Chapter 1173 – Out of Control Treatment
Dr. Gao said that patient number five was stabbed by a madman at 12:52 p.m. It was exactly 0:51 p.m. when Chen Ge stood up from his seat.
The pointer traveled over one number after another, and the tick-tock-tick-tock sound overlapped with the sound of a beating heart.
Everyone looked at Chen Ge, as if what he did next would have an impact on everyone.
The memories in his mind slowly became blurry along with the ticking of the mechanical watch, Chen Ge wanted to control his body, but the more he tried to do so, the more uncontrollable his body became.
A green vein emerged on the back of his hand, Chen Ge’s lowered head slowly raised, his scarlet eyes looking towards patient number five.
Chen Ge was on the verge of losing control, and Dr. Gao was also staring at him closely.
As a doctor, Dr. Gao not only didn’t stop Chen Ge at this time, he also took out something wrapped in newspaper from his pocket.
He placed that thing on the table in front of Chen Ge, and a crunch could be heard as the thing touched the tabletop.
The newspaper was filled with some sort of hard object.
Time was still passing, Chen Ge’s consciousness continued to become blurry, and he was now glad that he hadn’t taken Dr. Gao’s medicine.
If he had swallowed the drug with the black threads at this time, he wouldn’t have been able to resist under the stimulation of the drug.
Fingertips slowly moved around the edge of the table as Chen Ge gripped the newspaper.
The five fingers were tightly closed, blood flowed out from Chen Ge’s palm, and the thing wrapped in the newspaper was very sharp.
The blood soaked the newspaper, turning it into a deep black color, Chen Ge tightly gripped the thing in the newspaper, a large amount of blood flowed out along his palm, the weird thing was that he couldn’t feel any pain.
”Why is my body reacting like this? I didn’t take any drugs, but I still can’t control myself, is it because of Dr. Gao’s watch?”
The mechanical watch on the desktop, the hands kept moving.
Zero point five hundred and fifty one fifty seconds, zero point five hundred and fifty one fifty one seconds, the ticking sound seemed to be getting faster and faster, Chen Ge’s heartbeat also became rapid, his chest rose and fell violently, and tiny black veins began to emerge on his face.
Fifty-four seconds, fifty-five seconds, fifty-six seconds!
The hand that held the newspaper tightly was trembling, Chen Ge’s body leaned forward, and the figure of patient number five was reflected in his pupils.
Fifty-seven seconds, fifty-eight seconds!
At fifty-one minutes and fifty-nine seconds, Chen Ge raised the thing wrapped in newspaper, but when he wanted to stab the sharp object at patient number five, the ward door was suddenly knocked on.
The knock on the door disrupted the ticking of the watch hands, and for the first time, a change of expression appeared on Dr. Gao’s icy face as he frowned slightly with both eyebrows.
”Boom!”
Thunder rumbled outside the window, and before long, bean-sized raindrops fell on the window as if they were about to pierce through the glass.
The torrential rain swept across the night sky, and all sorts of sounds reached Chen Ge’s ears as he finally took control of his body.
Dr. Gao picked up his watch and glanced at the time, then he placed it on the desktop again and twisted his head to stare at Patient #1 again, “At twelve fifty-two p.m., you heard the door to the ward you were in being knocked on, and you suspected that the person who had been spying on and tracking you was at that moment right outside the door, and you walked over and opened the door.”
”No way, he can’t be outside!” Dr. Fang got up from his seat, he stood at the door of the ward, his trembling hand pressed against the door of the room.
Unsettled, terrified, Dr. Fang hesitated for a long time and violently pushed the ward door open!
”Boom!”
A thunderclap exploded in the ears, and all the patients and doctors in the room looked at the corridor outside the door.
There was not a trace of light in the dark corridor, and the doors of all the wards were tightly closed, as if they were the only ones left in the entire hospital at this moment.
”I remember that the light at the corner of the corridor was originally on.” Chen Ge was slowly regaining control of his body as he moved his arms, the hand holding the newspaper hidden behind his back.
What was wrapped in the newspaper was not a knife, but a shard of mirror with a sharp edge.
No one noticed Chen Ge’s small movements, everyone’s attention was on the corridor.
After the ward door was pushed open again, the hospital outside seemed to become different from before, there was a completely different feeling, if one had to describe it, the hospital at this time was closer to the one in Chen Ge’s nightmare.
Outside the hospital, the electricity was flashing and the storm was raging, but inside the hospital, it was so quiet that even a pin dropped on the ground could be heard clearly.
The dark corridors seemed to have no end, and the white wall skin looked more like the ghastly white faces of the dead.
