Chapter 1159 - When I Encounter Darkness, I Walk Right Into It (2 in 1) (1/2)

“A small hell?” Chen Ge kept his eyes on the taxi until the last bit of light from the taillight of the taxi was also swallowed up by the darkness of the night. The countryside of Xin Hai was extremely deserted; there were barely any people on the road. Flipping through the comic, Chen Ge had all his employees remain ready, and then he placed the white cat on the ground. The white cat, which was naturally cautious, perked its ears perked up. Its heterochromatic eyes were filled with intense anxiety. It stuck close to Chen Ge and showed more than once that it would crawl underneath Chen Ge’s clothes if it could.

“You also feel the danger in the air?” Scratching the white cat on the back of its head, Chen Ge took a deep breath. He moved away from the main street and trekked deeper into the countryside on the smaller path. Walking through the series of abandoned buildings, the surroundings became quieter and quieter. The sound of the insects chittering had disappeared, as did the last speck of light.

“This piece of land consists of mostly unfinished residential buildings. How come the construction was stopped only after the shells of the foundation were built?”

Using Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge saw the many different crass words that were written on the outer walls in red paint. It appeared like there was a riot among the employees due to the delay in the construction company paying their salary. They desecrated the unfinished building to force their bosses to surrender to their demands, but something else had happened.

Not far away from the unfinished residential area was a large site of an abandoned factory area. There were chemical factories and medical factories, but most of the factories did not specify what kind of factory they were. The rust on the fences showed that they had been there for a long time already. They lacked cleaning, and various large machines had become garbage that was impossible to deal with. The Xin Hai countryside was larger than Chen Ge anticipated. The taxi driver basically dropped him at the edge of the countryside; the man did not intend to drive Chen Ge in any further.

To prevent the possibility of an ambush on the main road, Chen Ge did not dare use the paved street. He could only slowly seek out his own path this day. The interaction that he had with the Xin Hai police proved useful at a moment like this. It was not completely useless. At least when he visited the police station, he managed to gain a more detailed understanding of the building layout at Xin Hai’s countryside. The countryside had been abandoned for so long that the location of the various abandoned buildings and factories were only marked down at the map used by the police force.

“Residential areas, various factors, cinemas, supermarkets, small parks, and the types of abandoned building at this countryside sure are numerous. It is basically like a forgotten city.” Chen Ge had been wondering why the cursed hospital situated deep inside the countryside would be called Xin Hai Central Hospital, but he believed he had found the answer. If the entire Xin Hai countryside was seen as an abandoned city, then the cursed hospital was indeed placed at the center of this city. “The mission requires me to arrive at Xin Hai Central Hospital before midnight. I am on a time crunch. Looks like I’d better pick up my pace.”

If Xin Hai was the cursed hospital’s territory, Xin Hai countryside was their old lair. Chen Ge reminded himself that he had to be extremely careful with his every step here. At around 11 pm, Xin Hai Countryside, which was surrounded in darkness, suddenly had a flash of light cut through it. Chen Ge looked toward the source of the light. It looked like a car that was driving down the main road. “Wait, isn’t that the car from Jiujiang Medical University? Could that be Ol’ Wu and Zuo Han?”

Chen Ge knew how dangerous the cursed hospital was, so he immediately took out his phone to call Ol’ Wu. “Ol’ Wu, you have come to Xin Hai Countryside as well?”

“It was Zuo Han who drove the car away! I parked the car in the original parking spot at the apartment, and then I brought Zuo Han with me to check in at a hotel in the middle of the city. But half an hour ago, when I went to take a shower, Zuo Han grabbed my keys! He’s now missing, and he is not answering my calls!”

“Zuo Han is not the kind of person to act so rashly. Take a close look around the room. See if he has left any clues behind for you!” Chen Ge was a bit desperate. The battle between the haunted house and the cursed hospital was on a completely different level. No matter how clever Zuo Han was, if he was dragged into this battle, there was only one ending.

Death.

“When I went to take a shower, I believe he was reading a book… Hmm, yes, found it.” The sound of pages being flipped came from the other side of the line. Ol’ Wu suddenly said, “Hmm?”

“Did you find something?”

“Some of the words on this page have been circled in pencil,” Ol’ Wu said softly. “Room, someone, the, is, in.”

“Someone is in the room?” Chen Ge widened his eyes. “Someone is in the room! Ol’ Wu, leave the room immediately! Now!”

By the time Chen Ge shouted that order, the other side of the line had already gone quiet. No matter how loud he cried, there was no response.

“The cursed hospital has already made their move, so what exactly do they wish to take from these people around me?” Chen Ge shared a very normal relationship with Ol’ Wu. There was basically nothing that Ol’ Wu knew about Chen Ge, but even so, he was not spared by the cursed hospital. The memory that Ol’ Wu might have when he accompanied Chen Ge in leaving Xin Hai had already been wiped away by Zhang Yi. The cursed hospital would not find any valuable information on him. That could be considered the only good news.

“Have they targeted anyone related to me? The hospital is most familiar with curses. Is it possible that they are attempting to put a curse on me through the many individuals who are related to me?”

For most curses to work, they required a medium. The scarier and harsher the curse, the more significant the medium needed. A very bad feeling overwhelmed Chen Ge’s heart.

“Time is needed to complete a curse. They have just taken Ol’ Wu, so if I am not wrong, their curse cannot have been completed just yet.”

Chen Ge looked at the car that sped into the darkness, and he moved faster than before. At 11:30 pm, Chen Ge finally arrived at the perimeter of Xin Hai Central Hospital. This abandoned hospital was situated at the middle of Xin Hai’s countryside. Several buildings were joined together to form an inverted cross. It gave off a sense of death, like a zone of hell.

“This is the place where my parents gone disappeared, huh?” Chen Ge did not use the front door. He summoned the red high heels and Xue Rong while he observed the hospital from the outside. Xue Rong did not expect that she would once again return to this place where her nightmare originated after she tried so hard to escape from it. The curse in her body was evoked. If not for the suppression from the red high heels, she would have gone berserk.

“Have you lost your mind? Why would you voluntarily come here to seek death? Can’t you just live your life peacefully in Jiujiang? What is so bad about that?” Xue Rong tried her best to maintain her rationality.

“Stop wasting time. You were a night doctor at the cursed hospital before, so you should be very familiar with the inside of this place.”

“I am not going back into this place. There is no way you can convince me!” Xue Rong was on the verge of breakdown. Chen Ge had the red high heels add new curses on Xue Rong.

“The cursed hospital has captured my employees, and they are threatening with the lives of many other innocent people. I am not asking you to do me a favor here. If you do not want to help me, then I will have my employees swallow you up right this moment.” Chen Ge’s tone was sharp and icy. At a moment like this, hesitation and kindness would not help. It would only delay his plan. The black lines on Xue Rong’s body continued to increase as the red high heels applied more and more curses on Xue Rong. When Xue Rong was treating the red high heels, she too had placed many curses on the red high heels. In a way, this was a cycle in and of itself.

“Stop! Fine.” Xue Rong’s eyes were bleeding. Black blood vessels surfaced on her skin, and she was in extreme pain. “The cursed hospital will not capture people for no reason. There are only two kinds of people that they will capture—doctors who are worth investing in and humans who possess the unique properties to become patients! When the doctors are tricked into joining the hospital, they will start their work as a day doctor, but the patients are not so lucky. They will be kept inside the quarantine area. If they can survive for three days, they will gain a new number, which will replace their name.”