Chapter 1172 – Curse Game
The fifth floor of the hospital was the intensive care ward, with guardrails installed outside the windows and the doors to the wards specially reinforced.
”It is now twelve thirty in the morning, our treatment will begin at twelve forty-four in the morning.” Dr. Gao opened the pill bottle on the table, “Before the treatment begins, please take one pill per patient.”
Dr. Gao’s pill bottle only had four pills in it, and excluding the two doctors who did not need to take the potion, it happened to be one short by Chen Ge’s place.
Placing the empty pill bottle on the floor, Dr. Gao took out another new bottle of medicine from his pocket.
From the appearance, there was no difference between the two bottles of medicine.
While Dr. Gao was unpacking, Dr. Sun, who was sitting next to Chen Ge, took out a bottle of medicine from his own pocket, “I still have some left here.”
He poured out a pill from his own bottle, the surface of the pill was pure white, but dense black thin lines could be vaguely seen among the pill.
When Dr. Gao saw this scene, he reached out to stop it, “Chen Ge’s condition has improved, he only needs to take half a tablet.”
”Half a tablet?” Dr. Sun gave Dr. Gao a puzzled look, he should have known the treatment steps in advance.
”Yes, only half a tablet is needed.” Dr. Gao seemed to have some concerns in his mind.
”This is not the same as the dean’s request.” Dr. Sun shook his head expressionlessly, “Although you are his attending physician, there are still some things that the dean has the final say.”
He got up and shoved the pill into Chen Ge’s mouth, Chen Ge could feel the pill brushing against his lips, but what made him feel strange was that Dr. Sun didn’t feed him the pill, he just blocked his mouth with his hand, and the pill was still caught between Dr. Sun’s fingers.
Dr. Sun withdrew his palm, and Chen Ge subconsciously made a swallowing motion.
Drugs with thin black threads were able to make people go crazy and lose their minds, Chen Ge knew this clearly, and now Dr. Sun didn’t want to feed him the medicine, and had secretly fooled Dr. Gao and the other patients.
This was quite concerning to Chen Ge, and Dr. Sun, who was sitting next to him, seemed to have no intention of harming him.
”From the time I entered the hospital, someone would come knocking on the door every night, that knocking corresponded exactly to the number of days I spent in the hospital, and the other party came over every night to remind me as if they were worried that I would get lost.”
”Yesterday there were five knocks, today the knocker would have knocked six times, and coincidentally this Dr. Sun knocked on the room door exactly six times when he entered the house.”
”Is this his way of telling me that he is the knocker?”
While electricity flashed and thundered outside the window, the ward was frighteningly quiet, seven people were sitting in a circle, and apart from Chen Ge and the two doctors, all the other patients had their heads hung low as if they were asleep.
”What they are taking should be the normal white medicine, the bottle that Dr. Gao is now placing on the table is a replacement medicine that hides a thin black line.” The treatment hadn’t even started yet, and Chen Ge already sensed that something was wrong.
According to what Dr. Gao had said before, if a patient was sick, the others had to work together to feed him the medicine on the table.
But it was obvious that the bottle of medicine on the table was not a normal white pill, but a medicine laced with black threads, the more that kind of medicine was eaten the more the patient would lose control.
If the treatment went on like this, the end result would most likely be that patient who was madly taking the medicine, killing everyone in this room.
Chen Ge’s eyes narrowed, he suddenly remembered a detail, when Dr. Gao entered the sick room, he casually hung the key next to the door of the ward, it was almost as if he was encouraging the patient to go get it.
”A patient who swallows a large number of potions with thin black threads and goes completely out of control will take the key by the door and leave after killing everyone in the sickroom ……”
The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more terrifying he felt, if Dr. Sun didn’t block it, and Dr. Gao fed himself the medicine with the thin black threads in the beginning, but he would definitely be the first one to lose control.
The first one to lose control, lose control and then be controlled by the patient, fed more drugs with black threads, and then would go even more insane.
The end result would be that Chen Ge would kill all the patients in the house and then take the key and start hunting patients like crazy.
If Chen Ge really did this, then his humanity would be completely worn out, all of his perseverance would become a sin that could not be washed away from him, and he would become never the same person he was before.
”All patients have taken their medication, next please memorize the number on your chair, the number is your name.” Dr. Gao removed his watch and placed it next to the vial of medicine, “The treatment will begin at twelve forty-four minutes and forty-four seconds in the morning.”
