Chapter 1156 – You’re My Seventh Friend
Arriving at the Hanjiang Law School, Chen Ge dialed Gao Ruxue’s phone, but no one answered.
He found a school teacher and asked before realizing that Gao Ruxue had taken a long vacation, and she hadn’t come to school for a long time.
”With her mother killed by that hospital and her father missing after committing an unforgivable crime, Gao Ruxue must be suffering inside.”
Gao Ruxue didn’t answer her phone, so Chen Ge could only run to her house in person.
After knocking on the door for several minutes, Gao Ruxue opened the door to her room, she looked very haggard and lost a lot of weight.
”Chen Ge?”
”Is it convenient to go in and chat for a while?” Chen Ge carried his backpack, he hadn’t slept all night, his eyes were full of blood, and he looked a little tired, “I have some things to say to your father, but if I want to find him, I have to ask for your help to do so.”
Gently nodding, Gao Ruxue let Chen Ge enter the house.
The room was covered in dust, and it seemed like it hadn’t been cleaned for a long time, but it didn’t feel particularly messy to look at.
”I also really want to see him, but I don’t really know where he is right now.” Gao Ruxue sat on the couch, even after a long time had passed, her expression still changed when she mentioned her father.
”I need a bit of your blood.” Chen Ge didn’t want to explain more and opened the door.
”Blood?” Gao Ruxue’s lowered head slowly lifted, she looked at Chen Ge suspiciously before stretching her arm out in front of Chen Ge: “With my blood, you can know where my father is?”
”It’s not necessarily successful, I’m just making an attempt.”
Hearing Chen Ge’s words, Gao Ruxue’s eyes dimmed, but she still didn’t take back her arm, “If you succeed in meeting him, remember to tell him that I miss him.”
”Okay.” Chen Ge told Gao Ruxue to close her eyes, then summoned her red high heels.
The black curse that was like a steel needle entered amongst Gao Ruxue’s body and extracted a drop of Gao Ruxue’s heart blood.
”You can open your eyes now.” Chen Ge looked at the whitened Gao Ruxue and promised very seriously, “I will convey your words to Dr. Gao, and I will also help your family as much as I can.”
Leaving from Gao Ruxue’s house, Chen Ge received a good news before he could walk out far.
The red high heels had managed to sense an extremely terrifying existence by placing a spell on the blood filaments in the white cat’s body and Ruxue Gao’s heart blood, and according to Chen Ge’s speculation, the monster that emanated a terrifying aura should be Dr. Gao.
”Being able to sense it is a good thing, perhaps when I enter the world behind the door, this sense will become even stronger.”
Walking out of the neighborhood, Chen Ge ran to the Hanjiang Welfare Institute again and took a drop of Fan Yu’s blood.
After it was all done, he quietly returned to New Century Paradise and rushed to wake up Old Wu before the tourists visited.
”Wu, wake up, we should go back to New Sea.”
The sleeping Old Wu was shaken awake, and he looked at Chen Ge with sleepy eyes, a blank look of who am I and where am I.
”Yesterday I asked you to go back to Hanjiang with me to pick up something, have you forgotten?”
”I have, a little impression.” Lao Wu rubbed his head.
”Get ready to leave, I’m done with things.” Chen Ge placed the white cat in the backseat of the car, he had already made the preparations he needed to make, the next step was to deal with that hospital with all his might and find out the whereabouts of his parents.
The car drove out of New Century Paradise and they returned to New Sea City at noon when the sun’s rays were at their strongest.
”Brother Wu, you shouldn’t drive this car on the road again recently, in addition, you should tell Mr. Wang not to go out casually at night, and it’s best for both of you to stay in a crowded place.” Chen Ge was worried that this car would be targeted by the cursed hospital and reminded.
”Good.”
Old Wu sent Chen Ge to the Nightmare Academy and then left in a hurry.
Chen Ge carried his backpack and hugged the white cat as he pushed open the door of the Nightmare Academy, and as soon as he entered the house he felt that something was wrong.
Because it wasn’t precisely open for business, the haunted house’s central air conditioner wasn’t turned on, but now the haunted house was unusually cold.
”Xiao Die? Zhang Jingju?”
A very bad premonition arose in his heart, Chen Ge directly flipped open the comic book to release several red-clothed employees.
”Search the entire building!”
Chen Ge’s tone was serious, he didn’t go inside the scene, he just stood in the doorway, if something was slightly wrong, he would immediately escape.
Half a minute later, Men Nan appeared in front of Chen Ge: “There’s no one in the haunted house.”
