Chapter 1091: Unhappiness is a disease
The thirteenth photo showed a somewhat pathetic rag doll that had been picked up by the girl from the garbage and ended up in the trash.
”There are no other photos in the drawer, this is the last one.” Chen Ge looked at the photo on the desktop, the severely damaged family photo contrasted sharply with the photo of the rag doll itself abandoned in the garbage.
”This should be the first time it was abandoned.” Chen Ge was only speculating, the fact that the ragdoll was willing to trust others meant that it hadn’t completely embarked on the path of the Underworld Fetus at this time.
It felt that it could be friends with the girl, and the girl probably did treat it as a friend at some point, but reality dealt it a heavy blow.
”The girl’s family should have all been killed by the Underworld Tire, and the girl herself became a rag doll’s doll.” Chen Ge closed the drawer as he walked towards the living room.
The girl was leaning on a chair, she seemed to be unable to stand, without the white cloth binding her she probably wouldn’t even be able to sit up straight on her own.
”Can you hear my voice? If you can, blink your eyes or nod your head …… “Chen Ge helped the girl untie the white cloths on her body, the girl didn’t have any reaction during the whole process and let Chen Ge fiddle with her, like a toy without a mind of its own.
When all the white cloth was untied, the girl’s body tipped to one side, and when Chen Ge reached out to hold her, several blood-red photographs fell from the girl’s body.
Those photos were completely different from the ones in the drawer, taken late at night, with a blood-red background, and featuring the girl’s family members, who died in different ways.
”Is this its revenge?” Chen Ge carefully looked at the photos, he found a somewhat strange place, in those blood-red photos, besides the girl’s family and the rag doll, there was another person.
There was a photo with a door number that was taken at the door of room 504, the girl’s father fell to the ground, his only remaining leg was being held by the rag doll, and in room 504, besides the two of them, there was also a doctor in a white coat standing in the room.
”He’s a resident of 504?”
The man appeared in several of those blood-red photographs; the doctor’s face was scratched and unreadable, but the white coat he wore was distinctive, full of small holes from soot burns and large smears resembling fat.
”The rag doll was abandoned and looked pitiful, but it didn’t go for revenge in the first place and remained on its own in the garbage, is the reason for his sudden transformation related to this doctor?” Chen Ge felt that he had found another crucial clue, the shadow’s first change was due to entering the world behind the door of the House of Horrors, and the second change might be because of that doctor.
”Wen Qing, has there been a doctor living in the Jiu Hong neighborhood before?”
”Yes, but I don’t remember too well.” Wen Qing thought for a while, “I’m not sure if it was a doctor or not, but when I first worked at the Jiu Hong Agency, I would often see people in white coats coming out of the Jiu Hong neighborhood.”
”There’s still this?”
”En, but since Xiang Nuan and I moved to the Jinhua neighborhood as well, we rarely see those doctors in white coats appear.”
”I see.” A guess surfaced in Chen Ge’s mind as he held the blood-red photos, “Let’s go to 504 and take a look, the answer should be there.”
Ever since he knew that the cursed hospital existed, Chen Ge cared a lot about the profession of doctor, and he didn’t know why, but when he saw people in white coats, he wanted to sneak up and follow them.
”Little Sun, is your injury better?” Chen Ge suddenly looked at Xiao Sun.
”I feel like the wound has worsened, it’s getting more and more painful, and there’s no sign of healing at all.” Xiao Sun shook his head, “Why are you concerned about me?”
”I was thinking of letting you carry this girl along with you, since you’re not healed then forget it.” Chen Ge laid the girl flat on the sofa.
”Won’t you bring her along?” Wen Qing was a bit intolerant, the girl looked pitiful, like a rag doll abandoned by its owner.
”Just now we restored part of the scene through the photos, but there are many details in between that we’re not sure about, it’s too dangerous to risk bringing her along.” Chen Ge cited a very simple example, “What if she suddenly wakes up when we’re escaping and grabs you by the neck to death and won’t let you go?”
”Alright, then it’s better to leave her here for now.”
”We’ll come back for her when we’ve explored the entire building and are sure there’s no danger.”
Chen Ge took the blood-red photos and left room 404, he noticed that the bloody handprints in the corridor had become more numerous again.
