Chapter 2 Psychiatric Patient No. 24

On the afternoon of May 2, Zhao Lei sat quietly in front of the microscope in his room, observing the DNA sequences in the blood sample.

Thumb habitually swept the tip of his nose, Zhao Lei finally raised his eyes: this blood sample, he has been observing for several months, and has determined that it is an extremely rare sample. How rare is it? It is an example of a probability of one in the tens of millions.

The owner of this rare blood sample is very likely to have an ability that exceeds ordinary people, as for what it is, Zhao Lei is not very sure.

"Bi Bi Bi", Penguin friend beats, and a volunteer who is familiar with him writes: "There is a sample, you haven't submitted a report for three months, what's going on?" ”

This volunteer is Zhao Lei's contact person, who is responsible for distributing blood samples to volunteers in Sichuan Province.

"Submit it now." After Zhao Lei finished typing, he searched for the routine analysis report of the blood sample from the computer, uploaded it online, and sent a smile by the way, "This is the blood sample of the mentally ill, I was so scared that I forgot to submit it." ”

It is only a regular report.

This blood sample was taken from a psychiatric hospital, and Zhao Lei did not submit the report for a long time, because he could not make up his mind whether he should report his unique findings to the top. He is the only one who has discovered this discovery in the world.

Zhao Lei is a student at Sichuan Provincial University School of Medicine, because he is obsessed with the study of human genome code, since high school, he has been selected by the global "Human Genome Project" as an amateur volunteer for blood sample analysis.

The Human Genome Project was first proposed by American scientists in 1985 and officially launched in 1990. According to the plan, by 2015, the code of about 100,000 genes in the human body will be unlocked, and the human gene spectrum will be drawn at the same time. In other words, it is to uncover the secret of the 3 billion base pairs of the 40,000 genes of the group.

For more than a decade since 2000, the project team has recruited tens of thousands of volunteers around the world to carry out the most basic blood sample analysis research.

The reason why Zhao Lei signed up as a volunteer is that in addition to his hobby, there is also a secret that is not well known. His family is not wealthy, his father runs an Internet café, and he is currently called Bo Xishan, and it is very difficult to even protect the capital; My mother was sick, and her monthly medical bills were expensive. He also has a younger sister named Zhao Qian, who is currently in the third year of high school in the experimental middle school, with excellent grades, but the tuition fee is extremely expensive.

Volunteers can complete about 100 blood sample analyses per month and can earn nearly 1,000 yuan. This is a secret that Zhao Lei has always been reluctant to mention to outsiders.

Zhao Lei took his eyes off the microscope, picked up the information of the blood sample collection site, and landed on the blood sample that had just submitted the report. This is a blood sample from the Sichuan Provincial City Psychiatric Hospital, provided by Psychiatric Patient No. 24, with no further information such as name.

After observing for three months and constantly reviewing reports on rare genetic research, he made a clear judgment: the blood sample of the No. 24 psychiatric patient had a serious loss of genetic sequence, which was conservatively estimated to be a small probability sample of 1 in 10 million. Among the missing gene sequences, he found that one cell was more active than any cell.

There are about 6 billion cells in the human body, and it is impossible for any scientist to find out what is going on with each cell. Zhao Lei inadvertently observed the abnormality of a single cell, completely out of luck.

Gene decipherment refers to the understanding of each genetic code on the gene, and fully demonstrates the role of each genetic code. A single cell, while not enough to change the course of human evolution, is enough to influence certain aspects and move them in a particular direction.

After the letters of his last name, he named the cell Z cell.

This unique discovery is a major discovery in the medical field, and Zhao Lei intends to use it as a private research first. Therefore, the report he submitted was only a routine analysis.

However, the small probability is not the most mysterious part of this blood sample. The most mysterious thing is that Zhao Lei found the missing part of the gene sequence in two or three months of observation, which has the function of automatic recombination. They reorganize themselves endlessly, deriving a dizzying array of genetic codes. Today it's a password, tomorrow it suddenly becomes a B password, and the day after tomorrow it's a new sequence.

What does it mean if the genetic code, which makes up all the physical characteristics of the human body, can be recombined? This is what Zhao Lei urgently needs to answer. He was to document his observations in full and write a paper that would make a splash in the global medical community.

"Bang" "Bang"!

