Looking at himself in the surveillance video, Chen Ge felt a deep fear. He showed an expression of disbelief. The shock and fear did not seem to be pretended at all.
"Is that really me?" Chen Ge's tone was full of doubt and uncertainty. He avoided her gaze and didn't even dare to look.
"The video can be fake, but the injuries on your arms and fingers won't lie to you." Dr. Gao put away his white-shelled phone: "No one wants to believe that there is another person living inside their body, but sometimes we have to face it."
Chen Ge sat in a daze, his expression making people reluctant to disturb him.
Doctor Gao looked at him for a while and couldn't help but comfort him: "The crazier your second personality is, the more effective our treatment is. He is afraid. He is worried that he will disappear one day. Don't be too sad. Take a good rest here and don't put too much pressure on yourself. The treatment of mental illness is a very slow process and can't be rushed."
Chen Ge nodded slowly, still in shock. He seemed not to have listened to what Doctor Gao said at all, but just obeyed the doctor's words instinctively.
"You should stay in the isolation ward tonight. Once your condition stabilizes, we can consider returning you to the general ward." Doctor Gao fed Chen Ge three white pills and prepared to leave.
"Doctor Gao..." Chen Ge turned around and looked at Doctor Gao who had already walked to the door: "Can my disease really be cured?"
"No problem. You have to have confidence in the hospital and yourself." Doctor Gao said and left. Chen Ge was the only one left in the isolation ward.
The wounds on his arms had been treated and would not get worse. Perhaps because of the black potion powder he had taken, the broken leg wrapped in plaster was slowly regaining feeling.
After Doctor Gao left, Chen Ge lay on the bed. The pain and struggle on his face slowly disappeared, leaving only calmness.
If someone saw his eyes at this moment, they would probably be shocked. Chen Ge's pupils were slowly shrinking: "The hospital is lying. They don't want to cure me at all. They want to turn me into a monster that meets their requirements."
Resting his head on the pillow, Chen Ge turned his head and glanced at the restraints: "I must leave the isolation ward as soon as possible and get in touch with Zuo Han. He seemed to have made some important discoveries in the security room and the night doctor's office last night."
Under the nose of the hospital, the two patients used their lives as a bargaining chip to act out a play together. They temporarily deceived the hospital and obtained some clues.
"Zuo Han is very smart, he should be able to deceive the doctor." Chen Ge had done everything he could. From the moment he fell into a coma, the stage was handed over to Zuo Han.
In fact, the two have a clear division of labor, and no one can make any mistakes. Once one party reveals a flaw, the other party will also be implicated.
However, judging from Dr. Gao's attitude towards Chen Ge at this time, it can be seen that Zuo Han should not have made any major mistakes.
There was no clock in the isolation ward room. After dark, Chen Ge fell asleep again.
I don’t know how long it was, but there was a knock on the door of the isolation ward.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The other party knocked on the door four times in succession. When Chen Ge opened his eyes, the knocking sound had disappeared.
"There was another knock on the door in the middle of the night?"
The doors of the wards in the isolation ward are very special. In order to prevent dangerous patients in the ward from escaping, the door locks of all wards in the isolation ward are installed on the outside. That is to say, people outside the door can enter at will as long as they have the key, but people inside the door cannot go out freely.
Chen Ge's heart began to lift. He had always been curious about the identity of the person knocking on the door. "When I was in the general ward, I could hear knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Now that I'm in the isolation ward, the knocking sound still follows me! What does the person knocking on the door want to tell me through this sound? The knocking sound alone doesn't seem to reveal any information!"
Chen Ge changed wards and there was a knock on the door as expected, which meant that the person knocking on the door must be very familiar with what was happening inside the hospital.
"I'm afraid the patient won't know exactly which ward I'm in. Could it be that it's a doctor who keeps knocking on my door in the middle of the night?"
The information was limited, so Chen Ge could only think this way.
"The person knocking on the door seems to have a different stance from the other doctors. Could it be that there are doctors in the hospital who are willing to help me? He can't show up, so he wants to use this method to tell me something?"
