Chapter 401 The Crystallized World (Part 2)
"The amount of bleeding has decreased significantly, the pain is dull, and the surrounding tissues are fibrotic, which may be an early symptom of crystallization..."
Suna used the crystal blade to cut the skin on her right shoulder. While trying to remove it, she recorded the abnormalities she saw, all in the system log.
A piece of skin with crystals was peeled off and discarded, revealing the bones underneath, which were translucent, emitting a crystal-like luster, wrapped in muscles, and reddened by blood.
"The degree of bone crystallization is deeper, and it may be the first location where the disease occurs."
Suna tried to move her shoulder joint, and she was still able to move it for the time being, but there was a slight foreign body sensation accompanied by pain.
She did not remove this part of the bone because she did not have the right tools at hand, and the situation did not allow her to do so.
After removing the surface skin with crystals and some of the muscles that were severely crystallized and fibrotic, she bandaged the wound with the few remaining strips of cloth and then stood up.
The wound was not disinfected because there were no conditions, and she could only hope that her super regeneration ability would work.
The next day.
Suna checked the wound.
Her super regeneration ability worked, the wound was not infected, and even recovered by 70% to 80%, and new skin grew.
There was no sign of crystallization on the surface of the new skin.
She further examined the inside of the wound and found that the muscles had symptoms of crystallization or fibrosis, but it was much lighter than before, and there was no obvious abnormality in joint movement.
"Timely removal of the lesion has a certain effect on delaying the disease, and the new tissue is still flesh and blood tissue.
However, continuous removal of diseased tissue will cause serious damage to the patient's body and mind, and at the same time, it also requires a high degree of recovery from the patient's body."
Suna regarded herself as an experimental subject, put herself in the doctor's perspective, recorded the information, and moved on.
It would be great if experimental tools could be used, so that more attempts could be made.
Day 7.
Suna found something wrong as soon as she woke up. Her little finger on her right hand had no sensation and could not bend, but from the surface, there was nothing abnormal.
She cut open the skin and soon touched a hard foreign body. It was a highly crystallized muscle that had lost its elasticity and contraction effect, and it was even more impossible to pull the bone joints to make movements.
Under the muscle was a crystal-like bone that could be seen directly through the transparent muscle and blood vessels.
And there was red blood flowing in the transparent blood vessels, which looked pretty at first glance.
Suna stared for a while, then checked the other knuckles of her right hand, including the knee and ankle joints of her right leg where she felt abnormal.
These joints all showed signs of crystallization to varying degrees. The speed of the disease progression exceeded Suna's expectations, which might be related to the environment.
After all, since yesterday, the number of crystallized people around has increased. Some have been broken, limbs are incomplete, and even only the torso is left without the head.
Suna simply treated it, cut off some of the diseased tissue, and continued to move forward.
The tenth day.
The "snowflakes" falling from the sky have obviously become smaller. Maybe the "snow" here will stop, otherwise the snow on the ground would not be only 20 centimeters thick.
The field of vision has also improved a lot, with visibility exceeding 100 meters. There are living crystal sculptures everywhere around, in addition to humans, there are other species.
For example, the Cyclops, Siren, Vampire, Deep Diver, and some creatures that cannot be named, some of which are huge, even more than 20 meters tall, and covered with scales.
But these creatures that looked powerful all turned into crystal sculptures without exception.
Suna came to a human crystal sculpture, panting slightly, a little tired.
This human sculpture was wearing fine armor and holding a long sword, but his head was missing. It might have been knocked off by someone, because the cross section looked like the crystal surface of broken glass.
And his equipment, without exception, became transparent crystal and could be taken off directly.
Suna took the long sword, not as a weapon, but because its length was very suitable for supporting the ground and maintaining balance.
Three days later, her crystal disease worsened further. Her right arm and right leg had been severely crystallized and could not be bent. Suna was considering whether to amputate and whether amputation would make the next action difficult.
After all, the wound of amputation needs to be treated, otherwise the heavy blood loss will inevitably affect the next activity.
And although the right leg was crystallized, it could still be used for support and barely stand.
She checked her attribute panel.
Status: Crystal Disease [Medium] ‘A large human body pattern, multiple yellow spots on the body, right arm and right leg are dark yellow’, height 165cm, weight 81KG
[Crystal Disease: A special plague with extremely strong transmission ability, a subspecies of the Death Plague, which can infect most entities and is not infectious to creatures without entities.
After infection, the body's internal organs, bones, muscles, skin and other structures will gradually transform into crystals, and eventually become a living crystal statue that cannot move.
The higher the mental attribute, the slower the disease progresses.
Currently, it is moderate, multiple parts of the body have transformed into crystals, and the movement is severely restricted. Agility -4, Constitution +2, dull senses, energy loss decreased, no longer need to eat, and vital parts will not die immediately after being damaged. 】
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Suna recorded all this information in the system's chat channel to avoid forgetting it. She continued to move forward with a long sword, and a hammer opened the way in front to smash some obstacles blocking the road.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the crystal particles on the ground like snow were blown away, revealing the broken crystal statues buried underneath.
There were not only those living crystals standing, but more had fallen and broken, becoming the uneven ground under Suna's feet.
So Suna was actually walking on a pile of corpses, although these "crystal corpses" were not dead and could not be used as flesh and blood materials for the stitched monster.
Day 12.
Suna found that her clothes were also beginning to crystallize.
"If I was infected at the beginning, then the crystallization of non-living entities would probably appear in ten days."
Day 14.
Suna's situation was even worse, and the right half of her body was almost completely crystallized, and it had spread to the right face.
She could only rely on the left half of her body and use the long sword to support the ground to walk with difficulty, and the speed was very slow.
And from today, she had symptoms of auditory hallucinations, and she could always hear some vague and meaningless sounds coming from the surroundings, especially from her feet, like someone was talking.
If you listen carefully, you can also understand a few words.
"Death.....I..."
"Time....needs to end..."
"One more...step..."
"Move forward..."
Suna shook her head, and her brain felt dizzy, and her sanity dropped.
Her right eye was blind, her lips could not open or close, and she didn't even need to breathe.
"Sanity 57..."
She checked her sanity value, and then just gave up and continued to listen to these ethereal and empty voices.
Ten seconds later.
Her hair turned completely white, and the surrounding crystal particles, including some broken crystal statues, floated up.
And Suna herself left the ground and floated forward at a very fast speed.