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"Let's cut off the biggest one first..." Her largest gallstone was located in her lower abdomen. This kind of external surgical procedure is very simple. Even someone like Xia Lin, who only has veterinary experience, can perform it smoothly. Theoretically speaking, castrating male animals is more difficult.

The pen-nib-like blade rotated slightly, and the V-shaped blade, driven by a motor, quickly traced an arc around the crystal. The gel cluster sprayed at the end of the blade rapidly sealed the wound and fixed the blood vessel. Following the movement of the automatic scalpel, the syringe quickly injected the repair nanobody into the orange gel cluster.

The gel is the raw material, and the nanobody is a group of invisible stitchers that quickly reconnect the glued blood vessels, forming cavities including capillaries in the gel, and repeatedly restoring blood circulation at the incision site.

After that, the natural division of somatic cells gradually metabolizes the entire mass of gel, restoring it to its original state. Even with such a large-area removal surgery, no scars will be left—of course, there are still cases where it is noticeably whiter than other areas.

The removed crystals were immediately placed on a recycling tray and taken into a sealed trash can labeled "Biocontamination" attached to the side of the operating table.

The large crystals were removed with almost no effort, and large, milky-white "band-aids" appeared on the girl's body. These "band-aids" were used to seal the gel area, firstly to make it look less disgusting, and secondly to prevent the gel from being used as a nutrient source by certain fungi. Therefore, sterile fabric was used for further processing.

The smaller crystals were a bit more troublesome. Xia Lin had to change the blade. The robotic arm turned to one side, probed into the disinfectant, and a large blade tip came out, sinking to the bottom with a trace of blood. Then the robotic arm turned to the blade box, probed in, and quickly replaced it with a laser blade.

The target crystal, along with the surrounding tissue, is vaporized using a high-speed, high-temperature pulse, and then sealed. This is the method used to deal with a large number of tiny pores and debris. This is how the unfortunate workers whose faces were covered in debris from the explosions removed those dangerous metal particles and deadly fragments embedded in their flesh.

This part, due to the somewhat rough surgical procedure, resulted in the most bleeding, with extensive damage to capillaries.

Moreover, the damage was caused by a pulsed micro-explosion from a laser, meaning that even with bio-gel for hemostasis, the repair process would be quite slow. However, Xia Lin had prepared a full 1000 ml of artificial blood, which was enough for her.

"Then comes blood processing, blood purification..."

Based on blood tests, these stones are found to be mobile and exist in two main forms: particles within the blood, with a diameter of less than 1 micrometer, and particles that are bound to or dissolved in the blood cells. The former has a concentration of approximately 0.3-0.4 u/L, while the latter has a slightly higher concentration, reaching 0.17%.

The reason why we don't treat the kidney stones that are theoretically the next most likely to occur is because these stones need to be inserted into the urethra.

Well, as a virgin, this is quite a shock, so Xia Lin still thinks it's best to save it for later.

"Luckily, we brought a blood circulation machine" because it was a colony with some natural radiation.

So, this equipment was originally designed to combat radioactive contamination. However, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference now.

The girl's blood was continuously replaced and flowed into a large blood purification device. The blood was treated with nano-transparent material and a large dose of decomposing symbiont, or in other words, it was completely washed before being mixed with a certain proportion of artificial blood and flowed back.

In its highest-power blood purification mode, the decomposing nanobody commands to kill everything except those on the whitelist, including red blood cells that might transport these harmful components. This results in the outflowing blood being a very clear, pale yellow color, which only turns pale red again when mixed with artificial blood, allowing it to circulate back into the body.

This process takes a long time, and as the purification process begins, the crystals in the organs and abdominal cavity continuously release these unidentified mineral particles back into the blood, causing the final concentration to remain at 0.09 u/L and then become impossible to lower.

Therefore, the next step is to remove various crystals from the organs, cut off the proliferating tissue, and then clean up the tissue fluid and particles in the blood as much as possible. As for those parts that have already combined with somatic cells, we can only leave it to fate.

The same applies to bone marrow lesions; after all, this is just the equipment of a "rural clinic".

Moreover, even in the Covenant's sector central hospitals, the treatment generally recommended for these patients is autologous organ transplantation, rather than the troublesome method of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Of course, you can also choose an alternative, which will replace your blood with an artificial one. Apart from needing to replenish the artificial blood regularly, there are almost no other serious sequelae or adverse reactions.

This is the most mature and stable medical technology, tested on tens of millions of people on the battlefield. No normal civilization would have so many wounded and disabled people to be used for this kind of experiment.

