Chapter 1150 Could this be the truth?
Mr. Wang told Chen Ge about the serial murders from more than twenty years ago, and some of the cases matched each other with the information Chen Ge already knew.
For example, the murderer had once drowned the deceased in the Donggang Reservoir, another example was that the murderer had lured the deceased into the White Dragon Cave Tunnel, and there had been a resident who saw the murderer push the deceased off a tall building.
Because the distance was too far, the deceased’s face witnesses had not been able to see clearly, only to know that all the deceased were not very old children, they wore different clothes, but their body height was extremely similar, it was almost as if the same person had been killed several times.
Hearing Mr. Wang’s words, Chen Ge’s heart rippled with frenzy, he had seen these scenes during the process of doing the Black Phone Trial Mission.
That child who had been killed countless times in various ways was the same person who had once been him!
Reaching out and pressing his temples, blue veins popped up on Chen Ge’s forehead, the fragmented memories in his mind were being reorganized, and he was now feeling a headache.
”Teacher Wang, are you sure that the last deceased’s name was Chen Ge? Have you found his body?”
”Although I didn’t find his body, I was at the scene when he was killed.” Mr. Wang’s eyes were filled with guilt and remorse as he clenched his hands into fists, “We went through a lineup and analysis, and locked up three children in Hanyue who looked a lot like the back of the child in the photo, and we concluded that the murderer’s next target should be amongst these three children.”
”So you laid out a plan around these three children?”
”That’s right, at that time, there was a shortage of manpower, and I was also urgently drafted, and was arranged by the branch leadership into the seventh group, we were responsible for guarding a private orphanage in the eastern suburb of Hanjiang.” Mr. Wang paused for a while, fearing that Chen Ge would not understand, he added, “The three children we locked up, one lives in downtown Hanjiang and has a very good family condition; one lives in the western suburb of Hanjiang and is the child of the manager of Luo’s real estate; and the last child lives in the eastern suburb of the orphanage.”
These three children’s information did not match Chen Ge’s information at all, and he remembered very clearly that he was living with his parents in the Jiangyuan neighborhood in the eastern suburb of Hanjiang.
It was clear that the three children the police had locked up were not himself, but why was the last victim called Chen Ge?
”I remember very clearly until now, the police only told the teachers and director of the orphanage what happened, the children knew nothing, they just played and fell asleep as usual.”
”After dark, everything was normal until twelve o’clock in the morning when the child we had targeted disappeared.”
”I don’t know how the killer did all this, and to this day I can’t figure it out.”
”When the child disappeared, I immediately reported it to my superiors and then went to look for the child with everyone in Unit 7.”
”In the end, I and Team Yan, who had just joined at the time, found the child in an abandoned building in the eastern suburb of Hanjiang.” Mr. Wang’s voice was trembling, it had been many years since then, but it was still hard for him to control his emotions when he thought back now, “That child was terrified, he was badly injured, and his eyes were filled with a desire for life. He asked Yan team and I for help, he said that his name was Chen Ge and that he wanted to see his parents, but just as the kid was about to say his parents’ names, the murderer came in.”
”The boy told you himself that his name was Chen Ge?” Chen Ge himself had absolutely no memory of this part of the story, he couldn’t recall anything.
”Every word I’m telling you now is the truth.”
”What happened after the murderer came in?”
”The murderer was wearing a white lab coat and an evil ghost mask, he seemed to have sprinkled the room with ecstasy in advance, Team Yan and I started to go into a trance, and after he exchanged a few words with the boy, he forcibly took him away.” Mr. Wang’s expression became pained, “If only Team Yan had shot decisively at that time.”
”Then did you catch them in the end?” Chen Ge cared about that.
”According to the officers from the other teams, they ended up surrounding the murderer at the river and saw the murderer throw the victim’s body into the river.” Mr. Wang took a deep breath, “The police caught the white coat by the river, and everyone witnessed him killing the man, he is the murderer! But the problem is that there were a few suspicions when they caught him. Firstly, the white coat that was caught by the police at the riverside was a lunatic, his mouth kept chanting don’t come back, don’t come back; secondly, the white coat he was wearing was very ill-fitting, it didn’t seem to be his clothes; and thirdly, from the way he killed people was extremely rusty, it didn’t seem like a serial murderer at all.”
