Chapter 1181 – When I Have All the Goodness (Up)
An hour after Dr. Sun left, Dr. Gao and Xu Wan walked in together.
They had a good chat with Chen Ge, then Xu Wan led Chen Ge to the patient’s locker room.
Opening the door to the storage room, Chen Ge stood in front of his locker as he carefully searched for the wedding ring that Dr. Sun had mentioned, but there was no luck.
”This is all you have, you can change your clothes here, I’ll go out and wait for you.” Xu Wan said on her lips that she was leaving, but her person didn’t go outside, she was torn for a long time, and suddenly handed Chen Ge a piece of paper, “This is my phone number and social account, after you go out, you can contact me at any time if your condition recurs.”
”Okay.”
Only after seeing Chen Ge accept the piece of paper did Xu Wan leave.
Closing the door to the storage room, Chen Ge began to change his clothes.
He found a black cell phone with a shattered screen in the pocket of his tunic, which could not be turned on probably due to the lack of power.
In addition to that, the locker contained proof of identity, proof of rehabilitation, and a thick file that recorded his daily medication and physical reactions, with the date of treatment starting a year and a half ago.
He also found a bill at the very back of the file for the year and a half long treatment that had cost all the savings his parents had left behind.
”Why is there no wedding ring?”
Chen Ge searched carefully again and suddenly thought that Xiao Sun had come over this morning and said that he should take a look at cabinet 29.
Moving his line of sight, Chen Ge found cabinet 29 underneath his own cabinet.
The cabinet door was unlocked, and inside were the remains of a female patient, as well as her case sheet and urn.
”It can’t be inside the urn, right? This hiding is too secretive.”
Chen Ge opened the urn and rummaged through it, finally reaching the ring, he quietly put the ring into his pocket and then restored everything to its original state.
”This ring might be some sort of token, it’s not very convenient right now, I’ll study it after I leave the hospital.”
The discharge procedures were troublesome, and Chen Ge wasted a full day.
While running the various windows to do the formalities, Chen Ge once again had that trance-like feeling that everything was too real.
He was just an insignificant person in the world, not that it was his world.
As the sun set, Chen Ge walked out of the hospital with his own bag on his back.
He glanced back at the huge complex behind him, vaguely feeling that someone was standing behind a window watching him at this moment.
”I should be returning to this hospital, only I won’t be using the identity of a patient anymore.”
Crossing the road, Chen Ge arrived next to the amusement park across the street from the hospital, “It’s too late today, when tomorrow I’ll visit the haunted house in this park.”
Haunted houses were Chen Ge’s obsession, and he was also curious as to why his past memories had so much to do with horror houses.
”I only have a few dozen dollars in change in my pocket, so I’ll have to find a place to spend the night before I can do that tonight.” Chen Ge sat on the curb and flipped through the documents he brought out of his storage room, which contained information about him and his parents, “My home is in the western suburbs of Xinhai?”
Chen Ge didn’t have any impression at all, he looked at the key in the file bag and silently gazed at it for a long time, “This is the key to my house?”
The file had the location of his house, and Chen Ge took a taxi back to his house before it got dark.
When paying for the cab, the driver gave Chen Ge an odd look, after all, it was indeed rare to see someone like Chen Ge limping and carrying a large pile of things on his own.
”Do you need me to help you carry your stuff upstairs?” The driver asked kindly.
Chen Ge shook his head and thanked the driver’s kindness, “It’s fine, I’ll do it myself.”
As he watched the cab leave, that familiar feeling surged up in Chen Ge’s heart again, as if he had often been looked at with a different gaze by cab drivers.
”What a warm-hearted good guy.” Chen Ge carried his belongings and entered the neighborhood.
He didn’t have any impression of the place at all, and just followed the paperwork a little bit to find his house’s door number.
”Building 3, Unit 3, Unit 303 ……”
Using the key to open the door to his room, Chen Ge looked at the various furniture inside the house that was still quite luxurious, he gently shook his head, “It doesn’t feel like I’m home at all, it’s like this isn’t my home at all.”
After simply cleaning the house, Chen Ge didn’t eat dinner, he hugged his bag and lay on the bed.
As night fell, Chen Ge didn’t turn on the lights, he became one with the darkness and gazed at the distant city through the window.
”There are very few things about my parents in this home, and the only few photos I have don’t show anything unusual, much less can I deduce certain clues through them.” Chen Ge rummaged through the entire home and couldn’t find anything useful, his only hope now was the black cell phone with the shattered screen.
