Lying on the bed in the mental illness treatment center, Chen Ge perfectly integrated into this environment at this time, whether it was his expression or what he said.

"How can a person who is fine during the day be so sick at night?" Zuo Han sat back on his bed, separated from Chen Ge by a long distance: "I studied forensic medicine, and after studying for so many years, I really haven't heard that frequent stimulation can activate memory." ”

"You study forensics when you deal with corpses, and the situation of the living may be more complicated."

"Do you know how low your temperature was when you were sick? The only difference between you and the dead at that time is that you still have a heartbeat. At first, Zuo Han wanted to cooperate with Chen Ge and escape together, but now he gradually found that his roommate was very dangerous, and he might kill himself at any time.

In Zuo Han's opinion, Chen Ge is not just sick, he seems to have other secrets hidden in him.

"Could it be that this hospital has been conducting human trials?" Zuo Han tried to use his knowledge to find the answer, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and it was difficult for science to explain Chen Ge's state, which was already in the category of theology.

"Zuo Han, can you tell me a few ghost stories? The scariest kind. Chen Ge lay on the bed, turned his head to look at Zuo Han, his face full of anticipation.

"Are you sick? What ghost story do you listen to all of a sudden? Zuo Han blurted out, he found that he couldn't see through Chen Ge at all: "In the early hours of the morning, you have to listen to a patient tell a ghost story, you want to know what kind of mentality you have to say such a thing?" ”

"I just wanted to give it a try and see if the fear could spur me back on to my memory."

Hearing Chen Ge's words, Zuo Han also felt that there was a trace of truth, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and then told Chen Ge a few ghost stories that he knew.

"Do you feel scared?"

"No, your story doesn't excite me at all."

"Anyone who hears a ghost story can't get excited!" Zuo Han got up from the bed, and he dragged his hospital bed away from Chen Ge until he stopped at the door.

At this distance, if Chen Ge was not good for him, he could immediately open the door and run out.

"Has anything really terrible happened to you?"

"Yes, I was in a psychiatric hospital, and my fellow inpatient 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 occult perspectives.

"Your ghost story is not scary at all, it's better to ......" Chen Ge reluctantly raised his hand: "How about we play some psychic games?" For example, pen fairy, disc fairy or something? ”

There was no need to think, something had already been engraved in the body, and Chen Ge was very familiar with these words.

"Haven't you lost your memory? How do you know so much about these strange things? Zuo Han realized the problem.

"I remember that I used to be the owner of a haunted house, but the doctor said that I was someone else's identity and that my story was made up."

"The doctor may be deceiving you, judging from your weird behavior tonight, you are keen on thrill-seeking, like the feeling of panic, and are familiar with horror games such as Pen Fairy and Saucer Fairy, you probably used to open a haunted house!" Zuo Han touched his chin and pondered.

"But why did the doctor lie to me?"

"How do I know?"

"Then let's play the pen fairy game, shall we? I should be able to think of something slowly. ”

"No play, no pen."

"Where's the Saucer Immortal? I also know a horror game called back-to-back, which is a person lying on the bed and a person hiding under the bed board...... "Once he thinks deeply, Chen Ge's brain seems to be torn apart, so whether he speaks or acts a certain behavior, it is instinctive."

Zuo Han didn't talk to Chen Ge anymore, he lay on his side on the bed with a cold face, turned his back to Chen Ge and began to think about how to escape from the hospital.

Lying in this position for a while, Zuo Han felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart, he always felt a little wrong when he thought back to Chen Ge's words: "Is it possible that he is pretending to be sick?" I'm turning my back to him, will he be standing behind me right now? ”

Goosebumps broke out on his neck, and Zuo Han turned over violently, finding that Chen Ge had fallen asleep.

"It looks normal to be asleep, I can't imagine him would say such terrible things."

The ward was quiet, and at about two o'clock in the morning, there was a sudden noise somewhere in the hospital, as if something had exploded.

Chen Ge and Zuo Han were all awakened, and before they could react to what was going on, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the corridor again.

"Someone's coming!"

