Chapter 0527 – Dreaming
Men Nan knew that he had lost his words, and he knew that he couldn’t muddle through today.
”What’s the difference between the eastern and western suburbs? On the surface, it’s clear that the eastern suburb is a bit calmer, and law and order-wise the eastern suburb should be better than the western suburb as well, which can be seen when comparing the working conditions of the police stations in the two places.” Chen Ge knew that the eastern suburb was dangerous, but this danger was hidden, he hadn’t even seen the enemy’s true colors until now.
”I advise you to stop running to the eastern suburbs all the time.” Men Nan hesitated for half a day and uttered this sentence.
”You have to give me a reason, right? The night before last at the Eastern Suburb Waterworks, you and Xu Yin came out together to stop me, was that shadow really that terrifying? Both of you Redcoats were no match for him?” Chen Ge had long wanted to ask Men Nan this question.
Shaking his head, Men Nan looked at Chen Ge’s shadow with a hint of worry in his eyes, “If it wasn’t for the one in your shadow making a move that night, I’m afraid we’d all be finished.”
”Zhang Ya and that shadow fought? How come I didn’t know?” Chen Ge didn’t feel anything at all.
”It’s also that guy’s bad luck, he was going to occupy your shadow and turn you into his puppet, but who knew that there was a topmost Red Cloth living in your shadow, and he was carelessly injured by the Red Cloth in your shadow.” Men Nan didn’t dare to call Zhang Ya’s name directly, and it wasn’t because he was timid, normal ghosts and monsters would feel scared when they saw Zhang Ya.
”Then was Zhang Ya injured?” Chen Ge was a bit worried, he was clear about Zhang Ya’s style, it was a kind of bully who dares to have thoughts about my people, I’ll tear them apart, but that night, Zhang Ya didn’t take the initiative to show up after fighting with the shadow.
”The red one in your shadow is injured herself, one of her arms is full of cracks.”
”Cracks?” Chen Ge recalled the scene where Zhang Ya and Dr. Gao fought, what happened between them in the end was anyone’s guess, the operating room was divided by Zhang Ya’s hair.
”Your biggest reliance has injuries on his body and is recuperating, and that shadow is just a shadow, whose shadow it is and how strong it is in its original form, we don’t know all of this, so it’s better for you to go to the eastern suburbs less often in the future.” Men Nan stretched out his own short arms and climbed onto the table, this time he finally didn’t have to look up to Chen Ge anymore.
”Could the original body of that shadow be an existence above the red clothes?” Chen Ge thought for a long time, as if he was asking Men Nan, but also as if he was talking to himself.
”No one knows what’s above the red clothes, or those who’ve seen it are all dead, with no soul left.” Men Nan himself wasn’t sure, but he didn’t rule out the possibility that there were ghosts and monsters above the red clothes in the eastern suburbs.
”Everyone who has seen it is dead?” Chen Ge remembered Dr. Gao who committed suicide and became a ghost in the end, that crazy man once held three doors alone, and after his death, he seemed to have touched the limit of red clothes.
”Chen Ge, I’m doing this for your own good, the eastern suburb is different from the western suburb, haven’t you noticed that even the psychos in the third ward don’t want to go to the eastern suburb?” Men Nan was bitter, he was really afraid that Chen Ge would take him to the eastern suburb again on impulse: “The dangers in the western suburb are visible, for example, the psychos in the third sick building, they do exist, while the scariest thing about the eastern suburb is that we don’t even know what the dangers are. You can look for the local newspaper in Jiujiang and take a look, the eastern suburb has the least number of serious cases, but more than ninety percent of the missing people in the entire Jiujiang every year disappear in the eastern suburb, this data can already be a sufficient proof of the danger of the eastern suburb.”
”I know that the eastern suburb is dangerous, but I have reasons why I have to go there, my parents were also present in the eastern suburb before they disappeared.” The disappearance of her parents was a knot in Chen Ge’s heart.
