There seemed to be a special connection between Chen Ge and the human head inside the glass jar. When his hands touched the surface of the glass jar, the child's head that looked like a specimen started to slowly turn.
Everything was similar to the simulation inside the brain maze but in real life, Chen Ge could not see the battle between the black threads and the blood vessels.
"I feel like you belong to me." Chen Ge looked at the human head inside the glass jar and a strange feeling rose in his heart. It was as if his own head was placed inside the jar.
The child's broken face was stuck to the surface of the glass jar. He had no eyes and the two dark holes on his face stared at Chen Ge.
The two stared at each other. Slowly, Chen Ge saw another version of himself inside the child's dark eyes. His consciousness slowly blurred. The memory of his past was sucked away by the head inside the jar and was replaced by the unfamiliar memory of a third person.
"What is he trying to do?" The removal of the memory meant that he was slowly losing himself but Chen Ge did not feel any fear or anxiety. It was as if the two of them were making a trade of equal value.
The hole in his mind was filled by the child's memory and the child had obtained his past memory.
Chen Ge's mind was slowly emptied. All the locked memory fragments were sucked away by the head inside the glass jar. All that was left in his mind were the memories that he had unlocked earlier.
"Could it be that he wants to help me unlock the lock in my memory?" Whenever Chen Ge tried to remember the past, he would feel a headache. Most of the time, even if he resisted the pain, he would not be able to unlock the most important memory.
Now that the head had sucked away the locked memory in Chen Ge's mind, it appeared to be worried that Chen Ge would be exposed so it actively filled up Chen Ge's mind with other memories.
Those memories that belonged to a third person sank deep into his mind and it was unclear what they were for.
After waking up, Chen Ge felt the lock in his mind being unlocked. His whole body felt lighter like there was another force helping him to shoulder the pain and despair.
Chen Ge's hands kept moving around the glass jar. After he realized he could not trigger anything anymore, he quickly retreated and returned to the quarantine area.
"Of the seven glass jars, I've only come into contact with one so far. I can't make a conclusion yet." Chen Ge lay in the isolation room for a few minutes before the nurse arrived. When he saw that Chen Ge was obediently staying in the room, he sighed in relief.
"I'm going to sleep. Remember to close the door when you leave." Chen Ge covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep.
The caretaker did not find anything unusual, so she did not report what happened in the morning to Dr. Gao.
At night, Dr. Gao and Xu Wan entered the quarantine area.
They tried to persuade Chen Ge again, hoping that Chen Ge would take the initiative to cooperate with the treatment. Only by opening his heart and eliminating the negative memories brought about by his paranoia could he be reborn.
This time, Chen Ge did not resist. After he touched the glass jar with the human head, most of his memories of the past had been sucked away. He had nothing to be afraid of now.
After midnight, the treatment went very smoothly. Even Dr. Gao was surprised by how effective the treatment was. It managed to erase most of the memory fragments in Chen Ge's mind in one go.
Dr. Gao gave it some thought, and he believed the main reason was because Chen Ge had given up on his paranoia and decided to embrace a new life.
Honestly, Chen Ge was the most determined patient that Dr. Gao had ever encountered.
For the hospital to completely 'cure' a patient, the first step was to erase the patient's past memory, and the second step was to reconstruct the patient. There were still a few more steps after that, and it was a long process.
For this patient, Chen Ge, just the first step to erase his past memory took more than half a month. In the end, it was only with his voluntary cooperation that there was a glimmer of hope for success.
Not only Chen Ge, Dr. Gao was tired as well.
"The treatment is very effective. If this continues, you will be able to leave the hospital smoothly." After a long time, Dr. Gao finally had a smile on his face.
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The hospital's care for Chen Ge gradually relaxed, but they still did not allow him to return to the normal sickroom, and they did not allow him to interact with other patients.
Most of the time, it was Xu Wan who accompanied Chen Ge. She took care of him meticulously, and there were always endless topics to talk about.
In this hospital, Xu Wan seemed to represent beauty.
During this period of time, Chen Ge also tried to find various opportunities to enter the offices of the previous hospital directors.
Every time, it was a close shave, there was always someone helping him in the dark.
