Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 457 Treating the Sick Leg
It may be because the sky was not completely dark before, and the light of the oil lamp was not very bright, and the house was some distance away from the village. Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei did not see the lights with lights before.

Now the sky is completely dark, although the light of the oil lamp in the distance is very faint, but it is very obvious under the dark night.

In this kind of isolated mountainous area, the lamp oil of the oil lamp is very precious. When the oil lamp is on, it means that someone must be there, so Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei hurriedly walked towards the distant lamp.

This house is isolated from the entire small village, but it is not too far away. When the two people walked to the door, they found that although the door was not open, there was a gap that was not too narrow. , the light of the oil lamp is emitted from here.

Two people looked through the crack of the door. The whole room was not big, and it was full of people.Chen Ziyang counted roughly, and there were no less than 20 people in the house, both men and women. It seemed that people from the entire village had already gathered here.

These people were dressed in the costumes of ethnic minorities, whether men or women, they all wore navy blue clothes.There are only some simple lace decorations on these national costumes, and the two people don't know which nationality they belong to.

The people in the room formed a tight group, as if they were looking at something in the crowd, but because these people blocked them too tightly, they couldn't see what was going on inside from the direction of the two of them.

Although there were many people in the room, the room was very quiet. After watching for a while, the two slowly opened the door and walked into the room.

Hearing the footsteps of the two, some people in the room turned their heads and looked at Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei with doubts in their eyes.However, they did not express their dissatisfaction. After seeing that the two people who came in did not speak for a while, they turned their heads away again.

Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei walked along the outside of the room and slowly passed to the other side of the room. There were several chairs there, and the two of them sat down on the chairs and looked towards the center of the crowd.

A simple wooden bed was placed in the center of the house, and more than [-] people in the room were watching around this wooden bed, and an old man was lying on the wooden bed.

This old man is over 50 years old, and part of his beard has turned white.The old man's expression was very painful, and drops of sweat oozed from his forehead.He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, but he could tell that he was awake, as if he was suffering from some kind of illness.

Chen Ziyang looked down, and he saw that one of the old man's trouser legs had been completely cut off, revealing a very weird right leg.

The leg below the knee swelled very badly, and the entire calf was purple-black in color.The calf was already thicker than the thigh, and because of the swelling, the calf looked shiny.

The calf looked like a huge balloon filled with water, as if it would burst completely with just a slight touch.With the contrast of the normal leg next to it, the weirdness of this leg is even more obvious.

A man was half squatting on the ground, carefully inspecting the old man's sick leg, it seemed that he wanted to treat the sick leg.

As soon as they saw this man, Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei's eyes lit up at the same time.The clothes of this man are obviously different from those of other people in the room. He is wearing a mountaineering suit. Although this is a very ordinary set of clothes, it is particularly eye-catching among the many ethnic minority costumes.

"Er Yang, could he be the Shangguan Kangning we are looking for?" Yang Lei's question was exactly what Chen Ziyang was thinking now.

In this kind of inaccessible and isolated mountain village, there is not a single outsider all year round.If people like myself hadn't come to look for Shangguan Kangning, they might never have come here for the rest of their lives.

The person who was checking the injured leg was obviously an outsider. Chen Ziyang estimated that the possibility of him being Shangguan Kangning was more than 90%.

"What happened to the old man's leg?"

After the two guessed that the person in front of them was Shangguan Kangning, they all relaxed and had nothing to worry about, so they focused on the patient.

"It seems to be a very serious venous embolism. This is a place where birds don't shit. If it were in the city, this serious condition may have already amputated this leg." Chen Ziyang carefully He kept staring at the person suspected to be Shangguan Kangning, wanting to see how he would treat the sick leg.

The entire sick leg was purple-black and purple-black, and the swelling was so severe that it seemed that he had been sick for a long time. Even if a sick leg like this was taken to the best hospital, the doctor would There is no way, there is only one treatment method, and that is amputation.

After looking around the sick leg for a while, the person in the mountaineering suit nodded, then raised his head, and said something to the people present in a language that Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei could not understand, as if to Tell others about his opinion.

And quite a few of the surrounding villagers opened their mouths to speak.Just like that, after the man in the mountaineering suit discussed with the villagers for a while, as if he had reached an agreement, he nodded solemnly, and rummaged through a nearby backpack.

Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei listened to the conversations of these people like ducks listening to thunder. They should be speaking the language of this minority. The two of them knew nothing at all, so they could only guess the general meaning from the expressions of these people.

And just after the man in the mountaineering suit took out something from his backpack, Chen Ziyang patted his thigh lightly, "Come on, this person is Shangguan Kangning, he didn't run away!"

What the man took out from his backpack was a transparent glass bottle like a test tube. Inside the glass bottle were some small black worms the size of rice grains, crawling around in the bottle.

Chen Ziyang had seen this kind of bug in Shangguan Qing's house before, so it must be a Gu bug.It seems that Shangguan Kangning is planning to use these Gu worms to treat the sick leg.This was just right, Chen Ziyang cheered up, he wanted to see Shangguan Kangning's skills.

After measuring the sick leg with his fingers for a while, Shangguan Kangning first took out a small knife and burned it on the flame of the oil lamp a few times, which should be for disinfection.After sterilizing, he used the knife to cut a small incision at the ankle of the sick leg, and then inserted the tip of the knife into the ankle of the sick leg.

Contrary to what Chen Ziyang imagined, after the tip of the knife was inserted into the sick leg, not much blood flowed out, but some viscous transparent liquid flowed out.Then Shangguan Kangning used the knife to stick some dark brown ointment in a medicine bottle, and applied the ointment on the incision.

