Chapter 1203: Returning the favor

　　The child’s appearance makes Dean conflicted and divided; he always probes questions related to death, but rarely thinks about what life is.

　　No matter where a person goes, he is heading towards death, so Dean previously thought that measuring the length of death would be enough to figure out the meaning of life.

　　His special upbringing had made him a monster, and the curse had burrowed into every nerve and blood vessel, but even so his ugly scarred heart still beat violently when he faced his own child.

　　Whenever he saw his child, two voices always appeared in his head.

　　One voice told him that the child was a gift from death.

　　The other voice was saying that the child was the continuation of life.

　　Dean couldn’t convince himself of this, the bickering in his head was getting louder and louder and had seriously affected his disguise.

　　Having gotten a taste of what it’s like to wear human skin, Dean no longer wants to be treated like a monster, and he’s doing his best to hide his illness, with the result that he’s becoming more and more divided.

　　There was no way for him to reconcile, not just about his own children, but opposing thoughts began to appear in his mind no matter what he was thinking about.

　　Like in the case of the question of how to heal himself, one voice tells him that he should get treatment and admit that he is a sick person, a monster in the mouths of others.

　　The other voice is urging him to kill his own child and get to the root of the disagreement.

　　Dean’s demeanor becomes increasingly erratic; he spends his days in a white coat treating people in pain and despair, and when he goes home at night he changes into a hospital gown and locks himself in his house, talking to a mirror.

　　Gradually, his wife noticed the abnormality, and that’s when the most paradoxical point emerged.

　　The voice in his head that represented humanity told him that the best way to deal with the situation now was to come clean with his family, admit that he was sick, and pursue treatment aggressively, and that the potential cost of doing so would be the destruction of his current home.

　　He knew his wife well enough to know that she was attracted to the sassy, extremely well known doctor with a great future in the industry. Once he confessed that he was sick, that career and family could all be ruined.

　　The other voice in Dean’s head is constantly tempting him to not care about what the monsters think, that it’s a sick world as it is, and that he just needs to hide himself like he always has. If humanity confused and pained him, then just obliterate the last vestiges of it.

　　Trying to be human, everything he gained now could be lost.

　　Continuing to be a monster would have happiness and joy instead.

　　Dean didn’t have to make a choice, his soul became more and more antagonistic until one day the seed of the curse took root and a black flower bloomed in his heart.

　　That night he had a dream that he was lying in bed in a hospital gown, and in front of his bedroom mirror stood a version of himself in a white coat.

　　The same face, one was a patient, the other a doctor.

　　The dean in the hospital gown represented what was left of humanity and sanity, and the one standing in front of the mirror was completely consumed by damnation and malice.

　　Good and evil have nothing to do with strength or weakness, and in the dream the patient, who represents humanity, is being treated by the doctor who is filled with malice and curses.

　　The most tragic thing is that as the humanity is “healed” a little, the malice takes over the body of the dean.

　　The dean keeps having the same dream over and over again.

　　The severing of his spirit gets worse and worse, and slowly, his soul is torn in two.

　　Dean began to be unable to distinguish between dream and reality; he didn’t know if he was now lying in a bed in reality or in a bed in the dream world, and anyway, he could always see himself in a white lab coat, full of malice.

　　Gradually, he began to wonder if there was an extra self in reality as well.

　　From his mind and consciousness to his soul and body, Dean found himself seemingly split into two people.

　　Both of them were him, but they were complete opposites.

　　One is evil and the other is good; one has committed a heinous crime and the other is constantly punishing himself with guilt inside; one is filled with despair thinking that he is the god of this sick world and the other longs for happiness wanting to be ordinary.

　　The dean in the white coat, who represents the curse, imprisons the dean in the hospital gown, who represents humanity, in a nightmare, and instead of annihilating his own humanity, he strips it away completely.

　　The Dean in the White Coat, who was left with only negativity and malice, completely turned into a monster in human skin.

　　The evil thoughts in his body were no longer restrained, and the flower of the curse blossomed in his heart, drifting out into a black mist.

　　The dean in the white coat did not know what that black fog represented, and it was the first time he saw that black fog full of despair and death on earth.

