Chapter 021
Walking down the dim stairs, there is a torch burning every five meters on the stone walls on both sides, releasing light.
"Doctor Ueno, where are we going now?"
He left the clinic, walked out of the city, and then followed the two people walking in front of him all the way inside.
To be honest, if she didn't know that these two had no ill intentions towards her, she really wanted to turn around and run away.
Compared to Qingxi's vigilance, Ueno Arata's steps were brisk. He said matter-of-factly, "Let's go and see our experimental materials."
Qingxi was silent for a moment, but finally pointed out the key point, "So where is it, and what are the experimental materials? Please explain it to me clearly."
Ueno Arata, who could already see the tightly closed thick wooden door ahead, pointed ahead and said, "The experimental materials are inside. You can go in and take a look yourself and you'll know."
As he finished speaking, the young man who had been standing in front of the tightly closed thick wooden door ahead of the two of them pushed it open.
Qingxi took a step to the side and left the person in front of her who told her to see the results herself but blocked her view.
In the dark stone chamber with a weak oil lamp burning, a ghost that could only be barely recognized as a human was tied to the only large stone inside with dozens of thick iron chains.
A ghost who had not eaten for a long time was as weak as a piece of mud. If it weren't for the chains tying him tightly to the rock, he would probably have collapsed to the ground.
He also thought about breaking free from the chains on his body and escaping from this underground space where there was no distinction between day and night, but those bastards from the Demon Slayer Corps had mixed wisteria flowers on the wall of the only exit.
It can be said that apart from the fact that there are no wisteria flowers in the stone chamber where he is currently imprisoned, he simply cannot get out.
These were the thoughts he had when he still had some sanity, but now, his already fragile sanity was destroyed by hunger, leaving only the beast's instinctive desire to eat after smelling the fragrance of food.
"Doctor Ueno, is this the so-called experimental material?" Standing at the farthest place away from the ghost, Qingxi almost had the words "I am very disappointed in you" written all over his face.
"Of course." Ueno Arata said smugly, not noticing Qingxi's expression. "I begged the lord for a long time, and the ghost hunters finally helped me capture a living ghost."
Although she really didn't want to criticize this doctor who was very knowledgeable about medicine, she still had to complain about some things.
She asked, "But are you sure the internal organs of this ghost are arranged the same as ours?"
"Look at him, he has a tail, a snake's tongue, and scales on his back. No matter how you look at him, he looks more like a fish," Qingxi said.
Ueno Arata was speechless for a moment when asked, but he immediately perked up again, his eagerness to try increasing instead of decreasing.
He clapped his hands and said, "Then let's cut it open and see."
"Ghosts have the ability to heal themselves. As long as you don't cut them with the Nichirin Sword, the cut parts will grow back later. So, it doesn't matter even if we make a mistake." Ueno Arata almost said the slogan "It only takes one ghost to bring happiness to thousands of families."
At this time, not to mention Qingxi, even the young man Ueno Shin who was sent to protect him and proposed to use ghosts for experiments looked at him with a strange look.
Putting aside the question of why Dr. Ueno had called a little girl along when he was going to conduct an experiment on a ghost, was he crazy now? He actually wanted to perform an autopsy on a ghost in front of the little girl?
The young ghost hunter is now starting to feel a little worried. He is worried that the little girl in front of him will go crazy after she comes out of this dungeon which was originally an abandoned underground prison and was later renovated into a ghost dungeon.
Or, he could have kept her behind him while Dr. Ueno was performing an autopsy on the ghost, so that she wouldn't have seen that scene and would have been fine.
The young ghost hunter here saw that Ueno Arata had spread out the bag on his back, took out the longest knife from it, and stood on the side of the ghost facing him and began to gesture, thinking about how to cut the person vertically so that the wound would be flat and the organs in the body would not be damaged. He was already prepared and pulled the little girl behind him when the other party attacked.
It's just that he had good ideas, but some people just didn't act according to common sense.
"Ashi, come here."
Ueno Arata waved at Qingxi, and when she came closer, he squatted down until he was almost as tall as the little girl, "Aki, how do you think it would be better to cut it?"
