Myriad Paths

In the evening, when Suetaki walked in from the outside with bruises, he was followed by twenty-five patrol officer mechas.

He seemed a little dazed, and walked outside the shelter in a daze, and then fell down with a plop.

The twenty-five mechas behind him also turned off at any time and stood quietly in place.

The entire well at the entrance to the shelter fell into darkness and silence.

The darkness lasted for a while.

But there was a bang, and the door of the shelter was suddenly opened. There were several people inside, both men and women. Some of them were saved by Suotaki during the day, and Li Qi followed behind.

"Patrol Officer Li! He's back! The one you mentioned, he's back!" These people rushed to Suetaki.

They all know that Suetaki went out to search for information, and the more than twenty mechas behind him are probably the result. As the only patrol officer here, everyone else is worried.

As long as the patrol officer lives, they have a job!

"Get out of the way, do what you have to do when you get back." Li Qi pushed the person in front of him away, walked quickly to Suetaki, and patted the mecha that was afraid of being scarred.

This beat seemed to have touched an electrode, and the escape mechanism of the mecha was immediately activated. Each device suddenly opened its locks, and a repulsive force seemed to want to burst out and bounce all the devices away.

It's just that... the repulsion layer is broken, so the automatic escape mechanism also fails, and all the equipment is still mounted on the body.

Li Qi frowned slightly and patted again, so the last bit of energy in the repulsion layer was squeezed out, and all the equipment was ejected, leaving the unconscious Suetaki to fall out.

Li Qi examined it.

Um.

He had a cerebral hemorrhage, his brainstem was burned, the blood clot was twenty centimeters long, his arteries were blocked, his soul was weak, his heart was exhausted, and his body showed signs of being affected by martial arts and divine will.

Cerebral hemorrhage and brainstem burns should be caused by overloading of equipment connected to neural circuits.

Thrombus... is a side effect of stimulants. If you take too much, a coagulation effect will occur. With such a long thrombus, coupled with the cobweb hemorrhoids on the capillaries on the body, is it blocked? How many shots were taken? You won't use up all the reserves, right?

The weakness of the soul is the result of being oppressed by martial arts and divine will.

Is mental exhaustion the result of overthinking? Is it too much pressure from combat? Judging from the martial arts and divine will, wouldn't it be a head-to-head confrontation with a warrior? Is this the result of cracking the opponent's tricks, or is it because he did something particularly mentally demanding, such as... using his own brain as the center to control twenty-five or more mechas?

It’s really life-threatening.

Li Qi was a little surprised.

But he also immediately realized that it was not time to think about these things now, Suotaki was about to die.

To be fair, Li Qi didn't want the other party to die, but he didn't want to break his seal either. He also wanted to take this opportunity to regain a bit of his mortal perspective.

So, do your best now.

Li Qi immediately picked up the person and carried him to the operating table inside, then locked the door of the shelter.

Then, he controlled the more than 20 mechas outside to enter and opened the manned cabin of the mecha. It was filled with parts, medicines, and a small amount of finished equipment.

There is also a long knife that exudes a strong and ominous aura, which makes people afraid to approach it.

Everyone watched Li Qi rummaging among the medicines, seemed to find some medicine, and then walked into the operating room.

Then, there was a terrifying sound.

It's true, terrifying...

The women all started to tremble after hearing this.

"Sister...then, is that the sound of a chainsaw?" A younger girl asked shivering.

"Don't be afraid...it's about treating illnesses, right?" they said, not sure whether they were talking to their little sister or themselves.

But Li Qi was banging and banging inside. Although the sound was a bit scary, I have to say that the effect was very good.

Because he opened the skull at the beginning, which is a bit hard, and he has sealed his own cultivation, so he can't use the magic, so he can only use the chisel.

After knocking and smashing, he cut off half of the head with a chainsaw, and then all the congestion was released. As for the burnt brain stem, there was nothing he could do, just take medicine to take care of it.

Fortunately, there are special medicines in this world. According to Li Qi's estimate... the survival rate is probably above 30%.

