Everyone was looking at Matthew in shock.
“What do you mean by two lives living in the same body?”
“What do you mean that he’s made up of two people?”
Matthew calmly explained, “In short, he should be a pair of twins.”
A man at the side immediately yelled, “Nonsense! He is the only child in his family and he doesn’t have any siblings at all.”
There was an uproar in the audience while Travis gritted his teeth and said, “Matthew, are you a doctor or a magician? Can you tell whether he has brothers or sisters just by looking at his face?”
Matthew chuckled and slowly explained, “This twin is something special. During the embryonic development process, due to nutrient deficiency or some other reason, one of the embryos fused with the other embryo. As a result, two children merged to become one child. After being born, it seems that there is only one person, but the fused embryo is not dead and still exists inside him.”
“Generally, the fused embryo is stored in a certain part of the body, and it is harmless. But in this man’s case, the embryo of his twin brother is stored in his heart. This has led to his heart producing two different kinds of blood, one belonging to each of the two people. Usually, the second blood type is inactive and hidden in the heart. Under normal circumstances, it would not appear and it would not have any effect on this person. However, once an accident happens, for example, if he encounters some disaster and bleeds heavily, the second type of blood will automatically supply blood to the body, which will cause him to get sick. This looks like heart disease, but if you treat it as you would a heart disease, it will kill him!”
After he finished, everyone gasped in astonishment and couldn’t come back to their senses for a long while. Even Dr. Ellis was dumbfounded. This situation was even more bizarre than Patrick Graham’s worm illness! Just then, a doctor suddenly said, “Mr. Larson, what you said is absolutely correct. I’m his attending doctor. He indeed had a car accident that caused a lot of blood loss before the onset of this disease. Back then, he almost died and all of us thought that we couldn’t save him. Unexpectedly, he miraculously survived. However, after he survived the accident, he went into a coma. We treated his illness like a heart disease but we didn’t see any improvement. Could it… Could it be that there’s really a twin living in this body?”
Everyone on site once again gasped in awe. They couldn’t believe that everything that Matthew said was right, and even Leonard was stunned. With a deep frown, he asked, “How could there be such an absurd medical case? Matthew, did you make all of this up?”
Matthew replied, “Even if I made it up, could I have made up a person with two blood types in his body?”
Leonard was instantly at a loss of words. After all, they had tested and proven this in public.
Matthew continued, “If you really want to prove it, it’s easy. The identification of the epidermal cells of his heart can prove whether his heart belongs to one person or two people. However, we are mainly treating diseases today, and the key is not to prove this.”
Hearing this, the patient’s attending doctor hurriedly asked, “Then how should we treat his illness?”
Matthew replied, “There are two treatment methods. The first is a complete solution, which is to cut off the part that belongs to his brother. However, this part grows on the heart and is not easy to remove. The other is to directly suppress that part so that his brother’s blood does not circulate in the body.”
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. It was completely impossible to cut off one part of the heart. However, how was Matthew going to suppress his brother’s blood?
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