The fifth floor of the hospital was the intensive care area. The windows were equipped with protective fences and the door of the room was specially reinforced.
"It is now 12: 30 am, our treatment will start at 12: 44 am." Doctor Gao opened the medicine bottle on the table. "Before the treatment starts, please take one pill for each patient."
There were only four pills in Doctor Gao's medicine bottle. Taking away the medicine that the two doctors did not need to take, there was one pill left for Chen Ge.
Placing the empty medicine bottle on the ground, Doctor Gao took out another bottle of new medicine from his pocket.
From the appearance, there was no difference between the two bottles.
When Doctor Gao opened the packaging, Doctor Sun who sat next to Chen Ge took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket. "I still have some left."
He poured out a pill from his own medicine bottle. The surface of the pill was pure white but inside the pill, one could vaguely see densely packed thin black lines.
When Doctor Gao saw this, he raised his hand to stop him. "Chen Ge's condition has improved, he only needs to take half a pill."
"Half a pill?" Doctor Sun looked at Doctor Gao with confusion. He should know the treatment steps beforehand.
"Yes, only half a pill." Doctor Gao appeared to have some concerns in his heart.
"That is different from the hospital director's request." Doctor Sun shook his head expressionlessly. "Even though you are his attending doctor, some things are still decided by the hospital director."
He stood up and shoved the pill into Chen Ge's mouth. Chen Ge could feel the pill rubbing against his lips but to his surprise, Doctor Sun did not feed him the pill. He only used his hand to block his mouth and the pill was still stuck between Doctor Sun's fingers.
Doctor Sun pulled back his hand and Chen Ge subconsciously made a swallowing motion.
The medicine with the thin black lines could make a person go crazy and lose their rationality, Chen Ge knew this very well. Now Doctor Sun did not want to feed him the pill and he had secretly tricked Doctor Gao and the other patients.
This made Chen Ge quite concerned. Doctor Sun who was sitting next to him did not seem to have the intention to hurt him.
"Ever since I entered the hospital, there has been someone knocking on the door every night, and the knocking corresponds to the number of days that I have spent at the hospital. The person seems to be worried that I might get lost, so he comes to remind me every night."
"Yesterday, he knocked five times. Today, the person who knocked on the door should have knocked six times. Coincidentally, when Doctor Sun entered the room, he knocked on the door six times."
"Is he using this method to tell me that he is the one who knocked on the door?"
Lightning flashed outside the window, but the room was eerily quiet. The seven of them sat in a circle. Other than Chen Ge and the two doctors, the other patients had their heads lowered as if they were asleep.
"They should be taking the normal white medicine. The medicine that Dr. Gao has placed on the table now is the replaced medicine with the black thread." Before the treatment started, Chen Ge had already noticed that something was wrong.
Based on what Dr. Gao had said earlier, if a patient acted up, the others would have to work together to feed him the medicine on the table.
But obviously, the medicine on the table was not a normal white pill. It was a medicine that was mixed with the black thread. The more the patient took the medicine, the more they would lose control.
If this treatment continued, the final result might be that the patient who consumed the medicine would kill everyone in the room.
Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. He was suddenly reminded of a detail. When Dr. Gao entered the sickroom, he hung the key next to the door. This was like he was encouraging the patient to go and retrieve it.
"After consuming a large amount of medicine with the black thread, the patient who has completely lost control will take the key next to the door and leave after killing everyone in the sickroom …"
The more Chen Ge thought about it, the scarier he felt. If Doctor Sun did not stop him, Dr. Gao would have fed him the medicine with the black thread at the beginning and he would definitely be the first person to lose control.
He would be the first to lose control. After that, he would be controlled by the patient and fed with more medicine with the black thread and then he would become even more deranged.
The final result would be that Chen Ge would kill all the patients in the room and then he would use the key to start a mad hunt for the patients.
If Chen Ge really did that, then his humanity would be completely obliterated. All his persistence would become a sin that he could not escape from and he would no longer be his previous self.
"All the patients have taken the medicine. Next, please remember the number on your chair. The number is your name." Dr. Gao took off his watch and placed it next to the medicine bottle. "The treatment will start at 12: 44 am 44 seconds."
