The handsome man in the entertainment industry

pungent smell.

Xiao Xiao, Ruan Mudeng, and the female doctor with ponytails walked into the autopsy room together. Xiao Xiao walked to the freezer in a familiar way, bent down and opened a freezer, and lifted the white cloth on the top, revealing A female corpse inside.

If Xiao Xiao hadn't told him that this was Shen Rui's body, Ruan Mudeng felt that he would have thought that it might have been excavated from a cave on the Gobi Desert, and it had been exposed to the wind and sun all year round so that it dried into a mummy ancient mummy.

Due to severe dehydration, the female corpse looked extremely thin. A huge Y-shaped wound stretched from the chest to the abdomen, and was barely stitched with thick black thread. It was obviously a classic incision left by an autopsy, but because the flesh was almost completely It lost its elasticity, and the gap in the middle was as long as half a knuckle, and the viscera that had been rummaged inside could be clearly seen.

Her skin and flesh showed the peculiar gray-white color after a lot of blood loss and dehydration. The strands of her hair were tightly attached to the skeleton, and her long hair was hanging down like a handful of dry straw. The eyelids could not be closed, and half of a cloudy eyeball was exposed in each of the two olive-shaped gaps. The lips were also shriveled to the point of revealing the white teeth and blue-white gums. It was completely impossible to tell that it was a person who was alive a few days ago Beautiful and youthful young girl.

"This... is it really Shen Rui?"

Ruan Mudeng murmured the question in his heart.

"The DNA has been compared repeatedly, and it is confirmed that this is indeed Shen Rui's body."

The female doctor stood on the other side of the female corpse, opened a folder, and said in her characteristic clear but rigid voice: "The corpse was discovered by Shen Rui's manager at around [-]:[-] p.m. on Monday five days ago. The location of the discovery was in Shen Rui's rented single artist apartment, which was provided and managed by a brokerage company."

As she spoke, she pointed to the lower abdomen of the female corpse, "The only visible wound on Shen Rui's body is here, can you see what it is?"

Ruan Mudeng lowered his head and looked carefully.

About three inches below the navel of the corpse, there was a mass of taupe-brown tissue the size of a quail egg. At first glance, it looked like a cauliflower-shaped strange sarcoid growing on her stomach, but upon closer inspection, one end of the tumor was not. It is deeply wedged into the skin of the corpse, I don't know how deep it is.

Xiao Xiao took out a pair of film gloves from the operating table next to the bed, and motioned for the apprentice to put them on, "Pinch that ball and have a look."

Ruan Mudeng smiled wryly to himself, thinking that his apprentice's learning span is really big enough. He was forced to act as a "gold picker" before, and in the middle of the night he climbed into a century-old coffin to search for dead bones, and now he has to learn again. For the autopsy, I played a trainee forensic doctor for a mummified corpse.

But he has always listened to Xiao Xiao's words very much, basically he does what the other party says, and now there is a female doctor standing beside him with an indifferent expression, so it is even more impossible for him to lose face to his master in front of others.

So Ruan Mudeng didn't say much, put on his gloves, resisted the discomfort in his heart, stretched out two fingers, and carefully pinched the gray-brown cauliflower-like thing.

The thing was very soft to the touch, with a bit of moisture, it felt a bit like a wet sponge, compared with Shen Rui's shriveled body, it was too moist.

"Try pulling it again."

Xiao Xiao said again.

Ruan Mudeng pinched the ball with two fingers, and gently pulled it out.

"This... this is something that is rooted in her body!"

The moment he understood this, the young man shivered involuntarily.

Just the gentle pulling just now made him feel like he was pulling out a weed growing in the desert. Although there were only a handful of stems and leaves on the ground, the roots under the sand had already stretched out. It is impossible to tell how deep the piercing is and how far it has spread.

"Have you heard of 'crab parasites'?"

Xiao Xiao asked.

Ruan Mudeng shook his head honestly.

Although he has read many books, the scope of his research is limited after all. The term "crab parasite" is really unfamiliar to him.

"A crab parasite is a parasite that lives on crabs."

Xiao Xiao explained: "It is shaped like a small pocket, parasitic on the abdomen of the crab, and divided into two parts, the outer body and the inner body. The former protrudes outside the host body, only the size of a coin, and the latter forms branched thin tubes. Densely protruding into the host body, like branches, spread to the crab body trunk, limbs, nervous system and internal organs, forming white linear branches with a diameter of only about one millimeter. Through these small but dense branches, absorb the crab body nutrition. "

Ruan Mudeng took a deep breath, "Could it be that this... on Shen Rui's body is also there!"

