There were not many places to fill in a normal patient's record, but Chen Ge's was an exception. It was several pages long, and the content on each page was different.
Doctor Gao recorded it every day. As if sensing Chen Ge's confused gaze, he put down the patient's record without leaving a trace. "Chen Ge, I remember you told me a few days ago that you hate fear very much. Whenever you're in fear, you'll feel very uneasy, right?"
"That's right."
"Based on my observation, your second persona should be there to help you share your fear. You've been living in your own delusional horror story for a long time, where other than yourself, everyone else is imaginary. You actually know that yourself. To alleviate the anxiety and pain, your mind has given birth to another version of yourself, which is Xu Yin. " Doctor Gao sat beside Chen Ge's bed. From his facial expression, it was impossible to decipher his real thoughts. "When you're sleeping in your nightmare, living in your delusion, Xu Yin protects you, but when you return to reality and your condition starts to improve, your second persona, Xu Yin, has become the biggest obstacle to your recovery."
"He is the obstacle to my recovery?"
"With our treatment, you can easily distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion, but Xu Yin does not have this concept. He exists because of your delusion, and your delusion is his entire world." Doctor Gao's every word was guiding Chen Ge. "When he wants to escape from the world of his delusion, he will try his best to hold on to you so that you can't break free. Perhaps in his eyes, this is a kind of protection, but in reality, it is only hurting you. "
"Then what should I do?"
"Break free from his grasp, leave the world of his delusion to him, and you come to embrace the sunlight in reality." Doctor Gao's eyes stared at Chen Ge. There was a trace of tiredness in his eyes, but deep inside them, Chen Ge saw a very complicated emotion.
That kind of emotion was unfamiliar to Chen Ge. It seemed that the Dr. Gao in his memory would never show such emotions.
"He always appears when I am unconscious. I cannot communicate with him."
"It's okay. We can create a special scene that will allow you to stay awake and trigger it from your mind. This is very dangerous, so we need your full cooperation." A lot of things seemed to have happened in the hospital in the past few days, which made Dr. Gao feel a sense of urgency. He wanted to stabilize Chen Ge's condition as soon as possible, or at least get rid of Chen Ge's second personality.
"I can cooperate with you. To be honest, I also want to meet my second personality." As soon as Chen Ge finished speaking, Dr. Gao immediately shook his head.
"Don't be curious about him, and don't believe what he says. It wasn't easy for you to get out of your delusion, so you can't fall into it again." Dr. Gao's tone was very serious. "After almost a year of treatment, the result will be out soon. This is the most critical moment. If you waver, then everything will be for naught."
"I understand, but how am I supposed to cooperate with you?"
"When the time comes, you only need to do one thing, and that is to reject him from the bottom of your heart. Remember, you have to tell him sincerely that you no longer need his help. You don't want to be dragged into that black ocean of despair anymore. " Dr. Gao put away the patient's record and stood up. "If his existence is only to protect you, then he should understand that his mission has been completed, and you no longer need him."
Chen Ge nodded silently.
"The treatment will start after midnight tonight. I will come to the sickroom to pick you up." Dr. Gao took out the pill bottle and fed Chen Ge three pills. "Rest well. Tonight should be the most important night for you."
Pushing the door open, Chen Ge lay on the bed, and Dr. Gao's words echoed in his mind.
"For them to suddenly adopt such a radical method of treatment, there must be some kind of accident.
The hospital wants me to voluntarily cooperate with them to destroy the second persona. This means that with their power alone, they will not be able to remove the second persona in a short period of time. Just what kind of existence is Xu Yin?
Last time when I fainted, I saw a man standing with his back facing me. He was the one who suffered most of the curse and pain. How could someone like that harm me? "
Chen Ge already knew what he needed to do. "Tonight is indeed the most important night for me."
Sitting up from the bed, Chen Ge glanced out the window. After greeting Doctor Fang, he leaned on his crutches and slowly walked to the canteen.
After a comfortable meal, Chen Ge came to the garden outside the sickroom.
After ensuring that no one was watching, Chen Ge started to wander around the garden. When he came to the bench that he usually sat on, he realized Zuo Han was sitting there like he had been waiting for him.
"Have you read the note?"
"Yes."
"What do you plan to do next?"
