Lying on the bed in the mental illness treatment center, Chen Ge was perfectly integrated into this environment, whether it was his expression or his words.
"A person who is fine during the day, how come he is so seriously ill at night?" Zuo Han sat back on his bed, a long distance away from Chen Ge: "I am studying forensic medicine. After studying for so many years, I am really
I’ve never heard that frequent stimulation can activate memory.”
"When you study forensic medicine, you deal with corpses. The situation of living people may be more complicated."
"Do you know how low your body temperature was when you got sick just now? The only difference between you and the dead at that time was that you still had a heartbeat." Zuo Han initially wanted to cooperate with Chen Ge and escape together, but he
Now I gradually realize that my roommate is very dangerous, and he might kill me too at some point.
From Zuo Han's perspective, Chen Ge was not just sick, he seemed to have other secrets hidden in him.
"Could it be that this hospital has been conducting human experiments?" Zuo Han tried to use his own knowledge to find the answer, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. It is difficult for science to explain Chen Ge's state, which is already the category of theology.
"Zuo Han, can you tell me a few ghost stories? The scariest ones." Chen Ge lay on the bed and turned to look at Zuo Han, his face filled with anticipation.
"Are you sick? What ghost story did you hear all of a sudden?" Zuo Han blurted out, and he found that he couldn't see through Chen Ge at all: "You have to listen to the ghost stories told by the patients at midnight and early in the morning. You really want to know what kind of mentality you have.
Say something like this?"
"I just want to give it a try to see if the emotion of fear can stimulate me to recover my memory."
Hearing Chen Ge's words, Zuo Han also felt that there was some truth in it. The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and then he told Chen Ge a few ghost stories that he knew.
"Do you feel scared?"
"No, your story doesn't excite me at all."
"No one will get excited after hearing a ghost story!" Zuo Han got up from the bed and dragged his bed away from Chen Ge until he reached the door.
At this distance, if Chen Ge was disadvantageous to him, he could open the door and run out immediately.
"Has anything really terrible happened to you?"
"Yes, I was imprisoned in a mental hospital, and my patient asked me to tell him ghost stories at night." Zuo Han couldn't understand Chen Ge's behavior at all, and it was difficult to explain it from both medical and mystical perspectives.
"Your ghost story is not scary at all, why not..." Chen Ge reluctantly raised his hand: "How about we play some psychic games? Like pen fairy, dish fairy, etc."
There is no need to think, some things have been engraved in the body, and Chen Ge is very familiar with these words.
"Didn't you lose your memory? How come you know so much about these strange things?" Zuo Han realized the problem.
"I had the impression that I was the owner of a haunted house, but the doctor said I took on someone else's identity and my story was made up."
"The doctor may be lying to you. Judging from your strange behavior tonight, you are keen on seeking excitement, like the feeling of terror, and are familiar with horror games such as Pen Fairy and Die Fairy. You may have opened a haunted house before.
Yes!" Zuo Han touched his chin in thought.
"But why did the doctor lie to me?"
"how could I know?"
"Then let's play the Pen Fairy Game. I should be able to slowly remember something."
"If you don't play, you don't have a pen."
"Where's Die Xian? I also know a horror game called Back to Back, where one person lies on the bed and the other person hides under the bed board..." Once he thought deeply, Chen Ge's brain seemed to be torn apart, so he didn't care whether he was talking or not.
Doing certain actions is instinctive.
Zuo Han didn't talk to Chen Ge anymore. He lay on the bed with a cold face, his back to Chen Ge and began to think about how to escape from the hospital.
After lying in this position for a while, Zuo Han felt uneasy for no reason. He recalled Chen Ge's words and felt something was wrong: "Is it possible that he is pretending to be ill? I turned my back to him, could he now
Just stand behind me?"
Goosebumps appeared on his neck. Zuo Han turned over suddenly and found that Chen Ge had fallen asleep.
"The sleeping look looks normal. I never thought he would say such terrible things."
The ward became quiet. At about two o'clock in the morning, there was a sudden noise somewhere in the hospital, as if something exploded.
Chen Ge and Zuo Han were all awakened. Before they could realize what was going on, footsteps suddenly sounded again outside the corridor.
"Someone is coming!"
