"I think these numbers are latitude and longitude."
In the middle of the night, the sky was still dark. In the solemn atmosphere of the conference room, Gu Jun shared his thoughts with everyone.
When he was young, he had seen many of his parents' sea charts, and there were always some coordinates like this. He felt that the place in his dream was a deserted island floating in the middle of the sea. He recalled that the Seagull had gone to various parts of the ocean for scientific research. It had gone to Longkan and many other places. Was that deserted island one of its targets?
"I feel like it's the location of the deserted island in my dream," he said.
Latitude and longitude chart? The expressions of Yao Sinian, Professor Qin, and the others all changed. Gu Jun's "feeling" could not be treated normally.
Before this, the research team had always been inclined to believe that these numbers were a kind of countdown, because the order in which they appeared was from large to small numbers.
"I'll get everyone to focus on this direction and investigate this latitude line carefully." Yao Sinian nodded. "The idea of longitude and latitude has been mentioned before, but there are only 74, 31, and 12. These are at most one latitude, not enough to form a location."
To have a coordinate as detailed as the one in the Medical Department, one would need two lines that were accurate to the minute and second: longitude XX ° XX 'XX 〃, latitude XX ° XX' XX 〃.
For an area as large as "Eastern Zhou City", the latitude and longitude should be divided into degrees: XX ° XX '- XX ° XX', XX ° XX '- XX ° XX'
He also had to figure out whether it was east or west, north or south.
However, in the standard format, positive degrees represented east longitude and north latitude, and negative degrees represented west longitude and south latitude, with latitude first.
If this set of numbers represented "74 ° 31 '12 north latitude", and this latitude line was in the Arctic Ocean …
However, without the longitude, there was no way to determine the specific location.
In their previous research work, they had used military satellites to search the entire latitude line. There were countless ice islands on it.
"Ah Jun, why do you think there's no longitude?" Yao Sinian asked.
Gu Jun considered this question, and a light flashed in his eyes. "Could it be that Old Dog Uncle needs the Nightmare Illness to continue to spread before he revealed the longitude? For Old Dog Uncle to say these numbers, does he also need to accumulate power? "
As soon as he said that, everyone's faces turned cold. Professor Qin said solemnly, "Each set of numbers is separated by at least a thousand patients, and the further we go, the more patients are separated by …"
Gu Jun's heart sank. If it was really the coordinates, how many more patients would it take for Old Dog Uncle to say the other three sets of numbers?
But why did Old Dog Uncle mention a location? Did he want to call someone over? Why?
All kinds of problems were hidden under the obscure fog, and the clues that might appear needed time to be revealed.
It was just that everyone who was so busy that they lacked sleep felt a deep sense of fatigue, especially Professor Qin and Yao Sinian, the two old men. Their swollen and dark eye bags were worrisome, and they really did not know how much longer they could work like this.
After the meeting, Gu Jun was quarantined again after more than a month.
He was temporarily moved into a special isolated room in the Psychology Building. As usual, his communication was cut off. If he wanted to contact Professor Qin or Tong Ye, he had to be connected to the line first. It was not that they did not trust him, but they did it to prevent him from going berserk again.
Gu Jun lay on the bed in the isolated room. With a myriad of thoughts in his mind, he allowed himself to sleep.
…
Three days passed, and the Medical Department became busier than ever.
In the middle of the night on the day Gu Jun was suspected to have a relapse, some patients who were put to sleep for the experiment continued to dream about the nightmare. The content of the dream was the same.
The four patients who had undergone the lobotomy also went to sleep to test the effect of the surgery.
However, the mental state of the late-stage patient, Yang Jianming, did not improve after the surgery. No one knew whether he was asleep or dreaming. On the morning of the next day, 18 hours after the surgery, Yang Jianming succumbed to multiple organ failure and died.
The mid-stage patient, Mai Lei, still had nightmares, but there was no change in his condition.
However, the two early-stage patients, Chen Wenwei and Zou Xinyue, did not have nightmares for three days in a row!
This was a situation that made all the research centers rejoice. This seemed to prove that in the early stages of the disease, by destroying the prefrontal lobe, it was indeed possible to cut off the mental connection between the patient and the mysterious existence on the other end.
Although Chen Wenwei and Zou Xinyue still had symptoms similar to multiple system atrophy (MSA) and Parkinson's, compared to the early-stage patients who did not undergo surgery, they could go from the early-stage to the mid-stage in three days. The development of their condition suddenly slowed down.
The parapsychology research group on Tong Ye's side had a hypothesis. "Their souls are no longer being consumed. It's like a faucet has been turned off. However, the lost spirit and atrophied nerves will not recover immediately. It's very likely that they will never recover. "
Another bad situation was that the sequelae of the lobotomy followed closely. Chen Wenwei and Zou Xinyue both showed severe headaches that were different from before. Their temperaments had also changed significantly. On one hand, they were quiet, but on the other hand, they were very strange.
Even so, at least the doctors now had a chance to treat them, and that was to treat them using the treatment method of MSA.
However, there was currently no specific treatment method for MSA. The main treatment method was to target autonomic nervous system dysfunction and Parkinson's.
The average time taken for MSA patients to progress from the initial symptoms to Chen Wenwei's condition was two years, but for Nightmare Illness, it only took five to seven days.
The average time for MSA patients to die from MSA was nine years. Based on the two's condition after surgery, they should be able to live for another year and a half.
"This is a big breakthrough." Professor Qin told Gu Jun with relief. "The surgery is effective, so this disease can be treated."
It could be cured. That was the hope they wanted.
The Medical Department had already arranged for the second batch of patients to undergo surgery. The earlier the better, the better. However, they still had to find a surgical method that could be used on a large scale.
Song Yilong and the other three who had collapsed during the first surgery were still unconscious in the ICU. They could not afford to let this happen again.
Gu Jun spent the past three days in the quarantine room. He listened to the news that came in patiently and took a good rest. Ever since that day, he did not have that dream again, and there were no symptoms of relapse. This gave Tong Ye and the rest a sigh of relief.
New patients continued to appear, but there was no sign of a new number.
On the morning of the fourth day, Gu Jun exited the quarantine room and ended the quarantine.
However, he was still in the corridor when he saw Leader Tang Zhifeng and the rest from the psychology team. They all had a heavy expression on their faces, and there was a sadness that was different from before.
"Leader Tang, what's wrong?" Gu Jun's head popped up instantly. Three days felt like a lifetime ago. Did something happen to someone?
At that moment, Rayani's diary flashed across his mind like a ghost.
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