Chapter Ninety-Three: A Foreign Country
"Ah Qin, Ah Qin!"
The silence of the village was pierced by the childish cry, and Helen stepped out of the stilted building and picked up the boy who had come running.
"What's wrong?" She had just washed her hair, and her long, wet brown hair was draped behind her, like a canna that had not dried in the rain.
The boy was already out of breath, sucked his nose hard, and pointed to the entrance of the village, "Someone is sick......
Following him and the other children, Helen soon saw two strangers, a man and a woman.
Both of them were not very old, and the girl was unconscious, carried by her companions, and her hands and feet were limp and drooping. Helen ran to her, probed the girl's forehead, and called out to the other volunteers in the village.
Several blonde and blue-eyed male volunteers quickly rushed to pick up the girl. Helen noticed that the maiden's companion seemed to be wary, and looked at the man carefully, and could not help but be surprised.
In the village of Bazar, Helen is called "Aqin" by each of the aborigines, which means fairy in the Turkish language.
Helen has been in country Y for nine months, she is 22 years old, a devout Catholic, and the only doctor in the church's volunteer team. In order to sneak to this war-torn land, she tried a lot of effort to deceive her family, and the whole process of leaving country M was like a flight, but fortunately, with the help of the church, she was able to board the plane smoothly.
This kind of rescue operation, which is not much different from suicide, is undoubtedly crazy in the eyes of others, but she firmly believes that God is guiding her in everything.
The war in Country Y lasted for several months, during which time she experienced many dirty and ugly evils and saved countless refugees. Now that the situation is calm, there is only a few unrest in the middle of nowhere. The Sifan District, where Bazar Village is located, belongs to the territory of emerging armed forces, and it is not peaceful, which is one of the reasons why the volunteer team has not returned so far.
In country Y, a 170-centimeter-tall male surname can be regarded as a big man, and Helen can see that most of the young people in front of him are not the people of this country.
He had at least five gunshot wounds on his body, and his clothes were in tatters, revealing horrific wounds on his back. There was a whole piece of flesh ripped away, leaving a huge scratch deep into the bone, as if he had just broken free from the iron hook of the slaughterhouse. Helen had treated all kinds of wounded, but now this one shocked her.
No one can stand like a javelin after such a serious injury.
But he was a living exception, and it seemed that he had traveled a long way. The countless tears in his clothes and trousers should have been the traces left by the white grass thorns in the mountains, and Helen could not imagine how he had persevered until now with the girl on his back.
The young man's back wound was not bleeding, and this was the second oddity Helen noticed.
She didn't have time to think too much, so she said "follow me" in Chinese and English respectively, and hurried to the village.
After the debridement operation, Helen began intravenous fluids for the girl, hanging a bottle of methylnitrate file, and two vials of penicillin. The girl had a slight spasm, shortness of breath, and the symptoms were quite obvious. Helen knew very well that anti-inflammatory drugs could only work in one direction, but she couldn't get half a tetanus antitoxin on hand.
The shortage of drugs has always been the biggest problem, and Helen looked at the girl silently for a long time. The young man stood in the room that served as the operating room, noticing her expression, his gaze changing slightly.
"It's going to be fine." Helen smiled at him.
The young man smiled back, like granite tugging, and a little indifference melted in his dark eyes.
"I'll help you look at the wound, don't be nervous." Helen had asked many questions before, but none of them had been answered, and now Suo had returned to English and was just talking to herself.
After a closer examination, she found that the real gunshot wounds showed no signs of inflammation, including the laceration wound on the back, which could not be described as good.
Such a conclusion may seem inappropriate, as it is to describe an old woman as youthful and beautiful, but Helen has never seen such a clean wound on the body of any patient. The newborn pink flesh and the visible blood flow under the membrane seemed to overflow from the inside out, and Helen even found that one of the gunshot wounds had been half healed, and only half a finger's length hole had not been filled with musculature.
The warhead was taken out? With this kind of resilience and immunity, can it still be considered human?!
"Who the hell are you?" Helen asked involuntarily, her voice trembling a little, and she felt that all this in front of her could only be described as God's blessing.
The young man actually answered her, and the answer was extremely laborious: "I am from country Z, and my name is Chen Mo." ”
Holding back these two foreign devil words almost cost Chen Mo's life, and the "good belly and fat belly" that he has always been the best at actually did not come in handy at this time, which caught him off guard.
"Ah, you're from country Z! I would love to go to your country, where there are so great walls. Helen has always been fascinated by the history and culture of the ancient Orient, and she was pleasantly surprised to take Z literature courses in college.
Chen Mo saw that this foreign girl's Mandarin was at least a hundred times stronger than his English, and he was stunned but relieved, "Where is this?" ”
"Country Y." Helen blinked her eyelashes, which were too long for an Oriental, and wondered how he didn't even know where he was.
"Say!" Chen Mo's face changed slightly.
Helen looked at the sunset outside the window and had a more intuitive understanding of the profundity of Z Wen.