All the patients and the hospital staff looked at the metal watch. The room was very quiet. The only sound that could be heard was the ticking of the needle.
Tick tock, tick tock …
The moment the needle crossed a certain number, Chen Ge felt an indescribable drowsiness rush into his mind.
His eyelids became heavy. He closed his eyes involuntarily but he soon realized that he could not fall asleep now. He had to stay awake.
Just as his eyes closed, he opened them again. The whole process took less than a second.
But in that one second, there appeared to be a huge change in the sickroom.
He could not tell what was different about himself. He just felt a sense of discomfort. It was as if the sickroom that they were in now was not the same as the previous sickroom.
"It is now 12: 44 am. The treatment will officially start now." Dr. Gao's voice appeared to be different from before. It was cold and stiff like an emotionless corpse.
"All of you are suffering from serious delusions. I have called you here today because I wish to start a treatment for all of you at the same time.
"Do not be nervous. Next, I will play a little game with all of you. You only need to make a choice based on your own thoughts."
Dr. Gao's voice did not contain any emotion. He first turned to look at Doctor Fang who sat on the first chair. "On the first of April, you were on the night shift at Xin Hai Central Hospital. For the past few days, you have been feeling like someone is watching you. At 12: 45 am, you stood up for the seventeenth time to walk to the window and look out. "
Dr. Gao suddenly stopped. After a long pause, he pointed at the window. "Why don't you go and take a look at what is outside the window?"
Doctor Fang who had taken the medicine and whose gaze was not normal stood up from the first chair. He held the wall and walked to the window.
Just as he pulled the window open, a flash of lightning flashed across his face. It lit up the inside of the sickroom and the ground floor of the hospital.
"Ah!" Doctor Fang screamed in shock. His hands gripped the edge of the window as if he was afraid that he would jump down if he was not careful.
"You stood up for the seventeenth time to walk to the window and what did you see?" There was no change in Dr. Gao's tone. At that moment, he was like a dead body mixed in with the living.
"There is a madman who has been laughing downstairs. He is waving at me! He wants me to jump down! "Doctor Fang's voice was not loud. When he spoke, it felt like he was about to suffocate.
"Now you have two choices before you. Jump down to find him? Or have him come up here to find you? " The two choices that Dr. Gao mentioned were not options for Chen Ge at all. This was the fifth floor. If he jumped down, he would definitely die. If he wanted to live, then the only choice was to have the man come up here.
This was a question that did not require any hesitation but Doctor Fang started to seriously consider it. Drops of sweat slid down his face.
His body kept shaking. In the end, he did not come to a decision but collapsed to the ground.
Dr. Gao did not say anything. It was not until Doctor Fang crawled up from the ground and hid behind the curtain to look outside that he asked again, "Is the man still downstairs?"
"He's gone, he's gone." Doctor Fang's expression was filled with fear. He sat back down on the first chair.
No one knew where the monster had gone. Dr. Gao did not ask Doctor Fang any more questions but Doctor Fang kept his eyes glued to the door as if the madman would knock on the door soon.
His eyes moved, Dr. Gao turned to Patient Number 2. "At 12: 46 pm, you came to Xin Hai Central Hospital to investigate an old case. You have been looking for clues for the past few days and in the end, all the information pointed to this hospital. You believed that the killer was hiding inside this hospital. When you stood downstairs and looked up, you saw a doctor pulling the curtain in a panic. "
Dr. Gao's eyes wandered between Doctor Fang and Patient Number 2. "Take a closer look, does that doctor's face look the same as him?"
The patient who sat on the second chair raised his head. His face was pale and he looked much older than his actual age.
Patient Number 2 stared at Doctor Fang for a long time before he shook his head.
The room returned to silence. The sound of the mechanical clock ticking echoed in their ears. After who knew how long, Dr. Gao told Patient Number 2 again. "At 12: 47 pm, you found a letter asking for help outside the hospital building. The sister of a boy was stabbed by a patient and the patient was hiding inside one of the sickrooms. The description in the letter is very similar to the case that you have been investigating. You took the letter and entered the hospital. "
Patient Number 2's condition was not that stable. He shook his head mechanically like he refused to believe anything.
