Arknights, but the family has fallen again

But a mysterious smile appeared on Alina's lips.

Otto didn't explain, just nodded.

In this way, the surface mechanism of boundary time has been cracked.

After completing a dungeon, a "week" must pass before the next one can begin. To achieve this, a week must pass between dungeons. Furthermore, this time flows in sync with real time.

This may sound like nonsense literature, but time, in the logic of the borderland, plays a role of "nonsense literature." It requires the flow of time, but as long as the flow of time meets its requirements, it is sufficient.

Whether it was the "first week" that Alina went through when Otto brought Ghost Shark and Skadi to the border for the first time; the second week when the six of them illegally extended the exploration time, lit torches, and summoned the Lame Man; the third week when they intentionally divided it into two parts, obtained the destiny reconstruction, and killed the necromancer apprentice; or the fourth week that was just completed... "A whole week" was spent between the two copies!

"This is..." Otto just raised his hand and was about to introduce Huafalin when he was interrupted by Doctor Blood Demon.

Huafalin crossed her arms, anticipating Otto's prediction, and said, "While you were sleeping, I have already introduced these two ladies to each other!"

"Let's get started without further ado!" Huafalin pushed open the door of the sanatorium very familiarly. The early morning sunlight poured into the cold corridor, forming a picture of light and dark complementing each other.

Just as Otto had said before when he intended to seduce Warfarin, they were in the town of Hamlet today to verify the feasibility of two medical technologies.

One of them is Ott's experiment on regenerating severed limbs as a late Homo sapiens.

Second, it’s also easy to guess.

Ott put the jewelry on Warfarin, then stretched out his hand and pointed to the operating table: "Ms. Alina, please."

The Blood Demon frowned, feeling his strength growing, and glanced at Otto.

The deer girl took a deep breath and forced a smile, "Now that things have come to this... I'm still a little nervous."

"Excuse me!" Warfarin, who had entered the state, jumped up mercilessly and knocked Otto's head. "This is not battlefield medical treatment! Why are you so urgent!?"

As she spoke, she sighed, "It's a pity there are no photography tools here, otherwise..."

As an old Sarkaz blood demon, Huafalin was quite knowledgeable. It was this knowledge that led her to directly classify the border area as one of the "witchcraft" she had witnessed before.

Ott held up the handheld terminal and asked, "Is this okay?"

"..." Huafalin looked at Ott speechlessly, staring at Ott's "ear feathers", and uttered: "As expected of a mind flayer."

To ease her anxiety before the surgery, Alina quickly interrupted and asked, "Why do you say Dr. Ott is a mind flayer?"

As long as the surgery can be done later, anything is fine, right?

She continued with a barrage of words, "The Mind Flayer is just a legend, right?"

"Old folks always say that the Mind Flayer is the devil among devils."

"What flows in their veins isn't blood, but a poison brewed by ambition and greed. Once it sets its sights on you, if your eyes are open and meet its red gaze, your soul will be instantly sucked away! Not just ordinary people, they will even suck the souls of demons! They ruthlessly enslave all slaves!"

Red eyes? You guys seem to have mixed in the blood demon as well?

Chapter 118: Surgery is a common source of nightmares

"The old folks say that a mind flayer will eat a man's brain, suck out a woman's soul, and..."

Warfarin said nothing. Firstly, she saw through the patient's mind; secondly, there was nothing much to talk about the mind flayers - she also knew about this tribe in this way: "If you don't sleep, the mind flayers will come to eat your brain."

If she hadn't seen Otto with her own eyes, Huafalin would have even thought that this was just a distorted legend left by the Whiplash Demon in history.

Ott broke the eerie atmosphere, turned on the recording mode of the handheld terminal, and asked, "Can we start?"

In response to Alina's question, he said: "I don't eat human brains. As for whether I eat souls - that depends on your definition of soul."

Anyway, Maomao did say that he wanted to "suck all the souls away." Of course, Kal'tsit's original words were more complicated and less human.

"What? You picked the most unlikely part to refute it." Alina laughed inexplicably. "In this way, doesn't it mean that everything else could be true?"

“…” Huafalin’s pretty face froze.

Regarding the two points of "Sarkaz don't eat human brains" or "Sarkaz don't eat humans", is it possible or impossible for it to be true...

Warfarin said that after two hundred years of training, she can now distinguish between food and patients.

As for the eating habits of other Sarkaz... Huafalin's behavior cannot even represent the entire blood demon clan.

Those blood demons who have already adapted to modern "civilized" life and even try to show their "grace" are fine, but other blood demons who follow the "ancient ways" may even eat the meat together.

