Chapter 203: Changing Heads
Have you ever thought that there are two people in your body?
One person dominates your body,
Another person dominates your brain......
The head-swapping technique has not been experimented on humans, but its proposal has undoubtedly brought hope to many people with physical disabilities. Those who are born with disabilities, those who have terminal illnesses that are difficult to cure, and so on. Today, we're going to tell a story about head swapping technology.
The reason why this technology has not been used in the human body is because the conditions are immature in all aspects, and the risks are too huge. However, this does not affect some people who have the financial resources and need to actively explore. So, in a poor rural area, someone went to collect information from the locals to see if there were any healthy brain-dead bodies and mice who wanted to change their bodies and were willing to become test subjects.
Of course, it is paid, and in the opinion of some, this compensation is not low.
This kind of thing that you love and I want, even if you don't give money, some people are willing to throw their heads and spill their blood, and experience this surgery worth 70 million, not to mention that there is money to take? So in this area, this kind of news is basically word of mouth. If someone is found to have a terminal illness and has no money to treat it, they are willing to risk death to send their own body, anyway, they don't want money to return the money, and if they die, they can leave some benefits for their descendants, and if they live, they will make a lot of money. Although it is inhumane and somewhat bloody, it is undoubtedly a straw that has saved the lives of many people.
However, there are many people who are willing to change their bodies, but few who can provide them. After all, the probability of brain death is always greater than the probability of getting a terminal illness.
Although this kind of dangerous scientific experiment is based on human life, if it is not for your willingness, it will inevitably end up in a dead end. So many people can only queue up after getting a terminal illness. If you have a loved one who is willing to contribute your body, of course, you can give priority. However, the odds are unlikely.
In this remote town, there is such a boy. He was physically weak since he was a child, and he was always bullied and ridiculed at school.
Luckily, he has a healthy and strong twin brother who can always protect him in time and save him from fire and water. So even though he was so weak, the little boy still grew up smoothly. And he's smart, with a brain that's smarter than most kids. This means that he is always so comfortable in the eyes of the teacher, and has become a "top student" in the eyes of most parents.
On this day, on the way out of school, the boy met several poor students in his class. They are naughty and even somewhat hateful, but they are very popular with girls. They stopped him and asked him if he had any pocket money.
In fact, the vulgar episode of being robbed of pocket money on the way out of school will not have much impact on the growth of this boy with excellent grades. At most, he will be beaten, and when he grows up, he will take this incident as a joke, and even drink and brag with the people who beat him back then.
What affected him was an unintentional push from one of the children. He was pushed against the wall, and it didn't hurt, but he broke his nose.
Actually, he wasn't quite sure if he had broken his nose, but he felt a heat in his nostrils before he could notice anything.
Then, the other children were scared away at once.
He was happy. The ten dollars he had saved in his pocket for half a month kept it. This is what he saved from his book fee, so that he can invite his brother to sit in the newly opened bubble tea shop in front of his house tomorrow. The town is poor, and the milk tea sold is not expensive, and you can buy it for three or four yuan
One cup. Ten yuan can not only drink two cups of milk tea, but also fry some chicken fillet, the brothers eat and drink, get two books to read, it is a weekend thought, and it can be regarded as the most luxurious enjoyment of the brothers.
The boy rummaged through his bag, but when he couldn't find a tissue, he tore a blank page of paper from his homework book to wipe his nosebleed. According to his judgment, as long as he wiped it dry and left it alone, the bleeding would stop after a while.
But after five minutes, he noticed that the bleeding had not stopped. The mass of paper that had plugged the nostrils was already red, and the blood was still oozing outside.
The boy was a little uncomfortable. Probably because of blood loss, his head was a little dizzy.
He walked home in a trance, and as he walked, he fainted.
When he woke up, the boy was lying in a nearby shop. The kind-hearted shopkeeper found the little boy lying on the ground, carried him back to the store, and called the boy's father. My father was working on the construction site, and when he heard that his youngest son had fainted, he immediately rushed back to see him.
"Baby, Dad will take you to Dr. Zhang to have a look." The boy's father took the little boy to the small clinic around the corner. That doctor Zhang is an old man, the clinic has been open all his life, and he has seen all the major and minor illnesses of everyone in this town. If he was seriously ill, he said that he couldn't see it and let him go to a big hospital. This situation is very rare, and there are also people who have a serious illness that Dr. Zhang did not see. He doesn't cure minor illnesses very much, so he sells some medicine for them to eat, anyway, they are all diseases that don't die if they are not cured.
Despite this, the people of the town were willing to seek medical attention from him. Because most people come here, Dr. Zhang will wave his hand and say, "Don't do anything, what are you fuss about?"
