan City's door, then those who chose to accept responsibility would be sent into the door.
Those who chose to accept responsibility would become the vessel for the monsters behind the door and be slowly consumed; those who chose to accept responsibility would become the monsters behind the door.
Chen Ge compared the Society of Strange Tales and the culprit in Eastern Jiujiang. The Society of Strange Tales had people control the monsters to study how to control the 'door', but the situation in Eastern Jiujiang was completely different. The culprit seemed to be using the monsters to control the people and then to feed the 'door', making the door that was already out of control harder to close.
If Dr. Gao was a person who had reached the peak of rationality and madness, then the culprit in Eastern Jiujiang was a completely hysterical ghost. It did not see people as human beings. It trampled on the good things in the world, and it was completely twisted.
"This is a scary opponent." After conversing with the doctor, Chen Ge understood many things, and he slowly calmed down. "The shadow at the fresh water plant was able to fight against the half-recovered Zhang Ya. Is the shadow really a Greater Red Specter?"
Before this, Chen Ge would run whenever he saw a Red Specter, but as Xu Yin and Bai Qiulin grew up, he had finally overcome his fear of Red Specters, but then something even weirder appeared.
He could not confirm the opponent's power level. Thinking about how his parents had disappeared in Eastern Jiujiang, Chen Ge suddenly felt that something was wrong. He looked at the battery-powered bus that was parked in the middle of the aisle and grumbled softly, "Have I been too high profile recently?"
The woman in the red raincoat was also a Red Specter, but even though she knew that her child might be on the bus, she did not dare take one step into it. This indirectly reflected the terror of the culprit.
"To be able to scare a Red Specter like this, I need to reassess the opponent's power level."
Chen Ge grumbled alone in his seat. The doctor next to him thought that he was scared by what he had said, so he comforted him softly. "As long as you choose to accept the responsibility, it will be fine. Before you reach your limit, perhaps you will be able to see her."
The doctor's wish was simple. Chen Ge did not want to see the man walk into the abyss like that, so he decided to use his own method to save these people. "Actually, I know another way to see them, and it does not require so much sacrifice."
"What is it?" The doctor's brows rose slightly. He was interested in what Chen Ge had to say.
Turning to look at the doctor, Chen Ge said, "Have you heard of the Society of Strange Tales?"
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