Those handprints were irregular and seemed to be just crawling around them.
”I have a bad feeling, speed up, let’s go to the fifth floor!”
The pieces of toys on the floor became more numerous, no matter how little force was used, stepping on them would make a sound, and the sound of the feet in the quiet corridor was slightly harsh.
Under Chen Ge’s leadership, they did not stop and came directly to the fifth floor.
The stench in the air became much thicker, this floor was obviously different from the previous floors, the walls were filled with large and small bloody handprints, dig marks and some rudimentary graffiti could be seen everywhere.
Those graffiti looked like they were drawn by children casually, the lines were extremely simple, but the content was a bit scary, this kind of simple harmless horror had a very big impact on adults.
In addition, Chen Ge also found a rather strange place, there were also many fortune words posted on the walls of the fifth floor, except that the fortune words on the fifth floor were all positively labeled.
”Every household posts inverted fortune on New Year’s Day to take a harmonic of fortune to the world, which implies a good meaning. The following floors are all inverted fortune, but the fifth floor is positively posted, is this telling others that ‘fortune’ is on this floor?” Xiao Sun had seen a lot of inverted blessings, but he felt a bit familiar when he suddenly saw the positively pasted blessings.
Chen Ge didn’t bother with him and walked straight to the door of room 504.
Those big and small bloody handprints in the hallway finally all converged here, Chen Ge made a gesture, he felt that all the bloody handprints crawled out from here, and finally all crawled back to this room.
”The secret of the entire building should be in room 504.” Chen Ge stopped outside the door, he looked at the half-open door of the room and swept his eyes over the door number.
Xiao Sun and Wen Qing also walked over, and the three of them stood together, all ready.
Raising his arm, Chen Ge grabbed the door handle, and before he could push hard enough, the door panel was suddenly pulled open a crack.
Something grabbed Chen Ge’s wrist, Wen Qing shrieked out in shock, Xiao Sun backed up in fear, Chen Ge was also startled, but he reacted almost instantly.
He was about to backhand the other party when a ball of cloth fell out of the doorway.
”You all saw it! It opened by itself!” Xiao Sun pointed at the door of the room, “Do we still have to go in?”
Xiao Sun and Wen Qing stood behind Chen Ge and did not go near the door of the room, while Chen Ge looked at the place where his wrist had been grabbed just now, which had completely lost its sensation and was very cool to the touch, just like a piece of ice.
”All the way here, of course I have to go in and take a look.” Chen Ge squatted down and picked up the ball of cloth that fell out of the doorway.
It was a piece of cloth that had been kneaded together, and on it were three words with bloodstains – No Well Come.
”That monster seems to be reminding us not to go in, is it doing this on purpose?” Xiao Sun looked at the words on the strip of cloth, “We’d better hurry up and leave, the ghosts inside the building have warned us, if we don’t leave, aren’t we being a bit ungrateful?”
”Wait!” After seeing the words on the cloth, Wen Qing was a bit agitated, “Don’t go yet, the words on the cloth kind of look like Xiang Nuan’s writing.”
Wen Qing brought the cloth note to her eyes, after reading it, she was finally sure: “Xiang Nuan doesn’t know how to write many words, he always writes in as well! That’s right! This is what he wrote!”
Gripping the cloth, Wen Qing’s eyes became a little red and swollen, “Xiang Nuan is in the house! He’s in the house behind the door!”
”Don’t get excited first.” Chen Ge signaled Wen Qing to calm down, but Wen Qing couldn’t calm down, “There are bloody handprints everywhere in this building, the ghost that left them must have blood-stained hands, but the hand that stretched out of the doorway just now was invisible, and aside from being cold and piercing to the bone, its fingers weren’t stained with any blood, and from this, we can deduce that he isn’t quite the same as the other ghosts in the building. ”
”So he is Xiang Nuan ah!” Wen Qing rushed to open the door, but was stopped by Chen Ge.
”Are you really thinking about it? What you see behind the door might not be Xiang Nuan, but something else.” Chen Ge wanted to make it clear that they had seen white handprints appearing on the bed in room 301, and at that time, Chen Ge felt strange as to why that ghost would be attracted to Wen Qing.
