Chapter 31 Blood Coagulation Cream
Gu Nian came to the wilderness camp again and almost didn't recognize the place. The originally quiet and desolate camp was now bustling with people, as lively as a vegetable market. There were men and women coming and going, and many people walked in groups, dragging dead mutant rats behind them, heading to the official exchange point to exchange for contribution points.
Although the mutant rats were huge, they could not withstand the wisdom and strength of the people. The citizens of Jiangcheng came out in full force, setting traps, forming teams to attack. Now the area at the entrance of the wilderness was almost occupied by ordinary adult men in Jiangcheng. They held bows and arrows, crossbows, machetes, stun batons and other weapons, and wore helmets and special gloves to cover their bodies tightly, ready to eliminate the mutant rats at any time.
Going further in, it was the world of the Evolved People. In addition to the original wilderness hunters, some Evolved People who were originally reluctant to show up in Jiangcheng also appeared one after another, showing their hidden strength and speed. These people either attacked the mutant rats in groups, or cooperated with ordinary people to lead the mutant rats wandering in the wilderness to the edge of the wilderness and hand them over to the ordinary people to eliminate them, while they returned to the wilderness to continue to attract monsters.
Attracted by the official's generous investment, everyone's enthusiasm was fully aroused.
There were also many temporary stalls and mobile vehicles in the wilderness camp, all of which were doing business for the rat hunting team. Some stalls were selling food, dumplings, wontons, noodles, fried rice, fried skewers, spicy hot pot, barbecue, fried mashed potatoes... all the food stalls that were rarely seen in the past were set up, just because the rat hunting operation also brought a bumper harvest of food. After all, each rat hunting team went out and gathered so many people to hunt some small mutant animals for a snack, which was also the main goal of everyone. The extra mutant meat was sold to various small food stalls.
Gu Nian saw a stall setting up a copper stove to make a copper stove bullfrog pot. The chopped bullfrog meat was coated with layers of red oil, mixed with potato chips, bean sprouts, and various seasonings, and then simmered on the side of the copper stove. The aroma spread far and wide. There was also a teppanyaki grill restaurant, which was also grilling various mutant beast meat skewers. The thick fat dripped onto the iron plate, and the sizzling sound was accompanied by the aroma...
In addition to these food shops, there are also some healing stalls. These stalls also sell some medicines that were stockpiled before the natural disaster, but they are all expensive. In addition, there are some herbs. People have gradually explored some common herbal plants in the wilderness and used them as medicine. Of course, there are also some surgeons who boil water, prepare hemostatic bandages, and are ready to sew up people's wounds at any time.
The remaining shops were some that sold weapons. For example, the shop where Gu Nian often went to buy arrows was basically surrounded by people, and Gu Nian was directly squeezed out. Before being squeezed out, he vaguely heard the bearded boss yelling in his ears: "Don't push, don't push, they are all sold out!"
Among these shops, the most conspicuous one has a signboard of Wan's Commercial Bank. This shop is a mobile house, which looks more impressive than the shed next to it, and occupies a large area. People are constantly coming and going, and there is a promoter standing at the door, constantly handing out flyers to the people around, which is a bit like the opening of a supermarket in the past.
Gu Nian looked around and ate two freshly fried soft dough sticks, a cup of soy milk, a bowl of wontons, and a shiny thousand-layer cake. Only then did he feel full. Then he started to walk around the camp, asking about prices from time to time.
After a round, Gu Nian also had a rough idea. Although the official said that contribution points and credit points can be exchanged at a 2:2 ratio, the official has not opened a channel to exchange credit points for contribution points! Seeing that contribution points can be exchanged for so many precious resources that are not circulated in the market, who would not hold on to contribution points tightly? Nowadays, in the market, 2 contribution points can be exchanged for 5 to 3 credit points.
Then Gu Nian found an open space, took out a piece of plastic sheet from his backpack, spread it out, and started selling medicine.
The medicine she was going to sell was blood coagulation cream. Gu Nian had already made the blood coagulation cream at home. The plasters produced by the farm kitchen were all large and affordable, so Gu Nian still followed the old rules and divided each blood coagulation cream into 20 small boxes, preparing a total of 200 boxes of plasters, and leaving another 20 boxes for herself as a backup, intending to earn some contribution points during the mouse hunting operation and buy something that moved her from the official exchange list.