"The hospital has been a bit restless these past few nights. Besides me, there are probably other people attracting the hospital's attention."
After knowing that someone was helping him, Chen Ge became calmer.
He began to try to recall his past memories bit by bit. Last night, in order to induce coma, he took the initiative to recall things related to his parents and the horror house. As a result, before he fainted from the pain, fragmented images really emerged in his mind: "My parents told me when I was very young that no matter what, I should not go to... East Suburbs?"
With his hands and feet bound, Chen Ge couldn't even run. He didn't dare to sleep either. He just stared at the door of the ward, sorting out his memories of the past few days without stimulating his brain.
Reality and illusion are intertwined, as if two different voices are arguing in the mind, and no one is willing to admit that they are false, because once they admit it, it means being completely abandoned.
Long after the sun rose in the morning, Dr. Gao came in with two nurses.
"Did you have a nightmare last night?" Doctor Gao seemed to ask this every time Chen Ge woke up from a coma.
"No, after taking the medicine, I slept very soundly."
"That's good." Doctor Gao and two nurses brought some medical equipment into the room and gave Chen Ge a simple checkup. After discovering some black particles on Chen Ge's arm, he relaxed a lot: "Chen Ge, do you want to go back to the ordinary ward?"
"Of course, you can see the paradise, the haunted house, and her in the ordinary ward." Chen Ge answered without hesitation.
"But given your current condition, I can't convince other doctors, and no patients are willing to live with you."
"I just want to go back to my original room and occasionally see the paradise outside the window. You don't have to take off the restraints, so that I won't hurt anyone again..."
"You still don't understand." Doctor Gao sat by the bed: "The root of the problem is not you, but your second personality. You represent good, he represents evil, you must use your own will to get rid of his influence on you, reject him from the bottom of your heart, and completely abandon him. You don't have to worry about him affecting you, we doctors will always be your strongest backing."
Chen Ge nodded: "I know what to do."
"If you lose control again next time, I'm afraid you will really be locked up in the isolation ward forever." Doctor Gao stood up: "I will try my best to arrange for you to return to your original room, but don't hold out too much hope."
Doctor Gao said not to hold out too much hope, but in the afternoon, Chen Ge was taken back to the general ward by the nurse.
To be honest, Chen Ge was no different from an ordinary person when his "second personality" was not revealed. He was even kinder and gentler than most people. Many patients found his smile very warm.
Only the doctor and a certain "victim" knew the danger Chen Ge was in.
When Chen Ge returned to the general ward, he did not see Zuo Han.
After asking the doctor, Chen Ge found out that after Zuo Han learned that he was going to be moved back from the isolation ward, he ran to the corridor and cursed the hospital, threatening to commit suicide, and said he would never live with Chen Ge.
After considering various situations, the hospital finally arranged him in the ward next to Chen Ge.
Staying alone in the ordinary ward, Chen Ge made sure that there was no one outside the door and walked to Zuo Han's bed.
"I almost killed Zuo Han last night. Normally, Zuo Han, who suffers from paranoia, would never be willing to stay in the same room with me. This is consistent with his condition, and it can also avoid suspicion to the greatest extent."
If Zuo Han had no objection to Chen Ge moving back, it would definitely arouse the hospital's suspicion. After all, Zuo Han's illness was paranoid delusions. How could the most sensitive and extreme person stay with someone who almost killed him?
"Zuo Han has moved out, and the nurse told me that he lives next door to me. It seems that the hospital has not given up and still wants me to kill Zuo Han."
"Also, after Zuo Han moves out, there might be new patients in this room. New patients are both a test for me and an opportunity for me to have more help."
Chen Ge completely guessed what Zuo Han was thinking: "The next problem to be solved is the last one. Zuo Han must have gained something that night. He asked to move out after knowing that I would be back. Maybe he left his gains in the ward so that I could see the information first without contacting him."
Glancing at the ward, Chen Ge thought to himself, "Where would he hide the information?"
