Chang Gu didn't say the reason, his voice was urgent, and he hung up the phone after saying this.

"Why is Chang Gu in a mental hospital? How did he, a nearly blind man, get there? Is he being held hostage?"

Putting away his phone, Chen Ge slowly stood up, carrying the backpack he had prepared long ago.

"Put the Psychic Ghost School mission aside for now. I'll make a choice based on the situation after I meet up with Chang Gu." He left the park and took a taxi to the Hanjiang Mental Illness Center.

There are three operating mental hospitals in Hanjiang, and coincidentally, Chen Ge has been to all three of them.

After entering the hall, Chen Ge went straight into a corner where there were few people, then opened the comic book and called out Qiu Mei.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

Before Chen Ge had time to communicate with Qiu Mei, he was seen by a doctor: "It's too late. If you want to visit the patient, you should come back tomorrow."

"I'm not here to see the patient?" Chen Ge turned around slowly, his brain quickly thinking of a solution.

"So you're here to see a doctor?" When the doctor saw Chen Ge's face, he was very surprised: "It's you?"

Chen Ge also recognized the other person. He had seen this doctor before when he went to the mental hospital to investigate Jiang Xiaohu under the name of Li Zheng.

Although he forgot the doctor's name, he still remembered his face.

"Captain Li asked you to come again?" The doctor did not expect to see Chen Ge again.

Nodding, Chen Ge said softly: "I want to ask you about someone."

"who?"

"His name is Chang Gu."

"There doesn't seem to be any patient with that name."

"Is this person among the relatives who came to visit the patient? His eyesight is not good, and there is only white in one eye."

"If such a distinctive person appears, the nurses in the duty room should have an impression of him. Wait a moment, I'll go to the duty room to ask."

When they arrived at the duty room, the staff immediately recalled what had happened after the doctor mentioned Chang Gu's physical characteristics.

"They came in the evening to visit a patient who was in a deep coma."

"them?"

"Yes, in addition to the blind man, there were two men and a woman. I don't know what their relationship is. The atmosphere between them feels very strange, and they don't seem to be familiar with each other." The staff member answered truthfully for the doctor's sake.

"Where are they now?"

"After visiting the patient, they left, but there was something strange." The staff member thought for a while before speaking: "The two men and one woman left and came back half an hour later and asked me if I had seen the blind man. They seemed to have lost each other, so I helped them look for him in the hospital."

Chen Ge roughly understood what had happened. Chang Gu was found by the "parents" and came to the mental hospital for some reason. After visiting the patients, Chang Gu took advantage of the chaos to escape.

"Brother, which patient are they visiting today? Can you take me over to see him?"

"This..." The staff member looked at the doctor. After getting the doctor's consent, he dared to agree. "Okay, I'll take you there."

Several people walked out of the building and came to an isolation ward at the back of the mental hospital.

Chen Ge had seen this type of isolation ward before. It was usually used to treat extremely high-risk patients.

"The patient they visited is called Chang Wenyu. She is in a vegetative state and has lived here for many years. She doesn't seem to have any family, but someone sends her hospital bills every month." The staff was deeply impressed by Chang Wenyu.

"She's a vegetative patient. Why did you put her in the isolation ward? She won't hurt anyone else." Chen Ge was a little curious.

"Although she is a vegetative state and has been in a coma, some inexplicable things will always happen if you get too close to this female patient." The staff member wanted to say something, but the doctor next to him suddenly coughed and interrupted the staff member.

"I have heard of this patient Chang Wenyu. After the attending doctor examined her body, he found that her brain nerves and nerve functions were completely normal. She did not seem to be in a coma, but more like hibernation, or it would be more appropriate to describe her as deep sleep." The doctor explained to Chen Ge.

"What is deep sleep?"

"You can simply understand that the patient is having a dream from which she cannot wake up." The doctor seemed unwilling to discuss this topic with Chen Ge in depth, and quickened his pace: "We are here."

