Chapter 1154 – Please find me!
Covering his eyes and plugging his ears, he couldn’t reveal the quest information to anyone, and his mouth could only repeat his name.
Chen Ge walked in the silent darkness for a long time, he tried to recall the map of the House of Horrors, but he slowly realized a very scary point, it seemed that the location he was in now was not in the middle of the House of Horrors.
He didn’t know where he had walked to, he couldn’t communicate with anyone, he couldn’t hear anything, and there was only darkness all around him.
A piercing coldness drilled into his heart, and Chen Ge finally stopped.
”Am I still in the house of horrors?”
This was the first time Chen Ge had a strange feeling about his haunted house.
”Could it be that I had already left the horror house when I pushed open a certain door?”
One terrifying thought popped up in his mind, Chen Ge didn’t know what was waiting for him in front of him, let alone when he would be able to push open the actual door.
Groping in the darkness, trying to push open the door that touched him when there was no hope in sight.
Chen Ge always felt that he had experienced this scene before, and the nightmare-level daily quests with the name “door” seemed to be trying to tell him something.
In the absolute darkness and dead silence, time had slowly lost its meaning, Chen Ge’s body became stiff, the surface of his skin was frighteningly cold, his mind kept flashing through his previous memories, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity became stronger and stronger.
”Chen Ge?”
Over and over again, he called out his name, repeating the same action over and over again.
The surroundings were getting quieter and colder, Chen Ge’s footsteps gradually slowed down, a terrifying thought surfaced in his mind, if he kept walking like this, he might never be able to go back.
Thoughts became sluggish, his brain began to think blindly without control, Chen Ge felt a long-lost emotion – despair.
In the past, even when facing even more terrifying enemies and horrible opponents, Chen Ge still wouldn’t give up because he had his own persistence in his heart, but in the middle of this nightmare mission, that persistence was slowly fading.
There seemed to be a voice in his head telling him that despair was normal.
It wasn’t until this time that Chen Ge realized that hope was a colorful soap bubble that would shatter at the slightest touch.
He had always been like a child holding a soap bubble, stubbornly standing on the other side of the world, insisting on believing that what was wrapped in that soap bubble was the real world.
Memories were turned over by an invisible hand, cold, painful, suffocating, all sorts of memories that didn’t belong to him surged through his mind.
The feeling was awful, yet he felt unexpectedly familiar, as if such pain had been experienced before by himself, and more than once.
His steps were getting slower and slower, and there seemed to be an endless road ahead. All the memories and experiences were “infected” with despair, and they wanted Chen Ge to stop, to stop here forever.
There was no escape, and the darkness would never end.
While his brain was still conscious, Chen Ge reached out and touched his eye patch, hesitating whether to remove it or not.
Removing the eyepatch would fail the mission, but if he didn’t, he was feeling very uneasy right now.
”Could I have entered the world behind the door? The door can only be pushed open by the person who pushes the door at a time other than zero, but what if I am the person who pushes the door? What if I’m the one who pushed the door open in the haunted house?”
Fingers resting on the bridge of his nose, Chen Ge ultimately did not remove the blindfold, choosing instead to continue onward.
”I am experiencing pain that I have never experienced in my own memories, I am experiencing a kind of despair that doesn’t belong to me, I don’t know what the black cell phone is trying to tell me, but I know that if there is despair existing in this world, then there must be hope.”
People who are desperate are anxious even if they are surrounded by happiness.
People with hope, even if they have nothing, can see the colorful world from a soap bubble.
”I’ve never been treated kindly by this world, but that doesn’t stop me from being in love with it.”
Chen Ge somehow thought of Zhang Ya and the other haunted house employees, “Even in the middle of the deepest despair, it is possible to meet a most beautiful accident.”
Without removing the blindfold, Chen Ge endured the pain he had never experienced before, endured both mental and physical torture, and continued forward.
No longer hesitating, no longer thinking much, he quickened his pace.
The pain on his body became more and more intense, and the pressure on his spirit increased, a scene of Chen Ge himself being killed appeared in the middle of his mind.
Before dying, he struggled helplessly and begged bitterly, but in return, he died again and again.
Compromise, goodwill, and trust were all betrayed, and the ultimate end was only despair.
