Chapter 337: Tattered Body
"Welcome back, it looks like you've come home with a full load this time. The dwarf greeted the cheese who pushed the door in, and then his eyes quickly fell on the thing that was caught under the armpit by the mage, "Am I dazzled, or have you brought someone back?" ”
Cheese glanced at Charinder with a smile, "Don't worry, I don't like slavery either." This child is my patient, so you can get some hot water, towels, and food and drink first, and bring them to my room. ”
The mage's room was already sleeping alone, and he put the child on the bed and took off the rag that shrouded his body in a few clicks. The appearance under the rag was worse than it had been on the street, and although Cheese had spelled him to sleep, he could still see the painful panic on his face, indicating that the body was tormenting its owner, as if it were some kind of illness.
"I brought hot water and towels and ate a little longer... What's the matter with this little one?" the dwarf nearly threw the basin to the ground when he saw what was on the bed. Distorted and unnatural limbs and a thin appearance will make people feel uneasy about the instinctive voice of this brought child, just as there are things in this world that are beautiful when you see them, and some things only make people feel grotesque.
Cheese wasn't so surprised, he was used to dissecting all kinds of bodies, and as long as he got into the state of holding the knife, he wouldn't frown at what he wanted to cut open. Moreover, although the condition of the child in front of him is extremely poor, it is still some distance from the rat-man plague six years ago, and his state looks extremely bad mainly because of his emaciation, which is still different from most rat-man plague infected people who start to transform from a normal physical state. Not only that, but the human body in front of him also made the mage feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't detect the specific cause in the first place. Maybe it would be better to wipe it clean.
water, dyed in a cloudy color. Dirt, stains, bloodstains, and some have even begun to grow plaque, wrapped in such filthy attachments, the state of the skin can be imagined. If it weren't for the careful wiping with a warm towel, the almost festering skin would have faded away. The bright red skin of the cheese-wiped parts is reminiscent of a newborn baby, and no, his skin may not function as well as a normally developing baby. Fortunately, the cat fairy who arrived at some point had closed the window in time, not letting the cold wind outside irritate the fragile children.
"He looks like a mixture of animal and man, what kind of curse made him like this?, could it be that his parents provoked the devil?" Kelas jumped off the windowsill and came to the bedside, his tone was rarely low, this cat fairy had few weaknesses, but among them was not to see the child suffer. This is the same for many people, and it may be that creatures are more likely to empathize with their cubs.
"It's hard to confirm yet. Has anything like this ever happened in the city?" asked the dwarf as Cheese wiped and examined the child's body. As the owner of the Iron Felt Avenue Tavern, Charinder should be much more well-informed than ordinary people. If there had been a similar disease or curse in the City of Rushing Streams, it would have been impressed. But the answer can already be known from the dwarves' reactions.
"In the name of my beard, I've never seen anything like it. I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff in the city, but it's a bit too much, even if it's survival of the fittest. Charinder shook his head, and his words were convincing. Rushing is certainly not a city of angels, and it is a strange place to hide filth and filth, but no matter what, man cannot do anything worse than a beast.
Cheese didn't say anything more, what he saw and heard below the deck was something that even the dwarves might not have heard, after all, no one who came to a place had to drill into the worst environment there, and if he lived only in the sun, life was good most of the time. But he has already experienced those, the blasphemous, the obscene, the filthy business, and cannot help but speculate on everything around him with the greatest malice.
The hand rubbed against the bone with a slight force, and the mage was checking the degree of mutation in the child's body. Physical mutations are similar to foreign diseases, and when they only occur in the epidermis, they are not too difficult to deal with. If you go deeper into the muscles, you may need surgery to remove the infected tissue. If it reaches the circulatory system a little deeper, the treatment will not be a task that can be completed in a day or two, and it is likely that it will not even be cured. If even the bones, the most basic structure of the human body, are changed, then this kind of abnormality will be very, very dangerous.
When he touched the spine slightly, just behind his waist, Cheese's hand stopped. He gestured with his eyes to the dwarf and the cat elf, who nodded and pressed the sleeping child's arms from either side. If he could, Cheese wanted to use drugs to make the child sleep more deeply, so that he would suffer less. However, it is not advisable to use drugs to block pain in such a weak person, and his internal organs are likely to not be able to withstand the effects of drugs. In terms of Jian Qi's Qi theory, his internal balance was fragile now, and any external stimulus could shatter this delicate equilibrium, producing a series of reactions.
But there are some problems that cannot be broken or established. Holding down the child's arm, Cheese pulled a knife and gloves from the inside of his robe, his body resting on the patient's legs, the fingers of his left hand making final confirmations on either side of his spine. Finally, the sharp blade cut through the skin, and the body under him trembled, but his tremor was too weak for the three of them. The knife edge is about the length of half a finger, but it is not very deep. The mage took a breath, the index and middle fingers of his right hand together, fiddling a little with the incision, and then plunged deeper!
"Hmm!" the mage's fingers stopped stirring under the skin as he clenched his teeth, and with the force of his fingers, he pulled something bloody out of the wound! it was a strange worm between a worm and a centipede, with a thick body soft and sticky, and fine bristles on it, which made people instinctively feel sick. Cheese looked at the insect that was still writhing between his fingers, and his expression changed, he had seen this kind of insect before, in the grassland, in the river next to the heavenly tree. The blasphemous offspring of the worm god is not because those things have also affected the inhabitants of this place with the waters that gather here.
Cheese's eyes flashed with a magical light, and his left hand shook the side of the insect, and the writhing insect body fell silent, "Help me find a jar." Also, bring the rest of the blood refining ointment, this child may have more than this one in his body. ”