"Is this a human specimen?"
"Definitely not. This doesn't look like human skin..."
The ten groups of students discussed animatedly. The ten dissection tables contained almost the same thing in the refrigerators. It was a large rectangular piece that looked like part of a creature's torso. However, the exposed skin was dark and slightly rotten. The pungent smell of formalin could not conceal its own strong odor.
"Tycoon Jun, what do you think?" Cai Zixuan asked again.
Gu Jun looked at the thing on the dissection table. The more he looked at it, the more strangely familiar it felt...
"I think this is the chest of some kind of creature," he said to Cai Zixuan and Wang Ruoxiang. "Look, here, here." He pointed to the four sections on the top, bottom, left, and right of the thing and said, "I guess these sections were originally connected to the neck, upper limbs, and abdomen."
"That's true." Wang Ruoxiang imagined the complete torso and frowned. "So this is a humanoid creature?"
Cai Zixuan was surprised. "Could it be a malformed body caused by another disease?"
Some other students also thought the same. Sun Yuheng and Yang Ming from the Tsing University team thought so. It seemed that the situation was really serious.
"It could be, or it could be an alien." As Gu Jun spoke, he reached out with his right hand and pressed lightly on the chest. This was definitely the worst chest he had ever touched.
The epidermis was called skin, but it was more like a thick layer of hypertrophic keratin. If he pressed a little harder, he could feel a hard resistance. It was bone, a large piece of flat bone in front of the chest... lamellar bone?
As Gu Jun thought about it, he opened the incomplete structure diagram in his mind and compared it. The two really seemed to be the same kind of creature.
"Then how should we start?" Wang Ruoxiang asked. She was now the first assistant, Cai Zixuan was the second assistant, and Gu Jun was the chief surgeon.
Since Gu Jun showed off his skills in the laboratory a few days ago, he had been making all the decisions.
"Let me think about it first." Gu Jun was still comparing the chest and designing the dissection plan.
At the same time, the other contestants were also sizing him up. The teachers and students in the spectator stands were also watching, but they were all like mice trying to bite a turtle, not knowing where to start.
The first step in dissection was to make an incision. The layers of tissues, organs, and structures were separated in a step-by-step manner.
If a knife was directly stabbed in and cut open, it would not be called dissection, but dismemberment.
Only by dissecting all the parts could one observe the diseased organs and structures, such as their size, shape, structure, texture, and other characteristics compared to their normal state. Only then could one understand the relevant pathology.
By dissecting a mutant, one could clearly understand its physiological structure and figure out what kind of creature it was.
This was the significance of dissection in medicine.
If they were dissecting a human chest, the students knew very well what to do. The incision in the middle of the chest, the incision in the upper part of the chest, the incision in the lower part of the chest, the incision in the upper part of the chest, the incision in the lower part of the chest, the incision in the upper part of the chest, and the incision in the lower part of the chest … But now, they could only stare in confusion. They really understood the feelings of the pioneers of human anatomy when they cut for the first time.
They could only explore while making their moves, and they couldn't use body parts. This was the difficulty of this round of assessment.
"Students, feel free to do whatever you want." At this time, Professor Qin said again, "I forgot to mention just now, please finish this dissection within two hours."
Some of the contestants suddenly became anxious. Only two hours? It was one hour less than a regular dissection.
The judges were not surprised by the crowd's reaction. This was not the first time such an assessment had been conducted. Basically, the students would be dismembered in the end. It depended on who had the best ideas and skills.
They looked around. Even though they already knew that Gu Jun was fool's gold, they still wanted to see what this kid would do. At this time, when they saw Gu Jun standing motionless beside the dissection table, several judges could not help but whisper to each other.
"That kid is dumbfounded."
"I guess he hasn't even mastered human dissection. How can he not be dumbfounded?"
"Let's see if he has the talent for dissection and see if we can train him in the future. After all, his willpower is really good."
Not long after Professor Qin urged, a group of students took the lead. The four of them were a group of miscellaneous people from different schools. They were not even familiar with each other's names, so they did not have much scruples. Instead, they were even more resolute. Their strategy was very simple. They would follow the anatomical operation of the human chest. Anyway, the shape of the two looked similar.
Immediately, they made a line on the middle of the chest incision on this specimen. If they could not find the upper edge of the sternum and the xiphoid, they would find the corresponding position. Then, after making other lines, the scalpel stabbed down …
After this stab, they were shocked. They could not cut it.
The texture of this layer of black and smelly 'skin' was very hard. The scalpel stabbed into it like a pedestrian falling into a swamp.
At the same time, other students who dissected the skin first encountered the same problem.
Some students, such as Tsing University's Sun Yuheng, chose to start from a few cross-sections. However, they immediately encountered another problem. Not only could they not cut through the skin and flesh, but if they went any deeper, they would have to cut through the bones. There were bones everywhere, and they did not know where to start.
These bones were like big stones blocking the passage. If they did not remove them, they could not enter the chest wall and thoracic cavity.
But how could they remove them?
Among the ten groups of students, only Gu Jun's group had not started. Gu Jun only asked Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan to help move the chest. He changed the position a few times and finally changed it back to the supine position. He was basically sure that this was the thing in the incomplete anatomical atlas.
"The outer layer is all hard keratin. There are no tissues or organs."
Gu Jun picked up a large scalpel, held it in an irregular manner, and fiercely cut off a piece of keratin from the skin of the specimen.
When the judges saw his posture, they thought, Oh, is he really going to dismember the body?
"There is none." Wang Ruoxiang took it and looked at it. There was really no superficial fascia or blood vessels. It was just a mass of dead skin.
"This is not a human." Cai Zixuan was shocked. "It doesn't look like a mammal either. Is there such a thing? "
"Don't worry about it," said Gu Jun. He could not see the blood vessels clearly, but this thing still had "nerves". He knew where they were. "I think the outermost layer is a kind of protective membrane. It's both skin and muscle. It's wrapped around the bone inside."
As he spoke, he drew a few lines on the specimen according to the incomplete atlas. He then said to the two of them, "Remove all the cortex in these areas. You don't have to be gentle. Just dig them all out and clean them up until the bones are exposed."
"Huh?" Cai Zixuan did not quite understand, but of course he still nodded. "I'll listen to you."
"Okay." Wang Ruoxiang also did not understand. This kind of work might be more suitable to be done by the pork man in the food market.
However, the two of them obeyed Gu Jun's idea. They immediately used the large scalpel to cut, dig, peel, and pick. The dissection table suddenly became a mess.
What were they going to do? The contestants around saw it and were all puzzled. The teachers and students in the audience could not understand it either. Did they not respect the principles of anatomy?
"Huh." The judges were surprised. Professor Qin's old eyebrows twitched. This Tycoon Jun seemed to have some tricks up his sleeve …
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