To be honest, this survival rate is already very scary for a low-grade person. If the brain stem is burned, he should die immediately. When Li Qi was in the sixth or seventh grade, he went to the Buddhist Kingdom and died there. If someone burns your brain, it is a very serious injury. The degree of damage to the human body is very high, and it will also directly lead to the sluggishness of the thinking organ.

To be able to persist in collecting supplies despite such injuries, and finally collapse at the door of the shelter... Suotaki's willpower is really worthy of admiration.

Li Qidu regretted a little, he shouldn't have installed two engines on that mecha.

The output is high, and the degree of overload is also high. The nerves cannot withstand the impact. Although he has optimized the lines so that the two engines only produce the normal load of one engine, it is already very scary for the civilization of the Advance Alliance. It is difficult for the best scholars in the entire civilization to achieve this level of optimization, but due to the overall design ideas and limitations in actual part performance and material properties, that's it.

It's okay to burn the pilot's brain stem.

Carefully shave off the burnt marks on the brainstem. Logically speaking, the person is already dead at this time, because the heart has stopped beating at this time. After all, the brainstem controls cardiovascular movement, respiratory reflexes, swallowing and vomiting reflexes, etc. and a series of important physiological functions.

However, the Forward Alliance's operating beds have temporarily taken over these systems. The artificial lungs have completely replaced the respiratory system, the blood pump has replaced the heart, and the filter is filtering waste in the blood at a speed more than 200 times faster than the kidneys. These wastes include A large number of dead cells and burnt body debris. These metabolic wastes are enough to cause acute renal failure, but with this operating bed, these are not a problem. The Forward Alliance's external organs are very mature and can save him. life.

Moreover, Suetaki himself is no longer a natural person. His body has undergone many internal transformations, so it is not that fatal.

Li Qi started treating him intensively.

Scraping off the burnt parts of the brain stem, this action made the brain surgeon see that he was definitely going into respiratory arrest, but Li Qi's hands on operating the operating table instruments were very steady, and he only scraped off the useless parts at the cellular level.

Then... connect the external optical fiber and reconnect to the spine.

Fiber optic nerves, this is also Advance Alliance's technology, but it cannot replace real nerve endings. It can only replace those large nerves. But it just so happens that the internal nerve interface is on the spine and brainstem. This large nerve can use optical fiber. replace.

After the most important trauma is resolved, it will be time to recover slowly.

The most critical recuperation lies in the soul, and his soul is also very weak.

Fortunately, this is what Li Qi is good at. Although he has no cultivation level now, he still has some knowledge that can be used.

He walked outside and found the men and women who had been rescued. They were all handsome men and beauties, and it was their looks that allowed them to survive.

It's better to be ruined than to be sent to a concentration camp.

"I need your help now. I want you to hold some strings and light them up later." Li Qi said to them, without any intention of asking for advice, and in a direct tone of command.

"Patrol Officer Li, what is this?" someone wondered.

"Treat the disease, just follow it. Don't ask why, and don't mention it afterward." Li Qi ordered.

As he said that, Li Qi twisted the rope with five-color thread, tied it with a curse on the patient's neck, hands, feet, waist and abdomen. He extended the rope and gave it to everyone to hold. Shi Huaxuan tied it and cursed the five-color thread to make a wish.

He also put the seal on the thread, cursed forty-nine times, and tied forty-nine knots.

He was supposed to be holding an incense burner, but there was no incense burner, so Li Qi folded one with paper, and then found some spices of different properties, wood, cloth, and even seasonings from canned food in various places. With his knowledge, he made some incense powder that was barely usable, kneaded it into a paste, burned it dry, burned various incense, and ground it into fragrant foam.

Ritual spells were Li Qi's specialty.

With the help of the power of these people, he planned to construct a ritual to warm and nourish Suetaki's soul using the five elements of human energy, human soul, earth energy and weather.

He did what he said, told others to pick up the thread, and then he started to arrange other things.

However, in the eyes of others, Li Qi's behavior seemed particularly strange.

His movements were particularly weird, he said some words that no one could understand, sang some cold and weird rhymes, and looked weird.

