Cataclysm Chapter 51: Play Till Death 7; Meng Xi

Chapter 51: Play Till Death 7; Meng Xi

Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations 

Editor: Karai

 

Ye Youyou said: “He is a doctor who came here four years ago, he is responsible for the patients on the fourth floor.” She withdrew her gaze and stood at the door with a nameplate, “Ordinary people better not leave the rooms with the nameplates after dark,” she pointed to the nameplate number on the door: “Those things can’t get in. But if you’re not in the room, then no one can protect you. But I don’t think you’ll be afraid of them, and at night, it can show you the real Changhe Sanatorium.”

Chen Yang: “Where is the God of Peace?”

“God of Peace?” Ye Youyou replied in confusion.

Chen Yang asked again, “The Bodhisattva of Peace.”

“I don’t know.” Ye Youyou shook her head: “I only know it might be here, I don’t know exactly where it is. It hasn’t appeared in front of us.”

“Okay.” Chen Yang asked, “Can you tell us everything you know about the sanatorium?”

Ye Youyou asked, “What do you want to know?”

Chen Yang said, “Come inside and tell us.” Ye Youya hesitated for a bit but still walked inside, the door shut and blocked numerous pairs of eyes that were staring at them.

Chen Yang welcomed her to sit down then asked, “You and Ye Youya already knew about the sanatorium five years ago, and your foster mother was also in the sanatorium. So you should know about the sanatorium’s past.”

Ye Youyou’s face changed: “You found out so much?” Then she laughed sarcastically: “Then what else do you want to know? Or do you want to visit my foster mother, and sympathize with her?”

“You know why we are here.” Chen Yang looked at her quietly.

Ye Youyou gradually regained her composure: “I hate her, even the mere mention of her fills my heart with hatred and makes me lose my mind.” She took a deep breath, and whispered an apology. Then she said, “The sanatorium was formerly a funeral hall for unidentified corpses, the Changhe Coffin Home. Originally it was a place with heavy Yin energy, then I do not know what happened and the coffin home was closed. It was abandoned for a long time.”

Changhe Coffin Home was closed because of the incident with the Feijiang, that matter Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling were aware of, but Ye Youyou did not know. Ye Youyou lowered her eyes and whispered, “You may think that Changhe Sanatorium is Changhe Coffin Home, but in fact, Changhe Sanatorium also existed with the Coffin home once, but the original site was not here. As for where it was, I don’t actually know. All I know is that the original Changhe Sanatorium was a sanatorium for psychological and psychiatric treatment and received many patients. Later, rumors of doctors torturing and beating patients were exposed, and the Changhe Sanatorium closed down.”

Ye Youyou raised her head, her eyes deep: “Changhe sanatorium shut down, but those scum doctors did not get their rightful punishment. While those who were tortured to death, died for absurd reasons, the souls of the injustice lingered. They remember the pain they suffered, they remember the appearance of their enemy, looking forward to the day to return the torture the doctors who made them suffer. Hearing the voices of those unjust souls, the Bodhisattva of Peace appeared before them and sent the doctor to them one by one to take revenge.”

Chen Yang frowned, in Ye Youyou’s opinion, the God taking pleasure in his own actions instead turned into rescuing the unjust souls bound in the sanatorium. Ye Youyou sneered: “The police were unreliable, and the people closest to them simply did not believe them. No one could save them. You think the Bodhisattva of Peace is an evil god, but only it saved us. Only it lent a hand to us when we were in despair!”

Ye Youyou said excitedly, “Patients who were tortured to death by the doctors as toys, they were psychologically and spiritually handicapped but therefore more stubborn. After death, they clearly remembered the pain, and remembered the scenes every day. Did you Tianshis go to their rescue? Was it not the Bodhisattva of Peace who brought the doctor to them and allowed them to exact revenge? They killed their enemies with their own hands so that they could be freed.”

Chen Yang looked at her coldly, Kou Xuanling looked back at Ye Youyou in surprise and asked curiously, “If you respect the God of Peace so much, why do you want us to save your sister from its hands?”

