Chapter 6 Alternative Treatment (Part II)
Putting down the door curtain, Shi Shaoying walked back to the boy and sat down, looking at the boy's face full of pain by the candlelight, Shi Shaoying said in a low voice: "Words must be believed, and actions must be fruitful." What a wonderful woman! ”
The space in the room was very small, and at night Shi Shaoying could only be sure that he had to lie down and sleep across a curtain with Kai Belin, the distance between the two was less than twenty centimeters, and Shi Shaoying could even hear that after she lay down, her breathing on the other side of the curtain became short.
No matter how strong and strong she is, she is also a woman, a young woman who looks good and has a better figure! It is estimated that she has never "slept" so close to a man in her life.
In the course of three days, Shi Shaoying had forgotten how many arguments Cabelyn had had over the other side of the blanket to keep the child's parents at the door.
In the course of three days, Kai Belin did not count how many times Shi Shaoying got up at night in order to take care of the child. Sometimes, after she handed the food to Shi Shaoying, listening to the sound of spoons and bowls clinking inside, Kai Belin couldn't help but think about Shi Shaoying, a big man, when he carefully fed porridge to a child. I guess it's going to be a bit of a rush, right? Thinking of this, I don't know why, a smile that is almost mischievous will appear on Cabeline's face.
In the dead of night, the two of them did not dare to be careless because they had to take care of the patient, and the other tossed and turned because their hearts were too heavy, and after a long time, they gradually got used to each other and gradually got used to the other "she" who was close at hand but existed across a blanket, and they could even judge what the other party was doing just by the small sound coming from the other side of the blanket. Once, in her sleep, Kabeline unconsciously turned over, her arm fell directly through the door curtain and fell on Shi Shaoying's face, just a light touch of her as if she was burned by a soldering iron, and then she didn't seem to fall asleep all night.
Time is like flowing water, as the sun rises and sets, quietly gliding through the tension and a kind of warmth that protects each other.
During the three days, Shi Shaoying would carefully examine the wound with a magnifying glass every once in a while, and he watched the maggots grow bigger and bigger on the carrion as food, and they squeezed into the boy's wound and crawled around.
With the development of the times, the combat system of special forces, which is purely for the purpose of war, has been given more and more missions, and a considerable part of them need to be completed in enemy-occupied areas far away from logistics bases. Under this premise, once a special operations team is wounded or even separated from its team members, it becomes a basic course for special forces to use everything they can find around them to overcome disease and pain.
If you want to survive, the items that special forces may use are not just as simple as sugar to stop bleeding or extract antibiotics with drugs to treat venereal diseases. They often have to save themselves in the harshest natural environments, not only do they have to know how to use some of the most basic herbs, extract some of the most primitive minerals or chemical materials from minerals, but sometimes they also need to use some survival techniques that seem to be terrifying, and may even be mistaken for witchcraft.
These survival techniques may not seem so hygienic that they can even be called heretical, but there is no denying that they can really save lives when necessary!
And Shi Shaoying's wounds were covered with maggots, which belonged to this category.
As early as the 16th century, it was discovered that maggots that breed on infected wounds do not aggravate wound infection, but rather facilitate healing. By the nineteenth century, Napoleon's army used this method to treat wounded soldiers for gunshot wounds, and this treatment existed until the end of World War I. It was not until the advent of antibiotics in the forties of the twentieth century that "maggot therapy" was abandoned and regarded as a crude and unscientific method.
However, the instructors who taught Shaoying their field survival skills highly praised the "maggot therapy", not only because Dr. Bethune used this method to treat gunshot wounds for officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route during World War II, but also because the instructors used this method to save one of their legs during the Vietnam War.
Shi Shaoying can still clearly remember the series of treatment "mechanisms" that the instructor talked about when he taught them this kind of treatment method that makes normal people feel sick when they see it, and the nerves cannot be used without tenacity.
The maggot's secretion can destroy the decaying tissue in the wound, but it is harmless to the healthy part, in other words, the maggot will only eat the rotten flesh in the wound, but will not touch the intact part.
Maggots produce collagenase, tryptase, and protease, which break down necrotic tissue from wounds into semi-liquid foam that can then be swallowed and digested. This means that maggots do not feel pain when they bite carrion in the wound.
In addition, the substances excreted by maggots after eating the decaying tissues of the wound contain alkaloids, which can change the acid-base concentration of the wound.
