Outside another ward not far away, Gu Jun saw Chen Wenwei's friend, a patient named Mai Lei.
Mai Lei was also a 25-year-old young man, sitting on the bed facing the glass window, his muscles trembling 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 continued, "Mai Lei was infected by reading a post on the Internet. The time was only six days earlier than Chen Wenwei, and he had already entered the middle stage. The symptoms were very similar to those of multiple systemic atrophy. picture."
In fact, some patients with nightmare disease were diagnosed with multiple system atrophy (MSA) by ordinary hospitals before, because the clinical manifestations of MSA are also sleep disorders, dysphonia, and autonomic dysfunction. The cause of MSA has not yet been clarified by the medical community.
"Patients in the middle stage are still awake, but their mental state is very poor, manifested as mania, anger, hostility, and aggressive tendencies, which are the same as the symptoms of long-term insomnia. Taking antimanic drugs such as oxcarbazepine has Must suppress the effect."
Gu Jun nodded slightly when he understood. Nightmare disease does not seem to directly drive people crazy, but atrophy of multiple systems and inability to sleep can drive normal people crazy.
People who haven't slept well for a long time generally have aggression tendencies, and the situation is more prominent if they are facing people who affect their sleep.
This is why it is easy to have conflicts and even murders in the dormitory, because the quality of sleep will affect the spirit and physiology.
When a group of people walked into the ward, Mai Lei was much more excited than Chen Wenwei just now, and 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 was going to hold down Mai Lei, and the other was about to fire the stun gun.
Although his voice was blurred and hesitant, what he said could still be heard clearly.
"Don't, don't..." Mai Lei hurriedly shouted, with pain and fear all over his face, "Don't!"
Suddenly, with excited shouts, Mai Lei coughed and vomited something into the palm of his hand, it was a whole bloody tooth... Mai Lei looked at the tooth, the horror on his face was even worse, and he almost cried Shout: "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 when he saw it, but at this moment he could only do his own work well, and went to check on Mai Lei's oral condition.
Not only the tongue of the patient has shrunk, but the gums have also shrunk. Several molars on the upper and lower jaws are missing, and every other tooth is also loose. It seems that the whole tooth can be pulled out with a little force. There is a deep blood hole in the lower left canine that just fell out, but there is not much blood coming out, these gums are dying...
After coming out of the ward, Professor Qin said again: "In the middle stage, the oral tissue of the patient will shrink, the teeth will fall off one by one, they will have difficulty swallowing, and they can only eat liquid food. And the immunity is also declining. In the late stage, the immunity may be completely lost."
Currently, there are not many advanced patients admitted by Tianji Bureau, almost all of them have just developed to the advanced stage, and those patients who are more serious have committed suicide before.
In another ward, Gu Jun saw a terminal patient.
The middle-aged man was fixedly tied to the hospital bed. He was already unconscious and unable to speak, because he was sedated and did not move.
The whole body of the patient has shrunk, and the limbs exposed from the hospital clothes are like skeletons, and the face is like a layer of sallow dead skin draped on a skull. There is only dementia and cloudiness in the eyes, and there is no human nature in sight. of divine light.
"Patients with advanced stages will go to high places and jump off when they can still walk." Professor Qin sighed, "The reason is still unclear. If the suicide attempt is unsuccessful and no sedatives are given, the patient will be a kind of dream talker. The state of delirium, lack of response to external stimuli, just whimpering and struggling."
Jump from a height? Gu Jun thought of flying...
Freud said that the dream of flying was due to stress and wanting relief.
Are those patients jumping because they want to get rid of the pain
He felt a little hazy in his mind, as if he saw many people jumping from tall buildings, was it the trigger of a hallucination, or his own imagination
Gu Jun tried to condense his energy to grasp the feeling, but it was like holding a trace of smoke...
No way... He muttered in his heart, there is no direct connection, maybe the venue and the situation are wrong, the perception is not strong enough to grasp.
After returning to the corridor outside, Gu Jun could only tell Professor Qin and Commander Yao so earnestly and helplessly, "I don't have any definite extrasensory perception."
He didn't dare to make a judgment, but the nightmare disease may not have much to do with the different world, or it has nothing to do with the son of iron or the son of misfortune, or he had never been in contact with it in childhood, so he didn't feel the same as when he saw the body of the patient with the different banyan disease for the first time A strong sense of touch...
At that time, he had no mental training, but he triggered the phantom of the pool of corpses.
Wait... remains? With just this thought in his mind, the smoke became a little clearer...
"Supersensory perception?" Tang Zhifeng next to him was stunned. Isn't this something in the category of parapsychology
Yao Shinian and Professor Qin were a little disappointed when they heard the words, and the hope of a new turnaround was dashed as soon as Gu Jun came.
"Ah Jun, you just came back, and you were mentally injured yesterday because of the assessment, so don't worry." Professor Qin tried to comfort him, "Go back to the dormitory and get a good night's sleep. The three patients just now will undergo lobotomy tomorrow morning. Experimental treatment of surgery, you can go and see how it goes when the time comes."
Lobotomy? Gu Jun couldn't help frowning, it was a crazy operation that has been abolished by the medical profession, but now it seems that this situation can only be tried...
"Supersensory perception...means parapsychology?" Tang Zhifeng asked, not knowing where Professor Qin and the others brought Gu Jun back.
"It's that kind." Yao Shinian nodded. After experiencing it himself, he no longer has any doubts. "Zhifeng, you will know the details soon."
It's not that Tang Zhifeng doubts the two old people, but he's just a bit uncomfortable in his conception. Is the research on nightmare disease really going in the direction of parapsychology...
"Professor Qin, I have an idea." Gu Jun said, the ESP is indeed related to the mental state, but it is also related to many other factors.
He looked calm and determined, "I want to go to see the remains of the nightmare patients now. It is best for Cai Zixuan and the others to go with me. The remains should preferably be soaked in formalin."
It had been proven many times that the sight of death would intensify his perception.
As for asking Cai Zixuan and the others to go together, it was to replicate that scene, maybe there was something in it that he didn't know about.