Chapter 245: Dreamer

Chapter 245: Dreamer

Xuan Wen put away her smile. She radiated no warmth or kindness anymore. She stared at the screen seriously. She checked to make sure she got everything right.

Gao Ming had been to the back building of Li San Hospital half a year ago. He was there, not as a patient. He might been chosen by the shadow world back then.

“Erm...” Chen Meng looked at the paused video. He did not see himself or his doctor. It was another person. “Aren’t we here to treat me? Did you get this wrong?” As a patient, Chen Meng didn’t want to interrupt, but Xuan Wen was treating this with such severity that Chen Meng felt like he could be dead the next second.

“Every time you can’t sleep, someone around you will die, but you’ll always be fine. Therefore, you are fine.” Xuan Wen shushed Chen Meng. She took out a headphone and connected it to the old computer. Xuan Wen pressed the play button. She stared with such focus. The video continued to play. The ward door opened. Gao Ming entered the ward in his uniform. Dust danced in the light. There was no smell of disinfectant but a strange smell of decay. Gao Ming frowned slightly. He held the resit for the medicine as he looked at Chen Meng, who was receiving treatment.

“How can an outsider walk into this place so easily?” Chen Meng was panicking because he just laid his darkest secret on the table.

“I’m a doctor too. You can continue.” Gao Ming scanned the room. There were five seats in the room. There were two beside the table, two beside the window and one beside the bookshelf that was hidden in the shadow. Without much consideration, Gao Ming took the seat in the shadow. He was fully enveloped in the dark.

“Are you a doctor here too?” Chen Meng’s expression was not as natural as earlier.

“Mr. Chen, I think I got a grasp of your illness already. Please wait a moment.” The doctor opposite Chen Meng seemed to be surprised by Gao Ming’s appearance as well. He smiled, “You said you are a doctor, but only those with serious mental illness will come to me.”

“Ever since Hen Shan Penitentiary got the devices that were transferred over from Xin Lu, the emotions of the patients appeared to have settled down. However, once they were triggered, they would instantly fall into a great state of agitation. There was a prison riot last night. My superior told me to come here to get some drugs. This is the resit and proof. He said you already had everything prepared.” The hospital had its own purchasing system. Gao Ming didn’t want to get involved. He just wanted to get the drugs and leave.

“Doctor, I have an acting gig later. Can you prescribe me the pills first?” Chen Meng urged. He hated Gao Ming for cutting in. He was there first.

Gao Ming sat on the chair alone and held the resit. He didn’t notice that the shadow behind him appeared to have come alive. It slowly eroded his neck and silently wanted to squeeze into his body. The resit slipped to the ground. Gao Ming closed his eyes like he had fallen asleep.

About five minutes later, the doctor brought out Chen Meng, who was in a patient’s garb. Chen Meng’s eyes were dull, like something had been taken out of him.

“Mr. Chen, take your medicine and go to the seventh floor to get a hospital stay certificate.” The doctor patted Chen Meng’s back with a smile. “With our treatment method, you’ll be cured after you’ve stayed with us for three days.”

Chen Meng left the other room obediently. The doctor came to Gao Ming with a smile. “Wake up.”

Gao Ming’s eyes flew open. He pulled on his collar like he was cold, “Is the killer gone?”

“He just had some strange dreams.” The doctor picked up the resit from the ground. He studied the different pill names on it. “Have you fallen asleep? Did you dream of anything strange? Do you think you’re crazy?”

“What is your point?” Gao Ming seemed to have been in a dream.

“Isn’t a crazy person just a lucid person in a dream?” The doctor appeared to be talking to himself. “You have fallen asleep, but are you sure you are awake now?”

The doctor didn’t look at Gao Ming. When Gao Ming heard the doctor, he felt goosebumps all over. He looked around subconsciously. The world became unfamiliar to him all of a sudden.

Xuan Wen had said nothing so far. She stared closely at Gao Ming, trying to glean more information from his face.