The memory became fragments. Every time Chen Ge recalled it, he felt a splitting headache. He endured it silently, and blue veins appeared on his hands that were grasping the bed sheets.

Seeing Chen Ge in such pain, Xu Wan stopped talking and held Chen Ge's arm: "I know you are in pain. After dinner, have a good sleep."

Xu Wan picked up the food on the bedside table and fed Chen Ge little by little with a spoon.

The taste buds can clearly feel the aroma of vegetables and meat, which is very real.

Chen Ge swallowed his food mechanically, his eyes a little dazed.

The fragments of memory that occasionally emerged in his mind told him that everything Xu Wan said was true, he had indeed been looking for his parents, and he rarely drove to a certain place.

The more he thought about it, the more he disliked driving.

Picking up a tissue, Xu Wan wiped Chen Ge's mouth: "If there is anything, call me anytime. You should have a good rest. If you recover well, you can be moved out of the isolation ward tonight. I know you really want to return to the general ward."

"Why do I want to go back to the general ward so much? Is it dangerous to live in the isolation ward?" The word "isolation ward" made Chen Ge feel uncomfortable. He had a deep impression of these four words in his mind.

"There is no danger here. No one will hurt you. The only reason you want to go back to the general ward is because you can see the scenery outside the hospital wall there." Xu Wan left with the dishes.

"See the scenery outside the courtyard wall?"

After Xu Wan left, the ward became quiet again. Chen Ge lay in bed. If he didn't think about anything, the pain in his body would be relieved a lot.

The sun shone on his body. Resting his head on a clean pillow, Chen Ge stared out the window.

It was a sunny day with a few free-floating clouds in the blue sky. The only thing that spoiled the view was the iron mesh on the window.

“Is the iron mesh to prevent thieves from coming in, or is it to prevent patients from escaping?”

The environment of this hospital is very good and makes people feel comfortable, but Chen Ge feels inexplicably uneasy and he doesn't know what he is afraid of.

As long as he tried hard to recall something, he would feel severe pain. When he didn't think about anything and lay on the sickbed like a doll, the pain would slowly disappear.

Chen Ge slowly moved his body and tried to control his muscles. After about an hour, he was finally able to stand up from the ass on his own.

"There are dark purple blood marks on my wrists and ankles from the restraints, bruises on my back and shoulders, my left leg is wrapped in plaster, and my cheek is scratched..." Chen Ge was checking his body. His gaze moved slowly and finally froze on the back of his hand, where there was a blood-drop-shaped wound.

"How did this wound appear?"

As soon as Chen Ge started to think, his brain nerves seemed to be grabbed by a hand. The piercing pain almost made him collapse.

“Bang!”

The door of the ward was pushed open again, and Doctor Gao walked in alone, holding a document in his hand. When he saw that Chen Ge had sat up, he looked a little surprised: "It seems that you have recovered well."

"Doctor Gao, my head hurts." Chen Ge sat on the edge of the bed, his body still very weak.

"It's not time to take medicine yet. Come, follow me. Cross your hands over your chest and take a deep breath." Doctor Gao patiently instructed Chen Ge. After he calmed down, Doctor Gao moved a chair and sat next to the bed: "Do you remember what happened last night?"

"last night?"

"You suddenly fell ill last night, and it seemed that you had severe hallucinations. I had to call three nurses to control you." Dr. Gao took out a mechanical watch from his pocket, glanced at the time, and then put the watch on the bedside table.

The hands of a mechanical watch make a very faint sound when they move, accompanied by a specific rhythm.

"Tell me what you are talking about, just as if you were chatting with a friend. You don't have to worry about anything. Tell me whatever you think of or see." Doctor Gao smiled. "You just need to be careful not to lie or say anything that goes against your conscience."

"I can't remember, I only know that I entered a dark and gloomy hospital last night." The memories in his mind had turned into fragments. Chen Ge lowered his head with a painful expression.

"What is the name of the hospital? What did you see in the hospital? Was there anyone else around you?" Dr. Gao asked the next question accompanied by the sound of the mechanical watch hands moving.