The veins on his arms rippled, Chen Ge silently endured all of this, he did not stop and continued to walk forward.
”Regardless of who this despair actually belongs to, I will keep walking.”
Most of the memories left in Chen Ge’s mind before he obtained the black cell phone were good ones, and his parents wanted him to live like this.
In fact he even made a choice when he first got the black phone, if he had opened the screen of the phone and chose to refuse to accept it, then he would have lived on with this good memory.
But Chen Ge chose a different path, he wanted to know the truth and was willing to bear the despair, step by step, to find his parents.
As he continued to get closer to the truth, those hidden despairs would slowly be recalled, but he had no regrets.
Only Chen Ge himself knew in his heart how difficult this journey had been.
The days and nights were upside down, and he was exhausted every day, searching for a ray of hope between life and death, mixing with the severe ghosts and red clothes all day long.
Dancing on the tip of a knife wasn’t even enough to describe Chen Ge’s situation, and with the slightest negligence on his part, he would have become a corpse by now.
He had chosen the hardest path, and he had come the closest to the truth.
It wasn’t luck bestowed upon him by anyone, but something he had fought for himself from the torrent of fate.
”I won’t change just because of all this despair, and I won’t give in and turn my back on my past, no matter what ever happened, I will face it!”
Images of death flashed through his mind over and over again, Chen Ge’s body felt as if it was being cut apart, and he endured both mental and physical torture as he firmly marched forward in the boundless darkness.
Unable to see his surroundings, alone.
Couldn’t hear voices, couldn’t perceive the passage of time.
He kept calling out his name, pushing open a door.
”Chen Ge ……”
Pushing open the door in front of him, he didn’t know how many times he had called out this name when another voice suddenly came from in front of him.
”I didn’t think that one day you could actually walk here.”
A few steps away from Chen Ge came his own voice, and in that instant Chen Ge almost took off his blindfold as he couldn’t control the shivering in his body.
”Everyone wants to kill me, you are my last hope, please find me.”
Something was shoved into his palm and that voice grew smaller and smaller.
”I’m in the house of horrors in that city, please, you must find me!”
”That city? The city of blood? There’s a house of horrors in the middle of the bloody city as well?” Gripping the object in his hand tightly, Chen Ge could no longer control it, and he opened his mouth to ask the doubt in his heart, “You ……”
But when he uttered the first word, the chill around him instantly subsided, and his raised arm touched the doorknob.
Pushing open the door in front of him, the memories in his mind that didn’t belong to him began to dissipate, and it was as if he had returned to earth from hell.
The cell phone in his pocket began to vibrate, and Chen Ge froze for a moment before slowly removing the blindfold and earplugs.
The first thing he saw was that all the haunted house employees were standing in front of him, and everyone was staring at him in surprise.
”What am I …… doing in the bathroom?” Looking around, Chen Ge realized that he was standing inside the bathroom cubicle of the horror house, and his hand was still gripping the door of the cubicle.
”I’m not in the underground scene?!”
”You went into the toilet blindfolded, then locked yourself in the cubicle and never came out, we thought you were possessed by a ghost, then after thinking carefully, it seems like no ghost would do something so out of the ordinary.” Men Nan stood in the doorway, and after he saw that Chen Ge was fine, he squeezed through the group of “people” and left, “Disperse, disperse, people are fine.”
”I didn’t enter the underground scene, but stayed in the toilet cubicle, that means that from the moment I pushed open the toilet cubicle door, I entered the world behind the door!” Chen Ge was in a cold sweat as he looked down at his palm, a key covered in cracks was stuffed in his hand before that voice disappeared.
”A key? A self-control key?” Chen Ge exerted a little force, and the key in his palm shed a large piece of rust and broke into two sections, “Did I just enter behind the door? Could it be that holding a self-made power key allows you to leave the world behind the door of the House of Horrors normally?”
Chen Ge had obtained two other homemade power keys before, and he had never been able to figure out how this thing was going to work.
”It shouldn’t be that simple, the person behind the door might be trying to remind me of something through the key.”
The last words of that voice kept surfacing in his mind, and Chen Ge didn’t tighten his frown: “There’s a house of horrors in that blood-colored city as well? He’s hiding in the house of horrors in the bloody city? He still sees me as his last hope?”
