Chapter 412 Autopsy (Two Chapters in One)

Just taking advantage of the situation, it's not even a lie.

The exhumed corpses were useful, but the citizens who were deceived by the housekeeper to protect their ancestors were out of luck.

When I was in elementary school, I was often tricked into doing voluntary labor. Lynch was very familiar with this kind of routine. Even if you come here, if the leader asks you to do some unscheduled work, can you still refuse?

Of course, this also includes the easy and simple task of carrying carrion.

Not a problem at all.

So, someone quickly ran to the west gate guard and borrowed a cart and a lot of hay. They sadly moved a few carrion corpses into the cart, covered them roughly with hay, and then pushed the cart to transport them while vomiting. The fortress barracks to the north.

The fragrance spread thousands of miles along the way, attracting the attention of passers-by. They were all seriously discussing whether these people had surrendered to the ghouls and were preparing lunch for the ghouls.

The privilege is really pleasant. Lynch and the other two don't have to do any of these dirty jobs at all. They don't even have to follow the car to feel the fragrance, they just need to follow from a distance and watch.

The housekeeper Rocky did not follow. He still loyally guarded the cemetery with the remaining five or six strong servants. He did not shrink from the decrease in the number of people, but instead patrolled more seriously.

This made Lin Qi and the others sigh softly when they left. Maybe he really didn't know what he was doing to help his master, but this made it even more sad.

Everyone has their own life. There is no need to worry about the NPC in the plot, otherwise Officer Natalie will have to lecture her again. Now that she is too close to Dr. Swain, she is already worried. If she worries about others again, she will probably be killed by this girl again. He was beaten violently on the ground, hiss, why are you staring at me suddenly, girl, can you read minds?

After being glared at by a sharp look, Lynch didn't dare to think wildly and followed obediently. On the way, he also met Knight Terry who came with troops to inquire.

As expected, nothing was found outside the south gate. After a thorough investigation, the city gate was temporarily sealed due to unknown danger. Knight Terry, who was still dejected, suddenly heard that a citizen ran to report that a group of ghouls were carrying spare parts. The food rushed into the city, spitting acid water on the roadside as they walked, and they must be demarcating their territory.

So they rushed over in a hurry with a few soldiers, and then the civilian coolies who were vomiting while walking were replaced by soldier coolies who were vomiting while walking. Everyone looked at the Lord Knight who was hiding behind and pretending to understand the situation with Dr. Swain. They were all complaining, and they didn't know why the heroic Lord Knight had talked all the way behind, something that could be explained in a few words, but they didn't dare to ask, so they could only carry the body resignedly.

Returning to the military camp, they did not go to the closed dungeon, otherwise they would not be able to enter for several years. They simply pulled the body to the patio training ground in the center of the fortress and sealed the surrounding area to prevent soldiers from prying.

The bodies of the six travelers plus Kemit's body, a total of seven, as well as...theoretically still alive Leonard and the four south gate guards.

Yes, living corpses also need to be dissected. To be precise, living corpses are more valuable.

Soon, the living corpses bound by iron chains were pulled to the training ground. Although they were all gagged, the five infected people continued to let out suppressed roars.

The stench, corpses, ferocious faces, and crazy roars made the training ground feel like a restricted horror movie.

'The time now is morning...about ten o'clock, the weather is sunny, the chief inspector: Stephen Swain, Diana De Valente, the observers: Natalie Angell, Lynch Levy Husband, Judy she didn't say. ’

Lynch imitated the forensic autopsy habit of his previous life and quickly recorded it in his notebook.

All six participants wore thick clothing that exposed no trace of skin. In particular, the two chief examiners even wore beak masks provided by Miss Diana on their faces. The beaks were filled with purification medicine to minimize the risk of infection.

Ready to begin.

Dr. Swain was the chief surgeon, and Miss Diana was the assistant. Starting from the rotting corpse, he raised and lowered his ax to split open the chest and abdomen. A growing stench instantly filled the open space.

But there were all persevering people present. They relied on purifying drugs to endure their physical discomfort and stared intently at the anatomy scene.

"hiss……"

As the sharp blade cut open the abdominal cavity, several people subconsciously made gasping sounds. Even Dr. Swain stopped his hand, raised his head and looked at each other with several people.

