Chapter 0158 – Two Bowls of Water

　　Hearing Chen Ge’s question, the three people in the iron cage behaved differently.

　　The old man whose face was covered in grease licked his fingers without a word, as if he was reminiscing about what he had just eaten.

　　The woman’s eyes were wide and she struggled desperately in the iron cage, as if she was a big fish that had been thrown ashore.

　　The middle-aged man, on the other hand, was behaving the most perversely, and he was the only one out of the three who kept staring at Chen Ge without turning his eyes away.

　　”Why are these three people imprisoned in a mental hospital?” Chen Ge first walked over to the old man’s iron cage, in which two plastic bowls were placed inside the steel bars welded together.

　　The old man was not afraid when he realized that someone was coming over, and he sat in the center of the cage, sucking on the oil stains left on his fingers as if no one else was there.

　　”The one who was transferred from the first sick building is him.” Chen Ge didn’t find anything wrong from the old man even after looking at him for half a day, “The hair is jagged and was shaved with a cutter, this hair should be newly grown.”

　　Seeing the old man’s hair, Chen Ge thought of the hair on the back of the cabinet board at the nurse’s station, a part of which was mixed black and white and should belong to the old man in front of him.

　　”Hair that has been shaved once and still grows this much, it seems like the old man has been imprisoned here for a long time.” At that time, Chen Ge thought that there were four different people who had their hair shaved by comparing the length of their hair, but there were only three people in front of him.

　　”There’s still one left.”

　　Chen Ge swept his gaze over the women and finally stopped on the middle-aged man, his hair was long and messy covering the top of his head, “This person’s hair doesn’t seem to have been shaved?”

　　Chen Ge became more careful, shaving the head seemed to be the murderer’s bad taste, he was toying with his prey, but why would the murderer spare the middle-aged man alone?

　　Did the middle-aged man know the murderer? Or was he the murderer?

　　Chen Ge was startled by his own thoughts, at the connection between the first and second sickbay, Chen Ge had seen an unfamiliar face, an asymmetrical, somewhat deformed face.

　　Being able to walk freely in the sickbay and still monitor and track himself, the deformed face should be the murderer behind the scenes, but now there was an additional middle-aged man. If we look at it this way, I’m afraid that there was more than one murderer who imprisoned the victim.

　　Chen Ge gripped the tool hammer tightly, and an even worse scenario came to his mind.

　　Suppose that in this sick building, all of them, except himself, were murderers.

　　Of course, the probability of this situation was not high.

　　He thought for a moment, finally stopping in front of the woman.

　　Neither man had any intention of answering his question, so he had to try to remove the pillowcase from the woman’s mouth to see if he could glean any information from her.

　　”Don’t be nervous, I’m here to save you guys.” Chen Ge shook the lock on the iron cage, without a key, if he just smashed it with a hammer, God knows how long it would take to release the three.

　　The woman seemed to have an innate fear of the living, as soon as Chen Ge got close to her, she started to commit a crime, her mouth whimpering, shaking her head and waving her hands in an agitated manner.

　　”Calm down, I won’t do anything to you.” Chen Ge came around to the woman’s body and was just about to remove the pillowcase from her mouth when the middle-aged man who had been silent behind her suddenly spoke.

　　”I advise you to better not let her talk, she’s very noisy.”

　　Turning his head, Chen Ge saw a pair of gloomy, guarded eyes, this middle-aged man didn’t know if he was doing this to everyone, or just to Chen Ge, he showed a heartfelt disgust, as if what Chen Ge was doing made him extremely sick.

　　”She’s noisy?” Chen Ge wasn’t afraid of them talking, he was afraid of them refusing to communicate.

　　As long as these people opened their mouths, he would have a chance to obtain useful information from their words.

　　”Yes, very noisy.” The middle-aged man spoke in a stereotypical manner, he seemed to feel sick of even talking to people.

　　”Can you tell me why? Has she been mentally stimulated?”

　　Chen Ge asked two questions in a row, the middle-aged man kept his mouth shut, and it was only when Chen Ge put his hand into the iron cage again, ready to remove the pillowcase from the woman’s mouth, that the middle-aged man spat out three words, “I don’t know.”

　　”What do you know? You don’t recognize this woman, do you recognize the old man in the first cage?” Chen Ge asked a question that he had been curious about in his heart, “Why is it that only his cage has two plastic bowls set up, and yours only has one?”

　　”I can tell you, I just hope you don’t let that woman talk, she’s very noisy.”

　　The middle-aged man repeatedly emphasized that the woman was very noisy, Chen Ge was curious in his heart, but on the surface, he still agreed: “I can, but only if you didn’t lie to deceive me.”

　　”I never lie.” The man sat in the iron cage, his voice low: “The old man’s health is not good, and his temper is also very bad, after his partner left, he was left alone at home, relying on his son to support him. His son is a doctor, the salary is not high, but to support the two have no problem. But then the old man also do not know how to think, in the other people to set up, to get a widow as a daughter-in-law. His son didn’t object, only moved out and sent him money every month.”

　　”Things change, not long after that, his son who was a doctor was said to have suddenly gone crazy as a result of frequent contact with patients, and injured several patients in the hospital.”

　　”His son lost his job, and the patients’ families refused to forgive him and lost all their family money before things calmed down.”

　　”His son was crazy and needed treatment, and the public psychiatric hospital cost three or four thousand a month, an amount that was difficult for him to bear. Critical time his son used to work in that hospital stood out, to far lower than the cost of public hospitals, his son into the hospital.”

　　”The former doctor became a patient, his son’s personality became more and more eccentric, until the hospital closed down, but not cured.”

　　”During the time his son was hospitalized, the old man’s own health got worse and worse. At his age, no one wanted him to go out to work, and all the money he earned was subsidized to the hospital. The new widow, too, divorced him.”

　　”He told his son about his predicament, hoping that he could pull himself together and beat the disease.”

　　”Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before his son bit someone from the same village.”

　　”Once he committed the disease, his son became extremely destructive. In the end, there was nothing else to do, so the old man made an iron cage and locked his son in.”

　　”This didn’t last long, and the old man fell ill. Not to mention curing his illness, now eating has become a problem.”

　　”The old man looked at his son in the iron cage, who was sick from time to time, and finally made a decision.”

　　”He waited until his son was sick to bring water, and put two bowls outside the cage, one with clean water and one with rat poison.”

　　”Whether to live or die, he let his son choose.”

　　The middle-aged man was cold, he didn’t seem to have said so many words for a long time, his face was even paler than before, “That’s why the old man put two bowls of water at the door of the iron cage.”

　　After listening to the middle-aged man’s story, Chen Ge remembered the words underneath the counter at the nurse’s station – All the things you’ve done to me, I’ll return them.