The Death List Novel - Chapter 26

Chapter 26 Fake Show and True Drama
Hearing Frank’s gong-like voice, the townsfolk involuntarily opened a passageway and looked back. A young gentleman dressed in decent clothes and carrying a small medical kit was walking out of the crowd with a confident and friendly smile on his handsome face.

The few doctors in Odia had long since been annihilated. Although no one wanted to mention this matter, the townsfolk were well aware of it. They did not know the young man in front of them, nor did they think that he could cure the ferocious plague that the old doctors were helpless against.

However, before witnessing the harsh facts, people would always leave behind a trace of hope in their hearts. And now, this sliver of hope had been placed on this young doctor, especially this townsman who was unconscious on the streets, completely shattering the false peace that the entire townsman had painted.

“He’s too ill to send him home.” Qin Lun squatted beside the patient, flipped through the townsman’s eyes and tongue, then turned around with a serious expression and shouted, “Frank, tell some people to set up a small tent around him. I need to operate on him immediately!”

“Alright, Young Master, I’ll call some people over!” Frank turned out of the crowd and returned to the plaza with a few young men from the town and some tarpaulins.

A small tarpaulin tent quickly appeared in the center of the town square of Odia. The tent was surrounded by three sides and only one side was exposed. It seemed that the young doctors needed some light, but of course, it was very much like they were deliberately looking in the direction of the crowd, revealing a gap that allowed them to witness the treatment process with their own eyes.

Seeing that everything was moving in the direction he had expected, Qin Lun smiled. However, just as he lowered his head, his brows furrowed. The patient who had been lying beside him had his eyes closed and his forehead was covered in cold sweat. He had clearly heard Qin Lun’s words about the operation.

Qin Lun stretched out two fingers and gently pressed down on the patient’s carotid artery. Very quickly, the patient’s breathing slowly calmed down, and his restless eyes also calmed down. This time, he was really unconscious due to lack of oxygen in his brain.

Opening the medicine chest, Qin Lun took out a small transparent test tube. He pumped the liquid into the syringe and injected it directly into the vein on the patient’s arm until there was not a single drop left. The liquid in this tube is an anesthetic, also extracted from some plant in this world.

After getting ready for the anesthesia, Qin Lun put on his mask and thin leather gloves. He took out a leather sleeve from the medical kit and spread it out. Inside was a complete set of surgical instruments. There seems to be no rubber in this world, and only cured animal hides can be used as surgical gloves.

In fact, the amount of anesthetic Qin Lun injected into the patient was simply not enough for general anesthesia, nor could he last for a complete thoracic and abdominal surgery. Surgery in the dusty plaza was even more ridiculous.

Under normal circumstances, regardless of whether the surgery is successful or not, patients will most likely die from bacterial infections, and even antibiotics are difficult to prevent such postoperative infections.

However, at this time, even if there were other doctors in Odia Town, no one would stop Qin Lun. After all, this disease was a contagious disease that could quickly kill people. If they didn’t operate, they would still die. It was better to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Otherwise, if Qin Lun beat him up, he would definitely get into trouble.

However, Qin Lun would not have done so if there were still regular doctors in Auditoria Town. He chose to operate in public in order to gain his reputation. If there were other doctors, they would inevitably be questioned afterwards, which would be self-defeating.

During this period of time, Qin Lun had studied a few medical books brought out from Stan Xiaolou and had a general understanding of the structure of the human body and the medical system in this world. In addition, he had studied a complete set of clinical medicine, which was enough for him to complete his theoretical reserve.

As for surgery, although Qin Lun wasn’t a regular surgeon, his hands were probably more stable than most brain surgeons. The nickname “Decomposer” wasn’t for nothing.

Of course, all of this alone was not enough to make the operation a success. Qin Lun was actually just putting on a show. His true confidence came from the World Tree Dew.

Qin Lun took a deep breath and his gaze became focused. The sharp scalpel in his hand sliced down the patient’s chest towards his navel. The wound was as thin as hair and blood oozed out. After slicing a vertical blade, he sliced two more times along both sides of the patient’s clavicle, forming a “ya” wound with the first blade.

In fact, this knife technique is not orthodox surgery, but more like a doctor dissecting a corpse. However, Qin Lun had no other choice. He did not have a modern fluoroscopy instrument. He could only open his saber, but he could not clearly see the specific situation inside the patient’s body cavity.

After breaking through his skin and flesh, Qin Lun forcefully pulled open the patient’s sternum, revealing his bloody chest. As the amount of anesthesia was too small, the patient in his unconscious embrace revealed a trace of pain on his face, and his heart began to beat rapidly.

