Chapter 69: Punishment for Heaven

Speaking of which, what does the appearance of strange beasts mean for Sunset City?

In an instant, the terrifying shadow of the rainstorm and black sky had already broken through the fence of the four heavy prisms. A stout body covered with rock scales tossed across the world, rubbing sparks larger than human beings on the earth. The continuous movement was like the earth about to crack, and the sound of a moment shook the wilderness.

The surrounding prism soldiers did not dare to continue to maintain, and each of them held the prismatic fragments and withdrew out of the mountain at the foot of this huge strange beast.

At this moment, the light locked by the Celestial Mirror suddenly lit up.

But all the attention of the pursuers was focused on the behemoth that emerged from behind the mountain, and no one cared about the fugitives, even if the location that Guanghua locked might have His Highness. The rocks on the commander's waist were still loud, but no one dared to move forward.

Everyone in the Protectorate is aware of one fact:

The Sixth Twilight War was triggered by the appearance of strange beasts that had never been seen before in the Hanging Curved River.

As long as this strange beast has the possibility of stepping out of the southern foothills of the Daling Mountain Range, then, for Sunset City, the seventh Dusk War is on the way.

The huge snake-like beast walked step by step towards the huge skeleton fossil that was exposed to the surface, and the pursuers who were evacuating outside the mountain saw the strange beast gently rubbing the remains of the creature that was unknown how many thousands of years ago with its rock-covered face, like a child coquettish to its mother.

Trees and rocks follow the flow of the muddy water. All the steep canyon cliffs are collapsing.

In the end, only one person rushed to Gu Chuan's side after witnessing the brilliance of the Heavenly Mirror.

The man had no name, but was later called Hatsuyun by a woman.

She leaps briskly over the rocks caught by the torrent, free and easy like an elf in a storm. She had arrived just in time to witness the glowing young man fall limply into the water, like a corpse on a dark and rainy night.

"Death ......"

Hatsuun understands death better than a toeless man.

Because her favorite doctor left her because of "death".

She hurriedly opened her hands, picked up Gu Chuan from the dirty water, and then stepped over the torrent and came to the forest.

It should be noted here that Hatsugumo's medical and hygiene knowledge is unexpectedly very strong, and although she doesn't know it herself, her level may have surpassed that of ordinary Sunset City doctors.

This is due to the wide range of surgeries and post-operative care that she has performed on two doctors in a row. Most of these surgeries are related to "mending the heavenly punishment". Both doctors asked Hatsuyun to memorize a number of relevant medical texts to accurately describe "how individuals feel about changes in body parts" and "what they can do when they feel some bad feedback."

For example, a wound must not touch water.

"It can breed germs and cause wound infections and other complications."

Hatsuyun recalled.

So she took off Gu Chuan's torn coat, and then tried her best to open her raincoat, holding the dying young man in her arms, and then looking for a place where there was no rain.

The topography of several nearby mountains had changed, and the huge beast had sat down between the mountain where Hatsuyun was and the mountain next to this mountain with its bones exposed. Walking on the downward mountain road, Chu Yun could see the strange beast's vast body like a river of sunshine, which had covered the depression between the mountains and covered all her vision, like a new mountain raised.

The rain poured down the rocks on its surface, first into a small river, and then down its body to become the most magnificent waterfall.

As they went, they also saw several caves that sheltered from the rain, but now they had collapsed in the collapse of the earth. Fortunately, the mountain has also revealed new openings due to landslides.

At the foot of the mountain near the "waterfall" on the giant serpent. Hatsumo discovers a crack in the mountain wall. The rock wall has the shape of a fossilized bone protrusion from an unknown number of thousands of years ago. The rift is surrounded by vines and weeds.

She pushed aside the weeds and hugged the unconscious Gu Chuan, just enough to bend down and get in. The accumulated water of the rainwater also extended into the cave, forming a pool of stagnant water.

This is due to the uncertain terrain inside the gap. If you don't have to wade a few dozen meters into the water, you will reach the opposite shore in the cave. This waterhole is like being swallowed in the mouth of this cave and deliberately left on the tongue.

This is a good thing for the two fugitives.

"I can make a small rock pile and use it to filter the water."

Hatsuyun thought.

The water filtered in this way is called mountain spring water, and it is mentioned in the water intake chapter of Sunset City's military medical codex.