In the busy wilderness camp, Gu Nian's stall looked inconspicuous, but she was not in a hurry. She just started shouting: "Selling blood coagulation cream, selling blood coagulation cream, if you pass by, please take a look, if you pass by, please take a look, the first three people who come will get a free trial!"
This is probably the nature of people in the world. When they heard about the free trial, they thought it would be fun to watch, and slowly a crowd gathered. A greasy man had a patch of oily skin on his arm, and he immediately said to Gu Nian with a smile: "Girl, how about you apply this ointment on my arm?"
Gu Nian shook her head: "Your wound is too small. Even if you don't use my blood-clotting ointment, the bleeding will stop in a while. You can only try my ointment if you have a wound that won't stop bleeding."
When the slick man heard this, he immediately put on a rogue and ferocious look and said, "My wound is very serious and I need treatment. Why don't you give me a trial?" As he said that, the man directly took the blood coagulation cream placed on the plastic sheet.
His hand stopped awkwardly in mid-air - a small arrow just brushed his hand and hit the ground hard, even splashing mud.
Gu Nian put away the bow and arrow and said calmly: "Next time if you take it without asking, this arrow will pierce your palm."
The slick man quickly withdrew his hand, with a flattering face: "Hey, I just saw that your cloth was not spread out flat, so I wanted to fix it. Well, I have something else, so I'll leave first..." Ignoring the boos from the crowd next to him, he backed away as he spoke, and soon disappeared into the crowd and slipped away.
Seeing Gu Nian showing off her archery skills, some people in the crowd who were ready to make moves and had bad intentions suddenly quieted down. Some people also whispered to each other, thinking that maybe this girl had some real skills.
At this time, a group of people walked over quickly, and a man in front of them said in a deep voice: "Boss lady, can you take a look at my brother's wound and try your ointment on it?"
Behind the man, a young man stood up. He was supporting an injured man. There was a long wound on the injured man's leg. His clothes had been torn. Through the clothes, one could see the rolling flesh inside, and the blood was flowing. The wound was more than ten centimeters wide!
Many onlookers gasped. With such a large wound, they would probably need to be helped over to suture it! However, there were not many surgeons in the entire camp, and there were long queues in front of each of them. I guess these people didn't want to queue up and were worried about the consequences, so they came here to give it a try?
Gu Nian took a look at the wound, nodded and said, "You can try it on your friend's wound, but let me make it clear that I will only give you the ointment, and you have to clean the wound yourself." As he spoke, Gu Nian took out a box of ointment, scooped out a small piece with a spoon, and handed it over.
That's right. Before stopping the bleeding, the wound needs to be rinsed. The leading man was also straightforward. He immediately cut open the injured man's trouser legs and took out saline from his backpack to rinse. After the wound was rinsed and wiped clean with a clean cloth, the man took out the spoon handed by Gu Nian, carefully picked up the ointment on the spoon, and applied it to the wound.
The wound that was still bleeding stopped bleeding immediately after it came into contact with the ointment. Not only that, even the cuts began to heal slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye! What a miraculous medicine! Everyone present felt that their worldviews were overturned. After all, even before the natural disaster, everyone had never seen such a miraculous medicine when they went to the top three hospitals in Jiangcheng City for treatment!
"It's a mutated plant! This medicine must be made from a mutated plant!" someone said immediately.
Others also suddenly realized that even if they had never eaten pork, they had seen pigs run. Everyone had heard that with this cold wave disaster, humans began to evolve, and so did the animals and plants. Some evolved plants had powerful medicinal effects. Didn’t the most famous Chinese medicine doctor in the camp develop several herbal prescriptions using mutant plants, and then spread his reputation throughout the camp? It was said that even the government was studying the medicinal value of mutant plants!
Everyone looked at Gu Nian again, not daring to underestimate her. Who would have thought that such a young girl, with such a simple stall, could actually produce ointments made from mutant plants? Nowadays, any ointment made from mutant plants is as famous as its amazing effects, but also its amazing price! Everyone immediately remembered that there were still two places for the trial!