"That hospital seems to be called Xinhai Central Hospital. I saw all kinds of words. The person who accompanied me in was... Zhang Ya?" A name suddenly popped up in Chen Ge's mind. After he said it subconsciously, he immediately covered his head. The severe pain made him curl up on the bed. He kept screaming: "It hurts! My head hurts!"

Doctor Gao sighed softly, unscrewed the medicine bottle, and fed Chen Ge two more white pills.

After taking the medicine, Chen Ge's symptoms were slightly relieved. He lay back on the bed, his face frighteningly pale.

"Your condition has worsened again. You stayed in Xinhai Central Hospital the whole night and didn't go anywhere. The eerie hospital you saw is here." After seeing Chen Ge calm down, Doctor Gao pointed around and said, "Do you think this place is eerie?"

The sunlight illuminated the ward very brightly. The room was clean and tidy. This place had nothing to do with being scary or gloomy.

"Maybe it's different here during the day and at night." Chen Ge felt vaguely that he seemed to have said something similar somewhere.

"There is no difference between the hospital during the day and at night. The building is lifeless. What really changes is you." Doctor Gao said slowly: "You in the daytime are completely different from you at night."

"I?"

"You can communicate normally during the day, but at night you are like a wild beast." Doctor Gao put the information in his hand on the patient's bed: "At first we thought you just had post-traumatic stress disorder, then we found that you also suffered from severe paranoia, and just a while ago we discovered the existence of another personality in you."

"Another personality?" Chen Ge's brain became a little slow. After receiving so much information at the same time, he was unable to process it for a while.

"Take a look at the surveillance video from last night first." Dr. Gao took out his mobile phone, which was pure white and had a large screen.

After pressing the play button, a blurry video began to play on Dr. Gao's mobile phone screen.

Chen Ge, who was lying on the bed, suddenly sat up. He dragged his plastered leg, held onto the wall, and quietly walked to the door of the ward.

When midnight arrived, he pushed open the door of the ward and tried to escape from the hospital, but was seen by the nurse on duty. A conflict broke out between the two sides. Chen Ge on the screen was like a wild beast, shouting words that no one could understand, and struggling desperately with the nurse.

Two or three minutes later, two other nurses arrived, and the three of them worked together to control Chen Ge and sent him to the isolation ward.

The surveillance video did not end here. Chen Ge, lying on the sickbed, struggled with all his might. His eyes were red and almost bleeding.

His body was twisted and deformed, as if he was suffering unimaginable pain. His mouth kept opening and roaring, as if he was shouting in pain.

"Is this me?" Chen Ge was lying on the bed, watching the surveillance video silently. He had no recollection of such a thing happening.

"He is you, but he is also not you. To be more precise, he is your second personality. He exists because of your illness." Doctor Gao said in a serious tone, "You have an impression of his existence, and you have been relying on him, but you just don't want to admit it."

"No, I'm just myself. There's no one else in my body." Chen Ge shook his head firmly.

"Really?" Doctor Gao pulled out a page from the file: "In the bizarre story you told me before, you had a ghost who had been protecting you. That evil ghost guarded you without asking for anything in return. He even regarded protecting you as the only meaning of his existence."

Veins popped up on his forehead. Before the pain came, Chen Ge nodded: "I remember him. This is not something I made up..."

"Do you still remember your father's last name?" Dr. Gao suddenly changed the subject.

"The last name is Chen."

"May I have your name?"

"Chen Ge."

"What's your mother's last name?"

"Xu."

"Think again, what was the name of that ghost?" Dr. Gao spoke very quickly, without any pause between each question.

"His name is...Xu Yin." Chen Ge covered his head in pain.

Doctor Gao placed the information in front of Chen Ge and pointed to a record from a month ago: "The name you gave to your second personality is Xu Yin. You are Chen Ge during the day, and Xu Yin at night. The ghost who has always been with you, bearing all the pain and protecting you without asking for anything in return is actually you."

"impossible!"

"It's normal that you don't realize it. According to my observation, the main reason why the second personality appears is that you put too much pressure on yourself. You need a pressure-bearing personality to help you share the pain."

"Absolutely impossible! Xu Yin really exists! I remember him!"

