Chapter 29: Cake Man Patients Started Eating Themselves Raw, and They Still Talked About Recovery...
"Why bother?"
Cecia interrupted him.
“As long as I can see the treatment process, it doesn’t matter who the patient is.”
"...Li Feng's next treatment is scheduled for tonight, which is two hours from now."
After a pause, Wilbert took out the schedule from the booklet.
"Very good, it looks like the answer will be revealed soon."
The corner of her mouth curled up into an expectant smile, but under the influence of her current appearance, the originally normal smile became much more sinister.
Handing her the schedule, Wilbert looked away and told her in detail some information that only doctors knew, as well as Li Feng's personality and behavior.
"I see. Do you have any information about the patient?"
As if he had anticipated her question, Wilbert directly handed her the turned records.
【Bed No. 1 in Ward 412】
Name: Shi Wu
Gender: Male
Symptoms: Bulimia
Symptoms: The patient has a strong desire for food and will imagine all kinds of inedible objects as food. If he is not controlled, he will put everything he sees into his mouth, chew and swallow.
Treatment plan: Control diet and improve cognition.
Treatment record: After many treatments, the patient gradually came to think that he was the most delicious food and tried to eat himself.
Final treatment: Due to the patient's rapid recovery, he will receive one final treatment.
Patients have started eating themselves raw, and they say it helps them recover faster?
This hospital's record is as outrageous as ever.
After browsing the patient's details, Cecia wanted to see the treatment process even more.
The two of them took a short rest and soon arrived at the agreed time.
Cecia left with the medical team, while Wilbert was responsible for watching Li Feng in the lounge to ensure that he could not leave the locker.
…
It was another long and tortuous road, but this time nothing happened. Cecilia followed them and successfully arrived at the basement of the hospital.
As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, the smell of damp earth hit me in the face.
The decoration styles of the hospital's underground and above-ground areas are completely different. The above-ground area is fully equipped and very modern, while the basement is like an undeveloped wasteland, with sand everywhere and no electric lights installed. Doctors have to rely on flashlights to move forward.
Passing through the narrow and dark corridor, they came to a corridor that seemed to have no end.
There are iron doors on both sides of the corridor. It is roughly estimated that there are at least dozens of rooms, and an unknown word is written on each iron door.
"Doctor Li, after this treatment, the patient should be able to recover."
Stopping in front of a heavy iron door on the left, the masked doctor spoke to Cecia respectfully.
After spending time together, Cecia learned that the masked doctor's surname was Zhang. Apart from Wilbert, he was the least experienced doctor here, with no independent patients to take care of. He usually went to the treatment room to help other doctors.
However, "Li Feng" is a man who is arrogant and always tries to curry favor with the dean. He even ignores doctors of the same profession.
So she didn't answer, but just nodded slightly.
Taking advantage of the gap in the door, Cecia saw the crooked words written on the iron door -
"Cake Man"
Unlike the dirt road outside, the treatment room is exquisitely decorated. Not only are the walls covered with wallpaper, but there are also expensive crystal chandeliers installed on the ceiling of the room.
There were no medical equipment here, and in the middle was a nearly eight-meter-long dining table. It was long enough for many people to dine, but it was only equipped with one chair.
The dining table was set with tableware, flowers, and candles—it felt more like a private room in a high-end restaurant than a treatment room.
But the doctor didn't show any strangeness about the decoration here, as if he was used to it.
They worked together to lift the patient off the bed and placed him on the only chair next to the dining table. Then they opened the medical box and took out the corpses of seven different animals.
Mouse, rabbit, goat head...
Just like serving food, they placed the bodies neatly on the plate in a certain order.
Seeing that the preparations were almost done, Dr. Zhang's eyes flashed with enthusiasm. He smiled at Cecia and said flatteringly, "Let me do it this time."
He took two steps forward, cut his wrist with a scalpel, and splashed the liquid on the patient, while muttering something in a low voice.
Cecia stood aside and watched the other party's behavior coldly.
This so-called "treatment" has nothing to do with medicine. Instead, it is more like a sacrificial ritual in her original world.
As time passed, the chandelier on the top began to sway, as if announcing the arrival of something.
At the same time, the effect of the sedative had worn off, and the patient Shi Wu slowly woke up. The restraints on his body had been removed by the doctor as soon as he left the bed.
After regaining his freedom, Shi Wu's first reaction was to eat.