The door of the ward was lightly knocked twice. Before Chen Ge and Zuo Han could get closer, the footsteps moved away again.
When Zuo Han opened the door, there was no one in the corridor outside: "Who knocked on the door?"
"By the way, when you went out to check last night, someone came and knocked on the door, but he only knocked once." Chen Ge found himself recalling the memory after waking up in the hospital. His brain did not hurt, but if he recalled the memory before coma,
The memory will cause a tearing feeling in the head.
"One knock yesterday, two knocks today? It seems that the other party came here specifically to do this in a targeted manner." Zuo Han stared at Chen Ge: "Do you know other patients in the hospital?
?”
"I don't remember. I seem to have been in coma many times since I was hospitalized. Every time I wake up, the memory before the last coma becomes blurry."
"Is it possible that this is the case? The hospital wants to make you a 'normal person' who meets their standards, but every treatment fails, so it can only be 'restarted' constantly?" Zuo Han thought more and more that it was possible: "
You may have experienced similar treatment processes many times, but you just didn't realize it."
"But what does this have to do with the person who knocked on the door?" Chen Ge was lying on the bed. He tried his best not to think about it and took the time to recover.
"Is the relationship between you and the person who knocked on the door the same as the relationship between us?" Zuo Han boldly speculated: "He should be your former patient. You were 'restarted' due to treatment failure, and he hid
After you get down, the knock on the door may be some kind of agreement between you, or maybe he is hinting at something?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "That makes sense." Chen Ge nodded.
"He may show up again tomorrow night. We will find a way to contact him then."
"good."
The hospital was not peaceful tonight. There were footsteps in the corridor all the time. It was almost dawn before Chen Ge fell asleep.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the ward door was pushed open, and Dr. Gao and Xu Wan entered the ward together.
"How was your rest last night?" Dr. Gao once again ignored Zuo Han, who was lying on his side on the bed, and walked directly to Chen Ge's bedside. He looked a little tired.
"It's not too good. Something seemed to have exploded in the hospital last night. A loud noise woke me up." Chen Ge looked a little weak and spoke slowly.
"There is a problem in the boiler room of the hospital. It's not a big deal." Dr. Gao sat on the bed in the middle of the ward: "Did you dream last night?"
"No." Chen Ge shook his head: "I feel like I am forgetting something. Some vague memory fragments in my mind are being overwritten by new memories. I am very conflicted and don't know which one is the real me."
"You can realize this, which means your condition has improved significantly. Don't force it, let's take it slow." Dr. Gao is very patient: "Don't be anxious when treating mental illness. You must accept it and recognize it.
And then beat it."
After finishing speaking, Dr. Gao turned to look at Zuo Han for the first time: "Chen Ge, I heard from the nurse that someone was wandering around in the corridor last night. You and your roommate didn't leave the ward last night, right?"
Hearing what Dr. Gao said, Zuo Han opened his eyes, but he was lying on his side on the bed with his back to Dr. Gao, so neither Dr. Gao nor Chen Ge noticed.
"We have all been in the room, but I heard footsteps in the middle of the night. It was very chaotic, as if there were many people outside." Chen Ge did not continue this topic, but instead focused on the incident where he was woken up by a fright.
Get up: "Dr. Gao, I discovered something very strange last night."
"you say."
"Last night, when I was woken up by the sound of the explosion, the shock of that moment ran through my whole body like an electric current. I really hated that feeling of panic, and my body kept trembling." Chen Ge hit his chest with both hands and looked very sad.
.
Dr. Gao listened patiently, while Zuo Han curled his lips while pretending to sleep.
The lunatic who can stare at the mental patient inside the door with a perverted smile on his face, now actually says that he hates the feeling of panic?
"I felt like I was thrown into a boundless nightmare. I had a headache, palpitations, and cold sweat all over my body. I couldn't breathe. I even felt weightless and dying." Chen Ge covered his head and said in a hurry: "I
The past memories seemed to be filled with fear. When I was frightened again, that deep feeling of powerlessness invaded my whole body. I hated the past memories and wanted to completely eliminate them from my mind! Dr. Gao, can you
Can you help me?"
Before Dr. Gao, who was sitting by the bed, could say anything, Zuo Han opened his eyes wide. He already knew what Chen Ge wanted to do.
