Lin An slowed down and looked at the remaining traces of battle on the ground with emotion.
The ground cracked and the glass on the right side shattered to the ground.
Except for the zombies being summoned by Mo Ling, nothing seemed to have changed.
The hospital building in the early morning was dead silent and cool.
"Team Lin, have third-level mutants appeared here before?"
Behind him, Gao Tian looked around vigilantly, taking the compound bow behind him in his hand.
Lin An nodded, and the dark blue mist in his eyes flashed away.
"I'm not sure, but the monster's attack method is very similar to the third level, and its strength should also be considered the third level."
Before entering the hospital, he opened the Eye of Judgment to scan the surrounding area to make sure there were no other zombies or mutants.
It seems that the girl in red never came back after being scared away by the black dragon.
When he first encountered the mutant in red, his mental power was not enough to break through the mutant's mental barrier, so he only received the message of ???.
Therefore, Lin An could only determine that it was level three based on its attack methods.
Although in retrospect, the mental impact of the red-clothed mutant seems a bit weak.
Of course, maybe it was because I was just an ant in its eyes back then, and that mental shock was just a random blow.
"go in."
Lin An put aside his doubts and waved his hand to Gao Tian to follow him.
He planned to check the ward where the girl in red was, maybe he could get some useful information.
After all, for a third-order mutant, any clues left behind are extremely important.
Especially it is very likely that it is still in Linjiang City...
"Ding-deng-deng"
I went upstairs very quickly, and the dim hospital corridor looked like a scene from a horror movie.
Ward No. 317.
Relying on his memory, Lin An quickly found the ward that he had kicked open.
With lingering fear in his heart, he still remembered that after he violently broke through the door, he saw the girl in red floating in the air.
Step inside the door.
The room was full of dust, and there was a faint rotten smell mixed with the smell of mold.
The ward is a two-person room. There is a toilet on the left side of the entrance and two blue beds in the center of the room.
Near the window, next to the hospital bed where the girl in red is, there is a simple folding bed, which looks like a place for family members to sleep.
Unlike the first time when he ran away in terror, this time Lin An carefully observed the room, trying to find some useful information.
The hospitalization card above the head of the hospital bed: Xuan Ziyi - female - 14 years old, brain glioma, frontotemporal lobe pathological lesions, severe neurodegeneration, suspected to be in the middle stage of Alzheimer's disease.
In the bedside glove cabinet, there are four brain CT films in the white plastic bag containing the CT, plus a contract, a color photo and an application for leave of absence.
Lin An silently took out the thin CT film from the bag and looked at it casually.
On the black-and-white X-ray scan, black spots representing lesions are distributed on the brain layer, like dense star points.
"Captain Lin, is this!?"
Gao Tian came to the side and curiously looked at the X-ray film in Lin An's hand, subconsciously pointing to the large black dots distributed on the white brain layer.
Lin An pondered for a moment and then slowly spoke:
"Glioma, a very common malignant brain tumor."
"Level 1 and 2 are fine. There may be a chance of recovery after the tumor is removed."
"But the level of malignancy in this film has reached Level 4."
"Level 4 is already a high-risk level, and there is basically no possibility of survival."
Gao Tian was stunned when he heard the sound. He had heard Lin An say that this was the ward where the red-clothed mutant was "living".
So, was that child already dying?
"Wow-"
The thin slices swayed.
Lin An frowned after putting down the X-ray film in his hand.
Do you get a brain tumor at the age of 14? It stands to reason that this disease is more common in middle-aged and elderly people.
How could a child get this disease?
He is familiar with this disease simply because An Jingtian's father died of this disease.
Moreover, is level 4, the most dangerous degree of deterioration, too high?
He looked at the film carefully and found that most of the black spots were located in the brainstem and nerve control areas.
If a disease like this has early-stage lesions in these areas, it will basically affect normal life, causing vomiting, cognitive dissonance, and even paralysis.
Lin An noticed the length of hospitalization.
A little girl named Xuan Ziyi was hospitalized only seven days before the apocalypse broke out.
Is it because the parents don't care enough and haven't noticed the abnormality for a long time?
Or is the disease changing at an unimaginable speed, jumping directly from low risk to high risk?
Of the two guesses, Lin An is more inclined to the second one.
There is a folding bed next to the hospital bed, which means that family members are always here to accompany you.
A variant of third-level mental power attributes, a brain tumor...
Not yet sure of his thoughts, Lin An continued to open the contract and withdrawal application printed on A4 paper.
The [House Sales Contract] and the application for withdrawal from school were both dated the day before the apocalypse broke out. Party A on the contract only had a woman’s signature.
The house is not expensive to sell, it should be an old house.
