Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

By comparing the wound conditions, the approximate weapon can be determined. After that, all that is needed is to check the authorization certificate and location of the corresponding weapon. Xia Lin will be irrefutable and unable to escape. It would be better for him to surrender and receive leniency in return. After all, surrendering would at most be considered excessive self-defense, while being caught would likely be considered intentional homicide and escape.

After examining the body, Xia Lin sat down to calm herself before checking what was going on in the bushes behind her.

As a result, he saw a girl covered in wounds, wearing only a tattered robe and an old dress. She was no more than 12 years old and showed obvious signs of malnutrition and abuse. She even had a collar around her neck.

The hunting dog, the man who suddenly attacked, the girl wearing a collar who was clearly being abused, and the fact that the other party attacked a stranger like her as soon as they heard the noise—Xia Lin thought about these factors together for a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief and involuntarily raised his hand to wipe away the cold sweat, but his fingers touched the icy helmet instead.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness that's how it is." According to the principle of emergency avoidance, his shooting and killing of two guys who were likely involved in child abuse, human trafficking, illegal imprisonment, and were trying to further harm the victim was probably legal. At the very least, hiring a good lawyer should be able to argue that he got away with it.

"However, there's no way to call the police here. Neither of them had a communicator. Oh well, I just recorded it."

Although the camera was set up for species research purposes, it now seems to be crucial evidence that could save his life, and he has to admire his own ingenuity.

Xia Lin examined the little girl's condition. She had many wounds on her body, the most serious being a knife wound on her waist. Scans on her legs and shoulders revealed unidentified stones, and there was also a wound near the bridge of her nose on her face, which looked like it had been cut with a knife and her nose had been broken and was now regrowth.

Fortunately, she was lucky and no abnormally protruding joints developed, otherwise this delicate and lovely little face would have been half ruined.

However, even if it's truly ruined, at least it's within the scope of treatment at cosmetic surgery clinics and won't cost much.

“What a bunch of beasts, how could they do this?” Xia Lin shook his head, reached out and picked up the girl. “She’s so light. No wonder the scanner gave her a severe malnutrition assessment. Hmm, membrane tear… Hmm, these two really deserved to die.”

Make sure to archive the scan results; in case a lawsuit comes, you can use them to submit to the court.

The Star Alliance's security management is handled by these AI women at the core of their intelligence; they are not so easily bribed to join their ranks.

That's all the handheld scanner can do. To be more specific, we need to take it back and put it in a hibernation pod that also serves a medical purpose, and then have it thoroughly examined using a wall-mounted emergency diagnostic terminal.

For example, whether the tear was caused by sports or something else—sports tears are okay, but others... well, they deserve to die.

The original exploration plan had to be terminated; the key was to return to the workshop and treat the poor little thing.

It's not that Xia Lin, as a pioneer, is particularly altruistic, but rather that the Star Alliance rewards such rescue efforts, especially those occurring on alien planets or alien colonies.

Putting aside the fact that he at least has a conscience as a human being, he wouldn't do what some people call "decisive" and "not a saint" for some so-called unfounded "threats".

Those who constantly spout phrases like "just kill him," "annoying," "idiotic," and "saintly" are unaware that they themselves are actually useless trash who think "just kill him."

[The situation was particularly bad with Dianping (the internet cafe's parenting platform). Many times I wanted to just tell them: "Should I just kill you too, you spewing filth?"]

Even if it's just for the 5000 star coins reward, he still has to take them back to save them. That's a month and a half's salary. As a pioneer-type profession, even if you're just a rural agricultural technician, you still have to travel all over the stars, without even a shuttle, and you have to deal with all sorts of work-related injuries, highly toxic pesticides, and extremely dangerous captured species to earn that money.

The incident site was not far from the workshop as the crow flies, and Xia Lin could get back quickly by quickening his pace. For safety reasons, he also gave the girl an emergency treatment injection on the way and treated some of the larger wounds by stopping the bleeding and disinfecting them.

Biomimetic medical gel can quickly seal wounds and use osmotic pressure difference to kill bacteria and immune cells near the wound, preventing inflammatory reactions from causing sepsis and organ failure. When combined with treatment needles used to kill pathogens that have entered the bloodstream and accelerate wound repair, it can save most injuries that are not too serious, or at least stabilize the injury before evacuation.

"Click, click, click!" The workshop door slowly rose, and the retracted ramp descended. Xia Lin rushed in and slammed the door shut. The lack of smart devices meant that many tasks had to be done manually.

Medical equipment such as hibernation pods were piled up in the warehouse and had not yet been assembled, so Xia Lin had to put the girl on the table in the processing area first.

Although it's a bit strange to have people lying on the slaughter table where animals are dissected and cut up, at least it hasn't been used here yet.

The installation of the wall-mounted medical terminal is quite simple. However, the medical module takes a little time to install. Fortunately, the workspace is spacious enough, otherwise it would be difficult to install.

After quickly assembling the medical equipment designed for easy loading and unloading, Xia Lin prepared to carry the girl over.