After Dr. Gao treated him three times, Doctor Sun appeared again and brought Chen Ge to meet the deputy hospital director.
This deputy hospital director gave Chen Ge a very strange feeling. He felt like he had seen him somewhere before, but he had no memory of him at all.
If Chen Ge wanted to leave the hospital, he had to get the consent of the deputy hospital director. In other words, the deputy hospital director was actually the most important person to Chen Ge in this hospital.
He had to pass the examination of the deputy hospital director before he could leave the hospital successfully.
After being treated by Dr. Gao several times, after repeated examinations by both Dr. Gao and Doctor Sun, they felt that there was no problem with Chen Ge, but the deputy hospital director still did not agree.
Chen Ge had no choice but to stay in the hospital. Another two weeks passed.
He finally found the chance to touch the last glass jar. All the fragments of his memory about the past were hidden inside the glass jars.
Now the memory in his mind had been replaced. The memory from the seven glass jars intertwined deep inside his mind to form a child who was covered in wounds.
Even though the seven glass jars were still in the hospital, the memory that was stored in the organs inside the glass jars had escaped. They used this opportunity to hide inside Chen Ge's mind.
Until now, Chen Ge still had no idea what this meant. He only knew that he would be discharged from the hospital very soon.
On the seventh day after touching all the glass jars, Dr. Gao prepared to carry out the 17th treatment on Chen Ge.
This treatment was very unique. He did not reveal any information to Chen Ge beforehand. It was not until Chen Ge pushed open the door to the treatment room that he realized Doctor Sun and the deputy hospital director were still standing inside the room.
Without giving Chen Ge the chance to speak, when he pushed open the door, he appeared to have fallen into a brain maze. He had no idea when he was trapped.
"Chen Ge, this will be the last treatment for you. If everything goes smoothly, you can leave the hospital in the morning." Dr. Gao looked at Chen Ge with a smile on his face. He, Doctor Sun and the deputy hospital director were standing on the other side of the table.
"How do I need to cooperate with you?"
"Very simple." Dr. Gao took out a tray from under the table. There was a scalpel placed on the tray. "Your second persona is hiding inside your heart. Dig out your heart, he is the last obsession that you have created from your delusion."
"After digging out my heart, will I still be able to live?" Chen Ge did not expect the last treatment to be like this. He thought he would be able to leave the hospital successfully but he did not expect the hospital to be so cautious. They did not stop even after removing all the memory fragments.
"Only one of you and your second persona can survive. If you cannot make the decision, then let your second persona make the choice for you." Doctor Sun said darkly. The scar on his face was twitching.
Not only Dr. Gao, even the deputy hospital director was unwilling to stand with Doctor Sun. They all felt that Doctor Sun was too extreme.
He took out a whole bottle of medicine from his pocket. Doctor Sun opened the cap. It was filled with the kind of pills that were mixed with black threads.
"Let me think about it."
"It is time to say goodbye to the past. This is beneficial for both you and him." Doctor Sun poured out 7 pills from the bottle. He did not seem to count them at all. He shoved all the pills directly into Chen Ge's mouth. "Swallow them!"
Swallowing 7 pills at once. Both the deputy hospital director and Dr. Gao were stunned but it was too late for them to stop him.
Chen Ge's body started to change almost instantly. His blood vessels popped out, and they wiggled on his skin like poisonous snakes. His skin turned bright red, and his eyes were bloodshot like they were about to explode.
His rationality was drowned in that moment. A beast-like roar came out from Chen Ge's throat.
Seeing Chen Ge in pain, Doctor Sun appeared like he was admiring the most beautiful painting. He caressed the scar on his face and there was an intoxicated expression on his face.
"Do not control yourself, let your second persona come out!"
Doctor Sun screamed hysterically. He kept pouring the pills from the bottle onto the table. If not for Dr. Gao stopping him, he probably would have shoved the rest of the pills into Chen Ge's mouth.
The black flame of the curse burned his consciousness. Chen Ge started to hallucinate. He felt like his soul was being grabbed by multiple hands and his body was slowly falling into a sea of curse.
His consciousness started to blur. In a trance, he saw the man who was facing away from him again.
In the wave of curse, he had taken 90% of Chen Ge's pain.
