"Next!"
The door of the clinic suddenly opened, and a hunched old man walked out, coughing violently, with a gray and dead look on his face.
When the old man walked past Xie Xuan, she once again smelled a faint smell of dampness and decay, and this time the smell was much clearer than that from the middle-aged man just now.
Xie Xuan's eyes subconsciously followed the old man as he left. In the open clinic, the doctor in a white coat shouted again, "Next! Hurry!"
The woman behind him also said, "It's your turn, go in quickly."
Xie Xuan withdrew her gaze and walked into the clinic.
"Close the door." The doctor said impatiently.
Xie Xuan closed the door and sat down on the chair next to the table.
The doctor looked at Xie Xuan and asked, "Is this your first time?"
Xie Xuan nodded, "Yes."
"How did you hear about our project?"
Xie Xuan was also looking at the doctor. If before she sat down she had only suspected that there might be something wrong with the project, now she was eighty percent sure that there was some conspiracy behind the project.
Xie Xuan answered carefully: "I saw that the nursing home here was recruiting nurses, and I wanted to apply for a job, but when I came in, I saw that there was a free clinic. I've been feeling uncomfortable in my stomach lately, so I wanted to come and see it first..."
She paused, then pretended to be uneasy and asked, "I...thought anyone could come and see."
The doctor's expression relaxed a little. "Anyone can come and see me. I have a stomachache. What's wrong with you?"
Xie Xuan put on a painful expression, getting into the role very well. "Sometimes it hurts suddenly, as if someone stabbed me in the stomach."
She was not lying when she said this. She had been having stomach problems recently. The parasite loved to poke her stomach. She even felt that next time she would have to ask the logistics department to add a steel plate to the abdomen of her protective suit.
The doctor said "Oh" and took out a small bag of blue pills that Xie Xuan had just seen from the medicine box next to him and handed it to Xie Xuan.
"One pill a day. There are seven in it. If you don't see improvement after a week, come back here."
After Xie Xuan got it, she immediately opened the package and poured out a pill, "Doctor, do you have any water?"
This wasn't the first time the doctor had seen a patient so eager to take medicine. He expertly pointed to the water dispenser in the corner and said, "There's a disposable cup in the cabinet below. Remember to throw it in the trash after you finish drinking."
When Xie Xuan was taking the water, her back was facing the doctor. She pinched the tablet open, revealing a blue sugar coating on the outside and white powder inside.
It didn't smell or taste like anything special; it didn't even feel like a pill.
Perhaps Xie Xuan had delayed too long, so the doctor asked, "What's wrong?"
Xie Xuan thought that people outside had taken the medicine so many times and were still fine, so there shouldn't be any problem if she took it once, so she tilted her head back and swallowed the medicine directly.
She waited for a few seconds, and the health value on the panel provided by the system remained stable at 100.
The result was expected. If these drugs worked so easily, this free medical clinic project would have been shut down by the Ecological Environment Bureau long ago for distributing pills so blatantly.
Xie Xuan was about to leave and take the pills to the Ecological Bureau's internal hospital to ask someone to help test the ingredients when she suddenly remembered what the woman behind her said.
"If the condition is too serious, the doctor will probably prescribe something else."
Xie Xuan then remembered that she had not smelled any strange smell on the woman standing behind her, and the two people who had the unique damp and rotten smell of parasites on their bodies looked terminally ill.
"After you take the medicine, hurry up..." The doctor stopped talking abruptly.
Xie Xuan leaned against the water dispenser and suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her face was pale and she said weakly, "Doctor, my stomach suddenly... hurts so much. It feels like... someone stabbed me in the stomach... ."
In order to make her performance more realistic, she bit the tip of her tongue hard, and now she was in so much pain that tears were coming out.
The doctor seemed to have been tricked. He stood up and walked over. He looked down at Xie Xuan's appearance, hesitated for a moment, and then pointed to the medical bed next to him. "Forget it, lie down on it, I'll take a picture of you."
Xie Xuan nodded quickly, "Thank you...it really hurts."
She covered her stomach and hunched over, staggering to the medical bed next to her and lying down slowly.
Xie Xuan had also observed this medical bed just now. It was no different from other ones on the market. It was a machine similar to a small CT machine, but after it was turned on, it had a fully enclosed hatch on it.
This type of bed is also used in the internal hospital of the Ecological Bureau, so Xie Xuan didn't pay much attention to this medical bed.
Xie Xuan still remembered to maintain an expression of unbearable pain, but after the hatch was completely closed and the machine started running, Xie Xuan had no time to care about the performance.
A pungent smell suddenly filled the entire medical cabin. Xie Xuan inhaled some of it before she could hold her breath, and her consciousness quickly began to become drowsy.
After Xie Xuan fell into a coma, the system seemed to be broken and broadcast five messages in a row in just half a minute.
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[The current spore concentration detected is 40%. ]
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[The current spore concentration detected is 60%. ]
The operation did not stop until the concentration in the medical cabin reached 60%, the critical value for infection for ordinary people.
As the spore concentration continued to rise, blue mycelium slowly grew at the bottom of the medical cabin, covering Xie Xuan's exposed skin.
Half a minute later, the system dutifully announced again, [Health value decreased by 10]
Another half minute passed, and the system's voice sounded again, [Health increased by 10, entering abnormal state: Symbiosis.]
[The spore concentration is decreasing, and the current detected spore concentration is 30%. ]
After the spore concentration quickly dropped to zero again, the medical cabin slowly opened.
The doctor not-so-gently nudged Xie Xuan's shoulder and said, "Wake up, the examination is complete. You don't have any serious problems. Are you still in pain?"
The moment Xie Xuan opened her eyes, she reflexively clasped the doctor's hand tightly.
"It hurts! What are you doing!?"
Xie Xuan immediately came to her senses. She let go of the doctor's hand and asked suspiciously, "Why did I just faint? What tests did you do on me?"
The doctor shook his hand in annoyance, leaving several clear fingerprints on it. "What else could it be? It's just a regular X-ray. I gave you anesthesia because I saw you were in too much pain. The anesthetic contains a painkiller. Can you please not be ungrateful?"
He opened a film from the imaging device connected to the machine and pointed it at Xie Xuan. "Look for yourself, there's nothing wrong. I think it's just psychological."
Xie Xuan got out of bed and walked over, opening the system panel.
At the top of the familiar rows of data, her name was followed by an unfamiliar symbol [Abnormal State: Symbiosis].
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