Chapter 1191 – Remove My Heart
”I don’t have much time left to stay here, to tell you one last thing, the hospital has discovered that Zhang Ya has been replaced.” Dr. Sun’s expression was unprecedentedly serious, and his body trembled at the mention of the name Zhang Ya.
”Zhang Ya was replaced?” Chen Ge was a bit confused, “What do you mean by that? The Zhang Ya beside me is from the hospital?”
”The haunted house lady boss Zhang Ya was initially woven by the hospital in order to confuse you, using your own dreams, and the meaning of her existence was to make you indulge in the beauty, believe in the reality of this world, and be unwilling to leave from the bottom of your heart. But no one expected that this Zhang Ya, who was woven out of your memories, possessed her own consciousness! Not only did she not follow the hospital’s request to let you indulge in the false good life, but she also kept speaking out about the loopholes in the world! The hospital has found traces of the real Zhang Ya in her body, and these traces are gradually becoming more numerous!” Dr. Sun’s words came out sharply.
”In other words, this Zhang Ya beside me is the Zhang Ya I once remembered?” Chen Ge’s heartbeat began to accelerate, and he had developed a spiritual understanding with Zhang Ya since the first time they met.
”She is slowly losing control! No one knows why this is happening!” The scars on Dr. Sun’s face were hideous and terrifying, “The hospital might not come down on you in a short period of time, but now that all the night doctors have taken an interest in Zhang Ya’s situation, they will definitely target Zhang Ya!”
There wasn’t a single good thing about the night shift doctors in the hospital, Chen Ge vaguely remembered how Dr. Gao treated himself in the beginning, in order to drive himself crazy, he even came up with the treatment plan of replacing the medication so that he could kill his roommate.
With such a group of people taking an interest in Zhang Ya, Chen Ge’s veins popped up on the back of his hands when he heard Dr. Sun say.
”After I came into contact with the tenants of Ping An Apartment, I realized that they had a special attitude towards Zhang Ya, what does this name represent behind it?” Chen Ge forced himself to remain calm.
”It represents a ghost, a ghost that means the most to you, without her fighting to the death, you wouldn’t have had a chance to wake up.” Dr. Sun’s words were cruel, but often the truth was cruel: “It can be said that she fought for a ray of life for you at the cost of her own soul.”
The walls around them began to distort as Dr. Sun knocked on the door of the room, “There is only so much I can tell you, you must live.”
The door to the room was knocked on seven times, Dr. Sun pushed the door open when the knock sounded for the seventh time, and Chen Ge left the brain maze at the same time.
Opening his eyes, Chen Ge saw that the bathroom window was open, as for Dr. Sun, he had long since disappeared, and it was as if he had never been in the haunted house.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ge looked at himself in the mirror and slowly clenched his hands.
”Just felt the beauty, but was told that all the beauty is illusory; finally met happiness, but is about to lose everything.”
Both pupils slowly narrowed, the bottom of Chen Ge’s eyes were filled with blood, he had been holding back.
”Go and inform the tenants of the Peaceful Apartment first, there’s a change in plan.”
Without any delay, Chen Ge left the haunted house with his backpack.
They had originally arranged to meet at the abandoned hospital in the suburbs, but because Dr. Sun had tipped off in advance, Chen Ge couldn’t wait any longer.
Taking a taxi to Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge ran furiously all the way there and finally found the tenants before the hospital did.
He told the tenants part of what Dr. Sun had said, and after they all established their contact information, they decided to split up into small groups and hide in the corners of the city, waiting for the right moment.
Midnight was approaching, after most of the tenants had left.
Tang Jun drove the van and led Chen Ge, Zuo Han, Men Nan and Old Zhou to the abandoned hospital in the far suburbs.
”Hospitals seem to have a special meaning in this city, Xinhai covers a very large area, but the only hospital that’s open is the Xinhai Center Hospital, don’t you guys think this is strange?” Zuo Han could always find something that normal people couldn’t notice, he possessed a heart that remained skeptical of everything, and in a way, he did want to be a bit paranoid about being victimized.
”These scariest of the scariest of the scariest of the scariest retain some of their instincts, there’s a reason why One-Eye chose the Abandoned School and Scarlet chose Liwan Street, and by analogy, Curse Woman is most likely related to the hospital, and she might have been a patient who ran out of that hospital as well.”
”Makes sense.”
Without going through the main entrance, the few people went over the fence and traveled through the middle of the hospital.