”At twelve fifty-three in the evening, you saw the corridor outside the ward, the long corridor is empty above, the once familiar hospital has now become somewhat strange.” Dr. Gao stood up from his seat, he put his watch on his wrist, “You were scared in your heart, there was a voice in the bottom of your heart that kept reminding you, never leave the room, never be curious, take a step forward, and you might never be able to come back.”
As soon as Dr. Gao’s words fell, the sound of a heavy object being dragged suddenly came from the empty and gloomy corridor, as if the boatman was dragging a huge dead fish out of the water.
Everyone was attracted by this sudden sound, and everyone looked towards the corner of the corridor, the sound getting closer and closer, until finally, a human head was revealed on the floor of the corner.
”Zhang Jingju?” Seeing that human head, this name immediately surfaced in Chen Ge’s mind.
After entering the hospital, Zhang Jingjiu had given himself tips twice, the first time was in the middle of the garden, when Zhang Jingjiu yelled Ghost Ghost Ghost at him.
As a result, Zhang Jingjiu had been punished very severely, locked up by the doctors in the intensive care ward on the fifth floor, and seemed to have been subjected to all sorts of torture.
The second hint was when Chen Ge and Zuo Han went over to check in the middle of the night, Zhang Jingjiu’s lips opened and the dying man uttered the word boss.
Chen Ge could be sure that Zhang Jingjiu must be related to himself and was definitely his former friend.
At this moment, Zhang Jingjiu’s mostly human head appeared in the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge was a bit unable to sit still.
The wall covered Zhang Jingjiu’s body, and Chen Ge didn’t know if Zhang Jingjiu was now lying on the floor incapacitated, or if he only had one head left.
”12:54 pm …… ” Dr. Gao’s gaze swept over all the patients in the room, “All of you have seen the murderer, and now there are two choices in front of you, kill the murderer, or be killed by the murderer. ”
After saying this, Dr. Gao began to observe the patients’ reactions.
”All of you have seen the murderer? Is the murderer in this room?” The first one to return to normal was patient number two, that middle-aged man seemed to have gotten rid of the effects of the drug, his eyes gradually returned to normal, his bloodshot eyes staring dead on at the head at the corner of the corridor.
The second one to return to normal was patient number five, there was no hostility in his gaze towards Chen Ge, only fear: “Kill the murderer? Or be killed by the murderer? Such a question doesn’t give us a choice at all.”
”Are you sure this is treating us now?” Chen Ge held the pieces of the mirror wrapped in newspaper as he pointed his finger towards the door, “What happened in the ward is a story you made up, but it seems like something did go wrong outside the ward, you all saw the head at the corner of the corridor, someone was really hurt!”
Chen Ge wanted to go to Zhang Jingjiu’s rescue, even though he forgot to remember what his relationship with Zhang Jingjiu was.
”Do you really think that what I just said is a made up story?” Dr. Gao looked down at his watch, “Don’t you often tell me stories you make up as well? Do you think the ones you tell are true, or false?”
Chen Ge didn’t know what Dr. Gao was trying to say as he gripped the pieces of the mirror in his hand and prepared to walk out of the ward to check.
”I’ll go with you.” The first patient number two who had returned to normal also stood up, he looked pale and tired, but his gaze was extremely sharp, it seemed that he was engaged in work related to criminal investigation before he was hospitalized.
”Think clearly before making a decision, after all, life is only once, reality is not a story you guys made up.” Dr. Gao stopped talking after he finished speaking.
Chen Ge was worried about Zhang Jingjiu, holding onto the wall and moving a little towards the door.
Although patient number two decided to go out with Chen Ge, he kept a certain distance from him and seemed to be a bit afraid of Chen Ge as well.
The two walked out of the room one after the other, and after leaving the ward, they realized that the situation was indeed a bit off.
It was too dark in the hospital, not only in the third ward, but it was as if all the lights in the entire hospital had gone out.
”There is a backup power source in the hospital, if it was due to an unexpected power outage, at least the emergency lights should be on at this time.” Patient number two walked in front with a serious expression, “It’s too strange, I’ve walked down this corridor many times, why does it feel extra depressing today?”
Chen Ge did not have a conversation with patient number two, he vaguely felt that patient number two looked somewhat familiar, but in this situation now, it was best not to trust anyone.
Dragging his leg wrapped in a plaster, Chen Ge and Patient #2 came to the corner of the corridor, and when he saw Zhang Jingjiu’s body, his face instantly became gloomy.
Zhang Jingjiu was lying on his back at the corner of the corridor, his arms and legs were bent off, forming an extremely bizarre posture.
The loose hospital gown couldn’t cover the injuries on his body at all, and this poor fellow’s entire body was puffy and swollen, with pinholes still clearly visible on the surface of his skin.