”Did something come last night?” Chen Ge was very worried about the safety of the employees of the haunted house.
”We haven’t sensed any other traces of the presence of the severe ghosts, but something did come in last night.” Men Nan pointed at the scene entrance there, “Look here.”
Protected by several red coats, Chen Ge walked to the scene entrance, the wooden door leading to the interior of the scene was plastered with notes, each with a sentence written on it.
”This is a sick world, why haven’t you realized it yet? I must cure you!”
Dense notes were plastered all over the wooden door, looking very} human.
”It was that hospital that did this.” Chen Ge recalled a detail, yesterday morning when he hunted Red Clothes and returned to the Nightmare Academy, he had felt that there was a gaze peering at him from the Ten Mile Delicatessen.
Perhaps he had been watched since that time.
”Go to Ten Mile Deli.”
It was just after meal time, and there weren’t many people at the deli door, so Chen Ge directly brought a few redcoats to the front of the store.
”What would a few of you like to order?” The clerk enthusiastically came over, but Chen Ge ignored him and opened the counter door to enter it.
”Hey!” It was the first time the clerk had encountered such a brutal person, and he was about to say some harsh words when his body lost its strength and he sat down on the chair.
There was no time to lose, Chen Ge didn’t want to waste time on meaningless things, he entered the back kitchen and saw the shopkeeper who was pouring some sort of thing into a large sauce vat – Eat Dragon Head.
”Zhang Yi!”
Without a word of nonsense, when Eat Dragon Head saw Chen Ge, Zhang Yi had already burrowed into his body.
After ten seconds or so, Zhang Yi drilled out of the back of the Eat Dragon Head’s head, his face looking terrible, “The other party seems to know that I’m able to go through his memories, and that his memories have been tampered with, so I can’t find any useful information.”
The cursed hospital realized that Chen Ge’s side had a stern spirit that was able to look through memories and tampered with Eat Dragon Head’s memories, Chen Ge had also guessed at first that the murderous god with the surname of Eat was able to look through the memories of the living, so he didn’t tell any of his living employees about Eat Jen’s stash in the haunted house, and he had always allowed Eat Jen to stay in the principal’s office.
The high hand was all about the details.
”Even if the Cursed Hospital took away my employees, there’s no way for them to get useful information from the memories of the living employees, but with the character of the Cursed Hospital, if I can’t find Zhang Jingjiu and Xiaodie as soon as possible, I’m afraid that they will be in danger of losing their lives.”
Regardless of whether it was a living employee or a Cursed Ghost employee, Chen Ge treated them as family members, and now that his family members had been taken away, he definitely couldn’t sit still.
Re-entering the Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge called out all the red-robed Lich Ghosts from the comic book, not sparing any place and conducting a carpet search.
After about half an hour had passed, Chen Ge really did make a new discovery.
He found a cursed letter in Xiao Die’s room, and the content inside the letter was a collage of words cut from newspapers.
Large and small words were pasted onto the letter paper, looking extremely strange.
”This seems to be some sort of curse game?”
”I came to the hospital holding the hands of seven friends, and my mom said that the patients were among us, and whoever didn’t smile would be the patient.”
”Good friends, bad friends, all laughed.”
”I held the hands of seven friends and came to the hospital, and my dad said my mom was sick and told me to wait outside the room.”
”Good friends, bad friends, all looked at mom and they said no one would leave alive tonight.”
”I held the hands of seven friends to the hospital and the doctor said our dad and mom died inside the sick bay.”
”Good friends, bad friends, all heard the doctor’s words, they said they would never come to play with me in the hospital after wee hours again.”
After reading the letter in his hand, Chen Ge didn’t fully understand what the letter was trying to say, “Was it left behind by No Smile?”
Turning the letter paper to the other side, Chen Ge realized that there was a very blurry pattern of a human face at the back of the paper, and if he looked closely, he could find a few words vaguely written on top of the face – You are my seventh friend.
”I’m the seventh friend? A total of seven people received this letter last night? Is this an invitation to some kind of curse game?”
Chen Ge put the cursed letter away, and after he made sure he found nothing more, he took out his cell phone and directly called the police.
”Team Cai! I was attacked by the culprits! All three of my employees disappeared last night!”
Upon receiving Chen Ge’s call, the police didn’t react at all, from their perspective, even if the culprits were arrogant, it was impossible for them to run to Xinhai’s largest business district to commit a crime, and the number of people who had disappeared in one night was as high as three.
”We’ll be right there! You stay safe!”