The cave was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. But at this time, the fugitives did not have to fear the pursuers, so Hatsuyun lifted his hood and used the lock of the Sky Mirror to directly connect with the aurora outside and illuminate the place. At first, the brightness suddenly rises enough to sparkle the eye, but after a while, it becomes moderate.

The cave is so deep that there is no end to the light. There was no sound inside, only the sound of rain outside, and there were no large creatures here, just glowing insects circling and flying.

She used her brute force to flatten the rocks on the ground and placed Gu Chuanping on top of the rocks.

After that, she hurriedly searched the trunks and stumps of some impervious trees from the vicinity and brought them back to the cave. Don't think about the thin branches, they must be soaked in the continuous rainstorm.

But the inside of a thick, dense trunk may still be dry. She split the trunks with her bare hands, leaving them one by one, and found the dry wooden parts from them and picked them out. She then used the sewing needle from the pouch as a blade and cut some of the dry wood into large sheets of flammable shavings.

Next, she did what she saw Gu Chuan do before, piled the shavings in the center of a specially picked up dry tree stump, and then used stones to spark.

The spark fell on the shavings, and the girl blew lightly, and the smoke rose in a small way.

When the cave was full of smoke, the firelight illuminated the two people who had fallen into the dead.

Then, she uncovered Gu Chuan's inner lining. The young man revealed a little coldness, and the skin of the young man who had not yet entered the prime of life was undoubtedly revealed in front of her.

Only then did she see the wound on Gu Chuan's body clearly.

"The wound stabbed him in the back and all the way to his right abdomen, through the ...... of his body"

The young man's skin was extremely pale, and his obvious abdominal muscles, which had been strong, spasmed like stones. His wound was dull, festering and festering. The necrotic tissue is like a colony of ants hugging together, hideous and terrifying.

Chu Yun was stunned for a moment, showing a thoughtful expression.

It wasn't that the abnormal maiden was disgusting, and neither the ugliest worm nor the prettiest human could make her feel good or dirty. There are very few things she can feel good about...... But the ice cubes brought by Gu Chuan undoubtedly made her very excited.

At the time, she was just thinking that her hands were dirty and she couldn't easily touch the wounds.

"As I recall, the metal used for the sewing needles seems to be the same as the metal used by Mrs. Ogiri...... Maybe it works. ”

She took out a new sewing needle from the small bag that Chuan's mother had organized, and set it on the fire to roast for a short while. After the sewing needle cooled down, she gently rubbed the wound on Gu Chuan's abdominal muscles with the sewing needle, picking up the coagulated pus and blood clots one by one, and she soon found that the young man's abdominal peritoneum had been broken, and the intestines pierced by the knife had come out of the body.

The type of intestine is not clear at Hatsumo.

"This situation ......"

According to the medical book of Sunset City, it is necessary to have a laparotomy to explore whether there is any organ damage.

So she used a sewing needle to gently pick open the flesh slit that had been pierced by the blade, and for the first time saw the inside of a normal person's body.

"Sure enough, it's different from me......"

Lady Oki once happened to show Hatsuun what her dissected abdomen looked like. Hatsuyun always remembered it, because of that scene...... It is completely different from the analysis of the human body in Sunset City that she saw in the medical codex.

With this single pick, the blood coagulated on the outside can no longer stop the blood from gushing out.

The blood vessels and organs inside the abdominal cavity are damaged by sharp blades. Blood flows out of the blood vessels early, but it cannot flow out of the body due to the obstruction of external clots and accumulates in the abdominal cavity. This may be a symptom of "internal bleeding" that Mrs. Ogiri mentioned.

Bleeding in the abdominal cavity does not coagulate, and the first edition of the ancient medical dictionary said that this is because the water vapor in the abdomen is higher than the earthy qi.

"Need to stop bleeding...... Will there be herbs to stop bleeding nearby? ”

If you want to see the depths, you naturally need a light source.

Once again, the locking of the Sky Mirror came in handy in an unexpected way. Through the bright light from his face, Hatsuyun saw that the upper part of the kidney, in the main internal organs on the right side of the young man's abdominal cavity, was obviously broken. The gallbladder resting on the liver is fine, but the liver itself is partially sliced.

It was puncture damage to the liver and several intestines that caused severe intra-abdominal bleeding.