　　Without the bondage of humanity, Dean White Coat’s usual demeanor was completely unbroken; he was a demon disguised as a human.

　　He was clearly made up of malice and curses, but he made himself the embodiment of humanity and sanity.

　　Unknown patients find him to be a benevolent doctor, coworkers find him to be a good leader, and his wife finds him to be the perfect husband.

　　The dean in the white coat only removes his disguise in front of his newborn child. The emergence of life is the root cause of the dean’s split, and the dean in the white coat, who is composed entirely of curses, is also curious about the child.

　　He begins to “treat” and “experiment” with his own children, and his own son becomes his first real patient.

　　In the course of his experiments, the dean discovers the existence of the Black Mist, born in the depths of nightmares and dispersed through the hearts of men, whose essence is the memories that people are most reluctant to face, made up of the pain and despair of the forgotten.

　　The discovery of the black fog made the dean in the white coat ecstatic, he felt like he had touched the real world.

　　He had thought that this was a unique ability of the Cursed Seed, that only he could see the Black Mist and become a bridge to it.

　　But in the subsequent trials, he put his own child into the black fog, ignorant as white paper life in the black fog invasion has become hideous and twisted, that first-born heart was also buried in the seed of the curse, also began to constantly drift out of the black fog.

　　At this time, the dean slowly realized that everyone’s heart more or less have the existence of black fog, as long as the method is appropriate, all people can become a bridge of black fog.

　　The dean in the white coat began to collect the black mist in the shadows, enjoying the process of spreading doom and despair and experiencing the joy of being treated as a savior.

　　He was the one who caused the pain, he was still the one who relieved the pain, and he was still the one who sent the patients to their final destiny.

　　This life went on for a long time until his child slowly grew up and turned into a deformed monster.

　　The child who didn’t know how to hide almost exposed the dean’s secret, and in order to continue to hide in the shadows, the dean killed his own child with his own hands, but before he killed the child, he sent his son’s consciousness into the black mist in his heart.

　　He had always wondered what the source of the black mist looked like.

　　Using the monster he had raised, Dean saw a sea of black fog in the depths of his nightmares.

　　All the despair in the world came together, they were forgotten, but they would never go away.

　　The sea of fog is filled with monsters that only appear in nightmares, and beyond that, a single lost person.

　　Dean became more and more interested in this world, he felt that he was born here, that he was despair.

　　No longer content with using a child’s will to enter the Sea of Mist, he began to experiment with using different patients to enter the Sea of Mist through the bridges in their hearts.

　　After about a year, he met a patient from Hanjiang.

　　This young man called Chen Xiao was hit by a car and fell into a severe coma because he saved a man.

　　The man saved by Chen Xiao was surnamed Luo, his family was a businessman, and in order to save Chen Xiao, he had spent a lot of money to hire many doctors, and among those doctors was the dean.

　　The dean in the white coat tried to enter the black fog through Chen Xiao’s heart, but when he succeeded, he was very surprised to find that the patient was standing at the edge of the black fog world.

　　On one side of him was the black fog of thick despair, while on the other side was a city built out of flesh and blood.

　　If the black fog was pure despair and pain, the city of blood was the only thing left in the world of black fog that could not be called hope.

　　When a memory of despair was forgotten, the despair and pain in it turned into black mist, and the remaining hint of longing and struggle merged into the city of blood.

　　The black mist is filled with hideous and terrifying monsters, and the city of blood is full of people with scars.

　　The dean felt that this patient was special and must be hiding some kind of secret.

　　He found Chen Xiao, and after making all sorts of attempts, he realized that only his own consciousness could leave without any problems, unable to take Chen Xiao away.

　　After thinking for a long time, the dean in the white coat felt that the reason might have appeared in the dean in the patient’s uniform.

　　He was the first person to split his opposing consciousness; Dean White Coat had entered the edge of Blood City, but Dean Sick Suit was still imprisoned in another place, and there was an unbreakable link between the two.

　　The dean in the white coat told Chen Xiao, who endured unimaginable torture in the Blood City and the Black Mist in order to split the opposing consciousnesses.

　　In the end, the young patient’s consciousness was separated, with the human side of him being called Chen Xiao, and the negative side of him being bound by the Blood City, naming himself Chen Lang.

