Son of the Stars

Chapter 80 The Truth
"The situation is not right, call for support." In the town of Rotsville, 12 kilometers away from the North American Institute, Director Li Xiaohui, who hadn't slept for two days, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

She leaned against the wall pasted with white tiles, her body slowly slid down under the gravity of the earth, and her sweat-soaked coat rubbed against the white tiles making a teeth-stinging sound.

She looked like a dying fish that had just been pulled out of a sea of ​​sweat.

As a former logging camp and now a special economic town serving the North American Research Institute, Rotsville has a small population.Except for a small number of residents engaged in forestry and hunting, most of the residents in Rotsville have only gradually moved here in the last five to ten years.

These people were strangers to each other and had nothing to do with each other.However, with the strong support and encouragement of the coalition government and the academic committee, they chose to leave their homes and come to Rotsville to engage in the service industry.The purpose is nothing more than wanting to earn a better life for yourself and your family.

According to the model analysis of the coalition government and the National Mental Health Commission, a group of people of this nature should be the group with the lowest natural incidence rate of the Great Crash—they have no deeper connection between them, and they are gathered together for a more positive goal... …

But today, the town of Rotsville has an unacceptably high incidence of mass meltdowns.

The total number of residents in the town is 360. According to the statistics of the medical team alone, there are 870 cases of collapse.

Within a week, 25% of the town's residents fell ill.One in four shouted "the world is empty and meaningless" and tried to kill himself in every possible way.

In the eyes of Director Li Xiaohui, Rotsville is no longer a small town—it is hell, and it is hell for herself and all professionals who have received a sound psychiatric education system.

This big meltdown in the small town of Rotsville has completely overturned all the knowledge they have learned and experienced in the past few decades.Some doctors in the medical team even suggested that this might not be a big crash, but some kind of serious mental illness similar to a big crash—otherwise it would be impossible to explain its various strange phenomena.

First of all, among this group of patients with "class collapse", the proportion of stubborn type is unbelievably high.According to past experience, the proportion of refractory patients with major collapse is at most about 5%.But in the town of Rotsville, the recalcitrant rate has soared to 22 percent.

In the past few decades, historical documentaries that can almost be called "running the world" failed.After repeatedly replacing many documentaries, the medical team accepted the status quo that the most effective weapon suddenly failed with frustration and anger.

In order to treat these stubborn crash patients who did not respond well to conventional therapy, the medical team had to tie them to the hospital bed one by one.

Obviously, it's impossible for any medical team to think before they go, "Aha, I'm going to pack the restraints I need to restrain at least three people in 410."

With basic logical thinking skills, it is impossible to come up with such an idea.

As a result, there is a shortage of [-] sets of restraint equipment, and the medical team has no choice but to tear the sheets—cut a sheet into long strips, and twist several sheets together to tie people up.

Director Li Xiaohui, who was struggling with the task of collecting bed sheets in the town, almost pouted. She leaned against the wall and poured half a bottle of normal saline into her stomach in the posture of a male college student drinking beer after a broken relationship.

Then start calling.

The other doctors left the locker room one after another, went to change clothes and went back to the dormitory to sleep.Only Director Li Xiaohui sat in the corner and remained silent.

Doctors in other medical teams didn't know about it, but Director Li Xiaohui knew it clearly—although the onset of the big crash started before the magnetic accelerator was activated, the sudden and rapid increase in the number of patients did happen when Lu Chen pressed the button. after the magnetic accelerator.

Although there is no evidence to prove it, Li Xiaohui's intuition tells Li Xiaohui that the big collapse in the small town of Rotsville is special, and it is inseparable from Lu Chenmu's discovery.

And this inference made Li Xiaohui a little embarrassed.As a member of the research team, she certainly knew that Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran's research on the pathogenesis of the Great Crash was purely accidental, and she also understood the significance of studying the pathogenesis of the Great Crash to completely cure the Great Crash.But she is also the chief physician of the National Mental Health Center.It is also her duty to detect, investigate, count and report on the occurrence and trend of major crashes.