All the patients and the hospital all looked at the metal dial, the room was very quiet, gradually only the sound of the hands moving was left.
”Tick, tick ……”
The moment the needle crossed a certain number, Chen Ge felt an indescribable drowsiness surge into his mind.
His eyelids became heavy and he couldn’t help but close his eyes, but he quickly realized that he absolutely couldn’t fall asleep right now and had to stay awake.
Just as soon as his eyes closed, he opened them again, and the entire process didn’t even take a second.
But it was in that one second that a great change seemed to have taken place in the sickroom.
He himself couldn’t tell exactly what had become different, he just felt vaguely uncomfortable, as if this sickroom they were in now wasn’t the same sickroom as the one before.
”It is now twelve forty-four minutes and forty-four seconds in the morning, the treatment has officially begun.” Dr. Gao’s voice didn’t seem to have become quite the same compared to just a moment ago, stiff and cold, as if it was an emotionless corpse.
”The several of you are all suffering from severe delusions, I called you all here today because I want to unify the treatment for you.”
”Don’t be nervous, next I will play a small game with you, you only need to make choices according to what you really think in your heart.”
Dr. Gao’s voice didn’t contain any emotions, he first looked at Dr. Fang who was sitting at number one, “On April 1, you were on night shift at the Xinhai Central Hospital, and for the past few days, you were distracted, and you always felt that someone was watching you. At twelve forty-five in the evening, you got up for the seventeenth time and came to the window to look outside.”
Dr. Gao suddenly paused, and after a long interval, he pointed at the window of the sick room, “Go and see what’s outside the window.”
Dr. Fang, who had taken the medication and whose eyes were somewhat less than normal, got up from the number one seat, and he held onto the wall to the side of the window.
The moment he pulled the window open, a bolt of lightning crossed his cheek, illuminating the inside of the ward as well as the downstairs of the hospital.
”Ah!” Dr. Fang shrieked as he gripped the edge of the window sill with both hands in a death grip, as if he was afraid that he would jump off if he wasn’t careful.
”You got up for the seventeenth time and came to the window, and then what did you see?” Dr. Gao’s tone didn’t change at all; at this moment he was like a corpse mixed among the living.
”There was a madman downstairs who kept laughing, and he was beckoning to me! He’s trying to get me to jump!” Dr. Fong’s voice was not loud, and he had the feeling that he was about to lose his breath as he spoke.
”There are two choices before you now, jump down to him? Or let him come up to you?” The two choices mentioned by Dr. Gao in Chen Ge’s opinion there was no choice at all, this was the fifth floor, jumping down would surely lead to death, if you wanted to live then you could only choose to let the other party come up.
There was no need to hesitate about the question at all, but Dr. Fang began to seriously think about it as drops of sweat slid down his cheeks.
His body continued to tremble until finally he didn’t make a choice and instead sat down on the ground.
Dr. Gao didn’t say anything until Dr. Fang climbed back up and hid behind the curtains to look outside before he asked again, “Is that man still downstairs?”
”Gone, he’s gone.” Dr. Fong’s expression was horrified as he resumed his seat in chair number one.
No one knew where that monster downstairs had gone, and Dr. Gao didn’t ask Dr. Fang any more questions, but Dr. Fang stared at the door of the ward with a deadpan look, as if the crazy man would knock on the door in a few moments.
Eyes moving, Dr. Gao looked at patient number two again: ”At 12:46 pm, you came to Xinhai Central Hospital in order to investigate an old case, you have been searching for clues for the past few days, and in the end, all the information pointed to this hospital. You were convinced that the murderer was hiding in the middle of the hospital, and when you stood downstairs and looked up high, you saw a doctor panicking and pulling the curtains shut.”
Dr. Gao’s eyes hovered between Dr. Fong and patient number two, “Look closely to see if that doctor’s face looks like his.”
The patient sitting in chair number two raised his head, his face was pale and he looked much older than his actual age.
Patient number two gazed at Dr. Fang, and after looking at him for a long time, he shook his head.
Calmness returned to the patient room, the sound of mechanical watch hands moving rang in his ears, and he did not know how long it had been before Dr. Gao once again said to Patient No. 2, ”At twelve forty-seven in the evening, a distress letter was picked up outside of your hospital building, and a boy’s sister was stabbed by a patient, and that patient was hiding amongst one of the wards. The description in the letter was somewhat similar to the case you had been pursuing, and you entered the hospital with the letter.”