The door of the ward was knocked lightly twice, and before Chen Ge and Zuo Han could get close, the footsteps walked away again.

When Zuo Han opened the door, there was not even a figure in the corridor outside: "Who knocked on the door?" ”

"By the way, when you went out to check last night, someone knocked on the door, but he only knocked once." Chen Ge found that when he recalled the memories after waking up in the hospital, his brain did not hurt, but if he recalled the memories before he fell into a coma, his head would have a tearing feeling.

"Knocked it yesterday, knocked it twice today? It seems that the other party came over specifically and was doing 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 a coma many times since I was hospitalized. After each awakening, the memory of before the last coma becomes blurry. ”

"Is it possible that this is the case? The hospital wants you to be a 'normal person' who meets their standards, but every treatment fails, so you have to keep 'restarting'? The more Zuo Han thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible: "You may have experienced a similar treatment process many times, but you didn't realize it. ”

"But what does that have to do with the knocker?" Chen Ge was lying on the bed, he tried his best not to think about it, and seized the time to recover his body.

"Will the relationship between you and the knocker be the same as the relationship between us?" Zuo Han boldly speculated: "He should be your former patient, you were 'restarted' because of the treatment failure, but he hid it, the knock on the door may be some kind of agreement between you, or is he hinting at you something?" ”

"Makes sense." Chen Ge nodded.

"There's a chance he'll show up tomorrow night, and we'll find a way to get in touch with him then."

"Okay."

The hospital was not peaceful tonight, there were footsteps in the corridor all the time, and Chen Ge fell asleep when it was almost dawn.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the door of the ward 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, it looks like something exploded in the hospital last night, and a loud bang woke me up." Chen Ge looked a little weak, and he spoke slowly.

"It's not a big deal that there's a problem in the boiler room of the hospital." Dr. Gao sat on the bed in the middle of the ward: "Did you have a dream last night?" ”

"Nope." Chen Ge shook his head: "I feel as if I am forgetting something, some vague memory fragments in my mind are being covered by new memories, I am very conflicted, I don't know which one is the real me." ”

"If you can realize this, it means that your condition has improved significantly, don't force it, let's take our time." Dr. Gao is very patient: "You can't rush to treat mental illness, you have to accept it, recognize it, and then overcome it." ”

After finishing speaking, Dr. Gao turned his head to look at Zuo Han for the first time: "Chen Ge, I heard the nurse say that someone was wandering around the corridor last night, and you and your roommate didn't leave the ward last night, right?" ”

Hearing Dr. Gao's words, Zuo Han's eyes opened, but he was lying on the bed with his back to Dr. Gao, so neither Dr. Gao nor Chen Ge noticed.

"We were all in the room all the time, but I heard footsteps in the middle of the night, and it was very chaotic, like there were a lot of people outside." Chen Ge didn't continue the topic, but grabbed the incident where he was scared awake just now and said, "Doctor Gao, I found something very strange last night. ”

"You say."

"When I woke up last night from the sound of the explosion, the horror of that moment ran through my whole body like an electric current, and I was so disgusted by the feeling of horror that my body kept shaking." Chen Ge slapped his hands on his chest, and his face was very bad.

Doctor Gao listened patiently, while Zuo Han, who pretended to be asleep, pouted.

The madman who can stare at the mentally ill person inside the door with a perverted smile on his face now actually says that he is disgusted by the feeling of horror?

"I felt like someone had thrown me into an endless nightmare, with headaches, palpitations, cold sweats, I couldn't breathe, and I even felt weightless and dying." Chen Ge covered his head and said in a hurried tone: "My past memories seem to be full of fear, when I was frightened again, that deep sense of powerlessness invaded my whole body, I hated the memories of the past, and wanted to completely remove them from my mind!" Dr. Gao, can you help me? ”

Before Dr. Gao, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, could speak, Zuo Han's eyes widened first, he already knew what Chen Ge wanted to do.

