Chapter 1158 – When I saw the darkness, I walked straight into it
”Little netherworld?”
Chen Ge watched the cab until the last bit of remaining light from the vehicle’s taillights was also swallowed by the night.
The far outskirts of Xinhai were desolate, and there were almost no pedestrians on the road.
Flipping open the comic book, Chen Ge told all the employees to get ready, then he placed the white cat on the ground.
The white cat, which was cautious by nature, perked up its ears, and its heterochromatic pupils were thick with uneasiness as it followed Chen Ge closely, itching to burrow into Chen Ge’s clothes.
”Do you sense danger?”
Stroking the white cat’s head, Chen Ge took a deep breath as he left the main road and followed the path into the depths of the far suburbs.
Passing through an abandoned building, the surroundings became quieter and quieter, the names of bugs could not be heard, nor could any light be seen.
”This area of unfinished buildings is a residential area, how did the building stop after just constructing a shell?” Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge saw that various fonts had been sprayed on the building’s outer wall with red paint, as if some workers had run to the top floor of the unfinished building in order to collect their wages as a way of intimidating the developer, which resulted in an accident that day.
Not far from the unfinished residential area is a large area of abandoned factories, including chemical factories, and pharmaceutical factories, but more factories do not even have a name.
The mottled rust stains on the guardrails were able to prove that they had existed for a long time, and had not been taken care of, and all sorts of equipment had turned into large-scale garbage that was difficult to dispose of.
The far outskirts of Xinhai were much larger than Chen Ge had imagined, and the driver just drove to the edge of the far outskirts and stopped, not going inside at all.
In order to prevent being blocked on the main road, Chen Ge didn’t dare to go in along the main road either, he could only slowly feel his way in this way.
The previous communication with the police wasn’t completely useless, at least when he went to the police station a few times before he understood in detail the architectural layout of the far suburbs of Xinhai.
The far suburbs had been deserted for too long, and the locations of various types of factories and abandoned buildings were only labeled on the police’s maps.
”Residential areas, various types of factories, movie theaters, supermarkets, and small parks, there are quite a few categories of abandoned buildings in this far suburb, just like a forgotten city.” Chen Ge had been wondering before why that hospital built in the far suburbs of the New Sea would be called the New Sea Center Hospital, but now he slowly understood, if the far suburbs were compared to an abandoned New Sea, the cursed hospital was indeed in the center of this abandoned New Sea.
”The mission requires that we arrive at the New Sea Center Hospital before twelve o’clock at night, time is a bit tight, I’m going to speed up.”
If Xinhai was the territory of the Cursed Hospital, then the far outskirts of Xinhai was their lair, where Chen Ge had to be extremely careful.
Around almost eleven o’clock, the far suburbs of Xinhai, which were shrouded in darkness, suddenly had a flash of light.
Chen Ge looked towards the place where the light emanated from, and it was a car speeding down the main road.
”It seems to be a car from the Hanyue Academy of Forensic Sciences? Could it be Old Wu and Zuo Han coming?”
Chen Ge knew how dangerous the Cursed Hospital was, and he immediately took out his cell phone and dialed Old Wu’s number.
”Old Wu! You guys came to the far suburbs of Xinhai too?”
”It was Zuo Han who took the car! I parked my car in the original parking space of that apartment and then stayed with Zuo Han in a hotel in the center of the city, as a result, when I took a shower half an hour ago, Zuo Han took my car keys away! He also disappeared, how the phone can not get through!”
”Zuo Han is not the kind of personality impulsive people, you look at the room, he has not left you any clues!” Chen Ge was a bit anxious, a confrontation at the level of the House of Horrors and the Cursed Hospital, even if Zuo Han was smart, he would surely die once he was involved.
”When I went to take a shower, he seemed to be reading a book …… Found it, it’s this book.” The sound of Old Wu turning the pages of the book came from the other side of the cell phone, “Huh?”
”Any findings?”
”There are a few words circled in pencil in this book.” Old Wu whispered, “Man, house, have, li?”
”Human house has a li?” Chen Ge’s eyes snapped open, “There are people in the house! Old Wu! Leave that room immediately!”
When Chen Ge shouted out these words, there was no sound on the other side of the cell phone, and no matter how much he shouted, there was no response.
”The Cursed Hospital has made a move, what exactly do they want from those around me?” The relationship between Chen Ge and Lao Wu was very ordinary, and Lao Wu knew very few secrets, but even this was not spared by the Cursed Hospital.
The memory of Old Wu accompanying Chen Ge to leave Hanjiang was erased by Zhang Yi, and the Cursed Hospital couldn’t get anything valuable at all, which was considered the only good news right now.
