Volume 1 The Endless Wilderness Section 127 Medical Treatment
When Chen Xing came to the Orchid Town Hospital, he found that it was overcrowded, and even the aisles were set up with hospital beds. Orchid Town is just a marginal town, originally the population was not large, so many soldiers and workers came at once, plus it was from a big city, there was a lot of friction with the locals, all kinds of conflicts emerged one after another, and the hospital was soon crowded with wounded patients.
In desperation, Chen Xing had to change his route to the town's commercial street to find the small clinic that treated his corrosive injuries last time. His impression of the slightly fat middle-aged male doctor was still very good, although the equipment was a little outdated, and the sanitary conditions were so-so, but the effect of the last treatment was quite good, the wound was not inflamed, and it healed quickly.
"Pong!"
But as soon as he arrived at the door of the clinic, Chen Xing saw a white figure smashing into the glass window and falling out. When I got closer, it turned out to be the doctor of the clinic, wearing a dirty white coat, with blood foaming in his mouth and coughing. He hurriedly helped the other party up, and before he could ask what was going on, several men in dark green military uniforms kicked out the door, pointing at the pale-faced middle-aged doctor and scolding: "Quimpy, if you can't cure grandpa's illness, you dare to charge money, is it easy to bully grandpa!" ”
"Kill him!" "The country man is underwhelmed." A few men clenched their fists and gurgled.
The middle-aged doctor seemed to be angry, pointing at the man at the head, trembling all over, "You, don't deceive people too much!" Ahem, ahem! He coughed and spoke, his mouth covered in blood.
"What a death!" The man at the head scolded, picked up his big fist, and hit it straight over. The fist is fierce and full of strength. If it is solid now, the cervical vertebrae will be broken.
Chen Xing didn't want to cause trouble, but he really couldn't see it, and he still asked the doctor for treatment later, but the doctors were gone, who would treat him, and he kicked out immediately.
"Click!"
The hard military boots kicked on the opponent's calf bone, and suddenly there was a crisp sound. The man's fist froze in mid-air, and his face turned the color of pig liver. Then he fell to the ground with his legs in his arms and let out a huge scream.
"Wow, wow, wow!"
"What people!" "Kill him!" Several men accompanying him immediately shouted and cursed, and they all went to pull out the pistols pinned to their waists.
Chen Xing was holding back the fire in his stomach before he came, and now even the little soldiers dare to bully him, he can't bear it anymore, he pushes the middle-aged doctor away, fits into the man who is pulling out the gun, and then reflexively punches, sweeps on the bridge of the nose of the second man, pulls out the pistol, and smashes it on the temple of the third place.
Putting down the three of them in an instant, Chen Xing straightened out his military uniform, and stood there for a long time, looking at the few people who were wailing all over the ground.
"You, you dare to hit someone!" "Do you know who we are, we are the Luo family army of Gray Corner City!" "You're dead!"
After a while, the four men ran away with rolling belts, and did not forget to turn around and say cruel words while running.
"Captain Chen, thank you." The middle-aged doctor recognized Chen Xinglai and said panting.
"Are you alright?" "It's okay, just a little skin trauma." The two of them entered the clinic as they spoke. Speaking of which, this is still Chen Xing's territory, and he has to come over every month to collect taxes. Helping out is also his job.
"What's wrong?" The doctor asked.
Chen Xing ripped off the towel, revealing his burned hand, and said, "High-voltage electricity, electric injury." ”
"I'll take ......a look," said the doctor, putting on his half-broken glasses, observing them for a moment, "the skin is traumatic, it's fine." Then he got up and walked over to a cylindrical instrument more than two meters high, opened the curved glass window, brought in alcohol and cotton, and cleaned it up.
