Plague Doctor

How important is money in this world?

Every time he talked about this issue before, Gu Jun would say it is very important.

"I can tell you that there is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty."

Gu Jun still remembers three years ago, when he just turned 18 years old and got the admission letter for the eight-year undergraduate, master and doctoral program of clinical medicine at Dongzhou University School of Medicine, which ranks among the top five in the country. At the graduation banquet, how did he come up with this classic movie line.

Not desolate, but high-spirited, with the appearance of a winner in life who is about to dominate the world.

A stubborn disguise...and a sadness that no one knows about.

yes.

For the orphan who received the bad news of the death of both his parents at the age of ten, the sum of five million in various compensations was Gu Jun's only source of income and spiritual support in the more than ten years of his life.

The money is first managed by an escrow fund, and when he turns 18, he is free to dispose of all his estate.

No relatives, but he still has money!

Of course, there is only money left.

"Tu Hao Jun", this is the nickname given to him by his college classmates, showing love and teasing.

Generous money, all kinds of food, drink, and entertainment. These are his only strengths in school.

It was probably because of the college entrance examination that he used up all the energy he had spent studying in his life, and he felt that his mother's ambition, "I want to be a doctor when I grow up!" was meaningless. After entering university, he completely lost his motivation.

He has changed from a scholar to a scumbag. He has either failed the class or just passed the pass line. In addition to having fun, he has fun. Day and night are reversed.

After a long time, the professors threw away all their expectations of him, the counselors also gave up, and many students saw him and turned around. Everyone said that people like Gu Jun, in addition to humiliating the lintel of Dongda University, have no fun, and they will only be abolished together with him.

Gu Jun didn't have any refutation, because he knew in his heart that everyone was right, he was a jerk, and he planned to continue.

until half a year ago.

Gu Jun received the second bad news in his life.

He has a brain stem tumor.

And it is medulloblastoma, the most malignant brain stem tumor, and his condition has no chance of surgery.

Even if there is an opportunity for surgery, with postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the average survival time of patients is 0.9 years, which is less than one year.

At that moment, Gu Jun, who had been slumped for two and a half years, seemed to be drenched in a basin of cold water and completely woke up.

The local tyrant Jun died, and Gu Jun came back.

He began to perk up and treat aggressively. It's just that the brain stem is the nerve center of the human body, and it has always been called the "surgery forbidden area". At that time, he traveled to many cities and countries, but no hospital dared to operate on him.

After three months of searching for a doctor with no results, and after searching the world's latest medical information on brain stem tumors, Gu Jun accepted the fact that he had no cure and that money could not cure him.

Then, he made two decisions.

First, buy a set of luxury cruise tickets, starting from Dongzhou City, through Malacca, and directly to the Indian Ocean. Hurry up to the last time, in this hot summer vacation, go to the place where your parents worked before they died, and fulfill this childhood wish. If you're not dead, keep traveling the world.

Second, only tens of thousands of yuan were left, and the remaining one million yuan was donated to the Swan Children's Hope Fund for orphan education.

If there is an afterlife, do something good and hope to have a good birth.

"Hello, Mr. Gu, we have arrived at the Longkan submarine volcanic belt, and the deep diving project you booked is ready. Please go to the boat ladder for diving within half an hour."

The sweet voice of a waitress pulled Gu Jun, who was sitting in a daze in the open-air cafe on the top deck, back from his thoughts.

"Okay." He nodded, "I can go there now." After that, Yili tipped her.

The waitress accepted the tip, and her smile became even brighter. This Mr. Gu is handsome and bold, so he will always be happy to serve him. She smiled and said, "Mr. Gu, please come with me. ."

At the moment, Gu Jun followed the waitress to the lower deck of the boat, looking at the surrounding sea with mixed feelings.

Is this the place where my parents had an accident?

Gu Jun did not like the sea when he was a child. Because he still couldn't understand why the father of the captain of the "Sea Bird" scientific expedition ship and the mother of the doctor who accompanied the ship had to stay at sea for many years, but left him to the guardianship institution to raise him?

What are they working on? Is it really more important than your own children?

That damned three-no scientific research company, except for the sentence "The Sea Bird sank in a storm, it is determined that the entire ship was sacrificed" and dropped five million, there is no follow-up, the ship has not been found, and the body has not been found! Before long, the company closed its doors.

What happened back then?

The sea is eerily dark blue, and the waves are constantly churning, covering up the past.

Gu Jun sometimes even thinks, are his parents really dead? Maybe they didn't die in the shipwreck, but were stranded on a desert island waiting to be rescued?

Or... just sinking in the bottom of this area?

Just because he wanted to find the answer, he ordered this deep diving project at a high price: tourists enter a boat-shaped submersible that can dive to a depth of 2,000 meters, and watch the volcanic belt under the sea through the window. This is not a standard item with a ticket, but a special offer for the rich. Because the cost of diving once is high.

