After returning to the base, Yan Jili sent a message to Tang Anan, briefly telling her some information about the undeveloped forest.
Suddenly, someone ran over and said to Yan Jili hurriedly, "General Yan, some of the soldiers on mission at the base today have problems with their legs!"
Yan Jili looked at the anxious faces of the soldiers in front of him, his cold face and dark eyes glaring. He said, "Come with me now and tell me everything you know."
Soldier: “Yes!”
Along the way, the soldiers kept talking about the physical changes that had taken place in them after they returned.
"After returning, no one noticed anything unusual, but during training, some soldiers couldn't move their legs at all."
"When they were sent to the base hospital for examination, they discovered that each of these soldiers had a thin, long object stuck to their legs, clinging tightly to their flesh."
The soldier made a bold guess: "General Yan, could it be that they were parasitized by those monster vines?"
Yan Jili narrowed his eyes slightly, "Have you informed Chen Ruolan?"
Soldier: "Someone went to call Sister Ruolan. She's probably arriving soon like us."
As soon as she stepped into the hospital, she saw Chen Ruolan having a serious conversation with a soldier. She raised her eyes to look outside the door, and when she saw that it was Yan Jili, her eyes lit up slightly.
"Jili." She called out.
When Yan Jili saw her, his eyes softened for a moment. He walked over to her and asked, "Do you see what's wrong?"
Chen Ruolan nodded. "Parasitic vines survive by sucking the blood and flesh of their host. If they can't be removed for a long time, the host will turn into a mummified corpse and die."
Hearing this, the soldier in front of her widened his eyes in horror. He trembled and said, "Sister Ruolan, can I still be saved?"
As he spoke, his eyes reddened slightly: "I, I haven't married yet, and I haven't used up all the points in the base."
Yan Jili frowned slightly, "As a man, how can I look so naggingly like this?"
His heavy and majestic voice frightened the soldiers, who immediately fell silent. They could only look at Chen Ruolan, their eyes sending out signals for help.
Chen Ruolan tugged at Yan Jili's sleeve. "Life is at stake. Who wouldn't be anxious?"
He leaned closer and whispered, "This kid is only seventeen or eighteen years old. What's wrong with being a little scared? When you were your age, you weren't necessarily better than anyone else."
Yan Jili raised his eyebrows and a deep voice sounded in her ear: "I was strong when I was seventeen or eighteen years old. Do you want to try it?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Ruolan's face flushed, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes. She quickly stepped aside, coughed lightly, and said to the soldier, "Don't worry, this may be a difficult problem for others, but for me, just give me some time and I can solve it."
She patted the young soldier's shoulder soothingly and said, "Don't worry, you won't die. They won't die either."
At this time, Yan Jili looked at the white and slender hand on the young soldier's shoulder with a light look.
The soldier felt his body shaking instinctively and looked around in confusion.
Subconsciously thinking he was dying, he hugged his leg and watched with red eyes. He carefully glanced at Yan Jili's stern face, then quickly lowered his head to look at his parasitic leg.
Chen Ruolan said to him, "Please suspend your training for the time being. You can't do any strenuous exercise for now."
After saying that, he went to check on the other soldiers.
The young soldier's leg injury was not serious. Chen Ruolan walked up to a young soldier and squatted down to check the condition of his leg.
The veins in his legs were found to be dilated, revealing obvious marks. A foreign object was clearly moving within his leg muscles. The young soldier's face was dark blue, and the pain in his eyes was almost overflowing.
Seeing him in so much pain, Chen Ruolan released the small vine and slowly reached towards the young soldier's leg. When it touched the epidermis, Chen Ruolan could feel the strong signal sent back by the vine.
"Swallow, swallow, swallow..."
Chen Ruolan's face was heavy. He retracted the cane and asked him, "Have you drunk the healing potion?"
The nurse next to her said, "Not yet. This parasitic vine is so rare that we don't dare let the soldiers take it directly."
Chen Ruolan said to her, "Have all soldiers in very serious condition take the vial of medicine, and the others record the changes in their data."
Nurse: "Okay."
As soon as Chen Ruolan gave the order, everyone got busy.
Chen Ruolan took the potion and was about to give it to the soldier when a slender and strong hand reached out and took the potion away.
She looked up and saw Yan Jili's deep eyes looking at her. "You go deal with the research on the parasitic vines, and I'll take care of this."
The situation was urgent, and Chen Ruolan didn't have time to think. "Okay, I'll go over now."
Walking into the medical research lab and looking at the test results, she said, "Is it possible for these parasitic vines to survive outside the human body?"
The researcher said: "One soldier dug out the parasitic vine himself, causing him to lose a lot of blood. He is still in the emergency room."
"Our research object is the vine that was pulled out of his body. This tiny vine has an estimated thousand tentacles. The moment it leaves the human body, it becomes briefly active and then becomes motionless."
"But during our research, we found that it still retained life and was not dead."
Chen Ruolan nodded: "They cannot live without soil and water. Most plants will die completely after losing these two things."
She said, "Go on."
Researcher: "We initially tested it in soil and water, and it turned out to be just like normal plants. It even began to actively seek out humans to parasitize."
As he spoke, the researcher felt a wave of fear: "If we hadn't worn protective clothing during our research, I'm afraid someone would have already been successfully infected by it."
Chen Ruolan: "Where is the vine now?"
Researcher: "Over here, please follow me."
Chen Ruolan followed the researcher to an empty glass box, looked at the vine lying quietly and motionless inside, and did not release his own supernatural vine to go in and touch it.
Instead, he took out an old vine that was cut off in the forest.
As soon as this vine appeared, the motionless vine inside began to slowly wriggle, becoming restless like a larva.
The researcher looked at the scene in surprise and asked, "What is this?"
Chen Ruolan handed the old vine to the researcher, "This was also brought back from that unknown forest."
She said, "This thing once had intelligence, but I forcibly wiped it out. Through it, you can control some low-level mutant plants. You can study it."
A glint of joy flashed in the researcher's eyes. "Well, maybe this vine can bring us a significant discovery."
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