”Shifty? The real culprit found a crazy person and intentionally made a show for you guys?” In fact, what Chen Ge really wanted to say was that the victim might have been replaced as well.
The murderer and victim that Mr. Wang and Team Yan saw were the real murderer and the young Chen Ge, what the main police force saw at the river was all arranged in advance, that murderer was a fake, and the body that was thrown into the river might not be Chen Ge either, but an orphan from the Eastern Suburbs Orphanage.
”That’s right! You guessed the same as I did!” Mr. Wang’s eyes became sharp, “Team Yan and I met with the murderer, and even though he was wearing an evil ghost mask and we didn’t see his face, that cold} human aura on him was completely different from the murderer that the police captured!”
”Did you guys finally find the body of that child from the Eastern Suburbs Orphanage?” Chen Ge asked another question.
Teacher Wang shook his head, “Among the entire serial murder case, the bodies of all the victims were not found.”
Listening to Mr. Wang, Chen Ge had a conjecture.
The doctors of the cursed hospital had killed themselves over and over again more than twenty years ago, but they realized that they couldn’t kill themselves no matter what, and in the end, they even drew the attention of the police.
In order to divert the police’s attention, they deliberately directed the scene in front of the police so that the police would catch a scapegoat.
Both the deceased and the murderer of this serial murder case are actually still in this world, but no one knows about this case anymore except for a few people.
The truth doesn’t change with the passage of time, but it is covered up by it.
”Then did you find out the information of the previous few victims?” Chen Ge held onto the street lamp and hung his head low.
”No information has been found, no bodies have been found, even the hair and blood have been cleaned by the murderer, nothing remains.” Teacher Wang’s face was grave, “I can tell you with great certainty that this is a serial murder case, but when the Hanjiang City Branch closed the case twenty years ago, it was because the bodies of those deceased were not found that the case was finally characterized as a vicious murder case.”
”Is there any difference?”
”There’s a big difference, but there’s no point in talking about this now.”
In the unfamiliar city, Mr. Wang and Chen Ge stood next to the road, pedestrians came and went around them, everyone lived their own lives, and no one cared what they were talking about.
”You came to Xinhai to re-investigate this case?”
”Yes. The murderer wore a white coat that was identical to the uniform of a private hospital in Xinhai, in addition, Team Yan and I have listened to the true murderer’s voice, and he spoke with a bit of the local accent of Xinhai.”
”Do you still remember what the real murderer said at that time?”
”Forgotten, that memory break is very hard to bear.” Mr. Wang swept a glance at Chen Ge, who didn’t say anything further.
The truth was that he had gotten that feeling again after visiting Chen Ge’s haunted house, which was why he had recorded all the details in his notebook after awakening.
It wasn’t that he suspected Chen Ge to be a murderer, he just felt that Chen Ge didn’t look like an ordinary haunted house owner, which was one of the reasons why he wanted to work with Chen Ge now.
”What’s the name of that private hospital you mentioned? Where is the exact location?” Mr. Wang was a witness to the serial murders more than twenty years ago, and Chen Ge happened to be missing a part of his memories from that time, and based on that Chen Ge was prepared to help Mr. Wang as well.
”That abandoned hospital is at the junction of Xinhai and Hanjiang, and has used many names, the most widely circulated one being Xinhai Center Hospital.” Teacher Wang hesitated for a moment and looked at Chen Ge with great sincerity, “My ability alone is limited and I can’t cope with most situations, if you have time tonight, can you make a trip over with me?”
”Just the two of us?”
”There’s also Old Wu.” Teacher Wang was determined to go over, but Chen Ge knew that the three of them alone were far from enough.
”Teacher Wang, if you’re willing to trust me, we’d better wait a few more days.” Chen Ge wouldn’t tell Mr. Wang about his secret, he had already thought of an excuse: “The night before last, the Xinhai pagoda building collapsed, and the police found the dead man there, and this case is related to the case from a year ago.”
”I know the Xinhai police are busy, so I can understand if they don’t help me.”
”No, what I want to say is that that case is also related to the hospital you just told me about.” Chen Ge was very serious: “All three cases are connected to that hospital, sooner or later the Xinhai police will realize this, and we can go in together then.”
”Then how much longer do we have to wait?”
