The treatment room that Chen Ge's group had just left appeared to be occupied by seven people. These seven people looked similar to Chen Ge's group.
Rubbing his eyes, when Chen Ge tried to take a closer look, his arm was grabbed by Doctor Gao and he was dragged to the other side of the corner.
"Am I hallucinating?"
Five patients and two doctors had already walked out from the treatment room, how could there still be seven people inside the sickroom?
"Are we still inside the sickroom? Is it our consciousness or our soul that has walked out? " Shaking his head, Chen Ge thought this was too unbelievable. He did not dare go back to investigate on his own so he could only follow the group forward.
The most important thing now was to get Zhang Jingjiu to the emergency room and stabilize his condition.
Doctor Sun, Patient No. 1, and Patient No. 2 walked at the front. They found a stretcher at the nurse's station and carried Zhang Jingjiu down the stairs.
Patient No. 4 appeared to be very afraid. She held the paper butterfly that was torn open in her hand and hid behind Patient No. 5.
At first glance, everyone appeared normal. If they took off the patient's garb, no one would suspect that five of the seven suffered from serious mental illness.
"I've been to the fifth floor before. The patients at the ICU are each more noisy than the last. Even at midnight, this floor is very noisy but now there is no sound coming from all the sickrooms on the fifth floor. Could it be that all the patients have been moved away?"
This was the only answer that Chen Ge could come up with. He did not think someone could kill all the patients and he did not think the killer could silence all the patients at the ICU.
"Unless the killer is the doctor and he has fed all the patients a large amount of sleeping pills tonight."
Turning his head to look at Doctor Gao, Chen Ge felt like Doctor Gao was becoming more and more unfamiliar. "The person who wanted to drive me crazy is him, the person who tried to feed me that kind of drug twice is also him but why does such a doctor feel so familiar to me? Could it be that the Doctor Gao in my memory is different from the Doctor Gao before me? "
To avoid triggering his past memories, Chen Ge carefully arranged the clues in his mind. "There are seven chairs in the treatment room, so this number shouldn't have been set randomly."
The few patients and doctors brought Zhang Jingjiu to the first floor. There was no one in the nurse's station or the on-call room. The whole building was dark, as if the hospital had been abandoned for a long time.
"What's going on? If it's just a power outage, many patients should still be in the ward! " Patient Number 2 was a little anxious. He was worried about Zhang Jingjiu's injury, but he also felt that the hospital tonight was filled with strangeness.
"When I entered the treatment room, everything was still normal." Doctor Sun walked at the front to lead the way. His footsteps were very fast like he was being chased by something.
"It has only been a few minutes, there is no way such a huge change could have happened!" Patient Number 2 was still quite rational even though the diagnosis given by the hospital was that he was suffering from delusional disorder.
"Yeah! This is too strange! " Patient Number 5 was also very afraid but he still stood next to Patient Number 4. If there was any real danger, he would bring Patient Number 4 and escape at the first moment.
The few patients kept talking. Perhaps he was annoyed by their questions, Doctor Sun who walked at the front suddenly stopped moving. He turned back to look at Doctor Gao. After confirming that Doctor Gao was like a dead man and there was no expression on his face, his eyes moved to move to Chen Ge.
"Actually there is a ghost story at this hospital. According to legend, if you push open the door of one of the sickrooms after midnight, you will be able to see the other side of this hospital!" When Doctor Sun said that, his eyes kept staring at Chen Ge like this was purposely meant for Chen Ge to hear.
"Push open the door? See the other side of the hospital? "
"What do you mean?"
"Doctor Sun, are you really a doctor at this hospital?"
The patients started to talk but Doctor Sun did not say anything else. It was as if the sentence that he said earlier had taken a great risk.
For the patients, this was the first time they had met Doctor Sun. The only person who knew Doctor Sun's real identity, Doctor Gao, was in a very strange state.
He did not say a word and his body was cold. To describe it more accurately, Doctor Gao was slowly turning into a dead man.
The patients had many questions but none of them could be answered. The doors and windows of the hospital were tightly shut. They had nowhere to run so they could only follow the doctor and move forward.
Pushing open the door that led to the safety corridor at the third sick hall, two dark corridors appeared before Chen Ge's eyes. He had come to this place before with Zuo Han. At that time, he was playing the role of his second persona.
"Hurry up, do not stay in the corridor for too long."
Doctor Sun chose the corridor that Chen Ge did not go to last time and walked into it. He kept urging Chen Ge who was at the back of the group also started to pick up his pace.
