Chapter 15 Chapter 14 Amnesia Research

"What do you think of this matter? I mean the woman with the baby in her arms." Not far from Fu Yuzhu's house, Luo Fei raised this question to Jin Zhenyu. Jin Zhenyu was silent for a moment, and then asked back: "Do you want me to tell the truth?" "certainly." "I've always been a materialist. But what happened last night has shaken some of my views." "Oh?" Luo Fei didn't expect to get such an answer.He stopped and looked back at Jin Zhenyu, only to see the bewilderment and fear that could not be concealed flashing on his face.

"Then are you familiar with Wang Chenglin's family?" Luo Fei asked another question. "I'm not very familiar." Jin Zhenyu shook his head, "At that time, I was not the head of the village, but I just knew that there was such a family." "Does Meng Shaohui have a younger brother or younger sister?" Jin Zhenyu hesitated for a moment: "This... I don't know." "Huh?" Luo Fei frowned, "You don't even know how many people there are in their family?" "That's not what it means." Jin Zhenyu explained, "I remember hearing that Wang Chenglin's wife was pregnant for a while. After the tsunami, her wife was killed and her body was never found. And she didn't come out for a long time before the tsunami. So whether the child was born or not, I can't say for sure."

Luo Fei nodded, thinking to himself: According to the scene that appeared in Meng Shaohui's dream, the child should have been born during the tsunami.A woman with a baby in her arms?This finally has some connection with Meng Shaohui's mother, but this connection is too weird, it is simply inexplicable. "Officer Luo, what should we do next?" Jin Zhenyu interrupted Luo Fei's train of thought. what to do?Luo Fei was also at a loss at this time.Zhou Yonggui's death cut off the clues he had worked so hard to sort out, and the results of the latest investigation were messy and clueless.After pondering for a while, he replied to the other party: "You go back first, eat something, take a rest, and then wait for my news."

Luo Fei then returned to his residence.Meng Shaohui was not in the house, and after asking Sun Fachao, he found out that he went out after noon. Sun Fachao reheated the leftovers.When Luo Fei encountered a problem that was difficult to solve, he often had a particularly good appetite, and he ate everything without much effort.Then he sat in the yard and chatted with Sun Fachao to relax his tense brain nerves. About half an hour later, Meng Shaohui walked in from the door. "Where have you been?" Luo Fei asked him. "Oh, I went out and looked around, and I wanted to find Kaka by the way."

"did you find it?" Meng Shaohui shook his head. "I think your cat has a wild temper." Sun Fachao interjected, "If you run into the mountains, you won't come back." "No. Although Kaka is more fierce, she is still very close to her master. I don't know what happened these two days." Meng Shaohui shook his head inexplicably when he said this, but he quickly changed his mind. With a happy expression, he raised his folded hands, "But I didn't run in vain this trip, what do you think this is?" Luo Fei stared and saw that he was forming a bowl shape with his hands, with a seabird curled up in his hands.The whole body of the seabird was red and fleshy, without a single feather. It seemed that it had just been born, and its eyes hadn't even been opened yet.

Seeing the pitiful look of the bird, Luo Fei couldn't help feeling cute, and asked with a smile, "Where did you catch it?" "I didn't catch it." Meng Shaohui said seriously, "I saved its life." Sun Fachao agreed with a smile: "Xiao Meng is right, this bird was thrown out of the tree nest by its mother. Hehe, Officer Luo, do you know why?" Tiger poison does not eat its child, Luo Fei has never heard of such a thing, he spread his hands helplessly: "I never guess things that I am not sure about, so one of you should tell me." "This little seabird has just hatched, and there should be more than two hatched in one nest." Meng Shaohui rushed to explain, "It's winter now, and the mother bird can't find enough food, so this nest of young birds They are all in a state of hunger. At this time, the mother bird will throw the young bird with a weaker system out of the nest, give up feeding it, and concentrate on feeding the young bird with a stronger system and a higher chance of survival .”

"Oh." Luo Fei suddenly realized that although doing so was beneficial to the reproduction of the entire population, it was indeed cruel to this abandoned young bird.But this is the wonderful law of nature, right?Luo Fei thought about it for a while, and praised Meng Shaohui: "It seems that you have a good understanding of biological knowledge?" "I don't know so much." Meng Shaohui smiled self-deprecatingly, "Monk Deping told me all this, even this baby bird was given to me by him." "Have you met Monk Deping?" Luo Fei was slightly surprised.

"Well, I met you on the mountain road." "Did he say anything to you?" "He still advised me to go back early, not to look for answers to some things. But how does he know the torture in my heart? And even if I listen to him, I can't leave now." Speaking of this, he sighed, "Monk Deping was afraid that I would be bored, so he gave me this bird for me to keep and play." "Zhou Yonggui—the boss who unloaded goods at the pier the day before yesterday—died last night, did you know that?" Luo Fei said while staring at the other party's reaction.

"I know." Meng Shaohui became frowning when he heard this topic, and lowered his hands, "It seems that this matter has something to do with my arrival? I am really conflicted. I already feel that what I am looking for The answer may be more terrifying than I expected! By the way, Officer Luo, do you have any new discoveries?" Luo Fei gave a general account of what he learned today, but he only stated what he saw and heard, without adding any subjective inferences or guesses. Meng Shaohui listened intently, sometimes frightened and sometimes confused.At the end, he suddenly asked: "The woman holding the baby is the same as in my dream. Could it be my mother? But even so, how could she still appear after eighteen years? Unless...unless Is it really... a ghost? Officer Luo, what do you think?"

