Chapter 0668 – Dr. Gao!
Blood seeped out from amongst the window frames and flowed conspicuously on the hand-painted landscapes.
”Even if I have to face death, I won’t deprive you of your freedom, besides, I haven’t lived without a shadow for so many years, haven’t I? There will always be a solution when the car reaches the mountain.” Chen Ge had an optimistic personality, and although he was ordinary looking, he had an indescribable infectiousness about him that always brought hope.
Boo remained expressionless, the blood on the wall wrote that sentence over and over again, she seemed to want Chen Ge to think it over.
For people who had suffered a lot of injuries, they would rather suffer physical pain than to easily trust others, because they knew in their hearts that the feeling of having given their trust and then realizing that everything was just a lie was much more painful than a knife cutting on the body.
”Let’s not talk about this, you’ve met my parents, did they say anything to you? Like what they were going to do? What places will they go to next?”
When Chen Ge first hitched money into it to keep the haunted house running, it was because he wanted to keep a memory for himself; it was the only thing his parents had left him, and he wanted to guard it well.
Finding his parents had become his obsession, so now when there was a clue, he would hold on to it.
Boo seemed to know that Chen Ge would ask about this, as more blood seeped out of the window frame and another line of bloody writing surfaced – They didn’t tell me where I’d be going next, but they mentioned Xinhai Central Hospital in their conversation.
”That cursed hospital? One of the two new four-star missions that appeared on the black phone?”
Chen Ge leaned against the wall and fell into deep thought, “The shadow has something to do with the Plutonic Fetus, and the disappearance of my parents has something to do with the Xinhai Central Hospital; both of these scenarios are four-star, but I’m not going to touch them for now. The other four-star mission in the western suburb – Psychic Ghost School – is nearing its expiration date, so when I leave Liwan Town, the first thing I need to do is to go and complete it before I do so.”
The trial quests in the black cell phone would skyrocket in difficulty several times with each star, and Chen Ge actually didn’t have a clue in his own heart.
”Forget it, don’t want to think about that much, let’s get through this level in front of us first.” Chen Ge moved his body towards Boo’s side, he had already leaned very close, Boo didn’t dodge or get impatient, this scene watched Fan Cong also pinched a sweat, after all, that was a real red-clothed stern ghost.
”Did my parents say anything to you about Shadow? Like what weaknesses he has or something?” Chen Ge still wanted to get more useful information from Boo, but Boo’s reaction made him slightly disappointed.
The bloodstains on the wall merged and changed, and finally started repeating that phrase again – people without shadows don’t live long.
”This child should know something, but she’s not willing to talk.” Chen Ge stood up.
Hearing him call Boo a child, Fan Cong beside him was startled again, but when he thought about it this red dress was indeed just a child.
”What should we do now?”
Chen Ge turned his head to look at Fan Cong, who was filled with a bitter smile, “Don’t ask me, the words you just said are usually what I say to you.”
Fan Cong had already told Chen Ge everything in the game, and now he still needed him to make up his mind.
”Those humanoid stains are a big problem, compared to ghosts and monsters, they’re more like evil thoughts that have been deliberately extracted, consisting of pure malice without retaining a shred of humanity.”
This kind of stuff had no absorption value, and ghosts and monsters would be assimilated if they touched it, which was why Chen Ge was unwilling to risk his staff.
”Lich ghosts can contain and digest them, the more powerful they are the more curses they can digest, if that’s what you’re worried about, I can clear the way for you.” The blood on the wall formed a line, and Boo offered a solution, “A small amount of curses can be suppressed, it’s the excess that will be assimilated by them.”
”You call them curses?” Chen Ge recalled that four-star scene in the black cell phone – the cursed hospital – for no reason.
”The thoughts left behind after a person’s death will turn into several different things – obsessions, curses, weirdness, etc., and those stains are curses, consisting of bad luck and malice.”
”What happens if too many curses are absorbed and assimilated?” Chen Ge inquired.
”It becomes a new curse, and the more terrifying the lich, the more insurmountable the curse formed will be.” The blood stains on the walls kept changing, Boo hadn’t spoken the entire time, only communicating with Chen Ge through this method.
”Can this curse thing be controlled? According to what you said, these curses will destroy everything in sight, they have no control at all, so how does the shadow manipulate them?”
