Chapter 1180 – Killing the Past, Ushering in a New Life?
There seemed to be some sort of special connection between Chen Ge and the human head in the glass jar, and when his hands touched the surface of the glass jar, the child’s head, which originally seemed like a specimen, unexpectedly began to slowly rotate.
Everything was similar to what was previewed in the brain maze, except that in reality, Chen Ge could not see the fight between the thin black threads and the blood filaments.
”I feel as if you originally belonged to me.” Chen Ge looked at the human head in the glass jar, and a very strange feeling arose in him, as if his own head was now sitting in the jar.
The child’s mutilated face was pressed against the surface of the glass jar, he had no eyes, and the two pitch-black holes in his face gazed at Chen Ge.
Both sides stared at each other like this, slowly Chen Ge actually saw another self in the child’s pitch-black eyes, his consciousness slowly became blurred, the memories of the past in his brain were sucked out by the head in the jar, and replaced by the unfamiliar memories of a third person.
”What does he want?” The memory fragments being stripped away was tantamount to saying that he was slowly losing himself, but Chen Ge didn’t feel any trepidation, as if both sides were just making an equivalent deal.
The void in his mind was filled by the child’s memories, and that child gained access to his past memories.
Chen Ge’s brain was gradually emptied, all the locked memory fragments were all sucked away by the head in the glass jar, and his mind retained those memories that had been unlocked before.
”Could it be that he’s trying to help me unlock my memories?” Chen Ge would get a headache whenever he forcibly recalled the past, and most of the time, even if he endured the pain, he couldn’t unlock those most crucial memories.
Now that this head had sucked away the locked memories from Chen Ge’s mind, it seemed to be worried about Chen Ge’s exposure, and it had also taken the initiative to fill Chen Ge’s mind with flushing other memories.
Those memories belonging to the third party sank into the depths of his mind, and he didn’t know what purpose they served.
After regaining consciousness, Chen Ge felt that the shackles in his mind had been opened, and his entire being was much more relaxed, as if there was another force that helped him carry the pain and despair.
Chen Ge reached out and kept moving his hand over the glass jars, and after he realized that he couldn’t trigger anything more, he quickly withdrew and returned to the isolation ward.
”Seven glass jars, I’ve only touched one now, so I can’t draw any conclusions yet.” Chen Ge laid in the isolation ward for a few minutes before the caretaker arrived in a hurry, and he sighed in relief after seeing Chen Ge honestly staying in the ward.
”I’m going to sleep, remember to close the door when you leave.” After Chen Ge finished speaking, he covered himself with the quilt and fell asleep.
The caregiver didn’t notice anything unusual and didn’t report what happened in the morning to Dr. Gao.
At night, Dr. Gao and Xu Wan entered the isolation ward.
They persuaded Chen Ge once again, hoping that Chen Ge would take the initiative to cooperate with the treatment, and that only by opening his heart and eliminating the negative memories brought on by his paranoia would he be able to gain a new life.
This time, Chen Ge did not resist any more, after he touched the glass jar with the human head in the morning, most of those memories about the past had already been sucked away, and he had nothing to be afraid of at all now.
The treatment after zero hour went very smoothly, even Dr. Gao himself felt surprised, the treatment was so effective that it eliminated most of the memory fragments in Chen Ge’s mind in one go.
Thinking about it, Dr. Gao felt that the main reason was because Chen Ge had given up his delusional past and decided to embrace a brand new life.
Frankly speaking, Chen Ge was the most resilient patient Dr. Gao had ever met.
If a hospital wanted to completely “cure” a patient, the first step was to erase their past memories, the second step was to remodel them, and there were several more steps to follow, which was a long process.
Chen Ge’s patient, just the first step of eliminating his past memories took half a month, and only after he actively cooperated did he see a little hope of success.
Not only Chen Ge, Dr. Gao himself was also tired.
”The treatment effect is very good, keep going and you can definitely be discharged smoothly.” After a long time, a smile finally appeared on Dr. Gao’s face.
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The hospital’s care for Chen Ge gradually relaxed, only that he had not been allowed to return to the general ward, and he was usually not allowed to have contact with other patients.
Most of the time, it was Xu Wan who accompanied Chen Ge, taking care of him in every possible way and always having countless topics of conversation.
In this hospital, Xu Wan seemed to represent goodness.
