mermaid disease

1.

The driver didn't say a word the whole time.Yang Yi was sitting in the co-pilot, with his right hand subconsciously twisting the ring print on his left ring finger, looking sideways at the sea in the distance.No one told them their destination, and their mobile phones were confiscated before getting into the car.The coast here is very similar to the scenery on the road that must be passed to my parents' house.I haven't been back for several years, but my impression has always been very deep, even clearer than the impression of my parents.

The last time I broke up with my father was a phone call five days ago.

"Why did you divorce."

"Because it was wrong in the first place."

At this age, Yang Yi is gradually relieved about some things.He quietly waited for the old man to finish cursing, and then asked him to say hello to his mother, and he would not hang up until the phone was hung up over there.He didn't even ask for leave when going through the formalities, and almost no one in the unit noticed that Director Yang had taken off the ring.It's good if he put away his mobile phone, he can live a life without being disturbed.

Wei Yijian bowed his head, waking up the dozing Fan Ziyao.The two of them had a good time in the back seat. The car had been driven for five hours from early morning to noon, and the two younger buttocks were already flattened, and their stomachs were also protesting.Yang Yi looked at the watch below and asked:

"Can we find a place to eat?"

The driver finally said the first sentence after getting in the car: "I'll be there soon."

Yang Yi received a phone call from the director in the middle of the night, asking him to pick an assistant and an anesthesiologist, and come to the hospital office early tomorrow morning to find him.He asked what was the matter, but the dean said don't ask, I don't know what it is.At six o'clock in the morning, the dean sent him, Fan Ziyao, and Wei Yijian, who had just been on the night shift, to the car. He pointed his fingers and said, "Handpicked by the Ministry of Land and Resources, it's still... secret. Yes, yes." A sterile bag was thrown on his lap, it was his exclusive equipment.

"Don't embarrass the Third Court." The dean instructed.

The car left the coastal road from a fork.Turn around on the ramp, pass through a fir forest, and come to a white building complex built on the hillside.The changing scenery finally cheered up the young man, Wei Yijian and Fan Ziyao discussed in a low voice.The car drove through a very winding road and stopped in front of an inconspicuous three-story building.A few people in white coats stood at the door, looking a little solemn.When Fan Ziyao jumped out of the car, he wanted to give them a smile, but he held back when he saw the expressions on people's faces.

"Professor Yang."

The leader, the white-haired old man, came up to shake hands with Yang Yi, "The journey was hard." The old man said as he led a group of people in. He had all white hair, was about seventy years old, walked like flying, but didn't intend to introduce himself.A man who was about the same age as Yang Yi walked beside him and said with a smile: "I am Zeng Yuanhang, the deputy director of the Institute of Oceanography. This is my teacher and the director here, Zhang Shiqin."

Zeng Yuanhang said, "Teacher, shall we eat first?"

Zhang Shiqin looked at his watch, patted his head and said, "I forgot the time. Okay, let's go eat first, and then go see the live body."

2.

Lunch is settled in the conference room, a fairly simple sandwich.Zeng Yuanhang said that because of the secrecy system here, it is unlikely that third parties will be stationed here, so even the meals are cooked by everyone in turn. Today is his turn, and he does not know how to cook haha.

The arrival of Yang Yi and his party probably interrupted their meeting. Zhang Shiqin woke up his notebook while biting a sandwich. The screen on the wall showed a PET-CT image, and Yang Yi's hand holding the sandwich stopped in midair.

Head, hands, ribcage, pelvis, and then the unsplit legs.Fan Ziyao and Wei Yijian also stopped chewing, Fan Ziyao asked Yang Yi: "Mermaid... Syndrome?" Yang Yi shook his head, no.There are very few patients with mermaid syndrome who survive in the world, and they are all accompanied by dwarfism and visceral deformities. The image in the CT is clearly that of an adult with a normal body size.

After Zhang Shiqin finished eating, he casually wiped his hands on his coat.He stood up and walked to the screen, and turned a page with a page-turner. It was a full page of 3D organ imaging, covered from all angles.He nodded and said, "It's not mermaid syndrome. This is a mermaid with a mermaid body and tail, just like the one in the legend."

An assistant sent paper documents to the three, with "confidential" red stamps on the cover.

Zeng Yuanhang said: "What the next three people saw and heard is the project we are currently working on, and it is also top secret. There are detailed confidentiality regulations on the first page, please be sure to read it."

3.

Yes.It is the mermaid, the legendary mermaid who sings in the middle of the ocean and confuses humans with his eyes.When a marine research vessel under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Land and Resources was performing routine exploration at sea, it expelled a fishing boat from country F that broke into the territorial waters.They were chasing a huge fish and the harpoon had penetrated its body.The fishing boat was too small to confront the exploration boat head-on. The big fish was exhausted at the time, and the fishing boat was about to tow it away. When the fishing boat slowed down and turned, the fish stretched out a hand and pulled it off the tail. harpoon.

