Chapter 0410 – The Knight’s Heart

　　”Is there any other method? Xu Yin only has the location of his heart left untainted with red, his situation is considered rather special, isn’t it?”

　　During the entire time Chen Ge was speaking, Men Nan had been staring at him closely, and only after determining that Chen Ge did not have a murderous intent towards him did his complexion ease up a lot.

　　”There is a way, but it’s just that it’s more troublesome compared to the first two methods.” Men Nan was just a little taller than Chen Ge’s knees, but his tone of voice was similar to that of an adult: “Ordinary stern ghosts need to be hosted on a certain object in order to ensure that they don’t dissipate over time, but red-clothed stern ghosts don’t have such scruples, and the fundamental reason for the difference lies in the fact that the red-clothed stern ghosts possess a heart.”

　　”Heart?”

　　”Something that can be called a heart for the time being.” Men Nan was somewhat emotional, “Or anger, or hatred, or resentment, when a certain emotion reaches its extreme it will become the heart of the Lie Ghost. This heart will support it to detach itself from its host and remain in the world forever. The stern ghost behind you has devoured enough ghosts and monsters, but he hasn’t found his ‘heart’ yet, if he can find his ‘heart’, then he can easily be promoted to red.”

　　He glanced at Xu Yin, a slight hint of bewilderment on his boyish face, “This stern ghost behind you is a mishmash of many kinds of emotions, there’s despair, there’s pain, there’s unwillingness, and there’s also a hint of longing that’s hard for me to comprehend, it’s very rare to see so many kinds of emotions intertwined in the same soul, and this has brought a great hindrance for him to become a Red Clothes.”

　　Hearing Men Nan say this, Chen Ge realized that Xu Yin really wasn’t quite the same as the usual stern ghosts, this stern ghost obeyed him without asking for anything in return.

　　When he was in the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, Xu Yin even used one of her arms to block the red clothes of the Weird Talk Association when her body was about to be torn apart. Sometimes Chen Ge pondered why Xu Yin had to do such a thing. Was it simply because he had saved him?

　　It was as if Xu Yin was forcing himself to believe every word Chen Ge said, and he trusted Chen Ge unconditionally as if to prove something.

　　Chen Ge still remembered the first time he saw Xu Yin, at that time Xu Yin was only a little bit stronger than ordinary ghosts and monsters, and he couldn’t even beat the long, skinny silhouette of the Weird Talk Association. But even at his weakest, as long as Chen Ge gave the order, he would still recklessly rush out, feeling as if he was seeking death.

　　”The more pain I feel, the stronger my strength becomes, perhaps I’ve been underestimating Xu Yin.” Chen Ge felt that he needed to have a good talk with Xu Yin, but not here, the Mennan master character was very smart, before he joined the House of Horrors, Chen Ge didn’t want to expose too many of his cards in front of him.

　　”The purer the emotion, the easier it is to become a Redcoat, and by the same token, when a certain negative emotion reaches an extreme, he will most likely become a Door Pusher.” Men Nan felt that he had said enough for tonight, he waved his hand towards Chen Ge, “I have things to do, so I won’t see you off, see you later.”

　　”It’s not easy for me to come here once, your attitude is a bit too cold, isn’t it? How can I say that I also saved your life before.” Chen Ge led Xu Yin closer to Men Nan.

　　”What do you want?” Men Nan was instantly alert.

　　”Don’t be nervous, I just want to make a comparison.” Chen Ge pointed to his shadow, “There’s another red-clothed stern ghost amongst my shadow, can you see how she became red?”

　　Chen Ge had always been very curious about Zhang Ya, and the West City Private Academy’s Scream Index had directly dropped one star because of Zhang Ya’s absence.

　　From this, it could be seen that Zhang Ya was already able to support a three-star scene on her own before she swallowed the old dean and those few redcoats from the Weird Tales Association.

　　Men Nan stared at Chen Ge’s shadow for a long time, and his face suddenly became very ugly, “I felt a very familiar aura from the red-clothed stern ghost in your shadow, she should have pushed open a door when she was alive, just like me.”

　　”Zhang Ya is also a door pusher?” Chen Ge recalled all of Zhang Ya’s experiences during her lifetime and shook her head, “It seems like there is no door in the place where she lived.”

　　Hearing Chen Ge’s words, Men Nan’s face became even uglier as his body slowly merged into the blood mist, “My senses can’t be wrong, if she’s not a door pusher, then she must have devoured door pushers before!”

　　The body slowly dissipated, Men Nan realized that he was becoming more and more afraid of Chen Ge, this living person was simply a moving nest of monsters.

　　”I’m warning you, don’t get any ideas about me, the door pusher is able to exert two hundred percent of its strength in the world behind the door.” Men Nan thought for a moment, as if he felt that even if he doubled his strength he still wasn’t a match for Zhang Ya, and quickly switched to another tone, “This door of the third sick building has already been riddled with holes by those crazy people, and if I’m not around anymore and there’s no one to watch over it, the consequences would be unimaginable.”

　　Chen Ge had always been curious about the world behind the door, he followed Men Nan’s words and asked, “What consequences would occur? The monsters inside the door running into reality?”

　　”You’re overthinking things, this blood-red world is filled with all sorts of negativity and memories of being left behind by the living, and if the door isn’t closed tightly, these things will slowly infiltrate into the real world. As the gap gets bigger and bigger, something extremely terrifying will appear.” Men Nan led Chen Ge into the room next to him, he walked over to the window that couldn’t be closed, the window frame was entangled with a strip of blood engraved with a human face, “I can’t mention their names in the world inside the door, all you need to know is that they aren’t quite the same as the normal severe ghosts.”

　　Men Nan pulled a blood filament from the window frame, and the screams of living people actually came from that filament.

　　He handed the blood silk to Chen Ge, as if he wanted to tell Chen Ge something.

　　Reaching out to receive the blood filament, as his fingertips touched it, a memory of despair and agony flooded into his mind, the owner of this memory resembled the human face on the blood filament, who had been chased and then allowed to be brutally killed.

　　”Each blood filament is a cruel memory.” Mennan leaned over the window sill and looked out the window, “And this is a world that is completely blood red.”

　　Men Nan very subtly wanted to tell Chen Ge something, he didn’t dare to go into details, and Chen Ge couldn’t understand much, so he could only first memorize what Men Nan said.

　　Chen Ge still had a lot of things he wanted to ask Men Nan, but unfortunately, the other party didn’t have the patience for that and soon sent Chen Ge out of the Blood Gate.

　　Every time he opened the door, it seemed to have an effect on Men Nan, causing him to enter a weak state for a short period of time, which Chen Ge also memorized, and he felt that this should be considered a weakness of the “door pusher”.

　　After leaving the third hospital building, Chen Ge walked along the highway for a long time, and it was not until the middle of the night that he met a kind person.

　　After the other party sent him to a place close to the city, Chen Ge stopped a cab and headed straight to Mureyang Middle School.