Qin Lun knew that he could not prolong the operation. Otherwise, the patient would definitely not be able to last. As his gaze moved, he quickly noticed the green spots on the patient’s internal organs. The green dots looked like mold. Although the organs hadn’t started to rot yet, a strange smell had already appeared in his chest.

Qin Lun did not attempt to remove these green spots. This was already a large-scale infection. It was like a cancer cell that had completely spread. No surgery could do anything about it. However, his current operation was only a show, so he didn’t need to worry about these green dots.

Qin Lun raised his knife and cut off the most severely infected small intestine in the patient’s body. Then, he took out Frank’s flat wine jug and poured a few mouthfuls of the diluted World Tree Flower Dew into the patient’s body. Then, he poured the remaining diluted flower Dew evenly into his body cavity.

The World Tree Dew did not disappoint Qin Lun. The green spots disappeared at a visible rate as if they were natural enemies. Even the patient who was in pain slowly opened his eyebrows, revealing a relaxed expression.

Qin Lun heaved a sigh of relief and nodded to a waitress who came to help him at a nearby inn. He signaled her to wipe the sweat off him and then began to stitch up the wound.

Half an hour later, Qin Lun completed the “live” operation at an extraordinary speed.

When the relatives of the patients rushed over and carried the awakened patients out of the tent, and when Frank proudly held the rotting green intestine in sackcloth and showed it to the townsfolk, a long-suppressed cheer finally erupted from the main square of Odia Town.

“Long live! Long live!”

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“Morrison, are you really alright?” Catherine asked worriedly as she looked at the young man.

“Of course, as long as the family burns all the items Morrison has come into contact with and doesn’t let him get infected with the disease, he should slowly recover!” Qin Lun slowly ate the pastries Catherine had brought.

“That’s good, that’s good!” Catherine heaved a sigh of relief. Then, she stared at the young man and burst out with a fiery light. “That brat’s luck is really good!”

“His luck and I are pretty good!” A meaningful smile appeared on Qin Lun’s face.

Morrison wasn’t the only one who was lucky. He was also lucky. Normally speaking, this mission would not be accomplished this way. He was relying on the World Tree Dew provided by Mafa to take a shortcut.

At noon, the surgery show in the town square was actually the result of Kieran begging Katherine. Morrison was actually just a neighbor that Catherine knew. He had just developed symptoms of an epidemic two days ago and was about to have his family send him out of town.

This Morrison’s body was strong, and his epidemic condition wasn’t very intense. The coma on the street in the town square was faked. The surgery behind it was not fake at all. Qin Lun had indeed saved his life.

In fact, he had already planned this surgery show before Qin Lun arrived at Auditoria Town.

Why did Qin Lun choose Catherine’s hotel instead of the one with better business? One reason is that the better-off innkeeper is a middle-aged man and Catherine is a middle-aged woman. Another reason is that innkeepers with good business are harder to buy with money.

Women are born to gossip. Men are unwilling to dig into the bottom of things. Women will definitely get more detailed information. Coupled with Catherine’s poor business, she was more susceptible to the temptation of money. Qin Lun had originally planned to use the money he had to bribe Catherine to arrange such an operation show.

However, he didn’t expect that the person he chose would be unexpectedly suitable. Although she had sacrificed a little bit of her lust, Catherine had helped him find Morrison. If it was that middle-aged man who was also the innkeeper, even if he could use money to buy him off, there was no way he could find someone like Morrison who could turn a fake show into a real show.

As for Morrison, his communication was even smoother. The family that had been in despair now had a chance to cure their illness, so how could they not be willing to cooperate with Qin Lun? Moreover, as long as Morrison could be cured, the fake show would naturally become a real show. The green rotting intestine was taken from Morrison’s stomach on the spot.

With the testimonies of the onlookers, the show was a complete success. The only thing Qin Lun needed to consider now was when Baron Albert would send someone to invite him.

In the next few days, Katherine’s inn became the center of the town. The townsfolk who had originally concealed their illness began to appear and compete to invite Qin Lun to treat their family. The middle-aged woman smiled. It had been many years since she had seen such a good hotel business. She worked very hard to serve Qin Lun at night.

Qin Lun neither refused nor agreed to the townsfolk’s requests for treatment. He was very strict in choosing patients to treat. The World Tree Dew on his body had already been used up by two drops. There were at most four drops left in the thumb-sized crystal bottle. It was impossible for him to continue wasting it for these townsfolk.

However, not all the sick townsfolk were suffering from that strange disease. Qin Lun could tell that several of them were just ordinary diseases. These people were the best people to treat. Qin Lun used the antibiotic “Wisteria Mixture” that was comparable to gold in this world, and the effects were similarly incomparably remarkable.

When the fifth fully recovered townsman walked out of Catherine’s inn, the Baron of Albert Castle finally sent an envoy to invite Qin Lun to the suburb castle as a guest!