Chapter 22 Ancient Medicine
"Pioneer, the first round city is ahead." The correspondent ran over and saluted the young man who was tired of life but had not lost his edge. "The vanguard found a large number of werewolf footprints outside the city, and they are currently stationed in the wasteland."
The correspondent gave the map to Pioneer, who pointed to the location of First Round City on the map, looked up at the deserted city, and couldn't help but frown. "There is something strange. The First Round City is close to the big forest, so it stands to reason that the city will not be deserted... Notify the vanguard troops to search for signs outside the city in a planned way, and they are not allowed to enter the city directly before the large troops arrive!"
The troops behind them also arrived in the next few days. The vanguard looked at the deserted city in front of him, sighed, and took the lead into the first round city.
The roads in the city are filled with all kinds of black water marks. Even though they are dry enough to be peeled off and used as sand and ground into powder, they still leave countless unknowns and horrors. The vanguard, leading the vanguard, cautiously Slow down the road.
"What day is today?" "January 5th." "We have been fighting for two months..." Pioneer couldn't help but sigh. "I wonder if we can overthrow those evil guys this year."
"Pioneer Captain Liu just said that they found a child in District 10." "Leave a team and move on. Wang He, your team will come with me to the captain!"
Captain Liu was twirling his long beard that hadn't been trimmed for a month, scolding his team members with an anxious look on his face. "I told you not to use weapons once you find people, and to treat every civilian kindly. What did you hear? It scared the child away, and he looked like he had been hungry for several days..."
Although the team members looked aggrieved, recalling the fear on the child's face when he ran away in panic, they were filled with regret and heartache. "Captain, you said, no, there won't be only, then, that one person here..."
A stone fell between them, and everyone looked up. The child was standing barefoot on a big branch, looking a little nervous. "Child, be careful! Don't fall!" Captain Liu signaled his two team members to be ready to rescue people, while he put all the weapons and other threatening equipment on the ground, and slowly raised his hands. walked forward. "We are the pioneers of a new era in this continent. Unlike those hypocritical rich people who usually bully you, the vast majority of us are from workers and farmers..."
"Stop! Don't come near me!" The child couldn't help shouting. "There's no one here anymore!"
Captain Liu stopped. "What happened here before?"
Captain Liu thought the child was thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he ordered his men to get the kettle. Upon seeing this, the child quickly jumped down from the tree to stop him. "No! Yes, the water is poisonous. You can't drink the water here!"
"What?!" Captain Liu was anxious. He remembered the team stationed by the river, quickly took out the emergency signal gun and fired a bullet into the sky. "The three of you, go find the medical team immediately and prepare to ask them to prepare the corresponding poison. The two of you, stay here to take care of the children. The rest of you, follow me immediately to notify the large troops by the river! Hurry!"
The child quickly grabbed his sleeve, "I'm sorry, child, uncle is busy now and can't..." "The meaning in the water is werewolf blood poison! Anyone who drinks it will... turn into a werewolf..." The child endured He couldn't help but laugh. "Everyone here has gone crazy and ran to the village..."
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Luo Xi wiped off the dagger and folded the handkerchief stained with black blood and put it into her pocket. In the past month, her footprints have been covered in the muddy forest. "Although I know he can't die, but... forget it." , keep looking.”
In a few days, the river here will freeze. By then... She shook her head quickly. The sudden man's voice from the left made her alert. She dodged and hid behind the big rock next to her.
Hasn't this place been transformed into werewolves?
No! This smell is...
Luo Xi smiled, and the dagger in her hand flashed sharp curves. Just in time, after gathering the power of the original four gods, my mission here is basically completed.
Um?
Luo Xi's eyes suddenly flashed. She blinked her left eye, and Cha Shen's divine power shone with a transparent light in her left eye. The induction just now was unmistakable! She quickly scanned everything around her, and finally saw the ink color not far away.
“It’s really not a worry…”
Luo Xi looked at the black mark on her hand and shook her head innocently. She looked at the White God logo on the gloves, hesitated for a moment, but still put her hand on his forehead.
Huh? Why didn't it work? She put her hand on his pulse and listened quietly. After a long time, she opened her sad eyes. "Tell me, what will you do if this continues..."