"He does exist, but he only exists in your story and in your mind." Doctor Gao spoke to Chen Ge in a very gentle tone: "Every time you wake up from a coma, I am the first person to communicate with you and your first listener. In your story, Xu Yin always appears when you are in danger. He is not that powerful, but he will do everything he can to help you through the difficulties. Think about it carefully, does that lonely figure who is not that powerful look familiar? Does it look like you?"

Under the guidance of Dr. Gao, the figure in Chen Ge's mind became blurred, and then slowly overlapped with his own figure.

They have a lot in common: loneliness, pain, and sadness that cannot be shared with others.

"Xu Yin, Chen Ge..." Different fragments of memory emerged in Chen Ge's mind. He didn't know who to believe, but he quickly adjusted his state of mind: "Impossible, if Xu Yin is my second personality, then my previous experiences should all be false, but I remember clearly that they were all true! There are really ghosts in this world! Xu Yin also exists in reality!"

Chen Ge held on to the fragmented memory fragments in his mind. Reason told him that what Dr. Gao said might be right, but he just couldn't believe it.

"There are no ghosts in the world. The scariest thing is the human heart." Every word Dr. Gao said resonated with Chen Ge. Chen Ge subconsciously believed that Dr. Gao was right, but he felt inexplicably uneasy.

"Let's go. I've already completed the procedures for you to move back to the general ward. I hope you can get better soon." Doctor Gao called Xu Wan, and the two of them helped Chen Ge out of the isolation ward.

There was a faint smell of disinfectant floating in the clean and bright corridor. The doors of the wards on both sides were locked, and there was a thin curtain on the window glass. Standing in the corridor, one could not see the situation inside the ward at all.

Walking through the corridor, it was a bit noisy outside and there were many patients in the corridor.

"Make way."

Doctor Gao sent Chen Ge to the first ward at the corner of the second floor. This ward was much larger than the previous one and had three beds.

"You should still remember which bed you are in, right?" Doctor Gao asked in a low voice, but Chen Ge looked confused.

"It seems that you have forgotten again. It's okay. Take your time. Once your brain injury is fully recovered, you shouldn't be in so much pain anymore." Doctor Gao helped Chen Ge to the bed by the window.

Sitting on the bed, Chen Ge looked out the window. Outside the protective fence was a not-so-large amusement park.

From the bed where Chen Ge was, he could just see the entire amusement park.

Most tourists are concentrated in the east side of the park, far away from Xinhai Central Hospital, where there are a large number of high-tech entertainment facilities, while the west half of the park close to the hospital is relatively quiet and has very few tourists.

The west side of the park is mostly filled with old-fashioned entertainment projects, among which the most conspicuous one is a haunted house.

The moment he saw the haunted house, memories began to churn in Chen Ge's mind. He covered his head, but he did not look away. He endured the pain and stared at the haunted house built on the west side of the park.

"Is this New Century Paradise?"

"This park is called Xinhai Park. You often stand by the window and watch it all day long."

"I remembered something." Chen Ge grabbed his hair with both hands. Fine blood vessels appeared on his face and sweat kept oozing out of his forehead. "I used to work in the park. I inherited my parents' haunted house. I own a horror house they left behind!"

"Just like her?" Compared with Chen Ge's crazy tone, Dr. Gao's voice was very calm. He stretched out his finger and pointed at the entrance of the park's haunted house.

Chen Ge looked in the direction Dr. Gao pointed. Standing at the entrance of the park's haunted house was a woman dressed as a ghost. Her makeup was soaked with sweat and she was wearing a red skirt. She was holding a billboard and selling tickets in front of the guardrail of the haunted house.

"Zhang Ya?" Chen Ge was stunned when he saw the woman's face.

"In order to treat you, I went to find out. The identity you gave yourself in the story was actually stolen from that woman. Her family opened a haunted house here ten years ago, and her parents' generation has been running haunted houses." Doctor Gao shook his head and looked at Chen Ge with a trace of pity. "She is the one who runs the haunted house in the park for a living, and you have been hiding behind the window of the hospital to peek at her. You have never even spoken a word to her, but you visited her haunted house once a long time ago and knew her name was Zhang Ya."

"Impossible, she is a ghost, the most important ghost to me!" Chen Ge felt a sharp pain in his brain again.

"If you really care about her that much, then wait until you recover and go find her in person. You will scare her like this." Doctor Gao helped Chen Ge to the bedside.