Chapter 1174 – Brain Maze
There seemed to be seven other people sitting in the treatment room that Chen Ge and the others had just left, and these seven people were vaguely the same as Chen Ge and the others.
Rubbing his eyes, when Chen Ge looked more closely, his arm was grabbed by Dr. Gao and he was dragged to the other side of the corner.
”Is it just my eyes?”
Five patients and two doctors had already walked out of the treatment room, so how could there still be seven people in that ward?
”Could we still be in the ward? The ones walking out are our consciousnesses or souls?” Shaking his head, Chen Ge found this too unbelievable, and he didn’t dare to go back to check alone now, so he had to follow the crowd forward.
The first order of business was to get Zhang Jingjiu to the emergency room and stabilize his injuries first.
Dr. Sun, Patient #1 and Patient #2 walked ahead, they found a stretcher from the nurse’s station and carried Zhang Jingjiu as they moved towards the stairs.
Patient number four seemed to be scared, she was holding the torn paper butterfly in her hand and kept hiding beside patient number five.
At first glance, everyone was acting normal, and if they took off their gowns, no one would even think that five of these seven people were suffering from serious mental illnesses.
”I’ve been to the fifth floor, those patients in the intensive care ward are more rowdy than one another, even in the wee hours of the morning this floor is very noisy, but now there are no unusual sounds in all the wards on the entire fifth floor, could it be that the patients have all been moved away in advance?”
This was the only answer Chen Ge could think of, he didn’t think that someone could kill all the patients, nor did he think that the murderer could keep all the patients of the Serious Mental Hospital from making any noise.
”Unless the murderer is the doctor who fed all the patients a large amount of sleeping-type agents this night.”
Glancing sideways at Dr. Gao, Chen Ge felt that Dr. Gao was becoming more and more unfamiliar: “The person who wanted to make me go crazy was him, and the person who had to feed me that kind of medicine twice was still him, but it’s just this kind of doctor, so why do I feel incomparably familiar? Could it be that the Dr. Gao in my memory and the Dr. Gao in front of me are not the same person?”
In order not to touch the memories of the past, Chen Ge carefully organized the clues in his mind, “There are a total of seven seats in the treatment room, and this number shouldn’t be set randomly.”
Several patients and doctors led Zhang Jingjiu to the first floor, there was not a single person in the nurse’s station or duty room, and the entire building was dark, as if this hospital had been abandoned for a long time.
”What’s going on? If it’s just a power outage, so many patients should still be in the wards!” Patient number two was a bit anxious, he was worried about Zhang Jingjiu’s injuries and felt that tonight’s hospital was weird in every way.
”When I entered the treatment room, everything was still normal.” Dr. Sun walked at the front to lead the way, his footsteps were quick as if he was being chased by something.
”It was only a few minutes in total, it’s absolutely impossible for such a drastic change to have occurred!” Patient number two was still on the rational side, even though the hospital had given him a diagnosis of paranoia.
”Right! This is too strange!” Patient number five was also very scared in his heart, but he still stood next to patient number four, and if there was really any danger, he would be the first to escape with patient number four.
The several patients kept talking, perhaps they were annoyed by their questions, Dr. Sun, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped, he glanced back at Dr. Gao, and after determining that Dr. Gao was now as dead as a corpse and had no expression on his face, his gaze shifted to Chen Ge.
”In fact, there is a strange story in this hospital, legend has it that if you push open the door of a certain ward after midnight zero hour, you will be able to see the other side of this hospital!” Dr. Sun’s eyes were fixed on Chen Ge as he said this, as if this passage was actually specifically for Chen Ge to hear.
”Push open the door? Seeing the other side of the hospital?”
”What do you mean?”
”Dr. Sun, are you really a doctor in this hospital?”
The patients were all talking, but Dr. Sun didn’t say another word, as if he had taken a huge risk with the words he just said.
For the patients, Dr. Sun was the first time they had met, and Dr. Gao, the only one who knew Dr. Sun’s true identity, was now in a strange state.
Not saying a word, his body was cold, the exact description was that Dr. Gao was now slowly becoming like a dead person.
The patients had a lot of questions, but none of them could be answered, the doors and windows of the hospital were closed tightly, and they had nowhere to escape now, so they could only follow the doctor forward.
Pushing open the door of the safe passage in the third ward, two long dark corridors appeared in front of Chen Ge, this place he had been here before with Zuo Han, that time he played his second personality.
”Hurry up, don’t stay in the passageway for too long.”