”Could it be that all the people related to me are their targets? That hospital specializes in curses, could they be trying to curse me through all those related to me?”
Most curses required a medium, the more terrifying the curse the more things it required, Chen Ge had a very bad feeling in his heart.
”It takes time to complete the curse, they just laid their hands on Old Wu, so if my guess is correct, then their curse shouldn’t be completed yet.”
Chen Ge watched as the car disappeared in the darkness, and he quickened his pace.
At eleven thirty at night, Chen Ge finally arrived near Xinhai Central Hospital.
This abandoned hospital was in the center of the far outskirts of Xinhai, and several buildings were connected together to form an inverted cross, looking as deadly as a ghost.
”Is this where my parents disappeared?”
Chen Ge didn’t go through the main entrance, he summoned Red Heels and Blood Rong out and secretly observed from the outskirts of the hospital.
Blood Rong didn’t expect that she had managed to escape from the cursed hospital and ended up returning to this nightmare place today, the curse in her body was triggered, if it wasn’t for the red high heeled shoes pressing down on her, she could have lost her mind straight away.
”Are you crazy? Why are you running here looking for death? Isn’t it good to stay honestly in Hanyue?” Blood Rong barely maintained her sanity.
”Cut the crap, you’ve been a night doctor at the Cursed Hospital, you should know the inside well.”
”There’s no way I’m going back in, so just die!” Blood Rong was showing signs of losing control, Chen Ge let the red high heels put a new curse on Blood Rong.
”Curse the hospital for arresting my employees, they threatened with several lives. I’m not negotiating with you right now, if you don’t help me, then I’ll let my employees devour you right now.” Chen Ge’s tone was icy cold, at this time, being indecisive would not only not save anyone, it would also harm himself.
The number of black threads on Blood Rong’s body was increasing, the red high heels had inflicted a variety of curses on Blood Rong, when Blood Rong was treating the red high heels, he had also inflicted different curses on the red high heels, this was considered karmic reincarnation.
”Stop!” Blood Rong’s eyes were red, a black blood vessel emerged on the surface of her skin, she was in great pain at this time, “Cursed hospitals don’t casually arrest people, there are only two types of people that can be seen by them, one type of doctor that possesses cultivation value, and one type of patient that possesses a certain trait! After all the doctors are tricked into the hospital, they will start out as day shift interns, as for the patients, they are not so lucky, they will be locked up in the isolation ward, and if they can survive for more than three days, the patient will be given their own number.”
”Isolation ward?”
”Yes, all new patients will be locked up there.” The black veins on Blood Rong’s skin disappeared, she glanced at the red heels full of fear, the patient she had once treated had turned into a horrible monster, “The central hospital is huge, the isolation ward is in the deepest part, I hope you can reconsider.”
”I think you may have misunderstood a little, I’m not going to the isolation ward to save anyone.”
”Then what do you want to do?” Bloodrunner was a little puzzled.
”I want to completely destroy this hospital, not sparing any of the people or ghosts compelled by the curse. After purifying the entire hospital, I will naturally be able to save the people they kidnapped away.” Chen Ge waved his hand and urged, “Take us in.”
Having boarded the ship of thieves, Blood Rong was powerless to resist, so she had no choice but to lead Chen Ge to the left side of the hospital, “This is the side door, which is relatively safer and only known to hospital insiders.”
Just as Blood Rong finished speaking, she saw a car parked next to the side door.
”Why is the car from the Hanyue Academy of Forensic Sciences parked here? Did Zuo Han enter the hospital through the side door? Didn’t you say that this door is only known to hospital insiders?”
”Indeed!” Blood Rong wasn’t sure: “I definitely wouldn’t intentionally try to deceive you, the end of falling into the hands of the hospital would be a thousand times worse than falling into your hands, so I definitely unconditionally chose to stand with you ah!”
”Hospital insiders know about it, doesn’t that mean that the other party might have already anticipated that I would come in through here? This path isn’t safe enough.” Chen Ge shook his head as he chose a more remote window.
At 11:54 PM, Chen Ge officially entered the interior of the cursed hospital.
The Xinhai Central Hospital had obviously been deserted for a long time, but the interior of the building smelled like disinfectant, and shoe and foot prints could occasionally be seen on the ground, as if people were often walking in the long corridors.
”When Team Cai called me earlier, he said that there were no traces of living people in the entire hospital, so why did he lie? Was there something standing beside him at that time?”
Using his Yin pupil, the darkness couldn’t affect Chen Ge as he carefully traveled through the long corridors.
