Chapter 1206 – City of Nightmares
Perhaps the shock that the dean brought to Sun Xiaojun was too great, and a strong self-doubt arose within him.
”Don’t think so much, no matter if you are the Seed of Curse or the Seed of Hope, it’s a fact that you saved everyone.” Chen Ge reached out and pointed to the distance, where a woman in a red raincoat and a child in a blue raincoat were standing together.
After meeting each other after a long time, everyone had a tacit understanding not to bother them.
”Without you, the red raincoat might never be able to see her child, you brought a lot of goodness to everyone, and that’s enough.” Chen Ge continuously enlightened Little Sun.
”I probably understand.” Sun Xiaojun nodded, “Boss, can I ask you for something?”
”Go ahead.”
”I won’t go back to the House of Horrors, I want to build a hospital that can truly cure pain and despair in these ruins.” A smile appeared on Xiao Sun’s face, “I’m a Cursed Seed that brings misfortune and calamity, it’s something that can’t be avoided, but I’ll prove in my own way that the Cursed Seed can not only achieve happiness themselves, but also help others regain their lives.”
”Then I’m afraid I’ll have to call you Dean Sun from now on.” During the time in the hospital, Little Sun grew very quickly, and Chen Ge was more at ease with him.
After handing over the ruins of the cursed hospital to Little Sun, Chen Ge lifted his backpack and walked around.
The red high-heeled shoes that had finished rescuing most of the staff stood somewhere staring blankly, and following her gaze, in front of her was a badly broken operating table.
Chen Ge vaguely remembered that there was another goodwill quest about the red high heels among the black phone, and that quest required Chen Ge to go to the operating room of the cursed hospital.
However, the phone could not be turned on now, and the operating room was buried under the rubble.
”What are you looking at?” Chen Ge carried his bag and walked next to the red high heels.
The red heels shook her head, a hint of bewilderment in her blood-red eyes.
After the dean’s soul was dispersed, Xu Yin gained most of the dean’s remaining power, and as for those strange and bizarre curses in the cursed hospital, all of them were gained by the red high-heeled shoes.
When she digested those curses, she could definitely become the new Cursed Fierce God.
”There are a lot of ugly things in the world, but there are also a lot of beautiful things, from now on, you’ll stay in the House of Horrors, and we’ll all go together to see all the beauty in the world.”
Chen Ge knew the true name of the red high heeled shoes in the middle of the nightmare, and the goodwill quest in the black cell phone was actually no longer necessary.
The real name was the only weakness of a severe ghost that was good at curses, and since the red high-heeled shoes were willing to let Chen Ge know her name, it meant that Chen Ge was the only person she trusted.
Living people could not yet find a few people in the world that they could trust completely, and for the severe ghosts that suffered from pain and despair, it was even more difficult to meet someone completely trustworthy.
After hesitating for a moment, the red high heels gently nodded.
She waved her arm, and countless cursed threads surged into the rubble, finding a case sheet underneath the operating table.
That case sheet had her old picture posted on it, as well as the story of what she used to be.
The cursed silk threads tore the case sheet to shreds, and Red Heels completely said goodbye to all the hatred and pain from the past.
After handling the matters of the cursed hospital, Chen Ge, along with many of his employees, took his unconscious parents into the depths of Blood City.
Lord Chen had shown Chen Ge the way before he left, and with several Fierce Gods surrounding them, their group didn’t encounter any dangers.
Passing through a blood-colored street, passing by a building full of blood stains, and in the midst of the dense blood mist, they arrived at the center of the Blood City.
Looking at the building constructed in the center of Blood City in front of them, everyone stopped in their tracks.
The area near the center of Blood City had blood buildings that were twenty to thirty stories tall, each floor crawling with blood filaments and inhabited by hideous evil spirits; there was an abandoned Scarlet Hospital whose building scale was not inferior to that of the Cursed Hospital, which was full of surging flesh and blood; there was also a black church that was completely assembled from limbs and exuded a thick aura of impurity, with a half-dead murderous god even pinned to the top of the building.
Every building in the central area of Blood City exuded an astonishingly terrifying aura, on the contrary, the building in the very center looked featureless and ordinary.
Caressing the familiar guardrail, Chen Ge’s gaze was complicated.
At the very center of Scarlet City, a dilapidated haunted house was constructed, which was the same as the haunted house in the middle of the New Century Paradise in Hanyue.
”I didn’t realize that this was the deepest building in Scarlet City.”
Chen Ge pulled back the guardrail and lifted the thick blackout curtain.
Everything here was very familiar to him, and he even had an illusion as if he had returned to reality.
”Is anyone there?”
Chen Ge entered the House of Horrors accompanied by several Fierce Gods, he traveled through the corridor and pushed open the doors of the rooms, but he didn’t see anyone, it seemed to be an empty house.
