Chapter 106 Bright Sanatorium "Believe me, we will all leave this place..."
"37.0 degrees Celsius, normal body temperature."
On the small bed made of yellow pine wood, the young man blinked his eyelashes as the scene before him gradually became clear, and his consciousness was slowly pulled back by the calm tone of the caregiver beside him.
Is she a female caregiver?
"I..." The young man opened his mouth, his dry throat making him feel dazed and confused.
"High blood pressure 130, low blood pressure 80, heart rate normal."
The caregiver's check-up was proceeding smoothly, and the young man silently calculated that the next step would probably be a blood sugar test...
Sure enough, the plastic packaging of the blood glucose injection was torn open, but along with the female caregiver's actions, an abrupt voice rang out in the room, "Ouch, can you be a little gentler?"
"Fasting blood glucose 5.1, blood glucose is normal."
The nurse's tone of voice remained unchanged regardless of the person's movements, which made the young man turn his head to look at her, and the boy in the opposite bed noticed that he was awake.
"Hey, why are you only just waking up?" The tone was familiar, but...
The young man frowned as he stared at the other person; he couldn't quite remember who it was.
Of course, he didn't intend to make things difficult for himself. He asked in a hoarse voice, "Who are you?"
"Damn it, what's wrong with you? You forgot about me?"
The boy stood up excitedly, his voice rising, and the movement prompted the female caregiver to reach out and stop him, saying, "They're all patients, you can't lay a hand on them."
"I didn't mean to hit him."
The boy deflated, then seemed to have thought of something, and said in a low voice, "My name is Hoshino."
Hoshino... The young man sat up in bed, his eyes gleaming as he looked around.
He remembered Hoshino, but Hoshino... looked like this...?
The obvious doubt in the young man's eyes irritated Hoshino, making him furious.
"What do you mean! You doubt me!"
The young man placed his hand on his temple and spun it around.
He tried to recall, but the memories only made him more miserable.
"I'm sorry, Hoshino."
"never mind."
"It's normal for Alzheimer's patients to lose some memory when they develop the disease," the female caregiver explained, while taking out a new thermometer and shaking it in her hand. "Let's do today's check-up first."
The young man took the thermometer, and the sudden reflection of light from the vitreous body made him pause involuntarily. He pursed his lips awkwardly and asked embarrassedly, "There's one more. Who am I?"
Hoshino clicked his tongue in slight disdain. "Your name is..."
The answer suddenly stopped on the tip of her tongue, and the female caregiver immediately added, "Your name is Lu Ke."
[Player Lu Ke's login information detected]
[Trial observation is in progress...]
[Trial Observation Link...]
【success】
[Player Lu Ke's panel has been activated]
[Observation Room at Guangming Sanatorium - Lu Ke's Perspective]
The observation room has now been reopened. Observers are requested to comply with observation requirements and conduct monitoring in a civilized manner.
"Huh, was it unsealed ahead of schedule? I remember it was sealed off yesterday afternoon?"
"I'm not saying this out loud, but it seems like Jiang Yang's live stream is so prone to violating the rules."
"That's right, that's right, it's happened several times in a row."
"Wait, why is it Lu Ke?"
The scene in the observation room begins precisely when the female caregiver calls out the name "Lu Ke".
Initially, the discussion on the live chat was about the early reopening of the observation room, but later many observers stopped because of his name.
It also brought to light the two individuals whose cases abruptly ended in the previous trial.
"It seems that Jiang Yang was brought to trial this time using Lu Ke's identity."
"Lu? Ke? This Lu, this Ke, it can't mean what I'm thinking, can it..."
...
Aside from that explanation, the female caregiver did nothing else.
She finished Jiang Yang's routine check-up in just ten minutes. Before leaving, she said, "If you're hungry, you can go upstairs for breakfast." Without waiting for their response, she turned and walked out.
Through the small transparent window on the ward door, Jiang Yang saw the figure filling out a record at the door.
Only after the figure had left through the door did Hoshino, sitting on the opposite bed, casually ask, "You really can't remember anything?"
His tone concealed a cautious probing.
Jiang Yang did not respond.
Instead, as if realizing something was amiss, she gasped and gently blew on her fingertips, which were still covered in blood droplets.
Hoshino couldn't help but roll her eyes and mutter, "So pretentious."
The familiar tone of voice made the young man involuntarily curl the corners of his mouth.
He waved slightly at the person, and although Hoshino was reluctant, he still leaned over to get closer to the person.
The young man said, "Idiot."
"Jiang! Lu Ke!" Xingye puffed out her cheeks, sat back on the hospital bed, and gritted her teeth in anger.
Jiang Yang did experience some memory problems due to his illness, but the biggest impact on him at present is not the loss of memory, but the disorder of brain function. For example, when he faces everyone, he sees the same face and hears the same voice.
Based on my previous experience in the nursing home, I'm probably in the second stage of the illness. Now that it's under trial, it will only get worse.
However, he doesn't plan to tell Hoshino for the time being.
