Chapter 48
Chi Xia accompanied her students through the S+ parasite test one by one. Ye Feng and Feng Xiao's test reports came out quickly, and both of them tested negative. When Dr. Huang came out with Tong Yue's test report, his face was grave.
Feng Xu snatched the report, and when he saw it was positive, his knuckles cracked as he gripped it. He slammed the report onto Dr. Huang's chest, saying, "Didn't you say there was nothing wrong with your previous test?"
Chi Xia didn't tell Feng Xu about Dr. Huang's matter, and even briefly explained it to the doctors in the department, saying it was a misunderstanding. The director naturally hoped it was a misunderstanding, and when he saw Feng Xu, he didn't mention the matter at all.
Dr. Huang glanced at Chi Xia indifferently, then looked back at Feng Xu. "The results show that the initial composition of the larva is similar to the protein in the body. It has no toxins and does not have the characteristics of division. Conventional tests cannot detect it at all. It was my oversight."
Chi Xia took the lab report. "Has the hospital conducted any further tests to confirm the number of worms?"
Dr. Huang: Yes.
Chi Xia: "Arrange it immediately."
Dr. Huang glanced at Feng Xu, whose face had darkened, nodded to Chi Xia, and went to the department to print out the forms.
Feng Xu took a deep breath and looked at Chi Xia. "Come with me."
Chi Xia could sense that the other person was suppressing their anger, and followed them into the empty ward where the sheets had already been changed.
Feng Xu slammed the door shut as Chi Xia entered, his face turning pale with suppressed rage. He loosened his collar and said, "I never agreed to Tong Yue's involvement in the 'insect-catching' operation. You were the one who convinced me. You haven't forgotten your promise, have you? Now, he's the only one infected!"
Chi Xia: "You're right, it's my responsibility. First, check the number of larvae inside him, then I'll handle it."
Feng Xu raised his hand and slammed it against the wall behind Chi Xia. It sounded quite painful, and his expression was pained. "That's my brother! I asked Bai Yu's attending physician, and the development time for those mature female worm larvae is only one week. Since Bai Yu moved in, we've held ten seminars, but we haven't been able to find an effective treatment plan. What can you do? If..."
Feng Xu stared intently at Chi Xia, his eyes slowly filling with blood. The usually calm and composed head of the Feng family had completely lost his composure at this moment. "If my brother becomes like Bai Yu, I will make you and everyone involved in the insect-catching operation pay the price!"
He didn't shout, but every word sounded like it was poisoned, and the last two words were squeezed out from his back teeth.
Chi Xia raised her hand to wipe away the tiny spittle that the other person excitedly sprayed on her face, and tilted her head back, "President Feng, you've believed me twice, there's no reason not to believe me a third time."
As Feng Xu adjusted his breathing and withdrew the hand that had hit the wall, he couldn't help but turn and pinch Chi Xia's chin.
Chi Xia's face was so small that when he pinched it between his long, slender fingers, there was enough space in the middle to fit an egg. Perhaps it was because it was the first time he had touched a woman like this, so he didn't use any force at all. He just looked at her small face with puzzlement, wondering where she got her confidence from.
"Are you always this calm?"
Chi Xia knew that the other party was emotionally agitated and that it was indeed her failure to notice Bai Yu's abnormality in time that led to Tong Yue being taken hostage and even infected. She removed the other party's hand and pushed her back a few steps.
"The current situation is not enough to make me lose my composure. The reason I am so confident about the bio-mutant insect is because I can control it. I ask you to calm down as well. Tong Yue is very calm."
“How could a child like him know about danger?” Feng Xu said angrily, then realized something and looked at Chi Xia, “What do you mean by ‘being able to control yourself’?”
Chi Xia: "Once the quantity is determined, I will remove it from Tong Yue's body."
Feng Xu suddenly had a bad feeling. He frowned and asked, "How are you going to retrieve it?"
Chi Xia: "It involves my privacy, so I can't disclose that information."
Feng Xu took a step closer. "Then can you save Bai Yu?"
Feng Xu didn't want Chi Xia to risk her life to save Bai Yu; he just wanted to test her abilities.
Chi Xia could see through his thoughts. "He's in the spotlight right now, and I'm not the kind of person who likes to put myself in the spotlight."
The test results showed that Tong Yue had only one larva in his body. Feng Xu is now not going anywhere or doing anything. He just sits upright by Tong Yue's bedside, watching over him. Tong Yue tries to make him laugh and talk to him, but he doesn't say a word.
Xin Ran had another class in the afternoon. After Feng Xu arrived, he greeted him and went to find Xun Jiang for lunch before rushing back to class.
Chi Xia went to coordinate the operating room with Dr. Huang. Dr. Huang had a million questions on his mind, but all he could ask was, "Are you sure you can handle it?"
Chi Xia: "It's not a problem, but only a few of us know about this."
Dr. Huang nodded.
After Ye Feng and Feng Xiao finished their tests, they went to see Bai Yu. However, they couldn't enter the ICU, which was guarded by police officers. They could only see Bai Yu's originally beautiful body covered with tubes and his head surrounded by sophisticated instruments through the holographic live video in the observation room. There were three instruments in the observation room responsible for transcribing Bai Yu's brain activity in real time.