Dr. Sun chose the long corridor that Chen Ge hadn’t gone to last time and walked in, his mouth constantly urging, and Chen Ge, who was walking at the end of the group, began to speed up.
When they stepped out of the security corridor, the door at the other end of the corridor behind them closed on its own with a bang.
”Someone is following behind?” Chen Ge was also a bit confused now, with too many questions.
First, they encountered Zhang Jingjiu who was seriously injured, then after they left, Chen Ge realized that there were still seven people sitting inside the treatment room, and now the door behind them closed by itself, indicating that someone was following them.
Chen Ge, who hadn’t fully recovered, felt his head start to hurt again.
”This is the fourth ward, where all kinds of seriously and terminally ill patients are sent.” Dr. Sun swept a glance at Chen Ge and added offhandedly, “There have been many people who died here.”
No one knew what Dr. Sun meant by that latter sentence, and he wasn’t going to explain, he just quickened his pace.
The electrical system of the entire hospital seemed to have been paralyzed, and they could only move forward with the brief light brought by the lightning outside the window.
The internal structure of the fourth ward and the third ward were completely different, there were very few wards for patients to live in, and the bottom floor was all filled with various departments.
”There’s no one in the duty room of this ward either.” Patient number two was a bit anxious, “We have to stop the patient’s bleeding immediately, or else his life will be in danger!”
”Why are all the pictures on the wall of the duty room in the fourth ward male?” Dr. Fang subconsciously took a step back as he looked at one of the faces on the wall.
”Is it strange that they’re all male?” Patient number five asked in a small voice.
”I used to be a surgeon, there was a period of time when so many patients in our hospital committed suicide that people were on edge, so in order to take care of the female doctors, when we lined up the night shifts, we temporarily lined up only male doctors.” After walking out of the sickroom, Dr. Fang never calmed down, he would often look behind him inexplicably, as if he was worried that someone around him was trying to hurt him.
”You used to be a surgeon?” Patient number two froze for a moment, then immediately turned his head and rushed at Dr. Sun, “We have surgeons in here, whether or not there’s anyone in the duty room doesn’t have much of an impact on us, and right now, as long as we have the tools, we can save this patient’s life.”
”I’m an ENT …….”
”That’s okay, I’m a forensic pathologist and I know a little bit about surgery, I can assist you.” Patient number two had a decisive character, and although he was not much different in age from patient number one, he was obviously better at handling various emergencies.
Dr. Sun looked at the several patients and just said faintly, “Follow me.”
Walking through the dimly lit hospital corridor, Dr. Sun stopped outside a certain department, and instead of going in directly, he made a very bizarre move.
Raising his arm, Dr. Sun gently knocked on the door of the room.
No more, no less, he knocked exactly six times.
As Dr. Sun knocked on the door, Chen Ge felt that the temperature around him lowered a lot, as if the world had torn off its camouflage to reveal its original appearance.
However, soon, the ticking sound from the mechanical watch drilled into his ears again, and nothing had changed around him.
After knocking on the door of the room, Dr. Sun stood in the doorway, he didn’t speak or push the door.
”The door is locked?” Patient number two was a bit anxious, and directly went over and pushed the room door with force, pushing the section door open, “Quickly carry him in!”
Patient number two didn’t notice Dr. Sun’s abnormality, but Chen Ge kept an eye out.
Several patients carried Zhang Jingjiu inside, and as they were about to place Zhang Jingjiu on the bed in the emergency room, they then saw a human-shaped shadow on that bed.
A light black and red color, not knowing if it was blood or something else, just painted the outline of a person.
”It feels like a person covered in blood had once lain on this bed.” Chen Ge’s pupils stared at the bedsheets, and before he had a chance to take a closer look, Patient Number One and Patient Number Two had already placed Zhang Jingjiu on the hospital bed.
They rummaged through boxes and cabinets looking for various medical tools, and after tossing and turning for half a day, they finally helped Zhang Jingjiu stop bleeding.
”With such a professional approach, how can I tell they don’t look like mental patients.” Chen Ge was silently observing from the side, and he realized that there were more and more oddities around him, especially after Dr. Sun appeared, this feeling became even stronger.
”Dr. Gao, who looked like a dead man, grabbed my hand and wouldn’t let me move away from him, and Dr. Sun, who was behaving abnormally, kept giving me hints, as if he was trying to tell me something?”
”The two doctors seemed to have an argument because of me, it’s strange, why do I feel as if this world was made specifically to target me?”
The two patients who used to be doctors were trying to treat Zhang Jingjiu, while the real doctors stood in the doorway and watched.