Chen Ge also looked for various opportunities to enter the offices of the previous deans during this time.
Every time, he had a scare, and there had always been people helping him in the dark.
After Dr. Gao had done this to him three times, Dr. Sun appeared again and led Chen Ge to meet the vice dean on one side.
This vice dean brought Chen Ge a very strange feeling, as if he had seen him somewhere but had no impression at all.
If Chen Ge wanted to be discharged from the hospital, he had to get the approval of the vice dean, in other words, the vice dean was actually the most important person to Chen Ge in this hospital.
He had to pass the vice dean’s examination before he could leave successfully.
After being treated several times by Dr. Gao, and after repeated examinations by both Dr. Gao and Dr. Sun, who both felt that Chen Ge had no problems, the vice dean still refused to give his consent.
Chen Ge had no choice but to stay in the hospital for another two weeks.
He finally found a chance to touch the last glass jar, where all the fragments of his memories of the past were hidden.
Now that the memories in his mind had been replaced, the memories from the seven glass jars intertwined in the depths of his mind, creating a child covered in wounds.
Although the seven glass jars were still in the middle of the hospital, the memories contained on those organs in the glass jars had already escaped, taking this opportunity to hide in Chen Ge’s mind.
Chen Ge didn’t know what all of this meant yet, he only knew that he should be discharged from the hospital soon.
On the seventh day after touching all the glass jars, Dr. Gao was ready to perform his seventeenth treatment on Chen Ge.
This time, the treatment was so special that he didn’t disclose any information to Chen Ge in advance, and it wasn’t until Chen Ge pushed open the door to the treatment room that he realized that there were still Dr. Sun and that vice president standing in the room.
Without giving Chen Ge a chance to speak, when he pushed open the door, he seemed to have fallen into the middle of the brain maze, and he didn’t even know when he was hit.
”Chen Ge, this is the last treatment for you, if it goes well, you can be discharged at dawn.” Dr. Gao looked at Chen Ge with a smile on his face as he stood on the other side of the table with Dr. Sun and the Vice President.
”How do I need to cooperate with you?”
”It’s simple.” Dr. Gao took out a tray from under the table with a scalpel in it, “Your second personality is hidden in your heart, dig out your heart, he is the last obsession you have deluded yourself out of.”
”After digging out my heart, can I still live?” Chen Ge didn’t expect the last treatment to be like this, he thought he could be discharged without any problems, he didn’t expect the hospital to be so cautious and not stop after removing all the memory fragments.
”Only one of you and your second personality can live, if you can’t make a decision, let your second personality make the choice.” Dr. Sun said conspiratorially, the scar on his face shaking.
Not only Dr. Gao, even the vice dean was not too willing to stand with Dr. Sun, they all felt that Dr. Sun was too paranoid.
Taking out a whole bottle of medicine from his pocket, Dr. Sun opened the lid of the bottle, which contained all of those pills laced with black silk threads.
”You let me think about it.”
”It’s time to say goodbye to the past, it’s good for you, and for him.” Dr. Sun poured out seven pills from the medicine bottle, he didn’t seem to count at all, and directly shoved them all into Chen Ge’s mouth, “Swallow!”
Swallowing seven pills at once stunned both the vice dean and Dr. Gao, but it was too late for both of them to stop them.
Changes appeared in Chen Ge’s body almost instantly, blood vessels bulged and bulged on his skin like vipers, his skin became red, and his eyes were filled with blood, as if he was about to be burst.
Reason was drowned out in an instant, and Chen Ge let out a hiss similar to that of a wild beast in his throat.
While looking at Chen Ge’s painful appearance, Dr. Sun seemed to be admiring the most beautiful painting, stroking the scars on his face with an intoxicated expression.
”Don’t control yourself, let your second personality come out!”
Dr. Sun shouted hysterically as he kept pouring the pills from the bottle onto the table, and if it wasn’t for Dr. Gao stopping him, he might have shoved the rest of the pills into Chen Ge’s mouth as well.
The burning black fire of the curse scorched his will, Chen Ge began to hallucinate constantly, he felt that his soul was being grasped by countless hands, and his body was slowly falling into the middle of a sea of curses.
His consciousness became blurred, and in a trance he saw the man with his back to him again.
In the waves of curses, he had shared 90% of Chen Ge’s pain.