Ye Youyou: “Because my sister’s obsession with killing is getting out of control. I am not denying the Bodhisattva of Peace even though I want my sister to be free from it. I still venerate the Bodhisattva of Peace.”

Both of them were shocked to speechlessness by Ye Youyou’s viewpoint, and it was only after a long time that Chen Yang said, “In your subconscious mind, you are denying that evil God. You yourself realize that it’s not right, but you can’t believe that, or you don’t dare to deny the God of Peace.”

Ye Youyou’s reaction to this was to sneer and snort.

Chen Yang: “The doctors torturing the patients in sanatoriums were actually encouraged by the God of Peace to do so. The patients were trapped in the sanatorium and became earthbound spirits because of the obsession with being killed. But if you want to save them, the best way is to undertake them, either by holding a Soul Releasing ceremony for them or by chanting sutras to release them. You think letting the spirits kill their enemies is to save them? In fact, it is to lure them to become evil spirits by committing sins that will stop them from reincarnation!”

If you have grievances and revenge, you have to ask Fengdu for permission to return to the human world to kill your enemies and take revenge. Otherwise, if every soul can go back to the human realm to kill their enemies because they were killed, regardless of the motive of the murderer that caused the death of the victim, the human realm will be in complete chaos. Why do we need the police and the law? Those who kill and commit wrongful sins will naturally be punished by Heaven and Fengdu. If the God of Peace is really capable, why not personally punish the evildoers instead of luring spirits to personally abuse and kill doctors? It’s just a sinful animal that doesn’t even dare to bear the sins of murder, and you treat it as a Bodhisattva!” Chen Yang angrily pointed out, “That sinful animal has played you all in the name of the “Bodhisattva of Peace”. Ye Youyou, you know in your heart you are just pretending to not know, you are afraid to admit it!”

To avenge injustice, that is the job of the heavens. Either they will take away that person’s fortune, or take away its years of life. Unless the great injustice alarmed Fengdu, and they specially approved them to return for revenge, otherwise they will be transformed into evil spirits and sent down to the eighteen levels of hell. There is no such thing as quick revenge in this world. Love and hatred have to be ranked after the rules of iron law.

Chen Yang was angry that Ye Youyou knew that God of Peace’s so-called “rescue move” was just treating them as toys, yet she didn’t dare to admit it out of fear of the truth and continued to deceive herself.

Chen Yang got up and looked down at Ye Youyou: “Do you really think you can be saved? Even if that evil God dies, you will not be saved.”

Ye Youya had killed so many people, some did deserve to die, and some were not even close to the point where they had to die. Worse, there were completely innocent people too. Ye Youyou did not do it by herself but she was an accomplice. She listened to that evil God in order to play with Mr. Qian and became pregnant. After the pregnancy, she allowed the two little kids’ ghosts to kill the fetus in her womb. After the miscarriage she had no sad emotions, she was extremely indifferent.

She treated her own child as a tool to torture others, she was even more indifferent and cruel than her sister.

Ye Youyou’s face turned ugly, she stood up violently and dropped her chair. Her lips trembled and she stared wide eyed as if she wanted to retort, but in the end she didn’t say anything. She hesitated for some time before whispering, “I only know so much, and can only say so much. Don’t ask me about the rest, find out for yourself. I’m going back.”

After saying that, she turned around and left in a hurry. During this time, she almost tripped over the chair that fell to the ground.

Kou Xuanling: “She is even more selfish and colder than Ye Youya.”

Ye Youya has become paranoid and twisted because of her past experiences, stubbornly believing that she is doing justice for God, or at least killing scums. Ye Youyou was protected by Ye Youya from the experience of being abused, yet she followed that sinful animal’s suggestions to abuse others without scruples and using her own child as a tool and without remorse.

Chen Yang: “She loves Ye Youya very much.”

Despite Ye Youya’s selfishness and indifference, she did sincerely want to save her sister.

Kou Xuanling: “There are still three hours until dark, let’s go for a walk first?”

