Plague Doctor

The camp room was very quiet. Gu Jun looked at the TV screen and felt that the patient in the image was also looking at him.

“This is a simple identification procedure.” Captain Wang explained, "The identifiers were all 1024 patients in the camp who had experienced delirium. ”

Identification program? Gu Jun knows that this is a criminal investigation method, and it is generally for victims and witnesses to identify the suspect...

“We mixed together 30 photographs of people with different shapes, five officers and hairstyles, and the psychological group determined that there were no signs of features. Neither do we give any hints to any patient until the identification is made. ”

Wang Xiao added, "The identification process is to show the 30 photos in random order to the identifier in a computer, without first recognizing them, only ask the identifier at the second random broadcast. Does anyone look like you've seen them in delirium? If you choose a photo, which one? ”

At this point in the screen image, the patient's eyes suddenly widened slightly, lifting his fingers, "It's this guy, I've seen this guy. ”

The image then switched to a desk. Gu Jun saw that there was a computer in front of the patient. The photograph that stopped on the computer screen was a photograph of a NASA intern's ID. It's him, Gu Jun.

“…” Gu Jun breathed deeply in silence, but could not open his heart. He did not know the patient and had never seen him.

Instead of thinking about it, the image was replaced by the next patient, then the next one... but all the photos that stopped were the same, Gu Jun.

Everyone in the investigative team standing around him, cold, sharp, questionable eyes, seemed to be asking him for a statement.

Or their psychological offense, put pressure on him and tell him to confess.

“Dr. Gu, of the 1024 identifiers, 751 were identified by you.” Captain Wang Yi may be the one who plays the blush, but the tone is still very steady and objective: “The remaining 206 did not make a choice and 67 chose others. And of the 751 people who chose you, more than half said they remembered seeing you in delusions, but didn't remember anything specific. ”

Cao Yichuang, Tang Zizhu and others are almost staring at Gu Jun.

They didn't know much about Gu Jun in private. After spending time with him, they still felt that he seemed comfortable.

However, 73 per cent were consistent, and that figure was high even in ordinary criminal identification - that could be just a few witnesses, a dozen photographs.

But now there are 1,024 identifiers, 30 photographs, 73 percent of whom unanimously select the same person.

Gu Jun is not a public figure and has not had any news exposure. He has not even uploaded his photos to the Internet.

The investigation team has already found out about all this, so why? It can only be due to extraordinary force.

“Dr. Gu, we suspect…” Wang Kuanzhi's national face is only serious at this moment, “you are the 'thing in the banyan tree' in the mouth of a patient with Xenobanyan disease. ”

“Team Wang, gentlemen.” Gu Jun spoke softly. The fortunate part of his heart was completely wiped out by the cold water. The cold bones caused the complete obscurity. "I don't know what this is about, I hope you can give me a truth...”

He looked at this, looked at that, and found that in addition to Captain Wang Yi, the eyes of the crowd were still harsh and pressure was still being exerted on him.

I'm not like the murderers in the next life!

He remembered Wang Ruoxiang, Zixuan and them, Zhu Master Knife and them, Django and Ancient Professor...

Think of the hard work in the lab, the effort in the training room, the battle in the operating room, the laughter, the tears that fell.

Those who have re-established a sense of belonging and their own personal commitment to practicing medicine.

“I'm a doctor.” Gu Jun stared at his eyes and said the words calmly and forcefully: “Before I came here, I had just participated in the completion of an operation to remove the larvae of the submarine giant insects in the wounds on the upper right limb of the injured person. All the nutrients, bags and egg sacs must also be cleaned up. Everyone did 13 hours. ”

He saw the brutality of the club from his nightmares, and he had some clues from his illusions and memories, and he had no doubt that the next life would even have a connection behind it.

But... Gu Jun swept Wang Yicheng and Cao Yicheng's face. "I hate the culprits behind Banyan disease as much as you do. I wish I could help you catch them tonight, but I am responsible for saving lives, and I have nothing but this. ”

After listening to Gu Jun's solemn voice, everyone's eyes softened.

After more than a dozen hours of surgery, I haven't drunk a drop of water, I'm a man.

“Dr. Gu.” Wang Xiao is also a little gentle, "we do not suspect that you caused them to get sick, there is a connection. These suspicions are based on clues and evidence, and this is just one of the things we have. ”

“Anything else?” Gu Jun questioned.

“Let's start with an experiment. Time is tight, Dr. Gu, and you'll be on the night shift. ”

Wang Jun and several of his subordinates took Gu Jun to another small barracks next door. This is the identification room. There is a clear glass wall separated between the front room and the rear room. Gu Jun is arranged to sit in a chair in the rear room, facing the front room.

“Dr. Gu, the next thing we know, we're going to have a team of 1024 patients come in and see if anything happens. ”

Wang Xiao told him, so he took the team out of the front room and closed the soundproofing door between the two rooms.

“…” Gu Jun could notice the camera in the upper corner of the surrounding area, through the glass window, and look outside at Wang Jun and they stood aside.

Soon, Tang Ziyu and another investigator came in with a group of ten patients, both men, women and children, old men in wheelchairs, middle-aged women with crutches, young people who were already proficient in using prosthetics, and girls with empty cuffs.

When they saw him, they were all a little excited, panicked and incredible. Why did they actually sit there with the people in their delusions?

The girl frightened her face and rushed to hide behind the adult, but that was it, or she cried out and was taken away early by Tang Zizhi.

Gu Jun didn't move and his face didn't change. He just sat quietly and heard the outside patients whispering to the investigators...

A group of patients went out, another group of patients came in, the face of panic continued to increase, the buzzing sound kept ringing, ringing...

Those faces and that whisper are also constantly impinging on Gu Jun. His head began to ache, and the blurry and raging light appeared in front of him. This feeling was no longer strange to him. Is it the illusion of the black and white photo... to be triggered...

“Why this scenario?” Gu Jun's head is getting worse and worse. This is not a picture at all.

And now… he is shooting on camera, and under the eyes of the investigators, no abnormality can escape the eyes of these people.

Don't come at this hour! He bites his teeth to resist the appearance of illusions, but as a group of patients emerge, those chaotic light shadows become more and more real... as if whispers were ringing in his ears, louder and louder...

Gu Jun couldn't help pressing his hands against his head, but seeing the faces of each of the patients seemed to turn into the same face.

The dead man's face.

What if... this is what Captain Wang Yi wants? Is that the only way to trigger the illusion in that picture?

“I need the truth, I need answers... look...”

As soon as his mind changed painfully, Gu Junton's time fell into the illusion, but it was that nightmare again.

The sky was so dark that a giant banyan tree stood there, with rough twigs and chaotic roots that seemed to distort the world.

On that muddy land, hundreds of people in black and dozens of people in red were all on their knees, with their heads deep against that rotten mud. They were praying to the great banyan tree, muttering an unnameable whisper, like a delusional mess, like a fanatical praise.

In the main trunk of that great banyan tree is a giant, decaying banyan tree hole.

Inside the tree cave, a man sat there in shadow, a little boy as young as a few years old, dressed in a strange costume, with a crown woven from the branches and roots of a banyan tree, like a king, like a god.

The little boy looked down at those who were kneeling, his childish face had no expression, and the abyss colors of his eyes were all dark.

The frozen sound of the heavens and the earth is what the little boy is saying:

“As you know, I am the son of bad fortune, you are filthy things, you are ignorant things, you are despicable things...”

Gu Jun recognized that this little boy was himself.

Gu Jun, something in the banyan tree.