A large group of people ran away, planning to notify their relatives and friends to try it out. Soon, two more injured people came, and Gu Nian did the same thing, giving each of them a spoonful of ointment to try out. The hideous wounds on the two lucky people also stopped bleeding immediately after applying the ointment, and soon the wounds healed. There was a trial participant with a relatively shallow wound, and the wound healed immediately under everyone's eyes, leaving only a shallow white mark.
Everyone present was convinced and amazed at the powerful effect of this blood coagulation cream.
Huang Bo was the man who brought his friends to use it for the first time. He gritted his teeth and asked, "How much do you sell this ointment for?" He and his friends were all evolved people. They formed a team to fight mutant rats. Although they earned a lot of contribution points during this period, he had no idea whether it was enough to buy the expensive medicine made from mutant plants.
"50 contribution points per box." Gu Nian said simply. She was used to being alone, but the mutant rats always appeared in groups, and she couldn't fight them with her own hands. Instead of teaming up with others to fight the mutant rats and share the contribution points, it would be better to sell medicine in exchange.
The price was not cheap, but it was within the man's budget. He quickly calculated in his mind that ordinary hemostatic drugs only cost 25 contribution points, but for such a long wound, hemostatic drugs would not work. He had to find a doctor to stop the bleeding and suture the wound, which would cost 50 contribution points. However, even with the recovery speed of the evolved people, it would take at least one or two days to suture the wound, and he would also need to send people to send the injured back to the camp, which would waste a lot of time. After careful calculation, it was still more cost-effective to buy the blood coagulation cream.
"Four boxes please." Huang Bo answered decisively.
Gu Nian handed over four boxes of ointment, and the two touched their phones, and 200 contribution points were credited to Gu Nian's account.
Someone started the conversation, and others in the crowd followed suit. "Give me two boxes." "I want three boxes."
People came in groups of three or four and soon Gu Nian sold 250 boxes, while the remaining 50 boxes of ointment were bought up by a thin young man in one go.
In just an hour, the 200 boxes of ointment that Gu Nian brought were sold out, and an extra 10,000 contribution points appeared in his account. Looking at the contribution points in hand, Gu Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief, seeing the hope of exchanging for the items he wanted.
Seeing that all the prepared ointments were sold, Gu Nian simply walked around the camp. The first place she entered was the largest Wan's Trading Company.
Inside Wan's Company, just like any other store, there are rows of glass counters. Many people are shopping inside. Behind each row of glass counters, there is a salesperson serving customers, and in the middle is the cashier counter.
Gu Nian walked along the glass counters with great interest. The outermost counters were filled with all kinds of daily supplies, from frozen meat, vegetables, rice, cooking oil and seasonings to daily medicines. However, according to the salesperson, these supplies could only be exchanged for mutant plant and animal materials and contribution points, and even credit points were not accepted. It seemed that the owner of this store was really rich and didn't even care about credit points.
The counter in the middle was filled with processed products, mainly weapons and protective gear made from the bone spurs, fangs, and shells of mutant beasts. Each product was labeled with the name of the mutant beast and the part it was taken from. There were also a few medicines made from mutant plants. The counter next to it was filled with equipment for entering the wilderness, such as short-distance communicators, climbing ropes, large-capacity backpacks, gas stoves, etc.
Gu Nian was thoughtful. It seemed that Wan's Company had great ambitions. This was the only company she had seen that was developing business around mutant plants and animals. This made Gu Nian sigh that humans were really highly adaptable creatures. Who would have thought that not long ago, everyone was afraid of mutant plants and animals, but now some people have begun to explore business opportunities?
At this time, a capable woman with her hair in a bun and wearing a thick down jacket came to greet her. There was a badge on the outside of the down jacket, which read "Manager of the Company - Lin Qi".
"Hello, ma'am. What would you like to buy? Or do you have items you want to sell? We at Wan's Trading Company also provide purchasing services." Lin Qi said to Gu Nian kindly with a perfect smile. She had a sophisticated eye and could tell from the quiver on Gu Nian's back that the man in front of her was definitely a wealthy person. After all, the valuable arrows in that quiver were not something that ordinary people could afford. And the person who would buy this kind of equipment must be a master among the evolved people, and also a key group that the boss had ordered to befriend.
