Chapter 159 Someone always has to take the lead and sacrifice.

Wednesday night, provincial capital, brain hospital.

Lu Lingyun stood in the corridor outside the intensive care unit, examining several brain CT scans in his hand.

Although he didn't know how to read the images, he could tell from the naked eye that the two CT scans in his hand were very different.

These two CT scans are both of Xu Le. One shows the white worm still in his brain, and the other shows it after Wang Xinran removed it. In the image of the white worm, there are very obvious grayish-white noise spots in the brain, resembling brain parasite eggs. In the other image, the noise spots have almost completely disappeared... It can be said that it is very clear.

"Ah Le, you really don't remember anything?" Lu Lingyun looked at Xu Le beside her and asked.

"...I don't remember." Xu Le straightened up, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "My mind feels foggy... If I try to recall anything from Sunday to just now, I can't remember anything. Memories before that don't seem to affect me much."

"Hmm..." Lu Lingyun nodded. "Then you must have been parasitized by the white worm on Sunday. If the white worm leaves, your memory of being parasitized will be blurred."

As he spoke, he looked up into the intensive care unit.

At this moment, Wang Xinran had almost all the needles and other implants removed from her body. She sat quietly on the hospital bed, staring blankly ahead, whether in a daze or enduring the pain of the white worms' backlash, it was unclear.

Wang Xinran's brain has been repaired by the white worms, but her symptoms of missing prefrontal cortex have not disappeared... Fortunately, she still retains her humanity.

Is it possible for the supernatural and humans to coexist?

No, but the erosion of the human body by the supernatural will not stop.

Although nothing is wrong now, sooner or later, the person possessed by the monster will be completely replaced by the monster.

However, before being completely corrupted, they possessed a certain degree of human intelligence and emotions, as well as strange and powerful abilities... These abilities could help the Ninth Division contain more anomalies and minimize civilian casualties as much as possible.

Try to reach out to more humans who are being parasitized by this strange entity?

That's too slow... Most people are completely corrupted after being parasitized for just a few days; Wang Xinran is an exception.

What commonalities do these special people share?

Can we use these commonalities to filter out people who "match" the weird?

Could this power be granted to those selected or members of the Ninth Squad, and then used to assist the Ninth Squad in containment and control? Lu Lingyun took a deep breath.

It's definitely worth trying.

Lu Lingyun knew that this was extremely unfair to those who were chosen.

Even if they are perfectly compatible with the supernatural, just like Wang Xinran, it is still a very unfair thing.

Those who willingly allow themselves to be corrupted by the supernatural and coexist with it have their lives already on a countdown the moment they are corrupted.

These people, in the countdown to their deaths, must live under the constant surveillance of the Ninth Division and assist them in their tasks. They will endure unimaginable mental pressure from all sides, and they will know that if they show any signs of losing control, they will be eliminated by the humans they are protecting and by the people of the Ninth Division.

Such an ending could be described as tragic, or even miserable... The possibility of leaving behind a complete corpse is extremely slim.

But now, one of the mother nest cities has completely lost contact, and Lu Lingyun cannot simply sit idly by while this readily available mother nest city remains untouched. In times of crisis, someone always has to make the sacrifice.

Wang Xinran is a good example of this.

He needs Wang Xinran to go and collect all the white worms. ...But Lu Lingyun will not relocate the city's population.

Because he didn't trust Wang Xinran.

Even if Wang Xinran is a trustworthy person, Lu Lingyun would not gamble with the lives of the entire province.

If the white worms in those people's minds are not completely cleared, and they evacuate these residents to other places, spreading the white worm contamination throughout the province, the consequences will be unimaginable.

While lockdowns cannot completely restrict infection and movement of people, they can at least curb and slow the trend.

Lu Lingyun handed the CT scan to Xu Le, and then went into the ward.

Members of the Ninth Detachment are being escorted towards the hospital. All personnel involved in the escort before the chandelier cellulitis was sealed, as well as those who had close contact with the escort personnel, are being brought over one after another.

According to Wang Xinran, she can only control the white worms within a few hundred meters around her, and if she lets the white worms leave someone else's brain and then lets them return to her own brain, Wang Xinran will suffer a very painful backlash.

If Wang Xinran's statement is true, then the only way to eliminate the white worm infection in the Mother Nest City is for Wang Xinran to return there.

"I will personally escort you home, and if you show any signs of losing control, we will use a tranquilizer gun... Also, if you go back, we will put a locator on your ankle bracelet."

Lu Lingyun spoke, stating these conditions. To be honest, he himself felt that these conditions were a bit too harsh.

How can someone demand that others do things while simultaneously restricting or even threatening them at every turn?

Even for Lu Lingyun, it would be difficult to balance the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of people with the life of a woman in front of him.

Fortunately, Wang Xinran seemed to have agreed to Lu Lingyun's proposal. She also seemed to want to go back and erase the mistakes she had made. "Everyone's white worms must be removed, except mine," Lu Lingyun said, looking at Wang Xinran. "I will have my subordinates call me every now and then. If I find that my memory has disappeared, the cooperation will end."

Someone had to keep the memories of this period of time, and Lu Lingyun decided to be that person.

He will have other places send people to command and coordinate the Ninth Detachment here, while Lu Lingyun will temporarily give up his command of the Ninth Detachment, just to become a shackle for Wang Xinran.

This means he must continuously shock himself daily to ensure he's not under control, and he must constantly try to recall the events of those days. This is practically self-harm, and if Wang Xinran has no other intentions, this self-harm is meaningless.

Moreover, even if he were to be electrocuted, he couldn't stop the white worms in his mind from continuing to multiply. He might end up in a vegetative state one day when the worms gnaw at his vital parts.

But Lu Lingyun still decided to do it.

He needs to do something to atone for what he will do in the future.

If no one takes the lead in sacrificing themselves, who will be willing to accept merging with the bizarre and fight to the death with other terrifying and grotesque creatures for the sake of people? He was old, an age when he should have retired long ago, so it's good that he died.