This man who looked very familiar to Chen Ge did not turn his head around. He was protecting his heart and he stood like a rock in the middle of the ocean.
"You are my second persona …"
The last time he saw this man, Chen Ge's consciousness was also on the verge of collapsing. This time it was the same situation.
After swallowing too many pills at once, the wave of curse turned his mind upside down. But even if the world was about to collapse, the figure still did not take a step back.
All his memory was messed up. Just as Chen Ge's consciousness and mind were about to completely collapse, a child covered in wounds walked out from the deepest part of his mind.
The curse did not affect him too much. The child appeared to be just an illusion. He walked to the man who was facing away from Chen Ge and whispered something to the man.
Chen Ge had no idea what he said. He only saw that when the man heard what the child said, his body shivered slightly.
Then he slowly turned around to look at Chen Ge behind him.
This was the first time that Chen Ge saw the man's face. The man that Doctor Gao called his second persona looked completely different from Chen Ge.
His eyes were hiding a melancholy that could not be dispelled. There was not a single piece of skin on the front of his body that was not damaged.
"Who is he? Why is he standing before me even though he is so injured? "
The man had no idea how many curses the man had endured. There were so many that he could not even count them all.
He looked at Chen Ge silently. He slowly let go of his hands and handed the heart that he was protecting to the child.
The child hid the heart in the deepest part of his mind. The man used the last of his energy to smile at Chen Ge and then he turned around and jumped into the black sea of curse.
Enduring the indescribable pain, Chen Ge was also swallowed by the black wave.
After who knew how long, when Chen Ge reopened his eyes, he saw a bloody scalpel and a beating heart placed on the tray before him.
"Chen Ge, your last treatment has been very successful!"
"When your second persona took over your body, he voluntarily carved out his own heart and left your body."
The vice director and Doctor Gao each said that. The kind smile on their faces formed a sharp contrast to the bloody heart on the tray.
With a pale face, Chen Ge looked at the heart on the tray. His body slowly collapsed. "Can a person still live without a heart?"
…
His eyes flew open. Chen Ge's body slumped heavily to the ground. He gasped for air.
"You have completed the last treatment and you have made the most correct choice. You have killed your past self. From now on, you will welcome a new life!" The vice director personally helped Chen Ge up from the ground. He and the two doctors wrote down something on a document.
"Bring him back to the normal sickroom. We can start the discharge tomorrow."
Since the vice director had personally given the order, Doctor Gao also felt relieved. This most troublesome patient was finally going to leave this place.
He supported Chen Ge out of the treatment room. The vice director and Doctor Sun pointed at the document and they kept arguing about something.
Returning to the normal sickroom, Chen Ge collapsed on the familiar bed. Extreme exhaustion swallowed him instantly and he soon fainted.
Early the next morning, the bright sunlight outside the window shone on his face but he only felt chills all over his body.
"That is not my second persona at all. What kind of choice has he made in the vice director's brain maze? And who is the heart that the child took from him? "
After more than a month of treatment at the hospital, the doctors felt that Chen Ge had fulfilled their requirements but in reality, not only had Chen Ge not changed, if anything, he was even more wary of the hospital.
A crazy thought even appeared in his mind. If there was a chance, he would definitely destroy this place.
Initially this thought was not that strong but during the last treatment, after the man who had been helping Chen Ge to resist the curse left, his mind was now filled with similar thoughts.
"Kill your past self and welcome a new life …" Chen Ge said to himself. This appeared to be a habit that he had developed since a long time ago. He always liked to say things that no one could understand.
Knock knock knock … The sound of knocking came, the person knocked a total of 7 times.
The sickroom door opened and Doctor Sun walked in.
He looked at Chen Ge who was lying on the sickbed and only said one thing. "Take a look at cabinet 29. Other than that, the real treatment has just started."
After saying that, Doctor Sun moved his fingers and then turned to leave.
"Fabricating new memories for me, making me almost kill my own roommate and using hypnosis and drugs to create hallucinations to torture me, this is only the first step of the treatment."
Chen Ge's condition was very unique, he almost gave in. He had a hard time imagining what would happen to a normal patient when they arrived at the hospital.
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