Rust - Chapter 85



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RUST -85

operating room.

The medical staff were on high alert because of the person waiting right next to them. The person who came in, lightly ignoring the ban on entry.

Everyone was in a state of peak concentration as the nurse, who had been crying without any sense, saying, “I don’t know if I’m human or an oni,” after a brief, quiet interview, pleaded, “I can definitely do it. Please don’t kick me out of the operating room.”

[The patient has evidence of internal bleeding···.]

[Right upper arm, ulnar and radial arteries, and the pronator rotator cuff area···.]

CT, MRI, and X-ray images appeared on a large monitor. The two surgeons who had repeatedly reminded the staff of the method and order of the surgery simultaneously entered the surgery. They began the internal bleeding and the removal of the fragments of the right arm at the same time.

Maru had a pink medicine in a syringe. If necessary, he planned to ask for a direct injection by inserting a needle into the critical area. The surgery proceeded without a hitch.

Ki-soon’s right arm, which was a mess due to large and small fragments, was dismantled in detail and the fragments were removed. Except for the fact that the air became chilly for a moment when a blood vessel was touched in the middle, it was so fast that it was hard to call it a difficult surgery.

The problematic area was the abdomen, the internal bleeding area. When I opened it up, it was worse than what I had seen with the CT and MRI scans. There were more parts of the internal organs that were messed up due to the impact than I thought. I was preventing acute infection with painkillers and antibiotics, but it was suspected that it would progress to multiple organ failure.

The surgeon paused for a moment, wondering where to start. He raised his head slightly without realizing it, and saw Maru’s long, curved eyes. The words that the patient should rest when he is in trouble came to mind. He would probably rest forever.

[Chick Show.]

[?]

The staff reacted to the low muttering. It was definitely a situation where [swearing] was coming out.

“In order, let’s start with the part of the small intestine that needs to be resected. Let’s try to save the liver and spleen as much as possible···?”

Maru intruded in the middle.

“Where is the dangerous place?”

I wanted to say, ‘You know when you see it?’ but no one did.

A very kind explanation followed. Maru felt strange as he looked at Gi-sun’s intestines.

This is your friend’s stomach. It’s dark here and there, kid. I knew it would be like this. You can even see the yellow fat. Was it visceral fat?

I thought that if I used medicine on all the areas that were dying black, there wouldn’t be enough medicine. I thought that it would be more effective to use it on the sutured area after excision to help it heal quickly.

“Just get the surgery done. Don’t worry about me.”

In an instant, the work of tearing and sewing began here and there. Who would have thought that I would see the mystery of the human body through my friend’s body? Maru gently put a syringe on the sutured area. Everyone was saying, “What should I do?”, “What should I do?”, but they couldn’t stop him. Maru calmly dropped a drop on the sutured area.

Bugrrrr

The flesh twitched and bubbled where the medicine touched. After all, direct contact was the best.

“Take out the sutures.”

“Yes? Yes-”

The surgeon nodded his head in surprise at the absurd sight. He removed the suture. The hole healed in an instant. The intestines were cleanly attached with just one drop.

“Let’s do the other side quickly too.”

“Yes? Yes.”

The eyes of the staff, including the surgeon, turned to the syringe that Maru was holding. Their eyes sparkled as if they had forgotten their fear. As expected, they were human. Maru’s eyes narrowed gently.

My right arm, which was said to be paralyzed due to nerve damage, was treated with a single drop directly injected into the nerve area. The same goes for the liver and spleen. By directly injecting it into important areas, a lot of medicine was definitely saved.

The eyes of all the medical staff were focused on the pink medicine that fell one drop at a time. Their desperate eyes were trying to capture the moment when it fell from the tip of the needle. What kind of expression would President Charlotte have when she found out that she had thrown away a bait? Japan was already in ruins anyway, so what do these people have to say?

What can we do? The road ahead is long, and we need medical staff. We can’t go to the hospital every time, and we can’t go back and forth to the hospital, right? Even if we made this our base, it was the same. There was a nurse in the group, but we needed a doctor who could provide direct treatment.

‘It doesn’t matter if things get bigger.’

If a problem arose, everyone could just proceed in peace and order.

[Operating Room 3 Code Blue. Code Blue.]

[Surgeon Miyazaki, call operating room 3. Code blue.]

One of the medical staff members whose eyes had been drawn to the syringe came to his senses after hearing the broadcast.

“What’s going on?”

“I heard there was an emergency in operating room number 3 next door.”