Gu Nian actually had his eyes on a bow in the middle of the counter. The bowstring was made from mutant vines, and the bow was made from the spine of a mutant beast. It looked very powerful, and it was specially marked below that it took a full forty wilderness hunters to shoot down this mutant beast, but the price was a full fifty thousand contribution points. Gu Nian was not considering buying such an expensive weapon for himself for the time being.
Gu Nian asked, "Do you have any Chinese medicinal herbs for sale here?" She saw finished Western medicines on the counter, but no Chinese medicinal herbs.
Lin Qi's smile deepened: "We still have some goods in the warehouse at the back. Which herbs do you want?"
Gu Nian hesitated for a moment and named several medicinal herbs, almost all of which were used in the blood coagulation ointment, but Gu Nian also mixed in several other Chinese medicines.
After hearing Gu Nian's request, Lin Qi answered without hesitation: "We have all these herbs in our store. But, ma'am, what do you plan to exchange for them? Our store only accepts mutation materials and contribution points."
All the mutant beasts and plants that Gu Nian had fought before were exchanged for credit points from the uncle with artificial eyes. Now she really had no mutant materials to exchange for, and she was reluctant to exchange the contribution points she had just obtained. She suddenly remembered that she had twenty spare boxes of coagulant cream left in her backpack.
She asked tentatively, "How about exchanging it with my homemade ointment?"
Plaster? Is this girl a pharmacist? Lin Qi carefully looked at Gu Nian's hands without leaving any trace. Her fingers were as crystal clear as jade, without any calluses. Doesn't it look like a plaster? Lin Qi said cautiously: "If it's convenient for you, you can give us your plaster for trial. We will have a professional appraiser to determine the price."
Gu Nian handed Lin Qi a box and briefly explained the efficacy of the medicine. Lin Qi handed it to the assistant next to her and asked the assistant to go down and try it.
The assistant hurried away with the ointment. Ten minutes later, he came back and whispered something in Lin Qi's ear.
After listening to the assistant's report, Lin Qi became more enthusiastic towards Gu Nian: "We have just tried your ointment and it has reached the purchase standard. We plan to purchase it at a price of 60 contribution points per box. What do you think?"
Gu Nian shook his head and answered directly: "You can't find better medicine than this in the whole camp. This medicine is 50 contribution points per box, and there is no bargaining."
Lin Qi sighed regretfully. Knowing that Gu Nian knew the price, she stopped arguing and simply said, "Deal. How many boxes do you plan to sell?"
Gu Nian took out the remaining ointment and pushed it to Lin Qi: "Replace all these twenty boxes with medicinal materials."
Lin Qi brought a laptop computer and showed Gu Nian the price list of medicinal materials. Gu Nian calculated quickly and exchanged dozens of medicinal materials, almost a hundred kilograms, to use up the contribution points he got from the blood coagulation cream.
Carrying the purchased Chinese medicinal materials, Gu Nian returned home with a full load, and once again enriched his own medicine storehouse.
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Dong Binbin was a thin man who had just joined the Second Company this year. He was the orderly in the team and had come to the camp early in the morning to purchase goods. It was not easy to buy some good medicine for injuries. He went to several medicine stalls he often visited, but the medicine he bought was not enough, which made him anxious.
You know, the company commander has been in a bad mood recently, with a dark face all day long, and scolds everyone he sees. There is no other reason, just because the second company, the second company, has always been inferior to the third company next door in any competition, and can only take second place every time. In this mouse hunting operation, the second and third companies are both in the participating team. The company commander tells his subordinates every day that it is finally time for our second company to be proud of themselves. The third company is only good at competitions, but in real combat, it depends on our second company.
As a result, in the rankings these days, the contribution of the Third Company is still ranked first, far ahead of the Second Company.
If I can't buy the medicine today, I'll be scolded again when I go back. Dong Binbin was worried, but he saw a new stall next to him. The medicine sold by one of the stall owners was amazing!