"Fear makes you feel disgusted and afraid of past memories?" Dr. Gao nodded slowly: "I have communicated with you before. The story you imagined is indeed scary, and it is definitely a very bad memory."
With blank eyes, Chen Ge looked at the ceiling stupidly: "It's really too painful. I hate myself falling into fear."
"This is a normal reaction. If you feel like this, it means you are gradually being cured." Dr. Gao took out the medicine bottle from his pocket and poured out two pills. He watched Chen Ge take it and then turned and left:
"I'm going to modify the treatment plan. You can follow Xu Wan to have breakfast later."
After Dr. Gao left, Xu Wan helped Chen Ge up, helped Chen Ge wash up, and then took Chen Ge to the hospital cafeteria.
"This is the canteen of the third ward. When your condition becomes more stable, you can eat here by yourself." Xu Wan prepared a meal for Chen Ge before leaving.
"I am very familiar with this scene. In my memory, she often brought me meals." Chen Ge said to himself. He had no friends and was sitting alone in the corner of the restaurant. He occasionally looked up at the patients around him.
"The third ward of Xinhai Central Hospital is a treatment center for mental patients, just like a place called the third ward in my memory."
Memories were interspersed with reality, tightly intertwined. Chen Ge tapped the table with a spoon.
His face was expressionless, and he was thinking about one thing in his mind.
"Dr. Gao said that insight is extremely important for mental patients. The word "key to insight" came to my mind some time ago. The memory that came up with this word was the third ward. Although I don't remember that I was in the third ward.
But one thing is certain, there is some connection between the key to insight and the third ward. If the third ward I imagined is the prototype of the third ward in reality, that is
Doesn’t it also indirectly mean that the key to insight is hidden somewhere in the third ward?”
The spoon in his hand was twisted out of shape, and the pain tortured Chen Ge's nerves, but he held on with terrifying will.
"Dr. Gao said that my past memories are all made-up stories, and the things that are impressive in my memory can all have their prototypes in reality. Then I want to see what the key to insight in my memory looks like in reality.
"
When Chen Ge thought of the key to insight and the third ward, another memory fragment naturally appeared in his mind: "Insight is very important to mental patients. The key to insight is related to the mental hospital. This kind of arrangement
It’s not an accident, it feels like someone behind the scenes set all this up deliberately. It’s like he predicted that one day I would be imprisoned in a mental hospital and set up the key to insight in advance.”
Every time the brain functions, it feels like it is being penetrated by countless needles. Most people simply cannot bear this kind of pain.
"The key to self-insight is like a node that triggers memory and points a direction for my thinking."
Twisting the spoon that was about to deform, Chen Ge endured the severe pain and ate the meal one bite at a time.
He is slowly getting used to the pain, using this stupidest and cruelest method to face his past.
After eating, Chen Ge walked to the garden outside the hospital on crutches: "I can't be put in the isolation ward no matter what. I will act like whoever the hospital wants me to be. This way."
Only then can we have the opportunity to investigate the truth.”
Sitting on the bench, Chen Ge looked at the pavilion in the distance. Zhang Jingjiu did not come over.
"Are you going to be punished so severely just for saying a word to me?" The sun shone on Chen Ge's face, but he didn't feel the slightest warmth.
"It seems that Zhang Jingjiu will not come."
A few minutes later, the flowers were pushed open, and a cat's head was exposed. This stray cat seemed to have been waiting for Chen Ge. Of course, Chen Ge might also be waiting for it.
After emerging from the flowers, the white cat bit out of Chen Ge's trousers and dragged him towards the fence. Chen Ge did not resist.
But this time it was different from the last time. After the white cat led Chen Ge to the fence, it barked at Chen Ge a few times, and then it climbed out directly along the gap in the fence and ran to the paradise across the road.
"You want me to wait for it here?" Chen Ge had no memory of this cat. There was no trace of this cat in either his past memory or his current memory.
Ten minutes later, just when Chen Ge suspected that he was being tricked by a cat, the white cat appeared again, followed by a woman in red.
"Zhang Ya?"
The woman, who was wearing ghost makeup, was slightly stunned when she heard Chen Ge call out her name.