"The nurses in the hospital are also all surnamed Chi. There may be some connection between them. It is not appropriate to stay here for a long time."
Chen Ge looked at the bloodstains all over the floor, he didn't even bother to eat and left the restaurant.
Walking along the path for more than 100 meters, when Chen Ge looked back again, the lights in the store were all turned off, and the surroundings were pitch-dark, and nothing could be seen.
"In my opinion, a very beautiful city, but eating the dragon head said that this city was used to punish the sick, and he mentioned the word 'gate', and 'gate' has a special meaning in this city ?"
Chen Ge thought of the door in the bathroom of Zhang Ya's haunted house. Every time he opened the compartment door, the next time he entered the bathroom, he found that the compartment door would be closed.
In addition, when he was receiving treatment in the hospital, when Dr. Gao pulled him into the brain maze, the key turning point was pushing the door.
After opening the door, the hospital outside was eerie, and it was like two worlds inside and outside the door.
"Perhaps the exit from this city is a certain door hidden in the city."
According to the location provided by Zuo Han, Chen Ge finally found the Ping An Apartment at 11:40 in the evening.
It was a nearly abandoned old-fashioned apartment building, located behind a deserted village in the western suburbs of Xinhai, in an extremely remote location.
"Why did the writer and Zuo Han let me come here? Have they met in advance?"
The leaves rustled, Chen Ge walked through the abandoned village, and there was not even a ghost around.
"It always feels like I've been to this place." Chen Ge looked at the graves outside the village, and the old locust tree that slanted like a ghost at the entrance of the village. Such a terrifying scene did not cause any waves in his heart.
"What have I experienced before? Why do I see these things that normal people should be afraid of, not only not afraid, but even feel a sense of intimacy?"
Chen Ge didn't feel that he was abnormal, but felt that there must be a deep-seated reason for the formation of this mentality.
When he came to the back of the village, Chen Ge was about to continue walking when he suddenly saw a person squatting on the grave beside him.
He seemed to appear suddenly, and it seemed to have been there all along.
When Chen Ge saw the man, he also saw Chen Ge. The two sides glanced at each other, but neither of them felt that there was anything wrong with it. No one spoke, and just staggered.
The man continued to squat on the tomb, and Chen Ge suddenly realized after walking a few steps that the man squatting on the tomb just now looked familiar to him.
When Chen Ge looked back again, there was only a solitary grave left behind him.
"What about people?"
"In the middle of the night, there is a person squatting on the grave. Why can I accept such an abnormal thing easily? The person squatting on the grave didn't make me feel bad."
Since he made up his mind to come to Ping'an Apartment, Chen Ge gradually found that things around him that he couldn't understand began to increase.
If you want to go to Ping'an Apartment, you have to pass through the deserted village. After Chen Ge passed a cemetery, a dirt road filled with branches and garbage appeared in front of him.
There is also a sign next to the road with the words "No Entry" written on it.
It's just that it has been in disrepair for a long time, the sign is crooked, and the handwriting has become very blurred.
"The apartment is broken like this, and who are the people who still insist on living in it?"
Walking on the bumpy dirt road, Chen Ge looked curiously to both sides. There were wreaths and soul flags hanging on both sides of the road. There were a lot of paper money scattered on the ground. down.
White cloth was wrapped around the trunk, and tombstones could be vaguely seen in the woods.
If it was an ordinary resident of Xinhai City, he would have already turned around and left at this time.
"It's so terrifying, it feels like it's deliberately hiding something and doesn't want people to get close."
The path in front of him seemed to lead directly to the underworld, and Chen Ge didn't know how long he had walked, but he finally came to the end of the road.
There is a dilapidated apartment building deep in the jungle. It has three floors and is not high. The windows on the third floor are all sealed with wooden boards, and there are traces of fire on the walls.
There seems to have been a fire here, and the owner, probably due to lack of funds, only renovated the lower two floors, leaving the third floor almost as it was.
"Peace Apartment?"
Walking through the small courtyard full of weeds, Chen Ge saw the sign at the door of the apartment building.
