Chapter 39 Chapter 38 The Leprosy Hospital

After returning to the polar training camp, the warden did not share the harvest of the polar trip equally as agreed in advance, but generously gave the ship in the future to Captain Gut. Captain Gut was very happy. I helped them complete the immigration procedures as a thank you.The warden, Hawthorne and his team traveled for several days, passed through Canada from Greenland, and arrived in the United States. According to the address on the letter, they found a leprosy hospital in California, USA. Among the mountains adjacent to California and Nevada, there is a Death Valley 225 kilometers long and 6 to 26 kilometers wide. The terrain is dangerous and deserted. It is also the hottest and driest area in North America.

The leprosy hospital is located in this desolate valley, with high grid walls like a prison. Leprosy is a contagious disease. Most of the patients are disfigured and their limbs are festered, so they must be treated in isolation.Most of the leprosy hospitals were established in the wilderness away from the bustling cities.In ancient times, once a leprosy patient was found, the patient would be driven out of the house, expelled from the village, and even burned and buried alive. This hospital is a non-profit public welfare hospital. In addition to accommodating leprosy patients, there are also patients with various unexplainable strange diseases. They come from all over the United States, and almost every patient suffers from extremely rare and intractable diseases.

The leprosy hospital is isolated from the outside world, and there are very few visitors. The warden did not directly explain the purpose of coming to the hospital, but lied that he belonged to the International Red Cross and wanted to subsidize the hospital. A group of warm reception.After entering the isolation area, everyone put on protective clothing, and the dean personally led them to visit.The injuries of the patients in the ward were shocking and horrible.The warden noticed a barbed wire fence in the backyard and said he wanted to go in to have a look. The dean hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't look here, you will have nightmares."

"Why?" asked the warden. The dean replied: "There are some patients with strange diseases inside." The warden insisted on watching, and the dean didn't want to offend them, so he had to open the iron gate. There was a tall redwood tree in the courtyard, the leaves fell all over the ground, and a doctor accompanied the patient for a slow walk in the corridor. It didn't look like anything. Terrible.The dean warned them not to walk around, the doctor smiled and nodded to the warden, the warden took the initiative to go over to shake hands, the doctor suddenly took out a syringe and stabbed the warden's arm, the warden hurt I had to take a deep breath, and pulled out the needle tube forcefully, the blood flowed profusely, the doctor smiled and said, "You have a leak."

Several staff rushed up to hug the doctor and dragged him away. The dean came over and said while apologizing: "He is a lunatic, he likes to pretend to be all kinds of people, a typical paranoid patient." The warden said, "What did he inject me with?" The dean said: "It's okay, it's his urine, maybe it's someone else's." Pointing to the sick man walking in the corridor, the warden asked, "What about him, what kind of strange disease does he have?" The dean replied: "He is a glass man, suffering from rare osteoporosis, and cannot shake hands with others, which may break his fingers, because his bones are very fragile, just like biscuits. A fall would break a rib, but he's still working out every day trying to get back fit."

The wards are like prison cells, each is closed and independent, through a small tempered glass window, you can see the scene inside, Linfeng and Dora couldn't help but look at one of the windows, only glanced, the two The man covered his mouth in disgust, and a person who seemed to have been skinned was lying on the hospital bed inside, or it would be more appropriate to say that there was a giant red maggot lying on it.The dean told them that this man could not wear clothes all year round, because he had no skin, and his blood vessels and tendons were exposed on his body. The dean introduced the situation of other patients like a tour guide as he walked. He pointed to a window and said: "The person in this ward is a tree man. Few people have the courage to stare at him for 10 minutes. He suffers from a rare disease. Gyron's syndrome, he felt insects, parasites and other things crawling and wriggling under his skin, so he scratched himself every day and got bruises all over his body, bleeding and pus, resulting in some difficult-to-heal wounds, and secreting a large amount of strips Fibers, it's like having spaghetti all over your body."

The ward at the end of the corridor had no windows, and the door was locked tightly, as if there was no one in it. Hawthorne said, "How strange is this ward?" The dean seemed unwilling to talk about it. He just hummed and turned around to take everyone away. At this time, a little girl's voice came from behind the door: "Dad, I'm afraid of the dark." The warden said he wanted to go in and have a look, otherwise he would cancel the donation, and the dean opened the door in desperation. The room was dimly lit, and a little girl's voice came from the corner: "Who are you?"