After much deliberation, Xia Lin finally inserted a catheter and a flexible surgical arm into the girl. The scene of something that looked like some kind of tentacle being slowly inserted was indeed a bit... well, you know.

However, this is a legitimate medical treatment process. It enters through the urethra and anus, extends into organs such as the intestines and kidneys, and then splits into several nanometer-scale filament-like working arms to begin crushing the crystals inside.

At the same time, the catheter began to be filled with water, using the circulation of urine to carry out the shattered crystal particles, as if the organs were being washed several times.

"You even have tumors on your intestinal wall? What's going on? Did you get exposed to severe radiation? Or did you eat oxalic acid like it's food?"

Xia Lin couldn't understand how such severe stones and tumors could have developed, and now there was practically no romantic atmosphere left—of course, what kind of "pink skeleton" is someone who's been disemboweled!

Moreover, the abdominal cavity wall was covered with extremely disgusting pustules-like protrusions, embedded with a large number of bluish-black crystals. Judging from the display of the medical recycling bin, he had already cleaned out more than a pound of it. Including the fragmented crystals flushed out by the catheter and the blood removed by the blood cleaner, it was probably about two pounds, and there might be some left over.

"Infection, Oripathy infection," the girl said weakly, the completely severed nerve impulses making her unable to feel anything below her neck. "It's incurable..."

"Can't be cured? Are you kidding me? If you were even an early-stage patient, I would have cured you..."

"Hmm—" The girl chuckled softly, smiling but remaining silent. Oripathy, ah. Her family had become victims of the Empire's brutality because they opposed its cruel practices. They were forced to work in the mines, then contracted the disease, then were drawn by lot, and then executed.

My grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and myself were all like that; I was just lucky enough to awaken Originium Arts and escape.

Ah, I should say I almost escaped. If it weren't for this strange man, I would probably have been caught and executed by the guards.

"I'm starting to stitch you up. Next, I'll give you a sedative injection. Your body is very weak, so it's best to get a good night's sleep and eat some liquid food. In addition, you'll need to have a blood cleansing procedure once a week. That should keep you alive until I take you to the sector hospital."

She can live until Xia Lin dies of old age or the Star Alliance's rescue arrives. Although this person has a serious... mutation, the instruments don't lie. If they say she's human, then she must be human.

In this cold universe, if humanity couldn't even have a little spirit of mutual assistance, it would probably have been wiped out by alien species long ago.

Of course, while both are human, being unregistered is still being unregistered. Therefore, Xia Lin still needs to register a Star Alliance identity for her, and then inject her with a temporary symbiotic implant.

He carried some of these things, but not many, only five, enough to complete the temporary implantation procedure for one person. They were originally a new product intended for use on some special newborns in colonies.

Therefore, the company habitually purchases only a small amount to deal with special circumstances, and does not equip itself with much.

Of course, if it weren't for government mandate and the low price, this might not have been purchased at all. "Thank you to the ladies of the Star Alliance Labor Arbitration Tribunal," Xia Lin sincerely thanked those short-tempered and restless ladies. Without them, these benefits would definitely be discounted.

On the other hand, dealing with troublesome people who are always trying to find loopholes every day, it's quite remarkable that those young women didn't use their government-like tools to tear them apart, but instead quickly became irritable and impatient.

The suturing process is quite simple. The skin and flesh are pulled together, and the blood vessels, muscles, and skin are sutured layer by layer from the inside out and from the bottom up, like a pocket. Finally, a layer of biological gel is applied, and the laser heating head is used to complete the postoperative disinfection. Then, a long white "band-aid" is applied, and that's it.

Of course, Xia Lin also gave her a sedative injection and an immune enhancer injection, and incidentally had the medicine synthesis station produce about two boxes of antibiotics—ah, the kind that can't be distinguished between humans and animals—the kind that agricultural base stations have.

They carried the girl out, put a freshly printed hospital gown on her, and placed her on a trolley nearby.

To be honest, it's a bit strange to push people in a cart meant for livestock, especially since this cart is the kind that takes livestock to slaughter and butchers and then brings back the cut pieces of meat. It gives you a strange feeling of becoming some kind of murderer or butcher.

There was no need to print a new bed, so Xia Lin moved her own bed into the empty room. She also printed an IV drip holder. It took her two or three minutes and about ten attempts to successfully insert the needle into the IV. She was too thin, skin and bones, and it was really hard to find a vein.

The IV drip contains a synthetic nutrient solution with added antibiotics. It's a Covenant standard medical nutrient solution, costing 15 Star Coins per bottle, and it's currently impossible to synthesize it ourselves.