　　At the moment of the separation of consciousness, the dean in the white coat takes Chen Xiao away from Blood City, while the uncontrollable, cruel and tyrannical Chen Lang is left behind in Blood City.

　　After returning to reality, the dean became extremely interested in Chen Xiao, curious as to why Chen Xiao’s mind was connected to the edge of Blood City.

　　He was observing in the shadows, recording everything, and no one knew he was a demon in human skin.

　　A few years later, Chen Night’s child was born.

　　This child possessed a pair of blood-red pupils, and it was as if he was able to look into the hearts of people and see many things that adults could not.

　　While other children liked to cry, he was always smiling, as if there was nothing in this world that could make him sad.

　　Chen Lantern knew why his child was so different, in order to escape Blood City he had paid too many prices, which included being hit by countless negative emotions in his body and experiencing despair that was simply unimaginable on earth.

　　Looking at the newborn in his arms, looking at his face with an innocent smile, Chen Night gave his child a name that possessed a special meaning – Chen Ge.

　　The world kissed me with pain, but I sang in return.

　　As he grew older, Chen Ge showed more and more abnormalities; he would enter the world of black mist in his sleep and return to reality when he woke up.

　　He saw all kinds of people and met a thousand strange ghosts.

　　I don’t know if it was because of his bloodline, or his father, but Chen Ge could freely travel through the black mist, Blood City, and reality even if his consciousness wasn’t separated, and all of this was seen by the dean.

　　The dean in the white coat had a special medical record file, and he listed Chen Ge as patient number one, Chen Ling in Blood City as patient number two, and Chen Xiao in reality as patient number three.

　　After decades of hiding in human skin and remaining undetected, Dean’s ambition grows, and he wants to eradicate this sick world.

　　He began to reach out to Chen Ge behind his parents’ back, and he wanted to utilize Chen Ge’s ability to bring back the despair and pain that had been forgotten.

　　As a cursed seed, he firmly believes that the world of black mist is the real world, and that reality is nothing more than a cover for sickness.

　　Dean approached Chen Ge cautiously, and with the experience he had accumulated over decades, he helped Chen Ge push open a door in the middle of Blood City.

　　That door connected Blood City and reality, and although it only existed for a short time before disappearing, it gave Dean hope.

　　He frequently contacted Chen Ge in Blood City and the Black Mist World, which eventually caused Chen Xiao to become alerted.

　　However, in order to fulfill his plan, Dean didn’t care about that at all, he had a crazy idea, he wanted to make Chen Ge’s consciousness split between good and evil.

　　Leaving the good for Chen Xiao, he would take the evil away.

　　In order to produce opposing consciousnesses, he frantically tortured Chen Ge in the world of the black mist, but he just couldn’t succeed, and in the end, he was even chased all the way by the Chen Lords.

　　Seeing that he had been exposed, he simply brought the monster he had cultivated to Hanjiang himself and took Chen Ge captive.

　　The dean did everything he could, he drew out Chen Ge’s will and killed him over and over again, but even then he still couldn’t succeed.

　　No matter what he did to Chen Ge’s will, he just couldn’t tear it apart, or kill it; when the sun rose, Chen Ge’s will would surely return again.

　　Chen Ge’s will could not be separated, the dean had to think of another way, he was already a top expert in playing with people’s hearts, plus he had explored the black mist for decades, he had to know that place better than anyone else.

　　Laying out his plan carefully, the dean triggered the black fog and erupted into a terrifying black tide.

　　In order to save those scaly and forgotten memories of everyone in Blood City, Chen Ge chose to merge with Blood City, and he tried to influence it.

　　When the black tide passed, those forgotten memories did not dissipate, but Chen Ge’s will could no longer leave Blood City.

　　The dean stole some of Chen Ge’s flesh and blood and organs, and the remaining part was taken away by the Chen lord ……

　　In the middle of the cursed hospital, the sky full of memories completely shattered at this moment, and the dean’s past began to dissipate.

　　The blood-clothed man holding a blood-colored key with a shocking killing intent stared dead on at the dean in the black mist.

　　He desperately stabbed the key into the interior of the shrine, and black blood that emitted a foul odor continuously flowed out from inside the shrine.