Chapter 0760: Into the Night
Standing Orphan didn’t say why, his voice was urgent, and he hung up the phone directly after speaking these words.
”Why is Chang Ku at the mental hospital? How did he run there as a person who is almost completely blind? Could it be that he’s being held hostage?”
Putting away his cell phone, Chen Ge carried the backpack he had prepared long ago and slowly got up.
”Let’s put the Psychic Ghost School mission aside for now, and wait to make a choice depending on the situation after we rendezvous with Chang Lone.” He left the paradise and took a taxi to the Hanjiang Mental Disease Center.
There were three psychiatric hospitals that operated normally in Hanjiang, and coincidentally, Chen Ge had been to all three of them.
Entering the lobby, Chen Ge directly drilled into a corner with fewer people, then opened the comic book to call out Qiumi.
”Hey! What are you doing?”
Before Chen Ge could communicate with Qiumi, he was seen by a doctor, “It’s too late to visit the patients, you’d better come back tomorrow.”
”I’m not visiting patients?” Chen Ge slowly turned around, his brain racing to think of a countermeasure.
”Then you’re here to see a patient?” When the doctor saw Chen Ge’s face, his expression was surprised, “It’s you?”
Chen Ge also recognized the other party, at that time, he had met this doctor when he ran to the mental hospital to investigate Jiang Xiaohu with the help of Li Zheng’s name.
Although he had forgotten this doctor’s name, he still remembered the other party’s face.
”Did Team Li send you here again?” That doctor also did not expect to see Chen Ge again.
Nodding, Chen Ge said softly, “I want to ask you about someone.”
”Who?”
”He’s called Chang Ku.”
”There doesn’t seem to be anyone by that name among the patients.”
”Then is there this person among the sick belongings who come to visit the patient? He has bad eyes, and only the whites of his eyes in one eye.”
”The nurse in the duty room should have an impression if someone with such a characteristic appears. Wait a moment, I’ll go to the duty room and ask.”
Coming to the duty room, the staff immediately recalled the physical characteristics of Chang Lone when the doctor stated them.
”They came over in the evening to visit a patient who had fallen into a deep coma.”
”They?”
”Yes, besides that blind man, there were also two men and a woman, I don’t know what their relationship was, it felt like the atmosphere between them was strange, they didn’t seem familiar with each other.” The staff answered truthfully for the doctor’s sake.
”Where are they now?”
”They left after visiting the patient, but there is something strange.” The staff member thought for a while before speaking, “The two men and one woman turned back half an hour after they left and asked me if I had seen the blind man, they seemed to have gotten separated, and I even helped them look around the hospital.”
Chen Ge roughly understood what happened, Chang Ku was found by the “parents” and came to the mental hospital for some reason, and after visiting the patients, Chang Ku took advantage of the chaos to escape.
”Brother, which patient are they visiting today? Can you take me over to see it?”
”This ……” The staff member looked at the doctor, and only after getting the doctor’s consent did he dare to agree; “Alright, I’ll take you there.”
The few people walked out of the building and arrived in an isolation ward at the back of the mental hospital.
Chen Ge had seen this kind of isolation ward before, and it was usually used to treat patients who were extremely dangerous.
”The patient they are visiting is called Chang Wenyu, she is a vegetable and has lived with us for many years, she doesn’t seem to have any family, but every month, someone will send in special hospitalization fees.” The staff was very impressed with this Chang Wenyu.
”A vegetable, why are you putting her in the isolation ward? It’s not like she’s going to hurt anyone else.” Chen Ge was a little curious.
”Although she is a vegetable and has been in a coma, as long as she gets too close to this female patient, something inexplicable will always happen.” The staff wanted to say something else, but the doctor next to him suddenly coughed, interrupting the staff’s words.
”I’ve heard of this patient Chang Wenyu, after the attending doctor examined her body, he found that her brain’s nerves and neural functions were completely normal, she doesn’t look like she’s in a coma, it’s more like she’s dormant or it’s more appropriate to use deep slumber to describe her.” The doctor explained to Chen Ge.
”And what is deep slumber?”
”You can simply understand it as the patient is having a dream that she can’t wake up of her own accord.” The doctor seemed unwilling to delve deeper with Chen Ge on this topic and quickened his pace, “Here it is.”
