The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 644 - 642: Anomaly

William gazed at the undeniably realistic room before him, feeling the pressure of the bandages that tightly bound his body; it seemed no different from reality, making it hard to distinguish whether it was a dream or reality.

The hospital room’s design overlapped with memories of Yi Chen’s former world, but merely seeing a hospital room wasn’t enough to conclude anything.

William wanted to use his ability to escape his restraints, only to find that opening his eyes was already his limit, not to mention moving a single finger, let alone using his powers.

"Yellow Skin, Little Grape, Yi Chen..."

No matter how much he called out in his mind or even loudly uttered a name of a creature no longer inside him, he received no response.

It seemed William’s abilities were weakened—even blocked.

Only able to move his eyes, William took this opportunity to examine the room in detail. When his gaze moved downward, aligning with his body towards the end of the bed, a strange object came into view.

It was a vermillion wooden shrine with a sculpture of a deity inside.

Because the shrine was almost on a horizontal plane with William’s body, his prone position didn’t afford him a clear view, and even if he could see clearly, he likely wouldn’t recognize the deity enshrined within.

But William was certain that the presence of this shrine was the reason for his poor condition and even the blocking of his powers.

Then, the lock of the metal door to the hospital room clicked open.

All William could do was move his eyeballs, trying his best to watch who was coming through the door.

A female doctor with dark-rimmed glasses came into view, accompanied by two security guards, whose faces appeared somewhat blurry.

The female doctor took out a medical pupil flashlight from her coat pocket and proceeded to check William’s eyes, then smiled.

"Is consciousness recovering? You should be able to hear me speak... Don’t worry, you are absolutely safe here. You and your girlfriend or wife are undergoing the necessary treatment until you return to normal.

However, I will ask you a few questions by then, and I hope you can answer them truthfully.

Rest well, a few more days of sleep should restore the most basic abilities. I will come again to check on you, don’t overthink and rest well."

As the female doctor prepared to leave, William suddenly fixed his gaze on her, trying to extract more information from her eyes.

"That look, and your face... you really resemble a friend I knew before."

As the female doctor left, William was overwhelmingly shocked.

The language spoken by the female doctor turned out to be Chinese, the language used in Yi Chen’s former world, which could indirectly infer some things.

"Could it be that Catherine’s ’nightmare’ also created a ’World Connection’ effect like Galon’s, combined with the Black Liquid contained within my Madness Brain and the memories of life before, and transcended back to the original world?

Or is this merely a genuine dream formed based on the original memories?"

William wanted to think more, tried to extract more memories for combined analysis,

Buzz! An intense feeling of tiredness overwhelmed his brain and interrupted his thoughts, and his eyelids shut abruptly like the broken slats of a roll-up door.

Time passed,

These days, William had been in a dazed state, maintaining about an hour of clarity before succumbing to exhaustion and sleep—if he attempted to think, this duration would even be shorter.

But with each awakening, control over his body and clarity of consciousness increased slightly.

Until the day William was able to open his mouth to eat, and the female doctor came again.

"Can you speak now, Mr. John Doe?"

"Can..." William managed to squeeze out the words with some difficulty.

"Please watch this news first."

William was helped to sit at the head of the bed by the security guards, finally able to see the shrine standing at the foot of the bed clearly. It bore no textual description, with only three incense candles burning inside.

The divine statue positioned inside held one hand across its stomach and the other vertically in front, yet its face was covered with a red cloth, seemingly concealing something terrifying beneath.

At that moment, another security guard took out a tablet and held it in front of William, playing a news broadcast.

"On January 23, 2017, at approximately 11 am, Shishi Mountain, a 5A scenic spot in Yuchuan County, experienced a landslide due to unknown reasons, affecting multiple buses traveling on the mountain roads and lodging areas below the mountain. According to the current official data, at least 213 people have been confirmed as buried, with the number still rising.

Various rescue teams are arriving and are doing their utmost to rescue trapped individuals."

"This is?"

"It seems you indeed suffer from memory loss. Let me remind you. You and your girlfriend or wife were here on vacation and happened to be on one of those buses. Unfortunately, you were buried in it.

You were dug out about twenty days later, and although your bodies were unharmed, they were already covered with livor mortis.

Many unclaimed bodies were cremated on the spot, but because of your foreign nationality, you needed to be sent to your local embassy to confirm identities."

Who would have known that during transportation, life signs unexpectedly appeared. Our hospital received the notification and immediately took care of you meticulously upon your arrival.

Don’t be afraid~ This type of ’resurrection’ is relatively common here, and like you, humans are treated as ’special patients.’"

What we need to do now is to understand you as much as possible and develop a recuperation plan based on your condition."

"I... died?" William stammered, his eyes fixated on the news images, mesmerized.

"Don’t be nervous, all you need to know is that you are still considered alive, and maybe even living better than most people. Don’t let your brain get too stimulated, let me ask you some basic questions next."

Taking away the tablet, the female doctor sat directly on the edge of the bed, crossed her long legs, and started asking questions with the notebook on her lap.

"Before I ask, I need to remind you.

About your answers, we will compare them with your girlfriend’s responses. If we find any noticeable abnormalities, we will suspect that you are deliberately deceiving us.

In that case, our hospital might use some special methods on special patients like you.

So please tell the truth and just cooperate."

"Okay."

"What is your name?"

"William Y. Behrens."

"Where are you from, the more specific, the better."

"I don’t remember."

The questions were normal ones about William’s height and weight, dietary habits, type of work, and so on.

William, leveraging his severe memory loss, either didn’t know or was vague about many things, although he did mention that he was an ’actor,’ which should match up with what Catherine said.

While the female doctor was taking notes, William also tried to ask:

"Excuse me, can you move the shrine away, or remove the divine statue on it? I always feel uncomfortable with it here, I even feel like I can barely breathe."

From his perspective sitting on the bed, he could only see the female doctor’s profile, her lips painted with lipstick slightly curled into a smile:

"Feeling uncomfortable is the right reaction~ Their purpose is to make you uneasy.

Otherwise, ’people’ like you might lose their sanity and become a threat. Just bear with it, you’ll get used to it in a few months.

Alright, next question.

Have you ever had intercourse with your girlfriend or wife? I’m talking about the physical aspect."

"What?" William was stunned by the question, hesitated for a moment before responding, "No, at least not in my current memory."

"Have you ever had any relationships with the same sex?"

"No, definitely not."

"Do you know if your girlfriend or wife has ever been pregnant or had an abortion?"

"I don’t know."

"Have you ever undergone major surgery?"

"I’m not sure, I don’t think so."

"Okay, considering your memory has not yet recovered, let’s postpone the Q&A for a few days. Get some good rest, let your brain recover quickly, I’m not very patient."

With that, the female doctor directly inserted a special syringe into William’s neck, accurately poking the needle into his artery with a speed too fast for the naked eye to see.

Suddenly feeling weak all over and wanting to sleep, even though William tried to resist, he couldn’t last three seconds.

In a daze, it was already late at night,

the door to William’s hospital room was quietly opened, a dark figure slipped in and shut the door behind them.

Snap!

A hard slap landed directly on William’s face, followed by ’a bucket’ of foul-smelling water being thrown at him, forcefully waking him up.

"Catherine~"

"William, how can you be so useless, still stuck in bed... If we don’t escape soon, we are going to die!"

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