In the living room, there was a sudden sound of falling things, and after a burst of noise, the chair was kicked over, the trash can was kicked away, and then the father's room was slammed shut.

Sticking out his tongue and shrinking his neck, he knew it was his father coming home.

According to the usual practice, there was almost no business in the Internet café in the afternoon, and my father would go to clean up as usual, and usually go home at two or three o'clock for a nap. It's only 1 o'clock today, and my father is back, and something must have happened to him.

Internet cafes used to bring a lot of income to the whole family, but in recent years it has quickly been frozen, and some time ago I heard that someone wanted to buy it, because the bid was too low, my father has been hesitating. The father was very fond of the siblings and almost never lost his temper in the past, but recently things have not been going well, and his temper has become more and more irritable.

"Squeak", the door was pushed open, and his sister Zhao Qian was woken up from a nap, and sat in front of him with a sigh in her pajamas. Zhao Qian is a big beauty in the experimental middle school, with a slender and mature figure, and she attracts attention wherever she goes. Growing up in this family, it can really be described as a thin life. She has excellent academics, and several good classmates in the school have been admitted to major prestigious universities in advance, so she has no pressure to take the college entrance examination.

Students admitted by independent enrollment need to score above one score line in the college entrance examination, and these top students throw off one line several streets in each mock test, just like playing.

"Brother, you've been analyzing this blood sample for several months, what did you find?" Zhao Qian sat next to Zhao Lei, her towering chest almost touching her brother's shoulder.

Zhao Lei smiled mysteriously: "This is the blood sample of a mentally ill patient numbered No. 24, and he will alarm the world." ”

"Cut, alarm the world, it may be that Zhao Lei wants to be crazy to become famous." Zhao Qian pursed her good-looking little mouth, and her long eyelashes flickered and sold a cute, showing some disdain in her heart.

Zhao Lei stood up and put the paper, pen, etc. into his bag: "Qian'er, if you are free, let's go to the mental hospital." ”

"What?" Zhao Qian was taken aback, "Brother, don't say that I am a prophecy, you really want to go to the hospital." ”

"I'm going to go, my brother wants to write a paper that is enough to shock the world's medical community, do you need to visit the field?" Zhao Lei told his sister about the blood sample of the No. 24 psychiatric patient, Zhao Qian was stunned when she heard it, she was stunned for a long time, and ran back to her room as if she was flying, and in a blink of an eye, she was dressed up in a flashy manner, not like going to a mental hospital, but like participating in a beauty pageant.

Shaking his head, Zhao Lei was intoxicated by his sister's graceful figure, but he was also a little worried, he was really afraid that if he entered the hospital, the patients would be all fine, and the dean would go crazy.

Chengdu Psychiatric Hospital, more than ten kilometers away from here, the bus took a round trip, just in time for dinner.

Opening the door, the brother and sister stopped, and Officer Liu, the police officer, hurriedly ran here.

"Yo, where are you going out?" Officer Liu gouged Zhao Qian a few times, and sucked back the hala that was about to flow to his mouth.

Zhao Lei made a joke: "Officer Liu, who to arrest?" Look at the eyes you directly ignored me, dare to love to arrest my sister, wait for the two of us to come back at noon, you will come back to catch it, there is something now. ”

Officer Liu smiled wryly: "The superiors received information that our country had captured an important person in an organization, and this organization wanted to use the case of the evil surname as a threat to force the police to release him. There may be criminal forces that have infiltrated the city and city, and recently tried to create a case of evil surnames, asking us to register the list of outsiders door-to-door, do you have any family? ”

Zhao Qian was so frightened that her face changed: "The case of the evil surname? Officer Liu, I went out with my brother by bus, are we in danger? ”

Officer Liu has a very good relationship with his brother and sister, and he is single, he has always been courteous in front of Zhao Qian, and when he saw the beauty being frightened, he quickly explained in every possible way, saying that as long as he didn't go to a place where the crowd was too gathered, there would be no danger.

"Why is this case so terrible?" Zhao Lei asked.

Officer Liu was close to his ear, and his voice was extremely soft: "Some time ago, there were cases with evil surnames in various places, and they were all done by this group. The latest intelligence says they may choose Sichuan Province as their den. Of course, these are just legends, but I'd rather believe them and do a good job of safety and security first. ”

The officer hurried away, leaving the siblings with some worries.

