Son of the Stars

Chapter 38
A few years ago, when Lu Chen was rotating in the emergency room, he saw such a... case.

At three o'clock in the morning, the situation in the emergency room was gradually under control. Several patients with relatively stable conditions were transferred to the observation area, and the patients in the emergency room were basically stable.

Just before Lu Chen had time to sigh "I'm really free tonight", the door of the emergency room was knocked open.Four or five young men in leather cycling uniforms pushed a rescue bed and rushed into the room. When they saw Lu Chen, they shouted loudly, "Doctor, come quickly, he is seriously injured!"

The drowsy Lu Chen jumped up from the stool. He rushed to the emergency bed and lifted the quilt to take a look, and then just froze on the spot.

"Help someone!" These young people shouted for help in a panic, while Lu Chen stood by the window, not knowing what to say for a long time.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I forgot to take this." Amidst the awkward silence, a chubby rider ran in with an unpretentious red plastic bag. He ran up to Lu Chen, then turned towards Lu Chen. Opened the bag.

Lu Chen and the patient in the red plastic bag looked at each other.

"Well...you...you go to the side first." Lu Chen took the heavy red plastic bag and put it on top of the emergency bed, "I'll call the police first."

[The police are already on their way. ] Baozi's reminder flashed before Lu Chen's eyes, while the riders were still asking, "It's okay to call the police, but can you give him medical treatment first?"

"How can I cure it?" Lu Chen almost collapsed when asked, "If a person loses his head and puts it back on, he won't be able to live!"
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After hearing Mu Zhiran's analysis, Lu Chen's first reaction was his own experience.Following Mu Zhiran's analysis, one can see that there is little hope of treating quantum release syndrome through "communication collapse".

But this is a direction after all, what if... what if it works?
Lu Chen glanced at the silent Yang Weimin and Tang Qinglong, and instantly understood that these two probably had the same idea as him.

Patients with quantum release syndrome are basically in a state of confusion when they reach the onset stage.Treating patients at this stage, even if it is "deliberately causing them to suffer a major collapse", can be regarded as an act of "benefits outweighing risks".

After all, as Giuseppe Piano said, the current mortality rate of the Great Crash is about 2.1%. If the quality of life of the patients is not considered, the mortality rate can basically be reduced to 0.

But the death rate of quantum release syndrome is still too high, and the casualty rate of more than [-]% is unacceptable anyway.

"I still suggest giving it a try, although it seems that the probability of it working is almost zero." Lu Chen said proactively, "But this is the only treatment plan that is likely to succeed. Let Ms. Mizuki Rumiko try it, anyway it won't What greater loss is there?"

"I understand what you mean, and I can understand the value and reliability of this plan from a mathematical point of view." Director Li Xiaohui said, who has not spoken much, "However, as a psychiatrist, I have to be serious about this treatment plan." I object. Mental pain is not better than physical pain. No matter what the purpose is, it is impossible for me to accept and agree to let a healthy person actively suffer from complex mental disorder syndrome.”

Even so, Li Xiaohui became the director of the National Mental Health Center in her 20s. This kind of genius must have no shortage of brains. There must be.

Director Li Xiaohui doesn't intend to get involved, at least she doesn't want to provide support for this "experimental therapy".This has nothing to do with rationality, it is purely personal emotion.

After all, this "research team" composed of one academician, two full professors and two PhD candidates still has a lot of work to do.Director Li Xiaohui can't help with the training of researchers in the Americas region, but her job can still come in handy.

The original purpose of the research team was to confirm that "the big collapse is a new type of infectious disease based on the propagation of quantum entanglement and caused by abnormal magnetic declination angles of lithium atoms."For this hypothesis, three key questions need to be answered.

If it is an infectious disease, how should it be protected?If it is caused by the abnormal magnetic declination of lithium atoms, why is the documentary treatment method effective for it?

Director Li Xiaohui couldn't answer these two questions.She didn't even quite understand what the property of the "magnetic declination of lithium atoms" was.

