After being separated for three months, I saw Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father again in this dark underground tunnel, during my most helpless and desperate moment.
Meng Er felt as if he were in a dream.
He slapped himself hard, and his almost frozen face immediately felt a burning pain.
"It's true! Mom, brother, it's true!"
Gangzi and Xiaoxiu really came to find him!
Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father frowned as they looked at the bowl of "miracle medicine" he was holding. It was a dark, viscous liquid that emitted a nauseating odor.
"Uncle Meng, what are you holding in your hand?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked worriedly.
Meng Er turned away and quickly wiped away the tears falling from the corners of her eyes with her arm before turning back to face the father and daughter, and excitedly explained:
"It's a miracle drug prescribed by a divine doctor. Drinking it can cure any disease, even viruses."
Having said that, he waved his hand, indicating that the father and daughter could ask any questions later, and that he would give the medicine to his mother and older brother first.
Grandma Meng was lying on the ground, no longer conscious. Meng Da vaguely heard his younger brother talking to someone and tried to open his eyes to see, but his eyelids were too heavy and he couldn't open them no matter what he did.
Zhao Gang said, "Your brother has a high fever due to an infected wound. You should take him to the hospital for treatment. Drinking this medicine won't help."
Upon seeing Granny Meng, Zhao Gang's already furrowed brows furrowed even more. "Your mother has injured her liver and lungs. She can be saved if she receives treatment within five hours."
Similarly, drinking that bowl of magic medicine was useless.
Meng Er, who was helping his mother up and preparing to feed her medicine, shuddered and said to himself, "If they don't take their medicine, they will become alienated."
The SHASI virus is so despicable because it seems to want to completely destroy the human race.
Not only did they restrict human reproduction, they even prevented you from dying peacefully!
"It's all that giant mutated python's fault! It's all its fault!"
Meng Er gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "If my brother hadn't switched my factory job with mine and sent me to the hunting party, I would be the one lying under the factory ruins."
"If Mom hadn't been worried about my older brother running out of town, she wouldn't have been hit by that suddenly falling rubble..."
It happened so suddenly that by the time he came down from the battlefield and found out what had happened to his family, it was already too late.
My older brother and mother were carried back by the rescue team and placed in the rescue camp for two whole hours without receiving any medical treatment.
He only found out after asking that his older brother and mother's injuries required the use of a biomedical pod.
Activating a biomedical pod requires 3,000 points, and those who can afford it can use it first.
He originally wanted to participate in the last Jiangcheng job, but his mother was afraid of the danger and didn't let him go.
Later, Shen Que and the others went there, and the Qinghe Hunting Group stayed in Jiangcheng.
He joined the hunting group at Peach Blossom Base and worked hard on missions. After deducting the cost of food, supplies, rent, and loan payments at home, he barely managed to save up a little over 1,500 points, which was far from enough to cover the high medical expenses.
He wanted to borrow points from his teammates, but the team leader told him to leave the team.
With no other option, he first asked someone to take his older brother and mother home and went to the pharmacy to buy medicine to alleviate their injuries, but unexpectedly, the situation only got worse.
Knowing that there was a seriously injured person in the house, the neighbors were afraid that something might happen. He fought desperately, but they and the local residents still managed to drive him out.
Coming to this private clinic was a last resort when all other options were exhausted.
Meng Er thought that if this miraculous medicine could have even the slightest effect, he would have more time to think of a solution.
Even if you borrow money from loan sharks, it still takes time, doesn't it?
But after hearing Meng Er's words, Zhao Gang became even more certain that this dark, mysterious medicine was not to be drunk.
With a swift movement, he snatched the entire bowl of medicine from Meng's hands and poured it onto the ground.
Those nearby, seeing this, scrambled over like madmen, pressing their faces to the ground and licking as much as they could. The wounded, who already had little strength, began to fight angrily over this miraculous medicine.
Meng Er was shocked: "Brother Gangzi!"
He spent 500 points on this bowl of medicine!
Zhao Gang gave Zhao Xiaoxiu a wink, and Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded, drew her butterfly blades from behind her leather armor, and stepped aside.
Zhao Gang ripped off the tattered curtain and picked up Granny Meng in his arms.
“Come with me,” Zhao Gang said.
Meng Er was stunned for less than half a second before he immediately reacted, supporting his already dazed older brother and following him.
Zhao Xiaoxiu walked behind the two adults, jogging alongside them as they left the passageway.
It was a sunny day, and the sunlight streamed down. Meng Er, who had just emerged from the gloom, was so blinded by the tall figure in front of him that he felt like crying.
Without Zhao Gang saying anything, Meng Er took the initiative to walk ahead, flagged down a car on the street, and the group rushed to the hospital.
The medical ward is expensive to operate, and although there are many seriously injured people these past two days, there are not many people queuing to pay at the payment window.
"Brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts, please make way!" Zhao Xiaoxiu held up her father's points card, took advantage of her small size, squeezed to the first spot, stood on tiptoe, peeked out of the window, and stretched out her little hand to hand the points card inside.
Under the toll collector's astonished gaze, I explained the situation clearly and paid the fee for 6,000 points.
Because it was for Hope Base points, an additional 200 points were deducted as a handling fee.
There are only two biomedical pods in the outer city hospital of Taoyuan Base. One of them has now been requisitioned by the government, leaving only one for the general public.
Each use should last at least ten minutes, and up to an hour in severe cases.
After a long and arduous wait of two and a half hours, it was finally Zhao Xiaoxiu and her group's turn.
Seeing the urgent situations of his two family members, Meng Er subconsciously consulted the calm and composed Zhao Gang.
"Let your mother go first," Zhao Gang said.
"Okay, okay!" Meng Er quickly helped the medical staff carry Grandma Meng into the biomedical cabin.
Zhao Xiaoxiu peered inside curiously, wanting to see what the biomedical pod looked like. Just as she caught sight of a semi-transparent, jellyfish-like floating object, the door closed.
Zhao Xiaoxiu asked Meng Er, who came out of the cabin, "Uncle Meng, is the biomedical capsule made of jellyfish?"
Meng Er had just sent his mother in for treatment, but he still had his older brother to take care of; he couldn't just let his brother keep burning up like this.
I could only give a perfunctory answer: "That's not a jellyfish, it's a segment of a body full of complex nerves. They said it came from the deep sea, and after training, it can simultaneously control multiple complex medical instruments to perform precise and rapid surgery."
If Zhao Xiaoxiu asked again, he would look at her apologetically and remain silent, his heart divided in two, unable to spare any more time to care for her.
Zhao Xiaoxiu had already asked her father and knew that Uncle Meng wouldn't die within 24 hours and that there would definitely be time to treat him, but she was sensible enough not to bother Uncle Meng any further.
The little girl sat obediently in the chair next to her father, patiently waiting for the surgery to be completed.
Half an hour later, Granny Meng was wheeled out. Zhao Gang took his daughter and went to the ward first, while Meng Er continued to stay by his brother's side.
Twenty minutes later, Meng Da, covered in sweat, was weakly helped into the ward by Meng Er.
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