"…Um, Miss Shining."
Looking at Shining, who was just about to eloquently state a series of precautions, Silence interrupted her, and amidst Shining's dissatisfied gaze, pointed at the container behind her.
"Perhaps my vision has a problem, because you know, I wear glasses. And I have indeed been quite tired from the journey recently, but no matter how I look, the person inside that container seems to be looking at us with open eyes…"
"…?"
Shining turned her head somewhat strangely, and immediately met the bewildered gaze in the water tank.
Li Lin, who was judged to have lost consciousness, somehow regained it, looked at the various tubes inserted around his body, then at the astonished-looking doctors outside. This broken human figure seemed to want to make a smiling gesture, wanting to wave his hand.
But this action seemed to involve too many nerves and flesh, so the action wasn't completed. Li Lin just made a swallowing-like motion, then looked at the people outside. His eyeballs, still encased in their sockets, were filled with confusion towards the people outside, and incomprehension of his own state. Shining couldn't care about anything else, directly walked to a corner, and picked up the intercom. A slightly muffled voice began to echo in the room.
"Prophet? Don't move yet. I'm Shining. Can you hear what I'm saying?"
"…"
The man in the water tank looked at the dozens of pairs of eyes watching him from the surroundings and nodded with some difficulty.
However, since it was a medical situation, basically no one would care about nudity. Such patients being stripped naked on the hospital bed and operated on were commonplace. Regarding the doctors' gazes, Li Lin also quickly adopted a normal posture, making an 'I'm listening' gesture.
What made the people outside feel somewhat terrified was that when he made those movements, the internal organs in his body were constantly shaking, looking like it was challenging their sensory nerves. Those veterans who had practiced medicine for many years even subconsciously wanted to reach out and correct some of the wrong placements inside. But they couldn't reach Li Lin, who was immersed in the water tank, only looking eagerly at the man in the green water tank, making him feel somewhat strange.
He wasn't a fool; he immediately realized his state required communication, and the people outside definitely wouldn't just harm him.
So Li Lin tried hard to make a posture wanting to converse, then made Shining nod understandingly.
"I'll have someone send you a laryngeal communicator immediately; if you want to say something, you can say it directly using the device. If there's any discomfort, or if anything feels different, you can tell us directly."
"…"
Li Lin, soaking in the water, nodded vigorously.
That slightly strange laryngeal communicator was quickly delivered into the water tank through a strange tube. As if someone outside was monitoring and operating it at all times, the bizarre device was quickly fastened around Li Lin's neck, allowing him to communicate with the outside using electronic facilities. After a short voice test, Li Lin looked at the crowd outside and nodded.
'Thank you all very much for coming, I am Li Lin, your patient. If possible, I also don't want to stay in this kind of place for a lifetime. So please. My current physical condition should be very bad, right?'
"Unimaginably bad, I am just about to explain it to you and them."
Shining looked at Li Lin in the water tank and sighed.
"The external skin tissue of the body has almost disappeared by more than seventy percent, muscle tissue disappeared by forty percent, the fat layer has been scraped away, and only a portion of visceral fat remains for lubrication. Various organs have different degrees of damage; it can only barely be called living."
"And plus, there are many strange places in your body; using Originium Arts to compensate might very likely cause unknown consequences. Your body is truly too fragile, full of viruses, bacterial colonies, and the positions of organs and related residues are numerous. And the nerve wiring is also very strange, digestive organs and energy consumption are not very balanced; no matter how you look at it, there are bizarre aspects. If Originium Arts were rashly used, it would cause unknowable consequences."
"In summary, without judging your physical state, we still cannot use Originium Arts to accelerate the recovery of your body, we can only ask various doctors—"
'Then use Originium Arts to save me, Doctor Shining.'
Li Lin in the water tank suddenly said:
'Don't worry about other things, use Originium Arts to heal me as quickly as possible, Doctor Shining. Just consider it my plea.'
"But your current situation is very unstable, your current state is completely different from us normal people; if Originium Arts are rashly applied, you are very likely to die. And there are still some bacterial colonies and other unknown organs maintaining your life in your body, we are not sure about your state exactly—"
'No, anyway, I already look like this now, using Originium Arts for treatment shouldn't matter, right? Do you know what kind of pain I am enduring every second now? Will Originium Arts kill me?'
"It definitely won't be fatal, but some unexpected rejection reactions might occur…"
'That's fine then.'
Li Lin in the water tank looked at Shining, the inorganic synthesized voice said affirmatively:
'I am sure, I feel very painful every minute I am here now. Nerves all over my body are exposed in the liquid, every second feels like a strange torture. Coincidentally, aren't there the most elite doctors in this world around? Then using Originium Arts while maintaining my life shouldn't be a difficult task, right?'
"…There will definitely be difficulties, but we will try our best if you really need it."
Silence looked at the human figure trembling all over in the water tank, took a deep breath, stood out, and said in a low voice:
"I know how much pain nerve exposure causes; that is not a severe pain that can be transformed. So if you really need it, I don't know about others, but I will immediately arrange surgery for you."
"Doctor Silence, doing this is somewhat irresponsible towards the patient—"
'Thank you, this lady, please start the treatment. I can't wait another second.'
Looking at Silence who stood out, then at Shining whose expression became increasingly complicated, Li Lin's synthesized voice in the water tank said affirmatively:
'If you let me continue to live in this kind of pain… you might as well just kill me directly. Now I feel like I'm being gnawed by countless insects every second, so please, do it.'
"Rather than treatment, it's more like a reconstruction. But Rhine Lab accepts this task."
Facing the somewhat hesitant doctors, Silence showed a confident ( lit. having bamboo in one's chest) expression and said with self-assurance.
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