hotmtlnovel Chapter 9 Rotten Flesh and Silver Knife
Chapter 9 Rotten Flesh and Silver Knife
Business came in faster than I expected.
That's true; regular hospitals charge exorbitant fees, so there's always a market for cheaper alternatives.
Especially when this alternative actually works.
Half a month has passed.
Every morning, a small queue forms in front of "Sosuke's General Store".
Most of them were poor people from the surrounding area.
The wounds on their bodies were all kinds of strange.
The sole of the foot was pierced by a rusty iron nail.
Bloodstains left by the cable.
There's also eczema on the child's body that oozes pus.
Sosuke did not select patients.
He's like an assembly line worker.
Clean, drain the water, and bandage.
Those bottles of "purified water," each costing 50 liang (approximately 250 grams), became the hard currency on this street.
People started calling him "Little Miracle Doctor".
Sosuke didn't like this title.
This will attract unnecessary attention.
But he needs money.
A lot of money.
At this moment, he was sitting behind the counter, with a sizzling lamb leg in front of him.
This is the entire hind leg.
It cost eight hundred taels.
Sosuke ate very fiercely.
He didn't even bother to chew properly, swallowing large chunks of meat, tendons and all, into his stomach.
He was forcibly making up for the deficit caused by refining chakra through eating.
Half a month of training.
The amount of chakra in his body finally changed from "two strands of hair" to the thickness of "a chopstick".
This is still very weak.
They might not even be as good as a first-year student at the Ninja Academy.
But this is a qualitative change.
He could now feel that this energy could slightly enhance his muscle strength, or make his vision as sharp as an eagle's for a short period of time.
"belch."
Sosuke let out a burp.
All that was left of the lamb leg was a clean bone.
The greasy feeling made him feel nauseous, but the cells deep inside his body were letting out a satisfied sigh.
Just then.
The sunlight outside was blocked.
It's not just one person.
It was a group of people.
The patients who were originally in line scattered in panic, as if they had seen a plague.
Sosuke wiped the grease from his lips and looked up.
It was an acquaintance who came.
The thug whose foot was pierced has now recovered his normal walking posture.
He was now respectfully leading the way.
Behind him was a man being carried on a makeshift stretcher.
Behind them followed a dozen or so burly men wielding wooden sticks and short knives.
Red Serpent Gang.
Sosuke didn't move, remaining seated in his chair, toying with the sheep bone in his hand.
"Clear the area."
The bald man leading the group gave a low shout.
The door to the grocery store was closed.
The curtains were drawn.
The light in the room dimmed, with only the flickering flame of an oil lamp on the counter.
The stretcher was placed on the open ground in front of the counter.
A foul stench filled the air.
It smelled like rotting flesh mixed with a strong, cheap perfume odor, making one want to vomit.
A middle-aged man was lying on a stretcher.
He was very thin, with a sallow complexion and sunken eyes.
His left trouser leg was cut open.
Thick black cloth was wrapped around his calf, and black blood was dripping down the strips of cloth.
"This is our boss."
The thug who had led the way walked to the counter and whispered to Sosuke.
"Brother Viper."
Sosuke nodded.
The name fits the gang's image perfectly.
"How did you do that?" Sosuke asked.
"He was bitten by a dog," the viper on the stretcher spoke, his voice weak and tinged with a chilling undertone. "A ninja dog."
Zongsuke's heart moved.
Ninja dog.
In this village, only the Inuzuka clan can keep ninja dogs.
It seems this gang leader has messed with the wrong person.
"It's been half a month," the viper gasped. "The flesh is rotting. We've used the best wound medicine, but it's no use. The wound keeps spreading."
"Have you consulted a medical ninja?"
"Rats like us from the gutter can't get into Konoha Hospital," Viper chuckled self-deprecatingly. "Even if we did, those high and mighty doctors wouldn't treat a thug like me."
He stared at Sousuke.
"I've heard that the water here can heal flesh and bones?"
"That's a rumor." Sosuke stood up and walked around the counter.
He walked up to the stretcher.
"Untie it."
His subordinates hesitated.
"Untie me!" the viper growled.
The black cloth was peeled away layer by layer.
As the last layer of cloth fell, the burly men around couldn't help but turn their heads away.
It's too awful.
A large chunk of flesh was missing from his calf, as if it had been ripped off by some kind of ferocious beast.
The edges of the wound were grayish-black, and yellowish-green pus was oozing inside.
The most terrifying thing is that you can vaguely see the white bones.
This is not an ordinary infection.
The teeth of ninja dogs are often coated with a secret toxin, or their saliva itself contains chakra that disrupts cell regeneration.
"This leg is almost useless," Sosuke said bluntly.
"Can it be saved?" Viper stared intently at Sosuke.
"Amputation can save a life."
"I make my living with these legs." Viper's hand reached for the short knife at his waist. "Without my legs, my enemies will chop me into mincemeat tomorrow. If they aren't healed, you won't survive either."
This is a threat.
A naked threat.
Sosuke's expression remained unchanged.
"It will be very painful to treat. And it will require scraping the bone."
"I'd rather skin you alive than let you lose my leg."
Sosuke nodded.
He turned and walked into the inner room.
"Prepare hot water, plenty of hot water. And a clean basin."
He gave the order.
The Red Serpent Gang immediately sprang into action.
Sosuke stretched out his hands from the shadows inside the room.
Thoughts surged.
This time, he created a knife.
A scalpel made of pure silver, extremely thin and extremely sharp.
Silver is too soft to be used for weapons, but it's good enough for disposable scalpels.
Moreover, pure silver itself has a very strong antibacterial effect.
In addition, he also created an extremely fine silver needle.
After doing all that, he came out carrying a tray.
The tray was covered with a white cloth.
"Hold him down," Sosuke said. "No matter what he screams, don't let him move."
Four burly men stepped forward and firmly pinned down the viper's hands and feet.
Sosuke unveiled the white cloth.
The silver blade gleamed under the oil lamp.
The viper's pupils suddenly contracted.
He was also an expert in knives and could tell at a glance that this knife was extraordinary.
No unnecessary words.
Sosuke made his move.
He doesn't need anesthesia, and there is none.
The blade cuts into the rotten flesh like a hot knife through butter.
"Ugh!!!"
The viper's body arched suddenly, and a beast-like growl came from its throat.
But he managed to hold back from crying out.
He's definitely a ruthless person.
Sosuke's hands were very steady.
Having lived two lives, and having watched countless surgical compilations in videos in his previous life, he was no stranger to human anatomy, even though he had never performed any surgeries himself.
More importantly, the chakra enhanced his vision and hand stability.
He can distinguish between rotten flesh and healthy tissue.
Chi Chi Chi.
The rotten flesh was cut off piece by piece and thrown into the basin.
Black blood gushed out.
Sosuke picked up the highly concentrated silver solution next to him—this was his special one, with a silver ion concentration ten times that of the ordinary commercial version—and rinsed the wound directly.
The violent chemical reaction caused white blisters to appear on the wound.
The viper finally couldn't take it anymore, let out a scream, then its eyes rolled back and it fainted.
Yeah.
To avoid unnecessary movement.
Sosuke continued cleaning.
Until bright red granulation tissue and white periosteum were revealed.
He picked up the silver needle.
This is used to detect deep-seated toxins.
He scraped deep into the wound.
This is what is known as "scraping the bone to remove poison".
The silver needles turned black.
It was indeed poisonous.
Sosuke took a deep breath, and his chakra surged, attaching to his fingers.
He sprinkled silver powder directly onto the bones.
This is the maximum dose of antibiotic therapy.