Pollution throughout the territory - #320 - Chapter 316 Parietal lobe damage

There were several sturdy security guards in black uniforms standing at the door of the hospital building. Xia Ren noticed that their belts had patterns of old seals printed on them.

The deputy director explained: “This is set up to prevent patients from escaping, because some patients are mentally unstable and have escaped before, so we are extra careful.”

After hearing what he said, Xia Ren discovered that there were protective nets outside the windows on every floor of the inpatient building, and from the looks of it, it was obvious that they had been installed recently.

“Someone jumped off the building?”

he asks.

The vice president nodded and did not hide the situation: “After the centralized treatment, six patients committed suicide by jumping off the building.”

“How many patients do you have now?”

“Forty-five cases.”

“That’s all?”

Xia Ren was a little surprised. He remembered that in the conference room just now, the other party said that a total of 1,200 cases had been detected, and weren’t they centralized?

“It should be said that there are only so many left.”

The vice president sighed and explained: “The symptoms of patients who can basically come to the hospital for treatment are already very serious. In addition, there is currently no treatment for atypical insect phobia, so as long as it is confirmed, it is equivalent to a death sentence for the patient. , it’s just a matter of time.”

The group of people walked to the gate. Several security guards saw them and did not stop them.

Because of the old seal pattern, Xia Ren felt a little nauseous when passing by the security guard and couldn’t help but frown slightly. Qin Yun, Lily and Lu Yi also had similar reactions. The old seals all have certain restraint against pollution. , none of them are immune.

But what surprised Xia Ren was that Niu Changshou also showed obvious discomfort, but he clearly did not feel any pollution on his body.

But after thinking about it carefully, Xia Ren could probably find a reason to explain this phenomenon.

According to Niu Changshou himself, he only has one brain, and the rest of his body is a mechanical structure. This technology is obviously beyond the scope of human research. Liu Xiuxiu also mentioned that pollution is not actually a virus. Something, but a kind of knowledge, knowledge that humans cannot understand.

The research direction of the World Superman Association is to explain and analyze pollution and find ways for humans to coexist with pollution. Therefore, the mechanical structure of the longevity body of cattle is probably built using the knowledge of pollution. This part of knowledge can be understood by humans and is the most marginal. The most diluted pollution, that’s why I didn’t feel anything unusual in him.

Thinking of this, Xia Ren couldn’t help but be in awe of the World Superman Association. He knew the horror of pollution. It was definitely not something that ordinary people could fight and understand. Just like in the Crazy Mountains, ordinary people had just a little contact with it. He may lose all reason and be twisted into a hideous and terrifying monster.

The birth of this kind of research results must have come at a heavy price. I don’t know how many related researchers were polluted and corroded by this.

Compared with Foundation investigators who are willing to spend their lives to eliminate pollution, the World Association of Superhumans is also spending their lives studying pollution.

Because the vice president led the way, they arrived at the third floor of the inpatient department without any obstruction.

There is nothing the same on the lower two floors, everything seems normal, but when you reach the third floor, you can immediately notice the obvious difference.

The stairwell here is not an ordinary door, but an electric iron door. The elevator has obviously been modified. You need to enter a password or identification to ride, otherwise it will never be opened.

And cameras can be seen everywhere in every corridor or corner here.

“This is a lens that has been specially processed by Mingshui, so traces of pollutants can also be found to a certain extent, and it is not just for monitoring patients.”

As the deputy dean explained, he took out an ID card from his pocket and stuck it on the elevator code lock.

“Dip, recognition successful, welcome.”

As the mechanical female voice sounded, the elevator door opened.

The third floor is a buffer area, and the fourth floor is where patients are actually admitted.

When you get out of the elevator, the first thing you see is the security personnel wearing black uniforms. They are the same as those downstairs, and their belts have the same old stamp pattern printed on them.

The vice president led Niu Changshou and the others through the middle, and then stood in front of the door of a ward.

“This is the patient who was discovered three days ago.”

He opened the door and everyone walked in.

Because of the special nature of atypical entomophobia, all patients are isolated from each other, so there is usually only one patient in a ward.

The patient in this ward looks young, a teenager, who is sleeping soundly in bed, but his face is a little pale.

“The patient was sixteen years old and still a student. He went to the neurology department because of the symptom of being unable to recognize words. The patient’s sensory function was not damaged at all and his speech logic was relatively clear, but he could not read or write even the most basic words. According to the parents’ description, the patient suddenly developed this symptom during class.

After neurological examination, it was found that a small part of the parietal lobe of the patient’s brain was missing.

The parietal lobe has two functional divisions, one is the cortical sensory area, the other is the motor center, and the other is the visual language center, also called the reading center.

The doctor at the time initially diagnosed him with agnosia and required hospitalization. However, on the night of hospitalization for observation, the patient suffered from general convulsions and loss of consciousness. The attack lasted for ten minutes, and the symptoms resolved spontaneously.

Because parietal lobe lesions may also spread to the motor area of ​​the precentral gyrus, causing partial motor seizures, which may also extend to general convulsions and loss of consciousness, doctors at the time did not notice anything unusual, and later attributed partial loss of the brain to unknown factors. After the cases were uploaded to the system, our personnel noticed and confirmed that their symptoms were consistent with the scope of atypical entomophobia, and took centralized treatment measures. “

“Because his brain loss affects many functional areas, he will have paroxysmal epilepsy even during the day, so we used carbamazepine to temporarily relieve the symptoms, but the situation is not optimistic. As time goes by, he The brain damage is irreversibly worsening at an extremely rapid rate. Yesterday, symptoms of bilateral apraxia appeared. All arms and legs have lost the ability to move, and are close to paralysis, and will develop further…”

The vice-dean did not continue, but everyone could guess.

“He is still so young…”

Qin Yun couldn’t bear it.

Lily felt nothing. She looked around the ward with curious eyes, seemingly looking for something interesting.

Lu Yi is even simpler. When Xia Ren doesn’t talk to her, she always behaves like a sales robot with no emotions.

Niu Changshou walked over and looked at the patient, then showed the watch on his wrist.

The dial pointer slowly rotated half a circle and finally locked in the direction of the patient, confirming the presence of contamination.

Xia Ren felt the pollution when he first approached the inpatient department, but when he looked at Niu Changshou’s watch, he always felt it was very familiar.

“Is your watch the same as the one worn by Foundation investigators?”

he asked.

Niu Changshou looked up at him and said, “Of course, because this is what we produce, and it is also provided to the investigators of the Foundation. Don’t you know?”

“…”

I really don’t know this Xia Ren.

Since the relationship between the World Superman Association and the Salvation Foundation is so close, why has no one mentioned it to him before?