The isolation ward of the Hanjiang Mental Disease Center was different from the isolation ward of the third ward building, and was more humanized; there were no high walls or iron fences, and only a warning sign prohibiting entry was hung at the entrance.
After entering the ward, Chen Ge clearly felt that something was wrong, this building was much cooler and quieter than the other one, almost no murmurs could be heard, as if there were only a few of them alive in the whole building.
Passing through the corridor, Chen Ge was even more puzzled in his heart.
Normally, the more dangerous the patient would be sent to the deeper room.
Chang Wenyu was just an unconscious vegetable, but her ward was in the deepest part of the entire building!
”Can I enter the ward to take a look?” The door to the ward was unlocked, and without waiting for the doctor’s consent, Chen Ge pushed the door open.
This sick room was large, with three beds set up, but only the one in the center had someone lying on it.
Walking over to the bed, what was reflected in Chen Ge’s eyes was a face full of exceptional beauty.
The patient information sticker on the bed showed that the woman was almost thirty years old, but her face looked just like a girl of eighteen or nineteen.
It was as if time had forgotten this woman, maturity and sweetness intertwined like a cup of delicate and mellow red wine, or a cup of milk tea with ice.
Only one thing that was unfortunate was that the woman’s left eye had been removed, leaving her with only a black hole in the eye socket, ruining the beauty of her entire face and making her look sickly and different.
”She is Chang Wenyu?”
The patient on the hospital bed was completely different from the Chang Wenyu that Chen Ge had imagined, and time had not left any traces on her.
Moving his line of sight down, Chen Ge realized that the bedsheets were draped on the ground, and the corner of the quilt was lifted just enough to reveal the restraint straps underneath.
”This is?” Chen Ge lifted the quilt, and it was too late for the doctor to stop it.
Underneath the thin patient-specific quilt, Chang Wenyu’s hands and feet were all secured to the hospital bed by the restraining straps.
”Why are you using restraints on a vegetable? Could it be that she will still get up?” Chen Ge felt that there was a problem even more as he stared at the doctor, wanting the other party to give him an explanation.
Knowing that there was no escaping it, the doctor finally spoke, “It’s not really a big deal, some employees had seen her appear in the corridor while they were on the night shift, and at the time, they thought they had seen a ghost.”
”Your people have seen her walking down the hallway by herself?”
”Yeah, more than once, but the surveillance never caught it, and every time we saw it was after midnight, and what’s even stranger is that as long as we’re watching from the shadows, she’s never moving around, and only comes across out of the blue when no one’s looking.” The doctor pushed the staff member next to him forward, “He saw it once.”
There were still more male nurses in the psychiatric hospital, and they were the mainstay of the night shift.
”I saw it once, it was in front of the toilet, I was washing my hands and suddenly I saw another figure reflected on the mirror, she walked behind me.”
”I was terrified and screamed at the top of my lungs, but by the time I calmed down and chased her out again, she had disappeared.”
”I went back to the ward and found her still well and truly in bed.”
Thinking about the experience at that point, the staff member felt panicked.
”Could it have been another person? Are you sure it was her you saw?” Chen Ge used divergent thinking to think, “Maybe it was some other mental patient pretending to be her, or maybe something else appeared in the night.”
”Cough!” The doctor kept coughing, he felt that if he didn’t interrupt Chen Ge, none of his nurses here would be able to work the night shift properly in the future, “From our point of view, the most likely cause is sleepwalking. However, the most special point about this patient is that she is a vegetable, no one knows what she, who is in a deep coma, is seeing in her head or what she is experiencing at this time, so there is no way for us to use traditional methods to treat her, we can only tie her up like this first.”
”Then after you guys tied her up, you haven’t seen her appear again on night duty?” Chen Ge felt that things weren’t that simple, but no matter how much he questioned, the doctors and male nurses all balked at the fact that ever since tying up Chang Wenyu, the midnight one she had never appeared again.
The hospital should have unified the caliber within the hospital, leaning all the symptoms towards the sleepwalking aspect, instead of Chang Wenyu being in a deep coma, and she was unconscious and couldn’t resist, so how could it be said that it wasn’t the hospital making the call?
See can’t ask anything, Chen Ge is ready to leave, the most urgent thing is still to first find Chang lu.