"Search for Zhang Wenyu, who is outside the hospital. They might still retain their undeleted memory."
"Do you need my help?"
"Tonight, after midnight, Doctor Gao will come to treat me. If something happens to me, I need you to run away from the hospital." Chen Ge had a smile on his face. Just from his tone, it was impossible to tell what kind of danger he was going to face that night.
"I'll run away alone?"
"Yes, you need to protect yourself first. There will be plenty of chances in the future."
"How is your new roommate? Can you befriend him? "Zuo Han asked carefully.
Chen Ge shook his head. "He imagined there were things inside his body like a syringe and a snail. I looked down his throat and found a human face inside his mouth, it was his own face."
"A face inside his mouth?" Zuo Han sucked in a cold breath.
Both Chen Ge and Zuo Han talked very fast. In less than a minute, they finished their conversation. Zuo Han did not stay for long and left directly.
After sitting on the bench for almost an hour, Chen Ge noticed some movement in the bushes.
He walked over with the crutches and saw the cute white cat's head inside the bushes. "You seem to have gotten fatter. How come it feels like you've grown bigger? "
After not seeing Chen Ge for two days, the white cat meowed. Its multi-colored eyes were filled with worry.
It rubbed against Chen Ge's leg and led Chen Ge to the garden fence.
From several meters away, Chen Ge saw Zhang Ya standing outside the fence. Zhang Ya in her Red Specter gave Chen Ge a strange sense of familiarity.
"Didn't you say you'll come every morning?" There was no blame in Zhang Ya's voice; it was more of worry. However, she had no idea why she would worry about a stranger.
"I thought you wouldn't come." Chen Ge walked to the fence and gripped the rusted iron with both hands. "Zhang Ya, I need you to do me a favor."
"What kind of favor?"
"Help me find a man by the name of Zhang Wenyu in this city." Chen Ge's voice was very low. "They are being chased. The hospital treats them as escaped mental patients, but actually, they are not sick."
Looking at Chen Ge in the patient's garb, Zhang Ya hesitated. Any normal person would have a hard time accepting this kind of request.
After all, from a normal person's perspective, they had to trust the hospital and not a mental patient.
"You said they're being chased? Zhang Wenyu is not alone? It's a nickname for many people? "
"Yes, the patients' appearance, age, and occupation are all different, but they have one thing in common — they all go by the name of Zhang Wenyu." Chen Ge looked at Zhang Ya seriously. "You have to pay special attention to the visitors at the Haunted House. If they still have their past memory, then someone should know about the connection between me and the Haunted House, and there's a high chance that they'll actively go to find you."
"I don't quite understand what you mean."
"You don't need to understand. You only need to ask them whether they remember their real past or not and try to find out more information about me. Then try to find a way to pass that information to me." For the sake of insurance, Chen Ge added, "If something happens to me and I don't show up here for many days, then you can go and find someone by the name of Zuo Han. He is very clever, and he should know how to use Zhang Wenyu's memory to its fullest."
"How come it feels like you're making arrangements for your death?" Zhang Ya felt like this mental patient before her was very strange. He kept saying all kinds of strange things, but she did not show any signs of annoyance, like he was telling the truth.
"Tonight, I'm going to do something very dangerous, and I don't know whether I'll be able to meet you again or not." Chen Ge prepared to leave after saying that. "Remember what I said, Zhang Ya."
"Wait a minute." Zhang Ya suddenly spoke. She walked to the railing, and this was the first time that she had been so close to Chen Ge. "I've been coming here to wait for you for the past few days because I have some questions to ask you."
"You have questions for me?"
"After we met that day, I had a dream that night. In the dream, my parents who lived with me were not actually my parents. My real parents got into a car accident. That day was my birthday, and their car was carrying my birthday present and the cake that they had just bought for me."
"Zhang Ya's birthday present …" An inconspicuous memory in the corner of his mind was flipped, and the words slipped out from Chen Ge's lips. "It was a ballet dress?"
After that, both Chen Ge and Zhang Ya were stunned. They looked at each other.
"How did you know? I haven't told anyone about this dream! " Zhang Ya's hands also gripped the railing. "The dream was too real. When I woke up, my face was covered in tear stains. That was not my life, but I couldn't stop the tears from falling."
