Chapter 21: Injuries

Ochoa pinched his nose and said after stopping the nosebleed, "Me? OK. Not long ago I thought I was going to die. But now it's clear that I'm in luck. It is.. It's just that this hand is a little disobedient. ”

"Me too." Pete looked at the others and said, "I just got up with a hard time. Now the legs are all soft. ”

Just as Pete finished speaking, Matt's shout came from the road near the curb on the other side: "Damn it! My legs, my legs! ”

"It's okay! Relax! Jeff said loudly after a quick check on Matt's leg next to him, "It's okay, your leg isn't broken, it's just a big wound." There will be no problems, there will be no death! After speaking, he turned to look at Ochoa and said, "Pepper! Come over and help me. ”

Ochoa looked back at Jeff and said, "Come right now, wait a minute." After checking Steve from top to bottom again, he focused on touching his head, and after confirming that there was indeed no fatal injury, he looked at Pete and said, "It is estimated that his head was hit and he fainted, maybe a little concussion, so he could only sleep for a while." With that, he stood up and ran quickly to Matt's side. Pete, on the other hand, dragged Steve to the side of the road and sat him up against the wall, and after setting him up, ran to the others who were still lying on the ground.

Pete ran to Eri first, and Every also turned over on the ground at the moment, after Pete squatted beside her, she opened her eyes and looked at Pete, but her eyes were a little dazed and unfocused, and Pete began to check her physical condition up and down before slowly relieving herself.

"Where is this?" Avery asked with some difficulty.

Pete reached out and patted Ellie's face and said, "We're in Tskhinvali, how do you feel?" Is there something wrong? ”

"Tskhinvali?" Ellie seemed to react when she heard this name, she quickly looked left and right and suddenly hugged her left arm, "My arm, there may be something wrong with my arm." ”

Hearing Avery say this, Pete quickly looked at her left arm, only to see that there was a small hole in the sleeve at the big arm, after Pete tore the sleeve, Avery could see a deep cut on the outside of his left big arm, as if someone had cut it with a knife, at this moment the skin and flesh were a little turned out, and a stream of blood gushed out of the wound after pulling it away.

"Hippopotamus! Chili pepper! Come and help me. Pete shouted and turned to Ellie, "Don't be nervous. It looked like it was just a flesh wound, the bones were not broken, and the major blood vessels were not injured. ”

Hearing Pete's shout, Jeff immediately turned around and ran over, and after looking at Ellie's injuries, he took out the first aid thing and said, "It's okay, it's okay." It may hurt a little for a while. Hold on, hold on. After speaking, he looked at Pete and said, "Help me tear off all my sleeves." ”

Pete did so without saying a word, and after tearing the sleeve open, Jeff began to wash and bandage. Pete looked at the others, and now Donovan helped Evans to the side of the road, and it shouldn't be a problem to look at the old guy like that. Morris, on the other hand, sat on the ground, holding his head with his hands and spitting bloody spittle.

"Looks like we're in luck." Pete said as he watched.

Jeff smiled bitterly when he heard Pete's words, "If we compare with those Georgians, our luck is simply so good that it explodes." ”

Pete looked at the Georgians, the place where the rockets had been fired before, and there was silence at the moment. There was no movement except for the wreckage of the armored vehicle that was still burning, and the sound of whirring air from time to time. Some wreckage can also be seen on the ground around the armored vehicle, which is no longer known to be, some are still burning, and no complete corpses have been seen in that area anyway.

"Come and help me."

Hearing Jeff's voice, Pete immediately withdrew his eyes, and together with Jeff, he lifted Avery from the ground and sent her to Evans's side, while Donovan and Ochoa carried Matt to the wall at the same time, and Morris himself limped over.

After everyone had arrived, Donovan looked at his men and said, "Looks like we're going to have to pause the evacuation." Matt and Avery were badly wounded, and more importantly, the Russian air raids could not end there. So I thought about it, maybe we should find a place to hide and take care of everyone's injuries. With that, he looked at Ochoa and Jeff and said, "What do Matt and Avery need right now?" ”

"Stitches." Ochoa and Jeff said in unison, and after the two looked at each other, Ochoa continued, "We should immediately go find the Georgian field hospital." Then get there and process it. After speaking, he pointed to Steve, who had not woken up yet, "This guy is estimated to have a concussion, and he won't wake up for a while." ”

"Yes." Evans, who sat against the wall, said, "They must have a safe place to hide from this damn bombing." ”

"But we're certainly not here for long." Pete spoke: "The air strikes of the Russians are only preparing for a ground attack, and if the ground attack starts, what will we do by then?" Maybe you really can't leave. ”

Donovan listened to Pete's words and nodded, "Yes, it does." But it's too risky for us to continue walking around now. Now it's considered lucky, not like those Georgians. "But luck doesn't always come to our side, and if we run out of luck, it may mean that no one here can get out of here." ”

"What about at night?" "If it's night, can we get out of here?" ”

"At night, the Russians won't stop." Eric, who had been holding his bag and didn't speak, suddenly spoke, "Georgians and we think the opposite, they are thinking of entering here with all their might, strengthening the power here, they must be thinking of the same way as us, what about the Russians?" Apparently not knowing this. ”

"So what to do?" Maurice looked at Eric and said, "We stopped you from staying here before, but you didn't take our words seriously, and now it's easy to say." ”

"What should I do?" Eric looked at Donovan and said, "As I said earlier, we should find a place where we can hide, deal with the injury first, and then inquire about the news, and then decide what to do through these messages." ”

"Is that still in time?" Morris looked at Eric, then at Donovan.

Donovan didn't answer immediately, and he couldn't answer such a question for a while, after all, the fate of the entire team was at stake.

Pete looked at Morris and then at Donovan and said, "We really should inquire about the news now." Because we've lost contact with the outside world since just now. If we act rashly, we are likely to encounter something we do not want to encounter, such as running into the Russians head-on. And I think that no matter what we do now, we should get out of here first, find a place for the Georgians, preferably a field hospital, and then talk about something else. ”