He could hardly believe his eyes. How could such a long wound stop bleeding with just one wipe? And could the wound heal immediately? Dong Binbin quickly pushed through the crowd and happened to see the two testers behind him applying the ointment.
Right under Dong Binbin's nose, the injured parts of the two test subjects stopped bleeding immediately, and even the wounds began to heal. One person's wound even recovered completely. Dong Binbin did not hesitate any more, and immediately bought fifty boxes and rushed back to find the company commander.
From a distance, he could hear the company commander's angry scolding. "You all look like decent people, but why can't you catch up with those bastards in the third company? Those bastards can do it, why can't we?"
Dong Binbin hurried over and handed the captain a box of blood-clotting ointment. "Captain, newly bought wound medicine. 50 contribution points per box."
"Well, what's the matter? It's much more expensive than other medicines?" The captain of the second company was puzzled. "Also, why are you laughing like a weasel stealing chickens?"
"Hey, Captain, you don't know how effective this medicine is!" Dong Binbin immediately described the effect of the blood-clotting cream to the Captain of the Second Company in vivid detail. After hearing this, the Captain of the Second Company was shocked: "How can there be such a good medicine? Did you get cheated? It's over, you stupid boy, your contribution is not enough, and now you are cheated out of a large sum of money!"
Hearing what the company commander said, Dong Binbin became anxious: "Company commander, if you don't believe me, let's find someone to try it right away."
The second company commander was skeptical, waved his hand, and asked someone to help a wounded man over.
The effect of the blood-clotting cream was amazing. The wounded soldier had a thick bandage on his arm, but blood was still seeping out of the bandage. But after removing the bandage and applying the blood-clotting cream, the bleeding stopped immediately, and the edge of the horrible wound also began to heal slowly! The soldiers watching were all silent.
The captain of the second company was overjoyed and immediately understood the value of this medicine. On weekdays, when the brothers were hunting rats until two or three in the afternoon, there would always be someone injured. At this time, they had to send people back to the camp to treat them, but the remaining people were not enough for a team. If they encountered a large group of mutant rats, wouldn’t it be a waste? So they had to go back to the camp together. But after returning to the camp, it would be too late to go to the wilderness. They had to wait until the next day to set off. But with this medicine, they can hunt rats until the evening and then return quickly!
What is saved is time and a huge contribution!
"Good boy, you have good vision. Fifty boxes of medicine are enough for us. Let's go, today we will let those bastards from the third company see who is number one!" The captain of the second company suddenly perked up, immediately led the team and headed towards the wilderness.
That evening, on the army's internal rankings, the contribution of the Second Company jumped significantly, and at this rate, it was poised to surpass the Third Company.
"Company commander, company commander, I found out." A soldier came running over with sweat all over his forehead.
The captain of the third company asked him to come over. "Tell me, what magic medicine did the second company take? They are usually listless, but why did they suddenly wake up today?"
"The Second Company did not return to the camp all day today, and did not come back until dark in the afternoon. Our company arrived at the camp at three or four in the afternoon. The Second Company stayed there for a long time, so naturally the gap between us widened." The soldier said in one breath.
"That's not right? Usually the Second Company comes back at about the same time as us?" The Third Company commander frowned. "Could it be that their team got lucky today and encountered only a small group of rats, so no one was hurt?"
"Captain, I found someone from the company next door and asked a drunkard from the second company to play cards and brag. I've gotten some information out of him." The soldier chuckled and said, "I heard that they got a new hemostatic drug called blood coagulation paste. It's really effective. My goodness, they say it's made from a mutant plant. It can stop bleeding and regenerate tissue immediately for a wound of ten centimeters!"
The captain of the third company knew more than the average person. He had heard from the higher-ups that several research institutes were now studying mutant plant medicines. He heard that the medicines were amazingly effective. He had never expected that the second company would have the money to buy such medicines! But where would the third company get the money to buy them?
The captain of the third company frowned. "Go and ask how much they paid for the medicine." The captain of the third company calculated quickly and decided to buy a few boxes no matter what.
"Yes!" The soldier saluted and ran out to inquire.
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