Chen Ge is separated from the outside world by a window with wire mesh. Standing at the window, he can smell the fragrance of flowers, feel the sunshine, feel the breeze, and see the person he misses, but he just can't go out.

The world outside is beautiful and real, but the world belongs to those outside.

His fingers grasped the wire mesh, the rust rubbing against his skin. Chen Ge silently stared at the haunted house on the west side of the park, looking at the actress dressed as a ghost.

Although the other party was wearing ghost makeup, Chen Ge could still recognize her at a glance.

"Just take the treatment well. When your symptoms are relieved and you get the director's approval to be discharged, you can go see her." Doctor Gao was very kind to Chen Ge. He knew Chen Ge's tragic experience. In addition to the doctor's responsibility to the patient, he also sympathized with Chen Ge very much.

"You can only go out after you recover from your illness?" Chen Ge longed for the outside world. He stared at the actress intently. The actress who was selling tickets in the park seemed to sense something and turned her head to look at the hospital.

Their eyes met, and Chen Ge subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he soon discovered that the actress had no ill intentions. There was no discrimination or disgust in her eyes, only curiosity.

Perhaps seeing Chen Ge's uneasy look, the actress with ghost makeup smiled faintly.

The eye contact lasted only a second or two, and then the actress went back to work, handing out flyers to passers-by and holding up billboards, vigorously recommending her haunted house.

"Is it that my former self resembles her, or is it that she is playing the role of my former self..."

There were always two conflicting thoughts in Chen Ge's mind. He couldn't tell whether it was an instinct or a disease.

He didn't dare to think too deeply, because the severe pain that seemed to tear his head apart was not something that everyone could endure easily.

Seeing Chen Ge standing by the window blankly as usual, Dr. Gao sighed softly and left quietly.

The light in the sky gradually became soft, and a touch of orange appeared in the dazzling sunlight. When the setting sun was blocked by the tall buildings, only fiery clouds remained in the sky.

Very beautiful and very nice looking.

Chen Ge stood by the window for the whole afternoon. The temperature gradually dropped. The cool night wind penetrated through his collar and he shivered.

"It's getting dark."

Touching his chest, Chen Ge's mind flashed back to the surveillance footage that Doctor Gao had shown him just now: "The beast-like person in the video, is it really me?"

Surveillance will not lie. Chen Ge subconsciously feels that the surveillance footage is trustworthy. He seems to have confirmed many things through surveillance before.

"The other me is called Xu Yin? If the doctor didn't lie to me, then when will he come?"

Looking at his own body, Chen Ge actually felt a little strange. He held onto the wall and sat down.

It was already dark, but Chen Ge did not choose to close the window. He always felt upset after closing the window, and the whole room became depressing, as if it was a maze with no exit.

"I really want to get out of here."

The theme park outside the window has stopped operating, but the lights in the haunted house are still on.

"She didn't go home? Has she been living in the haunted house?"

"It must be very hard for one person to clean such a big haunted house. It would be great if someone could help her."

"No, why is she alone? She should have her own parents..."

Thinking of this, Chen Ge felt another sharp pain in his head. His parents seemed to be a taboo in his heart. Whenever he thought of anything related to his parents, he would feel severe pain in his brain.

Holding his head with both hands, Chen Ge growled in pain, and he wrinkled the bed sheets with both hands.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

There was a knock on the door and Doctor Gao pushed open the door. When he saw Chen Ge's condition, he immediately ran to the bedside and guided Chen Ge to resume breathing.

After the pain in his brain subsided, Chen Ge collapsed on the bed.

"Empty your mind, stop thinking too much, and have a good sleep." Doctor Gao said and stepped aside. Only then did Chen Ge realize that there was another person standing behind Doctor Gao.

The man was young, with a cold face and seemed to suffer from emotional deficiency.

"Your two previous roommates moved out of this ward for various reasons. This is your new roommate. His name is Zuo Han."

There were three beds in the ward. The patient named Zuo Han did not communicate with Chen Ge. With a cold face, he directly chose the bed near the door.

"I hope you can get along well."

Doctor Gao briefly introduced Zuo Han. During this time, Xu Wan delivered the meal to the ward. After Chen Ge and Zuo Han finished their meal, Doctor Gao took out the medicine bottle from his pocket.

