Chapter 1177 – The Madman Who Fights Curses With Weird Tales
”After the dean died, his office was preserved in its original state?”
The hearts of the people outside the door were filled with doubts, and apart from Chen Ge, no one dared to enter the house, including the two doctors.
At this moment, Chen Ge’s state was very poor, the memories in his head that were related to the stench began to be uncontrollable, and pieces of memory fragments exploded in his mind to create a picture.
”Hey! Don’t stay inside alone!” Patient number two was worried about Chen Ge’s safety and slowly approached the dean’s office, but when he reached the doorway, his body was unwilling to enter it no matter what, every cell in his body resisted, as if he was bound to die if he entered the house.
In a trance Chen Ge heard the voice of patient number two, but his nerves had already been drowned out by the intense pain.
He gradually began to lose control of his body, and under the double torture of stench and pain, he fell headlong towards the dean’s desk.
With his hands propped up on the desk, Chen Ge’s face, which was distorted by the pain, almost touched the glass jar on the desk.
”Whose heart is this?”
Gasping violently, his chest heaving, as Chen Ge’s pain deepened, the heart that was entangled in countless thin black threads unexpectedly began to beat in the glass jar.
It was as if it was Chen Ge’s own heart, and every beat tugged at Chen Ge’s nerves.
”Could this heart contained in the jar be mine?”
Chen Ge felt that his heart and the heart in the jar, beat at the same frequency.
He stared at the jar as if his soul was going to be sucked into the glass jar, and indescribable pain and despair continued to pour into his body.
The world in front of his eyes began to blur, and the countless dead characters in the room zoomed in front of his eyes, as if they had all come to life.
Chen Ge wanted to wave his hands to resist, but his body and spirit had reached the edge of collapse, and it was difficult to even move.
”Trapped in a room full of dead characters, why is this scene so familiar to me?” An image flashed through the depths of Chen Ge’s memory, a clay figure with the word Chen Ge engraved on its chest was shoved into a shrine with the word death engraved all over its inner walls.
What Chen Ge was experiencing right now was the same as that clay figure with his name engraved on it, except that he hadn’t been locked up among the shrine, but instead was trapped in the dean’s office, which was engraved with words of death.
”Someone is cursing me!”
Scattered flashes of memories made Chen Ge realize that he had been cursed before, only that the other party hadn’t succeeded due to a variety of reasons, and now that he had once again touched the curse, he didn’t know why he was so familiar with these things that normal people couldn’t even come into contact with.
Moving his hands slowly, Chen Ge’s teeth bit out blood as he held onto the glass jar on the table stiffly.
He originally wanted to break that glass jar to see if he could break the curse, but what he didn’t expect was that when his hands touched the glass jar, the black threads that were stuck to his heart drilled out of that heart and began to frantically hit the glass jar, as if they wanted to break through the jar and enter Chen Ge’s body.
Cracks appeared on the glass jar, and the stench in the room grew stronger, Chen Ge was now on the verge of collapse, and he used his last strength to push the glass jar to the edge of the table.
The black filaments struck the glass, the cracks continued to spread, and as the entire jar was about to be shattered, a deep red blood filament emerged from that heart.
These filaments of blood twisted around each other and wove a child’s face around the heart.
It shrieked shrilly, and those black filaments seemed to be preventing the child from running out of the heart, immediately closing back into the heart.
Chen Ge witnessed the entire process, whether it was the black threads or the child’s face emerging from the bottom of the heart, all of these were different from the real world described by Dr. Gao.
He looked at the child’s face on the heart slightly bewildered, vaguely feeling that the child resembled himself as a child.
”This heart sealed in a glass jar, is it that child’s?”
The pain in his head eased a lot, and Chen Ge collapsed next to the table, panting heavily.
The dean’s office had returned to normal, and even the stench wafting through the air had faded a bit.
”Are you alright?” Dr. Sun didn’t enter the middle of the office until this time, and he squatted beside Chen Ge, his back to the office door.
”Do I look like I’m fine to you?” Chen Ge coughed violently as soon as he opened his mouth to speak.
Dr. Sun silently watched Chen Ge as he pointed at Chen Ge’s finger and suddenly said something inexplicable, “Before the patient was hospitalized, all of his belongings were stored in the fifth ward, and there is a wedding ring placed in your locker.”
