Chapter 635: Chapter 634: I’m the Scapegoat Again

Yan Feifan showed Mr. Miao into the living room of the suite and invited him to sit.

Feng Jian acted as a server, bringing out two cups of tea before tactfully excusing himself to his room, leaving the two of them to talk in private.

"Teacher, are you here to plead Xv Fang’s case?"

Miao Quan didn’t answer directly. From the briefcase he was carrying, he took out a thick, twelve-page printed document and handed it to Yan Feifan.

"These are the detailed data logs from the experimental treatment Xv Fang privately performed on the patient."

"Feifan, take a look at this first."

Yan Feifan quickly flipped through it.

The document detailed the patient’s physical examination data before each treatment, especially their brainwave activity. It also recorded the specific audio frequencies and stimulation durations used for cerebral audio stimulation, as well as the resulting changes in the patient’s brain.

Yan Feifan read through the first six pages. He saw that after using a succession of high frequencies, ranging from 20,000 to 25,000 hertz, to specifically stimulate the patient’s brainstem, there had been no significant change in the patient’s brain activity.

When Yan Feifan turned to the seventh page, he was startled.

"Infrasound stimulation? Isn’t Xv Fang being too reckless?"

Infrasound is a sound wave with a frequency below 20 hertz.

The range of sound waves the human ear can perceive is between 20 and 20,000 hertz.

Sound waves with frequencies above 20,000 hertz are called ultrasound; those below 20 hertz are called infrasound.

Like ultrasound, infrasound cannot be seen, heard, or felt by humans.

However, infrasound has a low frequency and long wavelength, allowing it to travel great distances.

Infrasound also has strong penetrative capabilities. It can pass through not only air, seawater, and soil, but also aircraft fuselages, ship hulls, tank armor, and even solid reinforced concrete structures.

For example, an infrasound wave with a frequency of 3.44 hertz has a wavelength of 100 meters and can penetrate the solid walls of buildings.

Penetrating the human body, of course, is even less of a challenge.

However, infrasound can cause significant harm to the human body.

Research has shown that the internal organs of the human body have their own natural resonant frequencies, which also fall between 0.01 and 20 hertz.

In other words, they are similar to the frequencies of infrasound.

Therefore, when an external infrasound wave—whether naturally occurring or artificially generated—has a frequency that matches or is close to the resonant frequency of human internal organs, it will cause various organs to resonate.

This resonance can cause irritability, tinnitus, headaches, insomnia, nausea, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, and dysfunction of the liver and stomach.

In severe cases, it can also lead to numbness in the limbs and a feeling of pressure in the chest.

This is especially true when the infrasound frequency matches the natural resonant frequencies of the abdominal, thoracic, and cranial cavities, causing resonance with internal organs and the brain, which can even be life-threatening.

Incidents of infrasound causing death have actually occurred in real life.

In 1980, a sailboat named the "Marbolo," en route from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

Twenty years later, the ship was discovered near Tierra del Fuego.

When found, everything on board was untouched and perfectly preserved.

Even the crew, long dead and decomposed, were found at their respective stations, seemingly frozen in their work postures.

Scientists took great interest in their mysterious deaths.

After extensive research, they offered the most likely explanation: death by infrasound shockwaves generated by a storm at sea.

There was also the 1992 plane crash in Guilin, China, which killed 141 people.

Regarding the cause of the accident, some acoustic experts proposed the possibility that the plane crash was caused by the effects of infrasound.

Guilin is a semi-hilly region where air masses fluctuate up and down along the mountains, causing air vibrations that have a chance of producing a type of infrasound known as a "mountain lee wave."

This type of infrasound can penetrate the aircraft’s cabin and potentially act directly on the pilots, creating a bio-resonance effect that could temporarily incapacitate them, leading to a fatal disaster.

It is also rumored that military experts in some countries are studying how to weaponize infrasound. They are looking to exploit its characteristics—silent propagation, slow wavelength decay, high penetration, and the ability to cause resonance in the human body while being difficult to detect—to create silent, incapacitating, or even lethal weapons.

Miao Quan sighed softly and said, "Feifan, this Xv Fang is just like you—a reckless daredevil."

