Chapter 56 Chapter 52: The Living Dead

This is a very special case, so special that I tried my best to face him alone.Finally, with the help of a friend, I had a brief meeting with him.Still, that meeting has terrified me to this day.Because he is really, as he said, a living dead. When I first saw him, I was shocked.The people I usually see have all kinds of skin colors, but no matter how the mental state or emotions affect him, I have never seen his skin color from a living person.Gray, heavy, lifeless, just like everyone else, lifeless-not to describe, it is really lifeless.Moreover, just by seeing him, there is no way to tell his age, because his muscles and skin are all of the same kind... um... Forget it, I will give up describing it, I can't tell.

I forced myself to calm down quickly, and it took the courage to look him in the eye.Why?I don't know how many people have seen the eyes of the dead.After a person dies, the cornea will self-dissolve, and the eyes will look cloudy, without spirituality, and very dim. His eyes are like that.Sometimes I can't even tell if he's looking at me or just staring at me for nothing. Me: "Hello." He shook his head slowly: "I'm not good." I noticed that his speech was extremely slow, and his voice was depressing and breathless. Me: "Well...then it's a blessing, right? I hope you are well."

He: "I'm dead, what hope is there." Me: "How is it possible, you can still move, talk, and walk." He still spoke slowly: "That doesn't mean I'm still alive." Me: "Uh... since when did you feel this way?" Him: "I forgot." Me: "Forget how you died?" This question seems weird. He: "I can't remember many things, maybe it started when I couldn't remember, and I died." Me: "You mean you didn't find out until you died a long time ago?" He nodded slowly. I suddenly smelled a strange smell, coming from him, I can't tell what it is, but it's very... I can't describe it, maybe it's the smell of a corpse, I'm not sure because I don't know what the corpse is What's the taste.But it's scary.

Me: "Just can't remember, doesn't it mean death?" He: "Then what represents death?" Me: "The body and brain have lost their functions..." He: "Maybe only my brain is still alive, and the other parts have been dead for a long time." Me: "Stiff?" He shook his head slowly: "I can't sleep at night because the maggots eat me inside my body, it hurts and itches. So I can only sleep for a while during the day. They will crawl in my body during the day, but it's better than biting. I." Me: "Is it insomnia caused by a psychological problem?"

He looked up dully, as if thinking: "Really? I can't remember. But the doctor can't treat me." Me: "Your family..." He interrupted me slowly: "Divorced." Me: "Oh, sorry, I don't know about that." He: "It's nothing, I'm dead." I'm "ummmmmmmmm, I know you've probably said this many times to a lot of doctors, and those expert panels, but I'd like you to say it again. If you can, try to tell me something you remember , okay? If you feel tired of talking a lot, then let's talk about something else."

He stared blankly for a moment, and I assumed he was looking at me. Him: "Okay, I don't recall the panel ever asking me anything." Me: "They may ask about pathology and psychology, but I want to ask about life." He: "Okay. I can't sleep at night, because those maggots are eating me in my body. Sometimes I will try to catch some... After cutting open, there is not much blood, but I can't find the worms. I can It feels like it's there, but you can't see it." I confirmed the following information: about the self-harm part of the patient. Me: "Doesn't it hurt?"

Him: "It doesn't hurt much, I don't feel it most of the time. Except the bugs eat me." Me: "Can you tell me about your taste and vision problems?" He: "I can't remember when it started. When I eat, I find that there is no taste. I put a lot of seasoning and salt in it, but it still has no taste. To me, salt is just like sand. I can't see anything. Color, maybe it's been like this for a long time, and I just noticed it recently." Me: "Have you ever tried a very hot chili?" He: "It doesn't smell at all." I remember my friend said that the patient slowly ate a whole bottle of chili sauce in front of the expert team with a blank expression, and the subsequent oral examination surprised everyone: there was no redness and swelling in the oral cavity and esophageal mucosa.Not to mention stomach ulcers.An additional note: the patient had poor digestion, and the gastrointestinal motility was abnormal. After 4 hours, the food that he ate was basically not digested.

Me: "Well, I know about you eating chili sauce; what about vision? Do you see everything in black and white?" He: "It's not black and white, it's all gray. I can't even make out the outlines in dark places." Me: "But after the examination, it said that your two types of visual cells and cornea are normal." He: "I don't know. I remember that the hospital didn't find out why I didn't get sick." The patient has not been infected with any infectious disease for about three years, and has never had a cold or a fever.Moreover, it is extremely slow in responding to high and low temperatures.Put it this way: He can let you burn his skin without making a fuss, while his heart rate barely changes.However, burns heal themselves very slowly, very slowly.

