"The nurses in the hospital are all surnamed, and there may be some kind of connection between them, so it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time."

Chen Ge looked at the blood stains all over the ground, he didn't care about eating, and left the hotel.

Walking more than a hundred meters along the path, when Chen Ge looked back again, the lights in the store had all been extinguished, and it was pitch black all around, and nothing could be seen.

"A city that seems to me to be incomparably beautiful, but the dragon head says that this city is used to punish the sick, and he mentioned the word 'door', does 'gate' have some 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 being treated in the hospital, when Dr. Gao pulled him into the brain maze, the key turning point was to push the door.

After pushing the door open, the hospital outside was eerie, and the inside and outside of the door were like two worlds.

"Maybe the exit from this city is some hidden door in the city."

According to the location provided by Zuo Han, Chen Ge finally found Ping'an Apartment at 11:40 in the evening.

It was an old, almost abandoned apartment building in the middle of nowhere, located in the middle of nowhere, behind a deserted village on the western outskirts of Xinhai.

"Why did both the writer and Zuo Han let me come here? Have they already met in advance? ”

The leaves rustled, and Chen Ge walked through the abandoned village, not even a ghost around him.

"It always feels like I've been to this place." Chen Ge looked at the grave outside the village, and the old locust tree at the entrance of the village that looked crooked like a ghost, but such a terrifying scene did not make any waves in his heart.

"What exactly have I been through before? Why is it that when you see these things that normal people should be afraid of, not only are you not afraid, but you even have a sense of intimacy? ”

Chen Ge didn't feel that he was abnormal, but he felt that there must be a deep-seated reason for the formation of this mentality.

Coming 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 out of nowhere, and he seemed to be there all along.

When Chen Ge saw that person, he also saw Chen Ge, and the two sides glanced at each other, but they didn't even feel that there was anything wrong with this, no one spoke, and they staggered directly.

The man continued to squat on the grave, and Chen Ge walked a few steps before he suddenly realized that the man who was squatting on the grave just now was a little familiar to him.

When Chen Ge looked back again, there was only a lonely grave left behind him.

"What about people?"

"In the middle of the night, there is a person squatting on the grave, such an abnormal thing, why can I accept it easily? The man who was squatting on the grave didn't make me feel bad. ”

Since making up his mind to come to Ping'an Apartment, Chen Ge gradually found that the incomprehensible things around him began to increase.

If you want to get to Ping'an Apartment, you have to pass through a deserted village, and after Chen Ge passes through a cemetery, a dirt road with branches and garbage appears in front of him.

There is also a sign next to the road that says "No Entry".

It's just that it has fallen into disrepair, the sign is crooked, and the handwriting has become very blurred.

"Who are the people who insist on living in that apartment like this?"

Walking on the potholed dirt road, Chen Ge looked curiously to both sides, there were wreaths and soul flags hanging on both sides of the road, and there were a lot of paper money scattered on the ground, some of which were already half-buried in the soil, obviously sprinkled a long time ago.

The trunk of the tree is wrapped with a white cloth, and the tombstones can be faintly seen in the woods, and the grave bags are looming, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.

If it was an ordinary resident of Xinhai City, I am afraid that he would have already turned around and left at this time.

"It's so horrible, it feels like it's deliberately hiding something and doesn't want people to get close."

The path in front of him seemed to be able to lead directly to the Netherworld, and Chen Ge didn't know how long he had walked, but he finally came to the end of the road.

Deep in the forest, there is a dilapidated apartment building, three floors in total, not very high, the windows on the third floor are all sealed with wooden boards, and the walls can still see the traces of fire.

There appears to have been a fire here, and the homeowner, probably due to a lack of funds, only renovated the lower two floors, and the third floor is almost as it is.

"Ping An Apartment?"

Walking through the small courtyard full of weeds, Chen Ge saw the sign at the door of the apartment building.

It seems that this building used to have many names, and the font on the sign is constantly changing, which makes it look messy.

"Is anyone there?" Chen Ge pulled the zipper of his backpack, put his hand into the bag, and cautiously entered the corridor.

The interior of the apartment was extremely dilapidated, with cracked floor tiles and cracks in the walls, and the occasional black bug crawling in it.

"It looks pretty small from the outside, but I didn't expect there to be so many rooms inside." Chen Ge didn't dare to move casually in the corridor, his gaze swept over the doors one by one, and finally walked towards Gate 101.

Knocking on the door, Chen Ge stood at the door for a long time and no one opened the door, he leaned on the door panel and listened.

The room was quiet, as if there were no people living at all.

"What are you doing?"

A man's voice suddenly sounded from behind Chen Ge, startling Chen Ge, who immediately turned around and looked behind him.

"It's you! The one who was squatting on the grave before! Chen Ge immediately recognized the man behind him.

"This isn't the place you should be, so get out of the way while you don't disturb the other tenants." The man was standing a few steps behind Chen Ge, he didn't make a sound when he walked, and Chen Ge didn't know when the other party came over.

"It's too late, there's no car to leave now, can I stay here for one night?" Chen Ge stared at the man, remembering all the other party's every move in his heart.

"It's full." The middle-aged man kept urging Chen Ge to leave: "Let's go, even if you live outside, it's better than living here." ”

"Full house? But how do I feel that all the rooms here are unoccupied? ”

"Just because there are no occupants doesn't mean there aren't tenants in the room......" Before the man could finish speaking, something seemed to fall on the third floor, rolling up the stairs like a leather ball.