”Why does this place feel somewhat familiar to me?” Men Nan walked at the front, he looked at the pillows thrown on the long corridor, and a human face drawn on the pillows, his expression slowly changed, “It seems like I’ve been to this mental hospital before.”
”You’ve been here before?”
”En.” Men Nan nodded, he didn’t stop at the first two buildings and directly ran to the third patient building.
The interior of the hospital’s deepest third ward building was very bizarre, with all sorts of curses written on the walls and steel-welded cages placed in the rooms, it wasn’t like a hospital at all, it was more like a prison used to imprison prisoners.
”Door, window ……” Men Nan arrived at the third floor of the third sick building with the scattered fragments of memory in his mind.
There was not a single ray of light in the darkened hallway, and the chill was so intense that it seemed like the feeding channel of a giant fish in the deep sea.
”Don’t make me take the lead! I’m just a kid!” Men Nan, who had been walking at the front of the group, suddenly stopped, and he grabbed Old Zhou and Chen Ge’s hands, an innocent expression on his face for the first time in a long time, “Let’s go in together.”
Chen Ge did not refuse, every spirit in his body had been tensed.
Entering the long corridor, the flow of time seemed to slow down, countless screams and wails seeped out from the walls, and this place brought Chen Ge a feeling of being more dangerous than the Abandoned School and Liwan Street.
Not knowing how long he had walked, Men Nan stopped in front of a door carved with cursed words, he felt something in his heart and raised his hand to gently push the door of the room.
But the moment his fingers touched the door panel, it was as if all the black characters on that door came to life and surged towards Men Nan.
Looking weak, Men Nan showed a decisiveness that far exceeded normal people at this time, and he directly cut off his finger with a thread of blood.
The broken finger was swallowed by the black text as soon as it fell, Men Nan’s face was pale as he watched this, he waved his hand, and the blood color intertwined to create a new finger.
”She’s a little stronger than me.” Covering his hand, Men Nan retreated behind Old Zhou and Chen Ge.
The door to the room had already been pushed open a crack by Men Nan a moment ago, and learning from his mistakes, Chen Ge picked up the pillow on the floor with a human face drawn on it and used it to push the door open.
As the door panel slowly opened, all those cursed words in the corridor boiled over, and they transformed into black and red silk threads, just like a web woven by a giant spider, blocking off the entire third sick building.
The doors and windows were all sealed, and the back way was completely cut off.
While several people were panicking, all the wailing and screams within the sick building all disappeared.
In the deathly silence, a footstep suddenly appeared.
It was the sound of high heels stepping on the ground.
The sharp and thin high heels, stepping on the floor tiles covered in blood, stepped on a face distorted by a curse, and arrived in front of several people.
”Curse Woman?”
Looking at the red heels in front of them, several people didn’t dare to move, the terrifying aura emanating from the other party far exceeded that of One Eye and Crimson.
”Aren’t they existences of the same level? Why is Curse Woman so terrifying?”
Chen Ge dared to walk around casually in front of One-Eye and speak and communicate in front of Crimson, but beside Curse Woman, he didn’t even dare to breathe too hard.
It was an indescribable oppressive force, as if she could kill everyone here and the severe ghosts in the blink of an eye if she wanted to.
The corridor was getting more and more oppressive, Chen Ge felt like his body was about to be crushed, and when everyone was about to be unable to bear it, Men Nan, who had been hiding at the back, came out.
The skinniest Men Nan stood in front of several adults, and his performance at this moment impressed Chen Ge.
It was worthy of being one of the strongest Li Ghosts in Ping An Apartment!
Old Zhou wanted to block it, but unfortunately it was already too late, Men Nan seemed to have made a great determination, the blood fluttered behind him, and he forced himself to endure the uneasiness and came in front of the red high heels.
Bright eyes looked at the pair of shoes full of blood, Men Nan used all his strength and opened his mouth to ask.
”Are you my mom?”
The third sick building gave Men Nan a sense of home, and with most of his memories gone, he only vaguely remembered that he and his mother had lived here.
With anticipation, Mennan longed for a response from the red heels, but in the very next moment, he was flung aside by the silken threads woven by the curse.
Words dripping with danger were engraved on Old Zhou, Tang Jun and Zuo Han, and all of the several people fell to the ground, with only Chen Ge still standing in the same place.
One step forward, the only person that those red high heels cared about seemed to be Chen Ge.
The cold and piercing hand touched Chen Ge’s heart, and his heart stopped beating almost instantly.
