Chang Gu did not give the reason. His voice was urgent, and after saying that, he hung up.
Why would Chang Gu be at a mental hospital? How did he, a man who was almost completely blind, get there? Is he being held hostage?
Putting the phone away, Chen Ge carried the backpack that he had prepared and slowly stood up.
I'll put the School of the Afterlife mission aside for now. I'll make my decision after I meet up with Chang Gu. He left the theme park and hailed a cab to head to Jiujiang Mental Illness Center.
There were three normal mental hospitals in Jiujiang, and coincidentally, Chen Ge had been to all three of them.
Entering the lobby, Chen Ge crawled into a corner that was less crowded. He opened the comic to summon Qiu Mei.
"Hey! What are you doing? "
Before Chen Ge could communicate with Qiu Mei, he was seen by a doctor. "It's too late. If you want to visit the patient, come back tomorrow."
"I'm not here to visit the patient?" Chen Ge slowly turned around, and his brain was racing to come up with a solution.
"Then, you're here to see the patient?" When the doctor saw Chen Ge's face, he was shocked. "It's you?"
Chen Ge recognized the man. When he used Lee Zheng's name to investigate Jiang Xiaohu at the mental hospital, he had met this doctor.
Even though he had forgotten the doctor's name, he remembered the man's face.
"Did Inspector Lee send you here again?" The doctor did not expect to see Chen Ge again.
Nodding, Chen Ge said softly, "I want to ask you about someone."
"Who?"
"His name is Chang Gu."
"I don't think there is anyone with that name among the patients."
"Then, is there such a person among the patients who came to visit the patient? He has poor eyesight, and one of his eyes only has white. "
"If such a unique person appeared, the nurses in the on-call room should have an impression of him. Wait a moment, I'll go to the on-call room to ask. "
When they arrived at the duty room, when the doctor mentioned Chang Gu's physical characteristics, the staff member immediately remembered.
"They came this evening to visit a patient who was in a deep coma."
"Them?"
"Yes, apart from the blind man, there are two men and a woman. I don't know what their relationship is, but I feel that the atmosphere between them is very strange. They don't seem to be familiar with each other," the staff answered truthfully for the sake of the doctor.
"Where are they now?"
"After visiting the patient, they left, but there was something strange." The staff thought for a moment before saying, "The two men and the woman returned half an hour after they left. They asked me if I had seen the blind man. They seemed to have gotten separated, so I helped them look for him in the hospital."
Chen Ge roughly understood what had happened. Chang Gu had been found by the 'parents', and due to certain reasons, he had been sent to the mental hospital. After visiting the patients, Chang Gu had taken advantage of the chaos to escape.
"Brother, which patient did they come to visit today? Can you take me there to have a look? "
"This …" The staff looked at the doctor. After getting the doctor's approval, he dared to agree. "Okay, I'll take you there."
They walked out of the building and came to a quarantine area behind the mental hospital.
Chen Ge had seen this kind of quarantine area before; it was usually used to treat patients with high risk.
"The patient they visited is called Chang Wenyu. She is a vegetable, and she has been staying here for many years. She doesn't seem to have any family, but every month, someone would send money to pay for her stay." The staff had a deep impression of this Chang Wenyu.
"She's just a vegetable, why would you lock her up in the quarantine area? She won't hurt anyone. "Chen Ge was curious.
"Even though she is a vegetable and has been in a coma for a long time, as long as you get too close to this female patient, strange things will happen." The staff still wanted to say something, but the doctor next to him suddenly coughed and interrupted the staff.
"I've heard of this patient, Chang Wenyu. After the attending doctor examined her body, he found that her cranial nerves and neurological functions are completely normal. She doesn't look like she is in a coma, more like hibernation, or perhaps deep sleep is more appropriate," the doctor explained to Chen Ge.
"What is deep sleep?"
"You can understand it simply as the patient is having a dream that she is unable to wake up from." The doctor did not seem to want to discuss this topic further with Chen Ge, so he picked up his pace. "We're here. This is the place."
