The laboratory on the third floor of the building was the large room guarded by the two gunmen previously.
There were rows of glass covers in the laboratory, and inside the covers were rotten corpses.
Among those corpses were immature poisonous insects. Although they had not yet reached maturity, they were very active and kept crawling inside the rotting corpses.
They are not big, and there are many kinds of them, some with wings, some with teeth, some with pointed feet... ... They seem to be crowded together, constantly gnawing on the scraps of meat in the corpse, or sucking the dirty blood inside.
When we entered the laboratory, the monk Yuquan and I were shocked. I felt incredible and cursed in my heart at the cruelty of these people.
Seeing that we were silent, Gao He sighed and said, "My assistants and I have no other options. If we don't conduct the Gu worm research, Zhu Huiwen will resort to violence against us. Besides, my family is still under their control, so I can only work hard for them."
I don't want to dwell on this topic. The police will handle this matter.
I said to Gao He, "Director Gao, where is the medicine you mentioned? Let's get it and leave here first."
Gao He nodded and led us through the glass covers, finally to a long table in the corner.
The long table was very wide and long, and was filled with many instruments commonly found in laboratories.
Walking to a rack containing several test tubes, Gao He took the test tubes off the rack.
There was dark red liquid in the test tube, and the liquid looked as red as human blood.
"This is the result of our research, and it has a certain effect on restraining the poison. But it was only recently developed, so I don't know if it can help those people get rid of the poison in their bodies. We can only test it first."
I nodded and said, "That's it. We can only try our best to save our lives."
Then, the three of us took the silver box containing the test tubes and left the laboratory on the third floor.
When he was about to reach the first floor, Gao He's cell phone suddenly rang.
This made Gao He's body tremble.
He handed me the silver box and quickly took out his cell phone. When he saw the name on it, Gao He's face immediately darkened.
His voice trembled as he said to me, "It's... Zhu Huiwen, it's her call."
I frowned and thought, Zhu Huiwen called me, what does this mean
The phone is still ringing.
I reacted and signaled Gao He to answer the phone quickly.
Gao He picked up the phone immediately: "Hello, Miss Zhu, this is Gao He."
A voice came from the other side, asking: "Gao He, how is the factory going now? Have the police arrived? Why can't I contact Chai Feng now?"
Chai Feng was the guy holding a submachine gun who had stood up for those thugs and patrolmen earlier.
I was afraid that Gao He would reveal the secret, so I gave him a try with my eyes.
Gao He said hesitantly on the phone: "Ms. Zhu, something is wrong... I'm afraid our plan has been exposed. The guy who sneaked in has not been caught yet. And I heard from Chai Feng that the guy seems to have called the police."
Gao He's words were half true and half false, and he really fooled Zhu Huiwen.
Zhu Huiwen hesitated for a moment before speaking to Gao He, "Gao He, I know that the factory incident has been exposed. I also heard that the insect poison you recently developed has yielded results. It's worth all the years of training you have put in."
"How is it? Can that medicine remove the toxins in the Gu worm's body?"
I was thinking about what Zhu Huiwen said.
I know that Zhu Huiwen might be most interested in the medicine developed by Gao He. You know, the "factory" can be rebuilt, but the insect medicine is rare and needs to be studied.
So when Gao He didn't know how to answer, I nodded and asked him to give a positive answer.
Gao He understood and quickly said to Zhu Huiwen on the other end of the phone: "No problem, the insect poison medicine has been researched and it can eradicate the poison in the insect."
After hearing this, Zhu Huiwen said excitedly, "Okay, Director Gao, your research on Gu worms is really profound. Let me give you an address. You should leave the factory now and take the recipe for the Gu worm medicine with you."
"... Then, let's make a deal. You give me the prescription and the medicine, and I will tell you the address of your wife and children, so that your family can be reunited. At the same time, I will give you a sum of money. Five hundred thousand! How about it?"
After hearing this, Gao He agreed without me saying anything: "Okay, I promise, I will send the insect poison to you right now."
But after thinking for a while, Gao He still asked: "Ms. Zhu, what should we do with the guards and thugs in the factory? Since someone sneaked in and called the police, the police will definitely come to investigate here."
Who knew Zhu Huiwen said: "You don't have to worry about this. Once Chai Feng catches the intruder and kills him, he will take the people from the factory away. The path over there is quite remote, and it's night now, so the police won't be able to get there in a short time."
Gao He said: "Okay, then I will find you as soon as possible."
Then the woman named Zhu Huiwen left an address to Gao He, who wrote it down in his palm with a pen he took out from his chest.
After that, the call between them was interrupted.
I looked at the address: Dongling County, County Town, South Street, Aimee Hotel, Room 206.
