Chapter 1094 – Memories of the Hospital
Looking at his backpack, Chen Ge hadn’t been this out of sorts since he entered the door until now.
In Building A of the Jinhua District, he had played with numerous psychopathic murderers and worried about how to survive, and after leaving the Jinhua District, he had started exploring the truth with all his heart.
This door gave him a lot of pressure and made it impossible for him to be distracted, and as a result, it caused him to directly forget about the white cat.
”Poor little kitty.” Xiao Sun muttered from the side, “Say, why do you carry a cat with you? I’ve heard that black cats ward off evil spirits, but white cats don’t seem to have this effect ……”
”You know about white cats? That means the white cat was still with me when I met you?” Chen Ge looked at Xiao Sun.
”That cat was quite well-behaved and kept following you every inch of the way, as if the rest of us would go and hurt it.” Xiao Sun didn’t realize that the white cat hated them because they were all dead behind the door, and was still sighing, “I’m quite envious of you, in fact, I also want to have a cat that is that obedient and clingy.”
”It’s obedient my ass, that cat only sticks to me behind the door.” Chen Ge shook his head, “Do you remember when you last saw a white cat?”
”When you went to the rooftop with your sister, I was waiting on the third floor with Granny Li at that time, the cat was still following you when you went there, I don’t remember when you came back, it seemed to have disappeared.” Xiao Sun’s words gave Chen Ge an important hint.
”Sure enough, I got separated from the white cat when I first entered the black fog, was it lost in the black fog? Or did it not follow me into the Black Mist at all?” With the white cat’s guts, Chen Ge felt that the latter scenario was a bit more likely. But thinking about it that way, why didn’t the white cat choose to continue staying with Chen Ge after he left the black mist?
Chen Ge was also pondering this question, the white cat was very smart, it knew that it was safest to stay with Chen Ge in the world behind the door that was killing at every step, yet it chose to leave Chen Ge at some point in time, did it mean that there was something around Chen Ge that made it feel uneasy?
Frowning slightly, Chen Ge recalled his encounter in Room 504 of Building 1 of the Jiu Hong District, the ghost children on those walls were all staring at him, and they didn’t even bother to take a second look at Xiao Sun and Wen Qing, which also made Chen Ge very surprised.
”Why am I being targeted?” Chen Ge was unable to recover his strength for a long time, and his body became weaker and weaker, “Could it be that something is really parasitizing my body? It’s eating away at my body all the time?”
Most of the ghost children in room 504 were physically mutilated, and at that time, Ragdoll deprived them of part of their bodies to make “new clothes” for themselves, and the person those ghost children hated the most should be Ragdoll.
”Could it be that the rag doll is on me?”
Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge once again scanned his entire body, except for his back, he had looked everywhere, and found no abnormalities: “Xiao Sun, do you see something on my back?”
”No ah! A cat that big lying on your back, would you not feel anything at all?” Little Sun didn’t understand what Chen Ge meant.
”I’m not talking about a cat, there might be something else lying on my back, you guys keep an eye on the mirror for me later.” Chen Ge dragged the skull-crushing hammer, and he felt the hideous hammer in his hand getting heavier and heavier.
”Okay.” Xiao Sun skimmed his lips, “Seeing how nervous you are, I thought you were worried about your cat.”
”It should still be in Building A of the Jinhua District, maybe it’s hiding somewhere, in terms of self-preservation ability, I’m still quite confident in it.” The white cat didn’t have much merit, the best thing it could do was to save its life: “It should be able to last until we go back to pick it up.”
Although the white cat was very wimpy, there were times when it was very useful, its perception of danger was much stronger than Chen Ge’s, and it would give Chen Ge hints at the slightest breeze.
”After the white cat got separated from us, the frequency of that invisible hand began to increase, was it afraid of being discovered by the white cat before?”
”Chen Ge ……” Wen Qing, who was standing at the entrance of the building, gently grabbed Chen Ge’s sleeve.
”What’s wrong?”
”This building isn’t quite the same as the residential building we entered before.”
Chen Ge was so focused on thinking about the white cat that he hadn’t taken a good look at the building yet, and after he heard Wen Qing’s words, he used his Yin pupil to scan the surrounding area.