Maggots also have a very beneficial feature, they have biological antibiotics in their body, which can directly improve the host's immunity and help wound healing. In fact, if you think about it, if maggots don't have such powerful biological antibiotics in their bodies, how can they "thrive" in a series of the harshest environments?
Shi Shaoying used tweezers to clip them out one by one, and under the light of several candles made of animal fat, Shi Shaoying could clearly see that these carrion-eating maggots had grown white and fat, and they looked very similar to the bee pupae collected from the hive when Shi Shaoying participated in field survival training. At that time, Shi Shaoying was really hungry, he directly threw those little things into his mouth and chewed them, not to mention, the taste was quite delicious...... The maggot kept swaying after being caught by Shi Shaoying with tweezers, as if it wanted to get rid of the restraints and return to a warm paradise full of food. It's a pity that Shi Shaoying will never give them this chance again, not only because it has reached the deadline for Kai Berin to fight for him, but also because the carrion from the boy's wound has been gnawed clean by maggots, and if it continues, these maggots will gnaw at the healthy and fresh tissues in the wound.
Taking out the last maggot, Shi Shaoying wiped the sweat off his face with a clean white cloth, and finally reached out to the boy's forehead. The boy also had a low-grade fever, but as long as he continued to take antibiotics, coupled with proper nutrition and vitamins, he would naturally become healthy as the inflammation in his body disappeared.
Glancing at the white maggots on the tray that were still wriggling, Shi Shaoying threw them all to the ground with a twist of his wrist, said "sorry" in his heart, and made up a few more feet, trampling all these "heroes" who treated the boy's wounds into a puddle of flesh. It is estimated that the boy's parents would rather believe that Shi Shaoying was the reincarnation of a witch god and used some "special function" to restore the child's health, rather than believe that it was a group of maggots that saved their son's life.
Habitually checking everything in the room again, until he was sure that nothing was missing, Shi Shaoying opened the blanket that hung on the door as a curtain.
Now the outside world has just entered the dawn, and the newborn sun looks like a huge fireball, not blazing but warm to the heart, and the gentle mountain breeze still carries the coolness and comfort of the night. Kai Belin was wrapped in a thin quilt and leaned on the door frame at this time, since she inadvertently touched Shi Shaoying's face yesterday, she refused to "share the bed" with Shi Shaoying again, but chose this half-lying method to rest.
Kabeline was still asleep, her chest rising and falling in a natural rhythm. The night in the mountains was a little cold, and she curled up her body, which was such a casual action, but it greatly neutralized the aggressive and difficult untamed nature on her body, revealing a trace of feminine softness. The golden sunlight slanted on her fiery red hair and long eyelashes, making her look as if her whole body was coated with a layer of rose-like color, and Shi Shaoying's eyes lit up in an instant.
There was a sudden cold and sharp touch in his throat, and it was only at this time that Shi Shaoying realized that maybe the scene in front of him was too beautiful, and he couldn't help bending down and plucking a dead leaf on Kai Baylin's forehead with the softest possible movements, and Kai Bei Lin responded in an instant, putting the other knife mountain on her leg directly on Shi Shaoying's neck.
As soon as Kai Belin's hand holding the knife was slightly forced, the stinging pain on her skin forced Shi Shaoying to raise her chin, and she said word by word: "If you dare to approach me secretly like this next time, I will cut your throat directly like killing a chicken." Do you understand?! ”
Shi Shaoying reached out and gently patted Kai Belin's wrist, and after she let go of the knife in her hand for a distance, the first thing he said was: "It's not fair!" ”
Cabeline listened to this inexplicable protest, and a puzzled look appeared on her face.
At this time, Shi Shaoying was like a fighter for equality between men and women, sounding the clarion call to freedom and justice, "You secretly touched my face in the middle of the night, and I didn't complain about the naked molestion and sneak attack, I just helped you remove a leaf from your hair, and you directly used the knife, which is too much to allow the state officials to set fire to the people and not allow the people to light the lamp, right?" Even if you take 10,000 steps back, look at your tall body, look at your domineering and exposed savagery, and then look at your violence that can be called King Kong among women, you don't really think that a person who has injuries on his body and has only slept for less than ten hours for three consecutive days still has the strength to push down an iron-blooded man like you at this time, and do something that must be physically strong and in a good mood to do something, right?! ”
(To be continued)