Chapter 1159 - When I Encounter Darkness, I Walk Right Into It (2 in 1) (2/2)
“Quarantine area?”
“Yes, all the new patients will be locked up there.” The black blood vessels on Xue Rong’s skin disappeared. She glanced at the red high heels fearfully. Her once patient had become a very scary monster. “The central hospital is very big, and the quarantine areas are at the deepest part of the hospital. I hope you will reconsider what you are doing.”
“I think you might have misunderstood me. I am not going to the quarantine areas to save people.”
“Then, what are you planning to do?” Xue Rong was a bit confused.
“My plan is to completely destroy this hospital and clear out any humans or ghosts who have already fallen for the curse. After cleansing the whole hospital, naturally, I will be able to rescue the people that they have kidnapped.” Chen Ge waved his arms. “Bring us into the hospital. Lead the way.”
Since she was basically no different from a hostage, Xue Rong had no choice. She led Chen Ge to the left side of the hospital.
“This here is the side door. It is relatively safer because only the hospital staff know about it.”
After Xue Rong said that, both she and Chen Ge saw the car that was parked beside the side door.
“Why would the car from Jiujiang Medical University be parked here? Did Zuo Han enter the hospital from the side door? But didn’t you say that only the hospital staff know about the existence of this door?”
“But that’s the truth!” Xue Rong was clueless as well. “I have no reason to lie to you. I will end up worse a thousand times if I am recaptured by the cursed hospital compared to being captured by you. Therefore, I will unconditionally side with you!”
“If the hospital staff know about this place, then doesn’t that mean that they will predict me using this door? This route is not as safe as you think.” Chen Ge shook his head. He chose a window that was even more out the way. At 11:54 pm, Chen Ge officially entered the cursed hospital. Xin Hai Central Hospital was supposed to have been abandoned for a long time already, but the inside of the building reeked of disinfectant, and there were occasional footprints and shoe prints on the ground as if people still wandered these halls.
“When Captain Cai called me earlier, he told me that there was no trace of any recent human activity at the hospital. Why would he lie to me? Was something standing next to him when he made that call?”
With the aid of Yin Yang Vision, darkness posed no trouble for Chen Ge. He carefully moved down the corridor. Without moving that far, Chen Ge saw someone had used a red paint to write the following on the wall of the corridor—’This is a sickened world, why not destroy it?’
The ghastly handwriting combined with bright red paint, it stood out even in the dark. Chen Ge frowned slightly. He continued to move forward. The real maddening side of this hospital was slowly being exposed to Chen Ge. Yellowed death notices appeared on the ground, and black and white pictures of doctors were hung upside down on the walls. Some of the pictures had scratch marks from fingernails, and the white coats were poked through with needles. “The owner of the cursed hospital is the hospital director, and the doctors… why would they allow such vandalism of the doctor’s pictures?”
The situation was more complicated than Chen Ge thought. The corridor that he had been walking along appeared to reach down into the endless darkness, and every door seemed to hide a monster behind it. Every corner of the hospital showed signs of the patients’ struggles. The walls had been repainted layer after layer. The surface looked white as snow, but the inner layers were already corrupted, and the new layer did nothing to cover up the rotting smell.
“This whole place does not feel right, but strangely enough, I cannot sense the presence of any monster or ghosts.” Chen Ge had superhuman senses. Ever since he entered the hospital, he did not sense any danger. He only felt strangely uncomfortable, like he was dropped inside a pool of quicksand. The white cat, which was highly alert when it was outside the hospital, started to relax once inside the hospital. It strode next to Chen Ge and sometimes turned its head around to observe things out of curiosity.
“Do not let your guard down. The night at the cursed hospital has always been like this. You should be lucky that you have not run into any patients or night doctors. Every single one of them is scarier than the last.”
Even though she was already a Red Specter, when Xue Rong thought back to these things, she was still afraid.
“Are you sure? How come it feels like all the ghosts have already decided to leave tonight?”
Chen Ge pushed open the door of the sickroom. He saw the handwriting left behind by the patient on the wall next to the bed—’Who can bring me away from this sickened world?’
“Why does everyone here think the world is sick? The truth is that because they themselves are sick, and that is why the world look sick from their perspective, isn’t it?”
There was plenty of similar handwriting, scratch marks, and paper notes that had the same message. Chen Ge had a feeling the cursed hospital was doing this on purpose. A normal person was led into the impression that they were living inside a sickened world, and then the cursed hospital used many crazy methods to show them how sick the world was to get the normal person to approve of the world’s sickness. Once that impression was made, the normal person would officially become a patient.
“No matter what, I cannot allow my conviction to be shaken. No matter how imperfect this world might be, it exists in reality!” Just walking down the corridor, the sickened world had already appeared before his eyes who know how many times already. Chen Ge finally understood why he felt so uncomfortable when he arrived at this place. Xin Hai Central Hospital was different from the outside world. In fact, one could say that the whole of Xin Hai’s countryside was different from other places. This place was the real sickened world. “They appear to have the aim of forcing madness on everyone that enters the hospital, be it the patients or the doctors.”
The scariest part of the cursed hospital was not the fact that they would kill people but that they would do everything in their power to change a person, like with the ghost fetus. What the shadow was looking for was bliss. He was desperate for love and being loved, but after he ran into the cursed hospital, the shadow’s worldview was corrupted. The child, who originally had a chance at salvation, was turned into a Demon God in the world of the dark fog. He had committed many erroneous crimes and had been made to suffer the most painful and the most despairing curse, and the culprit behind everything that had happened to him was the cursed hospital.
Chen Ge had no idea why the cursed hospital would do something like that, but he knew that what he needed to do now was ensure that he was not influenced by the cursed hospital. From the moment his employees were kidnapped, the cursed hospital appeared to have initiated their plan. Chen Ge wanted to destroy the cursed hospital, and the cursed hospital wanted to turn Chen Ge into a patient. The history behind the two parties had started more than twenty years ago; it crossed the line of life and death and two cities. It involved many forces. Many ghosts and people were waiting for this moment.
Walking out from the reception hall, Chen Ge entered the ICU. When Xue Rong and his employees were not paying attention, Chen Ge silently brushed against the wedding ring on his finger. Xiao Sun was located somewhere underneath the hospital. Chen Ge was very close to him. Chen Ge did not head directly to Xiao Sun but continued with his original plan. Along the way, he did not run into any living person or any ghost. He moved smoothly and arrived at the door that led underground.
“The first quarantine zone is underneath this door. I need to remind you, this place is very dangerous.” Xue Rong’s expression became quite strange. Black lines started to appear in her blood red eyes. “The atmosphere is indeed rather unusual at the hospital tonight. You’d better remain on alert.”
Looking at the dark corridor, Chen Ge rushed into it without any hesitation.