Chapter 017 : Blood in the chest cavity, the gate of hell!
Compared with the dark night where hundreds of ghosts travel at night, Giant Turtle Island is still very safe during the day.
Lin Shuhang did not encounter anything dangerous along the way.
This is also due to the fact that there are no large creatures on the giant turtle, and only some insect-like creatures live on the back of the turtle, which poses no threat to Lin Shuhang's existence.
Soon, Lin Shuhang found the creek in the forest.
Lin Shuhang was not surprised by the existence of this creek.
Earthquake turtles are the largest creatures on the other side of the Titan continent. Their turtle backs are several kilometers in diameter, and they also have an astonishing lifespan as long as the geology.
For hundreds of millions of years, soil has accumulated on the back of this creature, and after long-term weathering, an astonishing turtle-backed mountain has been formed.
It's amazing what such a large body can carry.
Take rainwater as an example. After a heavy rain, a turtle's back with a radius of several square kilometers can often accumulate tens of thousands of tons of rainwater!
This rainwater slowly gathered on the back of the earthquake turtle, forming a small lake with an astonishing amount of water.
And this stream flows out of that lake.
The size of the stream is not large and can only be described as a trickle, but the water quality is very clear.
Lin Shuhang squatted by the stream, held up a bucket of stream water with his huge palm, and tasted it. The water was very sweet.
After drinking enough of the stream water, Lin Shuhang squatted by the stream and washed his body.
After washing his body, Lin Shuhang began to look for clams in the water along the stream.
He wanted to use clam shells to plug the wound after pulling out the bone tube.
Fortunately, after walking a certain distance, Lin Shuhang finally found the kind of creek mussel that lives in fresh water.
These creek mussels are very big, the smallest one weighs more than ten kilograms, and the largest one is as big as a millstone, weighing half a ton by visual inspection. It seems that they have lived in this creek for many years.
They are embedded in the mud at the bottom of the stream, as if they have been isolated from the world for many years.
Lin Shuhang jumped down from the creek, reached out and picked up a creek clam from the sand, put it on his body and gestured, and found that it was too small to cover his wounds.
Lin Shuhang lost the creek clam and picked up a bigger one.
This creek mussel weighs more than 100 kilograms, and its shell is the size of a washbasin, not too big or too small, and can just cover the wound.
This made Lin Shuhang very satisfied, and he squatted on the ground and broke off the shells of the creek clams.
The creek clam felt threatened by external forces and closed its shell tightly.
Lin Shuhang couldn't open the clam shell for a while, and it was spinning around in a hurry.
Finally, Lin Shuhang got fed up, grabbed a pebble from the stream, raised his arm and hit it on the mussel with a "snap" sound.
"Nima, open it for me!"
Lin Shuhang picked up the pebbles and smashed them against the clam.
With a "pop" sound, a large hole was made in the basin-sized creek clam by the stone, and the splashing juice covered Lin Shuhang's face.
Lin Shuhang broke open the dead clam and got a complete clam shell.
But there were three wounds on his body. Although the wound on his shoulder was no longer bleeding, he still needed a clam shell.
Lin Shuhang picked up the second clam from the stream.
After killing him with the same method, he got enough clam shells.
Next is the most important and dangerous procedure - removing the two bone tubes inserted in his chest!
Lin Shuhang knew exactly what this meant. During the process of removing the bone tube, he would very likely die from severe blood loss or even severe pain.
But Lin Shuhang had to take the risk to remove it, otherwise the wound would become infected and fester, and on the dangerous Titan continent, a seriously injured body could not survive for a long time.
In order to prevent the clam shell's method of blocking blood from failing, Lin Shuhang prepared a second self-rescue plan for himself.
He pulled a handful of thatch by the stream and prepared to use thatch to forcefully block the wound if the clam shells could not.
This solution must be very painful, and Lin Shuhang would not use it as a last resort.
In the midst of nervous prayers, Lin Shuhang stretched out his hand to the chest where the bone tube was inserted.
After everything was ready, Lin Shuhang sat by the stream and pulled out the bone tube on his body.
Under severe pain, the bony tube of the giant swamp mosquito was pulled out of the body bit by bit by Lin Shuhang.
As expected by Lin Shuhang, after the bone tube was pulled out of the body, the pressure in Lin Shuhang's body dropped sharply.
Blood immediately spurted out from the wound like a spring, like a sewer blowing out, which was very scary.
The blood loss of tens of milliliters per second put Lin Shuhang in a life-or-death situation!
Fortunately, he was prepared in advance and quickly covered the wound with two clam shells.
The blood spurting from the blowout was blocked by the clam shell, and the amount of blood loss dropped instantly.
Everything seems to be under control.
But Lin Shuhang ignored a serious problem. He could forcefully block the wound with clam shells, but he could not block the unbalanced internal and external pressure.
Because the passage was blocked, blood could not flow out of the body, and a large amount of dirty blood began to accumulate in Lin Shuhang's wound.
When there is no more space between the wound and the clam shell, the accumulated blood begins to flow back into the body.
A large amount of blood poured into Lin Shuhang's chest, and soon, the terrible symptoms of pleural effusion appeared!
In the medical community, symptoms of excessive blood accumulation in the chest for any reason are collectively called hemothorax, commonly known as hemothorax.
This is a clinical phenomenon that seriously threatens human life and is common in severe trauma, surgery, empyema, tuberculosis infection, lung tumors, and coagulation mechanism disorders.
Lin Shuhang's hemothorax is a traumatic hemothorax, which is caused by the giant mosquito's mouthparts penetrating the chest and destroying lung tissue and arteries, causing damage to the body.
The acute blood loss caused Lin Shuhang's blood pressure to drop sharply, and his face turned frighteningly pale.
His pulse weakened rapidly and his consciousness began to become blurred. In less than two minutes, severe blood loss caused Lin Shuhang to fall into a state of shock.
Lin Shuhang, who had just fought with the god of death, returned to the gate of hell again.
Lin Shuhang is unfortunate. In this strange lost continent, he always experiences life and death crises of one kind or another.
But at the same time, Lin Shuhang is also lucky. God seems to be playing a game, and every life and death situation allows him to avoid danger and overcome the crisis.
While Lin Shuhang was in shock, the severe blood loss caused the parasite living in his body to become restless for a moment.
Parasites are restless for a reason.
Their food comes from the host, and they have a symbiotic relationship with Lin Shuhang.
If Lin Shuhang lives, they will get something for nothing throughout his life.
If Lin Shuhang dies, they will not get any benefits.
The dangerous muddy land is a restricted area of life in the Titan Continent, and a suitable host will not appear for thousands of years.
Without Lin Shuhang, these ancient prehistoric parasites will return to the mud again and endure a long period of pain and hunger.
The parasites felt Lin Shuhang's rapid loss of vitality, and they were restless in Lin Shuhang's body.
The marrow-sucking worms adsorbed in his bones broke away from the bones and flowed to Lin Shuhang's wound in the form of meat juice.