Chapter 340: Wolf Pack's Medic—Xia Qing

"The qiang-synthesized toxin in its blood is at a very low concentration. If we can gather two sets of the right antidote, we can neutralize the poison."

After running tests on the alpha wolf's blood, comparing it with Brother Luo's condition, and then looking at this wolf's situation, Blue Dragon Squad's medic Wang Shunhong felt this wolf was incredibly lucky.

Captain Yang was rushing over with the key detoxifying herbs—a medicine he had spent over a month traveling several thousand li to find, all to cure Brother Luo's poisoning. If Brother Luo could have taken this medicine within 24 hours of being poisoned, he wouldn't have had to suffer for over half a year.

After examining the external wounds on the alpha wolf's leg, Chang Li asked Squad Medic Wang for advice, "Is the antidote taken internally or applied externally? Can the wounds on this wolf's leg be sutured now?"

"Internally, and yes, you can suture." Wang Shunhong looked at the alpha wolf lying calmly on the wooden board after anesthesia and sighed, "Evolved wolves are too smart. Even though they don't know how to detoxify, they know that bloodletting can expel the poison. Miss Xia, may I take a look at that qiang snake?"

"Of course, just call me Xia Qing." Xia Qing immediately went upstairs, took the qiang snake out of the refrigerator where it was being kept cold, and handed it to Squad Medic Wang. "There's only this one. From what the wolf pack conveyed, the alpha wolf should have been bitten by this kind of snake."

Hu Zifeng and Chang Li, who had never seen a qiang snake in person, also crowded over and stared at it, examining it carefully.

Chang Li corrected Xia Qing's statement, "Qiang snakes are extremely rare, and the qiang-synthesized toxin content in the alpha wolf's body is also very low. This is the snake that bit it."

Hu Zifeng also offered his speculation, "I figure after the alpha wolf collapsed, the wolf pack wasn't sure which wound was from the qiang snake bite, so they simply tore open all the wounds on its leg."

"That's possible." Wang Shunhong had Chang Li suture the external wounds on the alpha wolf's leg first, while he returned to Territory One to compound the antidote according to the alpha wolf's poisoning condition. Once the captain arrived with the most important ingredient, it could be added to the antidote and administered to the alpha wolf.

After being poisoned, the earlier the medicine is used, the less damage to the body.

Jing Kuan escorted Wang Shunhong back, while Hu Zifeng stayed to protect Chang Li. Leaving someone to protect her was necessary—the squad medic was a very important member of the squad, and Xia Qing's territory was full of wolves and sheep. If one of them went mad and hurt Chang Li, the Blue Dragon Squad would suffer a great loss.

Xia Qing also stayed in the room, soothingly stroking the alpha wolf's neck while carefully watching how Chang Li sutured the wound. Chang Li knew Xia Qing wanted to learn, so she explained as she sutured.

The two of them—one teaching, one learning—were very serious. Hu Zifeng stood beside them, looking back and forth between the alpha wolf and Xia Qing, with a bellyful of questions he couldn't ask. He was about to burst.

Last night, Hu Zifeng had personally seen a giant wolf carry Xia Qing away from Territory Three. Then this morning, he had watched through the camera as Xia Qing came stumbling back from the north, followed by a group of wolves helping her carry goods.

Besides a few sacks, she had also brought back three injured wolves—she must have gone to Mountain Sixty.

In last night's battle on Mountain Sixty, who won between the bears and the wolves? Had Xia Qing evolved a beast-tongue ability? Otherwise, how did she communicate with the wolf pack?

If she really had evolved the ability to communicate with fierce beasts, then she would truly be invincible!

Sensing the increasingly agitated emotions of the human standing beside it, the alpha wolf, lying still, turned the only eye it could move and stared at him.

Hu Zifeng stepped back, afraid that if he got the wolf smell on him, his Little Fifth wouldn't let him near when he got back.

"Buzz—"

Xia Qing felt her phone vibrate, pulled it out for a look, then stood up. "Captain Hu, Sister Li, Captain Yang is here. I'll go bring him over."

Hu Zifeng stood up. "Shall I go?"

That wouldn't do—Xia Qing still needed to take Yang Jin to the spring cave to dig up qiang-wu grass. "Captain Hu, stay here and protect Sister Li. I have things to discuss with Captain Yang. Boss, Wolf Lao Er, you two stay too—don't let that wolf in the sheep pen cause trouble."

