Chapter 63: Friendship
Every formed gang will have its own specialized doctor. These doctors will help gang members deal with types that are not easy to treat in hospitals. Besides, there are less than twenty or thirty people in a gang, and one or two hundred people are more, and there are always some people who catch a cold and fever every three or five days, and preparing a doctor is almost the standard for the "formation" of a gang.
In this part of Turnaire, colds and fevers are the most common illnesses. Poor people cannot afford to drink high-quality filtered water from waterworks, so they can only use well water for their daily water supply. Well water is a thing that says it's clean, it's not very dirty. It's not clean, it's a little dirty. And not everyone will boil the water before drinking, especially some young men who directly aim their mouths at the faucet of the wellhead water pump, and the people behind shake it and open their mouths to drink.
So problems such as fever and colds are all too common.
Under the treatment of his personal doctor, Wood's wounds had been stitched up, but fortunately he was completely unconscious when he lay on the bed, and he didn't feel any pain, otherwise it would have taken him to stitch all the wounds together.
It's not that Turner City is free of anesthetics, but the side effects of anesthetics are very large, and the main ingredient of anesthetics comes from a mushroom that can make people hallucinate. This mushroom was once everywhere, and many people experienced some terrible symptoms after eating it by mistake. When this mushroom matures, it forms a faint human face on the umbrella-like surface of the mushroom, so people call it a grimace mushroom.
The high-ranking and powerful Knight of the Inquisition in the Holy See once said that this "grimace mushroom" is the seed that the devil has sprinkled on the earth, and after using it, he will gradually lose his mind and fall into the arms of the devil. In addition, the use of grimace mushrooms will indeed cause certain losses, and under the dual requirements of theocracy and empire, the entire Shining Star Empire has begun a mighty "Devil Extermination" operation. People uprooted the Grimace Mushroom and burned it in the fire, with the same provision after the Divine Right and Imperial Law Amendments - prohibiting individuals from cultivating, eating, and selling Grimace Mushrooms would be severely punished.
The grimace mushrooms that used to be everywhere seem to have disappeared, but they are not. The Imperial Academy of Sciences' research on grimace mushrooms has not stopped, and experiments have found that in addition to mild hallucinations when ingesting a small amount of ingredients, there is also a very special effect, that is, "no pain". To put it simply, there is a special substance that blocks the transmission of pain signals between neurons, even if a bone is broken, it will not produce any pain.
This discovery completely changed the "dizziness treatment", and the anesthetic drugs bred and manufactured by the government began to be tested in the major hospitals of the empire to a limited extent, and the effect was very good, even if the patient's stomach was dissected, the diseased organ was removed, and then re-sutured, the patient was able to stay awake throughout the whole process, and did not feel any discomfort.
Of course, the use of anesthetics is also very strict, and it needs to be applied for and provided by the metrologists and the surgeon in charge of the operation, and then reviewed and approved by the members of the "Sensitive Materials Committee" before they can be used. The process doesn't take much time, it takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Just like all houses built to shelter from the wind and rain, there will always be leaks, and sometimes the narcotics with a strict approval process will flow out. For example, here at Godol, there are two of them, which are used in case of emergency, and it is clear that Wood's injury is not one of them.
When Godol woke Wood up, his first reaction was to tense his whole body, and his face suddenly turned pale as paper. The intense pain gave him the urge to grab his head on the ground and knock himself unconscious. When the sharp pain lasted for a while, his clenched teeth relaxed a little.
It's not that the pain has lessened or gone away, but that he's gradually getting used to it.
"How did this happen?", said Godol, standing against the wall, playing with the latest windproof lighter from Ordor in his hand, looking like he was watching a joke.
Wood sat up from the bed, and the pain was excruciating, but he felt that the physical pain was far less frantic than the pain in his heart. His eyebrows almost straightened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's all caused by that guy from Durin, I underestimated him too much, maybe his target was my ...... from the beginning." As he spoke, he took a breath of cool air, and the wound tightly strangled by the silk thread was somewhat deformed as he sat up, and blood immediately overflowed from the wound.
At the same time, it also brought him a wave of more painful pain.
After taking two breaths, his mood stabilized a little, and continued: "I want that guy to die in front of me, kill him in the most cruel way, I don't ask the process, you make a price!", Wood wisely did not use friendship and friendship as a bargaining chip to get Godol to help him, and he also understood that the more ambitious a person is, the more independent and clear his attitude towards public and private affairs will be.
This is not a private matter, so he will not use such an excuse to directly use Jin Yuan to open the way, this is the best thing to use, there is no one.
Godol smiled and asked rhetorically, "How much do you think Durin is worth?"
Wood gave Gothol a problem, and Gothol gave Wood a problem.
It's a question that will never be answered, and if nothing is said, Godor may not be willing to help him, and he won't continue to help him because of Wood's price increase. It was a matter of principle, and even without mentioning any friendship, Wood offered a price, and Godol helped him. In the eyes of outsiders, money is not the key thing, friendship is, and Godol helped Wood because of his friendship with Wood.
But when he refuses for the first time, and then agrees after Wood raises the price, people will think that the reason why Godol helped Wood is not because he values friendship, but because he only cares about money, and he can change his original intentions and principles at any time for the sake of money.
So this was a very difficult question to answer, and Wood suddenly tensed up, and after a moment he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a deep voice, "Ten ...... No, two hundred thousand!"
Two hundred thousand is not all of Wood's savings, he has earned millions of dollars in the past ten years. Some of them have already been squandered by him, and some of them have been used to dredge up relations, and his deposits in the central bank of the empire are almost more than 1.1 million.
The ending of paying twenty percent of the money to buy Durin in one go did make him a little distressed, but he knew that he had to do it. Today's failure has been imprinted into the minds of some people, who may have begun to hide in the shadows and sharpen their knives to stab him in the heart. So he had to take revenge in an even more frantic way, and let those who were going to divide him think about whether to bite this bone at the risk of breaking a tooth.
Two hundred thousand is enough for Godol to devote all his energy to deal with this matter, and now what Wood needs is time, in the shortest possible time, to completely settle Durin, so that he can have a chance to continue to survive in this city in some capacity. Otherwise, there is a good chance that he will take his money, as well as his family, and go to hell together.
Godor nodded with satisfaction, "With the friendship between us, it is right to help you, you wait for my good news!"