Chapter 1192 – This Time I’ll Be Your Shadow

　　Cursed Lady’s gaze moved away from Chen Ge’s face and swept the back of his hand.

　　When the one man and one ghost approached just now, the wound on the back of Chen Ge’s hand that had been unable to heal began to ooze blood again, as if it had been stimulated by something.

　　”Did you leave the wound on the back of my hand?” Chen Ge raised his arm, but the curse woman just nodded her head.

　　After ten minutes, the third sick building returned to normal and all the black threads disappeared.

　　Old Zhou and Tang Jun climbed up from the ground, and after making sure everyone was okay, Men Nan also woke up from his coma.

　　”We misjudged Curse Woman’s strength, she should be the strongest ghost in this city.” Men Nan gently sucked in a breath of cool air, “There’s no shame in losing to her, but I’m afraid that we have to think long and hard about this matter of asking for her help.”

　　”We’ve already seen all three of the most terrifying stern ghosts in this city, the rest of those stern ghosts will be taken care of by the tenants of the Peaceful Apartment, Chen Ge, you just stay inside the haunted house honestly and don’t get involved with us in any way.” Zuo Han was clear-headed and thought clearly, “After we make all the preparations, we will go to the haunted house to find you.”

　　After Zuo Han finished speaking, he realized that Chen Ge had not been able to answer, he gently patted Chen Ge’s shoulder, “Don’t take to heart what Curse Woman said, if a person doesn’t have a heart, is he still a complete human being?”

　　”Actually, what she said makes sense.”

　　”Don’t think nonsense, you are the key …… to all of us escaping,” Zuo Han hadn’t finished speaking when he saw Chen Ge’s reddened eyes.

　　Honestly, of all the people, Zuo Han was the one who could understand Chen Ge the most.

　　He had also thought about trading his life with One-Eye, and only when he was forced to that point could he understand that feeling.

　　Zuo Han knew that Chen Ge, who was the focus of all the chaos, must have endured dozens of times more despair and pain than himself, and he wanted to comfort Chen Ge, but all his words paled in the face of true despair.

　　”We’ll get our memories back.” Zuo Han didn’t disturb the contemplative Chen Ge, and the few of them left the third sick building together.

　　Only after discussing new contact information did Chen Ge part ways with the tenants of the Peaceful Apartment, and he spared a large circle to return to the Paradise Haunted House.

　　He lay down on his bed in the staff lounge, before he only felt warm when the early sun of this world shone on him, but now he was a little afraid of the sun rising.

　　He didn’t know what would happen tomorrow, but he knew that tomorrow must be even worse than now.

　　With doom approaching step by step, Chen Ge lay on his bed and didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.

　　At eight o’clock the next morning, Chen Ge habitually woke up and started cleaning, even if the haunted house had never been open, he would still check the scenes and props every day.

　　At eight ten, Zhang Ya appeared at the door of the haunted house, her face was tired and she seemed to have lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

　　Last night she had another nightmare, she was woken up with a fright at around two o’clock in the morning, and as soon as she closed her eyes, the tragic images in her dream would come to her mind.

　　Her father’s condition was worsening and her mother was taking care of her alone, Zhang Ya didn’t want to add more pressure to them, she didn’t dare to tell her own parents, instead she took Chen Ge as the object to confide in.

　　”How can I not sleep at three o’clock in the morning, I got up and wanted to drink water, when I passed by the window, I realized that there was a man downstairs, he stared at my window and kept smiling.” Zhang Ya leaned next to Chen Ge, “The scenes in my nightmares are slowly becoming reality, I’m a bit unable to distinguish them now.”

　　Hearing this, Chen Ge knew that the hospital had already started on Zhang Ya.

　　This was the hospital’s usual style, first driving normal people crazy, then intervening and “treating” them.

　　Chen Ge was now very worried that Zhang Ya would break down and be sent to Xinhai Central Hospital, and once she entered that hospital, it would be too difficult for her to get out.

　　At a certain moment, he even had the idea of taking Zhang Ya to escape, but where could he escape to? This is a city without hope, all memories and beauty are fictional, even if you want to escape can not find the direction.

　　Looking at the emaciated Zhang Ya, Chen Ge’s fingers slowly clenched, “Go inside and sleep for a while, I’ll be here.”

　　There was no way to say what he wanted to say, the cruel truth was squeezed in the bottom of his heart, in the middle of the beautiful and gradually broken life, Chen Ge carefully took care of Zhang Ya, this was the only thing he could do now.

　　Opening the door of the staff lounge, Chen Ge looked at the sleeping Zhang Ya, keeping her appearance in his mind.

