This really was a crazy operation

Hearing this, Lu Xiao immediately grew anxious.

"How could that happen?"

There was no trace of fluctuation in the prison doctor's voice.

"My friend, your cells are highly active. Your wounds usually heal on their own very quickly!"

Lu Xiao raised another question.

"Then why is the wound on my back still there?"

The prison doctor's voice came again.

"The wound probably contains the power of a curse. Of course, it could also have been caused by your surgeon friend's chainsaw!"

The prison doctor offered reassurance.

"Don't worry, my friend! I'm a qualified doctor. Healing patients is my lifelong pursuit! Let me give you a physical examination first!"

Lu Xiao nodded, his tone somewhat urgent.

"My friend, I have absolute faith in your medical skills! Let's start right away!"

With his own body at stake, Lu Xiao dared not delay.

After pulling Liuguang off the operating table, he immediately lay facedown on it himself.

The prison doctor stepped forward and gently sliced open Lu Xiao's back with a finger.

Then he dabbed some blood onto his finger and held it to his nose, explaining to Lu Xiao as he did so.

"I once read about a diagnostic method in an ancient book!"

"The doctors in the book called it inspection, listening and smelling, inquiry, and palpation!"

"It was an extremely profound diagnostic method!"

"I spent a hundred years on it and only managed to understand two parts!"

"Smelling and palpation!"

"I modified my olfactory nerves to give myself a powerful sense of smell!"

"Often, I only need to smell a patient's blood to diagnose their condition!"

Suddenly, he stopped speaking.

Sensing something was wrong, Lu Xiao hurriedly asked.

"So did you smell what illness I have?"

The prison doctor fell silent for a long while, then his tone became extremely grave and sharp.

"I smelled a curse in your blood!"

Hearing that it was a curse, Lu Xiao sighed in relief again.

"So it's a curse! I thought I was sick. That scared me to death!"

The prison doctor's tone, however, was far from reassuring.

"This curse is very rare and very powerful. I've lost track of how many years I've practiced medicine, and this is only the second time I've seen it!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao immediately grew anxious again.

"Really?"

The prison doctor nodded.

"The last time I saw this curse, it was on a pig!"

"That pig eventually turned into a puddle of rotten meat like dog shit, with no thoughts, only instincts!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao gave an ugly smile.

"It's that intense?"

Meanwhile, on the other end of the surveillance feed.

The doctor held a notebook, writing rapidly in it.

He recorded the conversation between Lu Xiao and the prison doctor in detail.

A frightening light gleamed in his eyes.

"What a precious treasure this is!"

The staff beside him barely dared to breathe, afraid of disturbing him.

As for the bloody scene, they did not feel much about it.

They had seen bloodier things.

Their fear of Lu Xiao, however, deepened considerably.

The prison doctor's voice rang out just then.

"My friend! Your symptoms strike me as rather tricky!"

"I need another friend's help!"

As though worried that Lu Xiao would be afraid, he hastily added.

"Don't worry! He's an excellent orthopedic surgeon!"

Lu Xiao was somewhat touched.

"How can I thank you, my friend?"

The prison doctor shook his head and said solemnly.

"I'm a doctor with medical ethics. I don't need my patients' thanks! As long as there's a chance of curing a patient, however slim, I'll give it everything I have!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao admired the doctor in the beaked mask from the bottom of his heart.

"You truly are a doctor of noble character!"

Soon, the prison doctor returned with his friend.

He was also carrying a large medical kit on his back.

Clearly, he had come fully prepared this time.

His friend had not a scrap of flesh or blood on him, only a skeleton remained.

That skeleton was not one a human should have had, either.

It resembled the skeleton of some indescribable creature, all bared fangs and flailing claws, looking extremely exaggerated.

A huge toolbox hung from the skeleton. Yes, a toolbox.

Lu Xiao was already sitting on the operating table, waiting.

Seeing that the prison doctor had brought his friend over, he hurriedly asked.

"Who is this friend?"

"My name is Ivan!"

The voice came from Lu Xiao's body.

It was not produced by vocal organs.

Instead, the bones vibrated at a special frequency.

As they vibrated, they caused the bones inside Lu Xiao's body to resonate, making the voice sound as though it came from his body.

On the other end of the surveillance feed, a staff member exclaimed.

"Designation S081 Bone Carver!"

The doctor's eyes shone as he clutched his notebook tightly, waiting for the three of them to speak.

Clang!

Ivan set the toolbox hanging from his skeleton heavily on the floor.

Beside him, the prison doctor also put down his medical kit.

"Ivan! This is the patient I told you about!"

"He's suffering from that curse! And it has penetrated deep into his marrow! That's why I had to seek your help!"

Ivan said nothing. Two emerald-green flames flickered constantly in his hollow eye sockets.

They seemed to express the fluctuations in his emotions.

The prison doctor opened his medical kit and soon took out a glass bottle with a capacity of a full five liters.

He said to Lu Xiao.

"My friend! Don't worry. I didn't forget to prepare the anesthetic this time!"

"In a moment, I'll extract your entire skeleton. Even with anesthetic, the process may hurt a tiny bit!"

"You must bear with it!"

At this, the corners of Lu Xiao's mouth twitched wildly.

"This really is a crazy operation!"

He sighed, then lay down.

"Go ahead, my friend! I trust you!"

Lu Xiao thoroughly approved of the medical skill and ethics the prison doctor had displayed.

He believed this kindhearted doctor would cure him completely.

After all, the consequence of this curse was to become a puddle of rotten meat with no thoughts, only instincts.

That was something Lu Xiao could not accept.

So he was desperate to have his condition cured.

The prison doctor and Ivan exchanged a glance.

The soul flames in Ivan's eye sockets danced violently. Then he bent down and took a hammer and a small chisel from the toolbox.

A voice came from the prison doctor's body.

"I'll do my best!"

As a large quantity of anesthetic was injected.

Lu Xiao felt as though his eyelids weighed a thousand pounds.

In less than thirty seconds, he fell unconscious.

The prison doctor extended a finger and slowly sliced open Lu Xiao's chest.

For a time, the only sound in the room was that of flesh being sliced apart.

After cutting Lu Xiao completely open, he took out a bottle of inky-green medicine and spread it evenly over the open wounds.

In an instant, blood stopped flowing from the wounds.

Then the prison doctor took dozens more bottles of various sizes from his medical kit.

He poured all the liquid in the bottles onto Lu Xiao's body, then spread it evenly, his technique resembling someone marinating pork.

Several hours later.

The prison doctor held up a skeleton.

The skeleton was remarkably complete, apart from its missing skull.

Meanwhile, Ivan had already assembled a rack.

He took the skeleton and carefully hung it on the rack.

Just then, the unconscious Liuguang slowly opened his eyes.

Clearly, he had woken up.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw this hellish scene.

"Fuck! I got up too fast!"

He hurriedly closed his eyes, but when he opened them again, the same scene remained.

Trembling, he reached out and pinched his thigh.

Intense pain swept through his brain.

He finally confirmed that he was not dreaming.

Then he fainted from fright again.