Chapter 573
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Gu Jun did not climb up the tree. Instead, he took off his jacket and wrapped it around a ball of soil from the forest. It was as solid as a rock. Then, he tossed it at the body hanging on the branch. With a bang, it hit the body's torso. The body wobbled for a moment before falling to the ground.
Both bodies were in the same state.
Even though Gu Jun thought they were dead bodies, he still checked their vitals. Li Liangbin and Wang Yong did not have a heartbeat or breath. Their bodies were frozen. Even with the mask on, Gu Jun could smell the stench of decomposition.
Even though Gu Jun was a clinician, he had some understanding of forensic science.
From the state of the zombies, he could estimate the time of death. Both bodies had stiff muscles, so they had been dead for more than 7 to 8 hours. However, zombies in the foreign world tended to morph faster. It was the same at Rikers, so if it was the same at this area, the time of death would be 3 to 4 hours.
Their right hands were especially stiff. Their deltoid and biceps muscles were all locked together. However, the appearance of this limb did not change much. It had also lost its vitality. It appeared like the abnormal hand had died with them, different from Cao Yicong's abnormal hand.
"My friends." After the inspection, Gu Jun saluted the two bodies on the ground with a heavy expression. "Rest in peace."
He used the jacket that he had cut to cover the two bodies' faces. Then he took out the Carlop dissection instrument and prepared to dissect the two abnormal hands.
Certain pathologies needed to be dissected, and it was the same with other abnormal forces.
Gu Jun held the scalpel in the bow-holding stance and did not move for a moment.
Ever since he used this scalpel, he had dissected many different abnormal life forms and faced many different pressures. But facing these two bodies …
Gu Jun did not know Li Liangbin and Wang Yong before this mission, but now he knew that Li Liangbin was married and his wife was 7 months pregnant. Her due date was near, so Li Liangbin was more desperate to solve the Abnormal Baby Syndrome than the others. Now, Li Liangbin would never see his child again.
"These are good people, very good people."
Gu Jun said slowly, speaking to his messy heart, as well as the shadows in the dark. "You have no reason to harm these people."
The cold wind rustled the brown leaves of the forest. Carlop used the scalpel to slice open the arm of Li Liangbin's body, and the already blackened flesh was sliced open.
As expected, what flowed along the blade was not blood, but a black, viscous liquid. It was the black liquid of an alien hand, the black liquid of a young black goat's leg.
Gu Jun was careful not to come into direct contact with the liquid. He continued to dissect it in a hazy illusion. The tissue changes of this mutated hand were very similar to Cao Yicong's mutated hand. It should be a complete mutation. The skin and muscles were keratinizing, which reminded him of the Necro-skins.
When the humerus was cut open, the inside of the bone was also empty, and there were a lot of tubular bundles of organ tissue.
It was almost the 'heterogenous tube' in the foot cavity of a black goat cub. However, it was a little thinner and had lost its activity without being destroyed.
Gu Jun thought as he dissected. Could the dark power of Alien Hand transform the human body into a life form like the black goat cub? But on these two bodies, there seemed to be something missing … Other than the alien hand, there was no trace of the black goat's power in the other parts of the bodies.
He noticed this. "Could it be because neither Li Liangbin nor Wang Yong are believers of the black goat?"
The mutation of the right upper limb of the two bodies did not spread beyond the right shoulder. There were also the patients with Alien Hand at the Medical Department base. Although the critically ill patients showed symptoms of sepsis, there were no abnormalities in other parts of the body.
The black liquid of the black goat cub could trigger the mutation of other bodies, and so could the abnormal amniotic fluid of the heterogenous infant.
The black goat cub and heterogenous infant were all lives born from the Black Goat Palace in the Forest, and they were born in the shadow of Shub-Niggurath.
However, Alien Hand Disease was a pathogen invasion disease, or a curse ritual attack, and the power of its Black Liquid was lacking …
Gu Jun was reminded of the illusions caused by the negative choices of Ah Meng and Chen Xing. They consumed the black liquid condensed from the black fog and became believers of the black goat. They could mutate, but Li Liangbin and Wang Yong probably did not succumb. Those normal patients did not know about Shub-Niggurath.
Tan Jinming and the other murder suspects all used their hands to kill the victims, so there was a possibility of Alien Hand Disease.
But the difference between them and normal patients with Alien Hand Disease was that they all made negative choices … They appeared to be chosen …
Gu Jun speculated but he could not come to a conclusion.
The wind picked up and the rustling of the leaves intensified. Gu Jun suddenly heard some movement. He whipped his head around but there was no sign in the dark and enclosed forest.
"Who is it? I know you're there. "Gu Jun indeed had that feeling.
"Doctor Gu …" A voice rang out and a figure slowly walked out from behind the tree. He was wearing a Phecda uniform, it was Cao Yicong.
But Gu Jun noticed the strangeness immediately. "Deputy Cao, don't move!" He ordered immediately. He picked up the pistol beside him and aimed it at Cao Yicong.
The figure's hands were still there but the right upper limb had probably been personally amputated and dropped into the swamp.
Furthermore, Cao Yicong's uniform was no longer in perfect condition. The right sleeve should have been cut off and there should be wounds and bandages on his forehead …
Gu Jun could not be sure whether that was Cao Yicong, a human or some other creature that looked like Cao Yicong.
"Doctor Gu, have you not remembered?" Cao Yicong's face was lost. He smiled bitterly as he looked at the two bodies on the ground. "Alien Hand Disease killed them … Here, I don't have Alien Hand Disease but they do."
"What are you trying to say?" Gu Jun asked. He no longer believed that it was Cao Yicong.
Since the black liquid could change one's life form and this was the Black Goat's womb, even a pile of mud could transform into something that looked like Cao Yicong.
"We …" Cao Yicong sounded tired. "are clones."
Gu Jun was startled and narrowed his eyes. "Oh?"
"This womb can replicate the life inside it …" Cao Yicong only said a few words but it seemed to take a lot of energy. His face darkened. "We are not the only version of ourselves and we might not be the one that came in … Doctor Gu, look at your left pinkie."
Suddenly, Gu Jun's whole body tingled with pain like he had just woken up from a dream.
His eyes glanced down but he did not need to look to feel it.
A situation that he did not notice and could not remember since he woke up appeared clearly in his mind.
His left pinky finger, which he had cut off a long time ago, was still intact. There was no missing part.
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