”I don’t know, maybe the shadows have their own methods, or maybe the shadows themselves are a curse.” The words in blood on the wall brought Chen Ge another surprise.
”It’s possible that the shadow itself is a curse?” Chen Ge thought about it and thought that it was possible, his parents couldn’t have lost their shadow for no reason, it was probably because he was hit by some kind of curse when he was a child, and then his parents got the curse into his shadow.
But he didn’t say these things out loud, it’s good to understand in one’s own heart.
”If the shadow itself is a curse, then it’s easy to understand why he picked Liwan Town, he wants to capitalize on the deep malice and curse buried underneath this town.” The curse was the Shadow’s bottom card, and this was the issue before Chen Ge.
”You don’t have to worry too much, even the curse itself can’t control itself, so Shadow’s manipulation is more of just an on/off switch, there’s no way for him to be specific enough to control an individual’s actions. As I said earlier, curses are full of malice, they will attack everything they see until they turn them all into curses, there are a lot of strange and weird things in Liwan Town, they can help us share some of the pressure, we’ll be fine if we escape before they all become curses.”
Chen Ge looked at the words in blood on the wall, his eyes actually slowly became softer, the fact that Boo was able to say so much to herself showed that the distance between herself and her had gotten a lot closer.
”Okay, let’s leave here and go outside to check the situation before we make our next decision.”
Inside the room, Fan Cong looked at Chen Ge and Boo, and the fat on his body couldn’t stop trembling.
He knew in his heart that Chen Ge was one of his own, but he just couldn’t control his fear, the scene in front of him was just too bizarre.
A man carrying a murder weapon, beside him stood a red-clothed stern ghost without limbs, the stern ghost was silent, the man looked at the words in blood that kept appearing on the wall, with a gentle face.
”Hey, I want to go home …… so much.”
Led by Chen Ge, the few people walked to the side of the elevator, “There are so many underground rooms, did you guys miss anything?”
Looking towards those closed rooms, Chen Ge had a smile on his face, “Boo, you’ve been here for so long, do you have any neighbors? We can take them with us.”
Boo shook her head, she wasn’t used to Chen Ge’s overzealousness.
Pressing the elevator control button, Fan Cong covered his mouth and nose when the elevator opened.
The old-fashioned elevator was filled with blood stains and chopping marks, and the people who had just gone up had all disappeared.
”It’s fine, just get used to it.” Chen Ge didn’t know why he was comforting Fan Cong like this.
Several people entered the elevator and slowly approached the ground, but those strange noises on the ground disappeared.
Reentering the first floor, Chen Ge held the Skull Shattering Hammer across his body the moment the elevator doors opened.
The hall was silent, no screams or wails were heard, and no bodies or blood were seen.
”Where are the people?”
Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to look around, the blood mist became thinner, and black shadows could occasionally be seen swaying in the streets, but they all seemed to be rushing in a certain direction.
”Something is attracting those humanoid stains.”
”All the curses are moving towards the door.” Boo remained silent as she raised her hand, and the blood mist converged directly into a few words.
As the door pusher, she was in fact the true owner of the blood mist, except it was all stolen by the shadow.
”How much mist can you contend from the shadow now?” Chen Ge had a plan in mind.
”Half of it, my limbs and head were hidden by the shadow outside of Liwan Town, a place I can’t influence, and my heart is in the shadow’s hands, he’s going to use that heart to manipulate the runaway door.” Every word of blood contained Boo’s pain, and watching Chen Ge and Fan Cong were both a bit disturbed.
”No wonder the shadow had to build another piece of ghost buildings outside Liwan Town, Liwan Town is used to collect despair and negativity, and Mingyang District is used to suppress Boo and make him obedient, he’s really playing a good game.” Chen Ge told Boo not to manipulate the blood mist for now, so as not to alert the shadow: “A few of my friends have already left Liwan, I guess it won’t be long before they bring back your limbs and head, wait until then, then you can suddenly explode, and we’ll combine our efforts to finish off the shadow.”
Chen Ge’s plan was good, but Boo was not very excited, “You can’t kill him.”
”Why?” Chen Ge asked Boo after the reason, but Boo didn’t answer, and when Chen Ge asked other questions later, Boo stopped talking.