"Where is this...?" The girl opened her eyes groggily. Beneath her was a cold metal platform, the ceiling was an unfamiliar, patterned black, and where it connected to the walls were rows of bright lights.

A huge, menacing machine sat silently to the side, and on the wall hung...emmmmm—something similar to that of certain evil serial killers. After all, the tools used to butcher and slaughter livestock are...very easy to identify.

"You're awake..." Xia Lin was surprised to find that the other person was awake. Although still a little weak, their mind was relatively normal. "Let me see, slight fever, wounds are healing quickly, hmm, but those stones..."

The girl instinctively tried to avoid the strange device in the other person's hand, but her extremely weak body simply couldn't muster the strength.

In particular, the glucose in the treatment injection made her body instinctively crave more nutrients and stop overdrawing its energy.

"Don't be afraid, I mean you no harm. I'm going to take you for treatment..."

"Where is this...?" the girl asked calmly, though her voice was so soft it was almost inaudible; that was the loudest she could manage.

"My workshop, or you could say my farm..."

"A farm?" The girl looked clearly confused. Who would open a farm in the snowy north? It's winter for half the year there, with only two seasons: summer floods and winter blizzards. Unless it's a greenhouse in a mobile city, farming there... would be extremely difficult.

Although those people in the south say that the empire's territory is a harsh and cold land, she believes that this is only because they have never been to a truly harsh and cold land. Spending even a day in the mines of the northern snowfields would make them understand what a truly harsh and cold land is like.

"Although nothing has grown yet, there shouldn't be any problems..." This is a big problem. Nothing has grown at all. Don't you have any self-awareness?

The girl weakly closed her eyes. It seemed that this person was a fool, but a naive fool was better than a cold-blooded clever person. At least a fool wouldn't scheme against her; at most, he would only lust after her body.

[Xia Lin: I'm really craving the bonus.]

The equipment in the workshop was still beyond the girl's comprehension, except for things like hammers and files on the wall. Xia Lin laid her down in the hibernation pod without closing the lid, because without cloud-based diagnostics, she would have to perform the surgery herself.

“Let me make this clear first, I’m not entirely confident I can completely remove the stones from your body. I only have a veterinary certificate and training.” Xia Lin scratched his head. “I’m fine treating colic in horses, but this is my first time operating on a human.”

“Uh…” The girl glanced at him, said nothing, and slowly closed her eyes.

"By the way, what type of symbiote did you implant? Let's dock it first..."

Xia Lin initialized the diagnostic scan of the hibernation pod, preparing to connect with the patient's symbiote for an internal diagnostic scan, to obtain the patient's physical condition and medical data, as well as the pathology records stored locally.

"What...is that?"

"No, oh..." Xia Lin only realized what was happening after switching the scan to the external examination scan. "Ah, you don't have it? Why don't you have it?"

"Uh..." The girl, whose mind was already focused on the blue scanning indicator light shining down from above and whose body muscles were instinctively tense, did not answer.

"Fine, let me see. Hmm? The ears on your head aren't just decorations?"

Which one did you say?

"Tsk." I thought they were citizens kidnapped and detained by the Covenant, but it turns out they're just alien species. I knew things wouldn't be so lucky as to fall into Covenant territory—

Since they're an alien species, there's no need to worry about the killings they committed before—ah, aliens are considered human too? A perplexing question from the Covenant's Department of Justice.

"The DNA test results show that it is human, with moderate to severe DNA modification and mutation... uh..." Xia Lin scratched his head. Is this also human?

What does moderate to severe DNA modification mean? Is it the origin of the rabbit ears on her head?

Oh well, at least they're human, not alien monsters. Even though I lost the prize money, at least I feel much better.

"I have bad news and even worse news. Which do you prefer to hear?" The diagnostic scan was completed quickly, and a detailed report was sent to Xia Lin's PNIS. The situation was extremely bad.

"Uh……"

"Alright, let's start with the bad news."

"You have severe kidney stones, especially in your kidneys, with over two hundred unidentified, pinpoint-like crystals. Doesn't it hurt?"

Aside from her parents, this was the first person to ask her if she was in pain. The girl looked at Xia Lin in surprise and said, "I'm used to it."

Those infected inevitably experience pain; ultimately, they either succumb to it and commit suicide, or they simply get used to it. However, most are either shot by the fearful guards or taken to be executed by lottery.

"In addition to the stones, there is malnutrition, multiple wounds, including sports injuries, a broken nose, and several unexplained stones on the body surface, distributed in the waist, abdomen, thighs, and back. The pathological cause is unknown, and there is mild sepsis in the blood."

However, the previously injected medication has already taken effect; furthermore, hemodialysis revealed a large number of unidentified lipid-soluble particles, consistent with particles detected in the atmosphere, raising suspicion that these may be the origin of the kidney stones.

“As for the worst news…” Xia Lin sighed, “If my scanner is working properly, or if the database doesn’t give an incorrect diagnosis, you may have a tumor, which is cancer. Moreover, it was also discovered that your bone marrow has serious organic lesions and unidentified tissue.”

Am I going to die?

