Plague Doctor

"Is this a human specimen?"

"Certainly not, this doesn't look like human skin..."

The ten groups of students had their own discussions. The ten dissecting tables contained almost the same thing in the refrigerator. It was a large rectangular piece, which looked like a part of the torso of a living thing, but the exposed skin was dark and slightly rotten. Marin's pungent smell can't hide its own strong smell.

"Haojun, what do you think?" Cai Zixuan asked again.

Gu Jun looked at the thing on the dissecting table, and the more he looked at it, the more strangely familiar he felt...

"I think this is the chest of some kind of creature." He said to Cai Zixuan and Wang Ruoxiang, "Look, here, here." He pointed to the four sections of the thing, up, down, left, and right, and said, "I guess these sections were originally It connects the neck, upper body and abdomen."

"That's right." Wang Ruoxiang imagined a complete torso, and frowned, "So this is a humanoid creature?"

Cai Zixuan asked in surprise, "Could it be a deformed body caused by another disease?"

Some other students also had his idea. Sun Yuheng and Yang Ming of the Youth University team thought so. It seemed that the situation was really serious.

"It may be, or it may be a different kind." Gu Jun said, reaching out with his right hand and pressing this breast slightly. This is definitely the worst breast he has ever pressed.

The epidermis is said to be skin, but it is more like a thick layer of hypertrophic keratin. If you press it down a little harder, you can feel a solid sense of resistance. It is a bone, a large flat bone on the chest... a plate bone?

Thinking about it, Gu Jun opened the incomplete structural map in his mind, and looked at it side by side. The two seem to be really the same kind of creature.

"Then how should we start?" Wang Ruoxiang asked, now she is the first deputy, Cai Zixuan is the second deputy, and Gu Jun is the one who is the chief surgeon.

A few days ago, since Gu Jun showed his skills in the laboratory, it was all up to him to make up his mind.

"Let me think about it first." Gu Jun was still looking at the chest, designing an anatomical plan.

At the same time, other contestants were also looking at it, and the teachers and students in the audience were also looking at it.

The first step in anatomy is to make an incision, and separate the various layers of tissue, organs and structures in a textured and step-by-step manner.

If you directly stab it with a knife and cut it open, that's not called dissection, it's called dismemberment.

Only when all the parts are completely removed, can we observe the differences between those diseased organs and structures in terms of size, shape, structure, texture and other characteristics compared with their normal state, so that we can understand related pathology.

By dissecting a different species, one can also clearly understand its physiological structure and figure out what kind of creature it is.

These are the meanings of anatomy in medicine.

If it is an anatomy of the human chest, the students know exactly what to do. The median chest incision, the upper chest incision, the lower chest incision, the oblique chest incision... But now they can only stare in confusion. I really appreciate those pioneers of human anatomy. The mood when the knife was used for the first time.

It can only be done while groping, but not divided into corpses. This is the difficulty of this round of assessment.

"Students, let's play freely." At this time, Professor Qin said again, "I forgot to say just now, please complete this dissection within two hours."

Some contestants and students suddenly became impatient. Is it only two hours? It was one hour less than the normal autopsy.

The judges' reaction to everyone's reaction is really no surprise. This is not the first time this kind of assessment is done. Basically, the students will be divided into corpses in the end, and it depends on who has the ideas and skills in the division.

They looked around, even though they already knew that Gu Jun was a fool's gold, they still paid more attention to see what this kid would do. At this moment, seeing Gu Jun standing motionless by the dissection table, several judges couldn't help whispering:

"That kid is dumbfounded."

"I guess he didn't even have a good grasp of human anatomy, can he not be dumbfounded?"

"Let's see if he has the talent in his hand, and see if he can be trained in the future. After all, his willpower is really good."

Not long after Professor Qin's urging, a group of students started to do it first. The four of them were a group of motley crew from different schools. They didn't even know each other's names very well. Their strategy is very simple, just follow the anatomical operation of the human chest, anyway, the shape of the two looks similar.

Immediately, they drew a line for the central incision on the chest on this specimen, and if they could not find the upper edge of the sternal manubrium and the xiphoid process, they looked for the corresponding positions. Then after finishing the other lines, the scalpel went down...

After this stabbing and everything else, they were shocked immediately, and they couldn't move.

The texture of this black and smelly "skin" is very hard, and when the scalpel is pierced, it sinks there, like a pedestrian who has fallen into the mud.

Meanwhile, other students who also dissected the skin first had the same dilemma.

Other students choose to start with several cross-sections, such as Sun Hengyu from Qingda University. But they immediately encountered another problem, not to mention the skin and flesh, and the deeper is the bone, which is obstructed by the bones everywhere, and they don't know where to cut it.

These bones are the boulders that block the passage, and cannot enter the chest wall and ribcage unless they are removed.

But how to move away?

Now among the ten groups of students, only Gu Jun and his group have not moved yet. Gu Jun just asked Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan to help move the chest and change a few positions, and finally changed back to the supine position. He can basically be sure that this is what is in the incomplete structural map.

"The outer layer is all hard horny, without any tissues and organs."

Gu Jun picked up a large scalpel, held it irregularly, and ruthlessly gouged out a piece of cutin from the cortex of the specimen.

The judges over there saw his posture, oh, is he really going to dismember him?

"Indeed not." Wang Ruoxiang took the hand and looked at it. She really couldn't see superficial fascia, blood vessels, etc., just a mass of dead skin.

"It's not a human." Cai Zixuan suddenly said in surprise, "It doesn't seem to be a mammal, does it? Is there such a thing?"

"Leave it alone." Gu Jun said, the blood vessels are not clear, this thing still has "nerves", he knows where it is. "I think the outermost layer is a kind of protective membrane, which is skin and muscle, covering the bones inside."

While talking, he drew some range lines on the specimen according to the incomplete map, and said to the two of them: "Cut off all the cortex in these positions, don't take it lightly, just dig it all out hard, clean it up until Show your bones."

"Huh?" Cai Zixuan didn't quite understand, but of course he nodded: "Listen to you."

"Okay." Wang Ruoxiang didn't understand, it might be more suitable for a pork guy from the vegetable market to do this kind of work.

But the two obeyed Gu Jun's idea, and immediately cut and dug, peeled and picked with a large scalpel crazily with him, and the dissecting table was suddenly a mess.

What are they going to do? The contestants and students around saw it, and they were all puzzled. The teachers and students in the auditorium couldn't understand it either, did they disrespect the principles of anatomy?

"Huh." The judges were surprised. Professor Qin's eyebrows twitched. Why does this local tyrant seem to have a way...

I like Plague Doctor.