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"Let me see."

Li Ang walked forward with the medicine box, and the wounded lying on the mat suffered from trauma, fractures, dislocations, abrasions, contusions, and cuts.

Among them, the scars of incision wounds are very strange. The wound is long, the wound cavity is boat-shaped, the wound wall is rough, and there are inter-tissue bridges between the wound walls.

Neither a regular incision like a dagger blade nor a piercing.

Rather, it looked like some kind of strange blunt trauma.

Could it be that martial arts masters cut people with chopsticks?

"It can be cured, but whether you will die or not depends mainly on whether the wound is infected or not."

Li Ang took out a simple mask and gloves from the medicine box, put them on for himself, and took out a bundle of silver wire.

All the villagers present stared straight at the scene, and a family member of a patient couldn't help asking: "Doctor, what is this?"

"Sewing thread."

Li Ang replied calmly, using pure wine to disinfect the silver thread.

A knowledgeable person in the village asked in a low voice, "Isn't the bark used for sutures?"

"You mean Sangbai, right?"

Li Ang said casually: "Tear off the thicker ribs on the inner side of the mulberry skin, and make thin threads from the remaining outer skin. When you need to use it, put it in the steam of boiling water to fumigate it to make it soft as new, and use it for sewing.

It is a no-way solution, but it is still easy to cause wound infection, that is, inflammation.

If silver wire is used, it has high tensile strength, little reaction to tissue, simple sterilization, and is not easy to cause inflammation. The disadvantage is that it is expensive. "

Holding a silver hook tied with a silver thread, Li Ang skillfully disinfected, debrided, sutured, and bandaged the wounds of the wounded.

"Fortunately, they are all skin traumas, and silver wire can be used to treat them. If the deep abdominal tissues are injured, sheep gut can only be used."

Since there was no means of anesthesia, Li Ang dealt with the trauma as quickly as possible to relieve the pain of the wounded.

There are three types of surgical sutures he can now obtain: silk, gut and metal.

The thread is not absorbed by the tissue,

Sheep catgut can be absorbed by tissues, but it reacts strongly to tissue stimulation and is easy to cause infection.

Metal wire has high tensile strength, little reaction to tissue, and simple sterilization, but the disadvantage is that it is expensive.

‘If you encounter a patient with a more serious injury in the abdomen in the future, you must use absorbable catgut, and it is best to treat it with iodine to achieve sterility.

However, the premise of iodine treatment is iodine. To obtain iodine, sulfuric acid and seaweed ash must be found, and sulfuric acid will react with potassium iodide and sodium iodide contained in seaweed ash to form hydrogen iodide.

Hydrogen iodide then reacts with sulfuric acid to generate free iodine.

And to get sulfuric acid, you have to find saltpeter and sulfur, and use the nitrification method.’

Li Ang's sewing movements are skillful and fast, and his thoughts roam the sky. Modern industry affects the whole body, even if it is just a small sterile sheep intestine suture, it needs complicated procedures.

A group of villagers and soldiers of the Zhenfu Division watched Li Ang's fast stitching in amazement.

The originally hideous and ugly wounds gradually closed under the stitches, leaving only long and narrow scars.

"Tell me in detail how these people were injured."

Cheng Juxiu turned his head and looked at Zhou Pingchun.

"yes."

Zhou Pingchun subconsciously stood up straight and began to narrate tremblingly.

Two days ago, on the night of May 17th, some villagers heard dogs barking and goats screaming from their barn in their sleep.

He thought it was a wild wolf coming down from the mountain, so he immediately went out with a torch and a pole.

His wife rang the gong to wake up the neighbors.

It is the responsibility of all villagers to fight wolves. After all, no one can say whether the wild wolves who sneak into the village will steal their livestock or children.

The crowd came with shovels and hoes, and lit the barn with torches, only to find that the door of the barn was open, and a watchdog, three goats were dead inside, and two lambs were missing, suspected of being kidnapped.

The dead dogs and goats all had severe bites, scratches, slaps, and some missing limbs. It looked like a ferocious beast like a wolf, leopard, or tiger did it.

Considering that two goats were taken captive, it is very likely that there were three or more wolves.

The village built on the mountain has rich experience in defending against wild wolves. The next day, the villagers and hunters were immediately organized to go up the mountain to look for wolves.

During the search, Orion Wang Liubao's hunting dog was attacked and dragged away. Wang Liubao stepped forward to catch up, but failed to catch up.

"You are Wang Liubao?"

Cheng Juxiu glanced at the dull and honest Orion with a bow on his back, "Did you see the thing that attacked the hound?"

"Only saw a little bit."

Wang Liubao nodded in trepidation, and said with an accent: "That thing was lying on the ground, with long black hair growing on its body, like a wolf, it jumped out of the grass, bit my dog ​​to death, and dragged it into the grass. I didn't even have time to shoot an arrow."

Cheng Juxiu frowned slightly, "The body is covered with long black hair?"

"Yes, we organized people to go up the mountain to search again this morning, and many people have seen it."

Zhou Pingchun said: "That thing looked like a big wolf without a tail, it rushed down from the mountain and broke through all the fishing nets we had set up.

The hunters in the village shot arrows at it, but they couldn't even shoot through its hair. Instead, it rushed into the crowd and injured many people.

It wasn't until the whole village, old and young, drove it away with torches, that they drove it away.

You see, this is a broken fishing net. "

"Limbs on the ground, body covered with long black hair, no tail, infinite strength, invulnerable, afraid of fire"

Cheng Juxiu summed up several characteristics and frowned in thought.

"Xing Xun, could it be Sand Boy?"

Niu Wenshu asked: "Demons, level five, one three one.

It looks like a wolf, and its strength is boundless. The beasts in the mountains will smile when they see it, and throw themselves into their arms and let it be devoured. Sixty years ago, someone witnessed it in Liangxi Huishan. "

"It's possible."

Cheng Juxiu nodded and said: "However, there are too many low-level monsters and demons with similar characteristics.

With black hair, invulnerability and other characteristics, it may be [raccoon dog], [rhinoceros dog], [human wolf].

The specific kind needs to be further tested.

Judge Niu, let the sniffer dogs go. "

"yes."

Niu Wenshu turned around and asked his subordinates to lead a black and white fine dog.

The dog has a slender body, slender limbs, drooping ears, blunt and round ear tips, and particularly agile and alert eyes.

Even though he ran the fifteen-mile mountain road with the horse riding team just now, he didn't show much fatigue.

"This kind of fine dog is a breed specially bred within the Zhenfu Department. It has been rigorously screened and trained since childhood, and each one is produced in Chang'an.

It can sniff blood, sweat, alcohol, sachets and other odors, and track and lock them at a long distance.

Over the past three hundred years, he has helped Zhenfusi and local yamen cracked thousands of cases, and eliminated a large number of human traffickers who harvested and cut them. "

Cheng Juxiu explained casually,

The soldier of the Zhenfu Division who was in charge of leading the fine dog and letting it sniff out the broken fishing nets had a proud expression on his face.

Although in a sense, this fine dog has a higher military rank than him.