When Gu Jun was taken out of the surgical building, it was exactly midnight, the night sky was as dark as ink, and the sounds of birds and beasts coming from the surrounding mountains were quite eerie.
He has already gotten acquainted with the three investigators. In addition to Captain Wang Ke, the other man is Cao Yicong, who is younger and in his early thirties; the woman is Tang Ziya, who is younger and looks to be a few years older than him.
, who has short hair and is very cheerful, she went to the vending machine first and bought a few loaves of bread and a few bottles of mineral water.
The three of them took him into a police car, which was the most ordinary-looking police car with the labels "Public Security" and "Police" on it. There was no sign of the Bureau of Secrets.
Medical staff entering and exiting the surgical building couldn't help but wonder when they saw this scene, but the police car drove away immediately.
After leaving the medical department, the police car did not drive towards Dongzhou city, but towards the mountainous area in the northeast.
"Captain Wang, can I ask what's going on?" Gu Jun was sitting in the back seat, next to Wang Ke, Cao Yicong was driving, and Tang Ziya was in the passenger seat.
"There is still a long way to go." Wang Ke took the bread and a bottle of mineral water that Tang Ziying just bought and handed them to Gu Jun, "Doctor Gu, please eat something first and then rest."
Gu Jun was not familiar with Captain Wang Ke's temperament, but he seemed to be a man with a cold face and a warm heart. And judging from his attitude, he didn't seem to be a very evil person among them... Don't think about it now, just do it.
After a day of surgery, I was really tired.
He ate a few pieces of bread, drank some water, and took a nap next to the car seat with his eyes closed. No matter what, it was right to build up enough strength.
But although he was very tired, he couldn't fall asleep. The bumps in the car were getting bigger and bigger, and he was traveling on rugged and winding mountain roads. In order to know where he was going, he opened his eyes and looked outside the car window from time to time. The car was driving into a deserted place.
In the mountains, this is definitely not the investigation department.
Captain Wang Ke didn't stop him and wasn't afraid to let him look at it.
The mountains are steep, the reflections of the hazy trees are like ghosts, the hissing sounds of various insects are constantly ringing, and the dark night gives everything a gloomy atmosphere.
From time to time, there are sudden cries that cut through the night sky. I don’t know if they are the cries of some kind of nocturnal crows or the cryptic words of some unknown existence.
The car drove for nearly an hour, and gradually became less bumpy and arrived at a flat area. Gu Jun also saw dim lights in front of him, which was a village. After driving for a while, he arrived at his destination.
"Dr. Gu, this is the place where post-surgery patients with metastatic disease are currently temporarily housed. All patients who have left the medical department are placed in isolation here."
In this remote mountain, there is a resettlement place with an isolation net. The patrol soldiers and checkpoint guards are all operational personnel with live ammunition.
The police car was inspected along the way and passed several checkpoints before it was able to drive into the isolation gate. Gu Jun kept looking outside the car window. The high-pole spotlights illuminated it brightly. There were some military green prefabricated barracks around, and more
It is a blue and white simple prefabricated house.
Gu Jun listened to Captain Wang Ke's words and asked, "Can I know how many patients there are here?"
"Several thousand." Wang Ke didn't elaborate on the number. He looked at the wooden houses outside the car, his resolute face with Chinese characters a little sad, "They are all patients treated in Dongzhou area. They are all local clusters in one village.
, and all these villages have big banyan trees, without exception."
Gu Jun pondered, considering the way the strange banyan disease spreads, the villagers need to have been in contact with the source of the disease, the banyan tree, but this doesn't make sense...
Even if there is a big banyan tree in the village, it is impossible for every villager to touch it within a few days unless something happens.
"Dr. Gu, have you thought of something suspicious?" Wang Ke said with a serious face, "Our abnormal power investigation team never believes in coincidences."
"Well..." Gu Jun nodded silently.
After they got off the car, Gu Jun was taken into a prefabricated barracks. There were more than a dozen people in the barracks busy here and there, some looking at computers, some looking at documents, and some discussing something. Seeing them
When they came in, everyone paused and called "Team King" one after another. They should all be colleagues from the Investigation Department of this small team.
It's already past one o'clock in the morning, and they are racing against time. Has the situation changed?
"Doctor Gu, we need to show you some surveillance videos first." Wang Ke asked Gu Jun to sit down on a chair, facing a TV screen.
Before Gu Jun could sit firmly, four or five people had already gathered around him, looking at him unabashedly and with a rather wary look.
"Let's play the video." Wang Ke said, and Tang Ziying started to operate, and the TV screen immediately lit up with images:
The corridor on the sixth floor of the surgical building of the Department of Medicine was crowded with patients with metastatic disease lying on ambulance beds. The medical staff were busy walking around. At this time, Zhou Jiaqiang was walking by with a group of interns, and suddenly a patient yelled at them crazily.
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Gu Jun was not surprised. This was his psychological preparation, because he had long discovered that there were surveillance cameras installed in the corridors of the surgical building.
There were three patients with strange banyan disease going crazy towards him. If this didn't attract their attention, the investigation department would be a bunch of losers.
Sure enough, after playing the corridor video, Tang Ziya played the operating room video again, and this video had sound, which was the excited and shrill cry of Patient No. 25: "You... things in the banyan tree! No, don't..."
The sound made the air in the entire barracks freeze.
When the video played here, the picture on the TV screen froze, and everyone in the investigation team looked at Gu Jun with more than a dozen pairs of eyes.
"Dr. Gu, 'things in the banyan tree' is something that some patients with banyan disease see when they are in a state of delirium. These patients are located all over the country. The only thing they have in common is that they all have relatively high spiritual intelligence. But after the operation, none of them
Remember what you saw when you were in delirium."
Wang Ke told some of the investigation situation, "We suspect that this is related to abnormal power. We have cooperated with the psychology team of your medical department and made some attempts, such as hypnotizing patients to search for delirium memories, but we were unable to find any valuable clues.
Their memories before and after the illness are completely gone."
This was the first time Gu Jun learned this information. He frowned slightly. Even his implicit memory was gone...
"A few days ago, the Medical Department provided us with new clues. The psychology team believes that you are the 'thing in the banyan tree' mentioned by those patients with high spiritual intelligence, and you are their stressor. It is precisely because of this that they have psychological problems.
The collapse accelerated the development of their illness. Because this matter is very suspicious, combined with your abnormal memory, you may also have unusual early childhood activities..."
When Wang Ke said this, although everyone's expressions did not change, it was this lack of change that gave people a heavy feeling.
Unusual early childhood activities? Gu Jun thought, what are they suspecting?
"So," Wang Ke paused and then said, "we did a little test and played the video."
Gu Jun suddenly understood that this test should prove that he could not live without relationships...
It's just that he still had some luck in his heart that he didn't want to give up: after those three patients, I didn't stress anyone anymore. It's impossible that so many patients just happen to have low spiritual intelligence. Maybe there are other reasons?
At the same time, new images were broadcast on the TV screen.
In a small, blank room, a patient with a right leg prosthesis sat on the only chair and looked nervously in the direction of the camera.