Plague Doctor

"Dr. Shen, I want to ask you a question."

At the Tianji Bureau base in the Mobei Desert, in the ESP laboratory that was not yet busy, Gu Jun was insinuating Dr. Shen. Tong Ye was away this morning to pick up the assessment team, so he was not here. He finally found an opportunity to lie to Dr. Shen.

"What? Excuse me." Dr. Shen was still so kind.

"I know that there has been research on 'lucid dreaming' in the ESP world." Gu Jun asked, and Wu Shiyu was listening next to him. "I would like to ask if there are any experiments and training related to dreams, so that our mental power and super powers can be improved." Can your senses be improved?"

Dr. Shen pushed up the glasses on his nose and replied seriously: "Lucid dreaming is a big field. But I didn't arrange such a project for you in this special training, because after the mental training, you need real sleep to let your brain The cortex needs a good rest. Otherwise it will be harmful. If our research can continue, we will gradually let you try lucid dreaming."

"Then..." Gu Jun was thinking about what to ask. Every time he thought of the poster this month, he always had a strange and uneasy feeling.

"Listen carefully to the sound of dreams." This sentence stuck in his throat like a fishbone.

Wu Shiyu looked at him and grinned helplessly. She was really timid. She asked directly: "Dr. Shen, is it possible to receive any information from dreams? It may not necessarily be transmitted by humans, like a signal from the universe?"

Gu Jun glanced at her and said to her silently: You really deserve a beating. Can you hear me? Can you hear it?

Obviously, Wu Shiyu didn't hear it, and if he did, he probably pretended not to hear it.

"Shigure, Jun." Dr. Shen sighed with a smile, "I understand that you want to try your best to improve your mental power and figure out esp, but... the existing medical knowledge of the human brain is very limited, and psychiatry , neurology are all weak points. Let alone dreams and extrasensory perception, we can’t even clarify the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Although his current job is to be researched, Gu Jun is also studying medicine, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as Alzheimer's disease, is a degenerative disease of the nervous system and the most common type of dementia in old age. However, since the first reported cases in the early 20th century, the global medical community has been studying this disease for hundreds of years, and countless large pharmaceutical companies and laboratories have conducted countless studies.

Its pathogenesis is still uncertain, ranging from genetics, parasites, prions, abnormal metabolism...β-amyloid cascade hypothesis, tau protein theory...low education, high blood pressure, high blood sugar...all directions have been tried. After passing it, the cause cannot be determined.

Gu Jun felt a little chilly when he thought about it, because this was actually a very scary thing.

Is Alzheimer's disease contagious? This is still an unknown number. There are also research hypotheses in this area, and it has a certain possibility.

Even if it does happen, Alzheimer's disease is not explosively contagious, for the time being...

Otherwise, for humans on Earth, this might be a form of hemoptysis.

"So Mr. Tong and I are crossing the river by feeling the stones." Dr. Shen added, encouraging them both: "Don't be impatient. Haste makes waste. With your current mental strength, you should be able to cope with this assessment. ”

"No, Dr. Shen, you don't understand at all." Wu Shiyu said softly.

Gu Jun shrugged at her and said, "Don't ask anymore. It seems that Dr. Shen doesn't know."

This morning, the two did not train, but spent time in quiet meditation. Dr. Shen asked them to recharge their batteries.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the assessment team arrived at the base.

Dr. Shen, along with three members of the problem team and a group of experimenters, greeted Tong Ye and the other party's group at the entrance of the medical building.

Gu Jun saw a group of people walking towards them, and immediately noticed the group of more than 30 people wearing the same uniform.

That was their opponent this time, the "Inspector Squad."

According to Dr. Shen’s previous introduction and internal information from the Tianji Bureau, this is an old mobile task force belonging to the headquarters. There are about 30 regular members, all of whom are mainly people with high gnosis and proficiency in psychology. They are mainly from the Department of Medicine. , transferred by the evaluation department.

Because the position of the inspector team is to provide technical support in psychology, S-value testing, psychoanalysis, etc. When there is a large-scale mission that requires the dispatch of several mobile task forces and hundreds or thousands of colleagues from the operations department at the same time, the inspector team will join as an auxiliary team.

But this time, according to Tongye, these inspectors are here to kick the tires.

Gu Jun glanced at them. There were more than 30 men and women, all over 30 years old. They were all very bright and handsome in uniforms unique to the team. ——In order to improve cohesion, some mobile task forces can have exclusive uniforms, but problem squads are not yet allowed.

Everyone's eyes were calm and confident, and when they saw him looking at him, they all nodded.

Tong Ye and several leaders of the assessment team stood around and pointed and talked about something, but from the entourage outside, Gu Jun saw two old acquaintances.

One was Professor Qin, and the other was Yao Shinian, the former commander-in-chief of the Gurong Village emergency team, whom he had met before entering Rongshu Cave.

"Professor Qin, Commander Yao." Gu Junxian didn't care anymore and walked up to greet the two acquaintances.

"Ajun, I haven't had a chance to talk to you since the last mission." Yao Shinian, with his white hair and slightly haggard face, is much older than the Commander Yao in Gu Jun's memory. "You just completed the mission. So I sent you here for special training again, thank you for your hard work."

"It's nothing." How dare Gu Jun say it was hard in front of these two old people.

He could already see that Professor Qin had aged a lot, and his brows were a little wrinkled, not as calm as when he said goodbye to him a month ago.

"Professor Qin, are you okay over there in Dongzhou?" His heart sank and he had a bad feeling.

"Not very good." Professor Qin suddenly sighed, full of fatigue, "Ajun, in the past week, the number of people who committed suicide by jumping from buildings in Dongzhou has increased fivefold. The psychiatry and neurology departments of the hospital are full of patients. Patient. There is a new type of neurodegenerative disease that has emerged. There is no effective treatment yet, and the pathogenesis is not yet clear. It seems to be related to a contagious nightmare."

Gu Jun felt a chill all over his body, his eyes widened slightly, and the Alzheimer's disease that he had been worrying about in the morning came to his mind...

A contagious nightmare? What is the pathogenesis of this?

For some reason, he remembered the sentence on the wall newspaper again, "Listen carefully to the sound of dreams."

Love the Plague Doctor.