I opened my eyes. (2)

The doctor asked while putting away the penlight.

“What’s your name? This is a hospital, do you remember how you got here?”

Shin Hyuk was confused.

It was because he didn’t know why he was in the hospital or why he was lying here.

Shin Hyuk felt a tingling sensation and moved his gaze to his right arm.

A needle with a wyport capable of mixing multiple fluids was injected into a vein.

Shin Hyuk raised his hand as if surprised.

It was small.

It was too small.

It was like looking at the hands of a child.

It’s been a long time since I became an adult…

Having spent so much time there, this situation itself seemed like a dream.

Is that a dream or is this a dream?

However, every time I moved my arm little by little, the sharpness of the needle stuck in my vein told me that this was reality.

Then, did I have a long dream?

A very long dream.

“Student, what is your name? Do you remember?”

Shin Hyuk nodded slowly.

“Yeah. This is Lee Shin-hyeok.”

Then a middle-aged man in a white coat approached.

“Are you awake?”

Doctors and nurses bowed their heads at the appearance of the middle-aged man.

“Yeah. professor.”

The professor, who briefly checked his vital signs, smiled.

“You are awake. thank god.”

In his words, Shin Hyuk had something he wanted to confirm.

“How long has it been since I was in the hospital?”

“one month. Aren’t you dizzy? Are you going to vomit?”

“Yeah. Fine. Rather, was I in a coma?”

For a long time of one month?

The professor laughed.

The child who has just woken up is asking what has happened to him.

It was the voice of a child, but the tone was that of an adult.

Shin Hyuk murmured involuntarily.

“Maybe he was in a vegetative state.”

The fact that the oxygen respirator was not attached meant that his body was functioning as a plant.

the professor asked.

“How do you feel? Are you okay?”

“Yeah. Fine. Did I wake up overnight? Or did you wake up to a VNS (vagus nerve stimulation) trial?”

There is a case of waking up from a vegetative state after 3 months by stimulating the vagus nerve, and a person who has been in a vegetative state for a long time of 15 years has recovered consciousness, albeit weakly.

The professor put on a puzzled expression.

Even when he is asleep, he surprises himself with brain waves, and even when he regains consciousness, he surprises himself.

It is because the child is reciting medical terminology because it is not enough to diagnose himself.

At that time, something flashed through the professor’s mind.

Acquired Savant Syndrome?

Due to some accident, the phenomenon of highly developed certain fields was questionable.

if not.

“Have you always been interested in medicine?”

Shin Hyuk was about to say that he learned it in a dream, but changed his mind.

It won’t sound anything but crazy.

“Yeah. I was interested.”

The professor rubbed his chin in interest.

He is only 9 years old and is invisible.

I couldn’t find him waking up with tears in his eyes, or being scared at all.

It was a very rare case.

“Are you curious about what state you were in when you were asleep?”

“Yeah.”

After examining Shin Hyuk’s vital signs once again, the professor opened his mouth.

I don’t know why he felt that way, but he wanted this kid to surprise him one more time.

“Okay, then listen. When you lay unconscious, theta wave vibrations were observed in your brain at 7:00 in the morning. And the fm theta wave continued. until 11 p.m. At 11 p.m., it turns into an alpha wave, but before 12 p.m., more than 50% of the delta waves were observed. Regularly for a month or so.”

Shin Hyuk couldn’t help but be surprised.

It was because the pattern of living in the dream matched the pattern the professor said.

Seeing Shin Hyuk’s surprised face, the professor asked.

“Can you understand me?”

“My brain wakes up at 7 in the morning (theta waves), focuses on something (Fm theta waves), lies down to sleep at 11 o’clock (alpha waves), and falls asleep deeply (delta waves) before 12 o’clock… .”

Fm theta waves are not common brain waves.

It was a brain wave that appears when you exercise high concentration.

What’s even harder to believe is that the brain reacted like a living person.

“ha ha ha!”

The professor laughed out of spite.

Goosebumps seemed to rise.

And he told the medical staff around him as if he had found a treasure.

“Did you hear? did you hear You clearly understand what I mean. ha ha ha!”

* * *

Shin Hyuk was walking down the hallway of the hospital as if he were oiling his frozen body.

As a result of the examination, everything is normal.

‘My father is dead.’

My father, who used to drink and assault and followed me day and night, passed away.

On the day of the accident, he died on the way to the emergency room.

He was given a funeral by the city and placed in an ossuary.

Enclosure period is 1 year.

It was shocking news, but for some reason it felt like it was a very long time ago.

It was because the things I had been living in a dream-like white space felt so vivid.

A lot of things happened there.

What is surprising is that what they learn is actually applicable and professional.

Shin Hyuk went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

The appearance of a small child no matter who sees it.

Is this how a grown adult feels trapped by a 9-year-old?

No, a month has passed and you are now 10 years old?

It was a long time since he saw his younger self, and it was unfamiliar.

Shin Hyuk turned on the water at the sink.

Shaaa!

Just then, a familiar voice came from the bathroom stall.

“Oh, yes. They say my amygdala is small. The average heart rate is also very low.”

A man in his late 40s in the same hospital room.

He was hospitalized after getting into a car accident, but Shin-hyeok saw him as a nylon patient.

I heard that you were hospitalized 3 days ago.

Shin Hyuk reflexively turned off the water.

The amygdala is a part of the brain that controls empathy, guilt, conscience, or emotions.

Having a smaller amygdala means that you have less emotions than normal people.

The average heart rate is also very low.

Shin Hyuk knew this.

He heard the nurse speak directly to him in the hospital room.

The fact that the pumping rate of the heart is lower than others can also be interpreted as not feeling fear well.

In this case, life feels boring or boring, and the probability of suffering from lethargy is quite high.

So they want intense stimulation.

A stimulus that will make your heart beat.

“An insurance company employee? It did. I was supposed to come today, but I told you to come in two days.”

Shin Hyuk’s eyebrows gathered.

The steps of the insurance company employee who was supposed to come today were delayed by two days.

In a word, try to control the opponent.

It has a small amygdala, a very low average heart rate, and controls its opponents.

“Okay, I’m sorry, but let me ask you a favor. I can’t go because I’m in the hospital.”

A request due to an excuse for hospitalization.

If you look at what he said earlier, this is also included in the concept of control to move the opponent like a marionette.

This wasn’t the first time Shin Hyuk thought the main character of the voice was strange.

A bandage wrapped around the left index finger.

When the doctor asked if he was okay or where he was injured, he only replied that he was injured at the time of the car accident, but he said he could not remember what he was injured.

Shin Hyuk could see his nonverbal behavior at that time.

There is one absolute truth that does not change in the world.

‘The living tell lies, the dead speak only the truth.’

At the time, he was lying.

“It’s depressing because I’m only in the hospital.”

At his last words, Shin-hyeok exited the bathroom and approached the front desk.

“Can I just make one phone call?”

The nurse smiled and said.

“are you okay? where to do it?”

Soo Hyuk nodded his head with a small head.

“I have a place to call.”

The nurse smiled as if Shinhyuk was cute.

It was fortunate.

The child woke up and the hospital was in an uproar.

“Okay. Come here.”

At her gesture, Shin Hyuk entered the front desk.

I picked up the receiver and immediately called 112.

– Yes, it is 112.

“You work hard. Could you please check the records of attempted murder cases targeting women? The victim must have been stabbed in the back in anticipation. For example, there is a high probability that you have been attacked with a knife, the left side. The criminal is left-handed, and if there was such a crime three days ago, the criminal is now in the same hospital room as me.”