Me: "Before this, was your life okay?" He slowly raised his head and thought for a while: "It seems to be good, right? I can't remember too much. When I think about it, it's like a dream I've ever had. I only remember part of it." Me: "Do you remember what you do?" He slowly raised his hand and scratched his head, and I saw a lot of hair falling down.That scene was chilling. He: "Looks like a mechanical engineer." At this time the door opened, and my friend signaled that I had to end it. I still feel that smell on my body in my friend's office.

Friend: "Satisfied? After so long, I finally see you." I was a little shocked: "I think he is really dead, no kidding." Friend: "So do I." Me: "Do you have any other cases like this?" Friend: "No, this is the only one I've seen, the only one I know, and the only one I'm sure of. It's rare." Me: "When he scratched his head, a lot of hair fell out." Friend: "If you look at the back of his head, you will know that there is a scar. The whole scalp fell off, but there was no bleeding." Me: "Are you diagnosed?"

Friend: "Basically confirmed, the opinions of the expert group are relatively unified, it may be that they have suffered some psychological blows, all the body has received their own psychological hints, resulting in those states: local skin necrosis, internal organ function decline, vision deterioration ,indigestion……" Me: "Where are the maggots he mentioned?" The friend shrugged: "No one has seen it." Me: "But the smell on his body..." Friend: "You mean the smell on your body right now? It's the smell of corpses. Go home and take a shower, your clothes are full of bubbles." Me: "I don't understand why you are so calm, isn't all this strange?" My friend looked at me curiously: "Why should I be strange? I have seen many patients, and some are even more strange and unexplainable. The current emphasis on him is because there is no such record before, that's all. And you may I don't know how effective the self-suggestion produced by human psychology is. I think his situation is special, but it is not strange or supernatural. You... Have you been in contact with too many patients recently? How about arranging a consultation for you? ?” I saw my friend laughing, but I couldn't laugh, and I couldn't tell what was pressing on my heart all the time. Within a year, my unease was confirmed. One night my friend called me and immediately asked me if I still remembered the patient from the living dead.I said remember. Friend: "That patient is really not an ordinary patient, and it seems that the initial judgment was wrong." I was very calm: "Don't get excited, what's going on?" Friend: "Later, the patient received psychological treatment. It has been more than a year without any progress. Now there is a new problem. My colleagues and I joined the case diagnosis and treatment team in the afternoon. I will send you the photos tomorrow. You can see it." Just know." Me: "I'll go find you this weekend, will you come back?" I saw friends over the weekend and looked at the photos. Me: "How to explain?" The friend shook his head helplessly: "I don't know, there is no explanation." Me: "Is that wire?" Friend: "To be precise, it should be lead wire." Me: "How can lead wires grow in the human body?" Friend: "I almost went crazy after reading it, not only me, many old experts who have been clinical for many years are going crazy." I looked at the photos again. Some crooked lead wires protruded from under the skin of the patient's stomach, calf, and forearm. The thickest one was about as thick as a pencil lead, and the thinner one was like a thread.The epidermis where the lead wire grows is slightly red and swollen.Except for those few areas, there is no growth in other places. Me: "Is there so much lead in the human body?" Friend: "No, I checked his diet carefully, and even the local hospital can control his diet, but it's still the same. This is a phenomenon beyond any explanation." Me: "Does the patient feel pain?" Friend: "It hurts to pull it out, but it doesn't hurt to cut it off." Me: "Growth started just under the skin? Is there an examination of the tissue part?" Friend: "It starts to grow from the bottom of the dermis, and some cells are highly concentrated. But I don't know how it turned into a lead wire. Also, the nerve endings also fused in, but finally turned into a lead wire. Tested, there is no reason." Me: "Is that real lead wire?" The friend nodded firmly: "It's a real lead wire." As of last month, the patient is still alive, but his physique is close to the limit of decline.Those lead wires are still growing, and the reason and reasonable explanation have not been found so far. And I want to clarify: This, is true. Originally, I wanted to write something like "Facts are always scarier than the scariest novels, more sci-fi than the most sci-fi works", but at this point, I found that I don't know how to end this article. When we face the world seriously, the world is joking with us; when we are cheering for our own progress and creation, nature has conjured up new tricks to mock our ignorance; When mastering a new technology, science will always open the curtain of another unfamiliar field.All of this is like an endless dream, there is no most bizarre, only more bizarre.Faced with such a situation, I understand those who are fanatical about religion, because only in that way can they overcome the fear of the unknown.Then, after spending more than 25,000 days in peace, I can finally close my eyes and tell myself: This life has ended peacefully. However, I believe that many people are still living peacefully like me, but are vigilantly preparing to face those incredible realities.Not just that ad line I love: anything is possible.It is because the unknowns of this world exist, no matter whether you recognize it or ignore it, they still exist without being affected.Then, when you least expect it, she will suddenly appear in front of you and tell you, "I am here."