Since all the heterogeneous tubes in the foot cavity of the lamb leg were cut off, the lamb leg has no longer liquefied.
However, its abnormalities have not completely disappeared, or in other words, it is just such a thing. Its skin is still hard, and ordinary anatomical instruments can barely dissect it, but when it comes to bones and some organs and tissues, except for Carlop instruments, others cannot
Very useful.
What substance is causing this situation? Even though humans from both worlds have mobilized the best scientific teams and tried many analytical methods such as chemical methods, physical chemistry methods, etc., they are still unclear. It seems that some substances do use instruments.
Undetectable by the device.
These are not considered by Gu Jun for the time being.
Figuring out the hierarchical structure of this leg of lamb is his current top priority.
As soon as he returned to the dissecting table, although his body had only recovered 50-60%, Gu Jun still entered a state of flow and started dissecting wholeheartedly.
These days, the more of the black goat calf's lower limbs are exposed through dissection, the more the team can sense how different it is from ordinary creatures. It's unclear whether it's a mix of different structures, or whether those structures are separated by this.
Let’s go, some things that shouldn’t be growing on the lower limbs are growing there anyway.
The most typical one is the foot cavity, which has a structure very similar to the cranial cavity. There are three cavities near the metatarsal end. Those xenobiotic tubes pass through the cavities, connect with the nerve tissue of the foot, and run through the nervous system of the entire lower limb. Possibly xenobiotic.
It is through this network that the tube transmits the regeneration signal, causing the limb to dissolve itself.
They also discovered a glandular organ located in various areas of the lamb's leg.
It is not yet clear what the purpose of this gland organ is. Gu Jun temporarily named it "xenobiotic gland" because he feels that this organ is also involved in the process of limb dissolution and regeneration. This is just a hypothesis. Is this true?
More dissection and research are needed in the future to determine.
At this time, there were only 10 hours left in the mission, and Gu Jun dissected another piece of xenobiotic gland in the foot.
The task completion rate has now reached 96.2%, and it is almost completed.
But Gu Jun has reached his limit again. In the past twenty hours, he has only taken one hour-long break.
When I first woke up, my physical condition was still 50% to 60%, but now I am only 10% to 20%.
The last 3.8% does not seem to be much, but when I tried my best to cut open the liver for a whole day, it only increased by more than 8%, and the mutton leg at that time was like a new continent, with new discoveries everywhere. Now again
Finding a new structure and making a big breakthrough are hard to come by.
But at this moment, Gu Jun vaguely noticed that the xenobiotic gland being dissected was different from the previous one.
Gland is a tissue in the body that can secrete certain juices, and is divided into exocrine glands and endocrine glands.
Exocrine glands have ducts, and their secretions do not enter the blood and flow out of the ducts. Like the liver, which produces bile, it flows to the duodenum through the common bile duct.
Endocrine glands are glands without secretory ducts. Their secretions are so-called hormones. After secretion, they directly enter the surrounding blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, and then the blood and lymph fluid transport the hormones to the whole body, such as the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, etc.
According to this classification, the heterogeneous glands in the lamb leg are endocrine glands because they cannot find ducts.
These heterogeneous glands are shaped like a sheep's horn, a long strip that becomes narrower toward one end. The surface cortex, internal medulla, and epidermis are covered with dense blood vessels, and they are connected to many blood vessels in the surrounding tissues, and the blood supply is extremely
Rich.
Except for the strange gray-black color and different shape, some structures of the heterogeneous glands are very similar to those of the adrenal glands.
Therefore, there is another hypothesis, could this be the "adrenal gland" of the black goat cub? Does the huge strength of the lamb leg come from the hormones secreted by this gland? But so far, the team has not isolated the alien
The hormones that stimulate the glands can only be found in some regenerative fluids.
"Come and take a look, here..." Gu Jun called Uncle Dan, Wang Ruoxiang and the others next to him, while Xiao Huiwen and other anatomy experts on the communication screen also opened their eyes to see clearly. Gu Jun asked them: "
Does this look like some kind of conduit?"
Wang Ruoxiang frowned and looked at it. This gland was as big as an adult's hand. It was also black all over, shaped like a goat's horn, and had rich blood vessels.
At first glance, it seems to be no different from the heterogeneous glands in the thighs and calves.
But just at the position pointed by the anatomical tweezers in Gu Jun's hand, he pulled out a dark red micro-tube from the blood vessels extending from the glands. It was the same color as the other blood vessels. Although it was a little thicker, it looked just thick.
Just a little blood vessel.
But Wang Ruoxiang immediately noticed the difference, which was actually quite conspicuous. She wondered: "This tube is not connected to other blood vessels."
Gu Jun nodded, and others suddenly understood. The richer the blood vessels, the more extensive a network will be formed. Veins are like that, and even aorta will have some branches, so blood can circulate quickly throughout the body.
The epidermal blood vessels and extended blood vessels of these heterogeneous glands are all formed into a network, but this thick tube is not the same, nor are several other similar thick tubes that Gu Jun picked up with tweezers.
The direction it's heading towards is towards the foot cavity of the phalanges, which is also connected to the heterogeneous tubes like blood vessels.
"I don't think it's a blood vessel, it's a catheter."
Gu Jun made this judgment and didn't know whether it was right or wrong.
Everyone observed it and agreed with his judgment that this was a different gland, an exocrine gland, and it was almost certainly involved in regeneration.
With a new discovery, a new name was naturally needed, and Xiao Huiwen suddenly became nervous like a conditioned reflex.
"Let's call it Suprapod." Gu Jun decided quickly, naming his own child like a neighbor's child. "Let's see if we can find some of its hormones."
At the same time, he seemed to vaguely see a flowing liquid network, from the heterogeneous tubes, to the suprapodial glands, to the entire nerve network, all the blood vessels...
His tired body suddenly swayed, and before he put down the dissecting forceps in his hand, a new system message popped up in his mind:
[You have made a major breakthrough in the anatomy of the black goat cub. The anatomy completion rate is +3%. It is currently 99.2%. The remaining time of the task is: 9:35:17]
This made Gu Jun feel very excited, as if he had drank three bottles of Red Bull in a row.
It’s almost there. There’s still 0.8% left. It’s very fast. When he encouraged everyone, he also encouraged himself: “It’s almost there. Work harder and sprint!”
But the next five hours proved his premature optimism.
The 0.8% that could have been completed in an average of 2.4 hours continued to take longer as he gradually became exhausted.
Hour after hour, the remaining 0.1% just cannot rise.
His eyes were gradually becoming hazy, and the cortex of his head was so tight that it was about to burst. He could no longer think. He just mechanically operated with one breath, repeatedly separating the blood vessels on the instep of the mutton leg, one after another, like
It is slowly crawling towards the finish line.
[Anatomy completion +0.1%]
[Your anatomy task has been completed! Remaining time of the task: 4:07:53, rating: level 9/level 10
Mission reward: 1 contact with Sunset City; one medical technology; unknown]
[Your anatomy experience has increased! Currently it is 7500/15000 (level 2/level 9)]
Is it done...?
Gu Jun's mind was stagnant. He hadn't finished reading the several new pieces of information in his mind. He couldn't tell whether the information was real or just hallucination.
Suddenly, it seemed as if a string was finally broken. His vision went dark, his consciousness became blurred, and he fell forward.
"Ajun!" "Gu Jun!" The anxious calls from the people around him quickly faded into the darkness.