Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

Just as Xia Lin adjusted the workbench to laser 3D printing mode, preparing to manufacture shell components with low strength requirements, she heard White Rabbit knocking on the door from outside, and had to temporarily stop her work and open the door.

"what happened?"

"He's sick and needs treatment." Yelena hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the barely breathing infected person outside. "If he can't be cured, we need to dispose of the body to prevent the crystallization from spreading the infection..."

In other words, if it can be treated, then treat it; if it can't be treated or you don't want to treat it, then burn it.

"Hmm, I'll go take a look." Xia Lin thought for a moment and decided to go and take a look first, since he was still very interested in things like Originium and Oripathy.

Especially since they discovered that it also had that magical effect, but they only had one sample, the white rabbit, and that's not enough evidence!

However, he wouldn't do something like directly using infected people as guinea pigs, since his own morality and conscience haven't deteriorated to that point. Now that someone has offered themselves up, he naturally wants to take a look.

"Take him to that hut over there..." Xia Lin gestured to the Ursus people to take the man to the hemispherical hut over there, which was his newly set up laboratory and medical room.

Of course, by Covenant standards, this doesn't even qualify as a rural clinic; it's more like... a veterinary room in a rancher's house for dealing with sick livestock, not even a veterinary clinic.

Normally, the main "patients" here are chickens that have eaten too many Originium particles in the soil. Chickens are creatures that will actively eat small stones to grind their food and aid digestion. These chickens, bred on Earth, naturally do not shy away from Originium.

The village chief and several strong men were stunned the moment they carried the patient inside. There was a dead chicken lying on the examination table, and the "patients" who had received basic treatment and were under observation were locked in cages. These proud white-feathered creatures looked at the two-legged beings who rushed in with disdain.

"Put it on the table," Xia Lin tossed the dead chicken to Yelena. "Take it and get rid of it."

"Is this still edible?"

"Yes, when processing it, set the machine to the automatic evisceration mode. The evisceration will be contaminated and inedible."

"Oh," Yelena said, and ran out with the dead chicken in her arms.

"What's his name?"

"Anthony?" "Oh." Xia Lin asked for the name because if any discoveries were made, they could consider naming it after this patient who might not necessarily be willing to dedicate himself to science.

"Take off your clothes..."

"Take off your clothes?"

"How can I perform surgery if you don't take off your clothes?" Xia Lin looked at these people strangely. "You can just wear your underwear."

So a group of strong men quickly stripped Anthony of all his clothes, leaving him only in a loincloth. The Ursus man, who was covered in body hair, emitted a terrible smell as soon as his clothes were removed, forcing Xia Lin to cut off his sense of smell in PNIS.

Fortunately, the smell was quickly eliminated by the air circulation and purification system as the operating room lid closed. "How long has it been since he took a shower?"

"Huh, taking a bath?" An infected person taking a bath in the snowfield, does he have a death wish?

"Never mind, let's prepare the skin first..." Then they washed out almost a pound of all sorts of messy stuff, and the waste bin was filled with a layer of disgusting liquid that Xia Lin didn't want to know about at all.

After shaving off his hair and removing the smegma, and with his whole body looking a bit red, this guy looked much better. Perhaps the pain from Oripathy, the physical anesthetic needle piercing his spine causing pain similar to a spinal cord puncture, didn't wake him up.

“I thought Yelena was already in a serious condition…” Xia Lin muttered as he glanced at this real Oripathy patient.

During Yelena's treatment, although there were large crystals on her skin, most of the crystals still existed in a structure similar to trachoma, and had not yet formed a large crystalline layer. Furthermore, there was no ulceration caused by the crystals tearing the skin due to friction between flesh and crystals or movement.

Although there are a large number of crystalline vesicles in the internal organs and abdominal cavity, none of them have developed to their maximum size, making them look disgusting and terrifying.

In reality, both the immune response and the severity of the illness are only mild compared to this person's.

"Let me make this clear first: I can't guarantee he'll survive; his illness is too severe. Secondly, I can't completely cure him, only alleviate his symptoms. He'll likely need a lot of medication and frequent treatments afterward..."

The infected people looked at each other and nodded. "You can do whatever you want." For them, alleviating their symptoms was enough; a complete cure was something they had never even considered.

Xia Lin saw that the "family" had agreed, so she didn't waste any more words. This guy in front of her looked like he was half dead, so there was no need to be too careful. She would just use veterinary methods and treat this guy with bear ears as if he were a bear.

First, the source stone on the body surface was removed. There was not much biogel left, but the artificial blood was needed because the white rabbit needed to have blood transfusions from time to time.

