Mysterious creature sightings

Jiang Yuxing feels that this year is a bad year.

It had only been two days since I had eaten the braised pork in a copper pot, and yet another case came up during the Chinese New Year.

When Lin Zheng informed them to gather and set off, he really wanted to hang up the phone and choose not to hear the news.

"Human beings are tired enough just working. Those mysterious creatures not only work hard but also take holidays and cause trouble for us day and night. Do they really have no brains to think that this is too tiring and tiring? I want to complain to the Biological Mediation Association."

His complaints were mixed with the sound of the wipers, and the rhythm in the closed car was so drowsy.

It is raining in Haicheng today. The car is driving on the highway, the black body of the car cuts through the rain curtain, and the tires make a dull sound of grinding water as they press against the road.

Ling Jiangyue didn't sleep well last night. She huddled in the passenger seat to catch up on her sleep. She turned her head sideways little by little and clicked in big strokes before she woke up for two minutes.

I happened to hear Lin Jia talking.

"God sees that you have purchased so many insurance policies. I feel sorry for you if I don't give you a chance to use them."

Jiang Yuxing sighed silently and asked: "So which rumor came true today? Are the protective suits on the car? Have you got the sonic countermeasures device you just developed?"

Xu Jiayan: "Take it. If you are really worried, go back and pick up the Guan Gong statue yourself."

Jiang Yuxing: "The case happened by the river. I see you are so excited that even Guan Gong dares to offend you. So what kind of case is it?"

Lin Zheng: "A man died by the river."

"How did you die? Why are you assigned to us to deal with it? There won't be any water monsters in the nearby rivers that are a hundred kilometers away. Could it be some magical little thing?"

"The person who died is Professor Hua Chunyao, the first member of the Special Investigation Division." Lin Zheng said calmly.

"Someone witnessed him committing suicide by jumping into the river at six in the morning, but the forensic doctor found that the cause of his death was not drowning, but multiple organ failure in a short period of time, and there was an abnormality in his throat, as if he had just vomited something big."

The car was quiet for a few seconds, and Xu Jiayan asked in surprise: "SE-01-07?"

"What is SE-01-07?" Ling Jiangyue, who was not completely awake, looked back from the passenger seat and asked.

Xu Jiayan: "It is a biologically processed giant Guinea worm that can exceed the 90cm growth length of the female of the original species and reach 1.5m in length. It also prefers water sources and loves to drill holes, causing the host to be extremely weak and then it will be removed from the human mouth. Drill out and cause death of the host."

Guinea worm? Oops, she almost forgot about this good option.

Lin Jia picked up the popular science topic: "In fact, the original version of Guinea worm is already a very famous species."

Ling Jiangyue nodded, of course she understood the specialness of Guinea worm.

After the larvae that enter the human body from cold water and river water grow for about three months and enter the mature stage, the female worms will migrate to parts that are easily exposed to water sources, such as the wrists and ankles, and then secrete an irritating substance that causes burning pain in the human body. Sensation, and when the host rinses its skin with water, it secretes millions of larvae into the water and enters the second round of life cycle.

In an era when medical treatment was backward, if people infected with Guinea worm wanted to be treated, they could only wash their skin with cold water and pull out the female worms that took the opportunity to emerge.

——Because it is too long, you have to use a stick to wrap the female worm that has been pulled out to prevent it from retracting. This process lasts for several months before it can be completely pulled out.

The picture of this operation is very similar to the single snake staff totem in the medical field, so some people believe that Guinea worm is the "snake" on the snake staff totem passed down by the ancient Greek god of medicine Asclepius. .

"But all the SE-01-07 created in the bioengineering process have been contained in the base. How come they suddenly reappeared and the original members of the Special Investigation Division were infected? Did the Chinese workers betray the organization? Or is there someone specifically coming for us? "?" Jiang Yuxing asked.

"I don't know. There may be omissions in the containment results, it may be that new ones have been created, or it may be other natural creatures." Lin Zheng said, handing the tablet that unlocked the permissions to Lin Jia.

"The focus now is why the organism suspected of SE-01-07 is related to Professor Hua Chunyao. Check his information and recent medical records to see if there are any abnormalities." Ling Jiangyue is curious He glanced at the tablet screen, yawned and asked, "Will everyone who has been in the Special Investigation Unit be monitored?"

Lin Zheng: "Absolutely. Members of the special department must be more closely monitored to prevent betrayal of the organization. If one's own people are against one's own people, the risk is higher."

"Is it using the positioner implanted under the skin of my thigh that day?"

"Not only that, there are also danger sources that are close to the self-activating alarm. People who are confirmed as danger sources are close to the members being supervised, and the information integration department will receive the alarm information."

She nodded thoughtfully: "What an amazing method."

Fortunately, she is still "one of our own" now.

After getting off the highway intersection and driving for about ten minutes, we were already very close to the crime scene.

Looking out of the car window, a group of policemen gathered by the river in the misty drizzle. The cordon was extended to a range of 100 meters up and down the river. Some people were testing equipment with intermittent lights.

Hua Chunyao's body was placed on the bank of the river. When the police forensic doctor saw them coming, he voluntarily handed over the examination results.

Lin Jia took the report and read it carefully, frowning and said: "There is an open injury in the abdomen, and the internal organs in the abdominal cavity are severely damaged. There are no cord-like indurations and lumps that are common in Guinea worm infection, nor are there any blisters that are easily produced when the larvae are released. nor."

Lin Zheng squatted down and uncovered the body. There was very little blood on the body, which had basically been washed away by the river water. There were bubbles in the wound on the abdomen, but it was not serious.

"It looks like it was soaked in the river for at least two hours," Xu Jiayan said. "If it was Guinea worm, not only were the larvae released, but the female worm itself might have escaped from her stomach and throat."

Hey, Ling Jiangyue frowned behind them. Just listening to the text description and imagining it was disgusting.

It seems that she was still very kind and did not choose Guinea worm, but only used iron worms.

Oh, I almost forgot, in fact, iron worms do not exist. All the symptoms are caused by Hua Chunyao's psychosomatic diseases caused by being exposed to neurotoxins.

Lin Zheng stared at the wound on the abdomen of the corpse, put on gloves and checked the mouth, and after deep thought, he said to Xu Jiayan:

"Check the river. Jiang Yuxing, call the Water Conservancy Bureau to cooperate in investigating the dracunculus infection downstream."

"Jiang Yue, please cooperate with Xu Jiayan."

She actually has an official mission to do? Ling Jiangyue immediately stood up straight and said crisply: "Okay!"

Then I excitedly followed Xu Jiayan to check the dracunculus worms in the river.

Regardless of whether it is there or not, even without her, she can still catch other nematodes that already exist in the two rivers.

Watching them walk away, Lin Jia shook her head and said, "She is really not afraid at all, she is so brave."

Lin Zheng stared at the figure: "I would rather she was really brave. The recent psychological counseling progress has been very slow. She still doesn't want to say what she saw in the D.M. Institute."

Lin Jia: "Take your time. Kyle is dead, but she is still here, which is a good thing."

"Yeah." Lin Zheng looked at the body again and got down to business.

"I'm afraid this is not a dracunculus infection. The abdominal wound is torn from the inside."

Lin Jia's brows twitched: "Psychosomatic disease?"