After the gastroscopy, Zhou Kewen had a strong urge to vomit but he did not vomit and did not vomit blood.
His condition was not optimistic but he could not tell because the medical team did not tell him. Wang Ruoxiang only gave him some analgesics. The patient's abdominal pain was alleviated but his mental state worsened. He kept asking for more soil.
The three left the quarantine room. After Zhou Kewen, the second patient, Sun Cuiting, also had the same abdominal pain.
They performed a gastroscopy on Sun Cuiting and they too discovered the translucent white filaments.
All 6 patients had the same symptoms. It made no difference whether they had eaten normal soil, vomited blood or taken tranquilizers.
Even though they were wearing protective clothing, the possibility of them being infected was greatly increased when they came into contact with a live patient with a locust infection.
Wang Ruoxiang's heart also flashed with worry, but she did not pay too much attention to this aspect. If she was infected, then she should hurry up and finish her work, while it was still in the incubation period, while her mind was still clear. She arranged her thoughts since she dissected Headmaster Chui and communicated with the medical team and the command central.
Before entering the communicator room, she had to go through a series of checks including being slapped with the Ancient Seal. After all, no one knew her current condition.
Only a few commanders communicated with her directly. Si Kouxian from the medical team and Yao Sinian from the command central.
When they heard the bad news, everyone's expression darkened.
There were 1000 patients who did not consume the abnormal soil, they could transform into a locust bank at any time. They only needed to consume some abnormal soil.
But the experiment proved that this could not satisfy their heterophagy requirement or else it would just be feeding the parasites. The patients would eventually die in agony.
If they could avoid death by destroying their white matter, that might be an option … but for both the patients and the medical team, it was not an easy choice.
Wang Ruoxiang had several ideas.
"Headmaster Chui's batch of patients, do they share the same pathology as Zhou Kewen's and Headmaster Wang's batch?"
Wang Ruoxiang asked hypothetically. For example, patients with hepatitis B had 3 major and 3 minor yang. However, the pathology of parasitic diseases was usually the same unless Headmaster Chui was the primary host and the students were the secondary hosts. But that did not seem to be the case at the moment.
There were at least 3 forms of the parasite inside Headmaster Chui's body, larva, half-adult and adult.
Larvae were found in Headmaster Chui and Zhou Kewen's bodies. The larvae came from the decomposition of Zhou Kewen's body.
It was the process of the larvae developing into adults in their bodies. In theory, the pathology should be the same.
"What if it's not?"
Wang Ruoxiang said seriously.
"Their pathology is already showing different manifestations. Headmaster Chui had self-destructed for almost four days but there were still many intact parts of his gastric mucosa. There was no sign of tissue damage or recovery. However, Zhou Kewen and Sun Cuiting had only been gone for less than four hours and the gastric mucosa was almost completely gone. The rate of deterioration in this area was different.
Other than that, in terms of mental state, Headmaster Chui showed rationality and passion even before he self-destructed; Zhou Kewen and the rest showed pain and madness.
A female locust could release more than 100 eggs at a time. I was thinking, could it be that the first batch of patients like Headmaster Chui and Lee Yuhan were female locust? A special kind of carrier? And the second batch of patients were eggs? A kind of acute infection? "
Wang Ruoxiang said. This was not only her medical deduction, but it was also her spiritual intuition.
Under normal circumstances, after a human was infected with a parasite, there would be some unique characteristics.
A carrier was a parasite that did not show any obvious symptoms after infection but was able to transmit the pathogen.
Parasites rarely showed acute infection. Usually, after some clinical symptoms, without treatment or incomplete treatment, the parasite would slowly turn into a chronic infection stage. Then there would be tissue damage and recovery at the infected site. For example, schistosomiasis had the formation of egg granuloma in the liver and the process of liver fibrosis.
Zhou Kewen's group's current speed and area of infection, turning their bodies into locusts, were considered to be abnormal.
Another characteristic was called Larva Migratory Syndrome. It meant that when some larvae invaded an unsuitable host, they could not develop into adults but they could survive in the host's body for a long period of time, causing local and systemic diseases. Since Zhou Kewen's group did not show any signs of adult or semi-adult larvae, there was another possibility that could not be ruled out. Even though they were all human bodies, they were unsuitable hosts and that was why these symptoms were different.