Patient number two was not too stable, and he shook his head mechanically, as if unwilling to believe anything.
”You put your hand into your sleeve and see if the letter is still there?” Dr. Gao’s voice rang out as the pointers crossed, and middle-aged male patient number two subconsciously put his hand into his sleeve, and he fumbled for a crumpled piece of white paper.
Looking at the contents on the white paper, patient number two grabbed his hair fiercely, his eyes gradually turned red, as if he might lose control at any moment.
”What is written on the letter?” Dr. Gao didn’t care about patient number two’s state, his tone of voice didn’t even change.
Patient number two, whose eyes were red, placed the letter paper on the table, and the entire paper was filled with the words Save Me written in a crooked manner.
Those words should all have been written by a child, and when he saw those words, Chen Ge’s heart produced that familiar feeling again, as if the words were written when he was a child.
”There are two choices in front of you now, enter the hospital and save him, or enter the hospital and kill him.”
After Dr. Gao said this, he didn’t pay any more attention to patient number two.
He sat himself in chair number three and now he looked at the patient in chair number four.
There was a female patient sitting on chair number four, she looked very thin and the hospital gown looked very loose on her body.
”At 12:49 p.m., you were attacked in your own brother’s hospital room by a patient who strangled you.” Dr. Gao took away the butterfly folded in tissue paper from patient number four’s hand and pinched the wings of the paper butterfly.
His hands slowly exerted force and the paper butterfly’s body was slowly torn apart.
Looking at the butterfly in Dr. Gao’s hands that was being torn apart little by little, patient number four seemed as if she was about to suffocate, as if Dr. Gao wasn’t tearing the butterfly at this moment, but rather tearing her neck.
With no blood on her face, patient number four let out the sound of a dying person struggling in her throat, she desperately waved her hand towards Dr. Gao, but she didn’t dare to snatch the butterfly made of paper from Dr. Gao’s hands.
”You’re in pain, you long for someone to come and save you, but you don’t dare to ask for help because the murderer said he would kill you and your brother if you spoke.” Dr. Gao placed the paper butterfly that was about to be torn apart on the table, “There are two choices in front of you now, take the initiative to bump into the murderer’s sharp knife and allow your brother to escape and ask for help, or push your brother above the tip of the knife and take advantage of the chaos to run out of the ward yourself.”
Patient number four’s breathing became rapid, she seemed to be really caught in the middle of this problem, and at this time it was incomparably painful and difficult.
Fingers stroking the wings of the paper butterfly, Dr. Gao looked at patient number five again, “At 12:50 pm, you are standing outside the door of a ward where your favorite person lives, as well as her brother.”
Patient number five was about the same age as Chen Ge, he was not talkative, his hands were full of calluses, and he seemed to be very good at making props.
”You were torn for a long time, and finally made up your mind to enter the ward to see her, but when you pushed open the door of the ward, you saw a madman holding a sharp knife trying to kill your favorite person’s brother, and the one you loved the most was begging the madman bitterly.”
”There are two choices in front of you now, pull away your favorite person and take her away, or rush over and fight the madman and die for her brother.”
Dr. Gao observed the change in patient number five’s expression, and as he was about to avert his gaze, patient number five suddenly spoke, “I choose to rush over and fight the madman.”
Among the several patients, patient number five was the only one who actually made a choice.
”Sure? You might actually die.”
”I’m sure, I think I did that once before.” After patient number five finished speaking, he became silent again, his hands firmly gripped together, and blood was seeping from a tiny wound on his palm.
Dr. Gao finally looked at Chen Ge, “At twelve fifty-two, you stabbed number five in the heart with a sharp knife in your hand, and after killing number five, you killed number four and her brother.”
Fingers exerting force, Dr. Gao tore the paper butterfly on the table in half, “Then you gripped the blood-dripping knife tightly and rushed out of the ward, seeing number two in the hallway, and after killing number two, you saw number one in the night doctor’s duty room.”
The sound of the mechanical watch ticking ticking ticking lingered in his ears, Chen Ge’s vision slowly became blurry, his hands pressed the table dead center while his body stood up uncontrollably.
The mechanical watch on the table was still ticking, and the time on the dial was zero point fifty-one minutes and forty-four seconds.