They love to hear things like that. Compared to this, they are most afraid of hearing people say: It's bad, you have to go to a big hospital when you're sick. In this way, it means that if you have a stubborn disease, it will cost you money to cure it, and if you can't cure it, you will have to spend money and die.
He examined the little boy and found that there were no external injuries and that the bleeding in his nose had stopped. He then listened to the boy with a stethoscope, and there was nothing wrong with it.
"Where is it not vain?" Dr. Zhang has lost both of his teeth and is a bit leaky when he speaks.
The boy said, "My head is a little dizzy. ”
Dr. Zhang opened the boy's eyes, shone it with a flashlight, then turned off the flashlight, waved his hand, and said, "Don't do anything!" The baby had low blood sugar, and there were some nosebleeds, and it was common for her to faint. Just eat some Guo jelly beans! ”
The boy's father thanked him and left Dr. Zhang's clinic. It is quite a joy to be able to get such an inexpensive diagnosis.
The little boy was taken out into the street by his father, bought a lot of snacks, and bought him a cup of milk tea at the newly opened milk tea shop. This fulfilled his weekend wish ahead of schedule.
However, the little boy was not happy at all. Because he had seen before, there was a student in the next class, who didn't know what disease he had, and who always had a nosebleed that dripped on their path, and it did it today, and it came again tomorrow, layer upon layer. Later, the student died.
The little boy is a top learner and has a very flexible brain. He went to the next class to inquire and learned that the student had leukemia.
A terminal illness. It's expensive to cure. The student always had nosebleeds, and was taken to Dr. Zhang by his parents, where he was said to have a sand nose. Later, the treatment was delayed, and no matter how much money it spent, he couldn't be cured, so he could only watch him die.
The family didn't bother with a doctor. Because they have inquired about the price of leukemia treatment, it is not something that their family can afford
of. In the final analysis, it is their own decision not to take their children to a regular place to check. Sometimes, when you think you haven't made a choice, you've already made a choice.
It's like the happy smile on my dad's face that day when he heard that he was just low blood sugar and that he could get better by eating a few sugars.
Rustic, and resolute.
A few days passed, and everything was calm, and the little boy felt that this time might really be an accident.
On this day, during physical education class, the little boy was bathed in the sun and played football with his brother, and he almost forgot about it.
He suddenly felt a pain in the bones in his legs. Knee pain, like arthritis.
The boy was a little nervous. He went to check the symptoms of leukemia, and one of them was arthralgia.
On this day, the boy was sullen all the time. When he got home, he tentatively asked his father how much money the family had.
The boy's father thought for a while and said, "Your mother and I have worked hard for a few years, and we have bought a house or something, and there are about 100,000 yuan." What is this for? ”
The boy swallowed and did not answer his father.
To treat leukemia, I heard that it can easily cost millions. His family's house, not to mention the savings of his parents and grandparents, even if they are willing to buy it for their own treatment, they can't sell it for any money.
At that time, there was no such thing as poverty alleviation, and there was no serious illness subsidy for poor households, and terminal illness was a fatal blow to a family with poor or even normal family circumstances. Yes, either it will be directly fatal, or it will be hit economically. If it can't afford to hit it financially, it will be directly fatal.
That night, the little boy didn't sleep well. He had been anxious about the issue. He didn't tell his mom and dad about it, and he didn't tell his twin brother. Although that brother has been his bodyguard, he has not reached the same level as him in terms of IQ. Most of the time, he can barely be regarded as a loyal companion, just like the big yellow dog of Xiao Ming's family at the same table.
Faithful, honest, but unable to give you useful advice.
The little boy was already weak, and he tossed and turned all night, and the next morning he had a fever.
Fever in children is actually a common problem. Most children have a natural reaction from the body to kill the virus. The adults were not too nervous, and prescribed a dose of antipyretic medicine from Dr. Zhang and put it at home, asking my brother to take leave to take care of it at home, and take medicine to reduce fever in case of severe fever.
But the groggy little boy was very nervous. Because he knows that fever is one of the most common symptoms of leukemia.
Nosebleeds, arthralgia, fever. If these symptoms are correct, is there another possibility?
The little boy was almost certain that he was terminally ill. He looked at his brother who was pouring water to wipe his body, and his heart was full of envy.
It would be nice if I could be as strong as my brother! Heaven arranged for them to be born at the same time, one with a healthy body, but a brain like a pool of boiled water. The other, though he had a brilliant mind, was so fragile in his body.
If only Heaven hadn't separated them at that time and let them be born as one person!
As soon as this thought appeared, a thunderclap struck in the boy's heart.
Oh, my God! This idea is so weird!
However, the boy could not stop the thought in his heart.
What if, put your head on your brother's body......