"Does my friend's injury matter?" Chen Mo asked again.
This time Helen hesitated for a moment before slowly telling him the truth.
Chen Mo didn't expect that the little girl would really be infected with tetanus, and the last trace of luck was gone, "Where is the medicine sold?" ”
"I can't buy it, but I can figure it out." Helen said firmly.
"You're going to Colonel Goldtooth? I would never agree with it! He is the head of the pig who is in heat all the time, and if you send it to the door by yourself now, what will happen to you! A moment later, Steven, who was waiting outside the stilted building, roared angrily, his white face flushed.
The other dozen or so volunteers knew that Steven had been interested in Helen for a long time, and no one spoke for a while.
Colonel Goldtooth was the leader of the armed forces of the Fourth District, and had seventeen wives, all of whom were beautiful women except for the original couple, and when he saw Helen for the first time, he was stunned for five minutes without speaking, and his Adam's apple trembled like an epileptic mouse. This notorious thug originally took his subordinates to collect land tax, but when he left, he became a complete gentleman, with a smile on his face, and announced to the villagers that it was okay to pay it later.
If it weren't for the nationality of these volunteers that made him a little jealous, perhaps the eighteenth wife would have been carried home by now.
Steven is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his family is ranked among the richest people in the entire state. As early as in the church, he had noticed Helen, who was of a quarter Middle Eastern ancestry, whose light gray eyes made him swoon, and this time he had come thousands of miles to this small Asian country for no other reason than her.
"If it's just a little antitoxin, the colonel should give it." Helen glanced at Steven and replied calmly.
"It depends on what you pay for!" Steven regretted a little that he ran out rashly this time, and turned out to be so passive. In China, even if you buy a pharmaceutical company, it will never be more difficult than it is now, and the feeling of falling from material paradise to hell on earth cannot be described as bad at all.
Helen is a beautiful and simple girl, but unfortunately in Steven's eyes, sometimes being too simple is not necessarily a good thing. After the war, Country Y is like a stinking quagmire, and people breed in it like maggots, devouring everything they can. In Colonel Goldtooth's territory, there were many girls who slept with someone for a few aspirins, and he could fully guess every detail that would happen to Helen once she went to find her.
"Is it worth it for the sake of these two people of unknown origin?" He asked coldly.
"May the glory of the Lord shine upon us and make His ways known to the world." Helen crossed her hands, reverently clasped her hands, and looked at each other, "Steven, the purpose of our stay here is to help others, and nothing else matters. I've decided, I'm going to face my choice. ”
"Damn it...... It's too late, I'll go with you tomorrow morning! Steven hated her stubbornness, but he couldn't do anything about it.
Colonel Golden Tooth lives in Chisha Town, dozens of kilometers away, and his soldiers drive jeeps through the town at night, throwing women into the back seat of the car when they see them, and shooting on the spot if they dare to resist. The volunteer team wants to contact the outside world, and the only way to find a long-distance call is to go to Chisha Town, and Steven is terrified every time he mentions that ghost place, but he still doesn't want Helen to risk it alone.
"Go talk to that young man, I'm afraid he's in a hurry." Helen said softly.
The two entered the stilted building and saw Chen Mo lying on the side of the girl's bed, seemingly asleep. Steven was disgusted with him, but at the same time he was shocked by the terrible injury, and when he saw Helen walking straight away, he immediately became very nervous, afraid that if he accidentally missed someone, he would be bitten by this beastly creature.
"Is there something wrong?" Chen Mo didn't wait for Helen to come to his side before turning around.
"Tetanus antitoxin will have to wait until tomorrow to get it, don't worry, your friend will be fine." Helen said slightly apologetically.
"Can you please take a trip now?" Chen Mo didn't understand why he was waiting.
"I'll do my best, but it's a messy night over there, and if it's over now, I'm afraid we won't even be able to come back." Helen's answer was helpless and sincere, "I hope you can understand." ”
Chen Mo thought for a moment and nodded, "I'll go with me tomorrow." ”
"If you insist." Helen could see the young man's nervousness viscerally, and was curious about the girl's relationship with him.
If you are an ordinary friend, it is impossible for an ordinary person to do this like him. This is a time of lack of faith, and so is the light in people's surnames.
Steven didn't understand the conversation between the two, and glared at Chen Mo viciously before leaving, wanting to warn him not to play tricks, but finally gave up because of the language barrier.
Helen stayed in this stilted building, and used hydrogen peroxide solution to repeatedly rinse the wounds of Bai Xiaoran, who was still asleep. Chen Mo leaned against the corner, watching her move again and again, and suddenly felt that it was extremely good luck to meet someone like her in such a place.
Several gunshots rang out in the distance from the direction of the mountain, which seemed to be hunting, causing the village dogs to bark in a low voice. Chen Mo turned his gaze to Bai Xiaoran's face, remembering the hardships she had endured on the boat, and the journey she had traveled these days, and slowly clenched his fists.
Even if the sky falls, Lao Tzu will get the medicine.
(To be continued)