Chapter 143: Injury to the Spine
"All earth-type ability users are ready to clear the ruins and rescue people, and the others should clear out the zombies in the surrounding area and be on guard," Li Qing gave the order.
Lu Weiyi could feel that Li Zhuang must be injured, but even if he knew it, he had no better way to escape. He took out four bead cores that had never been used from the space, and fumbled to put one into the hands of each of the other three people.
"Absorb" They rely solely on their superpowers to resist the attacks of the mental zombies on their brains, which is a process that consumes their superpowers. They are more or less scratched and bitten by the zombies. At this time, the bead core is the fastest and most energy-efficient way to replenish superpowers.
The three of them didn't say anything, and each of them quickly absorbed the nuclear bead.
"This thing... has more energy than dozens of crystal cores," Antonio was surprised in the darkness. After absorbing it, he felt that his supernatural powers seemed to have improved a little.
Lu Weiyi understood the meaning of his question and took the initiative to say, "It's for saving lives," so it would be a waste to use it normally.
After Lu Weiyi absorbed it, he immediately controlled the little green branch to look for the spiritual zombies. The three-story building was not high, and even before it collapsed, the little green branch's detection range was sufficient.
He had been entangled by other zombies before and had no time to spare. Now all the zombies were pinned down, unable to move, whether they were "alive" or not. It was the best time for Little Green Branch to harvest the crystal cores.
The spiritual zombie was also trapped in the ruins. It was pitch black. Lu Weiyi could not tell any difference between him and other zombies. He could only be sure that he was "not dead". He even controlled his mental power to move the roof that was pressing on him away.
The little green branch was not a mutated plant, nor did it have any energy. It did not arouse the zombies' vigilance the moment it approached the zombies, which made it particularly smooth for Lu Weiyi to extract the crystal core.
Relying on the fact that the little green branches are plants and can grow through the soil, Lu Weiyi not only collected a B-level spiritual crystal core, but also collected all the other zombie crystal cores that were trapped in the ruins of the small building.
"Lu Weiyi, where are you?" Gu Qingji's voice came from the intercom, and could also be faintly heard outside.
"Here" Antonio shouted.
"Over there," Li Qing pointed in a direction, walked over and asked below, "Is it here?"
"Yes," Antonio replied.
"Okay, I'll let the earth-type psychics move their positions," Li Qing said, and asked the gathered earth-type psychics to quickly move the collapsed ruins away layer by layer.
"Li Zhuang?" Lu Weiyi hadn't heard Li Zhuang's voice and felt a little uneasy.
"Yeah," Li Zhuang responded.
The tone was not much different from usual, but Lu Weiyi just felt panicked. He reached out to touch Li Zhuang, wanting to know where he was injured.
But the moment his hand touched Li Zhuang, Li Zhuang grabbed it and said with a smile, "Are you taking advantage in the dark? You will be responsible for it."
Lu Weiyi had no time to joke with him. He struggled for a while, but the space was too small and he couldn't get free. Instead, he heard Li Zhuang's "hiss" and was so scared that he didn't dare to move.
"I just injured my back, but it's no big deal," Li Zhuang replied seriously.
As time went by, the sounds outside became clearer and clearer. After more than ten minutes, the last layer was removed, revealing the four people trapped underneath.
At the same time, Lu Weiyi noticed that the person who had been supporting him suddenly felt heavier, as if he had breathed a sigh of relief.
"Li Zhuang" Lu Weiyi's voice trembled a little.
No one responded.
"Bring wooden boards to move the injured," Li Qing ordered, "Where is the medic? Come here, medic."
Li Zhuang was carefully moved away by several people, revealing Lu Weiyi who was being protected underneath him, and Lu Weiyi's hand that he was holding. Li Qing and Gu Qingji looked at the two of them in surprise, and seeing that Lu Weiyi had a frank expression but a panicked look in his eyes, they finally just asked the medic to take the person for treatment.
"The earth wall collapsed, and he used his body to hold it up," Gu Qingji pulled out the three people underneath and whispered.
Lu Weiyi's face was covered with blood from when Li Zhuang's back was pierced by the steel bar. Other than that, there were some scratches and bites from zombies. He was protected so well by Li Zhuang that the things that fell down didn't hurt him at all.
As for the other two, apart from looking a little weak because they had just expelled the zombie energy, they had no other injuries.
"Is it fatal?" Several people followed the unconscious Li Zhuang, blood dripping all the way. They saw the medic cut open his clothes to examine him. There was an obvious wound on his back caused by a steel bar, and there was an obvious cut between the ribs, bleeding profusely, and the two back ribs were visibly bent inward.
"The conditions are limited and no fatal injuries have been found so far," said the medic.
"What do you need?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"We don't have hemostatics, thrombin, coagulants or the like," said the medic.
Lu Weiyi couldn't tell the difference, but the medicines in the space were all organized. He simply took out all the medicines related to hemostasis and put them aside.
"..." The medic thought to himself that he was very proud and quickly found the necessary medicines, applying them externally and injecting them intramuscularly in one go. "I just checked the length of the inserted steel bars, and they are not enough to puncture the internal organs, but I'm not completely sure. It's best to take an X-ray, and the broken ribs need surgery to reposition them."
