Chapter 1174 - Treatment that Has Gone out of Control (2in1) (1/2)

Doctor Gao said that at 12 am 52 minutes, patient number 5 would be killed by a madman. When Chen Ge stood up from his seat, it was about 12. 51 am. The clock needle moved past every single digit, the ticking of the watch chimed in sequence with the beating of his heart. Everyone turned to look at Chen Ge, as if what he decided to do next would affect everyone. The memory in his mind slowly became blurry due to the sound of the mechanical watch. Chen Ge wanted to control his body but the more he wanted to do so, the more his body went out of his control.

Green veins popped out on the back of his hands. Chen Ge’s lowered head slowly lifted, his bloodshot eyes turned to focus on patient number 5. Chen Ge was at the edge of a mental breakdown, Doctor Gao also stared closely at him. As a doctor, Doctor Gao not only did not move to stop Chen Ge, he instead took out something that was wrapped inside layers of newspaper from his pocket. He placed the object on the table before Chen Ge. When the thing landed on the surface of the table, it gave a crisp tingling sound. Something heavy was wrapped inside the newspapers.

Time was still moving. Chen Ge’s consciousness gradually blurred. Now he was thankful that he did not take in the pills Doctor Gao was supposed to give him. If he had ingested the pill with the black lines, with the incitation from the pills, he would not have been able to stop himself at all. The edge of his fingertips slowly moved along the table until Chen Ge’s hand closed over the newspaper. Five fingers clamped together. Fresh blood leaked out from Chen Ge’s palm. The object that was inside the newspaper was very sharp. Blood soaked through the newspaper, turning it black. Chen Ge gripped the object inside the bundle of paper tightly. Large amount of blood seeped out of his palm but the curious thing was he could not feel any pain at all.

“Why would my body react like this? I am sure that I did not take any pills, but I still cannot control myself. Is it the effect of Doctor Gao’s watch?” The mechanical watch on the table still kept on working. The needle moved second by second. 12 midnight 51 minutes, 50 seconds, 12 midnight 51 minutes 51 seconds, the sound of ticking became louder and louder, so did Chen Ge’s heartbeat. His chest rise and fell unevenly and small black blood capillaries appeared on his face.

54 second, 55 second, 56 second!

His hand that grabbed the newspaper could not help trembling. Chen Ge leaned his body forward. The figure of patient number 5 was reflected in both of his eyes.

57 second, 58 second!

At 51 minutes and 59 seconds, Chen Ge raised the object that was wrapped inside the newspaper. But just as he was about to swing the sharp object at patient number 5, there came a knocking on the room door. The knocking interrupted the ticking of the mechanical watch. This was the first time the expression had changed on Doctor Gao’s unfeeling face. Both of his brows creased slightly.

“Hong!” The thunder screamed outside the window. Soon after that, beads of rain splattered against the window like it was trying to shatter through the glass. The storm ravished against the night. Many sounds drilled in Chen Ge’s ears, he finally regained control of his own body. Doctor Gao picked up the watch to look at the time before placing it back on the surface of the table. Then he turned to address patient number 1 again, “at 12. 52 am, you heard the knocking on the door you were in. You suspected it was the person who had been observing you who had arrived outside the door. You walked over to open the door.”

“Impossible! He could not have been standing out the door!” Doctor Fang stood up from his seat. His stood at the door with his quivering finger pressing against the room door. Uncertainty and anxiousness made Doctor Fang hesitate for a long time. Then he pushed the door heavily open!

“Hong!” The sound of thunder exploded in everyone’s ears. The doctors and patients inside the room all turned to look at the corridor outside the door. At the dark corridor, there was no light at all. All the sickroom doors were shut as if they were the only few people left inside the whole hospital.

“I remember the light at the corner of the corridor should be on.” Chen Ge was slowly taking back the control of his body. He moved his arms and hid the hand that held the newspaper behind him. The newspaper was not wrapping a knife but the mirror piece with sharp edges. No one noticed what Chen Ge had done since their attention were all pulled to the corridor. The sickroom door was pushed open again. The hospital looked through the door appeared to be different from normal, if gave off a completely different feeling. If one had to describe it, the current hospital was more similar to the nightmare that had appeared in Chen Ge’s night.

Storm and lightning were roaring outside the hospital, like it was the end of the world but inside the hospital it was so quiet that one could hear the sound of a pin falling to the ground. The dark corridor looked like it reached endlessly into the darkness. The white walls now looked more like the pale faces of dead people.

“At 12. 53 am, you saw the corridor outside the sickroom, there was no one on the corridor. The once familiar hospital now became a bit more unfamiliar.” Doctor Gao stood up from his seat. He strapped the watch around his wrist. “you are afraid in your heart, there is a voice inside your heart that reminds you to not leave the room no matter what. Do not be compelled by your curiosity because once you take a step forward, you might not be able to return to this place anymore.”

Just as Doctor Gao finished, the sound of a heavy object being dragged suddenly came from the empty corridor. It sounded like a fisherman had just dragged a large dead fish out from the water. Everyone was attracted by the sudden appearance of this sound. They all turned to the look at the corner of the corridor. The sound was getting closer and closer until eventually a human head poked out from the floor of the corner.

“Zhang Jingjiu?” When he saw the human head, the name immediately floated up in Chen Ge’s mind. Since he arrived at the hospital, Zhang Jingjiu had warned him twice. The first time was at the garden, when Zhang Jingjiu grabbed him and shouted the word ‘ghost’ repeatedly at him. Because of that, Zhang Jingjiu was severely punished. He was locked up by the doctors on the fifth floor which was meant for patients with serious problem. The man seemed to have gone through plenty of inhuman torture as well.

His second warning came when Zuo Han and Chen Ge explored the hospital late at night. Zhang Jingjiu opened his lips and uttered the word boss with what appeared to be his dying breath. From all these factors, Chen Ge could confirm that Zhang Jingjiu must be related to him, and he was definitely an ally and a friend from his past. At that moment, when Zhang Jingjiu’s head appeared at the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge could not hold himself in anymore. The wall had blocked off Zhang Jingjiu’s body so Chen Ge had no idea whether Zhang Jingjiu was lying on the ground because he had lost his mobility or the man only had a human head left.

“At 12. 54 am…” Doctor Gao’s eyes scanned all the patients in the room. “All of you have seen the killer, now there are two choices in front of you, to kill the killer or be killed by the killer.” After saying that, Doctor Gao started to observe the patients’ reaction.

“Everyone has seen the killer? So that means the killer is inside this room with us?” The first person to return to normal was patient number 2. The middle-aged man appeared to have shaken off the effect of the medicine. His gaze slowly returned to normal, his eyes that were bloodshot stared fixedly at the human head at the corner of the corridor. The second person to return to normal was patient number 5. His eyes that turned to Chen Ge did not contain any hostility but only fear. “Kill the killer or be killed by the killer? This is not even a choice at all.”

“Are you sure you are trying to treat us?” Chen Ge grabbed the mirror piece wrapped in the newspaper and used his other finger to point outside the door. “The things that happened inside the room were stories that were made up by you but there is a real accident that has happened outside this room. All of you have seen that head at the corner of the corridor right? Someone is really injured!” Chen Ge wanted to save Zhang Jinjiu even though he had forgotten his actual connection to Zhang Jingjiu.