harleyscars Chapter 56 The Surgery is Complete
Chapter 56 The Surgery is Complete
When it comes to food preparation, the lynx's skills are unparalleled.
Following Chen Yan's instructions, they categorized the several herbivorous dragons into different types.
Dragon intestines, dragon tripe, dragon heart, dragon liver, dragon lungs, dragon belly, dragon tendons... all neatly arranged.
The dragon offal also shimmered with a purple light, clearly indicating that it had accumulated a large amount of toxins.
These toxins are deadly to hunters and lynxes, but to Rathalos, which also has venom glands in its body, they taste like a slightly chewy spicy snack.
Chen Yan thought that the male fire dragon, who was used to eating delicacies, would look down on the dragon offal, but he didn't expect it to eat it with such relish.
It seems that the rule that when you're starving, anything tastes good also applies to the fire dragon.
It ate a whole one and a half pieces of dragon offal before stopping, not because it didn't want to eat anymore, but because Chen Yan was afraid that if it kept eating, it would consume all the surgical materials.
After carefully washing his hands with precious clean water, Chen Yan stood in front of the fire dragon and looked directly into its eyes.
"It's going to hurt a lot, really hurt. If you don't want to become a walking dragon, you have to bear it!"
Now that the fire dragon has eaten and drunk its fill, the surgery can begin.
The first step, naturally, is to treat the broken wing bone.
According to the old lynx chieftain's experience, if an unlucky lynx slips and falls from a tree, breaking its leg, all you need to do is align the broken bones, piece them together, and then bind them with strong vines.
If you're lucky enough, the bone can set on its own.
As for those who were unlucky... he didn't ask the old lynx chieftain, nor did he say.
Chen Yan took a deep breath and gripped the two broken bones, one above the other, tightly wrapped in the skin of the fire dragon's right wing with both hands.
The little cat that had once guided him was perched on his left shoulder, clutching a soft towel woven from cat fur in its paws, carefully wiping his sweat.
The lynx with the most experience in setting bones in the lynx pack was perched on his head, racking its brains to guide Chen Yan in setting the Rathalos's bones.
Meanwhile, the cat with the best eyesight was perched on his right shoulder, its pupils almost slits as it tried to see through the Rathalos's hide and observe the position of its bones.
As Chen Yan gradually connected the bones and flesh, the excruciating pain of tearing flesh caused the male fire dragon to convulse violently once again. The reason it didn't cry out was because it was tightly biting a piece of wood in its mouth.
It couldn't make a sound because the lynx on guard had spotted the Thousand-Blade Dragon in the sky more than once.
After more than ten minutes, the first wing bone, with a fairly neat fracture, was successfully reattached, and Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Done! Send me a bundle of dragon intestines via express delivery!"
Following the instructions of the bone-setting lynx, Chen Yan used a bone needle almost as thick as his forearm to thread through the wing membrane next to the dragon's large intestine, binding the broken bone tightly and fixing it securely.
The second one went smoothly as well.
He didn't forget even the third one, which was broken in half, and tied it together tightly as well.
Without any anesthetic, the Rathalos, relying entirely on its willpower, nearly chewed the wood in its mouth to pieces. Blood oozed from the corners of its mouth, forming a pool of blood in front of it.
Looking at the trembling but silent male fire dragon, Chen Yan felt empathy for it. He tried to be as gentle and quick as possible.
He wanted to find some paralyzing mushrooms, sleeping grass, paralyzing gas frogs, or other things that could paralyze and knock it unconscious, but the crowned dragon didn't seem to eat these things. He sniffed around but couldn't smell anything, and after searching the vicinity, he had no choice but to give up.
"Next, we're going to stitch up your torn wing membrane. It will hurt even more than setting bones, so you...you have to bear it."
Looking into the Rathalos's bloodshot eyes, Chen Yan still felt a little reluctant.
"If you really can't stand it, just push me away. Actually, ground dragons are quite powerful. As long as you can keep charging, you're invincible..."
The fire dragon remained silent, simply changing to a different piece of wood and continuing to bite.
"Okay, I'm going to start."
Just as Chen Yan was about to reach out and pull at its wrinkled and curled-up wing membranes, he paused, suddenly looked up at the treetop, and opened his mouth to speak to the treetop out of the blue.
"Please help it, let it sleep for a while..."
The cat perched on his shoulder also looked up, but saw nothing but withered, yellowed leaves.
It thought Chen Yan had relapsed and was about to scratch him a few times to bring him back to his senses when it saw a clump of translucent slime appear out of thin air and land precisely on the fire faucet.
The fire dragon, who was convulsing in pain just a second ago, fell asleep the next.
"Thank goodness you were here!"
Chen Yan breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The lynxes didn't know who this "you" was, they just thought that Chen Yan had used some method to make the fire dragon faint.
But Flower Cat knew, especially when it thought that He seemed to want to use it for hot pot, even though it knew He was probably just teasing it, but that didn't stop Flower Cat from trembling even more than Fire Dragon.
It pulled a purple scale from the folds of its fat and stuck it on its forehead.
"You're Chen Yan's boss, and Chen Yan is my boss, so you're the boss among my bosses. According to the rules, a boss can't eat the food of his underlings who haven't done anything wrong..."
Flower Cat's Ramblings
"Alright, the first step in sewing the dragon's wing membrane is to align the unique dark wavy stripes on its wings!"
After the fire dragon fell into a deep sleep, the suturing surgery went smoothly, but the shape of the stitches wasn't very good. This was partly because Chen Yan's skills were not good, and partly because a part of its wing membrane had disappeared.
In order to sew them together, Chen Yan had to perform a small skin-lifting process.
The perfectly normal dark wavy stripes have turned into various irregular shapes such as question marks, periods, and parentheses.
"It's a bit ugly, but it shouldn't affect its flight."
The last thing to deal with is its strong hind legs.
This isn't difficult to handle. There's still quite a bit of dragon offal left. First, wrap it with thin dragon tripe, then wrap it with thin dragon small intestine, then wrap it with flexible dragon tendon, and apply herbal paste to the edges and corners... The surgery is complete!
After the surgery on the fire dragon was completed, only a small edge of the sun remained.
Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief. He had treated the fire dragon's wounds, set the bones in its wings, sewed up its wing membranes, and wrapped its hind legs tightly.
He has done all he can; whether the fire dragon can survive is up to it.
Chen Yan touched its cheek.
"Good luck, male Rathalos! Don't forget the female Rathalos waiting for you at home. If you don't make it, your carefully chosen wife might belong to someone else..."
Chen Yan only realized when he saw the bloodstains that suddenly appeared on its face that his ten fingers were covered in a thick purple color.
He then remembered that the venom glands inside the male fire dragon were connected to the claws on its hind legs. He had been so focused on performing surgery on it that he hadn't noticed when the dragon's gut gloves had torn.
"Ouch, that actually hurts a bit..."
Chen Yan, who had been poisoned for an unknown period of time, suddenly felt dizzy. He didn't try to hold on, but simply shook off the cats and the others and fell backward with peace of mind.
The old lynx chieftain reached out his paw to catch it, but was pulled away by the flower cat.
"Alright, I have people... Long Teng, we don't need you! It's getting late, I'll sleep here tonight... By the way, are you guys dancing tonight?"
Chen Yan did not fall to the ground. His half-fallen body slowly floated into the air and then disappeared little by little into the starry sky.
"It's so good to have you here..."