Chapter 732: The human brain is like a big watermelon

Sommeret smiled bitterly and said, "She's our daughter, how could we possibly ignore her? The psychiatrist suggested observing her for a while and letting her interests take their course. But she followed Billy d'Orleans aboard the ship. We didn't expect that! When my men arrived in France, they discovered she wasn't on board. We thought the 'Prince of Beaugency' had done something horrific at sea, and just as we were about to hold him accountable, we discovered Tilty was with you."

Xiao Peng finally understood the whole story, so he hurriedly said, "Mr. Sommeret, first of all, I assure you that there is nothing between Tilti and me! We 'started from emotion and ended with reason.'"

"I know." Somelet nodded. "Not only are you 'acting out of emotion but also rational,' but you're also being chased around by several girls. To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if you have...a problem in that area!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Xiao Peng coughed violently after hearing the cigarette. This was... too Swedish, wasn't it? Was it wrong for me not to harm your daughter?

Somolet continued, "Xiao, I wonder if you've noticed a problem? Tilty relies on you a lot!"

Xiao Peng shook his head vigorously: "I really didn't notice that. She actually had a lot of fun playing music with my apprentice."

"No, no, no, you should have seen it!"

Xiao Peng: “!@?#￥!?￥%!%”

What do you mean?

Seeing Xiao Peng looking at him with a confused expression, Sommerette explained, "We've consulted the doctor about her current condition. In fact, after we found her whereabouts, we've been keeping an eye on her, including your life in Paris."

Xiao Peng frowned slightly: "Someone is monitoring me? That's a bit exaggerated. If someone was watching me, I would have noticed it."

Sommeret said, "My people were watching Tilti, not you. That's why you didn't notice. Her therapist is also in Paris. Based on her observations, she's amazed at your situation: Tilti is in this state because she's trying to escape. So, she shouldn't have close contact with people, not follow you everywhere like she does now."

Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. "Mr. Sommeret, I think you've misunderstood. Things really aren't what you think. She and my friend Marlene Walter are very close now. They're like besties. Marlene Walter came to see me, so she followed him. And as you saw, my apprentice was there too. They play music together. I'm the secondary one."

Sommeret shook his head. "Xiao, what I heard from the doctor is completely different from what you think. Tilty's current condition makes her very good at hiding her true emotions. According to the doctor's observation, everything she does now is because of you. Her eyes and emotions change every time she looks at you."

Xiao Peng frowned after hearing this and said, "Is the doctor you mentioned reliable? He's not a quack, is he?"

Sommeret said in a very Versailles way: "The doctor I found must be the best. He has won the Nobel Prize!"

The Swedes particularly recognize the Nobel Prize. After all, it is a Swedish award, right?

However, Xiao Peng does scoff at the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, which is simply a joke. Even the mustache president has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This award has long been turned into a tool in the hands of politicians, which is getting more and more ridiculous!

Seeing Somolet's smug expression, Xiao Peng said directly, "A Nobel Prize winner in medicine like Antonio Egas Moniz?"

After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Somolet's expression instantly became uglier than crying: "Xiao, can we not talk about this?"

Antonio Egas Moniz was the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and also the creator of the tragic fate of hundreds of thousands of people.

This guy was a Portuguese psychiatrist. In 1935, he came across a report saying that if a lobotomy was performed on chimpanzees, their aggressive behavior would be greatly reduced and they would even become very docile.

This guy had an idea: if removing the white matter from the frontal lobe would reduce aggression? Then it should work on humans too! Some mentally ill patients are so aggressive, this method should be able to reduce their aggression and thus achieve the goal of treating mental illness.

Then he did what he said and started experimenting on mentally ill patients that year.

The first time was still normal. I tried to use alcohol to destroy the nerves in the white matter of the forebrain of a mentally ill patient. It turned out that although alcohol can play a destructive role, it can also affect other parts of the brain!

In order to prevent this from happening, this "genius" medical scientist invented a "leukotomy device" that specifically cuts off the connection between the frontal lobe and other areas of the brain.

This tool sounds impressive, but the explanation is a bit disconcerting: it involves inserting a needle-like tool from the inside of the eyelid into the skull, along the eyeball, and rotating it. To put it in a more vivid way, it's like inserting a blender into a watermelon. While the outside still looks like watermelon, the inside has become juice. The brain of a person treated with this method is like a blended watermelon.

Antonio Egas Moniz won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this operation. After he won the award, the operation quickly became popular and was not only used to treat mental patients. For a long time, criminals, delinquent teenagers, and political prisoners all underwent this operation, involving hundreds of thousands of people. Even Rose Mary Kennedy, the sister of US President Kennedy, was treated with this operation.

But then people discovered that the people who had received the treatment had indeed become quieter, but they became unable to communicate with others, and their language and thinking abilities were affected!

This is not surprising. The frontal lobe of the human brain is mainly responsible for human thinking, reasoning and decision-making tasks. If a person's thinking ability is destroyed, how can they not be quiet?

However, due to the immense influence of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, this horrific surgery persisted for over two decades, until it was eventually banned worldwide in 1970. However, it had already left hundreds of thousands of people severely ill and completely disabled. This is a stain on the Nobel Prize in Medicine that will never be erased. How could Sommeret not cry when Xiao Peng mentioned this name?

Somolet coughed dryly to cover up his embarrassment, and Xiao Peng didn't continue the topic: "Somolet, I understand the general course of events, but I still have a question that I can't explain: What was your purpose in inviting me here in this way?"