There were few places to hide things in the ward. Chen Ge first checked under the bed, the sheets and the quilt, and finally looked at the pillowcase.
"Could it be inside the pillowcase?" Chen Ge took off Zuo Han's pillowcase, and there was nothing inside. "After Zuo Han moved out of the ward, the nurse might have changed his pillowcase. After I moved in, the nurse might have checked my sex supplies. So the safest place should be the bed in the middle that has never been occupied."
Chen Ge took the sickly pillow in the middle, took off the pillowcase, and found a few pieces of paper with words written on them inside.
“Found it!”
He didn't rush to see it, but restored the ward first and then moved to his own ward.
"Even paper and pen were obtained. It seems that Zuo Han really gained a lot that night." Chen Ge turned his back to the ward door and began to check the scraps of paper.
The information on the first scrap of paper was related to the nurse. Zuo Han looked at the nurse's ID and duty record. All the nurses in the third ward of this hospital had the last name Chi.
Zuo Han suspected that the surname Chi had a special meaning in the hospital, and he hoped that Chen Ge would pay attention to it.
Zuo Han marked the information on the second piece of paper with the word "important". He saw a cabinet where medical records were stored in the room where the night doctor was working.
All medical records are arranged by date, seven days a week, and there are a total of seven compartments in the cabinet.
Six of the boxes only contained dozens of medical records, but one box was completely filled with medical records. Perhaps because there was not enough space, several large cardboard boxes on the ground also contained medical records from that day.
Zuo Han checked the date and found that the exaggerated number of medical records all appeared the day before he moved into Chen Ge's ward. What was even more bizarre was that the patient's name on all the medical records was Zhang Wenyu!
The patients’ ages, symptoms and even photos on the medical records were completely different, except for the name column, where all the patients’ names were Zhang Wenyu.
Including the medical records in several large boxes, there were more than 10,000 medical records for Zhang Wenyu alone. The hospital did not expect so many patients to appear on the same day. It seemed that something went wrong and some patients ran out of the hospital without receiving treatment.
The hospital is seriously short of staff now. One of the main reasons is that some doctors and nurses have left the hospital and gone to Xinhai City outside to look for patients.
The above information was drawn by Zuo Han based on the notes of the night doctor and the environment at the scene at the time, and is highly credible.
"Zhang Wenyu? Another familiar name." Chen Ge's brain began to ache slightly, and he decisively stopped thinking.
He continued reading and saw that on the third piece of paper it was written that Zuo Han had hidden the white cell phone dropped by the caregiver under the third willow tree in the garden.
The fourth scrap of paper contained some of Zuo Han's speculations, as well as his thanks to Chen Ge for not killing him.
"This kid is so capable. He got so much information, far beyond my expectations."
The most important piece of paper among the pieces was the one related to Zhang Wenyu. The day when tens of thousands of medical records appeared at the same time was exactly when Chen Ge had just opened his eyes after falling into a coma.
This was too much of a coincidence, so Chen Ge paid great attention to it. He suspected that the simultaneous appearance of tens of thousands of medical records was related to him.
"As soon as I woke up from the coma, the hospital received tens of thousands of medical records, some of which were still outside the hospital."
"If the memories of the patients inside the hospital were tampered with by the doctors, then is it possible that the patients wandering around outside the hospital have retained their original memories?!"
"Yes! There must be a reason why the hospital spent so much effort to find them! With so many people rushing into the hospital in an instant, it is impossible for the hospital to react instantly, so there must be some who slipped through the net, and there must be someone whose memory has not been modified!"
Chen Ge suddenly became excited. Originally, there was only one voice in this world, that of the doctor. What the doctor said was the "truth", but now it was different. Chen Ge knew that there were other people in this world who knew the "truth".
"I need to find a way to contact people outside. I can't escape from the hospital for now. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Zhang Ya for this. I hope I can convince her."
Chen Ge had already formed a plan in his mind. He no longer believed in Dr. Gao and started to find the truth on his own.