With the supplies in place, Qu Weiwei's surgery was quickly arranged. After collecting the things, these healing ability users were still very active, and the young man immediately found two more companions.
Shen Qing got a spectator seat with a good view as he wished.
Three psychics surrounded Qu Weiwei's severed limbs and released their superpowers at the same time. For a moment, the white light representing healing energy became brighter, but Shen Qing could still clearly see through the white light that new flesh and blood was growing bit by bit from the severed limbs.
It was so magical that Shen Qing held his breath and stared at it intently. Song Kaiji was also seeing it for the first time and felt nervous and curious as well.
However, after a while, the unconscious Qu Weiwei began to groan in pain and twisted her body restlessly: Normally, when a small wound heals, one would feel itchy and want to scratch, let alone the regeneration of a severed limb?
The flesh and bones that grew at a speed visible to the naked eye brought her tremendous pain and itchiness, causing Qu Weiwei to want to struggle even in her coma.
A healing psychic wiped the sweat from his forehead and ordered Shen Qing and Song Kaiji: "Hold her down, don't let her move!"
Song Kaiji and Shen Qing hurriedly rushed forward and held Qu Weiwei down. About half an hour later, the last bit of white light disappeared, and the three healing ability users collapsed to the ground exhausted, their clothes soaked with sweat, and all their abilities were exhausted before they finally regenerated Qu Weiwei's arm.
"It's perfect. I think the skin is much smoother than the other arm." The young man recovered and was in a good mood to joke. He gave Qu Weiwei a simple check-up and said, "She will wake up soon. She can go home now. She can stay in the hospital for another day for observation."
"Let's go home and leave soon!" Song Kaiji said hurriedly. One day's hospital stay costs a lot of money, and he is already deeply in debt and doesn't want to waste any more money. "I'll go and complete the discharge procedures right away."
He asked Shen Qing to help look after Qu Weiwei, and then quickly left the ward. The three psychics took a short rest and were about to leave. Before leaving, the young man gave Shen Qing some precautions: In fact, there is nothing special that needs special attention, just try to feed Qu Weiwei high-protein and high-nutrition food in the next few days, do not use your psychic powers for the time being, and try not to move the new arm.
Shen Qing wrote it down carefully. After hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but ask, "Doctor, if it's not an injury but a previous illness, can you treat it?"
"What disease?" Although he felt it was strange to call himself doctor, the young man still answered Shen Qing's question seriously.
But he remembered that Song Kaiji did not have enough supplies just now, and he borrowed them all from the man in front of him. This was the truly wealthy guy. Not to mention doing more business, even being on good terms with Shen Qing wouldn't hurt: "If it's a chronic disease like high blood pressure or high blood sugar, it can be treated but the effect is limited. Diseases that damage organs like pneumonia and gastric ulcers are easier to treat."
Their special ability, after all, is "healing" rather than "treatment", and it requires substantial damage to the patient itself for the special ability to have the maximum effect.
Shen Qing didn't know what high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and gastric ulcers were. He was a little annoyed that he knew too little about this world. He could only describe it truthfully: "It is the root cause of the disease after a difficult childbirth. I have been weak, afraid of colds, have back pain, and often have red discharge..." Not only Miao felt that this kind of women's disease was difficult to talk about, but Shen Qing felt the same. As he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller.
The young man was not a professional doctor. He just happened to awaken the healing power. He had learned some things during the half year he worked in the hospital. So when he heard Shen Qing talk about physical weakness and bleeding, he only had a vague understanding of it. But since it was caused by a difficult labor, it should be a birth injury, right? If it is an injury, it should be able to be treated, or at least the current situation can be improved.
The young man said, "You should bring the person here so we can try it out. I really don't know based on your description alone."
Shen Qing nodded like a chick pecking at rice. He would bring Miao here for treatment in a few days. Even if the condition could not be cured, as the doctor said, it would be good if there could be some improvement.
"When you bring people here, remember to come back to me and take care of my business." These healing psychics are charged by the order, and the hospital takes a small commission. Even if Qu Weiwei's order today is shared by the three of them, it would be a lot, and the young man was very happy.
He was about to leave the ward when an elderly couple suddenly rushed over and blocked his way: "Doctor, doctor, please save my son too!"
The man on the hospital bed also looked to be in his twenties, and his injuries were more serious than Qu Weiwei's. In addition to a deep and long whip wound on his chest - caused by the vines of the mutant plant, half of his left leg was also missing.
The couple were actually only in their fifties, but half a year of living in the apocalypse had made them age rapidly to the point where they looked like they were in their sixties or seventies. The husband was still able to do some work building the city wall, but the wife could hardly find even odd jobs, and the family mainly depended on their son's work on the farm for a living.
Originally they had no idea what to do and could only accept their fate, but they watched Qu Weiwei in the next bed grow a new arm in just half an hour. How could they be willing to let their son become disabled?