After getting it done, he moved a small white round stool with a lot of patent leather, pointed to the circular space in the instrument and said to Chen Xing, "Put your hand in." Then he added, "I won't charge you this time, but if you want to inject 'Red Dream', you will have to charge an additional fee." ”
What he called "Red Dream" is a hallucinogen, which can be used for medical treatment, and after injection, the whole world is red, which can increase the secretion of dopamine, but it is not easy to produce drug dependence.
"No anesthesia." Chen Xing took off his coat and put it on the table, then walked over and sat down, and put his hand into the instrument. Above the circular space is an octopus-shaped mechanical body, with more than a dozen mechanical tentacles contracted into a circle, and surgical instruments such as syringes, tweezers, crochet needles, and knives at the end.
After Chen Xing's hand was put in, the sponge body around it swelled up, sealing the opening and forming a closed space.
"Sneer......"
There was a deflating sound, and Chen Xing clearly felt that the muscles in his hands were contracting, which was the treatment instrument extracting air and then injecting sterile inert gas. Immediately afterward, a large amount of white mist erupted from the round hole above, which fell on the wound hotly, but the rest of the place was cold and cold.
Chen Xing knew that it was an alcohol spray for disinfection. Then, the mechanical arms were all opened, and they were busy around Chen Xing's hands.
There was a tingling pain, like an ant biting, but it was bearable. The device makes general surgery easy, as the doctor sets the procedure and treats the wound automatically and with great precision. However, major surgery still relies on manual labor, after all, machinery only runs according to the program and cannot cope with various emergencies.
Compared with the level of medical care on Earth, the Red Earth Continent has been hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of time. Treating cancer and AIDS is like treating a cold.
And the reason why the medical level of this world far exceeds that of the earth is mainly due to the rare element found after the cataclysm - radium-2315.
This isotope of "radium" is also known as "Hades's nightmare", which has the most original life force of human beings, has the effect of resurrecting the dead, and can prolong the life of completely healthy people who take it.
Just as the discovery of "penicillin" made surgery possible, the discovery of "radium-2315" brought the medical level of the whole world to a new height. If you can afford it, even cranial replacement surgery can be perfectly realized, but the cost is relatively expensive, and it is only available to the big aristocratic groups.
Inside the instrument, more than a dozen mechanical tentacles surrounded Chen Xing's palm, twisting up and down, like insects competing for food. And in the tray underneath, there are constantly black dead skin falling. After about ten years, the mechanical tentacles retracted upward, revealing a bloody arm, the surface crawling with tiny blood vessels, sticky and erosive, and it was very terrifying to look at.
"I only have SK9 here, and it will take about five days to recover." The doctor said. "SK9" is the cheapest artificial skin in the world, and due to its low price, the side effects are obvious, and the wound will be very itchy in the last two days, and it will be easy for the patient to pick it up.
"Okay." Chen Xing said. He used to be a low-level mercenary, and it was already good to have medical treatment, and those side effects didn't matter at all.
After confirming with Chen Xing, the doctor lit up the touch screen on the treatment instrument and entered the instructions. After a few seconds, the mechanical tentacles were activated again, this time filled with milky white vials, spraying water mist into the wound.
After another ten minutes, the mechanical tentacles retracted, and the spray head on it spewed out alcohol, and Chen Xing only felt that his right hand was cold.
"Sneer......"
The deflating sound sounded again, and the cavernous body contracted in all directions. Chen Xing pulled out his hand, and the skin on his hand was smooth and translucent, like wearing a pair of thin rubber gloves. Chen Xing moved his fingers, feeling quite flexible, and there was no big problem.
The doctor prescribed him some anti-inflammatory drugs and then advised, "It's best to get a small treatment injection when you go back to completely repair the muscle trauma so as not to leave any sequelae." ”
"I see." Chen Xing nodded and said, symbolically giving five gold coins, then put on his coat and left. A treatment like this would cost at least twenty or thirty gold coins, but he helped the other party, so he accepted the free treatment with peace of mind. After all, he had a conflict with the Luo family's stationers, even if he didn't have to lose money, he had to find Xiao Wu to dredge it.