With Chen Ge’s parents involved, Men Nan didn’t dare to speak casually, “I’ve only heard the lunatics in the third sickbay mention the matter of the Eastern Suburbs, if you really want to know about the Eastern Suburbs, you can go ask them.”
”I also want to ask them, the point is that they haven’t gotten used to their identity as ghosts and monsters.” Chen Ge possessed the case list of the third sickbay, but unfortunately, those mental illnesses turned into severe ghosts were unable to communicate with Chen Ge.
After chatting with Men Nan for a while longer, Chen Ge couldn’t stand Men Nan’s bitter pleas and finally decided to send Men Nan back, he was actually worried about the door of the third sick building getting out of control.
”When the western suburbs are calmed down, the paradise and haunted house will be able to develop in peace.” Chen Ge took Men Nan back into the comic book and walked out of the last classroom, “The eastern suburbs are so chaotic, the Virtual Future Paradise just happened to open there, they really know how to pick a place.”
Leaving the underground scene, Chen Ge entered the staff lounge and fell asleep.
At eight o’clock in the morning, Chen Ge was woken up by the alarm clock ringing, and after washing up, he started cleaning the haunted house.
A new day had begun, and as the park opened its doors at nine o’clock, tourists flocked to the haunted house, and Chen Ge could clearly feel the popularity of his haunted house increasing day by day.
”The number of visitors my haunted house can receive at the same time is still too few, it would be nice if there were more scenes.” Guarding the entrance of the haunted house, Chen Ge suddenly realized that there were several familiar figures among the tourists, “Heshan? Why is this kid here?”
Heshan also saw Chen Ge, and he waved his hand vigorously, “Boss! Long time no see!”
”Your voice is still so loud.” Chen Ge temporarily asked Uncle Xu to help sell tickets and walked into the middle of the crowd himself.
”Boss, our school has made all the preparations this time, picking out the boldest students from all grades, and we’re here today for two words – to pass!” Heshan pointed towards his back, and behind him stood a large swath of people in a crow’s nest.
”Are these all from your school? Are you guys on strike today?” Chen Ge didn’t know what kind of tendon the Jiujiang School of Forensic Medicine had drawn wrong, but actually came down with so many people, “Passing is secondary, you guys are still students, don’t waste your studies.”
Chen Ge’s true inner thought was that if this matter was known to the several doctors in the underground corpse vault scene, the consequences would probably be very serious.
”Don’t worry, we didn’t skip class.” Yang Chen stood next to Heshan with a dark face, “Your haunted house is known even to our school leaders.”
”Your school leaders know about it?” Chen Ge had a moment of weakness.
”Yes, it’s strange to say that our principal had the same dream for four consecutive days, and the teacher from his youth, standing in your haunted house, indiscriminately scolded him.” Heshan lowered his voice, “Our principal was scolded for four days in a row, and now when he closes his eyes, he feels that old man floating in front of his eyes, he really can’t stand it.”
”Your principal had the same dream for four days in a row?” Chen Ge cried and laughed, “Wasn’t his teacher when he was young named Wei Jiuqing?”
”Right! It’s this old man, how did you know?” Heshan was surprised, “Our principal later discussed it with a few guides, and someone said that it was the old master giving him a dream, thinking that it’s too embarrassing for us medical students to not even be afraid of corpses but to be scared out of our wits in your haunted house.”
”So your principal offered to let you visit me?”
”Pretty much, what the principal meant was that a qualified forensic pathologist should always remain calm, to be able to keep his color unchanged when a Tarzan crumbles in front of him, and to keep his eyes open when a moose rises to his left. He encouraged everyone to come to your haunted house in their spare time to practice their guts, as a forensic pathologist can’t even conquer a small haunted house, how can you fight with those vicious criminals in the future?” Heshan mimicked the tone of the principal’s voice, learning it like a charm.
”Your principal probably misunderstood what the old man meant.” When the people came, Chen Ge wouldn’t whisk them away, and could only do his last best to give the students of the Jiujiang Forensic Medicine School a piece of advice, “You can visit the other scenes as you like, but forget about the underground corpse vault.”