Before he could get far out, Chen Ge saw a sentence written in blood-red paint on the wall of the corridor – This sick world, why hasn’t it been destroyed yet?
The hideous handwriting, paired with the bright red paint, looked extremely harsh.
Chen Ge frowned slightly as he continued to walk forward, and the truly crazy side of this abandoned hospital gradually unfolded.
Yellowish death notices began to appear on the ground, and black and white photos of a doctor hung on the walls, some of which had their faces gouged out with fingernails, and their white coats were filled with needle marks.
”The owners of the cursed hospital are the director and the doctors, how could they sit back and watch the doctors’ photos being defaced like this?”
The situation was more complicated than Chen Ge thought, the long corridors in front of him seemed to have no end in sight, and monsters seemed to be hidden behind every door.
Traces of patients struggling and resisting could be seen everywhere throughout the entire hospital, and the walls were smeared with layer after layer of paint that looked pure white and flawless on the surface, but in fact, the inside had already rotted through, emitting a putrid odor.
”Everywhere here breathes abnormality, but just can’t perceive the presence of ghosts and monsters.” Chen Ge’s five senses were far superior to normal people, and he did not perceive any danger after entering the hospital, but was only inexplicably uncomfortable, as if a large living person had been thrown into a quagmire.
The white cat, which had been on high alert outside the hospital, instead relaxed after entering the interior of the hospital, it followed Chen Ge with cat steps, from time to time twisting its head curiously towards the surroundings.
”Don’t be careless, the night in the cursed hospital is like this, you should be glad that you didn’t meet any patients or night shift doctors, they are one more terrifying than the other.” Even after becoming a Redcoat, Bloodrunner still cringed when she recalled certain memories.
”Are you sure? Why do I feel as if all the severe ghosts have left tonight.” Chen Ge pushed the door of the hospital room and saw the handwriting left by the patient next to the bed – Who can take me out of this sick world.
”Why does everyone here think the world is sick? Isn’t it because they are sick that they see the world as distorted?”
There were a ton of handwriting, notes, and carvings like this, and Chen Ge felt that the hospital was intentionally trying to create such an atmosphere.
A normal person was told to live in the middle of a sick world, and then cursed the hospital for displaying that sickness through all sorts of crazy means to gain that normal person’s approval.
And once that person identifies with the idea, that normal person really becomes sick.
”No matter what, I can’t be swayed, even if this world is imperfect, then it is still real!” Just by walking through a corridor, the words sick world had already appeared before his eyes countless times.
Chen Ge now finally understood why he had that uncomfortable feeling, the Xinhai Center Hospital was completely different from the outside world, it could even be said that the entire far reaches of Xinhai were different from the rest of the world, this was actually the truly sick world.
”They seem to want to drive everyone who enters the hospital crazy, whether it’s the doctors, or the patients.”
The most horrifying thing about the cursed hospital wasn’t so much the killing of a particular person, but the complete transformation of a person, like the Plutonian Fetus, for example.
Shadow’s starting point was the pursuit of happiness, the desire to love and be loved, but after encountering the Cursed Hospital, Shadow’s world was twisted, and the child who had a chance at salvation became a murderous god in the world of black mist.
He had committed countless killings and endured the most painful and desperate curses, and the culprit of all this was the Cursed Hospital.
Chen Ge didn’t know why the Cursed Hospital was doing this, what he needed to be careful of now was that he must not be affected.
The Cursed Hospital seemed to have begun its own plans since the kidnapping of the haunted house employees.
Chen Ge wanted to destroy the Cursed Hospital, and why would the Cursed Hospital not want to completely turn Chen Ge into a patient.
The grudge entanglements between the two sides began twenty years ago, traversing life, death, and two cities, with countless forces interspersed, and all the people and ghosts waiting for this moment.
Walking out of the outpatient hall, Chen Ge entered the emergency building again, and when neither Blood Rong nor the staff were paying attention, he quietly rubbed the wedding ring on his finger.
Little Sun was somewhere on the ground floor of the hospital, and both sides were very close together.
Chen Ge didn’t go directly towards Xiao Sun’s location, but continued to search according to the original plan, and along the way he didn’t encounter a single living person, nor did he see a single stern ghost, until he discovered the entrance to the underground.
”Isolation Ward No. 1 is down here, I’ll give you a heads up first, it’s very dangerous in here.” Blood Rong’s expression became odd, a thin black line emerging from his blood-red eyes, “Today’s hospital is indeed a bit special, it’s better for you to pay more attention.”
Looking at the dark passageway, Chen Ge did not hesitate and quickly walked in.