Chapter 582

Su Xiao stood before the operating table, wearing disposable rubber gloves, with Konan standing behind him. On the operating table was the unconscious Nagato.

This was such an incredible scene. Before entering the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao would never have thought he could experience such a thing.

The surgery was in its starting phase; one could tell how nervous Konan was from her tense cheeks.

Neither Nagato nor Konan knew one thing, which was that Su Xiao didn't know how to perform surgery at all; he had only studied human anatomy and understood the human body very well.

If judged by medical experience, this surgery would definitely fail because the "attending physician" was too unreliable. This "attending physician" was only good at killing, but as for saving people...

But it didn't matter. With the effect of that bottle of potent medicine, as long as Su Xiao didn't touch Nagato's brain, it wouldn't matter even if the surgery was a bit rough.

Su Xiao's plan was very simple: as long as he could ensure Nagato didn't die, the rest would be simple. It was nothing more than "dismembering" Nagato, removing the bad things, correcting Nagato's body, and then letting it recover on its own.

As long as the negative effect of that bottle of potent medicine wasn't triggered, judging by the current situation, Nagato wouldn't die.

Even if Su Xiao didn't perform the surgery, Nagato would definitely die, so taking the risk was very necessary.

Splat, splat...

Su Xiao pulled out the metal rods behind Nagato one by one. After handing them to Konan, those metal rods were placed aside.

The number of metal rods was more than imagined, a full 87 of them. It was hard to imagine how Nagato had survived; these 87 metal rods weighed at least two hundred catties!

After cleaning the metal rods behind Nagato, Su Xiao used a scalpel to slice open the muscles on Nagato's spine, but Nagato's wounds were healing rapidly, which caused considerable difficulty for the surgery.

Su Xiao first checked the damage caused by the metal rods to Nagato. The organs didn't need to be dealt with; as long as the metal rods were pulled out, combined with the effect of that potent medicine, Nagato's internal organs would soon heal on their own. The main issue was the bones of Nagato's spine.

Nagato's spine was severely curved and deformed, with a large number of nerves compressed. Moreover, under the effect of the potent medicine, the deformed spinal bones were healing rapidly.

This was not a good thing. If left unchecked without correcting the spine, even if Nagato didn't die, he would be paralyzed, and it would be high-level paraplegia.

Su Xiao reached his hand into the wound on Nagato's back and grabbed Nagato's spine with his bare hands!

Crack! Crack!

Su Xiao was correcting the spinal bones. Every time a crisp sound appeared, Konan's brow would twitch.

Five minutes later, Su Xiao corrected Nagato's spine to the most appropriate physiological shape. The recovery effect of the potent medicine allowed Nagato's spine to recover rapidly. The compressed nerves gradually recovered, and some shriveled blood vessels regained vitality. Nagato's spine returned to a healthy state.

Although this seemed absurd, with the help of Alchemy + Uzumaki bloodline + Hashirama cells, this was not a fantasy.

Su Xiao flexed his five fingers and sutured the wound on Nagato's back layer by layer.

This kind of incision reaching the spine couldn't just be sutured on the outside; the inside also had to be sutured.

Every time he sutured a layer, Su Xiao would wait for a while, waiting for the wound to heal before removing the stitches. This process lasted a total of five times.

After the surgery lasted three hours, all the metal rods behind Nagato were pulled out. These things that had plagued Nagato for more than ten years finally left his body.

Looking at Nagato's appearance again, that gray hair turned dark red, which meant Nagato's vitality was recovering rapidly.

"Great."

Konan, who had always been stoic, clenched her fists, a smile appearing on her face.

Nagato was Konan's best friend. The two were the same age. Nagato used to take care of Konan, and now Konan took care of Nagato. Although the two were not in love and had no blood relationship, the bond of so many years far exceeded kinship. It was normal for Konan to have emotional fluctuations.

"Don't be happy too soon. This is just the beginning. The thing in his chest is the real hurdle."

Su Xiao removed the stitches behind Nagato. At this time, only shallow scars could be seen on Nagato's back.

Pulling Nagato, who was lying on his side on the operating table, to lie flat, Su Xiao began to clean up the rotted muscle tissue on Nagato's chest.

Before opening the chest, these rotted muscle tissues had to be cleaned up; otherwise, there was a risk of bacterial infection. Su Xiao still had this bit of common sense.

Konan acted as an assistant. Although Su Xiao was not good at surgery, his Sword Master Lv. 21 was not just for show. He was precise even without a blade. In less than ten minutes, all the rotten flesh on Nagato's chest was removed, revealing fresh red muscle tissue. A meat pit appeared on Nagato's chest, without bleeding; it seemed the nearby blood vessels had already necrotized.

"Can this wound heal?"

The meat pit on Nagato's chest made Konan frown.

"Don't speak."

Su Xiao was concentrating on sensing the situation inside Nagato's body.

"Sorry..."

Konan stopped halfway through her sentence. Since it concerned Nagato's life, she wouldn't be careless in the slightest.

The meat pit on Nagato's chest could certainly heal. Now there was no need to consider this meat pit; the organism inside Nagato's chest cavity was the trouble. That thing likely had simple intelligence, which could be seen from the fact that it had never killed Nagato; the organism knew it was in a parasitic state and couldn't easily kill the host.

Moreover, Su Xiao clearly felt that the thing inside Nagato's body wanted to struggle, but that thing survived by absorbing Nagato's blood. While Nagato was anesthetized, the thing inside his body was anesthetized along with him.

To anesthetize Nagato, Su Xiao used an amount of anesthetic that could anesthetize several buffaloes. A larger amount of anesthetic would cause Nagato's body functions to stop; otherwise, he would have injected a few more needles of anesthetic.

The scalpel sliced open Nagato's chest, blood surged out, and a beetle with a black shell appeared.

After fully opening the chest, the appearance of the beetle came into view. This beetle had a flat body and was the size of a soccer ball. Although its volume was not small, the thickness of this beetle was only three centimeters, and its body was curled into a ball.

At this moment, this beetle was firmly wrapped around Nagato's heart, completely covering the heart like a hard shell.

I don't know what kind of ability this was, to be so vicious. If it weren't for Nagato's strong vitality, he would have died within minutes of being hit.

Su Xiao didn't like crustaceans, especially this kind that could lay eggs; it was extremely disgusting. Nagato's various organs were all stuck with insect eggs.

After Konan saw the scene in Nagato's chest cavity, her pupils shrank, and her stomach churned.

Su Xiao's expression was calm. Although he also felt disgusted, Nagato's life was in his hands.

Su Xiao spent two hours removing all those insect eggs, during which he also injected mana into Nagato's body to ensure there were no fish that slipped through the net.

After removing these insect eggs, Nagato's various organs regained vitality under the effect of the potent medicine. The most obvious was the lungs, which were working very smoothly.

Su Xiao examined the beetle from all sides, not knowing where to start for a while. This thing wrapped Nagato's heart too tightly, without even a gap.

Grabbing the beetle with his hand, Su Xiao tried to pry it open by force.

Beep, beep, beep~

The equipment on the side issued an alarm, and Nagato's heartbeat slowed down. Su Xiao hurriedly let go.

It was definitely not the end just by prying this beetle open; this thing had already reached a symbiotic relationship with Nagato's heart, so he had to think of other ways.