In another sickroom not far away, Gu Jun saw Chen Wenwei's friend, the patient by the name of Mai Lei.
Mai Lei was also a twenty-five-year-old young man. He was sitting on the bed facing the window, and his muscles were shaking uncontrollably.
His facial muscles were severely atrophied, and his eyes were deeply sunken. His eyes were bloodshot, and they appeared to be on the verge of delirium.
"Nightmare Illness progresses very quickly," Professor Qin said. "Mai Lei was infected after reading an online post. He was infected six days earlier than Chen Wenwei, but he had already entered the middle stage. His symptoms are similar to multiple system atrophy."
In fact, some patients with Nightmare Illness were diagnosed with multiple system atrophy (MSA) by normal hospitals because the clinical symptoms of MSA were sleep disturbance, speech disturbance, and autonomic nervous dysfunction. The cause of MSA was still unknown to the medical community.
"The patients in the middle stage are still conscious, but their mental state is very poor. They show mania, anger, hostility, and aggressive tendencies. These are the same symptoms as long-term insomnia. Taking anti-manic drugs such as oxcarbazepine has a certain suppressive effect."
Gu Jun nodded in understanding. Nightmare Illness did not appear to be able to drive a person crazy directly, but multiple system atrophy and sleep deprivation could drive a normal person insane.
Those who could not sleep well for a long time would show signs of aggression, and if their target was someone who affected their sleep, then the situation would be even more pronounced.
This was why there were so many conflicts and even murders in the dormitory because the quality of sleep would affect one's physical and mental state.
When the group walked into the sickroom, Mai Lei was instantly more agitated than Chen Wenwei. He stood up with his body shaking. "Help! I want to sleep, I want to sleep … "
"Mr. Mai!" The two guards from the Action Department immediately shouted. One of them went to hold down Mai Lei while the other prepared to shoot him with the taser.
Even though his voice was muffled, the words were still audible.
"Don't, don't …" Mai Lei screamed in panic. His face was filled with pain and fear. "Don't!"
Suddenly, following the agitated scream, Mai Lei coughed something into his palm. It was a bloody tooth … When Mai Lei saw the tooth, the shock on his face deepened, and he groaned like he was about to cry. "Ah …"
However, Professor Qin, Tang Zhifeng, and the others were not surprised by this situation. A guard put the tooth into a medical bag and prepared to take it away.
Gu Jun's heart was heavy, but he could only focus on his job and check on Mai Lei's oral condition.
Not only had the patient's tongue shrunk, but his gums had also shrunk. A few molars on his upper and lower jaw were missing, and the other teeth were also loose. It seemed like they could be pulled out with a little force. There was a deep bloody hole where the left incisor had fallen off, but there was not much blood flowing out. The gums were dying …
After coming out of the ward, Professor Qin said, "In the middle stage, the patient's oral tissues will atrophy, and their teeth will fall out one by one. It will be difficult for them to swallow, and they can only eat liquid food. Moreover, the immune system is also declining. In the later stages, the immune system may be completely lost. "
Currently, there were not many patients in the late stages of Phecda. Most of them had just progressed to the late stage. Those who were more advanced had already committed suicide.
In another ward, Gu Jun saw a late-stage patient.
The middle-aged man was tied to the hospital bed. He was unconscious and couldn't speak. He couldn't move because he was sedated.
The patient's entire body had shrunk, and the limbs that were exposed from the patient's gown were like skeletons. His face was like a layer of waxy dead skin draped over a skull, and there was only dullness and dullness in his eyes. There was no light that could be called human.
"When patients in the late stage can still walk, they will go to high places and jump down." Professor Qin sighed. "The reason is still unclear. If they fail to kill themselves and are not sedated, the patient will enter a state of dream-like delirium. They will not respond to external stimuli, and all they can do is whimper and struggle. "
Jump down from high places? Gu Jun dreamed of flying …
Freud said that people dreamed of flying because they wanted to escape from the pressure.
Did the patients jump because they wanted to escape from the pain?
His mind was hazy, and he felt like he saw many people jump down from high buildings. Was that an illusion, or was it his imagination?
Gu Jun tried to focus his mind to grasp the feeling, but it was like he was grasping a wisp of smoke.
'This won't do …' he mumbled in his heart. There was no direct connection, and perhaps the location and situation were not right. The feeling was not strong enough to grasp it.
After returning to the corridor, Gu Jun could only tell Professor Qin and Commander Yao seriously and helplessly, "I do not have a clear ESP."
He did not dare jump to conclusions, but Nightmare Illness might not be related to the foreign world, or it might not be related to the Son of Steel or the Son of Misfortune. Perhaps he had not been exposed to it during his childhood, so he did not have the same intense feeling that he had when he saw the cadavers of the patients with the Malformed Banyan Disease when he was selecting cadavers for the cadavers in the school's cadaver storage room.
At the time, he had not received any mental training, but he had triggered the illusion of the cadaver pool.
'Wait a minute … cadavers?' That was the thought in his mind, and the wisp of smoke became clearer.
"ESP?" Tang Zhifeng was startled. 'Isn't this something that belongs to the field of parapsychology?'
Yao Sinian and Professor Qin were slightly disappointed when they heard that. The hope that Gu Jun would be able to turn things around was dashed.
"Ah Jun, you've only just returned, and your mind was injured from the exam yesterday. There's no need to rush." Professor Qin tried to console him. "You should go back to the dormitory and have a good sleep. Tomorrow morning, these three patients will undergo the experimental treatment of lobotomy. You can go and take a look at them then."
'Lobotomy?' Gu Jun could not help but frown. That was a crazy surgery that had been abandoned by the medical world, but with the current situation, he had no choice but to give it a try.
"ESP … is it the kind of parapsychology?" Tang Zhifeng asked. He had no idea where Professor Qin had brought Gu Jun back from.
"Yes, that kind." Yao Sinian nodded. After experiencing it for himself, he no longer had any doubts. "Zhifeng, you will know the details soon."
It was not that Tang Zhifeng was suspicious of the two old men, but he was not convinced. Did the research on Nightmare Illness really have to go in the direction of parapsychology?
"Professor Qin, I have an idea." Gu Jun said. ESP was indeed related to one's mental state, but it was also related to many other factors.
His face was calm and determined. "I wish to go and take a look at the bodies of the victims of Nightmare Illness. It would be best if Cai Zixuan and the rest come with me. The bodies would be best soaked in formalin."
The sight of death would heighten his senses, that had been proven many times.
The reason he wanted Cai Zixuan and the rest to go with him was to replicate the scene from that time. Perhaps there was something about it that he did not understand.
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