High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship
Chapter 401

A crystallized world, part two

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"Blood loss has noticeably decreased, pain response is dulled, and the surrounding tissue shows fibrosis. These may be early symptoms of crystallization..."

Su Na used a crystal leaf to cut open the skin on her right shoulder. As she attempted to excise it, she recorded the abnormalities she saw, logging everything in the system log.

A sheet of crystal-like skin was peeled away and discarded, exposing the muscle and bone beneath. They were translucent and had already crystallized, tinged red by the blood flowing inside.

"Muscle elasticity has decreased. The bones show a greater degree of crystallization and may have been the first site affected."

Su Na tried moving her shoulder joint. It could still move for now, but there was a slight foreign-body sensation and a faint, stabbing pain.

She did not attempt to remove the crystallized bone, as she lacked suitable tools, and her current circumstances did not permit it either.

After cutting away the surface layer of crystallized skin and the severely fibrotic muscle, she bandaged the wound with her few remaining strips of cloth and stood up.

In truth, she had neither disinfected nor cleaned the wound, leaving it prone to infection, but all she could do now was hope her super regeneration would work.

The next day.

Su Na examined the wound.

Her super regeneration had worked. The wound had not become infected and had even healed seventy to eighty percent, growing new skin.

The surface of the new skin showed no signs of crystallization.

She examined the inside of the wound further and found signs of fibrosis in the muscle, but they were much milder than before. There was no obvious foreign-body sensation when she moved the joint.

"Prompt excision of the affected tissue has some effect in slowing the disease's progression. Newly grown

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