Lu Weiyi had been thinking about waiting for a healing psychic to appear before he went to the hospital to find equipment to treat Zhuang Mingxu's leg. Anyway, it would be of no use if he found it in advance and there was no rush. Only now did he realize that many things only become urgent when they are needed.
"In addition..." the medic added, looking at the expressions of several people, "A hit to the back can easily lead to spinal injury. If..." He did not continue, but several people understood that a spinal injury could lead to paralysis.
"Can we leave now?" Lu Weiyi wanted to take him back to the base immediately, find medical equipment, and then perform surgery on him.
The medic was silent. It would take several days to get back from here, and the road was not completely flat. It was bumpy everywhere. If the spine was really injured, the journey would only aggravate the condition.
Li Qing assigned tasks to everyone and brought Lei Jun to check on Li Zhuang's condition. After learning about this, he said, "It's almost evening now. It's not realistic to take a patient on a night walk. Let's leave early tomorrow morning. Maybe he will wake up by then and his spine won't be injured."
"I know there are medical equipment at the Xiangning City base. We can go directly to Su Yan and borrow some of their equipment for surgery. It shouldn't be a problem."
Lu Weiyi stared at Li Zhuang in silence for a while, then nodded.
"Have you found the required salt?" Lu Weiyi asked Li Qing. He was not alone and someone had been injured on this trip. He could not give up the supplies on hand.
"Found it. No one has been here before, and there are still quite a lot left," Li Qing said, "As I said before, I asked someone to divide out your share."
Lu Weiyi nodded and looked at the surrounding residential buildings, "Do you want the things inside?"
"I have to see if there is any room left for loading." When Li Qing and his group came, they drove three trucks and brought three spacers. Of course, the more supplies they could take away, the better, but the purpose of this trip was salt, so he had to wait until he had loaded the salt before deciding on other things.
Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "I will take away everything you can't put in."
Li Qing was surprised at the size of Lu Weiyi's space, "...ok."
The salt wells in Zhoujia County were not very big, with a total storage capacity of no more than three tons. Each side took one ton. Li Qing gave in a little, and Lu Weiyi took one ton. The surrounding supplies were also collected and divided by the two teams overnight.
In the middle of the night, Li Zhuang woke up once. He looked okay and was conscious, but had some difficulty moving. The medic said that he might have damaged his nerves and needed a detailed examination.
"Your ribs need surgery to recover. I'm not sure if your spine is injured. It's best if you don't move now. We will go directly to the Xiangning City base tomorrow morning. Li Qing said Su Yan has medical equipment. We will do the surgery there and then return to Qingyuan." Lu Weiyi took out a bowl of porridge from the space and fed it to Li Zhuang stumblingly.
He had never served anyone before, so he knew that if he could blow on it and it wasn't hot, it was already very good. When he fed it with a spoon, it would get sticky around the mouth and he had to wipe it off from time to time.
"I want Antonio to go with me. I have to make sure he can't go back for a week," Li Zhuang said with a smile while he was enjoying the cool breeze, "and make him feed me dog food every day."
"Okay." Compared to the other two, Antonio is obviously more suitable in terms of communication and ability, Lu Weiyi replied.
"Have you got all the crystal cores?" Li Zhuang asked.
Lu Weiyi knew that he was asking about the crystal core of the psychic zombie, but there were people around him so it was not easy to say directly, "I got it. You would never imagine that there were more than 800 zombies in that three-story building. Fortunately, we didn't go in directly, otherwise it would be like entering a pile of zombies."
"I still have foresight," said Li Zhuang.
The two of them talked in low voices, neither of them mentioned the accident, nor discussed the consequences, as if it was just an ordinary night that they had experienced countless times before.
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At dawn at around five o'clock, Lu Weiyi quietly called a few people together and told them about his plans.
Let Liu Rui and Gu Qingji go back with the main force, and Antonio will accompany him and Li Zhuang to the Xiangning City base.
"Why don't we go together? There will be more people to look after us," said Gu Qingji.
"No need. We will definitely be worried if we don't go back to the base. Li Qing is familiar with Su Yan. He will be with us. If we give him more supplies, nothing will happen," said Lu Weiyi. Bringing Li Qing with him means that the Qingyuan City military will be standing behind him, making it more convenient to do anything.
This is the most suitable arrangement. After a few more words, Li Qing had also made arrangements. Lu Weiyi took out a small truck with a carriage from the space and asked Antonio and Li Qing, "Who of you will drive? Be steady."
“I drive”
“I drive”
The two of them said in unison, and then said in unison again, "I'll sit in the passenger seat."
"Oh, then you two go to the front." After Lu Weiyi made the decision, he had the unconscious Li Zhuang carried into the carriage.
Li Qing and Antonio looked at each other, breathed a sigh of relief, and quietly observed Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi in the car. After a moment, both of them had an indescribable look on their faces, and got on the car tacitly.
The vehicle was kept as stable as possible along the way, and Lu Weiyi put some things under the car to prevent Li Zhuang from sustaining any secondary injuries. After two full days, they arrived at the Xiangning City base again.
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