When he came to the ship ladder with a dozen steps away, Gu Jun saw that in addition to the captain and other crew members, there were three young tourists, two men and one woman.

"Everyone, this is the legendary Longkan submarine volcano belt!" One of the young men in his early twenties was holding a mobile phone and seemed to be doing a live broadcast. He was dressed in fancy clothes and had an exaggerated explosive head. Reggae style.

Gu Jun heard him introduce mysteriously to the mobile phone: "The local indigenous tribe calls this place 'Hamkarnaba', which means 'Devil Abyss'..."

The other man was a few years older, a tall muscular man with a pink vest on his upper body, exposing his thigh-like arms, and asking the captain impatiently, "How long will we wait?"

And the girl looked the youngest, only sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and beautiful. She was wearing a fashionable coat and shorts, all of which were military green. She had a pair of chopsticks with long legs that were very eye-catching. She had a large tattoo on her left calf, and she didn't know if it was real or pasted.

She was the first to notice Gu Jun's arrival, but her eyes were cold and arrogant, and she twirled a saber in her hand, as if no strangers should approach.

"That's right, this dive was originally booked by another guest." The old captain was explaining embarrassingly, and suddenly said with joy: "Ah, Mr. Gu is here so soon!"

The waitress left at the signal of the captain, while Gu Jun continued to walk over to meet everyone's eyes.

The old captain began to introduce. The reggae man is called Li Lerui, the muscular man is called Wu Dong, and the girl in military uniform is called Lin Xiaotang. They are all the "most honored guests" of the cruise ship - the captain hinted with his eyes that they are the powerful sons and brothers of the family who must not be offended.

The three originally wanted to rent a speedboat to play in the nearby waters, but they saw a submersible here, so they also asked to participate in a deep dive. The submersible has a total of seven seats, two operators and a safety officer occupy three, and the remaining four tourist seats have been reserved by Gu Jun.

Since the submersible has to do various safety inspections after every dive, according to the cruise ship's itinerary, there is only one dive opportunity this month. And these three uncles were so excited, the captain had to negotiate with Gu Jun, and the four of them shared the cost and seat of this dive equally, okay? Lele alone is not as good as all.

"Okay." Gu Jun shrugged and said, since there are vacancies, it doesn't matter.

"But..." Wu Dong, a muscular man, was still a little unhappy, and he wanted to say something with his bull-eyed bulging.

And that reggae man, Li Lerui, was always there by himself and was busy with the live broadcast, and did not participate in it.

Gu Jun looked at the girl in military uniform, suddenly a little puzzled, and felt that he had seen her... Was it on a cruise ship these days?

"What are you looking at?" Lin Xiaotang stared back unhappily after being scrutinized by him, with a very fierce expression.

"Look at you." Gu Jun said.

He was so direct, Lin Xiaotang was a little choked, "You..."

"You choose for yourself, anyway, I don't mind everyone being on the same boat." Gu Jun glanced at the next three people with a smile, and took the lead to go down the boat ladder, and he didn't care so much. One of the advantages of having a short life is that he is now a lot calmer in dealing with people and things.

"Hey kid, stop!" Wu Dong jumped and shouted, "Come back, come back!" But Gu Jun didn't stop.

And Li Lerui didn't know when he had already run down the ship ladder and chased after him, he was still taking pictures with his mobile phone with one hand, and the other hand put his arm around Gu Jun's shoulder, and said with a familiar smile: "Old iron, don't mind. , that guy Wu Dong is a sand sculpture, a rude man. Here you look at my live broadcast room, every time Wu Dong appears on the scene, the audience will madly like 'Tie Hanhan'."

"Tie Hanhan." Lin Xiaotang sullenly walked past Wu Dong.

Wu Dong was really depressed, scratching his forehead, "You clearly said you wanted to act in secret!"

Uh, aren't you live streaming? How to act in secret? Gu Jun couldn't understand, are all the members Tie Hanhan?

After dragging for a while, everyone finally put on protective equipment under the guidance of the operator and entered the submersible and sat down. There are four in two rows in front and back of the tourist seats. Gu Jun sits in seat 1, Li Lerui in seat 2 on the right, Lin Xiaotang in seat 3, and Wu Dong in seat 4.

Soon, the hatch of the submersible closed, started to dive, and the blue-to-black sea water wrapped them, 200 meters, 500 meters, 1000 meters...

At this time, Gu Jun, who had been looking out the window, heard what the three of them were talking about.

"Ari, are you sure you are in this sea area?" Wu Dong asked.

"I really don't know how credible this news is..." Lin Xiaotang's tone was full of doubts.

