Chen Ge's words resonated with Scissors.
He had grown up in an orphanage. He was a loner and did not get along well with other people. His only friend was his big brother.
When he was bullied, when he was treated unfairly, when he could not find a reason to live, his big brother would stand out to help him, to shield him from the storm.
For Scissors, his big brother was the most special person in his life. It was because of that, after his big brother disappeared, he would stop at nothing to investigate.
Watching Chen Ge walk away, Scissors thought back to the earlier scene. He had been cornered by the dirty things at the hospital, and when he had given up completely, Chen Ge had appeared.
That warm voice had pulled him from hell into heaven.
Life was full of ups and downs. Even though Scissors did not say it out loud, his heart was filled with gratitude.
Due to his identity, he did not open his mouth to thank Chen Ge. He could only think about how he would repay the man if he had the chance in the future.
The colder a person was on the surface, the hotter their heart might be. This was because the warmth of their life was wrapped in a thick shell of ice. Only when the shell was shattered would they reveal their true emotions.
Licking his lips lightly, Scissors turned his head to spit out the black dog blood in his mouth. He followed behind Chen Ge, and for some reason, he could see the shadow of his big brother in Chen Ge.
"Calm down, he might really be a murderer. It's better not to get too close to him. When he's in trouble, I'll lend him a hand."
Scissors' opinion of Chen Ge had changed. He followed Chen Ge silently.
Noticing that Scissors had become more obedient, Chen Ge grinned to himself. From his perspective, Scissors was a rare talent. It was fine to be a coward, but having the courage to give it his all was the most important thing.
"Hey, I found several different footprints downstairs. Other than you, there should be other passengers at the hospital. Have you seen them before?" Chen Ge turned to ask Scissors.
"I came in alone." Scissors grumbled internally. What is a shoe print? He did not notice it when he arrived, but since Chen Ge mentioned it, to maintain his image, he had to go along with Chen Ge and say, "I saw the footprints you mentioned … By the way, when I was fighting the monsters on the second floor, I heard footsteps coming from the second floor. They might have run in that direction."
Chen Ge nodded. He studied Scissors for a while.
"What are you looking at?" Scissors asked guiltily.
"The pair of red high heels from the bus on Route 104 has disappeared. I remember hearing two footsteps with every step you took. That thing should be following you." The other reason why Chen Ge was interested in Scissors was because of the pair of red high heels. Even the smiling man was slightly afraid of the pair of shoes. At the very least, he was a Red Specter.
"After I entered the left corridor, the voice disappeared. She seemed to have sensed danger and left early." Scissors raised the scissors in his hand and stared at the sharp blades. "It's obvious that she's afraid. She's afraid."
Chen Ge wanted to clamp his hand over Scissors' mouth. There was a limit to acting cool. If he was really heard by the red high heels, Scissors probably wouldn't even know how he died.
"Fine, pretend I didn't say anything. Let's go find the other passengers first." Chen Ge led Scissors out of the room. The doctor and the drunkard stood guard outside. When the two saw that it was Scissors who was covered in blood, they were so scared that they did not dare get close.
In their eyes, the current Scissors perfectly fit the image of a crazed murderer in their mind. He was covered in blood, and he had a sickly smile on his face. It was as if pain and slaughter could give him unprecedented pleasure.
"It feels like I've fallen into a wolf's den." The drunkard stood at the edge of the stairs alone. His face was pale. Looking at the blood stains on the soles of his shoes, he felt like vomiting. Of all the people there, he was the one who acted the most like a normal person.
"You've been fighting the monsters alone for so long, so you must be exhausted. Leave the rest of the cleaning up to me." Chen Ge very kindly gave Scissors an excuse and started to search the rooms one by one.
The hospital only had three floors, so it was not that big, but Chen Ge's search was very detailed. He spent half an hour before he finished a full tour.
They found the footprints of a family of three and a boy's shoes on the second floor. The footprints ran down the stairs to the other side of the hospital.
The family of three happened to run past Chen Ge. They ran down the stairs from the other side, and after Chen Ge broke down the door, they sneaked out.
