Hospital 444
Chapter 478 - 6: Li Zhixiao (3)

Chapter 478: Chapter 6: Li Zhixiao (3)

"Sir, where exactly do you want to go?"

Li Zhixiao was distracted at that moment, his entire being in a state of haziness. The taxi driver asked him three or four times before he finally came to his senses.

"Sir, where do you really want to go?"

Where to go?

Li Zhixiao didn’t know either.

At that moment, his mobile phone rang, and when he looked at it, the caller was his wife Lu Mange, whose number he had always kept and not deleted!

He stared at the phone, his heart feeling dead.

Either the world or he must be crazy.

Should he really go to the hospital to see a psychiatrist? Tell the doctor, "I’m insane, I thought my wife was dead, but then the whole world tells me she isn’t dead. Moreover, my hallucination has my wife with a completely different face"?

"Anywhere is fine."

After a long while, Li Zhixiao could only say this to the driver, "Let’s go somewhere crowded."

For some reason, Li Zhixiao now didn’t want to go to less crowded places.

He wanted to go where there were more people.

The incident that occurred today made him feel eerily unsettled, as if his whole body was in a cold storage.

The taxi driver looked at Li Zhixiao with confusion and said, "Then, sir, shall I take you to the shopping mall in the city center?"

"Yes, that’s fine."

"Sir, aren’t you going to answer your phone? It’s been ringing for a long time."

"No, it’s not important."

Now, Li Zhixiao didn’t even dare to look at his phone.

Previously, on the way to the police station, he had carefully checked his phone, and then he found...

His WeChat had countless chat records that he had no recollection of!

There were chat records with his wife Lu Mange, his parents, and friends.

In these chat records, "he" kept mentioning the daily life with his wife!

And what was more frightening was that besides the parts about daily life with his wife, all other chat contents were indeed his real experiences!

He hadn’t hung up the phone, but he also didn’t answer the call. Eventually, he simply set his phone to silent.

As the taxi slowly made its way to the city center, Li Zhixiao began to ponder over the day’s events.

He picked up his phone and called his good friend, Liu Gang. Liu Gang was his college classmate, back in university when he and Lu Mange were dating, Liu Gang could be said to have shipped their relationship the whole way. After Mange’s death, Liu Gang even helped out with the funeral arrangements, and over the past few years, he had even tried to introduce him to new girlfriends.

In his chat records with Liu Gang, it was also all about showing off the love with Liu Gang repeatedly. Finally, Liu Gang even couldn’t stand it and said, "Stop showing off your love in front of a single guy!"

"Hello, Zhixiao?"

"Liu Gang, I want to ask you. My... my wife..."

"No way, I know it’s your wedding anniversary today, but are you guys still flaunting your love on this date?"

Li Zhixiao quickly hung up the phone, and then, he called his father back in the rural hometown.

"Hello, Zhixiao?"

Hearing his father’s voice, Li Zhixiao felt as though his heart was being clenched tight.

"Dad, I, I was thinking, I want to come back to see you and mom..."

"You and Mange are coming back?"

Then, he heard his mother’s voice, "Ah, Zhixiao is bringing Mange back?"

Hearing these words, Li Zhixiao had no idea what to say anymore.

"Yes, Dad, Mom, I, I want to come back alone."

"What’s the matter? Did you and Mange have a fight?"

Hearing this made Li Zhixiao feel exceedingly absurd.

Fight???

In his memory, during the time shortly after Mang Ge passed away, his parents moved in and lived with him for a month. The once-new house was draped in stark whiteness, the wedding portrait replaced with a black-and-white memorial photo.

His parents wept with him, while his in-laws blamed him for driving Mang Ge out only to make the elderly send off the young, with the culprit of the accident still at large. This tragedy made his parents age a decade overnight.

No matter what...

It wasn’t possible that his parents had colluded with a criminal gang to deceive him, was it?

He could hardly remember what his parents said next.

After exchanging a few courteous phrases, he hung up the phone.

If he were to run to the cemetery now, the plot he purchased was probably gone, right?

After all, even the police station didn’t have a death certificate for his wife anymore.

"Maybe I really am insane?"

But he couldn’t accept this reality.

Every memory of his wife’s death up to this point was vivid before his eyes.

Now he was to tell himself that all of it was fake?

Could it be that the car accident left him with lasting repercussions? Had his brain suffered damage?

But after the accident, he only had a concussion and no serious injuries.

However, Li Zhixiao thought again, brain medicine is, after all, very complex. Perhaps modern medicine can’t thoroughly research the human brain, so there might be some unknown changes in the brain that modern medicine can’t accurately diagnose.

"No, wait... then..."

If that was the case, was it false that his wife died, or is it false that his wife came back to life with a different face? Could his current memory actually be the false one?

What is real, and what is illusion—was he unable to be sure anymore?

"What should I do now?"

The taxi driver brought the car to a shopping mall in the city center.

Li Zhixiao opened the taxi door and stepped out, almost forgetting to pay the fare.

After paying the fare, he walked into the mall like a zombie.

Not knowing how long he wandered inside, he found a place to sit and sat down.

He suddenly remembered that back when he and Mang Ge were dating in college, they had come to this mall. Only it had been so long, he had just remembered.

"Back then... On this floor, there was a coffee shop over there... but it seems it’s not there anymore."

Just then, he suddenly noticed a young man coming towards him, taking a seat next to him.

Li Zhixiao noticed the young man because... there was a black upside-down cross on the man’s forehead.

It looked like a tattoo? But he had seldom seen anyone with a tattoo on their forehead.

Moreover, such an upside-down cross seemed to carry some sort of negative connotation.

After sitting down next to him, the man suddenly looked at Li Zhixiao and said, "Why are you staring at me?"

"I..."

"Is it because of this mark on my forehead?" the man touched his forehead and said, "Well, I can understand."

"I’m sorry..."

"No worries... I don’t like this mark myself. But I can’t help it, it’s due to my job."

"Your job?"

"I am... a doctor."

Hearing that the other person was a doctor, Li Zhixiao quickly asked, "Then... Which department do you work in? Do you have knowledge of neurology?"

"Hmm... I am, let’s say, a rather special doctor. But neurology... do you think you or someone around you has a mental issue?"

"I... I think I might be insane. Because my memory doesn’t match at all with what people around me are telling me."

The young man showed an intrigued expression.

"Then you can tell me about it. My name is... Dai Wei, and just to be clear, though it sounds like a foreigner’s name, I’m Chinese."

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