The Wizard of Asgard

New York University Affiliated Hospital is located in the lower city of Manhattan in the center of New York City. It is a premier center for biomedical research, medical education and health care. It also has a cooperative relationship with the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the number one orthopedic hospital in the United States. The hospital completes every year More than 25000 cases of orthopedic surgery, and countless difficult and miscellaneous diseases.

"Little Safi, let your nephew go downstairs to listen to music."

The man responded. He put on a coat and pushed open the door of the operating room. Seeing his nephew dancing while listening to European and American pop music, he immediately took off his earphones and whispered, "Go downstairs and wait for me in the office."

The little nephew curled his lips, turned off the volume, which was only adjusted to 3 degrees, and ran out.

The man heaved a sigh of relief, and returned to the operating room. The nurse inside had already started packing up the instrument table. Safi immediately asked, "Where's Dr. Stephen?"

The younger nurse looked up and said, "Oh, I went out after the operation."

Safi shook his head and smiled. Neurosurgeon Steven Strange is always like this. He is arrogant, smart and conceited. Although he is one of the best experts in the hospital, he rarely talks to himself. The occasional conversation is "little Safi." , the watch is too loud; Little Safi, the sound of drinking water is too loud; Little Safi is breathing too loudly, don’t cough, I have an operation! 'I don't know if it's a blessing or a bad luck to be his assistant.

Downstairs, Stephen Strange was blowing the wind, he took out a pack of cigarettes, and was about to enjoy one comfortably, when the people around him cast strange glances, he immediately put away the pack of cigarettes, pretending to appreciate it as if nothing had happened. Goldfish in the pool.

"Strange, I finally found you." A hurried female voice came from behind, and Stephen looked at her fixedly, and said with a smile, "What's the matter, my Miss Palmer, who asked me to do it in a hurry What."

When Palmer heard this sentence, he was not angry and retorted: "I have business with you, do you think I still invite you to dinner like last month? I called you several times and you didn't answer."

Strange turned on the phone, and indeed he missed several calls, but at the time he was undergoing surgery, he turned the volume on mute, and he didn't turn it on after finishing the operation, he just wanted to loosen his body.

"What's wrong?" Strange rarely saw Christine Palmer in such a flustered state. As far as he could remember, she had always been the most calm woman in the workplace.

"The Orthopedic Surgery Department admitted a patient today. The patient had more than a dozen bullet fragments in her abdomen, and the blood flowed all over the place. She has been resuscitating, but she has no family members, only a dumb person who does not know who brought her in. The director said that if the family members If she doesn't come again, her ventilator will be stopped." Palmer said this in one breath, and then looked at Strange nervously.

"Isn't this very simple? You can just pay the bill? Just treat it as a loan from her, and make up for it when she recovers?" If I remember correctly, the hospital made an appointment last year for its staff to pay for the treatment of patients in advance. 75% of medical expenses.

Strange half-jokingly said, "You're not afraid of her running away, are you?"

Palmer glared at him: "I have prepaid all her expenses half an hour ago, including the operation fee, but the director of orthopedic surgery refused to perform the operation, saying that it was too late, and I want you to take over the operation and do it for me authoritative certification."

Strange finally understood what she meant, and pointed to himself: "You asked me, a neurosurgeon, to do orthopedic surgery? Just for your certification? Do you think a person with more than a dozen fragments in his abdomen can pass?" Are you recovering from surgery?"

Palmer nodded. The girl was sent here by the mute. Human life is a matter of life. Although he entered the emergency room immediately and invited the chief of surgery to treat him, he planned to perform the operation immediately, but the chief of surgery saw the girl After the radiography, it was considered that the operation was useless and the girl was left to die.She could figure it out with her toes. The director of surgery obviously saw that the girl had no family members and no one to claim it. The so-called operation was successful, but it was like emptying a bucket if it failed.Although each department has to calculate its own performance and benefits, she is the first person to see such a doctor who is planning to treat patients with such a tight budget, and who doesn't care about the life and death of patients at all, and she feels very disgusting!