Huh? If it’s operating room number 3, then there’s security guard number 1.

“What if it’s an emergency?”

“If a code blue is issued, you can assume that the survival rate is 30 to 40% or less.”

Oh, you really don’t know if you’re going to die. If you take the medicine and bodyguard 1 dies, that’s the same thing. There was still medicine left in the syringe. Maru went to the next operating room with a doctor named Miyazaki. And that pink medicine lifted the code blue.

Since Maru had already started the work, he went to the first operating room where the surgery was going on for a long time and used two drops on the nurse who had been stabbed in the stomach and chest. With just two drops, the critical situation was stabilized. The eyes of the medical staff operating on the nurse also turned around.

The combination of surgery and medicine showed truly crazy efficiency. The three seriously injured people who were brought in were treated to almost minor injuries. And when there were only one or two drops left, Maru used the rest on Kim Yang’s right arm.

As the last drop fell, just as the last leaf fell, tears of blood seemed to flow from the eyes of the medical staff. ‘Samples! The last drop!’, ‘The seriously injured.’, ‘For surgery on a terminally ill patient.’ It seemed as if silent screams were echoing.

What should I say about Kim Yang’s expression? It was a bit sharp, I guess. ‘If there was medicine like this, I should have used it a long time ago. What have I done? I just put on a cast and took it off, sewed it up and took it off.’ It was like that kind of feeling. Of course, when our eyes met, his face changed to a grateful expression as if nothing had happened.

“But shouldn’t you have kept it for emergencies?”

If combined with surgery, two drops could cure even fatal injuries. Since it was used to remove the cast on her right arm, Kim Yang’s worries were understandable. Maru didn’t budge, no matter what.

“Your arms are more important now.”

“yes?”

“Fighting power is important.”

“Ah… yes.”

I didn’t know when the two drops left in the syringe needle would evaporate. It wasn’t even 2mL, it was just two drops. If anything, it would fly into the air. If I gave them even that as a sample, wouldn’t they be here to study it? Wouldn’t it be a trick to say that I could study it if I followed them? It was right to treat Kim Yang, who had a definite long-range attack power, since it was something that had to be used right away anyway.

Rumors of the pink pill hit the hospital hard. The number of medical staff who actually saw the effects of the pill was 15. Those who didn’t see it didn’t believe it. Even if they didn’t believe in the instant regeneration pill, everyone acknowledged that there was a drug that was so good that it could lift the code blue.

“Is there any more of that medicine?”

“Please give me a sample.”

“This is a discovery that will be remembered in the history of medicine. It would be a sin to monopolize it.”

“Why did you hide the fact that there is a rapid cure?”

“If there is such a drug, shouldn’t we mass-produce it and save people!”

“We must share it for humanity!”

There was chaos, but it was easy to suppress. Ssuk- Maru pulled out his sword from his waistband and everyone fell to their deaths.

“There’s no medicine left. I’ve used up all of it. Didn’t you see? I used up every last drop of medicine in the syringe. If you saw it, why are you acting like this? Are you having trouble with your eyesight?”

“And I don’t know anything about drugs. How did I come to know about such drugs? If I knew, would I be here like this?”

Swish swish – As he waved the sword around, people’s eyes followed the sword. There was some credibility to his words. Yes, the sword was plausible. What would that swordsman know about medicine? Well. Watch him swing the sword. He knows nothing.

“There’s no point in talking so loudly here. If you’re thinking of going to the place where I got the medicine, please write a self-introduction or something like that. After reviewing, I’ll only accept 2-3 people. Got it?”

The medical staff that had rushed in quickly dispersed.

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Kyaak-

Ki-soon, who woke up from general anesthesia, spat out phlegm. The phlegm was boiling and tasted like death.

He had a bandage wrapped around his arm, but the major wound had healed. Since he had used minimal medication, there were still minor wounds here and there. Ki-soon was surprised to see the bandage wrapped around his stomach. Usually, open surgery doesn’t heal this quickly.

“It was really dark inside. It was like that because it was so rotten inside.”

Maru said, handing me an ionic drink.

“Fuck. Is that what you say to someone who just came back from the dead?”

“That’s what I’m saying. Don’t pretend to be kind in this world. You’re really evil inside. You’re evil. You have oily intestines. So you’re a bourgeois with a dark inside and oily stomach. You pretend not to be.”

“Shut up. Cough. Cough. Oh, I’m dying. Seriously. So what are you going to do from now on?”

“What are you going to do? It’s going according to plan. But looking at the situation here, it’s definitely a failure.”

