The 1/3 amputation was a success.
The humerus of the arm was slightly hardened but it could still be cut off by a normal bone saw. Gu Jun's technique was crisp and clean, there were very few bone fragments.
Every subsequent step was also completed by Gu Jun as the chief surgeon. First, he filed away the sharp edges of the bone tip, then thinned the triceps brachii. Then, he pulled it forward to cover the bone tip, sutured it intermittently with the anterior musculofascial flap, and placed a rubber drainage strip on the deep surface.
After that, it was time to sew up the skin incision layer by layer. This could have been done by the assistant but Gu Jun still focused on his own stitches. His hands moved like they were on autopilot.
From Uncle Dan and Zhang Huohuo's perspective, even though Ah Jun had not been on the operating table for a long time, he was seamless when he arrived.
Chen Yunping and the rest witnessed the handiwork of this Phecda Hero. It was not easy for him to complete such a delicate operation under such pressure. Because of that, they felt a sense of security from having someone to rely on.
After the hand was cut off, it became a dead thing that oozed pus, and there was nothing unusual about it.
The surgery room cleared up and the black fog that shrouded the room dissipated. The middle-aged patient's vital signs were stable, and there was no major bleeding. The effects of anesthetics and muscle relaxants would last for some time after the surgery, but the patient could still be awakened while he was in a daze, and he still had his own consciousness.
Whether this patient was a patient with Alien Hand Syndrome during surgery or whether his pathology was similar to other patients with Alien Hand Syndrome was still an unknown.
If the amputation did not cause any abnormalities, then amputation would be the last option for patients with Alien Hand Syndrome …
There was one bad news. At the Medical Department, many patients who were put into artificial coma like Zhou Yibao were showing signs of sepsis. Their blood levels showed obvious abnormalities. The alien hand might have produced toxins that infiltrated the bloodstream to cause systemic infection. If it worsened, it might cause organ failure.
These patients were standing on the edge of life and death.
No one knew whether they were still conscious or dreaming in artificial coma but if this continued, they would die silently in their coma.
Should they be woken up? Should they be amputated?
No one could easily make a decision. Gu Jun was also at a loss.
Demons were demons not only because they were evil, but also because they were cunning. They had no code of conduct, no pattern, and no credibility.
The appearance of Alien Hand Syndrome could be to force him to have amputations, or it could be for other purposes or reasons. It was just bluffing him, knowing that he would be suspicious. The actual purpose was to prevent him from having amputations and to prevent the patients with Alien Hand Syndrome from receiving timely and effective treatment.
When the patients missed the best time to amputate their limbs, they died of this Alien Hand Disease and became some kind of sacrifice. No one knew what kind of dark power would be strengthened.
Or maybe it wasn't that complicated at all, and the Alien Hand Syndrome was just a trick of the handless child to see how they would deal with it.
All of these were possible, and some situations that he couldn't think of were also possible.
Gu Jun did not have the slightest confidence that he could make the right decision. It was as if there was a pile of medicine without any labels in front of him. There were special medicines and poisons. Which one should he give to the dying patient?
To get the correct answer, he needed to do a clinical trial.
The Medical Department suggested to give it a try. They set up an amputation experimental group and a non-amputation control group. Each group was split into Group A and Group B, consisting of the patients who received artificial coma and those who did not. There were four groups of ten patients each.
Medicine needed experiments. No one knew how big the Alien Hand Syndrome would spread and how many patients it would produce. The earlier the experiment, the more beneficial it would be.
However, behind the numbers of the experimental and control groups were individual lives.
Clinical trial …
For some reason, this time, when Gu Jun thought about it, his heart was in a mess.
But he still made the decision to the Medical Department. They would try their best to save the patients. If they could not stop the sepsis from worsening, then they would start the experiment …
In the current situation, the most important principle of the clinical trial was the patient's willingness, but it was just a formality. Every patient would be willing to amputate their limbs. Their condition was what they desired. The control group would not be amputated, so the patients could be observed even if they were not included.
Time was a race against time.
The earlier they dealt with the abnormal force, the fewer patients would have their limbs amputated.
After the surgery, Gu Jun left Eastern University Affiliated Hospital with Uncle Dan and the rest. They did not return to the base.
While they were in the corridor of the surgery room, Gu Jun reported his illusion discovery. Phecda immediately sent out people to cordon off Anfu Village.
Anfu Village was located at the northern part of Eastern State. It was a normal village. Ever since it became the landing point for Gu Jun to return to this world, there was a period of investigation by Phecda. They found nothing and the village slowly returned to its normal life.
But the Investigation Department sent their investigators to the village regularly. That day, they were in the village but even during the surgery, they did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
On the way to Anfu Village, Gu Jun already saw the details of the handless child in the illusion.
This kind of abnormality was not normal in any village. Anfu Village was a small village. If something happened at the front of the village in the morning, it would be found out at the back of the village at night. Therefore, when the investigators went to the village manager, they got the answer.
"This child's name is Lin Jing. He has been missing for more than ten years."
Listening to his colleague, Gu Jun studied the birth date on the document. Lin Jing was the same age as him, they should both be twenty-two this year.
But ten years ago, when Lin Jing was twelve, this child who was born with the loss of both upper limbs suddenly disappeared from Anfu Village.
Lin Jing's parents were healthy. They had a twenty-year-old sister and an eighteen-year-old brother. Currently, they were studying away from home. Faced with the interrogation of the investigators, Lin Jing's parents were so depressed that they could not explain the situation. They hoped to find their eldest son, but whether they were suspicious or not would require further investigation.
Some villagers said that Lin Jing had been kidnapped by human traffickers. Others said that they had seen Lin Jing begging on the streets.
There were also villagers who said that Lin Jing was abandoned by his parents in the deep mountains and wild forests. His parents did not care for this child. They saw him as a burden. Lin Jing did not go to school and it was unclear whether he could read or not. Due to their lack of money and outdated values, his parents thought they had done their duty to raise this deformed child for more than ten years.
But these were all rumors. No one dared to say with certainty that they had seen Lin Jing again.
The child had been forgotten by the villagers until today when the investigators suddenly came to ask about him.
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