Although the condition is very serious, it is still within a stable stage that the Covenant's medical equipment can handle. However, a full recovery is out of the question.

Unless a spaceship suddenly descends from the sky and takes her to the nearest galactic central hospital for minimally invasive nanosurgery and an autologous bone marrow transplant, otherwise...

"Alright, let's have the surgery to remove the stones first. You don't have a symbiote, and I don't have any human anesthesia here, so it will be very painful. I hope you can bear it..."

"Hmm," the girl said calmly, without objection or panic.

"First, I'll deal with the stones on your skin, then your kidney stones, and then the stones inside your abdominal tumor." Xia Lin activated the manual surgery mode. "I can only give you neuroanesthesia, so it will be very painful at first."

Normal surgical anesthesia involves the symbiont directly shielding or weakening pain nerve signals. However, since she lacks a symbiont, physical nerve anesthesia is the only option.

Drug anesthesia is only for animals; if it's used on humans... Xia Lin felt that it was probably a predetermined event for her to kill her first human patient on the operating table.

Long, sharp needles pierced the girl's back and neck, cleanly severing her nerve signals.

What followed was excruciating pain that felt like an eternity, and the only clothes she wore were completely soaked with sweat.

However, she stubbornly endured the pain without uttering a sound, only her bright eyes watching Xia Lin, who was familiarizing herself with the operation, through the sterile cabin door.

Chapter Six: Studying Medicine Can't Save the Terrans

Chapter Six

"Neural pulse shielding is complete," which has fewer side effects compared to traditional drug anesthesia.

However, the anesthesia process can cause extremely severe pain. Some people would rather not have anesthesia at all than undergo Covenant physical anesthesia—of course, that applies to minor surgeries that are quick.

If a girl undergoes a lengthy surgery that requires the removal of numerous stones, internal organ treatment, and bone marrow aspiration, then physical anesthesia is necessary if a normal form of anesthesia is unavailable.

The advantages are that physical anesthesia does not require controlling the operation time, and the electric needle inserted into the central nervous system will release false pulse signals to relax the muscles, so as to avoid human reflex nerve pulses interfering with the operation. In addition, with this kind of physical anesthesia, there is no need to worry about an overdose that will kill the person.

It can be said that apart from the excruciating pain that lasts for about a minute at the beginning, it has no drawbacks.

Especially when you're performing procedures like amputation that require the use of woodworking or even stonemasonry tools.

The girl's clothes had been cut open by a laser knife, and the decomposing nano-spray had meticulously cleaned her.

To be honest, even though Xia Lin is a seasoned pervert, he wasn't tempted at all; on the contrary, he felt a bit... disgusted.

Leaving aside the filthy grime from not showering for a long time, and the malnutrition to the point where you can count your ribs instead of curves, the clusters of stones, large or small, on the body alone could make someone with trypophobia faint.

Larger, irregularly elongated structures, reflecting a bluish-black crystalline sheen, are somewhat acceptable; some strange old XP users might even consider them charming decorative items. The troublesome ones are the pinhole-sized and sand-grain-sized clusters of stones, resembling densely packed, extremely irregular sand holes.

The surrounding area is red and swollen due to inflammation caused by rejection, and this inflammation is also the source of the severe pain and discomfort experienced by the patient.

However, it gives the impression of a large cluster of red eyes staring at you, wriggling with the movement of your muscles—

That's considered good; if it were some old lynx woman, her back after taking off her clothes would make you want to vomit.

Xia Lin, who wasn't a pervert, naturally didn't feel anything. She pulled over the laser skin preparation device and began to prepare the skin around the wound, burning off the fine hairs on the skin. Then, a nano-spray was used to carefully clean the pores and form a thin film to prevent postoperative infection, covering the surgical area.

"You should get some sleep. You're putting a lot of pressure on me by looking at me like this..." The girl smiled slightly, slowly closed her eyes, and completely surrendered her body to the moving robotic arm and various incomprehensible technical equipment.

“Gene therapy? Skip that, I don’t have that technology…” Xia Lin glanced at the recommendations on the medical interface hanging to the side. “Nutritional supplements, give her an IV drip of liquid nutrition, 25% is enough, she’s still very weak. Oh, and also an IV drip of immunoglobulin and artificial immunoglobulin…”

The latter is a non-hereditary, specialized immune-enhancing symbiont that is effective for 12 hours and decomposes automatically. It can take on immune function, prevent infection, and improve disease resistance when patients are taking immunosuppressive drugs.

For those injured and malnourished due to accidents or getting lost, it is also an effective supplementary treatment, at least stabilizing them until the surgery is completed, rather than causing them to die on the operating table due to inflammation and severe infection.

"Six thousand milliliters of biogel should be enough..." The main purpose of this stuff is to fill cavities after the removal or excision of organs or large areas of body tissue. Other than that, it has no other function.

"Buzz!" The robotic arm turned to the girl's neck and inserted two thin needles into the artery. The thin tube connected to the end began to inject artificial immune substances and artificial blood into her body. The pump connected to the life monitoring system would adjust the hydraulic pressure in the thin tube appropriately to ensure stable target blood pressure and immune balance.