The quarantine area at Jiujiang Mental Illness Center was different from the one at the Third Sick Hall. It was more humane. There were no high walls or iron bars, but there was a sign that said 'no entry' at the door.
After entering the quarantine area, Chen Ge felt something was wrong. The temperature of this building was much lower than the other one, and it was much quieter. There was not a single sound like they were the only living people in the building.
Walking down the corridor, the confusion in Chen Ge's heart deepened.
Normally, the more dangerous a patient was, the deeper they would be sent to.
Chang Wenyu was just an unconscious vegetable, but her room was at the deepest part of the building!
"Can I enter the room to take a look?" The door was not locked. Without waiting for the doctor's permission, Chen Ge pushed the door open.
The room was large, and there were three beds, but only the bed in the middle was occupied.
Walking to the bed, what entered Chen Ge's eyes was a face that was filled with a unique beauty.
The patient's information on the bedside said that the woman was almost thirty, but her face looked like a teenage girl.
Time seemed to have forgotten about this woman. Maturity and sweetness intertwined together, like a glass of fragrant red wine or a glass of milk tea with ice cubes added to it.
Unfortunately, the woman's left eye had been removed, and only a black eye socket was left. It ruined the beauty of her face, making her look sick and different from the rest.
"She is Chang Wenyu?"
The patient in bed was completely different from the Chang Wenyu that Chen Ge had imagined. Time had not left any trace on her.
Moving his eyes down, Chen Ge realized that the bedsheet was dangling to the ground, and the corner of the cover was pulled back to reveal the bandage underneath.
"This is?" Chen Ge pulled back the cover, but it was too late for the doctor to stop him.
Under the thin cover, Chang Wenyu's arms and legs were all tied to the bed by the bandage.
"Why would you use the bandage on a vegetable? Is she going to get up? "Chen Ge felt even more suspicious. He stared at the doctor, waiting for an explanation.
Knowing that he could not escape, the doctor finally said, "Actually, it's not that big of a deal. Some of the workers saw her appear in the corridor during the night shift, and at the time, they thought they had seen a ghost."
"Your people have seen her walk down the corridor on her own?"
"Yes, more than once, but the surveillance never recorded it, and every time they saw her, it was after midnight. The weirdest thing was, as long as we were observing her in the dark, she would not move. We would only run into her when no one was paying attention." The doctor nudged the worker next to him forward. "He only saw her once."
There were more male nurses at the mental hospital, and they were the main force of the night shift.
"I saw her once. At the time, it was at the door of the toilet. I was washing my hands when I saw another figure reflected in the mirror. She walked past me from behind.
"At the time, I was scared out of my wits. I screamed for help, but when I calmed down and chased after her, she had already disappeared.
"When I returned to the room, I realized she was still lying in bed."
Thinking back to that experience, the worker's heart fluttered.
"Could it be someone else? Are you sure it was her that you saw? " Chen Ge used his mind to think about it. "Perhaps another mental patient has disguised as her, or perhaps something else has appeared at night."
"Cough cough!" The doctor kept coughing. He had a feeling that if he did not interrupt Chen Ge, his nurses would not be able to work the night shift anymore. "From our perspective, the most likely explanation is sleepwalking. However, the most unique thing about this patient is that she is in a vegetative state. No one knows what she is seeing when she is in a deep coma, or what she is experiencing at the moment. Therefore, we cannot use the traditional method to treat her, so we can only tie her up like this for now. "
"Then after you tied her up, did you not see her again during the night shift?" Chen Ge had a feeling that things were not that simple, but no matter how he asked, both the doctor and the male nurse insisted that ever since they tied up Chang Wenyu, she had not shown up at midnight.
The hospital probably had a unified statement, and all the symptoms were related to sleepwalking. After all, Chang Wenyu was in a deep coma, and she could not feel anything. She could not resist, so in the end, it was the hospital's decision.
Seeing that he could not get anything out of her, Chen Ge prepared to leave. The most important thing now was to find Chang Gu.
