Night Hacker Chapter 4: Mirror Box Therapy

Outside, the rain intensified at night, falling on the wet and cold corner of the alley, and the broken neon lights flickered faintly.

Those female mercenaries were either guarding the shop door, or smoking next to the alley wall.

The splashing rain could not disperse the smoke from the cigarettes in their hands. The cigarette butts accompanied by sparks fell on the piles of garbage that had not been cleared for many days, and the stray cats that had been hiding in the garbage dumps jumped past.

"Where is my right hand, bring it here!"

Head Lorna urged his subordinates towards the door again, and when he turned around and saw that Fan Debao hadn't gone to get the wine, he also urged:

"What are you doing in a daze, let's have a drink! Afraid that I will owe the debt? My sister just finished a business today, and the money is a lot."

Soon, Gu He saw a group of female mercenaries walking into the izakaya, and they raised one hand together.

That is a hand, from the arm to the finger structure is complete, but...

It was a few sizes larger than Captain Lorna's left hand, and even bigger than those muscular men's hands of Brother Zhuang. The skin was dark red, like a layer of burnt scars, weird and terrifying.

And on the fingers, the back of the hand, etc., there are still bloodstains that have not dried up. I don't know whose blood it is.

"Uh..." Gu He smelled the **** smell that was getting closer, and forced himself to be calm, professionally calm.

What kind of prosthetic is this? For a moment, he didn't know what material it was, it looked like some kind of metal or some kind of flesh and blood.

This prosthesis was obviously very heavy, and several female mercenaries blushed before they came to the bar.

Captain Lorna took off her black leather jacket, and inside was a sleeveless white T-shirt. Her empty right shoulder was facing the **** hand.

Suddenly, a bunch of messy blood lines like wires sprang out from her right shoulder, and the position of the humeral head of the prosthesis was the same.

Before Gu He could see it clearly, the large **** hand was connected to her right shoulder, making it one piece.

"Oh." Captain Lorna turned her right shoulder and swung her prosthetic leg twice, making crackling noises from the joints.

With her right hand, she nimbly grabbed a bottle of old Fenggu wine that Fan der Bao had just taken out of the wine cabinet, easily opened the cork cap, and drank directly, almost drinking half of the bottle in one gulp.

"Thirty years of Fenggu is enough."

Only then did she fill an empty wine glass, and pushed it to Gu He who was next to her, "Come on, young man, try it."

During the process of pouring the wine, a drop of the wet blood on her right hand fell into the glass.

Gu He's smile is almost unstoppable, once it collapses, he can't tell if his facial features will be twisted...

"Heh." Fan Debao has never forgotten to observe him, the performance of the second gear has not changed, now he knows how to be afraid? late.

"Leader Lorna, pay for this bottle of wine now."

Lao Fan felt that after a while, the scene might become ugly, and the debt was settled early.

"What's the rush? Who dares to prostitute you, Old Fan?" Captain Lorna waved her hand impatiently, "Cowherd, what did you ask me just now?"

Gu Hezheng was a little dizzy again, looking at her prosthetic limb from such a close distance, the more he looked at her, the more he felt strange palpitations.

The vortex of light in his mind didn't work, it was as if he was being impacted and torn by a force... even a strange and inexplicable phantom faintly flashed before his eyes.

Lao Fan's glass of wine to test his talent is really powerful...

"Why don't you talk?" There was a hint of madness in Lorna's eyes, just waiting for him to scream.

Fan Debao quietly packed away the precious wine utensils on the bar, preparing for the scene where Gu He lost control.

"I mean..." Gu He tried hard to gather his composure, well, it's because he's out of shape and unprofessional.

From brother Zhuang's weird head, we can know that certain medical and biological technologies in this world are particularly advanced.

Earth also has research in the field of bionic prosthetics, neural control, intelligent sensing, implanted osseointegration, these technologies are changing with each passing day, but they are not as advanced and cool as her prosthetics.

"What is your dream life like?" He asked gently, don't panic, patients are ordinary people.

Captain Lorna drank another sip of wine, but she didn't expect that the new cowboy could still hold back, and couldn't get angry, "I don't have any **** dreams for this kind of mud, and I'm almost annoyed by this hand. dream."

Gu He smiled in his heart, this is it!

Question.

Problems are the key to psychotherapy. Only when the patient speaks out the problem can the therapist do it. If there is no problem, there is no need for treatment.

"What's the matter?" He seemed to ask casually.

"I just can't figure it out." Captain Lorna lowered her head and sipped her wine, and said, "This thing has always been compatible with indigestion, and it feels like a virus has invaded my program, so my personality is very unstable. "

Fan Debao, who was still clearing the drinking utensils, interjected: "Captain Lorna, you should go to the doctor, not the cowherd."

Gu He analyzed in his heart, although she expressed it more politely, he understood it.

"Does it hurt from time to time? And it feels like my original right hand is hurting? Sometimes there are related hallucinations?"

Leader Lorna looked at him desperately, with wires and silicon strips dancing around his head, "How do you know?"

There were also some doubts on Fan der Bao's fat face.

"Because you haven't been wearing a prosthesis all the time." Of course Gu He knew, her problem was clearly "phantom limb pain".

More than 50% of amputee patients will have this symptom, and the pathology is still unclear, which is still a medical problem. Didn't expect it to be like this in this world.

May I ask which person does not love health, which girl does not love beauty?

Lost a hand, disabled, forced to have this amazing unicorn arm, and often get strange looks from the world.

How stressful is this? It is normal for patients to have psychological trauma, which in turn can exacerbate phantom limb pain.

At this time, a psychiatrist is needed to intervene.

Therefore, he has been in contact with this type of patients before, and he knows a cutting-edge therapy for relieving phantom limb pain, which is very effective.

"I have a healing method." Gu He said and looked around, "Is there a mirror here?"

Soil method? Although everyone didn't think it would be useful, Captain Lorna wanted to have fun, and urged Fan Debao and several female subordinates to find a mirror and a wooden box without a lid for wine~IndoMTL. com~ First, two holes were made on one side of the wooden box, and then the mirror was inserted in the middle of the wooden box to divide it into two halves, with one hole on each side.

Under Gu He's instructions, Captain Lorna put his hands and palms into the wooden box from the openings on both sides.

Then use a piece of cloth to completely cover the right hand, only revealing the left side of the wooden box.

In this way, her left hand is there, because of the mirror image, it seems that her right hand is also there intact.

"Move your left hand slowly, listen to me, make a fist, and then relax..."

Gu He continued to guide, this is called mirror box therapy.

It induces somatosensory and motor pathway coupling between phantom limbs, prosthetic limbs and real limbs by making patients have a visual illusion that the severed limb is still there, thereby regulating the brain's sensory nerves.

"That's it?" Captain Lorna stopped and didn't cooperate, with a look of suspicion and disgust that felt ridiculous, "It's really stupid."

Several female mercenaries around the bar also shook their heads and laughed.

I've known for a long time, so many street prosthetic doctors can't solve the problem, it's impossible for a wild dog to solve it.

Fan der Bao's doubts are getting heavier and heavier. It's really unexpected that this second-speed boy can toss so much.

"Let's try it." Gu He persuaded, raised his hand and repeatedly clenched and loosened his fist.

Many people look down on the simple and cheap mirror box therapy at the beginning, but they are really fragrant in the end.

"No money anyway." He added another sentence.

As far as he knows, the phrase "no money anyway" has a peculiar persuasive power to most patients.

"I'll give it a try." Leader Lorna snorted, looked into the mirror box, and slowly clenched and loosened his left hand...

As the crowd watched, her expression gradually changed, a little surprised.