Only ten minutes had passed before two police cars stopped at the entrance of the Nightmare Academy.
”Team Cai! Come see this door!” Chen Ge tugged on Team Cai’s arm and ran to the entrance of the haunted house scene, and the dense notes on that door stunned the police.
”When did you realize the employee was missing?”
”I returned to the haunted house at noon today, once I entered the door, I realized that the employees on duty didn’t come to work because they usually live in the haunted house, then I called their phones again, still no one answered, and further back I saw this door!” Chen Ge’s tone was anxious: “These employees followed me over from Hanjiang to earn money, and now that the money wasn’t earned and they were still being targeted by the murderer, I’m the one who dragged them down! That murderer must have known that I was investigating him, that’s why he wanted to get back at me in this way!”
”You don’t have to blame yourself too much, weren’t you at the haunted house last night?” Team Cai felt that this case was fishy in every way.
”Originally I was going to open in three days, last night I went back to Hanjiang to pick up some props I was going to use, Old Wu from the Hanjiang City Branch can testify that he was the one who drove me away, and the surveillance along the road should have been able to capture me as well.” Chen Ge was saddened, “The murderer’s real target is me! If I hadn’t gotten involved in this case, they wouldn’t have suffered a poisonous death!”
”Mr. Chen, you mustn’t think like this, it’s already very impressive that you’re brave enough to come forward and expose the viciousness of the murderers. Now that your employees are missing, this should strictly be our dereliction of duty.” Team Cai wanted to comfort Chen Ge, but didn’t know where to start.
”Team Cai, the murderer is definitely more than one person, they were able to make three of my employees go missing at the same time, it should be a gang!”
”En, we are also investigating in this direction.”
”I’m afraid that my three employees weren’t the only ones who went missing last night, they should have been planning this for a long time.” Chen Ge had this deduction because of the cursed letter, the letter said that he was the seventh friend, that meant that the cursed letter might have a total of seven: “Team Cai, the murderer has already taken the initiative to find me, he must have investigated me, the only people I can rely on right now are you guys.”
”Don’t worry, I will arrange for manpower to be around your haunted house, as long as he still dares to come over, he will definitely be able to capture him.”
”After making such a big commotion, they definitely won’t come back to my door in a short period of time, this case concerns the lives of three of my employees, can I join you in the investigation?” The Cursed Hospital had existed in Xinhai for more than twenty years, and the police must have a backlog of cases related to the hospital, Chen Ge wanted to utilize the police’s information to learn about that hospital from all aspects.
He knew the truth about certain things, so he viewed things from a different perspective than the Xinhai police and would come to different conclusions about the same cases.
”I can’t make a decision on this.” Team Cai politely declined.
”That’s fine.” Chen Ge didn’t force himself, “The murderer kidnapped three large living people, their movements must be very inconvenient, they will definitely make their next move tonight, you guys must be careful tonight.”
Team Cai always felt uncomfortable listening to Chen Ge, a normal person in such a situation should be begging the police to catch the criminals as soon as possible, but Chen Ge seemed to keep reminding the police to protect themselves.
The two sides talked for an hour, and Chen Ge connected all the clues of the case, which more or less pointed to an abandoned hospital on the far outskirts of Xinhai.
Xinhai had always been a city with very good law and order, and the cases in the past few days had been considered extremely rare and serious.
The police have been mobilized to investigate several cases, and while the whole city is under control, they are also preparing for an in-depth investigation of the hospital in the far suburbs.
The calmness of the new sea has been completely broken, and the dark current is raging under the surface of the sea.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Chen Ge had just sent the police away when he received a call from Old Wu, who brought Chen Ge another piece of bad news – Mr. Wang had disappeared.
Chen Ge didn’t even bother to eat his meal and rushed to Mr. Wang’s place, but he didn’t see Mr. Wang, instead, he saw Zuo Han.
”Why are you here?”
”I called teacher last night to ask about something, and halfway through the conversation, teacher said that it seemed like someone else had entered his house.” Zuo Han’s eyes were heavy: “Teacher hung up, and then I never got through on his phone. I was worried that something had happened to him, and early this morning, I rushed the first bus to come to Xinhai.”
”Did you guys find anything special in Teacher Wang’s room? For example, notes and letters or something …… like that,” Chen Ge hadn’t finished speaking when he saw Zuo Han pick up a letter from the coffee table.
The letter paper was the same as the one Chen Ge had found in Xiaodie’s room, the only difference was on the back of the letter paper, which was written on the person’s face on the reverse side of the letter paper – You are my first friend.