Chapter 287: Discovery of Powerful Genes (Part one)
The emergency room’s red light was still on, and Bei Shan waited until Lin Chuxue calmed down a bit before he could ask her what went on at the banquet.
In the end, Bei Shan fell silent. He stood up and said, “I will be right back, take care of your sis.”
Inside the E.R., the attending doctor was busying about. “Supply blood. Remove the blood from his body first, and Serena, you are responsible for suturing the wounds and stopping the bleeding.”
The medical staff nodded and worked in an orderly manner.
At this moment, the nurse responsible for paying attention to the electrocardiogram exclaimed, “Doctor, his heartbeat is becoming weaker and weaker. ”
The attending doctor looked at the weakening pattern on the electrocardiogram, and he put down his hands and sighed.
She then checked Xu Cheng’s eyeballs and announced, “The surgery has failed.”
The failure to rescue someone was the regret of every doctor. The four staff members helplessly stood there, feeling a bit down.
Just when they were about to give up and open the doors of the operating room, the nurse that was still studying the electrocardiogram saw some subtle movement.
“Doc, something’s not normal,” he said.
The attending doctor came over and looked. The line should’ve went down to sync with the benchmark horizontal line, yet it seemed to have stayed just a little above it, refusing to go down.
The attending doctor asked the nurse, “The machine’s working fine?”
The nurse nodded.
The attending doctor immediately put back his mask and said, “Use the defibrillator.”
The other staff all nodded and began preparing to shock Xu Cheng’s chest.
But no matter how many times the doctor tried, Xu Cheng’s ECG and heart beat was still in that state.
The nurse and the other two medical staff swallowed their spittle. “Doc, so is this guy dead or not?”
The attending doctor looked at Xu Cheng and waved his hand, “Don’t touch the operating table anymore, you guys go out. Serena, turn down the room temperature and let his cells cool down.”
“Yes, Doc!”
Then, the E.R.’s door opened as the light above it turned green.
Lin Chuxue immediately jumped up, rushed over, and blocked the door as she asked, “Doctor Jacob, how is my husband? Is he fine? Nothing will happen to him, right?”
The other three helpers all left, and the attending doctor took off his mask and sighed, “Miss. Lin, I don’t know how to tell you. Strictly speaking, his condition is no different than being dead.”
“What do you mean?” Lin Chuxue’s face changed drastically and her tone became sharp, “Doc, please be more clear, how is he right now? What do you mean his condition is no different than being dead? Please be more clear!”
The doctor: “The situation right now is that Mr. Xu Cheng is still unconscious due to excessive blood loss. His heart beat and pulse are both very weak. We can’t conclude whether the surgery was successful or not, because we don’t know if or when his heartbeat will suddenly stop. In medical terms, he’s in a state called suspended animation.”
Lin Chuxue became anxious and she said while crying, “Doctor, please, I beg of you, we have the money, just please save him! I beg of you!”
Chapter 287: Discovery of Powerful Genes (Part two)
“Miss. Lin, don’t be anxious, I might need some time to observe him. To be honest, it’s my first time seeing a phenomenon like this. As a doctor, I won’t give up on any chance of saving my patient. But, this is indeed my first time encountering this kind of situation, and to be honest, I don’t have the confidence to find out why he’s in this kind of dormant state. So, as his family members, I need to ask for your permission. If you agree to let me do some observations, I will definitely try my best to save him. If you don’t agree, then you can also transfer him to another hospital.”
Lin Chuxue looked at the doctor and asked, “Tell me the truth, how likely is he to be able to survive this?”
The doctor didn’t hide it and said, “With his current state, once his blood and oxygen supply is cut, he might just die right away. Maybe he’s still hanging on because there are still things he can’t let go of in this world.”
Lin Chuxue wiped off her tears, took a deep breath, and said, “Doc, then please do what you can to save him.”
Jacob nodded and then walked into the surgery room alone. He pulled down all the curtains and began to dissect Xu Cheng’s body. When he opened up Xu Cheng’s chest, as expected, he saw the heart beating slightly and very slowly. It would only beat faintly once after dozens of seconds, and one wouldn’t even notice it if they didn’t pay attention closely.
Jacob was amazed.
Normally, when a person was on the verge of death, their heart wouldn’t beat at this kind of interval, refusing to die. He noticed that Xu Cheng’s heart was still beating mysteriously at a very stable interval. Jacob was very curious as to whether Xu Cheng was already dead or not, suspecting that the heartbeat was just a kind of illusionary sign of life that was being caused by some parasites.
He was quite confused.
Then, he sutured up Xu Cheng’s body, collected some tissue samples, and then he directly pulled an experimental table beside the operation table and began conducting analysis. He prepared a smear of a few drops of Xu Cheng’s blood and began identifying the cells.
The more Jacob studied, the more surprised he became, because he found active genes that didn’t belong to humans being expressed within these cells!
This discovery shocked the doctor to his core！Normally, cells of different organisms couldn’t coexist peacefully in one body. That is, if a powerful bacterial parasite enters his body, it would usually trigger the human body’s immune system and get attacked or destroyed.
Also, human genes were actually very weak, and if any external genes were introduced, it would destroy the human’s chromosomes and cause death.
However, Jacob actually made the shocking discovery that not only were those genes not destroyed nor did they damage Xu Cheng’s original genes, they actually perfectly integrated into Xu Cheng’s body!
He was an expert scientist in the field of genetics, and for the first time in his life, he encountered a case where a variety of genetic chromosomes existed in one body. The genetic structures seemed to be more precise and powerful.
He then opened up the biological cell data profiles and began comparing with the genes picked up from Xu Cheng’s blood.
What he actually found was that there were DNA sequences that didn’t belong to the human genome inside Xu Cheng’s body, and the sequences were found in other species of animals.
Leaf ants! He looked through his database for a long time before being able to finally find a match. There were also tardigrades, which were known colloquially as water bears!
Jacob couldn’t believe his eyes as he double-checked over and over with the water bear genes that scientists have studied for more than a decade. The genetic sequence was 100% the same, it couldn’t be wrong!
He started breathing faster and faster too.
The most tenacious animal in the world, one that almost couldn’t be killed, was actually these acute little micro-animals named water bears! Why did Jacob recognize the water bear right away? Because the research community has studied water bears for a long time now, and they were no strangers to this cute little creature.