He tied the patient's wrists, ankles, chest and abdomen with silk threads, then pulled the threads out and ran them around the room. Then he looked for many strange things and burned them to ashes in the corners. Twisting it into a thread, and then folding the paper into a bunch of incomprehensible things, mumbling words, the whole person seemed confused.

It's so weird, so eerie.

This scene made other people's hair stand on end, but they didn't know what to say. After all... this was a patrol officer.

A patrol officer was doing these phantom and strange things, coupled with the apocalyptic atmosphere around him, even one girl was frightened to tears.

They held the thread and did not dare to relax, but they whispered in private.

"What... is this? Why does it look like the sacrifices I saw in the previous video..."

"Stop talking. If you don't talk, you won't be afraid."

The atmosphere of the scene was very strange, and they also smelled a strange smell. Li Qi was squatting in the corner, and the ash from the burning was very indescribable. The smell was like rotten meat that had been fermented for a long time, mixed with some... The fragrance of flowers and various edible spices are mixed together to create a pungent taste.

Everything was so terrifying. To them, it was as if they had fallen into a devil's cave overnight.

Outside are ruins, piles of corpses and various monsters.

In the shelter, there is another patrol officer who is chatty.

All he can believe now is Suetaki, who saved them but was lying on the operating bed.

"Patrol Officer Suotaki...get well soon." Several people couldn't help praying.

This kind of 'will power' was gathered by Li Qi along the thread.

This is ‘popularity’.

This place is originally underground. As long as it is arranged and guided, it will have earth energy.

There is no way to find the weather, so we have to get it from the incense made by Li Qi. After Li Qi's exquisite blending, these incense ashes have the ability to induce the weather with his knowledge.

The three are combined into one, and five silk threads are added to form a formation, just like a wire, guiding all the energy into Suetaki's soul, and the ceremony is completed.

All this seemed strange and inexplicable to outsiders, as if they had entered a horror game.

But Li Qi didn't care about it. As long as those people held the silk thread and didn't let go, it didn't matter what they thought.

It's just that... Li Qi's indifferent attitude made the atmosphere even more weird. As the only person who knew the truth, his typical shamanic and shaman-like behavior pushed everything into a more terrifying atmosphere.

In the eyes of others, he was like a weirdo who was crazy because of the end of the world.

But anyway, this thing really works.

One day later, the ceremony was almost over, but the men and women holding the silk thread were already exhausted, and some indescribable fatigue pressed on their chests.

Li Qi prepared some food, placed it in front of them, and said, "Okay, give me the thread, you guys eat something, and then have a good rest."

After hearing Li Qi's words, they were as if they had been pardoned. They quickly dropped the silk thread, took their own food, and then found a small corner in the shelter to have a good rest.

They had been sitting there with the silk thread for a whole day, and they were exhausted, not to mention that the essence of the silk thread was to gather their popularity. Although it would not hurt, it was really tiring, just like reading a book at high intensity, which was exhausting.

Li Qi began to gather the silk thread, and then sprinkled the incense ash on Mitaki's body.

Although this may cause infection, after all, the incense ash is not very clean, but the power in it is enough to warm the soul.

As for infection... and it is a sterile infection caused by foreign objects entering the body...

Well, take some anti-inflammatory drugs, it's more practical.

After all, both mysticism and medicine must be grasped, and both hands must be strong. Both are right, so just use them.

On the third day, Mitaki, who was rescued by Li Qi, finally woke up.

Li Qi looked at the other party and breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh... Finally woke up, good brother, how do you feel? I replaced the connection between your brain stem and spinal cord with optical fiber. Is there any hysteresis? If so, then you have to lie down, I have to do some more surgery on you."

"Not... okay, no hysteresis, how many artificial organs did I replace?" Mitaki made a weak hoarse voice.

"None was replaced, my skills are very good, take a good rest, the nutrient solution is being infused, enough for you to recover, don't think too much, sleep more, it is good for the recovery of the nervous system." Li Qi patted the other party: "Okay, the tranquilizer has been injected, go to sleep."

Before he finished speaking, Mitaki fainted again.

The drug is very strong.