When Gu Jun was taken out of the surgery building, it was exactly midnight, the night sky was as dark as ink, and the sounds of birds and animals coming from the surrounding mountains were quite eerie.
He had already been reacquainted with the three investigators, in addition to Captain Wang Ke, the other man called Cao Yicheng, a little younger, in his early thirties; the woman called Tang Zizhuang, a little younger again, looking not much older than him, with short hair, very bright, she went to the vending machine to buy some bread and a few bottles of mineral water.
The three of them took him to a police car, which is the most ordinary-looking kind of police car, marked with "Public Security" and "Police", without the logo of the Phecda Bureau.
The medical staff who entered and exited the surgical building were puzzled by this scene, but the police car immediately moved away.
After leaving the medical department, the police car did not head to the city's downtown area, but to the northeast mountainous area.
"Captain Wang, may I ask what the situation is?" Gu Jun sat in the back row, next to Wang Ke, the driver was Cao Yicheng, and Tang Zizhuan was in the passenger seat.
"It' s still a long way to go." Wang Ke took the bread and a bottle of mineral water that Tang Zizhuan had just bought and handed it to Gu Jun, "Doctor Gu, you should eat something first and then rest."
Gu Jun wasn't familiar with Captain Wang Ke's temperament, but this seemed to be a man with a cold face and a warm heart, and from this attitude of his, he didn't seem to be an evil person in their place... Forget about it for now, he was indeed tired after a day of surgery.
He ate a few pieces of bread and drank some water, and took a nap right next him in the back seat with his eyes closed, saving his energy anyway.
Although he was very tired, he couldn't sleep, and the car was getting bumpier and bumpier, taking all the rough and winding roads. In order to know where to go, he opened his eyes from time to time to look out of the car window, the car is driving into the remote mountains, this is certainly not forward to the investigation department.
Captain Wang Ke did not stop him, and was not afraid to let him watch the way.
The mountains were steep, the shadowy reflections of the trees were like ghosts, all kinds of insects constantly hissing sounds, and the darkness of the night covered all of this with an eerie atmosphere.
It's also not clear what kind of night birds can be heard or what kind of strange voices exist in the night.
The car drove for nearly an hour, gradually not so bumpy, reaching a flat area. Gu Jun could also see a hazy light ahead, a village, and after another short drive, they arrived at their destination this time.
"Doctor Gu, this is the place where all the patients who left the medical department are currently temporarily housed in quarantine for post-operative Banyan disease."
It was in the middle of these remote mountains that there was such a placement site with the quarantine fence pulled up, and the soldiers on patrol and the guards at the barrier were all loaded with Department of Operations officers.
The police car was inspected all the way through several checkpoints before it was able to drive into that quarantine gate. Gu Jun kept looking out the window of the car, the high beam spotlights shining brightly, some military green assembled barracks around, more of them were blue and white simple mobile homes.
Gu Jun listened to Captain Wang Ke and asked, "May I know how many patients there are here?"
"Several thousand." Wang Ke didn't go into detail about the number, looking at those boarders outside the car, his firm national face was also a bit sad, "All of them are patients admitted in the area of Eastern Province. They are all groups of people with illnesses in the area from villages, and all of these villages have large banyan trees, no exceptions."
Gu Jun ponders, with the way the foreign banyan disease spreads, the villagers all need to have contact with the diseased ones in order for this to happen, but that doesn't make sense....
Even if there was a large banyan tree in the village, it would be impossible for every villager to touch and hold it for a few days, unless something happened.
"Doctor Gu, you've figured out the doubts." Wang Ke said with a sullen face, "We, the Abnormal Force Investigation Team, never believe in coincidences."
"Hmm..." nodded Gu Jun silently.
After they got out of the car, Gu Jun was brought inside an assembled barrack where a dozen people were busy in various places, some looking at computers, some looking at documents, some discussing something. Seeing them come in, the people stopped and called out "Captain Wang", they should all be colleagues from the investigation department of this squad.
It's already past one o'clock in the morning, they were scrambling so much, was there any change in the situation?
"Doctor Gu, we need to show you some surveillance video first." Wang Ke had Gu Jun sit down towards a chair, facing a TV screen.
Before Gu Jun had even sat down, four or five people had already gathered around, looking at him without concealment, again with that rather wary gaze.
"Broadcast the video." Wang Ke said, and over there Tang Zizhuang worked on it, and the TV screen then lit up with a video.
The corridor on the sixth floor of the medical department's surgical building was crowded with Banyan disease patients lying on ambulance beds, and the medical staff were busy walking around, but at this time, Zhou Jiaqiang walked by with a group of interns, and suddenly a patient screamed wildly at them....
Gu Jun wasn't surprised, that was what he was mentally prepared for, as he had already discovered that the corridors of the surgical building were equipped with surveillance cameras.
There were three different Banyan patients going crazy towards him, and if this didn't even get their attention, the Investigation Department would be full of a bunch of idiots.
Sure enough, after broadcasting the corridor video, Tang Zizhuang lavishly played another video of the operating room, and this one had sound, the agitated and miserable cries of patient #25: "It's you! The thing inside the Banyan Tree… Please… Let me go…" the voice made the entire air in the barracks freeze.
The video was broadcast here and the TV screen stopped in time, the dozen pairs of eyes of the investigative team all looking at Gu Jun.
"Doctor Gu, the 'thing in the banyan tree' is one of the things that some of the patients with different banyan diseases see in their delirium, these patients are scattered all over the world and the only thing they have in common is that they are all psychic. But after the operation, none of them could remember what they saw during delirium."
Wang Ke gave some information about the investigation, "We suspect it has something to do with abnormal powers. We've collaborated with your medical department's psychology group to do some attempts, such as hypnotizing patients to look for memories of delirium, but we couldn't find any valuable clues. Their memories from before and after the onset of the disease are completely missing."
This was the first time Gu Jun had learned of this information, and he frowned slightly, had even his internal hidden memories disappeared....
"The other day, the medical department gave us a new clue that the psychology team thinks you are the 'something in the banyan tree' that some of the highly psychic Banyan patients say is their stressor, and that is what causes their psychological breakdown and accelerates the progression of their condition. Due to the suspicious nature of this incident, combined with the fact that you have unusual memories and possibly unusual early childhood activities..."
When Wang Ke said this, the faces of the crowd didn't change, but it was this lack of change that gave a sense of heaviness.
An unusually early childhood event? What were they suspecting, Gu Jun thought?
"So," Wang Ke said again after a pause, "we did a little test, Broadcast the video."
It dawned on Gu Jun that the test should have proved that he couldn't be without a connection....
It's just that there is still something in his heart that he is not willing to give up on: after those three patients, he didn't make anyone else stressed, and it's not possible that so many patients are just not very psychic. Maybe there is another reason?
At the same time, a new video plays on the TV screen.
In a small, empty room, a patient with a right leg prosthesis sits in the only chair, staring nervously at the camera.