When they walked out of the safety corridor, the door at the other end of the corridor behind them closed on its own with a 'bang'.
"Someone is following behind us?" Chen Ge was confused now, he had too many questions.
First they ran into the heavily injured Zhang Jingjiu and then after they left, Chen Ge realized there were still seven people sitting inside the treatment room. Now the door behind them had closed on its own, it meant that someone was following behind them.
Chen Ge who had not fully recovered felt his head starting to hurt again.
"This is the fourth sick hall, all kinds of patients with severe and terminal illnesses will be sent here." Doctor Sun glanced at Chen Ge and then he casually added, "Many people have died here."
No one knew what Doctor Sun meant by that last sentence. He did not plan to explain but he only picked up his pace.
The electrical system of the whole hospital appeared to have been paralyzed, they could only rely on the temporary light provided by the lightning outside the window to move forward.
The internal structure of the fourth sick hall was completely different from the third sick hall. There were very few sickrooms for patients to stay in and the ground floor was filled with various departments.
"There is no one inside the duty room at this sick hall as well." Patient number 2 was panicking. "We need to stop the patient's bleeding immediately or else his life will be in danger!"
"Why are all the pictures on the wall of the duty room at the fourth sick hall all male?" Doctor Fang looked at the faces on the wall and he subconsciously took a step back.
"Is it that strange that they are all male?" Patient number 5 asked in a small voice.
"I used to be a surgeon. There was a period of time when many patients at our hospital committed suicide and everyone was in a state of panic. To take care of the female doctors, when we arrange the night shift, we temporarily arrange for male doctors." After he walked out from the sickroom, Doctor Fang had not calmed down. He would often look behind him for no reason as if he was worried that there was someone around him who wanted to harm him.
"You used to be a surgeon?" Patient number 2 was startled for a moment and then he immediately turned his head to tell Doctor Sun, "We have surgeons among us, it does not matter if there is someone in the duty room or not. Now as long as we have the tools, we will be able to save this patient's life."
"I am an ear, nose and throat specialist …"
"It's okay, I am a forensic doctor and I know some surgical knowledge, I can help you." Patient number 2 had a decisive personality. Even though he was about the same age as Patient number 1, he was obviously better at dealing with all kinds of emergencies.
Doctor Sun looked at the few patients and he only said one sentence in a light tone, "Follow me."
Walking through the dim hospital corridor, Doctor Sun stopped outside one of the departments. He did not walk into it directly but he did something very strange.
Raising his arm, Doctor Sun knocked lightly on the door.
Not one more, not one less, he knocked exactly six times.
When Doctor Sun knocked on the door, Chen Ge could feel the temperature around him dropping drastically. It was as if the world was tearing away the disguise and was about to reveal his true self.
But very soon, the ticking sound of the mechanical watch drilled into his ears again. There was no change in his surroundings.
After he knocked on the door, Doctor Sun stood at the door. He did not say anything and he did not push the door open.
"The door is locked?" Patient number 2 was getting anxious. He directly went over to push the door and pushed it open. "Hurry up and carry him in!"
Patient number 2 did not notice anything strange about Doctor Sun but Chen Ge did notice something.
The few patients carried Zhang Jingjiu into the room. Just as they were about to place Zhang Jingjiu on the hospital bed in the emergency room, they saw there was a human-shaped shadow on the hospital bed.
There was a light reddish-black color. It was unclear whether it was blood or something else but it perfectly formed the outline of a human.
"It feels like a bleeding person has been lying on this bed before." Chen Ge's eyes stared at the bedsheet. Before he could take a closer look, Patient number 1 and Patient number 2 had already placed Zhang Jingjiu on the hospital bed.
They rummaged through the drawers and cupboards to look for various medical tools. After a long time, they finally managed to stop the bleeding for Zhang Jingjiu.
"Their methods are so professional. No matter how I look at them, they do not look like mental patients." Chen Ge observed silently from the side. He realized the strange things around him were increasing. Especially after Doctor Sun appeared, this feeling only intensified.
"Doctor Gao who was like a dead man grabbed my hand and refused to let me leave him. Doctor Sun who was acting strangely kept giving me hints as if trying to tell me something?"
"The two doctors appeared to have gotten into an argument because of me. This is strange. How come I feel like this world is purposely created to target me?"
The two patients who were once doctors were trying their best to treat Zhang Jingjiu while the real doctors stood at the door and watched.