”Wedding ring? But I’m not married ……”
”Yeah, you’re not married, so why would you own a wedding ring?” Dr. Sun’s scarred face revealed a relieved smile, his back was to the ward door, and at this moment the smile on his face could only be seen by Chen Ge: “If you are able to be discharged from the hospital successfully, remember to put that wedding ring on, it should be very important to you.”
Chen Ge felt that Dr. Sun was a bit different from earlier, and he thought back carefully.
Ever since he left the treatment room in the third ward, Dr. Gao had been grabbing his arm, and Dr. Sun had been indifferent to himself, but after entering the dean’s office, Dr. Sun actually had a smile on his face, which was completely different from how he had acted in the beginning.
”Could it be because Dr. Gao didn’t enter the dean’s office?” Chen Ge felt more and more the difference between Dr. Sun and Dr. Gao, at this moment, Dr. Gao was more like a corpse, while Dr. Sun was becoming more and more humane.
”Let’s go, don’t stay in the dean’s office for too long, this place is unlucky.” Dr. Sun helped Chen Ge up from the ground, he assisted Chen Ge and was about to walk out when Chen Ge stopped.
”Wait.” Chen Ge turned around and picked up the glass jar on the desk in the dean’s office.
”What do you want?” Dr. Sun sucked in a breath of cool air and subconsciously moved away from Chen Ge, who was holding the glass jar, which seemed to be a very dangerous thing.
”I want to take this thing with me.” Chen Ge knew that the black threads wrapped around his heart could kill him at any time, but he still wanted to bring this thing with him because he felt that the face floating inside his heart was very important to him.
”Do you know what this is? Did you really listen to all the stories I told you before as stories?” Dr. Sun’s face changed at once, he knew very well how scary that glass jar was, only that he couldn’t just talk about it for some reason.
”I know that this thing is very dangerous, but it’s precisely because he’s dangerous that I want to bring him with me.” Chen Ge replied seriously.
”What kind of logic is this?” Dr. Sun suspected that Chen Ge’s condition had worsened again.
”Actually, I wasn’t going to bring this with me at first, but the stories you just told changed my mind.” Chen Ge hugged the glass jar, his eyes staring at the heart inside, “This hospital might really be haunted, and for ghosts and monsters, we don’t have any means of being able to fight back, but if we bring this thing with us that’s not necessarily the case. If the ghost really appears, we can use this glass jar with the heart to smash it.”
”Smash it?” Dr. Sun frowned tightly as he asked again with some uncertainty, “Are you serious?”
”Of course, something left at the first dean’s death scene is definitely something of great evil, but you have to understand one thing. We may die if we carry it, but if we do encounter a ghost, then one of us will definitely die.” Chen Ge held the glass jar and started walking towards the outside of the office, “Choosing the lesser of two evils, I’d love to see if this jar is dangerous or the ghosts are dangerous.”
Ghosts were nothingness, the glass jar was real, Chen Ge wanted to use something that a living person could actually touch to deal with the nothingness of the ghosts and monsters, an idea that made Dr. Sun a bit staggered.
”You …… might really be crazy.” Dr. Sun’s words seemed to have another deep meaning, but it was as if Chen Ge did not hear it. Of course, given Chen Ge’s current situation, he would pretend to be confused even if he heard it.
”I was already sick, but I will actively cooperate with your treatment.” Chen Ge’s good heart was a little scary.
Looking at Chen Ge walking out of the office with a glass jar in his arms, Dr. Gao, who was like a walking corpse, not only didn’t go to grab Chen Ge’s arm, but also took the initiative to move away from Chen Ge, both sides keeping a distance of about three meters.
Both doctors were unwilling to stand with Chen Ge, and although patient number two somewhat didn’t quite understand the reason for this, he wisely stayed away from Chen Ge as well.
”Why did you take out this heart specimen?” Patient number two was not averse to human organ specimens, he was just worried that Chen Ge had some sort of strange fetish.
”Specimen?” Chen Ge looked at the fresh heart in the glass jar, and he vaguely felt that the “heart” everyone saw seemed to be not quite the same: “Dr. Sun said that the hospital was unclean, so I brought the glass jar left behind by the first dean after his death, and this is sort of like fighting fire with fire.”
