Chapter 1165 Exchange of Identities
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Lying on a hospital bed in a mental illness treatment center, Chen Ge perfectly blended into the environment no matter his expression or words.
"A person who is fine during the day, why is he so seriously ill at night?" Zuo Han sat back on his bed, with a long distance from Chen Ge: "I study forensic medicine. After studying for so many years, I am really I have never heard that frequent stimulation can activate memory."
"You study forensics to work with corpses. The situation of living people may be more complicated."
"Do you know how low your body temperature was when you fell ill just now? The only difference between you and a dead person at that time is that you still have a heartbeat." Zuo Han wanted to cooperate with Chen Ge at first, and everyone escaped together, but he Now gradually discovering that this roommate of his is very dangerous, maybe he will kill himself at any time.
From Zuo Han's point of view, Chen Ge is not only sick, but also has other secrets hidden in him.
"Could it be that this hospital has been conducting human experiments?" Zuo Han tried to use his own knowledge to find the answer, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. It is difficult for science to explain Chen Ge's state, which is already the domain of theology.
"Zuo Han, can you tell me some ghost stories? The scariest ones." Lying on the bed, Chen Ge turned to look at Zuo Han with anticipation.
"Are you sick? What ghost story did you hear all of a sudden?" Zuo Han blurted out, and he found that he couldn't understand Chen Ge at all: "You have to listen to ghost stories from sick friends at midnight, and you really want to know what kind of mentality you have to do it?" Say something like that?"
"I just want to give it a try and see if the emotion of fear can stimulate my memory recovery."
Hearing Chen Ge's words, Zuo Han also felt that there was some truth to it. The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and then he told Chen Ge a few ghost stories that he knew.
"Do you feel scared?"
"No, your story doesn't excite me at all."
"No one will get excited after hearing a ghost story!" Zuo Han got up from the bed, and he dragged his hospital bed away from Chen Ge until he reached the door.
At this distance, if Chen Ge is against him, he can open the door and run out immediately.
"Has anything really terrible happened to you?"
"Yes, I was imprisoned in a mental hospital, and my patient asked me to tell him ghost stories at night." Zuo Han couldn't understand Chen Ge's behavior at all, and it was difficult to explain it from the perspective of medicine and occultism.
"Your ghost stories are not scary at all,
How about..." Chen Ge reluctantly raised his hand: "How about we play some psychic games? Such as pen fairy, dish fairy or something? "
No need to think, some things are already engraved in the body, Chen Ge is very familiar with these words.
"Didn't you lose your memory? How do you know so much about these strange things?" Zuo Han realized the problem.
"I had the impression that I was the owner of a haunted house, but the doctor said I assumed someone else's identity and my story was fabricated."
"The doctor may be deceiving you. Judging from your weird behavior tonight, you are keen on seeking thrills, like the feeling of fright, and you are familiar with horror games such as Pen Fairy and Die Fairy. You probably used to run haunted houses. Yes!" Zuo Han rubbed his chin in thought.
"But why did the doctor lie to me?"
"how could I know?"
"Then let's play the Pen Fairy game? I should be able to remember something slowly."
"No play, no pen."
"Where is Die Xian? I also know a horror game called back-to-back, which means that one person lies on the bed and one person hides under the bed board..." Once he thinks deeply, Chen Ge's brain seems to be torn apart, so no matter what he is talking, Or make a certain behavior is from instinct.
Zuo Han didn't talk to Chen Ge anymore. He lay on his side on the bed with a cold face, his back turned to Chen Ge, and began to think about how to escape from the hospital.
Lying in this position for a while, Zuo Han felt inexplicably uneasy again. He recalled what Chen Ge said, and he always felt something was wrong: "Is it possible that he is pretending to be sick? I have my back to him, will he Standing right behind me?"
Goosebumps appeared on his neck, Zuo Han suddenly turned over and found that Chen Ge had fallen asleep.
"The way he fell asleep looks quite normal. I really didn't expect him to say such terrible things."
The ward became quiet. At two o'clock in the morning, there was a sudden noise somewhere in the hospital, as if something had exploded.
Chen Ge and Zuo Han were all awakened. Before they realized what was going on, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the corridor.
