Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 256 - Learned Appendage Surgery
The book looked well-used. Its cover was curled, the pages stained with blood, and the ink had faded so much that the text was barely legible.
Yang Yi took it and received its item information:
【Name: Appendage Handling Manual】 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
【Type: Treasure】【Quality: Fine】【Description: An introductory text of the Spider Cult, essential reading for any appendage surgeon. Reading it may lower sanity (0–20). There is a chance to learn appendage surgery, which requires an appendage tool kit to perform.
If practical conditions or a teacher are available, the learning success rate increases. This allows other limbs to be surgically attached to the human body.
Joint attachments have the highest success rate, followed by bones; abdominal attachments are the most difficult. Mastery greatly improves the success rate.】
“Have you read this book?” Yang Yi asked Suna.
“I skimmed through it,” she admitted.
“The surgeries recorded here cause severe rejection reactions and extreme pain to the patient.
If performing one, it’s best to use the Spider Queen’s spinal fluid to greatly reduce rejection…
Or you could use your special magic.”
She emphasized ‘special magic’, clearly trying to hint something to Yang Yi.
He ignored it and glanced at her sanity value: 79/80, down only by 1. The book hadn’t affected her much.
“Did you actually learn the procedure?” he asked.
“Sort of, but I can do better than what the book shows,” she replied, clearly unimpressed.
Yang Yi skimmed through a few pages himself. The content was divided into three sections: amputation, attachment, and post-operative care.
The amputation section explained how to remove limbs, preserve them, and judge their health.
The attachment section, the longest, detailed the surgical procedure with extensive anatomical diagrams, step-by-step illustrations, and precautions.
The post-operative section covered care and how to suppress rejection reactions.
A prompt appeared in his activity log:
【Learning failed. You lack sufficient knowledge and experience to learn appendage surgery. Review carefully and practice; you may retry in 24 hours. 】
Yang Yi closed the book. He hadn’t learned the surgery yet, but he still gained a new skill:
【Appendage Surgery (Novice): Can be performed using an appendage tool kit. Success is nearly impossible, but the goal is to gain practice! Will cause immense pain to the patient; recommended to practice on corpses. 】
He hadn’t expected to gain a skill even without mastering the book.
Now, technically, he was an appendage surgeon, just a beginner who had studied for five minutes.
As for the bottle in the storage room, it contained seven black pills, each embossed with a spider motif.
【Name: Appendage Stabilisation Pill】
【Type: Consumable】【Quality: Fine】【Description: Reduces rejection reactions of attached limbs and alleviates pain. Long-term use may cause dependency, requiring higher doses to achieve the same effect. 】
“Some really strange stuff!” Yang Yi spat, regarding these bizarre items with contempt.
“Don’t attach extra limbs to yourself. There’s no benefit because you’ll just turn into a monster.”
He told Suna this as he collected the severed limbs, the magical tool, and the bottle of pills into his ring. They might not be immediately useful, but at least they could be sold.
Yang Yi noticed the natives’ currency was also in Shell Coins. If they found a trader, many of these items, including the severed limbs, could be sold.
They discussed their haul briefly. Suna had found two more books. One was a world map, almost identical to the one Yang Yi had previously discovered inside the decomposed whale.
He quickly took it to examine.
The pages had been folded many times. Once opened, a massive map was revealed.
The centre showed the Holy City, surrounded by a ring resembling walls; entry was only possible through the Radiant Gate. Elsewhere were islands of various shapes.
The world itself was circular; beyond it lay only darkness.
Yang Yi searched for his location but couldn’t find it at first, there were no landmarks.
Then he noticed a note: the area inside the circle was called the Sea of Miracles. Outside it… no information was given.
“A world map, huh?” Yang Yi muttered. Finding the map wasn’t very helpful, he was outside its range.
“This area doesn’t have an accurate map,” Suna explained. “Islands can suddenly appear, ruins may surface… or vanish as if they never existed.”
She seemed familiar with the map and urged Yang Yi to open another logbook.
It recorded the ship owner’s daily notes, including food and freshwater consumption, light reserves, shell coin counts, and hand-drawn nautical maps.
It appeared to be a small team of three explorers.
They had visited an ancient, abandoned ruin called the Great Cross, which had existed for thousands of years.
Once a bustling paradise for adventurers, it contained many abandoned magical ships. Over time, most had been taken away, and valuable items had been scavenged. The location was remote, so few new explorers ventured there.
From the hand-drawn maps, Yang Yi determined the crew came from Cook Island, about two months’ sailing away.
They used a unique distance unit, not nautical miles, but ‘sailing days’, defined by how far a standard magical ship could travel in one day. Cook Island was 60 sailing days away.
The ship they had taken was a standard magical ship. After occupying it, Yang Yi could check its speed: 40 nautical miles per hour.
“Quite far…” Yang Yi noted.
Between Cook Island and the Great Cross was another marked point: the Golden Merchant Guild, likely a native trading organisation.
He put the logbook away. Its value far exceeded that of the appendage manual or the world map.
After finishing the cabin search, Yang Yi and Suna checked the deck.
They found an empty black container and stored the remaining light fairy fragments inside, completing a total of six containers holding light.
According to the logbook, these small light containers could operate at maximum power for about one hour. If only a small slit was opened, they could function for nearly 30 days.
This solved an immediate problem for Yang Yi and Suna.
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