So, once a large batch was manufactured, the only treatment was to use gel to construct artificial blood vessels in areas with large blood vessels, and then apply ordinary hemostasis and vascular suturing to other areas, and then use enough artificial blood to make up for the rest.

Removing the Originium crystals that are distributed in patches on the body surface is extremely difficult, much like tearing off the charred flesh that is stuck to the clothes of a burn patient without causing him to bleed to death.

Xia Lin had to be put on orthopedic instruments. Listening to the roaring machines and the scene of sparks flying as if metal was being cut in a factory, the infected onlookers all turned pale and took a few steps back.

After thoroughly smoothing the protruding Originium until it is level with the skin, just like a person with a lot of bluish-black spots caused by skin disease, start separating this part little by little from the edge. Where there are large blood vessels, fill them with gel at the moment of separation. Where there are no blood vessels, separate them first and then suture them.

After merely cleaning away the Originium fragments from the body's surface, making what already appeared inhuman due to its festering edges even more grotesque, resembling a tattered mass of flesh, Xia Lin began to treat the rotten parts. Frankly, that was the easiest part, if this were in a Star Alliance hospital.

The cells are inserted into the treatment chamber, somatic cells are extracted and cultured in vitro to form clones, and then nanoscale repair needles quickly remove the rotten flesh near the wound as if weaving clothes, and then the somatic cells are pieced back together cell by cell.

Theoretically speaking, as long as you're not dead, it's only a matter of time before you're restored from a skeleton that's been cut into pieces, and this kind of surgery can be done in any clinic.

The Covenant's medical clinics have a plethora of methods for dealing with things that are essentially external injuries—

Even if you were reduced to a skeleton, the most likely solution a clinic doctor would offer is to cut off your head, put it in a jar, send you to a large hospital to rebuild your body, and then put your brain back in.

The reason given is that using this "traditional" method is too troublesome, and doctors also need to go home after get off work.

However, Xia Lin only has a veterinary station, which obviously does not have such complex equipment for treating external injuries.

After all, if a livestock suffers serious external injuries, it will definitely not go to the hospital, but to the slaughterhouse to give it a quick death, and then have a pig-slaughtering feast that night.

[Reference: What to do if a cow breaks its leg - The cow broke its leg! Okay, today we'll have stewed beef...]

However, although such advanced technology is not available, normal wound cleaning, removal of necrotic tissue, and administration of antibiotics are all effective. The external problems of this guy's body were quickly resolved, and as for the internal organs, Xia Lin glanced at the scanned image and fell silent.

To cure him, he would need a kidney transplant, most of his liver, his pancreas replaced with an artificial one, and then heart surgery.

After thinking it over, Xia Lin still operated on him. She decisively removed most of his liver, which was completely covered by crystals, then removed his kidneys and pancreas, and decisively cut off a section of the blocked intestine. Then she sutured the rest back together.

He doesn't have any artificial organs, and even if he did, he'd have to save them for when he's unlucky enough to need them. So, all that's left is to cleanse his blood, and then see how tough he is.

"Why didn't you come for treatment sooner?"

"Well..." If you hadn't said anything, who would have known you could treat it? That was the meaning on the faces of the infected people.

Although this treatment seemed a bit horrifying, practically stitching a person up like a rag doll, and it couldn't cure the problem, Yelena told them about it in the car.

She takes a lot of medication every week and undergoes blood transfusions about every two to three weeks to prevent Oripathy from developing. In short, she's still infected, but the Oripathy is being suppressed and hasn't erupted.

Once treatment is stopped, Oripathy will slowly accumulate and flare up again over time.

Therefore, Xia Lin's description of it as "alien gout" is indeed very apt; once it flares up, there's no cure for life.

Unless you take her to the Star Alliance Star District Central Hospital (roughly at the county hospital level) for a comprehensive physiological correction treatment package.

"His physique is really good, he didn't die." After suturing the abdominal cavity, Xia Lin found that the Ursus man's breathing had become much more stable, and he had obviously recovered a bit. His physique is really strong.

Well, it's also possible that the medical nanomechanical antibiotics I used were too harsh on these unsophisticated microorganisms in the area.

Think about it, using something meant to kill Zerg infection spores to deal with ordinary Staphylococcus aureus is like wearing power armor to fight a Buetol peasant.

"Take him back. He can only be fed liquid food for a week. If he doesn't die after a week, he's made it through." Xia Lin brought over several boxes of medical nutrient solution. This stuff tastes even better than nutrient paste, but it's a bit troublesome to make. The current supply is still relatively slow.

"No need for thanks, I only have my own agenda..."

