Chapter 148: Qi Fu Infected with Evolution Bacteria

The rainproof tarp was very thick; if it wasn't removed normally, it would not only block the light but also cause the temperature inside the shed to rise, which would have an adverse effect on the growth of the plants inside.

So the most convenient method was to take it down after use and quickly put it back up if an emergency arose.

Not counting the small sheds for red-light peanuts, ground cherries, and pasture grass, there were seven large sheds within Territory Three; to quickly install the rainproof tarps on all seven large sheds within ten minutes required twenty-one strong laborers.

Xia Qing was alone and had to come up with a method for one person and one goat to quickly install the rainproof tarps.

Just as Xia Qing was squatting by the large shed racking her brains for a technical breakthrough, Yuan Yan's plea for help sounded again on the channel, "Third Brother, are you there? Is anyone from Territory Seven there?"

An unfamiliar voice replied, "The lord of Territory Seven has already left the territory."

Yuan Yan immediately asked for help, "Hello, could I trade for a small packet of the external-injury hemostatic medicine that Territory Seven previously traded with everyone? Doctor Chang says my Old Qi has been infected with some kind of bacteria causing coagulation disorder; the bactericidal medicine from the Azure Dragon Squad isn't as effective as Third Brother's hemostatic medicine."

The person from Territory Seven replied, "I'm really sorry. I don't know which hemostatic medicine it is, and I don't have permission to enter the room to get the medicine. I'll apply to the lord right now."

Zhang San had left by helicopter, and the signal was unstable now, so whether they could reach him was still uncertain. Even if they did reach him, the people in Territory Seven probably wouldn't be able to find the medicine immediately.

After thanking them, Yuan Yan asked the other lords for help, "Which neighbor still has the external-injury hemostatic medicine traded from Third Brother? Could you trade me a little first? We'll agree to any condition."

Xia Qing, hearing no one else respond, pressed the button, "Sister-in-law, I still have some here. I'll go home to get the medicine right away and bring it to the Territory Five road sign."

"Many thanks, little sister." Yuan Yan was already on the verge of tears, "You don't need to make the trip; I'll come get it right away."

"We'll meet halfway." Xia Qing ran home, grabbed the medicine, and ran back out.

Once outside Territory Three, Xia Qing saw Yuan Yan running toward her from the east.

Yuan Yan's protective mask had been deformed by the hail; the transparent plastic visor had already cracked. Seeing Xia Qing run out, hope bloomed in Yuan Yan's red-rimmed eyes; she ran toward her through the mud with a limp, but fell face-first into the muck on the road.

Xia Qing rushed over and pulled Yuan Yan up in one motion, "Are you okay, sister-in-law?"

Yuan Yan's mud-covered protective gloves grabbed Xia Qing's arm; her hands were trembling, "I'm fine. Doctor Chang says your Brother Qi's condition isn't good; we have to use the medicine quickly, little sister..."

"I have the medicine. Let's go." Xia Qing scooped Yuan Yan up in her arms and ran toward Territory Five.

The people from Territories Two and Four who had come out to watch the commotion saw Xia Qing pick up a full-grown adult and still run like the wind; they were so shocked their mouths hung open, and they didn't even come back to themselves when splattered with mud.

Xia Qing sprinted in one breath to the Territory Five road sign, "Sister-in-law, I'm going in?"

Yuan Yan, being held in Xia Qing's arms in a princess carry, naturally agreed, "I'm heavy. Put me down quickly, little sister. Go straight along the road for two hundred meters, then turn right, and you'll be there."

Although carrying a person of about a hundred catties was nothing to Xia Qing at all, she didn't show off either. She put Yuan Yan down, ran into Territory Five, and sprinted straight into Qi Fu's courtyard in one breath.

The courtyard was easy to recognize because two people covered in mud were guarding the gate.

The guards, seeing Xia Qing, immediately shouted, "The lord of Territory Three is here! Everyone, make way!"

