Chapter 1166 – Paradox of the World

　　”You know me?” The woman had put on makeup, her face was white, and she was covered in red “blood stains”, and you could smell the paint on her from a long way away.

　　”I am Chen Ge ……” Chen Ge blurted out four words, he did not say my name is Chen Ge, but directly said I am Chen Ge, as if they should have known each other.

　　A mental patient in a hospital gown and a haunted house actor covered in blood stood at the mental hospital fence like this.

　　They belonged to two separate worlds, but in this moment, they were face to face.

　　”Is this your cat?” Zhang Ya didn’t approach the fence, but just pointed at the white cat, “It brought me here.”

　　The white cat squatted between Chen Ge and Zhang Ya, its tail wagging back and forth with a very proud expression.

　　”It’s a stray cat, and I don’t know why it’s clinging to me.” Chen Ge looked at the white cat squatting in the middle of the two of them, and his face revealed a bitter smile, “I don’t have a good head, I’ve forgotten a lot of memories from the past, and the doctor is helping me with rehabilitation.”

　　Although Chen Ge was wearing a hospital gown, the feeling he gave was completely different from those psychiatric patients in movies and TV dramas, calm and rational, and he couldn’t see any abnormality from him.

　　Outsiders might just feel that he had a melancholic temperament and a trace of unspeakable pain in his eyes.

　　Looking at the somewhat weak Chen Ge, Zhang Ya couldn’t hate him, “You should be the owner of this cat, you forgot about it when you were sick and hospitalized, but it didn’t forget about you. Your cat relies on you so much, you must also be a very gentle and kind person, I hope you can find your memories soon.”

　　Zhang Ya squatted down and stroked the white cat’s small head, “A cat that can cross a city to look for you must have experienced a thousand hardships on the way, so don’t lose it again in the future.”

　　”En.” Chen Ge also squatted down, his gaze was averted, he didn’t dare to look at Zhang Ya’s face, he just stared silently at Zhang Ya’s hand stroking the white cat.

　　Zhang Ya’s hands were beautiful, with long, slender fingers, very white, and without a trace of blood color.

　　Seemingly noticing that Chen Ge had been staring at her hand, Zhang Ya coughed gently and withdrew her hand, “This white cat ran to the neighborhood of my haunted house a few days ago and lazily stayed there, I saw that it was very smart, so I didn’t chase it away, and now that it found its own master, then I don’t have to take care of it anymore.”

　　”Wait.” Zhang Ya got up and prepared to leave, but Chen Ge called out to her.

　　”Something wrong?”

　　Looking at Zhang Ya’s side face, Chen Ge’s eyes were filled with doubt and pain, “Have we met before? I remember your name, how I can’t forget it, and my past memories are full of you, but I can’t remember how I spent all that time with you.”

　　If she met a stranger on the street who said this to Zhang Ya, she would definitely turn around and leave, and if the other party continued to pester her, then she might just call the police.

　　But the situation was different now, Chen Ge was a patient in a hospital gown, and looking at him, he didn’t look like he was faking it, the kind of pain and helplessness that emanated from the bottom of his eyes was heartbreaking.

　　Zhang Ya stopped and looked carefully at Chen Ge’s face, she didn’t have any impression, she just felt that the not-so-handsome face felt quite smooth after looking at it too much.

　　”This should be our first time meeting, right? I do wonder, how did you know my name?”

　　”I don’t remember, the doctor said that I knew your name because I had visited your haunted house before, but that might not be the case.” Chen Ge grabbed the rust-covered fence, “I always felt that you were important to me.”

　　Extremely ordinary words, but Chen Ge felt very sincere when he said them, and the impression he gave was as if he had a clean white sheet of paper with Zhang Ya’s name written on the entire sheet.

　　Similar words Zhang Ya had heard from others before, but only when Chen Ge opened his mouth, it gave her a special feeling.

　　Her heartbeat slowly became faster, Zhang Ya hesitated, she looked back at the Paradise Haunted House before walking back up to Chen Ge: “I usually have an impression of the tourists who have visited my haunted house, but you I seem to have really seen for the first time, could your doctor have gotten it wrong?”

　　Chen Ge shook his head, “I vaguely remember the scenes in your haunted house, the zombie resurrection night, the fire official’s village, the midnight escape, and a middle school ……”

　　”The Zombie Resurrection Night and the Underworld Wedding are indeed scenes from my haunted house, but the latter ones you mentioned are not from my place.” Zhang Ya had a hint of helplessness on her face, “My haunted house doesn’t have many visitors right now, and being able to afford two scenes at the same time is already the limit, and there’s not quite enough manpower if I open up more scenes.”