"Is it really okay to ask a child this kind of question?" Qingxi asked back, suppressing the urge to complain in her heart.
"Hey! I almost forgot that you're still a child, Axi." Ueno Arata stared at Qingxi for a while, a look of realization appeared on his face, and he pushed the child aside, "In that case, I'll have to do it myself."
The moment he stood up, he pulled out the wakizashi he was using, and a cold light flashed. Looking from the side, the ghost's chest was cut flatly by the knife, revealing the various organs in the body. As one of the sides of the container holding these organs was violently cut off, these organs that were quietly staying in the body slid out mixed with a large amount of blood and fell to the ground, forming a large lump that had to be thickly mosaiced for underage children.
"Wow, Dr. Ueno, couldn't you warn me before you swung the knife?" Accompanied by the roars and screams of the ghost tied up with chains, Qingxi almost ran away from the place where blood was splattered, but because he was a little slow, there were still many blood spots on his clothes, and his face turned green.
As mentioned before, when she was a gourmet hunter, she spent her life fighting with prey, fighting with those gourmet hunters who wanted to snatch her prey with their bare hands. Corpses were already a common sight for her, not to mention that the one Ueno Shin killed was a ghost that was no longer a human.
What she cared more about now was that the other party had splattered her clothes with ghost blood without any notice.
Ueno Shin didn't listen to the girl's accusations. He had a good memory and had already seen the structure of the ghost's body clearly before the organs slipped out.
"It's just that the appearance doesn't look like a human, but the organs inside the body are no different from those of humans." Ueno Arata murmured in a low voice.
"Of course, this does not include the fact that when their bodies become less and less like humans, their organs will not change accordingly. There are too few samples. If we really want to study it, we have to catch more ghosts and bring them back for experiments." Ueno Arata continued.
However, ghosts are too good at hiding, and slightly higher-level ghosts become difficult to kill and catch. Lower-level ghosts, like this one, look almost beyond the scope of human beings, so the errors in experiments will be particularly large.
Ueno Shinzai just quickly went over the idea in his mind and gave up. It was not worth it and there was no need for it.
He will ask his lord and the Demon Slayer Corps to catch a demon for him. The main purpose is just to let him practice the acupuncture techniques he has learned from Qingxi in the past few months. He has learned the theory thoroughly, but that doesn't mean he can immediately find a few wounded people and practice on them. According to Qingxi, if he doesn't do it well and not save people, but pushes people to hell, how should this fault be calculated then?
Therefore, the ghost is very good. As long as he doesn't chop off the head with the Nichirin Sword, he can just practice on the opponent's body. Even if the acupoint training fails, the opponent will not die. After that, he can continue practicing for a while.
Ueno Arata stretched out his hand towards Qingxi, and Qingxi silently placed the universal acupuncture gun that she often used on the palm of her hand in front of her.
Ueno Shin took the universal blood-blasting gun and put the handle on his hand. Looking at his smooth movements, wouldn't you think he really fired blood at someone?
No, he just used to play with Qingxi's magic gun and familiarize himself with it when he was learning magic from her.
The ghost's self-healing ability is very fast. In just a moment, the chest that was chopped off by Ueno Shinpei expanded and grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if a balloon was blown up.
Out of curiosity, Qingxi stretched out a finger and poked Gui Meng's newly grown chest when he lowered his head and drooled, trying to tear off a piece of flesh from his body and chew and swallow it.
The newly grown muscle was not as soft as new flesh at all, and it fit in perfectly with the other muscles around it. If the mosaic on the ground had not disappeared, she would really believe that Dr. Ueno had just cut into the air.
"Hey! Why is there no reaction at all?" He touched the ghost's chest, feeling the beating sound of his heart under his chest, and Ueno Shin poked the universal blood-blasting gun in his right hand again.
Hearing the sound of something breaking from beneath the skin where he had touched the universal acupuncture gun, Ueno Arata shook his arm, "Tsk! Did I use too much force this time?"
