Chapter 1208 - The Only Wish (2in1) (2/2)
Holding Zhang Ya’s hand, Chen Ge turned to ask for Zhang Ya’s opinion. Zhang Ya who stood next to him had the redness fade from her eyes. Flash of desire lit up her eyes but moments later, she shook her head light. The pale finger tugged at a blood vessel that reached out from her heart. Zhang Ya took out her own heart and replaced it back into Chen Ge’s shadow. Even though she had not spoken a single word, she had made her choice loud and clear.
“But if we miss out on this opportunity, you might never be given the chance to become a human anymore.” Chen Ge grabbed hold of Zhang Ya’s hand. He pulled out her into the corridor and tried to persuade her. About half an hour later, Chen Ge and Zhang Ya returned to the Props Room, they had already come to a consensus.
“So have you decided? Will you be giving this chance to Zhang Ya? If I use the entirety of the power in the red city, the chance of success might be raised by a little bit.” The boy in the mirror was going to give it his all, this was his way of repaying Chen Ge for everything that he had done.
“There is no need for that, we plan to give this chance to Doctor Gao.” Once Chen Ge said that, the sound of chains dropping heavily to the ground came from behind him. Clearly Doctor Gao did not expect something like that.
“Chen Ge, this chance comes once in a lifetime. It takes a very long time for the red city to collect so much power, are you sure you want to give it to me?” Doctor Gao’s heart was racing, he had not felt that in a very long time already.
“The success rate for Demon Gods and Red Spectres is too low but your wife is just a normal person, we must not waste such a precious chance.” Chen Ge was not kidding. He had come to this decision after he had asked Zhang Ya for her opinion. This was what she had agreed to as well. “The sin that you have committed will be shouldered by you alone but your wife is the innocent party in all of you. By the way, there is one more thing that I need to tell you. Gao Ruxue is now very safe, in fact she told me to bring you a message, she wanted me to tell you, she misses you a lot and she wishes to see you again.” Back when they were in the underground morgue, Doctor Gao had the chance to kill Chen Ge and Zhang Ya but he did not do so. Regardless of the reason behind Doctor Gao’s decision, that was an unavoidable truth.
“Thank you.” That was the first time Doctor Gao showed this kind of expression. He tugged at the chain before his chest and used his fingers to cut open his heart. At the tip of his heart, he pulled of his wife’s broken soul. “Her body has already been destroyed by the red city and the monsters in the black fog, but my own physical body is still perfectly preserved, so please use my own flesh and body and make a Living Doll for her.” Doctor Gao held his wife’s broken soul gingerly in his palms. After the hospital director died, the curse that was placed his wife’s soul had already faded away.
“Of course.” After he got the promise from Chen Ge, Doctor Gao laid his wife’s broken soul into the blood pool. Deep inside the blood pool, it contained the purest energy that was harnessed from innumerable negative emotions and the souls of the dead. As the blood washed over it, the soul of Doctor Gao’s soul was slowly repairing itself.
“I have hidden my body inside a building at this red city. Give me a few minutes, I will go and retrieve it.” Doctor Gao was probably waiting for this day since he had kept his own body behind. Not long after htat, Doctor Gao led a very unique Red Spectre to return to the Haunted House. When Chen Ge saw the Red Spectre, he was quite surprised, because it was the woman from the well at the Coffin Village.
“She is the Red Spectre who has been in existence the longest at Jiujiang. In my attempt to find the way to bring my wife back to life, I went to her for help.” Doctor Gao had the woman in the well put down his own body. “It is very difficult to preserve the liveliness of a physical body behind the door. I cannot allow my attention to be separated so I had to ask her for her help to watch over my body.” Doctor Gao said all of these evenly and the woman in the well did not react strangely. If not for the fact that Chen Ge had personally paid a visit to Coffin Village and knew that the Coffin Village behind the door had already been levelled, he probably would have believed Doctor Gao’s stories.
With the aid of several Demon Gods, Chen Ge soon successfully used Doctor Gao’s body to create a Living Doll. Doctor Gao’s wife’s soul was also recovering inside the blood pool. When the soul was placed inside the living doll, the whole red city suddenly shook. The barrier between life and death was shattered, the heart of Doctor Gao’s wife started to beat again. Seeing that familiar face, this was the first time Chen Ge noticed Doctor Gao look at someone with such gentleness in his eyes. Doctor Gao helped his wife arrange her hair. Just as everyone thought Doctor Gao was about to awaken his wife, he turned to tell Chen Ge silently, “I need to ask you for one last favor. After you help me with this, I promise to stay here as long as I live to help you protect the red city and atone for all the sins that I have committed.”
“What kind of favor is it?”
“After you bring my wife out of the blood door, I need you to help me correct the memory of my wife, Gao Ruxue and the people around them.” There were plenty of unwillingness in Doctor Gao’s eyes. He straightened up slightly. “just make it so that it was me who died in the car accident about 20 years ago.” Using 20 years to set up the whole intricate set of plans, after having his nemesis, the hospital director of the cursed hospital killed and his own wife brought back to life, Doctor Gao’s last wish was for his own wife and daughter to forget about himself. Chen Ge clearly did not expect that to be Doctor Gao’s final wish. He did not agree to it immediately. “I still think it is better for you to at least meet them in person once.”
“Over these years, I have killed so many people and consumed endless ghosts, The sin that I have committed is so deep that it cannot be washed away by even the blood sea.” Doctor Gao looked lovingly at his own wife and could not pull his gaze away. “I do not wish for them to see me in this state.”
Seeing his wife’s eyelids fluttering, Doctor Gao silently retreated out of the room. “I will help you guard the red city, perhaps after I have cleansed my body of sin, I will go and find them myself.” Doctor Gao left and he departed with once turning back.
“The cursed hospital has caused too many tragedies in this world, if only things can go back in time.” Chen Ge looked at Doctor Gao as the man disappeared into the red city and gave a sigh of lamentation.
“It is impossible to change the things that have happened in the past, all we can do is to prevent the same tragedy from happening again. The black fog will keep on cultivating the cursed seed so this means that there might be a new hospital director to take up where the previous left off. I cannot leave the red city so should that happen, I shall need you to take care of it again.” The boy in the mirror told Chen Ge.
“With the difference in environment, even if they come from the same cursed seed, they might bloom into different flowers.” Chen Ge looked at the child in the mirror. “But I know what to do.”
“I have already told you everything I know. Pushing open the door of the cubicle and you will be able to return to the real world.” The reflection of the boy in the mirror was fading away. With his hand pressing against the door of the cubicle, Chen Ge suddenly turned his head back to ask, “Assuming I have accidentally pushed open this blood door at midnight from the real world, then wouldn’t that mean I would be able to know all about this before everything that had happened?”
“Before the hospital director was eliminated, I spent most of my time in a daze. He had been using my own flesh and blood as well as my lingering spirit towards family to influence me. When Doctor Gao stumbled through the door, I happened to be awake.”
“If Doctor Gao had entered the door when you were not awake, then what would have happened?” Chen Ge wanted to know the answer to this question.
A flash of guilt crossed the eyes of the boy in the mirror. He did not go into detail but the short sentence that he said had explained a lot. “Your own shadow has once tried to sneak into the door before, when he arrived, I was in a state of suspension. The hospital director sensed his presence through his curse. He tricked him into a room where the time moves very slow and tortured him for a very, very long time.”