"These people are so unreasonable. We came to save them, but they didn't even bother to greet us and ran away on their own. How selfish." The drunkard put himself in Chen Ge's shoes. He believed that if he was Chen Ge, he would not have come to poke his nose into other people's business.
"It's not their fault. It's only human nature to run away because of fear."
"You sure are an open-minded person." The drunkard thought that Chen Ge had a good attitude. After this period of interaction, he realized that Chen Ge was a kind person who did not care about anything. "Since the people we're supposed to save have left, shouldn't it be time for us to leave as well?"
"There's no need to rush. We've looked around the hospital, and there are three places that we should pay attention to." Chen Ge stood where he was and thought for a while. "The first room on the left on the second floor has a diary inside. It records how a patient was driven mad by the ghosts at the hospital and eventually turned into a ghost. That shouldn't be an isolated case."
Of course, Chen Ge knew that was not an isolated case. The ghost with both legs wrapped in plaster and one eye poked out was currently inside Yan Danian's comic.
With Scissors' guidance, once he entered the room, he headed straight for the armoire, and he soon found the ghost that resided inside the diary.
"But what does that have to do with us?" The drunkard had a feeling that this hospital was too dark and eerie, even more dangerous than the 'dog house' that he had stayed at earlier.
"After the patients play the game of hide-and-seek, they will stay at the hospital forever after they die, becoming part of the game. But have any of you considered this question — who is the first person to initiate this game of hide-and-seek?" Chen Ge turned to the other passengers. "There will always be someone who suggests to play the game, and then more and more patients will be left behind."
Seeing the other passengers look at each other like they had not considered this question, Chen Ge completely gave up on asking them. The two sides had different perspectives on the problem, and this was a difference in their knowledge.
"Earlier, I mentioned that there are three places that we should pay attention to at this hospital. The room where the diary is located is the first place to pay attention to, and the second place to pay attention to is the archive room. Earlier, when I flipped through the information about the sickroom, I noticed something very strange. All the patients who stayed in the sickroom where the diary was located ended up in a bad state, and that was why the nurses and doctors called that room Room 201 to be avoided."
Chen Ge did not care about the other people's reaction and continued on his own. "The record is very clear. The first incident in Room 201 happened five years ago, and coincidentally, it was that year that this private hospital received a patient who had been transferred from another hospital."
He took out a file from his backpack. It was covered in dirt, and most of the content could not be read. The name of the hospital that the patient had been treated at was blocked out, and only the word 'Hai' could be seen.
"Are you familiar with the name of this hospital?"
Chen Ge turned to the burn doctor, and the man shook his head. "There's only one word, and it's too hard to tell."
"When we took the bus on Route 104 last time, there were several female patients in patient garb on the bus. Do you still remember them?" Chen Ge stared at the doctor.
"I do." With Chen Ge's reminder, the doctor remembered. "The name of the hospital on the patient's garb also has the word 'Hai' in it."
"Indeed." When Chen Ge first saw those female patients, he suspected that they were related to another four-star Trial Mission in Eastern Jiujiang — The Cursed Hospital. The reason why Room 201 was acting strangely was because they had received a patient from the cursed hospital five years ago. In other words, the hide-and-seek was probably the continuation of some kind of curse in that four-star scenario.
This discovery might not have been that big of a deal for other people, but it was very important for Chen Ge. A four-star scenario and a three-star scenario were two completely different worlds, and any useful clue was very important.
"But even if we know it's related to the cursed hospital, it won't help us escape from Li Wan City." The drunkard was very honest. He just wanted to leave this place alive.
"You can tell me after you read this." Chen Ge flipped to the end of the file. It recorded the information of the transferred patient.
The transferred patient was a child about six and a half years old. The doctor's diagnosis was that he suffered from rabies. When he acted up, he needed to be pinned to the bed. He would scream in pain and twist his body.
Even when he was conscious, the child acted very strangely. He would often say strange things like telling everyone around him that he was being chased by something scary and that he had to hide well so that he could not be found.
If that was all, the doctor would not have kept his diagnosis in a separate file.
After the boy's death, scary things started to happen.