The police officers are in charge of this area; there are dedicated personnel on duty here.
Ye Feng: "Have you found anything?"
"No." The officer pulled up a brain activity chart, which was as calm as the Dead Sea.
The IV drip continuously seeped into Bai Yu's body through a thin needle. The worms were controlled by the injected medicine. The tube inserted into Bai Yu's body was equipped with a miniature camera, and the worms in the cut surface remained motionless.
The attending physician, his eyes red from staying up all night, magnified the cross-section and pointed it out to the two of them, "Do you see the abdomen of the worm? There are at least thirty larvae stored inside. Once the mature mother worm is stimulated by any external object, it will explode. Currently, the number of mother worms detected on Bai Yu is 3,005. We can only paralyze it temporarily and dare not stimulate it rashly."
The doctor zoomed in on the insect's legs and said, "See the hooks on them? It will only retract its hooks when it is conscious, free to move, and not threatened. Otherwise, if all 3,005 female insects move their hooks at the same time, Mr. Bai Yu will suffer massive bleeding."
Feng Xiao cried. Looking at the horrifying scene, he tightly gripped Ye Feng's arm. "Is my uncle going to die? What should I do? I'm afraid I can't hide it from my family. My mom has asked me several times already. Since my uncle is in Xinshi, why isn't he coming home? What should I say? And my grandma, if she knew my uncle was like this, she wouldn't be able to go on living."
Ye Feng took a tissue from the tissue box on the table and handed it to Feng Xiao, patted his hand, and looked at the doctor, "So, you haven't yet come up with an effective way to remove these insects?"
The doctor sighed deeply and nodded.
Ye Feng: "How long does it take for the larvae to mature after entering the body?"
Doctor: "About a week."
Ye Feng: "With so many mature female worms inside Bai Yu's body, there must have been more than one when he was born?"
The doctor nodded. "That's for sure. I'd conservatively estimate there are several hundred."
Feng Xiao wiped away her tears. "How could you put hundreds of larvae into someone's body? Didn't my uncle notice?"
The doctor thought for a moment and said, "It could be due to the accumulation over time. As you have seen, the medication can control the activity of the worms. If the larvae in Mr. Bai Yu's body are controlled by the medication, they are very likely to be in a state of inhibited growth, lying dormant like being frozen. Then, when it is necessary for them to reactivate, the medication should be stopped or activated with medication."
Feng Xiao exclaimed excitedly, "Then it can only be an inside job!"
The officer then interjected, "There's also a possibility that your uncle drank it all at once, and then, with the constant stimulation from external substances, the insects grew wildly and exploded, increasing their numbers."
Doctor: "Yes, we can't rule out that possibility. Mr. Bai Yu is a public figure, and even if he has bodyguards protecting him, he comes into contact with many people, so it's difficult to investigate."
Feng Xiao: "So you're not going to investigate?"
Police officer: "Of course we'll investigate. Don't worry, we've already blocked the news. We'll investigate everyone Mr. Bai Yu contacted a week ago."
Ye Feng: "Thank you for your trouble."
Police officer: "Young Master Ye, you're too kind. This is our duty."
The doctor accompanied them out of the observation room. Ye Feng said, "Whatever you need, manpower, resources, or equipment, you can contact me and I will arrange it for you as soon as possible. In short, we must do everything we can to save Mr. Bai Yu."
Feng Xiao grabbed the doctor's hand, pleading, "Please, you must save my uncle!"
Doctor: "We will. A doctor's duty is to save lives."
On Dr. Huang's side, Ye Feng's men were already in place, binding Dr. Huang's bracelet, and two people were providing 24-hour close protection. At this moment, those two, along with Feng Xu and Feng Xu's two bodyguards, were guarding outside the operating room.
Ye Feng and Feng Xiao wanted to visit Tong Yue again, but Tong Yue's ward was empty, and no one answered when they called Chi Xia. So the two of them had to go back to school for class.
Chi Xia, dressed in scrubs, stood in front of the operating table with a scalpel in her hand. Dr. Huang assisted her, and he was also carefully dressed in surgical scrubs. To outsiders, it was naturally said that Dr. Huang was performing surgery on Tong Yue and suturing a wound.
Dr. Huang looked at Chi Xia's exposed arms and said, "Do you want to change into a surgical gown? I have some more over there, so you don't get infected yourself later."
Tong Yue's eyes sparkled as he lay on the operating table looking at Chi Xia. "Teacher, please listen to Dr. Huang."
Chi Xia gave a faint smile, "It's inconvenient for me to wear those clothes after I bleed later."
Tong Yue and Dr. Huang looked at Chi Xia together and said in unison, "Bloodletting?"
At first, Chi Xia did not explain her plan in detail to the two of them, but only arranged for Dr. Huang to prepare the necessary equipment.
Seeing that Dr. Huang was ready, she pulled up a chair and sat down next to Tong Yue before explaining to Dr. Huang, "In a little while, I will cut my and Tong Yue's hands to lure out the larva. You will be responsible for catching it with the tweezers in your hand and then putting it into this box."
