Chen Ge seemed to have some special connection with the head in the glass jar. When he touched the surface of the glass jar with his hands, the child's head, which originally looked like a specimen, began to slowly turn.
Everything was almost the same as what was rehearsed in the brain maze, except that in reality Chen Ge could not see the struggle between the black lines and the bloodshot.
"I feel like you belonged to me originally." Chen Ge looked at the human head in the glass jar, and he had a very strange feeling in his heart, as if his own head was now placed in the jar.
The child's mutilated face was pressed against the surface of the glass jar. He had no eyes, and the two dark holes on his face stared at Chen Ge.
The two sides stared at each other, and slowly Chen Ge actually saw another self in the child's dark eyes. His consciousness gradually became blurred, and the memories of the past in his brain were sucked away by the head in the jar, and replaced by the unfamiliar memories of a third person.
"What does he want to do?" The memory fragments were stripped away, which was equivalent to slowly losing himself, but Chen Ge did not feel any panic, as if both parties were just making an equal transaction.
The gap in his mind was filled by the child's memories, and the child gained memories of his past.
Chen Ge's brain was gradually emptied, and all the locked memory fragments were sucked away by the head in the glass jar. Only the memories that were previously unlocked were retained in his mind.
"Does he want to help me unlock the memory?" Chen Ge would get a headache whenever he forced himself to recall the past. Most of the time, even if he endured the pain, he was unable to unlock the most crucial memories.
Now this head has absorbed the locked memories in Chen Ge's mind. It seems that it is worried that Chen Ge will be exposed, and it has taken the initiative to fill Chen Ge's mind with other memories.
Those memories belonging to the third person sank deep into my mind, and I don’t know what purpose they serve.
After regaining consciousness, Chen Ge felt as if the shackles in his mind had been opened, and he felt much more relaxed, as if another force was helping him bear the pain and despair.
Chen Ge stretched out his hand and kept moving it on the glass jar. When he found that he could no longer trigger anything, he quickly evacuated and returned to the isolation ward.
"There are seven glass jars, and I have only touched one so far. I cannot draw any conclusions yet." Chen Ge lay in the isolation ward for a few minutes before the nurse hurried over. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Ge staying in the ward obediently.
"I'm going to sleep. Remember to close the door when you leave." After saying that, Chen Ge covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep.
The nurse did not find anything unusual and did not report what happened in the morning to Dr. Gao.
At night, Dr. Gao and Xu Wan entered the isolation ward.
They persuaded Chen Ge again, hoping that Chen Ge would actively cooperate with the treatment. Only by opening his heart and eliminating the negative memories brought by the paranoia could he be reborn.
This time Chen Ge did not resist. After he touched the glass jar containing the human head in the morning, most of his memories of the past had been sucked away. He had nothing to be afraid of now.
The treatment after midnight went very smoothly. Even Dr. Gao himself was surprised. The treatment was so effective that it eliminated most of the memory fragments in Chen Ge's mind at once.
After much thought, Dr. Gao felt that the main reason was that Chen Ge gave up his delusional past and decided to embrace a new life.
Frankly speaking, Chen Ge is already the patient with the strongest will that Dr. Gao has ever seen.
If the hospital wants to completely "cure" the patient, the first step is to erase his past memories, the second step is to reshape him, and there are several more steps to come. It is a long process.
It took the patient Chen Ge more than half a month to erase his past memories. Finally, he actively cooperated and there was a glimmer of hope for success.
Not only Chen Ge, but Dr. Gao himself was also tired.
"The treatment is very effective. Keep it up and you will be able to be discharged smoothly." After a long time, Dr. Gao finally smiled.
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The hospital gradually relaxed its care for Chen Ge, but they did not allow him to return to the general ward and did not allow him to have contact with other patients.
Most of the time, it was Xu Wan who accompanied Chen Ge, taking care of him meticulously, and they always had countless topics to talk about.
In this hospital, Xu Wan seemed to represent beauty.
During this period, Chen Ge also looked for various opportunities to enter the offices of previous deans.