Then do you want to report the close connection between Lu Chen and the outbreak of the big crash to the center?
Li Xiaohui, who was leaning against the corner, was a little hesitant.
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In the North American Institute of Surgery, half of the building collapsed, a special operation has been carried out to the final stage.

Obviously, this brain is different from Watanabe - its spirit is more unstable, and it has a very deep hostility towards Lu Chen and others.

It calls itself "NO.14," but refuses to explain why its name is a two-digit number.At the same time, it was unwilling to answer why it appeared within the scope of the research center, let alone why it was attacked by microwave radiation.

The most common words this brain uttered from beginning to end were "liar" and "fuck off."In fact, from the end of the operation to the present, including his own name, it has only spoken three words in total.

Based on the location where it was found and the condition of its body, it is not difficult to judge that this brain once belonged to an intruder.It may have been abandoned by its peers, or simply experienced infighting.

Anyway, this kind of non-cooperative attitude obviously cannot satisfy Lu Chen, and Yang Weimin's way is a bit more wild - this is just a brain, a person's mouth is not easy to pry, and it is simply impossible to make a brain give in. Don't be too simple.

Electrical shocks stimulate specific areas of the brain, which can stimulate hallucinations and visual hallucinations.Shocking some areas can relieve pain, and other areas can naturally cause severe pain from the shock.It is even possible to directly add a little LSD to the circulating artificial plasma, which can limit the activity of the high-level personality of the brain, and thus subconsciously answer all questions.

But this kind of wild way can only be used to threaten the other party at best.It's one thing to say it, but another thing to do it - as clinicians, Yang Weimin and Lu Chen really can't do this kind of behavior of "using medical means to intentionally hurt others".

It's like no one wants to pick up a cockroach and put it on the back of their head.From the perspective of realization, there is almost no difficulty, but normal people just can't pass this level in their own hearts.

"Well, it's your freedom not to cooperate." Lu Chen didn't want to continue entangled with this brain.He said angrily, "Cut off your ability to hear and speak—you just keep floating like this!"

NO.14 was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "Can't you guys kill me?"

"That's too difficult." Seeing that things seemed to be turning around, Yang Weimin said immediately, "We are doctors, and it is our duty to save lives—don't worry, even if you cut off all your senses, we will actively monitor Guarantee your survival. With our current technology, at least you can live for decades."

NO.14 tried to bargain, "I can cooperate with you, but you must promise to kill me after you get the information you want to know."

"Yes." Lu Chen happily "agreed" to the other party's request, "First answer the first question—why are you called NO.14?"

This kind of name-related information is generally not very sensitive, and it is very suitable for opening topics.

"My level of truth ranks at the bottom." NO.14 answered Lu Shen's question with a very unfamiliar word, "My level of truth ranks 28th, so I am called NO.14."

These words sounded a little convoluted at first, but upon thinking about it carefully, they were still a little convoluted.Lu Chen frowned and calculated, then asked, "Then the one with the highest level of truth...is number 42?"

"Yes. Doctor No. 42—he is the person closest to the truth among us." NO.14 replied, "Every element of his body has been screened, and he is beyond the Primarch. Perfect human."

It sounds like a religious extremist.Lu Chen and Yang Weimin looked at each other, and then continued to ask, "Why were you burned like this?"

"In order to let the microwaves irradiate at the best frequency." NO.14 replied, "Simple microwave irradiation cannot cause divine punishment, but after passing through the human body, it can make people who meet the characteristics receive divine punishment."

This divine punishment probably refers to quantum release syndrome.Lu Chen asked, "What characteristics does it fit?"

"The same characteristics as the human body, mainly the ratio." NO.14 replied a little impatiently, "The original body said it was the ratio of water. But Doctor No. 42 said that the decisive difference should be the ratio of hydrogen."

Yang Weimin, who had been silent all this time, frowned and asked, "Who is the Primarch you are talking about?"

"I heard from Doctor No. 42." NO.14 said in a voice with an obvious synthetic tone, "His name is Wenger Cheklavsky."

(End of this chapter)