Just as he was about to pull the thin cover over the bed, he suddenly saw a hand reach out from under the bed.
The five fingers poked out from the bottom of the bed, and the hand appeared to be trying to grab Chen Ge.
There was dirt stuck between the nails, and there were scratches from branches on the back of the hand. When Chen Ge saw this hand, the first thing that came to his mind was Chang Gu.
The most dangerous place was the safest place. The 'parents' who kidnapped Chang Gu would not have guessed that he had not gone anywhere but had been hiding inside the hospital room.
When other people saw a hand suddenly reach out from under the bed, even if they did not scream, at least their expression would change slightly. However, Chen Ge was very calm from beginning to end.
He used his leg to block Chang Gu's hand, took a light step forward, and used the back of his shoe to push Chang Gu's hand under the bed. Then he said directly, "Gentlemen, I'm here to investigate a murder case. The situation that you have described is very similar to the murder scene."
When he heard the word murder, the male nurse's face paled instantly. He often worked the night shift, so he was already very afraid.
"This doctor should know about my relationship with the Jiujiang police. Let's not beat around the bush. Tonight, I wish to stand guard outside this room. I have a very important hypothesis that needs to be verified."
If it was someone else who said that, they would have been chased out by the doctor already, but Chen Ge was different. This doctor was familiar with Lee Zheng, and he often heard stories about Chen Ge from Lee Zheng.
"It is too dangerous for you to stay at the quarantine zone alone." The doctor shook his head.
"That's right. Us nurses on night shift rarely come here." The male nurse thought that Chen Ge was not reliable. What kind of person would come to a mental hospital at night and say that he wanted to stand guard? That was not the rule.
"How about this?" The doctor thought about it for a long time. He turned to the male nurse next to him and said, "Xiao Zhu, accompany him at the quarantine zone tonight. Also, give Huang Wei a call and ask him to come over."
"Ah? I will accompany him? "The male nurse could not believe what he had just heard.
"Keep an eye on him at night. If there is anything that you can't make up your mind about, call me immediately. I will be in my office." Being a psychiatrist was actually very tiring. Many people would think that there were so many patients. Actually, if one went to a normal mental hospital, one would realize that the sickrooms there were always crowded. Some patients could only sleep in the corridor. Normally, a doctor had to take care of many patients at the same time, and it was normal for them to work overtime.
After the doctor left, Chen Ge felt much more relaxed.
Perhaps it was because Doctor Gao had left such a deep impression on him that whenever he was around these psychiatrists or psychologists, he would always feel uncomfortable.
"Just wait outside. I have something to say to that woman."
"She is in a deep coma. No matter what you say, she will not be able to hear you," the male nurse reminded him.
"It's fine." Chen Ge entered the room and stood next to the bed. Looking at the unconscious Chang Wenyu, he said softly, "I hope you can sleep tonight. I will stay by your side to watch over you. If that door appears again, I will try my best to help you."
In Xiao Zhu's eyes, Chen Ge was not a normal person at all. Thinking about how he was going to spend a night with someone like this, his scalp went numb.
His pants were pulled. Chen Ge knew that this was Chang Gu's response. He did not leave but lay down on the other bed.
"The left eye came from that school, so it should be able to see the things inside that school." The reason why Chen Ge helped Chang Gu was simple. He just wanted to see what the School of the Afterlife was like. If the danger level was far higher than he expected, then he would have to give up on the mission.
Chen Ge lowered his head to look at the time on his phone. It was 10 pm. There were still two hours until the deadline for the School of the Afterlife.
Staring at Chang Wenyu's bed, Chen Ge's attention was highly focused.
Just like that, several minutes passed, and drowsiness washed over him. He had not slept for more than thirty-six hours.
Holding the phone, the scene before Chen Ge's eyes started to blur.
…
The room suddenly became quiet. Xiao Zhu stood at the door and saw Chen Ge lying motionlessly in bed. He had no idea what he was doing.
"Such a strange person." He sat on the bench in the corridor and leaned against the wall. Even he was getting sleepy.
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