Chapter 546: Chapter 396 Retrieval of the Target_2
Because the spine had already been exposed, at this point, whether it was the staff responsible for the surgery in the interrogation room, or Dong Tianyu and the others standing behind the one-way mirror, they could all clearly see that there was a palm-sized black object on the spine of the survivor.
Because that palm-sized object was exactly lodged on the spine’s wing seam, if one didn’t observe carefully, they might think it was just discoloration of the spine due to illness.
However, due to the report from Dong Tianyu and another person, the staff in the interrogation room immediately took photographs when they discovered this condition, and then another survivor retrieved something resembling a triple-pronged hook from somewhere.
Zachary and Yara didn’t understand why, clearly being a special item similar to one for climbing over walls, it would be brought out at this moment.
Just as Zachary was guessing how that thing could be used, he saw that person, with one hand supporting the survivor who had already fainted, and with the other hand using the triple hook to directly latch onto the black object on the spine.
Watching the staff member, without any preparation, use the hook to catch the object’s body, the black object’s legs, which had previously clung tightly to the spine, slowly relaxed.
As the staff member lifted the hook higher, it seemed to defy flesh and clothing, pulling the black object straight out.
Upon seeing the hook removing the black object, another staff member immediately took out a metal tube, and directly inserted the object into it.
Up to this point, the procedure had been quite smooth, and it seemed that nothing unexpected would happen next.
But unexpectedly, when they were about to close the lid, they found that the lid couldn’t completely cover it.
Initially, everyone was carefully fiddling with the canister, trying to get it to close. Unfortunately, no matter how they tried, they couldn’t get the lid to close properly.
At this stage, seeing that the anesthesia was about to wear off, one of the staff members grew impatient and decided to forcefully attempt to close it.
However, when he really began to exert force to tighten the lid, the survivor lying on the operating table suddenly felt intense pain all over the body, couldn’t help but scream loudly, a cry that made everyone shiver involuntarily.
As the staff member turned off that special flashlight, with the light gone, the transparent part of the survivor’s body gradually returned to normal.
When the survivor’s body had completely returned to its original state, Dong Tianyu was surprised to discover that there were many fuzzes finer than hair on the person’s back.
Zachary initially didn’t pay much attention to those fuzzes he saw unintentionally on the clothes, unfortunately, as soon as the effect of the anesthesia wore off, the survivor kept screaming in pain and his limbs started convulsing uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Zachary then realized that those semi-transparent fuzzes on the clothes might not be simply loose threads. Just when Zachary was about to open his mouth to give a warning, the room’s staff noticed the situation as well.
After soothing the survivor to lie down, one staff member simply touched the person’s back with his hand, resulting in the survivor crying out in pain and uncontrollably seizing again.
After repeated verification, the staff in the interrogation room tried to remove the person’s clothing, just barely beginning to touch the garment and preparing to pull it off when the survivor started screaming in pain again, and the limbs began convulsing continually.
Seeing this, they had no choice but to administer another dose of anesthesia separately. When the survivor had completely lost consciousness, the staff didn’t hesitate to cut open the clothes on the back with a scalpel, only then to prepare to lift and remove it, they discovered some problems.
It was only at this moment that everyone realized those transparent fibers might actually be the nerve filaments in the human body, because only that could explain the survivor’s reactions just now.
Continuing to reason upwards, this also explained why the cap had been so hard to screw on just now. The reason was that it was connected to the person’s nerves, and forcefully screwing it on earlier had directly severed that person’s nerves.
No, that’s not right. A normal person’s nerves aren’t that long. Those transparent nerves that were pulled out along with the black object must have been some ’spider silk’ like substance that the black thing ejected from its tail to connect to human nerves.
If that was the case, then everything would make sense. This ’spider silk’ was transparent, and the Bugs Clan used it to connect to human nerves before slowly assimilating and ultimately achieving the goal of controlling humans.
There wasn’t just one smart person like Dong Tianyu in the room. By this time, not only had Yara figured out the cause and effect of what had just happened, but White Horse had immediately gone out to make a report over the phone.
Apart from the poor bastard earlier, the other three groups didn’t have a translucent lamp. So, they could only honestly perform surgery and likewise discovered the black thing on the spine.
Lacking wonderful claws, they could only pick up the tweezers from the tool tray to try to grasp it directly.
Actually, for people who often catch snakes, unless they are setting pit traps, they prefer to catch snakes barehanded during normal capture, rather than with gloves or tools.
The reason is quite simple. Snake bodies are very flexible, and ordinary traps can’t capture them if not controlled by hand. Using tools, as soon as the snake makes any sort of abnormal movement, it might have a chance to strike back.
When the staff used tweezers to move the black object, it jumped up in an instant. The height of its jump was quite fierce, and when it came down, it spread its slender limbs, firmly clinging to the target person’s head.
Dong Tianyu watched this scene, feeling strangely familiar with it. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly realized that it was the same attack method as the facehugger from Alien.
It seems that there’s nothing new under the sun, and this attack method is deadly against ordinary people without protective measures. But for the workers in the interrogation room, clad in full-body protective suits and wearing specialized protective masks, the abrupt action of the black object posed less of a threat to them than a real scare.
Startled by the shock, the worker, regardless of anything else, grabbed the thing that was perched outside the protective helmet with his hand. After getting a bottle, he stuffed the creature inside and then screwed the cap on tight.
Perhaps because the Bug Race had been lurking for a shorter time, it hadn’t yet connected to that survivor’s nerves. In a sense, this experiment was quite successful, at least a life had been saved.
When there was a black Bug Race member on the spine of everyone’s back in the interrogation room, White Horse believed the speculations in the report.
The Bug Race, even after the transport portal disappeared, remained stationed in their original location without taking the initiative to attack.
It was initially thought that the Bug Race refrained from attacking due to the severe losses in previous encounters, opting to wait for the next spatial rift to open and then rallying with the next group of their kind to launch a full-scale assault.
If it weren’t for this accidental discovery, no one would have thought that the previously thoughtless Bug Race had actually started to play smart this time.
This plan of the Bug Race was unintentionally foiled by Dong Tianyu. Just think about it, if it wasn’t for Dong Tianyu accidentally discovering this issue and decisively reporting it,
Then, setting aside the growth and reproduction rate of these Bugs Clan, just consider that they could lurk within the human spine in a very short time and take control of survivors by connecting to the nervous system.
If this method could only control ordinary people, it wouldn’t be too bad, but once the Bugs Clan had a chance to control powerful survivors, the consequences would be unthinkable.