"If Headmaster Chui's group also showed acute symptoms, they would have been sent to the hospital, right? But after a few days, even their family members did not notice any abnormalities. This was most likely a carrier. But Manager Wang and Zhou Kewen could tell with one glance that something was wrong. "
"You feel like the second batch of patients did not have the ability to transmit the disease?" Si Kouxian asked.
"I don't know, I just feel like they are different." Wang Ruoxiang was unsure. "In terms of transmission route, I have a different theory."
It could be transmitted through water, food, soil, air (droplets), arthropods and human bodies.
These were the most common transmission routes for human parasites.
Now they could not rule out the possibility that the second batch of patients were infected by the air or droplets that carried the eggs at the field.
But then again, the range of transmission was too precise. Everyone on the field was infected. But for the guards and canteen aunties who were there at the time, they heard Headmaster Chui's speech. However, they did not witness the explosion and were not on the field, so they did not show up until now.
Therefore, the medical team eliminated this possibility from the beginning and listed witnessing the self-explosion as one of the possible conditions for infection.
Furthermore, the strange locust transformation of the patients' gastric mucosa was witnessed by Wang Ruoxiang and the gastroscope recorded the image.
What was the transmission route? Mental influence?
Where did the pathogen go after it infiltrated the human body?
It was not something that could be seen physically and unlike Mutated Scale Disease, it was not a neurological disease caused by the influence of the ritual.
The whole human body was infected and it was contagious.
In the previous animal experiments, the mice consumed the eggs from the abnormal soil and the parasites inside Headmaster Chui's body. Until now, none of the mice showed any symptoms. The eggs and parasites were excreted through their bowels. It was the same with other experimental animals. This was a human parasitic disease and only the human body was a suitable host.
"Our previous hypothesis was that the new patients witnessed the self-explosion and their minds were affected, causing the disease to spread."
Wang Ruoxiang said with a frown, "Therefore, this would explain why only the teachers and students at the field were infected. But can we be sure? When Headmaster Chui self-exploded, did 1006 teachers and students really witness it? According to the investigation department, that was not the case. "
Yao Sinian and Si Kouxian knew what she was talking about. Even though the teachers and students claimed how scary the scene was, after further questioning, many of them actually did not look in Headmaster Chui's direction. Some were looking away, some were blocked. In any case, they did not witness it.
But they were infected as well. This was the flaw of the hypothesis of 'witnessing the self-explosion'.
"What if there is really a range? But this range just so happens to cover the 1006 people at the field. " Wang Ruoxiang said, "Whether they were listening to Headmaster Chui's speech or not, whether they saw Headmaster Chui's self-explosion or not, as long as they were within the range, they would be infected."
As the group listened, they seemed to be reminded of something …
"What if the transmission route of Locust Sickness is radiation?" Wang Ruoxiang added, "It is a kind of physical radiation. It was produced when Headmaster Chui's head exploded. The energy spread out in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles until it weakened to the point where it could not be seen. That is the range.
"Once the people within the range are exposed to the Locust Radiation, it will be like being exposed to nuclear radiation. It will cause genetic mutation, but it will be the same mutation. However, it will be the same mutation. For example, some genetic information has been fixed or a new piece of information has been implanted into the human body. It will turn into a large locust egg and with the right nutrients, it will evolve. "
Her hypothesis was unexpected to Yao Sinian and the others, but it was as if she had woken them up from their dreams.
It was not ingestion of eggs, air, droplets, contact, darkness corruption, mental influence … it was radiation.
Therefore, the Ancient Seal was useless. This was on a biological level, it was genetic.
If that was the case … then it meant that no matter how determined one was, one would not be able to fight against it. It was not mental but genetic.
This kind of abnormal disease, 'the pathogen invades the human gene through some kind of radiation', this was something that Phecda had not faced before, humanity had not faced before.
Even if it was not an abnormal disease, humanity was still an amateur when it came to treating genetic diseases.
"I have another thought." Wang Ruoxiang gave a long sigh. This thought sent chills down the spines of Yao Sinian and the rest.
"What if that wasteland is also a mutated area? Perhaps the locust radiation is already there? That is why everyone at the Arbor Day was infected? "
Since Headmaster Chui's self-explosion, in the past 40 hours, there were quite a number of Phecda members who entered the wasteland, including the One.
Even though they all wore radiation protection suits, they did not stay there for long.
However, Peacock did have the urge to eat the locust.
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