ATPnovel 0019 Surgery
0019 Surgery
Wang Feng was starting to panic. Usually, when she treated the villagers' injuries and removed thorns, she would just prick their skin with a hot iron needle and easily remove the thorns. It was never to the point where she had to cut flesh off their bodies.
In addition, the modern scalpel in her hand was completely unfamiliar to her, and she didn't know where to start for a while!
Seeing that the older woman hesitated, Zhu Shiting had no choice but to take out a water-based pen he had prepared in advance and first draw the edge line for cutting on the wound on Zhou Gang's back.
Although he had never actually treated gunshot wounds, the theoretical knowledge he gained from browsing videos on the internet was sufficient.
Imitation struck him as a fool, and he urged, "Sister Wang, if you don't start digging soon, he'll be dead. Just keep digging along this edge. With me casting spells to support you, I guarantee he'll live!"
The reason Zhu Shiting dared to make such a confident promise was not because he had mastered any magical medical skills, but because the ancient jade pendant he inherited from his ancestors on his chest gave him his confidence.
In fact, he had already planned ahead, in case something unexpected happened during the surgery and the treatment failed, and he ended up killing Zhou Gang.
To avoid his image as a celestial being in the eyes of the mountain people collapsing, he could teleport directly back to the modern warehouse with Zhou Gang's corpse.
Then, go to any deserted mountain in the late Ming Dynasty era and bury the person there, achieving the effect of being completely undetected.
Afterwards, all he had to do was make up a reason to fool Zhou Ren and the others, saying that he had no choice but to take Zhou Gang to the Heavenly Court for medical treatment as an exception, and leave Zhou Gang to cultivate Taoism and become an immortal in the heavens.
It probably doesn't need much explanation; the people of Zhoujiazhai will be eternally grateful to him and willing to die for him!
This is a story about immortals leading their clansmen to ascend to immortality!
Even if he could never descend to the mortal realm and reunite with his family and friends after achieving immortality, it would still be enough for Zhou Gang to confer some kind of local deity upon him in this mountain wilderness, so that his descendants could continue to offer incense and sacrifices.
Of course, this is only a last resort; the most urgent task right now is to continue the surgery.
"Immortal, please do not be angry, I will now make my move."
Wang Feng took a deep breath, looked at the circle drawn with a black watercolor pen, and glanced at the confident old man beside her. She felt a sense of confidence inexplicably.
With a forceful scalpel along the oozing sore, the sharp scalpel sliced through the necrotic flesh as easily as cutting tofu.
"This...this celestial physician's knife is truly sharp!"
"The knife cut through the water as easily as cutting through water, without the slightest hesitation."
Wang Feng sighed inwardly, feeling increasingly confident as she made her cut.
As for Zhu Shiting, he observed Zhou Gang's condition throughout the process, and occasionally instructed Wang Feng to scrape off the oozing, rotten flesh. With one hand, he used medical cotton to continuously clean the cut flesh and the flowing pus and blood.
After carefully scraping for nearly two minutes, Wang Feng picked out several fragments of shattered musket pellets.
By piecing the fragments together in a stainless steel bowl, a bullet from a matchlock musket from the late Ming Dynasty came into Zhu Shiting's view.
Zhu Shiting's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he thought to himself, "This older sister is quite skillful. Without her help, this surgery would probably have ended hastily."
However, since the rotten flesh had been removed, the scalpel had cut into the healthy flesh on Zhou Gang's back that was attached to the nerves. The intense pain caused the 1.9-meter-tall man to struggle on the table.
Seeing this, Zhu Shiting quickly shouted, "You guys, hold him down firmly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the five men from Zhoujiazhai who were watching exerted their strength to firmly hold down Zhou Gang, who was trying to struggle.
In Zhu Shiting's view, if Zhou Gang survives the knife operation without anesthesia, his future will be no less promising than that of Guan Yu, who underwent bone-scraping surgery.
"Immortal, what should we do next?"
Wang Feng looked anxious as she saw that there was nowhere left to cut in the circled area on the wounded man's back.