”Soon.” Chen Ge also didn’t know when the Xinhai police would find out about the cursed hospital, he could only say this for the time being, “You’ve already waited for twenty years, it shouldn’t be too bad for a few days, let’s both leave each other’s contact information, I’ll be the first to notify you when the time comes.”
”Okay.” Teacher Wang also breathed a sigh of relief, if the Xinhai police could investigate with him, it would naturally be the best.
”Teacher Wang, let me tell you one last thing, don’t go to the investigation alone. If it’s not clear over the phone, then you can go to the Nightmare Academy haunted house on Century Avenue in Xinhai to find me.” Chen Ge had a reassuring smile on his face, “It’s considered my property there as well, and it’s very safe.”
”Thanks a lot.” Teacher Wang gazed at Chen Ge, wanting to ask something else, but ultimately did not open his mouth as he turned around and left, disappearing into the crowd.
When Mr. Wang left, the smile on Chen Ge’s face was gone.
”Why don’t I have any impression at all?”
What Teacher Wang said had been able to prove side by side that Chen Ge had indeed been killed when he was a child, and this was not an illusion created by the Underworld Fetus, but something that had actually happened.
The things that Chen Ge had been avoiding were now laid out in the open, he couldn’t go back to avoiding it anymore, he had to look at it all straight on.
”That child that was killed over and over again should be me, all the information matches up, and the person who killed me is the hospital that was cursed with the hospital, and what role did my parents play in this whole process? Why didn’t they go and stop it?”
Chen Ge grabbed his hair fiercely, this feeling that it had obviously happened but couldn’t remember how was very painful: “My parents have always treated me very well, it’s this family that let me know what happiness, warmth and love are, how could such parents sit back and watch me being killed over and over again?”
”Maybe the person the doctor killed wasn’t really me? Rather, it was something in me? For example, it’s a polymerization of evil thoughts in me?” Chen Ge took out his black cell phone and carefully looked through those trial missions he had done before.
”The first nightmare level task I did after I obtained the black cell phone was to stand in front of a mirror with my eyes closed, it was in the wee hours of midnight, the person outside the mirror was a human being, and the person inside the mirror was a ghost. One was kind and timid, the other was ferocious and terrifying, was this quest trying to give me a hint through the mirror ghost?”
Chen Ge still remembers the description of that nightmare quest – I believe you must still be curious about whether there are ghosts in the world or not, come and play a little game, the truth is in the moment you open your eyes.
”Mirrors are the main props, if I opened my eyes at that moment, would it be me in the mirror that I saw?”
”The House of Horrors is officially open for business, and the first special visitor I met was Fan Yu, a child who was isolated and closed off in reality, always looking for paradise. And in the blood-colored world behind the door, the other Fan Yu became the painter, who carried the curse and obsession of the whole ghost school, and built heaven in hell!”
”Fan Yu and the Painter, one represents man, the other bears all the sins; one lives outside the door, the other enters inside.”
”Fan Yu was the key figure in the opening of Twilight Sun Middle School, and Twilight Sun Middle School was again the first two-star horror scene I experienced.”
”The opening character of the three-star trial mission, the third sick building, was Men Nan, and the same was true of Men Nan! He was born in a mental hospital, and all his misfortunes and pains transformed into the red-clothed Men Nan, while his main body became Dr. Gao’s student, living a life like a normal person.”
Now that I think about it, it was really a fine thought, Dr. Gao was the president of the Weird Tales Association, the red-clothed Mennan was imprisoned by him behind the door of the third ward building, and the Mennan incarnation became his best student.
Dr. Gao knew perhaps more than Chen Ge had expected, and he had been doing some sort of experiment with a purpose from the start, and Men Nan was his test subject!
”Not to mention the four-star trial task Plutonic Fetus, the Shadow escaped from me, and based on the information we have now, he endured part of my pain and despair, desperately craving for happiness and goodness, and it was this part of his emotions that transformed into the seed of the Plutonic Fetus.”
Holding the black phone, Chen Ge’s face turned white as he finally realized.
From the moment he obtained the black cell phone, every key trial task was revealing a message to him.
Behind one person’s happiness was another person who had endured all the sins and despair.
”Could it be that behind the door, there really is another me?”
Chen Ge looked at the black cell phone in his palm, looked at a message sent, and looked at his own figure on the cold screen.
”I seem to understand.”