”Zhang Jingjiu?” Chen Ge softly called out Zhang Jingjiu’s name, perhaps it was Chen Ge’s voice that awakened Zhang Jingjiu’s memories, he struggled to open his eyes, his lips parted as if to say run away.
Holding Zhang Jingjiu’s swollen hand, Chen Ge wanted to help Zhang Jingjiu up, but he couldn’t do it at all as he still had a cast on one of his own legs.
”I’ll do it.” Patient number two wanted to carry Zhang Jingjiu, he grabbed Zhang Jingjiu’s arm and was about to exert force when he suddenly realized that Zhang Jingjiu’s abdomen and chest were covered in blood, and his hospital gown was already soaked.
”Blood?” Patient number two immediately tore open Zhang Jingjiu’s blouse, “The wounds are small and extremely deep, similar to dagger stab wounds, but the edges of the wounds are extremely irregular, with the five wounds maintaining a fixed spacing, what kind of thing was used to stab the wounds?”
Patient number two, because of his profession, the first thing that came to his mind was all kinds of murder weapons, Chen Ge stood next to him and reached out his hand to compare, his face became even more ugly, “Number two, look at this wound like it’s five fingers grasping into the flesh?”
It was fine if Chen Ge didn’t say it, but after he said it, the way Number Two looked at him changed.
It was very strange, Chen Ge’s finger spacing and the wound spacing matched perfectly, in other words, Chen Ge’s fingers could perfectly pierce into Zhang Jingjiu’s wound, and it felt as if the wound was left by Chen Ge.
”What’s going on?” Dr. Sun was the third person to walk out of the ward, with the other patients following behind, and Dr. Gao was the last to walk out of the ward.
Strangely enough, Dr. Gao had been looking at his watch after leaving the ward, as if something special would happen at a specific time.
”Someone has been injured! Massive blood loss, we need to get him to the emergency room immediately now!” Patient number two briefly bandaged his wounds, “The wounds are on his abdomen and chest, he can’t be carried, hurry up and get a stretcher! Someone come over here and hold him with me!”
”The emergency room is in the fourth ward, I’ll take you there.” Dr. Sun didn’t talk nonsense, he had patient number five and patient number two lift up Zhang Jingjiu and lead the way in front.
Human life was at stake, everyone was anxious to save Zhang Jingjiu and ran very fast, Chen Ge, who had bad legs, slowly fell to the back of the line.
He and Dr. Gao walked side by side, and when he slowed down, Dr. Gao slowed down as well, and the other party seemed to be intentionally trying to walk at the end.
”Dr. Gao, what’s going on with tonight’s treatment?”
The original treatment was in the middle of the sick room, but as accidents kept happening, this treatment seemed to be starting to get out of control.
Chen Ge wasn’t quite sure now if what he was experiencing was Dr. Gao’s treatment plan or if something was really going terribly wrong in the hospital, after all, the hospital hadn’t been peaceful the previous few nights.
No matter what Chen Ge said, Dr. Gao didn’t open his mouth to speak, and after he left the ward, he didn’t say a word except for occasionally looking down at his watch. On the contrary, it was Dr. Sun who suddenly started to come alive, and it felt as if the restraints that had been holding him down had been lifted.
”Dr. Gao?” Chen Ge gently tugged on Dr. Gao’s arm, and the other party raised that emotionless face and gave Chen Ge a cold look.
The sound of ticking echoed in his ears, and even though it was stormy outside the hospital, the sound of this mechanical watch moving was still clearly transmitted out of Chen Ge’s ears.
”The sound of this watch walking must have some kind of symbolism, we have to think of a way to snatch Dr. Gao’s watch later.”
Chen Ge walked right beside Dr. Gao as he secretly stared at the patients in the distance, “According to the story Dr. Gao just told in the sick room, there’s a high probability that I’m the murderer, which means that I’ll kill the other patients in Dr. Gao’s story.”
”The hospital has been trying to get me to kill people, and specific people at that, what’s in it for them to do that? Are they trying to guilt me?”
With a hint of doubt in his eyes, Chen Ge looked at Dr. Sun again, “What about this Dr. Sun? Why does he want to help me? If the hospital wanted me to feel guilty, they would definitely make me kill someone close to me with my own hands, and if this Dr. Sun is close to me, then why is he mixed up as a doctor when all my other friends are patients?”
Chen Ge was completely unable to understand, and he didn’t dare to think deeply to prevent touching his previous memories.
”Forget it, take a step and see what happens.”
After passing around the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge silently looked back at the “treatment room” behind him, and it seemed that there were still seven people sitting in the room they had just left.