The night sky in Dongzhou was gray, and from nightfall to early morning, there were fewer people on the streets.
Although the Internet is strictly controlled, the media in Dongzhou has been talking about it for the past two days, and people’s mobile phones have also received notifications. Recently, a new type of influenza broke out in Dongzhou. It is highly contagious and has a high fatality rate. If you suddenly experience muscle soreness, irritability, insomnia and nightmares, seek medical attention immediately.
Due to the seriousness of the news, people have spontaneously reduced their going out and avoided going to crowded places, and the whole city is shrouded in a layer of death.
It was early in the morning when Gu Jun arrived at the Medical Department of Tianji Bureau in the outskirts of the city. After a lapse of one and a half months, he finally returned here.
The buildings of the medical department are still brightly lit, but the colleagues who can be seen along the way are in a hurry, no one is talking, and there is no eye contact, as if they can't see each other. Professor Qin told Gu Jun that chatting outside of work is not prohibited but not recommended internally.
There are already three cases in the medical department, none of whom Gu Jun is familiar with, they are researchers of nightmare disease in the psychological group.
Because of the race against time, Gu Jun didn't have a chance to meet any acquaintances, so he followed him to the spiritual and psychological building immediately. He often came to this place during his induction training, but at that time, there were no strangers stationed in awe, and there was no haze permeating the surroundings.
"At present, 10 patients are being treated here." Professor Qin added, "Other patients are in the isolation camp." Yao Shinian nodded.
After entering the building, they passed numerous checkpoints before they entered the Nightmare Disease Research Center on the 12th floor.
This place is not at all like the scene after 1 o'clock in the morning. From the corridors to the various offices, there are busy medical staff and experimental personnel everywhere, and everyone is trying to understand this disease from various aspects such as neurology, psychiatry, and psychology. .
But they were either frowning or blank-faced, and they couldn't find any breakthrough.
"Mr. Qin, Team Leader Yao." Tang Zhifeng, the team leader of the psychology team, walked over quickly. He was a little surprised when he saw Gu Jun, because he knew Gu Jun.
Tang Zhifeng was one of the judges of the medical skills competition that day, and he also admired Gu Jun's psychological quality.
But later, Gu Jun suspected that it was "something in the banyan tree" and was taken away by the abnormal force investigation team. Tang Zhifeng also knew about it. And many other people here have also heard some gossip about Gu Jun, mainly saying that the rising star was taken away for committing a crime, and they are quite puzzled about his appearance at this time.
"This Gu Jun is one of his own." Professor Qin raised his voice and introduced to everyone, "He has done a lot of amazing things, and now he is joining the research work."
Everyone was amazed at once. It seems that Gu Jun can bring something to being so valued by Mr. Qin and Commander Yao
But isn't Gu Jun from the surgery department? Oh yes, try to use lobotomy for the research plan of treatment. The first operation will be performed tomorrow morning. Gu Jun is a member of the operation team, but why does it attract so much attention...
"Hi everyone." Gu Jun had just greeted everyone, and Professor Qin said, "Team Leader Tang, let's take Ah Jun to see the patient."
Soon, Gu Jun put on his white coat and medical mask for the first time in many days, and followed several leaders to the ward area on the floor.
He used to think that wearing a mask made his breathing stuffy, but now this long-lost feeling made his heart a little more peaceful.
The guards in the corridors of the ward area are even stricter. Each room is a single ward with a soundproof one-way glass window next to the door, and the room can be seen from the corridor.
It was like this that through the glass window, Gu Jun saw the nightmare patient for the first time. A young man with an ordinary build was sitting on the hospital bed in a daze.
"This patient was just admitted yesterday." Professor Qin said, his voice had the calmness of an old doctor's voice:
"Ajun, now we roughly divide the development of nightmare disease into three stages. This patient is still in the early stage. The clinical manifestation is mainly sleep dysfunction. Every night after falling asleep, the nightmare will recur. Fall asleep. Some patients with moderate to severe stage have tried not to sleep at night, but they still have hallucinations at a similar point, and they can’t sleep well without nightmares during the day.”
"At the initial stage, the patient's spirit will deteriorate rapidly, and there will be flaccid muscle weakness of limbs, followed by autonomic dysfunction, manifested as increased sweating, tachycardia, arrhythmia, orthostatic hypotension, etc. There is also a first episode The symptom, it's the tongue... go in and have a look."
Immediately, two guards from the Operations Department opened the door of the ward, went in first and told the patient to obey the rules, and then the group of people walked in.
When the patient saw a group of doctors coming in, his expression became agitated, and he almost wanted to say something.
Gu Jun's heart twitched, and he could see the panic in the patient's eyes and the desire to survive.
The other party was only a few years older than him, and he shouldn't be facing death at the age of twenty-five or six.
"Ah." The patient only dared to let out such a muffled sound. The rule here is that patients are not allowed to speak freely, and only the doctor can answer what he asks, and he must speak word by word. The stun gun stopped.
"Hello, please open your mouth." Gu Jun listened to what Professor Qin said, and holding a small flashlight, he stepped forward seriously to check the patient's tongue.
The patient was very cooperative, sitting on the edge of the hospital bed, raised his head, and opened his mouth wide.
Before Gu Jun took care of him with the flashlight, his heart suddenly sank, as if he was violently pulled by the pathological scene in front of him.
The patient's tongue is already obviously atrophied, shrinking by nearly half of the normal state, curled into a small ball of awkward and weird shape, and the tongue is a bit strangely black, exuding a strong stench, as if It's the tongue of a corpse...
The phenomenon of corpses will cause tongue atrophy, and that change is almost the same as the tongue in front of me.
"Okay." Gu Jun said in a low voice, nodding to the patient.
"Ah, ah..." The patient uttered anxious murmurs, as if he was begging for help.
But after seeing the tongue, the group went out, and only the patient stood up beside the bed in a daze.
"Tongue atrophy is the first symptom of early stage patients." In the corridor, Professor Qin said to Gu Jun, "And patients will feel dry mouth, drinking water can not relieve this symptom, it may be nerve damage. But at this stage , The patient's mental will is still fine, but he has become a little restless."
"According to his statement, this patient got infected by reading a friend's WeChat message." Tang Zhifeng who was next to him sighed, "His friend is here too, it's mid-term."
Gu Jun could only be silent when he heard this, how dare he think that he would be able to save them, he didn't have the feeling of triggering his gnosis...
He looked at the patient in the ward from the one-way glass window, and the patient was already sitting there in a daze, thinking about something.
He calmed down and looked at the patient information board hanging at the door:
[Name: Chen Wenwei
Age: 25
Condition: initial stage]