"All the nursing staff in the hospital have the same surname as Chi. There may be some connection between them. It is not appropriate to stay here for a long time."

Chen Ge looked at the blood stains all over the floor and left the restaurant without even bothering to eat.

After walking more than a hundred meters along the path, when Chen Ge looked back, all the lights in the store had been turned off. The surroundings were pitch black and nothing could be seen.

"In my opinion, it is an extremely beautiful city, but Chi Longtou said that this city is used to punish patients. He also mentioned the word 'door', which 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 terrifying. It was like two worlds inside and outside the door.

"Perhaps the exit from this city is a door hidden in the city."

According to the location provided by Zuo Han, Chen Ge finally found Ping An Apartment at 11:40 pm.

It was an almost abandoned old-fashioned apartment building, located behind an abandoned village in the western suburbs of Xinhai, in an extremely remote location.

"Why did both the writer and Zuo Han ask me to come here? Have they met in advance?"

The leaves were rustling as Chen Ge walked through the abandoned village. There was not even a ghost around.

"I always feel like I've been to this place before." Chen Ge looked at the graves outside the village and the old locust tree that looked crooked at the entrance of the village like a ghost. Such a terrifying scene did not make any waves in his heart.

"What have I experienced before? Why do I not feel afraid when I see these things that normal people should be afraid of? I even feel a sense of intimacy?"

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

Arriving at the back of the village, Chen Ge was about to continue walking when he suddenly saw a man squatting on the grave next to him.

He seemed to appear suddenly, and yet seemed to have always been there.

When Chen Ge saw that person, he also saw Chen Ge. The two looked at each other, but neither of them thought there was anything wrong. No one said anything, and they just moved away.

The man continued to squat on the grave. After taking a few steps, Chen Ge suddenly realized that the man squatting on the grave just now seemed familiar to him.

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

"Where are the people?"

"Why can I accept such an abnormal thing so easily in the middle of the night when there is a person squatting on the grave? The person squatting on the grave did not make me feel bad at all."

After making up his mind to come to Ping An Apartment, Chen Ge gradually discovered 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 a deserted village. After Chen Ge passed a cemetery, a dirt road piled with branches and garbage appeared in front of him.

There is also a sign beside the road with the words "no entry" written on it.

It's just that it's been in disrepair, the sign is crooked, and the handwriting has become very blurry.

"The apartment is so dilapidated, but 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. Some of the paper money was half buried in the soil. It was obviously scattered long ago.

Down.

The tree trunks were wrapped with white cloth, and tombstones could be seen vaguely in the woods, and graves were looming, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.

If an ordinary resident of Xinhai City had come here, he would have turned around and left long ago.

"The arrangement is so terrifying, it feels like it is deliberately hiding something and does not want people to get close to it."

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

There is a dilapidated apartment building deep in the jungle. It has three floors and is not very high. All the windows on the third floor are boarded up, and traces of fire can still be seen on the walls.

It seems that there was a fire here. The owner may have been short of funds, so he only renovated the lower two floors, and the third floor was almost kept as it was.

"Safe 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 many names before, and the fonts on the brand have been constantly modified, making it look very messy.

"Is anyone here?" 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 inside.

"It looks quite small from the outside. I didn't expect there to be so many rooms inside." Chen Ge did not dare to move casually in the corridor. His eyes swept through the doors and finally walked towards door 101.

Knocking lightly 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 quiet, as if no one was living there at all.

"What are you doing?"

A man's voice suddenly sounded from behind Chen Ge, which startled Chen Ge. He immediately turned around and looked behind him.

"It's you! The man squatting on the grave before!" Chen Ge recognized the man behind him at once.

"This is not the place you should be. Leave as soon as possible before disturbing other tenants." The man stood a few steps behind Chen Ge. He walked without making any sound. Chen Ge had no idea who he was.

It's time to come.

"It's too late. There is no car to leave now. Can I stay here for one night?" Chen Ge stared at the man, memorizing every move he made.

"This place is already full." The middle-aged man kept urging Chen Ge to leave: "Let's go, even if we live outside, it is better than living here."

"Full rooms? But why do I feel like all the rooms here are unoccupied?"

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

Chen Ge turned around to look, but the man blocked his sight with his body.

"Did something fall just now?"

"A tenant dropped her belongings. I'm going to help her. Just stand here and don't move." The man walked towards the corner of the corridor. Chen Ge did not listen to him and followed him directly.

When he came to the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw a middle-aged man putting something on a woman.

"Thank you..." The woman touched her neck with both hands and glanced at Chen Ge curiously.

The strange thing is that when she saw Chen Ge's face, she couldn't look away. It wasn't until the middle-aged man coughed several times that the woman realized something and turned around and left.

Being stared at 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 in the woman's hands or 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 woman's neck was twisted unnaturally, and her head didn't seem to be completely attached to her neck.

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

"Actually, I came here to find my friends." Chen Ge didn't want to hide it. This place was too weird, so he thought it would be better to tell the truth.

"Your friends can't be here, and the tenants living here can't be your friends." The middle-aged man walked up to Chen Ge: "This is the second time we have met you tonight, and the first time we have met.

Pretend not to see you, I can still pretend not to see you now. Leave now, there won’t be a third time.”

"You have been pretending not to see me? What would happen if you saw me?"

"You will become a tenant here and it will be difficult to leave."

The middle-aged man and Chen Ge were in a stalemate in the corridor. After a while, a door near the corridor on the second floor was opened, and a woman wearing glasses walked out of the room. 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. She walked directly to the middle-aged man and whispered in his ear: "Old Zhou, this man has been to Ping'an before.

Apartment?”

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 even if he wants to." After saying this, the woman wearing glasses acted as if she had not seen Chen Ge at all. She 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. He guessed that it might be because of Zhang Wenyu and Zuo Han.

"Um...Brother Zhou, is there a person named Zuo Han among your tenants here? He and I are fellow patients." Chen Ge said Zuo Han's name. His original intention was to learn more, but who

I knew that after he said these words, the middle-aged man's attitude towards him immediately changed.

"Patient? Which hospital are you from too?" Lao Zhou stared at Chen Ge closely.

"We live in the same ward. His escape from the hospital can be said to be related to me."

"Zuo Han hasn't come back yet. If you are his friend, then go to his room and wait for him." After Lao Zhou learned that Chen Ge came from that hospital, he changed his mind and led Chen Ge there himself.

They reached the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor: "Zuo Han lives here. The door lock of his room happens to be broken. You can go inside and wait for him."

Chen Ge was not polite. He pushed the door open and saw blood-stained bandages and gauze all over the floor.

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

"The friend he went to meet is 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 called Lao Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Before he comes back, you'd better not run around.

The apartment building gets busier after early morning, so no matter what you hear, don’t leave the door, just plug your ears and go to sleep.”

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

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 a strange place, but it felt like I had been here before in a dream.
To be continued...