Chapter 5: Saving Lives

These monster claws are a great cutting tool, hard enough to make a cut in glass, and at least not as brittle as glass.

She even thought she could try to cut her hand off with this thing and see if she could pick it up again. But a major problem with the connection of the severed limb is that the nerves and blood vessels must be able to match, which is not something that can be done simply by connecting the connective tissue, in case the wrong connection can be troublesome, Zheng Rui still did not try casually.

She jotted down the monster in her notebook, and drew a picture of the monster's corpse before it got dark—biological drawing, a must-have skill for naturalists in the past, and now biology students are a little so-so.

Then Zheng Rui returned to his basement, and wanted to read the other books in the commissary for a while according to the flashlight that used the No. 5 battery, and thought that the battery had to be used sparingly, so he still leaned on the leather chair where the proprietress used to sit and fell asleep.

It's better to sleep, there is everything in your dreams.

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Zheng Rui dreamed that she was drinking her grandfather's pork rib soup, which made her wake up and close her eyes for half an hour, trying to get herself back to sleep.

There is really no way, there is no way to heat things in the basement, she has been eating bread, biscuits, ham sausages for four and a half days in a row, occasionally opening a pack of spicy beef tendons or something, of course, it is okay, but these things are not hot at all or are not very in line with the eating habits of Chinese.

I thought that the commissary could at least have self-heating hot pot and the like, but because the old building was full of old people, it was not very acceptable for self-heating products, and the convenience food in the commissary was only instant noodles. And instant noodles are worse than biscuit bread, after all, the latter two can still be eaten directly, instant noodles can't be directly dipped in seasoning packets without hot water, right?

But if you want to sleep, you can't go back to the sweet dream of having pork rib soup.

Zheng Rui straightened up and rubbed her eyes, took the toothpaste and toothbrush removed from the shelves of the commissary, removed the shelves blocking the door, and walked up the stairs to the ground. She brushed her teeth with the water gushing out of the water pipe not far away, took two sips by the way, and then followed the "custom" to see if the people in the opposite neighborhood were still there.

And when she walked under the row of locust trees on the road in the old residential area, she saw a black shadow moving on the foundation of the opposite building, but it didn't seem to be human.

Zheng Rui quietly moved a few steps forward, and finally could barely see it: it was a monster gnawing on something on the ground, the aspect ratio of that thing seemed to be more than 10, and the color scheme also made people feel a little familiar......

- That's a person!

Zheng Rui's chest swelled with a nausea mixed with fear, and then he felt angry again.

That monster is actually eating people!

Even animals on the earth that have licked human blood should be killed directly, let alone alien species.

Zheng Rui went back to the basement and took a handful of the claws of the monster she had killed, and ran directly towards the monster that was eating the human corpse over there.

The monster also saw someone coming, stopped to eat, and raised its claws. Miraculously, although its claws are also dark red, its thorax and abdomen and the last segments of the last two pairs of appendages are not the same color as the previous one, and the shape is slightly different.

Is this polymorphism, or is it a different subspecies? Zheng Rui thought distractedly, and then hurriedly dodged the horizontal slash of the monster that rushed up.

But as a human being who fights five scum, her fighting skills obviously can't be compared to monsters. When Zheng Rui dodged to the right, the monster's claws had already been diagonalized into her right shoulder blade. Zheng Rui felt a sharp pain, but unfortunately she had almost gotten used to the near-death experiment in the past four days, and at this time, it was the elevated adrenaline that blocked the pain first.

Zheng Rui grabbed the monster's left forelimb with the claw with her left hand, turned her waist to the left and pulled it off the connection with her chest, and in her right hand she held the monster's claw she unscrewed yesterday, and cut off the monster's neck with one claw.

The monster's four pairs of appendages swung violently, presumably as a physiological reflex when the central nervous system was amputated. The monster, broken into two knots, collapsed to the ground, bringing out a bits of blue-green liquid.

Zheng Rui threw away the monster's forelimb in his left hand, squatted down and touched his right shoulder, which had been inserted with a big hole. The muscle tissue sticks immediately after the wound is closed, but it will take some time for the dermis to heal.

However, she discovered a more important fact: the person who had been eaten by the monster just now was still alive.

It was a girl, who looked only in her twenties, a little older than Zheng Rui. Zheng Rui doesn't know her, but she is likely to be a resident of this community, just an ordinary person. But now she has a leg with blurred flesh and blood, and the wound on her thigh is particularly deep, revealing the leg bone inside, and the wound is constantly gushing blood, which seems to be a broken artery.

She's still awake, but I'm afraid she won't survive. She looked at Zheng Rui in a daze, perhaps unable to accept the fact that she was about to die, perhaps surprised by Zheng Rui's heroic performance just now, or maybe just because of excessive blood loss and her consciousness had begun to blur.

But she is still alive.

Zheng Rui felt sad. What to do? Is she going to watch this young lady die like this? Although she didn't know this young lady, anyone who saw this scene would want to save her.

To stop the bleeding first – how to stop the bleeding? Tie the artery.

At this time, Zheng Rui only hated that he was not a medical student - the student had wool for it? She couldn't even find the location of the femoral artery break now.

Well, well, calm down. If you can't find the arterial break, you can directly tie the front end of the limb tightly. Fortunately, the young lady was thinner, and Zheng Rui took out two head ropes from her pocket—because this thing was always lost, and she usually brought a few more—and tied them together after tearing them off, and tied them tightly at the base of the young lady's thighs.

But the blood was still flowing, and with Zheng Rui's expertise, he couldn't tell whether the flow rate had slowed down.

This doesn't work, you still have to tie the femoral artery directly - it can't be delayed any longer.

What to do?

Zheng Rui's hands were covered with blood, and the wound was too large and blurry. She turned her heart sideways and put her fingers directly into the wound that the monster had gnawed on, feeling the location of the artery break through the flow rate of the surrounding fluid.

Dead horses are used as live horse doctors, and Zheng Rui, who has always been handicapped in animal experiments, really touched the arteries this time. She hurriedly pressed it with her fingers, but the musculature under her hand was soft and slippery, and she couldn't hold it down at all.

What is it used for......

By the way, the monster's claws, with the hooks at the ends, are quite similar to hemostats.

Only...... So be it!

Zheng Rui pressed the artery with his left hand, picked up the claw next to him with his right hand, broke it, and took the front end and put it in. She couldn't see the details in a pool of blood, but success or failure was up and down.

Zheng Rui clamped the tip of her claw where she thought it was an artery, and then carefully released her hand.

The arterial blood gushing seems to have stopped.

Incredible.

She didn't know what it was like to have a SCI, but she felt as happy as she was at the moment.