Chapter 1188 – Calamity, Collapse, Dangerous Deals

　　”I’ve never treated them as enemies, in fact, I know very well that my only enemy is the hospital.”

　　Chen Ge definitely wasn’t acting on the spot, he hadn’t forgotten all of those things he experienced at the hospital.

　　On the surface that hospital carried the banner of salvation and healing, but in reality it was that hospital that constantly created despair and pain in this city.

　　After a normal person entered the hospital and was treated, their worldview was directly distorted, and the seeds of pathology took root in their hearts, finally turning them into a monster.

　　Chen Ge didn’t understand why the hospital did these things until now, they seemed to be very keen on creating all kinds of patients.

　　”Apart from those three most terrifying ghosts, there are also a large number of ghosts hiding in the dark corners of this city, I’ve asked around, and in the past, there weren’t even that many weird existences in this city. Just two months ago, the order was broken and all sorts of severe ghosts and obsessed dead people started to appear, and that time also happened to be the time you woke up in the hospital, so I surmised that most of the ghosts and monsters in this city are related to you.” The writer seemed to have written detective reasoning novels in the past, and he had a strong logical mind and insight.

　　”How did you know the time I woke up in the hospital? There were only hospital doctors and nurses around me at that time.” Chen Ge was a bit puzzled.

　　”It was Zhang Wenyu who told me.” The writer didn’t look like he was lying.

　　”All tens of thousands of you are named Zhang Wenyu, your answer is too general.”

　　”Although all of us are called Zhang Wenyu, there is only one true Zhang Wenyu, and his ability is not inferior to One-Eye or Curse Woman, and is even stronger than Crimson, only that he hides amongst the crowd.” The writer had a faintly imperceptible smile on his face, “When he realized the danger, he immediately transferred his memories to all the obsessions he was carrying, and thus dodged a bullet. He hasn’t forgotten his promise to you either, it’s just that he can’t show himself for the time being.”

　　”Transferred his memories to the obsessions he was carrying?” Chen Ge felt that this reason could not convince him, after all, all people and ghosts had lost their memories, only Zhang Wenyu was an exception, not to mention Chen Ge, even the hospital could not figure it out.

　　”Those people you helped will redeem you one day.” The writer scanned those tenants around him, “Slowly you will understand.”

　　Chen Ge organized the writer’s words, what was certain now was that Zhang Wenyu was secretly protecting him, and the ghosts and monsters in this city could be traded for their help.

　　”You’ve chosen the Peaceful Apartment, and doom will come soon, so I hope you can restrain yourself and buy as much time as you can.” The writer called a few of the leaders of the Peaceful Apartment together, and to Chen Ge’s surprise, the administrator in the Peaceful Apartment was not the man surnamed Zhou, who looked more stable, but the child who had been following Chen Ge.

　　”Men Nan is the smartest tenant among us, and his own abilities are terrifying.” The writer’s words were echoed by the surrounding tenants, and Chen Ge’s eyes became different as he looked at Men Nan.

　　Frankly speaking, he didn’t feel any threat from this kid, he just felt that the other party was a bear child.

　　Seemingly sensing the doubt in Chen Ge’s eyes, Men Nan didn’t argue, as if he didn’t care to argue about the matter of strength and weakness.

　　”Let’s come together to discuss our future plans, since we have decided to fight against each other, we should go all out, only then will we have a chance of survival.” The writer spoke at length, he had retained some of his memories, so he was well aware of the terror of the hospital.

　　Compared to that behemoth, these people from Ping An Apartment were simply not enough to look at.

　　”Next, we’ll use Peaceful Apartment as the center, and keep going to find those partners hiding in the shadows and invite them to join.” Although Men Nan looked young and very small, his style of speaking and doing things was similar to that of an adult, experienced, plus he was despicable and unscrupulous towards his enemies, and he had helped turn everyone’s lives into danger on many occasions, which was why he had a very high status in Ping An Apartment.

　　Sometimes people in the apartment wondered who this kid had learned to be so “bad” at such a young age.

　　”In addition to the ghosts hiding in the shadows of the city, some of the patients in the hospital can also be targets to fight for.” Men Nan walked to the innermost part of the third floor, he looked at Zhang Jingjiu on the ground, “That hospital holds a huge number of patients, if we can turn all of them, it will be a lot easier for us, after all, even the strongest fortress can be easily breached from the inside.”

　　”Men Nan, this patient on the ground is my friend from the hospital, why is he here?” Chen Ge was concerned about Zhang Jingjiu’s situation.

　　At this moment, Zhang Jingjiu’s limbs were fixed by wooden boards, the bones that were broken in the argot had been corrected, and just now, Old Zhou was holding a saw to create a splint for Zhang Jingjiu.

