Chapter 1165 - I Need More Stimulations (2in1) (1/2)
“The whole hospital is filled with ghost? How is that possible? If you say one doctor or one patient is possessed by ghost, then perhaps I can believe you but the fact that the whole hospital could be haunted is rather hard to believe.” Chen Ge did not voice his real thought, he was merely following the rationality that was set up in his mind.
“Well, to know whether it is true or not, we only need to go and ask, right?” Zuo Han was very courageous. “The screams came from above us. This hospital zone that we are in has 7 floors in total, so the sickroom that he is in should be on the fifth or sixth floor.”
“Are you sure you want to take this risk? If you run into any worker outside the room, then you will be in very serious trouble. I believe it is a very serious offense to wander around in the hospital at night,” Chen Ge was very cautious.
“I am not the one taking this risk alone, we are taking this risk together?”
“We?”
“You said it yourself that it was Zhang Jingjiu who came to pull on you voluntarily and even called out to remind you of something this morning, don’t you think that is rather abnormal?” Zuo Han stood at the door and kept on luring Chen Ge to join him like the devil. “I have encountered that patient before, all he ever did was to talk to himself. He would never actively approach someone, therefore, this proves that you are a unique presence to him.”
“But I have no memory of him at all.” Chen Ge did not dare to think of his past memory lest the pain suddenly came back again.
“Brother, I am telling you the truth. You might not believe me but the pills that the hospital is feeding you every day is used to suppress your memory, their intention is not to cure you but to change you into someone that they approve.” Zuo Han lowered his voice, “This world has its own set of rules that it operates on, and those who do not abide by the rules are viewed as patients, in contrast those who are willing to fit into the rules are considered normal persons, this is a whole entirely abnormal oppressive system.”
Seeing that Chen Ge’s conviction was slowly shaken, Zuo Han continue his persuasion, “You once told me that the moment you started to think about your past, the headache would come, is that a symptom of any kind of mental illness? If you ask me, they have tempered with your brain and placed some kind mechanism there that prevent you from thinking about your past.”
“But why would they do something like that? Why would you stop me from remembering my own past?”
“Perhaps the truth of this sickened world is hidden in your memory, in any case, your memory must be something that is feared by the hospital and thus they have to do everything within their power to stop you from remembering it, this is a very simple logical observation.” Zuo Han slowly convinced Chen Ge. In the end, the two of them decided to wait for the patrol to finish and then they would the room together to investigate. At around 1 am, Zuo Han and Chen Ge pushed open the room door and exited to the corridor.
“There are cameras at the corner of the stairs but the people on duty might not be paying attention to the surveillance at all times. As long as we can move fast enough, they might not be able to detect us.”
“So, essentially we’re hedging our lives on a bet?”
“There is no other way, because if we destroy the cameras, that would be directly telling the hospital that someone is trying to resist the hospital so all we can do now is to bet.” Zuo Han looked at the plaster around Zuo Han’s leg. “When did you injure your leg? How long will it take to recover? I do not wish to carry an incapacitated person with me when I try to escape from this place.”
“They told me I ran into a car accident about a year ago but theoretically speaking, any injury suffered then would have been healed by now so this broken leg must have nothing to do with the car accident. Therefore, it must have occurred after I fell sick.”
“Well, isn’t that interesting. In other words, you are telling me a mental patient suddenly broke his leg while inside the custody of the hospital.” Zuo Han looked at Chen Ge coldly, “You poor thing who has lost your memory, do you still think the hospital has your best interest at heart?”
“You suspect it is the hospital who broke my leg?”
“All the beautiful things are an illusion. Cruelty and sickness are the main theme of this world.” Zuo Han’s eyes were bloodshot. “How about a bet? I bet that your mental illness will be cured before your leg does.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Through many different observations, I believe you are the most dangerous patient here. After your leg recovers, the hospital will be anxious, therefore, some kind of accident will befall you and various kind of supposed coincidence will cause your body to constantly in a stated of injury.” Zuo Han’s eyes were shining darkly. “When I think about something, I have the habit of seeing from the worst possible outcome. I do not have any anticipation towards the innate kindness of human nature. If my words have offended you, I hope you do not mind, in the future, you will realize who is really looking out for you.” Some people would run into the most beautiful accident in the deepest despair and some would encounter the cruellest truth in the most beautiful dream, Chen Ge did not think Zuo Han’s words were in any way offensive, if anything, he agreed with Zuo Han’s point of view. It was then that he realized he was slowly agreeing with the perspective of a patient diagnosed with paranoiac delusion.
“When we see Zhang Jingjiu later, no matter what happens, I need you to be calm.” Zuo Han led Chen Ge to the corner of the stairs. The lights in the hospital were still on at night but the lights provided no warmth. Every single ray was radiating a chill and walking down the corridor, it could cause one’s hair to stand on end.
“The hospital in the morning is different from how it is at night.” Chen Ge also did not know how to describe this change. He merely felt that the hospital that he had seen in the final fragment of his memory was slowly overlapping with the hospital before his eyes, the illusions appeared to be returning. Zuo Han and Chen Ge were incredibly lucky. They came all the way to the fourth floor and they did not encounter any hospital worker, the whole area was very quiet.
“This place gives me the feeling more like a slaughterhouse than a mental asylum. Everywhere there is blood that we cannot see and souls whose mouths were sewn shut are hiding at every corner.” Zuo Han’s tone was getting crazier. At this moment, he looked like a quintessential mental patient that Chen Ge had seen on television show before. The patient was seriously ill but he had not realized it, in fact he thought he was still in very good condition. “Starting from this floor, all the doors are locked, looks like the patients who stay here are all serious mental cases.” Chen Ge and Zuo Han came from the normal sick zone, their room door was not locked, they could leave and enter freely. The doctors and nurses could enter their room freely as well. But the rooms on the fourth floor were completely different. There was a lock outside the door and the patients inside had their freedom limited, if they wanted to leave, they needed to get the permission from the doctors and nurses first.
“Thankfully, there are windows on the doors or else we would have wasted our journey tonight.” Just as Zuo Han and Chen Ge arrived at the fourth floor, they heard the echoing sound of footsteps coming from the stairs below them.
“The sound comes from the duty room, the patrols are coming!” Zuo Han had already scouted out the location of the duty rooms and the nurse stations. He grabbed Chen Ge by his hand, carried the man over his shoulders. “Jesus Christ, why are you so heavy!”
“Where are we going?”
“Shush, keep your voice down.” Zuo Han carried Chen Ge who could not move that swiftly to the nurse station at the end of the corridor. Both he and Chen Ge hid under the counter at the nurse station.
“We’re hiding at a place like this? Are you sure they won’t come and check this place?” Chen Ge thought Zuo Han had a really big heart.