And bacteria have invaded this deep area of the human body. Several abnormal, blackened abscesses developed in the abdominal cavity. Chu Yun didn't dare to break it directly.

"What should I do?"

She asked herself.

The situation in front of him has completely exceeded the limits of Hatsukumo's capabilities. She could only cut a piece of fabric from the cuff of the cotton coat and cover the wound first.

But it makes no sense. Although the blood does not leak out of the body, the symptoms of internal bleeding continue. She thought she might need to stitch up the blood vessels and remove part of all the abscesses.

Hatsuun was terrifyingly calm and thorough, and her thoughts were unusually clear on the basis of her knowledge.

"But with my current tools, I can't do these surgeries, I need to resort to external forces. The only external force I can turn to in this area is the city guards. ”

The medical standard of Sunset City is not very high, and this kind of surgery is also very barbaric, and the mortality rate is extremely high. But if you can use the strange thing of three inches of mud, you will definitely be able to save Gu Chuan.

"But ......"

She thought again:

"Even though the pursuers may have carried three inches of mud or something like that to save their lives, they will no longer come near the area. The Heavenly Mirror kept signaling that they did not move, indicating that the strange beast had scared them away. ”

Gu Chuan's whole body was emitting a kind of gray death-like paleness. There was obviously a flame shining on it, but Hatsuun's hand leaning on his skin could feel his whole body getting cold, and he kept getting cold.

"Is there any other way?"

She thought of herself.

Her vitality is far beyond ordinary people.

"Maybe some strange thing in my body can come in handy. But how do you use it? ”

It's raining heavily outside again. The water that had accumulated in the pool began to rise, reaching the tips of Hatsuyun's feet.

She didn't think much about it, picked up Gu Chuan on her back, grabbed the stump where the fire was lit, and walked further into the cave, trying to find a drier place.

This space is deep in the mountains that modern Sunset City people have never reached. And it is only because of this continuous torrential rain and torrent that the gap in the depths of this mountain is exposed by the occasional human penetration. Hatsuyun also walked cautiously, observing left and right, for fear that some beast would pounce out from a place she didn't know. So she noticed the strange features of the cave in this crevice.

The walls of the cave are lined with traces of ancient fossils that look like ribs. On the top of the cave, there is a long intermittent trace of color that is clearly different from the other rocks, which looks like a spine.

Along which this may be traces of the vertebrae, the summit of the mountain in turn is condensed with stalactites. From the bottom of the stalactite, drops of water splashed on the ground like pearls, making a clear sound.

If Gu Chuan was still awake, he would have realized that Chu Yun might be walking among the fossils of some huge unbroken creature. And it must have been tens of millions of years in the past, so that the rain continued to erode and wash along the fossil bones in the interior of the mountain, so that such a mysterious channel was formed in the interior of the mountain.

Hatsuun thought that the fossils here were similar to the serpentine fossils that had been exposed from another cracked mountain, and that perhaps they were connected underground.

It's not impossible. for the strange beast of the earth is so great.

The world here is surprisingly quiet, and the temperature of the air is slowly decreasing. Everything indicates that this is a closed, uninformed underworld.

The terrain ahead is still slowly lowering. After the rain outside did not pass the heights, it never stopped chasing after Hatsukumo.

The girl was a little anxious.

If the terrain was lower in the future, Gu Chuan's death sentence would have been basically announced.

But the road inside the cave does go all the way down, probably all the way to the depths of the earth. It wasn't straight, it was bending, it had an arc, like a snake crawling crookedly. Chu Yun had only walked for a while when he saw a corner in front of him.

She cautiously walked around the corner. A few flashes of light flashed in front of him, causing Hatsuyun's eyes to blink, and at the same time his body shrank back.

"It's ...... It's like a kind of reflected light. ”

Hatsumo and her first doctor did a magnifying glass experiment together. When the magnifying glass ignited the paper, she thought she had discovered the most powerful power in the world.

The strange beasts outside moved, and the whole earth shook. The water splashed all the way to Hatsukumo's feet.

As she walked forward, the light became brighter, and if she had been a different person, her eyes might have been damaged.

But Hatsuun's gray eyes are exceptionally tough. She boldly took the final step and stepped over the turn. At that moment, countless lights reflected on her face.