Therefore, blood was constantly gushing out from that bowl-sized wound. If the bleeding wasn't stopped in time, Zhou Gang's life would be in grave danger.
"Don't panic, I will apply the elixir to him right away."
As Zhu Shiting spoke, he poured a bottle of saline solution onto the wound, cleaned it thoroughly, and then wiped it with iodine and alcohol to prevent further infection.
After completing this step, he took out the Befuji spray and sprayed it on the wound, then used medical cotton and gauze to stop the bleeding and seal the wound.
The Befuji spray contains growth factors, which greatly promote the healing of surgical incisions.
In addition, Zhu Shiting injected this lucky guy with penicillin in his buttocks, and also had Zhou Ren and the others pry open Zhou Gang's mouth and force-feed him an aspirin painkiller.
All the modern drugs for healing, anti-inflammation, pain relief, and killing bacteria have been used. If all of this fails to save him, then Zhu Shiting will have no choice but to take the last resort: to take Zhou Gang "ascend" to the modern world.
Fortunately, after a few minutes, the situation began to improve.
Zhou Gang, who was lying on the bed on the table, was initially struggling in pain, but once the painkiller took effect, he started snoring loudly and stopped struggling and moving around. His face gradually regained some color.
Upon seeing that the injured person appeared to have been saved, the people inside the room each had their own thoughts.
There are self-taught female doctors like Wang Feng who marvel at the miraculous effects of divine medicine. They can save someone by cutting off such a large piece of flesh from their back. This is truly an act of defying fate in the mortal world.
"I've heard that there are several medical masters in the capital who can bring the dead back to life with their miraculous hands, use acupuncture to cure all kinds of stubborn diseases, and even treat gunshot wounds. I just don't know how they compare to the immortal master's miraculous healing techniques that can regenerate flesh and bone." Wang Feng sighed inwardly.
The next second, the woman began to curse herself for being foolish: "Pah! The immortal sage didn't even lift a finger, he just instructed this country bumpkin to perform the rescue, and he was able to save Brother Zhou Gang so easily. He's a hundred times more skilled than those medical masters!"
Of course, there were also those like Zhou Ren who knelt on one knee and bowed, saying, "We are deeply grateful to the immortal for bestowing the miraculous medicine to save my brother! Our Zhou Family Village of eighty-two people has no way to repay you, so we wish to build a shrine and statue for the immortal, and offer incense to you for generations!"
Upon hearing that this fellow wanted to build a shrine for him and worship him as a true deity, Zhu Shiting's face darkened, and he feigned anger, saying, "How can you all be so stupid? This time, my descent to the mortal realm has already been quite costly, and I've painstakingly smoothed things over with everyone, avoiding the Jade Emperor's notice."
"If your Zhou Family Village dares to build a shrine to worship me and leaks the news, I will be the first to hold you accountable!"
Upon seeing the Immortal Lord suddenly become angry, the Zhou family members inside the house all trembled with fear.
Zhou Ren realized he had said the wrong thing and understood immediately.
In the eyes of these ordinary mortals, the fact that gods descend to the mortal realm to save people is a violation of heavenly rules and regulations.
If, due to a momentary lapse of judgment, they carelessly repaired the shrine and erected statues, the news would leak out and reach the Heavenly Court, wouldn't they be harming their own brother's savior?
After this whole internal monologue, the ruthless second-in-command of Zhoujiazhai immediately raised his hand and slapped himself repeatedly across the face: "Yes! Yes! This lowly one was clumsy and stupid, failing to consider the difficulties faced by the immortal. Please punish me, immortal!"
Zhu Shiting saw that this guy seemed to have masochistic tendencies, so he didn't stop him.
After watching Zhou Ren's cheeks turn red and swollen from slapping, he slowly said, "Alright, stop. Your brother needs to rest for a while, so you and Sister Wang can stay at Jiyun Village to take care of him."
"When I need to command the people of your Zhou Family Village, I will naturally issue a divine decree."