Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Chapter 175 Self-Assisted Surgery

"Yes, there's been a minor problem."

The doctor nodded and then spoke.

"Lu Wenying hasn't given me a chance to touch her. With Wu Xiaoting around, the white worms can't crawl over on their own. They subconsciously avoid Wu Xiaoting... and so on."

besides?

"The online friend who came looking for you has found them again."

Netizens?

That materialist Thangka?

"What does he want?" Shen Xing was genuinely curious. What was it about this netizen that made him so persistent, even though he was already "dead"?

"This time they're not looking for you, it seems they're looking for them."

You weren't looking for me?

"Have you tried using white worms to read his memories?"

"I tried." After saying that, the doctor shook his head slightly and continued, "The white worms also refused to come near him, so I left temporarily and observed from a distance."

Why are the white worms refusing to approach?

"Will the white worm refuse to approach the doll?" Shen Xing asked.

"Yes." The doctor nodded.

Not only do the white worms refuse to parasitize the dolls, but the dolls also refuse to eat. [03—Honeycomb]

Both the honeycomb worm and the doll share a common characteristic: they can both gain access to a person's memories and thoughts by eroding or devouring a part of their body.

Won't this type of anomaly devour its own kind?

Why would the white worms parasitize me? Aren't I also abnormal? This question popped into Shen Xing's mind.

It might be due to this physical trait of mine that makes me immune to nothing?

However, regardless of the circumstances, the white worms' rejection basically proves that the "materialist Thangka" is most likely not human.

A new anomaly?

Or is it another person corrupted by the dream?

Shen Xing placed his right hand on the table and leaned forward slightly.

A new anomaly is approaching Xiao Yuan... Is Xiao Yuan in danger?

"Does he look like the person in Wu Xiaoting's room?" Shen Xing asked.

"It's different; that netizen is much younger."

"What are they doing now?"

They are...

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"Buzz—"

The phone on the table vibrated slightly. Shen Xing and Wang Xinran both stopped talking. He picked up the phone and looked at the text message that had been sent to him.

We'll be meeting soon, I can't wait! ^—

It was another random number, and that familiar expression I'd seen when I first got the SIM card.

The other party has sent another message.

This is not a prank... There is someone, or something that may not be human.

They've got their eyes on me.

"If I want to have the surgery, is it possible to schedule it today?" Shen Xing asked the doctor in front of him.

The doctor looked at Shen Xing, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What kind of surgery are you planning to have? If it's simple, that's fine."

"I hope you can help me try to enlarge the spleen with abnormal flesh and blood, and remove part of the intestines and stomach... No anesthesia is needed, just the two of us are enough—besides these, I need blood to fill the spleen, freshly drawn whole blood is fine too."

"No problem." The doctor nodded. "I'll have someone bring the suitcases from the embalming room over."

"Also, send the puppet over to Shen Yuan's place. If you can't handle it, have the puppet go and help."

"OK."

Regardless of who sent him the message, Shen Xing didn't feel much pressure and continued to carry out his original plan step by step.

First, max out the "backup hidden energy" before thinking about anything else.

"Zzz—"

'

In an alley behind a small shop in the old town, a man in a suit was laboriously wrapping a large roll of duct tape around his legs.

"Is this really necessary?"

Wu Xiaoting, hiding behind Shen Yuan, watched the scene unfold before her and swallowed hard.

In the alley just now, Wu Xiaoting tried to touch Cheng Ren's head many times, but Cheng Ren dodged her every time.

Moreover, he was incredibly strong, and Lu Wenying had no chance of subduing him.

Just when Wu Xiaoting and Lu Wenying were about to give up, Cheng Ren said that as long as they "tied themselves up," they would be fine.

Enough.

Cheng Ren seemed to realize from Wu Xiaoting and the others' behavior that something must have happened here.

He desperately wanted to know what had happened.

"You don't need to do this. I can tell you," Lu Wenying said, seemingly unable to bear it any longer. "You're very likely being controlled by some kind of special insect. The insect can control you to do certain things, but it can't make you imagine things out of thin air..."

'

"But," Cheng Ren, who was sitting on the ground, looked up at Lu Wenying and said, "those insects" can erase a person's memory, right?

Lu Wenying:

'

That's... definitely right.

Lu Wenying has experienced that feeling of memory recovery.

But Cheng Ren wasn't from this city, so it's highly unlikely he contracted the white worms from the chandelier cellulitis on the other side...

Moreover, they had all heard Cheng Ren describe his hallucinations and auditory hallucinations earlier.

To be honest, Lu Wenyin felt that the other party was just a paranoid person who might have some symptoms of mental illness. Lu Wenyin's information about the abnormality came from the Ninth Detachment, so she didn't think there was anything unusual five years ago.

According to the data from the Ninth Detachment, the anomalies only began to emerge in the last month.

On the other side, Cheng Ren had already bound his legs completely with tape, like a mummy. Then, he tried to wrap his arms and body, but failed after several attempts.

Soon, he seemed to have thought of something and pulled out the iron rod he had brought from the thugs from his waist.

"Hello!"

Lu Wenying had barely managed to utter a single word when Cheng Ren grabbed the iron rod and slammed it against his forehead.

"when--!"

Although the iron rod was hollow, holding it with both hands and slamming it hard against his forehead still caused the skin on his forehead to burst open, and blood flowed down his cheeks.

With that one move, Cheng Ren swayed and collapsed to the ground.

"Ruthless..." Shen Yuan watched in stunned silence. After a long while, she finally came to her senses, nudged Wu Xiaoting behind her with her elbow, and said, "Go ahead and give it a try?"

Wu Xiaoting cautiously stepped forward, picked up the iron rod, poked Cheng Ren's waist, and after confirming that he was not moving, she reached out and slapped him on the head. Then, carrying the iron rod, she ran back behind Shen Yuan.

"Ugh...it feels like I haven't washed my hair in ages." Wu Xiaoting wiped her hands on Shen Yuan's pants, seemingly a little disgusted.

This basically ensures that there are no white worms controlling him.

But... when will he wake up?

If there's no improvement after he wakes up, advise him to go home and find a better mental hospital for a checkup.

What they didn't notice was that the man's forehead wound, hidden by his bangs, had completely healed, with his head bowed.

Soon, Cheng Ren's body trembled slightly.

He began to cough violently, accompanied by severe coughing and vomiting...

A clump of crystalline fragments, which he couldn't tell was either fluorite or a gemstone, shot out of his mouth and hit the ground with a "clanging" sound.

"What...is this?" Wu Xiaoting stared at the scene before her, opened her mouth, and after pondering for a moment with her limited medical knowledge, said, "Kidney...stones?"

Where do you find stones like this...?

Shen Yuan reacted quickly. She immediately raised the digital camera that was always hanging around her neck, turned it on, and pointed it at Cheng Ren in front of her.

In the digital camera footage, the crystalline debris he spat out appeared as a grain of noise on the screen.

"Shen Yuan, call an ambulance... never mind, don't call an ambulance." Lu Wenyin took out her phone and dialed the contact number for the Ninth Detachment.

This is strange... Although I don't know what Wang Xinran's plans are for controlling the Ninth Squad, Lu Wenying will not deal with this alone, which will put Wu Xiaoting and Shen Yuan in danger.

Cheng Ren's body was shaking more and more violently, and an ambulance arrived uninvited and stopped at the intersection.