　　”How many employees do you have in your haunted house right now?”

　　”Three, me and my parents.” Zhang Ya was a little embarrassed, “I’m responsible for distributing flyers and selling tickets, my dad plays the zombie, and my mom is in charge of the underworld scenes, although I don’t earn much money, I’m quite happy every day.”

　　There was a deviation in his memory, Chen Ge’s head started to hurt again, he vaguely remembered that the haunted house owner’s parents should not be in the haunted house.

　　”You’re sweating a lot and your body is shaking, hey! Do you need me to call a doctor for you!” Zhang Ya saw that Chen Ge’s face was pale and greenish-black veins surfaced on the surface of his skin, she was a bit flustered and thought she had accidentally said something wrong: “You stay here! I’ll go call a doctor for you!”

　　Zhang Ya was ready to run towards the main entrance of the hospital there, but before she could take a step, her wrist was grabbed by Chen Ge.

　　”Don’t go to them …….”

　　Both of their hands were cold, and Zhang Ya was startled, and while she was at a loss for words, blood began to seep from the large bruise on Chen Ge’s arm.

　　The fine beads of blood seemed to hide tiny blood characters, the beads of blood converged into a drop of bright red blood, and the blood characters formed a mutilated diary.

　　The drop of blood dripped down Chen Ge’s arm onto Zhang Ya’s wrist, and Zhang Ya’s panicked heart became calm in that instant.

　　Looking at her wrist that was being held, she was in a bit of a trance and froze for a few seconds before breaking free.

　　”I’m sorry, I hope I can keep this a secret, I don’t want the doctor to know that I’ve seen you.”

　　Pain struck Chen Ge, Chen Ge didn’t think deeply about the past, much less touch the fragments of his previous memories, but that pain kept coming like a tidal wave, it was as if the dam that used to intercept the tidal wave of pain had disappeared, and now he had to go through that infinite pain alone.

　　His arms were trembling, Chen Ge had thought that he was used to the pain, but at this moment, he realized that the pain he felt at the very beginning was only a tenth of what he felt now.

　　”Why?”

　　Unable to stand at all, Chen Ge collapsed to the ground, the white cat was in a hurry, and Zhang Ya kept saying something to Chen Ge, but Chen Ge was now deaf.

　　”What the hell have I done, why is this pain suddenly surging?!”

　　As if his body was being torn apart, Chen Ge used the last of his sanity to shout at Zhang Ya and the white cat, “Take that cat away, I’ll come here every morning.”

　　After saying this in a broken voice, Chen Ge immediately turned his head towards the hospital and ran, using his last strength to rush out of the flowers and eventually collapsed on the garden aisle.

　　This time, he was passed out from the raw pain.

　　……

　　”It hurts! It hurts so much! It hurts!”

　　In the midst of a darkness, Chen Ge could hear his own voice continuously ringing out, and as he searched for his own voice, there was a melancholic young man holding a beating heart in the deepest part of the darkness, standing with his back to Chen Ge.

　　That back was similar to him, and the voice coming out of his mouth was also his, but his intuition told Chen Ge that the young man was not him.

　　”Xu Yin?” A name quietly surfaced as Chen Ge marched forward in the waves of blackness, but was washed further and further away by the darkness.

　　The young man who was bearing the infinite pain in his place seemed to have heard him, and as Chen Ge was being swept away by the darkness, he glanced back.

　　The front of his body was occupied by all sorts of curses, and those curses were like nails piercing into his body, but he seemed to be extremely resistant to curses and pain, and the curses were unable to penetrate his body and harm the heart beating in his arms, as well as Chen Ge, who was already being washed away by the waves of darkness behind him.

　　Snapping his eyes open, Chen Ge’s expression was hideous and terrifying as he subconsciously tried to grab upwards with both hands, but he quickly realized that his hands were bound.

　　Slowly regaining his composure, Chen Ge surveyed his surroundings and saw smashed windows, crooked hospital beds, and tilted cabinets.

　　”Now I finally know why the doctor fed you two pills.” Zuo Han’s voice came from the corner of the ward, he moved his own hospital bed to the furthest place from Chen Ge: “I can’t believe that I stayed with a patient as dangerous as you for two days, thank you big brother for not killing me.”

　　”I messed up the hospital room?”

　　”You’re not messing up, you’re destroying everything.” Zuo Han was now as well-behaved as a pet cat, just sitting in the corner, killing himself and not taking a step closer to Chen Ge.

　　”I remember being in a coma, my head seemed to be cracking open, and all parts of my body felt painful, I can’t remember anything else.”

