My House of Horrors

Chapter 1169: The Understanding Between Mental Patients (2in1)

To have Chen Ge murder Zuo Han, that was probably something that the hospital had designed from the very beginning!

To push a madman deeper into the brink of madness, one had to dig out the deepest and darkest secret buried inside his heart and then used another method to showcase it to him once again.

“Is this really a kind of treatment?” Chen Ge’s hands slowly gripped into fists. Compared to Chen Ge, Zuo Han was comparatively calmer. “The hospital appears to have already prepared some other treatment options but due to certain reasons, they had to use this last method earlier than expected.” These two patients were incredibly unique. Chen Ge had a very complicated past, the hospital had poured all of its attention on Chen Ge and they had seriously underestimated Zuo Han. They did not expect Zuo han have the habit of suspecting his own memory and would disturb Chen Ge’s ‘treatment progress’. The other original plan was destroyed and now the two extremely astute patients were slowly taking back their upper hand.

“Yes, this action by the hospital has once again proven our speculation.” Chen Ge put down the fork. “But why would they do something like this?”

“Yes, this is something that confuses me as well. Be it from the state of mental health, or state of value, I would appear to be more valuable than you are, right? Even if I am not as good as you might be at certain area, but to have been treated as one of the ‘medicines’ to ‘cure’ you is a bit maddening, isn’t it?” Zuo Han’s voice was dark.

“You are one of the medicines meant to ‘cure’ me? A living person is a medicine?” Something occurred to Chen Ge then but he quickly stopped himself from venturing further in his thoughts. “This is not going to be a quiet night. To prevent the hospital from suspecting us, I am afraid you might need to suffer a little bit.”

“Are you planning to punch a few holes in me with the fork?” The conversation between Zuo Han and Chen Ge sounded more and more like two mental patients.

“I am not going to go that far.” Chen Ge looked at the remaining pill. “Do you think I should ingest half of the pill to give it a try? To personally experience that kind of sensation?’

“have you lost your mind?” A mental patient was sincerely asking another mental patient about what he was thinking.

“If you do not die tonight, the hospital might continue to prescribe me this kind of medicine tomorrow. I need to know the effect from consuming this drug so that I will be able to play the role of an affected patient as authentic as I can.” Chen Ge had no idea why but he was very serious when it came to acting. It felt like this had to do with his sense of professionalism, “Do not stay too far away from me tonight.” Then Chen Ge used his finger to stick against some of the dust and slipped it into his mouth, he did not hesitate at all during this process.

“Jesus Christ, I can’t imagine what is going through your mind to do something like that.” Zuo Han took a step back, he was a very clever person. If they were just comparing intellect, he might not be worse than Chen Ge but he now slowly understood, overall speaking, he was still much lesser than Chen Ge.

“The taste is similar to the white pills, in other words, the black strand does not have any unique taste.” Chen Ge pursed his lips and turned to face Zuo Han as he moved to sit on his own bed. To prevent accidents from happening, he even purposely picked up the straps and bound his hands together.

“Is it because the dosage is too small? For now I do not feel anything, perhaps we have wasted too much feeding them to the bugs earlier.” Chen Ge’s eyes were calm. When the pain from his brain was burning at his soul, it had also left at the same time a gap in the ‘lock’ on his memory. He suffered the pain for a reason. Chen Ge now knew how to think without evoking that pain. As long as he did not venture into his past, and did not focus on those terms that contained special meaning, even if he triggered the pain, the pain would not be so intense that he fainted on the spot.

“Any kind of medication will take time to evoke its uses, you need to slowly process the changes to your brain and your body.” Zuo Han retreated to the corner of the room, this was already the furthest he could hide from Chen Ge. He stuck his back to the wall and said with a bitter expression. “The hospital wants you to personally kill me, so that means that my death should be able to trigger some kind of effect in you. It really does appear that we were friends in the past.”

“In your memory, you are a student at a forensic university, you have a completely different path in life compared to mine, how would we become friends? Or rather what is the link between us?” Chen Ge could not think too deep, so Zuo Han had to play the role of the brain for him.

“Perhaps you were really a Haunted House boss in the past. I am a person with very deep curiosity and desire to win, perhaps I have visited your Haunted House before and have been pranked by you. Due to the unwillingness to admit defeat, I continued to come and challenge your Haunted House and that was how we became friends? After all, it would not be that uncommon for a business proprietor to befriend his frequent customer.” Zuo Han was very familiar with his own personality. This was the first thought that came into his mind. “The various actions committed by the hospital actually had also revealed some important information, at least the two of us should be able to trust each other implicitly.”

Chen Ge sat in bed and carefully experienced the change to his body. “There should be other friends of ours among the other patients in this hospital. For example, Zhang Jingjiu, there should be other patients just like him.”

