Chapter 172: Highly Toxic Sticky Ghost Orchid Fungus
Now, there were no traffic lights, and the road was empty in the middle of the night, so the car was driving particularly wildly!
Suddenly, the car took a sharp turn, and the water cup in Huai Yu’s hand flew out of her grasp. She slammed into the guardrail, and her elbow made a loud “bang” as it hit, causing tears to well up in her eyes from the pain.
It hurt so much!
Her eyes were filled with tears.
Uncle Zaozi also barely managed to grab onto the edge of Xuebao’s clothes. But the pressure on the fabric made the blood on his stomach spread even more.
The sixteen-year-old boy groaned softly and fainted right then and there.
When Uncle Zaozi regained his senses after the pain, he checked Xuebao’s body again and sighed in relief when he found that he was still alive. Looking up, he saw that Huai Yu looked like she was about to cry, so he quickly comforted her:
“Don’t worry too much. With your ginseng tea keeping him alive, he’ll definitely hold on until we get to the hospital.”
Huai Yu had been in so much pain, but when Uncle Zaozi said this, she felt even more distressed—
That ginseng was mutated and couldn’t really help the body at all. Zhou Qian drank two large kettles of it and didn’t notice any change.
The reason she gave the ginseng tea wasn’t because she thought it would work; it was simply a desperate measure.
The sparse solar street lights didn’t provide much brightness, but the bright red cross symbol of the hospital could already be seen! Huai Yu got excited and quickly reached out to tap Fenda’s cold cheek:
“Hang in there, we’re almost at the hospital!”
When she pulled her hand back, she thought she saw Fenda’s stomach arch upward slightly, but it was so brief she wasn’t sure.
Hmm?
Curiously, Huai Yu reached out to touch his stomach, but through the clothes, she couldn’t feel anything.
She was about to lift his shirt to check further when the car suddenly took another sharp turn. She quickly grabbed him again and pressed the backpack into the corner of the truck bed to prevent the baby animals from flying out.
Moments later, the car slowed down, and the lights of the hospital illuminated the dark night.
The car stopped in front of the hospital, and the driver and his companion quickly opened the doors, removed the barriers, and grinned at Huai Yu in the middle of the night:
“17 minutes. Your points weren’t wasted.”
A group of people rushed over from the hospital entrance: “We got a call saying that there were injured from an exploration team coming in, is that you?”
Uncle Zaozi froze for a moment before quickly realizing:
“Yes, yes, it was definitely Captain Zhao who called—it’s us! Hurry, hurry, this kid is barely hanging on!”
He was talking about Fenda, who was becoming increasingly cold.
They carefully helped him out of the car and, listening to the quick clattering sounds of the car being pushed on the damaged ground, they suddenly felt their strength drain away.
Their legs buckled, and they sat down on the ground.
The driver and his companion helped the other three into the car. Once they were back inside, they waved at Huai Yu:
“There’s still work waiting for us over there, we’ll head back now.”
They looked at Huai Yu: “Remember, we are [Bai Zhao Subsidized Exploration Company]! Captain Chen’s car is with us.”
Huai Yu nodded and waved loudly: “Thank you!”
She then turned and rushed toward the hospital, where the nurse was already calling out for payment!
She ran out of breath as she reached the payment counter. The nurse, who was unfamiliar with her, coldly said, “Four people, the emergency room is full. They might even need to go to the medical chamber… Do you have enough points?”
“I don’t have enough!” Huai Yu thought bitterly.
But with the thousand points already spent, she could only grit her teeth and ask: “How much do I need to pay?”
The nurse sized her up and then said: “Well… never mind, pay two thousand for now. I estimate 5,000 points might be a stretch, but you can talk to them when they wake up.”
Nowadays, no one cares about kinship. If someone’s willing to pay, they immediately deduct some points.
After hearing the beep, Huai Yu stared at her dwindling balance of points, feeling even heavier in her heart.
In the emergency room, as Fenda was being placed in the biological testing machine, everyone stared at the constantly changing data and images, feeling puzzled:
“What… what’s going on?”
They saw the rough outline of a gray human figure, with thin red lines emerging from the patient’s temples, cheeks, neck, chest, and slowly moving downward.
Then, it gathered in the stomach, and thousands of thin red threads were searching all over, as if looking for something…
Toxin Analysis: Highly Toxic Sticky Ghost Orchid Fungus
But—
“Is this analysis correct?”
“Take a blood sample urgently, there’s definitely something wrong with the toxin.”
“The Ghost Orchid fungus invades the brain, and without using our powerful expulsion agents, it can’t be controlled! Why would it actively concentrate in the stomach like this?”
“We can’t say for sure. If the wood-based ability has mutated to activate and control, it’s possible to control it…”
“That’s still control! It’s the same principle as our expulsion agents. Either keep using the ability continuously or keep injecting the expulsion agents!”
“This is clearly abnormal! There are no expulsion agent components in the body, but the mutated cells are multiplying rapidly. Most importantly, the Ghost Orchid fungus… Is this really the Ghost Orchid fungus?!”
“Has the blood sample been taken? Hurry up and send it for testing!”
A group of people started arguing, but in the midst of the argument, the thin red lines in the image seemed to have found something and continued to move up from the stomach—
“We can’t wait anymore!”
Someone immediately shouted, “Where’s the biological support frame? Quick, activate the equipment! We need to open the stomach now!”
“Wait, what if it’s a new mutated fungus…”
“We don’t have time to wait! The Ghost Orchid fungus can form spores into lines and particles, traveling through the body straight into the brain!”
“They’re still concentrated in the stomach, we can’t waste any time!”
The doctor quickly loaded the biological extension frame and, with a surgical knife, carefully guided it into the upper part of the stomach.
In the image, the sharp blade was nothing more than a golden shadow, but it gently slid into the skin and flesh, immediately penetrating the gray body and cutting downward—
A doctor adjusted the angle on the operating table, and in the bird’s eye view from the machine, the orange-haired boy lay silently, pale with no color in his face.
And in his abdomen, along with the red blood gushing out, a mass of red, algae-like mutated fungus was exposed to everyone’s view—
The doctors were stunned.
It took a long time for someone to mutter in awe:
“Such a complete specimen of the highly toxic sticky Ghost Orchid fungus!”
Even in the Imperial Capital Research Institute, they probably didn’t have such a complete specimen!
“Hurry! Where’s the simulated biological box? Open it and let them in—”
