Saving Someone

"We need to hurry!" Yinsen had already stepped into his role as a healer. "Quick, help me out. You two lift her onto the bed, and I'll go get the medical kit!"

"Aren't you going to ask who she is before saving her?" Xiao Yan asked, feeling a bit strange.

"How could you even think that?" Yinsen shot him a look. "A life is about to slip away right before my eyes; that is something a doctor cannot allow. Even if she were a heinous criminal, I would save her first and let her face judgment afterward!"

Fang Bie shrugged, looking at the teenager who had already begun to relax. "That's just how Yinsen is. He's a doctor, and he always has that look on his face when he's saving someone."

Even during the ten-plus days they had been resting, Fang Bie had seen Yinsen occasionally head to the nearby State Hospital to perform surgeries, saving people who needed emergency care, which was why he knew this so well.

He grabbed the shoulders of the woman lying on the ground and gestured with his chin. "What are you standing there for? Give us a hand; she's the one you brought back!"

Xiao Yan was still processing the flood of information and hadn't quite digested it yet. Hearing this, he blinked, then quickly knelt down and grabbed the woman's legs.

"One, two, lift!" Fang Bie called out the rhythm. The two of them gently lifted the woman and followed the path to a nearby house.

Along the path, they could see golden wheat fields, vegetable patches flashing with various colors, and three distinct, charming wooden cabins.

By this time, Yinsen had already emerged from a nearby warehouse, slinging a massive iron medical kit over his shoulder. Seeing the two men carrying the patient, he hurried over to direct them.

"Be careful, try to keep it steady! Don't let the wound tear open again!"

"Keep her head slightly elevated—yes, just like that. Keep the blood flowing smoothly, don't let it pool!"

As they approached the cabin door, he walked ahead to open it.

When they first built this laboratory, they had considered the possibility that a single door might be difficult to navigate, so they had specifically installed double doors, which proved useful at this very moment as the two men walked in one after the other.

Yinsen took a pristine white sheet from his backpack and spread it gently over the red bed. "Careful, don't use any force. Her condition is very poor; she can't handle any jolting!"

He was a true doctor. He had already pushed over a rack from beside the experimental table. Since industrial equipment couldn't be used here, he had fashioned a tray out of simple iron plates, creating a makeshift stand that sat to the side.

As the two men scrambled to position the woman on the bed, Yinsen had already donned a mask and arranged various surgical tools on the iron rack, switching on the light overhead, which was crafted from the gift Tony had given them.

The only piece of industrial equipment from Tony that was still functional was this Arc Reactor. It happened to emit a very bright light, so he had brought it into the room to serve as a shadowless lamp.

"Fang Bie, stay and be my assistant. You two, leave the door open and wait outside. The patient needs good ventilation!" Yinsen began shooing them away without mercy.

When he immersed himself in the role of a doctor, he didn't fear anyone.

Fang Bie looked at the two hesitant men, knowing they likely didn't trust him yet, so he could only sigh.

"Just watch from the side, don't make a sound, and don't cause a stir!" He preferred keeping these two within his sight; at the very least, he could keep an eye on them.

"Light the Furnace. Sterilize all the instruments with fire and open the alcohol. We don't have any electronic tools, so I expect we'll be busy for a long time," Yinsen said with a stern expression.

Fang Bie had already stuffed several pieces of coal into the Furnace, and a warm flame rose instantly, illuminating the previously dim room.

Fang Bie had also put on a white mask. There was no point in not using the things the rich guy had sent; if they ran out, he could just go back and knock a few more out of him.

Fang Bie was quite confident that he could trade gold for more. He had just mined some gold yesterday, and the Gold Block he synthesized was a full cubic meter in size; trading for a few masks certainly wouldn't be a problem.

By now, Yinsen was already using a Scalpel to gently pry open the woman's outer armor. He moved very quickly; while Fang Bie was still heating the iron tools, Yinsen had already covered the woman's upper body with a layer of white cloth.

He had studied many Eastern cultures and knew that many Eastern women were conservative. Although they didn't necessarily subscribe to those views, Yinsen still respected their traditions.

A doctor had seen too much to care about seeing anything more. Once the wound on her chest, just below her neck, was fully exposed, he didn't make any further movements.

As for the armor, it was tossed carelessly into the corner. Fang Bie glanced at it; the armor shimmered with a brilliant luster, clearly not an ordinary object.

"Alcohol Cotton!" Yinsen called out, holding his tweezers. Fang Bie handed him the box.

Yinsen gripped a large piece of alcohol-soaked cotton and gently wiped the wound. "Give me the Syringe; I'm going to inject some anesthetic around the area."

Fang Bie turned to the cabinet to grab the Syringe, while Yinsen carefully opened a nearby cabinet and took out some glass bottles filled with medicinal liquid.

He then began drawing different medicines, occasionally flicking the Syringe and squeezing out a drop or two.

"What are they doing? Healing her? I've never seen this kind of strange healing method. Are you sure they aren't doing something bizarre to this woman?" Yao Lao whispered to Xiao Yan.

"You don't understand, Teacher. This is a special medical technique called surgery. It involves using instruments to treat the wound, removing blood and filth, cutting away rotting tissue, and then stitching the injury shut. It helps the wound heal quickly."

"Why is it so troublesome? Even an ordinary Dou Shi can use Dou Qi to accelerate their own recovery." Yao Lao still didn't understand.

"Because ordinary people don't have the power of Dou Qi to help them, so they have to use their own ingenuity to increase their healing methods," Xiao Yan said with some emotion.

"These don't seem like things you should know. I've traveled the entire continent and have never seen these things." Yao Lao looked at him askance.

"Ahem! Everyone has secrets, Teacher. Let's not dwell on this!" Xiao Yan gave a dry laugh and quickly changed the subject.

"Why did you suddenly have a physical body?"

"I don't know either. When I first arrived in this world, I felt a force squeezing me out of the Ring. Once I came out, I turned into this form. I don't quite understand it either; I'm afraid it's an issue with this world!"

"You mean... this isn't our world?" Xiao Yan asked.

"You brat, I tell you to observe carefully, but you brush me off all day long. Lift your head and look—where on the Dou Qi Continent would you ever see a Square Sun?" Yao Lao pointed at the sky, his tone sharp, but his eyes were unnervingly profound.