Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 58 What Double-Hearted and Triple-Lunged?

Chapter 58: Chapter 58 What Double-Hearted and Triple-Lunged?

minutes later, inside the temporary hiding spot.

Chen Jian opened the first aid kit as he quickly commanded:

"He Shuo, hold Shen Yue."

"Zeng Yi, use the ties to bind the limbs near the heart."

"Xie Liu, help me open the wound, priority to treat the aortic injury."

"Your body’s ability to pump blood is too strong; we need to stop the bleeding first, or else it will be fatal soon!"

"Understood!"

With a single order, everyone sprang into action.

Chen Jian administered two shots of strong morphine, while Xie Liu propped open the wounds on Li Shi’s inner and outer thighs. The muscles already torn by the bullet further ripped. Li Shi grunted but stayed completely still.

Chen Jian didn’t look at his expression. After a quick rinse of his hands with alcohol, he swiftly dried them and plunged his hands into the wound, feeling around while shouting:

"Shen Yue! Gunshot wound to the thigh, femoral artery is severed, can’t feel the blood vessel, how to proceed?!"

"Cut 10 centimeters above to create a new opening!"

Shen Yue’s voice came over the radio.

"The femoral artery retracts towards the abdominal cavity after severing, severely retracting into the stomach; you can’t feel it from the gunshot entry, go upwards!"

"Understood!"

Without hesitation, Chen Jian took the surgical blade from the first aid kit and precisely cut around the muscle tissue on Li Shi’s thigh, then instructed Xie Liu to stretch apart the muscles and inserted his fingers to locate the blood vessel.

This scene made Xie Liu’s scalp tingle, being the squad’s doctor, she’d dealt with wounds before.

But she had never thought it possible to handle someone losing so much blood this way.

Ignoring the original wound and creating a new one?

Isn’t this the Blood Skull’s torture method?

Her fingers trembled slightly as Chen Jian sternly told her to "stay steady," then continued to dig deeper with his fingers.

This time, he finally touched the retracted artery.

Curling his index and ring fingers, Chen Jian slowly applied pressure to grasp the artery, eventually pulling the main artery out of the thick muscles.

With a simple use of artery clamps to stop the bleeding about 5 centimeters above the break, Chen Jian continued to pull out the distal artery, using the standard ProGlide vascular closure device for a simple suture.

minute later, the femoral artery was successfully stopped and blood flow restored.

The wound was huge, but at least half the life was saved.

Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief, gestured for He Shuo to take over the suturing while he continued inspecting Li Shi’s other wounds.

Upon looking, he found Li Shi’s upper body wounds were far worse than the lower body.

Gunshot to the chest!

Struck directly from the front!

Veins bulged on his forehead, and his hands moved even faster.

He cut open the clothes for Xie Liu to tear apart, and then sliced open the chest cavity.

The shattered fragments had deeply lodged in the muscle and unbelievably pierced into the beating heart with a fragment sticking out!

Chen Jian gasped deeply, then continued to ask through the radio:

"Shen Yue! Shrapnel hit the heart, location to the left of the pulmonary artery, about at the left atrial appendage, roughly probing...5 millimeters deep, how to handle?"

"Just clamp and suture it, I can’t do anything else!"

"This myocardium is very thin, it’s been entirely pierced; it’s in fate’s hands now!"

"...Alright!"

Chen Jian gritted his teeth, carefully using forceps to extract the shrapnel, blood instantly welled up.

His vision blurred immediately, unable to see through, relying only on touch for the suturing.

He was not a professional medical practitioner, nor an experienced doctor, the process was insufferably slow, taking over two minutes just to barely suture the wound, finally stopping the blood.

By now, Li Shi had completely lost consciousness, his heart had stopped beating.

Chen Jian braced for the worst result, but when he looked up, he saw Li Shi staring innocently with wide eyes, curiously looking down at his open chest.

"...Aren’t you going to die?"

Chen Jian asked, astounded.

"He’s different from us; he has two hearts and three lungs."

Xie Liu quickly answered from the side.

Chen Jian was utterly shocked.

Two hearts and three lungs??

Fuck, what kind of low-tech Astartes?!

"So he’s not really in life-threatening danger at all??"

"He is, if not promptly treated, he’d bleed to death. The leg wound is dangerous, I was planning to use drugs for hemostasis..."

"...Forget about your snake venom hemostatic agent."

Chen Jian let out a long sigh, the tension from several minutes finally easing.

At this time, he had moments to check the rest of Li Shi’s injuries.

Aside from the two lethal wounds on the chest and thigh, there was also a penetrating wound in the abdomen, with an entry point slightly larger than a thumb and the exit point being larger than a fist.

The good news was, this bullet perfectly avoided major organs, only the skin and a small amount of muscle tissue had been shattered, for a Holy Blood like him, it was almost negligible like a flesh wound.

As for the other wounds, they were genuine superficial wounds, Chen Jian even felt they required no suturing.

So he simply put down the surgical instruments, and took out disinfectants, started to clean Li Shi’s wounds.

He Shuo had just finished suturing the thigh wound, cutting off the thread, then smirked and remarked:

"This body strength...no idea how you guys were born."

The moment those words left his mouth, Xie Liu’s eyes dimmed slightly.

But soon, she adjusted her mood and said:

"If you want to know, I can also..."

"We’ll talk about it later."

Chen Jian interrupted Xie Liu, his eyes drifting to the high-altitude images on his smart goggles, then ordered:

"This place is unsafe, we need to keep moving back."

"Zeng Yi, first lift Li Shi into the vehicle, then you drive, we’ll return slowly."

"He Shuo, leave the drone, go back to bring Lei Jie and the others."

"Remember to replace the auto-grenade with a 301 heavy machine gun."

"Suppressive fire is too weak, auto-grenade is less effective than a heavy machine gun."

"Understood!"

Without hesitation, He Shuo casually wiped his hands and turned to get in the vehicle, dashing away in a cloud of dust.

On the other side, Zeng Yi hoisted up Li Shi, tossing him into the remaining vehicle.

"What about us? Shall we go straight away as well?"

Zeng Yi asked.

"Of course, should we just charge back in?"

"We don’t even know what’s going on; I only overheard them mention ’simulated aberrant’ before the fight started, what does that mean?"

Zeng Yi and Xie Liu both frowned simultaneously, then shook their heads:

"I don’t know."

"We’ve never heard of such a term before."

After a pause, Zeng Yi continued:

"But it’s clear they’re coming for us."

"Maybe Xu Lie intends to silence us, or perhaps the council misinterpreted his intentions... Or could it be they merely want to hide the truth?"

"They don’t want Han Shui City’s civilians to know the monster is dead—but I can’t figure out what difference it makes."

"Their rule isn’t based on the monster’s presence; the Holy Blood Temple is sustained by source blood and Holy Blood, the Mechanical God Sect by machinery and gunpowder."

"There’s no need for them to deliberately amplify the monster’s threat... I really don’t get it."

"No worries, you’re thinking very clearly."

Chen Jian reassured Zeng Yi by patting his shoulder:

"Let’s just drive first."

"Xie Liu, turn on your radio, try contacting Xu Lie."

"If we don’t know...then let’s ask them directly!"