Glancing back at the phone that was charging, Chen Ge realized that it seemed to have been broken, and it wouldn’t charge or turn on.
”Dr. Sun said that the treatment has just begun, but I’ve obviously been discharged from the hospital, is this not the end of the treatment?” Chen Ge combed through everything he experienced in the hospital, he made a plan for himself, “Tomorrow I’ll go see my parents first, then I’ll go to that haunted house for an interview, if I want to live in this city, I have to have a job, that haunted house is perfect for me.”
Sleepy, Chen Ge fell asleep without realizing it.
The next morning after eight o’clock, Chen Ge contacted the police officer in charge of his parents’ case, Li Sanbao, based on certain information on his file.
This aged police officer was very kind, and after he learned about Chen Ge’s case, he personally led Chen Ge to visit his parents.
”Your parents left very suddenly, and you were in a coma and delirious, so I had to contact a friend of your parents and ask him to handle you and your parents.” Li Sanbao led Chen Ge to a cemetery on the far outskirts of Xinhai, and he placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the tombstone.
Looking at the picture on the tombstone, Chen Ge slowly squatted his body, his whole body’s strength was drained away and he slumped to the ground.
Li Sanbao sighed softly and walked away.
A few minutes later, Chen Ge stood up from the ground, his complexion returning to normal: ”Uncle Sanbao, who is that friend who helped out after my family’s accident? I want to go and thank him in person.”
”His name is Luo Jin, he is your parents’ best friend and a famous real estate developer in Xinhai.”
”Luo Jin?”
”En, I’ll give you his phone number.”
Li Sanbao saw that Chen Ge’s mental state was very stable, and he completely let go of his heart, leaving Luo Jin and his phone number before leaving the cemetery.
”Everyone in this city seems to be good people.”
Chen Ge’s own black cell phone didn’t work, so he put the note with his phone number in his pocket and took the bus to Xinhai Paradise.
His leg wasn’t completely healed, but Chen Ge couldn’t wait.
He took some of the change he found at home and purchased a ticket for the park, walked through the various entertainment facilities, and headed toward the House of Horrors on the west side of the park.
The further west he went, the fewer tourists there were, and slowly, Chen Ge’s ears were devoid of the laughter of the tourists, and he was the only one left on the road he was walking on.
Stopping next to the paradise signpost, Chen Ge looked at the haunted house built at the end of the road.
At the entrance of the cold and quiet haunted house stood a woman in a red dress, holding a thick stack of advertising paper and teasing a white cat of enormous size.
Familiar scene, familiar people, familiar cat, Chen Ge felt that this was actually his home.
He stepped out from beside the signpost and was still a dozen meters away from the haunted house when the huge-sized white cat saw him.
The white cat instantly broke free from the woman’s hand and rushed towards Chen Ge.
”I had no choice but to throw you last time.” Chen Ge picked up the white cat and rubbed its head, “The happiest time in the hospital was when I rubbed your head.”
”Chen Ge? You’re out of the hospital?!” The woman in red also saw Chen Ge, and she jogged all the way to Chen Ge’s side.
”En, I’ve completely recovered from my illness.” Chen Ge took out the certificate issued by the doctor from the backpack he was carrying, he looked a bit shy in front of the woman in red, it felt as if he rarely talked to girls.
”Congratulations.” The woman in red was also sincerely happy for Chen Ge, but a moment later, she glanced at the white cat with some reluctance, “I fed this big cat for so long, but as a result, as soon as it saw you, it immediately shrugged off my hand.”
”It’s probably because it hasn’t seen me for too long.”
”Are you here to pick up this cat?” The woman in red reached out and stroked the white cat that was relying on Chen Ge’s arms, “That’s right, you’ve been discharged from the hospital, it’s time to pick it up and take it home, you shouldn’t keep it locked up alone in the house from now on, cats can get lonely too.”
”I didn’t come here to pick it up.” After Chen Ge finished speaking, the white cat and the woman in red both turned their heads to look at him.
”And you are?”
”I’m here to apply for a job.” Chen Ge put the white cat down with a warm smile on his face.
”Applying for a job?” Both the woman in red and the white cat were dumbfounded, “So suddenly?”
”En, I was engaged in work related to haunted houses before my accident, and I have a lot of experience. I think my joining can make our haunted house change the status quo, and I’m confident that I can make our haunted house the most famous haunted house in Xinhai.” Chen Ge carried his backpack and said with great certainty.
