Chapter 1208 - The Only Wish (2in1) (1/2)
Translator: Lonelytree
Seeing the serenity on Chen Ge’s face, the child in the mirror asked Chen Ge with curiosity, “Aren’t you mad now that you have found out everything about the Wheel of Misfortune is a lie?”
“At the beginning, I was truly incensed, I thought my luck could not have been worse but after going through so much, I realized, all of the good luck in my life has already been exhausted the moment I crossed path with her.” Chen Ge nudged several steps to Zhang Ya’s side. “She is the most beautiful person I have ever met, and that is the luckiest thing that could have happened to me in my life and for that, I have nothing but appreciation and thankfulness towards.” Zhang Ya appeared to be blanking out but when she noticed Chen Ge approaching her, she pulled back her curtain of black hair and voluntarily sidled over to Chen Ge. Both of them stood before the mirror together but the mirror only showed the reflection of one person.
“Now that you put it that way, you do owe me a great deal.” The child in the mirror felt like Chen Ge was purposely gloating, feeding him dogfood. “Before Zhang Ya became a Red Spectre, she was being pursuit by another Red Spectre and accidentally stumbled deep into the red city. Seeing how rare her power is, I guided her to her safety from the dark. At the time, I had to split up my attention to deal with the hospital director’s curse and it was almost impossible to still have time to protect a ghost who was not even a Red Spectre inside the chaotic red city, so I split out a shred of the red city’s consciousness and placed it on her and then I had her hide inside the Haunted House deep inside the red city.”
The child in the mirror looked at Zhang Ya who was now a Demon God, the corners of his lips turned into a helpless smile. “Who would have thought after the shred of red city’s consciousness joined with her, even I was unable to extract it anymore. Zhang Ya thus became the most unique presence at the red city. If one day, I was to disappear due to some unknown reason, then she would replace me as the new consciousness of the red city, that is also the last insurance that I have against the hospital director.”
“Therefore, to prevent putting all the eggs in one basket, you sent Zhang Ya out of the red city and had her hide in the real world?”
“Other than myself, there are only a handful of people who knew about the fact that Zhang Ya had once entered the red city.” The child in the mirror studied Zhang Ya from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet, he still felt the whole thing was rather surreal. “I know how special she is but it is still quite out of my expectation that she will be able to evolve into a Demon God so soon.”
“Speaking of that, the speed by which Doctor Gao had become a Demon God is not slower than Zhang Ya.” Chen Ge glanced to his side. Doctor Gao had not left. He followed Chen Ge into the Haunted House. With regards to this former chairman of the ghost stories society, Chen Ge still had his apprehension. It could not be helped, after all, Doctor Gao was not only an incredibly powerful Demon God, he was also a incredibly cunning and brilliant strategist. No one would be able to rival him in terms of intelligence.
“Doctor Gao has used 20 years of planning to become a Demon God. From when he was still alive to after his death, he has paid a price that none of you can ever imagine.” The child in the mirror turned to look at Doctor Gao.
Lifting his head, Doctor Gao’s lips opened slightly. Ever since the death of the hospital director, this was the first time he had spoken, “I have already completed the request that you have asked of me, so we do not owe each other anything from now on.”
“You two have met before this?” Chen Ge realized then Doctor Gao appeared to have some kind of contract with the Kindness inside the mirror.
“Doctor Gao has once entered this place through the door in your Haunted House. He was lost at the deepest part of the blood city, it was me who saved him. It was also because he had known the truth that he would choose to commit suicide at the underground morgue and left his own daughter in your care.” The child in the mirror pointed at the door of the cubicle in the toilet. “The drawing of the dream demon on the door was left behind by him.”
“Dream Demon? This spectre that has three heads is called a Dream Demon?”
“Some people call it the Dream Demon, others call it Heart Demon. It is a monster that lives deep inside the black fog, it feeds on nightmare and negative emotions, it can elicit the evil deep inside people’s heart and use that power to destroy blood doors. You could say it has a power that is completely opposite from that of the red city.” After the boy in the mirror explained that, everything clicked into place for Chen Ge. Before his death, Doctor Gao had indeed sneaked into his own Haunted House before. He carved the picture of the Dream Demon on the cubicle door to leave a way back for himself. After all, at the time, Doctor Gao also thought it was the door pusher who only had the power to control the blood door. If he was trapped inside the world behind the door, then he would destroy the blood door in Chen Ge’s Haunted House and then make his escape.
It was the same for Chang Wenyu when she wanted to destroy the door at School of After Life, she too had painted the drawing of the Dream Demon on that door. In real life, blood door represented the red city while Dream Demon represented the sea of black fog. Many questions that he had in the past had been answered. After clarifying a few other details, Chen Ge carried his parents and placed them before the mirror. “I have found them inside the blood sea at the cursed hospital. Even though the hospital director has been vanquished, they still have not woken up.”
“It is incredibly difficult to cure an injury to the soul but I will try my best. You should bring them to the Prop Room, there is a bath of blood there. Place them into the blood bath and leave the rest to me.” The boy in the mirror turned to leave. Chen Ge also led the few Demon Gods out of the toilet and turned into the Prop Room. Compared to the first time he entered this place, the room had not changed that much. But only a few seconds later, a blood gash was pulled open by an external force at the corner of the room. Chen Ge was very familiar with that corner. Whenever he drew something from the black phone, those items would show up at this particular corner of the Props Room in the Haunted House.
Strands of black and red blood vessels rushed out and dragged Chen Ge’s parents into the blood pool at the corner of the room. The blood pool appeared to be connected to the space underneath the red city. Submerged in the black and red liquid bath, many different kinds of curses and black words appeared underneath Chen Ge’s parents’ skin. Then these remaining curses were washed away by the blood. Color returned to Chen Ge’s parents’ cheeks. They looked much more alive than before. The whole process lasted for an hour. When Chen Ge’s parents were sent out from the blood pool, they already looked much better than before.
“When you leave the world behind the door, it should not take long for them to wake up.” The figure of a boy showed up inside a prop mirror in the Props room. Kindness did not have his parent wake up immediately apparently because he did not wish for them to see the state that he was in.
“Thank you so much.”
“It was me who should be thanking you. After all, I thought I would never lay eyes on them ever again.” The boy in the mirror studied the sea of blood that was boiling inside the blood pool and then he added with some hint. “The power that has accumulated over the years by the red city is just about enough to completely repair a broken soul to help her welcome a new life.”
“What do you mean by that? Wait a minute, if Zhang Ya baths inside this blood pool, she has the chance to become a human again?!” Chen Ge grabbed Zhang Ya’s hand and he became quite animated. “Once her soul is healed, and if you combine that with my talent of Living Doll…”
“Yes, there is a chance of that, but for a Demon God, the success rate is only 1 over ten thousand. If anything, the weaker and the more common the soul, the higher the success rate. Are you sure you want to go through with this?” The child in the mirror controlled the black and red blood vessels, the Props Room was torn open to reveal the gurgling blood sea underneath it. To reborn as a person, then they would have a chance to make up for all the regrets in the past and they would have the chance to embrace a better future, even if the chance of success was only 1 over ten thousand, it was still a very precious opportunity.