Paranormal incident investigation notes

There was silence in the virtual conference room. Facing this result, everyone was speechless.

After a long time, He Wei sighed softly.

"Yes, this conjecture seems very logical, but it is too whimsical."

And indeed it is. Using computers as an analogy for humans, the mechanism that causes the human body to go crazy is similar to a computer's camera collapsing due to a computer virus after capturing a specific scene.

When the human eye sees a specific picture, a specific pathogenic factor is generated in the brain. When a computer camera captures a specific picture, it is also possible to generate a virus program in the hard disk.

Everyone knows that the latter is almost impossible to happen, so the same is true for the former.

Lu Ming frowned deeply and remained silent for a long time before saying, "We have another way to verify whether there is such a pathogenic factor."

After the meeting, Zhang Dingshan contacted a local biological laboratory through the Nancheng Public Security Bureau. After that, a total of seven kinds of animals, ten of each kind, were transported directly to the biological laboratory. In addition, twice as many healthy animals were transported from other places.

At this moment, a total of seventy animals, which were kept alone in cages, had gone crazy. They were roaring, roaring, and hitting the iron bars crazily. Next to Lu Ming, Zhang Dingshan, and He Wei, a researcher in a white coat frowned and watched all this.

"Suspected infectious disease?"

"yes."

"Okay, we can do some experiments in our laboratory."

The accompanying security guards took out their tranquilizer guns and shot them one by one accurately, knocking down all the animals that had gone crazy. Laboratory staff opened the cages and fixed them one by one to the operating table.

Lu Ming and the others disinfected their entire bodies three or four times and put on special isolation suits, which also had oxygen bottles on their backs. This way, people could breathe the oxygen in the oxygen bottles instead of breathing the air inside the laboratory. , you can completely eliminate the possibility of certain microorganisms infecting the human body through the air, and then enter the negative pressure operating room.

In a negative pressure operating room, air can only flow into the operating room from the outside world, but cannot spread out from the operating room. There are air extractors at all times to remove the air in the operating room, and it will be discharged to the outside world only after going through extremely strict disinfection procedures.

Here, a total of seventy mad animals have completely fallen into a coma. The equally well-armed experimenters used various sophisticated tools to punch holes in their heads, exposing their brain tissue.

Next to them, another 140 normal healthy animals were also anesthetized, and then the same holes were punched to expose the brain tissue.

The experimenters directly took out some brain tissue fluid from the brains of the crazy animals, and then injected it directly into the brains of the two corresponding healthy animals without any disinfection methods. Afterwards, the hole in the skull was filled, fixed, sutured, and supplemented with some anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs.

It took a full day for this large-scale collective animal surgery to be completed under the eyes of Lu Ming and the others.

After that, it’s time to wait for the results to appear.

In the lounge, several people recalled the infection path of prions, each with their own concerns.

The main way prions are spread is through cannibalism. This thing has extremely strong "vitality" and cannot be eliminated by ordinary means. Initially, some cattle farms ground some dead cows into powder and added it to the feed to feed the rest of the cattle, which caused a major outbreak of mad cow disease.

Some primitive cannibal tribes had the custom of cannibalizing dead relatives and friends, which led to a large outbreak of kuru disease.

The fundamental reason why this kind of cannibalism spreads prions is that prions, a misfolded protein, spread from the stomach to the brain after being eaten.

Some cases of iatrogenic prion transmission are caused by incomplete disinfection of surgical instruments, which first come into contact with the brain tissue of prion patients and then the brain tissue of healthy people.

At this moment, Lu Ming was following this train of thought.

Regardless of whether the speculated subviral factor can be directly found through research methods, we only want to test its infectivity. If it really exists, then if the tissue fluid is taken directly from the brain tissue of a crazy animal and injected into the brain tissue of a healthy animal, it is very likely to cause the healthy animal to go crazy.

In this way, it is confirmed that it is contagious. And since it is contagious, the existence of this disease-causing pathogen is of course confirmed.

Zhang Dingshan whispered: "We can assume that this pathogen does exist. But what if this pathogen is not contagious?"

If it is not contagious, for example, it will be inactivated immediately after changing to a new environment and thus cannot be transmitted, then this measure will have no effect at all.

Lu Ming said: "That's what I think. If it is proved that the disease of 'madness' is indeed contagious, it can be proved that this pathogenic microorganism must exist."

He Wei said: "But if this disease is not contagious, we cannot prove that this pathogenic microorganism must not exist."

"That's true." Lu Ming admitted: "But we can at least push our suspicion a step further: either this microorganism does not exist, or although it exists, it is not infectious."

He Wei thought for a while and said angrily: "It can still be considered a gain."

Zhang Dingshan nodded and said, "It's better to wait for the results to come out."

After completing this craniotomy, the animals gradually woke up the next day.

Just like humans, the animals that have just woken up are very weak after this major surgery. Animal experts have prepared special nutritional solutions and raised them carefully.

With the help of these special methods, animals are recovering faster than humans. By the third day, although he had not returned to normal, he had regained his ability to move normally.

From this point on, you can start to observe whether there are any abnormalities in their behavior.

If pathogenic microorganisms that cannot be discovered by current human technology really exist, and they are really contagious, then at this moment, in the heads of these animals, they should be taking root, expanding their territories, and slowly It erodes the spirit and will of the animals and gradually manifests itself externally.

Lu Ming and the others had been waiting patiently for five days, from being full of expectations at the beginning to being completely disappointed at this moment.

