Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 48 Alienization Infection
Ivan's clinic is located in the North Fourth District, not too far from Ke Lan's home. It took less than 10 minutes for Ke Lan and Asano Akira to arrive at the gate of the clinic.

The Hound and Layton were a little further away, but they rented a car directly, which was a step faster than Ke Lan.

When the two saw Asano Akira who was following Ke Lan, a surprise finally appeared on their anxious faces.

"Asano Akira? When did you come back?" Layton rubbed his hands excitedly. The mechanical arm he broke was finally made up, but judging from the degree of wear and tear of the parts, it should be just a piece of Transitional used goods.

"Just now." Asano Akira's answer was the same as before.

"Where's Trorigtu? Is he still alive?"

"Alive, now in the public medical center in East Nine District, he is unwilling to wear a prosthetic limb, and he has to queue for a month for the reconstruction of the severed limb." Asano Akira said,

"Well, it's good that you two are still alive, let's not talk about this, let's go and see how the doctor is doing." The Hound sighed and opened the door of the clinic first.

Ivan's girlfriend Natasha was sitting in the lobby of the clinic waiting for them. She was wearing a protective suit that Ivan used when she went out to explore the ruins. The size of the protective suit was several sizes larger than her body. She had to use Tape fastened the sleeves and trousers so that it barely interfered with normal movement.

"As you said, I hid Ivan in the basement." Seeing Ke Lan and others coming in, Natasha got up quickly - the place where she was sitting was the entrance to the basement.

"You haven't contacted Ivan, have you?" Ke Lan asked.

Natasha shook her head.

"That's good." Ke Lan glanced at Natasha's bucket-like fully enclosed helmet, and the tube behind the helmet was connected to an oxygen tank.

"The infection should not be spread through the air, otherwise we would have been recruited long ago."

"Ke Lan, you didn't have any abnormality, right? I remember you helped Ivan before." The Hound added.

"I should be fine. At that time, Ivan was just infected, and it hadn't spread to the whole body. I didn't directly touch his wound." Ke Lan said, took out the prepared rubber gloves from his pocket and distributed them to everyone. .

"Anyway, it's better to be careful... I'm not sure whether Ivan's current 'arm' will be aggressive..."

The passage in the basement has been opened. Under the guidance of Natasha, Ke Lan and others walked down the steps step by step.

The basement is also the operating room of this clinic. The temperature inside is so low that even the glass walls of the sterile compartment are covered with a layer of frost.

"I think...low and low temperatures may delay the process of infection..." Natasha murmured.

"I'm afraid it's useless." Ke Lan glanced at the vital signs monitoring equipment on the side. The numbers on it showed that Ivan's body temperature had reached an astonishing 41 degrees Celsius at the moment.

Alienated cells have invaded his body, and his own immune system is losing ground.

Walking into the sterile compartment, Ke Lan saw Ivan lying on the surgical chair in the previous video. His body was fixed by dozens of non-woven restraint belts, especially the completely mutated arm. , it was tied like a zongzi, and it was tightly attached to the armrest of the chair.

There were two trachea in his nose, and the trachea was connected to a ventilator next to him, constantly pumping oxygen into Ivan's lungs.

"Good job." Ke Lan gave Natasha a thumbs up.

To be able to complete all this in such a short period of time is already much better than the average person, especially in such a situation where concern is chaotic.

"...I need vascular forceps, scalpels, scissors, tweezers... Oh yes, I also need some hormones, no dexamethasone, that thing will suppress the body's own immune function, is there any epinephrine?"

"Ke Lan... Are you planning to cut off Ivan's entire arm?" The Hound asked aside.

"The infection has spread, and it's too late to just cut off the arm..." Ke Lan shook his head, "But at least we have to grasp the extent of the infection first."

Those surgical tools were quickly found by Natasha, along with three epinephrine hydrochloride injections in brown light-proof glass tubes.

Ke Lan raised his hand to adjust the angle of the shadowless lamp, and then carefully untied the restraint belt wrapped around the alienated arm.

"Layton, use your robotic arm to help me hold down this 'arm'. When the knife is cut, there may be a stress response." Ke Lan turned around and said.

"Okay." Layton nodded, and a pair of iron clamps stretched out from the front of his robotic arm, respectively clamping the elbow and wrist of the alienated arm.

Ke Lan put on the mask, raised the scalpel, and stabbed it quickly!

As he expected, these entangled tentacles struggled violently, but compared to the strength of the mechanical arm, they were too weak. Ke Lan raised the knife and fell, and a tentacle about three centimeters long went from The alienated arm was separated.

"No blood vessels and nerve tissue were found... The bones and soft tissues of the arm are intact, but the muscles and fat have completely disappeared... The below the elbow has been completely alienated, and the tissue cells above the elbow have been severely invaded. From the perspective of the degree of invasion, the basic It can be determined that the infection has spread throughout the body."

"Then...then is he still saved?" The Hound's face was ugly, while Natasha was already sobbing while covering her mouth.

"Not sure, I suspect that his lungs also have alienation, and he has to have a thoracotomy, otherwise he won't survive tonight."

"It's better to make him suffer so much..." The Hound showed a trace of unbearableness.

"There is a way, but..." Ke Lan hesitated for a while, "Let's do the surgery first, I'll tell you later."

Anesthesia, disinfection, opening the thoracic cavity at the fourth intercostal space, then removing the mutated lung tissue, hemostasis, connecting the artificial lung, and suturing... The whole operation took more than three hours, but in After connecting with the artificial lung, Ivan's breathing was obviously much smoother than before, and his vital signs returned from an endangered state.

"But the problem is still unsolved." Taking off the blood-stained gloves, Ke Lan let out a sigh of relief, "Old dog, do you remember how we killed that mutant in that settlement back then?" Messenger'?"

"You mean... flesh-eating worms?!"

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded.

"Are you planning to go to that underwater city?" The Hound immediately reacted, wanting to obtain clues about the flesh-eating worm, except for the Security Bureau, there was only the video he sent before.

"But we first have to determine whether the corpse in the video is a parasite of the flesh-eating worm, otherwise everything is empty talk."

"Have you ever thought about the feasibility of the plan? Even if there are flesh-eating worms in the underwater city, it is an A-level ruin in a preliminary review. Do you know how many people will die when exploring such a ruin? If it is to save Ivan alone , to risk everyone's life, then I will never agree... I'm sorry, Natasha..." The Hound shook his head at the girl.

"We don't have to enter the ruins. Judging from the information provided by Bartelty and the information from the Hunter Network, no one has been able to enter the underwater city. That is to say, the person in the video is probably outside the ruins. Parasitic." Ke Lan said.

(End of this chapter)