He watched Chen Ge and Zuo Han take the medicine with his own eyes, and then left with Xu Wan.

The wind blew into the ward through the window. Zuo Han sat near the door, while Chen Ge lay near the window, with a bed between them.

Neither of them spoke. After about ten minutes, Chen Ge broke the silence: "If you feel cold, I can close the window."

“No need.” Zuo Han only replied with two words. He stood up, checked the door, and after confirming that the ward was not locked, he lay down on the bed with his shoes on.

"Don't you take off your shoes before sleeping?" Chen Ge felt vaguely that the name Zuo Han was very familiar, but his brain memory could not match this name with the face in front of him. He had just taken the medicine, and his thinking speed had obviously slowed down.

Zuo Han stared at Chen Ge's face for a long time, then said coldly: "I don't take off my shoes so that I can escape from this room at any time."

"Why?" Chen Ge thought of the surveillance video in which he also chose to escape. His brain became dull, but his senses were still sharp. It was like an instinct.

"Because you are in this room, you are a very dangerous patient." Zuo Han rolled his eyes at Chen Ge.

"It's the pot calling the kettle black. If you weren't sick, you wouldn't be locked up here." Chen Ge didn't think he was in danger. He just felt his mind was in a mess. He would feel severe pain if he thought for a while. But if he stopped thinking for a long time, he felt that some memory fragments in his mind would completely disappear.

"I'm not sick. There are indeed many people in this world who want to kill me. This is a fact, not that I'm sick." Zuo Han smiled coldly: "Besides, even if I'm really sick, it's far worse than you."

"Do you know me? Have you heard about me?" Chen Ge's eyes changed.

Zuo Han shook his head. He opened his mouth, revealing the white pill under his tongue. “The doctor only gave me half a pill, and I just saw that he gave you two whole pills! So even if we both have a disease, your disease is much more serious than mine.”

"You didn't take the medicine the doctor gave you?"

"Medicine is for patients. Why should I take medicine if I'm not sick?" Zuo Han stood up and walked to the door. His fingers slid across the corner of his mouth and he took out the pills unnoticeably. "There are surveillance cameras outside the ward. They want to lock me up for life."

Holding the half tablet between his fingertips, Zuo Han ground the tablet into powder bit by bit. He was very cautious and did not stop until the tablet was ground into ashes.

"Can I ask one more question? What disease did the doctor say you have?" From Chen Ge's perspective, it was obvious that Zuo Han was not a normal person.

"They said I had severe paranoia, but I didn't believe a word they said because I knew those doctors had bad intentions. They didn't want to treat me at all, but to harm me."

"Why do you think so?" A person suffering from paranoia was put in the hospital. He refused to take medicine, behaved strangely, and felt that the doctors were not saving him but harming him. This symptom actually proved that he was indeed suffering from paranoia.

“No reason.” Zuo Han paused. “My intuition tells me that things are not that simple. There are many problems in this world. I can’t explain them specifically. If I can leave this hospital, there are countless ways to prove it.”

"Then do your best." Chen Ge looked at his leg wrapped in plaster and said, "It's almost impossible for me to escape."

He had bruises all over his body, one of his legs was severely fractured and had not yet recovered, his brain was sometimes clear and sometimes confused, and he would feel severe pain as long as he thought deeply. It seemed that there was another beast-like personality hidden in his body.

In this situation, Chen Ge didn't think he could escape from the hospital.

"I want to leave too." Chen Ge looked at the park outside the window. The park was pitch black at night without any light.

The ward became quiet again, and neither Chen Ge nor Zuo Han spoke again.

After turning off the bedside lamp, Chen Ge lay in the darkness.

Surrounded by darkness, he felt very comfortable, as if he was finally no longer being spied on by others.

"I didn't do anything all day, but why am I still so sleepy? Is it because of the medicine?" Chen Ge's eyelids became heavy, and before falling asleep, he glanced at Zuo Han's bed.

Zuo Han did not fall asleep. He did not take off his clothes or shoes. He lay on the bed like a cheetah, staring at the door vigilantly, as if a bad guy would break in at the next moment.