"Before discovering the facts, any speculation is meaningless." Luo Fei said seriously, "Now I need to find a place to think quietly by myself." For the rest of the afternoon, Luo Fei locked himself in the hut. After contemplating with no progress, he felt a little tired, so he changed his job: took out the "Formation and Diagnosis and Treatment of Amnesia Symptoms" and read it. stand up. The content of the book is divided into several parts. There is mental amnesia, which mainly explains the amnesia phenomenon caused by the patient's mental illness; there is physiological amnesia, which mainly explains the amnesia phenomenon caused by the degeneration of brain function; there is physical amnesia, Mainly explain the amnesia phenomenon caused by traumatic damage to the brain tissue of the patient; drug-induced amnesia, mainly explain the amnesia phenomenon caused by taking drugs; and so on.

There are a lot of marks left in the book, the most common of which is the underline.Some chapters are almost full, which shows that the readers have worked hard at the beginning.Occasionally, there are some annotations in the cracks of the pages. Judging from the font, it is precisely from Dr. Xue's handwriting. The underline shows a variety of colors and different thicknesses. It can be seen that it is drawn multiple times with different pens.Interestingly, the lines with the same characteristics do not necessarily appear in the same or similar chapters, but intersect and mix with each other, which seems to be irregular.After thinking about it for a while, Luo Fei understood the reason: these underlines were not marked by the reader when he was learning the book, but when he was using the book.For example, for a disease to be solved, the knowledge he needs to use is scattered in each chapter, so he uses a specific pen to mark the relevant content for easy reference. For this discovery, Luo Fei's spirit lifted, he suddenly had an idea, and immediately tried to implement it.He flipped through the underlined content in the book page by page, tirelessly, and finally, he found a paragraph of text that was useful to him: "The most common and most common physiological amnesia is what we usually call 'forgetting'. This phenomenon mostly occurs in young children and the elderly. For young children, their brains are not yet fully developed, and they do not have a good memory Function. In fact, a person's experience before the age of five basically does not leave any traces in his adult brain. As for children from six to ten years old, their memory ability is vague and unstable. Even at that time The events that left a deep impression on them may also cause memory loss due to the interference of some external factors. The most common reason is the change of living environment. After leaving the original living environment in childhood and entering a new environment , Children's unique curiosity will make everything that happens in the new environment occupy a large amount of memory space, thereby diluting the impression left by the previous experience in the cerebral cortex." Yes, this is what Luo Fei is looking for, and this is just a part of it, he still needs more comprehensive content. The callout lines below this text are wavy stripes drawn with a medium-thick black pen.Luo Fei cheered up and searched for words with the same mark throughout the book.Soon, he found the following passages: "Memory is essentially a certain physiological and chemical reaction that leaves traces in the human cerebral cortex. Therefore, as long as the cerebral cortex is stimulated, the appearance and loss of memories may also occur without the existence of facts. For example, under strong stimulation During psychological suggestion, people may leave things that have not happened in memory, and similarly, they may also lose some memories that originally had deep impressions. People who master hypnosis techniques can even control a normal-thinking person through this method daily behavior. Generally speaking, weak-willed people are more likely to be influenced by psychological cues, especially children whose minds are not yet mature." "There is another explanation for the phenomenon of amnesia. The human cerebral cortex is like tiny storage warehouses, and related memories are arranged in these warehouses in an orderly manner like goods. But sometimes recent memories will be mistaken. If this happens, the original memory will disappear. In fact, this kind of memory conflict occurs from time to time, but the newly occurred memory is in conflict is not always an advantage. Some old memories that leave a deep imprint in the cerebral cortex are difficult to replace, but such memory units are rare, usually just one or two scene-like fragments. If with it When the associated memory disappears, the fragments often lose their logical meaning." "The theory of memory fragments has attracted the attention of many scholars this year. Many patients with mental illness are deeply troubled by this kind of memory fragments. A certain scene often appears in their minds, which makes them confused or even frightened, but they Don't understand the actual significance of the scene, because some of the memories related to it have been lost. But the impact of these real events is still there, and many people will suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder or some kind of unexplained psychological Chronic disease, which makes them very distressed. They often desire to retrieve those lost memories, but this kind of search is blind, because they themselves do not know what they are looking for, and what they need may only be a reasonable Explanation." "Certain drugs can cause disorders in the secretions of the human cerebral cortex, resulting in loss of memory. For such drugs, refer to the second part of the appendix of this book. These drugs have different therapeutic mechanisms, and their effects and side effects are also different. This book has been sorted in more detail for readers to refer to.” Luo Fei turned to the appendix at the back of the book, and sure enough, there was a table listing the drugs that can cause brain amnesia, and there were hundreds of them in total.The names of the four medicines are marked with the same black wavy line, which seems to have been carefully selected by Dr. Xue.Luo Fei carefully read the relevant introductions on the properties and pharmacology of these four drugs, and found that they all have some similar characteristics: the effect of causing amnesia is obvious and the damage to other functions of the human body is relatively small. Luo Fei let out a long breath, trying to hide his long thoughts.He used to think that Meng Shaohui's amnesia was caused by the tsunami disaster, and he received treatment from Dr. Xue because of it, but the discovery just now forced him to completely subvert his original guess.The fact is that it was Dr. Xue's treatment that caused Meng Shaohui's amnesia, and this treatment was completely purposeful. Then, in Meng Shaohui's memory, what kind of terrible thing existed?Wang Chenglin, Dr. Xue, Zhou Yonggui, and those who are still hiding in the dark, they left their homes, kept their names incognito, and even killed people and set fire to them. What are they trying to hide in every possible way?