Such patients usually experience or witness extremely frightening events, or after severe trauma, they may show emotional numbness and slow response, and they will be in panic for a long time. Uncontrollable constant recall of trauma-related situations and content. Serious cases can lead to depression and even suicidal tendencies.

Ding Qian was suddenly a little curious about what a terrible thing this woman had experienced before she became like this. "is she the second victim?" Ding Qian asked. Guo Rongrong did not elaborate on the survivor, just driving Ding Qian to the hospital first.

"yes."

"and her face?"

"you can probably guess. You can see for yourself when the nurse changes the gauze." The woman looked at them with dull eyes, unaware that they were talking about her.

What a terrible thing happened to this woman? Ding Qian sat in the ward with doubts. Guo Rongrong took a handbag from the car before she came to the ward. She didn't know what was in it.

Now she poured out the contents of her handbag on the bed, which turned out to be a pile of snacks, dried tofu, chicken collarbone, duck neck, and a gossip magazine by Lee Min-ho. When the woman on the bed saw these things, her eyes widened immediately. She had so many bandages on her head that it was difficult to eat, but she still couldn't wait to take the duck neck handed over by Guo Rongrong and take a piece out of the bag and gnaw it.

Ding Qian could not help feeling that sure enough, women are all the same creature, even if it is the end of the world, with these things, they can also spend the day happily.

At this time, the ward door was pushed open, and two nurses pushed a cart into the ward to change the gauze and medicine for the patients. when they saw the scene in the room, they almost freaked out, and the fat nurse said in a fierce voice, "who are you? how can you give patients this kind of junk food!"

The woman was sucking a chicken collarbone and was so frightened that she sat there with half of the bones in her mouth.

Guo Rongrong hastened to explain that the two nurses were relieved and said nothing.

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As the woman had too much gauze wrapped around her head, it took two people to finish it. The two nurses worked together, peeling the gauze off the woman's face carefully with tweezers, and had to hold the woman's hand from time to time to prevent her from scratching her face.

When the gauze on the woman's face was completely removed, Ding Qian and Guo Rongrong stopped breathing instantly.

Is this still a human face?

Except for the eyes and half of the face just exposed, the rest of the face could not be seen. It was just pieces of red meat glued to the bones, and there were scabs solidified by blood and potions on the minced meats. As the gauze was torn away, fresh blood was shed from the new wounds, and the other minced meat twitched violently, gathering together like living creatures, making people clearly feel the pain of women.

There was a "ho-ho" sound in her throat again, which was the only way she could express it now.

"how did she get the wound on her face?" Ding Qian asked.

"like the first victim, he was bitten like this by his teeth."

"this is the result of our forensic examination, and there can be no mistake. Judging from the bite marks, they are human teeth. And this is the only wound from head to toe and all over her body. Now, there are two cases of chewing on the face, both of which happened here. Do you still think it was an accident? "

"..." Ding Qian was silent. It was really beyond his expectation. He has never encountered such a case. No wonder the police suspect zombies. Now even Ding Qian himself is a little confused.

"she and the first victim were both single women, and the area where she was attacked was the face. There was a difference of three months before and after the two cases. you suspect it was the same attacker?"

"Yes. It looks like a serial crime, but we can't determine the identity and cause of the killer. Although there have been similar face-gnawing cases in the United States, we do not have the details of that case. You said that the killer took a large amount of drugs and led to madness. In fact, we are not sure whether this is the case. You are a psychiatrist. Are you familiar with this drug? "

"pretty much, I've treated three patients with insanity caused by taking this drug."

"really?" Guo Rongrong was slightly surprised.

"the anesthetic 'bath salt', also known as' zombie bath salt', does drive some people crazy, but as I said, there is no actual clinical manifestation to show that taking this drug is bound to bite someone's face. Of the three patients I have come into contact with, the first one tried to jump off a building with his girlfriend in his arms when he got sick, the second one not only bit but also grabbed anything he caught and attacked the person around him, and the third one was the most like the face gnaver you described. He went crazy to bite people only with his teeth, but not his face, but like a mad dog.

"you mean you suspect that the attacker went crazy after taking bath salt?"