A Catastrophe

In the First Central Hospital of S City, in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a handsome young man was lying on the hospital bed. His body was full of tubes and he was always in a coma.

There were many people around the hospital bed, most of them wore white coats, including the dean, the head nurse, and the country's top cardiology and brain experts specially invited from other places, including the young man's parents.

"Xing'er, wake up!...Mom, please, wake up!..." The woman choked on her husband's shoulder, her eyes were already swollen from crying.

The experts murmured, exchanging opinions in technical jargon, mostly frowning.

The young man's father interrupted their conversation very apologetically, and asked anxiously: "Experts, what happened to my son? Doesn't it mean that the critical period has passed? Why is he still in a coma?"

Everyone looked at each other, and all looked at the dean, who said awkwardly: "Mr. Zhou, please don't worry, we understand your feelings, but your son's situation is a bit special. The car accident caused his intracranial hemorrhage, although most of the congestion has disappeared. It was surgically removed, but a small part still suppressed part of the central nervous system of his brain, which caused him to stay awake for a long time."

"Then continue the operation! I donated 30 million to your center, you must save him! This is my only son! He is so smart, so filial, and he is only 20 years old!..." When the man spoke of his sadness, tears flowed down his face.

"Mr. Zhou, please calm down, calm down. If we could clear it up, we would have cleared it up long ago, but that part of the congestion is in an extremely sensitive area, and a little carelessness can cause serious brain damage or even brain death. There is no such thing in the whole country or even the world. The doctor dared to operate on that place!"

"Then what about my son? Has he turned into a vegetable? How can you tell me to calm down!" the man growled.

The dean hurriedly said: "No, no, in fact, his condition is much better than that of a vegetable. We are also very surprised. His son is unconscious, but his brain waves are normal, even stronger than ordinary people! You know, brain waves It's too complicated, and although we are all top experts, to be honest, the research and understanding of the human brain may still be at the elementary school level, and we still have confidence in your son's recovery, because after all, the human body has a self-healing system."

"Self-healing system?" The young man's parents were taken aback.

"Yes, it's like a small cut on our hand. You don't need to apply medicine to bandage it. It will heal itself soon. This is the body's self-healing system. Of course, the self-healing system is not a panacea. The hole is too big and too deep, so we can only rely on external treatment. This is the situation of your son now. He is unconscious now, which is a manifestation of insufficient self-healing ability. We can stimulate and assist him with external objects to speed up his recovery. Self-healing, in that case, without high-risk surgery, he will wake up."

"How long will it take? Three to five years, or ten or twenty years?" Mr. Zhou asked painfully.

"It... depends on him. The patient's subconscious desire to survive will also affect the speed of recovery."

The woman asked, "Doctor, what should we do, should we talk to him every day? I've seen it in the movies."

The dean turned his head and started talking with his peers in a low voice again. After a while, he said: "In his case, without strong stimulation, I am afraid it will be difficult to wake up in a short time. We suggest a groundbreaking therapy."

"How do I do it? I'm willing to spend any money!" the man said anxiously.

"There is a game that was originally developed for the study of human brain waves. Later, a large medical institution in Europe bought the patent. They carried out deeper research and development on the basis of the patent, and launched it nearly ten years later. I have created an online game "Sanctuary", which is popular all over the world. You must have heard of it. This is a game that can be played during sleep, and it is completely controlled by human brain waves. Sometimes I play it, and we found that , while playing the game,

The brain will be several times more active than usual, so this kind of strong stimulation will help the son wake up from the coma as soon as possible. "

"What? He is still like this and can still play games?" Both of them found it incredible.

The dean sighed: "It's not certain whether he can play or not, but it's better than surgery or general stimulation, otherwise he may really lie in bed for ten or eight years, or even longer. You must know that human beings lie in bed for a long time, and the body There will be a severe decline in function, and the later he wakes up, the greater the impact on his health and longevity."

The man and the woman looked at each other, and both saw the determination in each other's eyes.

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Endless darkness, I don't know how long it lasted...

Zhou Xing woke up, but there was still darkness in front of his eyes. He wanted to open his eyes, but his eyelids were like two locked iron doors, and he couldn't open them at all; he wanted to shout, but his lips didn't move at all, and his tongue didn't seem like he Yes; he wanted to get up, or even make a small movement, but it also failed, and he even felt that breathing was relying on external force.

"What's wrong with me?" Zhou Xing felt great fear in his heart. This feeling was unprecedented, so the impact on him was also unimaginable. His heart almost collapsed.

He seemed to have fallen into an endless abyss.

"Am I dead?...Is this hell?..." Finally, Zhou Xing passed the most difficult moment, and his mind gradually calmed down.

He began to think, and the act of thinking made him think that he was still alive, but the state of being alive was so bad that life was worse than death.

"What's wrong with me?"

He tried his best to remember, and the memory gave him a splitting headache, but he still insisted on doing so, not wanting to know why it became like this, he would go crazy sooner or later. He would rather die of pain now, and settle everything once and for all.

His sanity is still there, but his short-term memory seems to be affected. He can't remember what happened. There are a few fragments of memory in his mind, but he can't put them together. The biggest piece of information to him was the car, which seemed to be going fast. Among the other fragments were shouts, blood, and a face.

Zhou Xing tried his best to see that face clearly, even if he could see a man and a woman, but he didn't succeed, the face was too blurry, he could only be sure that it was a human face. Maybe not, who knows.

After an unknown period of time, Zhou Xing felt his head became heavy, as if something was covering it.

After an unknown amount of time, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Xing's eyes. Although it was only a vast expanse of whiteness, the light was soft and not dazzling.

Zhou Xing was overjoyed, thinking that he had come to heaven, after all, the taste of the dark hell was too uncomfortable.

"Brainwaves are normal...the signal is being connected, please wait...the data is being initialized, please wait..." Suddenly, a voice appeared in Zhou Xing's mind. He was ecstatic, like a drowning man being rescued ashore.