In addition to antibiotics, she may need a small amount of painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs later. After all this was done, it was already late.

Xia Lin didn't offer his bed out of kindness; it was because he had already assembled half of the solid wood mortise and tenon bed he made for himself. This was an old craft, and he had searched online for a long time before finding a tutorial and mastering it in the PNIS shared learning module after almost a year and a half of learning.

Chapter Seven: What enabled these brave people to sing and dance?

Chapter VII

Solid wood beds aren't as comfortable as you might imagine. After all, the comfort of a solid wood bed depends entirely on the wood itself and the carpenter's skill. Xia Lin's skill clearly doesn't reach the level of a "master craftsman," and he can only be described as a barely qualified carpenter.

Therefore, the bed is not only not very flat to sleep on, but it also creaks and groans, which is completely incomparable to the standard ergonomic bed made of polymer printing.

However, it's a novelty. Solid wood furniture is very expensive. In Star Alliance, even if you buy the materials and cover the costs yourself, ordinary wage earners would have to think twice before buying this kind of solid wood furniture.

After experiencing it for one night, Xia Lin reluctantly dismantled it and threw it into the recycling pool, then reprinted a new bed using carbon fiber polymer.

I went to check on the girl in the hospital bed. The medication was still working. I fed her some nutritional paste containing sleep-inducing and immunity-boosting ingredients through a tube and then went out.

Although her surgery was relatively successful, she is too weak and it would be best for her to rest for a while longer.

As for what to do next, Xia Lin decided to give her an agricultural assistant identity and register a basic Star Alliance offline account so that she could operate some general-purpose devices that do not require permissions. When he went out to explore the surrounding area, she could at least help water the crops and take care of them.

Moreover, as a local, she can also point out which plants or crops have cultivation value, which have medicinal value, and which animals can be raised or eaten.

The raw materials for synthesizing various medical products are currently almost impossible to replenish, unless Xia Lin has the ability to upgrade the existing, extremely basic production equipment to the point where it can mass-produce Star Alliance nanodevices.

Go to sleep and wash up. If he had that skill and ability, he wouldn't be earning such a low salary; he would have been a senior technical professional by now.

Today's task was to go directly upstream and install the water pump. Yesterday was a wasted day. Fortunately, the seedlings don't require much water yet, so the pressure on the circulation system hasn't increased.

However, the sooner the water pump is installed, the sooner the job is done.

The water purifier pump is a standard small colonial agricultural machine, meaning that Xia Lin couldn't possibly carry it by hand; he would have to make several trips back and forth.

The first trip is to conduct an on-site survey, find an area with deep water and slow flow to install the support frame, then the second trip is to install the water pump, the third trip is for the water purifier and booster pump, and the specific number of trips required after that depends on how far the distance is and how many times he has to carry the pipes.

The water pump support wasn't heavy, and Xia Lin could easily carry it on her back. Upstream south of the workshop, the stream gradually deepened and the current became more rapid. After walking about 3-4 kilometers further upstream, they discovered that the stream originated from a group of intermittent springs formed by an underground water system, and the spring pools were quite wide.

According to the scanner, there is a large geyser vent and four or five smaller geysers. The deepest part of the pool is about 11 meters deep, while the shallowest part is only 70 centimeters deep. Clearly, this is a suitable location to install a water pump.

Xia Lin waded into the spring, unfolded the support behind her, and inserted it into the pool bottom made of gravel and silt. The lightweight carbon nanofiber material quickly formed a semi-circular platform on the water surface for the installation of the equipment.

The spring is surrounded by sparse woodland, with numerous animal footprints visible along its banks. Evergreen shrubs and some berry-bearing bushes dot the edge of the pool. The tranquil forest spring is like an elegant and intellectual young woman, accompanied by the murmuring of the water and the rustling of the leaves. Unfortunately, this peace and elegance will soon be shattered by the roar of modern machinery.

Xia Lin originally thought that the water pump could be brought over for installation in one go, but in fact, he had to make three trips to carry the parts and modules to the location. If he could assemble the agricultural machinery vehicle himself, he could complete the water pump installation in one go.

After the water pump was assembled, the pumping pipe was extended to the deeper water area near the spring. Then, it took four or five more trips to deliver the water purifier and booster pump and install them.

If it weren't for the potential damage from wild animals, Xia Lin would have almost given up on the plan to pack this thing over several days.

Fortunately, after the equipment on the platform was installed, he used a semi-circular carbon fiber plate to protect the platform.