"Before the surgery, I want to reiterate one thing," Huafalin said. "It's not that the Originium on the infected person's body is insignificant, but the surface crystals are only a small part of the Originium in their body."

For diseases like Originium, which is tightly bound to the victim's body cells, its toxicity to the patient's internal organs and circulatory system is particularly terrifying.

"If you want to treat Originium disease through surgery, the most basic procedure is hemodialysis. Furthermore, this method is not very effective and is at best better than nothing," said Mr. Blood. "If supplemented with Originium skills, it may be possible to save a person's life in a short period of time and temporarily slow the Originium's erosion."

"But using Originium techniques in a place like this might actually activate the Originium!"

But as Ott repeatedly emphasized to others, this was not a cure—just a postponement of death.

For Terra, Originium is like oxygen that is a million times gentler.

Oxygen, one of the most toxic substances in the universe, has been mercilessly lashing the entire Earth with the help of blue algae. It has led to the complete extinction of countless species and forced the young star to be transformed into a "toxic planet."

From that point on, those who loathed and resisted oxygen could only huddle in the remote reaches of the biosphere, licking their wounds. The greatest evil humanity could imagine, the evil deeds it could accomplish, could not even compare to one billionth of the oxygen available at that time.

And such a "gentle" Originium, after all, has its own purpose.

Perhaps its creator loves the entire land of Terra, but precisely because of this, a specific animal-eared girl is not important to either her or it.

Cheating on your husband is another matter.

"Don't talk about this kind of thing in front of the patients." Otto glanced at Frost Star.

There was also a hint of fear on her face.

The operating table and the doctor, this kind of scene where people cannot control themselves can easily arouse fear in others.

Huafalin nodded and said, "The record is as follows: December 1096, 12, Hamlet Town."

"The target of the operation is a young Elafia woman infected."

She quickly got to the point: "Objective: To verify a method of containing Originium infection based on individual Originium techniques."

"Chief Surgeon and Editor: Ott."

"Anesthesiologist: Warfarin."

Hearing this, Alina finally closed her eyes with a hint of determination, and Frost Star also left the operating room.

Ott said to Warfarin with a blank expression, "Is it time to give me anesthesia?"

"Yes, start anesthesia," said the Blood Demon Doctor.

Warfarin was almost unaware as Otto crept into her body.

crumbs.

"Without the appropriate equipment, the somatic cell binding rate cannot be determined. The blood test results..."

In order to deactivate the Originium in Alina's body, Otto designed an operation that was a bit too rough and bloody.

Fortunately, Frost Star had been kicked out of the operating room long ago. Otherwise, after witnessing this brutal "treatment" with her own eyes, she would definitely doubt what kind of institution Rhodes Island is...

Although it seemed that there was no need for him to take any action, Warfarin still monitored Alina's vital signs very professionally.

"Your Originium skills are truly..." She said with a hint of understanding, "No wonder Kal'tsit called you 'the best Originium scholar in history'."

Before losing his memory, the Doctor was indeed the "best" Originium scholar in history. However, Kal'tsit and Ott had some minor disagreements regarding the meaning of "history" and "above" in this sentence.

"With such a convenient technique, the secret of Originium is like a dancer taking off all her clothes in front of you!"

Soon, blood spurted out from the wound that Otto had intentionally left intact, as if it was connected to the heart.

But with Huafalin's spell, they suddenly began to flow and then poured into the vessel beside her. She exclaimed in amazement, "The blood she has shed is already more than three times the amount of blood in her body!"

What about conservation of mass? Help?

As fate reconstructed such a high-intensity task, the active Originiums in Alina's body gradually became quiet.

Lacking the hype of a "dream sleeper," Warfarin couldn't bring the device into Hamlet. She could only rely on her own Originium skills to monitor some important data. Although Otto, who was lurking within her, could also see it, he didn't know what constituted normal data at the moment.

After all, this matter cannot be delayed any longer. After several measurements, Huafalin told Otto: "The activity of the Originium has dropped to an acceptable range. We can start removing it."

Ott gestured, and Huafalin immediately wiped the sweat off his face.

With the help of the Blood Demon's "eyes" and his Originium skills, Ott could clearly see which organs were enriched with how much Originium. For young patients like Alina, most of the Originium was still relatively dispersed, with only a relatively obvious enrichment at the lesion site.

Many of the internal organs that Otto had ruthlessly cut out would have been considered normal parts of an uninfected person.

