Chapter 1173 - Cursed Game (2in1) (1/2)
The fifth floor of the hospital was the floor for patients with serious illness. The windows were reinforced with wires and the doors were specially reinforced. “It is now 12. 30 am, our treatment will start at 12. 44 am.” Doctor Gao opened the medicine bottle on the table. “Before the treatment officially started, we need every patient to ingest a single pill. This is for your own good.” There were only 4 pills inside Doctor Gao’s bottle. Minus the two doctors who did not need the pills, the medicine ran out just as it reached Chen Ge. Placing the empty bottle on the ground, Doctor Gao took out a new bottle of medicine from his pocket. From the outside appearance, there was no difference between the two bottles of medicine.
When Doctor Gao was unwrapping the bottle, Doctor Sun who sat next to Chen Ge took out a bottle of medicine from his own pocket, “I still have some left overs on me.” He shook out a single pill from his bottle. The surface of the pill was pure white in color but if you looked closer, you could discern some very small black lines on the surface. When Doctor Gao saw this, he reached out his hand to stop Doctor Sun, “Chen Ge’s condition has become much better, he only needs half of the pill.”
“Half of the pill?” Doctor Sun looked at Doctor Gao with confusion, the former should have been notified of the treatment process beforehand.
“Yes, he only needs half of the pill.” Doctor Gao tried to cover up his hesitation.
“That is different from what the hospital director wants.” Doctor Sun shook his head without any expression. “Even though you are his main doctor, some decisions are still made by the hospital director.” He stood up and tipped the pill into Chen Ge’s mouth. Chen Ge could feel the pill brush against his lips but the strange thing was Doctor Sun did not force feed him the pill. He only used his hand to cover his mouth, the pill was still squeezed between Doctor Sun’s fingers. Doctor Sun took his hand back and Chen Ge subconsciously made a swallowing motion.
The pills with the black lines could make people go insane and lose their rationality, Chen Ge was very familiar with that. It appeared like Doctor Sun did not want to feed him that kind of people and even silently pulled one over Doctor Gao and the rest of the patients. This piqued Chen Ge’s interest. Doctor Sun who sat next to him appeared to not want to harm him.
[From the day I woke up inside the hospital, someone would come to knock on my door every night. The knocking will correspond the amount of days I have spent inside the hospital. As if worried that I might lose count of the amount of day, the person will come to notify me every night. Yesterday night, they had knocked for five times so technically today, they should have knocked six times. Coincidentally enough, when this Doctor Sun entered this room earlier, he knocked on the door six times. Is he using this time of method to tell me that it was him who had been knocking on my door?] Thunder and lightning danced outside the window but the room was eerily quiet. The seven people sat around in a circle. Other than Chen Ge and the two doctors, the other patients had their heads titled downwards, as if they were asleep.
[They should be given the normal white pills. The medicine bottle that Doctor Gao has placed on the table now should contain the pills with the black lines.] Before the treatment started, Chen Ge already sensed something was seriously off. Based on what Doctor Gao said, if the any of the patient acted up, the other people had to help restrain them and feed them with the pills on the table. But clearly enough the pills inside the bottle on the table were not the normal white pills but the pills mixed with black lines. Ingestion of those pills would only make the patients go even more out of control. If this kind of treatment continued, the final result would most likely be the patient who was force fed the pills would end up killing everyone else in the room in a bloodlust berserk. Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. He was suddenly reminded of a detail. When Doctor Gao entered the room, he casually hung the ring of keys next to the door as if encouraging the patients to reach of it.
[being force fed the pills with the black lines, the patient will go completely out of control. After the patient kills every one in the room, they will take the ring of keys by the door and leave…] The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more unsettled he felt. If Doctor Sun did not help him, Doctor Gao would have fed him the pill with the black lines, then he would definitely be the first patient to lose control. If that happened, he would get restrained by the other patients and be fed more pills with the black lines which would only make him go even more crazier.
The end result would be Chen Ge would end up killing all the patients in the room and used the key to start a manhunt of the other patients in the sick hall. If Chen Ge had done something like that, then his humanity would be grinded away, all of his determination would turn into a sin that he would never wash away. He would also lose the version of himself in the past forever.
“Now that every patient has taken the pills, I need you to remember the number on your own chair, that number will be your name from now on.” Doctor Gao removed his watch from his wrist and placed it next to the bottle of pills. “At 12 midnight 44 minutes and 44 seconds, we will start the treatment.” All the patients and doctors looked at the clock face of the metallic watch. The room was very quiet and the only sound that remained was the ticking of the second needle. Tik tok, tik tok…
When the needle passed a certain number, Chen Ge suddenly felt an indescribable drowsiness overwhelmed his mind. His eyelids became very heavy. He could not help himself from closing his eyes, but he soon realized he must not fall asleep now, he had to maintain his consciousness. Just as his eyes were about to close, he flipped them open again, the whole process took less than a second but in this one second, a huge transformation appeared to have happened inside the room. He could not pinpoint exactly what the change was, he just felt mildly uncomfortable, as if the room that they were now in was different from the room that they had entered earlier.
“It is now 12 midnight 44 minutes and 44 seconds, the treatment will officially start now.” Doctor Gao’s voice became even more different than before. It was unfeeling and chilly like it came out of a dead body that had no emotion. “All of you are patients that suffer from serious paranoia. I have called all of you here today because I wish to commit to a collective treatment. Do not worry, I will only play a mini game with all of you, you only need to make the choice that is most suitable for you in your heart.”
Doctor Gao’s voice carried no emotion. First he turned to Doctor Fang who was seated at the first chair. “On the day of 1st April, you were working the night shift at Xin hai Central Hospital. Over the past few days something has been bothering you, you felt like someone was looking at you. At 12. 45 am, you stood up and walked to the window for the 17th time and looked outside the window.” Doctor Gao suddenly stopped and the silence lasted for a long time. And then he said while pointing at the window in the room. “Go and look what is outside the window.”
Doctor Fang who was fed the pill and his gaze was not so normal stood up from chair number one. With his hands on the wall, he moved to the window. When he pulled back the curtain, a flash of lightning crossed his face. It lit up the inside of the room as well as the space under the hospital.
“Ah!” Doctor Fang yelped from shock. His hands gripped the edge of the window tightly as if he was worried that he might fall over if he was not careful.
“You stood up and went to the window for the seventeenth time, and then what did you see?” Doctor Gao’s tone did not change at all. At this moment, it felt like he was a dead body among a room of living humans.
“There is a madman who is constantly smiling at me from the ground, he is waving at me! He wants me to jump down the window to join him!” Doctor Fang uttered softly. When he spoke, it felt like he had difficulty catching his breath.