Plague Doctor

The blade cut through the hard black skin, and nearly solidified blood slowly flowed out, mixed with traces of thick black liquid.

Cao Yicong screamed in pain, and the alien limb suddenly rose even more violently. Li Liangbin and Wang Yong pressed it down together, making a gasping hiss. Although both of them were tall and strong men, and they tried their best, they could hardly hold it down, and they had to be careful not to be splashed by the black liquid.

But as long as they work harder and put in more effort, they can complete their tasks.

For Gu Jun, strength is only one of them, as well as vision, calmness, skills, stability and so on.

He was kneeling on one knee, with the open small medical box next to him, and all the instruments and medicines arranged.

Because the planned osteotomy plane is only about 5cm away from the scapula, the anterior and posterior equal-length skin flaps he designed are very short. It only takes a few cuts to incise the skin and deep fascia along the marked incision line. The limb tissue above this has not yet mutated. The skin is skin and the deep fascia is deep fascia.

But this alien limb is constantly struggling, and the scalpel in Gu Jun's hand has to change accordingly with the swing caused by its struggling, just like a small boat sailing on the stormy sea and cannot be overturned by the storm. , but have to ride the storm.

"This is not...my hand..." The alien limb was being amputated, but what Cao Yicong got was not comfort, but another kind of pain, approaching delirium.

After pulling up the skin flap, Gu Jun looked for the brachial artery and vein on the inside of the biceps. The gray sky cast a gray light that was difficult to compare with the shadowless lamp. There was no first or second assistant beside him, only himself. of these hands.

Hold the dissecting forceps in your left hand to clamp the blood vessel to expose it. Take the suture needle with the catgut threaded through it in your right hand, double-ligate the blood vessel, and then cut it off with a scalpel.

Sweat was already flowing from his forehead, and every stroke had to be done carefully. A little carelessness would cause heavy bleeding.

Li Liangbin looked even more nervous than the surgeon, be careful...

Neither he nor Wang Yong understood how it was possible to pick out blood vessels from the pile of flesh and blood when the light was dim and the area of ​​operation was blurry.

There are still various treatments to be done...but they didn't see the scene of blood flowing like pillars, and there was still some surgical field in the unclear surgical area.

Under these conditions, Gu Jun cut off all the arteries and veins to be cut off, then injected 0.5 procaine to the proximal end of the osteotomy plane for partial sealing, and then cut off the radial nerve, median nerve and ulnar nerve. Even if they are cut off, these nerves can naturally retract to the proximal end of the osteotomy plane, followed by the muscles.

The two investigators who were watching looked at Gu Jun and sighed inwardly, the needlework is so good, his fingers are really as firm as a rock.

At the same time, they became more and more worried about Vice Captain Cao.

"The hand... is not my hand..." Cao Yicong's whole body squirmed even more, and his face was almost purple-black.

Gu Jun had always paid attention to the condition of the injured, and from time to time would give a few words of encouragement or talk to check the other person's mental state. At this time, he said again: "Vice Captain Cao, just hold on, he will be fine soon." . Now I need you to show your will, no problem."

Cao Yicong's expression kept changing, and he was fighting against the dark power. Ordinary people could no longer bear it, "Cut it off... chop it off..."

At this stage of the surgery, the difficulty has become cutting off and pruning the muscles.

Gu Jun's hands have gradually become accustomed to the rhythm. With fast hands and faster blades, he cuts off the muscles and then pulls them together with the posterior skin flap to the proximal end, trying to make the stump into a cylindrical shape, so that the prosthesis can be installed and used after surgery and the recovery will be smooth. Even better; the blade then cuts the periosteum in a circular motion toward the osteotomy plane, and then peels off the periosteum distally.

There was no periosteal stripper in the small medical kit, so he used the handle end of the anatomical forceps to complete the operation.

There is no blood flowing out of the surgical area, but more black liquid is flowing out, and the lesions on the foreign limbs are getting weirder.

It's not just the blood vessels that are twisting, nor the muscles that are twisting, but the bones are also twisting, and I don't know what kind of structural changes are taking place.

Gu Jun knew that time was running out. If the strange limb was not removed, Vice Captain Cao's life would be at risk.

Li Liangbin and Wang Yong were sweating profusely, and they couldn't hold on for long. They could only hold on with just one breath...

But they finally saw one layer of bone, the humerus, the long bone of the upper limb, which is normally very hard.

This humerus is almost bounded by the predetermined osteotomy plane. The upper part is of normal bone color, but the lower part is of abnormal bone surface color with faint black spots, and is wrapped by muscle fascia that has become like putrid mud. This mutation rate is much faster than the ordinary patients with alien hands treated by the medical department.

At this point, the next step is to cut the bones.

Use a powerful bone saw to cut the bones horizontally.

That's with a bone saw or any saw.

Now, Gu Jun was holding the Kalop scalpel in his right hand, looking intently at the exposed bones in the surgical area, and took a deep breath.

"Ah..." Cao Yicong shouted, struggled, and tried his best to support him. Li Liangbin and Wang Yong pressed him with all their strength and tried their best to fix the alien limb. The three of them were at the end of their strength, and every blood vessel and nerve was tightening and would snap apart at any time and scatter to the ground.

Gu Jun closed his eyes, his mind quickly entered that state, and then opened them again.

At this time, he seemed to be one with the scalpel. The knife was the continuation of his hand, and the blade was his will.

The biceps and triceps of his arm suddenly exerted force, and the forearm, wrist, palm, fingers, blade, and blade were all connected in a line, penetrating and falling, swinging horizontally towards the humerus in the surgical area. , kaga! Right on target.

There was a resistance, but he gritted his teeth and used more strength in his hand. The blade suddenly felt like it was penetrating, breaking through the bone surface——

Li Liangbin and Wang Yong were stunned. The situation was very different from what they expected.

Their rationality has always been to reserve whether this knife can cut bones. If it can, it should have a gorgeous effect like an old seal.

But the fact is that there are no sparks and no strange light. It is like chopping melons and vegetables, going in and coming out again.

All of a sudden, the alien limb was separated from the injured person. Cao Yicong shouted with relief, while Li Liangbin and Li Liangbin used their last strength to throw the alien limb aside and avoid the splash of black liquid.

But immediately, Gu Jun's eyes narrowed slightly, Li Liangbin and Wang Yong were also frightened, but Cao Yicong himself was completely unaware.

Perhaps, this humerus can be severed by a scalpel, firstly because the blade is sharp enough, and secondly because the bone itself...

The bone tissue inside seemed to have been evacuated, being drawn towards the diseased end of the alien limb, being devoured and sucked.

Cavity, there is a cavity inside the bone stump.

Love the Plague Doctor.