This building seems to have had a lot of names before, and the fonts on the sign are constantly being revised, making it look messy.
"Is anyone there?" Chen Ge unzipped his backpack, put his hand into the bag, and carefully entered the corridor.
The interior of the apartment is extremely dilapidated, with cracked floor tiles, cracks in the walls, and occasionally black bugs can be seen crawling in it.
"It looks quite small from the outside. I didn't expect there are so many rooms inside." Chen Ge didn't dare to move in the corridor casually.
Lightly knocking on the door, Chen Ge stood at the door for a long time and no one opened the door. He lay on the door panel and listened.
The house was silent, as if no one lived at all.
"what are you doing?"
A man's voice suddenly sounded from behind Chen Ge, startling Chen Ge, he immediately turned to look behind him.
"It's you! The man who was squatting on the grave before!" Chen Ge recognized the man behind him.
"This is not the place you should come. Leave as soon as you don't disturb the other tenants." The man was standing a few steps behind Chen Ge. He walked without making a sound, and Chen Ge had no idea who he was. time to come.
"It's too late, there's no car leaving now, can I stay here for one night?" Chen Ge stared at the man, remembering the other's every move in his heart.
"This place is full." The middle-aged man kept urging Chen Ge to leave: "Let's go, even living outside is better than living here."
"Full room? But why do I feel that all the rooms here are empty?"
"No occupants doesn't mean there are no tenants in the room..." Before the man could finish speaking, something seemed to fall on the third floor, rolling like a ball on the stairs.
Chen Ge turned his head to look, but the man first blocked his sight with his body.
"Did something fall off just now?"
"A tenant's belongings have fallen, I'll go help her, you stand here and don't move." The man walked towards the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge did not listen to him, but followed directly behind him.
Coming to the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw the middle-aged man put something on a woman.
"Thank you..." The woman stroked her neck with both hands and glanced at Chen Ge curiously.
Strangely, when she saw Chen Ge's face, she couldn't take her eyes away. It wasn't until the middle-aged man coughed a few times that the woman realized what was happening and turned around and left.
Being watched by that weird woman, cold sweat broke out on Chen Ge's back.
Just now he clearly saw the middle-aged man put something on the woman, but there was nothing on the woman's hands and body that could make the sound of a ball colliding.
Chen Ge's eyes were fixed on the back of the woman's neck, the other's neck twisted unnaturally, and her head didn't seem to fit her neck completely.
"You should go." The middle-aged man stood on the stairs and looked at Chen Ge condescendingly. His face was an abnormal iron blue, like a corpse in a morgue.
"Actually, I came here to find my friends." Chen Ge didn't want to hide that this place was too weird, he thought it would be better to tell the truth.
"Your friends can't be here, and the tenants who live here can't be your friends." The middle-aged man walked up to Chen Ge: "This is the second time you and I meet tonight, my first time. Pretend I didn't see you, I can still pretend I didn't see you. Leave now, there is no third time."
"You keep pretending you didn't see me? What if you saw me?"
"It's going to be a tenant here and it's going to be hard to leave."
The middle-aged man and Chen Ge were deadlocked in the corridor. After a while, a door on the second floor near the corridor was opened, and a woman wearing glasses walked out of the door. She happened to see Chen Ge and the middle-aged man.
The woman's eyes also changed when she saw Chen Ge. She seemed to have a good relationship with the middle-aged man, so she walked directly to the middle-aged man and whispered in his ear: "Old Zhou, this person has come to Ping An before. an apartment?"
The middle-aged man called Lao Zhou shook his head: "I'm driving him away."
"If more tenants see it, he may not be able to leave." The woman with glasses said as if she didn't see Chen Ge at all, passed Chen Ge, and walked towards the third floor.
Chen Ge also found that the people in Ping An's apartment had a strange attitude towards him, and he guessed that it might be because of Zhang Wenyu and Zuo Han.
"That... Brother Zhou, is there a person named Zuo Han among your tenants here? He and I are patients." Chen Ge said Zuo Han's name. He originally wanted to know more, but who knows When he finished saying this, the middle-aged man's attitude towards him immediately changed.
