Chapter 0164: I Saw the Devil
Walking out of the laundry room fully armed, Chen Ge went to the second floor of the second sick building and found the sick room where Wang Haiming had once lived.
The narrow room was furnished with two hospital beds, the bed sheets and bedding had already been taken away, leaving only two bare bed boards.
Possibly for safety reasons, there were no sharp objects in the sick room, including the corners of the beds, which had been purposely smoothed.
”Wang Haiming was sent to the mental hospital by his second wife, he may have some mental problems himself, but it’s definitely not too serious, this should be a conspiracy against him.” Combining the information he had, Chen Ge realized that Wang Haiming was a somewhat complicated person.
His life had many ups and downs, but he never gave in, never stopped struggling and resisting, no matter if he was forced into a mental hospital or discharged from the hospital to fight with monsters for control of his body, he never gave up.
Cheating and remarrying, he could never be considered a morally good person, but in some ways, he had paid dearly for his transgressions.
”Every patient room in the rehabilitation center is equipped with a single-sided lock, and even with a key, it can only be unlocked from the outside, and there is a security door every twenty meters in the corridor, as well as a night patrol caretaker and a nurse on duty. Under these circumstances, how did Wang Haiming sneak out?” Chen Ge sat on the bedpan and looked toward the window that was boarded up, “Jumped from the window?”
Prying open the wooden boards, Chen Ge realized that there was a barbed wire fence installed outside the window of this sickroom, so there was no way to get out.
The sickbay had a two-meter-high concrete fence, and even more outside it was wrapped by a large dense forest without any signs, making it easy to get lost inside. And it was in this situation that Wang Haiming not only escaped smoothly, but also managed to contact his ex-wife and convince her to come to his rescue. This whole process can almost be made into a movie.
”It’s too hard for Wang Haiming to do all this by himself alone, he should have relied on the power of that monster in his body, and both of them worked together to escape from the mental hospital. They had the same purpose, both to leave the asylum.” Chen Ge figured this out, but another question arose, “When did that monster run into Wang Haiming’s body?”
Thinking back to what Xu Tong had said, Chen Ge found a suspicious point on Wang Haiming.
Not long after he was first punished with electric shocks, he started to provoke the doctors again and even beat up the nurses, simply because of the stolen medication.
This irrational behavior was understandable when placed on a mentally ill person, but Wang Haiming was not a crazy person.
”Could he be deliberately provoking? Trying to enter the third sick building again?”
Chen Ge surveyed this humble sickroom, the only places in it that could hide things were behind the curtains and under the bed.
Standing up, Chen Ge lifted both bedpans all the way up, and on the wall next to one of the bedpans, he made a new discovery.
On the wallpaper brushed with white paint, a line of writing had been carved out with fingernails, and because too much time had passed, most of those words were blurred, and he could only barely recognize some of them.
”This is what Wang Haiming left behind?” Chen Ge used to close the door of the sick room, walked closer and shone his flashlight on the wall skin, and read out the words on it.
”Could it be that I’m really crazy?”
”Two caretakers and a doctor escorted me into the electroshock room, and after entering the room, these beasts locked the door to the room, so no one should be able to come in.”
”But why did I see four people in the room after the electrocution?”
”Who was the one in the hospital gown?”
The writing on the wallpaper seemed to have been left by Wang Haiming, and it became his only interest to secretly record the weird things he encountered throughout the day in a ward without any entertainment facilities.
Here, only constant thinking could make him feel the difference between himself and those patients around him.
”It’s a hallucination from the electric shock, right? But why can he still talk to me? It’s like I’m the only one who can see him.”
”He says he’s ready to help me leave, but wants me to agree to one condition?”
”What a temptation from the devil, but I don’t seem to have a choice.”
”Maybe there’s a mistake somewhere, could it be because of those pills I’ve been taking, I’ve been getting more and more lethargic lately, and my head seems to be filled with lead water. No, I have to get out of here.”
”The devil doesn’t seem to have a way out of the third sickbay, and if you want to know the way to escape from the asylum, you can only go to that sickbay to find him.”
”The caretakers of the sickbay are such a bunch of rude idiots! I’m going to destroy this place, I swear!”
”The second time I entered that sickbay, I agreed to the devil’s request and completed the ritual in the bathroom, allowing him to enter me.”
”Could I be really crazy? To actually believe that there is a devil in this world and to have completed the transaction with him.”
The content of the diary came to an abrupt end here, after completing the transaction, what happened to Wang Haiming’s body, no one should know except for himself.
”That monster on Wang Haiming’s body came from the third sick building, and the ritual between them was completed in the bathroom, could it be that the medium of the ritual was also a mirror? If we look at it this way, the guy attached to Wang Haiming isn’t a demon at all, it’s just a most ordinary mirror ghost.” Chen Ge still had a better understanding of mirror ghosts, with average strength, but strange and cunning methods.
After searching through the sick room with no other clues, Chen Ge had to leave.
”The mirror ghost on Wang Haiming ran out from the third sickbay, and the tall stern ghost on Wang Shenglong also ran out from the third sickbay, why is it that even the ghosts and monsters don’t want to stay in that sickbay?” The clues he already had were not enough to support Chen Ge’s continued speculation, so he carried the skull crushing hammer, called up the white cat, and prepared to enter the third sick building.
Coming to the corridor of the building between the two sickbay buildings on the fourth floor, the deformed face ran into the third sickbay from here.
”The salt on the ground stays intact, no one has passed through here.” Pushing open the iron door, Chen Ge dove headfirst into the dense darkness.
The floor tiles under his feet were a bit loose, and after walking through the corridor of the building, he developed an extremely unpleasant feeling the moment he entered the third sick building.
His body was gloomy and cold, as if he was being targeted by some terrifying monster.
The white cat that had always been fearless also shrank at his feet, and if it wasn’t for the fact that Chen Ge was wearing a jacket with a kitten’s scent on it, it was estimated that the white cat would have escaped by now.
”The clues left behind by my parents are here, no matter what happens tonight, I can’t back off.”
Chen Ge pulled the backpack zipper halfway open, exposing the hilt of the red cloth-wrapped pig-killing knife, ready to be removed at any time.
”It’s time to go in and take a look.” Chen Ge took out his cell phone and took one last look, it was now eleven fifty-one at night, and there were still nine minutes to go before it was zero o’clock.
Walking into the sick building, Chen Ge developed a strange feeling, as if the entire third sick building was a huge living organism, and that chilling cold wind was it breathing.