”I don’t really care, the problem is ……” The woman in red smiled bitterly, “I don’t want to deceive you either, right now my family’s haunted house can’t make ends meet, it can be said that it’s operating on a sticker price, so if we recruit one more employee ……”
”Can you take me in for a tour?” Chen Ge naturally walked to the woman in red, “I bought a pass for the park.”
”Okay.” The woman in red pulled back the haunted house guardrail and lifted the thick blackout curtain, leading Chen Ge into the interior of the haunted house.
Reaching out and stroking the corridor walls, his fingertips touching the props in the corners, Chen Ge felt his entire being relax, all of this was very familiar to him, as if it was something that was soaked into his bones.
”We only have two scenes open in the haunted house right now, one is the zombie resurrection night, and the other is the underworld wedding, which one do you want to visit?”
”Let’s start with the Zombie Resurrection Night first.” There was no need for the woman in red to lead the way at all, Chen Ge pushed open the door of the scene himself and walked in.
Zombie Resurrection Night was the once reserved scene of the House of Horrors, and it was also the first scene to be abandoned later.
Looking at the worn out sets and worn out props inside the house, Chen Ge gently cupped the plastic human head on the ground and held it in his arms.
”I’ve been here before, the props in the house seem like they were made by me and my family, they are like my children.”
Embracing the human head in his arms, Chen Ge fell into reminiscence, he didn’t realize that there was a zombie in the distance looking at him breathlessly.
”Did my parents bring me here with them? Why does this place give the feeling of my home?”
Even if the brain forgets the past, the body still remembers what it once felt like, and the so-called engraved in the bones should be just like that.
Walking on the path filled with blood stains and human guts, caressing the corpses hanging upside down on the roof, and smelling the faint odor of red paint inside the house, Chen Ge arrived at the first scare point.
In addition to the mannequins in the pile of corpses in front of him, there was also one that was an actor, and after triggering the mechanism, the zombie dressed as an actor would come back to life and start chasing the tourists.
Chen Ge stopped in front of the pile of corpses as he avoided the mechanism, as if he was expecting something in his heart.
”I remember playing hide-and-seek here when I was very young, and my father was hiding inside the pile of corpses, and he even tricked himself into dressing up as a zombie.”
Pushing aside a corpse, when Chen Ge saw the zombie in the middle of the pile with his back turned to him, he couldn’t help but raise his hand, and his mouth preceded his brain as he softly shouted, “Dad?”
Everything in front of him overlapped with that vague impression, and he wanted to reach out and grab the other side.
But who knew that the zombie even started running wildly without looking back, complicated roads, dense organs, but no matter whether it was the zombie or Chen Ge, they both seemed to know this scene like the back of their hand.
Chen Ge followed closely behind that zombie, it seemed that this time he would never let the other party leave.
The dark and bloody road gradually widened, light appeared in front of his eyes, and Chen Ge and that zombie ran out of the scene together.
”Dad? Why did you come out?” The woman in red was worrying about Chen Ge with the advertisement sheet, and when she looked up, she saw her father rushing out of the haunted house in a zombie suit.
”That person is more familiar with the organs than I am! I didn’t find a chance to stop!” A middle-aged man’s voice came out from underneath the zombie suit, probably because he was running too fast, and he coughed a few times when he finished.
As soon as the middle-aged man’s voice fell, Chen Ge, who was holding the human head, also ran out.
His gaze darkened a lot after he heard the middle-aged man’s voice, and he knew that the person inside the zombie jacket was not his father.
”Chen Ge, why did you take the head out as well?” The woman in red hurriedly ran over and took the head in Chen Ge’s hand, “You weren’t scared, were you?”
She looked at Chen Ge who stopped at the entrance of the haunted house, at this time, Chen Ge’s eyes were a bit confused and hazy: “You don’t quite look like you’ve visited a haunted house, why are you still in tears?”
”Zhang Ya, is he your friend?” The middle-aged man removed the zombie headgear and panted heavily, “This kid has a problem ah, as soon as he entered the door, he picked up the human head and hugged it the whole way.”
”Chen Ge he ……”
Zhang Ya was still trying to think of a reason for Chen Ge, but Chen Ge took the initiative and walked to the middle-aged man, “Uncle, I’m here to apply for a job.”
”Uncle? Applying for a job?” The middle-aged man held the zombie headgear as his eyes moved between Chen Ge and Zhang Ya, “You let me run through my thoughts first.”