Although the three of them are not animal experts and cannot interpret the behavioral language of animals in more detail, even from the perspective of ordinary people, these animals really have nothing to do with the so-called madness.

After being fed with carefully prepared food, they recovered very well, and the impact of the craniotomy on them was no longer visible. Each one of them was full of energy and energy, and even gained some weight. They eat leisurely, rest comfortably, and play for a while without any worries.

Even an experienced farmer who specializes in raising such animals would probably have to praise them for raising them well.

"It seems that there are only two possibilities. Either such subviral factors do not exist at all, or they are not infectious."

It has been five days. Judging from the usual onset time, the incubation period of the speculated subviral factor will most likely not be that long. If you don't get sick for five days, the possibility of getting sick again becomes lower and lower.

Lu Ming was also a little disappointed: "Of the two possibilities, it is more likely that this subviral factor does not exist at all."

Although he was unwilling to accept this reality, his reason told him that it was indeed the case.

The infectivity test failed, and no unknown subviral factors were found in the preliminary examination. If you still insist on your original point of view at this moment, it would be too inappropriate.

It seems that I have to give up my efforts in this direction.

Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice: "Let's wait until the animal expert completes the cognitive test."

Of course, there is still a very small probability at this moment, that is, these animals have actually gone crazy, but it is not visible on the surface. It can only be seen through rigorous and rigorous behavioral cognitive tests. But this possibility is so small that it is almost unnecessary to consider.

Lu Ming was a little uninterested and waited for the animal experts to do a behavioral cognitive test, and as expected, he saw a completely normal conclusion. So the last possibility was also ruled out.

"Continue to monitor these animals and notify us immediately if anything unusual occurs."

After giving this order, the three people left the biological laboratory.

At this moment, after being busy for several days, the investigation operation of Action Team 2 has once again returned to its starting point.

I don’t know where to start and I don’t know the way forward.

It seems that the vast majority of cases involving supernatural elements will exhibit such characteristics that people simply don’t know where to start investigating. Just like the few cases that Action Team 2 has experienced before, this is the case.

But those cases were eventually solved by our own side, and the truth was finally found out. Even if the truth cannot be fully investigated, the incident can be considered solved and a logical explanation can be found.

This time, Lu Ming believed that as long as he did not give up and persisted in the investigation, he would definitely be able to achieve such a result. However, I don’t know when we will find a breakthrough.

It's getting dark. After today's regular meeting, the three of them went back to rest. Lu Ming tossed and turned as usual and couldn't fall asleep until after 12 o'clock.

At this moment, the moon and stars were sparse, and the whole city seemed to have fallen into sleep. Not far from the hotel where Zhang Dingshan and the other three were staying, the Nancheng Mental Hospital was equally quiet.

Since being designated to treat victims of the "Magic Eye" incident, the security level of this mental hospital has been greatly improved. Not only are security guards guarding the outside of the hospital, but you need to provide credentials when entering and exiting. On the fifth floor of the mental hospital, which is specially used to treat these patients, there are also security guards with armed weapons on duty 24 hours a day.

The time now is three o'clock in the morning. For ordinary people, this is often the time when sleep is heaviest. For those who have to stay up late at night, this is also the time when they are most likely to feel sleepy and tired.

At the nurse's station, the night shift nurse had completed her last rounds and was sitting on a chair, dozing off little by little. Although the security guards on night duty still had cold faces and wide-open eyes, their eyes were already bloodshot, and their bodies sitting on the chairs were not as upright as when they first arrived.

The night is quiet.

Although the patients still maintain the slightly weird situation in the past, such as constantly mumbling to themselves, constantly trying to get up and being suppressed by the restraints, constantly crying and laughing, etc., this situation can no longer be treated. arouse people's vigilance.

When this group of patients first arrived, the nurses, doctors, and security guards were really nervous for a long time. Even if it is late at night, I am still tense.

There is no way, the situation is too weird, no one can relax in this environment.

But now, this group of patients has been admitted for almost half a month.

It has been like this every night for half a month, and there is nothing else to do except this. Even the timid person will slowly relax his tense spirit.

Isn't it just talking to oneself? Isn't it just crying and weird laughter? If everyone who listens is tired, who will be afraid?

Just when everyone was surrounded by fatigue, no one noticed that the strange sound that continued all day long quietly disappeared at this moment.

The entire brightly lit fifth floor fell into silence at this moment. Apart from the gentle sound of the wind outside the window and the occasional whistle coming from the street, there was no other sound.

No one noticed this change. Even in the control room, the personnel on duty were already half asleep and half awake.

In a certain ward, Professor Zhou Tianyang still had his eyes wide open and stared at the ceiling. Gradually, his eyes were no longer as dull as before, but instead showed a touch of human emotion.

With the emergence of this human emotion, his eyes gradually became moist, and tears flowed down his cheeks from the corners of his eyes.

The tears were very clear at first, but as time went by, they gradually became darker in color, and later turned into dark red, like blood.

At the same time, Wang Yue, who used to smile strangely, now had facial muscles twitching and started crying silently. Tears also began to flow from the corners of his eyes, and slowly turned into the color of blood.

One by one, a total of twenty-eight members of Zhou Tianyang's team began to cry silently at this moment.

It took a long time for the tears to stop flowing, and the last trace of human emotion remaining in these people's eyes also disappeared at this moment.

Only Luo Yang, who was "infected" later than these people, did not change at all at this moment.

He was still lying stiffly on the hospital bed, still staring stiffly at the ceiling.

After a long time, it had been more than twenty minutes since he last said the words "I know", and he finally repeated this sentence again.

"I see."