This light is not reflected from a mirror, but is refracted outward from all angles. The cold glow of the Celestial Mirror is repeatedly refracted here, jumping infinitely, until it scatters red, orange, yellow, and green rainbow light, making everything in the field of vision infinitely changing, like a whirlpool of light, infinitely dazzling.

At that time, Hatsuyun suddenly remembered the cave space made of color-changing stone in the underground of Sunset City. In the space of the color-changing stone, the light shining in will also get a similar reflection of brilliance.

The cave is made of a snow-white crystal.

With one free hand, she gently stroked the crystals that made up the walls of the cave, scraping off bits with her fingernails. The girl was also bold, put it in her mouth and tasted it, and recognized it as salt.

And she was standing in a vein of salt that grew along the corpse of a giant creature from the past. Every rain and river that has flowed through these mountains for thousands of years has dissolved the salt in the upper rocks. The salt, like her, was forced by the water to come to an abrupt end in the burial place of the corpse underground.

The girl who first met was dazzled by what she saw, but she hadn't forgotten the most important thing now.

Salt、Although I don't know what salt is、But it may be good news。

Salt water is called water purification in the water extraction section. Clean salt water may be used to clean the wound. The terrain is slightly higher and blocks the flow of water. She put Gu Chuan down and prepared to dig up a few pieces of salt.

She set up the wooden pier where the fire was burning, and added some dry sawdust, and the smoke flew all the way to the top, and the girl raised her gaze with the smoke, and occasionally looked at the top of the salt mine, or perhaps the spine of the long-dead creature.

And then she saw something even more incredible.

It was a piece of flesh stuck to the top of a salt mine, still dead. This piece of meat is larger than Hatsuun's body, and there is a clear functional differentiation, with things like tendons or blood vessels scattered between the flesh.

The edges of the meat are festering. And the center of the meat is alive.

It seems that the closer you get to the middle, the more active the meat will be.

At that time, Hatsuyun remembered the legend of the excavation of many strange objects in Sunset City, so she made an extremely bold move. She buried her hand directly in the center of the flesh, and sure enough, she grabbed a piece of viscera that looked like it was alive and beating.

When Chu grabbed it, there was a kind of burning heat, and Chu Yun didn't care, and took it out of the living meat.

So the piece of flesh that had lived for an unknown number of tens of millions of years lost all its vitality in this instant, and began to carry out the rotten process that was ten thousand years late.

Chu Yun didn't care, just looked at the strange thing in his hand.

At first glance, it looks a bit like a kidney or an undeveloped fetus in the womb, curled up in a ball like an ear. But it's not meat, and the touch is closer to some kind of flawless crystal.

Perhaps, that piece of meat, precisely because this strange thing did not rot, has traveled through the ages.

She thought.

She looked at Gu Chuan again. Gu Chuan has been in shock for a long time, and his vitality keeps passing with time. For now, no one can help them.

"Now I don't have any other way."

She remembered what her two doctors had done to her.

What they do is called "mending the heavens", which is a kind of medical surgery that combines strange objects with people. Because of his ears and eyes, Chu Yun has a very good understanding of the process of making up for the punishment of all kinds of strange things. It is from this that all her medical knowledge comes from.

Chu Yun timidly approached the young man, silently touching the penetrated wound on Gu Chuan's body with a sewing needle.

"It's so hard to help you escape...... Or is it that hard to survive outside......? ”

Everything she thought was unreasonable was happening to her. And all the habits and rules of her original life are disappearing, and they are beginning to reorganize, becoming what she was completely unaware of.

The salt was still reflecting the light, and the strange beasts outside the cave let out a long groan and began to move, and the earth made a rumbling sound.

Today, no one knows what will happen and what will come their way.

The girl looked at the young man's closed eyes, and mused in the boundless light:

"Before, I wanted you to live, because creative people shouldn't die so easily...... But now, for some reason, I prefer you to live...... It's weird......"

The gentle sound of water fell to the ground drop by drop, and it was extremely quiet. And she could hear her own uneasy heartbeat, and it was the first time she had been so uneasy. She shook her head and said:

"Alas, strange things are always a lot of ......"

Then, the girl fell the first shot of the heavenly punishment.

And the fate of personal life and death goes beyond the cage of the mortal world, and is handed over to a miracle that survives by chance tens of millions of years ago.