Chapter 0540 Have you heard of the Weird Tales Association?
After listening to the burns doctor, Chen Ge realized that the passengers on the hearse all had their own unspeakable pasts, they had secrets buried in their hearts, and they took the train to the terminal late at night for the sake of that one slim hope.
This is a group of poor people, Chen Ge is thinking whether to tell them the truth.
If he didn’t tell them, they might still have a glimmer of hope and try to survive.
After telling, it was highly likely that these passengers would break down due to the loss of their last hope.
”The hearse’s terminus is Liwan Town, a place influenced by the world behind the door, filled with despair and evil, and all their efforts are doomed to futility. I can’t watch them sink deeper and deeper into the world, people who have given so much deserve to be treated well by life.”
Simply telling them the truth would only cause them to break down, but if they were given new hope at this point, it would be a different story.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Ge decided to help them in his own way.
”What are you thinking about?” The burns doctor asked softly when he saw Chen Ge suddenly launch into a daze.
Chen Ge didn’t reply, his mind raced, and in a few seconds, stories of Wang Qi, Xu Yin, Dr. Gao, and others emerged, and the things they had experienced could be muddled by taking out any one of them and substituting it for himself.
”It’s fine if you’re not comfortable talking about it, maybe we’ll meet again in this car in the future.” The man’s gaze swept over Chen Ge, and his lips moved slightly, “This is the first time you’ve traveled on this train, right?”
”Yes.” Chen Ge nodded.
The burns doctor moved next to Chen Ge again, his voice pressed down to the lowest possible level, “When we get to the place, if someone asks you to choose between giving and taking, remember, you must choose to take.”
”What do you mean?” Chen Ge was keenly aware that something was wrong, “I want to find my friend, and I still need to give and bear certain things? Older brother, what exactly is at the terminal?”
The doctor slowly twisted his head and looked around before speaking, “There is an underworld building in that town, in the building you can hear the voices of the people you want to see, if you want to find them, then you need to pay a certain price.”
Chen Ge memorized the doctor’s words in his heart, the other party had revealed a very important clue – there was an Underworld Building in Liwan Town.
He similarly lowered his voice: “Older brother, I just want to see my friends, do I have to pay some sort of price to see them?”
”There is no one-sided acquisition in the world; you have to take on something or pay some kind of price if you want to see your friend.” The doctor himself didn’t seem to have any bad intentions, he removed his gloves and lifted his sleeves gently, binding a red thread on his dry and thin arms, “This is used to ward off evil spirits, I choose to bear it every time I enter the Underworld Building, when I come out of the Underworld Building, I always feel that my shoulders are very heavy, it’s as if there’s something laying on my back, following me out. ”
Chen Ge knew what the man meant by taking on, no wonder the doctor’s body was radiating chills and was very weak, that the person behind the scenes was using these desperate poor people to raise ghosts, using them as containers for ghosts and monsters.
This was essentially similar to those members of the Weird Tales Association, but the difference was also there, these passengers didn’t realize that their shells had become homes for ghosts, their emotions had become food for the ghosts and monsters, they didn’t have the ability to manipulate the ghosts, they could only passively endure them, which made it a little easier to control.
”So what does paying mean? Why don’t you let me choose that?”
”The demented father next door chose to give, at the beginning, you only need to give your fingernails and hair, but the further you go, the more horrible things you have to give, such as your teeth, your fingers, your own conscience, and the good side of humanity.” The doctor’s voice was very small, if Chen Ge didn’t have the ability of Ghost Ears and good hearing, he wouldn’t be able to hear clearly at all.
”Conscience can also pay?”
”It will make you go to the town and do things like stealing, robbing, or even killing certain things, and after you choose to give it, you will realize that you are becoming less and less like yourself.” The doctor saw that Chen Ge still looked curious and didn’t seem to be scared at all, so he didn’t bother to explain more, “You just need to remember that all those who chose to give, after giving everything, never walked out of that building again.”
”This is giving all of yourself?” Without conscience, humanity, and memory, they had long been lost in the process of constantly giving.
Chen Ge felt that these people the doctor was talking about were very similar to those homicidal maniacs in the game, with hearts full of malice, extremely aggressive, and very dangerous.
”If that town inside the game represents the world behind the door of Liwan Town, those who chose to pay it forward would most likely end up being sent inside the door.”
Those who chose to send in became the containers for the ghosts and monsters behind the door and were slowly eaten away; those who chose to give in became the monsters of the world inside the door.
Chen Ge compared the acting styles of the Weird Tales Association and the people behind the Eastern Suburbs, the Weird Tales Association was letting people manipulate the ghosts and monsters, and researching how to control the “door”, but the situation in the Eastern Suburbs was completely reversed, and it seemed that the people behind the scenes were letting the ghosts manipulate the people, and then continuously feeding the “door” with “nutrients”. The person behind the scenes seems to be letting the ghosts manipulate people, and then keep feeding the “door” with “nutrients”, making it even more difficult to close the already out-of-control door.
If Dr. Gao is a person whose sanity and insanity have all reached their extremes, then the person behind the scenes in the eastern suburb is a completely hysterical ghost, which doesn’t even see people as human beings, wantonly trampling on those beautiful things, and has been completely twisted and perverted.
”This is really a terrifying opponent.” Chen Ge figured out a lot of things by talking to the doctor, and he slowly calmed down, “A shadow in the waterworks was able to fight with Zhang Ya, who had not yet healed, is the shadow’s body, really an existence above the red clothes?”
Chen Ge used to run away when he saw a red coat, not much nonsense at all, but now with Xu Yin and Bai Qiulin growing step by step, he had managed to overcome his fear of red coats, but then something even more bizarre appeared right afterward.
He couldn’t determine the strength of the other party, and thinking about the fact that his parents had disappeared in the eastern suburbs, Chen Ge suddenly felt something was wrong, and he looked at the battery-operated car that was placed right in the middle of the bus aisle, and muttered in a low voice, “Have I been a little too high-profile lately?”
Red Raincoat was also a red coat, but yet he still didn’t dare to take a step on the hearse even though he knew that his child might be on the bus, which also reflected the terror of that black hand behind the scenes from the side.
”To be able to scare Redcoat like this, I’ll have to re-estimate the strength of the other party.”
Chen Ge muttered alone in his seat, the burns doctor next to him thought he was stunned by what he said, and softly comforted, “As long as you choose to take it on, you’ll be fine, there might be a hope to see her before you can’t bear it.”
The doctor’s wish was very simple, Chen Ge was unwilling to watch the other party walk into the middle of the abyss step by step like this, he decided to redeem these people in his own way, “Actually, I know another way to be able to see them, and I don’t have to pay such a heavy price.”
”What method?” The doctor’s eyebrows rose gently, interested in what Chen Ge said.
Twisting his head to look directly at the doctor, Chen Ge spoke, “Have you heard of the Weird Tales Association?”