　　”You woke up once during your coma, that you were completely different from what you are now, your eyes were red and full of blood, dragging a broken leg, hissing like a wild beast, not letting anyone get close.” Zuo Han still feels scared when he thinks back now.

　　”Boom! Boom! Boom!”

　　The door to the ward was suddenly knocked on, and Dr. Gao and two caregivers walked in.

　　They all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Chen Ge come to his senses.

　　The two caregivers were still a bit scared, and only Dr. Gao took the initiative to walk towards Chen Ge, “Why did you faint in the garden this morning? Did some other patient irritate you?”

　　”I suddenly remembered something from the past, and the more I thought about it, the more I couldn’t control it, then I ended up fainting from the pain.” What Chen Ge said was basically the truth.

　　”Your condition just stabilized a few days ago, you shouldn’t have relapsed so quickly, could it be that the medication has failed?” Dr. Gao took out the medicine bottle, this time he directly poured out three pills, “Take the medicine, take a good rest first, I’ll go discuss your condition with the other doctors.”

　　”Dr. Gao, is my condition getting worse again?”

　　”Your condition has lessened, but your second personality is getting more and more manic, perhaps he also senses that you are slowly being cured, that’s why he has become more crazy.” Dr. Gao analyzed.

　　”Why would my second personality go berserk when I’m being cured?”

　　”If you are completely healed, that also signifies that he will disappear.” Dr. Gao said in a serious tone, “Your second personality is composed of your negative emotions and all sorts of dark sides, selfishness, gloominess, cruelty, and tyranny, he won’t disappear willingly, and if it really comes to that moment, he’ll surely try his best to destroy you along with him.”

　　”My second personality will destroy me?”

　　”You should be able to realize his danger as well, you are normal and he is abnormal, don’t be affected by that personality that only knows destruction.”

　　Seeing Chen Ge swallow the three pills, Dr. Gao explained a few words to the caregivers before leaving directly.

　　The two caregivers just stood in the ward, they cleaned the room, replaced the window glass, and were busy until the afternoon.

　　”Chen Ge?” Zuo Han bravely approached Chen Ge, he gently shook Chen Ge’s shoulder and was startled after realizing that Chen Ge kept his eyes open, “You’re not sleeping!”

　　”Something wrong?”

　　”Did you take all three pills?” Zuo Han kindly reminded, “The hospital’s white potion can eliminate pain and make your thinking slow, helping you to alleviate your illness, but at the same time this medicine will also make you slowly lose yourself. If you overdose, you will turn into a living puppet that only knows how to giggle.”

　　”Living doll?”

　　”It’s a living puppet, you can only be at the mercy of others, although you can’t feel pain, you can never feel happiness or joy either, it will destroy everything about you.” Zuo Han himself was a forensic doctor, he seemed to know this drug very well.

　　”Is this drug that horrible?” Chen Ge’s head was slightly staggered, revealing the pill hidden under the pillow.

　　”You didn’t take it?”

　　”My hands are tied, so help me make these three pills into powder and don’t let anyone find out.”

　　”Good.” Zuo Han subconsciously nodded, he realized that Chen Ge’s tone of voice was a bit different from before, as if he was a bit more calm: “Right, Chen Ge, there’s something I want to talk to you about.”

　　”What is it?”

　　”Earlier, when Dr. Gao said that your second personality only knows destruction and is composed entirely of negative emotions and the dark side, he was actually lying to you.” Zuo Han stated the most crucial point, “I was beside you when you went crazy in the sick room, you wanted to destroy all the items in the ward and attacked the caretakers and patients you saw, but the only thing you didn’t do was hurt me!”

　　Zuo Han’s words aroused Chen Ge’s interest, “Continue on.”

　　”Your second personality seems to know me! We seemed to know each other before we entered the hospital!” Zuo Han’s voice was lowered, but Chen Ge could hear that he was very excited, “If that’s the case, then that would explain why I feel like the whole world is victimizing me, and you’re the only exception! At the same time this can also prove that our memories have indeed been tampered with!”

　　Zuo Han was very sharp, he got to the key point at once: “We are each other’s proof! Those memories you had in the past shouldn’t be fake either, instead, it’s the things the doctor told you that are fabricated.”

　　Speaking very fast, Zuo Han knew that Chen Ge would get a headache if he thought deeply, he said his thoughts in one breath before Chen Ge was in pain to the point of unconsciousness, “Going back to the most fundamental question, the doctor said that you got sick because your parents were killed, but have you ever thought that maybe your parents didn’t pass away, and that they’re still in this city somewhere! “