…

He could faintly hear the sound of nails scratching on wooden boards. Chen Ge opened his eyes in a daze and found a person standing at the door of the ward.

Zuo Han?

Chen Ge didn't say anything. He pretended to be asleep while moving his eyes.

The sick bed near the door had a bulging quilt, and it seemed that Zuo Han had put a pillow under the quilt.

Not daring to make any sound, Chen Ge quietly stared at the figure in the darkness.

After a few minutes, the figure suddenly turned around and walked directly towards Chen Ge.

There was no sound of footsteps. The man moved slowly and then stopped beside Chen Ge's bed.

"Are you awake?"

Zuo Han's voice came out from the figure's mouth. Chen Ge knew that he was discovered, so he didn't continue pretending: "What are you doing?"

"Of course I'm preparing to escape." Zuo Han whispered, "From the first time I saw you, I felt that you were very familiar. Have I seen you somewhere before?"

"Why are you asking this suddenly?" Chen Ge also lowered his voice.

"When I first moved in, there seemed to be someone standing outside the door. I suspect the doctor and the nurse didn't go far, so I can't talk to you in detail about many things." Zuo Han sat beside Chen Ge's bed: "I must have seen you somewhere. That feeling is not wrong. After all, the first time I saw you, I didn't think you were dangerous. This is almost impossible for me."

"You knew the doctor might be outside, so why did you take the initiative to say that you didn't take the medicine? Aren't you afraid that they will hear it?" Chen Ge was a little confused.

"They know I didn't take the medicine. I said this to deliberately expose my flaws so that they can relax." Zuo Han stared at Chen Ge's face: "Use the flaws they know to paralyze them and make them feel that everything is under control. In fact, they don't know what I am thinking at all."

"You're quite smart." Chen Ge instantly understood what Zuo Han meant. Zuo Han didn't tell the truth in his initial conversation with him.

Zuo Han suspected that the doctor was just outside the door at the time, and he deliberately said those words and did those things, not hesitating to expose some small details, in order to confuse the doctor.

"I feel wary of anyone I see in this world, including doctors and my parents, but you are the only exception." Zuo Han frowned, "It's strange. This is the first time I open my heart to a stranger like this."

"Maybe it's because I look more friendly?"

"Maybe." Zuo Han lowered his voice even more: "It's hard for me to escape from this place alone. I need help. If you are willing to help me, I can take you away with me."

"Are you sure we can escape?" Chen Ge's mind kept flashing back to the surveillance footage that Doctor Gao had shown him. He was terrified by the image of himself being dominated by his bestiality.

“I’m not sure, but I know if I stay here any longer, I’ll probably go crazy.” Zuo Han sat on the bed in the middle of the room. “It’s three o’clock in the morning now. The nurses change shifts at midnight. They will patrol the hospital at midnight and three o’clock in the morning. Each patrol lasts about half an hour.”

"How do you know all this?" Chen Ge looked at Zuo Han with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Are you worried that I'm from the hospital? Are you worried that I'm testing you?" Zuo Han was not angry at all. The cold expression on his face softened a lot. "It seems that you and I are indeed the same kind of people. We both doubt this world from the bottom of our hearts. In fact, it's not us who are sick, but this world. You and I have both realized that we live in a sick world."

After hearing Zuo Han's last words, Chen Ge felt a chill in his heart for no reason, as if the words "morbid world" represented some strong psychological suggestion. He instinctively felt extremely disgusted with these words, as if only a mortal enemy would say such words.

"Is this world really sick? Am I the one who is sick? Or is it this world?" Chen Ge's head began to hurt again.

"Are you okay?" Zuo Han frowned. What he wanted to find was a helper, not a burden. Chen Ge was too weak.

"My head often hurts for no apparent reason. Do you have similar symptoms?" Chen Ge forced himself to calm down. He sorted out his emotions and found something very strange. What he hated in his heart was just the words "sick world". This hatred was not directed at Zuo Han.

"My head has never hurt before. I have to stay awake at all times to deal with various dangers." Zuo Han returned to his bedside and kept a distance from Chen Ge. "I will leave the ward at 3:30 in the morning. I would like to ask you to do me a favor then."

"I'm not in a good condition right now, so I'm afraid I can't help you." Chen Ge thought it would be better not to act impulsively.