Chen Yang agreed, so the two opened the door. Just two steps away from their room, the two looked at each other and sensed gazes. Kou Xuanling asked, “How many people do you think are watching us?”

“I don’t know how many that are not human are mixed in them.” Chen Yang looked around the floor below and said calmly, “I can feel the heavy ghostly Yin aura here, but the place with the strongest ghostly aura is not here.”

Kou Xuanling asked as he walked, “Where is it?”

“The big lake outside.”

Kou Xuanling seemed to have an idea: “That lake is hiding a lot of dirty things?”

“When we passed by, the whole lake was staring at us, they were densely packed.” Chen Yang could feel that the dense layers of things piled up under the surface of the lake, the entire surface of the lake was dark, he did not know what exactly was hiding underneath the lake, and that made it all the more frightening.

Kou Xuanling: “We can see the lake from the room by just pushing open the window, so we can detect any movement in time.”

Chen Yang stopped and looked through a window on his side. Inside was a ward, there was a doctor and two nurses, they were checking on the patients. The nurse used a belt to tie the patient’s upper body to fix their movements, while the doctor stood in front of the patient with a lunch tray and teased them. The patient, who was as thin as a skeleton, made a weak sound from his mouth and struggled negligibly.

When the patient struggled and caused the fork to poke his forehead, the doctor and nurse laughed with amusement. They leaned back and forth as they giggled. The scene was very odd. The patient was as dry and thin as a skeleton, the doctor and the nurses were also as dry and thin as a skeleton.

Kou Xuanling walked up to see this scene as well: “The doctor and nurses teased the patient, causing the patient to die of hunger. Before death, they were as thin as skin and bones. After death they took revenge on the doctors and nurses, so they also became nothing but skin and bones just like walking skeletons. As a result, they have to torture each other even after death.” He shook his head: “This endless torment of mutual revenge, their souls can never be rested and cannot be reincarnated. The sinful beast that plays with other people’s suffering as if it was fun is still treated as a Bodhisattva by these people!”

It is ridiculous that the true Bodhisattva with compassion and mercy was not worshipped, but instead they worshipped a sinful animal that played with human lives as one.

Chen Yang stopped Kou Xuanling: “We can’t null their grudges, this is a matter for Fengdu. You will only anger them if you go in now.”

Kou Xuanling thought about it and agreed with Chen Yang, “Even if I want to undertake them, they won’t let me.” The grievances between the doctors, nurses, and patients were so deep that they wouldn’t let go of tormenting each other even after death. “Isn’t Zhou Qi a Fengdu Hell servitor? We can have him forcibly detain the souls to register for trial in hell.”

Chen Yang: “I know. But let’s go downstairs and take a look first?” He was worried that Zhou Qi’s aura as a Hell servitor would disturb the ghosts in the sanatorium and attract the attention of the God of Peace, so he planned to wait for all the demons and ghosts in the sanatorium to come out at night before calling Zhou Qi to take them.

Kou Xuanling agreed, and went downstairs with Chen Yang. When he was on the third floor, Chen Yang caught a glimpse of a man and locked eyes with him, the man quickly turned around and fled. Chen Yang was puzzled for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered the man and quickly went after him: “Meng Xi!”

Meng Xi heard Chen Yang shouting at him and accelerated his pace of escape. He pushed the patients who blocked his path to block Chen Yang, he ran fast and disappeared in a flash. Chen Yang saw the situation and untied the red rope on his wrist and then climbed on the balcony with agility, taking a shortcut to stand in front of the Meng Xi. Meng Xi quickly turned around to run, but Chen Yang used his red rope to tie a wooden stall, he flung the stall towards Meng Xi’s back.

Meng Xi got hit and fell to the ground. Chen Yang tied him up with the red rope while taking off the ancient copper coin and flipping it back into his pocket, then said, “Didn’t you try to snatch the red rope away from me last time? This time you are again tied up with the red rope, ironic right?”