”When the Good Thought dissipated, it said that someone was waiting for me in the deepest part of the Blood City, and Lord Chen also told me to enter the depths of the Blood City to look for someone, and now that I’ve arrived, but why is this place empty?”
After thinking for a moment, Chen Ge suddenly remembered something, he entered the bathroom on the first floor of the haunted house and saw the blood-colored door panels with patterns of evil spirits painted on the cubicles.
There were many bloody doors, but there were very few doors with evil ghost patterns engraved on the door panels.
In that instant, many thoughts flashed through Chen Ge’s mind.
”I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.” A child’s voice came out from the bathroom mirror, and Chen Ge jerked his head as his eyes stared intently at the mirror.
His body couldn’t help but move closer, and with his hands grasping the edge of the sink, Chen Ge stood in front of the mirror like he did when he did his first nightmare level quest, “You’re my good thoughts?”
The child in the mirror wore a warm smile as he gently shook his head, “Before, I was your good thoughts, but now I represent the will of this Blood City.”
”I saw in the Cursed Hospital Director’s memories that you chose to merge with the Blood City in order to save the obsessions and severe ghosts amongst the Black Tide, so at the root, you are still my good idea.” Chen Ge didn’t know why, he didn’t want to back down on this issue.
The child in the mirror did not argue with Chen Ge, and he kept a heartfelt smile on his face.
”Don’t you have a way to come out of the mirror? I want to see what pure goodness looks like, and in the future I want to move in that direction, at least on the surface I want people to think I’m good.” Dragging the skull crushing hammer with one hand, Chen Ge spoke from his heart, “People always misunderstand me because I’m too straightforward.”
He looked at the child in the mirror, it felt as if he was having a conversation with his other self, not needing to hide any secrets.
”I don’t have a physical body, just a piece of will that has to be attached to something in Blood City to appear, and can never leave Blood City.” This child clearly lived in the deepest part of Blood City, but his voice was extraordinarily gentle, and it was comfortable to converse with him.
”After paying such a great price, you should have gained abilities beyond imagination as well.” Chen Ge blinked, and the child in the mirror understood what Chen Ge meant.
”As the will of Blood City, I am able to control all the doors here, allowing Blood City to expand infinitely, and even allow Blood City to slowly merge with reality.”
”Merge with reality?” Chen Ge was a bit surprised, if that was the case, then the importance of Blood City’s will was self-evident.
Imagine if Dean’s plan was successful and he could control Blood City through his good thoughts, that would be a disaster.
”You’ve seen runaway doors before, haven’t you? When the person pushing the door has an accident and I don’t close that door in time, the large amount of negativity deposited in Blood City will spread out from that door and gradually change reality.” That child looked into Chen Ge’s eyes and said softly.
”Since the appearance of the door would cause reality to collapse, why did you bother to push open a door? You’ve connected reality and Blood City, so the large amount of negativity deposited here will most likely pour into reality again.” Chen Ge was a bit puzzled, Goodness Nim possessed a pure and good heart, he shouldn’t go for something with such a high risk.
”Then who do you think created the despair deposited in the Blood City and among the Sea of Fog?” The child in the mirror asked rhetorically.
”People in reality?”
”That’s right, in fact, everyone has a well in the bottom of their heart that connects to the Black Sea of Fog, and despair, pain, a great deal of negativity, and unpleasant memories all pour into the Sea of Fog through this well. No one knows exactly where the black sea of fog is, maybe it’s somewhere we can’t see, maybe it’s hidden in the deepest part of the nightmare, or maybe it’s hidden in everyone’s heart. But no matter where it is, there is one thing we can’t deny, the Black Sea of Fog is growing bigger and bigger every moment.” The tone of the child in the mirror slowly became serious, “What do you think would happen if one day the Sea of Fog expands to its limit, where it can no longer hold one’s despair?”
”Pouring in? Despair will keep bubbling up from the well of everyone’s heart?”
”Yes. Perhaps the Sea of Mist is far from reaching the limit of what it can bear, but that day will come sooner or later if left unchecked.”
”All of a person’s despair and forgotten painful memories all enter the Sea of Fog, and the Black Sea of Fog emerges as a result, so what’s the deal with the City of Blood?” Chen Ge thought that Blood City was the most terrifying at first, and it wasn’t until the end that he realized that there was a black fog outside of Blood City.
”The reason why people are human is because even in the midst of the deepest despair, people will still retain a trace of hope. While the black fog is pure despair and pain, representing death and oblivion, the Blood City is the last sliver of hope left in the bloody humanity, and that longing for salvation constructs the blood-colored city, isolated from the sea of fog. As the Sea of Mist continues to expand, so does the Blood City, only normally the Blood City expands far less quickly than the Black Mist, so the significance of my existence emerges.” The child in the mirror patiently explained to Chen Ge.