Every time he was able to escape danger safely, as if there was always someone helping him secretly.
After Dr. Gao had examined him three times, Dr. Sun appeared again and took Chen Ge to see the vice president.
Chen Ge felt very strange about this vice president. He seemed to have seen him somewhere before, but he had no impression of him at all.
If Chen Ge wants to be discharged from the hospital, he must get the consent of the vice president. In other words, the vice president is actually the most important person to Chen Ge in this hospital.
He must pass the vice president's inspection before he can leave smoothly.
After being treated by Doctor Gao several times and after repeated examinations by both Doctor Gao and Doctor Sun, both doctors felt that Chen Ge had no problems, the vice president still disagreed.
Chen Ge had no choice but to stay in the hospital for another two weeks.
He finally found the opportunity and touched the last glass jar, in which all his fragments of memory about the past were hidden.
Now the memories in his mind have been replaced, and the memories from the seven glass jars are intertwined in the depths of his mind, forming a child covered in wounds.
Although the seven glass jars were still in the hospital, the memories contained in the organs in the jars had escaped and took this opportunity to hide in Chen Ge's mind.
Chen Ge didn't know what all this meant yet, he only knew that he would be discharged from the hospital soon.
On the seventh day after touching all the glass jars, Dr. Gao prepared to perform the seventeenth treatment on Chen Ge.
This treatment was very special, and he did not reveal any information to Chen Ge in advance. It was not until Chen Ge pushed open the door of the treatment room that he discovered that Dr. Sun and the vice president were still standing in the room.
Without giving Chen Ge a chance to speak, when he pushed open the door, he seemed to have fallen into a brain maze. He didn't even know when he was trapped.
"Chen Ge, this is your last treatment. If everything goes well, you can be discharged from the hospital at dawn." Doctor Gao looked at Chen Ge with a smile. He, Doctor Sun, and the vice president were all standing on the other side of the table.
"How do I need to cooperate with you?"
"It's very simple." Doctor Gao took out a tray from under the table, on which was a scalpel. "Your second personality is hidden in your heart. Dig out your heart. He is the last obsession you have created."
"If my heart is dug out, can I still live?" Chen Ge didn't expect the last treatment to be like this. He thought he could be discharged smoothly, but he didn't expect the hospital to be so cautious and not stop even after clearing all the memory fragments.
"Only one of you and your second personality can survive. If you can't make a decision, let your second personality make the choice." Doctor Sun said sinisterly, the scar on his face trembling.
Not only Dr. Gao, but even the vice president was reluctant to stand with Dr. Sun. They all felt that Dr. Sun was too extreme.
Dr. Sun took out a whole bottle of medicine from his pocket and opened the lid of the bottle. It was filled with pills mixed with black threads.
"Let me think about it."
"It's time to say goodbye to the past. This will be good for both you and him." Doctor Sun poured out seven pills from the medicine bottle. He didn't seem to count them at all and stuffed them all into Chen Ge's mouth: "Swallow it!"
He swallowed seven pills at a time, and both the vice president and Dr. Gao were shocked, but it was too late for them to stop him.
Chen Ge's body changed almost instantly. His blood vessels bulged and throbbed on his skin like poisonous snakes. His skin turned red and his eyeballs were full of bloodshot, as if they were about to burst.
Reason was instantly overwhelmed, and Chen Ge let out a roar like a wild beast.
Looking at Chen Ge's painful appearance, Doctor Sun stroked the scar on his face with an intoxicated expression as if he was appreciating the most beautiful painting.
"Don't control yourself, let your second personality come out!"
Doctor Sun shouted hysterically and kept pouring the pills from the bottle onto the table. If Doctor Gao hadn't stopped him, he might have stuffed the remaining pills into Chen Ge's mouth.
The raging black fire of the curse burned his will, and Chen Ge began to have hallucinations. He felt that his soul was being grabbed by countless hands, and his body was slowly falling into a sea of curse.
His consciousness became blurred, and in a trance he saw the man with his back to him again.
In the wave of curses, he shared 90% of Chen Ge's pain.