"I had a similar dream, but in the dream, my parents were the owners of a Haunted House. One day, they suddenly disappeared, and I was the only one left." Chen Ge grabbed Zhang Ya's hand that was gripping the railing. "The life that you're experiencing now is my old dream, and the reality that I'm trying to escape from is actually your past."
"Impossible, I've lived with my parents for more than twenty years …"
"Don't panic, just do as I say. Among those people called Zhang Wenyu, there should be someone who knows the truth." Chen Ge let go of his hand. If he stayed there for too long, he would attract too much attention. He turned to leave with the crutches.
…
The sun set, and night fell over the sick hall. Outside the window, it was dark.
Chen Ge had no idea what kind of treatment Dr. Gao was talking about. He could only adjust his breathing silently to keep himself in a good state.
"For the past few nights, Dr. Gao has been busy. What has he been busy with every night?"
"This is the first time I've heard of a treatment being carried out after midnight. Could it be that the Dr. Gao in the day is different from the Dr. Gao at night?"
Looking out the window, Chen Ge was thinking when a flash of lightning sliced through the night sky.
At that moment, the lightning sliced through the sky, and then there was the roar of thunder. The damp wind blew into the sickroom, and the curtain blew against Chen Ge's face.
"Has the weather changed?"
Ever since Chen Ge woke up, the sky outside had been sunny. Basking in the warm sun every morning was the happiest thing for him.
"There might be a storm tonight."
Thick dark clouds gathered in the night sky, and a sense of anxiety appeared in every patient's heart.
Doctor Fang leaned against the wall and bit on his finger. The corner of his lips was stained with blood, but he did not seem to notice it. He kept mumbling to himself.
At midnight, the sickroom door was pushed open, and Dr. Gao walked in alone.
Normally, when Dr. Gao came to visit Chen Ge, he would come with the hospital workers. Tonight, he came alone, and this made Chen Ge feel even more anxious.
"The treatment room is on the fifth floor." There was a trace of gentleness in Dr. Gao's voice. There was no emotion in his voice, it was as if all his emotions had been sucked away.
"The fifth floor?" Chen Ge had been to the fifth floor before, and there were only sickrooms for patients with critical illness. There was no treatment room at all.
Dr. Gao used straps to tie up Chen Ge's arms. He did not allow Chen Ge to use his crutches. He personally supported Chen Ge to walk out of the sickroom.
When they were about to leave the sickroom, Dr. Gao turned back to tell Doctor Fang, "You should come with us. Your illness has dragged on long enough."
The hospital that night was different from usual. All the lights in the sickrooms were switched off. The duty room and the nurse's station were empty. Chen Ge walked for a long time, but he did not see anyone.
"We're here." Dr. Gao took out a bunch of keys from his pocket. Each key had a number written on it, and these keys probably corresponded to the number of the sickrooms.
Opening the sickroom door, Dr. Gao hung the bunch of keys on the hook next to the door as if on purpose.
"Why don't you two find a place to sit?"
The lights in the room were not switched on. Chen Ge frowned as he scanned the room. There were seven chairs placed inside the small sickroom, and three of them were occupied.
They were all wearing patient garb, so they should be the hospital's patients.
Doctor Fang's shoulders shook lightly. He groped around in the dark and found the first chair.
Chen Ge looked around and finally chose the seventh chair that was closest to the door to sit down. Of the seven chairs, only the third and sixth chairs were empty.
"Two patients who were supposed to receive treatment have disappeared, so their empty spots will be filled by me and another night doctor." Dr. Gao sat on the third chair. "When the doctor arrives, we will start the treatment immediately."
About ten minutes later, footsteps came from the corridor, and then there was a knock on the sickroom door.
Dong dong dong dong dong!
Someone knocked on the door six times in a row.
"The door is not locked, just come in."
The sickroom door was pushed open, and a doctor in a white coat walked into the room. When he saw the empty seat next to Chen Ge, he sat down directly.
"This new night doctor's surname is Sun. You can call him Doctor Sun." After Dr. Gao gave a simple introduction, he took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket. "During the treatment, no matter what happens, do not leave this room. If one of the patients suddenly acts up, I hope everyone can work together to control him and feed him the medicine."
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