This scene gave Chen Ge a feeling of absurdity. At the hospital at midnight, who was the patient and who was the doctor?
His arm was slowly being gripped. Chen Ge frowned as he turned to look. He realized Doctor Gao's nails were digging into his flesh.
"Doctor Gao?" Chen Ge tried to shake his arm but Doctor Gao did not react. He only gripped Chen Ge like he would not allow Chen Ge to escape no matter what.
Why would he do that?
Doctor Gao who was like a dead man next to Chen Ge appeared to sense something. The facial features on his cold face started to twist.
Just as Zhang Jingjiu's condition stabilized, the sound of something heavy being dragged came from outside the emergency room again.
"There are other victims!" Chen Ge looked out the door. There appeared to be someone staring back at him in the dark corridor.
"Who is that?"
"The hospital wants to drive me crazy. Their original plan was for me to kill people who are related to me like Zuo Han and Zhang Jingjiu. The patients who were treated with me tonight should be people who are related to me as well.
"But there is one detail that I cannot ignore. There are seven chairs but only five patients. Doctor Gao said the other two patients have gone missing. If the other two patients are also my acquaintances, then it is very likely that they are not missing, but have been killed. "
"One of the victims is Zhang Jingjiu and the other is most likely Zuo Han."
With this in mind, Chen Ge's heart squeezed.
Coincidentally, just as Chen Ge turned to look out the corridor, a flash of lightning sliced through the night sky.
The pale light pierced through the glass window that was installed with protective railing, it lit up the corridor at that moment.
Chen Ge's eyes slowly widened. With the help of the light from the lightning, he finally saw the figure at the end of the corridor clearly.
"Doctor Sun?"
There was another Doctor Sun standing at the end of the corridor. His white coat was stained with blood, his hair was messy and he was bleeding from all seven orifices. There was an exaggerated smile on his face!
The light from the lightning only lasted for less than a second before the corridor outside the emergency room plunged back into darkness.
"Doctor Sun is the killer? There are two Doctor Suns? "
Chen Ge's mind was in a mess. He had no idea whether he was in a nightmare or reality.
"The Doctor Sun in the emergency room mentioned the door. After pushing open the door, I can see another hospital. Could it be that there is a Doctor Sun inside the hospital and the hospital outside the door?"
His brain very naturally came to this conclusion but when this thought crossed Chen Ge's mind, the heart-wrenching pain appeared again.
A low growl escaped from his throat. Chen Ge gritted his teeth. Originally it was Doctor Gao who gripped his arm tightly but now it was he who gripped Doctor Gao's arm tightly.
His arm was twisted out of shape by Chen Ge but the expression on Doctor Gao's face did not change. It was as if after he walked out from the sickroom, he was no longer Doctor Gao but a dead body that had no self-consciousness.
"I must not faint no matter what. This place is too dangerous. The Doctor Sun in the dark is approaching us. He might arrive at any moment." Chen Ge used all his strength to close the emergency room door but the enclosed space not only did not give him a sense of security, it only made him feel even more panicked.
"What did you see earlier?" Doctor Sun had walked to Chen Ge's side and he suddenly opened his mouth to ask.
"When the lightning flashed across the sky, I saw a man standing in the corridor. He was covered in blood." Chen Ge did not directly tell him that the man had the same face as Doctor Sun.
"Covered in blood?" Doctor Sun appeared to be reminded of something. "Has he been smiling?"
Looking into Doctor Sun's eyes, Chen Ge did not know how to answer. If he said that the man had been smiling, then it would indirectly prove that he had seen the killer's face and knew what the killer looked like.
After giving it some thought, Chen Ge still nodded. "His smile is very scary and I also realized he looks very similar to you."
"I know what you are afraid of. That man is not me, he is the ghost of this hospital." The smile on Doctor Sun's face slowly turned into the same smile as the 'ghost' outside. "Do you believe in the existence of ghosts in this world?"
"Many people have asked me this question before."
"Then do you know what kind of ghost is the scariest?" Doctor Sun appeared to be guiding Chen Ge but his current appearance was indeed quite scary.
Hearing Doctor Sun's voice, a figure in red instinctively appeared in Chen Ge's mind. He said subconsciously, "A ghost in a red dress is the scariest."
"That's not right." Doctor Sun's voice slowly lowered. He pointed at Chen Ge's eyes. "A ghost with warmth underneath their eyes is the scariest."
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