Chen Ge turned his head to look, but the man took the first step to block his vision with his body.

"Did something fall just now?"

"A tenant's belongings have been dropped, I'm going to help her, you stand here and don't move." The man walked towards the corner of the corridor, and Chen Ge didn't listen to him, but followed him directly.

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 with some curiosity.

The strange thing is that when she saw Chen Ge's face, she couldn't take her eyes off, and it wasn't until the middle-aged man coughed several times that the woman realized something and turned away.

Being watched by that strange woman, a 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 the ball colliding.

Chen Ge's gaze was staring at the back of the woman's neck, the other party's neck was unnaturally twisted, and her head didn't seem to fit the neck completely.

"It's time for you to go." The middle-aged man stood on the stairs and looked at Chen Ge condescendingly, his face showing an abnormal iron blue, like a corpse in a morgue.

"Actually, I'm here to find my friends." Chen Ge didn't want to hide it, this place was too weird, and 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 have met tonight, the first time I pretended not to see you, I can still pretend not to see you now." Let's leave now, there's no third time. ”

"You've been pretending not to see me? What happens if you see it? ”

"It's going to be a tenant here, and it's hard to leave."

The middle-aged man and Chen Ge were in a stalemate in the corridor, and after a while, a door on the second floor near the corridor was opened, and a woman wearing glasses walked out of the door, and she happened to see Chen Ge and the middle-aged man.

The woman's gaze also changed when she saw Chen Ge, she seemed to have a good relationship with the middle-aged man, walked directly to the middle-aged man, and whispered in his ear: "Old Zhou, has this person been to Ping'an Apartment before?" ”

The middle-aged man known as Lao Zhou shook his head: "I'm driving him away." ”

"If more tenants see it, he may not be able to leave if he wants to." After the woman with glasses finished speaking, as if she hadn't seen Chen Ge at all, she passed by Chen Ge and walked towards the third floor.

Chen Ge also found that the people in Ping'an's apartment had a very 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, I am a patient with him. Chen Ge said Zuo Han's name, he originally wanted to know more things, but who knew that when he said 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 room, and his escape from the hospital had something to do with me."

"Zuo Han hasn't come back yet, if you're his friend, then go to his room and wait for him first." After Lao Zhou learned that Chen Ge was a person who came out of that hospital, he changed his mind, and he personally led Chen Ge to the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor: "Zuo Han lives here, the door lock of his room is just broken, you can go into the house and wait for him." ”

Chen Ge was not polite, he pushed the door and entered, and saw blood-stained bandages and gauze all over the ground.

"These are all replaced by Zuo Han, he went out to meet a friend today, and he hasn't come back yet."

"The friend he went to see was me." Chen Ge pointed at himself.

"Oh? He went to see you, but he didn't come back, and you came here to find him? The man known as Lao Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Before he comes back, you'd better not run around, this apartment building is more lively after the early morning, no matter what you hear, don't go out of the door, just plug your ears and sleep." ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he turned around and left, and Chen Ge stayed alone in the room.

The layout of the room was very simple, but Chen Ge felt very familiar.

It felt like I was in a strange place for the first time, but it was like I had dreamed of it before.

Sitting on the bed, Chen Ge always grabbed his backpack: "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 didn't come back.

Sleepiness welled up, Chen Ge rubbed his bloodshot eyes: "It is absolutely impossible for a normal apartment to be opened behind a mound in a deserted village, there must be a problem here." ”

If, according to the hospital's original treatment plan, Chen Ge had already eliminated the impact of his past memories on him at this time, then his current state should be the same as that of an ordinary person who came to the apartment for the first time.

But it's a pity that the appearance of Dr. Sun has made a loophole in the hospital's treatment, Chen Ge knows that he can't fully trust his eyes at any time, and he has always maintained a calm beyond the limits of human beings.

At about two o'clock in the morning, Chen Ge suddenly heard a strange noise from upstairs, as if someone was cutting something with a saw.

He remembered the words of the man surnamed Zhou, and stayed in the room honestly, the cutting sound gradually weakened, and the sound of wall debris falling off and screaming began to appear above his head, and Chen Ge faintly heard the name Zhang Wenyu.

"He definitely made sense that he wouldn't let me out." Chen Ge still sat on the bed and didn't move, but after a few minutes, he overheard a familiar name from the conversation upstairs - Zhang Toast.

Thinking about it carefully, the scream just now was very similar to the sound of Zhang toasting.

Chen Ge couldn't sit still any longer, he carried his backpack, quietly slipped out of the room, and came to the third floor of the apartment.

There are traces of burning everywhere, and there are also large piles of badly damaged furniture and various charred garbage on the ground.

The sound of conversation and sawing came from the depths of the corridor, and Chen Ge slowly moved forward, a faint smell of blood wafted 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 faintly seen shaking.

Chen Ge's attention is highly concentrated, and there are a lot of debris on the ground, and if he doesn't pay attention to it, he will make a sound.

"What are they doing?" Chen Ge slowly approached, 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 that there was 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 at his feet lay a patient with twisted limbs.

"Zhang toast?"

Breathing became short, Chen Ge never expected that he would meet the doctor from the hospital and Zhang Toast here.

"Did the people in the apartment tie them up? Impossible! ”

Chen Ge's brain was running rapidly, and before he could think of the result, he suddenly heard a soft sound behind him.

Looking back suddenly, Chen Ge found a child standing behind him.

The boy was not tall and thin, but his face had a cunning and maturity that did not correspond to his age.

"My name is Mennan, big brother, what's your name?"