Plague Doctor

Bang bang, bang bang.

The sound of the ball hitting the ground resounded on this concrete basketball court. The old concrete floor was cracked and pitted in many places. The rusty basketball stand shook as the ball hit the backboard, and the basket also fell off. The paint was gone, and the Nets had long since disappeared.

Around here are some low rural houses.

Gu Jun seemed a bit familiar with this...

This is not a regular basketball court, just two basketball hoops set up in an open space in front of the village.

Normally, villagers would set up stalls in this open space to do business, and during busy farming seasons, they would also put harvested millet here to dry.

But the scenes that Gu Jun saw twisting together and flashing quickly were always related to basketball.

A group of children are playing basketball, a group of teenagers are playing basketball, running, jumping, shooting, colliding, shouting...

During the New Year, a basketball game is held in the village. The young people in the village who are the best at playing form a team to strive for glory for their respective villages.

The sidelines of the basketball court were filled with villagers and spectators. They cheered for every goal and celebrated for these young people.

That handless figure always stands alone among the crowd, looking in the direction of the basketball.

Gu Jun felt a desire, hope, and imagination, and reached out to pick up the ball and hit it, throwing it high like those people did, swaying his sweat, laughing loudly with his companions, but he had no hands, no hands... he couldn't pick it up. , there is no way... I tried my best, there is no way...

I could only stand aside and watch as if nothing had happened.

Only during the Chinese New Year, when so many people watch together, do we not have to be afraid to show our love and desire for basketball.

At this time, no one will notice it, no one will think that you are here to join in the fun, does it have anything to do with you...

Suddenly, Gu Jun felt that the longing was like a dark cloud that had accumulated for a long time and exploded into a storm, turning into a wave of pain that was about to tear his heart and liver to pieces and turn it into ashes. Let yourself turn to ashes in your sleep, as if you had never been in this world.

"Hello, Dr. Carlop..."

He heard someone say this, and the child in the crowd looked here, with a strange smile on his young face.

In an instant, the weirdness turned into a crazy color. Every blood vessel on the face was bulging, and black liquid was flowing inside. The two incomplete arms under the sleeves suddenly extended countless silk-like tentacles, "Negative... Choose Life would like to say hello to you!”

Gu Jun also felt a sudden pain in his head, and his mind was withdrawn from the illusion uncontrollably.

The children with countless fluttering tentacles are gone, the lively basketball court is gone, the small village is gone...

It was also at this time that he suddenly understood where that sense of déjà vu came from. He had been to this village before, breathed the air there, and walked through the lanes there. When he broke away from the world of "The King in Yellow" and returned to this world, Dongzhou was right there, that village.

Negative choice of life will happen, negative choice of life will...

Is this an organization...an organization that believes in Shub-Nicholas...that voice of negative choice...is it them...

Suddenly, all the phantom images were shattered into dust. Gu Jun felt his eyes were illuminated by the light of the shadowless lamp again. He was still in the operating room. Chen Yunping and the others' screams of shock reached his ears. Uncle Dan was calling him hurriedly: "Ajun!"

It was not because he was lost in thought at the moment. He had also seen that the affected limb on the small operating table, where the surgical team was making a circular incision of the periosteum on the osteotomy plane, began to struggle stiffly. The severed limb in the surgical area Muscles, nerves and blood vessels, as well as skin flaps, drag, lift, and struggle.

Although they had been mentally prepared for abnormal situations, Chen Yunping, the second assistant, the anesthesiologist and others were stunned for a moment, breaking out in cold sweat.

The experienced instrument nurse almost knocked over the instrument table, and Chen Yunping's right hand holding the scalpel was trembling slightly.

"Dr. Gu... something happened..." Chen Yunping originally wanted to peel off the periosteum distally, but this step could no longer be completed. His muscles were out of control and he told himself not to panic, not to panic. From intern to attending physician , from third assistant to chief surgeon, after undergoing numerous surgeries, a strange hand is nothing to be afraid of.

Chen Yunping didn't think he was afraid, but his heart was throbbing and sore, and he couldn't steady the muscles in his hands, which seemed to be an instinctive reaction of his body.

"Director Chen, get out of the way first!" Gu Jun came to his senses, immediately calmed down and walked quickly to the operating table, "Leave the rest to us."

He also felt chilly in his heart. The middle-aged patient was lying here under general anesthesia, doing nothing, and the old seal stone they moved did not respond.

But just like that, so quickly, without leaving any trace, the affected limb was infected and manipulated by unknown forces...

Even the City of Sunset is said to be the power of the enemy. Negative choice of life will...

"Uncle Egg, come and hold this hand down!" Gu Jun's heart was filled with complicated emotions. Even he couldn't understand it, but now he had to complete the operation. This patient really needed this operation... …

At the same time, Chen Yunping and others stepped aside sweating profusely, while Uncle Dan, Zhang Huohuo and other Tianji staff took their places beside the operating table.

The biggest difference between Tianji personnel and ordinary personnel is not how superb their medical skills are, but their ability to remain stable despite the mental pressure caused by abnormal forces.

"Don't worry, I'll cut it off right away!" Uncle Dan pressed down the strange hand heavily, but the force of the strange hand's movement was so strong that it still had to rely on the combined efforts of several other people to hold it firmly.

After stepping aside, the mental pressure on Chen Yunping and others was greatly relieved.

It can also turn faster, so when they saw Gu Jun taking out a strange-looking scalpel, they were not as stunned as before, but suddenly felt confused and nervous.

They were aware of Gu Jun's reputation, but they had never heard that he was good at orthopedic surgery, and his tools were weird...

Gu Jun held the Kallop knife in his hand steady. It was a scalpel, but it could also be a scalpel.

It had been a long time since he last performed orthopedic surgery in the operating room. He took a deep breath, calmly suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and peeled off the periosteum that had been circularly incised on the osteotomy plane to the distal end. .

Dr. Carlop, Dr. Carlop...

The surgical area of ​​this alien hand is rapidly undergoing mutation. The severed muscles, nerves, blood vessels and other tissues seem to be condensing into a mass and are about to mutate.

"Bone saw!" Gu Jun shouted.

Next to him, Zhang Huobao handed over an electric bone saw. Gu Jun held it with both hands and started it. The buzzing sound of the chainsaw suddenly sounded in the operating room.

Gu Jun held the hand very firmly, and under the glares of Chen Yunping and others, he lowered the humerus in the surgical area and sawed it horizontally, click click——

Love the Plague Doctor.