"He confessed to me. He recalled that high frequencies can induce drowsiness, but after several consecutive days, the high-frequency stimulation wasn’t having the desired effect on the patient. That’s when he had a sudden, wild idea: perhaps low frequencies could stimulate someone to wake up."

"After getting the family’s consent, that kid went ahead and stimulated the patient’s brainstem with infrasound, completely disregarding the consequences."

"No one ever imagined he would actually succeed. It was pure luck, like a blind squirrel finding a nut."

"Maybe it was just beginner’s luck?"

Yan Feifan finished reading the treatment information on the last few pages.

After some experimentation and feedback, Xv Fang settled on a stimulation frequency of 19.54 hertz, continuously stimulating the patient’s brainstem.

On the twelfth day of the experimental stimulation, the patient’s brainwave activity suddenly spiked, and they woke up.

Yan Feifan placed the document on the coffee table between them. Meeting Mr. Miao’s gaze, he asked, "Teacher, are you suggesting we should go easy on him because it was a success?"

Miao Quan said slowly, "This fellow, Xv Fang, is quite smart. His academic performance in university was always excellent."

"Of course, he’s no match for you, Feifan."

"But he has the same quality you do: he dares to think big and isn’t afraid to act on it."

Miao Quan then added, as if an afterthought, "A few months ago, what you did to expose that inmate faking mental illness... your actions weren’t any less extreme than what Xv Fang has done now."

After a pause, Miao Quan said earnestly, "Feifan, I believe this fellow Xv Fang deserves to be treated leniently."

"I also know..."

Miao Quan quickly continued, "The character flaws Xv Fang has revealed do indeed make him unsuitable to continue working as a doctor."

"I suggest we handle this internally and avoid any public punishment."

"At the same time, we should have Xv Fang promise to never practice medicine again."

Yan Feifan said, a little puzzled, "Teacher, the outcome of this punishment isn’t something I can decide, is it?"

"As you know, Teacher, this matter requires an investigation by the ethics committee and the hospital’s disciplinary committee. Only after they’ve reached a conclusion can the Health Commission and the hospital make a final decision."

"I’m one of the ones facing punishment, too."

"Teacher, you shouldn’t be coming to me about this, should you?"

Miao Quan looked a bit sheepish and said, "Feifan, you’re the lead on this research project. Plus, with your current standing in the medical community, you can have a significant influence on the final decision regarding Xv Fang."

He sighed and added, "Feifan, you may already know, but the Health Commission has formed an investigation team for this matter. They’ve already arrived at the hospital and are interviewing all relevant personnel one by one."

"If it were anyone else, even if they were abroad, they would have been called back long ago to cooperate with the investigation."

"But because it’s you..."

"The investigation team unanimously decided not to interfere with your work at Baining Hospital. They’ll wait until you’re back in Binhai to speak with you."

Yan Feifan nodded lightly and said, "I understand, Teacher. I’ll put in a few good words for Xv Fang, and I won’t suggest any specific punishment to the investigation team."

Miao Quan hesitated, a troubled look on his face. "Feifan, just putting in a good word... that won’t be enough."

He struggled for a moment before saying, "Feifan, let me put it this way..."

"The investigation team was assembled so quickly because of some external pressure."

"Right now, the selection process for new academicians for the two academies is underway, and the competition between candidates is incredibly fierce."

Miao Quan hinted, "We have two medical experts from Binhai who are on the list of candidates for academician."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan’s head started to buzz.

’What a mess. It’s all politics, no matter where you go!’

Since he had already said so much, Miao Quan decided to stop beating around the bush.

He said frankly, "Feifan, that euthanasia incident Xv Fang was involved in at Union Medical College Hospital caused quite a stir at the time, but it was quickly suppressed."

"Now that this new incident has come to light, if Xv Fang is found to have acted on his own authority and with reckless abandon, then his euthanasia case at Union Medical College Hospital could be dredged up again by certain interested parties."

"In the worst-case scenario, Xv Fang will go to jail, and a number of people at Union Medical College Hospital will be implicated to varying degrees."

"Feifan, the only way to stop things from escalating to that uncontrollable point..."

"is..."

Miao Quan said with some difficulty, "for you to take responsibility for this. To admit that you were aware of it and that Xv Fang was acting under your instructions."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan was completely stunned. His head began to throb.

’Damn it. After all that, it still comes down to me taking the fall...’

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