Chapter 1177 - Jar of Heart (2in1) (1/2)
Translator: Lonelytree
There were 7 dead bodies in the hospital in the short amount of time. Each of them constituted a strange death but there did not appear to be a conspicuous thread tying them all together. [Doctor Sun purposely reminded me to pay attention to their cause of death but there is not any big problem just from their cause of death, or Doctor Sun is trying to tell me that there are actual existence of ghost in this world through the stories of these seven unfortunate victims?] Chen Ge had too little information and he was unable to retrieve too much information from Doctor Sun’s stories so all he could do for now was to memorize the details of these stories in his mind for now.
The lightning continued to flash outside the hospital, the storm was like a desperate patient in and of itself. The wind lashed at the windows, the rain fell constantly on the roof, the sound echoing non stop in everyone’s ears.
When the four people came to the mouth of the corridor that would lead them to the fourth sick hall, Doctor Sun stopped posing Chen Ge any questions, instead Doctor Sun led Chen Ge directly down the corridor. After they entered the corridor, Chen Ge’s heart started to race, in fact his heart was pumping so fast that he felt like he was having trouble breathing. His mind kept repeating the stories that Doctor Sun just told him for some unknown reason. [The doctor who was looking through the surveillance saw a strange character in a red shirt in the corridor before. After that person gone up the stairs, she never came down again. This night is proving to be a strange night, I wonder if the few of us will run into her tonight.]
Theoretically speaking, this was something very scary but once Chen Ge considered the possibility of that, he only felt his heart race even faster and an indescribable feeling started to overwhelm his person. It was very complicated. Instead of fear, it felt more like curiosity and excitement.
[Curiosity kills the cat, I have to calm down first. There is no need to get ahead of myself.] After they reached the second floor, Chen Ge noticed there was a ragdoll that had lost its head sitting at the corner of the corridor that turned into the staircase. The doll was hand made. The body was torn apart and the opening exposed the black and red colored stuffing inside.
“Why is there such a thing at the hospital?” Chen Ge was about to go over to take a look at it when someone pulled on his clothes. Chen Ge turned around to look and realized it was Patient Number 2. “What’s wrong?”
“Why are you still so courageous even after you have broken a leg? Do not wander off from the rest of the group, we need to stick together.” Patient Number 2’s voice was filled with concern. It was clear that he really did have Chen Ge’s best interest at heart.
“Alright, I was just going to over to take a look.” Chen Ge had no idea why but his power of sight was incredibly good. Even in the darkness, he could see many things incredibly clearly. Perhaps this was caused by some kind of eye disease or at least that was what Chen Ge told himself. When they reached the corner, Chen Ge’s brows slowly locked together. There appeared to be animal organs stuffed inside the ragdoll’s body, it looked quite disgusting.
“Do not get too close to it. There was a pregnant woman who registered at the hospital before. Due to complication during childbirth, the child died during the surgery. The mother survived the surgery but it was hard to say it was a good thing. She slowly lost her mind and for that she was transferred to the third sick hall. During her period there, she had been searching for her own son.” Doctor Sun explained as he started expressionlessly on the ragdoll on the ground.
“You mean to say this ragdoll is left here by that pregnant mother?”
“Other than her, I cannot imagine anyone else would do something like this. Actually I pity her conditions. Perhaps because of the trauma, she refuses to admit the fact that her child is already dead, she kept on telling the people around her that her child is still alive and they are just around her. They will even crawl into her bed and lay beside her pillow at night.” Doctor Sun dragged Chen Ge away from the decapitated ragdoll.
“Then does that mean that she suffered from delusion?” Chen Ge asked. He felt like he could empathize with the lady.
“Yes and no.” Doctor Sun turned back to give him a smile. “The woman’s condition is very similar to yours. She refused to take our treatment because perhaps she understood well inside her heart that once she was cured, she would not have the chance to see her own child again.”
“How does that mean that her condition is very similar to mine?” Chen Ge could not understand it. He did not pine for any lost child the last time he checked.
“If the sacrifice for becoming better is to wipe out completely the stories that you have made up for yourself in the past, forget everything and everyone that existed in your stories, would you have voluntarily received the treatment?” Doctor Sun dropped the question in a casual but Chen Ge had a feeling that this was some kind of test. Chen Ge gave it a serious thought for a while. In the end, Chen Ge did not answer it, he did not want to expose the true thoughts inside his mind.
“Regarding these patients that refuse to be treated from the very beginning, no matter how hard the doctors tried, it would be pointless. The condition of the mother became more and more serious. She would often tore out pieces of the bedsheet or the curtain and made them into simple dolls. And then she would place the dolls at the corner of the stairs. For some reasons, she believed this would bring her child back to her. Until now I still could not understand the reasoning behind it. How could the ragdolls have helped with the return of her child? Would the child be attracted by the ragdolls and thus came searching for their mother or the dead child would occupy the dolls’ bodies and came back to accompany their mother?”
“No matter which of the circumstance it was, I do not think we should have aversion to this ragdoll. Even though it looks scary, it possesses the lingering spirit of that pregnant mother.” Chen Ge dragged his broken leg and stood before the ragdoll. What he said stunned Doctor Sun and Patient Number 2. They did not know how to react for a brief moment.
“You are pitying the mother?” Doctor Sun asked to confirm.
“it is not really that. Let analyse this from a more rational perspective. What has the mother done wrong in her position? Even if the child has turned into a ghost, is that the child’s fault?” Chen Ge’s way of thinking was obviously different from the doctors. “They are both victims, the real culprit is the ones who have killed them.”
“You mean to say this tragedy is caused by the doctor?” Once Doctor Sun uttered that statement, Doctor Gao who had been acting like a walking zombie slightly frowned.
“No, I am not saying it is the doctor’s full responsibility, but it must have been related to him somehow. So many things have happened at this hospital, no one could have guaranteed that nothing has interrupted the doctor during the surgery.” Chen Ge looked at the headless doll that sat at the corner of the staircase. “There is no debt without creditors, if it is trying to look for a closure, then it will have to do with something inside the hospital has done.”
“Are you trying to reason with a ghost?” Patient number 2 also could not understand the various actions done by Chen Ge so far.
“I cannot tell for sure whether there are ghosts in this world or not, I am just voicing my own opinion.” Chen Ge moved his eyes away. “The hospital will be cleaned every day in the morning, but the ragdoll still appeared here at the staircase. This meant that the pregnant woman might still be alive. That proves that there are other survivors inside this hospital, this should be a good news for us.”
“The pregnant woman died on the third month during her treatment. When she passed away, we found a closet filled with ragdolls inside her room.” After Doctor Sun dropped this bomb, both Chen Ge and Patient Number 2 were stumped.
“She is no longer here? Then who placed the ragdoll here?” Patient Number 2 still refused to admit there was ghost in the world. “Only the doctors would know about the pregnant woman’s story, the killer is mimicking the pregnant woman, does this mean that the killer is a doctor?” Then he turned his accusatory gaze at Doctor Sun, honestly he suspected Doctor Sun a lot.