The isolation ward of Hanjiang Mental Illness Center is different from the isolation ward of the third ward. It is more humane. There are no high walls or iron fences, only a warning sign prohibiting entry is hung at the door.

After entering the ward, Chen Ge clearly felt something was wrong. The temperature in this building was much lower than the other one, and it was also much quieter. There was almost no noise, as if they were the only living people in the entire building.

Walking through the corridor, Chen Ge became even more confused.

Normally, the more dangerous the patient, the deeper the room will be.

Chang Wenyu is just an unconscious vegetative person, but her ward is at the deepest part of the entire building!

"Can I go into the ward and take a look?" The door of the ward was not locked. Without waiting for the doctor's consent, Chen Ge pushed the door open.

The ward was large, with three beds, but only the middle one was occupied.

Walking to the bedside, what came into Chen Ge's eyes was a face full of special beauty.

The patient information sticker on the bedside table showed that the woman was almost thirty years old, but her face looked like that of a girl of eighteen or nineteen.

Time seems to have forgotten this woman. Maturity and sweetness are intertwined together, like a glass of graceful and mellow red wine, or a glass of milk tea with ice cubes.

It’s just a pity that the woman’s left eye was removed, leaving only a black eye socket, which ruined the beauty of her entire face and made her look sick and different.

"She is Chang Wenyu?"

The patient with the disease was completely different from the Chang Wenyu that Chen Ge had imagined. Time had not left any trace on her.

Moving his eyes downward, Chen Ge discovered that the bed sheet had fallen to the ground, and a corner of the quilt had been lifted, revealing the restraints underneath.

"What is this?" Chen Ge lifted the quilt, but it was too late for the doctor to stop him.

Under the thin blanket for patients, Chang Wenyu's hands and feet were all fixed to the hospital bed with restraints.

"Why do you want to use restraints on a vegetative patient? Is it possible that she will ever get up?" Chen Ge felt that something was wrong. He stared at the doctor, wanting him to give him an explanation.

Knowing that he couldn't escape, the doctor finally spoke: "It's not a big deal. Some employees saw her in the corridor during the night shift. They thought they saw a ghost."

"Have any of your people seen her walking down the corridor on her own?"

"Yes, more than once, but the surveillance camera never captured it, and each time we saw it, it was after midnight. What's even stranger is that as long as we observe her in secret, she will never move. She will only appear when no one is paying attention." The doctor pushed the staff member next to him forward: "He only saw it once."

There are relatively many male nurses in psychiatric hospitals, and they are also the main force on night shifts.

"I saw it once. I was washing my hands at the door of the toilet and suddenly I saw another figure reflected in the mirror. She walked behind me."

"I was terrified and screamed, but when I calmed down and chased her out, she had disappeared."

"I returned to the ward and found that she was still in bed."

The staff felt panicked when they recalled the experience at that time.

"Could it be someone else? Are you sure you saw her?" Chen Ge thought with divergent thinking: "Maybe another mental patient pretended to be her, or maybe something else appeared at night."

"Ahem!" The doctor kept coughing. He felt that if he didn't interrupt Chen Ge, the nurses here would never be able to work the night shift properly in the future. "From our point of view, the most likely cause is sleepwalking. But the most special thing about this patient is that she is a vegetative state. No one knows what she sees in her head when she falls into a deep coma, or what she is going through at this moment. So we can't use traditional methods to treat her. We can only tie her up like this first."

"So after you tied her up, you never saw her again during the night shift?" Chen Ge felt that things were not that simple, but no matter how he asked, the doctor and the male nurse insisted that since Chang Wenyu was tied up, she had never appeared at midnight again.

The hospital should have a unified statement and attribute all the symptoms to sleepwalking. Wenyu was in a deep coma, she had no consciousness and could not resist. How could it be that the hospital had no say in the matter?

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of him, Chen Ge prepared to leave. The most urgent thing was to find Chang Gu first.

When he was about to cover himself with the thin blanket, he suddenly saw a hand reaching out from under the bed.

