Chapter 358 The Angel in White Descends!
Su Yue gave her name and turned on the high-powered flashlight in her hand.
The beam of light pierced the darkness, illuminating the deepest corner of the cave.
The gun was lowered.
The soldier recognized the person who had come, and his eyes instantly welled up with tears, like a wronged child seeing his parent.
"Sister-in-law...you've finally arrived..."
Su Yue didn't have time for pleasantries; she went straight to the innermost corner.
There was a person lying there.
Gu Beichen leaned against the damp rock wall, his military uniform stained black with blood and clinging tightly to his body.
His left leg was stretched out unnaturally, and his trouser leg was cut open, revealing a horrific wound inside.
A rusty rebar threaded through the calf, piercing the entire leg.
The skin around the wound had turned purplish-black, was swollen and shiny, and yellowish-green pus could even be seen oozing out.
His eyes were closed, his cheeks were burning red, but his lips were as white as paper, dry and cracked.
His breathing was rapid and weak, and his chest heaved violently.
A medic kneeling beside him held a hacksaw he had pulled from a toolbox, his hands trembling like a leaf.
“Sister-in-law…” The medic burst into tears when she saw Su Yue. “The regimental commander… he’s dying.”
Su Yue slammed the first-aid kit down on the ground with a loud thud.
"Why are you crying?"
She crouched down and reached out to feel Gu Beichen's carotid artery.
The pulse is weak, yet as fast as a drumbeat.
This is a precursor to septic shock.
The body temperature is extremely high, at least 40 degrees Celsius.
"Has the wound been treated?" Su Yue asked as she quickly opened the first-aid kit.
“It’s beyond our control…” The medic wiped away tears. “There’s rust on the steel bars, the wound is too deep, it’s all rotten inside. The hemostatic powder just washes out the pus and blood. Just now… just now the commander woke up once, and he said…”
The medic glanced at the hacksaw in his hand and gritted his teeth.
"He said that if he couldn't save his life, he would have his leg amputated. He couldn't be a burden to everyone."
Gas gangrene.
This is the most terrifying killer on the battlefield.
Once the infection spreads, amputation is the only way to save a life.
And it has to be fast.
"fart."
Su Yue snatched the hacksaw from the medic and threw it into the nearby puddle.
A splash of water rose up.
"As long as I'm here, I'll see who dares to touch a single leg of his."
Her words were soft, yet they carried a menacing aura that left no room for argument.
Su Yue took out a spray bottle labeled "Hunter-7" from the box, and then took out a bright scalpel.
"Hold him down," Su Yue ordered the soldiers of the elite platoon. "It'll hurt a lot later, so don't let him move around."
Several soldiers were stunned for a moment, then immediately surrounded him, pressing down hard on Gu Beichen's shoulder and his intact leg.
Su Yue put on rubber gloves and tore open the packaging of a disposable syringe.
She was not given anesthesia.
In this situation, the anesthetic will inhibit the contractility of the myocardium, which may cause Gu Beichen, who is already in shock, to have a sudden cardiac arrest.
"Bear with it."
Su Yue said in a low voice, and without hesitation, she cut down with the scalpel in her hand.
laugh.
Black blood and pus gushed out.
She is expanding.
All the necrotic and rotten flesh must be removed so that the bacteriophage can reach the deeper bacteria.
Gu Beichen, who was unconscious, suddenly tensed up.
A muffled groan escaped his throat, and the veins on his neck bulged, writhing like earthworms.
"Hold it down!" Su Yue shouted.
Her hands moved swiftly, the blade precisely avoiding major blood vessels and nerves, slicing off the blackened tissue piece by piece.
The smell of blood was even stronger.
The medic turned his head away, not daring to look.
After the necrotic tissue was removed, the wound became a horrifying bloody hole.
Su Yue picked up the "Hunter-7" bottle and pressed the nozzle deep into the wound.
Sizzle—
The pale yellow medicinal mist sprayed onto the rotten flesh produced a faint foaming sound, just like hydrogen peroxide encountering a wound.
That's bacteriophages frantically lysing bacteria.
Immediately afterwards, she poured two vials of high-concentration gentamicin directly into the wound to rinse away the remaining rust.
Applying high concentrations of antibiotics directly to the wound is a violation of standard medical practice.
But on the battlefield, this is a deadly life-saving trick.
Gu Beichen was in so much pain that his whole body was convulsing, and cold sweat instantly soaked his forehead.
He opened his eyes groggily.
Visibility was blurry, as if shrouded in a layer of red mist.
But he saw a face.
The face was right above him, very close.
Her features were delicate, yet she was as cold as ice.
But those eyes, which usually shone with cunning, were now bloodshot and frighteningly red.
"daughter in law……"
Gu Beichen moved his lips, his voice hoarse as if two pieces of sandpaper were rubbing together.
"Am I dead...? I keep seeing you in my dreams..."
Su Yue's hand, which was sewing, trembled slightly.
But it quickly stabilized again.
The needle pierces the skin, tightens the thread, and ties a knot.
"Dream on."
Su Yue didn't look up, cutting the thread in her hand. "Once you're dead, you'll go see the King of Hell. That old man isn't as good-looking as me."
Gu Beichen strained to pull at the corner of his mouth, trying to smile, but the movement aggravated his wound, causing him to gasp in pain.
"pain……"
"It's good that you feel pain." Su Yue stitched up another stitch. "Feeling pain means your leg is still there, and the nerves aren't dead."
The last stitch was completed.
Su Yue wrapped her battered leg in layers of sterile gauze and tied it into a pretty bow.
She took off her gloves and realized that her palms were sweaty and her clothes were soaked through.
Those twenty minutes were more tiring than three days and three nights she spent in the lab.
Su Yue took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the cold sweat from Gu Beichen's forehead.
"Gu Beichen, listen to me carefully."
She leaned close to his ear, her voice trembling slightly.
"If you dare to lose this leg and become a cripple, I'll remarry, taking Ping An and Ning Jing with me. I'll find someone who can run and jump, and they'll be hanging around you every day."
This threat is vicious.
It's all too familiar.
Gu Beichen regained a little clarity.
He looked at the woman in front of him.
He was soaking wet, his hair was a mess and stuck to his face, and his clothes were stained with his blood.
They were in an extremely sorry state.
But in his eyes, it was more beautiful than ever.
"You dare."
Gu Beichen tried to reach out and grab her, but he had no strength at all; his fingers could only scratch the rock.
"In this life... you can only belong to the Gu family."
After he finished speaking, the strength he had been holding on for collapsed, his head lolled to the side, and he fell into a deep sleep again.
"Commander!" The soldier next to him was startled.
"It's alright." Su Yue touched his forehead. "He's asleep. The medicine is taking effect, let him sleep."
She took a bottle of glucose from the box, hung it on a high rock protrusion, and stuck the needle into the back of Gu Beichen's hand.
After doing all this, Su Yue finally felt exhausted.
She sat down next to Gu Beichen, not minding the mud and water on the ground, and stayed by his side.
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