After Ellie's test, it was confirmed that the insect that caused Captain Qin's buttocks to be bruised was Schistosoma mansoni.
"Normal Schistosoma mansoni, adult worms parasitize blood vessels, and eggs are deposited in the tissues around the spinal cord. Generally, only humans are infected, and occasionally primates are infected."
Ellie explained, "The Schistosoma mansoni that Captain Qin was infected with was clearly mutated. Normally, there's no Schistosoma mansoni in our country, but there's no way to trace its transmission route right now."
"But generally speaking, the most likely cause is contact with infected water, and the intermediate host of this worm is a snail."
Hearing this, Da Zhuang and Tyrannosaurus looked unhappy.
"After we arrived in H City, we drank water from the local thawed snow. On the way back to Hongdu Mountain, the conditions did not allow us to make a fire, so we hardly drank any water on the way."
Chu Han and Zhou Feifei looked at Da Zhuang. The former said, "One of the typical symptoms of Schistosoma mansoni infection is intermittent or persistent fever, headaches, muscle and joint pain, and sometimes diarrhea, itchy skin, and swollen lymph nodes. When the worms pass through the lungs, they can also cause lung inflammation and chest pain."
Da Zhuang: “…I have them all…”
Tyrannosaurus: "I don't have any symptoms at the moment, I should be fine, right?"
"It's hard to say." Ellie shook her head and handed over a report. "We have limited equipment at the moment, so I can only give them basic blood tests. Both of their eosinophils have been significantly elevated."
After reading the report, Chu Han and Zhou Feifei stood up and took out disposable medical gloves.
"Let's go."
"Do a rectal biopsy. If there's a problem, it should be able to detect worm eggs."
The two people who were still feeling "sorry" for their captain's broken butt not long ago, now couldn't laugh anymore.
Bobcat sympathetically watched his two teammates go for checks.
Ellie looked at Shi Man and said, "Boss, I'm still confused about Captain Qin's condition. The blood-sucking worms in his body have mutated to such an extent, but his vital signs are so stable."
"Also, if they were both infected in H City, then Da Zhuang and Tyrannosaurus' symptoms would be too mild given the same mutant blood-sucking worms."
Shi Man shook her head and said, "The blood-sucking worm was mutated in Qin Xiao's body. Before that, it was just an ordinary blood-sucking worm."
"What's the meaning?"
Shi Man glanced at the others. "Literally, Qin Xiao is alienating, or rather, evolving. That's why his vital signs are so stable. He must have passed the most dangerous period of his evolution. The alienated Schistosoma mansoni parasites have been sucking away his energy, which is why he can't wake up."
After saying that, she added a patch: "My guess is not true. But Qin Xiao's evolution is true."
Everyone gasped.
Bobcat paced excitedly: "Does that mean the captain will wake up soon?"
"Ah, if he evolved, it was because he was tickled by the mutant bear? Then what will he evolve into? He won't evolve into a human bear, right?"
Shi Man's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but complain: "If a wolf bites him, will he evolve into a werewolf?"
The mountain cat groaned, his face bitter, "Why are they all foreign species? Can't we evolve some domestic ones?"
Yang Benxin made a dry joke: "Infected by corpse water and evolved into a zombie?"
Sun Anni rolled her eyes: "Can you think of something better? Can't we just keep some semblance of human nature?"
Everyone looked at Shi Man.
Shi Man: "Why are you looking at me? I haven't evolved." She lied without changing her expression.
Everyone: “…Oh.” Do you think we believe it?
Shi Man waved her hand, "Alright, when Qin Xiao wakes up, we'll know what kind of a bear he can evolve into."
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