Chen Ge leaned against the door panel, his back had long been wet with cold sweat and he had no strength at all.
”This door in the horror house should have been pushed open by him.” Chen Ge looked at the door of the compartment and gently pushed it, but the door of the room did not change.
Only the door pusher could manipulate the door, Chen Ge himself couldn’t push the door open, just now he was able to enter behind the door, it was probably the real “door pusher” who had opened the door in some way.
”Wait a minute! Is there such a possibility that the door pusher was split into two parts, and only when these two parts touched the door at the same time could the door be pushed open.”
Getting up from the ground, Chen Ge gave a brief explanation to the employees before letting Old White continue to guard the bathroom as he ran back to the employee lounge.
As soon as he opened the door, Chen Ge saw that the white cat was stealing the high-grade cat food in the cabinet, but he wasn’t in the mood to care about the white cat right now, so he directly took out his black cell phone and slid the screen.
”Lucky red-clothed Favored One! Congratulations on completing the nightmare level daily quest – Door! You will receive the special talent reward – Bane Mouth!”
”Mouth of Woe (Gift Ability): Woe comes out of the mouth, from the moment you obtain this gift ability, they can all hear your words.”
”Lucky red-clothed favorites! Very unbelievable, you simultaneously possess the six natural abilities of Mortuary Face, Yin Pupil, Spirit Scent, Ghost Ear, Woeful Mouth, and Living Puppet, and now you are able to make the desired version of yourself.”
Looking at the message on the black cell phone, Chen Ge shivered for some reason, he always felt that the last message was implying something about himself.
”The current me can already make the desired self? I want to make a self with my own hands? What does that mean?”
All six of these talents Chen Ge hadn’t yet been raised to their limits, except for the Yin Pupil, he hadn’t used the other few abilities much, and all along he had felt that these talents were somewhat chicken ribs, but that didn’t seem to be the case in reality.
”Forget it, it’s better not to consider it for now.” Chen Ge was very clear that, other than that, if he wanted to truly utilize the Living Puppet as a natural ability, he would first need to find a living person to experiment on before he could do so.
A perfect living puppet would require a fresh human life, something Chen Ge would not try anyway.
”Perhaps in the future, I will change my mind, but I hope that day never comes.”
Chen Ge put away his black cell phone, this night’s nightmare level quest had brought him too many doubts, and he needed to properly adjust his state.
”Is the despair I felt during the mission the experience of the other me? What kind of existence is he? Is all my despair in him?”
Distracted, Chen Ge saw the white cat that was still there stealing food and directly grabbed it onto the bed, stroking the soft cat fur as his heart slowly calmed down.
”Even cats know to avoid harm, but I’m going towards the most difficult path, and what’s even more desperate is that it seems like this is the only path in front of me.”
Being held by Chen Ge, the white cat was on tenterhooks, it was as if it knew that it had just done something wrong, and now it was honest and looked like a good boy.
”The white cat swallowed the blood filament of the Weird Tales Association, which was originally prepared by Dr. Gao for the female ghost who threw herself into the well, and is considered to be Dr. Gao’s thing.” Chen Ge stroked the white cat’s small stomach, “Can I track down Dr. Gao through the blood filament in the white cat’s body? Or maybe make Dr. Gao come to me on his own initiative through the white cat’s blood threads?”
There were at least two Fierce Gods in the Cursed Hospital, Chen Ge felt that he alone was not enough to deal with that hospital, so he wanted to contact Dr. Gao together.
Tracing his fingers on the white cat’s stomach, Chen Ge’s actions frightened the white cat into constant convulsions, “The blood threads may have fused with the white cat’s body, so it looks like we can only take it with us behind the door.”
Chen Ge gently stroked the white cat’s head, “You’re too timid, you must exercise more before you can do so.”
Looking at the time, there was still a long time until dawn, Chen Ge held the white cat with one hand and found the graduation certificate of the Psychic Ghost School in the props room.
”It’s been a long time since I went back, I wonder if anything has changed at the Psychic Ghost School.”
The cursed hospital brought Chen Ge a lot of pressure, and he decided to contact all the forces to come together to fight against that hospital.
”The Scarlet City is very close to the Psychic Ghost School, so if we’re lucky, we might even meet a strange red dress that’s lost.”