Chen Ge felt that the man's back was very familiar. He never looked back. He protected his heart and stood like a reef in the ocean.
"You are my alter ego..."
The last time he saw this person, Chen Ge was also on the verge of a mental breakdown, and the same situation happened again this time.
He swallowed too many drugs at once, and the wave of curse overturned his mind, but even if the world turned upside down, that figure would not retreat a single step.
All his memories were disrupted. When Chen Ge's consciousness and mind were about to collapse completely, a wounded child walked out from the deepest part of his mind.
The curse could not have much impact on him. The child seemed to be just a shadow. He came to the man with his back to Chen Ge and whispered something to him.
Chen Ge didn't know what he said. He just saw that when the man heard the child's words, his body trembled slightly.
Then he slowly turned around and looked at Chen Ge behind him.
Chen Ge also saw the man's face for the first time. The man that Doctor Gao called his second personality looked completely different from Chen Ge.
There was an unresolved melancholy hidden in his eyes, and there was almost no intact skin on the front of his body.
"Who is he? Why would he stand in front of me even though he was injured like this?"
There was no telling how many curses that man had endured, too many to count.
He looked at Chen Ge silently, slowly loosened his hands, and handed his protected heart to the child.
The child protected his heart and hid it in the deepest part of his mind. The man smiled at Chen Ge with the last bit of his strength, then turned around and jumped into the black ocean of curses.
Enduring indescribable pain, Chen Ge was also submerged by the black wave.
An unknown amount of time had passed. When Chen Ge opened his eyes again, he saw a blood-stained scalpel and a beating heart on the tray in front of him.
"Chen Ge, your last treatment went very smoothly!"
"When your second personality took over your body, he took the initiative to dig out his heart and left your body."
The vice president and Dr. Gao each said a word. The kind smiles on their faces formed a sharp contrast with the bloody heart on the tray.
Chen Ge looked at the heart on the tray with a pale face. His body slowly fell backwards. "Can a person live without a heart?"
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Chen Ge suddenly opened his eyes and fell heavily to the ground, gasping for breath.
"You have completed the final treatment and made the most correct choice. You have killed your past self. From now on, you will have a new life!" The vice president personally helped Chen Ge up. He and the two doctors wrote something on a file one after another.
"Take him back to the general ward. We can complete the discharge procedures tomorrow."
The vice president spoke personally, and Dr. Gao felt relieved that this most difficult patient was finally leaving.
He helped Chen Ge out of the treatment room, while the vice president and Doctor Sun pointed at the file and kept arguing about something.
Back in the general ward, Chen Ge collapsed on the familiar bed. Extreme fatigue instantly overwhelmed him and he soon passed out.
Early the next morning, the bright sunshine outside the window shone on his face, but he felt cold all over.
"That's not my alter ego at all. What choices did he make in the deputy dean's brain maze? And whose heart did that kid take from him?"
After more than a month of treatment in the hospital, the doctors felt that Chen Ge had met their requirements. However, in reality, not only did Chen Ge not change, but he became even more wary of the hospital.
He even had a crazy idea in his mind that if he had the chance, he would completely destroy this place.
This thought was not strong at first, but during the last treatment, after Chen Ge saw the man who had been helping to resist the curse leave, his mind was now full of similar thoughts.
"Kill my past self and embrace a new life..." Chen Ge muttered to himself. This seemed to be a habit he had developed a long time ago. He always liked to speak to himself in words that no one could understand.
"Bang bang bang..." There was a knock on the door, and the other party knocked seven times in total.
The door of the ward opened and Dr. Sun walked in.
He looked at the sick Chen Ge and said only one sentence: "Look at cabinet 29. The real treatment will only begin now."
After saying this, Dr. Sun flexed his fingers, turned around and left.
"They fabricated new memories for me, almost made me kill my roommate, and tortured me repeatedly with hypnosis and hallucinations. This one month was just the first step of treatment."
Chen Ge's situation was extremely special, and he almost couldn't hold on. It was hard for him to imagine what an ordinary patient would become after arriving at the hospital.