Doctor Gao said that at 12: 52 pm, patient number 5 was assassinated by a madman. When Chen Ge stood up from his seat, it was exactly 12: 51 pm.
The needle moved past the numbers, the ticking sound overlapped with the sound of the beating heart.
Everyone turned to look at Chen Ge as if what he was going to do next would affect everyone.
The memory in his mind followed the ticking of the mechanical watch and it slowly blurred. Chen Ge wanted to control his body but the more he tried, the more his body went out of control.
Green veins popped on the back of his hand. Chen Ge slowly raised his lowered head and his bloodshot eyes stared at patient number 5.
Chen Ge was at the edge of losing control and Doctor Gao was staring at him closely.
As a doctor, Doctor Gao not only did not stop Chen Ge, he even took out an object wrapped in newspaper from his pocket.
He placed the object on the table before Chen Ge. When the object touched the table, there was a crisp sound.
There was something hard inside the newspaper.
Time continued to pass. Chen Ge's consciousness continued to blur. He was thankful that he did not ingest Doctor Gao's medicine.
If he ingested the medicine with the black thread, under the influence of the medicine, he would not have been able to resist it at all.
His fingertips slowly moved on the edge of the table. Chen Ge gripped the newspaper.
His fingers closed tightly. Blood leaked out from Chen Ge's palm. The thing wrapped in the newspaper was very sharp.
The blood soaked the newspaper and turned it dark black. Chen Ge gripped the thing inside the newspaper tightly. A large amount of blood flowed down his palm but strangely enough, he did not feel any pain.
"Why is my body reacting like this? I did not ingest the medicine but I still cannot control myself. Is it because of Doctor Gao's watch? "
The mechanical watch on the table continued to move.
0: 51 pm 50 seconds, 0: 51 pm 51 seconds, the ticking sound appeared to be getting faster. Chen Ge's heartbeat quickened. His chest rose and fell violently and small black blood vessels started to appear on his face.
54 seconds, 55 seconds, 56 seconds!
His hands that gripped the newspaper kept shaking. Chen Ge's body leaned forward, and the shadow of patient number 5 was reflected in his eyes.
Fifty-seven seconds, fifty-eight seconds!
At the 51: 59 second mark, Chen Ge raised the object that was wrapped in the newspaper. But when he was about to stab the sharp object at Patient No. 5, there was a sudden knock on the sickroom door.
The knocking on the door disrupted the ticking of the watch. For the first time, Dr. Gao's cold face showed a change of expression. He frowned slightly.
"Boom!"
Thunder roared outside the window. Not long after, bean-sized raindrops fell on the window, as if they were going to break through the glass.
The torrential rain swept through the night sky, and all kinds of sounds entered Chen Ge's ears. He finally regained control of his body.
Dr. Gao picked up the watch to look at the time. Then he placed the watch back on the table and turned his head to stare at Patient No. 1 again. "At 12: 52 pm, you heard someone knock on the sickroom door that you were in. You suspected that the person who had been stalking you was outside the door, so you walked over to open the door."
"Impossible, he can't be outside!" Doctor Fang stood up from his seat. He stood at the door and pressed his shaking hand on the door.
Anxiety and fear, Doctor Fang hesitated for a long time before he slammed the sickroom door open!
"Boom!"
A loud thunder exploded in their ears. The patients and doctors inside the room all turned to look at the corridor outside the door.
In the dark corridor, there was not a single trace of light. All the sickroom doors were tightly shut, it was as if they were the only ones left in the whole hospital.
"I remember the light at the corner of the corridor was originally on." Chen Ge was slowly regaining control of his body. He moved his arms and the hand that held the newspaper was hidden behind his back.
It was not a knife that was wrapped inside the newspaper but a mirror shard with a sharp edge.
No one noticed Chen Ge's small action, everyone's attention was on the corridor.
After the sickroom door was pushed open again, the hospital outside appeared to have changed. There was a completely different feeling. If one had to describe it, the current hospital was closer to the hospital in Chen Ge's nightmare.
Outside the hospital, lightning flashed and thunder roared but inside the hospital, it was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
The dark corridor appeared to have no end. The clean white walls looked more like the pale face of a dead person.
"At 12: 53 pm, you saw the corridor outside the sickroom. There was no one on the corridor. The once familiar hospital has now become unfamiliar." Dr. Gao stood up from his seat. He put the watch on his wrist. "You are very afraid. There is a voice inside your heart that keeps reminding you to not leave the room no matter what. Do not be curious. If you take one step forward, you might not be able to come back."