Xia Qing turned off the surveillance in her territory, hurried to the northern isolation belt to meet Yang Jin, and brought him into the low-slope greenhouse. "What did the two plants look like when they were planted? They still look the same now. Captain Yang, which one do you think we should dig up?"

"No need to dig. I asked the squad medic—two leaves are enough." Yang Jin used a sharp, narrow-bladed short knife to quickly cut off two leaves of the qiang-wu grass and put them into a prepared box. Turning his head, he asked Xia Qing, "Based on your experience, does this cut need medicine applied to it?"

Because the spring cave was very small, this was the closest Yang Jin had ever been to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing stared for a moment at the two drops of transparent sap seeping from the cut on the colorless, transparent qiang-wu grass, then shook her head. "No need. The sap has already sealed the cut. Besides, I don't know what kind of disinfectant should be used on this grass."

Xia Qing turned her head and only then realized she was a bit close to Yang Jin. This face, striking from a distance, was even more dazzling up close.

The three scars on Yang Jin's face had already scabbed over, but his face and ears were both red. Xia Qing didn't have peach-blossom madness and wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that Captain Yang, who had rejected all the women in the entire base, was blushing because he was near her.

Captain Yang's face was this red because he must have rushed over the whole way and was exhausted.

Xia Qing, who had just sprinted sixty li under a heavy load, knew best what the body felt like after a hard run. "Thank you for making the trip, Captain Yang. Would you like some water?"

Yang Jin cleared his slightly hoarse throat and answered, "Yes."

Unexpectedly, Xia Qing brought him to the small hut by the farmland again. The hut was empty—the wolves must be getting their wounds treated in her home.

Xia Qing poured a cup of spring water and handed it to Yang Jin. "Sister Li is at home suturing the alpha wolf's wounds. If we went back, it wouldn't be proper to entertain you with spring water."

Yang Jin took it and drank it down in one gulp.

Squad Medic Wang, who had received the notification, rushed over with the prepared antidote. After adding the juice from the two qiang-wu grass leaves, he handed it to Xia Qing. "Both of these doses are oral. Give one after the wolf's anesthesia wears off, and the other 12 hours later. Tomorrow, draw blood again to test the detox progress and see if more medicine is needed."

After asking clearly about the medicine's storage conditions, Xia Qing turned to look at Yang Jin.

Yang Jin was very tactful. "You go back and detox the wolf first. I still have things to do. We'll talk about the price of the medicine when we have time."

The antidote used not only qiang-wu grass but also other herbs the Blue Dragon Squad had painstakingly gathered. The price wasn't cheap either.

After seeing Squad Medic Wang and Yang Jin off, Xia Qing hurried home, put the medicine in the refrigerator, and continued staying by the table serving as an operating table to learn how to suture serious wounds.

After the suturing was done, Xia Qing was only worried about one thing. "Sister Li, will the hair on the wolf's leg grow back?"

"Some of it will grow back." Chang Li took off her surgical gloves. "If you want it to recover better, you can trade with Territory Seven for medicine that removes scars and treats skin damage."

Medicine that treats skin damage? She had some—the body-damage treatment potion her idol had compounded for her would work. "Sister Li, how many days until the wound on its leg heals?"

Chang Li disinfected her hands. "This is a high-level evolved wolf. If it doesn't do strenuous activity, it can heal in five to seven days, but recovering muscle strength will take at least a month. I can't judge right now how fully it will recover."

"It will definitely make a full recovery." Xia Qing was full of confidence. Once the surface skin healed, she could soak it in the potion. The medicine she had traded eight hundred thousand for had excellent effects.

Watching Xia Qing continuously smooth the fur of this brown-gray she-wolf, Chang Li's hands were itching too. But she didn't dare reach out rashly, because evolved wolves were highly intelligent and held grudges. "Both hind leg bones of that wolf in the yard are broken?"

Xia Qing took Chang Li to the yard and asked her to examine the other wolf's leg injury. "Yes, they should have been broken by a bear's swipe."

After looking from a distance, Chang Li reached a conclusion. "I'll put professional braces on it. You have a lot of experience caring for wolves like this. In a month, it can recover."

After saying that, Chang Li couldn't help but laugh. "Xia Qing, your role now is very similar to mine. I'm the Blue Dragon Squad's medic, and you're the wolf pack's medic."

Xia Qing...

After Chang Li finished treating this wolf's leg, Xia Qing gave her ten mountain walnuts. Of course, Squad Medic Wang and Hu Zifeng got some too.

If Yang Jin hadn't come and gone in such a hurry, Xia Qing would have wanted to give him a few as well.