Zhao Xuerou suddenly shivered twice and immediately wanted to report these people to the police.
However, a quiet and docile blond boy suddenly seemed to sense the gaze on him, raised his head and looked towards the wall, his eyes meeting Zhao Xuerou's.
She quickly put a finger to her lips in a "shh" gesture, but how could someone who had undergone brain surgery think like a normal person? The blond-haired man stuck out his tongue, flashed a bright smile, and politely said, "Hello, sister."
The sound was particularly jarring in the quiet courtyard. The doctor in the white coat suddenly looked up and followed the direction the blond-haired man was facing, and immediately saw Zhao Xuerou.
Zhao Xuerou couldn't care less about anything else. In her desperation, she suddenly jumped down from the brick pile instead of following the proper steps!
She wanted to leap out of the asylum, run towards the artificial hill, run towards Lanjing City, escape this insane place, and not know what would happen if she were caught by these heartless people!
Zhao Xuerou fell to the ground, and before she could even brush the mud off herself, she started running toward the low-lying area. But then she heard the sound of a pickup truck starting up inside the factory, and suddenly a wave of despair washed over her.
She was breathing heavily, her chest heaving. Never before had her heart been beating so fast, yet as she ran, she caught a glimpse of the car out of the corner of her eye, and darkness enveloped her in an instant…
Of course, the staff at the mental hospital wouldn't let her go easily. After beating her, they interrogated her, asking if she was a reporter who had come to expose them!
Zhao Xuerou was struck unconscious with a blunt object, which led to the view she saw at the beginning of the film, gazing out the window from the cramped room…
Fortunately, Luo Xiaoli witnessed everything by chance. She disregarded the resentment between the two and immediately dialed the police, which saved Zhao Xuerou from the mental hospital.
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Inside the hospital, where the air was thick with the smell of disinfectant, Luo Xiaoli waited for her parents to arrive and dialed her brother Jiang Cheng's number.
When they told Jiang Cheng about all of this, he was shocked as he looked out the window of the research base at the red willow tree.
Lobotomy is a world-renowned surgery, similar to the craniotomy performed in ancient Europe. In that theological era, anyone who tried to rebel against the Church or had offensive ideas would be mistakenly believed to have a demon living in their head.
Open the skull, remove the demon, and the person will return to normal.
By 1892, after human medicine had gained a certain understanding of the human body, the term "demon" was dropped, and people began to use "mental illness" instead. A doctor also began experimenting with damaging functional areas of the brain to treat mental illness.
However, the brain cannot withstand any trauma. Craniotomy was too brutal and cruel, and the research was stopped after two patients died.
The idea of curing mental illness through the brain has never stopped.
However, they changed the approach. Some medical workers began to experiment on chimpanzees. They removed the lobes of the chimpanzees' brains and found that the originally ferocious creatures became quiet, very docile, and showed no aggressive intentions, and lived well.
Their experiments and theories spread and were discovered by a doctor in Portugal who thought they could be used on patients with mania and mental illness. The mad doctor then began his experiments!
His name is Monis.
Monis first performed surgery on a mentally ill woman. The woman, who had violent tendencies and would occasionally fall into a state of madness, became docile after the surgery, no longer crying, laughing, or making a fuss.
Further improvements were made, leading to the development of leukotomy and frontal lobotomy!
Further development led to the development of ice pick therapy!
First, anesthetize a patient and then shock them into unconsciousness. Then, take a steel needle as thick as a chopstick and insert it into the brain above the patient's eyeball. After that, stir it vigorously and use the steel needle to destroy the patient's frontal lobe. This method is very convenient as it does not require craniotomy or drilling.
It quickly became a global phenomenon, considered a sophisticated medical method that truly cured mental illness patients. With just a hammer and an ice pick, it was simple, effective, and could cure illnesses anywhere.
The most terrifying thing is that, due to its immense popularity, even the mentally ill could not be satisfied with its treatment needs; the clutches of ice pick therapy began to reach out to criminals, homosexuals, rebellious teenagers...
If you disobey, I'll poke a steel needle into your forehead, and everything will be solved in an instant! The world will be peaceful again.
In 1949, Monis received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, a prestigious award for researchers, for his work on a prefrontal lobotomy.
In the decades that followed, the side effects of this medical treatment gradually began to appear. A small number of patients who had their brain lobes removed developed dementia, while others died on the operating table or committed suicide due to severe depression.
Many survived, but they were like soulless zombies, withdrawn and listless, with few expressions. They listened to everything they were told, but had lost their own ability to think.
With the rapid development of modern medicine, the secrets of the brain have been discovered, and more and more researchers understand that damaging the prefrontal cortex and disrupting the reticular formation can cause unpredictable and irreversible harm to humans.
Just one year later, starting in the United States, a worldwide ban on prefrontal lobotomy was imposed, and the steel needle disappeared from everyone's sight.
When Jiang Cheng recalled this information, his first feeling was disbelief. Evil that had disappeared for so many years had reappeared in Lanjing and was being used against those rebellious teenagers in the "madhouse".
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