Xia Qing rushed into the room and saw Qi Fu, his head covered in blood, lying on the bed with an IV in his arm. She immediately said to Chang Li, "Doctor Chang, my hands are dirty; the medicine is in my right upper pocket."

Chang Li immediately took out a small sealed bag of medicinal powder from the pocket Xia Qing had indicated, tore it open, and sniffed it, "Excellent! This is exactly the bactericidal hemostatic medicine! Lin Jing, call someone in to hold the patient down. Yanzi, open the hemostatic bandage."

Hearing that the patient needed to be held down, Xia Qing stepped back to clear space. Three strong men from Territory Five came in: one held Qi Fu's legs, one held his waist and upper body, and one steadied his head.

"Hold him steady." After Chang Li said this, she pressed the gauze sprinkled with medicinal powder against the wound on the top of Qi Fu's head, which was continuously bleeding.

After about thirty seconds, Qi Fu's limbs twitched a few times, and then he began to convulse violently, struggle, and howl like a madman.

"Ah— ah—"

Chang Li hadn't expected such a severe reaction either and asked the strength evolvers present for help, "Young Lady Xia, hold his head; Hua Qing, hold his lower body. Quick."

Xia Qing had no time to find a place to wash her hands; she wiped the mud off her gloves on the person beside her and rushed over, pressing one hand on Qi Fu's face and firmly holding down his collarbone and neck with the other.

Hua Qing, the strength evolver from the Azure Dragon Squad, also stepped in to hold Qi Fu's waist. The others in the territory weren't idle either—some held his arms, some held his feet—and finally managed to pin Qi Fu down.

Yuan Yan, covered in mud, staggered in. Seeing her husband in such agony, she hurriedly asked, "Doctor Chang, can't we use the soothing capsules?"

"No. His brain has already been infected by bacteria; the side effects of the soothing capsules are too severe." Chang Li quickly bandaged the wound on Qi Fu's head and answered calmly, "Everything that can be done has been done. Now it just depends on his own resistance. How are the other injured?"

Chang Li went to treat the external injuries of the others, while Xia Qing and Hua Yang continued to hold down Qi Fu, who was struggling and howling desperately.

Qi Fu was an ordinary person; no matter how desperately he thrashed about, he couldn't break free from the grip of the strength evolvers.

Three minutes later, Qi Fu stopped struggling and passed out again.

After finishing treating the two injured who hadn't been infected with the evolution bacteria, Chang Li came back to check on Qi Fu's condition, took out two small vials of medicine from her kit, added them to his IV bottle, gave Yuan Yan a few instructions, and prepared to head to Territory Four.

Xia Qing also walked out with them, and Yuan Yan thanked them profusely as she saw them out of the territory.

Xia Qing and Chang Li walked the same way. Xia Qing thought of the pocket watch she had just found, took it out of her pocket, and showed it to Chang Li, "Has Doctor Chang seen the person in the photo?"

Chang Li and the squad members traveling with her all looked, but none of them recognized him, "This was probably taken before the Catastrophe. Ten years of Catastrophe, people's appearances have changed too much; it'll probably be hard to find him. Is this Young Lady Xia's relative?"

Before the Catastrophe, humans had no worries about food and clothing, their faces were full and their spirits high; after the Catastrophe, humans couldn't even get enough to eat and had to face the threat of death at any moment. Their appearance and mental state were completely different from before the Catastrophe, and many people had been disfigured.

Searching for someone with a pre-Catastrophe photo was now extremely difficult.

Xia Qing shook her head, "I picked this up on the mountain today. I thought it belonged to someone from your squad."

"That's possible. I'll go back and ask." Chang Li knew that what Xia Qing was referring to was Mountain Forty-Nine; besides Xia Qing and Shi Du, everyone who frequently went to this mountain was from the Azure Dragon Squad.

After Chang Li led her team into Territory Four, Xia Qing returned to her own territory and continued tidying up the large sheds.

About an hour later, Xia Qing actually received a call from Beard Feng, and it was Chang Li's voice when she picked up.

"Young Lady Xia, that pocket watch you picked up belongs to the lord of Territory Eight."