binnovel Chapter 233 Do you really want to leave?
Chapter 233 Do you really want to leave?
In the hardest-hit area of the infection, Xuanming checked on several seriously ill patients and then returned to their tents where they were resting.
The two senior brothers from the Divine Doctor Valley were squatting at the door of the tent at this moment.
Senior Brother Jia looked a little depressed. Senior Brother Fang at the side tried to persuade him, "Okay, this is not what you want. Don't we all want to save people?"
"But...that man died at the age of nineteen." Senior Brother Jia's eyes were a little red. If he hadn't used his medicine, would he not have died for the time being?
Xuanming paused, "Didn't he save her?"
Senior Brother Fang sighed, "He was rescued at the time, but this morning he was found dead. There were no signs or reactions, just like he was asleep."
Xuanming frowned. "There's nothing wrong with the prescription. Even if there's a rejection reaction, it won't be that serious..."
Senior Brother Jia raised his eyes and said, "He cannot eat ginger, and has been like this since he was a child. My prescription contains old ginger powder, and it is my fault for not asking clearly."
Xuanming nodded and said nothing. Instead, he walked directly into the tent and took out a prescription. "This prescription should be able to suppress the bloodworms temporarily. Take a look at it. Before we find a final treatment, use this for now."
Fang and Jia looked at each other and immediately went forward to check.
“This… how can this be…” Senior Brother Fang was puzzled at first, but then he figured it out, “So that’s how it is, this is how it should be, you are worthy of being the Divine Doctor Xuan.”
Senior Brother Jia also understood, "If a person takes this medicine, he or she will probably be affected."
Senior Brother Fang waved his hands, "At most, you'll feel groggy, which is better than dying. However," he rubbed his brows in annoyance, "this isn't a long-term solution."
"Three days, at most three more days." He already had some clues, and he was prepared to use the green robe, so with both options ready, it shouldn't be a problem.
Senior Brother Jia asked hurriedly, "Do you have any ideas?"
Xuanming nodded, "There is one thing. I will try it again. Don't use it recklessly until it is completely safe. The patient's body cannot withstand any stimulation at all."
"You're right, you're right. Be careful." Senior Brother Jia was scared this time. He also realized that people like them who practice medicine should be more cautious. After all, they are dealing with human lives.
"Go ahead and do your work. Don't worry, leave this to the two of us."
Xuanming nodded, glanced at the several medicine boys and two military doctors under Chu Chenfeng who were resting in the tent, and frowned, "Where is Ziyan?"
"I guess he's still watching over it in front."
Xuan Ming pursed his lips and finally said, "Let him come back and rest. He can't keep up with the physical strength. If he is weak, he will be easily infected."
"Okay, okay, we'll just go over there and call him back."
As Xuan Ming stepped into the tent, a man who looked like a soldier ran out and said, "Divine Doctor Xuan, the prince wants to see you."
Xuanming was a little impatient, but he followed him anyway.
Nearby, there is a place specifically used for work. Chu Chenfeng and Lin Yunfan were sitting in the tent, and Mu Tan, a member of the Chiya tribe, was kneeling in the middle.
"So, only the Chiya people with pure blood can obtain the holy water that can grant immortality?"
Mu Tan nodded tremblingly, then shook his head, "Not entirely. The children born between our tribe members and outsiders will be brought to the high priest for testing as soon as they are born. There are also children who completely inherit the bloodline of the Chiya tribe, and they will be kept directly and placed together with the children with pure blood. People like us are more casual, and we don’t involve deeper things. We don’t have to study, let alone attend morning and evening classes. We just do some miscellaneous things in the tribe. But when we turn twenty years old, we will have the opportunity to get some holy water. But..."
Chu Chenfeng's eyes glowed with a faint light, "But what?"
Mu Tan swallowed and said, "I heard that some people with impure blood died after using holy water. The high priest said that it was because their fate was not strong enough to withstand the power of the holy water."
"How many people are there in the Chiya tribe now, and what is the ratio of those with pure bloodlines to those with impure bloodlines?"
"At present... there are about 3,000 people, and those with pure bloodlines may only account for 30%."
"How do they intermarry with outsiders?"
Mu Tan's expression changed and he smiled bitterly. "It's not an intermarriage at all. My mother is actually a citizen of Yuanhe City. She was captured nineteen years ago because she was pretty. They...they didn't treat her as a human being at all and made her...them...give birth to children non-stop. But for some reason, only a few children survived. Maybe only one out of three or four survives. I guess it must be because they did so many evil things and were cursed, which has caused problems with the continuation of their bloodline."
Lin Yunfan frowned, "What about your mother? Did she tell you where she is from in Yuanhe City? Where does she live?"
Mu Tan shook his head. "My mother and many others like her had their tongues cut off after being captured, and they could no longer speak. After giving birth, their babies would be taken away and they were not allowed to have contact with them. I..." Mu Tan touched the red birthmark on his ear. "Once I was in charge of delivering food to those women, and she recognized me. Although I have never seen her, I know that is my mother."
"She couldn't talk, but that didn't stop me from visiting her secretly every time. She was barely 30 years old, but she looked like a 50-year-old woman. Her health was very poor. I knew she wanted to go home... But I couldn't take her home. Not long after that, she died. Those people didn't even dig a grave for her. They just threw her body into the back mountain. I secretly went to the back mountain and buried my mother." Mu Tan pulled off a badly worn red rope from his neck, with a lotus pendant hanging underneath. "This is the only thing my mother left behind."
Mu Tan looked at Lin Yunfan with hope in his eyes, "Sir, do you recognize this thing?"
Lin Yunfan shook his head, "I'm not from Yuanhe City."
Mu Tan felt a little disappointed and smiled bitterly, "I... I know that too. It's been so many years. Maybe... they have already forgotten their mother."
“But…” Lin Yunfan put away his folding fan, “I see the pendant has a transparent color and fine carving, it must not be something from an ordinary family. Yuanhe City is not big, but it is not small either, so there shouldn’t be many families who have something like this.”
"Really?" He was excited at first, then a little disappointed, "But I can't get out, and I don't know where to find it even if I get out."
"You really want to leave?" Chu Chenfeng's indifferent eyes swept over him, "Why? Didn't you say that when you turn 20, you will have the opportunity to get the holy water of immortality? Don't you want to?"
Mu Tan shook his head like a rattle. "I want to become their half-human, half-ghost appearance. I want to leave. I want to see the outside world. I want to go to the place where I used to live. As long as it's not in the Chiya tribe, anywhere is fine."