The bus started slowly, Zhao Qian pulled her brother's arm, leaned her head tightly on his shoulder, and her hair was full of waterfall sprinkled all over Zhao Lei's back.

Zhao Qian is a beautiful girl, slender and mature, and attracts attention wherever she goes. The brother and sister have an excellent relationship, and they often do not avoid the eyes of others and snuggle up like a couple.

Sure enough, the rate of turning heads in the car suddenly soared, and all kinds of envy permeated the entire carriage.

"Brother, the one in 10 million probability people you mentioned, their lost gene sequences are always recombined and recombined, what will be the final result?" Zhao Qian asked softly.

"I can't be sure, it's just speculation, I'm afraid to frighten you out of it." Zhao Lei shook his head slightly.

"Say it!" Zhao Qian sprinkled coquettishly.

Zhao Lei broke his sister's face and pressed it to her ear: "Perhaps, it will reorganize superpowers beyond human imagination." ”

Zhao Qian raised her beautiful big eyes and stared at Zhao Lei watery: "Well, brother, you really should go to a mental hospital." ”

The two frolicked, and before they knew it, they drove to the station and went straight to the mental hospital. After finding a vice president, Zhao Lei showed his volunteer ID card for the Human Genome Project, and the vice president enthusiastically led them to the ward.

Psychiatric patient No. 24, surnamed Ge Wen, is a patient with severe paranoid delusional disorder, with a history of more than 40 years of age and hospitalization for more than ten years.

He turned out to be a comic book lover, responsible for the publicity work of the unit, and had a rich imagination since he was a child, and in the eyes of people, he belonged to the neurotic fantasy type of alternative. After going insane, he stopped drawing and began to write numbers endlessly.

At present, there are only two of his full performances, one is to write numbers, and the wards and beds have long been painted by him, and no one is allowed to smear them; The second is to easily not speak, and when you open your mouth, it will be "there is a catastrophe in the world, I want to save the world" and the like.

When the metal isolation door was opened, Zhao Lei found that in the middle of the overwhelming numbers, there was an old man with a scruffy beard, his head buried deep in his knees, holding a pencil in his hand, and scratching something on the white paper.

"On the 24th, someone has come to see you." The vice president shouted loudly.

No. 24 didn't even raise his head, muttering something in his mouth, until Zhao Lei walked to his side, he heard the words "The world is in great trouble, go and save the world".

"Old uncle, what is the great disaster in the world?" Zhao Qian squatted down and asked softly.

"I don't know." The old man shook his head violently, and the magnitude was so large that He and Zhao Qian hurriedly retreated a few steps.

Zhao Lei stared at the white paper in his hand, which was a string of numbers just below, mixed with a few English letters, and the handwriting was very neat: "305045n1110127e0502213083".

The old man has lived here for more than ten years, and has written more than ten years of numbers, which are marked very clearly, and each year is indicated by a spacer. And throughout the year, there are dozens of strings of numbers, and no one understands what that means.

"What do you want to illustrate by writing so many numbers?" Zhao Lei asked.

"I don't know." The old man replied softly, still with his head on his knees.

"And where is the calamity of which you are talking about? How do we save the world? Zhao Lei's eyes did not leave the numbers, and he found that the n and e in the numbers are a bit like the latitude and longitude in the map. But I don't know what the number after e means.

The map has four English languages, N for north latitude, S for south latitude, W for west longitude, and E for east longitude.

The old man suddenly raised his head and handed over the paper in his hand: "Disaster? Oh, you can save the world by taking it. ”

The vice president smiled, shook his head and walked out the door, he had seen too much of this scene, a paranoid delusional person.

After staying in the ward for more than 20 minutes, the brother and sister couldn't ask any valuable clues, so they hurried back home after taking pictures of all the data in the room.

After dinner, Zhao Lei turned on the computer, but found that his old desktop computer had a blue screen and needed to be repaired. He took Zhao Qian's handbag, opened Google Earth, and selected the first number he wrote more than ten years ago in the order of writing on the 24th, and entered it in the form of coordinates.

The earth slowly enlarged, Zhao Lei was stunned, in this string of data, the number before e is the map coordinates, how can the No. 24 mental patient understand the map coordinates so accurately.

The most surprising thing is that the 24th actually accurately marked a place that became the focus of the world more than ten years ago.

This place is not trivial.

He habitually scraped the tip of his nose with his thumb, wanting to call his sister to come and see.