"Before talking about this creature, I want to talk about the deformed remains you dissected earlier."
Professor Qin's old face was very calm, but what he said made everyone more and more frightened as they listened:
"Those people were infected with 'Heterogeneous Banyan Disease'. This is our tentative name for the disease, because the pathogen is probably related to the banyan tree as Gu thought. There may be three stages in the onset of Alien Banyan Disease. The first stage is the incubation period, and the human body's own
There are no symptoms and the incubation period is very short, probably no more than fifteen days."
"The second stage is the disease stage of the limbs. Mutated cells appear in the limbs, multiply rapidly and indefinitely, and destroy normal cell tissues. This is very similar to cancer cells. However, these abnormal cells can cause structural distortion of the limbs very quickly, in just a short time
It will take a few days to look like the corpse you dissected. At this stage, if the disease can be completely removed through amputation, the patient can be saved."
At the same time, a staff member operated the large screen on the north wall of the venue to play relevant video images.
Hundreds of people in the audience looked at me, looking as serious as if they were in a classroom.
Gu Jun was also watching. The first image was the amputation process taken above the operating table. Doctors from the special department removed the deformed limbs of patients with idiopathic banyan disease. Because he had dissected such deformed limbs, he knew this before even looking at it.
How difficult is it...
If the number of patients is large, no wonder special departments are in urgent need of anatomy talents, because anatomy and surgery have many technical similarities.
After a while, everyone was sweating coldly after watching this surgery video. Many people were stunned. Even Professor Yu, a great expert in surgery, was amazed.
The doctors who performed the surgery in the video are really very skilled.
"Ah..." Xu Hai, Zhang Haoran and the others couldn't help but murmur, this was an eye-opener.
Gu Jun was also surprised. Even with the blessing of level two calm hands, he could barely stand next to the doctors and serve tea and water.
This surgery video only played for ten minutes. In the next video, the patients' deformed limbs had been removed, either upper limbs or lower limbs. They looked like ordinary amputees, using new limbs.
Installed prosthetic limbs for rehabilitation training...
But Gu Jun thought, these patients must be isolated and monitored, and they will be like this for a long time.
"There is still no relevant data on whether patients have recurrence after surgery, as well as survival time, etc., and further clinical observation is needed."
Professor Qin added at this time, "The deformed remains you dissected are all in the second stage, but they... failed to receive appropriate treatment."
These words obviously concealed some internal information. Professor Qin's voice became deeper: "When the patient develops to the third stage of mutagenesis, the mutated cells will rapidly spread throughout the body. Except for the head, structural distortion will appear in other places, and the skin
Ulceration. The patient will experience persistent severe pain, confusion, delirium, and mania. As the condition becomes more serious, the patient will experience muscle spasms throughout the body, and some may experience opisthotonus."
Opisthotonus is a condition in which the back of the neck is highly rigid, causing the body to bend upward like an arch.
Everyone saw another video being played on the big screen, and the screams of extreme pain suddenly filled the venue again.
The video is a surveillance video of a small white cell-like room. The room is less than five square meters and there is no decoration. There is only a naked patient lying on the ground in a state of opisthotonus. The patient's head is severely bent back and pressed against his back.
On the top, the torso protruded forward, already distorted into a human shape...
Everyone's senses were once again oppressed by this unspeakable weirdness, and some people silently took the vomit bags.
Professor Qin said: "Patients in the mutated stage have already lost their sense of self. If there are other patients in the mutated stage of metamorphosis around, the two of them will become entangled crazily, and the skin ulcers will stick together and they will be unable to
Separate, and then form hyperplasia of skin at the bonding point. After the wound heals, the two people are like Siamese people. With so many people bonded together, the final distorted shape will be like a banyan tree. This is what you see in the cage.
This thing.”
The whole place fell into silence, and the teachers and students were already surrounded by a deep chill. Different from the direct shock just now, this chill was so solid.
Just now, they could blame the strangeness in front of them on the fear of "seeing ghosts and encountering evil spirits", but now the real video and a human body alien banyan tree completely shattered their thoughts. This is not a ghost, this is a disease.
And they are doctors.
It feels like there is a dark cloud pressing in the sky, and a storm is about to fall at any time.
But they didn't know whether what fell would still be ordinary rain.
"Once the patients with metaphyseal disease develop adhesion." Professor Qin's old face elongated and he said very seriously: "We believe that they are no longer human beings, but a new kind of creature, and there is no way to treat them. We have now discovered
This creature has at least two states, living and dead. A living banyan tree can continue to grow, and its black liquid becomes contagious. Once other organisms come into contact with the active black liquid, they will be infected and rapidly develop to
The period of death. Student Gu guessed right just now, the alien banyan tree can bond with creatures other than humans. And the rejection reaction that classmate Sun mentioned is indeed gone."
Another video was played on the big screen in the venue. This time everyone was stunned, but it was because they were confused about this scene.
It's still a surveillance video. It's a very large white room with no furnishings, and a huge white-painted iron cage in the middle. There is a human-shaped banyan tree in the cage.
It's not the one in the venue. The banyan tree in the video is even bigger, and may contain more than thirty corpses. It moved slowly in the cage. When two people in full-body protective clothing approached the cage, it
Those dozens of heads suddenly let out brutal screams, which were even more piercing than before...
"Biologists in the department believe that it relies on this sound to hunt for food." Professor Qin explained, "If you are unfortunate enough to face an exotic banyan tree one day, you must not be intimidated by it and stay away from its contact range immediately.
Otherwise you will become part of the tree."
At this time in the video, the two personnel in protective clothing threw several Kunming mice, which everyone is familiar with, into the iron cage.
"Squeak!" The mice screamed in panic. They fell into the cage and huddled up, unable to move at all. Several hands of the alien banyan tree grabbed them... At this time, the playback speed of the video was increased, and I saw
Black liquid oozed from the skin of those human hands and soaked every mouse...
After ten minutes, their limbs became distorted, and after another ten minutes, they developed opisthotonus, and in less than half an hour, they developed into the stage of metamorphosis!
Then, for the first time, hundreds of teachers and students saw for the first time how the alien banyan trees stick together. The time bar of the surveillance video showed that just over two hours had passed. Those Kunming mice seemed to be born from this alien banyan tree.
a part of.
There was a low buzz in the venue, medical students scratched their hair, covered their faces, and sighed long...
"Uh..." Cai Zixuan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he forgot what he wanted to say.
Wang Ruoxiang was also silent. He Yuhan hugged her tightly in fear and murmured: "It's too miserable, it's too miserable..."
Yes, it was too miserable. Gu Jun looked directly at the devil's creation on the screen with calm eyes, but why did he see a kind of grandeur in this creation?
It's like a more bizarre Tower of Babel has been rebuilt on the ruins that destroyed everything.