She clenched her fist and decisively swung the dagger...
"Oh-"
The gun in Xue Butui's hand flicked, and he put down the muzzle of the gun, "Woman, what are you yelling at?"
Mei tried to steady her breathing, "I, I had a different feeling. Just now, it seemed like..." "Come on, I've had this ominous feeling for several days. Let's find the herbal medicine first." A branch. "It's winter, are you sure there is still that kind of grass?"
"My master said that this kind of grass only grows in January, but its distribution range is extremely wide, as long as it is in mountainous areas." "I hope your folk remedy works, otherwise my journey of more than ten days will be in vain."
Mei clenched her fists, rushed forward, and put her right hand on Xue Bubu's neck, "I reiterate, this is not a folk remedy, this is an orthodox ancient medicine, but later times changed and people thought it was useless and did not learn it, so they stopped it. My master spent decades sorting them out from ancient books!"
"Then what? Only you can do it now?"
"And my senior brother, his skills... what I tell you are nonsense, hurry up and find him, this place is not very far from the big forest."
The crow on the branch crowed a few times and flew towards the big forest.
The pioneer has not slept for three days. He is now sitting outside the temporary command post like a statue, and the bloodshot eyes are not even one ten thousandth of his anxiety.
The cook looked at the hot chicken soup in the bowl and hesitated, but still brought it over.
"Pioneer, a man is an iron rice and a body of steel is the capital of war. How can you be so undernourished..." "How many times have I told you that I don't want to drink? If I want to drink, I have to let those infected brothers drink?"
"But, this is our last military food. All the recent livestock have been eaten by werewolves..."
"Then go to the commander!"
"You said the same thing yesterday..."
Pioneer raised his index finger. "Hold on, did you hear something?" "Huh?" Before the cook could react, the pioneer put on his coat and rushed towards him with his gun raised. "Gunshots! Not ours!"
The commander rushed faster than the vanguard, and his tall body was like a charging shield, protecting them in front of everyone, "Damn! Are those evil guys so capable of chasing?!"
Then Mei and Xue Bubu saw a group of people suddenly emerging from the hills outside the city, all aiming their guns at them.
"Oh my God, such a grand welcome ceremony?"
After the commander saw the person clearly, he stood still, but he was still a little wary. However, he still asked the soldiers to put down their guns.
"Fellow fellow! Are you also from the same region?"
Mei pinched Xue Bubu's waist and told him to shut up. "No, we are the aborigines of the Three Cities First Round City! You..."
"Isn't this place already ruled by others and prohibited from leaving the city? How can you still come out?"
"What? The people here have all turned into werewolves. Some of them collapsed and died, and the other half were so hungry that they ran into the mountains and forests. Oh, we left the city to find herbs to treat them."
The commander looked at the sunset that was about to say goodbye in the distance and relaxed. "Come in."
Everyone entered the city together, that cursed city.
Pioneer looked at the list of infected casualties on the table and felt his head hurt again. "They are all the pillars of the family..." Tears fell on the list. "They did not die on the battlefield, but they died here..."
The commander came in smoking a cigarette. This was the first cigarette he smoked after entering the three realms. Pioneer knew that he was happy now, but he really didn't understand what there was to be happy about now. "Smoking is prohibited in the command post." The commander walked over and patted him on the shoulder. "Brother, do you remember the man and woman who came into the city yesterday?"
"Them?" Pioneer frowned. "What's wrong?"
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It was a deserted empty city, with intact houses shining like gems in the sand. The broken city wall buries this place like sand, and the few rays of light that shine out from time to time declare the last power of mankind here.
Luo Xi climbed to the top of the only remaining building with difficulty. The neat wound on her right arm warned her that time was running out. "Ah, time is running out, we have to get the power of those two people before then. She used the power of Cha Shen.
Ah, I found you, my two little cuties...
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She can't sleep.
"Is this, is this the price of being weak? You know that what you least want to happen is happening, but you are powerless to change it. God really knows how to play tricks on people. I am obviously used to living alone, but you just broke it Lost my peace..."
She tried to stand up again, but unfortunately failed again, and tried again...
