This is where…
Zhou Haorui looked around in a daze, and what he saw was a desolate land under the darkness, boundless.
Didn't I fall asleep in the dormitory... I played games with Wei Ziyang and Wang Jiaqi until after eleven o'clock, but I didn't win a game, because the next day was Friday and there was still class, so everyone went to sleep in a depressed mood... Because I was very tired, I fell asleep quickly... Is this a dream...
Darkness, besides darkness, is silence, deathly silence.
Zhou Haorui's heart suddenly turned cold, and he saw the low tombstones standing in a haphazard manner in the darkness.
Is this a tomb... But above the head, there seems to be wisps of moonlight that haven't been completely annihilated, but they can't illuminate the muddy environment...
This place seems to have turned into a huge tomb, filled with moldy mist.
Zhou Haorui wanted to move, but he felt extremely heavy all over his body, his limbs seemed to be stuck by some sticky substance, making it difficult to pull.
How did this happen, where is this... what's going on...
"Is anyone there..." Zhou Haorui became more and more confused, and gradually felt an inexplicable fear, his heart constricted, his pores also shrank, and the surrounding cold, damp and darkness were penetrating into his body and mind, becoming a weight hold him down...
Zhou Haorui struggled and kept struggling, but his feet seemed to be stuck in the soil, and he couldn't move. The more he moved, the more he felt a strange pain.
This pain... He suddenly remembered, it was the pain in the cervical spine...
But now, the pain eroded his feet and spread all over his body.
Like, the whole body turned into a stone.
Together with this thought, Zhou Haorui's perception became clearer, and his heart felt more uncomfortable. It was also so sudden that he "saw" himself.
Where he was standing was not a person, but a tombstone.
A tombstone made of dilapidated stones engraved with his name: Zhou Haorui.
"Ah..." Zhou Haorui exclaimed as he struggled, his eyes raised and looked away uncontrollably, he saw more tombstones everywhere, densely packed, stretching for thousands of miles, all dark and desolate land... Tombstones one after another , blocks of stones, all made of human bones...
Suddenly, he finally felt his whole body rise up suddenly, and he really cried out: "Ah!"
What he saw when he opened his eyes was the upper bunk bed, surrounded by the dimly lit bedroom, and he was sleeping on his own lower bunk bed, sitting up from the nightmare, sweating all over his head.
Was that just now... a ghost press...
"What's your name, don't be noisy..." Wang Jiaqi, who was on the lower bed opposite the bed, turned around and squeezed towards the wall, muttering dissatisfiedly: "It's so noisy..."
It's just that very soon, after less than a minute, Wang Jiaqi fell asleep again, and there was a slight snoring sound.
The time displayed on the phone was past two o'clock in the morning, and Zhou Haorui was still sitting on the bed in a daze, panting for air, unwilling to think about the weird and terrifying dream just now, but the desolation in the dream was especially in front of him, making the surrounding darkness loathsome .
He wiped his face and wanted to turn on the light, but that would disturb the sleep of the other three, and he would definitely be scolded to death.
Suddenly, there was a stabbing pain in the back of his neck, which made him almost cry out in pain, and hissed to hold back the air-conditioning, the pain seemed to be serious...
He wanted to stretch his right hand back to touch it, but when he raised his hand, he found that his right shoulder was also a little painful and stiff, just like the symptoms of the cervical spine at the beginning.
"No way… "
The strange feeling that never went away became stronger, and the worry that never let go also came to my heart.
Zhou Haorui frowned, raised his left hand to touch his right shoulder, and suddenly found pain and stiffness in his left shoulder...
Progressive muscular ossification, fibrodyspsia ossificans progressiva
Cold sweat fell from his forehead, and some fop materials he had checked poured up.
There is currently no cure, or even an approved treatment, for fop.
This is a genetic disease, and even the mechanism is not particularly clear. Ordinary hyperosteogeny or muscle fibrosis can be treated with surgery, but for fop, a disease in which muscles, tendons and other tissues will ossify after being repaired after trauma, surgery will instead lead to explosive growth of new bones in patients...
Therefore, there is only one treatment for fop at present, which is to avoid injury as much as possible. Do not fall and do not perform any activities that pose a risk of soft tissue injury, as even minor trauma can cause heterotopic bone formation.
The life of a fop patient is a consumption process that is different from ordinary people, and the consumption should be slowed down as much as possible and the time should be prolonged.
Live like a statue for an average life expectancy of 40 years, or become a statue at 20.
In the hospital yesterday afternoon, he had acupuncture... Acupuncture can cause soft tissue injuries, and he has done acupuncture on his neck and shoulders...
He also did traction, pulling on the soft tissue to relax the neck, but that could also cause soft tissue injury...
However, even if it is really ossifying, how can it be so fast...
Zhou Haorui moved his neck and shoulders slowly, but felt pulled and stuck, his neck couldn't move very much, and there seemed to be...a bulge on his shoulders. Heterotopic bones... ? It's swollen, it's just strained and swollen...
Feeling anxious, Zhou Haorui got out of the bed, his legs were a little numb, he walked to a fitting mirror that Wei Ziyang bought over there, took off his shirt, and looked sideways under the dim light. The condition of the shoulder... When he saw something, his muscles tensed up all over his body, and his heart sank to freezing point as soon as he sank...
There is an extra bulge in the muscles of the back shoulders on both sides, lying there, like a latch for the shoulder bones.
His trembling hand pressed it again, it was as hard as a bone.
"It's a dream, it's still a dream..." Zhou Haorui murmured, it's impossible, it's impossible to really have progressive muscular ossification...
As Dr. Xiao said, it is a genetic disease. It usually starts before the age of 10. How could I suddenly suffer from it...
The heart was in severe pain, and the dizziness that had appeared recently flashed through his head again, Zhou Haorui almost fell to the ground. He didn't know why, but he seemed to have a premonition, saying that it was impossible, but he knew in his heart that this was the case. It's just that he didn't understand why it was him, why he had this disease...
He remembered that he was still thinking about how to improve his "innate aptitude" so that he could enter Tianji University and join Tianji Bureau...
All of that is dying.
Suddenly, a chill blew past, causing Zhou Haorui to shiver, only to find that the closed window a few steps away had been pushed open at some point, the cold night wind poured in from the outside, and the faint moonlight did not make the room change. It was brighter, but he could see a dark shadow above the window sill.
It was a pitch-black crow with a long pointed beak, and a pair of dimly lit bird eyes were looking at him.
Zhou Haorui looked at it blankly, and it seemed to be something unknown and intangible, which could not be explained at all.
"You are sick." Crow said to Zhou Haorui, he could hear clearly, "Petrochemical disease."