Chapter 1 Autophagy Syndrome
The world is still the world, and it looks no different than before.
But under this surface, everything unknown is quietly changing, like a bucket turning stars, like rain falling dust, in the light, in the dark, it seems to be silent, but it is accumulating until it is out of control.
It was another early spring afternoon, and in the ward of a hospital, a teenager was slowly waking up.
He strained himself and let out a soft grunt, but he couldn't sit up.
Turning his head and looking out of the window, his pale and sickly face did not have a trace of the energy he had after a nap, as if the action just now had exhausted all his strength.
The warm spring breeze is blowing on the boy's face through the window, and the bright sunshine and the chirping of birds outside the window seem to increase the teenager's exploration.
With another soft hum, he finally propped up half of his body, leaned back on the bed and looked out, his face full of anticipation and longing.
"Smack!" The door to the ward was pushed open.
"Yuntian, lie down quickly, don't catch a cold." Seeing this, a woman hurried to the bed.
"Mom, I'm fine, I slept and felt much better." The young man named Yuntian barely managed to squeeze out a smile.
"Lie down, you can't catch a cold at this time." Mother couldn't help but say.
"Mom, I want to go down for a walk and breathe some fresh air, which is good for my body and my heart." Yuntian said.
"No! ……。 ”
"Mom! The consultation is coming up in the afternoon, and I don't want to stay up here slowly. Yun Tian suddenly interrupted his mother's words and slowly closed his eyes.
At that moment, the door opened again, and a nurse walked in.
The mother asked, "The child wants to go out for a walk, do you think it's okay?" ”
The nurse glanced at Yuntian and said, "Yes, the weather outside is good today, and it should be fine to wear more." ”
As he spoke, he kept on his hands, pushed a shot of medicine to Yuntian, and then said, "Come with me, parents, the consultation will start soon." ”
The mother agreed, and hurriedly waited for Yuntian to get dressed.
Because of this injection, Yuntian's spirit has improved significantly, and the person seems to have some strength, and he can barely stand up on his own.
But Yuntian and his mother both knew that this was only temporary, and in these days of hospitalization, he had to push an injection of this cell-based drug every few days to maintain the normal operation of his body.
Just in case, his mother still gave Yun Tian a pair of crutches before sending him to the elevator and told him to be careful.
The elevator door closed, and her mother's smiling face collapsed instantly, and she couldn't help but shudder when she turned her head to look at the consultation room at the end of the corridor.
Yun Tian walked out of the building of the inpatient department slowly on crutches and walked into the small garden not far away.
Standing in it, he took a deep breath and looked up at the dazzling sunlight, his heart full of bitterness.
At this time, in the consultation room, there was a tense and serious atmosphere.
Well-known experts invited from all over the country gathered together, all observing the various rubbings on the luminous plates.
The reason why so many experts can gather in a people's hospital in a border city is not because the Yuntian family is rich and powerful, but because he has this disease, which no one has seen so far.
The mother sat on the sidelines, like a prisoner being questioned, and she stated: "My child Yuntian is seventeen years old this year, he has been frail since he was a child, but he has always been healthy, he suddenly fell ill two months ago, and his health is getting worse, our family's economic conditions are not good, and we have traveled to many places and cannot find the cause, so we have to return to my hometown, while conservative treatment, while slowly checking the cause." ”
One of the gray-haired old professors coughed and said, "Your decision is correct, after our careful research, your son has an unprecedented disease, and I can only call it autophagy syndrome now." ”
"Autophagy syndrome? What is this disease? Yuntian's mother shook her body and reached out to grab the old professor.
The old professor shook his head and said: "Ms. Zhang, please calm down, to put it in layman's terms, this is actually a genetic disease, children's body cells are inherently different from normal people, they will devour each other, the strong will devour the weak, and the new will devour the old, until the body cells can no longer maintain the normal consumption of the body." ”
"This, how can there be such a strange disease, the child has always been well." Mica defended weakly with a crying voice.
The old professor glanced at the rubbings on the bright board and said: "Maybe in the early days of the child, the degree of autophagy of this kind of cells is not serious, coupled with the regeneration rate of the body cells themselves, barely reached a balance, as they grow older, this kind of problem also begins to become more and more serious, once the balance is lost, this is the case." ”
"How can this genetic disease be treated?" Yuntian's mother's voice was a little cold.
"There is no way to treat it, this disease is a genetic disease at best, but it is actually more like an advanced version of cancer, which has never been seen before." The old professor glanced at the other colleagues, shook his head and replied.
It didn't seem to be surprised by this result, Yuntian's mother just grabbed the old professor's sleeve and kept repeating: "How can this be, his father and I are both healthy, how could he get this strange genetic disease." ”
The old professor wanted to break away from each other, but he didn't succeed, so he had to explain angrily: "Human DNA is a magical genetic code, and any inadvertent behavior may change its final result, just like a couple who are not tall, but give birth to a child who is taller than their parents, this is a kind of evolution and mutation of DNA, and there are also very tall couples, but they give birth to a shorter child, which is also a kind of self-degradation of genetic combination." It is a similar situation for two able-bodied couples to give birth to babies with congenital malformations and disabilities. In the end, the problem lies with your husband and wife, your DNA may not be a problem alone, but the child born after your union has changed, from the perspective of biological science, you belong to the kind of people who are not suitable for union, and marrying close relatives is a category. ”
These words pierced Mica's heart like a steel needle, and she collapsed to the ground as soon as her eyes were dark.
Everyone hurriedly helped her up, and when the old professor saw this, his heart softened and said: "Don't blame yourself too much, no one can predict this kind of thing, while the child can still do it, give him a little more happy time." ”
After speaking, he led a group of experts out of the consultation room, leaving only one nurse still comforting his sad mother.
At this time, the door of the consultation room was pushed open again, and a middle-aged man rushed in.
Seeing that the mica who was sitting in the chair hurriedly asked, "Xiuyun, how is the child's consultation, I raised some money from my friend again...... ”
Looking at his wife who didn't say a word, the middle-aged man seemed to realize something, and after a moment of silence, he took his wife into his arms, and the two of them cried quietly.
Unlike his sad parents, the dazed Yuntian is still wandering in a small garden with no people.