Xia Lin's PNIS storage area already contains a large amount of data on Oripathy. During the treatment process, she also collected information on the physical condition of the Ursus people. Compared to Yelena, they are practically two different species except for the lack of reproductive isolation. This is indeed a great gain.

[Science Popularization: Mushrooms, Cellulose, and Ethanol]

谬误1：蘑菇不含纤维素。实际1：蘑菇含大约6%纤维素，干蘑菇含量可达30%，个别蘑菇可达50%以上；

Myth 2: Fungal cell walls are made of chitin.

In reality, fungal cell walls are divided into three categories and three layers; in unicellular fungi, they consist of mannan, glucan, and protein.

Filamentous fungi are composed of chitin, glucan, and protein.

Large fungi are composed of cellulose, glucan, and protein.

Chitin is the most abundant filamentous fungus in nature, and filamentous fungi are molds.

Large edible fungi typically have cellulose cell walls. Furthermore, the cell walls of fungi differ at different growth stages.

Myth 3: Mushrooms contain no sugar and cannot be used to make wine.

In reality: Regardless of the method of adding sugar externally, winemaking can be achieved even without adding sugar, by hydrolyzing cellulose.

Myth 4: If mushrooms can be used to make wine, then why can't straw be used to make wine? Why does the government promote biogas digesters? Why do farmers burn straw?

In fact, straw-based alcohol production is a commonly used industrial technology, and related patents can be found at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Industrially, the more efficient "enzymatic hydrolysis" method is generally used to process straw.

If efficiency is not a concern, ordinary hydrolysis can be used. Not only straw, but also cotton, cotton hulls, sunflower seeds, rice hulls, and corn cobs can be used as raw materials for ethanol production, but hydrolysis is required.

Myth 5: Farmers cannot brew wine without using straw and mushrooms.

In reality: because enzymatic hydrolysis requires very expensive equipment, farmers cannot afford it;

The normal soaking and hydrolysis method produces a lot of debris and scum, resulting in a lot of impurities in the ethanol produced—whether for personal consumption or for sale, it is generally not as good as the brewing method with added sugar.

Then, regarding whether Froststar could brew mushroom wine, the reason is that Froststar doesn't know that potatoes can be made into sugar, and therefore cannot make mushroom wine by hand.

In fact, she could, because he didn't need to know that potatoes could be made into sugar or how—she just needed to... take sugar out of the sugar jar in the kitchen and put it in;

The sugar in the sugar jar in the kitchen comes from Xia Lin, who knows how to make sugar;

In places where sugar jars can't be used, such as the mine where she was born, the infected can soak and hydrolyze cellulose in snow water to brew mushroom wine—as for the taste and impurities—they'd even drink Russian antifreeze, so it's just cricket mushroom tea—

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hunter is Actually a Double Entendre

Chapter 28

The infected left, full of gratitude. They knew that there was no technology or force in the world that could cure Oripathy, and after observing it for a while, they basically understood that Xia Lin's approach was just a desperate measure.

Although I couldn't understand the machinery and the strange liquids, I could still understand the brutal act of cutting off the Originium along with the surrounding body tissue and then plugging the wound with a clump of gel to stop the bleeding. That meant that Oripathy was not cured, but rather temporarily suppressed at a great cost.

However, even such treatment is rare and precious for those infected.

No, for everyone on the Ursus snowfield, a skilled doctor is a rare find.

Since Xia Lin was still counting on this workforce to do his work, he also gave them some of the medicines that he could currently manufacture, including antibiotics extracted from local Terran mycelium that were not certified by the Covenant medical institutions, sterile bandages made of nanofiber cloth, and the kind of drug that Yelena ate that could effectively settle Originium particles in food.

Incidentally, while administering the medication, I also learned from the infected that there are some natural herbs on the snowfield that can achieve similar effects, such as reducing Originium particles that enter the body through respiration and ingestion, thereby alleviating the deterioration of Oripathy to some extent.

“That flower is called ‘Frost Star,’ and it’s no longer available this season, sir…”

"Froststar... Hmm, Yelena, have you seen her before?"

"Yes, back in the mines, people used it to make burn ointment. But it's hard to find this season..."

Yelena nodded. Of course she had seen this plant before; in her original destiny, that was her code name.

"Let's wait until winter..." Xia Lin didn't insist. He had both burn ointment and Oripathy inhibitors. He could only say that if there was an opportunity, he could get some to cultivate and further study Oripathy.

Moreover, the properties of Originium allow it to self-reproduce within organisms, which makes Xia Lin pay even more attention to this mineral. If humans can be infected with Oripathy, then can the local livestock also be infected?

Although the existence of Originium Arts causes these Originium to proliferate into types that deplete energy, they are of little use to Terra Industries.