Trembling At A High Altitude

"You're joking with me again! You really are something! Ha-ha, how could I not recognize you? Big boss, big artist?" the patient said, looking at Li Teng with a grin.

It didn't look like the patient was lying, as Li Teng's identity in this script was indeed that of an artist.

What did he mean by 'big boss'?

"Was I also a patient here before?" Li Teng tentatively asked the patient.

"What patient? We're not patients; we're all geniuses! Others don't understand us geniuses. They can't keep up with our thinking, so they call us patients," the patient replied, a bit displeased.

"Yes, we're all geniuses," Li Teng glanced at the female actors behind him and then responded to the patient.

"Are they still bothering you?" the patient quietly asked Li Teng a few questions.

"What did you say?" Li Teng didn't quite understand.

"Those wronged souls, terrifying wronged souls," the patient whispered into Li Teng's ear.

"You're saying they're wronged souls?" Li Teng glanced at the female actors behind him.

"I believe you'll definitely find a way to drive them away. Don't give up trying! You can certainly do it!" the patient patted Li Teng's shoulder vigorously.

Li Teng looked at the patient for a long while, as if realizing something.

It wasn't just this patient, but also that doctor.

They seemed not to see the seven female actors beside him?

"Elsa..." Li Teng whispered something into Elsa's ear.

"Hehehe, they couldn't possibly show up during the day; don't scare me," the patient said with a weird laugh, watching Li Teng whispering.

Elsa stretched her hand in front of the patient's eyes and then waved it in front of him.

The patient showed no reaction.

Elsa slapped the patient.

The patient held his face, looking terrifiedly at Elsa, but his gaze was unfocused.

"It wasn't my fault! It was all his doing; he killed you! Don't come after me!" the patient shouted in terror before running to a corner of the room.

Then, he crouched in the corner and buried his head, mumbling something to himself.

The other patients glanced over but said nothing, each returning to their own activities.

"They can't see you, and perhaps the doctor can't either," Li Teng concluded.

"What does this mean?" the female actors were somewhat confused.

"He said you are wronged souls, that you were killed by me. This means you are now ghosts... well, that's not quite accurate. This means that in this play, you are portraying a group of ghosts, a group of ghosts haunting me," Li Teng furrowed his brow.

"And then what?" The women waited for Li Teng to continue his analysis.

"First, let's go in front of other people to confirm they really can't see you," Li Teng said, beginning to form some preliminary ideas about the plot, but he was still not sure.

Upon leaving the room, there was an attendant walking down the corridor outside.

A middle-aged female attendant.

Li Teng walked up to her.

"Can you see them?" Li Teng directly asked the female attendant.

"Yes, of course, boss," the female attendant replied with a smile to Li Teng.

"I'm the owner of this recovery center?" Li Teng continued to ask while gesturing to Elsa.

Elsa walked over and waved her hand in front of the female attendant who showed no response. The same was true when the other female actors did the same thing.

"You are the kindest boss in the world. Thank you for taking us in. A kind person like you will surely be blessed," the female attendant replied politely to Li Teng.

"Alright then, off you go," Li Teng gestured for the female attendant to leave.

"Alright," the nurse walked away into the distance.

After walking down the corridor for a while, Li Teng encountered a young doctor.

"Hello," the young doctor greeted Li Teng proactively.

As Li Teng talked with him, he had Elsa and the others do a test.

Sure enough, he couldn't see them either.

Elsa kicked the doctor.

The doctor looked in Elsa's direction, then fled away in terror.

…

"I am the owner of this rehabilitation center, and the glass villa in the woods is also mine. You were all killed by me, and now you're wronged souls, haunting me," Li Teng summarized the information he had gathered to the women actors.

"At the same time, I'm also mentally ill. Since I always talk to the air, I suppose it's schizophrenia, huh?" Li Teng added a few more words.

"If we're playing the roles of wronged souls, then what about the fifth girl? The one with the face full of black spots, always lingering around us, who is she?" Wang Min posed a question to Li Teng.

"Too little clues… Oh, this is a research rehabilitation center for severe paranoid personality disorders, built with my investment, which suggests that my mental illness is related to paranoid personality disorder," Li Teng realized something else.

Everyone still looked baffled.

"I am a painter and also a big boss. I bought this deserted island two years ago, and many years ago, there was a psychiatric hospital which only operated for five years before it was shut down. This newly built rehabilitation center has had continuous disappearances of patients, and two police officers who came to investigate went mad…"

"Most of the personnel have evacuated the deserted island, with only a few patients and medical staff waiting to be evacuated."

Li Teng took out the documents he had collected and studied them in detail.

"This owner, this painter, is quite lascivious. The reason why he built the glass villa with those separate rooms was to imprison two female teachers from the art academy, four students, and one female model… Huh? That's not right! Where's the female model?" Li Teng suddenly seemed to remember something, and subconsciously looked at Liu Yin.

"My identity… I'm a student," Liu Yin quickly reminded Li Teng.

The rest also looked at Liu Yin with puzzled expressions.

Because Liu Yin had been following close to Li Teng all the time, it made people subconsciously forget her student identity.

And even somewhat overlook her presence.

So, among the eight of them, there were five students?

What about the female model?

Why would such memory errors occur?

This collective memory mistake had gone unnoticed for so long!

Li Teng took out the group photo he had found on the yacht.

The black-and-white group photo published in the newspaper.

Liu Yin's identity was indeed marked as a student, and the identities of Yang Yiju, Liu Shina, Huang Tingting, Fan Wendie, and the other four were also marked as students.

The problem was, at the time of departure, the director Xia Zhihui had clearly told them it was a painter taking two teachers, four students, and a model to a certain island for a painting session!

Li Teng even remembered that Director Yuan Qiang had mentioned a female model while discussing the plot with him.

There's something wrong with this photo!

Among these five students, one is an impostor!

Or rather, she has been replaced by the plot!

The disheveled one with black spots on her face is not the fifth girl.

The fifth girl has been with them all along!

Once everyone understood this, in the broad daylight, a chill ran down their spines.