"Okay, I'll go." Strange didn't hesitate, since troublesome operations were his favorite, he agreed without hesitation.

Palmer and Strange entered the emergency room together and sent the girl to the neurosurgery operating room. They quickly changed into the surgical gown, washed their hands aseptically, put on gloves, and invited a few interns in. Qi began the operation.He had seen the film on the way to escort the patient, and it was indeed a very troublesome operation. He didn't want too many people to know about it. After all, Palmer asked him to take over the job under the pressure of the whole hospital.

"Palmer, after this operation, you really have to treat me to a good meal." Strange joked with a smile, "The western food was good last time, and I still miss the taste of that glass of red wine."

Palmer glared at him: "All right, I'll treat you to two meals, please concentrate."

"Don't bother me, let it go..." Strange froze, his breathing began to become rapid, he urged the nurse beside him to hand over a pair of curved forceps, and carefully picked up ten fragments, and let Palmer Some bleeding vessels in the abdomen were ligated and sutured.He clearly saw a large fragment with the words "Stark Industries" written on it.

"Could it be the escaped criminal?" Palmer said in a voice only the two of them could hear.

Strange didn't speak, and kept silent while doing his own surgery.

After three hours of operation, it was finally successfully concluded.

Strange heaved a sigh of relief, he felt more tired than ever at this moment, he had never had an operation that lasted more than an hour, and this girl was too weak, the fragments of bullets were imbedded in each large blood vessel in an even way, causing him to clamp It is extremely difficult to extract the fragments. On the one hand, I am afraid that other blood vessels will be clamped and cause rupture. On the other hand, I am afraid that the blood vessels will bleed more after clamping, causing the patient to lose a lot of blood.

He whispered to the surgical nurse who was packing up the equipment: "I will transfuse her with some blood later, and it will be charged to my account."

Palmer came out of the operating room after changing her overalls, and she still carried the large fragment from the girl's body: "What should I do?"

With the girl's current physical condition, the government will definitely come to detain her immediately after knowing about it. The patient is still awake and cannot be handed over to the government.But this girl is a criminal again, and it was also reported on TV. She is a mutant who destroyed the code-named C prison.

Strange took Palmer's hand and let her walk behind him. He remembered that three months ago, a criminal who robbed a bank was crushed by a car and fractured his spine. He also healed him. .At that time, the patient was still awake, his spine and legs were broken, and he was tied to the hospital bed. When he told the police about this, the police ran to the ward and forcibly took the patient away. It is said that on the way, the patient fractured again. He died at the police station the next day.

It stands to reason that every surgical patient is a doctor's work of art. Strange performed the three-hour operation. He expected the girl's recovery more than anyone else. He didn't want anyone to ruin the result. historic moment.

"I have a friend who is digging isolation stones. I'll get some for you, and you can put it in her ward. When she gets better, you can notify the police." After thinking for a long time, Strange gave the final answer. pertinent advice.

On the hospital bed, Edith was lying there quietly. Her abdomen was hit by a Stark bomb. Fortunately, the operation was timely.A few bouquets of flowers were placed beside the hospital bed, and I don't know who sent them. The mute stood by the bed and fiddled with the flowers, looking at Edith's face from time to time, hoping that she would wake up soon.

"Are you really speechless?" Palmer wanted to come in to check on the girl's situation, but she didn't want to bump into the mute who escorted the girl to the hospital. She looked at the mute, who was panicked and looked bewildered.

The mute nodded. His skin was not like the complexion of a healthy person. Instead, it had a kind of ghostly whiteness. Like it was born, he didn't speak, and he didn't know what he was gesticulating. Palmer couldn't understand it either, and sighed He said in a tone: "Just tell me what you need, I have already told the nurse on duty here, and she will prepare three meals a day for you."

Dumb nodded.

Palmer then said, "Ring the bell when she wakes up and the nurse will let me know."

The mute nodded again.

