Chapter 0812 – The Doctor’s Portrait
”I could see the fire spreading, burning faster and faster, the smoke was thick and rolling, there was screaming and wailing everywhere, I couldn’t open my eyes and wanted to run outside, but as soon as I opened the door, the flames rushed straight into the private room.”
Zhang Torch was lying on the ground, a vein popped out on his forehead, the scar on his face was trembling gently, “The pain didn’t know where it came from first, I desperately rushed out, I couldn’t breathe, my eyes could barely see, and I finally fainted in the long corridor.”
”I dimly felt someone lifting me up, and at that point I still had residual consciousness.”
Fingers stained with dirt and blood reached into his hair as Zhang Torch used his elbows to support his body, “I should have been sent to the hospital, I could vaguely hear my parents and the doctor’s conversations, and I wanted to open my eyes, but when I did so, I saw a completely pitch-black world, as if everything had been roasted.”
Zhang Torch’s voice gradually returned to normal as he paralyzed on the ground, “I can recall my parents’ faces, I can recall the doctors and nurses who looked after me, but I just can’t recall how I woke up from the coma, nor can I remember how I came to this school.”
”Is there such a possibility that you actually never woke up, and this is the world after your coma.” Chen Ge’s sentence surprised Zhang Torch.
”I haven’t awakened? This is the world after the coma?” Zhang Torch recited what Chen Ge said, “Then all of this is my dream? You’re all a figment of my imagination?”
”Imagine your ass, the more you talk, the more ridiculous it gets, can’t we be a little more normal?” Zhou Tu grabbed the kitchen knife in Zhang Torch’s hand, “I’m not sure about other people, but I’m not the person in your dream, I’ll keep the knife for you first, so you won’t have to chop people up as an experiment later.”
Zhou Tu felt that he was the only sane person in this society, and the murder weapon was safer to hold by himself.
”What Zhang Torch said wasn’t completely unreasonable, but he was wrong about one thing. This world isn’t his dream alone, but a nightmare that brings together the negative emotions and desperate experiences of many people, finally forming a nightmare.” Chen Ge swept his gaze across the faces of all the members of the society, “You are all trapped in this world, and this world was made by your own hands.”
After Chen Ge finished speaking, the woods were quiet as everyone looked at him with wonderful expressions on their faces.
”I know that you guys might not be able to accept it for a while, but it’s okay, we still have time.” Chen Ge carried Wang Yicheng on his back and glanced at the fence in the distance, “Wang Yicheng’s memories awakened and attracted the administrators, and now that Zhang Torch’s memories of you are starting to loosen up as well, the administrators will most likely come over, so we have to leave as soon as possible.”
Chen Ge turned around and walked towards the outside of the woods.
”Wait!”
Zhang Torch grabbed the reddish soil on the ground with both hands and slowly raised his head, his eyes staring at Chen Ge, “Who the hell are you? Why are you telling us this?”
”It doesn’t matter who I am, what matters is that I can help you escape from here, in reality your loved ones have been waiting for too long.” Chen Ge wore a smile on his face, “Actually, I’m a lot like you guys, I’ve also lost a part of my childhood, so when I met you guys, it’s as if I saw myself once upon a time.”
Waving his hand, Chen Ge took a step towards the distance, “It was your good fortune to meet me, back then I had no one to guide me, and I lost too many things as I groped alone in the darkness ……”
Chen Ge was quite emotional, he led the club members to avoid the laboratory building and the faculty apartment building, and followed the path to the side of the teaching building.
”The restroom on the top floor of the teaching building, the answer I want should be here.”
While the teaching building in the West Campus was just quiet and eerie, the teaching building in the East Campus was eerie in every way, and as soon as one approached it, a chill would creep up his back and go straight to his brain.
”You guys be quiet, if something happens here, the consequences will be serious.” Chen Ge urged in a low voice.
”What would be the consequences?” Zhou Tu’s forehead was sweating, he was holding the chopper that he took out from the tree hole, hunched over, his eyes looking around, looking very nervous.
”The East Campus houses the garbage that the West Campus doesn’t want, how do we normally treat garbage in our lives?” Chen Ge maintained his smile, but what he said caused several club members to suck in a breath of cool air, “After we are caught, we will be broken down into useful things and directly discarded after draining all value, death is really a luxury here.”
Opening his bow without turning back, Chen Ge was the first to enter the middle of the teaching building in the East Campus.
I didn’t know if it was an illusion or not, the night in the East Campus was darker than the West Campus.
Stepping on the dilapidated steps, the stair rails left traces of being burned, and the sound of tables and chairs being moved could be vaguely heard in the empty classrooms next to them.
”This place is so scary, I can’t even imagine it’s just a wall away from us.” Juron lowered his voice as he walked at the very back of the group.
”Shhh, don’t talk.” Zhou Tu held his knife and followed closely behind Zhang Torch, afraid that this student with a scarred face would suddenly commit a crime and try to hurt himself.
The more one worried about something, sometimes the more accidents would occur, Zhou Tu had been staring at Zhang Torch when the other party suddenly stopped as he walked.
”What’s wrong with you?”
”Nothing, I’m just curious, why are there so many pictures of doctors posted back on the corridors of the school building?” Zhang Torch looked up at the doctors on the wall, “We’re not a medical university, and these doctors don’t seem to be very famous, many of them don’t even have a profile, only a work photo in a white coat. By the way, have you guys noticed that all of these doctors’ photos are work photos.”
Zhang Torch’s words caught Chen Ge’s attention, he had felt that the photos of these doctors were strange before, but couldn’t find the reason, at this moment, by Zhang Torch’s words, he suddenly thought of a possibility.
”The world behind the door is woven from the memories of the people who pushed the door, this school is very special, it contains the memories of all the students, it’s possible that the pictures of the doctors on the walls are the people that the students had met in reality.” Chen Ge gently pressed Zhang Torch’s shoulder, “Pay attention to these photos and see if there are any doctors you recognize in them.”
”Doctors who can be posted on the wall are the top of the industry, how could I possibly know them?”
”Here, doctors may have some sort of special meaning, just do as I say.” Chen Ge led the club members to continue walking towards the upper floors, and as he passed the third floor, he jerked to a stop: “Don’t move yet, there’s someone in front of you.”
The classroom on the third floor near the corridor didn’t have a locked door, and the poor quality wooden door was rattled by the wind.
Chen Ge and the few of them stood motionless in the hallway, and after a while, a dark shadow walked out from the classroom.
”This body type looks a bit familiar, is it Chang Ku?”