Chapter 1178 - A Madman who Uses Ghost Story to Deal with Curse (2in1) (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree

“After the hospital director’s demise, his office has been kept the way it was?” The people outside the doctor were filled with confusion. Other than Chen Ge, including the two doctors, no one dared to enter the room. Currently Chen Ge was in a very bad state. The memory related to the stench in his mind started to loosen, pieces of memory fragments blasted to form many different images in his mind.

“Hey, don’t stay in there alone! It is too dangerous!” Patient Number 2 was worried about Chen Ge’s safety. He slowly approached the hospital director’s office, but when he reached the door, his body refused to enter the room. It was as if every cell in his body was resisting him, like they were certain he would die if he dared to ventured into the office.

In the brief clearing of his mind, Chen Ge heard the voice of Patient Number 2, but his nervous system was already swamped by the intense pain and torment. He started to lose control of his body. Under the dual torture of pain and the stench, he toppled headfirst onto the hospital director’s desk. His hands held the surface of the table. Chen Ge’s face that was twisted by pain almost crashed into the glass jar placed on the table.

“Whose heart is this?” His breathing came rapidly as his chest rose and fell. As the pain within Chen Ge intensified, the heart that was wrapped by numerous black threads started to pump inside the glass jar. It was like Chen Ge’s own heart, every beating was pulling along Chen Ge’s nerves. “Could the heart inside the glass jar be mine?”

Chen Ge realized the frequency of the beating of his own heart and the one inside the glass jar was slowly starting to line up. He stared at the glass jar closely as if his soul was about to get sucked into the jar itself. Indescribable pain and despair poured freely into the man’s body. The world before his eyes started to swirl. The multiple character of deaths amplified before his eyes, it was as if they had all come alive. Chen Ge wanted to wave his arms to resist but his body and nerves were at the edge of a breakdown, he had difficulty to even nudge a single muscle in his body.

“Being trapped inside the room filled with the word, death, how come this experience feels so familiar to me?” A memory bubbled up in the darkest corner of Chen Ge’s memory. A mud statuette carved with Chen Ge’s name at the chest was shoved inside an altar that was filled with the character, death by someone. What Chen Ge was experiencing now was similar to the mud statuette that was carved with his own name. But he was not trapped inside any religious altar but he was instead trapped inside the dead hospital director’s office. “Someone has placed a curse on me!”

The flickering memory helped Chen Ge confirm that someone had once placed a curse on him but due to various reason, the person had failed. But now he had triggered the curse again. The man himself had no idea why he could be so familiar with these things that should not be common to a normal person at all. Both of his hands slowly moved. Chen Ge’s gum was bloody from the heavy gritting of his teeth. He reached out to hug the glass jar on the table. The initial plan was to break the glass jar to see if that would break the curse but to his surprise, when both of his hands touched the glass jar, the black threads that was stuck to the heart crawled out from the heart and they started to bang against the glass jar itself. It felt like they were trying to break through the glass to enter Chen Ge’s body.

The glass jar started to splinter and crack. The stench in the room intensified. Chen Ge’s consciousness was failing. He used the last vestige of his energy to shove the glass jar to the edge of the table. The black threads slammed against the glass. The crack kept spreading. Just as the glass jar was about to shatter, deep red striations appeared inside the heart. These red blood vessels twined together and weaved out the face of a child inside the heart.

The child screamed. As if to prevent the child to escape from the cage of the heart, the black threads immediately wrapped themselves back around the heart and stopped attacking the glass jar. Chen Ge witnessed the whole process. Be it the black thread or the child’s face that appeared inside the heart, this was definitely different from the ‘real’ world that Doctor Gao was convinced they were in. He looked at the child’s face inside the heart rather confusedly. For some reason, the face reminded of himself when he was small.

“The heart that was kept inside the glass jar belongs to the young boy?” The pain in his mind faded away by quite a lot. Chen Ge collapsed beside the desk and gasped hungrily for air. The hospital director’s office had returned to normal. Even the stench in the air had lightened greatly.

“Are you alright?” it was not until now that Doctor Sun ran into the office. He squatted down beside Chen Ge with his back to the door.

“Do I look like I am alright to you?” Just as Chen Ge tried to speak, he started to cough uncontrollably.

Doctor Sun looked at Chen Ge quietly. He pointed at Chen Ge’s finger and then said something very strange. “Before the patients are admitted into the hospital, their personal effects will be kept in the fifth sick hall. There is a wedding ring inside your cupboard.”

“Wedding ring? But I am not yet married…”

“Indeed, you are not married, so why would you have a wedding ring on you?” Doctor Sun had a big smile on his scarred face, it radiated relief. He was facing away from the door so only Chen Ge could see the expression on his face at that moment. “If you can successfully escape from the hospital, remember to put on the wedding ring, I believe it is very important to you.” Chen Ge felt like Doctor Sun was a bit different from before. He tried to think closer about it. Ever since they left the third sick hall, Doctor Gao had been holding onto his arm while Doctor Sun had an icy disposition towards him. But after the latter entered the hospital director’s office, Doctor Sun suddenly smiled at him, this was completely different from how he had been acting up until now.

[Is this because Doctor Gao is not inside the hospital director’s office with us?] Chen Ge slowly discovered the difference between Doctor Sun and Doctor Gao. At this moment, Doctor Gao was more like a walking dead body while Doctor Sun was getting more and more humanized.

“Let’s go, it is not wise to stay too long inside the hospital director’s office. This place has witnessed too many tragedies.” Doctor Sun picked Chen Ge up from the ground. He supported Chen Ge as they were leaving the room when Chen Ge suddenly stopped. “Wait a minute.” Chen Ge turned around and picked up the glass jar that was left on the desk. He hugged it in his chest.

“What are you doing?” Doctor Sun took in a cold breath and subconsciously moved away from Chen Ge who was carrying the glass jar as if the glass jar was something incredibly dangerous.

“I want to bring this thing with us.” Chen Ge knew the black threads around the heart might claim his life at any moment but he still insisted on bringing this thing with him because he felt like the face that was hidden inside the heart was very important to him.

“Do you know what is that? The stories that I have told you before, do you really think they are just mere stories?” Doctor Sun’s expression changed immediately. He knew how scary the glass jar was but due to certain reason, he was unable to divulge more information.

“I know this thing is very dangerous but just because of how dangerous it is, there is more the reason for me to carry it with me.” Chen Ge answered seriously.

“What kind of twisted logic is that?” Doctor Sun started to suspect Chen Ge’s condition had worsened again.