When he was about to cover the bed with a thin quilt, he suddenly saw a hand sticking out from underneath the hospital bed.
Five fingers were exposed under the hem of the bed sheet, and the hand seemed to be trying to grab Chen Ge.
There was dirt remaining in the cracks of the nails, and the back of the hand had scars from a tree branch, Chen Ge thought of Chang Lone the first time he saw this hand.
The most dangerous place is the safest place, the parents who kidnapped Chang lone must not have thought that he actually did not go anywhere, has been hiding in the hospital room.
When a person sees a hand suddenly sticking out from under the bed, even if they don’t scream out in fear, at least their complexion will change slightly, but Chen Ge has been very calm since the beginning.
He used his own leg to block Chang Lone’s hand, gently took a step forward, used the back of his shoe to push Chang Lone’s hand under the bed sheet, and immediately said directly, “Several people, I’m here to track down a murder case, and that situation you guys are describing is very similar to that of the murder scene.”
Hearing the word murder, the male nurse’s face instantly turned white, he often worked the night shift and was already scared inside.
”This doctor should know the relationship between me and the Hanyue police, plain people don’t talk in the dark, tonight I would like to keep watch outside this ward for the night, I have a very important guess that needs to be verified.”
If anyone else had said this, they would have been thrown out by the doctor, but Chen Ge was different, this doctor was familiar with Li Zheng, and he had heard about Chen Ge’s deeds from Li Zheng’s mouth from time to time.
”It’s too dangerous for you to stay alone in the isolation ward.” The doctor shook his head.
”That’s right, our nurses on the night shift rarely come here.” The male nurse felt that Chen Ge was unreliable, what kind of person would come to a mental hospital at night and say they wanted to keep watch, this was simply out of order.
”Let’s do it this way.” The doctor thought for a long time, he said towards the male nurse next to him, “Xiao Zhu, you accompany him to keep watch in the isolation ward tonight, and by the way, call Huang Wei and ask him to come over as well.”
”Ah? I’ll accompany him?” The male nurse couldn’t believe his ears.
”Keep an eye on him at night, if you can’t decide on anything call me immediately, I’ll be in the office.” Psychiatrists actually work very hard, and many would think are there that many patients? In fact, if you go to a regular mental illness hospital and turn around, you will find that the wards there are always tight, and there are even some patients who can only sleep in the corridor, often a doctor has to be responsible for many patients at the same time, and obligatory overtime work is also common.
After the doctor left, Chen Ge was much more relaxed.
It was probably because Dr. Gao had left too deep an impression on him, and he would always be a little uncomfortable when facing these psychologists or psychiatrists.
”Just keep watch outside, I have some things I want to say to that woman.”
”She’s in a deep coma, no matter what you say, she can’t possibly hear you.” Male nurse Xiao Zhu reminded.
”It’s fine.” Chen Ge entered the ward, stood next to the bed, looked at the unconscious Chang Wenyu, and said softly, “I hope you can sleep tonight, I’ll be watching over you from the side, and if that door appears again, I’ll do everything I can to help you.”
In Xiao Zhu’s eyes, Chen Ge didn’t look like a normal person at all, and the thought of spending a night with someone like that made his scalp numb.
His pants leg was tugged, Chen Ge knew that this was Chang Lone’s response to him, and instead of going back out, he laid down on the other hospital bed.
”The left eye was brought out from that school, it should be able to see things in that school.” Chen Ge’s purpose for helping Chang Lone was simple, he just wanted to see what the Psychic Ghost School scenario was really like in advance, and if the danger was really far beyond the prediction, then he could only give up on the mission.
Chen Ge looked down at the time on his cell phone, it was now 10:00 p.m., and there were still two hours before the Psychic Ghost School mission cut off.
With his eyes fixed on Chang Wenyu’s hospital bed, Chen Ge was highly focused.
After just a few minutes like this, sleepiness came like a tidal wave, running continuously, he had not closed his eyes for more than thirty-six hours.
Holding his cell phone, the scene in front of Chen Ge’s eyes slowly became blurry.
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The ward was suddenly quiet, Xiao Zhu stood in the doorway to see Chen Ge lying motionless on the bed, and he didn’t know what he was doing.
”What a strange person.” He sat on the bench in the corridor and leaned against the wall, slowly getting a little sleepy as well.