The red high heels seemed to be determining something, after she touched Chen Ge’s heart, the cursed threads in the entire sick building boiled over, as if she had finally found what she wanted.
Unable to resist, when Chen Ge regained his consciousness, he saw a woman in red standing in front of him.
This woman’s tunic was filled with the names of people woven out of curses, and her bleak white skin that was exposed was wrapped in black and red bandages, and under her feet stepped on a pair of high-heeled shoes that were engraved with some kind of special pattern.
”Curse Woman …….”
Chen Ge couldn’t help but utter this most horrifying name, but in the very next moment, the veins on his arms began to twist, and thin black threads formed a hideous writing on the surface of his skin.
”That is not my name.”
The words that the Curse Woman had tried to say surfaced on Chen Ge like a curse that he couldn’t get rid of, and he didn’t even know how the opposite party had managed to do it.
Barely able to keep his composure, Chen Ge looked at the thin black lines on his arm, enduring the intense pain, “I lost my previous memories, but I feel like we should have known each other before.”
”I also lost some of my memories, such as my name.” Thin black threads twisted on Chen Ge’s flesh and blood, constantly forming new words, the scene looked very bizarre: “I know that I lost my memories in the hospital by placing a spell on myself, I searched all the abandoned hospitals and captured several patients and caregivers, but I couldn’t retrieve my memories.”
”The culprit that made you lose your memories is the Xinhai Center Hospital, we all lost our memories there, it is our common enemy!” Chen Ge had already gotten used to the pain, and his tone didn’t change much, “If you want to retrieve your memories, you have to enter the depths of the hospital.”
”Other than the method you mentioned, I have another way to retrieve my memories.” The Curse Woman stood in front of Chen Ge, the bandages on her face fell off layer by layer, and black horrifying thin lines escaped from her entire body, “Do you know what a curse is?”
The black and red thin lines were all filled with crying human faces, the stern ghost in front of her didn’t know how many people she had cursed, her ability had been infinitely amplified in this city, and had reached an exaggerated point.
”Paying a miserable ’cause’ as a price and reaping a bloody ‘effect’, this is the curse, and this is my only ability.” The Curse Woman’s ghastly white hand pinched Chen Ge’s neck: “You have my memories hidden in your heart, and at the cost of your heart, I can retrieve the memories.”
Even at a time like this, Chen Ge still maintained his amazing calmness, “I bet you won’t do that, the curse is hard to be reversed, and since I have your memories in my heart, I must be one of the people who is important to you.”
On the surface, Chen Ge didn’t change his face, but in fact, he was still a bit flustered in his heart, besides Crimson, these severe ghosts were really scary.
One-eye wanted Chen Ge’s left eye, and now the Curse Woman wanted Chen Ge’s heart.
”At the cost of my life, after you exchanged it for memories, you realized that the important people in your memories are already dead, is this really the memories you want?” Chen Ge spoke faster and faster, he didn’t want to give the curse girl too much time to think.
”You won’t necessarily die after removing your heart. Even if I don’t do it now, you’ll ask me to do it later.” Every word that Curse Woman left on Chen Ge’s arm contained complex emotions, and she seemed to know certain things, she just didn’t say them out loud.
”I will actively beg for death?” Chen Ge didn’t quite understand, all he did now was to live, how could he possibly beg for death?
”Everyone of the Lich ghosts in this city, including me, have not only had their memories taken away, but also most of their abilities. The only way to get these back is to go to that hospital, but the paradox is that having lost their memories and abilities, they are no match for that hospital.” There was no need for Curse Woman to deceive Chen Ge, if she wanted to, she could just pluck Chen Ge’s heart right now instead of communicating with Chen Ge here.
”Everyone in the entire city combined together is no match for the hospital?” Chen Ge felt a hint of despair.
”Unless the lost memories and abilities are retrieved, there is no possibility.” The Curse Woman’s blood-red eyes looked at Chen Ge: “You are not only harboring my memories in your heart, but also the memories of other people, so let me curse you with everything you have, which can be exchanged for the memories and abilities of everyone except you.”
The Curse Woman didn’t force Chen Ge, she just gave Chen Ge a choice.
”Did you just say that even if you remove my heart, I won’t necessarily die?” Chen Ge pondered Curse Lady’s words very carefully.
”In the midst of this false beauty, as long as you still retain your true memories, you won’t die.”
”Let me think about it.”
”Calamity has come, and I will wait here for your reply.” The black and red threads receded like a tidal wave, and the Curse Woman and Chen Ge pulled apart.