”You want to use Blood City to destroy the Sea of Mist?”
”As long as people still have despair in their hearts, the Sea of Fog cannot be destroyed. What I want to do is to extradite those most desperate souls in reality to the Blood City and grow it to prevent them from merging with the black fog.” The child in the mirror looked out the window, “Each blood door in Blood City represents a most desperate soul, and it is because of these souls that Blood City has expanded countless times over the years.”
The existence of the “doors” was Blood City’s way of extraditing the most desperate people, after Chen Ge roughly understood this, many more questions popped up in his mind.
Reaching into his pocket and taking out his black cell phone, Chen Ge placed the phone with the shattered screen in front of the mirror, “Dad’s cell phone became like this because of you, right? Are you the one who is guiding me step by step?”
The child in the mirror didn’t deny it, “Do you remember the first nightmare level mission? That mission started here, and when you closed your eyes, I was standing in the mirror watching you. We looked through the mirror just like we are now, able to see each other, but never able to touch each other.”
”Which means that every mission and message was posted by you?”
”Mostly.”
”I see, that’s why every star-level mission will have the word trial in front of it, such as the two-star trial mission Twilight Sun Middle School, the three-star trial mission Third Sick Building, and so on.” Chen Ge’s brain turned very fast, “But I still have a doubt, those props and scenes in my haunted house, how did you unlock them?”
”That’s what I’m going to focus on with you next, as Blood City expands wildly, the city becomes more and more unstable, despair pervades, and the severe ghosts fight each other. They can’t obtain salvation here, and I’m afraid that if you want to truly eliminate the resentment and despair in their hearts, you’ll have to return to reality.” The child in the mirror used the gentlest expression and said the craziest words, “I want this blood-colored city to become the intersection where the Sea of Mist and the real world overlap.”
”You’re crazy, aren’t you? With so many red clothes and stern ghosts all released back into reality, all the hundred miles around Hanyue would probably become ghostly.”
”That’s why I’ve been cautiously trying to unlock only one scene at a time, from weak to strong. You have done everything very perfectly, without any accidents so far, and your existence is a testament to my vision.” The child in the mirror swept a glance at the black cell phone, a black and red thread of blood surged from the haunted house bathroom, they all burrowed into the phone, “This cell phone contains my only obsession, I poured out all of Blood City’s power to give it some of Blood City’s abilities, the scenes in the ground floor of your haunted house are the projections of the world behind the door, they’ll be rooted in reality, and will serve as a connection between Blood City and the reality of the hub.”
The shattered screen was repaired by the black and red threads in the Blood City, and those black and red threads exuded an aura that could rival that of the Fierce God, and the child in the mirror seemed to be using the Fierce God’s flesh and blood to repair the cell phone.
”The negative emotions of the living are swallowed by the Fierce God while the Fierce God’s despair, obsessions and regrets are completed in reality so that the stability of the Blood City can be maintained to the maximum extent possible, and stabilizing the Blood City is only the first step, my real goal is still that sea of despairing fog. I can’t completely make the sea of fog disappear, but I will control Blood City to do my best to suppress it in a bid to be able to redeem more desperate souls.” The child in the mirror returned the repaired black cell phone to Chen Ge: “I used to be in a very dangerous situation, the director of the Cursed Hospital stole my past body and imprisoned our parents, and he used all of this at all times to interfere with me, wanting to seize control of Blood City, but now I no longer have any worries.”
The child in the mirror was unable to leave Blood City, while the cursed hospital kept moving through the sea of black mist. If it wasn’t for Chen Ge, by the time the dean completely devoured Chen Ge’s parents, the end would still be unknown.
Holding the black cell phone that had been repaired, Chen Ge thought back to the scene when he first found the black cell phone, and it seemed like that day was just yesterday.
”Do you have any more questions?”
”En, in fact, there’s something I’ve always been puzzled about, so it’s just right to ask you in person today.” Chen Ge re-pressed the on button, “There’s a carousel in this black cell phone, putting in a visitor’s scream value will get you the number of spins, I’ve spun it many times, but I’ve never spun anything good. I just want to ask if those rewards written next to the spinning wheel really exist? Like what spiritual fruits that increase longevity? Medicines that improve your physique and so on?”
”Those are just well-intentioned deceptions to incentivize you, among the reels there are only stern ghosts, items related to stern ghosts, and some miscellaneous items left behind by the dead in the City of Blood.” The child in the mirror said matter-of-factly.
”The fact that you are so shameless that you can still be a good idea makes me have a new understanding of myself.” Chen Ge looked at the slowly lighting up cell phone screen and gently shook his head.