The information in the house sales contract verified his guess.
A family that is willing to sell their house for treatment cannot possibly not care enough about their children.
As for the school where I applied to drop out, it was Linjiang No. 1 Middle School.
The color photo was included with the withdrawal application. In the photo, a girl in a red dress is holding a baby and smiling sweetly. Behind her stands a young woman who looks like her mother.
In the lower right corner of the photo is a line of yellow print: Linjiang Park Polaroid.
There are only two people in the photo, mother and daughter, combined with a single signature on the house purchase contract.
Lin An quickly came to a conclusion.
This is a single parent family.
He had also taken An Xia and An Jingtian to the park before, where there were many vendors taking photos.
It’s 10 yuan a time. The Polaroid in the lower right corner of the photo proves this point.
With the husband here, there is no need to waste money looking for vendors, and the sale of a house generally requires both husband and wife to sign.
Slowly exhaling, Lin An's eyes moved slightly, piecing together the life of the red-clothed mutant.
Xuan Ziyi, 14 years old, has good grades, studies at Linjiang Middle School, and lives in a single-parent family.
The family conditions were not very good, and her mother took care of her alone. After she became ill, she had to sell the house and move to the hospital to stay with her.
Brain tumors, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's.
All three diseases are related to brain tissue, and they are all common diseases in middle-aged and elderly people.
Brain tumors can cause fainting, death, and paralysis.
Neurodegeneration can cause cognitive dissonance and mental confusion.
Alzheimer's disease can damage memory and forget everything you know.
This means that before the little girl transforms into a mutant, she is likely to have become incontinent, paralyzed, and has memory loss.
Did the combination of the three cause Xuan Ziyi to mutate into a red third-level mutant when the apocalypse broke out?
Somewhat incredible.
Just as the player's level gradually increases, so do the monsters' levels.
Except for a few mutants with unknown causes, most mutants advance by devouring humans or absorbing contaminated spiritual energy.
Like the Stitcher, this second-level mutant in the previous life was promoted to the third level after eating everyone in the mall.
Of course, it now seems that it is not enough for a Stitcher to become a level three by eating everyone in the shopping mall. There is a high probability that he has eaten nearby survivors in his previous life.
Therefore, it was really difficult for Lin An to understand that a little girl named Xuan Ziyi could become a third-level person at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Under normal circumstances, it will take at least a few more months for the existence of the third level to appear.
Lin An carefully put the found information into the ring and thought to himself.
Gao Tian on the side was rummaging through the boxes curiously, trying to find more leftover items.
Most forces in previous lives have speculated on the cause of the mutants, but they have never been able to come to an accurate conclusion.
The only thing people can be sure of is that the characteristics of mutants are often related to varying degrees to the host's state, obsession, and occupation during life.
Like the most typical second-order mutant [Double-Knife Butcher], this mutant was the butcher who was infected with the virus during his lifetime and then became a mutant under unknown conditions.
They usually retain a penchant for carving flesh.
Like the most common lickers, such mutants often liked ball games or had excellent physical fitness during their lifetime.
If so deduced...
A flash of understanding suddenly flashed in Lin An's eyes.
It can be inferred that the third-level red variant may also inherit some of Xuan Ziyi's characteristics during her lifetime.
Just like the red-clothed mutant will be scared off by the black dragon, this is a lack of judgment to some extent.
If the monster has other weaknesses, it is most likely that it is prone to amnesia, paralysis, and difficulty in moving.
Combined with the scene when he saw the red mutant for the first time, Lin An became more and more sure of his judgment.
Floating in the air, barely standing on the ground.
Suddenly, it dawned on him.
Damn it!
The girl in red is not a psychic mutant at all!
Lin An remembered that when the girl in red took off the necklace, she used her mental control to throw it out.
It never moved from the beginning to the end, and it moved entirely by mental power.
In this way, this also explains why its mental shock damage is so low...
The red-clothed mutant is only forced to use his mental power to drag his body forward, instead of flying in the air as is customary for mental power mutants!
However, if it is not a mental mutant, how could it master this technique!?
Just like if you don't have a telepathy crystal, you can convert your mental power into telepathy.
With his current mental strength, he simply cannot control objects in the void.
Before Lin An could continue to delve deeper, Gao Tian suddenly found a pair of glasses from the toilet, with a strange expression on his face:
"Captain Lin, I found a pair of gold-rimmed glasses at the bottom of the sink, and there was a birthday card in the trash can."
"The greeting card is for a little girl whose birthday falls on the day of the apocalypse..."
Lin An turned around and saw that the frame in Gao Tian's hand looked unusually familiar.
The heartbeat stopped.
He recognized it, and it turned out to be the glasses Chu An was wearing.
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