"Someone is coming!"
The door of the ward was knocked lightly twice, before Chen Ge and Zuo Han got close, the footsteps went away again.
When Zuo Han opened the door, there was no one in the corridor outside: "Who knocked on the door?"
"By the way, when you went out to check last night, someone knocked on the door, but he only knocked once." Chen Ge found himself recalling the memory after waking up in the hospital. There will be a sense of tearing in the head.
"Knocked once yesterday, and knocked twice today? It seems that the other party came here specifically to do this." Zuo Han stared at Chen Ge: "Do you still know other patients in the hospital? ?”
"I don't remember, since I was hospitalized until now, I seem to have been in a coma many times. Every time I wake up, the memory before the last coma will become blurred."
"Is it possible that this is the case? The hospital wants you to become a 'normal person' that meets their standards, but every treatment fails, so you can only 'restart'?" The more Zuo Han thought about it, the more likely it was: " You may have experienced a similar treatment process many times, but you didn’t realize it.”
"But what does this have to do with the knocker?" Chen Ge lay on the bed, he tried his best not to think, and seized the time to recover his body.
"Will the relationship between you and the knocker be the same as the relationship between us?" Zuo Han boldly speculated: "He should be your former patient. You were 'rebooted' because of treatment failure, and he hid it. Come down, the knock on the door may be some kind of agreement between you, or is he hinting at you?"
"It makes sense." Chen Ge nodded.
"He may show up again tomorrow night. We will find a way to contact him then."
"it is good."
The hospital was not peaceful tonight, there were footsteps in the corridor, and Chen Ge fell asleep when it was almost dawn.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Dr. Gao and Xu Wan entered the ward together.
"How was your rest last night?" Dr. Gao once again ignored Zuo Han who was lying on his side on the bed, and walked directly to Chen Ge's bedside. He looked a little tired.
"It's not very good. Something exploded in the hospital last night, and a loud noise woke me up." Chen Ge looked a little weak, and spoke slowly.
"There is a problem in the boiler room of the hospital, it's not a big deal." Dr. Gao sat on the bed in the middle of the ward: "Did you have a dream last night?"
"No." Chen Ge shook his head: "I feel as if I am forgetting something. Some vague memory fragments in my mind are being covered by new memories. I am very conflicted. I don't know which one is the real me."
"You can realize this, which means that your condition has improved significantly, don't force it, let's take it slowly." Dr. Gao is very patient: "Don't rush to treat mental illness, accept it, recognize it, Then beat it."
After finishing speaking, Dr. Gao turned his head to look at Zuo Han for the first time: "Chen Ge, I heard from the nurse that someone was wandering in the corridor last night. You and your roommate didn't leave the ward last night, right?"
Hearing what Dr. Gao said, Zuo Han opened his eyes, but he was lying on the bed with his back to Dr. Gao, so neither Dr. Gao nor Chen Ge noticed.
"We have been in the room all the time, but I heard footsteps in the middle of the night, it was very chaotic, as if there were a lot of people outside." Chen Ge did not continue this topic, but grabbed the incident that he was woken up just now. Get up: "Doctor Gao, I also discovered something very strange last night."
"you say."
"When I was woken up by the sound of the explosion last night, the instant horror felt like an electric current running through my whole body. I hated that panic feeling very much, and my body kept trembling." Chen Ge clapped his hands on his chest, his face pale .
Dr. Gao listened patiently, while Zuo Han, who was pretending to sleep, curled his lips.
The lunatic who can stare at the mentally ill inside the door with a perverted smile on his face, now actually says that he hates the feeling of panic?
"I seemed to be thrown into a boundless nightmare. I had a headache, heart palpitations, cold sweat, I couldn't breathe, and even felt a sense of weightlessness and near-death." Chen Ge covered his head, speaking quickly: "I The memories of the past seem to be full of fear. When I was frightened again, a deep sense of powerlessness invaded my whole body. I hate the memories of the past and want to completely remove them from my mind! Doctor Gao, can you help me?"
Before Dr. Gao who was sitting by the bed could speak, Zuo Han opened his eyes wide. He already knew what Chen Ge wanted to do.
