socalfunplaces Chapter 94: On the Eve of Departure
Chapter 94: On the Eve of Departure
With so many resources, Zhang Ze was not in a hurry to start construction.
Instead, they should first leverage their existing network of contacts.
Send a message to Dr. Gao.
"You mean the second ward? That ward was indeed relocated later, but I don't know the exact location. If it's in the eastern suburbs of Hanjiang City, that makes sense."
"You mean it's abandoned?"
"Well... I have heard some rumors, but these rumors would have a serious negative impact on the medical profession, especially the psychologist profession, so they were suppressed."
Zhang Ze couldn't help but wonder what had happened.
He only knew that there had been an incident in the third ward where patients ganged up to kill nurses, but he had never heard of a psychologist killing a patient.
"Since you asked me, I'm happy to answer, but I hope you won't spread it around."
Dr. Gao sent a voice message that lasted for more than a minute.
Zhang Ze clicked on the voice message.
"Ten years ago, before the Third Mental Health Rehabilitation Center of Hanjiang City split up, the second and third wards were adjacent to each other. One was an open ward and the other was a closed ward. Newly admitted patients were usually placed in the second ward. If they showed aggression or uncontrollable frequent relapses, they would be approved to be transferred to the third ward."
"Despite the hospital's many security measures, a fire broke out in the third ward and burned to death a mother and child in the second ward. The mother and child had a tragic past. The mother was gang-raped and gave birth to a child whose father was unknown. Fortunately, the child did not have any hereditary diseases, but unfortunately, he lived in a mental hospital and was mentally unstable from a young age."
"After that fire, on-duty doctors frequently reported hearing a woman crying in the ward where the fire occurred, but when they checked the wards, they couldn't find the source of the crying. In addition, patients in other wards reported encountering women with burns on their skin, whose hair was completely burned off, but whose faces were not visible, and who would disappear when they got closer."
"Considering these rumors, and the conflict between patients in the two wards, the higher authorities approved the relocation of the second ward, and it was moved away from there."
Dr. Gao finished speaking.
Zhang Ze was stunned for a moment.
Could that woman be Xiaomen's biological mother?
Could it be that the abandonment of the second ward was caused by Xiaomen's mother?
The little door exists within that straw hat, and can only be encountered by the living in their dreams. The little door's mother cannot find it, and frequent supernatural events occur, ultimately leading to the closure of the ward.
"Thank you, but that only explains the relocation of the hospital. I still don't know why this hospital was abandoned," Zhang Ze said. "It's impossible that there are very few mental patients in Hanjiang City."
There was a moment of silence on Dr. Gao's end.
"The number of people with mental illnesses in my country has reached 95 million, with the number in Hanjiang City remaining high. The fact that the second ward is abandoned is indeed unbelievable. Generally speaking, the number of registered mental hospitals in a city is fixed."
Why are you suddenly asking this?
Zhang Ze thought for a moment.
Dr. Gao is, after all, the president of the Ghost Stories Association.
There are some things we'd better not tell Dr. Gao.
Let's just use the 39 silver fish as a shield.
"I encountered a mentally ill person in my haunted house. He claimed to be Feng Bujue from Hanjiang City and said something about his amygdala not being fully developed. I was thinking of sending him back to a mental hospital to prevent him from going crazy everywhere."
"I asked around and found out that the third ward is abandoned, so I wanted to see if the second ward was still there. It turns out that the second ward is also abandoned. It's a pity. I can only leave that mental patient in my haunted house for now. I'll send him to the community in a few days."
Zhang Ze said.
"Is the mentally ill person you're talking about Sanjiu Silver Fish?"
Dr. Gao replied.
"You know him too?"
"Xiao Chen mentioned to me that this person couldn't feel fear and behaved very strangely. I checked and found that this person did indeed live in the second ward. He was born with incomplete brain development and didn't have money for treatment. Later, he made his first pot of gold by plagiarizing other people's novels."
No wonder Sanju Silver Fish was able to use her money powers to cut in line back then.
So that's how the money comes from.
"How about this, you send this patient to me, and I'll contact a psychiatrist I know to help him find a mental hospital to send him back first, so you won't have to take care of him all the time and become a burden to you," Dr. Gao advised.
He appeared to be a compassionate doctor.
If it were someone else, they would really be fooled by his appearance.
They even remarked that he was truly a competent and good doctor.
Little did they know, Dr. Gao's true identity was to lure the living into combining with the world behind the door, stealing the door's power, and turning his deceased wife into a madwoman in red.
He is the one who is terminally ill.
"No need," Zhang Ze refused outright. He was afraid that if he gave the Sanjiu Silver Fish to Dr. Gao, his fate would be a hundred times worse than it was now.
"I'm serious."
Dr. Gao replied immediately, his tone very anxious, clearly indicating that he desperately wanted to obtain the excellent sample of the Sanjiu silverfish.
"Mental patients are not as simple as they seem. People often misunderstand patients, thinking that patients sometimes seem to be very normal, but their worldview is different from that of ordinary people."
"This understanding is extremely wrong, because the patient's condition is essentially caused by a mental illness leading to organic changes in the brain and hormonal imbalances, resulting in somatization and other problems. Such patients may remain stable in their daily lives temporarily, but once the illness flares up, they lose control of their behavior and become extremely aggressive!"
That's alarmist.
Everyone in Zhang Ze's haunted house is a villain.
He's not like Chen Ge, whose employees are mostly normal people, the kind who sit down together and make dumplings.
The staff at his haunted house all hated him to the core.
Xiaomen was the only one who had a good impression of Zhang Ze. Zhang Ze gave the Sanjiu Silver Fish to Xiaomen to prevent other employees from finding an opportunity to tear him apart alive.
"It's alright, I'll take good care of this patient," Zhang Ze replied, then changed the subject, "Thank you for your help. By the way, how is Men Nan doing lately? She should be recovering quickly, right?"
"Yes, Men Nan is much better, but I still have some tricky patients. I've already contacted Xiao Chen, and it seems like Xiao Chen's opinion of you has changed. Did you two have a falling out?"
I guess so.
"Well... Xiao Chen himself actually has some mental issues. His parents disappeared a long time ago, which caused him to have some paranoid symptoms. He needs psychological counseling, and I can cure him. If you need psychological counseling, you can make an appointment with me anytime."
Dr. Gao then talked about many other things.
After the conversation with Dr. Gao ends.
It was already afternoon.
After operating the haunted house for another afternoon, it was time to leave work. Zhang Ze tidied up his personal belongings and then switched his consciousness back to the crows in Hanjiang City.
This time.
It was his turn to explore the second ward.
This was his first time stepping into the eastern suburbs of Hanjiang City.
He was very curious. The eastern suburbs were not the territory of the Ghost Story Association; they belonged to the Shadows. He wanted to see what had happened to this hospital that caused it to become ruins.