There was a sign hanging on the wall at the entrance of the building, which originally had the words Nine Hongs Subdivision Building No. 2 written on it, but for some unknown reason, most of these words had been scratched off with a knife.
Entering the building, it was also a bit different from Building One.
The walls were painted with miserable white wall paint, a faint strange odor floated in the air, and some yellowed white paper was thrown on the ground.
”Building A of Jinhua Subdivision is Xiang Nuan’s memory, Building 1 of Jiu Hong Subdivision is the very first memory of the Underworld Fetus, and whose memory is this building?” According to Chen Ge’s previous speculation, he thought that the entire Jiu Hong Cell was filled with the memories of the Underworld Fetus within a few buildings, but now the situation seemed to be a bit wrong.
”This place is cleaner than even the Jinhua neighborhood, it doesn’t look that dilapidated, and there isn’t even dust on the handrails, so someone should be living here.” Xiao Sun rarely said a few useful words, “In Building A of Jinhua Subdivision, they said that the landlord would occasionally go out and have meetings with the landlords of several other buildings, which means that there should be living people living in the other buildings as well, and not all of them are like Building 1 of Jiu Hong Subdivision.”
”Xiang Nuan’s world behind the door is different from the world behind the door that I’ve entered before, the black fog shrouds everything, and only these few buildings are not infested by the black fog, so his memories should have been split into several parts and preserved in different buildings.” Chen Ge’s head was a little dizzy, and he had to stop using his Yin pupil.
”I don’t quite understand what you’re talking about?” Xiao Sun pondered for a while and answered truthfully.
”You don’t need to understand, just help me find the mirror as soon as possible.” Chen Ge leaned his back against the wall, he was psychologically clear that the memories of the Underworld Tire were hidden among these buildings, and exploring these buildings was exploring the Underworld Tire’s past.
He was curious to know what had happened in the past, and this was an opportunity not to be missed.
”Your face looks bad.” Wen Qing walked to Chen Ge’s side, a little worried, “Let’s find a safe room first and take a good rest.”
”It’s fine, keep moving forward.” Chen Ge dragged the skull-crushing hammer and stepped onto the steps.
The layout of the building in Building 2 of the Nine Hong District was completely different from Building 1. There was a palm-sized glass window opening above each door, and you could see inside the house when standing outside the door.
”How come it feels a bit like a hospital’s intensive care unit?” Chen Ge walked next to the window and looked inside, the interior decoration of the room was very strange, the walls were all painted white, and all the floor tiles, furniture, and ceiling were mainly white: “With such a white room, how conspicuous would it be if blood was splattered on it.”
”Big brother, maybe the owner of the other house just loves cleanliness.” Xiao Sun felt that what Chen Ge sometimes said was scary, the kind of things that came out without thinking were always easier to make people think more.
”Again, they’re all buildings in the Jiu Hong neighborhood, why is this house so tidy? It seems like there are no such residents in the Nine Hongs Subdivision as far as I can remember.” Wen Qing was the agent in charge of these two neighborhoods, and the fact that she didn’t have any impression at all meant that the house in front of her really didn’t have much to do with the Jiu Hong neighborhood.
Gently pushing the door of the room, Chen Ge directly walked in after realizing that the door was unlocked.
Everything inside the house was neatly arranged, the floor was paved with floor tiles and was spotless, and no stains could be seen on the snow-white wallpaper.
”Does the owner of the house have a cleanliness fetish?” Xiao Sun breathed a sigh of relief, after leaving the Jinhua neighborhood, he had finally entered a room that was fairly normal.
”Don’t move anything inside, this house may have died.” Chen Ge stood by the living room wall, his fingers were snapping the wall.
”How can you tell?”
”The paint on the wall skin is very thick, many layers have been brushed over and over again, usually only when encountering large swaths of stains that are hard to clean up, the homeowner will choose to paint the entire wall.” Chen Ge’s words were already very clear: “You see now that this room is pure white, but in reality it could be blood red.”
Raising his finger, Chen Ge looked at the black and red residue in his fingernail, “The innermost layer of paint has turned black.”
”Chen Ge, look at this.” Wen Qing found a diary on the sofa with no signature, only a number – 0097.