"Although we don't know what it is, it is speculated that its parasitic principle should be similar."

Xiao Xiao said, "During the autopsy before, our people injected contrast agent into this lump, and after a while..."

As he spoke, he took out a CT photo from the iron clip in the female doctor's hand, and stood it up for Ruan Mudeng to see.

Ruan Mudeng couldn't understand the black and white gray film with 36 small grids at all, but he could understand Xiao Xiao's explanation. The branch-like branches of a tree spread all over Shen Rui's body, including the brain, spine, hands and feet, and even bones, and these channels can be found—that is to say, Shen Rui was sucked dry by it alive."

"That's why you just asked me to take off my clothes and check to see if I have this thing on me..."

After all, Shen Rui is a delicate and weak young girl in her 20s, and she works as an actress who pays special attention to her image. Except for running announcements or occasionally being led out by her agent to a few dinners, she usually does not go out of the house. If you don’t step forward, your life is like that of a boudoir lady in ancient times. If you have any chance to come into contact with “strange” things recently, it’s only the last encounter in Xijia Village.

"Everyone who went into the mountain that day, we checked, including all survivors and staff."

Xiao Xiao smiled at Ruan Mudeng, with an inexplicable reassuring force in her smile, "But it's okay, everyone is fine."

Ruan Mudeng breathed a sigh of relief. He thought of Dynasty and Ma Han who had lived and died with him that day. Hearing that they were safe and sound, the young man immediately felt somewhat comforted.

"However, there is still a very serious problem."

Xiao Xiao pointed to the small grey-brown cauliflower-like thing on the belly of the female corpse, "This thing is actually just one of the body segments of some unknown parasite, and there is nothing important in this body segment. organ—in fact, it's pretty much just a shriveled, empty skin."

"What do you mean?"

Poor Ruan Mudeng, a child in the mountains who has only received systematic education at the junior high school level, does not have a systematic understanding of parasitology. He has never come into contact with many terms, let alone "understanding".

"In other words, this thing may be the same as the tapeworm. Its body is composed of many body segments. For example, the first segment that looks like a 'head' is actually just an absorber, and its function is only to fix on the host to absorb nutrients. Vital organs such as the central nervous system, digestion, and reproduction are scattered on other body segments.”

The female doctor looked at Ruan Mudeng, and explained in her clear but not at all soft voice, in a cold tone: "Then can we speculate that there is such a possibility - this thing will suck a living person After becoming a human being, can the subject take the initiative to break away and re-find and parasitize the next victim?"

Chapter 32, Five, Copper Money Claims 03

That night, Xizi sent the master and apprentice back to Xiao Xiao's villa.

Ruan Mudeng had been filming for a whole day, and went to see a very strange corpse overnight. When he got home, he felt exhausted physically and mentally. He was so tired that he couldn't even speak. .He took a change of clothes, washed up hastily, then fell on his bed, closed his eyes, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

He slept very restlessly this time, having nightmares one after another, and the dreams were all grotesque, and it was difficult to distinguish between true and false. He only felt that he was still on the set for a while, running in the old alleys of the Republic of China in the rain, with intermittent gunshots behind him; For a while, he was waving a bamboo pole, fighting with those eight-legged monsters in the deserted village; for a while, a giant insect that looked like a centipede and a spider suddenly jumped out from nowhere, and rushed straight to his chest, biting the flesh and was about to go to him. Drilling into his body...

Ruan Mudeng opened his eyes suddenly, it was already dawn, he stared at the familiar ceiling and ceiling lamp, he was stunned for half a minute, then wiped the cold sweat off his face with his sleeves, then turned over and climbed out of bed.

"Yo, wake up."

The young man went downstairs and heard the greeting from his master from the living room.

Ruan Mudeng walked over following the sound, and saw Xiao Xiao sitting crookedly on the sofa, watching TV, as if she was watching a variety show.

"You look very bad, didn't you sleep well last night?"

Xiao Xiao raised her head, stared at the faint blue shadow under the young man's eyes, and frowned slightly.

"Well……"

Ruan Mudeng responded indiscriminately, but did not explain, just sat down beside Xiao Xiao, "What are you looking at?"

"Shen Rui's last program recorded during her lifetime."

Xiao Xiao replied, "We got the master tape from the TV station, and we have to go through all her shots."

"What time is this show?"

The young man originally planned to make breakfast, but he heard from Xiao Xiao that it was the last video recorded by Shen Rui during his lifetime.