The conversation had reached a point where nearly everyone in the room understood what Doctor Zhao meant.
Zhang Ye immediately furrowed his brows and asked,
"Parasite?"
"Is there such a small parasite?"
Ai Bing, who wasn't well-versed in biology, could only shake her head to indicate she didn't know, after which both she and Zhang Ye turned their questioning gazes toward Doctor Zhao.
His expression was equally serious, but to their questions, he could only reply with a helpless shake of his head,
"I don't know."
"Right now, it's not possible to determine exactly what this thing is."
Zhang Ye was immediately stunned, "Even you don't know?"
Doctor Zhao nodded, his gaze still fixed on the tissue sample under the microscope, as if choosing his words carefully.
Only after a long pause did he once again speak slowly,
"From what I know about these pathogens, what we usually see in such situations are some extremely rare bacteria."
