"How can the hospital be filled with ghosts? I believe it is acceptable for a doctor or patient to occasionally be possessed by a ghost, but if you want to say the hospital is filled with ghosts, then that's ridiculous. "Chen Ge did not voice his real thoughts; he was merely following the logic in his mind.
"Whether it's real or not, we can go and ask him, right?" Zuo Han was very brave. "The scream came from upstairs. This room has seven floors in total, and the room he is staying in should be on the fifth or sixth floor."
"Are you sure you want to take this risk? It'll be bad if you go out at night and get caught by the hospital workers. "Chen Ge was more cautious.
"It is not me who is going to take this risk, it is us who are going to take this risk together."
"We?"
"This morning, you said that Zhang Jingjiu voluntarily went to grab your hand and even opened his mouth to warn you. Don't you think that is very strange?" Zuo Han stood at the door, he was like a demon trying to tempt Chen Ge. "I have also met that patient before. He always talks to himself and will not actively provoke anyone, so I can say that you are different from the others in his eyes."
"But I have no memory of him at all." Chen Ge did not dare to casually think about his past, he was afraid that the pain would suddenly come back.
"Brother, I'll be honest with you. The medicine that the hospital feeds you every day will suppress your memory. They are not trying to cure you; they just want you to become someone that they approve of." Zuo Han lowered his voice. "This world has its own set of rules. Those who do not follow the rules are all patients. Those who are willing to follow the rules and become part of the rules are the normal people. This is a completely sick system."
Seeing Chen Ge's hesitation, Zuo Han continued. "You once said that whenever you think about the past, you will feel a headache. Does this kind of mental illness really exist? I have a feeling that they have also done something to your brain and set up some kind of suggestion to prevent you from remembering the past. "
"Why do they not want me to remember the past?"
"Perhaps your memory is hiding the truth of this sick world. In any case, your memory must be something that the hospital is afraid of, so they will do everything they can to stop it. This is a very simple logic." Zuo Han slowly convinced Chen Ge. The two of them decided to leave the ward together after the nurse finished her inspection.
At one o 'clock in the morning, Zuo Han and Chen Ge pushed open the door of the ward and came to the corridor.
"There is a surveillance camera at the corner of the stairs, but the people on duty might not be paying attention to it all the time. As long as we run fast enough, they might not be able to find us."
"Are you gambling?"
"There is no other way. Destroying the surveillance is the same as telling the hospital directly that someone wants to resist. Now, we can only gamble." Zuo Han looked at the cast on Chen Ge's leg. "When did you break your leg? How long will it take to recover? I don't want to escape with a disabled person. "
"I had a car accident a year ago. Logically speaking, the injuries caused by the car accident should have healed a long time ago, so the fracture of my leg must have nothing to do with the car accident. It should have happened after I fell ill."
"Now this is interesting. A mental patient's leg suddenly fractured in the hospital." Zuo Han looked at Chen Ge coldly. "You poor thing who has lost your memory. Do you still think the hospital is a good place?"
"You suspect that the hospital broke my leg?"
"All beauty is just a facade. Cruelty and sickness are the main theme of this world." Zuo Han's eyes were filled with blood vessels. "Do you believe that your illness will recover before your legs?"
"Why do you say that?"
"You are the most dangerous patient. After your leg recovers, the hospital will feel uneasy, so accidents will happen to you, and all kinds of coincidences will cause your body to be injured again." Zuo Han's eyes were dark. "When I think about problems, I have a habit of considering the worst. I have never had any expectations of humanity. If my words have hurt you, I hope you won't mind. In the future, you will know who is truly looking out for you."
Some people ran into the most beautiful accident in the deepest despair, and some people saw the cruelest reality in the most beautiful dream. Chen Ge did not think that Zuo Han's words were harsh to the ear, if anything, he thought that Zuo Han's words made a lot of sense.
He had actually developed a feeling of empathy with a patient with paranoia.
"When we meet Zhang Jingjiu, no matter what happens, you have to remain calm." Zuo Han led Chen Ge to the corner of the stairs. The hospital was still lit at night, but the light did not feel warm. Every beam of light radiated coldness. Walking down the corridor, one's hair would stand on end.
"The hospital during the day is indeed different from the hospital at night." Chen Ge did not know how to describe it. He only felt like the last hospital that he saw in his memory was slowly overlapping with the hospital before him, and the hallucinations were starting to return.
Zuo Han and Chen Ge were lucky. The two of them walked all the way to the fourth floor without being discovered by the hospital workers. The whole sickroom was very quiet.
"This place does not feel like a mental hospital to me but more like a slaughterhouse. Invisible blood flowed everywhere, and ghosts with their mouths clamped shut are everywhere." Zuo Han's tone was rather deranged. His current appearance was almost identical to the mental patients that Chen Ge had seen in the television dramas. His mental illness was acting up, but he did not realize it himself. He still thought that he was in a very good condition.
