Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 167 Surgery
'Gynecological master? What do you want to do?'
Miss Chai looked bewildered but couldn't just stand there and do nothing, damaging Wei Yuyan’s image.
She turned around and said in a cold tone, "Which of you is the gynecological master?"
The crowd looked at each other, and no one spoke.
Suddenly, the Dao Lao Ghost Queen's foreleg buckled, and her massive body nearly collapsed to the ground.
She hurriedly jammed two hand-blades into the road surface, supporting herself.
Her bulging abdomen began to writhe constantly, and murky blood seeped from the gaps in the bone armor at the front of her waist. Her broad back convulsed like a wave.
The Dao Lao Ghost crowd surrounding them became restless.
These deformed monsters, slightly shorter than ordinary people, constantly pounded the ground with the long knives in their hands, uttering low, threatening roars.
"Hiss—"
The Dao Lao Ghost Queen raised her head and let out a long howl, stopping her subordinates' agitation.
She lowered her head, raised her door-like bone knife, pointed at the crowd, and then at her bulging abdomen.
Her meaning was clear: she was about to give birth and needed help.
Miss Chai, standing at the front of the group, took a deep breath and read aloud to the crowd, following the subtitles projected by Li Ang, "What about doctors from other departments?"
Still, no one responded. After a long while, Li Ang hesitantly raised his hand and said tremulously, "I..."
"You?"
Wei's parents were somewhat surprised. "Little Xu, aren't you a photographer?"
Li Ang replied with a wry smile, "I graduated from medical university with a five-year degree in clinical medicine. I had a bit of an accident and didn't pursue postgraduate studies, so I switched to photography."
Since the situation was urgent, they couldn't very well ask in their capacity as future in-laws what "a bit of an accident" meant. They could only watch Li Ang walk out of the group and stand before Miss Chai.
"What do you need me to do?" Li Ang asked, wringing his hands nervously.
"Heh, don't worry; it's not that difficult."
Miss Chai snorted coldly and, following the script, raised her chin toward the Dao Lao Ghost Queen in front of them. "Look at her bulging abdomen sinking, experiencing contractions, amniotic fluid rupturing, and her back convulsing rhythmically. It's obvious she's about to give birth.
If you know anything about gynecology, go up and deliver the baby."
"What?"
Li Ang looked horrified. "I haven't performed surgery in years.
And, ghosts... do ghosts even need deliveries?"
"Why can't ghosts have babies? Hmm?"
Miss Chai frowned and scolded, "Just do as you're told. Enough with the nonsense."
"Yes, yes, yes."
Li Ang nodded furiously. Under Miss Chai's instructions, he grabbed a flashlight and headed to the roadside, preparing to retrieve various tools from the ambulance.
To prevent the Dao Lao Ghosts on both sides of the road from suddenly attacking, Wei Linglan also followed, carrying a grenade launcher.
While prying open the rear door of the ambulance, Wei Linglan said to Li Ang somewhat apologetically, "Sorry, you've been implicated in this."
"It's okay; getting paid for my services is my motto."
Li Ang shook his head, forced a smile, and carried out disposable gloves, a trauma treatment kit, a portable suction device, suction catheters, and a medical emergency kit from the ambulance.
Watching him busily, Wei Linglan pursed her lips and asked, "By the way, you're a high school student, right? Do you really know how to deliver a baby?"
"It's a hobby."
Li Ang explained vaguely, "I used to like reading all sorts of magazines. After reading a lot, I became somewhat knowledgeable about these strange things.
Like post-natal care and recuperation for sows, lawn cleaning, silkworm rearing, police dog training, and the like.
I can't say I know much; I'm just a jack-of-all-trades.
The body structure of ghosts... shouldn't be too different from that of pigs... right?"
"..."
Wei Linglan blinked, suddenly feeling that this mission might be a one-way trip.
Seeing her nervous expression, Li Ang comforted her, "Don't worry; when I performed gastric bypass surgery on Big Yellow downstairs, my technique was so fast that you could only see afterimages.
Everyone respectfully calls me the Lord of Shadow Stream." (Ying Liu Zhi Zhu)
"...You performed gastric bypass surgery on a dog?" Wei Linglan's expression was somewhat distorted.
Li Ang was even more puzzled. "Who said Big Yellow was a dog?"
