The night rain outside was getting heavier, falling in the damp and cold corners of the alleys, and the broken neon lights flickered with a faint light.
The female mercenaries were either standing by the shop door or smoking next to the alley wall.
The splashing rain could not disperse the smoke from the cigarettes in their hands. The cigarette butts and sparks fell on the piles of garbage nearby that had not been cleaned for many days. The stray cats that were hiding in the garbage jumped over.
"My right hand is here, bring it here!"
Captain Lorna urged her subordinates again toward the door. When she turned around and saw that Fan Debao was still not getting the wine, she also urged:
"What are you doing in a daze? Drinking wine! Are you afraid that I will owe you a debt? My sister just completed a business today, and she made a lot of money."
Soon, Gu He saw a group of female mercenaries walking into the izakaya, and they jointly raised one hand.
It was a hand with a complete structure from arm to fingers, but...
It was several sizes larger than Captain Lorna's left hand, and even bigger than the muscular hands of Brother Zhuang. Its skin was dark red, like it was covered with a layer of burn scars, which was weird and terrifying.
On the fingers, the back of the hand, etc., there were still wet stains of blood, and I didn’t know whose blood it was.
"Uh..." Gu He smelled the smell of blood getting closer and closer, and reluctantly kept a calm, professional look on his face.
What kind of prosthetic limb is this? He couldn't tell for a moment what kind of material it was. It looked like some kind of metal or some kind of flesh and blood.
The prosthetic leg was obviously very heavy, and several female mercenaries carried it until their faces turned red before they came to the bar.
Captain Lorna took off her black leather jacket, wearing a sleeveless white T-shirt underneath. Her empty right shoulder faced the bloody hand.
Suddenly, a bunch of messy blood lines like wires sprang out from her right acromion, and the position of the humeral head of the prosthetic limb was also the same. The blood lines on both sides were dancing like tentacles, and they were entangled and combined.
Before Gu He could see clearly, the large bloody hand was connected to her right shoulder, forming an integrated whole.
"Uh-huh." Captain Lorna turned her right shoulder and swung the prosthetic limb twice, and the joints made a crackling friction sound.
She nimbly grabbed the bottle of old Fenggu wine that Fan Debao had just taken out from the wine cabinet with her right hand, easily opened the cork cap, and drank directly, almost half of the bottle in one gulp.
"Thirty years of abundant harvest is enough."
She then filled an empty wine glass and pushed it to Gu He next to her, "Come on, young man, have a taste."
During the process of pouring the wine, a drop and a half of the wet blood on her right hand fell into the wine glass.
Gu He's smile was almost unbearable. Once it collapsed, he couldn't tell whether his facial features would become horribly distorted...
"Heh." Fan Debao has never forgotten to observe him. The performance of the second gear has not changed. Now do you know how to be afraid? It's too late.
"Captain Lorna, please pay for this bottle of wine now."
Lao Fan felt that after a while, the scene might become ugly, so the debt should be settled early.
"Why are you so anxious? Who dares to prostitute you, Lao Fan, for free?" Captain Lorna waved her hand impatiently, "Nowherd, what did you ask me just now?"
Gu Hezheng was a little dizzy again. Looking at her prosthetic limb at such a close distance, the more he looked at it, the more strange his heart palpitations became.
The whirlpool of light in his mind had no effect. It was as if he was being impacted and torn apart by a force... There was even a weird and inexplicable phantom flashing in front of his eyes.
Lao Fan’s glass of wine to test his talent is really strong...
"Why don't you say anything?" Captain Lorna had a hint of madness in her eyes, just waiting for him to scream.
Fan Debao quietly packed away the valuable drinking utensils on the bar, preparing for the scene when Gu He lost control.
"I mean..." Gu He tried to calm down, okay, it's because he is too small-minded and unprofessional.
From Brother Zhuang's weird head, we can tell that certain medical and biological technologies in this world are particularly advanced.
Earth is also researching the field of bionic prosthetics, including neural control, intelligent sensing, and implantable osseointegration. These technologies are advancing rapidly, but they are not as advanced and cool as her prosthetics.
