Chapter 273: Treatment
“These rooms are completely different from when we came.” The inside of the back building was no longer silent. After the night arrived, the doctors at Li San Hospital started to work. The mutated patients moved around the rooms. Long lines appeared at the pharmacy. Everything was similar to how it was in the real world… if one disregarded the mutations in the patients. Some of them didn’t even look human. They were just meat blobs with a faces.
“Do not disturb them.” The big dog saw the shadow entangling the patients. They were citizens of the shadow world. The back building had been fully consumed by the shadows, but this place was their home. “We are deep inside the shadow world now. The longer we stay here, the more likely we’ll be corrupted by it.” The big dog was on high alert. “Normally, I wouldn’t even dare to enter a building in the shadow world. I fear running into places like this where they can self-produce shadows.”
“What do you mean?” Gao Ming suddenly had a question, “What is the shadow in the shadow world? You can move between the shadows freely. You should understand it, right?”
The big dog shook his big head. “The shadow is like a human emotion. When a human is angry, he will produce the emotions of anger. The shadow is like the emotions left behind when a world dies. It contains many things. There are despair and pain but the majority is sadness.”
The big dog’s fur fluttered in the wind like weeds in the water. “I can melt into the shadow because the emotions I generate are similar to the shadow. However, this is why I’m scared. I know my experience. A child who has no sight and hearing grew up in violence, darkness and panic. The shadow’s emotions are similar to mine. That means it has experienced the same thing as I do.”
“Will a world feel scared?”
“The shadow world is a dead world.” The big dog stopped before the gastroenterology department. Compared to the other departments, the door was very wide, and the space was large. The patients lined up in the corridor. When it was their turn, they would walk past the curtain and enter the treatment room. Most of the patients felt better and looked better after they left the treatment room.
The big dog lowered his head and whispered to Gao Ming, “There are two types of patients at Li San Hospital. The first kind is the patients who are sent to the hospital from the real world. Their mental conditions are not stable. Most of them have been tormented by the shadows until they go insane. Their mutations mostly have to do with their fears. The second kind is the patients we see now. They are natives of the shadow world. They are used to the life here. They have a thin layer of shadow on their skins. They are stable because, for them, anomalies are just parts of their lives.”
“Are the second kind still considered humans?” Just as Gao Ming said that, a nurse pushed a patient out of a room. His body was sliced into parts, but blood didn’t flow out. Only the shadow flowed around the wounds.