Meng Xi tried to struggle, but could not get the rope to loosen up, so he simply stopped moving. He smiled at Chen Yang: “You really came here.”

Chen Yang pulled him off the floor and squatted in front of him: “You knew I would come?”

“The God of Peace likes you, he must have lured you here.”

“Why do you think he lured me here, instead of me deciding to check this place out myself?”

When Meng Xi fell to the ground just now, his face landed first and scraped his skin, half of his face was covered in blood. As soon as he smiled, he hissed in pain: “The God of Peace is cunning and cautious, if he didn’t provoke you, you’ll never know about its existence.”

Chen Yang thought about it and realized that what Meng Xi said was indeed true. It was the sinful beast that got them involved in the first place that brought so many seemingly coincidental things to their attention, “You call that thing the God of Peace?”

Meng Xi snorted, “Everyone else calls it Bodhisattva, right?”

“You don’t respect it?”

“It’s a demon ghost that plays with people’s hearts, after knowing the truth and still respecting it is quite retarded.” Meng Xi sneered.

Chen Yang was surprised that there was still someone who understood: “But you still let that thing play with you, didn’t you?”

“You’re wrong,” Meng Xi’s chin was high: “We use each other. It helps me get what I want, and I let it play with me. I don’t believe in it, and it doesn’t need the trust of a pawn.”

Kou Xuanling was also surprised to hear this just as he walked over. Meng Xi looked at the two men and said to Chen Yang after struggling with his wrists, “Can you untie the rope?”

Chen Yang smiled: “I thought you like it that way?”

Meng Xi paused and impatiently chatted, “The God of Peace wanted me to get your red rope, but after I obtained it, the God of Peace threw a huge tantrum. It means that it’s not useful at all. It’s not like I wanted the thing.”

Chen Yang grabbed Meng Xi’s shoulders and lifted him up: “I see you know more than Ye Youyou, how about we have a little chat?”

Meng Xi: “Untie the rope.”

Chen Yang tied the rope up more tightly, and he tied Meng Xi in a very special way, so that he could not break free and his arms would hurt as the rope tightened. Meng Xi’s face soon turned blue and twisted in pain: “Fine. Come into my room and talk.”

Chen Yang let go of the rope and said, still mildly, “You are smart and willing to cooperate. Let’s work together.”

Meng Xi glanced at Chen Yang, there was doubt and disagreement in his eyes. He felt that the God of Peace must be blind to like Chen Yang for his cleanliness and immaculate nature. Obviously this person is treacherous and ruthless.

Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling followed Meng Xi back to his room; he lived in a ward on the third floor. The ward was transformed into the structure of an ordinary family flat, with three rooms and a hall. Meng Xi sat on the sofa, squeezing his wrists that were untied and said towards the two people across the room, “What do you want to ask?”

Chen Yang: “Where is the God of Peace?”

Meng Xi: “In this sanatorium.”

“The exact location.”

“That I can’t say…… even if you threaten my life, I can’t tell you. Otherwise even if I didn’t get killed by you, I would be killed by the God of Peace. However, I could provide the range to you guys, isn’t that nice of me? You guys just need to find out the exact location yourself.” Meng Xi spread his hands and said innocently, “That thing is very cunning and usually hides in places you don’t expect.”

“When you appeared in the cat’s grave, were you there to help Dong Hong lure us away or there just to snatch my rope?”

“Both. The God of Peace uses everything to its fullest, and it just so happens that I’m quite good at it.” Meng Xi seemed to remember something and laughed, “Dong Hong reached out to the God of Peace through Yang Hong, the pervert who specializes in killing women. He has a serious sadistic fetish and wanted the God of Peace to help him cover it up. The God of Peace thought he would be fun to play with at first, but who knew that he was a coward. Soon, the God of Peace found no joy in playing with Dong Hong, but he found it interesting to let Dong Hong struggle between life and death, despair and hope, saying he would give him three chances. It arranged for me to distract you, while setting him up for death. It was indeed funny to make him raise his hope and then fall into despair in the twinkling of an eye.”