"Fear makes you loathe and fear the memories of the past?" Dr. Gao nodded slowly: "I have communicated with you before, and the story you imagined is really scary, and it is definitely a bad memory."
With blank eyes, Chen Ge looked at the ceiling stupidly: "It's really too painful, I hate myself in fear."
"This is a normal reaction. You will feel this way, which means that you are gradually being cured." Dr. Gao took out the medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out two pills, and watched Chen Ge take them, then turned and left: "I'll modify the treatment plan, and you will follow Xu Wan to have breakfast later."
After Dr. Gao left, Xu Wan helped Chen Ge up, helped Chen Ge wash up, and then brought Chen Ge to the hospital cafeteria.
"This is the cafeteria of the third ward. When your condition is stable in the future, you can come here to eat by yourself." Xu Wan prepared a meal for Chen Ge before leaving.
"I'm familiar with this scene. In my memory, she often brought me meals." Chen Ge said to himself. He had no friends, and sat alone in the corner of the restaurant, occasionally looking up at the patients around him.
"The third ward of Xinhai Central Hospital is a treatment center for mentally ill patients, which is the same as a place called the third ward in my memory."
Memories interspersed with reality, tightly intertwined, Chen Ge tapped the table lightly with a spoon.
He was expressionless, thinking of one thing in his mind.
"Doctor Gao said that self-knowledge is extremely important for mental patients. The word key to self-knowledge came to my mind some time ago, and the memory that came up with this word is the third ward. Although I don't remember that I was in the third ward. What has been done in the hospital, but one thing is certain, there is a certain connection between the insight key and the third ward. If the third ward I imagined, the prototype in reality is the third ward, that is Doesn't it also indirectly mean that the Insight Key is hidden somewhere in the third ward?"
The key twisted in his hand was deformed, and the pain tormented Chen Ge's nerves, but he persisted with a terrifying will.
"Doctor Gao said that my past memories are all fabricated stories, and the impressive things in my memory can find their prototypes in reality, so I want to see what the key to insight in my memory looks like in reality. "
When Chen Ge thought of the key of insight and the third ward, another memory fragment naturally appeared in his mind: "Intellect is very important for mental patients, and the key of insight is related to the mental hospital. This arrangement It’s not accidental, it feels like someone behind the scenes deliberately set up all this, he seems to have foreseen that one day I will be imprisoned in a mental hospital, and set up the key of insight in advance.”
Every time the brain works, it feels like being pierced by countless needles. This kind of pain is unbearable for most people.
"The key to insight is like a node that triggers memory, pointing out a direction for my thinking."
Turning the key that was about to deform, Chen Ge endured the severe pain and ate his meal bit by bit.
He is slowly getting used to the pain, using the stupidest and cruelest method to face his past.
After eating, Chen Ge came to the garden outside the hospital on crutches: "No matter what, I can no longer be locked up in the isolation ward. I will play whatever kind of person the hospital wants me to be. This way Only then can we have the opportunity to investigate the truth.”
Sitting on the bench, Chen Ge looked at the gazebo in the distance, but Zhang Jingjiu did not come over.
"Will you be punished so severely just for saying a word to me?" The sun shone on Chen Ge's face, but he didn't feel the slightest warmth.
"It seems that Zhang Jingjiu will not come."
A few minutes later, the flowers were arched open, and a cat's head was exposed. This stray cat seemed to have been waiting for Chen Ge, and of course Chen Ge might be waiting for it.
After getting out of the flowers, the white cat bit Chen Ge's trousers and dragged him to the fence, but Chen Ge didn't resist.
It's just that this time it's different from last time. After the white cat led Chen Ge to the fence, it barked at Chen Ge a few times, and then it crawled out along the gap in the fence and ran to the paradise across the road.
"Does it ask me to wait for it here?" Chen Ge has no impression of this cat, neither in his past memory nor in his current memory.
Ten minutes later, just when Chen Ge suspected that he was being dove by a cat, the white cat appeared again, followed by a woman in red.
"Zhang Ya?"
The woman was wearing ghostly makeup, and was slightly taken aback when she heard Chen Ge call out her name.