Chapter 0160: You’re playing for real!
After gagging the woman, the old man and the middle-aged man in the iron cage resumed their original appearance.
They seemed to be very sensitive to the word “hand”, as soon as they heard this word, it was as if they turned on a switch in their memories, the fear in their hearts was awakened, and the most horrifying memories came out from the depths of their minds.
”Why should I be afraid of hands?”
Chen Ge did not find anything related to hands even after circling around the room, he looked at the bodies of the three patients again, there were no obvious wounds on their bodies, that fear should come more from the psychological side.
”What on earth could scare three people like this?” Chen Ge lifted his tool hammer, his brain was racing, and he thought of a possibility.
In the information provided by Dr. Gao, the patient who lived in the fourth ward of the third sick building had lost an arm due to an accident, and he suffered from phantom limb syndrome as a result, always feeling that his arm was still there.
This patient had no name, and it was not known whether Dr. Gao had forgotten it or whether it had been erased by someone with a good intention.
”As far as I can remember, this is the only person who can relate to the hand.”
Phantom Limb Syndrome wasn’t a very scary disease, it could only be considered a less serious psychological disease that could be treated through conditioning and gradually recovered.
This information about phantom limb syndrome was clear to Chen Ge, what really made him uneasy was, why would a person with phantom limb syndrome be put into a closed ward?
What had he done? Why did the hospital authorities feel that this person was in some danger?
Chen Ge walked over to the woman again, the middle-aged man refused to communicate, and the elderly didn’t seem to be able to speak, so the breakthrough was still with the woman.
He squatted next to the iron cage and looked at the girl’s eyes, since the other party couldn’t communicate with him normally, he would use another method to try.
Moving closer to the iron cage, Chen Ge made sure the girl could hear his voice, “Did you see many hands?”
The girl didn’t show any abnormalities, and just shrunk her body farther away from Chen Ge.
”Then did you see someone with only one arm?”
Before his words left his mouth, the woman in the iron cage began to shake her head desperately, and her head even hit the cage directly.
The woman’s abnormal behavior said a lot, that the murderer who brought her nightmares and drove her crazy might just have one arm.
Gazing at the woman’s face, Chen Ge took in the slightest change in her expression, “That person is holding the murder weapon?”
Eyes widening, a blue vein appeared on the woman’s forehead.
”What was he holding? A saw? A knife? Or an axe?”
”Well!” The woman’s mouth was gagged with a pillowcase, she was agitated but couldn’t make a sound.
”It looks like it’s one of these things, let me think about what he did in front of you.” Chen Ge’s voice slowly lowered, “Chopping? Cutting? Did he say you were born deformed and less than perfect, so he wanted to rectify that? Or maybe wanted to borrow your arm?”
”The captives are decreasing, you should have been right next to them when they corrected the patients, you were a witness, you saw the whole process right?”
The woman’s face was twisted, her veins were taut, her face was streaked with tears, and she was still desperately shaking her head as if to say she hadn’t seen anything.
”You really don’t know anything? Then why are you afraid of that hand? Was it that hand that fell down beside you? Or did it ever grab you who was ready to run away?”
In Chen Ge’s opinion, although the woman had been scared mad, the memory of the terror still remained in her mind. It was a biological instinct to avoid harm, and when he mentioned what the woman was afraid of, her body would involuntarily express her psychological fear through her demeanor and expression and habitual movements.
Biological instincts don’t lie, Chen Ge had already verified part of his guess from the woman: ”Don’t be afraid, if you’re really innocent, I’ll save you from going out. I came here tonight to figure it all out and bring those lunatics to justice.”
The laundry room smelled of mold, Chen Ge stayed by the woman’s side for a long time, not knowing if the woman had understood his words or not, but only seeing that the woman’s emotions were slowly stabilizing.
He once again put his hand into the iron cage and gently removed the pillowcase from the woman’s mouth.
Shrinking in the iron cage, the woman’s face was full of panic, her mouth was open, and she was still repeating the word, “Hands, hands ……”
”How badly stimulated was she to become like this?” Chen Ge had just thrown the pillowcase aside when the door to the laundry room room was suddenly pushed, the other party didn’t use too much force and seemed to be preparing to come in quietly, but he didn’t realize that there was a washing machine placed behind the door.
”The laundry room is in the deepest part of the corridor, the surrounding several rooms are completely sealed, it’s impossible that the wind blew the door panel.” Chen Ge picked up the pillowcase and gagged the crazy woman again, he looked towards the white cat standing in the pile of dirty clothes, probably because the moldy smell in the house was too heavy, the white cat did not make a timely warning this time.
”It seems that no matter what, you can’t rely on others, it’s right to be careful yourself.” Chen Ge gripped the tool hammer tightly and watched the door of the room, and right under his eyes, a hand reached in along the door crack.
The doorway was so narrow that the other party could only squeeze in a few fingers, and he seemed to be making sure that the lock was intact.
”The rightful owner has appeared?” After going through two trial missions, Chen Ge’s growth was obvious, and he didn’t panic as he pulled open the backpack zipper and took the hideously shaped skull-crushing hammer in his hand. Then he removed the miniature camera on his wrist and placed it directly in front of the room door.
This camera corresponded to the live feed on the small screen in the lower left corner of the live room, and by placing the camera at the door, he could see the scene at the entrance of the laundry room anytime and anywhere through his own live feed in his cell phone.
Once that was done, he placed his backpack by his legs, gripped the skull-crushing hammer tightly, and ducked to the side of the room’s door.
It wasn’t long before the door to the laundry room was pushed once again, and the man outside the door seemed to have lost his patience, and after a couple of tries, he slammed himself hard against the door panel!
”Boom!”
The washing machine was knocked over, the door to the room opened, Chen Ge saw clearly through his own cell phone, at this time there were two people standing outside the door!
One had a deformed face holding an axe with red stains remaining on the surface, and the other was grasping a shovel with the only arm that was left.
The two men didn’t see the miniature camera placed not far away, and the one-armed man nodded towards the deformed face before carefully carrying the shovel towards the house.
He took one step, the toe of his shoe had just stepped into the door of the room, and before his body entered the house, a sharp gust of wind could be heard in his ears!
Chen Ge hid by the door without saying a word, raised his skull crushing hammer high, and when the one-armed man revealed his intention to walk inside, he didn’t hesitate to swing the hammer round towards the door.
The timing was just right, and by the time the one-armed man realized it, the hammer had already swung to his chest.
With the hideous and bloody hammer head zooming infinitely in his eyes, he only had time to hold his only remaining arm in front of his body, and his entire body already flew out several times faster than when he came in!