"Starting from this floor, all the doors are locked. Looks like the patients who stay here are all seriously ill." Chen Ge and Zuo Han came from a normal sickroom, so their doors could not be locked. They could enter and leave freely, and so could the doctors and nurses. However, the doors of the sickrooms on the fourth floor were completely different. There was a lock on the outside of the door, and the patients' freedom was restricted. If they wanted to leave, they had to get permission from the doctors and nurses.
"Thankfully, there are windows on the doors, or else we would have wasted our trip tonight." Just as Zuo Han and Chen Ge reached the fourth floor, they heard footsteps coming from below.
"The sound comes from the duty room. The hospital workers are coming!" Zuo Han had already figured out the location of the duty room and the nurses' station. He grabbed Chen Ge's hand and carried Chen Ge on his back. "What the f * ck, you are so heavy!"
"Where are we going?"
"Shush." Zuo Han carried Chen Ge, who had difficulty moving, to the nurse's station at the end of the corridor. He and Chen Ge hid under the counter at the nurse's station.
"It's dark under the light? But are you sure they won't come here? "Chen Ge thought that Zuo Han was too brave.
"It's already past midnight. The hospital workers and nurses have changed shifts. I've checked a few days ago, and they like to stay at the duty room on the first floor at night. They rarely come to the nurse's station." Zuo Han was the kind of person who was bold but cautious. He would not fight an unprepared battle, but he would not waste a good opportunity because of hesitation.
The sound of footsteps slowly approached them, and the two patients shut their mouths in tacit agreement. Both of their mental fortitude was ridiculously good. Even when the footsteps passed by them, their heart rates did not change at all. It was as if this was just a small matter.
"Remember the location of the nurse's station. There's one on the first floor, the fourth floor, and the seventh floor. If there's an emergency, I'll go and distract the hospital workers, and you can hide at the nurse's station." Zuo Han's tone was still as cold as ever, there was no trace of emotion in it, but Chen Ge could hear that the man was truly concerned for him.
It was hard to imagine that a patient with severe paranoia could be so considerate of others. Through this detail, Chen Ge started to reconsider what Zuo Han had told him.
Conflicting thoughts kept appearing in Chen Ge's mind. Whenever he thought about it, the two thoughts would collide, and it felt like they were trying to tear his mind apart.
One of them was the hospital represented by Doctor Gao, and the other was the patients represented by Chen Ge himself.
One represented healing and beauty, and the other represented the past and despair that he could not bear to look back on.
Sometimes, Chen Ge did not know how to choose. The drugs and the beauty that he was experiencing were slowly dulling his mind, forcing him to accept this part of his life, but at that moment, Zuo Han appeared.
They were both patients, but Zuo Han gave Chen Ge a different perspective.
They left the fourth floor. Zhang Jingjiu's voice should have come from this floor. Chen Ge and Zuo Han did not know the exact location, so they could only check the doors one by one.
Both of them knew what Zhang Jingjiu looked like. Each of them was responsible for one side of the door, and they leaned on the small window to check.
Most of the patients had finished their medicine and were asleep, but some of them were doing strange things inside their rooms.
For example, one of the patients was hiding under the bed, shivering, and another patient had folded a piece of paper into the shape of a fruit knife and was waving it at his pillow.
These were all understandable. When Chen Ge came to the middle of the corridor, he was about to lean toward the window when he noticed a face on the window!
A patient was standing on the other side of the door, and his face was facing the window.
Their eyes met, and even Chen Ge was given a fright. The feeling of his scalp going numb, his hair standing on end, and his adrenaline skyrocketing was very familiar.
"Is this the feeling of fear?" A smile appeared on Chen Ge's lips. He did not feel any discomfort. In fact, his brain started to come alive, and there was a trace of excitement in his eyes.
Both of his hands pressed against the door, and Chen Ge stared directly at the patient on the other side of the door. The patient behind the door was confused. After being stared at by Chen Ge for a long time, he walked away on his own.
"Found it."
Zuo Han whispered. Seeing that Chen Ge did not respond, he turned to look at Chen Ge, and he realized that Chen Ge was staring at one of the doors with excitement.
"What are you doing?" Zuo Han did not dare raise his voice. One, he was worried that he might attract the attention of the hospital workers, and two, he appeared to be instinctively afraid of Chen Ge.
"It's nothing." Chen Ge's expression returned to normal. Fear only served to stimulate him for a moment.
Two patients were squeezed outside Zhang Jingjiu's room. At that moment, Zhang Jingjiu was collapsed on the ground. His eyes were lifeless, and there were no obvious wounds on his body, but his face was very pale.
Zuo Han tried to turn the doorknob, but unfortunately, the door was locked, and he could not open it.
He knocked lightly on the door. Zhang Jingjiu inside the room seemed to have lost his mind. He was frozen in his original position, and he did not move an inch.