Five fingers were exposed under the bed sheet, and the hand seemed to be trying to grab Chen Ge.

There was dirt between the fingernails and scratches on the back of the hand caused by branches. The first time Chen Ge saw this hand, he thought of Chang Gu.

The most dangerous place is the safest place. The "parents" who kidnapped Chang Gu would never have thought that he had not gone anywhere and had been hiding in the hospital ward.

If others saw a hand suddenly stretched out from under the bed, even if they didn't scream out in fright, at least their expressions would change slightly. However, Chen Ge remained very calm from beginning to end.

He blocked Chang Gu's hand with his legs, took a step forward, pushed Chang Gu's hand under the bed sheet with the back of his shoe, and then said directly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to track down a murder case. The situation you described is very similar to the murder scene."

When the male nurse heard the word "murder", his face turned pale instantly. He often worked night shifts and was already very scared.

"This doctor should know the relationship between me and the Hanjiang police. Let's not beat around the bush. I want to stay outside this ward tonight. I have an important guess that needs to be verified."

If anyone else had said this, they would have been kicked out by the doctor long ago. But Chen Ge was different. The doctor was familiar with Li Zheng, and he often heard about Chen Ge's deeds from Li Zheng.

"It's too dangerous for you to stay in the isolation ward alone." The doctor shook his head.

"That's right. We nurses on night shift rarely come here." The male nurse felt that Chen Ge was unreliable. What kind of person would run to a mental hospital in the middle of the night and say he wanted to keep watch? This was totally against the rules.

"How about this." The doctor thought for a long time, and then said to the male nurse next to him, "Xiao Zhu, you stay with him in the isolation ward tonight, and call Huang Wei and ask him to come over as well."

"Ah? I go with him?" The male nurse couldn't believe his ears.

"Keep an eye on him at night. If you are unsure about anything, call me immediately. I'll be in the office." Psychiatrists are actually very hard-working. Many people would think that there are so many patients. In fact, if you go to a regular mental hospital, you will find that the wards there are always crowded. Some patients even have to sleep in the corridor. Often a doctor has to take care of many patients at the same time, and voluntary overtime is also common.

After the doctor left, Chen Ge felt much more relaxed.

Maybe Dr. Gao left such a deep impression on him that he always felt a little uncomfortable when facing these psychologists or psychiatrists.

"Just stay outside. I have something to say to that woman."

"She is in a deep coma. No matter what you say, she won't be able to hear you," the male nurse Xiao Zhu reminded.

"It's okay." Chen Ge entered the ward, stood beside the bed, looked at the unconscious Chang Wenyu, and said softly: "I hope you can fall asleep tonight. I will stay by your side. If that door appears again, I will do my best to help you."

In Xiao Zhu's eyes, Chen Ge was not a normal person at all. His scalp tingled when he thought about having to stay with such a person for a whole night.

Chen Ge felt his trouser legs being pulled, and he knew that this was Chang Gu's response to him. He did not go out again, but lay down on another sickbed.

"The left eye was brought out from that school. It should be able to see things in that school." Chen Ge's purpose in helping Chang Gu was simple. He just wanted to take a look at what the scene of the psychic ghost school was like in advance. If the danger level was far beyond his expectations, he would have no choice but to give up the mission.

Chen Ge looked down at the time on his phone. It was now ten o'clock in the evening, and there were still two hours before the end of the Psychic Ghost School mission.

Staring at Chang Wenyu's bed, Chen Ge focused his attention.

After a few minutes, sleepiness came over him like a tide. He hadn't slept for more than thirty-six hours due to the continuous running around.

Holding the phone, the scene in front of Chen Ge gradually became blurred.

…

The ward suddenly became quiet. Xiao Zhu stood at the door and saw Chen Ge lying on the bed motionless. He didn't know what he was doing.

"What a strange person." He sat on the bench in the corridor, leaning against the wall, and slowly felt a little sleepy.

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