Chapter 71 The Lost Past
It was very quiet in the barracks. Gu Jun looked at the TV screen and felt that the patient in the image was also looking at him.
"This is a simple identification procedure." Captain Wang Ke explained, "The identifiers are all 1,024 patients in the camp who have experienced delirium."
Is it an identification procedure? Gu Jun knows that this is a criminal investigation method, which usually involves victims and witnesses identifying criminal suspects...
"We mixed together thirty photos of people with different body shapes, facial features, and hairstyles. The psychological team determined that there were no hints of characteristics. Before identification, we did not make any hints to any patient.
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Wang Ke added, "The identification process is to use a computer to play the thirty photos to the identify person in a random order. No identification will be made first. After the second random playback, the identify person will be asked if there is anyone who looks like you."
Did you see it when you were in a delirium state? If you were asked to choose a photo, which one would it be?"
At this time, in the screen image, the patient's eyes suddenly opened slightly and he raised his hand and pointed, "That's this person. I've seen this person before."
The image then switched positions, and Gu Jun saw a computer in front of the patient. The photo stopped on the computer screen was an ID photo of an intern from the Tianji Bureau. It was him, Gu Jun.
"..." Gu Jun took a deep breath silently, but he couldn't relax his heart. He didn't know this patient and had never seen him before.
Without waiting for him to think about it, the image changed to the next patient, and then the next... But the photos that stopped were all the same, Gu Jun.
The investigation team members standing around were looking at him with cold, sharp, and questioning eyes, as if they were asking him for an explanation.
This may be their psychological offensive to put pressure on him and ask him to confess and be lenient.
"Dr. Gu, among the 1,024 people who identified, 751 of them identified you." Captain Wang Ke may have been the one with a red face, but his tone was still very calm and objective: "The remaining 206 did not make a choice, and 67 chose someone else.
.And among the 751 people who identified you, more than half, 397, said they remembered seeing you in delirium hallucinations, but could not remember the specific things."
Cao Yicong, Tang Ziying and others were almost staring at Gu Jun.
They didn't know Gu Jun personally, and after getting along with him for a while, they found him quite pleasing to the eye.
However, the consistency is 73%. This number is very high even in ordinary criminal identification, which may only have a few witnesses and a dozen photos.
But now there are 1,024 people identifying each other and thirty photos, and 73% of them unanimously selected the same person.
Gu Jun is not a public figure, nor has he been exposed in any news. He has not even uploaded his own photos to the Internet.
The investigation team has already investigated these situations clearly, so why is this happening? It can only be because of abnormal power.
"Dr. Gu, we suspect..." Wang Ke's broad Chinese character face was only serious at the moment, "You are the 'thing in the banyan tree' that patients with the strange banyan disease say."
"Team King, everyone." Gu Jun said softly, the luck in his heart was completely extinguished by the cold water, and the bone-breaking cold caused a complete confusion, "I don't know what is going on, I hope you can give me a
the truth……"
He looked at this and that, only to find that except Captain Wang Ke, everyone's eyes were still stern and they were still exerting pressure on him.
This made him suddenly angry. I am different from those murderers in the next life!
He thought of Wang Ruoxiang, Zixuan and the others, Zhu Zhudao and the others, Brother Qiang, Professor Gu...
I think of the hard work in the laboratory, the hard work in the training room, the hard work in the operating room, those joyful laughters, and those fallen tears.
The re-established sense of belonging and my determination to practice medicine were finally solidified.
"I'm a doctor." Gu Jun fixed his eyes and spoke in a calm and powerful voice: "I just participated in an operation before coming here. I took out the giant worm larvae one by one from the wound on the injured person's right upper limb.
The trophozoites, cysts, and oocysts also had to be cleaned, and everyone worked for thirteen hours."
He had seen the cruelty of the Afterlife Society from nightmares, and had some clues from visions and memories. He did not doubt that the Afterlife Society or even himself was connected behind this incident.