When applying the ointment to the incision, Shangguan Kangning gently squeezed it with the side of the knife, it seemed that he wanted to squeeze the dark brown ointment into the incision.After sticking the ointment several times in a row, and squeezing all the ointment into the incision with the back of the knife, Shangguan Kangning picked up the bottle that looked like a test tube.

With his shaking, the black Gu worms in the test tube became active, crawling non-stop on the bottle wall.Seeing that the worm was in good condition, Shangguan Kangning pulled off the cap of the bottle, and then firmly pressed the mouth of the bottle under the knee of the sick leg.

Once in contact with the human body, the Gu worms in the bottle became more active. These Gu worms gathered at the bottom of the bottle, like some black liquid, and they kept turning and crawling. After a while, Chen Zi Yang saw that there seemed to be less Gu worms in the bottle.

As time passed, the number of Gu worms in the bottle decreased significantly, and at this time, a lot of transparent liquid squeezed into the bottle from below.

"My God, these worms can't get into that sick leg! This... isn't it afraid of infection? How many germs are there on the worms!" Yang Lei whispered in Chen Ziyang's ear.

Not only Yang Lei was so surprised, Chen Ziyang also felt that this treatment method was a bit weird, but he still didn't understand Shangguan Kangning's intention, so he didn't answer Yang Lei's question, but continued to watch carefully.

After a while, the black Gu worms in the bottle had all disappeared, leaving a hole the size of a soybean grain on the sick leg.

Now there is only some transparent liquid mixed with blood in the bottle, which has already filled half of the bottle, but even so, Shangguan Kangning still pressed the bottle firmly and did not let go.

A big bag bulged on the sick leg near the bottle, and this big bag was still wriggling non-stop. Apparently, all the Gu worms in the bottle had already penetrated into the sick leg, gathering under the skin.

Seeing this kind of scene that can only appear in movies, Yang Lei's stomach churned for a while, and he felt sick, so he gritted his teeth to prevent himself from vomiting.

Although Chen Ziyang also felt a little uncomfortable after seeing the scene in front of him, his attention was already focused on Shangguan Kangning's treatment method, and he didn't have such a big reaction as Yang Lei.

The big bag on the sick leg squirmed for a while, and then gradually became smaller. Obviously, those Gu bugs had already penetrated deep into the sick leg.

At this time, the old man lying on the wooden bed screamed and kicked his sick leg violently, but was firmly held down by Shangguan Kangning.The patient was sweating profusely, and his expression of pain became even worse. It seemed that the penetration of those Gu insects had brought him even greater pain.

At this time, Shangguan Kangning also had some sweat on his forehead. He hurriedly said a few words to the people around him, and then several male villagers came over to help him press the old man's limbs together.

Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei hurriedly adjusted their seats, found a gap between several villagers, and continued to look.

Not only the two of them, but also the other villagers watched intently, not daring to breathe, for fear of disturbing Shangguan Kangning's treatment.At this time, in the whole room, apart from the old man's painful screams, there was no other sound at all.

After a while, some dark brown liquid flowed out from the incision that was cut by Shangguan Kangning.Chen Ziyang noticed that some of the meat inside the incision had been turned out, as if something was protruding from the inside out.

Sure enough, after a few seconds, a black Gu worm came out from the knife edge, followed by another one, and more and more Gu worms came out from the knife edge, and they were all lined up in a row.Accompanied by the emergence of these Gu worms, in addition to the dark brown liquid, some dark red blood flowed out from the knife edge, accompanied by a stench.

At this time, the old man's screams became louder, and his body was writhing incessantly because of the pain, but the people around him held him tightly, it was useless for the old man to struggle, he could only stay there He kept screaming.

Seeing the Gu worms coming out from the knife edge, Shangguan Kangning let out a sigh of relief.He hastily removed the test tube-like glass bottle from the sick leg, and poured the transparent liquid inside on the ground.

The Gu worms that got out of the sick leg lined up in a row like ants, and crawled straight towards the knees again, and got in from the hole that these Gu worms got out of before.

"My God, are these still bugs? Why are they just like those nano-robots in sci-fi movies, these Gu worms are not helping to open the blocked veins!" All that happened before him has subverted Yang Lei's understanding of medical treatment. common sense perception.

Chen Ziyang nodded. It seems that Yang Lei's guess is correct. After these bugs penetrated into the thigh, they should have drilled forward along the embolized blood vessels. It is very likely that these bugs will also bring out a small piece of congestion. Then drill out from the incision, and take out the blood clotted up in the blood vessel.

These Gu worms seemed to be tireless workers, constantly crawling in and out of this sick leg.

At this time, the dark brown liquid no longer flowed out from the incision, and all the blood flowed out, and the color of the blood that flowed out became lighter and lighter, and it was no longer purple-black. It seemed that the treatment should be over soon.

The old man lying on the wooden bed had already fainted and didn't know what happened, but the eyes of the surrounding villagers were all surprised.

Because they noticed that the swelling of the old man's sick leg has been reduced a lot. Although it is still a lot bigger than the other leg, it can be clearly seen that some bark has appeared on the surface of the sick leg. This is a phenomenon that can only appear when the edema subsides rapidly and the skin is tightly held together.

The color of the blood flowing out from the knife edge became lighter and lighter until it turned into the color of fresh blood, Shangguan Kangning nodded, picked up the wiped bottle again, and placed it on the route of the Gu worm.These Gu worms got into the bottle one by one.

After bandaging the two holes on the sick leg, Shangguan Kangning turned to look at Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei, and asked, "Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)