The machine buzzes and a 3D pattern appears on the screen.


    The pattern rotates slowly at a fixed speed, and the residual shadow is like a faint cloud in the sky.


    Unlike the 10 second motion picture previously sent to Jack Jones, the 3D picture in front of us is not breathtaking. It is like a dead tree branch in winter, with a bit of "death" in disorder.


    The image is not beautiful, even boring and ugly.


    "Wu, is this the brain map of a vegetative state?" Jack Jones asked suspiciously.


    "HMM." Wu Mian nodded.


    "I thought it would be nothing."


    "No, according to the description of existing vegetable people after waking up, their brain is active during becoming a vegetable. They even have memory and know what happened," said Wu Mian. "It is similar to the imprisonment of the soul in mythological novels. Well, you can understand it this way."


    "Wu, are you sure you''re not kidding?"


    "There are many cases that can illustrate this. I''m not kidding." Wu Mian narrowed his eyes into a beautiful arc, stared at the slowly rotating image on the screen and said, "Jack, I''m sorry. I don''t know why you always think I''m kidding."


    "No, Wu, I think you understand wrong. I''m too surprised to question your statement. It''s incredible, you know." Jack Jones quickly explained.


    "Jack, there are records about the memory of a vegetable after waking up. The latest one is Polish vegetable Jan glebski. He woke up after 19 years of coma. After waking up, Yang said that his brain has been working, he can hear, see, think, and remember, but his body can''t move. He has been very worried about it."


    "..." Jack Jones was stunned.


    "In our folk words, this situation is called ghost pressing bed. But generally, ghost pressing bed has a normal medical explanation and has nothing to do with vegetables. Moreover, ghost pressing bed... Forget it, there is too much difference. My example is not appropriate," Wu Mian said.


    "God, does the brain really work all the time?"


    "Yang said that at that time, he knew what was happening around him. He just couldn''t move or say. He had to lie down every day and was very worried.


    When he saw his wife taking care of him, when he saw the children wandering around him when they came home from school, when he heard the noise of his children getting married next door, and when he saw the lovely appearance of his grandchildren, he was very worried because he couldn''t express it. "


    Wu Mian said, "these are the narratives after Yang woke up. Even he knew the upheavals in Eastern Europe and got some news from the voice of TV."


    "It''s amazing."


    "Unfortunately, Yang is just a lucky man," said Wu Mian. "The essence of vegetative awakening is the recovery of the function of the higher cerebral cortex. However, it is by no means like waking up from sleep or coma as many people think.


    In fact, most of them still have serious functional and cognitive regression. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are not much better than the so-called people with intellectual disabilities, but different from the state of vegetative people. "


    "Well..." Jack Jones didn''t go on, but looked at the 3D image rotating on the screen of the MRI machine.


    "The concept of a vegetative person is different from that of brain death. It is just like the name. The patient is in a vegetative state. Here, you see, the brain stem structure of the patient is complete. If he is a small tree, his roots are good and can absorb enough nutrients."


    Jack Jones looked at Wu Mian with innocent eyes.


    "Simply put, the child can grow and develop normally because of the integrity of the brain stem structure. However, the gray matter and white matter structures of his cerebral hemisphere have been damaged to some extent, so he has lost advanced cognitive function."


    "The image data of awakened and remembered vegetative people are kept confidential, and I can''t find them." Wu Mian said, looking at the image on the screen. "It''s a pity that the research on the brain is always a high-level secret in any country."


    "What are the results of your research?"


    "Coma - vegetative state - minimum state of consciousness - Awakening, I think it can be divided into four stages." Wu Mian stretched out his finger and pointed to a light spot on the screen. "The child''s luck is good, and he has the minimum state of consciousness. That is to say, he is conscious and perceptive, but he is only the minimum state, and he doesn''t know how to express it."


    "All we have to do is help him sober up."


    "Wu, if you can do it, it''s a miracle," Jack Jones shrugged.


    "Miracles? Not at all." Wu Mian smiled. "I''m just a doctor. What I do is always to treat patients and save people."


    "Wu, I think you know what I care about," Jack Jones said without concealment.


    "Of course, I like you so straightforward," Wu Mian said. "Vegetable people can wake up. Do Alzheimer''s patients who are lighter than plants have any questions?"


    "But is it commercially valuable?"


    "It''s up to you to apply for a patent. I can''t always let me find my friend. Jack, I hope you know that I gave you a cake, which is very delicious."


    Jack Jones didn''t go on with Wu Mian''s words. He still had a lot of doubts in his heart.


    "Are you wondering why I don''t cooperate with GE Healthcare?" asked Wu Mian.


    "Well," Jack Jones nodded.


    "A long time ago, GE Medical ignored my fiancee''s request. They hid the second-generation brain pacemaker, which caused a lot of trouble to us and our patients. Jack, you know, I''m a very stingy person."


    “……”


    Jack Jones really can''t connect this almost epoch-making technology with some personal grievances.


    If there are personal grudges, the confrontation on the mitral valve clip can make Lanke black Wu Mian for 10000 years.


    But it''s all business, even if it''s all doctrine.


    Nothing is more important than making money. If this vegetable can be awakened as Wu said, even an ordinary person knows what commercial value it has.


    "Patent, I want a patent." Wu Mian stressed, "whether it can be put into clinical practice as early as possible depends on the speed of Lanke''s patent application and the speed of researching a new brain pacemaker."


    "Wu, you can apply for a patent in the United States Patent and Trademark Office in only one week. This time..."


    "Jack, please believe that you will regret letting me apply for a patent," said Wu Mian with a smile. "I''ll study the surgical approach. If there''s no problem, I''ll have the surgery the day after tomorrow."


    He said, his hand was rarely pressed on the table, his voice was low and his eyes were focused on the rotating and haggard image, "that will be the moment to witness miracles."