First, the boy's body disappeared from the hospital's morgue, and it had not been found until now. Then, the nurses on night shift would often see children running in the hospital corridor, and the printed documents would randomly show up with words like, 'Come find me.'
Initially, this was ignored until one of the hospital workers died in the morgue. No one knew why he had gone to Ping Ping Street in the middle of the night. The police only found a patient's record on the back of the body, and the words written on it were written in a crooked manner — 'Come find me.'
Ever since the death of the worker, a ghost story started to spread at the hospital. Anyone who had that piece of paper on their back would have to play hide and seek with the child.
The news should have been blocked. The file did not say what measures the hospital had taken, and that was all the information that was related to the boy.
Closing the file, Chen Ge's eyes scanned the other passengers. "Some of you should have been pasted on. If the curse is not broken, even if you leave Li Wan City, you will still be in danger."
"Then, what do you think we should do now?" Scissors panicked. He remembered clearly that his back had been pasted on.
"Now, we should go to the third place that we should pay attention to — the morgue. The worker died there, and the boy's body disappeared there. We should be able to find something there." Chen Ge touched the white cat's head and led the way with the hammer. He had only found two lingering souls at the whole hospital, and that was quite disappointing.
"But if we can't find a way to break the curse even at the morgue …" Scissors' face shifted slightly, and he could not keep up the act anymore.
"This is a matter of life and death. I suggest that we gather together and observe the situation first." Chen Ge told Scissors casually. "I live at Western Jiujiang's New Century Park. You can come and find me. We can take care of each other."
Scissors nodded lightly. He silently recited the address that Chen Ge gave him and memorized it.
"Alright, let's go take a look now." The group came to the first floor and entered the safety corridor on the right side of the hospital.
The morgue was on the basement floor. When Chen Ge led the other passengers to the entrance of the morgue, he suddenly stopped.
The lock on the door had fallen to the ground, and the steel door was left ajar like something had just walked in.
"Normally, the door of the hospital's morgue is locked," the doctor whispered to Chen Ge. "There's something inside, be careful."
"Okay, follow me closely." There was no place that was absolutely safe inside the building shrouded in blood fog. Chen Ge did not want any accidents to happen to the others, so he had them follow him.
Pushing open the steel door, a chill rushed at them from all directions. Chen Ge looked around and memorized the layout of the morgue. He thought that he might be able to use it when he was designing a scenario in the future.
"Bro, is there really a need to be so desperate?" This was the first time that the drunkard had entered the morgue, and he gripped the doctor's arm tightly.
"If you want to break the curse, then there's no need to be afraid." Chen Ge had spent a night inside the underground morgue, so the morgue was just a small place for him.
Walking in alone, Chen Ge noticed that the place appeared to have just been the scene of a chaotic battle. Many of the steel beds that were used to store the dead bodies had been flipped over, and the ground was littered with white cloth.
"What is this?" Chen Ge suddenly noticed some of the white cloth had blood stains on them. He shook the white cloth away, and there was a blood red outline of a human figure on it.
"Based on the size, it looks like a child around six or seven years old." Chen Ge gestured at the white cloth. "It looks like someone slammed the child directly onto the white cloth and left behind this bloody outline. Who could have done this? This boy who escaped from the cursed hospital should be the scariest presence at this private hospital, the source of the hide-and-seek game. How could he have been so easily beaten up? "
After searching for a while, Chen Ge found a strange bloody shoe print on the white cloth. It appeared to be left behind by a pair of high heels.
"The red high heels did not follow Scissors but ran into the morgue? She directly dealt with the boy inside the hospital? " Chen Ge walked to the innermost part of the morgue. He saw one of the ventilation windows had been broken, and there were many sticky blood vessels squirming around the window frame. "They left this place?"
Chen Ge looked at the broken window, and he realized that he had seriously underestimated the red high heels' power. The fact that she was able to chase after the boy meant that she was one of the stronger Red Specters.
"Unfortunately, I was one step too late. I only found two lingering spirits. Hopefully, the high heels did not kill the boy. I was hoping to get some information about the four-star scenario from him. "
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