Chapter 1204 - A Song (2in1) (2/2)
Using the monsters that he personally cultivated, the hospital director saw a sea of black fog at the deepest part of his nightmare. All the despair in the world was collected here. They were forgotten by human beings but they would never disappear. The sea of fog was filled with monsters that would only appear in one’s nightmare. Other than that, there were plenty of lost souls. The hospital director’s interest in this world continued to grow, he believed this was his place of birth, after all he was the physical manifestation of despair.
He was no longer satisfied with using his child’s consciousness to enter the sea of fog and so he started to use different patients and enter the sea of fog through the bridge in the bottom of their hearts. After about a year, he ran into a patient from Jiujiang.
The young man named Chen Xiao was in a deep coma because he tried to save someone from a car accident. The man who was saved by Chen Xiao had the surname Luo, he came from a family of merchants. To save Chen Xiao, he spent a lot of money to hire the best doctors in the country and among the group of doctors, there was the hospital director. The hospital director in the doctor’s coat attempted to enter the black fog through Chen Xiao’s heart but after he succeeded, he was shocked to realize that the patient was standing at the edge of the world of the black fog. One of his side was covered in black fog heavy in despair while the other side was a city built from blood and flesh.
If the black fog was the amalgamation of pure despair and pain, then the red city was the only hope that should not be called as hope that existed in the world of the black fog. When a piece of despairing memory was forgotten, the despair and pain among it would morph into black fog while the last remaining shred of desire and struggle would slip into the red city. The black fog was filled with ghastly and scary monsters while the red city was populated by wounded individuals.
The hospital director saw the uniqueness of this patient, he believed he must be hiding some kind of secret. He searched out Chen Xia. After conducting multiple experiments, he realized only his own consciousness could leave the world successfully, he could not bring Chen Xiao with him. After giving it much contemplation, the hospital director in the doctor’s coat believed perhaps the reason of this was due to the existence of the hospital director in the patient’s garb. He was the first person who had the contradictory consciousness in his mind. The hospital director in the doctor’s coat walked around the edge of the red city but the other hospital director was trapped somewhere else, there was still an unbreakable bond between them.
The hospital director in the doctor’s coat shared his own treatment method with Chen Xiao. To split out the opposing spirit, Chen Xiao went through a torment that was beyond the imagination of the human consciousness in the red city and black fog. Ultimately the consciousness of the young man was split apart, the side who still had the humanity remained was called Chen Xiao, the other side who was bound by the red city and filled with negative emotion was named as Chen Xiang.
The moment the personalities were split, the hospital director in the doctor’s coat dragged Chen Xiao out of the red city, while the savage and brutal Chen Xiang who could never be controlled was left behind in the red city. When they returned to the real world, the hospital director started to gain an enormous interest in Chen Xiao, he wanted to know why Chen Xiao’s heart would be connected to the edge of the red city. He observed the man in the dark and recorded everything. No one knew that he was a demon in the disguise of a human.
Several years later, the child of Chen Xiao was born. The child possessed a pair of blood red eyes. It appeared as if he could see right through into people’s heart and he could see many things that a normal adult could not. Other children would be crying but this boy would always be smiling, as if there was nothing in the world who would be able to make him sad. Chen Xiao knew why his child was so different from the others. To escape from the red city, he had paid too hefty of a price and it included having the negative emotions shatter his body again and again and experiencing the despair that the human world could never imagine.
Looking at the newborn in his embrace, studying the pure and innocent smile on his face, Chen Xiao gave his own boy a name that carried with it a very unique meaning—Chen Ge [Song]. The world kissed me with pain but I shall repay it with a song.
As he grew up, more and more anomalies appeared around Chen Ge. He would enter the world of the black fog in his sleep but he would promptly return to the real world when he awakened. He met different kind of people and seen many different types of ghost. Perhaps it was his bloodline or perhaps it was because of his father, even if Chen Ge’s consciousness was not split, he could walk through the red city, black fog and the real world freely and this was all captured within the hospital director’s eyes.
The hospital director in the doctor’s coat had a special patient’s list, he had listed Chen Ge as Patient Number 2, Chen Xiang trapped in the red city as Patient Number 2 and Chen Xiao in real life as Patient Number 3. He had been in disguise for decades but he still had not been exposed. This fed into the hospital director’s ambition, he wanted to cure this sickened world from its core. He started to interact with Chen Ge behind his parent’s knowledge. He wanted to use Chen Ge’s power to bring the despair and pain people had forgotten back into the human world. As the cursed seed, he had complete faith that the world of the black fog was the true world and the real world was merely a sick disguise.
The hospital director approached Chen Ge carefully. He used the experience that he had garnered through the decades to help Chen Ge open a blood door in the red city. The door connected the red city and real life. Even though it only lasted for a short period of time but it had already given the hospital director enough hospital. He kept having encounter with Chen Ge in the red city and the black fog, in the end, he triggered the alarm from Chen Xiao. But to complete his own plan, the hospital director did not mind such detail. In fact a crazy thought had appeared in his mind, he wanted to split Chen Ge’s consciousness into kindness and evil. He would leave kindness with Chen Xiao but he would take the evil away with him.
To create this contradictory consciousness, he started to madly torment Chen Ge in the world of black fog but he still could not succeed. All he had to show for it was the pursuit from both Chen Xiao and Chen Xiang. Seeing as his plan was being exposed, he decided to bring all the monsters that he had created to Jiujiang and kidnapped Chen Ge.
The hospital director would stop at nothing to bring out Chen Ge’s consciousness. He murdered Chen Ge again and again but even so he still failed. No matter what he did to Chen Ge’s consciousness, he could not tear apart or even kill Chen Ge’s consciousness. Whenever the dawn came, Chen Ge’s consciousness would eventually return. Chen Ge’s consciousness could not be split so the hospital director had to come at this from a different angle. He was originally an expert at toying with people’s heart, combined with his decades of exploration in the black fog, he knew that place better than anyone else.
With a careful planning, the hospital director instigated the black fog and it churned and boiled into a scary tsunami. To save the wounded and forgotten memories in the red city, Chen Ge chose to combine himself with the red city and try to influence it. The tsunami swept through the city, the forgotten memories were not washed away but Chen Ge’s consciousness could no longer leave the red city anymore. The hospital director stole away with parts of Chen Ge’s flesh and organ while the remaining parts were taken away by Chen Xiang…
Inside the cursed hospital, the memories that filled the sky were shattered in that moment, the hospital director’s past started to fade away. Holding the red key, the man in red fixed his death stare at the hospital director in the black fog. He plunged the key as hard as he could into the altar. Black blood that reeked kept leaking out from inside the altar.