If the white handprint was Xiang Nuan, then he might have been following Wen Qing around all the time, except that no one could see him, and only Wen Qing was able to vaguely feel his presence when she was very close.
”I’m ready, I’ll go in no matter what.” Wen Qing had a firm attitude, no matter what Chen Ge said, she couldn’t listen at this point.
”You want to go in in order to find him, but he’s giving you hints that he doesn’t want you to go in.” Chen Ge sighed, “Forget it, you two follow me, when you encounter danger, hurry and exit the room without any hesitation.”
Grabbing the door handle, Chen Ge slowly pushed the door of room 504 open.
The door panel shook and a pungent stench hit the room.
”It seems that a certain part of the rag doll’s body is hidden in this room.”
As soon as the door to the room opened, Wen Qing took her cell phone and shone it into the living room, and the moment she saw the scene inside, her face froze.
The not-so-big room was completely taken over by bloody handprints, and apart from the child’s bloody handprints, there was also a child’s face printed on the wall, and all of those faces were red, and they didn’t have any expressions, and their looks were completely different.
”Why do I feel that each face represents a living child? It’s like they’re going to open their eyes at any moment!” Xiao Sun stood at the very back and sucked in a breath of cool air.
”Xiang Nuan!” Wen Qing, on the other hand, rushed inside the room and kept shouting.
”Can you two be quiet?” Chen Ge put his backpack on his back and grasped the skull crushing hammer with both hands; he was now highly nervous.
504 The room was decorated with a variety of furniture and multiple chairs, and those who didn’t know would probably think that some kind of cram school was being run here.
On top of those chairs was a smiley face mask, and the materials used to make the masks should be similar to the paper money on the ground, all of which were yellowed white paper.
Chen Ge casually picked up a mask and looked at it, this smiley mask cut out of white paper contrasted greatly with the faces of those children on the wall, one was always smiling, while the other was bound in great pain.
Continuously rummaging, Chen Ge found many file bags in the drawer under the TV, these file bags had numbers written on them, and they looked like they were more than ten years old.
Finding file bag number one, Chen Ge stood in the living room and opened it.
The stench in the room became a bit thicker, Chen Ge dumped the contents of the file bag on the coffee table, which contained a few documents with photos on them, and the body of a small bird that had been air-dried.
”Case sheet?”
Chen Ge looked at the documents, on which was a record written by a doctor.
”It doesn’t have a name, I picked it up in the garbage, so let’s just refer to it as garbage.”
”Garbage very much desires to live like a human, it’s pursuing something that it can’t say for itself. Through his description, I personally believe that what it is seeking is a feeling of happiness.”
”The garbage wants to be happy but doesn’t know what happiness is; to cure its condition, he must first be taught what happiness is.”
”Words involving human feelings garbage can’t understand, I can only teach it from another angle.”
”Unhappiness is a disease, unhappiness is equivalent to a small cut in the heart, all the joy slips away, while happiness is like a wound healed.”
”Interpreting happiness from my point of view, the garbage understood it so quickly that it began to look for wounds in other people, it was really a good boy, and the first thing it wanted to do at the first moment of understanding happiness was not to create misfortune, but to try to find it.”
”After searching for a long time he didn’t find happiness, to make it easier for him to understand, I convinced him to create misfortune first and then slowly watch what happiness is.”
”Garbage chose a bird, he removed the bird’s wings with my help, the blood wet the feathers, the bird was chirping, this is the sound of misfortune.”
”With the garbage’s loving care, the bird’s wounds healed, but it lost its wings and the sky forever, and I told the garbage that this was the price of happiness.”
”To gain happiness, you must lose something, very fair.”
This was the end of the first file, Chen Ge then opened the second file, which contained, in addition to the documents, an eyeball solidified amongst the glue.
”Trash is the most perfect patient I’ve ever seen, and I kind of don’t want to share it with the other doctors. Let’s just treat him here for now without bringing it back.”
”Trash was smart enough to make himself a beautiful body, with materials found from those less fortunate.”
”With all the words I have, I can’t describe the beauty of that body, Garbage’s aesthetics are the same as mine, I didn’t teach him that, he learned it on his own.”
”With a beautiful body, Trash can go on to do more, and I can give him a deeper healing.”