Chapter 1166 - Exchanged Identity (2in1) (1/2)

Chen Ge who was lying on the bed inside the mental asylum had the expression and said the words that perfectly matched the environment that he was in.

[Why does his condition become so serious at night when he was acting so normally in the morning?] Zuo Han sat back in his bed and stayed far away from Chen Ge. “I study forensic science, I have been studying for so many years and I have not heard of any cases where a person’s lost memory could be recovered through constant stimulation of horror.”

“You forensic science students deal with dead bodies, the situation of a living person might be more complicated.”

“Do you know how low your body temperature was earlier when you were acting up? The only difference that you had then compared to a dead person was you still possessed a heart beat.” Zuo Han’s initial thought was to cooperate with Chen Ge but now he gradually realized that might not be such a good idea because he slowly noticed how dangerous his roommate could be, the man might lose control and ambush him at any moment. From Zuo Han’s perspective, Chen Ge was not only suffering from mental sickness that simple, there had to be more secrets on this man.

“Is it possible that this hospital has been conducting human experiment on its patients?” Zuo Han tried to use his knowledge to search for the answer, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Even science could not explain Chen Ge’s situation, this was already within the realm of theology and mythology.

“Zuo Han, can you tell me a few ghost stories? It is best if they are the one that are incredibly scary.” Chen Ge laid in bed and twisted his head to look at Zuo Han. His eyes were shining with anticipation in the dark.

“What is wrong with you? Why do you suddenly want to listen to ghost stories?” Zuo Han blurted out from his mouth, he realized he was completely unable to understand Chen Ge anymore. “In the middle of the night, you want to hear your roommate tell you a ghost story inside a mental hospital, I really cannot understand what is going through your mind when you made a request like that.”

“I just wanted to see whether the sensation of fear could help me stimulate the recovery of my memory or not. It is just a test, we have nothing to lose.”

Hearing what Chen Ge said, Zuo Han did not have any argument to retort. The corner of his eyes twitched and then he told Chen Ge a few ghost stories that he knew. “Well, are you scared?”

“Nah, it did not work. Your stories failed to give me any excitement at all.”

“Who will get excited from listening to ghost stories?!” Zuo Han crawled out from his bed. He moved his bed as far from Chen Ge as he could. He only stopped when his bed was right next to the door. At this distance, if Chen Ge suddenly decided to attack him, he could open the door and run out immediately.

“Has anything scary happened to you in your life?”

“Yes, I was trapped inside a mental asylum and my roommate insisted on having me telling him a ghost story in the middle of the night.” Zuo Han could not understand Chen Ge’s behavior at all. From both scientific perspective and mythological perspective, Chen Ge’s action made no sense what so ever.

“Your ghost stories are not scary at all, how about…” Chen Ge forced himself to raise his hand. “We play some haunted games? Games like Pen Spirit or Plate Spirit?” Without even needing to think, certain things were already branded in his body, Chen Ge was very familiar with these terms.

“Didn’t you lose your memory already? How come you are so familiar with these strange things?” Zuo Han realized the source of the problem.

“In my memory, I was once an owner of a Haunted House but the doctor told me I had inputted myself into the identity of another person and my memory was just a projection.”

“The doctor might be lying to you. From the various strange behavior that you have showcased tonight, it is clear that you are an adrenaline junkie, likes to be scared and you are very familiar with scary games like Pen Spirit and Plate Spirit, so you probably really did own a Haunted House in real life!” Zuo Han scratched his chin and shared his thought.

“But why would the doctor lie to me?”

“How would I know?”

“Then shall we play a game of Pen Spirit? Perhaps I might be able to slowly remember something.”

“We can’t, we have no pen or pencil?”

“How about Plate Spirit? I also know another scary game called back to back. One person will be lying on the bed and the other one will be hiding under the bed…” Once he started to reach into his mind, Chen Ge’s brain felt like it was being torn apart. So no matter whether he was speaking or acting, he tried to act on his instinct as much as he could. Zuo Han stopped interacting with Chen Ge. He looked at Chen Ge frostily before turning away to face the wall. With his back against Chen Ge, he started to formulate the plan to escape from the hospital. He maintained this position for a while when Zuo Han suddenly felt strangely unsettled. He thought back to what Chen Ge had said and he kept feeling something was not that right. [Is it possible that this man is just acting all along? Now that I have turned away from him, is it possible that he is standing behind me now?]

Goosebumps appeared on the back of his neck. Zuo Han whipped his body around and he realized Chen Ge was already asleep. “He looks so normal when he is asleep, no one would have expected such scary things would come out from his mouth.”

The room returned to silence again. At around 2 am, suddenly a loud crash from somewhere inside the hospital, it sounded like something had exploded. Both Zuo Han and Chen Ge were startled awake, before they realized what had happened, suddenly the sound of footsteps came from outside the corridor again.

“Someone is coming!”

The door of the room was knocked on lightly twice. Before Zuo Han or Chen Ge could get up to open the door, the footsteps had faded away already. When Zuo Han did open the door, there was no person outside the door at all. “Who was the person who knocked on the door?”

“Oh right, when you were out exploring the hospital yesterday night, someone also came to knock on our door, but at the time, they only knocked once.” Chen Ge realized when he was thinking about the things that happened inside the hospital, his brain would not be assaulted by pain but the moment he tried to think about the memory that occurred before his fainting, the tearing would come to his brain.

“They had knocked once yesterday and today, they had knocked twice? Looks like they came here on purpose and were doing this deliberately.” Zuo Han stared at Chen Ge. “Do you know any other patient at this hospital?”

“I cannot remember. From the time I was hospitalized here, I appeared to have fainted many times already. Whenever I wake up, the memory before the most recent fainting would become very blurry.”