#769 - Chapter 769 Two People in Yonghua City
Minnan Province.
Yonghua City.
On the top floor of a ten-story building, in a room with a forced-open door, a woman looked as if she had completed a very strenuous task, her face covered in fine sweat, even the hair around her cheeks and temples stuck together in clumps.
She was none other than Yao Lei from the Green Source Base!
Having miraculously survived, she had somehow made her way to the top floor of the building where they had landed.
Not far from her was a man completely wrapped in various bandages and cloths, naturally Li Bowen, who had fallen from the airship earlier.
After nearly two hours of emergency surgery, his bleeding had finally stopped.
As a combat troop and part-time medic, Yao Lei always carried a small amount of hemostatic bandages and a small dose of medication.
These were now being used on Captain Li, who was on the verge of death.
Because she didn't have enough hemostatic bandages, she even ran to cut down the parachute hanging on the rooftop and used it as well.
"Captain, you must hold on!"
Slightly catching her breath, Yao Lei leaned against Li Bowen again, holding his hand and praying.
Her heart ached as if it were breaking.
When she had opened the captain's clothes and saw the dense mass of wounds, with countless shrapnel fragments embedded in his body, Yao Lei had mustered her courage with a strong will and belief to perform the surgery.
Especially the muscles on the captain's back, she had almost turned them inside out!
How much pain must he be in!
She couldn't imagine it.
During the surgery, Captain Li woke up several times, vaguely glanced at the busy Yao Lei a few times, and then fell unconscious again.
During the surgery, Yao Lei abandoned all distracting thoughts, with only one thought remaining in her mind: she must save the captain!
Finally, the surgery was completed.
All the wounds, large and small, on Captain Li's body had been stitched up by her, and she had applied the last bit of disinfectant to them.
Even so.
The danger could only be considered temporarily delayed, because there were more and greater challenges ahead!
Without the corresponding anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs, the wounds on Captain Li's body would definitely become inflamed!
Even if he was an evolver, this situation, which all creatures inevitably encounter, would soon arrive.
For example, now.
Yao Lei touched Li Bowen's forehead, and an abnormal warmth came from it.
As expected, he had a fever!
The fine wounds on his body had been coarsely stitched, and even the disinfection was only done with simple cauterization. Even with professional treatment in a hospital, he would need to be injected with anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics. It was impossible for problems not to arise as things were now.
Yao Lei's heart clenched again.
When she jumped off the airship, she didn't have time to grab a medical kit. Otherwise, the anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics stored inside could definitely save the captain's life at this time.
Now that she had nothing, she could only pray that Captain Li could pull through on his own.
Although it was difficult.
Soon, she noticed Li Bowen trembling slightly in the room.
This was a phenomenon of feeling cold after a fever caused by wound inflammation.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yao Lei covered Li Bowen with all the clothes and blankets she could find and lit a bonfire in the room for warmth.
Coming to Minnan Province in December, the temperature was even more terrifying than in Guangnan Province. The temperature there had not yet dropped below zero, but here it had completely dropped below freezing at night!
The entire room was like a huge ice cellar.
Time passed by in the darkness. Yao Lei didn't know where she had found some water, placed it on the bonfire to boil, and then used a towel made of some unknown fabric to constantly wipe Captain Li's hands and feet.
This was a physical cooling method that could be done without medication.
"Gurgle."
A strange sound came from Yao Lei's stomach, but she continued to busy herself with her hands as if she hadn't heard it.
Compared to the captain's predicament, her mere hunger was completely insignificant.
She melted a chocolate bar she was carrying in a container, and then carefully fed the warm, liquefied sweet chocolate into Li Bowen's mouth.
Unfortunately.
Captain Li, who had lost consciousness, was unable to swallow this high-energy liquid normally.
A trace of dark brown chocolate liquid flowed down the corner of his mouth.
Yao Lei's heart felt even heavier when she saw this.
Captain Li had fallen into a deep coma and was unable to eat. How could he fight the disease without energy replenishment!?
This couldn't go on!
Hesitating for a second, Yao Lei resolutely took a mouthful of chocolate liquid, then approached her captain's mouth and met it........
"Huff—!"
She didn't exhale heavily until she had fed all the liquid from the chocolate bar into the captain's mouth and no more was spilling out.
It was a bit of a challenge for a girl like her to do such a thing.
However, this matter, which might have embarrassed her greatly in the past, was forgotten in less than half a minute.
Because she could see that the captain's face looked slightly better after eating something.
And his previously trembling body had also become much calmer again.
It worked!
Her heart relaxed slightly, but the current situation still couldn't be said to be completely relaxed.
The long night was endless. Could the captain really survive without medication?
Yao Lei didn't know.
She could only pray that all the gods in the heavens would bless the person she loved to pull through.
Exhausted from the day's work, she didn't dare to close her eyes to rest, only daring to doze off when she saw the captain calm down.
In the early hours of the second half of the night.
Li Bowen began to tremble violently again!
And his body entered a high fever mode. There was no need to ask, the inflammation was even worse!
"Cold... so cold..."
Yao Lei could vaguely hear the captain's unconscious muttering.
Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes again.
The next second, she unhesitatingly took off her combat uniform and, wearing only her underwear, crawled into the captain's bed.
She was using her own body temperature to warm the captain!
Besides this, she really had no other good solution.
It was night now, and even if this place where they had fallen was outside the city and there might be some pharmacies that hadn't been completely looted, the countless zombies that came out at night would definitely tear her apart!
Reality wasn't the kind where you could shout a slogan and have an invincible golden body to run amok in the dark and return unscathed.
If something happened to her, the captain would very likely lose his only companion and rescuer.
She had thought a lot just now, guessing that the Green Source companions on those airships might also be in trouble.
She didn't know if they had shaken off that enemy helicopter or not?
In the emergency, Yao Lei and the other who jumped out of the plane didn't have walkie-talkies or any other equipment that could be used to reconnect with their companions.
Waiting here all the time wasn't a solution either.
In case that helicopter wasn't driven back by their companions and returned to find them, they would only have a dead end if they stayed in place.
What should they do in the future!?
Could anyone save the captain?
In a daze, Yao Lei fell asleep with deep fatigue and thoughts.
(End of this chapter)