"Looks like I will have to wait until the morning to find a way to approach him. Now I am afraid that the hospital will send Zhang Jingjiu to the quarantine zone. That place is not accessible to outsiders, and the patients who are sent there rarely come out." Zuo Han was feeling rather agitated.
"I came out from the quarantine zone. Don't worry, let me try." Chen Ge stood at the window. He knocked lightly on the door and very smoothly called out Zhang Jingjiu's name.
Zhang Jingjiu, who did not react to Zuo Han's voice, suddenly blinked when he heard Chen Ge's voice. He slowly turned his head around to look at the door.
When he saw Chen Ge's face, the fear in his eyes lessened slightly. His lips moved like he was trying to say something.
"He seems to be calling me boss?" Chen Ge had no idea why he could read lips, it was as if this was a natural talent that he was born with.
"I heard that Zhang Jingjiu's father is the CEO of some company in Xin Hai. He is a real rich second generation, so why would he call you boss?" Zuo Han turned to Chen Ge with confusion. He realized that Chen Ge's face was rather scary at that moment. His forehead and cheeks were filled with greenish-black blood vessels.
"Are … are you alright?" Zuo Han realized that something was wrong. He grabbed Chen Ge's arm. He wanted to take Chen Ge away but a chill came from the center of his palm. Chen Ge's body temperature was dropping. He even suspected that he was holding a dead body.
When Chen Ge 'acted up', hurried footsteps came from downstairs. The hospital workers had to rush over at that moment.
"Is my luck really that bad?" Zuo Han looked at Chen Ge. He gritted his teeth and picked up Chen Ge again. He ran in the opposite direction of the footsteps.
Chen Ge on his back became heavier and heavier. Zuo Han gritted his teeth. "I am only carrying one person, but how come it feels like there are people climbing on top of me?"
Avoiding the surveillance, judging the location of the hospital workers based on the sound of their footsteps, Zuo Han predicted the route that the hospital workers would take. He also guessed that the two hospital workers would move separately. He made use of the time difference at the nurse's station and finally successfully brought Chen Ge back to the sickroom.
Closing the sickroom door, Zuo Han tossed Chen Ge directly onto the bed. Then he collapsed to the ground and gasped for air. "I didn't find any clues, and I was almost exposed. Next time, I should go out alone."
Zuo Han knew that now was not the time to rest. He adjusted his breathing and dragged Chen Ge to the bed next to the window.
"Can you hear me?" Zuo Han tried to communicate with Chen Ge, and he realized that not only Chen Ge's face but also his body had started to bulge with greenish-black blood vessels. The blood vessels were like poisonous snakes, and it looked very creepy.
"The blood vessels are bulging, and they are greenish-black. Normally, this happens to people who are thin and weak. Even though he looks weak, his entire body is covered in muscles, especially his arms and legs. They are as muscular as the athletes that I've dissected before.
"Other than physical weakness, this symptom can also be caused by thrombocytopenia and abnormal metabolism of liver cells. This kind of condition is usually accompanied by signs of poisoning. I'm not wrong! The doctor has poisoned the medicine! This is the side effect of overdosing on medicine! "
Zuo Han tried his best to think of a way to save Chen Ge. Several minutes later, the semi-conscious Chen Ge's body temperature finally started to rise, and the blood vessels on his body and face slowly returned to normal.
"A medical miracle? The blood vessels are bulging like that, but they can still fully recover? "Zuo Han really wanted to cut open Chen Ge's body to see the internal structure.
His eyes slowly focused, and Chen Ge recovered his rationality. "Was it you who brought me back?"
"Of course, I carried you all the way, but I won't be bringing you with me next time." Zuo Han moved his shoulders. "You look so well-proportioned, but how come you are so heavy?"
"Perhaps it's because I'm carrying too many things on my back." Chen Ge used both of his hands to prop himself up. He tried several times, but he was unable to sit up.
"What happened to you just now?"
"I can't explain it clearly. When I read the word 'boss' from Zhang Jingjiu's lips, all the memory fragments in my mind felt like they were about to explode. Countless different voices appeared, and they all called me boss." Chen Ge took a deep breath. "I have no memory of many of them, but just now, I've memorized their voices. If I hear them again, I'll definitely be able to recognize them!"
"Is that all?"
"There's another discovery. When I was doing my rounds upstairs, I was scared by one of the patients. That kind of fear made my memory come alive. It feels like there is some kind of connection between me and the emotion of fear." Chen Ge held his head.
"You like to be scared? What kind of strange hobby is that? "Zuo Han took several steps back.
"I don't like the emotion of fear either, but when I'm in this kind of emotion, the memory fragments in my mind appear to come alive. They actively link together to show me the past that I've forgotten …" Chen Ge reflected on that feeling and then said with certainty, "I need more stimulation."
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