However, what was both unexpected and reasonable was that the flesh and blood that were reconstructed by fate shared some of the source stone from the intact flesh and blood nearby.

Chapter 119: The Ship of Theseus Giving Medical Advice

Ott suddenly had an idea: Wait, what if I put a few hundred more pieces of pure Originium next to me? After using up all the Originium energy in the patient's body, I could cut off every piece of flesh! Reconstruct it piece by piece with fate! As long as the lesion isn't in the brain, wouldn't it be much quicker, easier, and cheaper to dilute the Originium disease in the end!

The Ship of Theseus gave you medical advice, didn't it? So, let me ask you, after you sew these parts together and reconstruct fate, which one is the real Alina, the one on the operating table or the one off?

As the saying goes, there are only minor surgeries, but no minor anesthesia... But Huafarin now feels that this operation can be "ridiculously big" in the literal sense.

Delicate surgery can be very delicate, but with destiny reconstruction in hand, Otto's surgery is unusually unrestrained - hoping that after the deer wakes up, he will not faint when facing the unnecessary "parts" around him.

Alina and Froststar were chosen as test targets. Firstly, Otto's current hero pool is relatively shallow, and there are not many candidates who can be used for testing this technology. Secondly, and more importantly, both of them have extremely close relationships with Shazi...Sister Tazi, which will facilitate communication with Talullah in the future. Thirdly, it is somewhat irrelevant. One of them is alive and has a body, while the other is dead and has only a soul, which just serves as a control group.

No, how do you prioritize? You've ranked the most useful thing for the experiment as unimportant? And the highest priority, the most important thing, isn't even the relationships you'll need later, but the two of them you just happened to have?

Warfarin performed a symbolic test using a portable testing device. In front of the camera terminal, it read: "The patient's blood Originium crystal density is 0.21u/L. Due to the lack of effective equipment, the somatic cell binding rate cannot be determined, but..."

She looked at the "fragments" with great complexity and continued, "But we can visually confirm that the somatic cell binding rate has been reduced to a considerable level."

No, maybe even all the cells in her body have been replaced.

She was even a little disappointed. "The marginal utility is obviously diminishing. Actually... even this method can't cure oripathy?"

Otto's answer was a bit strange: "If the Originium disease is completely resolved, it may not be a good thing for Terra in many ways."

Li Da Zhuan Fei's surgery is still ongoing...

About two hours later, Otto and Huafalin opened the door with a strong smell of blood that made Frost Star's eyelids jump.

Frost Star is an old guerrilla. What kind of scene has she not seen?

Don’t mention it, Frost Star has never seen such a scene before.

On the operating table, a scarlet-white cloth covered the human figure, two antlers extending from the end. A trace of blood, which even Warfarin hadn't bothered to clean, dripped from Elafia's smooth feet.

In fact, Alina had already woken up once under the control of the "anesthetist" Warfarin. But Ott finally took her mental health issues into consideration and used the agency agreement to make her fall asleep quickly while she was still unable to see anything clearly.

Frost Star, who was born in the northwestern tundra and had basically never seen a few regular hospitals or regular doctors, has since had an almost permanent shadow cast on her mind about the concepts of "doctor", "hospital" and "surgery".

Looking at the mosaics behind the door, Shuangxing uttered a few words with difficulty: "I think... I should go out now. I haven't woken up for so long, my teammates... maybe they will be worried?"

"At this moment?" Huafalin's bloodshot eyes sparkled as she asked, "Are you kidding?"

Although she was somewhat disappointed that even this could not completely cure the Originium disease, Warfarin still vaguely grasped something as Otto's fate was constantly being restructured, forcibly extracting Originium energy and forcing the Originium to deactivate.

Although that healing spell is important, it is not the point!

After the Originium is deactivated, it becomes just an ordinary symptom!

This idea...maybe it can become popular!

As a scientific practitioner in a broad sense, Warfarin's spirit is extremely tenacious when it comes to the new areas opened up by new technologies.

Otto changed into a white coat on the spot, but the blood stains on the lining, which had already turned black, were still visible.

"Miss Frost Star, you don't want your father to suffer because of our technical immaturity, right?" He stretched his muscles and said so.

Even if your crude technique matures, you will suffer greatly!

Frost Star closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then... continued to close her eyes and said, "I'm ready."

"Very good, then let's change to another operating room." Huafalin took the lead.

Eh?

The white rabbit opened its eyes in surprise.

Now, she doesn't seem to care about the blood test I promised her... Can I just ignore it?

"Dr. Ott! Operator Froststar! What are you waiting for!?"