Just before she closed her eyes, she seemed to see a fox?
"Um…"
The infected person hesitated for a moment while holding the bowl of clear and thick wet liquid. "This, does this really work?" Mei shook her head. "We have no other good solution at the moment."
"Okay! I'll drink!"
The infected person emboldened himself, then raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. "Hiss..." He licked his lips, "Why does it taste so sweet..."
Mei wrote in the notebook next to her: "The patient responded correctly, remember to prepare a basin." She had already prepared the basin and handed it to him. Before the other party could react, his stomach reacted before him. Coming over, he grabbed the basin and spat out a few mouthfuls of black blood with a "wow" sound.
"Congratulations on the recovery. Oh, don't forget to rinse your mouth after vomiting." Mei then gave him a glass of water and turned to report to the medical staff.
"Thanks."
The patients next to me burst out laughing when they saw this scene. "Chang Lian, you are a very blessed boy. Come on, let me be your matchmaker some other time. Get to work quickly! There are bigger challenges ahead of me!"
"Makes sense." After Chang Lian got out of bed and tidied up, he looked back at Hui who was still communicating with the doctors and nurses, smiled knowingly, and left slowly.
In the following days, in addition to the large iron pots for cooked medicine in the hospital, there were more and more various types of herbs near Sholun City (anyway, those are the only two types of grass that can grow here, both of which are necessary for cooked medicine) It was also artificially "robbed" for a while. until…
"Commander, everyone who went out to collect herbs today came back early."
"Huh? What's wrong? We have finished picking the herbs here? Didn't we tell them not to pick the small ones but only the big ones..."
"No, they discovered it in the woods today..." "What? Don't tell me about it, tell me."
"Bear tracks."
The pen he was holding tightly in the commander's hand fell to the ground. "Say it again?"
"They found bear tracks."
The commander took a step back and spat out the rumor that had been circulating on their continent for hundreds of years: "At the moment of nature's wrath, when the divine bear descends..."
In this continent, it seems that there is only one bear in the big forest, that magical bear who plays with tanks as toy cars.
"How's the amount of herbs going?"
"Well... our people have almost recovered. The herbs currently stored are mainly for those who fled to the forest. Logically speaking, it should be enough. Otherwise, we..."
"Go to the mountain and call all those people down. Call as many as you can and remember, no one is left. In addition, ask those who go to collect medicine to bring guns. It is strictly forbidden to open fire until there is a crisis. Well... let them Set off in the original direction and try to pick the biggest ones.”
Night fell again.
A deafening sound came from the distant mountain forest, and the thick sound waves washed away the last darkness of the forest. The forest bent down frequently to welcome the arrival of the giant beast.
Some of the ungrateful werewolves around were still moving forward despite the huge sense of oppression. However, how could the giant beast that claimed to be a god tolerate those evil guys wandering around in front of it?
"Roar---"
The huge roar penetrated the earth and shattered the eardrums of the werewolves. The latter covered their ears in pain and ran away as fast as possible.
"Ho...(Why is there still a person who doesn't know how to live or die?)"
Killing light flashed in its eyes, and just when its front paws showed their sharpness, and when it was about to kill the opponent, a flying flower fell on its ear. "Roar? (What do you mean, sir?)"
It was silent for a while, then turned into a human form, picked up the guy who was "sleeping" while hiding in the tree hole, and turned away.
No one noticed that there was no moon tonight, nor was there a single human being smiling in their greenhouse.
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Extra: fall
At midnight, the moon is bright and the flute is playing.
The long music carefully caressed every bamboo leaf in the bamboo forest, and the sadness overflowing from it wetted the bamboo leaves here.
"My parents must have gone to bed by this time, right?" The girl let go of the flute in her mouth and looked up at the lonely full moon, "There are still more than a hundred days before we can be reunited...
Her cell phone rang: "I'm waiting here for you to come back..."
"Hello?"
"Xiao Xi, did you watch TV tonight?" The colleague's voice was filled with worry. "What's wrong? Which celebrity was caught cheating?" "No! It's from your hometown..."
This was her first expensive flight home.