After everyone got used to the dim environment, it was clear that there was no little girl in the room, only a skinny black old man squatting in the corner. Obviously, he was the one who made the sound just now, which made everyone feel creepy. What's more terrifying than a skinny old man imitating a girl's voice?And imitate it vividly. The old man stood up and asked in a girl's voice, "Where is my father? He hasn't seen me for two years. I miss him so much." After speaking, tears welled up from his eyes, like a real little girl And wept, and cried very sadly. The dean said: "You don't have a father at all, what's your father's name?"

The old man started to be in a daze, as if he had fallen into a trance world. After a while, he changed into an arrogant and arrogant tone and said: "What is this place, why am I crying?" The dean waved his hand, and several nurses rushed up from behind. The old man became violent and waved his arms viciously. The nurse pressed the old man on the bed and gave him a tranquilizer. Only then did the old man calm down and fell into a trance again. among. Dora asked curiously, "Is he asleep?" The dean explained: "This person suffers from schizophrenia and has split into multiple personalities. The two personalities just now, one is a little girl who misses her father, and the other is a middle-aged man with violent tendencies. They all have their own names and memories. , all live in his body. If the body is a machine, and this machine is controlled by seventeen people, no, plus his master personality, it should be controlled by eighteen people."

At this time, the old man woke up, completely unaware of what he had just experienced. He rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said in a relaxed and modest tone: "I'm sick, you all came to visit me, right?" The dean said, "Who am I talking to now? What should I call you?" The old man laughed: "You are so funny, I am Juan." The dean quietly said to the warden: "This is my favorite personality. He thinks he is a university teacher. He is smart and wise. The last time he appeared was a few years ago. You can chat with him. , He has a high IQ, he is simply a genius, and he knows almost everything."

Hawthorne didn't quite believe it, so he took out a pen and wrote a question on the wall, "In the ever-changing calculus, there are many solutions to a difficult problem, and the smartest mathematician in the world has to answer this question." A few months, some, even a lifetime, I wonder if Mr. Juan can make it?" Juan said: "Do you want to test me? I am willing to try." Juan took the pen, thought hard for a while, and then quickly wrote something on the wall. After only 10 minutes, he said to Hawthorne: "I have solved this problem." Hawthorne watched carefully and felt unbelievable, "This is a first-class answer, but I didn't say that the vector field is a rational function, and your answer is wrong. Even so, you are much better than me. This question, I have also answered it, and I missed it, I used it for 3 years, but you only used it for 10 minutes." Dr. Sloppy asked the King of Pain for a firework knife. He drew the knife out of its sheath, and the blade became hot and red. He said to Juan, "Well, how do you explain why the scabbard doesn't burn?" Juan said: "During the nuclear fusion reaction, the internal temperature is as high as 100 million to 200 million degrees Celsius, and there is no conventional material that can contain these substances. The strong magnetic field generated by the superconductor can be used as a magnetic enclosure to contain the ultra-high temperature plasma in the thermonuclear reactor. Enclosed and restrained." Dora said, "It's so profound." Juan said: "It's nothing strange. When you came here, you should have seen a granite sculpture in the yard. Now I will also test you, how to make this big stone burn in the water? And is it spontaneous?" Hawthorne and Dr. Sloppy looked at each other, they shook their heads, but they couldn't answer. Juan smiled, and said slowly: "Klaprote can do it. There is an element in the soil, sea water, and stones: uranium. The content of uranium in various rocks is very uneven, such as in granite. The content in uranium is higher, with an average of 3.5 grams of uranium per ton. Powdered uranium will spontaneously ignite at room temperature, in air, or even in water.” Hawthorne said: "Klaproth, the German chemist, discovered the element uranium in 1789." Juan continued to ask: "Can you blow up a basketball to the size of the earth?" "It's impossible," said Dora. Juan said: "Einstein did it, theoretically it is possible, E=MC2, all matter has hidden energy of mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light, and the mass is continuously multiplied into energy, which is also an atomic bomb explosion. The reason why the sun shines." Hawthorne said: "One neutron is enough to destroy the world—if nuclear war breaks out." Juan said, "Cutting apart a speck of dust, what do you see?" "Two worlds," Hawthorne said. "Yes, as big as our world," said Juan. Dr. Sloppy said: "It seems that you are very knowledgeable and know everything, but there is one thing you definitely don't know." Juan said, "What?" Dr. Sloppy said: "You don't exist!"