Chapter 575 Autopsy
Song Bin's teeth were chattering as he watched Jing Shu untie the sealed body bag. The old man covered his nose with his hands as he knew how to do it.
Suddenly, a foul smell spread out, and Song Bin almost vomited out the leftover rice. Jing Shu just frowned and held her breath, without changing her expression.
The old man laughed and said, "Look, it's still fresh. It hasn't started to rot yet, and the bugs inside haven't burst out yet. Otherwise...tsk tsk, that scene is really terrifying."
When Song Bin heard this, his legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. He had been working in a greenhouse for the past four years in the apocalypse and had never seen such a scene.
The deceased had a hideous face, his face was ashen and pale, his hair was standing up, his body was stiff, except for his slightly large belly. It looked like he had died a normal death.
Jingshu started the examination from the head, pressing the eyes, ears and nose with rubber gloves, and found everything to be normal.
There are no corpse spots, no corpse green, and no swelling. Jingshu has been collecting corpses for so many years in the last ten years of the apocalypse to earn points, so she is very experienced in the time of death. The old man is right, the time of death should not exceed six hours.
Jingshu continued to check, not missing any details. The body was stiff on the outside but soft on the inside. Jingshu was familiar with this kind of meat. It was similar to how before grilling a steak, they would pierce the steak with dense iron needles to make it taste better. As the saying goes, the meat is so tender after being pierced thousands of times. This body felt soft and disconnected, like a sieve.
Also, the stench of the corpse shouldn't be the stench of a corpse. It shouldn't be there at this early hour. So it must be the smell of parasites.
Jingshu frowned and continued to check.
Jingshu pressed her finger on her belly, and the skin quickly sank, and the surrounding area began to ripple like water waves. Then, a terrible scene happened!
Just like a stone startling the silence of a flock of roosting birds, the corpse's belly began to wriggle wildly and spread out. In the blink of an eye, you could see the skin all over its body undulating, and there seemed to be countless long and thin things running around under the skin. They might have bumped into their companions because of the fright, causing the skin to bulge sometimes.
After a while, their stomachs deflated and their bodies swelled up, becoming bulging. The most terrifying thing was that these worms kept wriggling wildly, and some parts of them were almost bursting. Their shapes could be seen in the firelight.
Some insects were pushed to the edge by their companions and slowly flowed out from the corners of their eyes, nostrils, and ears, but they still struggled to drill into the host's body.
"This, this, are these all parasites??? Will they rush out? Will they jump onto me?" Song Bin stuttered and moved back. This was completely different from what he had imagined. Oh my God, this wasn't just infected with parasites, this entire corpse was probably full of bugs, right?
Being parasitized by these bugs is too scary! If, if he is parasitized... No, it's too disgusting!
Even the usually calm Jingshu felt a little touched. It wasn't because the worms were disgusting. After all, she had survived by eating red nematodes in her previous life, so she was used to it.
She just didn't expect that the parasite incident that year was so cruel. It was much more serious than she had imagined. Perhaps this was reincarnation. Humans survived by eating red nematodes, and after a round of genetic mutation of the red nematodes, they returned and began to feed on humans again.
The old man preciously put away his cigarette and looked at Song Bin with a hint of contempt: "You guys are naturally inexperienced, but don't be afraid. The parasite won't leave the host on its own initiative. Even if it did, you haven't eaten red nematodes before and don't have the genes. Even if these worms get into your stomach, they won't be able to reproduce."
Song Bin finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Then this bug isn't a big deal."
Jing Shu glared at Song Bin and said, "In the past few years since the end of the world, only a few people have not eaten red nematodes. Just imagine how many people have eaten red nematodes. If they were really infected..."
The consequences would be unimaginable!
Soon, the scattered parasites flowed everywhere from the host's holes, but they always kept one end immersed in the host's body and the other end exposed to the air to explore the new century.
These worms are really long. The red nematodes are only a dozen centimeters long. After mutation, the parasites are thirty to forty centimeters long. Half of the worm body is in the air. After a while, it finds the body bag.
outside.
"They, they are coming out!"
Jingshu raised her eyebrows, grabbed a handful of parasites, and tried to pull the worms out under Song Bin's jaw-dropping eyes.
"What are you going to do!"
Unexpectedly, the insect refused to obey and kept holding on to the corpse host. The thread-like insect seemed to make a sharp hissing sound.
Jingshu frowned and pulled hard. She heard the sound of the thread breaking and the parasite snapped off in the middle.
The parasites that flowed out of the host's body retreated back frantically, even the parasites that had just been severed retreated. The worms on Jingshu's hands shrank and curled into woolen threads at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Just like the red nematodes soaked in salt, they died completely.
The corpse turned back into a normal corpse, except that the skin was still bulging and the bugs seemed to be fighting, as if nothing had happened.
"It seems that they will not leave the host on their own initiative. Although they have mutated more severely, their living space has become smaller and they can only survive on the host. This is good news."
Jingshu threw away the shriveled and dead parasite corpse in her hand. Song Bin fell to the ground with a thud, muttering to himself. Even the old man gasped. He had never seen such a stubborn person.
No matter how much pressure was applied, the parasites remained huddled inside and refused to come out. The skin was about to burst, and Jingshu discovered that the corpse seemed to have expanded a lot in this short period of time. In the light of the fire, more and more insects were crowded together, and it felt like it was about to burst.
The old man was familiar with the situation after all. He pointed at the corpse and said tremblingly: "Quick, quick, push it into the fire. Every time it happens, it's about to explode. This is the final stage!"
Jingshu shook her head and actually took out a knife and slashed the old man with it while he had his eyes wide open. This time, without the need for the corpse to explode, the parasites that were not wrapped in the skin finally burst out like a flood.
In the air, these parasites began to panic like vampires who had seen the light again. They finally scattered completely and ended their own lives at the same time.
Surprisingly, the first ones to become woolly-rollers are the longest and largest ones, which put all their nutrients and hopes into the larvae.
Then, countless tiny larvae popped out from the corpse.
"Hurry, hurry, push it into the fire! These bugs are going to fly everywhere!"
The larvae scattered like rain, jumping around in search of new hosts.
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