Plague Doctor

"These numbers, I feel like latitude and longitude."

It was still dark in the middle of the night, and in the conference room with a serious atmosphere, Gu Jun expressed his thoughts to everyone.

When he was a child, he had seen many nautical charts of his parents, and they always had coordinate numbers like this on them. He felt that the place in his dream was a desert island hanging alone in the sea. He remembered that the Seabird went to various parts of the sea for scientific research, including Longkan and many other places. Was the desert island the target he was looking for?

"I feel like it's the location of the deserted island in the dream," he said.

Chart latitude and longitude? Yao Shinian, Professor Qin and others all changed their expressions. Gu Jun's "feeling" cannot be treated normally.

Until now, the research team had been biased toward the idea that the numbers were a kind of countdown because they appeared in order from large to small.

"I will immediately ask everyone to focus on this direction and check this latitude carefully." Yao Shinian nodded, "The idea of ​​longitude and latitude has been mentioned before, but it is only 74, 31, and 12. This is at most one latitude, which is not enough. Make up a place.”

To have a detailed coordinate like the one here in the Department of Medicine, you need two lines accurate to degrees, minutes and seconds: longitude xx°xx′xx〃, latitude xx°xx′xx〃

If it is as large as "Dongzhou City", the longitude and latitude must be from degree minutes to degree minutes: xx°xx′-xx°xx′, xx°xx′-xx°xx′

And you have to figure out whether it is east longitude or west longitude, north latitude or south latitude.

However, the standard format is that positive degrees represent east longitude and north latitude, and negative degrees represent west longitude and south latitude, with latitude listed first.

If the current set of numbers represents "74°31′12 North Latitude", this latitude is in the Arctic Ocean...

But without longitude, there is no way to locate a specific location.

In previous research work, they used military satellites to search this entire latitude, and there are countless Icelands on it.

"Ajun, why do you think there is no longitude?" Yao Shinian asked.

Gu Jun was thinking about this question, and a flash of inspiration loomed, "Is it possible that Uncle Gou still needs the Nightmare Disease epidemic to continue to expand before he can also tell the longitude? Does Uncle Gou also need to accumulate strength when he tells these numbers? "

When he said this, everyone's expressions turned cold. Professor Qin said solemnly: "Each set of numbers appears after at least a thousand patients, and the further to the back, the more patients there are... …”

Gu Jun's heart suddenly sank. If it was really the latitude and longitude coordinates, how many patients would it take to get Uncle Gou to tell the other three sets of numbers?

But why did Old Uncle Gou want to give a location and call others over? Why?

All kinds of problems are hidden under the fog of obscurity, and it will take time to provide possible clues.

It's just that everyone who is too busy and lacks sleep is feeling deeply tired, especially the two old men in their sixties, Professor Qin and Yao Shinian. The swollen and black bags under their eyes are worrying. I really don't know that they can still perform at such high intensity. How long to work.

After the meeting, Gu Jun was quarantined again after more than a month.

He temporarily lived in a special isolation room in the psychology building, and was routinely cut off from communications. He had to be connected to Professor Qin and Tong Ye before he could contact them. It's not that everyone can't trust him, but it's to prevent him from developing an uncontrollable situation of delirium and madness.

Gu Jun lay on the bed in the isolation room, letting himself rest and fall asleep amid the myriad of emotions.

…

Three days passed, and the medical department became even busier.

In the middle of the night when Gu Jun was suspected of falling ill, some patients who were put to sleep due to the experiment continued to dream about the nightmare, and the content of the dream was still the same.

The four patients who underwent lobotomy also fell asleep in order to test the effect of the operation.

However, the mental state of late-stage patient Yang Jianming did not improve after the operation. No one knew whether he fell asleep or dreamed. In the morning of the next day, 18 hours after the operation, Yang Jianming died of multiple organ failure.

Mai Lei, a patient in the middle stage, still has nightmares and his condition has not changed much.

However, Chen Wenwei and Zou Xinyue, two early-stage patients, did not have that nightmare again for three consecutive days!

This is a situation that has excited research centers everywhere, and it seems to prove that by damaging the prefrontal lobe of a patient's brain in the early stages of the disease, it is indeed possible to cut off the patient's spiritual connection with the mysterious being on the other side.

Although Chen Wenwei and Chen Wenwei still have symptoms similar to multiple system atrophy (MSA) and Parkinson's syndrome, compared with the early stage patients who did not receive surgery, they can go from the early stage to the middle stage in three days, and the development of their condition has slowed down suddenly. Come down.

Tong Ye's parapsychology research team has a hypothesis, "Their souls are not being devoured, just like the faucet is turned off. However, the lost spirit and atrophied nerves will not be recovered immediately because of this. It may never recover.”

Another bad situation is that the sequelae of lobotomy are always following. Chen Wenwei and Zou Xinyue both showed a different kind of severe headache with a tearing feeling than before. Their temperaments also changed significantly. On the one hand, they seemed quiet; And very weird.

Even so, doctors now at least have a chance to treat it with MSA.

However, there is currently no specific treatment for MSA, which mainly targets symptomatic treatment of autonomic nervous system disorders and Parkinson's syndrome.

The average time for MSA patients to progress from the first symptoms to a preoperative condition like Chen Wenwei is 2 years, and nightmare disease only takes 5-7

sky.

The average time from onset to death of MSA is 9 years. Now based on the conditions of two people after surgery, it seems that they can last at least another year and a half.

"This is a major breakthrough." Professor Qin said to Gu Jun, feeling somewhat pleased. "The operation is effective, which shows that this disease can be cured."

It can be cured, and that's the hope they want.

The Department of Medicine is already arranging for the second batch of patients to undergo surgery. The sooner the disease occurs, the better. However, a surgical method that can be promoted and applied on a large scale must be found.

The four of them, Song Yilong, who collapsed during the first operation, are still comatose in the intensive care unit after the operation. This situation cannot happen again.

Gu Jun spent the past three days in the isolation room, patiently listening to the news and getting a good rest. He has not had that dream since that day, and has no clinical manifestations of the disease, which made Tong Ye and the others heave a sigh of relief.

New patients continue to appear, but new numbers have not yet been traced.

In the early morning of the fourth day, Gu Jun walked out of the isolation room and ended the isolation.

But while he was still in the corridor, he saw Tang Zhifeng, the leader of the psychological team who came to take him away, all with heavy faces and a different sadness than before.

"Team Leader Tang, what's wrong?" Gu Jun's heart suddenly jumped up. Three days seemed like a lifetime ago. Did something happen to someone...

At this moment, Payani's diary flashed through his mind again like a ghost.

Love the Plague Doctor.