　　”This patient called Zhang Jingjiu seems to have no more use for him, the doctor discarded him as garbage, and it happened to be discovered by Zuo Han who was hiding in the garbage tunnel at the time, and he stole Zhang Jingjiu out.” Men Nan examined Zhang Jingjiu’s injuries, “Since leaving the hospital, this patient has been in a coma, in order to save his life, we found a way to ambush a doctor, but unfortunately, this doctor didn’t know anything.”

　　Chen Ge realized that he might have underestimated the power of Ping An Apartment, under Men Nan’s leadership, they could capture a doctor alive and still not be discovered by the hospital, which was already very impressive.

　　”Then what are you guys going to do with this doctor? If you keep him, maybe the hospital will follow and find him.”

　　”Let’s take him as a test for now, Curse Woman is interested in the black silk threads on the doctors, we’ll give this doctor to her, maybe we can exchange it for a favor.” Men Nan’s heart was crackling with calculations, he was prepared to directly drain this unlucky doctor of all value.

　　The two sides chatted for a long time more, but Zuo Han didn’t return until it was almost dawn.

　　Old Zhou and the writer both had an ominous premonition, and they told Chen Ge to leave as soon as possible before agreeing to meet at Liwan Street in the eastern suburb of Xinhai tomorrow after midnight early morning.

　　Taking advantage of the night, Chen Ge left Ping An Apartment.

　　He didn’t realize that after he left, the ghostly shadows on the third floor were all staring at his back.

　　”Are we really going to bet on him?” Men Nan glanced at the writer, “You’re not in league with him, are you?”

　　”I’ll ask you the simplest question, you used ample time and opportunity to kill him when you appeared behind him, but did the thought ever arise in your mind?” The writer asked Mennan rhetorically, and when he finished, he looked at the other tenants.

　　No one spoke, and in the end, it was Lao Zhou who stepped forward, “He gave me a special, inexplicable feeling, and from the first moment I saw him, I thought he was trustworthy.”

　　”I have a similar feeling.” The female teacher wearing glasses spoke up, and a woman next to her holding her own head raised her hands and nodded manually.

　　”There’s really nothing you guys can do, so let’s trust him for once.” Men Nan saw that everyone felt the same way, and he himself was relieved.

　　……

　　After leaving Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge’s brain was stuffed with all sorts of questions.

　　”There really are ghosts in this city, and Dr. Gao’s answer is completely different from the writer’s.” Chen Ge had also asked Dr. Gao about the question of whether there were ghosts in the world, those people in the hospital wanted to create a normal world, but it was too difficult for them to deceive Chen Ge.

　　For Chen Ge, what was more challenging was not recognizing the trap, but how to recognize the trap and still not be discovered by the doctors in the hospital.

　　”Zhang Ya’s dream might also be true, why has she been dreaming ever since she met me? On the contrary, I hardly ever dream? Could it be that my ability to dream was taken away by Zhang Ya?”

　　Before the answer to the previous question could be pondered, the next question popped up.

　　”The tenants of the Peaceful Apartment are all ghosts, but why do I feel more comfortable with ghosts than with even living people?”

　　”They should be trustworthy.”

　　Walking out of the deserted village, Chen Ge spared a large circle and returned to the specialty restaurant.

　　He didn’t meet any cabs along the way, and the sky was drizzling again, so Chen Ge had to run to the entrance of the restaurant to avoid the rain.

　　There were no lights on in the small store, it was pitch black, Chen Ge wasn’t going to disturb the store owner, he was thinking of leaving when the rain stopped, but who knew that just as he got close to the door of the hotel, he smelled a faint odor of blood.

　　”The shopkeeper is killing wild game?” Chen Ge tried pushing the door with the back of his hand, not realizing that the store door was not closed.

　　He saw tables and chairs dumped inside the restaurant, blood everywhere, and a severed hand falling to the ground at the entrance of the back kitchen.

　　”Eat the faucet?!”

　　Chen Ge’s heart raced, he carefully avoided the blood on the ground, took out the tool hammer from his backpack, and approached the back kitchen a little bit.

　　”There’s too much blood, trying to get past it will definitely leave a shoe print.” Chen Ge did not continue forward, he found an angle and looked sideways towards the back kitchen.

　　The big fat eating faucet was stuffed in the sauce tank, with only his head exposed outside the tank.

　　”He’s close to one meter nine in height and obese, there’s no way his body could have been stuffed into the sauce vat in one piece, he’s been disassembled.”

　　If the other party was still breathing, Chen Ge might have ventured in and called the police for help, but now that the other party was dead, he would only bring trouble to himself by going over.

　　In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by empty people, he would most likely be taken for a murderer!

　　The person who had spoken a few hours ago was now a corpse.