"The first corpse is a male. The appearance is moderately decomposed. The fatal injury was a puncture in the neck. After the thoracoabdominal incision, it can be seen that the heart and lungs have stopped functioning, the organs are slightly rotten, and the intestines and stomach..." Miss Diana originally suppressed her emotions. , following Lynch's instructions, he gave a simple and emotionless description, but at this time the shock in his voice could no longer be hidden, and he reluctantly continued, "The intestines and stomach maintain a slow peristaltic state, and there is no sign of decay."

"No wonder they like to bite flesh and blood." Officer Natalie wiped the sweat from her hands and said softly, "If they can still enter a state of hunger after death and are thus dominated by the instinct of appetite, then their behavior will not be surprising. ”

"I'm going on." You couldn't see Dr. Swain's expression behind the beak mask, but her voice was a little dry, "Looking at it like this, there's not much hope."

As she spoke, she tried to keep her hands as steady as possible and cut open the stomach of the corpse.

My stomach was as empty as if I had been hungry for half a month, and there was no stomach content at all.

"Damn it, is he alive or dead?"

Terry Knight speaks a language that Lynch cannot understand, and he has begun to doubt life.

This world also has mysterious and alien existences such as resurrected corpses. Therefore, although it is dangerous for the dead to move, it does not scare professional soldiers like him. But the resurrected zombies are just the body standing up again under the trend of mysterious power. In essence, the body is still dead. Examples like this where the digestive tract still remains active are too rare.

"Where's the brain?" Lynch asked with a frown, "Cut it open and take a look."

"That's not very nice."

Dr. Swain muttered, but his movements were frighteningly skillful, and he quickly cracked open the skull of the rotting corpse.

"The brain has lost vitality, is moderately decayed, and has no abnormal color." Miss Diana continued to describe, "Other examination results are normal and consistent with the actual time of death."

"Next body."

"Wait a moment."

Seeing that Terry was about to push another rotting corpse over for dissection, Lynch stopped him, thought for a moment, and pushed a south gate guard in front of the doctor with his own hands.

"Those works should be failures, and if the intestines and stomach have been kept moving for such a long time, the contents of the stomach will have been eliminated long ago. Don't rush to dissect them now. These are successful works, and the onset time has only been about ten months. Hours, maybe something can be discovered.”

"you sure?"

Seeing the infected person who was immobilized but still struggling and roaring desperately, even Dr. Swain couldn't bear it. After all, not everyone can bear the psychological pressure of vivisection.

"I'll do it." Lynch sighed, "This is what I suggested, and I have an obligation to get blood on my hands."

However, Dr. Swain pushed him aside, and Miss Diana pushed him further. The two doctors glared at him, picked up the tools, and attacked the living person.

"Roar!"

The crazy infected person was still roaring, and its struggles made the chains rattle. Even though its chest and abdomen were open and honest, it was still full of power.

Looking at the contents in the chest and abdomen, the six people present fell silent.

Most of the infected person's organs have stopped working and appear an ominous dark brown color, especially the respiratory and circulatory systems.

The heart stopped beating completely, and the lungs only tried to expand when they roared, and at other times they were as dry as a deflated balloon.

In theory, this is a dead person, except that he is still very much alive.

"The blood has coagulated, but the muscle tissue is still active and has strong explosive power. The activity of the digestive organs is far beyond that of normal organisms. Eight hours after the onset of the disease, the contents have been completely digested, and the own organs are also dissolving themselves at a slow speed. Hiss, they must Bite and devour, otherwise you will digest yourself.”

Miss Diana's voice was already dry and hoarse due to shock, but no one paid attention to this. Everyone was already deeply shocked by this half-dead disease.

"Where's the brain?" Lin Qi felt that his breathing was a little rapid, and he felt like his blood was racing.

At this time, my group is no different from the evil villains in movies like previous lives, and they are even crazier than those villains. But I can no longer care about it now. Everything discovered now may be turned into a guarantee for leaving the strange object alive.

And more importantly, the plagues in the real world outside are likely to be of the same origin and species as those here, or even exactly the same. In other words, the more you learn here, the fewer detours you will make outside in the future. In the real world As a result, more people will survive.

Lynch is not a holy mother, and he has no interest in thinking about whether people in the world have human rights or not. In order to protect the real people outside, he would rather be a crazy researcher.

