"All the scenery is exactly the same. Even the bird on the tree is exactly the same. It stands in the same position and makes the same cry... This is not normal!"
Zhang Ze finally discovered the problem.
If there are too many coincidences, they are no longer coincidences!
However, he still had a glimmer of hope in Dr. Zhang. Could it be that he was starting to have random thoughts and hallucinations again?
So he quickly took the pills given by Dr. Zhang, lay on the bed, and fell asleep in a daze.
In the dream, his memory fragments were like playing cards that had been messed up, piled up in a mess, making it difficult for him to tell which one was real and which one was fake.
There were memories of him falling in love with Yuan Meng, and there were also scenes of him falling in love with Liu Yueying. He felt like his brain was going to explode!
At this time, he suddenly heard a burst of harsh laughter. He looked up and saw a huge eyeball floating above his head, looking straight at him!
"ah!"
Zhang Ze woke up from his nightmare and stood up suddenly. His hospital gown was soaked through, and sweat kept sliding down his face. He looked around, and before he knew it, it was daytime the next day.
Zhang Ze wiped his cold sweat and moved his eyes involuntarily to the window.
Outside the window, the scenery remains the same, like a video clip playing on repeat, looping forever.
"Which one is true? Which one is false?"
Zhang Ze covered his head with a painful expression: "Is it Yuan Meng or Liu Yueying?"
After a moment of silence, he raised his head, and the confusion in his eyes gradually faded: "I want to find the real answer!"
"I just suffer from paranoia, but my IQ is still there! I can analyze the situation and judge for myself!"
Zhang Ze began to list a series of clues in his mind and try to reason.
"First of all, let me list the problems I found."
"First, the scenery outside the window never changes."
"Second, the corridor where the exit cannot be found."
"Third, the disappeared nurses and guards."
"Fourth, the strange red iron door."
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He pinched his chin and thought: "Could the unchanged scenery outside the window make me hallucinate? But this is unreasonable. The hallucination cannot produce the same thing and last so long."
It has been ten days since he entered this ward, and the scenery outside the window is the same every time. This is too unreasonable.
"The corridor where the exit cannot be found... Doctor Zhang said that the exit is hidden, but how to hide such a large exit? Make it a secret door?"
Zhang Ze recalled what he saw in the corridor and Dr. Zhang's office. He didn't think the exit could be hidden.
More like...no exit!
"If there is no exit, how did Yuan Meng get in? How do Dr. Zhang and the staff here get home? They can't live here forever, right?"
"There are also female nurses and guards disappearing into the corridor out of thin air. This is also very abnormal..."
The more Zhang Ze thought about it, the more something was wrong. He began to think that Dr. Zhang was hiding something from him!
"The last one is the red iron door. Dr. Zhang forbids me to get close to it for fear of being irritated. Is there another reason behind it?"
He stood up and walked out of the ward, looking at the empty corridor in front of him, thinking to himself: "There are wards in this corridor, why am I the only one?"
"This is all so abnormal! It's like it was all designed for me alone!"
Zhang Ze walked forward slowly, and he came to the red iron door again. The voice came faintly: "Zhang Ze... think about it quickly... who are you..."
He couldn't help but ask the people inside: "Why don't you just tell me who I am?"
"...Because it's useless even if I tell you. You can only awaken through your own efforts."
Zhang Ze frowned: "But I have tried very hard, but I really can't do it!"
"No, if you take the initiative to come to me, it means you are about to awaken!"
The voice of the red iron gate said with a hint of relief: "You have not let me down. Keep searching hard. The truth will appear soon."
Zhang Ze thought for a while and said, "Is it true that if I release you from inside, you can help me remember everything?"
"This is also a way, but it is very difficult for you to open this door." The mysterious man sighed and said: "The key to open the door is in Dr. Zhang's hand, and he will not give it to you."
"I will think of a way, just tell me where the key is." Zhang Ze grabbed the railing of the red iron door and asked inside.
It was pitch dark inside the railing, and the mysterious man's voice came: "It's in Dr. Zhang's safe, but I don't know the password."
"The password... I know! I will find a way to find the password!"
Zhang Ze left the iron gate and turned towards Dr. Zhang's office.
"The password should be in the office, I can definitely find it."
Arriving at Dr. Zhang's office, Zhang Ze knocked on the door, and Dr. Zhang's voice soon came from inside: "Is it Zhang Ze? Come in."
Pushing the door open, Zhang Ze said with a calm expression: "Doctor Zhang, I have a few questions to ask you."
"Okay, tell me."
Dr. Zhang smiled calmly.
"Why is the scenery outside the window the same every time I see it?" Zhang Ze asked straight to the point. Although he knew that the other party might not tell him the truth, he still wanted to hear Dr. Zhang's explanation.
"Oh, you said that."
Dr. Zhang was not surprised at all. He looked calm and explained: "That is a pre-recorded video that is played repeatedly every day, so you feel strange."
Zhang Ze was surprised: "Why do you do this?"
"Of course it is to prevent the patient from being stimulated by the outside world again." Dr. Zhang spread his hands and said, "After my research, the sights and sounds from the outside world will have an impact on the patient's brain."
"Only by minimizing external influences can patients recover faster, so I specially designed these looping videos."
Zhang Ze was doubtful and asked: "Then, why can't I find the exit from the corridor? It's impossible to hide such a big exit, right?"
"I have already explained about the exit. I will not reveal the location of the exit unless you are fully recovered."
Dr. Zhang shook his head slightly: "I must ensure that my patients will stay in my hospital peacefully and will not go out to disturb public order."
Zhang Ze continued to ask: "Also, why did the female nurse and those guards disappear out of thin air? Where did they go?"
Doctor Zhang laughed: "Haha, do you still care about them? Well, I will take you to find them."
After saying that, he stood up, opened the door, and shouted to the corridor: "Nurse! Nurse!"
Then, Zhang Ze's eyes widened. He saw that a certain floor in the middle of the corridor suddenly sank, and then a female nurse and two guards slowly rose up from below.
There is actually an elevator here? !