“But how do you explain what happened when we went to visit him?” Zuo Han tried to think back to the incident on the night before. “When we went to find Zhang Jingjiu, he did not react to my voice at all but once you said something, you got a reaction from him. The rest of us appear to be individual characters that do not know each other and we are only linked through you.”

“Yes, that is what I feel as well. I am the centre of all the relationship.” Chen Ge looked at the metallic fork on the food tray. “All of you appear to be ‘medicine’ that the hospital has prepared for me.” The layers of the hospital were slowly being peeled back by Chen Ge and Zuo Han. The hospital that appeared to be providing treatment for its patient had a real purpose that might shock each and every patient. One hour later, black spots started to appear on Chen Ge’s skin. Perhaps because he had taken too little dosage, the black dots were unable to form a black line inside Chen Ge’s body. As the black spots started to appear, Chen Ge’s eyes became bloodshot, his chest rose unevenly and the veins on his arms started to bulge.

“Are... are you okay?” Zuo Han stood at the door. His hands were on the door handle, he was ready to run as soon as things went south.

“The black spots appear to contain negative emotions and some kind of power, they want to take over my body but there appears to be another force inside my body who is resisting these black spots, to suppress their influence. The force appears to come from the heart.” Chen Ge traced the change in his body closely. “These black dots should have the purpose of evoking the force that is resting in my heart, does this mean that my second persona is residing in my heart? But if I suffer from schizophrenia, shouldn’t my second persona be a creation inside my mind and not my heart?” Sitting by the edge of the bed, Chen Ge mumbled to himself. Zuo Han at the door was nervous looking and he did not dare to reply at all.

The time ticked by slowly. The black spots in Chen Ge’s body became more active. His status was not that stable, his eyes were filled with blood and he looked incredibly scary.

“After the drug enters the body, its effect will reach its climax after 3 hours. And if it is not released, the sense of agitation will continue to persist.” Chen Ge was in a ghastly grimace but his tone was incredibly calm. “I have merely tasted some of the powder, if I have ingested the whole pill, undeniably the effect will shatter my mental defense and I would have killed my roommate without even realizing it.”

“Hey, I am just standing over here. Do you mind paying attention to my feeling when you say those things?”

“But there appear to be benefit to this pill too. After ingesting it, the sense of lethargy that has been overwhelming my body dissipates tremendously, the sense of weakness that has been troubling me disappears gradually as well.” There were pros and cons, and Chen Ge was most familiar with finding things that were useful to him in the most despairing of situation.

At 1 am, Chen Ge felt like the effect of the medicine will not strengthen any more. He forced the binding around his wrist to come loose. He picked up the metallic fork from the tray. “Zuo Han, if you do not run fast enough, you might have a few new blood holes on your body but don’t you worry, I will make sure to avoid the fatal parts.”

“Wait a minute! You are going to start now?! At least give me some warning!” Zuo Han had just finished when Chen Ge seemingly had morphed into another person. There was a bloodshot in his eyes and the twisted face was filled with a sick desire. It was as if he could not wait to destroy every living things. Only blood and murder would be able to calm his soul.

“What the fuck!” Even if they had planned this earlier, Zuo Han was still gripped by fear. He could not believe that Chen Ge was just acting. This was 120 percent too real. The fear grew around his heart like a poisonous briar. One of his leg was encased in plaster so he could not move quickly. Therefore, Chen Ge started to crawl on the ground like a beast. The hospital had once shown Chen Ge how he acted when he was acting up, Doctor Gao was using it to prove that Chen Ge the existence of a second persona in Chen Ge’s body, they probably would not have imagined Chen Ge would mimic the characteristic of that person in the video to fool them. Chen Ge had familiarized himself with how he would act after he had lost his mind. Be it expression or action, he had replicated it most perfectly.

The metallic fork stabbed through the bedsheet and pillow and it pierced through the mattress. It left a few small holes on the wooden boards. Zuo Han shrunk his neck back. He knew Chen Ge was not joking. If the same force was applied to his body, probably a bloody gouge would appear on his skin.

“Help me!” Opening the room door, Zuo Han ran outside while yelling at the top of his lungs. The beds were tripped over. Just as the moment Zuo Han ran out, the metallic fork brushed against the back of his head and slashed his clothes. With a streak, the shirt was torn open. A chill rushed up Zuo Han’s back. If he was one step slower, the fork would have directly stabbed into his spine!

[This man’s actual identity is a murderous killer! Or else how is he so good at this? He must have done this many times in the past? Perhaps I have been killed many times in his mind already!] The more Zuo Han thought about it, the more afraid he became. He charged out of the sickroom and then turned to look behind him. Cold sweat slid down his face immediately. Chen Ge moved with both of his hands on the ground. Dragging the plastered leg, the monster was chasing after him like a beast yearning for his delicious meal!