Meng Xi laughed out loud, and only gradually rested his laughter after noticing that Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling both looked indifferent, shrugging his shoulders in bemusement. “The God of Peace seems to think that the rope is your Taoist Instrument, and it was angry when it found out that the rope was not your instrument.” The mention of the God of Peace’s angry appearance amused him, and a smile appeared on his face again.

“Mao Xiaoli ran really fast, I thought if it wasn’t for her last time, you definitely couldn’t catch me. But today it seems that you ran even faster than me.” Meng Xi was excited: “Do you want to run a race with me? I’m a fast runner.”

Chen Yang suddenly said, “Didn’t you have a car accident?”

Meng Xi looked stiff: “I’m fine.”

“Then how come you can’t outrun Mao Xiaoli or me?” Chen Yang continued to ask.

Meng Xi pounded the table: “I’m fine! My legs are fine and I can run fast! Mao Xiaoli was a fast runner, but if I hadn’t been in a car accident, she would not have been able to outrun me…”

Chen Yang quickly interrupted him, “That means your leg is indeed broken, isn’t it?”

“No!!!” Meng Xi suddenly stood up and spun around like a trapped beast, his mouth chattering something like no. Then he rushed into a room, and not much time later there was a muffled sound coming from inside.

Kou Xuanling is close to the room, he heard the muffled sound and quickly stepped forward to push the door open, he looked through the slit. After seeing the scene inside his pupils tightened, and then kicked the door open and also let Chen Yang see what was inside.

Inside, they saw Meng Xi kicking and beating the two people on the floor, the two people had dog chains around their necks, the other end of the chains embedded into the wall above the bed. They were cowering on the floor, whimpering from the kicking and beating, but there was nowhere for them to hide. They were dressed in baggy clothes and were filthy, they looked barely human.

Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling struck in unison, one restraining Meng Xi and kicking him out. One went to check on the two locked up and was horrified to find that all their limbs had been cut off and their tongues had been cut as well. Chen Yang, with a slight pause, reached for the back of their heads and found a zipper. The two of them were not breathing.

Kou Xuanling kicked Meng Xi to the ground and questioned him about who was in the room.

Meng Xi replied, “My parents.”

Both men looked at him with incredulous eyes, and Meng Xi said, “They are my family, this is the only way to stay with them forever.”

Chen Yang was silent for a long time and asked him, “Was it your idea to make your parents into human dolls or the God of Peace’s idea?”

“Mine.” Meng Xi’s expression was bizarre: “Only then will they stay with me, love me, and praise me forever, and now we are a real family. The two people who were alive before, they were not my parents.”

“They were still alive when you made them into human dolls?”

“Yes.”

When Chen Yang asked him why he did it, Meng Xi impatiently replied that only the doll parents could really love him.

Meng Xi said, “Why do you think I worked with the God of Peace? Because I got into a car accident and couldn’t run anymore? Because I couldn’t enter the race to get the prize money? They just stopped loving me, and I was so sad.”

When he said this, his eyes were full of sadness. Meng Xi’s family was complicated, and his parents were extremely patriarchal. He had a younger sister who was raised as a princess and received double the love from his parents. Meng Xi, on the other hand, was neglected as a child and only got a smile when he gave his parents the prize money he won from running races. His parents took Meng Xi’s winning money and gave it to his sister, they played with her and bought all her favorite things.

Meng Xi hadn’t been subjected to domestic violence, he had just been neglected completely. If he didn’t have parents and didn’t get to see how much they doted on his sister, then he would never have become so twisted and neurotic, but this was because he cared too much for them.

After Meng Xi’s car accident, he couldn’t get the prize money from races and was once again neglected by his parents. It just so happened that the God of Peace appeared, and that allowed him to simply produce the ideal parents for himself.

“When my sister is unhappy, she will hit mom and dad. Mom and Dad were never angry, and will coax her. Now when I hit Mom and Dad and they won’t get mad at me either.” Meng Xi was happy.

 

 

 

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