This man whose back felt very familiar to Chen Ge had never turned back, and he protected a heart as if he were standing in the middle of the ocean like a reef.
”You are my second personality …….”
The last time he saw this man, Chen Ge was also on the verge of a collapse of consciousness, and this time it was the same situation again.
Too many drugs had been swallowed at once, and the waves of curses overturned the mind, but even when the world tipped over, the figure still didn’t take a step back.
All memories were disrupted, and when Chen Ge’s consciousness and mind were about to completely collapse, a child covered in wounds stepped out from the deepest part of his mind.
The curse couldn’t affect him too much, and the child seemed to be just a piece of shadow as he came to the man who had his back to Chen Ge and spoke quietly at the man.
Chen Ge didn’t know what he said, he just saw that when the man heard the child’s words, his body trembled slightly.
Then he slowly turned around and looked at Chen Ge behind him.
Chen Ge also saw that man’s face for the first time, the man that Dr. Gao called his second personality looked completely different from Chen Ge.
His eyes hid an unresolved melancholy, and there was barely a single piece of intact skin on the front of his body.
”Who the hell is he? Why did he stand in front of me even though he was injured like this?”
That man didn’t know how many curses he had endured, too many to count.
He silently looked at Chen Ge and slowly loosened his hands, handing over a heart he was protecting to that child.
The child protected that heart and hid it in the deepest part of his mind, and the man used his last strength to smile at Chen Ge before twisting his head and jumping into the black ocean of curses.
Enduring indescribable pain, Chen Ge was also drowned by the black waves.
Not knowing how long had passed, when Chen Ge reopened his eyes, he saw a blood-stained scalpel and a beating heart in the tray in front of him.
”Chen Ge, your last treatment was completed very smoothly!”
”When your second personality took over the human body, he voluntarily plucked out his heart and left your body.”
The vice dean and Dr. Gao spoke one by one, the kind smiles on their faces a stark contrast to the bloody heart in the tray.
With a pale face, Chen Ge looked at the heart in the tray as his body slowly fell backwards, “Can a person, without a heart, still live?”
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Snapping his eyes open, Chen Ge’s body fell heavily to the ground as he gasped for air.
”You completed the final treatment and made the most correct choice, you killed your past self, from now on, you will usher in a new life!” The vice dean personally helped Chen Ge up, and he and the two doctors successively wrote down certain things on a file.
”Take him back to the general ward, he can be discharged tomorrow.”
The vice president personally gave the word, and Dr. Gao was relieved that this most troublesome patient was finally leaving.
He assisted Chen Ge to leave the treatment room, while the vice dean and Dr. Sun pointed at the file and kept arguing about something.
Returning to the general ward, Chen Ge collapsed onto the familiar hospital bed, extreme exhaustion instantly overwhelmed him, and he quickly passed out.
Early the next morning, the bright sunlight outside the window shone on his face, but he only felt cold all over.
”That wasn’t even my second personality, what choices did he make in the Vice President’s brain maze? And whose heart did that kid take from him anyway?”
After more than a month of treatment in the hospital, the doctors felt that Chen Ge had already met their requirements, but in reality, not only had Chen Ge not changed, he had instead become even more fearful of the hospital.
A crazy thought even arose in his mind that if he had the chance, he must completely destroy this place.
At first, this thought wasn’t strong, but after Chen Ge saw the man who had been helping to fend off the curse leave in the middle of the last treatment, he was now filled with similar thoughts.
”Kill my past self and usher in a new life ……,” Chen Ge muttered to himself, this seemed to be a habit he developed a long time ago, he always liked to be alone and speak words that no one could understand.
”Boom Boom Boom ……” knocked on the door, the other party knocked a total of seven times.
The door to the hospital room opened and Dr. Sun walked in.
He looked at Chen Ge on the hospital bed and only said, “Take a look at cabinet 29, in addition to the real treatment, which is only starting now.”
After saying that, Dr. Sun moved his fingers and turned to leave.
”Making up new memories for me, making me almost kill my own roommate, as well as repeatedly torturing me using hypnosis and drug hallucinations, this one month or so is only the first step of the treatment.”
Chen Ge’s situation was extremely special, and just this was still almost too much to hold on to, so it was hard for him to imagine what an ordinary patient would become after arriving at the hospital.