Dark clouds piled up in the sky, and lightning flashed. A thunderstorm seemed to be falling at any time.
The surgical building of the Medical Department was not far from the training center. Gu Jun and the rest followed Brother Qiang and walked over. Soon, they arrived outside the main entrance of the 20-story building. They looked up. The huge object was above them, and every floor was covered by blue reflective glass to show what was going on inside.
"This way." Zhou Jiaqiang walked up the old stone stairs and strode in front of them.
Everyone followed him up the stairs, through the revolving glass door, and into the lobby on the first floor.
The spacious and bright lobby was similar to the surgical building of a normal hospital. There was no bustling scene of patients and their families, but the medical staff were also busy coming and going. Their white coats had work IDs on their chests. At a glance, one could tell that they were either grade F or grade G personnel, belonging to different departments in the surgery department.
Obviously, the entire surgical building was now mobilized for this batch of Malformed Banyan Disease patients.
"This way." Brother Qiang waved in front.
Gu Jun walked while paying attention to his surroundings. Naturally, he wanted to get more information. He had been here for half a month, but he was still unclear about the structure of the Medical Department.
Suddenly, his eyes saw something. His pupils suddenly dilated a little, and his heart suddenly tightened.
It was a disease bulletin board on the wall over there. The people who came and went hurriedly passed by, and no one took a second look. They had long been accustomed to this.
"Ah." "That is?" Wang Ruoxiang, Sun Yuheng, and the other four also saw it, and their expressions changed a little.
"Oh, it's a few common diseases." Zhou Jiaqiang had already expected them to be like this. The bulletin board was open to the interns, so he immediately led them over.
The footsteps of the five people were heavier than before. Every hospital would have this kind of bulletin board, displaying the knowledge of certain diseases and pathological pictures. The one on the wall was the same. It was made of stainless steel, glass windows, and foam board, but what were the pictures pasted on it?
The strange and crazy pictures stung their eyes, their hearts, and their brains.
[Cleft Wart Skin Disease: This disease was first discovered in November 1987 in Mo Bei's Chi Lin City. In the early stages of the disease, due to the obstruction of lymphatic reflux, lymph fluid accumulates in the subcutaneous tissue, causing persistent edema throughout the body, followed by fibrosis, fatty sclerosis, thickening of skin, and thickening of limbs. The disease is often misdiagnosed as elephantiasis lymphedema in the early stages, but in the middle stages, hard verrucous vegetations appear on the surface of the patient's skin, and some of the skin becomes chapped. In the later stages, the neoplasm will continue to grow until it covers the entire body …]
They saw the picture of the case next to it. The patient was naked, but he did not look like a human anymore. He was like a monster built from a pile of rotten mud.
The swollen skin had a hideous blackening, but yellow warts grew over it in masses, and tore the flesh to shreds and indistinct.
"Ugh …" Tian Zelun swallowed his saliva. Even if he was a medical student and had seen the Malformed Banyan and the Jinmenken, he still felt nauseous and uncomfortable.
[Orbital Heteroneoplasia: This disease was first discovered in Lanshui City, Jiangnan in April 1995. In the early stages of the disease, the patient had a malignant tumor in the orbital cavity, which pressed forward and caused the eyeball to protrude. The tumor invaded the skull and entered the skull, resulting in increased intracranial pressure. The patient had severe headaches and vision loss. In the middle stages of the disease, the heteroneoplasia would further invade the brain. The patient began to have confusion, auditory and visual hallucinations, which gradually worsened into delirium and blindness …]
In a few of the case pictures, the patient's face was withered like a skeleton, but his eyes were severely protruding, full of strange blue blood vessels, as if they were about to burst.
That panic and frenzy was probably because he had seen something extremely terrible. What did the patient see in those hallucinations?
[Systemic Viburnum taeniasis: This disease first broke out in the Viburnum City area of Western Guangxi in February 1935. The intermediate hosts of Viburnum taeniasis are pigs and wild boars, and humans are the only terminal hosts. People were infected by eating pork containing Viburnum cysticercus …]
"Sigh." Liu Hong sighed as he read. Sun Yuheng endured the depression in his heart, but his teeth were clenched slightly.
The picture of the taeniasis was the most terrible and disgusting scene they had seen in this bulletin board.
