"Those caregivers at the hospital all had the surname Chi. There might be some kind of connection between them. We shouldn't stay here."
Chen Ge looked at the blood covering the ground. He didn't even have time to finish his meal before leaving the restaurant.
He walked more than a hundred meters down the path. When he looked back, all the lights in the restaurant had gone out. The area was pitch-black, and he couldn't see a thing.
"To me, this city seems wonderful, but Chi Longtou said it was meant to punish patients. He also mentioned the word 'door.' Does 'door' 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 a stall door, he found it closed again the next time he entered the bathroom.
Also, when he was receiving treatment at the hospital, the crucial turning point when Dr. Gao pulled him into the Brain Labyrinth had been pushing open a door.
Beyond it, the hospital was gloomy and terrifying. The two sides of the door were practically different worlds.
"Maybe the way out of this city is a hidden door somewhere inside it."
Following the directions Zuo Han had given him, Chen Ge finally found Ping An Apartment at 11:40 p.m.
It was an old-fashioned apartment building that was almost abandoned, tucked behind a deserted village in Xinhai City's West Suburb. It was extremely remote.
"Why did both Writer and Zuo Han tell me to come here? Had they met beforehand?"
Leaves rustled as Chen Ge passed through the abandoned village. There wasn't a soul in sight.
"I feel like I've been here before." Chen Ge looked at the graves beyond the village, and at the old locust tree leaning crookedly