Several people walked on the streets of Liwan Town, Xiao Bu knew Liwan Town very well, this was the door she pushed open, normally the world behind the door was woven from her memories.
With the help of Bu, Chen Ge and Fan Cong avoided all the dangers and arrived outside the neighborhood where Fan Cong lived.
Four-fifths of the blood mist of the entire Liwan Town was concentrated here, and even more frightening was that all the curses that had been accumulated in Liwan Town for an unknown period of time had also poured into the blood mist.
They transformed into black threads and wrapped around a certain figure in the center of the blood mist, rigidly hindering that person’s steps forward.
”Boo, how many curses can the red-clothed Liege withstand at most?” Chen Ge was afraid that Boo wouldn’t answer and added, “The guy who is fighting with the shadow right now is arguably the most terrifying Li Gui amongst the red coats, he had carried all the negativity behind a door, can such an existence withstand the entirety of Liwan Town’s curses?”
Boo shook his head, “No, but it should be able to last for a while.”
”Understood.” Chen Ge greeted Fan Cong and walked backwards, “Let them fight first.”
”We’re just going to watch from the side?” Fan Cong was a bit puzzled, “They’re in a stalemate now, this is an opportunity for us, whether it’s to escape, or sneak attack, well at least do something!”
Chen Ge came over aggressively, then looked at the situation and prepared to find a safe place to spectate, this approach was really a bit unseemly.
”Let’s wait for them to divide life and death before we make our move, these two guys have many cards, we must not be careless. Besides, the longer we drag it out, the more favorable it will be for us, when we find all the places where the door panels are missing, the initiative will be completely on our side by then.” Chen Ge looked at the blood mist that had gathered half of Liwan Town and was very calm: “None of them are my friends, so the only way to win is to eat them all.”
”You’re going to take them all out?” Fan Cong covered his heart, not daring to speak or continue asking.
”The shadow is using the blood mist of Liwan Town and the curse buried deep underground, this is the only way to stalemate with Dr. Gao, if he doesn’t have any other cards, in the end, he must be the one who can’t carry it off first.” Chen Ge understood that it would take some time for the curse to erupt, and within that time, Dr. Gao should be able to finish off the shadow.
”Shadow? Dr. Gao? All of them are your acquaintances, huh?” Fan Cong did not expect Chen Ge to answer, and his voice was low.
The Weird Tales Association flyer was on Xu Yin, probably because Dr. Gao sensed that the flyer was approaching, and he became even more irritable, amidst the blood-red sea, the iron cable crossbar, making a clattering sound.
”How did Dr. Gao become so strong? What did he go through behind the door? Did he swallow a lot of red clothes?” Chen Ge couldn’t figure it out, when he was in the Living Coffin Village, that Well Throwing Red Clothes also became very strong behind the door, only that she was different from Dr. Gao, and was so focused on getting back to being a human being that she didn’t put all of her heart into enhancing herself.
While thinking about things in his mind, Chen Ge’s own cell phone suddenly vibrated.
He hurriedly took it out to check, and on it was an unread text message.
”From Tong Tong? They got it?”
After sliding the screen and seeing the message, Chen Ge frowned.
There was only one line on the text message – Many children! Come quickly!
”Looks like something happened over there.” Chen Ge put away his cell phone and without any delay, called on Fan Cong and Boo to start running towards the outskirts of Liwan Town.
Just as Chen Ge made this decision, the sea of blood behind them exploded violently, and a shadow similar in size to Chen Ge sprang out of it, heading straight for the Underworld Building on the outskirts of Liwan Town.
The blood mist scattered in all directions, and a voice that seemed to float out from the depths of hell resounded in everyone’s ears, “Chen Ge ……”
The white coats were dyed red, the kind of red that stung even more than blood.
A deep black chain was wrapped around the “white coat”, and half of that person’s body continued to dissolve, dripping black and red blood, he was seriously injured, but he didn’t seem to feel any pain.
Slowly raising his head, those once calm and deep eyes full of wisdom now turned crimson, the pupils reflecting Chen Ge and the shadow.
”Chen Ge ……”
Dr. Gao!
Accelerating his pace, Chen Ge ran furiously towards the distance, “He looks like he should be losing his mind, but why does he still remember me in this situation? Is it because I left too deep an impression on him?”