smiling, Laurent answered. – But will bring soon, now to you not for long to expect.
– Ah, rather!.
– And me will also sew other body? – Thomas asked.
– Yes, certainly – calmed him Laurent. – And you will be same healthy, strong as were. You will collect money, will go to yourself to the village and marry your Mari.
Laurent already knew all concealed desires of the head.
Thomas gave smacking kiss lips.
– It is rather.
Laurent hurried to pass to the room of the head of Douel. As soon as the air crane was open, the head asked Laurent:
– What does all this mean?
Laurent told the head about a conversation with the Core and the conclusion.
– It is shocking! – the head told. – If I could only help you… And I, perhaps, will be able if only you help me…
In the opinion of the head there were an anger and determination.
– Everything is very simple. Close the crane from nutritious tubes, and I will die. Believe that I was even disappointed when the Core reopened the crane and recovered me. I will die, and the Core will allow to go home you.
– I will never come back home such price! – Laurent exclaimed.
– I would like to have all eloquence of Cicero to convince you to make it.
Laurent negatively shook the head.
– Even Cicero would not convince me. I will never decide to stop human life…
– Well, unless I am a person? – with a sad smile the head asked.
– You remember, you repeated Descartes’s words: «I think. Therefore, I exist» – Laurent answered.
– Let’s put, it so, but then here that. I will cease to instruct the Core. And already any tortures it will not force me to help it. And then he will finish off me.
– No, no, I beg you. – Laurent approached the head. – Listen to me. I thought of revenge earlier, now I think of other. If the Core manages to put a corpse body to Brike’s head and operation will take place successfully, that is hope and you to return to life… Not a Core, so another.
– Unfortunately, hope this very weak – Douel answered. – Hardly experience will work well even at the Core. He is an angry and criminal person, vain as one thousand Fame-thirsty persons. But he is a talented surgeon and, perhaps, the most capable of all assistants who I had. If he which took my advices to present day does not make it, then nobody will make. However I doubt that also he performed this unprecedented operation.
– But dogs…
– Dogs – business other. Both dogs, live and healthy, lay on one table before making operation of change of the heads. All this occurred very quickly. And that the Core, apparently, managed to return only one dog to life, otherwise it would bring both of them to me to brag. And the body of a corpse can be brought only in several hours when, perhaps, rotting processes began already. You can judge complexity of the operation as the physician. This is not what to sew the semi-cut-off finger. It is necessary to connect, carefully to sew all arteries, veins and, the main thing, nerves and a spinal cord, differently will turn out the cripple; then to resume blood circulation… No, it is infinitely difficult task, excessive for modern surgeons.
– Really you would not perform such operation?
– I considered everything, already did experiences with dogs and I believe that I would manage it…
The door unexpectedly opened. The Core was on the threshold.
– Meeting of conspirators? I will not disturb you. – And he slammed the door.
DEAD DIANA
It seemed to Brike’s head that the new body is as easy to pick up and sew to the head of the person how to try on and sew a new dress. The volume of a neck is removed, it is necessary only to pick up the same volume of a neck at a corpse.
However she was convinced soon that business is not so simple. In the morning in white dressing gowns to it professor Kern, Laurent and John were. Kern disposed that Brike’s head was carefully removed from a glass support and is put by the person up so that it was possible to see all cut of a neck. Head food the blood oxygenated did not stop. Kern went deep into studying and measurements.
– At all monotony of human anatomy – said the Core – each body of the person has the specific features. Sometimes difficult happens to distinguish whether the external or internal carotid predlezhit, for example. Also the artery thickness, windpipe width even at people is unequal to the identical volume of a neck. It is necessary to tinker also with nerves much.
– But how you will operate? – asked Laurent. – Having put a neck cut to a trunk cut, you thereby will close all surface of a cut at once.
– That’s just the point. We with Douel handled this issue. It is necessary to do a number of longitudinal sections – to go from the center to the periphery. It is very complex work. It is necessary to make fresh sections on a neck of the head and a corpse to reach not died off yet, active cages. But the main difficulty nevertheless not in it. The main thing – how to destroy products of the begun rotting or the place of infectious infection in a corpse body how to clear blood vessels of the turned blood, to fill them with fresh blood and to force to earn organism «motor» – heart… And spinal cord? The slightest touch to it causes the strongest reaction, often with the most serious consequences.
– And how you assume to overcome all these difficulties?
– Oh, it is my secret so far. When experience works well, I will publish all story of revival from the dead. Well, for today enough. Put the head into place. Start up an air stream. How do you feel, mademoiselle? – asked the Core, addressing Brike’s head.
– I thank you, well. But listen, mister professor, I am very concerned… You spoke about different unclear things here, but one I understood that you are going to cut to pieces my neck up and down. Same there will be a continuous disgrace. Where I will seem with such neck which will be similar to cutlet?
– I will try that hems were less noticeable. But, certainly, it will not be possible to hide absolutely operation traces. Do not do desperate eyes, mademoiselle, you can carry a velvet ribbon or even a necklace on a neck. Well, I will present it to you in day of your «birth». Yes, here still that. Now your head dried out a little. When you begin to live normal life, the head has to grow stout. To learn your normal volume of a neck, it is necessary «to fatten» you now, otherwise there can be troubles.
– But I cannot eat – the head plaintively answered.
– We will fatten you on a tubule. I prepared special structure – he addressed Laurent. – Besides, it is necessary to strengthen also supply of blood.
– You