But after Palmer left, the mute picked up Edith and jumped out of the window.

When Palmer and the on-duty nurse and doctor arrived, there was no one on the bed, and the flower beside the bed was severely crushed with shoes.The corner of the blood transfusion bag was obviously torn off, as if someone had pulled it from the infusion stand and drank it.

The nurse on duty adjusted the surveillance, but everyone saw nothing but the mute carrying the girl away from the window and jumping off the window.

"It's over." These were Palmer's last thoughts.

***

Edith was woken up by a sour smell. She opened her eyes and found that she was thrown in the alley. Her abdomen was still hurting, and she couldn't straighten up.A figure was cast at the entrance of the alley, and she rubbed her eyes to make sure that what she saw was a burning skull walking from the entrance of the alley.

Edith searched her purse everywhere, but couldn't see where her wand was.

It was only then that I remembered that my wand was still in the base on the island, and I was blown out by Stark with a bomb. Does that mean I was rescued?

"Don't...don't come here!" Edith couldn't help trembling when she saw the skull getting closer and closer. Although she saw countless rare beasts in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, such a talking skull It was the first time she saw it.

"It seems that the effect of the medicine is good, you are awake." The skull turned around and threw a dead man over.The dead man was pale all over, with green blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. Looking at his face, he had been dead for a long time.

"Your life is good. When I was performing a mission, I found that this mutant wanted to suck your blood." The skull got closer, and his body smelled of being scorched by fire. His jaw moved and his eyes were even more oozing. With a strange and fierce light, "Poor mutant, he thought you couldn't be saved, and tried his best to save your life just to suck that delicious blood."

"Who are you?" Edith realized that this person might not be malicious, and she relaxed her vigilance, but she was still nervous about his skull, and she felt a little nervous about what the Ghost Rider said. An aversion to cold.

"I am Ghost Rider, the messenger from hell." The voice of the skull seemed to come from afar, reaching the depths of Edith's soul, "If I guess correctly, you are the one who destroyed the mutant prison recently The criminal?"

Edith shook her head: "I don't know anything, the prison looked like that when I woke up."

The Ghost Rider looked at the amulet on her chest, pointed to the gold-like thing and said, "I can smell that you don't smell murderous, but this amulet is full of murderous aura."

"Could it be that it's all because of the amulet?" Edith held the piece of gold around her neck and was very worried.My aunt once said that the amulet is something to protect one's life, and the amulet of the wizard is more significant, and it must not be taken off unless it is lying in a coffin. This has always been the custom of their family.

She wanted to take off this amulet many times, but every time there was a voice faintly reminding her: Don't take it, don't take it, you will die if you take it off.

The sky gradually turned white, and Ghost Rider suddenly jumped on a motorcycle, turned his head and said, "I'm leaving."

"Hey, wait!" Edith chased after her, her abdomen suddenly hurt like hell, "Why did you save me?"

"Didn't I say that? This mutant wants to suck your blood. I'm the Ghost Rider. My mission is to punish evil and eradicate adultery. Of course, not all of them are bad people. I even kill good people sometimes." Evil Spirit The rider turned the motorcycle to her head, the gas pedal boomed, and the bright headlights blinded her eyes, "What? Want to try it? Little girl."

Edith took a few steps back and shook her head: "No...I don't want to."

Ghost Rider said: "This mutant is a member of the Hellfire Club. I think they will find you shortly, and that anonymous letter is the result of the Hellfire Club."

After the Ghost Rider finished speaking, he flew away from the entrance of the alley.

The fast Edith couldn't catch up with him at all, leaning against the wall, Edith looked at the corpse of the mutant on the ground, walked over and took out his pocket, and suddenly grabbed a hard object, she took it out and saw that it was a A bronze medal with the words 'Hellfire Club' written on it.She flipped through it again and found a stack of banknotes in her pants, staring at the hospital wristband on her wrist, thinking.

The next day, the neurosurgery nurse station inexplicably received a sum of money, with a string of names written in English on it.

【Edith】