　　”It always feels like I owe her a lot.”

　　Lying on the side of the bed, Chen Ge did not move an inch as he knew that this might be the last time.

　　It was almost noon when the Paradise management and a few security guards entered the haunted house, they didn’t even say hello before trespassing.

　　By the time Chen Ge arrived, the park management came up with a rectification plan that they had unilaterally decided on.

　　The most popular Midnight Escape scene in the haunted house had a deadline of three days to be dismantled, and they believed that this scene had scared the tourists unconscious and caused a very bad impact, so it had to be dismantled.

　　Several amateurs walked around the scene, commenting on Chen Ge’s elaborate props and organs, and anything they didn’t see eye to eye with had to be dismantled.

　　Without waking up Zhang Ya, Chen Ge followed behind the several managers with paper and pen, carefully recording all the changes that needed to be made.

　　This wasn’t his haunted house, this was Zhang Ya’s haunted house, and he wanted to do his best to preserve it so that it could reopen.

　　As long as they were able to open, they would have a chance to tide over their difficulties, and this was already a very humble request.

　　There were more than seventy places that needed to be modified, and there was one scene that had to be demolished, all of this they only gave Chen Ge three days.

　　When the paradise management left, Chen Ge’s hand wringing the piece of paper had wrinkled the white paper because it was too hard.

　　”It’s good to be able to open, so life has a head start.”

　　When Zhang Ya woke up from her nap, Chen Ge took the piece of paper and found her.

　　Seeing the content on the paper, Zhang Ya also had a hard time, while Chen Ge continued to enlighten her from the side.

　　In the afternoon, the two began to modify the haunted house, sealing off the Midnight Escape and removing most of the scary props.

　　They were busy until six o’clock in the evening, and the two were going to go to dinner together, but Zhang Ya suddenly received a call from her family.

　　Zhang Ya’s father had been transferred to another ward, and her mother had to stay with her all the way.

　　After receiving the call, Zhang Ya immediately rushed to Xinhai Center Hospital, while Chen Ge sent her to the hospital entrance.

　　When they parted, Chen Ge grabbed Zhang Ya’s hand and told her that if she was scared at night, she should go to the haunted house to look for him and try not to stay home alone.

　　Watching Zhang Ya enter the depths of the Xinhai Center Hospital, Chen Ge’s heart slowly seized up, he was afraid that this was the last time the two would meet.

　　Back at the haunted house, Chen Ge could not calm down.

　　He kept walking around the promenade, and by the time it was past nine o’clock at night, he wanted to paralyze himself by working like he usually did.

　　However, when he entered the haunted house scene with the rectification in hand, his entire being became bewildered.

　　All of his talents and abilities were meant to make the haunted house more enjoyable for the visitors and bring a better experience to everyone, and he had never done a job where he actively destroyed the haunted house’s facilities.

　　Gripping the tool hammer tightly, Chen Ge looked at the haunted house scene he had created with his own hands and silently entered it.

　　In one night’s time, Chen Ge destroyed the Midnight Escape scene and finished rectifying all the scare points.

　　The sunlight shone through the window into the gloomy haunted house, but Chen Ge couldn’t feel a trace of warmth; it was as if a piercing coldness was hidden in that light.

　　”Dawn.”

　　Sitting at the entrance of the haunted house, Chen Ge, who hadn’t closed his eyes for the whole night, didn’t feel sleepy, he stroked the white cat’s head, and the one person and one cat quietly looked into the distance, waiting for Zhang Ya’s arrival.

　　At 10:30 in the morning, Zhang Ya arrived at the haunted house long after the park had started business.

　　Seeing Zhang Ya appear, Chen Ge breathed a sigh of relief, he was really worried that last night was goodbye forever.

　　”Zhang Ya, get some rest, just leave the haunted house side to me.” Chen Ge, who hadn’t slept all night, hoped that Zhang Ya could rest for a while, and he stood beside Zhang Ya with complex emotions in his eyes.

　　The two of them entered the interior of the scene, and Zhang Ya was surprised to find that Chen Ge had already rectified the situation according to the requirements of the park’s management, “You haven’t been sleeping last night?”

　　Zhang Ya remembered what Chen Ge had just said, and she was a little heartbroken.

　　At twelve o’clock at noon, Chen Ge found the park management and let the other party check the haunted house, he and Zhang Ya thought that they could open normally, but they didn’t realize that the other party just left a sentence to wait for the notice.

　　The road ahead could not see hope, but Chen Ge and Zhang Ya did not give up.

