Chapter 1175 - Brain Maze (2in1) (1/2)

When Chen Ge and the rest left the treatment room appeared to still have seven people sitting in them. The seven people appeared to look like Chen Ge’s group. He rubbed his eyes. When Chen Ge tried to take a closer look, Chen Ge felt a yank on his arm. He turned to look and it was Doctor Gao who was pulling him to the other corner of the corridor. “Perhaps I have mistaken?” 5 patients and 2 doctors had already exited the treatment room, so how could there still be seven people inside the same room?

[Or we are still inside the treatment room? The thing that has exited the room is actually our consciousness or soul?] Chen Ge shook his head to deny this thought because it was too impossible. Currently he did not dare to turn back to investigate it on his own so he followed the rest of them and continued to move forward. The most important thing now was to send Zhang Jingjiu to the emergency unit and try to stabilize his condition.

Doctor Sun, Patient Number 1 and Patient Number 2 walked at the front of the group. They found a stretcher at the nurse station. They carried Zhang Jingjiu and moved down the stairs. Patient number 4 appeared to be very afraid. She was still holding the torn paper butterfly as she kept hiding behind Patient Number 5. With just a glance, it would appear that everyone was acting perfectly normal. Without the patient’s garb, no one would have believed that of the 7 people there, there were 5 of them who were suffering from serious mental illness.

[I have been to the fifth floor before. The patients at the serious treatment zone are noisier than the everyone else. Even at 1 am, this floor should be incredibly noisy but now, there is not even a whimper that could be heard throughout the floor. Have the patients been moved away from this place already?] The only answer that came to Chen Ge was this. He did not think someone could have killed all the patients and he did not think the killer was capable of silencing all the mental patients. [Unless the killer was a doctor and he had fed all the patients with a large amount of sleeping pills tonight.]

Chen Ge turned his head to glance at Doctor Gao, he felt Doctor Gao was turning into a stranger before his eyes. [It is this man who wants me to go insane, it has been twice already he wants to give me the drug that will make me lose control, but how come a doctor like this will give me a sense of familiarity? Is it possible that the Doctor Gao in my memory is not similar to the Doctor Gao currently before me?]

To prevent himself from accidentally triggering the memory from his past, Chen Ge carefully arranged the clues in his mind, [There were seven chairs in total in the treatment room earlier, that should not be a random number. The chairs were so many for a reason.] The few patients and doctors carried Zhang Jingjiu to the first floor. There was no one to be found at the nurse stations or duty rooms. The whole block was swallowed by the darkness, it was as if the hospital had been abandoned for a long time already.

“What is going on here? If it is just a simple loss of electricity, there should still be plenty of patients inside their room!” Patient number said urgently. He was worried about Zhang Jingjiu’s injury and at the same time, he felt the hospital that night was filled with strangeness everywhere.

“When I entered the treatment room, everything was still perfectly normal.” Doctor Sun walked at the front to lead the way. He was moving very fast like he was trying to escape from something.

“We have been in the room for at most several minutes only, it is impossible that everything has changed so drastically in such a short amount of time!” Patient Number 2 was still quite rational even though the diagnosis that the hospital had given him was that he suffered from delusion.

“Yes, this is too strange!” Patient Number 5 was very afraid too but he still stood firmly beside Patient Number 4. If there was any actual danger, he would bring Patient Number 4 away with him at the first notice. The few patients kept grumbling, perhaps he was annoyed by their endless question, Doctor Sun who walked at the front of the group suddenly stopped. He turned back to glance at Doctor Gao. After he made sure that Doctor Gao was now like a dead man, with no expression on his face, Doctor Sun’s eyes wandered over to Chen Ge. “Actually there is a ghost story at this hospital. According to legend, if you push open a door at the hospital after midnight, you will be able to see the other side of the hospital!” When Doctor Sun said that, he kept his eyes on Chen Ge as if the statement was meant for Chen Ge to hear and process.

“Push open the door and see the other side of the hospital?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Doctor Sun, are you really a doctor at this hospital?”

The patients bombarded him with questions but Doctor Sun did not reply any of them. It was as if by saying the statement earlier, he had already taken a huge risk already. For the patients, this was the first time they had met Doctor Sun, and the only person who knew about Doctor Sun’s real identity was Doctor Gao, but the latter was acting very strangely at this moment. Not saying a word, his body temperature continuing to drop, to give it a more accurate description, Doctor Gao was slowly turning into a dead man before their eyes. The patients had many questions but none of them was going to get any answer. The doors and windows of the hospital were closely shut. They had nowhere else to run so the only choice they had was to keep on following the doctor and moving forward.

Pushing open the door that led to safety corridor of the third sick hall, two dark and long corridors appeared before Chen Ge. He had been to this place with Zuo Han before but back then, he was playing the character of his second persona.

“Move quickly, do not stay inside the corridor for too long.” Doctor Sun chose the corridor that Chen Ge did not pick the last time. Doctor Sun kept urging them so even Chen Ge who was at the back of the group had started to pick up speed. When they had entered the safety corridor, the door on the other end of the corridor behind them closed with a bang on its own.

“There is someone following behind us?” Chen Ge now was getting more and more confused, there were too many unanswered questions. First they had encountered Zhang Jingjiu who was heavily injured. Then after they had supposedly left, Chen Ge realized there were still seven people sitting in the treatment room. Now the door behind them had closed on its own, a proof that people were following behind them. Chen Ge who had not fully recovered felt the splitting headache was about to come again.

“This is the fourth sick hall. All of the patients with terminal illness and heavy conditions will be transferred here.” Doctor Sun swept a glance at Chen Ge and added as if casually, “Many people have lost their lives here.” No one understand the meaning behind Doctor Sun’s last statement. The doctor did not appear like he was going to provide any explanation either, he only tried to move faster. The electrical system at the whole hospital appeared to have gone down for the night, they could only borrow the temporary brightness provided by the flickering lightning from outside the window to move forward in the darkness. The fourth sick hall had a completely different internal structure than the third sick hall. There were not that many sickrooms that were available for patients. The ground floor was occupied mostly by various medical rooms.

“There is no one at the duty rooms at this sick hall as well.” Patient Number 2 said desperately. “We need to stop the bleeding on this patient as soon as possible or else he will be in mortal danger!”

“Why are all the pictures on the wall of the duty room at the fourth sick hall are of that of males?” Doctor Fang looked at the faces on the wall and subconsciously took a step back.

“How is that a strange thing? Is it that weird that they are all males?” Patient Number 5 asked softly.

“I used to be a surgeon. There was a period of time when many of the patients at our hospital were attempting suicide, it caused a lot of pressure on the staff. To protect the female doctors, we only assigned male doctors when we were deciding the night shifts.” After exiting the treatment room, Doctor Fang had failed to calm down. He would occasionally glance behind him for no reason as if worried that there was someone about to harm him who was hiding behind the nearest corner.

“You used to be a surgeon?” Patient number 2 was startled and then he turned to tell Doctor Sun, “We have a surgeon among us, so it does not matter whether there are people in the duty room or not. Now we only need some tools and we can help save this patient’s life.”

“But I was a ENT doctor…”

“It will be fine. I am a forensic doctor and thus know a bit of surgery skill, I will be able to help you.” Patient Number 2 did things quickly and swiftly. Even though he was not that much older than Patient Number 1, he was proven to be more adept at dealing with emergencies. Doctor Sun looked at the various patients and he only said lightly, “Follow me.”