Dr. Huang looked at the small white incubator. "You asked me for it to hold larvae? What do you need larvae for?"
Chi Xia: "If we're lucky, we can study it and use it to save Bai Yu."
Tong Yue: "Is that okay?"
Dr. Huang: "I think it's unlikely."
Chi Xia: "We should at least give it a try."
Tong Yue was instantly filled with energy. His right hand was receiving an IV drip, and he extended his left hand. "Let's begin."
Chi Xia patted his hair. "Very brave."
Dr. Huang let out a sigh of relief. "If the head doctor finds out that I'm assisting with this kind of high-risk, unethical surgery here, my career will truly be over."
Chi Xia looked at him, "We won't tell anyone."
Tong Yue: "Yes, we will keep it absolutely confidential."
Dr. Huang stood up, turned on the operating light, and illuminated Tong Yue's hand, making it appear snow-white, even translucent, with the fine white hairs and blood vessels beneath the skin clearly visible. At that moment, a lump the size of a grain of rice had moved from Tong Yue's neck to his arm.
Seeing this, Chi Xia took the scalpel handed to her by Dr. Huang. Without blinking, she first cut her own wrist, watched the blood gush out, then threw away the scalpel and took another new one to gently cut Tong Yue's skin.
Tong Yue looked at the ceiling. "Ouch, that hurts a little."
Chi Xia: "Bear with it, anesthesia will affect its activity."
Tong Yue: "Okay."
Chi Xia placed her hand next to Tong Yue's; both hands were bleeding. Dr. Huang and Chi Xia stared at the wriggling "rice grain." The medicine in the IV drip was slowly fermenting in Tong Yue's body; it couldn't stand it and was searching for a new environment to survive.
Compared to Tong Yue's blood, Chi Xia's blood didn't have that unpleasant smell; in fact, it had an indescribable allure for it. It felt comfortable just being near it, and the two of them held their breath, waiting for it to come closer.
But the insect seemed to have a brain and could think. It hesitated, and even when Chi Xia's blood showed signs of clotting, it didn't come out. It just circled around Tong Yue's wound.
Sweat rolled down Dr. Huang's face. He remained motionless, holding tweezers in one hand and a piece of adhesive tape that could quickly seal and seal Tong Yue's wound in the other. As soon as the tape appeared, even just a sliver, he would immediately clamp it down.
The insect thrashed about, and even though Chi Xia's blood was extremely tempting to it, it didn't come out. Without hesitation, Chi Xia picked up a new scalpel and slashed herself. Blood gushed out vividly again. Dr. Huang was shocked; this woman was not only ruthless to others, but even more ruthless to herself.
Finally, as the expelling agent in Tong Yue's body became more concentrated, the larval form could no longer self-destruct to complete its reproductive mission and had to quickly find another place to live.
A tiny white dot emerged from Tong Yue's bright red wound. Dr. Huang was about to take action when Chi Xia pressed him down with her other hand, signaling him to wait a little longer.
The two watched as the white larva, less than a centimeter long, crawled out of Tong Yue's wound, stretching and contracting, and then excitedly tried to crawl towards Chi Xia's wound, which was lying next to it and flowing with rich, fragrant blood.
Dr. Huang was extremely nervous because once this worm, which is less than one centimeter long, matures, it can cause immeasurable harm to the human body. It multiplies rapidly inside the body, even to the point of dying inside, hollowing out the body and affecting the person's mental state.
Chi Xia let go just as it was about to excitedly plunge into her own wound, about three centimeters away from Tong Yue's wound.
"Whoosh!"
"when!"
"Bang!"
Dr. Huang didn't waste a second; he precisely pinched the middle section, quickly dropped it into the culture box, and closed the lid!
This entire sequence of movements takes no more than three seconds in total.
"Ah! Huff... huff..."
After Dr. Huang finished doing all this, he stood up abruptly with a low shout, feeling tense and suppressed. When he sat back down, his hands were trembling. If he made a mistake, the worm would immediately return to Tong Yue's body at top speed. Similarly, if he was a second slower, the worm would directly pierce Chi Xia's wound.
Dr. Huang felt that this time, he had unleashed the full power of his ten years of experience.
Tong Yue rolled her eyes. "Did it work?"
Chi Xia: "We succeeded. Dr. Huang is excellent."
Tong Yue also took a deep breath. Having seen Bai Yu's appearance and knowing that he was infected with the same worm, it was impossible not to be afraid.
Dr. Huang raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He hadn't dared to close his eyes since the sweat had just gotten in them. He sat down to clean Tong Yue and Chi Xia's wounds, his hands trembling the whole time.
Chi Xia took the anti-inflammatory stick from his hand and carefully cleaned Tong Yue's wound. Then she took the adhesive tape and applied it. She then turned to treat her own wound, which was at least five centimeters long and one centimeter deep. However, she was expressionless, which stunned Dr. Huang.
"You're so calm. If you were a doctor, no one in our department could compare to you."
Chi Xia: "Thank you for the compliment."
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