Your condition is more serious than I imagined

The doctor said nothing, his gaze fixed firmly on the surveillance feed.

Lu Xiao's voice came through the feed.

"My friend! Does this patient have cancer?"

The prison doctor shook his head.

He held the excised tumor between his fingers.

Deprived of its blood supply, the tumor now seemed somewhat agitated.

Even in the prison doctor's grip, it kept pulsating wildly.

Every so often, it let out squeaking noises.

"This isn't a tumor. It's an egg!"

"An egg?"

Lu Xiao stared blankly at the constantly pulsating tumor.

The prison doctor extended a finger and lightly sliced its surface.

In an instant, something snow-white and maggot-like shot out.

In that single instant, it burrowed into the prison doctor's beak.

The prison doctor seemed to have expected this. He swiftly slit his own neck with the scalpel at his fingertip.

Then he pulled out his esophagus and extracted the still-wriggling worm from it.

Ignoring his own wound, he held the worm between two fingers in front of Lu Xiao's eyes.

Lu Xiao hurriedly leaned closer.

The worm writhed frantically between the prison doctor's fingertips.

Seeing Lu Xiao approach, it let out shrill squeaks.

Lu Xiao stared at the worm with his dead-fish eyes.

The worm was about as thick as a finger, snow-white all over, and looked like a fat white maggot.

But on its head sat a hideous human face.

At that moment, black liquid was spilling from the face's hollow eye sockets, making it look utterly horrifying.

Unhurried, the prison doctor first used one hand to stuff his exposed esophagus back into his neck.

Then he used the scalpel at his fingertip to cut off the worm's head.

Next, he stuffed it straight into Lu Xiao's mouth.

Lu Xiao's expression did not change. He chewed it carefully, then gave an exclamation of praise.

"Delicious! As delicious as an egg left sitting for dozens of days!"

The prison doctor nodded.

"My friend! This is my thanks to you!"

On the other end of the surveillance feed, the doctor's voice was somewhat low.

"A Ghost-Faced Moth Larva!"

"Go find out where that team member has been recently!"

"Why was a Ghost-Faced Moth Larva implanted inside him?"

After giving those instructions, he looked back at the surveillance feed.

"My friend! What kind of worm is this? I've never seen one before!"

A grating voice rang out as the prison doctor's beak opened and closed.

"A Ghost-Faced Moth Larva! This is good stuff!"

"My friend! Eating it will increase your mental power!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao gave an embarrassed smile.

"So it's something that precious!"

The prison doctor wagged a finger.

"My friend! You deserve it! I'm very grateful for your help with this operation!"

He pointed at Liuguang, who was still unconscious.

"If you hadn't been here, there might have been a medical accident today!"

"That is something I absolutely cannot allow in my medical career!"

"Thank you for helping me save face!"

Lu Xiao exclaimed.

"Sir! You're far too kind! You're one of the finest doctors I've ever met!"

"I only happened to be here, but I'm so happy I could help you!"

Without realizing it, Lu Xiao had begun using the respectful address "sir."

"Keh keh keh!"

A high-pitched sound rang out.

The prison doctor seemed somewhat excited.

"My friend! Do you know other doctors as excellent as me?"

Lu Xiao nodded, a hint of pride entering his expression.

"Of course!"

"I have another friend! He's also a highly skilled doctor!"

As he spoke, Lu Xiao turned around.

He presented his bare back to the prison doctor.

His back was densely covered in hideous, horrifying sutured wounds.

"That friend performed over a hundred operations on me, large and small!"

"If not for that friend, I might have died in the Dark Prison long ago!"

The prison doctor reached out and gently stroked those wounds.

"What tools did that friend of yours use to operate on you?"

"My God! I can't find the words to describe these beautiful incisions!"

"This is simply art!"

Lu Xiao grinned.

"My friend used a chainsaw!"

Hearing this, the prison doctor paused, then even his fingers began to tremble.

"My God! That friend of yours is definitely a top-notch surgeon!"

Lu Xiao turned around and said with a smile.

"I think so too!"

The prison doctor had been entirely focused on the operation earlier.

Only now did he notice the two hideous, horrifying "hemorrhoids" bulging from Lu Xiao's chest.

His tone became somewhat hesitant.

"My friend! Why do you have two hemorrhoids growing on your chest? Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, those are hemorrhoids, right?"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao's expression immediately stiffened, and he spoke in a slightly embarrassed tone.

"These... these are wounds I stitched up myself..."

At Lu Xiao's answer, a trace of anger entered the prison doctor's voice.

"Forgive me, my friend! Although I very much approve of your insights into surgery, your suturing technique is absolute dog shit!"

Lu Xiao's actions were undoubtedly defiling everything he had spent his life learning.

The prison doctor reached out, undid the two delicate bows, then gave a tug.

The thread at the sutures was pulled straight out.

The two bulging hemorrhoids instantly disappeared.

Strangely, there were no wounds at all on Lu Xiao's chest.

Even the needle holes at the sutures were healing before their eyes.

Lu Xiao reached up and felt his chest. It was smooth and flat, not at all like it had ever been injured.

He froze for a moment, then lowered his head to look at his body.

The gunshot wounds from not long ago had disappeared as well.

The places where he had been shot now showed tender pink new flesh.

Lu Xiao himself had not grasped what was happening either. He said in confusion.

"But I was clearly injured!"

Afraid the prison doctor would not believe him, he hurriedly followed his memory to that spot.

Riiip!

A sound like a burlap sack being torn apart rang out.

Lu Xiao tore open his own skin with his hands.

A wad of bright red cotton was exposed inside the torn wound.

After taking out the cotton, Lu Xiao finally sighed in relief, a look of relief appearing on his face.

"I really was injured!"

The prison doctor fell silent.

Lu Xiao hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

He tore open each place where he had been shot.

He removed the bullets left inside his body.

In moments, his chest became a bloody mess.

Unable to find any suturing tools, Lu Xiao could only let those wounds keep bleeding.

With a highly skilled doctor right beside him anyway, he was not worried about anything going wrong.

Before long, fine strands of new tissue extended from both edges of the wounds.

Like countless maggots entwining, they connected the two edges of each wound.

A few more minutes passed, and the torn areas healed together completely.

Even Lu Xiao himself was shocked at the sight.

"Huh? What's going on now?"

He hurriedly looked up at the prison doctor.

Having witnessed the entire process, the prison doctor spoke in a low voice.

His tone sounded very serious.

"My friend! Your condition is more serious than I imagined!"