In fact, Ling Tian had no intention of killing Boris Gustav and his son at first. After all, this old fellow held a high position, and the Gustav family had some influence in the United States. The deaths of these two would cause great trouble.
However, as the saying goes, one should not harbor ill intentions towards others, but one must guard against them.
Ling Tian had guessed that this old fellow would not surrender obediently, and this meeting might even turn into a Hongmen Banquet.
Therefore, upon seeing Mark and Boris again, Ling Tian had placed a Gu on them.
Ling Tian directly used his internal energy to push the almost invisible insect eggs to the mouths of the two men. As they spoke, they inhaled the insect eggs into their bodies.
If the negotiations went smoothly and the Gustav family agreed to release Ling Tian's father-in-law, Wang Qing Tian, and the matter was resolved satisfactorily, Ling Tian would then provide the antidote to the father and son.
If the Gustav family tried any tricks or set up a trap, they would not receive the antidote. Without the antidote, the insect eggs consumed would activate within a few hours.
These Gu worms, cultivated from parasitic insects, consume a large amount of energy and nutrients from the human body for their development and growth. They parasitize the liver, and the liver's importance to humans is undeniable. The nutrients humans obtain from food enter the bloodstream through the liver.
The energy humans absorb from food is also converted by the liver. These worms, residing in the liver, cause extreme hunger as their first severe consequence.
Ling Tian patted his butt and left, leaving the Gustav father and son in a miserable state.
They were now confirmed to be infected, and the doctors at the Mayo Clinic were working tirelessly to treat the father and son with medication.
Parasitic infections in the human body primarily include protozoa and helminths. Commonly used antihelminthic drugs include mebendazole, albendazole, and praziquantel. Common antiprotozoal drugs include nitroimidazoles, artemisinin, and its derivatives.
The doctors administered these drugs to the father and son, as long as their properties did not conflict.
However, the results showed that these drugs had a negligible effect on the parasites. Even when Mayo Clinic doctors injected the drugs directly into the liver through arterial intervention, they could not effectively kill these parasites.
It wasn't that there was no effect at all. When these drugs were injected into the livers of the Gustav father and son, the growth of the parasites did slow down slightly, but that was all. Soon, the parasites resumed their previous growth momentum.
Even more terrifying was that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic discovered that these parasites were rapidly developing resistance to the drugs. The medications already used on the parasites had become ineffective!
When they used the same drugs on the parasites again, the parasites showed no discomfort whatsoever.
It was important to note that these were meticulously cultivated specimens, the best of the best selected by the great demon Gu King using his lifetime of knowledge from various Gu worms.
Helpless, the attending physician, Solgate, presented the despairing news to the father and son once more.
"Mr. Solgate, why do I still feel so hungry after taking so much medication?" Mark Gustav said with great dissatisfaction from the side.
"I am very sorry, Mr. Mark, Mr. Boris. We have made many attempts, and we have used all the conventional anti-parasitic drugs.
However, we have found that the parasites in your bodies are extremely tenacious, and ordinary anti-parasitic drugs cannot kill the worms within you..."
"No, why is this happening..." Mark cried out in agony, covering his head with his hands, squatting there and trembling all over.
"Dr. Solgate, I would like to know how much time my son and I have left?" Boris, as an experienced politician, had excellent psychological resilience, maintaining a rare calmness at this moment.
"Gentlemen, based on the MRI scans this morning, we found that the lesion in your liver has grown by 10%.
Considering the progression of Mr. Mathias Gustav's condition, we estimate that you have approximately two weeks left..."
"Is there really no way at all?"
"It's not that there's no way. When we dissected Mr. Mathias, we conducted some research on the parasites in his body, and we also developed several targeted drugs that could kill these parasites... It's just..."
"Just what!" Seeing Dr. Solgate hesitate, Boris grabbed his arms.
"It's just that, gentlemen, these few drugs have not undergone clinical trials. Furthermore, although we tested them in animals and they could temporarily inhibit the growth of the parasites, the side effects were extremely severe. Administering them rashly to humans could have very serious consequences..."
"Alright, I understand!" After Dr. Solgate left, Boris Gustav quickly took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Mr. Boris, what is it?" The voice on the other end was none other than Bice.
"Ms. Bice, something has indeed happened, and I need your help..." Bice was about to board a plane to Africa. She had received news that a coup had occurred in a certain African country, which was now in a state of turmoil. Bice planned to go there to create a large amount of life essence from the lives of those people to compensate for the losses and upgrades of the Dark Altar. After all, it was wartime, and in a backward African country, the deaths of tens of thousands of people would go unnoticed.
Upon hearing Gustav's description, Bice gasped. She never expected Ling Tian to possess such means.
"Mr. Gustav, I will send two psychics who are skilled in treatment. I cannot guarantee that they can cure your illness, but I will do my best!"
"Thank you very much!" Boris hung up the phone. Seeing Mark still trembling there, he slapped him directly across the face!
"Useless! Pull yourself together. It's not the end of the world yet, and we still have time to turn things around! But if you cower now, we are truly finished!"
"Father, we don't have time anymore. What if Bice's people can't save us either? I don't want to die..."
"At worst, we can beg that Ling Tian and Aurora Kuite. Perhaps they have medicine for these worms!" Boris sighed, considering this as a last resort.