Just as Dr. Gao finished, the sound of something heavy being dragged came from the dark and empty corridor. It sounded like a boatman dragging a large dead fish out of the water.
Everyone was attracted by this sudden sound. They turned to look at the corner of the corridor. The sound came closer and closer until finally, a human head poked out from the ground at the corner of the wall.
"Zhang Jingjiu?" When he saw the human head, the name immediately appeared in Chen Ge's mind.
After he entered the hospital, Zhang Jingjiu had given him two reminders. The first one was in the garden when Zhang Jingjiu screamed at him.
Zhang Jingjiu was given a very severe punishment because of that. He was locked up in the ICU on the fifth floor and appeared to be subjected to all kinds of torture.
The second reminder was when Chen Ge and Zuo Han went to investigate in the middle of the night. Zhang Jingjiu's lips opened, and in his dying state, he uttered the word 'boss'.
Chen Ge was certain that Zhang Jingjiu was related to him, he was definitely his old friend.
At that moment, more than half of Zhang Jingjiu's head appeared at the corner of the corridor. Chen Ge found it hard to sit still.
The wall blocked Zhang Jingjiu's body. Chen Ge had no idea whether Zhang Jingjiu was lying on the ground or he only had a head left.
"At 12: 54 pm …" Dr. Gao's eyes scanned all the patients in the room. "All of you have seen the killer. Now you have two choices before you, kill the killer or be killed by the killer."
After saying that, Dr. Gao started to observe the patients' reactions.
"Everyone has seen the killer? Is the killer inside this room? " The first to return to normal was Patient No. 2. The middle-aged man appeared to have shaken off the effects of the drug. His eyes slowly returned to normal. His bloodshot eyes stared at the head at the corner of the corridor.
The second to return to normal was Patient No. 5. There was no hostility in the eyes that he used to look at Chen Ge, only fear. "Kill the killer? Or be killed by the killer? This kind of question does not give us any room for choice. "
"Are you sure you are treating us now?" Chen Ge held the mirror shard that was wrapped in newspaper. He pointed outside the door. "What happened inside the sickroom is a story that you made up but there does appear to be a problem outside the sickroom. All of you have seen the human head at the corner of the corridor. Someone is really injured!"
Chen Ge wanted to go and save Zhang Jingjiu even though he had forgotten the relationship between him and Zhang Jingjiu in his memory.
"Do you really think everything that I have said earlier is a story that I have made up?" Dr. Gao lowered his head to look at his watch. "Don't you often tell me the stories that you have made up? Do you think what you have said is real or fake? "
Chen Ge had no idea what Dr. Gao was trying to say. He gripped the mirror shard in his hand tightly and prepared to walk out of the sickroom to investigate.
"I will go with you." Patient No. 2 who was the first to return to normal also stood up. He looked old and tired but his gaze was extremely sharp. It appeared like he had been in the field of criminal investigation before he was hospitalized.
"Think about it carefully before you make your decision. After all, you only have one life. Reality is not a story that you have made up." After saying that, Dr. Gao stopped talking.
Chen Ge was worried about Zhang Jingjiu. He leaned against the wall and slowly moved toward the door.
Even though Patient No. 2 had decided to go out with Chen Ge, he maintained a certain distance from Chen Ge as if he was afraid of Chen Ge as well.
The two walked out of the room one after the other. After they left the sickroom, they realized that something was not right.
The hospital was too dark. Not only the third sick hall, the lights of the whole hospital appeared to have been switched off.
"The hospital has a backup power source. If this is an accident, at least the emergency lights should be on at this time." Patient No. 2 walked in front. His expression was serious. "This is so strange. I have walked down this corridor many times. How come I feel so pressured today?"
Chen Ge did not talk to Patient No. 2. He had a feeling that Patient No. 2 looked rather familiar but in this kind of situation, it was best not to trust anyone.
Dragging his leg that was wrapped in plaster, Chen Ge and Patient No. 2 came to the corner of the corridor. When he saw Zhang Jingjiu's body, his expression darkened instantly.
Zhang Jingjiu was lying at the corner of the corridor. Both of his arms and legs were broken and they formed an extremely strange posture.
The loose patient's garb could not hide the wounds on his body. The poor man's whole body was swollen and there were obvious needle holes on the surface of his skin.
"Zhang Jingjiu?" Chen Ge called Zhang Jingjiu's name softly. Perhaps Chen Ge's voice had awakened Zhang Jingjiu's memory. He struggled to open his eyes and his lips opened as if telling Chen Ge to run.