"Fear makes you disgusted and fearful of past memories?" Doctor Gao nodded slowly: "I have communicated with you before, and the story you came up with is indeed very scary, and it is definitely a very bad memory. ”

With a blank gaze, Chen Ge looked at the ceiling stupidly: "It's really too painful, I hate myself in fear." ”

"It's a normal reaction, and you feel like this, which means that you're gradually being healed." Doctor Gao took out the medicine bottle from his pocket and poured out two pills, he watched Chen Ge eat it, and then turned to leave: "I'll go and revise the treatment plan, and you will follow Xu Wan to breakfast in a while." ”

After Dr. Gao left, Xu Wan helped Chen Ge up, helped Chen Ge wash, and then took Chen Ge to the hospital cafeteria.

"This is the cafeteria of the third ward, and when your condition is more stable in the future, you can come here to eat by yourself." Xu Wan cooked for Chen Ge before leaving.

"This scene is very familiar to me, and she often brings me food in my memory." Chen Ge said to himself, he had no friends, he sat alone in the corner of the restaurant, occasionally looking up at the patients around him.

"The third ward of Xinhai Central Hospital is a treatment center for the mentally ill, just like a place called the third ward in my memory."

Memories are interspersed with reality, firmly intertwined, and Chen Ge gently taps the table with a spoon.

His face was expressionless, and something was on his mind.

"Dr. Gao said that self-awareness is extremely important for mentally ill people, and the word self-knowledge key came to my mind some time ago, and the memory that surfaced with this word is the third ward, although I don't remember what I did in the third ward, but one thing is certain, there is some kind of connection between the self-knowledge key and the third ward. If the prototype of the third ward I imagined is the third ward in reality, does that also indirectly indicate that the key to self-knowledge is hidden somewhere in the third ward? ”

The deformation of the key in his hand tortured Chen Ge's nerves with pain, but he held it up with a terrifying will.

"Dr. Gao said that my past memories are all fabricated stories, and the impressive things in my memory can be found in reality, so I want to see what the key to self-knowledge in my memory looks like in reality."

At the same time that Chen Ge remembered the self-knowledge key and the third ward, another memory fragment naturally appeared in his mind: "Self-knowledge is very important to the mentally ill, and the self-knowledge key is related to the mental hospital, this arrangement is not accidental, it feels like someone behind the scenes deliberately set up all this, he seems to have predicted that one day I will be imprisoned in a mental hospital, and set up the self-knowledge key in advance." ”

Every time the brain is running, it is as if it has been pierced by countless needles, and this kind of pain is unbearable for ordinary people.

"The key to self-knowledge is like a node that triggers my memory, pointing out a direction for my thinking."

Twisting the key that was about to be transformed, Chen Ge endured the severe pain and ate one bite at a time.

He was slowly getting used to the pain, and he was confronting his past in the most stupid and cruel way.

After eating, Chen Ge came to the garden outside the hospital on crutches: "No matter what, I can't be locked up in the isolation ward anymore, I will play whatever kind of person the hospital wants me to be, so that I can have a chance to investigate the truth." ”

Sitting on the bench, Chen Ge looked at the gazebo in the distance, and Zhang toasted and did not come.

"Do you have to be punished so harshly just by 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 Toast will not come."

A few minutes later, the flowers were arched open, and a cat's head was exposed, the stray cat seemed to have been waiting for Chen Ge, and of course Chen Ge might have been waiting for it.

Drilling out of the flowers, the white cat bit out Chen Ge's trouser leg and dragged him to the fence, and Chen Ge did not resist.

It's just that this time is different from the last time, after the white cat led Chen Ge to the fence, he barked at Chen Ge a few times, and then he crawled out directly along the gap in the fence and ran to the paradise across the road.

"Is it telling me to wait here for it?" Chen Ge didn't have any impression of this cat, whether it was the memory of the past or the memory of the present, there was no figure of this cat.

Ten minutes later, just when Chen Ge suspected that he had been released by a cat, the white cat reappeared, followed by a woman in red.

"Zhang Ya?"

The woman was wearing ghost makeup, and after hearing Chen Ge shout her name, she was slightly stunned.