Three hours later, she hurriedly returned and knelt down in front of the endless ruins. The reporters who came after hearing the news were still taking pictures of the valuable fire ruins inside. One brave one even crossed the cordon and accidentally I stepped on something.
"Oh my God..." The reporter threw away the branches that were burned into black sticks, and with a shout pulled her over while she was kneeling on the ground crying. "There's someone here! Someone alive!"
The people rushing around were stunned, and even the people in the ambulance almost couldn't hold on to the stretcher. The great parents, who were burned beyond recognition, hugged the sleeping child in the middle as if to protect themselves, with faces on their faces. The kind smile is the last memory they leave to this child and this world.
"Great parents..." After everyone witnessed the ambulance leaving, they still refused to leave for a long time. Everyone was shocked and speechless by this scene.
The doctor who stayed up all night had just yawned and walked out of the ward. She walked over with red and swollen eyes and asked in a low voice: "Doctor, I, my brother, he, he is okay..."
"Don't worry, it's not life-threatening, just a little external trauma at most." The doctor clapped his hands to reassure her, and then suddenly remembered something, "You are the patient's family, right? Remember to pay the hospitalization fee and so on."
She dialed the number with almost a pleading heart, but unfortunately... "Hey, the number you dialed is not in the service area." Is the manager not here? Then call the boss... "Hey, the number you dialed cannot be dialed temporarily... "
Just as she calmly pressed down the red button, her cell phone rang. Her eyes flashed, but immediately... "Hello, is this Miss Luoxi? After investigation, we found that you used to work for a black factory. Staff, now that we have arrived at the hospital, please cooperate with our work..." She subconsciously pressed her empty wallet.
How can we pay for living and hospitalization expenses? My grandpa and the others... can't do it! Even at such an old age, I have to trouble them and ask my colleagues and friends to borrow money... "Hey Xiao Xi, don't come to me now! That bastard of a manager has screwed me over. "I'm here to borrow..." "If you need anything, I'll call you after I get off the plane after I leave the country!"
"Beep, beep..."
"I'm sorry, please give way!" Luo Xi hugged her brother and squeezed towards the train car that was no longer able to eat. "I have an emergency at home, trouble..." As soon as she stepped on the train, she was pushed down by a man. "Who has nothing to do? Can you go back if nothing happens? Go! Go behind!" Luo Xi stood up from the ground despite being stepped on by others. When she turned around, she found that her left hand was empty, "Brother! Brother!"
Luo Xi looked at the dense crowd, tears streaming down the wounds on her face.
On the other side, the stationmaster scratched his bald head and said, "The high-speed rail will be built in this area by this time next year. Oh my, the medical insurance has been very good recently. My nephew's family doesn't have to worry about the surgery fee. ” He pressed broadcast. "This train will leave in 2 minutes. Friends who have not yet boarded the train, please hurry up and get on the train."
The staff knocked on his door and said, "Stationmaster, someone picked up this child at the station."
"Why did you bring me here? Call me over at the station, hurry up, don't let my family members worry!"
Luoxi, who had already walked around twice, boarded the carriage and said, "Hello, have you seen a child? He is about three or four years old. Sorry to bother you." "Hello, have you seen a child?" ?"
"Girl, look, is that one outside..." Someone with good eyesight spotted the child held by the staff outside. "Thank you!" Luo Xi jumped out of the car, and the train accelerated forward in her shadow.
She took the child, looked back at the empty track and the mountains in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh.
There's only so much relief money left...
Luo Bubai picked up his grandson and pondered for a while, "When he grows up, he will ask about his parents and you..." "Oh, let's just say we went to a far away place. Fallen leaves return to their roots, return home at night, etc. When I become successful, I will come to pick you up. Before that, let my brother have a happy childhood."
The roaring whistle brought her back to reality. She shook her head with a smile and continued to look in the direction of home. The thin sunset shines on her eyes, and an era of darkness is opening its arms to welcome her...
In the dark night, she took out her flute again and started playing it. The music was blown by the wind and flew to her distant hometown.
"Yesterday, the train to City
Okay, the series of deleted plots ends here. A large part of the reason why I deleted these is because the college entrance examination is approaching. I don’t have so much time to write a new version, so I can only delete it significantly and take the essence.
