Plague Doctor

Since Gu Jun's sawing was quite perfect and the dura mater was not damaged, the inner surface of the deformed skull roof was very clear.

Just on the surface of the bone, there are densely packed tiny scratches without any gaps, as if they were carved...

What pattern is that? Or what text?

Gu Jun took the cranial cap again from Cai Zixuan's hand, looked at it with a frown, and touched it, "This is not carved on it, it is caused by bone damage."

This is like "worm-eaten" or "erosion-like" damage, a symptom that patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism will experience. Countless small hole-like areas of reduced density on the bones merge with each other, and appear as blurry patches on X-rays. clear. The bones of the ghoul corpse in the previous movie had this kind of condition everywhere, but how could you think of it...

These etched patterns on the skull are such fine lines.

Gu Jun looked at this piece of bone, and the sense of illusion in front of his eyes suddenly became heavier. Some haziness and madness flashed through, but failed to take shape.

He put down the skull cap and looked at the open skull on the dissecting table. The gray dura mater still wrapped the brain, "Get the brain!"

Uncle Dan and Du Mingjun around were quite excited. Although Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan didn't know what was going on, they also guessed that this was an important discovery.

They continued to help Gu Jun dissect, and when they successfully turned the four dura mater outwards, the brain full of black arteries and veins was exposed.

Ever since the secret of the skull cap was revealed, the headquarters conference room, Dongzhou Command Center and other places have been in a state of surprise and excitement. While Gu Jun and the others were continuing the dissection, scientific researchers had already gone in to take pictures and scans of the cranial cap, allowing everyone to see a more detailed picture.

The more you use a computer to magnify, the more subtle etching patterns you can see, as if they are diagrams of the internal structure of the chip, which may be even more precise than that.

"This can't be natural bone erosion..."

"Erosion is usually due to osteoporosis, but the bone density throughout the body is greater than normal."

"Secondary hyperparathyroidism can lead to sclerosis and thickening of the skull plate, rough bone skin, and irregular defects..."

In the conference room of the headquarters, people were talking a lot, some were thinking hard, and some were talking nonsense.

Xiao Huiwen and others' hearts sank a bit. No matter what happens with secondary hyperparathyroidism, it is not at all the level of the ghoul in front of them.

The more this alien mystery is revealed, the more it shows how little they know, and the more difficult it becomes.

"Master Tong, what do you think?" Many investigators asked Master Tong.

"Ask me and I would guess..." Tongye's voice was dull. These studies were done many years too late. "Ghouls can create illusions and enter dreams. They must have special mental power. Maybe this kind of mental power is Provided by these structures, just as blood vessels provide blood, these lines provide spiritual power.”

Over in Dongzhou, Yao Shinian, who learned of the situation and rushed back to the command room, listened to these words remotely and sighed: "Guotong, your work is very important."

In the field of magic, the Secret Bureau is only slightly better than a blank slate.

At the same time, Gu Jun calmly dissected and removed the brain after processing the dura mater. He moved the uncovered head to one end of the dissecting table, allowing the brain to droop naturally. Then he supported the brain with his left hand, and separated the olfactory bulbs with the scalpel handle in his right hand...

After that, he cut off many structures, cut off many nerves, arteries and veins, and gently removed the entire brain from the skull.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath. Suddenly, there was an empty mass inside the skull. All kinds of tissues were blurred with blood and flesh. The inside of the skull base had not been cleaned yet, but the bone surface lines were already showing in some places. Sure enough, the entire skull was... All inside.

Their eyes were changing slightly, what kind of weirdness caused this madness to appear...

At this time, Gu Jun looked at the whole brain in his hand. The winding shape and veins on it made him feel more confused. He squeezed and adjusted slightly according to the feeling. Looking at the whole brain again, his... My heart immediately jumped with fear.

It's an Arabic numeral, 176, right in the center of the brain.

"Number?" Uncle Dan also noticed in surprise, "Is that a number?"

"Don't look!" Gu Jun was startled by something and immediately turned the whole brain away, stopping Cai Zixuan and Wang Ruoxiang from looking at him. This number is likely part of the Nightmare Sickness, and the more they know about it and the more closely they are associated with nightmares, the more dangerous they become.

Because of a strange feeling, Wu Shiyu stood up from the sofa and walked over, ready to calm down the scene at any time.

"Don't look at it either." Gu Jun told her to move away and put her head closer so that the camera above could take a clear picture. That was a number.

This is the only part they can directly understand so far, a number.

In that nightmare, Uncle Gou never read out any new numbers to any of the patients - numbers that seemed like longitude.

Could it be that the longitude number was never read out by Old Dog, but existed in another place, such as in the ghoul's head?

Everyone in the command center and headquarters conference room was excited because of this discovery. Things turned around in such an unexpected way.

"176!" Yao Shinian hurriedly asked his men to take action, "use this longitude to see."

Although there are no subsequent numbers of minutes and seconds, if this is the longitude of the desert island, it already has a small map range.

The emergency team immediately combined this east longitude number with the previous north latitude of 74°31′12″ to locate a location near the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

However, looking at the relevant satellite image information, everyone was confused. This location had not been taken seriously before, because it was empty, there were no islands, not even a small reef, and there were sometimes large ice floes in winter. How could it be there?

But everyone knows that there is no coincidence in the matter. Gu Jun feels that the important clue that the ghoul can bring may be this.

Is there anything impossible now? If that desert island is there, it must be there.

With this attitude, Yao Shinian made many phone calls and confirmed with the headquarters that the exploration fleet of the Tianji Bureau should immediately go to that location to explore. The country's satellites, missiles and aircraft carrier battle groups would provide support, and the nightmare disease must not be allowed. Continue to spread.

In the autopsy room on the other side, the more Gu Jun concentrated on the numbers on the brain and the strange lines on the skull, the more his head tingled.

The sense of illusion that had been accumulated for a long time gradually became turbulent... He vaguely heard some strange sounds coming into his mind, meeping, glibbering...

This strange voice is not a human language, nor a foreign language, nor even the R'lyeh language, but the language of ghouls.

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