"If you don't believe me, I also believe that guy. What I heard is that it's here... But the sea bottom is so big, whether it can be photographed depends on our luck." Li Lerui said with certainty that there is no signal under the sea to support live broadcast , but he continued to take videos with his phone.

Gu Jun understood, they were here to explore. These days, the Internet is always full of all kinds of bizarre rumors. There are many sea monster sightings, but there has never been any reliable evidence. Occasionally, a few photos or blurred videos are sent out, which are later proved to be false. .

But based on the contact of these three people, the "news" they heard... Shouldn't it refer to those Internet rumors?

"Audience." Li Lerui took the video again, "Look at how dark it is outside, we have dived more than 1,500 meters, and we are not far from the bottom of the sea." In order to take a clearer picture, he simply unfastened his seat belt. Get up and get to the edge of the cabin to shoot outside the window.

"Mr. Li, please go back to your seat and sit down, it's so dangerous, there are many undercurrents at the bottom of the sea..." the old captain advised weakly.

"very soon

quick. "Li Lerui made an ok gesture and continued to pat: "If it weren't for the submersible, human beings would be squashed by the pressure of the deep sea..."

Gradually, Gu Jun ignored them. Through the light of the searchlight, he looked at the rough seabed dimly visible outside the adjacent window, and was vaguely expecting to see a dilapidated sunken ship.

But I'm afraid to see such a scene...

I don't know if it was a hallucination caused by an attack of a brain stem tumor. He suddenly noticed that there was a half-human-high peak protruding from the seabed over there, like a rock, but he seemed to see that its surface was full of carvings and various shapes. Textures and patterns...

The more he looked, the more he felt that the carvings became fascinated, as if blood-colored magma was flowing out.

Deformed, sick, but full of vitality, even the darkness is burned.

Bang! ! With a sudden slam, the magma seemed to spurt straight ahead, and before he had any reaction, it drowned him violently.

Ah...it hurts! ! !

Gu Jun groaned and covered his head with both hands, the pain was about to explode, and he was covered in cold sweat in an instant.

What are these visions... Countless indescribable sights poured into the depths of his mind, indescribably weird, terrifying, crazy... It hurts, it hurts! He felt that his eyes were bleeding, blood red, he saw the storm, saw a huge figure... rising from the sea...

"There is a whirlpool, there is an abnormal whirlpool!" It seemed that the old captain shouted in a panic, "Go up immediately!! Go back, hurry!!!"

The submersible suddenly jolted violently. Fortunately, everyone was fixed on the seat, but...

Gu Jun seemed to hear Li Lerui's screams again, "Ah!" And Lin Xiaotang and the others exclaimed, "Arui!?"

Ding Ding, I seem to hear a mechanical voice in my mind...

"Binding with the host... Binding is successful... Detecting the host's situation..."

What... Gu Jun's consciousness is a little fuzzy, but he can clearly "see" a system interface in his mind.

"The host's physical examination report is out, please check it out."

[Name: Gu Jun

Species: Human - Homo sapiens

Sex: Male

Age: 21

Height: 182cm

Weight: 78kg

Body fat percentage: 17

Heart rate: 81 beats (normal)

Blood pressure: 100mmhg systolic, 77mmhg diastolic (normal)

Blood sugar: 4.82mmoll (normal)

Red blood cell count: 4.9x10＾12l (normal)

White blood cell count: 6.78x10＾9l (normal)

...

Brainstem: Fatal Abnormal, Deadly Abnormal, Deadly Abnormal!

The brainstem of the host has mutated, and malignant tumors are growing rapidly. With its current growth rate, it is expected that after 32 days, the host will have symptoms such as esotropia, crooked mouth, and facial muscle twitching; after 60 days, the host will suddenly die. 】

What are these...what are they?! It seems that my disease is really almost...

Ding! Another mechanical voice sounded in my mind:

"Due to the abnormality of the host's brainstem, the host must complete self-rescue through the mission system within 60 days, otherwise it will die."

"The new task list has been released, and the host can get rewards for completing tasks. The higher the task level, the more rewards.

The mission level is divided into three levels: normal, difficult, and abyss. The task list can only choose one of three at a time, please choose carefully. Currently, each task level can only have one task at a time until the task is completed, or the task period is exceeded.

At 0:00 every day, the task list is refreshed. "

【July 21, 2020

Common Mission: Successfully rescue an emergency patient within the day. Mission reward: 1 box of human brainstem tumor targeted drugs, the efficacy of which can prolong the lifespan of the host by five days

Difficult task: Complete the dissection of 3 normal human remains within three days. Mission reward: 1 Carop scalpel

Abyss Mission: Complete the dissection of a ghoul within a week. Quest Reward: Unknown]

"Please collect your novice gift package, this is only one chance, the reward is rich!"

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