This scene gave Chen Ge a feeling of absurdity, in a hospital at midnight, who was the patient and who was the doctor?
His arm was gradually gripped tightly, Chen Ge frowned and looked at it, and he realized that Dr. Gao’s nails were almost digging into his flesh.
”Dr. Gao?” Chen Ge shook his arm, but Dr. Gao didn’t respond and just grabbed Chen Ge as if he wouldn’t let Chen Ge escape no matter what.
Why was he doing this?
The dead-like Dr. Gao beside Chen Ge seemed to sense something, and the five senses on his icy face gradually distorted.
As Zhang Jingjiu’s injuries stabilized a bit, the sound of dragging heavy objects resounded again outside the emergency room.
”There are other victims!” Chen Ge looked toward the door, and there seemed to be a person staring at him in the darkened corridor.
”Who’s that?”
”The hospital wants to drive me crazy, their original plan was for me to kill people related to me, such as Zuo Han and Zhang Jingjiu, and the patients I’m treating with tonight should all be people related to me as well.”
”But there’s a detail I can’t ignore, seven chairs but only five patients, Dr. Gao said that the other two patients are missing. If the other two patients are also acquaintances of mine, then it’s likely that they aren’t missing, but have been killed.”
”One of the murdered is Zhang Jingjiu, and there is a high probability that the other is Zuo Han.”
Thinking of this, Chen Ge’s heart clenched.
Coincidentally, just as Chen Ge was looking outside the corridor, a bolt of lightning streaked across the night sky.
The bright, ghastly white light pierced through the glass windows fitted with protective bars, illuminating the corridor in that instant.
Chen Ge’s eyes slowly widened, and with the help of the lightning’s bright light he finally saw the figure at the end of the corridor clearly.
”Dr. Sun?”
At the end of the corridor stood another Dr. Sun, his white coat covered in blood stains, his hair scattered, bleeding from all seven orifices, and wearing an exaggerated smile on his face!
The light from the lightning lasted less than a second, and the corridor outside the emergency room was plunged back into darkness.
”Dr. Sun is the killer? There are two Dr. Suns?”
Chen Ge felt his mind was in turmoil, and he now didn’t know if he was in the middle of a nightmare or in reality.
”Dr. Sun in the emergency room mentioned the door, and after pushing the door open, you can see another hospital, could it be that there is a Dr. Sun in each of the hospitals inside and outside the door?”
The brain naturally thought of this, but when Chen Ge thought of this, that drilling pain appeared again.
A low growl escaped from his throat, Chen Ge clenched his teeth, originally it was Dr. Gao who was gripping his arm tightly, now it was him who was holding Dr. Gao’s arm in a death grip.
The arm was deformed by Chen Ge’s grip, but the expression on Dr. Gao’s face remained unchanged, as if after walking out of the sickroom, he was no longer Dr. Gao, but a corpse with no self-affection.
”Definitely can’t pass out, it’s too dangerous here, that Dr. Sun in the darkness is approaching and could come over at any time.” Chen Ge made a strong effort to close the door of the emergency room, but not only did the enclosed space not give him a sense of security, it instead made him feel more panicked in the bottom of his heart.
”What did you just see?” Dr. Sun didn’t know when he had walked over to Chen Ge’s side and suddenly opened his mouth to inquire.
”When the lightning streaked across the sky, I saw a man standing in the corridor, and he was covered in blood.” Chen Ge did not directly say that the other person had the same face as Dr. Sun.
”Covered in blood?” Dr. Sun seemed to have thought of something: “Was he smiling all the time?”
Looking at Dr. Sun’s eyes, Chen Ge didn’t know how to answer, if he said that the silhouette was laughing all the time, it would indirectly prove that he saw the murderer’s face and knew what the murderer looked like.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Ge still nodded, “He was laughing terribly, and I also realized that he looks like you.”
”I know what you’re afraid of, that guy isn’t me, he’s the ghost of this hospital.” The smile on Dr. Sun’s face slowly became the same as the one on the ghost’s face outside: “Do you believe there are ghosts in the world?”
”Many people have asked me this question.”
”Then do you know what kind of ghosts are the scariest?” Dr. Sun seemed to be guiding Chen Ge, except that his current appearance was indeed a bit scary.
When he heard Dr. Sun’s voice, a figure in red instinctively appeared in Chen Ge’s mind, and he subconsciously said, “Ghosts in red are the scariest.”
”Not true.” Dr. Sun’s voice slowly became lower as he pointed at Chen Ge’s eyes, “Ghosts with warmth under their eyes are the scariest.”