What's more, these people are theoretically dead, and it is impossible for necrotic organs to be rejuvenated. They are using dead people for experiments, which does not violate ethics.

Trying to find various reasons to convince himself, Lynch kept his eyes fixed on Dr. Swain's movements, watching her fix the victim on the table like a professor, skillfully cracking open the victim's skull to reveal the inside. brain.

"There are no signs of damage to the brain, there is no blood flow, the color is off-white, and there are faint jitters in the brain, which can be used as evidence of activity." Miss Diana continued to narrate responsibly, "Wait a minute, Ms. Swain, you This is……"

Dr. Swain had already raised the knife and was about to stab him: "I remember that yesterday I successfully killed an infected person by smashing his brain. Now that I have opened the skull, he is still alive."

The beak mask on Miss Diana's face was trembling a little, and she was obviously in a very uneasy mood, but she finally nodded:

"Now is the fatal test. The subject's internal organs are taken out in sequence, the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, stomach... the digestive system has been taken out, but the subject is still alive. The last test is the brain, which is exposed Being outside cannot affect its activity, but once it is destroyed..."

The narration stopped abruptly, and after a moment of pause, he sighed softly: "Once the integrity of the brain is destroyed, all signs of life of the infected person will disappear immediately, including those organs connected to the body that originally maintained activity, and will also lose their vitality. vitality,"

Lynch lowered his head and recorded quickly, not even bothering to raise his head, nor did he dare to look up. Just listening to the reporter made him feel frightened. It's the same thing in the movie, but there is really something in front of me that has most of its internal organs cut off and is still roaring vigorously. It's still an unbelievable feeling. This is completely beyond the scope of physiological knowledge. I'm afraid it can only be mysterious. Only the strength of the second round can support this weird performance.

Until Miss Diana stopped narrating, Lin Qi wrote down the final result in his notebook:

‘At 11:27 am, the second subject lost vital signs and was confirmed dead. ’

“It seems that our attempt today has failed.” Dr. Swen stepped back and sighed deeply, “This is the latest person who has been sick without external injuries. If we can’t even find anything in their stomachs, I think it’s useless even if we dissect all the other bodies. What a pity.”

This sentence made everyone present look unhappy. In fact, everyone thought so in their hearts, but they still felt unwilling to say it out loud.

Officer Natalie bit her lip and said, "But at least we have solved some questions and proved some conjectures. Those travelers who died before can be confirmed to be the victims used by the culprit for the experiment, and those wounds are just means to cover up their purpose. Now the experiment has been completed, so there are these real living dead, and there is only one way to deal with them, which is to destroy the brain. Otherwise, even if the head is cut off, the body loses its activity, and the head is still aggressive."

As he said, he pointed to Leonard, whose cervical vertebrae were damaged by Miss Diana, and his head remained active.

"So today is not in vain, although in the end we can't determine whether the source is eaten."

"In fact, we still have a trump card that has not been revealed, maybe it is the trump card." Lynch finally stopped writing, raised his head from the record, squinted his eyes and said thoughtfully, "We haven't lost yet, it's too early to determine that we can't find the source now."

Hmm?

In an instant, five expectant eyes gathered on him one after another.

"Ten hours is not the shortest sample we have. We have another sample. It should not take more than an hour from the onset of the disease to the confirmation of death."

As he said this, Lynch looked at Kemit's body.

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Yes, although this man was covered with wounds, he was actually the first batch of successful plague samples, just like Leonard. He was primary rather than infected.

"When I treated him the night before yesterday, he still had blood flow and all his vital signs were normal, which means he had not yet fallen ill. So he really fell ill in the early morning yesterday, and then he was killed. Yes, he survived for more than an hour at most. You are right, Lynch."

Dr. Swen muttered while picking up the knife stained with dirty blood and mucus. The petite Miss Diana couldn't even wait for Lynch and Terry to push the body, and rushed to push Kemit's body to the center of the patio.

The two doctors looked at each other, nodded vigorously, and waved the knife in their hands.

For a moment, the other four people were so nervous that they forgot to breathe, as if they were in a life-or-death gamble, revealing the last trump card.

The abdominal cavity was opened, and then the two doctors burst into a shrill scream at the same time.

There was a half-full stomach in the abdominal cavity, but in everyone's eyes, it was not a stomach, but the hope of discovering the truth.