Chapter 595: Bandits (24)

Wen Wan said, "Since we can't change the casualties caused by the war, we can at least reduce them. Even the mountain strongholds are in a state of drug shortage every day, let alone other places. Moreover, most of the medicines are hoarded by warlords and are not used by ordinary people. You want me to do nothing? I can't do that."

If Wen Wan had no other choice, that would be fine, but she has a system. Although the system is unreliable and doesn't exist at all times, it is indeed a cheat code. It comes from a higher plane and can provide her with a lot of help.

After some consideration, the system finally agreed. [Okay, but the potency might be a little lower because some of the ingredients needed for the formula are simply unavailable in this world. However, it's enough, so don't worry.]

After some consideration, the system finally agreed: "Okay, but the potency might be a little lower because some of the ingredients needed for the formula simply cannot be found in this world."

"Okay, just tell me and I'll take care of it."

The system quickly gave Wen Wan the formula, which contained only the bare minimum of the ingredients, selected from those that could be found in this world. Although it could not bring the dead back to life, it was far more effective than any medicine in this era.

Wen Wan handed the prescription to Gu Weiming and asked him to find the medicinal herbs listed in the prescription.

"This is?"

"It's a medicine that can stop bleeding and save lives. Trust me, I won't harm you."

Gu Weiming didn't even ask where the prescription came from before sending someone to buy it. Most of the prescriptions were easy to obtain, but a small portion required some effort. However, Gu Weiming had his own methods.

Half a month later, all the medicinal herbs arrived at Wen Wan's place.

Wen Wan began to brew the medicine according to the method given by the system, and also added some secret recipes given to her by the system. With these, the efficacy of all the medicines could be maximized. These secret recipes were the essence of countless years of refinement and improvement in a world where medicine was highly respected, and they surpassed the medical level of this small world.

The first group of people to use Wen Wan's medicine were the villagers who were wounded in battle and were barely clinging to life; they were the most seriously injured.

Moreover, they trusted Wen Wan.

Since they were already facing certain death, they would gladly accept any medicine their sister-in-law found for them, even if there was only a sliver of hope.

Who would have thought that this medicine would actually be so effective?

The most seriously ill patients have all recovered, which surprised Gu Weiming. He quickly ordered people to stockpile large quantities of those medicinal herbs.

Chen Ziming is a clever man! He needs money to buy medicine, so he sought cooperation, providing the warlord with special medicine at a high price. He then used the money to buy medicinal materials, and when he had enough for himself, he would also send some to the injured people in the town.

Wen Wan is very supportive of this.

As the number of wounded in the mountain stronghold increased, Wen Wan treated them with medicine for free. She thought they would leave after they were healed, but no one did. Many young men joined the stronghold directly. They realized that bandits were sometimes better than officials. At least officials wouldn't care about their lives, but bandits would.

It's possible that not all bandits, only Gu Weiming's men, are capable of this.

They used to be afraid of Gu Weiming, but they never expected that in the end, it would be these people they once feared who would save them.

They had only one request: to bring their families over.

Gu Weiming agreed.

Even Qin Xiaoya and the others brought their families up the mountain. Shu Tong's parents finally suffered the blow of the war. Money can be earned, but what use is money if you lose your life?

So he went up the mountain with his daughter, and even turned a blind eye to his daughter and Lei Ming's affair, since they couldn't do anything about it anyway. They couldn't do anything about it before, and they can't do anything about it now.

Gu Weiming's team expanded rapidly, and his reputation among the people grew better and better.

During this period, many powerful warlords tried to recruit Gu Weiming's troops, promising them numerous benefits, but Gu Weiming refused them all.

There was even a warlord who, because of Gu Weiming's lack of tact, tried to force him to submit. In the end, Gu Weiming cut off the warlord's medication, and in less than half a month, the man obediently came to beg for peace. Chen Ziming directly raised the price of the medicine by half, and the other party had no choice but to swallow his pride.

However, the cruelty of war is not a small matter; Wen Wan sees countless people being carried up the mountain every day.

Gu Weiming then proposed again that he wanted to be temporarily sent abroad.

Even Chen Ziming and Lei Ming had the same plan, wanting to send them out first.

Wen Wan refused, as did Qin Xiaoya and Shu Tong. Qin Xiaoya grabbed Chen Ziming's hair and said, "If we're going to die, we'll die together. If you kick me out, we'll get a divorce."

Chen Ziming dared not do it again. Shu Tong was gentle and kind, but her attitude was very firm.

Wen Wan, needless to say, could never leave Gu Weiming's side, no matter what her reason might be.

In this situation, Gu Weiming, Chen Ziming, and Lei Ming only have one option: to strengthen themselves. In this world, only guns and medicine can allow them to gain a foothold.

So Gu Weiming began to recruit troops, and he also demonstrated his excellent military leadership skills. It is said that a cowardly soldier is one coward, but a cowardly general is a whole bunch of cowards. Obviously, Gu Weiming was not cowardly, and soon his sphere of power grew larger and larger, even comparable to those of warlords.

The war lasted on and off for a year, and Wen Wan went from being afraid at the beginning to becoming numb later. All she could do was try her best to help Gu Weiming and those who could not survive in the war.

The worst time was when Gu Weiming was shot directly in the heart. Wen Wan almost went crazy when she saw Gu Weiming being carried to the mountain stronghold by Lei Ming.

Wen Wan asked the system for help, and even threatened the system with suicide. In the end, she had a high fever for three days and three nights before she was able to save her life.

Because of that incident, Wen Wan began her path of constantly exploiting the system's resources.

We need to have this weapon, right? Let the system bring out the most advanced one.

Surely we need some protection? The system should provide everyone with the best bulletproof vests the world can offer, the best helmets, the best healing medicine, and the most nutritious crops.

The system is almost completely drained.

It decided that in the next world, it would definitely send its host to a more peaceful one, because this world was almost draining its coffin savings.

And these things are obviously shocking.

Wen Wan felt that Gu Weiming had known all along that these things were not something Liu Zhenyue could produce, but the other party had not suspected anything at all.

It was only by chance that Wen Wan learned from the leaky system that her identity had been completely exposed to Gu Weiming long ago. He already knew her identity, but he just wouldn't say it, and neither would the system. She was such a fool, always having to come up with reasons, even though her reasons were full of holes. She was wasting a lot of her brain cells.

Wen Wan was utterly speechless.

Then she and Gu Weiming had a cold war for a week, during which Gu Weiming slept in the study for a week.

In the end, it was only after pleading with Tangyuan (glutinous rice balls) that Wen Wan was barely appeased.

With the assistance of Wen Wan—or rather, the assistance of a higher-level force represented by the system—Gu Weiming's strength expanded rapidly, even turning against many warlords and incorporating a large number of their armies.

Most of them were enemies who had harmed Gu Weiming's father's family back then. After all, this battle had to be fought, but this grudge also had to be settled. Gu Weiming was truly amazing; he could handle both matters perfectly. Gu Weiming didn't need a cheat code; he himself was more like an invincible cheat code. Therefore, Wen Wan genuinely doubted whether the character in that poorly written novel who later suffered a dramatic drop in intelligence and fighting ability, was truly Gu Weiming, who was betrayed by everyone and even had his own brothers turn against him.