With a thud, the body that had been dead for less than 2 hours was placed on the autopsy table.
Chui Jianbiao, male, 49, headmaster of Mo Bei High School.
Inside the autopsy room at Mo Bei Phecda Base, Wang Ruoxiang, Cai Zixuan and Zhang Ruiyuan were dressed in heavy protective gear. The Ancient Seal stone and surveillance cameras were set up as usual. They studied the body on the table, another victim of abnormal energy.
The body's limbs and torso were still intact but there was an obvious swelling in the abdomen.
The head that 'self-destructed' had disappeared, only the edge of the neck was still attached to a piece of flesh. The team had done some preliminary work at the school. They discovered the victim's entire head, including the skull, had exploded into a sticky yellowish liquid. It contained a large number of unknown parasites.
According to the students and teachers who witnessed the incident, Headmaster Chui's head turned transparent before it suddenly exploded.
How did this happen? How did the abnormal energy work?
There might be a secret hidden inside the head but they could not find it now. They could only study the rest of the body.
Mo Bei High School was put on lockdown. The area around the school was cordoned off. All the staff were sent to the quarantine base outside the city for surveillance. Temporarily, there was no sign of abnormal symptoms. It was still uncertain whether Headmaster Chui's explosion had released airborne pathogens or not.
This disaster worsened the situation at Mo Bei but it could also be the same thing.
Phecda and the other departments were doing more work. Inside the autopsy room, their main task was to dissect the victim's abdomen, upper colon and stomach.
This was because one of the main methods of infection for the parasite was through ingestion. The imaging results showed that there was a large amount of foreign matter in the victim's stomach, that should be one of the reasons for the bloated abdomen.
At that moment, Zhang Ruiyuan cut open the abdominal wall and peritoneum. Instantly a gush of gas leaked out from the peritoneum. The group saw the peritoneum was also filled with the yellowish liquid mixed with parasites. They frowned, the situation was even more confusing.
Cai Zixuan sighed. The whole body was probably filled with parasites and the parasites could infect the whole body.
They could see with their naked eyes that the blood vessels under the skin of the corpse's limbs did not look normal. It was as if there was something wriggling inside.
Time was tight. After the abdominal organs were all exposed, they found the stomach in the superior colonic area. From the cardia to the pylorus to the duodenum below, the stomach was bloated. Although the stomach was the largest part of the digestive tract, it was still abnormally large.
Zhang Ruiyuan held the dissecting scissors and carefully cut open the stomach to reveal the contents inside.
They didn't see any common food, such as rice or vegetables. There wasn't even a bit of undigested residue.
Headmaster Chui's stomach was filled with a brownish yellow substance mixed with gastric acid. It was easy to identify.
"It's soil," Zhang Ruiyuan could not help but murmur as he used the dissecting forceps to examine the stomach. "It's all soil."
The human body was unable to completely digest soil. If it was just a little bit, the intestines and stomach could still expel it and absorb the calcium in the soil. But long-term consumption of soil or such a large amount of soil at once would only clog up these organs. The minerals that could not be absorbed and expelled would accumulate inside the organs, resulting in various symptoms like abdominal distension.
Therefore, even with pica or due to cultural tradition, humans would not be willing to consume so much soil at once.
Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan shared a look. This had to be the influence of supernatural forces.
But this raised another question, did Headmaster Chui eat soil because of the parasite or did he eat soil because of the parasite?
…
"Eat soil?"
At the command central, Tong Ye, Yao Sinian and the rest looked at the situation inside the autopsy room. They were surprised but not too surprised.
"Get some soil from the stomach and compare it with the soil from the Arbor Day event. See if it's from there." Tong Ye ordered.
Everything was shrouded in fog but there were still clues to be found. However, this clue originated from a very bad situation.
Earlier, the investigators had reconstructed Headmaster Chui's last words from the teachers and students. It might not be 100% reconstructed but compared to the accounts of more than a thousand people, it should be close to his original words.
No one could tell what state Headmaster Chui was in at the time.
But from the looks of it, Headmaster Chui was sane. His words were coherent, he did not appear to be delirious but more like he was bewitched and brainwashed.
"A few days ago, just a few days ago, there was a change. An opportunity fell upon me." From this, it was clear that the incident happened within these few days. The reason the Arbor Day event received so much attention was because the investigators wanted to investigate the situation that day but they realized none of the teachers who participated in the event could be contacted.
Then the investigators realized the same thing happened to the students and the workers from the Forestry Department.
Everyone who was present that day, the 300 plus people, could not be contacted. Their families said they had gone out for a gathering last night and they were nowhere to be found.
Just as Headmaster Chui appeared at the school, students like Lee Yuhan and Wong Ka Wai posted the same post on their Moments.
"I have seen God, I am his incarnation in the human world."
Headmaster Chui had said the same thing before he self-destructed.
Combined with the autopsy findings and the soil, it was confirmed that the problem originated from the Arbor Day event that day.
Whatever had happened that day had infected all of them.
However, the illness this time was different from the previous 2 years. It was still in its incubation period and it was quite subtle. None of the patients asked for help or were noticed by others. In the past few days, the number of people who came into contact with them was uncountable.
The Forestry Department did not do anything to the wasteland because no one submitted the relevant report. However, the investigation revealed that Captain Luo, who was leading the team, was on the phone with his friend. Before he hung up, he said, "That's enough, some students seem to have dug out locust eggs."
However, Captain Luo did not mention this again and his friend did not ask about it either.
Under normal circumstances, this was just a small incident. Finding locust eggs at Mo Bei's farmlands was a daily occurrence during this season.
However, the Phecda members understood that this was the root of the problem. Locust eggs …
"Eating soil? Could it be that the parasite came from eating the soil with the locust eggs? "It was not hard for Elder Tong and the rest to make the connection.
A team of investigators was investigating the wasteland. Once this new discovery was made, Elder Tong immediately mobilized the One from GOA to the crime scene.
Tong Ye's senses told him that the situation was not as simple as it seemed, it might be more serious than the mutated area.
Yao Sinian's face appeared to have aged several years. This was not just the lives of hundreds of people but … where were these people now?
The command central used Mo Bei's Sky Eye system to track every face captured by the city's surveillance cameras but there was no sign of the targets. It was as if they had disappeared into thin air. But if every single one of them was as sick as Headmaster Chui …
And that was hundreds of biological bombs filled with pathogens that could explode at any moment.
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