"Come here, Watanabe-kun, come here." He picked up an empty chain lying on the ground in the corner, "Put this chain around his neck and pull it back tight. He always looks like he's about to bite me, which distracts me easily."
Watanabe Ryu was completely shocked by the two people in front of him who were not afraid of ghosts and could even discuss medical matters without changing their expressions after "torturing" ghosts. He lost control of his expression: ...
Suddenly, he felt that he was assigned to guard these two people who were described by the lord as having no fighting power, and who were worried that ghosts would suddenly escape and attack them during their experiments. It was a bit redundant to have a ghost hunter watching over them.
From his current perspective, the man-eating ghost wasn't scary anymore. What was scary were the two people in front of him, the head of the clinic who was judged by the lord to have no fighting power, and... I heard that they were the youngest medical staff in the clinic...
There was even an absurd thought in his mind at this moment: why wasn't such a cruel person a ghost hunter?
If we let them out, the ghosts would be scared too.
Oh, he remembered, because both of them were useless and had no fighting talent.
Watanabe Ryu's mind was in a complicated state, with his thoughts racing, but he didn't stop helping Ueno Shin to tie the ghost's neck back with an iron chain.
Now that the ghost's head was no longer in the way, Ueno felt relieved and continued with his previous practice.
Order xue for the first time.
Qingxi used the Dialysis Eye to check the condition of the ghost's heart: "The heart is broken into pieces, let's start over."
The second time he pressed the xue point, Ueno's new strength was reduced.
Qingxi: "My heart isn't broken, but it's not much better either." It's like a glass ball accidentally dropped to the ground. It may appear intact on the outside, but the inside is already covered with dense, tiny cracks. "Start over."
Click xue for the third time.
Qingxi: "Doctor Ueno, are you tired? Your strength is so gentle, can you help tickle me?"
The fourth time...
The fifth time...
The sixth time...
…
I don't know how many times...
Looking at Ueno Arata, who had gradually mastered the power of acupuncture on ghosts, Qingxi, who was already tired of standing against the wall, sighed with surprise: "Hey! Having a ghost as a training object is also quite good. One ghost, a day is enough for Dr. Ueno to gradually master the skills of acupuncture. If it were a real person, I don't know how much manpower and material resources would be spent just to find a target for him to practice on. And if it's like what Dr. Ueno did at the beginning, one person can only practice once...
I guess after poking the ghosts for a few more days, Dr. Ueno can get some monkeys to poke their blood and see how it goes.
Monkeys are the closest creatures to humans, and constantly poking ghosts isn't safe. Once I can perfectly point the monkeys, Dr. Ueno can try it on humans."
After confirming that the ghost tied with chains had been stabbed by Ueno Arata with something he didn't recognize that had two iron needles on it, leaving it without the ability to resist and looking like it had been beaten to death, Watanabe Ryu stood motionless not far from Ueno Arata. Coincidentally, the place where he was standing was not far from where Qingxi was leaning against the wall, so he, who had good hearing, heard all her mumblings.
At this point, what else is unclear to him? The acupuncture points that Dr. Ueno is learning now were learned from this little girl.
It’s no wonder that Dr. Ueno wanted to conduct experiments himself, but why did he have to bring this little girl with him?
At the same time, he also recalled the legends about the clinic among the ghost hunters in recent months.
Legend has it that there is a person there who can pull a team member back from hell when he has just died and make his heart beat again. Although it is not 100% possible to bring back the dead, even if only one or two of their team members can be saved, it can be said that it is a matter of great joy for the members of the Demon Slayer Corps.
But it was also rumored that when some injured Demon Slayers refused to cooperate with treatment, they would often use that person in the clinic when there was no one else who could subdue them, and have her stab each of the uncooperative members. Then, all the members who had originally looked ferocious and wanted to leave the clinic to take on missions to kill demons would become motionless and become wooden figures at the mercy of others...
Watanabe Ryu, who had never been sent to this clinic by the hidden team while killing demons and had never seen the people in the "legend" of that clinic: ...The case is solved.
Although he had heard others mention that the person who could make them speechless with just a poke was a girl, he had never thought that the girl was really that small.
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