Jiang Yang looked at Xingye, a face he had never seen before.
His face lacked any trace of youthful arrogance; his unfathomable indifference was completely at odds with his physical demeanor.
He hated this feeling.
Jiang Yang judged people's emotions based on Hoshino's movements.
Finally, he noticed Hoshino's drooping hand and asked, "You didn't participate in the evening activities yesterday?"
"What happened to Nan Ke and Xiong Bingxin in the last trial?"
Their voices unexpectedly overlapped. Hoshino clearly had no intention of answering Jiang Yang's question, his provocative gaze falling on Jiang Yang as he patiently waited for her reply.
Besides Hoshino, a large number of observers suddenly flooded into the observation room, which was also something to look forward to.
The sudden end of Nan Ke caused the faith of the "gamblers" who had bet on Nan Ke to collapse instantly. They wandered through the various observation rooms, denouncing Nan Ke's cowardice and resisting his departure. What circulated among them was an indigestible fear and unease.
"Hoshino, we will all leave this place."
The chat in the observation room fell silent briefly because of Jiang Yang's firm tone.
Hoshino's face, which Jiang Yang couldn't see before, showed a moment of surprise at those words.
The boy moved his lips slightly, opening and closing his mouth repeatedly.
He really... doesn't feel very secure...
Seeing that Hoshino didn't react, Jiang Yang assumed that Hoshino hadn't heard him and repeated himself.
"Believe me, we will all get out of here."
The reassuring gesture pierced the barrier between reality and observation, drawing in bewildered souls. The rising trust transformed into countless weights of the soul, all added to the slightly sickly young man in the center of the picture.
[Soul Weight +1]
[Soul Weight +359]
【Soul Weight +1473】
...
[Congratulations to player Jiang Yang for upgrading his Fool's Talent Card to S rank!!!]
[The talent upgrade requirements have been met. Would you like to upgrade the talent?]
[Current talent level is 2. This upgrade will not consume Soul Scales.]
Jiang Yang clicked "No" without hesitation.
"No, why isn't he upgrading?" one observer wondered.
But many other observers, with a "let's give it a try" attitude, said, "I trust him."
The cohesion conveyed by the comments made this observation room, which frequently violated rules, unusually harmonious for once.
"Lu Ke, I'm so hungry," Hoshino suddenly changed her mind.
Jiang Yang didn't insist any further, stood up and said gently, "Then let's go upstairs to eat first."
"good!"
It turns out that Hoshino is really easy to coax.
Before leaving, Jiang Yang even consciously pulled up the person's sleeve.
Hoshino didn't refuse, and with his hands in his pockets, he spoke in a nonchalant tone, "Don't worry, I'm not going to leave an idiot behind when I go out, okay?"
Although Jiang Yang couldn't discern the tone, he could easily imagine it. He showed no emotional fluctuations, and his smiling eyes sparkled. Xingye couldn't help but curse again, "Idiot."
The young man ignored him, lightly touched his upper lip with the tip of his tongue, narrowed his eyes and took advantage of the situation to arrange, "Hoshino, take me to find Huang Er later." He planned to find out why Huang Si had not participated in the evening activities.
Upon leaving the room, Jiang Yang clearly felt that his symptoms had worsened considerably.
"Let's go," Hoshino's voice began to distort in his ears. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the unfamiliar face also became ferocious.
"What are you standing there for!"
No! He's not Hoshino!
Jiang Yang retreated in terror, and then, as the other party drew closer to him, he turned and fled desperately.
Hoshino is starting to go crazy!!!
The young man ran wildly through the circular corridor. The intense exercise made his throat itch, but when he looked back every now and then, the figure he couldn't shake off forced him to keep going. He quickened his pace again.
Even more terrifying is that the same face is everywhere along this escape route.
As he apologized for what felt like the umpteenth time he had accidentally bumped into someone, he looked up and saw the other person's distorted face, and the taut string in his nerves almost snapped.
Why!
Hoshino also wanted to know why!
Hoshino gave up and turned back to stand guard at the only staircase not far away.
If Jiang Yang wants to go upstairs, he can only come back and take this route. Running away is out of the question, so he will wait here!
...
Thinking he had gotten rid of the person, Jiang Yang leaned against the wall to calm himself down. Physiological tears were still hanging on his eyelashes. He forced himself to raise his hand to soothe his violently beating heart.
After managing to calm down, he realized another problem.
It's been so long, why hasn't a single caregiver shown up?
A hint of confusion flashed in the young man's eyes.
As he tilted his head back and gasped for breath, a cool sensation seemed to brush against his lips, sending a chill down his spine. But soon, in his stiff posture, he was lifted up by some unknown "creature".
He heard the "creature" awkwardly comfort him, saying, "Does not being able to see mean you're not afraid?"
Jiang Yang felt inexplicably wronged, her features scrunched up in a mournful expression, her heart screaming inwardly.
No! I'm even more scared now!
I feel a little more at ease now that I've let it go.
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