　　In the afternoon, Zhang Ya went to the hospital, Chen Ge stayed alone in the haunted house, he looked at the scene that had been modified beyond recognition, pursed his dry cracked lips.

　　At eleven o’clock in the evening, the guardrail of the haunted house was knocked, and Chen Ge, who was staying in the scene, hurriedly ran out.

　　He saw Zhang Ya leaning against the guardrail, her face as pale as paper, and her walk was a little unsteady.

　　”What’s going on?” Chen Ge hurriedly helped Zhang Ya into the house.

　　”After I left the hospital and returned home at around eight o’clock in the evening, I always felt disturbed, and those horrible memories in my nightmares seemed to drill through my brain.” Zhang Ya closed her eyes in pain, “The world in my eyes would often bleed inexplicably, and that strange man downstairs was getting closer and closer to me, I could feel that he was waiting for me in the hallway!”

　　Zhang Ya’s mental state was extremely unstable, nightmares and reality constantly colliding, distorting the world in her eyes.

　　Right now, her situation was dangerous, and she absolutely couldn’t be subjected to any more stimulation.

　　”Zhang Ya, you can sleep in the staff lounge tonight, I’ll guard beside you and won’t let anyone disturb you.” Chen Ge hit the floor and let Zhang Ya sleep on the bed.

　　The staff lounge wasn’t big, and after turning off the lights, they could hear each other’s breathing.

　　The moonlight outside the window shone into the room along the cracks of the window, Zhang Ya, who was lying on the bed with her back to Chen Ge, suddenly whispered, “Chen Ge, am I sick?”

　　”No, it’s the world that’s sick.”

　　”But why am I the one suffering?”

　　Pointing her toes on the ground, Zhang Ya sat up from the bed, moonlight sliding down her black hair.

　　Hearing the sound, Chen Ge looked back, and Zhang Ya lay next to him, like a wounded cat.

　　”It’s the world that’s sick, why are we the ones suffering?”

　　Her head gently leaned against Chen Ge’s back, hiding herself behind him.

　　”It’ll be fine.” Chen Ge didn’t turn around, the despair in his eyes couldn’t be hidden, that natural acting skill seemed to lose its effect in front of Zhang Ya.

　　”It will be fine.”

　　Listening to each other’s heartbeats, neither of them fell asleep, they leaned on each other and waited for the next dawn.

　　At around four o’clock, Zhang Ya received a call from her own mother, and she hurried to the hospital, Chen Ge wanted to stop it, but he didn’t have a proper reason.

　　At eight o’clock in the morning, Chen Ge made his bed and started cleaning the haunted house.

　　After getting it all done, he sat at the entrance of the haunted house.

　　There was only one person and one cat in the entire haunted house, and there were no tourists or other employees to be seen.

　　After the park opened for business, Chen Ge found the park management several times, hoping that the other side could be accommodating.

　　His efforts did not get any response; instead, others were advising him not to spend his life in one place.

　　After hitting the wall again and again, Chen Ge insisted on looking for the person in charge of the park, hoping that the other party could take a look at his haunted house, which he had already modified according to the rules.

　　But until the park stopped operating at night, Chen Ge did not get the answer he wanted. The person in charge of the park left the park, and the other managers also turned a blind eye to Chen Ge.

　　After casually eating something, Chen Ge still sat at the entrance of the haunted house, looking at the park’s big clock from time to time.

　　He had been waiting for Zhang Ya, but this time, Zhang Ya did not return to the haunted house.

　　The bad feeling in his heart grew stronger, Chen Ge left the haunted house in the early hours of midnight, and dialed Zhang Ya’s phone number at the convenience store, but no one answered after he called several times.

　　At one o’clock in the morning, Chen Ge went to the hospital.

　　He looked at the brightly lit Xinhai Central Hospital and didn’t enter it after all.

　　Tossing and turning all night, Chen Ge would get up to check when he slightly heard some movement, but the entrance to the haunted house was empty, not a single person.

　　The next morning, Chen Ge cleaned up, anxious to run to the door of the haunted house.

　　But until the park opened, Zhang Ya did not come over.

　　For a daytime period, Zhang Ya didn’t show up.

　　”Why isn’t she back yet?”

　　Night came and Chen Ge kept walking around the haunted house, he had never been like this before.

　　On the morning of the third day, there was still no news from Zhang Ya and her parents, it was as if Chen Ge and the haunted house had been forgotten by them.

　　The fourth day, the fifth day ……

　　By the morning of the seventh day, Chen Ge, who had bloodshot eyes, was cleaning the haunted house when several staff members wearing security uniforms suddenly rushed into the haunted house.