“Is it that serious?”

“Fuck. I really don’t know what’s going to happen. More than anything, I’m just scared.”

‘I said I didn’t have a good feeling.’ This was especially true when I thought about the scene I saw in the control room.

“I can’t wait until you and your bodyguard get better, so I’ll go to Tokyo and come back, so keep an eye on them.”

“If you go, I’ll go too. Don’t you know? You said it didn’t feel good? We should go together.”

“Where are you going together? Just stay. Even if it treats external injuries, it doesn’t treat bacterial or viral infections. Just stay at the hospital and get treatment. How many times do I have to tell you that we only use the medicine for the critical parts because we don’t have much? You and the bodyguard both need treatment for a week.”

In a week, it would be enough time to go back and forth to Tokyo by land twice. Ki-sun nodded with a dissatisfied expression. If I forced myself to go along and got caught, it would be even more annoying.

“Fuck. Okay. I’ll be there, so just go and be back.”

“I’ll leave some weapons with the boss’s men. If anything happens, do it decisively. The infected are human, so we can control them. If any of those guys say anything until a cure is found, just throw them out. If we keep taking care of the infected in the current situation, we’ll all end up in trouble.”

[Code Black. Code Black.]

[Code black situation occurs in the 1st floor control room hallway.]

[Code Black due to Code Gray.]

Ki-soon frowned. Where did you hear something called a code black?

“What happened? If it’s black, does that mean there’s a sudden increase in patients?”

“Why did a patient suddenly appear? I heard about Code Blue earlier, so I understand, but what about Gray?”

Even though the situation was a mess, they were still looking for a code that only they could understand, so Maru shook his head, thinking, ‘This is really annoying.’

“Hey, I should go and see what’s going on. Just in case, lock the door.”

“Okay. Cool. Be careful.”

‘I was trying to do this well.’ It won’t go well. Instead of answering, Maru moved his feet.

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There was chaos on the air. People were looking for codes, looking for emergencies, and it was just a huge fuss.

“Ms. Kim. Is there a problem there?”

[Chijik- No problem.]

I checked and there was nothing going on on the 2nd floor. So there was nothing going on on the 3rd floor where I was, and there was nothing going on on the 2nd floor where Ms. Kim was, but something happened only on the 1st floor?

“First, check the barricade with the gentlemen over there, and reinforce any parts that need reinforcement. If there’s any problem, contact me.”

[Beep- Check and reinforce barricades. Chit- Understood.]

I went to the open center from the 4th floor to the 1st floor and looked down at the 1st floor lobby. People were gathered in front of the elevators, making a mess of the lobby. The stairs were barricaded, so I could only go by elevator.

Whoosh-

I jumped from the third floor railing to the second floor railing, grabbed the second floor railing, and landed on the first floor table.

Kwaaaaah

Rattle rattle rattle

The corridor inside the control room on the first floor. The barricade blocking the room was shaking due to the infected people who had gathered. The people who had gathered in the lobby on the first floor were groaning but trying hard not to scream, as if they knew that screaming would only make things worse.

‘How did this shit happen?’

The door to the disaster storage facility was open, and the door to the control room on the first floor was also open. The door to the broadcast room was… Now that I think about it, the broadcast had been cut off at some point.

I looked into the control room and it was a mess. Two people were sprawled on the floor.

What the fuck.

The abdomen was dug out, and the head was broken. It was in a similar condition to what I had seen inside the control room at first. There were three dead people in the storage room. Likewise, their heads and abdomens were dug out.

Through the slightly open crack of the broadcasting room door, the sound of greedy eating could be heard. It was neither a slurp nor a grumble.

Whoo-woo-

Maru spat out the emotions that were welling up in him. It was like shit, it was like a fucking thing, he blew away all the unpleasantness and disgust and opened the door gently.

I met the eyes of a woman who was still alive and shedding tears. Her eyes, trembling slightly, were filled with longing for life. Then I saw the back of the infected person who was slurping the insides of the woman’s stomach open like eating soup.

Phew-

The blade silently plunged into the infected person’s nape. He grabbed the infected person’s nape as he fell forward in the same position he had been slurping, and pushed him to the side.

Wormwood – A blade that can be pulled out.

Click. Click.

The feeling was a little different. It didn’t feel like this in the morning. It didn’t feel like this at lunch either. The feeling on the blade was a little different.

Are you being too sensitive?

First of all, how did this shit happen?

There were marks where the barricade had been pushed.