"What is your dream life like?" he asked gently, don't panic, patients are ordinary people too.
Captain Lorna took another sip of wine, but she didn't expect that the new cowboy could still hold his nerve and couldn't get angry. "I don't have any bullshit dreams. I'm almost annoyed to death by this hand, and I still have dreams."
Gu He smiled in his heart, this is coming!
question.
Problems are the key to psychotherapy. Only when the patient tells the problem can the therapist take action. If there is no problem, no treatment is needed.
"What's the matter?" he asked seemingly casually.
"I just can't figure it out." Captain Lorna lowered her head and sipped her wine and said, "This thing has always been compatible with poor digestion. It feels like a virus has invaded my program, so my personality is particularly unstable."
Fan Debao, who was still packing the drinking utensils, interrupted: "Captain Lorna, you should go find a doctor, not a cowherd."
Gu He analyzed it in his mind. Although she expressed it in a rather formal way, he understood.
"Does it hurt from time to time? And it feels like my right hand is hurting? Sometimes I also have some related hallucinations?"
Captain Lorna looked at him nervously, her head covered with wires and silicon strips dancing messily, "How do you know?"
There were also other doubts on Fan Debao's fat face.
"Because you haven't been wearing the prosthesis all the time." Of course Gu He knew. Her problem was clearly "phantom limb pain".
More than 50% of amputee patients will suffer from this symptom. The pathology is not yet clear, and this is still a medical problem. I didn’t expect that it would be the same in this world.
Let me ask you, who doesn’t love health, and which girl doesn’t love beauty?
He lost one hand, became disabled, and was forced to get this amazing unicorn arm. He often received strange looks from the world.
How much mental stress will this cause? It is normal for patients to have psychological trauma, which in turn will aggravate phantom limb pain.
At this time, a psychiatrist needs to intervene.
Therefore, he has been in contact with this type of patients before and knows a cutting-edge treatment for relieving phantom limb pain that is very effective.
"I have a native method of treatment." Gu He said and looked around, "Is there a mirror here?"
A native method? Although no one thought it would be of any use, Captain Lorna wanted to have fun and urged Fan Debao. Several female subordinates followed Gu He's instructions and found a mirror and a lidless wooden box for wine.
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First, two holes were cut into one side of the wooden box, and then a mirror was inserted in the middle of the wooden box to separate it into two halves, with one hole on each side.
Under Gu He's instructions, Captain Lorna put her hands and palms into the wooden box from the holes on both sides.
Then use a piece of cloth to completely cover your right hand, leaving only the left side of the wooden box exposed.
In this way, her left hand is there, and because there is a mirror image, it seems that her right hand is also there intact.
"Move your left hand slowly, listen to me, make a fist, and then relax..."
Gu He continued to guide, this is called mirror box therapy.
It causes the patient to have the visual illusion that the severed limb is still there, inducing the somatosensory and motor pathway coupling between the phantom limb, the prosthetic limb and the real limb, thereby regulating the brain's sensory nerves.
"That's it?" Captain Lorna stopped and didn't cooperate, with a look of suspicion and ridiculous disgust on her face, "It's really a bitch."
Several female mercenaries around the bar also shook their heads and laughed.
We have known for a long time that there are so many difficult problems that street prosthetics doctors cannot solve, and it is impossible for a wild dog to solve them.
Fan Debao's doubts are getting more and more serious. It's really unexpected that this second-speed boy can keep going so far.
"Try it." Gu He advised, raising his hand and making repeated clenching and loosening movements.
Many people will look down on the simple and cheap mirror box therapy at first, but in the end they will find it really delicious.
"It doesn't cost any money anyway." He added.
As far as he knows, the sentence "it doesn't cost money anyway" has a strange persuasive power for the majority of patients.
"I'll give it a try." Captain Lorna chuckled, looking into the mirror box, slowly making a fist with her left hand, then releasing it...
As everyone watched, her expression gradually changed and she was a little surprised.