chapter 18
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“Hey! Wake up, Chen Shu, wake up! Chen Shu, what’s wrong with you?”
An anxious yet caring voice reached Chen Shu’s ears.
Chen Shu rubbed his dizzy forehead and sat up.
He looked around and realized he was already in the hospital.
“What happened to me? How did I end up in the hospital?”
Chen Shu looked around in confusion.
“You forgot? Doctor Chen? A few Police Officers just brought you here!”
A nurse glanced at Chen Shu.
Chen Shu looked up at the nurse, his eyes flickering slightly.
He instantly understood that this was that hospital, and he had run into someone he knew.
This was the First People’s Hospital!
The nurse who called him was someone Chen Shu used to work with here.
Her name was Wu Tong.
At work, everyone called her Xiao Tong.
“Oh, really? Sorry about that.”
Then Chen Shu gave an awkward smile, “Um, Xiao Tong, am I alright?”
Xiao Tong smiled back, “It’s nothing serious, you just need to take some medicine and you can go home and rest.”
“By the way, Doctor Chen, why did you quit your job? You were doing so well.”
“Oh, I suddenly wanted to change jobs, so I resigned.”
“I see, that’s really a shame. You’re such an outstanding Surgeon, and yet you gave up your current job to do something else. Sigh.” Xiao Tong sighed.
“Haha, it’s nothing, really.”
Chen Shu smiled, chatted with Wu Tong for a bit, and then left the hospital.
Chen Shu didn’t take a taxi; instead, he chose to walk home. After all, this was the place where he had worked just a few days ago.
Chen Shu walked aimlessly forward, but his mind was heavy with thoughts.
The scenes from when he was unconscious kept surfacing in his mind.
It turned out he had always misunderstood-not only had the patients on his Patient List lost their memories, but he had also lost his own memories!
Now, as he thought about it, he realized he could only remember the faces from the Patient List and a few fragments of conversation!
Chen Shu kept thinking about those memories as he walked. In those memories, Zhang Lili was with Liu Hai, and later her younger sister Zhang Li also liked Liu Hai. Then Zhang Li secretly got together with Liu Hai behind her sister’s back.
But in fact, Zhang Lili must have discovered it long ago, but she never exposed it. She chose to give way.
So she found Chen Shu, aborted the child she had with Liu Hai, and withdrew from this twisted love affair.
But now, Zhang Lili told them that it was her sister Zhang Li who was with Liu Hai first, and then she wanted to become Zhang Li. She received a phone call.
Then, lured by the person on the phone, she went to the Back Mountain behind the School at night and saw the unbearable scene she described. The next day, she was told to wear Zhang Li’s clothes and pretend to be Zhang Li.
Chen Shu was convinced his memory couldn’t be wrong.
He believed that there could be multiple versions of himself in the same space-time, and he refused to believe his memory could be mistaken.
Because, depending on the world’s dimensions, it’s possible for multiple versions of oneself to exist in the same space-time.
Depending on the dimensional space, for example, in three-dimensional space-time, there can be three-dimensional projections of oneself.
In four-dimensional space-time, there can be four-dimensional projections, meaning four versions of oneself, and in even higher-dimensional space-time, there can be even more projections-more versions of oneself.
It’s like the effect of a mirror’s reflection. Every time you see a figure in the mirror, it means your reflection in one mirror is being projected into another mirror.
But what if the reflection in the mirror gains self-awareness?
When you encounter your own projection, you might think it’s another version of yourself looking into the mirror.
Of course, in reality, that’s not the case. All of this was just his own speculation.
Chen Shu was now certain-the current Zhang Lili was lying!
She had made up a new story.
And the reason she fabricated this story was that she might also have killed someone together with the murderer “Chen Shu”!
As for why she was now in a psychiatric hospital under observation, it wasn’t because she had witnessed some cruel or shocking scene.
It was because she had truly killed her sister Zhang Li, and her spirit had been traumatized!
First, perhaps she was evading legal punishment, pretending to be insane to hide in the psychiatric hospital!
Second, she really had gone mad and ended up in the psychiatric hospital.
After figuring this out, Chen Shu found it all absurd, yet he didn’t know how to describe his feelings.
If “Chen Shu”, your motive for killing was to help those people on the Patient Medical Record by killing to cure their illnesses…
Thinking about these questions, Chen Shu realized he was almost home. Checking the time, it was already 5:30 in the afternoon.
He’d been busy since morning until now.
He was hungry.
He decided to quicken his pace and walk home.
At that moment, Chen Shu’s phone suddenly vibrated.
He picked up his phone and saw Han Xue’s name on the screen.
Chen Shu answered the call and listened to the voice on the other end.
“Chen Shu, I heard you’ve been discharged. How are you feeling?”
“I’m fine, thank you for your concern, Sister Han.”
“Did you catch him?”
Chen Shu asked.
But the voice on the phone sounded rather downcast.
“Mm… We haven’t found him.”
“Sigh-”
Han Xue let out a long sigh, her tone full of regret.
Then she continued.
“I think there’s only one person in this world who can catch him.”
“Ah? Who?” Chen Shu couldn’t help but ask.
“Chen Shu!”
“Who?”
“You!”
Chen Shu was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
“How could that be? I’m just a doctor. Solving cases is your job as the police.”
As he said this, a sharp glint flashed in Chen Shu’s eyes.
Although he hadn’t committed these murders yet, after all, these cases were ones his future self would commit.
Chen Shu wanted to be the first to catch the “murderer”!
But Han Xue continued.
“Whether you admit it or not, you do possess a Supernatural Ability that others don’t have.”
“Supernatural Ability? Me?” Chen Shu’s eyes widened in surprise.
Han Xue said on the other end of the line,
“Mm, we investigated your background. Your grandfather was once a famous National Medical Master, who treated many difficult and complicated diseases.”
“Even including terminal illnesses like cancer and AIDS.”
“Your father and mother were both soldiers. Although they passed away when you were very young, they participated in many battles, and at their most impressive, even led their troops to win a world-class counter-terrorism operation.”
“So you’ve always studied traditional Chinese medicine with your grandfather, and having been immersed in it since childhood, your understanding of medicine far exceeds that of ordinary people. That’s why you became a top Surgical Expert at such a young age, right?”
“And in some respects, your logical thinking is extremely meticulous, with an extraordinary keen insight. To some extent, you are a person of great talent.”
“…”
After listening to Han Xue, Chen Shu’s expression froze.
Although she was showering him with praise, Chen Shu still asked Han Xue on the phone,
“Sister Han, just tell me what you want.”
“I want to invite you to join our organization!”
“What organization?”
“Special Case Investigation Group.”
“Special Case Investigation Group?”
“Mm, we call it the Special Case Group for short. We mainly handle all kinds of special cases.”
“Don’t you want to catch the murderer ‘Chen Shu’?”