Plague Doctor

Outside another ward not far away, Gu Jun saw Chen Wenwei's friend, a patient named Mai Lei.

Mai Lei is also a 25-year-old young man. He is sitting on the bed facing the glass window, his muscles all over his body are shaking slightly uncontrollably.

His facial muscles have been severely atrophied, his eye sockets are deeply sunken, his eyes are bloodshot, and his weird eyes seem to be on the verge of delirium.

"Nightmare disease develops very quickly." Professor Qin added, "Mai Lei was infected after reading a post on the Internet. It was only six days earlier than Chen Wenwei, and it had already entered the middle stage. The symptoms were very similar to those of multiple system atrophy. picture."

In fact, some patients with nightmare syndrome were previously diagnosed as multiple system atrophy (MSA) by ordinary hospitals, because the clinical manifestations of MSA are also sleep disorders, dysphonia, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. The cause of MSA is not yet clear to the medical community.

"Patients in the mid-term are still conscious, but their mental condition is very poor, manifesting as mania, anger, hostility, and aggressive tendencies. These are the same symptoms as long-term insomnia. Taking antimanic drugs such as oxcarbazepine has the effect of It must suppress the effect.”

Gu Jun nodded slightly in understanding. Nightmare disease does not seem to directly drive people crazy, but multiple system atrophy and inability to sleep can drive normal people crazy.

People who have not been able to sleep well for a long time will generally develop aggressive tendencies. If they are facing someone who affects their sleep, the situation will be even more prominent.

This is why conflicts in dormitories are easy to occur, and even injuries and killings occur, because the quality of sleep will affect the mind and physiology.

When a group of people walked into the ward, Mai Lei suddenly became more excited than Chen Wenwei just now. He stood up tremblingly, "Help! I want to sleep, I want to sleep..."

"Mr. Mai!" The two guards from the operations department shouted immediately. One of them went to hold Mai Lei down while the other was about to use the stun gun.

Although his voice was vague and hesitant, what he said could still be heard clearly.

"Don't, don't..." Mai Lei shouted hurriedly, with pain and fear on his face, "Don't!"

Suddenly, with an excited cry, Mai Lei coughed and vomited something into his palm. It was a whole bloody tooth... When Mai Lei looked at the tooth, the horror on his face became even worse, and he almost cried. The cry: "Ah..."

But Professor Qin, Tang Zhifeng and others were not surprised by this situation. A guard put the tooth in a medical bag and prepared to take it away.

Gu Jun's heart was heavy after seeing this, but he could only do his job well at this time and went up to see the condition of Mai Lei's mouth.

Not only did the patient's tongue and gums recede, several molars were missing from the upper and lower jaws, and every other tooth was also loose. It seemed that the whole tooth could be pulled out with a little force. There is a deep blood hole in the left canine of the mandible that just fell out, but not much blood flows out. These gums are dying...

After coming out of the ward, Professor Qin continued: "In the middle stage, the patient's oral tissues will shrink, the teeth will fall out one by one, and it will be difficult to swallow. They can only eat liquid food. Moreover, the immunity is also declining. In the late stage, the immunity may be completely eliminated." Loss.”

Currently, Tianji Bureau does not treat many terminally ill patients. Almost all of them have just reached the advanced stage, and those more serious patients have committed suicide before.

In another ward, Gu Jun saw a terminal patient.

The middle-aged man was tied to the hospital bed. He was unconscious and unable to speak. He was not moving because he was sedated.

The patient's whole body has shrunk. The limbs exposed from the hospital gown are like skeletons. The face is like a layer of waxy dead skin covering a skull. There is only dementia and turbidity in the eyes. There is no trace of humanity. of divine light.

"Patients in the advanced stage will go to high places and jump off when they can still walk." Professor Qin sighed, "The reason is not yet clear. If the death attempt is unsuccessful and no sedatives are given, the patient will suffer from sleep delirium. In a state of delirium, there is a lack of response to external stimuli, and he just keeps whimpering and struggling."

Jump from a high place? Gu Jun thought about flying...

Freud said that he dreams of flying because he is stressed and wants relief.

Did those patients jump because they wanted to be freed from pain?

He felt a little hazy in his mind, as if he saw many people jumping from tall buildings. Was that a hallucination or his own imagination?

Gu Jun tried to gather his energy and grasp the feeling, but it was just like grasping a wisp of smoke...

No way... He murmured in his heart, there was no direct connection, maybe the place and situation were wrong, the perception wasn't strong enough, and he couldn't grasp it.

After returning to the corridor outside, Gu Jun could only tell Professor Qin and Commander Yao seriously and helplessly, "I don't have any clear extrasensory perception."

He did not dare to make a judgment, but the nightmare disease may have little to do with the alien world, or it may have nothing to do with the Son of Iron or the Son of Doom, or he had not been exposed to it in his childhood, so he did not have the same reaction when he first saw the body of the alien patient. A strong sense of touch...

At that time, he had no mental training, but he triggered the illusion of the corpse pool.

Wait...remains? With just this thought in his mind, the smoke became a little clearer...

"Extrasensory perception?" Tang Zhifeng next to him was stunned. Isn't this something in the category of parapsychology?

Yao Shinian and Professor Qin were both slightly disappointed when they heard this. Gu Jun's hope of a new turn of events was dashed when he arrived.

"Ajun, you just came back. Yesterday, you were mentally exhausted due to the assessment. Don't worry." Professor Qin tried to comfort him and said, "You go back to the dormitory and have a good sleep. Tomorrow morning, these three patients will undergo lobotomy. experiment of techniques

Regarding sex therapy, you can go and see how it goes when the time comes. "

Lobotomy? Gu Jun couldn't help but frowned. It was a crazy operation that had been abolished by the medical community, but now it seemed that the only option was to try it...

"Extrasensory perception... refers to the kind of parapsychology?" Tang Zhifeng asked, not knowing where Professor Qin and the others brought Gu Jun back from.

"That's it." Yao Shinian nodded. After experiencing it personally, he no longer had any doubts. "Zhifeng, you will know the details soon."

Tang Zhifeng was not suspicious of the two old men, but he just had some conceptual discomfort. Is the research on nightmare disease really going to go in the direction of parapsychology...

"Professor Qin, I have an idea." Gu Jun said. Extrasensory perception is indeed related to mental state, but it is also related to many other factors.

He looked calm and determined, "I want to see the remains of the nightmare patients now. It is best if Cai Zixuan and the others go with me. It is best if the remains are soaked in formalin."

The sight of death intensifies his perception, as has been proven many times.

As for Cai Zixuan and the others, they were asked to go together because they wanted to replicate the scene. Maybe there was something special about it that he didn't know.

Love the Plague Doctor.