But... Regarding the third question, Director Li Xiaohui felt that she might have some ideas for solving the problem.

Lu Chen once shared his opinion with her - what can cause so many strings to resonate must be an earth-shattering loud noise.And such a loud noise is most likely to come from the sky, not the ground.

Following this line of thought to search for information, Director Li Xiaohui found several possible sources of the "loud noise".

General celestial changes do not seem to be sufficient to cause such drastic changes.And those celestial phenomena that are supposed to have occurred in prehistoric times are also temporarily ruled out.Director Li Xiaohui is not an astronomer, let alone a rare "astronomy historian".But AI and the rich literature of humans play a role.

Currently, the X-class solar flare that occurred on February 1958, 2 is the most suspected.The sun was close enough to Earth that this sudden solar flare became one of the most powerful eruptions ever recorded by mankind.At that time, a large number of auroral outbreaks were recorded around the world, and red auroras were even observed at 11 degrees north latitude.

The second suspect is the GRB 2021A gamma-ray burst observed in 200826.This violent celestial activity can release in a few seconds more high-energy radiation than the total energy released by the sun in its entire lifetime.The gamma-ray burst observed in 2021 is more than ten times stronger than the gamma-ray bursts observed in the past.

The third and fourth suspects are all supernova explosions, especially the "Tianguan guest star" explosion that occurred in 1054. The bright supernova explosion can be observed even in the daytime, and eventually left behind a star called crab-like explosion. The nebula's massive explosion remnant.

嫌疑稍轻一些的超新星爆炸则是2006年观测到的SN2006gy。它的爆炸远比952年前的天关客星更大。在爆炸发生时，这个超新星的亮度相当于50亿个太阳所放出的光芒，甚至超出了整个银河系的亮度总和。爆炸瞬间释放出的能量相当于太阳在100亿年里能释放的总和。

When it exploded, it was [-] times brighter than the Tianguan guest star.

The reason why such a powerful supernova explosion is slightly less suspicious is because it is too far away from the earth.The supernova, located in the constellation Perseus, was about 800 million light-years away from Earth.The Tianguan guest star is much closer—about 6500 light-years away.

Investigating these four "suspects" is the current direction and focus of Director Li's work.Fortunately, there are only four suspects now.Unfortunately... none of the four suspects are easy to deal with.

The solar flare activity in 1958 is also known as the "big red aurora event", but it has nothing to do with the aurora that occurs frequently around the world today.According to observations, it is mainly cosmic storms, not solar flares, that cause frequent aurora activities on the earth today.

Moreover, after 1958, the incidence of various mental diseases did not show a significant increase.

The second most suspected gamma-ray burst, GRB200826A, is an unusual and powerful gamma-ray burst.The cause of this extreme astronomical phenomenon is quite special, short bursts are due to the merger of compact stars, while long bursts are due to the collapse of massive stars.

From the perspective of duration, GRB200826A should be a short burst with a signal duration of less than two seconds.However, after analyzing the spectrum and energy of GRB200826A, the researchers found that it perfectly fits the characteristics of a long burst.

After further analysis, astronomers put forward a point of view——GRB200826A is not an independent Gamma-ray burst event. Its energy properties and broad-spectrum type indicate that it should be the "precursor radiation" of a more powerful long Gamma-ray burst.

However, the "more powerful long Gamma-ray burst" that should appear in theory has never arrived.

Is the occurrence of the big crash related to this long Gamma-ray burst that "should come, but has never appeared"?

Director Li Xiaohui's current solution to the problem is very simple—towards the trend.As long as it matches the trend, then investigate further.

The big crash is a mental illness, and the incidence data of mental illness will be paid attention to and counted by modern disease control and public health.If this loud noise really came from the Nine Heavens, then after it sounded, it would definitely bring about some changes.

It was this significant difference that Li Xiaohui was looking for.

(End of this chapter)