"Patient? Are you from that hospital too?" Lao Zhou stared at Chen Ge.
"We were in the same ward, and his escape from the hospital can be said to have something to do with me."
"Zuo Han hasn't come back yet. If you are his friend, then go to his room and wait for him." After learning that Chen Ge was from that hospital, Lao Zhou changed his mind and led Chen Ge to come. In the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor: "Zuo Han lives here. The door lock of his room just broke. You can go in and wait for him."
Chen Ge was also welcome. He pushed in the door and saw the blood-stained bandages and gauze on the ground.
"These were all replaced by Zuo Han. He went out to see a friend today and hasn't come back yet."
"The friend he went to see was me." Chen Ge pointed to himself.
"Oh? He went to see you, but he didn't come back, but you came here to look for him?" The man called Lao Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Before he comes back, you'd better not run around, this is The apartment building is more lively after the early morning, no matter what you hear, don’t go out of the room, just plug your ears and sleep.”
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he turned and left, and Chen Ge stayed in the room alone.
The layout of the house is very simple, but Chen Ge feels very familiar.
It felt like it was the first time I came to some unfamiliar place, but it was as if I had dreamed about it in a dream.
Sitting on the bed, Chen Ge clutched at his backpack all the time: "I seem to have been to this place before. I don't remember what happened, but I have a very bad impression."
Chen Ge waited in the room until the second half of the night, but Zuo Han still did not come back.
Feeling sleepy, Chen Ge rubbed his bloodshot eyes: "It is absolutely impossible for a normal apartment to be built behind a barren village grave, there must be something wrong here."
If according to the hospital's original treatment plan, Chen Ge has already eliminated the influence of his past memories on him, then his current state should be the same as that of an ordinary person who came to the apartment for the first time.
But unfortunately, the appearance of Dr. Sun made a loophole in the hospital's treatment. Chen Ge knew that he couldn't completely trust his eyes at any time.
About two in the morning, Chen Ge suddenly heard an abnormal noise from upstairs, as if someone was cutting something with a saw.
He kept in mind the words of the man surnamed Zhou, and stayed in the room honestly, the sound of cutting gradually weakened, and the sound of wall scraps falling off and faint screams began to appear above his head, and Chen Ge faintly heard it. The name Zhang Wenyu.
"It must be reasonable for him not to let me out." Chen Ge still sat on the bed and didn't move, but after a few minutes, he overheard a familiar name - Zhang Jingjiu from the conversation upstairs.
Thinking back carefully, the scream just now was very similar to Zhang Jingjiu's voice.
Chen Ge couldn't sit still anymore, he carried his backpack, sneaked out of the room quietly, and came to the third floor of the apartment.
There are signs of incineration everywhere, and a lot of badly damaged furniture and various charred garbage are piled on the ground.
The sound of conversation and sawing things came from the depths of the corridor. Chen Ge moved forward slowly, a faint smell of blood drifted across the tip of his nose, and the world in front of him was gradually replaced by blood.
The charred walls were covered with blood, and in the dark corridor, a few figures could be vaguely seen shaking.
Chen Ge's attention was highly concentrated, and there were a lot of debris on the ground, and if he didn't pay attention, it would make a noise.
"What are they doing?" Chen Ge approached slowly, and when he walked to the middle of the corridor, he saw the wall at the end of the corridor.
His pupils shrank instantly, and Chen Ge found a doctor in a white coat nailed to the wall in the deepest part of the corridor.
The doctor's coat was red with blood, and a patient with twisted limbs lay at his feet.
"Zhang Jingjiu?"
Breathing became short, Chen Ge never expected that he would meet the hospital doctor and Zhang Jingjiu here.
"Did the people in the apartment tie them up? Impossible!"
Chen Ge's brain was running fast, and before he could come up with the result, he suddenly heard a light sound behind him.
Looking back suddenly, Chen Ge found a child standing behind him.
The boy was not tall and thin, but his face was cunning and mature for his age.
"My name is Men Nan, big brother, what's your name?"