　　”What do you guys want!” Chen Ge stood at the door with a broom, not taking a step back.

　　”We are acting according to the contract, this haunted house has been losing money for years, and after failing several inspections, the management met and decided to push the place out in preparation for the construction of a new entertainment facility.”

　　”The owner of the haunted house is critically ill and hospitalized, is it too cold-blooded of you to seal the haunted house now?” Chen Ge reddened his eyes and deadened the door of the haunted house.

　　”Before you think we’re cold-blooded, you’d better think about your own unsettled wages, get out of the way!” Several security guards swarmed over the door, and Chen Ge directly dropped his broom and took out a tool hammer from the prop room.

　　”Boom!”

　　The tool hammer coated with red paint smashed through the wooden board, and Chen Ge’s terrifying strength made everyone stop in their tracks.

　　”This is my discharge certificate, leave now while I’m still reasoning with you guys!” Chen Ge threw the discharge certificate in her bag onto the ground, “After the haunted house boss is healed, you guys can do whatever you want, but only if you ask for his consent.”

　　Chen Ge had to protect the haunted house even if he put his life on the line, the several security guards seemed to have received a notice from the management, they didn’t rush head on with Chen Ge, instead, they found wooden boards and nails and sealed the front door of the haunted house, now even if Chen Ge had the key, he wouldn’t be able to open the door for business.

　　”Let’s go!”

　　After the security guard left, Chen Ge, who was holding the tool hammer, leaned his back against the wall and slowly sat on the ground, leaving him alone in the entire haunted house.

　　Silently holding his head, Chen Ge clenched his teeth.

　　Without eating, he stayed until the afternoon, and when the sun was about to set, Chen Ge came to the top floor of the haunted house alone.

　　In his mind, he vaguely remembered that he had found something here, something that had changed his life.

　　Rummaging around, but finding nothing, a tired Chen Ge sat at the window.

　　At the moment when fate intersected, Chen Ge saw the most desperate image of his life.

　　Right across the road in Xinhai Central Hospital, right in the third ward where he had once stayed, right at the window where he had once stood, Chen Ge saw Zhang Ya in a hospital gown!

　　With a vacant gaze, Zhang Ya stood woodenly in the room in her hospital gown as she looked down at the white pill in her palm.

　　”Zhang Ya!”

　　Grabbing the window frame with both hands with force, Chen Ge’s voice was loud, but Zhang Ya seemed to be unable to hear anything.

　　Her palms were cut by the window glass, and blood dripped down her arms, but Chen Ge acted as if he couldn’t feel the pain at all, and his eyes kept staring at the ward in the distance.

　　The sun slowly sank into the horizon, and night enveloped Xinhai.

　　The windows of the ward were closed by the doctor, and the thick curtains covered everything.

　　Blood dripping from his palms, Chen Ge stood on the top floor of the haunted house as he looked at the rolling complex in the distance.

　　”You guys aren’t even willing to give me false goodness anymore?”

　　Lifting his backpack, Chen Ge went downstairs and entered the haunted house bathroom.

　　He first glanced at the cubicle door that had been closed at some point, then smashed the cubicle door and the bathroom window with force.

　　Tumbling out of the haunted house, Chen Ge didn’t leave immediately, but turned back to look towards the inside of the haunted house.

　　A white cat squatted obediently at the window, and when it saw Chen Ge looking at itself, it immediately ran over.

　　Rubbing the white cat’s head, Chen Ge said softly, “Calamity has befallen me, the closer you get to me, the more dangerous it is, so don’t come back to me.”

　　The white cat seemed to be unable to understand Chen Ge’s words, only that when Chen Ge took a few steps forward, it ran a few steps after him.

　　When Chen Ge got into the cab, it anxiously called ……

　　Arriving at the third sick building, Chen Ge knocked on the door of the room engraved with curses.

　　The Curse Woman in red quietly appeared, and she seemed to have known that Chen Ge would come over.

　　”The heart can be given to you, but before that, I have to give my left eye to another ghost.” Chen Ge’s tone was calm to the point of being frightening, “I will use everything I have to help you get your memories back, but I hope you can promise me one thing.”

　　”Really use up everything?” The deep black text crept out, which was not what the spellbinder had intended at first.

　　”That’s right, the left eye, the heart, the head, the torso, all of it you can take away, I only hope that you can leave my shadow behind, so that I can watch over her.”

　　As the words fell, Chen Ge took out a sharp knife from his backpack, the sharp blade reflecting on his face as the remaining memories quickly flashed through his mind.

　　”I’ll be her shadow this time.”