Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 238 Patient 0302
The first patient Ke Lan chose was the one the dean described as "extremely aggressive" - Patient No. 0302, Lowe, male, 35 years old, a member of the Hessian Hunting Group, a participant in the second bottomless cenote exploration operation. On the third day after the mission, he and other hunters of the hunting group took a transport plane back to the Ark. On the sixth day, his symptoms flared up and he almost strangled his wife to death. Fortunately, he was discovered by his neighbors in time and the police were called... Then, like other crazy hunters, he was sent to Nottingham General Hospital.
The ward for patient No. 0302 is located on the sixth floor of the inpatient department. It is more like a prison cell than a ward - the entire ward is a cage made of steel pipes, and the outside of the cage is covered with a transparent shell made of high-strength engineering plastic. There are no windows, only four palm-sized ventilation holes and a tightly locked door.
There was no bed in the ward. Instead, there was a sponge mattress that was full of holes. Next to the mattress were a few instant food packaging bags and a half-drunk bottle of drinking water.
When the dean brought Ke Lan to the front of the ward, patient No. 0302 was squatting in the corner of the ward, with his hands wrapped around his knees and his head buried deep in his arms. It was unclear whether he was awake or asleep.
"Be careful with this patient," the director whispered. "Don't be fooled by his quiet appearance. If someone gets close to him, he will attack immediately, and he will specifically attack the vital parts of the person... When he was just sent here, one of my security guards was seriously injured by him because of negligence."
"Yes." Ke Lan nodded, "Open the door."
"Uh...should I ask the guards to come over first, just in case..."
"Stop talking nonsense, I asked you to open the door." Ke Lan said impatiently.
"Okay, okay." The dean took out a card from his pocket and swiped it on the door lock. The next second, he had retreated several steps away.
"Is it that serious?" Ke Lan glanced at him speechlessly, then pushed the mask nose clip on her nose and pushed the door open and walked in.
Patient No. 0302 did not move. He just squatted quietly in the corner, as if he was really asleep.
"Your name is Luo Wei, right?" Ke Lan tried to call the other person's name, but there was still no response.
"Is he asleep or just pretending to be asleep?" Ke Lan thought so and walked towards the other person step by step - just when he was five or six steps away from Patient 0302, the other person suddenly jumped up from the corner!
He kicked the iron railing behind him, and with the help of the reaction force from the railing, he pounced directly towards Ke Lan!
He grabbed Ke Lan's wrist with one hand and raised the other hand high, with his five fingers bent into an eagle claw shape, and attacked Ke Lan's face from top to bottom !
The moment the man turned around, Ke Lan had already reacted: the opponent's target was his eyes, but if he chose to raise his arm to block, the opponent could immediately change his tactics and attack the more vulnerable ribs - no matter whether it was the eyes or the ribs, if he was hit hard, he would immediately lose the ability to fight back and be completely suppressed by the opponent.
Although this relic hunter is mentally ill, he still masters his original fighting skills - sharp moves, clear goals, and strives to defeat the enemy with one blow.
Just when the opponent was about to attack Ke Lan , Ke Lan suddenly jumped back with a big step, then raised his leg and kicked the opponent heavily in the chest!
“Bang!”
There was a dull sound, and the man was kicked by Ke Lan and crashed into the iron railing behind him. However, he got up again as soon as he fell to the ground, leaned over, stared at Ke Lan with his bloodshot eyes, and kept making meaningless growls from his mouth.
"I'm not your enemy, and I'm not here to fight with you," Ke Lan said.
"We've tried many times, but there's no way to communicate with him." Seeing Ke Lan kick Patient No. 0302 away, the dean suddenly became bolder. He came to the door of the ward and said to Ke Lan, "No matter what we say to him, he won't respond at all - hey, be careful!"
Patient No. 0302 rushed over again, and was kicked away by Ke Lan again.
"If communication is impossible, then have you tested his brain reaction when communicating with him?" Ke Lan asked without turning his head.
"Ah? What's the reaction?"
"Attach electrodes, observe brain waves, and observe changes in his brain when receiving external information... Isn't this the most basic test content?"
"But... those hunting groups didn't make such a request when they sent the patients here... They, they just asked us to take care of these patients for a while. They didn't even ask us to conduct experimental treatments for their symptoms." As he spoke, the dean's voice couldn't help but lower.
"'They' refer to the people from the Great Hunting Group, right? Also, I guess they asked you to keep it confidential and not to accept media interviews or disclose the information and status of these patients to the outside world, right?"
"Uh... yes... that's it."
"I understand, but I'm a little curious, who gives more money, they or I give more?" As he spoke, Patient No. 0302 launched another "charge" against Ke Lan, but still did not gain any results.
"Ah? What did you say?" The dean's expression was a little stiff.
"I'm just asking. You've already taken the money. What's there to be embarrassed about?"
"They...they gave more, but their money was not for me..." the dean muttered.
"They gave the money directly to the owner of the hospital, no wonder..." Ke Lan nodded thoughtfully. At this time, Patient No. 0302 launched the fourth attack. This time, he was not kicked away by Ke Lan. Instead, Ke Lan grabbed his wrist, swung him in the air, and threw him hard onto the sponge mattress.
Ke Lan twisted the man's hands behind his back, and with the other hand pressed hard on the back of his neck, and asked: "If you can understand what I am saying, then tell me what you have seen, heard, and dreamed these days--"
"I can feel that you are in deep fear..." Ke Lan took out a sedative from the pocket of his white coat and injected it into the man's arm, but he only injected two-thirds of the dose, which would stabilize the man's emotions without causing him to fall into a coma.
"Let me tell you what it is that scares you. I can help you." Ke Lan could clearly feel that the strength of the struggle under his hands had weakened a lot, but the other party still did not answer.
How about trying another way? Thinking of this, Ke Lan repeated this sentence in Alpha language.
After "hearing" this Alpha sentence, Patient No. 0302, who had been injected with a large amount of sedatives and had already calmed down, became like a madman and struggled desperately again. A terrifying force suddenly erupted from his body. With a crisp sound that made people's teeth ache, he actually twisted his wrists to dislocate them and broke free from Ke Lan's suppression!
"What, what's going on? Didn't you inject him with a sedative?" Seeing this scene, the dean outside the ward couldn't help but exclaimed.
