Chapter 52 The Unreliable Barefoot Doctor
Pan Duole excitedly whispered, "A dead man! It's a dead man! Sister Fan, his clothes look really high-class. If we peel them off, we can definitely sell them for a lot of money! I bet it's worth more than a fish!"
Left Fan: Is this still the shy and timid little girl she first met? Has she changed her mind?
After giving her a disdainful look, Zuo Shan first placed her hand on the man's carotid artery to confirm whether he was really dead.
His clothes were hoodies, made of soft and smooth fabric.
The clothes covered him completely from head to toe. Zuo Shan had never seen clothes like this before. Even his eyes, nose and mouth were covered. There were only two pieces of gauze at the nostrils, probably for breathing.
The reason I judged him to be a man was because he had a broad frame, and I could see his Adam's apple under his neck even through his close-fitting clothes.
Out of curiosity and nervousness, and with another layer of clothing between them, it took Zuo Shan quite a while to feel a faint pulse.
"He's still alive! We have to find a way to save him!" Zuo Shan said decisively.
"Huh? Save him? Sister Fan, he looks like he's about to die, how can we save him?"
Besides, if he wakes up, we can't take off his clothes. Pandora said the last sentence in a low voice, but Zuo Shan still heard it clearly.
She was both amused and annoyed. "Are you stupid? This man is obviously not an ordinary person. If we can save him, he will definitely offer us money to thank us. Is his life worth less than a set of clothes?"
“But what if we save him and he turns around and leaves? Gene warriors are all high and mighty; they won’t treat us scavengers like human beings,” Pandole said.
"We still have to save them! Think about it, if there's one more gene warrior in the world, we can kill a few more ferocious mutant beasts, and everyone will be a little safer, right?"
They may be high and mighty, but aren't they the ones who charge ahead to kill the mutated beasts?
"Someone like him, severely injured in the wild, must have encountered a powerful mutated beast. We must save him," Zuo Shan said.
“Alright, Sister Fan, you said you want to save him, so let’s save him. But do you know how?” Pan Duole asked.
Yes! How can we save them?
Zuo Shan looked at the clothes that covered his entire body without a single gap and decided to take off the clothes first before checking his injuries.
The fabric of this dress was of excellent quality. After being soaked in the river for half a day, the water flowed automatically to the ground as soon as it was pulled out. She was tempted by the sight and wanted to keep the dress for herself.
However, she only thought about it. Even if she had such clothes, she wouldn't dare wear them to scavenge. The heat-insulating suit she was wearing now, with its dull, unremarkable color and outdated style, was already coveted by more than one person.
If you actually wore such high-end clothes, even if you were extremely careful, you'd probably still get ambushed.
Zuo Shan used a dry burlap sack to wipe away the remaining water droplets from his clothes, then looked at Pan Duole, who was standing by watching, and said, "What are you standing there for? Come and help me take them off!"
"Huh? Sister Fan, are you planning to strip him naked and sell him?" Pan Duole exclaimed excitedly.
"What?! He's injured. How can we see where he's injured if we don't take off his clothes?" Zuo Shan glared at her.
The little girl had been scavenging since she was a child, and her values had been warped. When she saw anything, her first thought was to pick it up (steal it) and sell it for money. She had no doubt that if this girl were strong enough, she would definitely rob her outright.
The hood on his head was attached to his collar with a zipper. Zuo Shan and Pan Duole studied it for a long time but couldn't find a place to remove the hood, so they simply gave up.
With Pandora's help, Zuo Shan laboriously took off the man's clothes. Fortunately, he was wearing relatively loose underwear underneath, otherwise it would have been an eyesore.
Even so, his physique is so enviable that it makes you want to swallow hard. He's the kind of guy who looks slim in clothes but has a great physique underneath. Unlike bodybuilding coaches with their bulging muscles, his muscles are firm and well-proportioned. He's the kind of guy who would be too fat if he were a fraction more, and too thin if he were a fraction less.
Having been in the wasteland for so long, this was the first time she had ever seen a man with such a great physique.
Stop! Stop! What are you thinking about? You're practically smoking out. Get to your wound first.
Zuo Shan searched from top to bottom, from left to right, and even had Pandora help turn the person over, but still couldn't find any wounds.
Only one bruise was found on the right chest, the kind that hadn't broken the skin, like a wound left from an impact.
However, such a wound alone was not enough to cause him to fall into a coma.
"Sister Fan, he must have been injured by the power of a high-level mutated beast. I heard my mother say that my father's mercenary group once encountered a sixth-level mental mutated beast when they went out."
It opened its mouth and let out a soft roar, causing everyone to experience splitting headaches and faint. If a leader from the vanguard camp hadn't arrived, they would all have been killed.
"Heh! If my dad passes away, I won't exist anymore, hehe!" Pan Duole laughed.
"Do you know how to treat this mental illness?" Zuo Shan asked hurriedly.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not something a regular hospital can treat," Pan Duole shook his head.
"Forget it, since we can't treat mental attacks, let's treat this injury first," Zuo Shan sighed.
During that trip to the black pine forest, she collected a large number of pine cones with moderate radiation. After drying and grinding them into powder, she would carry a vacuum bag with her when she went out to collect more, just in case.
Cool boiled water is an essential item for every scavenger when they go out. She poured some clean water from the old plastic water bottle she carried with her, mixed the pine cone powder into a paste, and smeared it on his chest.
Whether or not this person can be saved, she should at least do her part.
After applying the medicinal paste, she used a scalpel to cut off a ten-centimeter-wide section of the burlap sack, then cut it into a strip of burlap to serve as a bandage, which she then tied around his chest.
As she was getting him dressed, she suddenly noticed bloodstains under his armpits. She quickly lifted his arm and gasped in shock at what she saw!
A deep wound was clearly visible under her left armpit. Previously, she and Pan Duole had only looked for wounds in obvious places on the surface of the body, but had overlooked such a hidden place as the armpit.
This discovery horrified her! Was this the reason he was unconscious?
There was no suitable medicine on hand, and the signal of this wilderness watch was extremely poor, so calling an ambulance was impossible at this moment.
Moreover, when scavengers in District 50 call for an ambulance, the hospital staff usually ignore them because they cannot afford the high medical costs.
It is said that this kind of thing happened a long time ago. A scavenger called an ambulance, but couldn't afford the house call and emergency fees. The hospital sued them, and the person was sent to prison, but the medical expenses were never recovered.
After several such incidents, all the hospitals agreed on a rule: they would not respond to ambulance calls from residents of District 50.
Helpless, Zuo Shan had to make some more pine cone paste. He first rinsed the wound with cooled boiled water, and then applied a thick layer of pine cone paste to the wound.
This time, she dared not use burlap strips to bandage his wound. Such dirty stuff would only make the wound more susceptible to infection. It would be better to put his fine clothes on and then use burlap strips to secure them over the clothes to prevent the medicine from being rubbed off.
Pan Duole watched her treat her injuries and said with admiration, "Sister Fan, I didn't know you could treat injuries. Next time I get injured, I'll ask you to treat me. I don't have any money, can I use wild vegetable leaves as medical expenses?"
Zuo Shan retorted irritably, "Pah! Pah! You jinx! I'm not even a barefoot doctor, I'm unreliable, you'd better not get hurt!"
"What's a barefoot doctor? A doctor who doesn't wear shoes?" Pan Duole muttered quietly to herself. Zuo Shan ignored her and just looked at the darkening sky with worry.
The rain still hasn't stopped. Are we going to have to spend the night in this cave?
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