"Then let’s go."
Yuan Yu decisively put away the knife and followed Ni Ji to see their father, Nilo, who was the one shot.
"Wait, I’m coming too." Xu Qinglang, freed, caught up and said with effort, "I’m a doctor as well."
Nilo lay on the bed, only wearing pants, his upper body exposed, his complexion flushed, looking not well.
Xu Qinglang looked at Nilo. He wasn’t clear about the previous danger, but he could guess roughly. Seeing him burning up, he knew it was a high fever caused by an infected wound that was already festering when they previously treated Nilo.
"Doctor, how’s my dad?" Ni Ji asked anxiously, looking at Yuan Yu with worry.
They had fought with others over a batch of goods, and his father, Nilo, had been seriously injured, his life hanging by a thread.
"You’ve delayed too long. Even though I’ve cleaned the wound again, it’s still infected. We need to reduce the fever and disinfect the wound again."
Yuan Yu hesitated, saying, "If we were in a hospital, we could administer IV antibiotics, but here, we have nothing."
"Then let’s take him to a hospital immediately," Ni Ji suggested.
Ni Yan couldn’t help but interject, "Big brother, if we go to the hospital, won’t we get caught immediately?"
They were enemies’ targets. If they went to the hospital blatantly, they might not get treated but rather get shot up instead.
"Right, we can’t go to the hospital." Ni Ji realized afterward and looked at Yuan Yu, asking, "Doctor, are there other methods besides IV antibiotics?"
"There are." Yuan Yu nodded and listed many herbs, all natural antibiotics from nature, but Ni Ji didn’t understand and looked towards the village doctor, who, after hesitating, said, "Those herbs are all used up."
"Our losses in this battle were severe, so the medicine was consumed quickly," the doctor added.
"Then let’s go gather some." Ni Ji said, "The mountains nearby are full of treasures; there must be herbs."
"Besides the antibiotics, we need several other herbs as well."
Xu Qinglang reminded, for internal and external use, to help Nilo’s fever and infection recover quickly.
"You mentioned something we don’t have," the doctor reminded, knowing the need for antibiotics. But Nilo’s condition was indeed bad; if, by any chance...
The doctor looked at Xu Qinglang and Yuan Yu, figuring it wasn’t his treatment, so it wasn’t his responsibility.
"Is it impossible without that one herb?" Ni Ji asked.
"We can use other herbs as substitutes," Xu Qinglang cleared his throat and said, "But we must gather the herbs quickly, or else he won’t make it through the night."
"Then immediately take people to gather herbs."
Ni Ji instructed. Ni Yan, eyes glinting, said, "Big brother, we captured two gatherers today; they might know what herbs they gathered."
"Then quickly, take people to see." Ni Ji said, immediately pulling the doctor to go and verify the quality of the herbs, bringing Yuan Yu and Xu Qinglang along as well.
"Get up, get up."
It was eleven at night in the dark cell when Tang Jun and He Ming immediately opened their eyes.
"Brother, what’s going on?"
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