"Lin Tian, what exactly is the problem? Just tell , you’re killing your brother with worry," Zhou Botong said anxiously, even more nervous than Mr. Qi.
"Mr. Qi, I heard you went to Japan for fun, and since eating sashimi is popular there, did you eat raw fish or sothing like raw snake bile?" Lin Tian asked with a frown.
Wild fish and snakes are full of parasites, especially snakes, which are almost entirely infested with them. Even dissected snake at can visibly contain parasites or their eggs with the naked eye.
It’s normal to have parasites, and typically after cooking and heating them thoroughly, parasites or their eggs are killed by the high temperatures. However, if one eats sashimi and that fish happens to be infested with parasites, living parasites or eggs can enter the body and then infest the liver or brain through the bloodstream.
Lin Tian was suspecting that Mr. Qi might be infected with so rare parasite.
Mr. Qi imdiately shook his head, "No, how could I eat those things?"
No? Lin Tian fell into thought again. If it wasn’t his own doing, then soone else might have done it intentionally.
"Brother Lin, are you suspecting that Mr. Qi has contracted so parasitic disease?" Botong asked, imdiately thinking of this possibility after hearing Lin Tian’s question.
"It’s hard to say, it’s just a suspicion," Lin Tian didn’t explain clearly in front of Mr. Qi because he thought of a deeper layer—that what was in Mr. Qi’s brain wasn’t a parasite, but could be sothing even stranger.
Because this thing was too bizarre; tentacles had actually grown completely into the brainstem tissue.
"Mr. Qi, lie down, I’ll give you an acupuncture treatnt to see how it works," Lin Tian instructed. He wanted to see what reaction this parasitic entity would have when stimulated.
Once Mr. Qi was lying down, Lin Tian removed the gold thread from his wrist, and only then did Botong realize that the gold thread was used for acupuncture.
There was no way to disinfect here, but Lin Tian couldn’t worry about that. Holding the gold thread, he slowly inserted it into Mr. Qi’s Bai Hui acupoint.
This ti was just a probe; Lin Tian couldn’t use any drastic techniques, he just gave a slight stimulation. Holding the gold thread, he rhythmically flicked it, and under its stimulation, tiny changes occurred in Mr. Qi’s blood-qi.
Through his Physical Eye, Lin Tian saw that Mr. Qi’s blood-qi fluctuated slightly, and as expected, the parasite moved along with it, moving faster than it did before.
The creepiest part was that the tentacles grew rapidly, piercing out from the brainstem and invading upward into the brain tissue and downward into the spinal cord tissue.
"Ah..." Mr. Qi let out a low cry, imdiately clasping his head, groaning in pain, "My head hurts so much..."
Lin Tian imdiately withdrew the Golden Needle, ceasing further stimulation. The blood-qi returned to calm, and the parasite stopped growing, with the tentacles slowly retracting back to their original state.
And Mr. Qi also lowered his hands, the painful expression on his face disappearing, replaced by an expression of fear.
Indeed, this parasite was not that simple, Lin Tian thought to himself. In fact, it might not even be a parasite because no known parasite behaves like this, growing uncontrollably upon stimulation.
If the stimulation were strong enough, would Mr. Qi’s brain and entire spinal marrow, even the blood vessels, beco infested? Perhaps Mr. Qi would be sucked dry in an instant!
"Lin Tian, how is it? It doesn’t look good, does it?" Botong asked.
"It’s nothing, I just wanted to confirm my suspicions. I have pretty much found the cause of the illness, but I still don’t know how to treat it. I need to go back and think of a treatnt plan," Lin Tian said, half-truthfully.
He could almost be certain that Mr. Qi’s illness was caused by sothing parasitic, but he still didn’t know what it was, let alone how to treat it. However, he at least had a direction now.
"Really, you’ve found the cause of the illness?" Hope flared even larger on Mr. Qi’s face, which, coupled with his withered yellow hair and pale complexion, appeared quite bizarre.
"Yes..." Lin Tian confird. He was about to continue when his ears twitched, picking up the sound of footsteps coming from the backyard.
His gaze pierced through the space, seeing Qi Dapeng walking toward this room.
"It might be your old man coming, if he asks why the door is open later, just tell him the truth that I was here. As for your illness, don’t ntion it yet, understand?" Lin Tian said with a frown.
After receiving a nod from Mr. Qi, indicating he understood, Lin Tian pulled Botong further into the room, hiding in a corner.
They had just concealed themselves when the door was opened. Qi Dapeng opened it in a hurry, because he noticed the door was ajar and dreaded that his son had run away.
"Son..." Qi Dapeng called out as he entered, glancing toward the bed, and only when he saw his son laying there peacefully did he breathe a sigh of relief.
Walking over, he stood by the bed and frowned, "Son, why is the door open?"
"Lin Tian was here just now," Mr. Qi answered honestly.
"Lin Tian?" Qi Dapeng was taken aback, obviously not expecting Lin Tian to act faster than he had imagined. How had he managed to enter undetected by anyone?
But the more it was like this, the happier Qi Dapeng was in his heart. Being able to deceive the two Japanese won and enter without a sound or trace indicated Lin Tian’s capabilities were excellent, and this made him all the more confident in Lin Tian.
However, out of caution, he still warned, "Son, don’t be afraid. Lin Tian is soone I have sought out, but you mustn’t tell anyone else, understand?"
"Dad, I understand," Mr. Qi replied.
"Did he say anything to you?" Qi Dapeng asked further.
"No, after revealing his identity, he gave a physical check-up and then left," Mr. Qi said honestly, following Lin Tian’s instructions. Now, Lin Tian was his only lifesaving straw, so he could only believe what Lin Tian said.
"Ah, I hope he can cure your illness. He’s quite exceptional, the only expert I could think of is him," Qi Dapeng sighed, then opened the item he was carrying and said, "Son, you should continue drinking this before Lin Tian treats you, otherwise I don’t know if you’ll make it to the day you get treated."
When the item was opened, Lin Tian, hiding in the corner, furrowed his brows because he slled a faint scent of blood. This was clearly emanating from what Qi Dapeng had brought, since there had been no such sll in the room before.
This must be sothing the Japanese provided for his life extension, but why was there a bloody sll? Lin Tian wondered as he looked through the material. Mr. Qi was holding a cup, inside which was a dark red dicinal liquid.
Mr. Qi drank it with a frown and a few seconds later, his eyes closed, and he fell into a deep sleep. Qi Dapeng sighed, packed up, and left the room. He intended to lock the door again, but after giving it so thought, he didn’t, choosing to leave it rely closed.
Once Qi Dapeng was far enough away, Lin Tian stepped out from within, glanced at the unconscious Mr. Qi, and together with Botong left the room. On his way out, he deftly locked the door from the outside.
"Brother Lin, Qi Dapeng left the door for us to exit. Could he have discovered us?" Botong asked, puzzled.
"Probably not. He might just be acting on instinct," Lin Tian shook his head, "That’s not important. What’s important is the dicine he brought has a strange scent of blood."
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