”0097 is probably a sick number, just like how Ragdoll’s sick number was 0004 in the first place.” Chen Ge flipped open the diary, he was only going to roughly scan it, but after reading the contents on it, he couldn’t take his eyes off it.
”*Month*, today is a memorable day, the doctor said that my condition has gotten a lot better, I guess I can be discharged from the hospital after a while, I’m so looking forward to the outside world.”
”*Month*, there is a new patient in the hospital, his number is covered, the doctor let it live with me for the time being, I never thought I would have a roommate.”
”This new patient was strange, it wasn’t afraid of me at all, it was the first time I had met such a patient, maybe we could be friendly instead of being like our previous roommates.”
”I tried to talk to it, but unfortunately it’s so stupid that it doesn’t even want to communicate in a basic way, what a poor kid.”
”I love ugly looking objects and people, no, what ordinary people see as ugly is beautiful to me. Doctors say that my condition is a fetish for ugliness, which is a very normal fetish.”
”It’s been three days since the new patient moved in on *Month* and every day a doctor comes by and they seem to be expecting something? What exactly are they expecting?”
”*On *Month*, the new patient’s body began to emit a strong stench, it was like a body that could be moved, and I suggested that it be allowed to take a bath.”
”The poor guy didn’t even know what a bath was, he didn’t even understand that he had to take off his clothes before bathing, and it took me a long time to explain it to him.”
”Um, how should I put it? Why would a new patient go to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife when I told him to take off his clothes for a bath? Do you need a kitchen knife to take off your clothes?”
”The sound of water mixed with the sound of bones falling off made me feel like I was getting worse again.”
”I felt disrespected by the new patient when he finished his bath and the entire bathroom was stained red, and he forgot one of his hands in my bath towel.”
”Maybe it was because it had never had a bath before, the distance between the new patient and me was brought closer because of this little incident, and I slowly enjoyed spending time with it as it became uglier and uglier.”
”*Month*, today is our seventh day together, no one has ever been able to live with me for so long, those guys always disagree with my ideas and I always help them get ugly while they are asleep.”
”Every patient in the hospital has their own number, and usually everyone refers to each other by their number, but the new patient’s number was covered up, so I had to ask him his name. I know it’s a big no-no in the hospital, but as long as no one says anything, the doctors won’t find out.”
”The new patient refused to tell me his name at first, and it was only after I soft-pedaled him that he gave me the story that someone had called him garbage before.”
”I couldn’t believe my ears, even though it was ugly and impersonal, it couldn’t be called garbage, how revealing was that?”
”I told it that a name is a symbol of a person and holds a lot of good wishes, I’m going to let it give itself a name.”
”On *Year*, *Month*, the new patient finally came up with a name for itself, it said it was called Chen Ge, and it liked the name.”
”On *Month*, I started referring to the new patient by Chen Ge, and we had an okay time until the next ward couldn’t stand the stench that emanated from our room.”
”The new patient’s ‘clothes’ were no longer wearable, it needed a new one, but the doctor did nothing but come by every day to take notes and then look at me with an expectant look.”
”To be honest, I don’t really know what they’re expecting.”
”On *Year*, *Month*, I was still exposed for letting new patients name themselves, and at first I didn’t think it was a big deal, until I saw the new patient’s number.”
”No. 0004, it’s obviously a very ordinary child, why is it numbered so high?”
”*Year*, *Month*, I finally know why its number can be ranked at the fourth place, so it’s because of that name, it’s a pity that I can’t tell it anymore, soon I’m going to be made into its new clothes by the doctors.”
After reading the entire diary, Chen Ge’s mood was extremely complicated, he didn’t expect to see his name on the diary, and even more so, he didn’t expect that the Underworld Fetus being ranked to the fourth position was even related to him.
”No, the Chen Ge in the diary shouldn’t be me, but the kid from before who couldn’t be killed in any way.”
Looking at the diary in his hand, Chen Ge stared at the date that had been blotted out, his eyes suddenly narrowed as he subconsciously opened his backpack and took out Zhang Ya’s bedtime story book.
”There’s a slight similarity in the typography, but it’s only a similarity, I should be overthinking it.”
Stuffing the diary and the storybook all into his backpack, Chen Ge roughly inspected this room, and after there was nothing else to be gained, he was ready to leave.