Chapter 288: Chapter 203: Parasite (Third Update)
Once everything was ready.
The sharp scalpel cut through the flesh, opened the chest cavity, revealing the vigorously beating heart inside.
“Forceps, please.”
“Stop the bleeding!”
“How are the vital signs? Pay attention to the transfusion.”
“The patient’s vital signs are normal, no decreasing trend.”
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“Keep a close watch, don’t be complacent, we only have this one specin.”
Sweat ford on Professor Rori’s forehead as nurses by his side helped wipe it off. Age was one factor making it challenging to perform the surgery himself, but the tension of fearing a mistake that could waste the precious specin was another.
It wasn’t just Professor Rori who was tense; Mahat and Moritz outside the laboratory were also holding their breath, staring unblinkingly at the screen hanging on the exterior wall of the lab, which was broadcasting live everything happening in the surgery.
Professor Rori picked up the scalpel again and cautiously proceeded to operate on the heart.
Through a previously determined parasite location, he made a minimally invasive cut on the heart. Professor Rori and the surrounding doctors’ pupils constricted, filled with excitent and thrill.
For what they saw hidden in the heart, which didn’t belong to human heart tissue, was a grayish-white, thumb-sized insect with eight abdominal limbs, sowhat resembling a flea residing in it.
“It really is an insect!”
Moritz spoke in a tone full of surprise, finding it incredible that a human could still be alive with such an insect burrowed in the heart.
“If we can decipher the secret of this parasite, we too can cultivate such Super Soldiers.”
Mahat, as the field operations leader, valued practicality even more.”
“Forceps!”
In the lab, Professor Rori lowered his voice as if afraid that the sound might disturb the parasite.
As the forceps were positioned by a nurse, Professor Rori took a deep breath, steadied his arms, and inserted the forceps deep into the incision in the heart, clamping the parasite and slowly peeling it off from the heart.
This process was extrely slow and lasted several minutes, but ultimately, Professor Rori successfully removed the forceps from the heart, bringing the parasite out with them.
“We did it, we succeeded.”
“The biggest secret of the Jieke Company will be unveiled before us.”
“Haha, thank God, I’ve already thought about how generous a bonus they will give us.”
“This parasite could enhance human bodies, perhaps even extend life spans.”
“Even if it can’t extend life spans, as long as it’s confird to enhance the human body without side effects, I would willingly have one.”
The doctors on scene imdiately erupted into excitent, their gazes fervently fixed on the extracted parasite, a creature they had never seen before.”
“Quickly move it to a petri dish to secure it, we can’t afford any mistakes.”
Professor Rori removed his mask, delegating the suturing to other doctors. He turned to signal a thumbs-up to Mortiz and Mahat outside the lab, intending to share his joy with them.
But at that mont, Professor Rori suddenly noticed sothing off in their gazes; the look of utter shock directed behind him.
When Professor Rori turned around, he saw the parasite that had seed dormant just after being extracted, suddenly stand up. Its hind legs kicked ferociously, shooting through the air and striking a doctor in the neck.
Human flesh was like fragile foam, instantly penetrated by it.
Ugh, ugh!
The doctor with a pierced neck fell down, clutching at his neck desperately trying to call for help, but unable to make a sound because of the damaged trachea.
The surrounding doctors, including the soldiers and both Moritz and Mahat outside, were stunned.
But the parasite, more accurately described as a Symbiotic poisonous insect, didn’t stop its carnage because of the humans’ startled gaze.
It bounced back and forth, continuously piercing through several people, and finally, the remaining doctors panicked and subconsciously tried to flee the laboratory.
But when they opened the door, the parasite jumped out with them, spreading the slaughter outside.
“Quickly, kill it!”
Moritz was shocked and enraged, never imagining that a small parasite could be so savage after leaving its host.
Bang, bang, bang!
The sound of gunfire erupted densely, and the small parasite was hard to hit with bullets, instantly resulting in more than a dozen people falling victim to its attack.
So had their necks pierced, others their hearts, and so their eye sockets.
More soldiers started to arrive, and soon a fla thrower was brought into play. Now, people didn’t care if they might destroy the valuable equipnt here, and fired at the parasite.
The parasite instinctively avoided the flas, but its speed was slowing down.
The symbiotic poisonous insect was one with its host; without the host’s nourishnt, it could only bounce around for a while before its body would quickly weaken.
The soldiers seized the opportunity. Just as the parasite had pierced a soldier and was about to jump again, the flas engulfed both the man and the insect.
By the ti the fla thrower was turned off, the parasite had already been burned to death.
“My sample.”
Professor Rori shrieked, not caring that he had been stepped on a few tis in the chaos, he lunged forward and stared at the charred parasite, wanting to cry but unable to shed tears.
This only sample was gone; how heartrending it was.
“Damn it, Professor Rori, what kind of research are you conducting? Is this what you call safe? Not even detecting how dangerous this single parasite was, causing so many deaths, even the director was implicated.”
Mahat was uncontrollable with anger, nearly twenty people had died here in a short ti, an absolute blunder.
Moritz was holding his arm, which had been accidentally wounded by a ricocheted bullet.
“I’m alright, hurry and check on Super Soldier Ruan Qianguang’s condition.”
Moritz shouted, and a crowd rushed back into the laboratory, only to be t with more bad news.
“Director, Ruan Qianguang is dead.”
The crowd was devastated. Since the symbiotic poisonous insect and the host were one, with the host’s death, the symbiotic poisonous insect could not survive either.
Similarly, with the death of the symbiotic poisonous insect, the host could not live on his own.
As soon as this news was reported, it greatly enraged Moritz, who stared furiously at Rori.
If it weren’t for the other party’s reckless surgery, they wouldn’t have killed such a valuable sample – how was he going to explain this to the country?
“This is a symbiotic insect, ah, the symbiotic relationship between humans and insects, such type of symbiotic relationship is also very rare in nature.”
Rori stood up, collected the charred parasite first and sent it into the laboratory for analysis and research, then pushed his glasses and made his analysis.
“I think, Jieke Company is much further ahead of us in the biological field. I need more samples and research data; only then can we obtain this miraculous insect, gain stronger physiques, and even longer lifespans.”
Rori was not too reactive about the dead, his gaze still passionate, only pitying the loss of the material.
Moritz, suppressing his anger, said with a reproachful tone, “It’s because of your recklessness that we’ve suffered such a huge loss, now…..”
Before Moritz could finish, Rori interrupted him.
“I will personally report this matter to the country, Director Moritz. You will soon see a significant increase in funding, as most capitalists and interest groups in the country will be thrilled by it.”
Rori’s words significantly alleviated Moritz’s dissatisfaction.
If they had full support from the country, his chances of dealing with Jieke Group would be much greater.
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