Chapter 145 A Drop of Blood
Two quarters of an hour was almost thirty minutes, and in this short thirty minutes, Zhou Xu received bad news one after another. Those tribe members who were seriously injured died one after another...
In fact, he had already prepared himself mentally for this result.
Even though he had already established a medical department, the medical level at that time was undoubtedly too poor, and those tribal members were seriously injured.
Among those seriously injured patients, fractures were only considered minor injuries. Some had their hands and feet torn off, while others even had their stomachs torn open by the hyenas' sharp claws, with their intestines hanging out.
Although they were in the medical department, they had never encountered such a situation before. Looking at those seriously injured patients, they were all dumbfounded.
In the past, if this kind of situation happened in the tribe, people would just wait for death or simply give the other party a quick death.
Let them save it now? How can they save it?!
At that time, Zhou Xu had anticipated this situation and went to the medical department in advance.
Intestines hanging out? Stuff them back in! Broken bones? Find a good position and fix them with a board! Lost hands or feet? Bandage and stop the bleeding first!
At that time, he had really pushed his brain, which was equipped with modern knowledge, to its limit and came up with countermeasures for various situations.
But he is not a medical student after all. Or to put it bluntly, even if he is a medical student, he would probably be powerless under such medical conditions.
With their current medical level, being able to properly treat the wounds of those with minor injuries and prevent them from dying from wound infection would be a huge improvement.
In total, there were ten seriously injured patients. Eight of them have died so far, leaving only two, who are still unconscious.
According to the report, these two were soldiers he had trained. Their injuries were fractures, and they were considered the better ones among the 18 seriously injured patients. They had the highest probability of survival.
Suppress your emotions and get your mind back to normal functioning.
[Sixteen...]
This is the number of his tribal members lost this time. This number has exceeded half of the original population of the grassland camp, which is definitely not a small number.
After this, his grassland camp will definitely have to continue to be maintained. It will be a troublesome task to transfer a group of people from other camps to make up for the population loss in the grassland camp.
After all, at this moment, Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Camp do not have sufficient manpower.
And after that, he had to face another problem, which was the loss of troops.
All of the fifteen soldiers under his command were injured this time, four of them were seriously injured, two of them have now died, and the remaining two have fractures. In this era, it is basically impossible for them to fully recover.
In other words, even if the two men survived, they probably wouldn't be able to continue serving in the army, which reduced the number of soldiers under his command to only eleven.
This situation was undoubtedly enough to give him a headache.
Just when he was feeling depressed, Li Ce came running over.
"Chief, the cremation is ready and the time is almost up."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu nodded, then perked up a bit, and followed Li Ce out of the camp.
At this moment, all the tribal members who could arrive in the camp had gathered there.
As soon as they saw Zhou Xu coming, everyone's eyes fell on him.
Zhou Xu adjusted his mood and walked in front of the crowd. He scanned their faces and could feel from their expressions that everyone was in a very low mood, and even the air became depressing.
"Today! We lost sixteen brothers!"
Taking a deep breath secretly, Zhou Xu's voice, which was full of energy yet filled with grief, attracted everyone's attention.
"They died to protect our tribe and our homeland!"
"Their sacrifice will not be in vain. They used their lives to lay the foundation for our tribe and for all the living people on this grassland. They have become the cornerstone for the future development and growth of our tribe! And their spirit will live forever in our hearts!"
After a brief speech, Zhou Xu took the torch from Li Ce and lit it himself.
The igniters had already been placed underneath, so the fire spread quickly, and this raging fire was the final hurdle for them.
After the bodies were burned to ashes, Zhou Xu signaled everyone to collect the ashes, put them into pottery jars, and then bury them in an open space outside the camp.
Afterwards, he found a suitable piece of wood and personally carved the names of the sixteen tribal members on one side, and on the other side, he wrote that they had died heroically in the battle with the hyena people to protect the camp!
Back at the camp, those who were still alive still had things to do and no time to wallow in sorrow.
That simple funeral allowed them to vent their emotions to a certain extent. Now, everyone has cheered up and devoted themselves to the work at hand.
Before it got dark, several skilled fighters in the tribe were sweating profusely as they dealt with the beast's corpse.
Zhou Chongshan had already helped them complete half of the work of disemboweling the beast in order to rescue the cubs in its belly. They did the rest of the work quite efficiently.
During the whole process, Zhou Xu sat next to him and watched.
During this time, the cub in her arms, probably because it had had enough sleep, began to struggle again.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu simply put it on the ground.
At this time, the cub's four legs were still very thin. After Zhou Xu put it down, its movements as it crawled on the ground were a bit trembling.
His skinny limbs couldn't even support his body.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu simply let it crawl, thinking of it as exercise. Anyway, judging from the condition of the little guy, it couldn't crawl very far.
With this thought in mind, Zhou Xu's gaze fell on the corpse of the beast again.
At this moment, several skilled hands were digging out the beast's internal organs.
In the past, the internal organs of small animals could be pulled out with just one hand, without any effort at all.
But this beast was different. It was too big, and its internal organs were all stuck together, so they had to borrow a crescent halberd to cut out the internal organs.
When it cut to the heart, I don't know if it was because the crescent halberd was too big and difficult to operate with one hand, so it directly cut the heart in half.
This in itself didn't really matter, they just threw the heart aside.
But what no one expected was that from the heart that was cut in half, a drop of blood that looked like a ruby overflowed from it and slowly flowed down along the broken end.
It was completely visible to the naked eye that the texture of the blood was completely different from ordinary blood. It was even different from the blood that had flowed from this giant beast before.
Zhou Xu had sharp eyes and caught the drop of blood immediately. His first reaction was to rush forward to catch it.
He never thought that in the next second, a trembling little guy who could not even walk properly appeared in his field of vision, and then swallowed the drop of blood into his mouth with a sip.
“W-What the hell?!!”
(End of this chapter)
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