　　Chen Ge felt a deep chill, “Could this be the calamity that writers talk about?”

　　He took one step back, his eyes fixed on the ground, making sure that no shoe prints were left behind.

　　When he left the hotel, Chen Ge looked at the door of the room that he had touched, “Luckily, I pushed the door with the back of my hand, so it won’t leave any fingerprints behind, but just to be on the safe side, it’s better to clean it up.”

　　Wiping the small piece of door panel that had been touched, Chen Ge quickly left the scene after scrutinizing it.

　　Chen Ge didn’t show too much shock after seeing Dragon Eater’s corpse, but that didn’t mean he was cold-blooded.

　　In fact it was just the opposite, Dragon Eater’s death had viciously stimulated him.

　　If he didn’t escape from this city as soon as possible, maybe the next person to be soaked in the saucepan would be someone close to him.

　　In order to clear himself of suspicion, Chen Ge took a long detour to avoid most of the surveillance, then took a taxi back to New Sea Paradise from another location.

　　After entering the haunted house and taking a cool shower, Chen Ge all cleaned up and opened the haunted house guardrail, ready to start today’s business.

　　It was only at eight in the morning that Zhang Ya and her parents came to the haunted house, and a few people immediately got busy.

　　Everyone’s makeup was ready, and at 8:30, the park management suddenly came to the entrance of the haunted house, informing Zhang Ya’s parents that today’s business was suspended.

　　The haunted house business has not been a few days, now is the most profitable time, Zhang Ya’s parents are very incomprehensible.

　　They looked for the park management theory, the other side gave the reason is that the haunted house has not yet passed the safety inspection, part of the equipment there are safety hazards.

　　A good haunted house, said stop on stop, Zhang Ya and her parents have no choice but to carry out self-check.

　　The park opened at nine o’clock, but the door of the haunted house was tightly closed, and many tourists said they could not understand, some of them came to play the haunted house.

　　Zhang Ya and her father patiently explained to the tourists outside, while Chen Ge crouched on the first floor, silently watching everything.

　　”Is this part of the calamity?”

　　Zhang Ya’s mother noticed that Chen Ge was not in the right state and quietly walked over, “Not feeling well?”

　　Chen Ge shook his head, “I’m a bit afraid that our haunted house won’t be able to operate normally in the future.”

　　”It’s fine, the paradise is often drained, and it will be able to reopen in a couple days.” Zhang Ya’s mom was very nice, she was fretting in her own heart and ran over to comfort Chen Ge at this time, “Everything will be fine.”

　　”En.” Chen Ge entered the middle of the scene, organizing the props in the scene while thinking about his next plan.

　　”I can’t act too perversely, and I mustn’t let the hospital find out that I still retain some of my previous memories.”

　　The haunted house was forced to close for rectification, with the exact opening time to be determined, but Zhang Ya’s family wasn’t too pessimistic, as they seemed to have experienced something like this before.

　　While the park was full of people and tourists came and went, the neighborhood of the haunted house became cold again.

　　The fast-paced life had suddenly slowed down, and with the haunted house shut down, there was no more income for the time being, but in this way, Zhang Ya and Chen Ge also had more time to spend together.

　　Although most of the time, it was Chen Ge silently making the equipment and Zhang Ya helping out on the side, but just like that, the two felt happy.

　　At night, Zhang Ya’s mother gave Chen Ge the keys to the haunted house, and after they left, Chen Ge was the only one left in the large haunted house.

　　It was reasonable to say that staying alone in the haunted house would definitely be scary, but Chen Ge realized that he would only feel solid in his heart in the middle of the haunted house.

　　At nine o’clock in the evening, Chen Ge organized his backpack and was ready to go to Liwan Street for his appointment, but what he didn’t expect was that Zuo Han tumbled in through the toilet window again.

　　Meeting again, Zuo Han’s appearance was even more miserable than the last time, and he had several more hideous scars on his body.

　　”Chen Ge, I need you to do me a favor.”

　　”Let me bandage your wounds first, I’m afraid you won’t last long in this condition.”

　　Chen Ge wanted to go get the medicine box, but his hand was grabbed by Zuo Han: “There’s no time, you’re coming with me right away.”

　　”Where are you going?”

　　”Xinhai Western Suburb Private College.” Zuo Han gritted his teeth, he seemed to be forcing back the pain on his body, “I made a deal with One-Eye with my heart, if I die accidentally, I hope that you can take my soul and finish what I’m going to do next.”

　　”Make a bet with your life? Are you crazy?” Chen Ge stood still and didn’t move.

　　”At least I can still gamble with my life now, if I drag on, I’m afraid I won’t even have the freedom to die.” Zuo Han had a plea in his eyes, “Help me this time, I will bring you to see the truth of the world.”