Chapter 1174 - Treatment that Has Gone out of Control (2in1) (2/2)
“You really think all the stories that I have said earlier are all made up?” Doctor Gao lowered his head to look at his watch. “Didn’t you always tell me the stories that you have made up? Then do you think those stories are real or not?” Chen Ge had no idea what Doctor Gao was trying to express. His fingers tightened around the mirror piece and he prepared to leave the sickroom to investigate.
“I will go with you.” The patient number 2 who was the first to recover also stood up. He looked tired and old but his eyes were extremely sharp. He seemed to be in the law enforcement before he was sent into the hospital.
“Think about it carefully before you make your decision. After all, you only have one life. This reality is not a part of your imagination, you are not in the story that you have made up in your mind.” Doctor Gao stopped talking after saying that.
Chen Ge was worried about Zhang Jingjiu. He held the wall and slowly moved towards the door. Even though patient 2 had decided to go with Chen Ge, he still maintained a safe distance from Chen Ge, as if he too was slightly afraid of Chen Ge. The two of them shuffled out of the room one after another. After they left the room, they realized things were definitely not right. The hospital was too dark. Not only the third sick hall, it was as if the lights at the entire hospital had been switched off.
“The hospital should have back up generators. If this is some kind of accident, at least the emergency lights should be on.” Patient number 2 walked ahead and he said in a serious tone. “This is too strange. I have walked down this corridor many times already but how come it feels so oppressive tonight?” Chen Ge did not communicate with patient number 2. He had a sense of familiarity from patient number 2 but in this circumstance, it was better to trust no one but oneself.
Dragging the leg encased in plaster, Chen Ge and patient number 2 reached the corner of the corridor. When he saw Zhang Jingjiu’s body, Chen Ge’s face darkened immediately. Zhang Jingjiu was lying at the corner of the corner. Both of his arms and legs were broken and they were arranged at a very curious angle. The loose patient’s garb could not cover up the wounds on his body. The poor man’s body was covered in boils and bruises, you could see the signs of needle injections all over his body as well.
“Zhang Jingjiu?” Chen Ge called his name softly. Perhaps it was Chen Ge’s voice who had evoked Zhang Jingjiu’s memory. He struggled to pull his eyes open. His lips moved as if telling Chen Ge to run as fast as he could. Holding Zhang Jingjiu’s bloated hand, Chen Ge wanted to pick Zhang Jingjiu up from the ground but he was hindered by his broken leg and he was unable to accomplish this.
“Let me help you.” Patient number 2 wanted to carry Zhang Jingjiu on his back. He grabbed Zhang Jingjiu by his shoulder and he was about to apply his strength when he suddenly realized Zhang Jingjiu’s stomach and chest were both stained with blood, soaking through his clothes.
“Blood?” Patient number 2 immediately tore open Zhang Jingjiu’s clothes. “The wounds are very small but they reach very deep into the flesh. They look like wounds from a sharp knife but the edge of the wound is extremely irregular. There is a fixed distance between the five wounds, what could be the weapon? This is a very strange pattern.”
Probably due to professional reason, the first thing that appeared in patient number 2’s mind was various kind of possible murder weapon. Chen Ge gestured with his hands next to him and then his face paled even more. “Number 2, come and take a look at this wound. Don’t you think they are the result of being punctured by five fingers as they plunged into his body?” Before Chen Ge said that, everything was fine, but after he did say that, the way number 2 looked at him changed. It was very strange. The distance between each wound on Zhang Jingjiu’s body matched the distance between Chen Ge’s fingers perfectly. In other words, Chen Ge’s hand could have perfectly matched the wound on Zhang Jingjiu’s body, giving the feeling that this was a wound left behind by Chen Ge.
“What is going on here?” Doctor Sun was the third person to walk out from the sickroom. The other patients followed behind him, Doctor Gao was the last person to leave the sickroom. The strange thing was, after Doctor Gao left the room, he kept his eyes glued to his watch as if he was waiting for certain things to happen at certain moments.
“Someone is injured! He is losing a lot of blood, we need to send him to the emergency room now!” The patient number 2 gave Zhang Jingjiu a simple bandage of his wounds. “The wounds are around his chest and stomach so we cannot carry him on our back. Hurry and find a stretcher! Someone come and help me support him!”
“The emergency room is at the fourth sick hall, I will bring you over there.” Doctor Sun did not waste time, he had patient number 5 and 2 picked up Zhang Jingjiu and he led the way forward. A human life was on the life. Everyone was desperate to save Zhang Jingjiu so they ran into a hurry. This meant that Chen Ge who had a bag leg was slowly left behind at the back of the group. He ambled right next to Doctor Gao. When he was forced to slow down, Doctor Gao would slow down with his as well, as if the man intended to stay at the back of the group too.
“Doctor Gao, what has happened to the treatment tonight?” The treatment was supposed to be carried out inside the room but as accidents continued to happen, the treatment appeared to have gone out of control. Now Chen Ge could not even tell whether he was experiencing the treatment designed by Doctor Gao or something had really happened at the night. After all, it had not been a peaceful night at the hospital for the past few days. No matter what Chen Ge said, Doctor Gao did not open his mouth to reply. After the latter left the sickroom, other than occasionally lowering his head to check the watch, he did not utter another world. In contrast, it was Doctor Sun who slowly took over the session, it felt as if the restrain that had been placed on him was pulled off.
“Doctor Gao?” Chen Ge pushed lightly on Doctor Gao’s arm. The latter lifted his expressionless face and directed an icy gaze at Chen Ge. The sound of ticking echoed in Chen Ge’s eyes. Even though a storm was roaring outside the hospital, the sound of the mechanical watch was still echoing clearly in Chen Ge’s mind. [There has to be a special meaning behind this ticking sound, if there is a chance I should try to steal the watch away from Doctor Gao.]
Chen Ge was walking next to Doctor Gao, and he quietly observed the other patients who had walked ahead. [Based on the stories told by Doctor Gao back inside the sickroom, there was a very great chance that I am the killer. In other words, I would have killed the other patients according to the plot of Doctor Gao’s story. The hospital has been trying to make me kill people and these people appeared to be already selected. Why would they do something like this, what can they gain from it? Are they trying to fill me with guilt?]
With confusion in his eyes, Chen Ge then turned to Doctor Sun. [And what is with this Doctor Sun? Why would he help me? If the hospital want to submerge me in guilt, they will make me kill those who are close to me. If this Doctor Sun is related to me, then how come my other friends have all been transformed into patients but he has somehow become a doctor at this hospital?]
Chen Ge could not understand the reasoning behind this at all. He also did not dare to dive too deep into this just in case he triggered his past memory. “O well, I guess the only thing I can do is to take it one step at a time.”
After walking down the corner of the corridor, Chen Ge silently turned back to glance at the ‘treatment room’ that they had left. There appeared to be still 7 people sitting inside the room that they had just vacated.