The conversation with Zhu Huiwen just now made Gao He feel nervous.
His forehead was covered with beads of sweat. He begged me in a pleading voice, "Master Yang, now is an opportunity, you must save my wife and children."
I nodded and comforted Gao He: "Director Gao, don't worry. I will definitely help, and we will catch Zhu Huiwen."
Seeing Gao He's grateful face, I waved my hand and said, "Let's go. Let's save those people first, and then leave here and go to that 'Aimee Hotel'."
Soon, the three of us returned to the wooden prison.
In the wooden prison, the six people infected by the poisonous insects were still in a coma, and the smoke from the charms they inhaled into their bodies had not yet dissipated.
"I don't know if this medicine is effective or not. But I can only try it first... Director Gao, let's start."
"good!"
Then Gao He slowly took out a tube of insect poison from the silver box and poured it into six disposable paper cups.
Before, the medicine was sealed with plastic film. Now, after opening it, a smell like urine instantly filled the air.
"This smells really bad." Yuquan, who was standing nearby, muttered.
Gao He explained: "This smell will also stimulate the Gu worms to a certain extent, making them restless. Let's find a person who is parasitized by Gu worms first to see the effect of this medicine."
Then, with the combined efforts of Yuquan, my master and I, the three of us moved one of the corpses to the top of the aisle.
After that, Gao He slowly opened the man's mouth with a tool and poured all the medicine in a paper cup into his mouth. Of course, there wasn't much medicine in the first place.
The man was a man with dirty hair.
The hair has fallen out in many places.
The worm pustules on his body were relatively large, and the worms inside were clearly visible. The worms in the pustules were like children soaking in amniotic fluid, sometimes quiet and sometimes twisting.
It is true that they are living things, but when they parasitize on humans, they become a hazard.
Time passes and we wait for the medicine to take effect.
But ten minutes later, the medicine had already entered the man's body, but the poisonous insects on the surface of his body still showed no reaction.
"Brother Yang, something's not right. Why haven't you responded yet?" Yuquan asked me in confusion.
How would I know
Gao He, on the other hand, was very calm. He whispered, "It's almost there. It should be soon. In a few minutes, the poisonous insects should be able to react."
Sure enough, five minutes later, the poisonous insects in the pustules on the man's body actually reacted.
If the poisonous insects in the abscess were just wriggling inside the abscess before, then at this time, they began to bump around in the abscess like frightened rabbits.
Not only were they bumping around, but many of the poisonous insect eggs actually bit through the abscesses and tried to crawl out.
All of a sudden, the liquid and poisonous insect eggs in the abscess flowed out, making the man's entire body wet.
But this is when the poisonous insects are most vulnerable, even if they encounter air. After they crawled out of the abscess, they shrank into a ball, and soon died, motionless.
"It works, it really works." Yuquan said in surprise.
But Gao He shook his head and said, "It is effective, but it is different from what I expected. I expected that the eggs of the poisonous insects would melt in the abscesses and then be excreted from the body through the pores or excretory organs."
Gao He paused for a moment and continued, "However, my medicine can now save lives, so I am quite satisfied. It also proves that my small achievements in the past five years have not been in vain."
After another ten minutes, the abscesses on the man's body had basically burst.
The sticky pustules and white poisonous insect eggs were all over the floor, and it stank.
Fortunately, the insect eggs died soon after.
Perhaps because of the abscess, the man's body twitched violently for a few times before he calmed down.
Gao He went over to check on the man and said it was a normal reaction.
Then we fed the anti-gu medicine in the paper cup to the remaining five people.
The five people's physical reactions were similar to that of the previous man. The abscesses burst and the poisonous worm eggs flowed out along with the abscess liquid.
About half an hour later, the six people's vital signs were basically stable and at normal levels.
Seeing that the six people were just unconscious, I said to Gao He, "Director Gao, since there is nothing wrong here, let's go meet Zhu Huiwen. Didn't she say that we would meet at dawn? It's getting late now."
"Okay!" Gao He nodded.
After that, I let the troublemaker Duoduo temporarily follow my master Zhang Chu. As for the patrolmen and thugs outside, I handed them over to my master Zhang Chu and Yuquan.
As for the ancient human race, I ordered them to return the fragments of the sacred map immediately before the police arrived to avoid being discovered.
After arranging things here, I drove the truck that was specially used to transport corpses and left here with Gao He.
It was late at night, the moonlight was dim, and I drove Gao He on the bumpy mountain road. The road here was indeed difficult to drive on, with potholes and a lot of gravel.
The trees in the mountains swayed in the night wind, like ghosts lurking in the darkness.
(to be continued)
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