Wei Linglan shook her head, casting aside her jumbled thoughts, and whispered to Li Ang, "If things get critical later, you and Shanshan must stay by my side. I'll do everything I can to get you out of here."
"Understood."
Li Ang nodded, put on the emergency personnel's protective suit, put on a mask, packed all the medical tools into the stretcher cloth, and jumped out of the ambulance's rear compartment.
Under the cold gaze of the Dao Lao Ghost crowd, the two returned to their original positions.
At this time, the Dao Lao Ghost Queen's condition had further deteriorated.
Her howling was weak, her legs had completely collapsed, and her body was tilted to one side, relying entirely on her two bone knives to support her weight.
Her swollen abdomen was like a water balloon about to burst, and blood flowed continuously from the gaps in her bone armor.
In this urgent situation, Li Ang put on disposable gloves, raised his hands, and slowly walked forward.
The Dao Lao Ghost Queen subconsciously moved her bone knife arm. The surrounding ghosts howled and were about to rush forward, but fortunately, the Queen glanced at them in time, stopping their charge.
The Dao Lao Ghosts stood restlessly in place, constantly stabbing the ground with their knife points, as if shouting, "Let her give birth! Let her give birth!"
Hearing the crowd's cries, Li Ang exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly approached, uncovering the bone armor to examine the situation.
"The fetus is too large and the fetal position is abnormal, causing dystocia."
Li Ang turned his head and calmly said to Chai Cuiqiao and Wei Linglan, "Prepare for a cesarean section."
"Ah?!"
The two women were a little stunned. Shouldn't this be a script about monster slaying and leveling up? How did they end up performing a C-section on a ghost?
The style was all wrong.
Li Ang didn't explain much. He had them spread out a sterile sheet on the ground, then laid the Dao Lao Ghost Queen down, having her lie face up on the sterile sheet.
Since he couldn't figure out the other party's physiological structure, Li Ang directly injected her with an elephant-sized dose of anesthesia. After the anesthesia took effect, he cut open her skin and muscles.
The physiological structure of Dao Lao Ghosts was not essentially different from that of humans, but they had some strange organs.
If there weren't outsiders present, Li Ang, in the spirit of prioritizing scientific research, would probably have taken out his camera, clicked the record button on the left, and started recording this surgery.
After the C-section was completed, the fetus in her belly was also a miniature Dao Lao Ghost. Although it was just an infant, its forehead was not as prominent, and its arms and legs had not yet fully metamorphosed into bone knives.
Curled up in the amniotic membrane, it looked like a little tiger.
Li Ang remained expressionless, pierced the amniotic membrane, washed away the amniotic fluid, reached in to support the Dao Lao Ghost fetus's head, took it out, and held it upside down to make it gag and spit out the remaining mucus in its mouth.
It must be said that ghosts are ghosts. The newborn Dao Lao Ghost fetus already showed a ferocious and cruel nature.
Even when Li Ang held it upside down, its sharp arms were unconsciously waving, almost cutting Li Ang.
"This giant baby is quite strong."
Li Ang couldn't help but praise, "And it's quite lucky. It has an Yin City hukou (household registration) as soon as it's born."
Wei Linglan said dryly, "For it... the hukou probably isn't important."
"Nonsense, the hukou is very important."
Li Ang said righteously, "Back when the Guanyin of Giving Children was airdropping babies all over the world, I didn't choose the right landing spot. Thinking about it carefully, I still regret it."
"..."
Wei Linglan clicked her tongue. "Cut the umbilical cord."
Li Ang nodded, picked up the scissors, cut the umbilical cord, placed the newborn Dao Lao Ghost on the sterile sheet, removed the placenta, and quickly stitched up the seven layers of wounds with sutures.
A moment later, the anesthesia wore off, and the Dao Lao Ghost Queen shakily got up, the wounds on her waist and abdomen rapidly healing at a visible speed.
The giant baby, lying at her feet, climbed up her back along its mother's legs.
"Mother and child are safe."
Li Ang nodded with relief. "Fortunately, I didn't cut an artery this time; otherwise, I would have had to buy a bottle of Medley and bring the artery back.
Alas, poor Big Yellow. I hope he's happy down there."
So what exactly did you do to Big Yellow?!!