After Wang Jinbo vomited violently, the medical team still performed gastric lavage on him and washed out all the 50 grams of soil that he had eaten. After that, his heart rate, blood pressure, and other vital signs slowly dropped to normal levels.
The 10 patients who participated in the experiment all had the same result. After ingesting the soil, they developed symptoms of food poisoning. Abdominal pain, vomiting and 6 patients vomited blood.
The medical team then performed gastroscopy on all 10 patients. They discovered the patients' esophagus and gastric mucosa had ruptured and bled. This was probably caused by their excessive ingestion of soil. The medical team immediately performed hemostasis and transfused blood and glucose into the patients.
Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding was not a big deal, what was more serious was the change in the patients' mental state.
After the experiment, the 10 patients were so agitated that they were close to losing their rationality. Including Wang Jinbo, 5 of them needed sedatives. They had been screaming for not this soil but something else. They scolded the doctors and nurses for lying to them, for wanting them dead, for wanting them dead.
If the patients had no appetite or even could not eat, they could be kept alive through intravenous nutrition.
But mental state was a different issue. Other than sedation, the next step was to immobilize the patients, induce artificial coma and destroy their nerves …
Even though the medical team had the best resources, they did not have many options.
Si Kouxian experienced this dilemma again. The patients with Mutated Scale Disease had to scratch their itch while the patients with Locust Sickness had to eat a specific soil because they were hungry. The two probably came from the same principle, the patients' mental state was influenced by some kind of ritual or power.
In fact, this influence came from the mutated area.
The mutated area was there, no matter what it was doing, Phecda temporarily could not stop it.
Should they feed the patients with the abnormal soil? Should they perform some kind of neurological surgery? Lobotomy?
The protocols for these clinical experiments were placed on the command central. Neurological surgery and lobotomy would cause permanent and irreversible damage while feeding the patients with abnormal soil might cause the patients to progress to the next stage.
After the autopsy on Headmaster Chui, the medical team had a question, did the patients eat the soil because they were infected by the parasites or did they get infected by the soil?
But now there was another question. The patients craved the abnormal soil, was it for the eggs in the soil or was it just the soil?
The abnormal wasteland was not small. Some of the soil had a large number of eggs, but not all of them.
The first question could not be answered directly at the moment. A normal person would not suddenly eat mud. Furthermore, there were more than three hundred missing people. They must have been mentally affected before they ate the mud. But there was no clue that could explain what Headmaster Chui was like before he ate the mud and when was the first time he did so.
However, if he could figure out the second question, then he would have the answer to the first question.
If the patient was mentally affected and was driven to eat locust eggs, they would be infected with parasites after eating the eggs, and the parasites would drive the patient to eat more soil.
If there was such a mutation process, then no matter how much normal or abnormal soil it ate, as long as it did not eat any eggs, it would not progress to the next stage. It also meant that the patients infected by Headmaster Chui did not carry any parasites or any pathogens that could be transmitted through the virus.
In that case, as long as they were not allowed to come into contact with the locust eggs and these patients were transported out of Mo Bei, the epidemic would be under control.
In terms of treatment, they could see if the abnormal soil and Northern Desert soil could satisfy them.
However, if the patients were mentally affected and already had parasites in their bodies, they only needed to ingest the corresponding soil to hatch, grow and reproduce.
Or perhaps Headmaster Chui was infected after eating the eggs and became a parasite carrier. But the new patients infected by him did not need to ingest the eggs for the parasites to appear in their bodies …
This was the worst case scenario, it was harder to understand and control.
Phecda could not pinpoint the location of the missing 300 plus people and he could not confirm what was so special about the abnormal soil other than the locust eggs.
This was because from the soil composition analysis, the abnormal soil was no different from the soil at Mo Bei. There was no radiation.
Due to the current emergency situation, the command central gave the order to carry out this clinical experiment.
The result would only be known after the experiment.
On the 17th of March, it was already 10 pm. The quarantine base was busy. Wang Ruoxiang rubbed her temples and continued to focus.
There were six patients participating in the experiment. Four of them had just been exposed to normal soil. Two of them vomited blood, two of them did not. One of them was injected with tranquilizers; the other two had not eaten normal soil before.
Due to the unknown transmission mechanism of the Locust Sickness and the students and teachers only listened to Headmaster Chui's self-destruction.
The patients who ingested the abnormal soil might produce the parasites and then self-destruct. Therefore, this experiment had to be carried out carefully. The surveillance of the six patients would continue but the command central would not monitor the situation in real time.
Even the medical team did not keep an eye on him or walk into the ward whenever something happened.
There were only 3 people at the frontline. They would monitor the surveillance and enter the sickrooms. They were all mentally prepared for the possibility of infection.
"I can tell the patients' condition. I know spells and I know first aid."
One of them was Wang Ruoxiang who volunteered. She wanted to contribute. After being locked up for so long, Gu Jun was missing, Wu Shiyu lost his soul and Deng Ximei and the others at the frontline were exhausted, it was time for her to do something.
Tong Ye agreed to her request. This mission was as dangerous as walking into the mutated area but this was the job of the Spell Department.
Other than Wang Ruoxiang, the other two were Nurse Lin Shizhe and Investigator Chen Xiang. Both of them knew Ancient Seal.
The experiment would not be carried out on the 6 patients at the same time. If there was a huge problem at the beginning, there was no need for further experiments.
The first patient was called Zhou Kewen, male, 18 years old, a high school student. He had ingested normal soil, vomited blood and was injected with tranquilizers.
At that moment, Zhou Kewen was half immobilized on the bed. His legs were tied but his arms could move. Even though he was injected with tranquilizers, he could not calm down. The sickroom door opened with a bang. A driverless car drove in and the door was closed. The car was empty except for 50 grams of abnormal yellowish brown soil.
"Ah, ah …" Zhou Kewen's heart rate shot up. He struggled with excitement. Before the car reached the bed, he reached out to touch the small clump of soil.
Wang Ruoxiang's voice came from the speaker at the corner of the sickroom, "Student Zhou, you can start eating now. Try to eat slowly, do not injure your esophagus …"
But Zhou Kewen did not seem to hear her. His shaking hands grabbed the soil and shoved it into his mouth. His expression was one of madness.
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