Ever since all the heterogenous tubes in the leg cavity had been cut off, the leg had not liquefied again.
However, its abnormality had not completely disappeared, or rather, it was such a thing. Its skin was still hard, and normal dissection instruments could barely cut through it, but when it came to the bones and some organs, other than Carlop instruments, nothing else worked.
What kind of substance could cause this? Even though the two worlds had sent out the best scientific teams, and many analytical methods such as chemistry and physicochemistry had been tried, they still could not figure it out. It seemed that there were indeed substances that could not be detected by instruments.
These were not in Gu Jun's consideration for now.
His priority now was to figure out the hierarchical structure of this leg of lamb.
Once he returned to the dissection table, even though his body had only recovered fifty to sixty percent, Gu Jun still entered the flow state and focused wholeheartedly on dissecting.
Over the past few days, the more the lower limbs of the black goat were dissected and exposed, the more the team felt the difference between it and ordinary creatures. They did not know whether it was a mixture of many different structures, or whether those structures were separated, but in any case, some of the structures that should not have grown in the lower limbs were growing there.
The most typical was the foot cavity. Its structure was very similar to the cranial cavity, and there were three cavities near the metatarsal bone. The heterogenous tubes passed through the cavities and connected with the nerve tissue of the foot, passing through the nervous system of the entire lower limb. It was possible that the heterogenous tubes used this network to transmit the regeneration signal, causing the limb to show signs of self-dissolution.
They also found a kind of gland that covered every part of the leg.
Since they were not sure what this gland was used for, Gu Jun temporarily named it 'heterogenous gland' because he felt that this organ was also involved in the process of limb dissolution and regeneration. This was only a hypothesis. Whether this was the truth or not would require more dissection and research in the future to confirm.
At this time, there were only ten hours left in the mission. Gu Jun dissected another piece of heterogenous gland in the foot.
Now, the mission completion rate had reached 96.2%, and completion was almost in sight.
However, Gu Jun had reached his limit again. In the past twenty hours, he had only rested once, and the duration was one hour.
When he had just woken up, his body was still at 50% or 60%. Now, he only had 10% or 20% left.
The last 3.8% did not seem to be much, but when he used all his strength to dissect the liver for an entire day, it only increased by a little more than 8%. At that time, the leg of lamb was like a new continent, and there were new discoveries everywhere. Now, finding a new structure and making a huge breakthrough was something that could only be discovered by luck.
However, at that moment, Gu Jun vaguely noticed that the gland he was dissecting was different from the previous one.
Glands are tissues in the body that secrete certain fluids. They are further divided into exocrine glands and endocrine glands.
The exocrine glands have ducts, and their secretions do not enter the blood, but flow out of the ducts. For example, the liver produces bile, which flows through the common bile duct to the duodenum.
Endocrine glands are glands without secretory tubes. Their secretions were the so-called hormones. After secretion, they directly entered the surrounding blood vessels and lymph vessels, and then the hormones were transported by the blood and lymph to the rest of the body, such as the thyroid gland and adrenal glands.
Based on this classification, the abnormal gland of the leg of lamb was an endocrine gland because they could not find any ducts.
This kind of gland was shaped like a goat's horn. It was long, and it narrowed towards one end. The surface was cortex, and the interior was medulla. The epidermis was covered in dense blood vessels, and they were connected to the blood vessels in the surrounding tissues.
Other than the strange grayish-black color and the difference in shape, the structure of the abnormal gland was similar to the adrenal glands.
Therefore, there was another hypothesis. Could this be the 'adrenal glands' of the black goat cub? Could the immense power of the leg of lamb come from the hormones secreted by this gland? But so far, the team had not isolated the hormones of the abnormal gland. They could only find some regenerative fluid.
"Come and take a look, this …" Gu Jun called for Uncle Dan and Wang Ruoxiang. On the communicator, Xiao Huiwen and the other anatomists widened their eyes to get a better look. Gu Jun asked them, "Doesn't this look like some kind of duct?"
Wang Ruoxiang frowned as she studied it. This gland was about the size of an adult's palm. It was completely black, shaped like a goat's horn, and it was rich in blood vessels.
At first glance, it looked no different from the abnormal glands on the calves and thighs.
But at the location indicated by the dissecting forceps in Gu Jun's hand, he clamped out a dark red tube from the blood vessels that extended from the gland. It was the same color as the other blood vessels. Even though it was slightly thicker, it was just a thicker blood vessel.
However, Wang Ruoxiang immediately noticed the difference. It was quite obvious. She said with suspicion, "This tube is not connected to other blood vessels."
Gu Jun nodded, and the others instantly understood. The more blood vessels there were, the more they would form a network. Veins were like that, and even the main arteries would have some branches, allowing blood to circulate rapidly throughout the body.
The epidermal blood vessels of these abnormal glands were all connected into a network, but this thick tube was not. The other tubes that Gu Jun used the forceps to clamp out were not like that either. They had their own tube, and it led to the foot cavity of the phalanx. It was also connected to the abnormal tube like a blood vessel.
"I believe this is not a blood vessel, but a duct."
Gu Jun came to this conclusion, but he had no idea whether it was right or wrong.
The group studied it and agreed with him. This was a different gland, an exocrine gland. It was definitely involved in the regenerative process.
With a new discovery, they naturally needed a new name. Xiao Huiwen instantly tensed up.
"Let's call it the suprapedis gland." Gu Jun decided quickly. It was as if he had named his own child after the neighbor's child. "Let's see if we can find some of its hormones."
At the same time, he seemed to see a flowing liquid network, from the abnormal tube to the suprapedis gland, to the entire neural network, and all the blood vessels …
His tired body suddenly swayed. Before he put down the dissecting forceps in his hand, a new message from the system popped up in his mind.
"You have made a major breakthrough in the dissection of the black goat cub. Dissection completion + 3%. Current status: 99.2%. Remaining time: 9: 35: 17."
This made Gu Jun feel like he had downed three bottles of Red Bull in a row.
Soon, there was still 0.8% left. Very soon. He encouraged everyone, and also himself, "Soon, put in a little more effort, it's time to charge!"
However, the next five hours proved that he was too optimistic.
Originally, he could have completed 0.8% in 2.4 hours, but because he was slowly approaching exhaustion, the time kept increasing.
Hour after hour, the remaining 0.1% just wouldn't go up.
His vision became blurry, and the skin in his brain was so tight that it felt like it was going to crack. He could no longer think. He operated mechanically, repeatedly separating the blood vessels on the instep of the goat leg, one after another, as if he was slowly crawling toward the end.
"Dissection completion + 0.1%.
"Your dissection mission has been completed! Remaining time: 4: 07: 53. Rating: Level 9/10.
Mission Reward: 1 contact with the City of Dusk; 1 medical skill; unknown.
"Your dissection experience has increased! Current experience: 7500/15000 (Level 2/Level 9). "
'Is it … completed? '
Gu Jun's heart skipped a beat. Before he finished reading the few new messages in his mind, he could not tell if the messages were real or just an illusion.
Suddenly, it felt like a string had snapped. His vision turned black, and his consciousness blurred. His whole body fell forward.
"Ah Jun!" "Gu Jun!" The panicked cries of the people around him quickly faded into the darkness.
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