As for the water pipes, they really can only be completed over several days. The local animals have probably never seen tap water pipes before, so there is a high possibility of them damaging them. We will have to set up nets along the way for protection.

The best solution would be to dig a trench and run it underground. However, digging a trench four or five kilometers long by hand would be an enormous undertaking that would take years to complete. I miss agricultural machinery; at least it could be installed with a bucket and dug much faster.

After working late into the night and returning to the workshop, he found the girl still fast asleep. After checking the life monitoring and the greenhouse, a weary Xia Lin collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep. The next day, he left early in the morning with a pile of double-layered sterile pipes.

This time he learned his lesson and spent half the night assembling a sled, which was at least faster than carrying it by hand. With the help of the powered exoskeleton, this thing could pull some heavy objects, giving him a very realistic experience of the early days of mankind pioneering and clearing the mountains and forests – a man pulling a cart.

"A few huskies would be nice too!"

As Xia Lin pulled the sled along the road, he felt that any kind of animal would be better than him pulling it by manpower.

And he deeply regretted not buying a small vehicle engine, which would have at least allowed him to upgrade the sled into a tractor!

He couldn't install that standard agricultural machinery chassis and engine by himself. It was designed so that it's not a job that one person can do alone. Even if one person had to do it, there would be a professional assembly platform and a crane. At the very least, there would be an engineering exoskeleton. Otherwise, how can you lift something that weighs almost 7 tons by hand?

The Star Alliance standard agricultural machinery chassis features a dual-drive mode with wheeled and tracked wheels, and freely switchable electromagnetic and intelligent suspension systems. It also incorporates a powerful graviton damping system for shock absorption and real-time matching of chassis pressure.

In particular, this latest model is equipped with a mass conditioning device based on a new element, making it suitable for any gravity environment, so it can also be used in low-gravity space farms such as the Sun-Circling Farm.

The direct result of adopting an easy modular assembly design is that each module weighs no less than 5 tons and is highly integrated. Including a 55-megawatt cold fusion electromagnetic engine, there are only 19 main modules and 4 replaceable general-purpose workstations in total. Theoretically speaking, given the assembly equipment, it is not much more difficult than assembling building blocks.

Especially in front of a professional like Xia Lin, he not only knows how to pretend, but also how to repair, and can even DIY and solder on other things to turn it into strange things like an apocalyptic war machine—however, his skill level does not affect the fact that he cannot lift even the lightest module.

Of course, he could also consider using the simplest tools, such as a wrench, to disassemble each module of this thing into parts and then put them back together one by one.

That's possible, and technically speaking, if he's experienced, there shouldn't be any problems.

Some pre-packaged items are easily damaged if disassembled like this. Without any spare parts, Xia Lin felt it was better not to do such a thing.

The main problem right now is the lack of assembly tools, not even an engineering exoskeleton, which makes it impossible to lift even the smallest module, let alone install it.

So, by buying a small vehicle, like a motorcycle-grade engine with a power output of no more than 250 kilowatts, he can now drive a simple tractor to load water pipes and plow fields. As long as the local soil is deemed suitable for cultivation, he can quickly turn the surrounding forest into farmland.

The issue of alien environmental destruction has never been part of the Covenant's thinking on planetary exploration. If something is truly beyond saving, they simply convert it to industrial or mining use, or just blast it for mining, without affecting anything.

Moreover, problems that even their planetary terraforming technology cannot salvage generally cannot be considered ordinary environmental damage.

When the girl woke up, Xia Lin had not yet returned. It was around four or five in the afternoon, she judged by the sunlight streaming in through Xia Lin's newly installed window. Looking out through the floor-to-ceiling arched double-glazed window, the lush coniferous forest stretched into the distance, changing from white to pink to green and finally turning into a dark blue-green, with distinct layers, eventually merging into a snowy background under the distant snow-capped peaks.

The light gray clouds seemed to disperse with pity, allowing the sunlight to dance on the snow on the treetops, reflecting a bright brilliance. The dazzling blue sky made the girl squint slightly; it was truly a beautiful sunny day.

Back in my old home, at this time of year, my father would take me outside to build snowmen and go for a walk. In the empire's harsh winter, this was a rare pleasure, a testament to the mercy and gentleness of the goddess of winter, allowing people to avoid huddling by the fireplace calculating how much fuel they needed before freezing to death.

But in the mines, such sunny weather meant that the guards would no longer be holed up in their warm huts with potato wine, but would come out to find some "fun," which included drawing lots, beating prisoners, and dragging any attractive women into their tents.

After all, under the majesty of the Goddess of Winter, even the most lustful and hungry ghost would not be interested in doing such a thing.