Plague Doctor

“Dr. Shen, I want to ask you a question. ”

In the Desert North Desert, in the ESP lab, which was not yet busy, Gu Jun was banging on the side of Dr. Shen. This morning, Grandpa Tong went to pick up the examination team, so he wasn't there, and he finally found an opportunity to set up Dr. Shen's words.

Excuse me. ”Dr. Shen is still so nice.

“I know the ESP community has been studying sober dreams.” Gu Jun asked, "Wu Shiyu next door is also listening,“ I want to ask if there are any experiments and training related to dreams, so that our mental and supersensory abilities can be improved? ”

Dr. Shen pushed the glasses on his nose and replied seriously: “Awakening dreams is a big area. But I didn't arrange this kind of program for you, because after your mental training, you need to really sleep and let the cerebral cortex rest. Otherwise, it is harmful. If our research continues, we will gradually try to clear your dreams. ”

“Well..." Gu Jun wondered how to ask. Every time he thought of the Wall News this month, he always had a strange feeling of uneasiness.

“Hear the sound of your dreams with all your heart," the phrase stuck to his throat like a fish prick.

Wu Shiyu looked at him and grinned helplessly. Really, she asked directly: "Dr. Shen, is it possible to receive any information from the dream? Not necessarily human, like the signal of the universe? ”

Gu Jun glanced at her and said to her in silence, "You owe her a beating, can you hear me? Can you hear me?

It is clear that Wu Shiyu did not hear it and presumably did not hear it.

“Shirai, Arjun.” Dr. Shen smiled and sighed, "I understand you're trying to do everything you can to improve your mental strength and clarify ESP, but... Existing medicine has very limited knowledge of the human brain, and psychiatry and neurology are weaknesses. Let's not talk about dreams, hypersensitivity, we don't even know the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's. ”

Although the work is now being studied, Gu Jun is also studying medicine, and he can't help but nod.

Alzheimer's disease is commonly known as Alzheimer's disease, a neurological degenerative disease, the most common type of dementia in old age. But since the first cases were reported in the early 20th century, the global medical community has been studying the disease for centuries, and countless major pharmaceutical companies and laboratories have done so.

The pathogenesis is still uncertain, from hereditary, parasitic, prion virus, abnormal metabolism… beta-amyloid waterfall hypothesis, tau protein theory… low educational level, high blood pressure, hyperglycemia… any direction has been tested, it is unclear the etiology.

As soon as Gu Jun thought about it, he got a little chilly, because it was actually a terrible thing.

Is Alzheimer's contagious? This is still an unknown number, and there are research hypotheses in this area, and there are certain possibilities.

Even if it does, Alzheimer's does not have an outbreak of contagion, for the time being...

Otherwise, it could be a cough haemorrhage for humans on Earth.

“So Grandpa Tong and I crossed the river with stones.” Dr. Shen added, encouraging the two of them: "Don't be impatient, but be quick, with your current mental strength, it should be enough for this assessment. ”

“No, Dr. Shen, you have no idea.” Wu Shiyu said softly.

Gu Jun shrugged her shoulders. Don't ask. It looks like Dr. Shen doesn't know either.

This morning, the two did not train, but spent time in quiet meditation, and Dr. Shen allowed them to cultivate.

By around 4: 00 p.m., the assessment team arrived at the base.

Dr. Shen took the three members of the problem team and a group of experimenters to the front door of the medical building to greet Grandpa and the other party.

When Gu Jun saw a group of people walking wide, he noticed the group of more than thirty people wearing the same uniform.

That was their opponent this time, the "team of inspectors”.

According to Dr. Shen's previous introduction and internal information from NASA, this is an old-fashioned mobile contingent belonging to Headquarters, with about 30 regular members, all based on highly knowledgeable and psychiatric personnel, mainly drawn from the Medical Department and the Evaluation Department.

Because the team of inspectors is positioned to provide technical support in psychology, S-value testing, psychoanalysis, etc. When there are large tasks that require the simultaneous deployment of several mobile contingents, hundreds and thousands of Department of Operations colleagues, the team of inspectors joins as a support team.

But this time, in the words of Grandpa Tong, these inspectors are here to kick the field.

Gu Jun looked at them a few times. More than 30 people, male and female, were over 30 years old. The uniform unique to the team was very bright and handsome. - To enhance cohesion, some mobile contingents may have their own uniforms, but not the problem teams.

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

Grandpa Tong and several leaders of the appraisal team stood there pointing to what was being planned and talked about, but from the people accompanying him, Gu Jun saw two old acquaintances.

One was Professor Qin and the other was the former general commander of Gubanyan Village Emergency Response Team Yao Shinian, whom he met before entering Banyan Tree Cave.

“Professor Qin, Commander Yao.” Gu Jun walked up and greeted the two acquaintances.

“Joon, I haven't had a chance to talk to you since my last assignment.” Yao Shi's hair greyed out at the end of the year and his slightly pale old face was much older than Commander Yao in Gu Jun's memory. “You just completed the task and sent you here for special training. It was hard work. ”

“Nothing.” How dare Gu Jun say hard in front of these two old men.

He had already seen that Professor Qin was also much older, and his eyebrows were a little wrinkled, none of which had been handed off a month earlier.

“Professor Qin, is everything all right in Eastern State?” He had a sinking heart and a bad feeling.

“Not so good.” Professor Qin sighed for a long time, full of fatigue, "Arjun, the number of suicides and deaths in Dongzhou jumped five-fold in the last week, and the psychiatry and neurology departments of the hospital were crowded with patients to see. A new form of neurological degenerative disease has emerged, and no effective treatment has been found, and the pathogenesis is unclear, and seems to be related to a nightmare that can be transmitted. ”

Gu Jun was all cold, his eyes slightly opened, and Alzheimer's disease, which he feared only in the morning, appeared in his mind...

An infectious nightmare? What kind of pathogenesis is this?

Somehow, he remembered the words in the wall newspaper, "Hear the sounds of dreams with all your heart”.