Holding Zhang Jingjiu's swollen hand, Chen Ge wanted to help Zhang Jingjiu up but one of his legs was still wrapped in plaster so he was unable to do that.
"Let me do it." Patient No. 2 wanted to carry Zhang Jingjiu on his back. He grabbed Zhang Jingjiu's arm and was about to exert his strength when he suddenly noticed that Zhang Jingjiu's stomach and chest were covered in blood. The patient's garb was already soaked through.
"Blood?" Patient No. 2 immediately tore open Zhang Jingjiu's shirt. "The wounds are very small but they are very deep. It looks like a stab wound from a dagger but the edges of the wounds are very irregular. The five wounds maintain a fixed distance from each other. What kind of weapon was used to inflict this wound?"
Due to the occupation of Patient No. 2, the first thing that appeared in his mind was various murder weapons. Chen Ge stood next to him and gestured with his hand. His expression turned even uglier. "Patient No. 2, do you think this wound looks like five fingers scratching into the flesh?"
It would have been better if Chen Ge did not say anything but after he said that, the gaze that Patient No. 2 used to look at him changed.
Strangely enough, the distance between Chen Ge's fingers and the distance between the wounds matched perfectly. In other words, Chen Ge's fingers could perfectly pierce through Zhang Jingjiu's wounds. It felt like the wounds were left behind by Chen Ge himself.
"What is going on?" Doctor Sun was the third person to walk out of the sickroom. The other patients followed behind him. Doctor Gao was the last one to walk out of the sickroom.
Strangely enough, after Doctor Gao left the sickroom, he kept looking at his watch as if something special was going to happen at a specific time.
"Someone is injured! He has lost a lot of blood. We need to send him to the emergency room now! " Patient No. 2 bandaged his wounds simply. "The wounds are on his abdomen and chest. He cannot be carried on his back. We need to go and find a stretcher! Who needs to come and help me support him! "
"The emergency room is at the fourth sick hall. I will lead you there." Doctor Sun did not waste any time. He had Patient No. 5 and Patient No. 2 carry Zhang Jingjiu and lead the way.
A human life was at stake. Everyone was in a hurry to save Zhang Jingjiu so they ran very fast. Chen Ge who had a weak leg slowly fell behind the group.
He walked side by side with Doctor Gao. When he slowed down, Doctor Gao would slow down as well. The latter appeared to be purposely walking at the back of the group.
"Doctor Gao, what is going on with the treatment tonight?"
Originally, the treatment was supposed to be done inside the sickroom but as the accidents kept happening, the treatment this time appeared to have gone out of control.
Chen Ge was not too sure now. What he was experiencing now was Doctor Gao's treatment plan or something had really gone wrong at the hospital. After all, the hospital had not been very peaceful for the past few nights.
No matter what Chen Ge said, Doctor Gao did not say anything. After he left the sickroom, other than occasionally lowering his head to look at his watch, he did not say a word. Instead it was Doctor Sun who suddenly became lively. It felt like the shackles that had been suppressing him had been released.
"Doctor Gao?" Chen Ge pulled lightly on Doctor Gao's arm. The latter raised his emotionless face and glanced at Chen Ge coldly.
The ticking sound echoed in Chen Ge's ears. Even though it was raining outside the hospital, the ticking sound of the mechanical watch still traveled clearly into Chen Ge's ears.
'There has to be some kind of meaning behind the ticking sound of the watch. I need to figure out a way to snatch Doctor Gao's watch from him later.'
Chen Ge walked beside Doctor Gao. He sneaked a glance at the patient who was standing further away. 'Based on the story that Doctor Gao told earlier inside the sickroom, there is a very high chance that I am the killer. In other words, in Doctor Gao's story, I will kill the other patients.'
'The hospital has been wanting me to kill people and they want me to kill specific people. What benefit does that bring to them? Could it be that they want me to feel guilty? '
With a trace of confusion in his eyes, Chen Ge turned to Doctor Sun. 'Then what is the situation with this Doctor Sun? Why would he help me? If the hospital wants me to feel guilty, they will definitely ask me to kill the people who are close to me with my own hands. If this Doctor Sun has a very good relationship with me, then how come my other friends are all patients but he has become a doctor? '
Chen Ge could not understand it at all. He did not dare to think too deeply about it in case he triggered his old memory.
'So be it. I'll just take it one step at a time.'
Passing the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge silently turned back to look at the 'treatment room' behind him. There appeared to be seven people sitting inside the room that they had just left.
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