"Reach your hand into your sleeve and see if the letter is still there." Dr. Gao's voice rang out as the clock ticked. Patient Number 2 subconsciously reached his hand into his sleeve. He pulled out a crumpled piece of white paper.
Reading the content on the paper, Patient Number 2 gripped his hair tightly. His eyes turned red like he was going to lose control at any moment.
"What is written on the letter?" Dr. Gao did not care about Patient Number 2's condition. Even the tone of his voice did not change.
Patient Number 2, whose eyes were bloodshot, placed the letter on the table. The whole piece of paper was filled with the words' save me 'in a crooked manner.
Those words should have been written by a child. When he saw those words, a sense of familiarity rose in Chen Ge's heart like he had written those words when he was young.
"Now you have two choices before you, enter the hospital to save him or enter the hospital to kill him."
After Dr. Gao said that, he did not pay any more attention to Patient Number 2.
He himself sat on chair number 3 and now he turned to look at the patient on chair number 4.
There was a female patient sitting on chair number 4. She looked very thin and the hospital gown was very loose on her body.
"At 12: 49 pm, you were attacked by a patient inside your younger brother's sickroom. He strangled your neck." Dr. Gao took away the paper paper that was folded into a butterfly from Patient Number 4's hand. He pinched the wings of the paper butterfly.
His hands slowly tightened and the paper butterfly's body was slowly torn apart.
Looking at the butterfly that was slowly being torn apart in Dr. Gao's hand, Patient Number 4 appeared to be suffocating. It was as if Dr. Gao was not tearing apart the butterfly but tearing at her neck.
The blood drained from her face. Patient Number 4's throat emitted the sound of a dying person struggling. She waved her hands desperately at Dr. Gao but she did not dare to snatch the paper butterfly away from Dr. Gao's hand.
"You are in great pain. You wish for someone to come and save you but you do not dare to ask for help because the killer said that if you open your mouth to speak, he will kill you and your younger brother." Dr. Gao placed the paper butterfly that was about to be torn on the table. "Now you have two choices before you, voluntarily run into the killer's knife and let your younger brother escape to get help; or push your younger brother onto the edge of the knife and use the chaos to escape from the sickroom."
Patient Number 4's breathing became rapid. She appeared to have really fallen into this problem. At that moment, she was in unimaginable pain and suffering.
His fingers caressed the wings of the paper butterfly. Dr. Gao turned to Patient Number 5. "At 12: 50 pm, you stand outside a sickroom. Inside the sickroom is the person you love the most and her younger brother."
Patient Number 5 was about the same age as Chen Ge. He did not like to speak and his hands were full of calluses. He appeared to be very good at making props.
"You have been conflicted for a long time. Finally you have made up your mind to enter the sickroom to see her. But when you push open the sickroom door, you see a madman holding a sharp knife trying to kill the younger brother of the person you love the most and the person you love the most is begging desperately for the madman's help.
"Now you have two choices before you, pull the person you love the most away from you and bring her away from here; or rush into the sickroom to fight the madman and die in her brother's place."
Dr. Gao observed the change in Patient Number 5's expression. Just as he was about to move his eyes away, Patient Number 5 suddenly said, "I choose to rush into the sickroom to fight the madman."
Among the few patients, Patient Number 5 was the only one who made a real choice.
"Are you sure? You might really die. "
"I am sure. I believe I have done this once before." After Patient Number 5 said that, he returned to silence. His hands were gripped tightly together. There were small wounds on his palms that were leaking blood.
Dr. Gao finally turned to Chen Ge. "At 12: 52 pm, you used the sharp knife to stab into Patient Number 5's heart. After killing Patient Number 5, you then killed Patient Number 4 and her younger brother."
His fingers tightened and Dr. Gao tore the paper butterfly on the table into two. "Then you gripped the bleeding knife and rushed out of the sickroom. You saw Patient Number 2 in the stairwell. After killing Patient Number 2, you saw Patient Number 1 inside the night doctor's duty room."
The ticking sound of the mechanical watch lingered in his ears. Chen Ge's vision slowly blurred. His hands pressed tightly against the table but his body stood up uncontrollably.
The mechanical watch on the table was still ticking. The time on the dial was 0: 51: 44.
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