A minor operation

At that moment, Liuguang's face was filled with despair.

The prison doctor slowly dragged him back to his original position.

A faint trail of blood remained where he had been dragged.

After entering the room, Lu Xiao very politely pressed the door-close button on the wall.

Dazzling incandescent light spilled into the room cast from metal.

An operating table stood in the very center of the room. There was nothing else.

The prison doctor lifted Liuguang as though picking up a chick.

Liuguang still wanted to struggle, but a single sentence from the prison doctor plunged him into utter despair.

"My friend! I need your help!"

Lu Xiao nodded without hesitation.

"No need to be so polite, my friend! What do you need?"

The prison doctor let out a strange laugh.

"Heh heh heh! Help me restrain this naughty patient!"

"I really don't have any hands to spare!"

Lu Xiao walked over to the operating table and glanced at the leather straps used to restrain patients.

Without another word, he skillfully bound Liuguang tightly as he struggled on the operating table.

The prison doctor finally had both hands free.

He extended a finger, and the scalpel embedded in it gleamed with a dim metallic light.

Just as he was about to cut open Liuguang's chest, Lu Xiao spoke up to stop him.

"My friend! You seem to have forgotten to give him an anesthetic!"

At those words, the prison doctor froze.

The air seemed to solidify at that moment.

The light had already left Liuguang's eyes as he lay on the operating table.

It's over! This lunatic actually dared to question the prison doctor's medical skills!

If he had still had a chance of surviving before...

Now, there was essentially no possibility of survival left.

He knew very well that questioning the prison doctor's medical skills would send him into a frenzy.

No one had ever seen how terrifying the prison doctor was in a frenzy, because everyone who had seen it had died.

Every piece of data on every contained entity's information panel had been compiled at the cost of one life, or countless lives.

The air grew cold at that moment, too.

Lu Xiao seemed not to notice. With a trace of compassion on his face, he continued.

"If you don't give the patient an anesthetic, he'll be in a lot of pain!"

Well, thank you!

Lying on the operating table, Liuguang wanted to cry but had no tears.

He looked at the prison doctor, who had remained motionless in the same spot.

The prison doctor's body was trembling slightly, as though he were already on the verge of flying into a rage.

"Heh heh heh!"

A strange laugh emerged from behind the beaked mask.

The sound was extremely hoarse.

Merely hearing that laugh made Liuguang feel as though he had plunged into an ice cellar.

The terror of death swept over him.

Only his regular training kept him from losing control of his bladder and bowels right then.

Just as Liuguang closed his eyes, ready to calmly embrace death, the prison doctor's voice rang through the containment chamber again.

"Thank you for the reminder! My friend!"

The prison doctor withdrew his finger, then raised a hand to cradle his chin.

"But I forgot to prepare an anesthetic beforehand, and there aren't any ingredients here to make one. Whatever should I do?"

Hearing this, Liuguang felt as though he had glimpsed hope of survival.

Even his voice was trembling now.

"Doctor! Please allow me some time to prepare. Since there's no anesthetic, and I'm not ready for surgery either, how about I come back another day?"

The prison doctor sighed.

Passing through the beak, that breath produced an extremely piercing cry.

"That's our only option!"

As he spoke, he reached out to undo Liuguang's restraints.

Just then, Lu Xiao grinned.

"Not so fast, my friend! I have a way!"

Hearing this, Liuguang immediately looked at Lu Xiao.

In his eyes, the smile on Lu Xiao's face was now no different from a devil's smile.

Thank you so very much!

Liuguang gave up struggling completely.

Lu Xiao walked up to the operating table and gently lifted Liuguang's head.

Then he brought a vicious knife-hand chop down on the back of Liuguang's head.

Liuguang's eyes rolled back, and he passed out.

Seeing this, the prison doctor seemed greatly inspired.

"My friend! If you went into medicine, you would definitely be an excellent doctor!"

At the prison doctor's praise, a shy expression immediately appeared on Lu Xiao's face.

Then he pointed at the unconscious Liuguang and voiced his question.

"What exactly is this naughty patient suffering from?"

He was simply asking out of curiosity.

The prison doctor flicked out a finger and spoke unhurriedly.

"It's nothing very serious. All he needs is a tiny operation to make a full recovery!"

As he spoke, his finger had already sliced open Liuguang's chest.

A sound like a knife cutting through a burlap sack rang out.

Lu Xiao hurriedly looked down.

Inside the sliced-open chest, a bright red heart was beating powerfully.

A tumor the size of a pigeon's egg was attached to that heart.

The tumor pulsed along with the beating heart.

The prison doctor's hands moved very quickly.

With a gentle slide of his finger, the tumor was cut away.

At the same time, blood spurted from the incision like a fountain.

Reacting swiftly, Lu Xiao darted aside and dodged the spray of blood.

The prison doctor remained unhurried. As the scalpel on his finger danced, he rapidly cut away the remaining diseased tissue.

Then he produced a length of cotton thread from somewhere.

He quickly stitched up the wound on the heart.

Liuguang's heart was no longer spurting blood, but his chest cavity was full of pooled blood.

Like an inquisitive child, Lu Xiao watched with his dead-fish eyes, not blinking once.

At that moment, the prison doctor suddenly looked somewhat vexed.

"Damn it! I forgot to prepare my toolbox beforehand!"

"This operation was far too rushed!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao looked around.

Apart from the operating table, there was nothing at all in the containment chamber.

But Lu Xiao soon lowered his gaze to his own clothes.

He was wearing a pure white short-sleeved T-shirt.

The staff had changed him into it after he arrived here.

He reached out and gently rubbed the fabric.

"Mm! It's cotton!"

He swiftly took off his shirt, then stuffed it into Liuguang's open chest.

Blood instantly soaked the pure cotton T-shirt.

The blood pooled inside the chest cavity was soon absorbed by the T-shirt.

At this sight, the prison doctor let out a shrill cry.

"My friend! You're a genius!"

"Although doing this will cause an infection, as long as I prepare some medicine for him after the operation, those complications from infection will be nothing worth mentioning!"

Bare-chested, Lu Xiao smiled somewhat bashfully.

"My friend! Thank you for recognizing my abilities!"

And so, with the two lunatics working together...

This minor operation, plagued by one mishap after another, proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

Elsewhere, in front of the surveillance screens, absolute silence fell. For a moment, a pin drop could have been heard.

The silence lasted a full five minutes.

"Doctor! Is he... is he really still human?"

A staff member asked in a trembling voice.