Even though he knew that this was all an act, Zuo Han was really afraid. He was unable to control himself and his instinct told him to run towards the duty room where the workers could be found.

“Help me! Someone please come and help me!” One was running and one was chasing. The familiar feeling rose in both people’s mind instantly, it was as if they had experiencing something similar before. Normally the workers who would come out when they heard the smallest of voice did not show up that night. It was as if no one was on duty. Even when Zuo Han’s throat was coarse from all the shouting, no one came to help him. Zuo Han did not dare to stop. Currently he had no idea whether Chen Ge was acting or he had really been brought under the influence of the drug, in any case, he did not want to stop to find out. That was definitely not an option.

He raced like his life depended on it. Zuo Han did not dare to turn back and eventually he found his way to the duty room. He knocked frantically on the door while screaming non stop. Moments later, the door was pulled open from within. A worker poked his head out with annoyance, the thing that he saw was Chen Ge’s ghastly face that was twisted from madness and blood lust.

Bang! Chen Ge slammed into the duty room’s door and Chen Ge sent the worker flying. At the same time, the force also threw the door of the duty room wide open. While the worker careened to the floor with a scream, Chen Ge who was supposedly in the grasp of madness shot a glance at Zuo Han and signaled for him to check out the rest of the duty room. Two patients communicated without words. While Chen Ge entangled with the worker, the other worker came out to help. Zuo Han used this opening to slip deeper into the duty room. Even though the medicine had been grounded down into dust, they had a great effect on Chen Ge, not even the two workers were able to restrain him.

A metallic fork became a lethal weapon in Chen Ge’s possession. The two hospital workers probably also did not expect to run into such a scary patient. One of them took out a phone with a white casing on it to call for help but before he could dial the number, he was slammed into by Chen Ge and pressed against the ground.

“Help me! Help me!” The fork fell down again and again and they were always aiming at the worker’s eyes. The worker who was so frightened barely escaping the fate of being blinded. This was not something a normal person would be able to suffer peacefully. Zuo Han appeared to have found something important inside the duty room after just a mere 3 minutes. He heard the workers call for help but he did not intend to help either of them at all. He ran past them and hurried down the other side of the corridor.

The two hospital workers knew that they were unable to stop Chen Ge. After they pushed Chen Ge off, they too started to take off for their lives.

“I was almost killed! Help me! I was almost killed by him!” Zuo Han screamed while he ran. He too was playing the role of a mad patient perfectly as he kept shouting this statement over and over.

“Go and find the night doctors! We need to head to the doctor’s office!” The two hospital workers ran down one of the directions of the corridor. Zuo Han stuck close to them. Chen Ge was crawling on the ground so he could not move fast, this gave them the opportunity to escape. In reality though, Chen Ge’s arms and legs were already filled with wounds but the pain only made his expression more intense and scary. Opening the door that was in the middle of the corridor on the first floor, the hospital workers ran into the second sick hall, this place was obviously eerier than the third sick hall.

“Doctor! Doctor!” The workers and Zuo Han darted into one of the rooms. The lights came on and a doctor in a doctor’s coat came out from it. With the direction from the doctor, the three of them worked together to apprehend Chen Ge.

Being put on the straps, Chen Ge felt like he could not resist any more. He snuck at room at Zuo Han. The latter who had been rummaging through the doctor’s room when they were coming to stop Chen Ge appeared to have stumbled across something very important. After he realized the job that night had been completed, Chen Ge relaxed. He used the last ounce of his energy to struggle as best as he could and then he started to focus on his memory fragments that were related to his parents and the Haunted House. Soon the brain-tearing pain overwhelmed his mind and Chen Ge fainted from the intense pain.

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He slowly opened his eyes, the sun outside the window was about to sink down the horizon already. This time, Chen Ge had gone unconscious for about 10 plus hour.

“Can you hear my voice?” Doctor Gao was standing beside Chen Ge’s bed. He looked at Chen Ge with extreme concern. “you have finally woken up.”

“I...” His lips were dry and cracked. Chen Ge looked around him, he realized he had been sent to a room inside the quarantine zone. “Where is this place? Why am I here?”

“Your second persona has surfaced again yesterday night and he almost killed the workers at our hospital.”

“How is that possible?!” Chen Ge desperately wanted to sit up in bed but he realized his arms and legs were strapped to the bed and he could not move even if he wanted to.

“I am sorry but it is real.” Doctor Gao showed the surveillance video to Chen Ge again. “your second persona is filled with the desire to destroy. If you do not defeat him, one day you will be consumed by him.”