Plague Doctor

This is where……

Zhou Haorui looked around in confusion. What he saw was a desolate land under darkness, boundless.

Didn't I fall asleep in the dormitory... I played games with Wei Ziyang and Wang Jiaqi until past eleven o'clock, but I didn't win a game. Because there were classes the next day on Friday, everyone went to bed in a depressed mood. ...Because I was very tired, I fell asleep quickly...Is this a dream...

Darkness, nothing but darkness, is silence, deathly silence.

Zhou Haorui suddenly felt chilled when he saw low tombstones standing in a mess in the darkness.

Is this a tomb... But above the head, there seems to be wisps of moonlight that have not been completely annihilated, but it cannot illuminate this turbid environment...

The world seemed to have turned into a huge tomb, filled with moldy mist.

Zhou Haorui wanted to move, but he felt extremely heavy all over, and his limbs seemed to be stuck with some sticky substance, making it difficult to pull.

How could this happen, where is this...what's going on...

"Is there anyone..." The confusion in Zhou Haorui's heart became more and more serious, and an inexplicable fear gradually arose. His heart was shrinking, and his pores were shrinking. The cold, damp and darkness around him was seeping into his body and mind, becoming a The weight pressed down on him...

Zhou Haorui started to struggle and kept struggling, but his feet seemed to be stuck in the soil and could not move. The more he moved, the more he felt a strange pain.

This kind of pain...he suddenly remembered with a start, it was the pain in his cervical spine...

But now, the pain eroded his feet and spread throughout his body.

It was like, my whole body turned into a stone.

With this thought, Zhou Haorui's perception became clearer and his heart clenched even more painfully. Suddenly, he "saw" himself.

Where he stood was not a person, but a tombstone.

A tombstone made of dilapidated stone, with his name engraved on it: Zhou Haorui.

"Ah..." Zhou Haorui exclaimed as he struggled. His eyes went up and away without his control. He saw more tombstones everywhere, densely packed, stretching for thousands of miles, all in dark and desolate land... one after another. The tombstones and stones are all made of human bones...

Suddenly, he finally felt his whole body rise suddenly, and he really shouted: "Ah!"

What he saw when he opened his eyes was the bed board of the upper bunk, surrounded by a dimly lit dormitory. He was sleeping on his lower bunk, sitting up from a nightmare, covered in cold sweat.

Was that just... a ghost pressing the bed...

"What's your name? Don't make any noise..." Wang Jiaqi, who was sitting on the lower bunk of the bed opposite, turned around and squeezed toward the wall, muttering dissatisfiedly: "It's so noisy..."

But very quickly, less than a minute later, Wang Jiaqi fell asleep again, and there was a slight snoring sound.

The time displayed on the phone was around two o'clock in the morning. Zhou Haorui was still sitting on the bed in a daze, panting, not wanting to think about the weird and terrifying dream just now, but the desolation in the dream was especially before his eyes, making the darkness around him disgusting. .

He wiped his face and wanted to turn on the light, but that would disturb the other three people's sleep, and he would definitely be scolded to death.

Suddenly, there was a stinging pain on the back of his neck, which almost made him cry out in pain. He hissed and held back the air-conditioning. The pain seemed to be serious...

He wanted to reach back with his right hand to touch, but when he raised his hand like this, he found that his right shoulder was also a little painful and stiff, just like the initial symptoms of the cervical spine.

"No way……"

The strange feeling that had never gone away became stronger, and the worry that had never been let go also surged into my heart.

Zhou Haorui frowned, raised his left hand to touch his right shoulder, and suddenly found pain and stiffness in his left shoulder...

Muscular Ossification Progressive Disease, fibrodysplasiaossificansprogressiva

Cold sweat fell from his forehead, and some of the FOP information he had reviewed came to his mind.

There is currently no cure or even an approved treatment for fop.

This is a genetic disease, and even the mechanism is not particularly clear yet. Ordinary bone hyperplasia or muscle fibrosis can be treated with surgery, but for FOP, a disease in which muscles, tendons and other tissues will ossify after being repaired after trauma, surgery will cause the patient to experience explosive growth of new bones... …

Therefore, there is currently only one treatment method for fop, which is to avoid injuries as much as possible. Do not fall or do any activity that risks soft tissue damage, as even minor trauma can cause ectopic bone formation.

The life of a FOP patient is a consumption process that is different from ordinary people. The consumption should be slowed down and the time extended as much as possible.

Live as a statue with an average life expectancy of 40 years, or become a statue at the age of 20.

Yesterday afternoon at the hospital, he had acupuncture... Acupuncture can cause injuries to soft tissues, and his neck and shoulders were all acupuncture...

He also performed traction, which loosened the neck by pulling on the soft tissue, but that could also injure the soft tissue...

However, even if it is really ossifying, how can it happen so quickly...

Zhou Haorui slowly moved his neck and shoulders, but he felt like they were being pulled and stuck. His neck couldn't move very well, and there seemed to be... an extra bulge on his shoulders. Ectopic bones...? It's swollen, it's just a strain...

In a panic, Zhou Haorui walked out of bed, his legs a little numb and tired. He walked over to a fitting mirror bought by Wei Ziyang, took off his shirt, and looked sideways at the back of his clothes in the dim light. The condition of his shoulder... what he saw made his whole body suddenly tense with muscles

Feeling tight, and my heart sank to freezing point...

There is a ridge in the muscles of the back shoulders on both sides. It is like a bolt on the shoulder bones.

His slightly trembling hand pressed it again, it was as hard as bone.

"It's a dream, you're still dreaming..." Zhou Haorui murmured, it's impossible, it's impossible that it really is musculoskeletal ossification progressive...

As Dr. Xiao said, it is a genetic disease. It usually develops before the age of 10. How could I suddenly get it...

His heart hurt sharply, and his head suddenly flashed with the dizziness he had experienced recently. Zhou Haorui almost fell to the ground. I don't know why, but he seemed to have a premonition, saying it was impossible, but deep down he knew it would be like this. It's just that he doesn't understand why it's him, why he has this disease...

He remembered that he was still thinking about how to improve his "natural qualifications" so that he could enter Tianji University and join the Tianji Bureau...

All that is dying.

Suddenly, a chill passed by, making Zhou Haorui shiver, but he found that the originally closed window a few steps away had been pushed open at some point, and the cold night wind poured in from the outside. The weak moonlight did not change the interior. It was brighter, but he could see that there was a dark shadow on the window edge.

It was a pitch-black crow with a long, pointed beak, and a pair of glowing bird eyes looking at him.

Zhou Haorui looked at it blankly, it seemed to be something unknown and intangible, completely unexplainable.

"You are sick." Crow said to Zhou Haorui, and he could hear clearly, "Petrified disease."

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