The operating room's bolt fell loose amid the shaking.
What Zhang Ze saw was a woman in a blood-red wedding dress. She was soaked in a pool of blood, her skin deathly pale and nearly bloodless. She was also extremely thin, to the point that the bones in her back and shoulders were almost visible.
This was already the most human-looking thing Zhang Ze had seen so far.
"Doctor Gao's wife?"
"No, this looks like—"
"A monster that carries all the despair and obsessions of the Door-After World, one that resembles his wife!"
Zhang Ze sensed that the woman before him was waking up.
This was Doctor Gao's trump card, the being that had nearly killed Chen Ge in the original story. If Zhang Ya had not awakened from her coma at the final moment, Chen Ge really would have died at Doctor Gao's hands.
But Zhang Ze was not afraid.
If it had been Chen Ge—
He definitely would have seized the chance to strike while the female ghost had not fully awakened and attacked Doctor Gao.
As long as Zhang Ya held off the female ghost and Chen Ge eliminated Doctor Gao, everything would be over.
But Zhang Ze did not do that.
He was still waiting.
"It will take some time for you to fully awaken."
"I don't mind giving you a little more."
Zhang Ze spoke slowly.
Doctor Gao seemed both angered and amused. "Since you are so righteous, I'll be honest with you as well."
"The corpses and resentment accumulated in the Underground Morgue are enough to nurture dozens of Red-Clothed. I have absorbed all of that power, along with the few members I devoured just now and the legacy Wei Jiuqing and the others left behind—"
"I'm very curious."
"What exactly lies Beyond Red-Clothed?"