The patient did not feel anything strange in the early stages, but the eggs quietly multiplied in the small intestine, and then the six-hook larvae escaped, burrowed into the small intestine wall, and through the blood circulation or lymphatic system to various parts of the host's body: subcutaneous tissue, muscles, brain, eyes, nerve sheath, bones …
They constantly developed into mature tapeworms and occupied the patient's whole body before the outbreak occurred. The patient began to lose his mind, and the skin began to fester. Long, thick adult worms drilled out of the skin, from the eyes, mouth, ears …
There were so many of them that one drilled out, and another drilled out, until all the nutrients in the host's body were depleted, and the patient would die in great pain.
Looking at these pictures that even doctors could not bear to look at, the interns felt a little numb or a little cold.
Although they had been receiving all kinds of weird knowledge in the past half a month, their lives were a little comfortable. They had good food in the dormitory, and they could learn general surgery, practice routine operations, and the jinmenken was just a dog …
But now, all of a sudden, this bulletin board pulled them back to the nightmare that began when they came into contact with the malformed remains, and they fell deeper and deeper into the darkness.
"There's nothing to be afraid of. These diseases are not rare here. The medical department has a lot of experience in treating them, and the mortality rate has been reduced," Zhou Jiaqiang comforted them. Wang Ruoxiang, the girl, was calmer. Brother Qiang looked at Gu Jun and said, "Can you think of something now? Don't we need experts or professors? "
After coming to the side of the bulletin board, Gu Jun was silent, but he did understand more.
Cleft verrucous dermatosis, orbital heterotumor, systemic viburnum tapeworm disease … These were all stimuli for doctors.
Sometimes, the ignorant were fearless. People who knew nothing about medicine would not find these diseases strange. They were just horrible diseases.
But for people like Professor Gu and even Brother Zhang Lin, as Brother Qiang said, they had learned too much in the field of medicine in the ordinary world. In the depths of their minds, many medical towers had been built, and those towers had shaped their personalities and will.
These diseases were still manageable, but what about the incomprehensible scratching reflex like the Malformed Banyan Disease? What about something that went against modern medicine and human wisdom?
When a skyscraper collapsed, it became a huge ruin. It was very likely that nothing could be rebuilt on top of it.
And for people like them, who had only built small buildings, it was easier to clean up the mess.
Gu Jun, there must be some direct reasons that I still do not understand. But Phecda must have learned a painful lesson to set the talent selection system like this. He would not use those old birds until the last minute. If they were lost, it would not benefit Phecda, and the ordinary world would also be in chaos.
It was just that the current situation had made Phecda more and more flustered.
"Let's go." Zhou Jiaqiang continued to walk. "I will take you to the orthopedics department to report."
Tian Zelun and Liu Hong hurriedly walked. Sun Yuheng sighed and followed. Wang Ruoxiang walked again and saw that Gu Jun was still standing in the same place. "Let's go." Gu Jun nodded and followed.
They took the elevator to the sixth floor. The higher the elevator went, the louder the painful screams of the patients became. The elevator seemed to be leading to hell.
Brother Qiang said that all 624 patients had to undergo various preoperative examinations. They were now arranged to be carried out on each floor. The entire medical department was mobilized.
When they came to the sixth floor and walked out of the elevator, they immediately saw living patients in the crowded corridor for the first time. The air was filled with a foul stench. Each of these patients was fixed on a mobile stretcher bed. Their limbs were shackled to the stretcher bed, regardless of whether it was a normal or deformed limb.
At a glance, there were dozens of stretcher beds on both sides of the long corridor. Various deformed limbs of different shapes impacted Gu Jun's understanding.
And the screams of these patients were more disturbing than the roars of beasts.
"Come, be careful. Don't touch the patients." Zhou Jiaqiang walked over with the five people. The patients' eyes were filled with despair.
At that moment, a male patient with deformed lower limbs saw one of them. His screams suddenly turned into a frenzied scream. "It's you, it's you!" His eyes were already very cloudy, but they were filled with fear, anger, and madness. "It's you! It's you … "
"Hmm?" Zhou Jiaqiang was stunned. Wang Ruoxiang and Sun Yuheng looked at each other. In the end, they all confirmed that this patient was staring at Gu Jun.
Gu Jun was stunned. His face was expressionless, and his heart was filled with the agitation that he felt when the illusion appeared.
A nurse ran over and shouted, "Move away, you guys. He's already showing signs of delirium. This is the third stage of transformation!"
"I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy. It's you!" The patient violently pulled the shackles on his limbs. His face was contorted in pain. He wanted to get up and do something, but the stretcher bed clanked. "It's you, the thing in the banyan tree … Let me go … Please, let me go …"
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