The people on the fishing boat yelled but did not dare to stay, and quickly left the territorial waters.All the people stood on the deck and watched the fish—or half-man half-fish creature, from struggling and rolling to gradually exhausted, with blood-red spray on the sea surface, it seemed to be dead, with its face down. Floating with the waves.

4.

After passing a few doors that needed to be unlocked with the retina, they walked down the spiral staircase, and a group of people entered a quiet basement.The rippling light shone on the ground, Yang Yi looked up, the skylight seemed to be at the bottom of the pool.

"This way please." Zeng Yuanhang led the three of them into a not-so-long corridor and into another huge room.The light here is dim, and many familiar medical equipment are placed randomly. The whole room can almost support a third-level hospital.One side of the room was blocked by a venetian blind, Zhang Shiqin said: Open it. "

Someone pushed a button, and the venetian blinds gradually rolled up with the hum of a motor.An aquarium the size of an entire wall appeared in front of us. It was not arranged like an ocean world, but more like an underwater experiment base—some cables were dragged at the bottom of the tank, and the oxygen pump was producing white foam, rolling and rising. Dissipates when it hits the nylon cord.

Fan Ziyao and Wei Yijian let out a low exclamation.

The nylon rope belongs to a finely woven net, and the six corners should be fixed somewhere on the top of the tank.The net supports the mermaid and hangs in the middle of the aquarium.The mermaid lay in the net with her head turned inward.The eyes were blindfolded, and the double helical tube protruded from somewhere, connected to the endotracheal tube, and was fixed in his mouth with a retainer.No details on the face can be seen, only the long black hair floats and sinks with the turbulence created by the oxygen pump.

His upper body presents the characteristics of a human male, with a raised Adam's apple and strong chest muscles.There are four grooves on the side of the neck, opening and closing, similar to the gill openings of sharks.There is a scar on the left arm from the shoulder to the elbow, the edge is white, the wrist is bound, and the edge of the net is fastened with an iron ring.

Down from the waistline, the other half of his body is a fish tail nearly two meters long.Gray black, without scales, there is a huge gap in the upper middle part of the fish tail, nailed hastily by nails, and there is no bleeding.This should be the penetrating wound caused by the harpoon, Yang Yi took a closer look.The part that is a fish naturally has a caudal fin and a row of dorsal fins on its back.Below the penetrating wound, there are two symmetrical flippers in tandem.There are also handcuffs on the tail fin, which are also fixed to the net.Various pipelines extend down from the water surface and are connected to the tail of his body, tied on the back of his hand or around his neck.

Yang Yi looked at the oxygen tube and asked, "Breathe with your lungs?"

"can."

Zhang Shiqin called up the 3D imaging of the organs from the pad, "He has a special respiratory system, which can collect oxygen from water with gills, and breathe with lungs on land."

"Maybe because of the injury, his blood oxygen has been poor since he arrived at the institute. We had to put him on a ventilator, and at the same time add oxygen to the water for 24 hours, and now it can reach more than 95%."

"Have you been using sedation?" Wei Yijian asked.

"Yes." Zeng Yuanhang said to Yang Yi: "The connection between the human body and the fish's tail is exactly where the lower digestive tract, reproductive system and urinary system are located. The composition of this organ is very complicated, which is very different from that of human beings. We studied a period The time has been sorted out roughly, and the information will be given to you later. You are an authoritative expert in urology in China, and you also have work experience in general surgery. We invite you to hope that you can perform operations on mermaids."

"Does he have a name?"

"Not yet, we will call him a mermaid for the time being, or just 'fish'".

5.

The shock of seeing the mermaid was quickly washed away by the busyness.The institute said that the fewer people who knew about it, the better, so the dean finally asked him to bring two people.Yang Yi scratched his head, this medical team was going to perform an operation on a brand new and unknown creature, within two days, there were only three people.Fortunately, the research institute is really rich and has all kinds of medical equipment that you can imagine. Before he arrived, he had taken all kinds of 360-degree medical images of the mermaid. The biochemical indicators were updated every hour. Files are sent to their office.

He is almost a human body half-fitted into a fish.He has a urinary system and excretes urine through the urethra instead of the skin.He has a reproductive system similar to that of humans, with external reproductive organs similar to those of sharks.Since "he" has been used to refer to it, at least until now, the mermaid is predicted to be male.

His pelvis was underdeveloped, and the organs that were supposed to be protected by the pelvis were therefore very fragile.The harpoon pierced part of his intestine and almost completely destroyed the ureter.The composition of blood is very similar to that of humans, and the structure of red blood cells is almost exactly the same.He is still type AB, and the fusion experiment with human blood went smoothly, without coagulation.

"Director, this can't work." Fan Ziyao said, "We can't just talk about it on paper." Clinical practice is a discipline that needs to stand in front of the hospital bed and face real patients.Moreover, the operation will definitely not be performed underwater, and it is absolutely necessary to let the fish out of the water to get used to it before it is officially implemented.