But... Gu Jun glanced at the faces of Wang Ke, Cao Yicong and the others, "Fellow police officers, I hate the culprits behind Yirong Disease as much as you do. I wish I could help you catch them all tonight, but I am responsible for
I only have this ability to treat illnesses and save people."
After listening to Gu Jun's solemn words, everyone's eyes softened.
After more than ten hours of surgery, he never drank a drop of water. He is indeed a man.
"Doctor Gu." Wang Ke also became gentler, "We don't suspect that you caused them to get sick, but there is a connection. These suspicions are based on clues and evidence, and this matter is just one of the things we have learned.
A situation.”
"What else happened?" Gu Jun asked.
"Let's do an experiment first. Time is tight. Doctor Gu, you will work the night shift."
At that moment, Wang Ke took the lead with several subordinates and took Gu Jun to another small barracks nearby. This was an identification room. There was a transparent glass wall separating the front room and the back room. Gu Jun was arranged to sit.
On a chair in the back room, facing the front room.
"Dr. Gu, next we will let the 1,024 patients come in in teams of ten to see if anything happens."
After Wang Ke told him, he led the team members out of the front room and closed the soundproof door between the two rooms.
"..." Gu Jun could notice the cameras in the upper corners of the surrounding area, looking out through the glass window as Wang Ke and the others stood aside.
Soon, Tang Ziyang and another investigator came in with a group of ten patients to identify them. The patients were men, women, old and young. Some were old men in wheelchairs, some were middle-aged women with crutches, and some had already died.
There are young people who are proficient in using prosthetic limbs, and there are also girls who have one cuff empty.
As soon as they saw him, they were all a little excited, panicked and in disbelief. How could the figure in the delirium hallucination really be sitting there?
The girl turned pale with fright and hurriedly hid behind the adults, but even so, she still cried and was taken away early by Tang Ziya.
Gu Jun did not move, his expression did not change, he just sat quietly, vaguely hearing the buzzing whispers of the patients outside to the investigators...
A group of patients went out, and another group of patients came in. The faces of panic and fear continued to increase, and the buzzing sound kept ringing...
Those faces and the whispers were also constantly impacting Gu Jun. His head began to hurt, and the hazy and crazy light and shadow loomed in front of his eyes. This feeling was no longer unfamiliar to him. Could it be the illusion of that black and white photo...
Are you going to be triggered...
"Why is this scene happening?" Gu Jun's head turned into severe pain and he couldn't figure it out. This was not the scene in the photo at all.
And now...he is being filmed by cameras and under the eyes of investigators. No abnormality can escape the eyes of these people.
Don't come at this time! He gritted his teeth and resisted the appearance of the illusion, but as batches of patients appeared one after another, those chaotic lights and shadows became more and more real... It was as if a whisper was ringing in his ears,
Getting louder and louder…
Gu Jun couldn't help pressing his head with both hands, but when he saw that the faces of each of the patients seemed to have turned into the same face.
The face of the old man.
What if...this is what Captain Wang Ke and the others want? Is this the only way to trigger the illusion in that photo?
"I need the truth, I need answers...let's see..."
As soon as his thoughts changed painfully, Gu Jun suddenly fell into an illusion, but it was that nightmare again.
The sky was strangely dark, and a huge banyan tree stood there. Its thick and curved branches and messy fibrous roots seemed to distort the world.
On that muddy land, hundreds of people in black and a dozen people in red were kneeling on the ground, their heads pressed deeply into the putrid mud. They were worshiping the big banyan tree and muttering
There were indescribable whispers, like delirium and fanatical praise.
In the main trunk of the big banyan tree, there is a huge banyan hole formed by decay.
Inside the tree hole, a figure sat there majestically. It was a little boy who was only a few years old, wearing strange clothes and a crown on his head made of the branches, leaves and fibrous roots of the banyan tree.
Like a king, like a god.
The little boy looked down at the kneelers, his childish face expressionless, and his eyes were as dark as the abyss.
That cold voice that resounded throughout the world was what the little boy was saying:
"I am the son of misfortune. You know, you are filthy things, you are foolish things, you are despicable things..."
Gu Jun recognized that this little boy was himself.
Chapter completed!