After gagging the woman, the old man and the middle-aged man returned to normal.
They seemed to be very sensitive to the word 'hand'. Once they heard it, it was as if a switch in their memory had been opened. The fear in their hearts was awakened, and the scariest memory rushed out from the deepest part of their mind.
"Why would they be afraid of the hand?"
Chen Ge walked around the room but did not find anything related to the hand. He looked at the three patients' bodies. They did not have any obvious wounds, so the fear should be more psychological.
"What could have scared these three people to this extent?" Chen Ge held the mallet, and his brain spun. He came up with a possibility.
According to the information provided by Doctor Gao, there was a patient staying in Third Sick Hall's Room 4. Due to an accidental loss of an arm, he suffered from Phantom Limb Syndrome, and he felt like his arm was still there.
The patient did not have a name, and it was unclear whether Doctor Gao had forgotten or someone had erased it.
"In my memory, the only thing that could be related to the hand is this person."
Phantom Limb Syndrome was not a scary illness; it was not a serious mental illness, and it could be slowly recovered with treatment.
Chen Ge was familiar with this information about Phantom Limb Syndrome, but the thing that worried him the most was, why would a person with Phantom Limb Syndrome be locked up in a closed sickroom?
What had he done? Why did the hospital feel like this person was dangerous?
Chen Ge walked to the woman's side. The middle-aged man refused to communicate, and the old man did not seem to know how to talk, so the breakthrough point was the woman.
He squatted down beside the cage and looked into the girl's eyes. Since she could not communicate normally, he would use another method to test her out.
Getting close to the cage, Chen Ge made sure the girl could hear him. "Did you see many hands?"
The girl did not react strangely, but she shrunk away from Chen Ge.
"Then did you see a person with only one arm?"
Before he finished, the woman in the cage started to shake her head violently. Her head even knocked into the cage.
The woman's abnormal behavior explained many things. The murderer who had brought her nightmares and driven her crazy probably only had one arm.
Staring at the woman's face, Chen Ge noticed even the slightest change in her expression. "The man was holding a weapon?"
Her eyes widened, and veins popped up on her forehead.
"What is he holding? Saw? Knife? Or an axe? "
"Hmm!" The woman's mouth was blocked by the pillow case. She was agitated but could not make a sound.
"Looks like it's one of those things. Let me think about what he did in front of you." Chen Ge's voice slowly lowered. "Chop? Cut? Did he say that you were born deformed and imperfect, so he wanted to correct all of this? Or do you want to borrow your arm? "
"The number of prisoners is decreasing. When they were correcting the patients, you should have been there. You are a witness. You saw the whole process, right?"
The woman's face was twisted, and her veins were bulging. Her face was covered in tears, and she kept shaking her head as if to say that she had not seen anything.
"Do you really not know anything? Then why are you afraid of that hand? Did the hand fall next to you? Or did it capture you when you were trying to escape? "
From Chen Ge's perspective, even though the woman had been scared out of her mind, the scary memory was still lingering in her mind. Avoiding danger was a biological instinct. When he mentioned the thing that the woman was afraid of, her body would involuntarily express the fear in her heart through her expression and habitual movements.
Biological instinct would not lie. Chen Ge had already verified part of his speculation from the woman. "Don't be afraid. If you're really innocent, I will save you. I came here tonight to understand all of this and bring those madmen to justice. "
The smell of mold was thick inside the laundry room. Chen Ge stayed beside the woman for a long time. He had no idea whether the woman understood him or not, but he saw that the woman's emotions were slowly calming down.
He reached his hand into the cage again and gently removed the pillow case from the woman's mouth.
Curled up inside the cage, the woman's face was filled with panic. Her mouth was open, and she kept repeating the same word. "Hand … hand …"
"Just how much trauma did she suffer to become like this?" Chen Ge just tossed the pillow case aside when the door to the laundry room was pushed open. The person did not use too much force. It seemed like he was trying to sneak in, but to his surprise, there was a washing machine behind the door.
"The laundry room is at the end of the corridor, and the rooms around it are completely sealed. It can't have been the wind that moved the door." Chen Ge picked up the pillow case and stuffed it into the woman's mouth again. He looked at the white cat that was standing in the pile of dirty clothes. Perhaps because of the heavy smell of mold in the room, the white cat did not give any warning this time.
"Looks like I can't rely on others no matter what. I have to be careful." Chen Ge gripped the mallet tightly and stared at the door. Right before his eyes, a hand reached into the room through the gap.
The gap was so narrow that the person could only squeeze a few fingers through. He seemed to be checking whether the lock was intact or not.
"The real culprit has appeared?" After two Trial Missions, Chen Ge's growth was obvious. He slowly pulled open the zipper of his backpack and took out the scary-looking hammer. Then he removed the mini camera from his wrist and placed it facing the door.
The camera corresponded to the livestream on the screen at the bottom left corner of the livestream room. He placed the camera at the door, and through his livestream room, he could see the situation at the laundry room door at any time.
After doing all that, he placed the backpack next to his legs, gripped the hammer, and hid behind the door.
Not long after that, the laundry room door was pushed open again. The person outside the door seemed to have lost his patience. After several attempts, he slammed into the door!
"Bang!"
The washing machine was knocked over, and the door opened. Through his phone, Chen Ge saw clearly that there were two people standing outside the door!
One of them had a twisted face, and he was holding an axe that had a red stain on it. The other was holding a shovel with his only arm.
Neither of them saw the mini camera that was placed not far from them. The single-armed man nodded at the twisted face and then carefully walked into the room with the shovel in his hand.
He took one step forward, and as the tip of his shoes stepped into the room, before his body even entered the room, he heard the sound of rushing wind in his ears!
Chen Ge hid silently beside the door and raised the hammer high. When the single-armed man showed his intention to walk into the room, he swung the hammer at the door without hesitation.
The timing was perfect. When the single-armed man noticed it, the hammer was already at his chest.
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