The young man was helpless as he had already discussed the price with this family before: "There are more missing parts of his lower limbs, so it will require more superpowers. It will cost 1,500 crystal cores or 500 kilograms of food. If you want to do it, just pay the fee. I will ask other superpower users to treat him." He had already used up all his superpowers treating Qu Weiwei today, and he needed to go home to absorb the energy from the crystal cores to slow down. He couldn't be cured even if he was paid.
If so many supplies could be provided, this family wouldn't have been stuck like this until now. They didn't mention the crystal core, they just pulled the young man and begged. But they also knew that it was the end of the world and this was not the hospital before the end of the world, so they could still owe some medical bills; the people in front of them were not real doctors and probably did not have the so-called compassionate heart of a doctor.
If they can't get the supplies, they will really have to watch their sons go to waste!
"How can you be so cruel!" The couple cried bitterly. The old woman looked at Shen Qing on the side, walked over a few steps, and was about to kneel down as she spoke: "Please, lend us some supplies! My son's legs must be saved, please, our family will always remember your kindness!
Shen Qing was still thinking about how to get Miao to come over without exposing the fact that there are zombies in this world, when he was suddenly knelt down by someone and was so scared that he almost jumped up. But the old woman grabbed his clothes tightly and refused to let go: this was their son's last hope!
The couple watched Song Kaiji borrow supplies from Shen Qing the whole time. After Shen Qing gave the basket he brought with him to Song Kaiji, it was still not enough, so he went back and picked up another load, and only then did he get a total of 400 kilograms. If he could lend it to Song Kaiji to save the girl, why couldn't he lend it to them to save their son?
While the old couple was crying, the family members of other people in the ward also looked at Shen Qing.
When Song Kaiji came back after completing the discharge procedures, he saw Shen Qing being dragged and begged by an old woman, and the other people in the room also had a tendency to surround him. He thought to himself that this was not good, knowing that it was because of his impatience and carelessness that he had caused trouble for Shen Qing, so he quickly squeezed in: "Make way, make way, we are about to be discharged!"
He pulled Qu Weiwei up and carried her on his back, and was about to leave holding Shen Qing with one hand, but the old couple refused to let go. Song Kaiji forcibly pulled their hands apart: "I will return the supplies I borrowed from him. If you want to borrow, tell me how long it will take to pay it back and what you plan to do to pay it back?"
Saying things like "I will remember the kindness you have received all my life" basically means that you have no intention of repaying the favor, and you don't have the ability to repay it, so you can only say these empty words. Sure enough, the old couple was unable to respond for a while. Song Kaiji hurriedly pulled Shen Qing and carried Qu Weiwei on his back and ran out of the ward quickly.
"It's all my fault. I let you show off your wealth and that's why we got into this trouble." Song Kaiji was very sorry. There is a saying that goes "poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people", and it still applies to the end of the world. When people are in a dangerous environment with extreme material scarcity, their moral bottom line will drop lower and lower just to survive - even if it means survival by any means necessary.
When the granaries are full, one knows etiquette; when one has enough food and clothing, one knows honor and disgrace. Perhaps these people were polite, civilized, and even had a sense of boundaries before the end of the world, but when they had no other way to save their son except to pin their hopes on others, would they choose to give it a try?
Song Kaiji turned to look at Shen Qing, but found that Shen Qing's face was gloomy, as if he was thinking about something. Song Kaiji's heart moved: "You wouldn't... you wouldn't want to save that person, right?"
Only then did he remember that he did not hear Shen Qing's reply or Shen Qing's refusal, so he took Shen Qing away from the ward without permission. Maybe... since Shen Qing couldn't bear to see Qu Weiwei's hand broken, he might be kind to others?
His heart suddenly sank: Would Shen Qing think that he was not kind enough, as he was only willing to save his own friends but stopped Shen Qing from helping others?
Fortunately, Shen Qing shook his head and said, "No, it's just the first time I've encountered such a thing." Maybe it was because he was too poor before, and others would not think of him when borrowing money, so he had never encountered such a thing and was a little scared.
However, he didn't think Song Kaiji did anything wrong: he saved Qu Weiwei entirely for Song Kaiji's sake. He didn't know that family. The person on the hospital bed was very pitiful. Shen Qing was not without compassion, but his compassion was probably only enough to give that family a few steamed buns. It was absolutely impossible for him to pay all their medical expenses - as Song Kaiji said, did that family look like they could afford it?
If he had a lot of money and was very safe, Shen Qing wouldn't mind helping others and doing more good deeds. But showing off one's wealth would put oneself in danger and endless trouble: Shen Qing had seen other people in the ward who were ready to make a move, waiting for him to agree to lend the money to the old couple, and then they would rush over.
Then he just wants to protect himself and the people who are important to him first.
Shen Qing took a deep breath. He was just an ordinary person who had a little kindness but not much, and who regarded himself as more important.
He also accepted from the bottom of his heart that he was just an ordinary person with average moral character.
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