Looking at the animal carcasses on the dining table with anxious eyes, he did not pounce on them to eat them. Instead, he picked up the knife and fork and elegantly cut the bloody carcasses.
Some of the corpses had already begun to rot and stink, but he still stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them carefully, as if he was savoring a delicious meal.
The doctors around him not only did not stop him, but watched his actions silently with smiles from the bottom of their hearts on their faces.
Soon, all the corpses on the table were eaten up by him, but the hunger in his stomach did not ease at all.
He turned and stared at the doctor, looking eager to try.
The doctors were not scared, but brought a full-length mirror and placed it facing Shi Wu.
"Look at this, don't you want to taste it? This is the most delicious food in the world..."
Doctor Zhang spoke softly, forcing the other party to look at the mirror, with deliberate inducement in his words.
“I think… this is my lifelong pursuit!”
Reminded by the doctor, Shi Wu murmured, placed his right hand on the dinner plate in front of him, and stabbed it with the knife without hesitation.
What is this doing?
Cecia frowned and was about to say something, but was stopped by Dr. Zhang.
"Shh-"
He put his finger to his lips with an exaggerated smile on his face.
“They are already here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, all the doctors turned their heads in unison and stared at the back of the patient.
But in Cecia's eyes, there was nothing there.
At this moment, the patient had cut off his finger. He cut it into small pieces and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully, with an intoxicated expression on his face, as if he had really eaten the most delicious food.
After tasting his right hand, he started to work on his arm...
"Look! His arms are like cake!"
“Is this their ability?”
"Of course! The finger that was covered in blood a second ago, now you can't see any skin or flesh texture at all. It's clearly just a strawberry cake!"
“…”
They were whispering nearby, admiring "their" amazing abilities, but she saw no difference from before - the arm was still an arm, it was extremely bloody when it was cut, and had no resemblance to a cake at all.
These doctors...seem to be able to see "them".
The images she saw were different from those of the doctor. Could it be related to “them”?
While Cecia was thinking, Dr. Zhang suddenly approached, his voice trembling with excitement: "Dr. Li, since the patient has recovered, you will take the last step."
As he spoke, he handed Cecia a white pill.
Under the expectant gaze of all the doctors, Cecilia slowly walked towards the patient and put the pills on the patient's plate.
The patient had a gentle smile on his bloody face and even nodded at her politely.
The other person gracefully pierced the pill with a fork, then put it into his mouth to taste it carefully.
Two seconds later, he seemed to feel something and his whole body suddenly trembled. His neck turned stiffly behind him, and his eyes were in the same direction as the doctor's.
"I see them... I finally see them!"
he shouted, leaping behind him in excitement.
"Great Lord! There is no creature more perfect than them. Everything I have is given by them. Please let me return my life to them!"
…
Coming out of the treatment room, Cecia still didn't understand what treatment was.
Everyone could see "them" except her, and she just found it baffling.
"Congratulations, Dr. Li."
Doctor Zhang was still immersed in excitement.
"This patient is already a finished product and can be discharged this Friday. I heard that your most perfect work before was the tooth-shaped skull. I wonder if you can surpass it this time?"
A toothed skull? What is that?
Hearing this strange name, Cecilia could only have some uncomfortable associations.
"Beyond the toothed skull?"
The bespectacled doctor next to him suddenly spoke up, his tone full of contempt and disdain: "Xiao Zhang must have never seen the real thing, so he can say such things."
"Speaking of which, Xiao Zhang has been in the hospital for almost a year. Why not take this opportunity to open his eyes?"
This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone.
Led by the spectacled doctor, they walked to the room on the right and opened an iron door with the words "Dentate Skull" written on it.
The decoration here is completely different from the treatment room just now. The room is empty, with only a display cabinet placed in the center area.
“Although I have seen it many times, I am still fascinated by this great work.” The optician said, “If I can make half of it, I will have no regrets in my life.”
“I had only heard of it before, but I didn’t expect it to be so perfect.”
Perhaps because it was his first time seeing it, Dr. Zhang was completely fascinated. He held the display cabinet and admired it from almost 360 degrees, wishing he could just take it away.
Listening to the doctors' praise, Cecia, who was walking at the end, couldn't help but step forward and quietly observe the things in the display cabinet.
It was a human skull.
The exterior of the skull is very ordinary, and from a distance it looks no different from other bones, but if you turn the angle slightly, you can see densely packed teeth.
The teeth covered the entire inner wall of the skull, as if they were gnawing at something in the brain.
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