Patient number two was also completely unable to understand Chen Ge’s thoughts, and he wisely stopped communicating with Chen Ge and looked at Dr. Sun instead: “Where is the drug storeroom you mentioned? It’s almost at the end of the road and I don’t see it!”
”I was the one who remembered wrongly, after the strange death of the first dean, many doctors didn’t dare to come to this floor to get their medications, and the hospital moved the medication storeroom to the fourth floor of the fifth ward.” Dr. Sun said perfunctorily.
”Are you sure?” Patient number two felt that Dr. Sun had a big problem, and he didn’t trust Dr. Sun much in the first place.
Chen Ge also noticed that something was wrong, he felt that Dr. Sun didn’t care about other people’s lives at all, and his statement that the drug storeroom was on the fourth floor might have been just to lure Chen Ge to the vicinity of the dean’s office.
Saving people was just an excuse for Dr. Sun to accomplish his purpose, and it seemed that the only person he really cared about was Chen Ge.
”Does it mean that as long as I don’t have too many problems, everyone will be safe and sound?” Chen Ge had already realized that this place was different from the hospital outside, Dr. Sun had mentioned the “door” before, and he remembered that the “door” was also a very special place: “Other than me, even if other people die here, they won’t be really die?”
Shaking his head, Chen Ge pushed this thought out of his mind, he was unwilling and unable to try with Zhang Jingjiu’s life.
Unable to find medicine, Zhang Jingjiu could die at any time, Dr. Gao was like a corpse not saying a word, now Chen Ge and Patient 2 could only go and trust Dr. Sun.
They followed Dr. Sun’s words and ran from the fourth ward to the fifth ward.
Along the way, Dr. Sun told Chen Ge many more strange things that happened in this hospital.
While they were rushing, some things that were hard for science to explain also appeared inside the building, but fortunately, there were some scares.
None of those strange things came close to Chen Ge and the others, they just flashed by at a distance.
Coming to the fourth floor of the fifth ward, this time Dr. Sun didn’t deceive Chen Ge, and they finally found the drug storeroom.
But things weren’t that simple, the room next to the drug storeroom had a seal attached to it, and the gap underneath the door was still seeping blood out, so they couldn’t even ignore it if they wanted to.
”This room with the seal on it was the office of the second dean, who had been the vice president of this hospital and had seven children at home. After the strange death of the first dean, he was temporarily acting as dean. But sadly, he disappeared on the seventh day after taking over as dean and has not been found until now.” Dr. Sun stood at the door as if encouraging Chen Ge to go in and check.
”The second dean disappeared after only seven days? It seems like the director of this hospital is still a high-risk occupation.” Chen Ge avoided the blood on the ground, “I’m curious how many directors this hospital has had in total.”
”Counting the acting ones and the temporary appointments, this hospital has had a total of seven directors, with the seventh being the most unfortunate.” Dr. Sun had a question to answer.
”Why was the seventh dean the most unfortunate? Did he die the most painful death?”
”Because he has been working in this hospital until now.” Dr. Sun finished tapping his fingers on the door of the room, the ticking sound from Dr. Gao’s watch diminishing considerably with each knock.
”Can I come in and take a look?” Holding the glass jar containing a heart, Chen Ge pushed open the door to the second dean’s office.
The interior of the house was very sparsely decorated, and at first glance there was nothing special about it, but after entering it, Chen Ge smelled the pungent stench again.
He rummaged through the things in the room and finally saw a glass jar on the bookshelf, which contained a person’s five senses.
The eyes, nose, ears, and other organs were immersed in a liquid full of black silk threads, and the most bizarre thing was that when Chen Ge approached, those eyes looked at him at the same time.
”Why are there jars placed in the second dean’s office as well?” Chen Ge said as he was about to reach for the glass jar, only to be stopped by Dr. Sun.
”Don’t mess with the things in the house.” Dr. Sun whispered, “You just need to look and remember, don’t take the things inside every house you enter.”
”Dr. Sun, don’t all the directors of this hospital have a hobby of collecting organs?”
”Do you seriously think so?” Dr. Sun swept the doorway with his afterglow, and after he realized that Dr. Gao didn’t follow him in, he said with his fastest speech, “There are seven glass jars in the house of the seven deans, and the seven glass jars are divided equally among a patient according to the weight of the soul, and that patient’s number is the same as yours.”