"The heart-lung murmur is very high, high fever accompanied by slight dehydration, and consciousness is not clear. ”

"The little man over there, take out three tubes of this basin of vomit, and pour the rest. ”

"That girl, go, change a wet towel. ”

"And that little fat man, go and bring the tequila and mandala flowers in the cupboard, what? You don't recognize it, you don't recognize these words? You recognize it? ”

"By the way, and you, didn't you say that you would use a scale, why haven't I made you match the salt water?"

Xinghe and the others hurriedly carried out the instructions given to them by Old Man Balbo, who pushed everything off his table to make a temporary operating table, and several of them were responsible for helping him.

It is worth mentioning that this seems to have been the territory of Balbo's big black dog, and when they carried Ling over, it barked at them very fiercely, and the old man Balbo drove it aside, and at the moment it was curled up pitifully in the corner and stared at them.

On the wall of the old man Balbo's living room, Xinghe saw the medal and the photograph that Shigego had mentioned, it was an old photograph, the unclear picture remained still, as if the shadow capture magic had not been used, or that the magic had failed. In the photo, an old man and a young man are standing side by side, one of them is a year older than the middle-aged old man Balbo, he seems to have not rested for a while, his hair is messy, and the white coat on his body is also stained, but there is a smile on his face, which is an expression that Xinghe has never seen on the old man Balbo today, and the other person in the photo looks very young, wearing a neat military uniform, but before Xinghe can see it clearly, the old man Balbo overturned the photo, and Xinghe is not good to turn the photo over and look at it again。

As for the medal, it was placed next to the photo by the old man Balbo very casually, the shape of the medal is a relief of a red bird engraved on silver metal, Xinghe has not studied the medal, and he does not know what the medal means, he did not consider asking the old man Balbo, and Xinghe felt that even if he asked, the old man Balbo would not tell him.

It was evident that Old Man Balbo had not worked as a doctor for many years, and the leather case containing his medical tools that he had dug out of the basement was covered with dust, and the copper handle of the leather case was even covered with patina.

Thankfully, the seal of the bag is good, and most of the contents of the bag are still intact and can be used after a simple cleanup, and Xinghe is responsible for serving as Balbo's assistant because he had learned to use crucibles and balance instruments when he was learning some basic magic knowledge from his father.

It wasn't long before Jugo returned with an empty basin and three test tubes containing a cloudy liquid, and judging by the ugly look on his face, the vomit might have been really disgusting.

However, Balbo didn't react, it seemed that he was used to this kind of thing, he skillfully took the test tube, put three test strips into it, and then handed it to Xinghe along with a pocket watch, "Watch the time, tell me the situation in ten minutes." ”

"That little fat man, why haven't you brought anything yet?" Old Balbo suddenly tilted his head and yelled after examining Ling's tongue.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Anton's voice came from the closet, and there was a crackling sound at the same time, and then Xinghe saw Anton running over with two glass jars, and there was a pink water stain on his clothes.

Balbo took the glass jar handed by Anton with a blushing face, and at the same time said, "Something that is not enough." ”

Anton looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, his expression changed several times, and finally he had to swallow all the words back into his stomach with a look of grievance, and honestly walked aside.

Balbo ignored him, walked over him, picked up a stone mill from Xinghe's table, poured all the contents of the jar into it, and then skillfully crushed them into pieces, during which Xinghe had been watching Old Balbo and let him see three test tubes.

The hands of the pocket watch ticked round and turned, and when the second hand turned the tenth turn, the turbid liquid in the three tubes had all turned pale blue.

"Mr. Balbo?" Xinghe called out to Old Man Balbo, who was pouring the scraps from the stone mill into the light salt water that Xinghe had concocted, and he glanced at the three test tubes in front of Xinghe, "It's not food poisoning." ”

"Food poisoning? We're all eating together. Xinghe asked casually.

Old man Balbo didn't even look at him, and poured the light salt water that had turned pale yellow into the suggestion hanging bottle made of glass bottles, "Poisoning is not as simple as you think, and if it is poisoning, it is simple. Balbo sighed, but immediately turned his face to Anton again, "Hey, kid, bring the hanger at the door." ”

It seems that under the influence of Anton's behavior before, Old Man Balbo has been calling Anton as much as possible tonight, I don't know why, Xinghe feels that Old Man Balbo's behavior is like an angry child, of course, he is just thinking about it in his own head.

Although Anton looked reluctant, he still moved the hanger at the door according to Balbo's request, and when he returned here, his round body was already covered with beads of sweat and panting.

"Look at you, you need to work out. Old man Balbo said lightly after Anton had set up the hanger, as if he was doing good for Anton, but he didn't look at Anton's expression at all when he spoke, but stuck the needle into Ling's arm, hung the hanging bottle on the hanger, and then wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Can that medicine cure Xiaoling?" Lan Yue suddenly asked timidly, hearing her question, Xinghe also set his eyes on Balbo, he hoped that Balbo could give a positive answer.

"Huh?" Old Balbo looked up and saw that everyone in the room was looking at him, he licked his dry lips, "Well, this bottle of medicine can replenish the water she has lost for this little girl, and it has a calming effect, you see, she looks much better." ”

Indeed, under the effect of the potion, Ling's cheeks regained some blood, and her breathing seemed to be much smoother, as if she was really asleep, but Xinghe noticed that Balbo Ling did not directly answer their question, "So, can it cure Xiaoling's illness?"

"Uh. Balbo propped his hand on Xinghe's table, bent down, and looked around at several children, "Child, you must know that no disease is a day, and a bottle of medicine can cure it......" When he spoke, Xinghe kept staring at him, and Balbo's eyes were also looking at Xinghe.

Eventually, Balbo lowered his head and bit his lower lip, and Xinghe heard him let out an inaudible sigh, "Yes, this medicine can't. ”

Although he had expected this to be the result, Xinghe still felt very disappointed, and several other people were the same, with disappointed expressions on their faces, but Xinghe still raised the last bit of hope and asked, "Then can you cure her?"

Balbo was stunned for a moment, then said, "I don't know, I still need to do some tests." ”

"Testing?" Anton interjected.

Balbo rarely didn't pick on his thorn, "Yes, I need a blood test to answer your question." ”

"Blood test?"

"I need to confirm what the cause is, and a blood test is the easiest way to do it right now. With that, Old Man Balbo took out a tiny syringe from his suitcase, and he expertly tied Ling's arm with a rubber raw and stuck it into the bulging vein.

As the piston of the syringe was slowly lifted, dark red blood poured down the needle into the syringe, and Xinghe almost subconsciously took a step back, although all the blood was contained in the syringe, Xinghe felt that the room was filled with the smell of blood.

The smell of rust filled Xinghe's nostrils, and for a moment, he felt as if he had been dragged out of his room into a world full of blood.

With a snap, a bloody hand landed on Xinghe's shoulder, and suddenly Xinghe stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Brother, are you okay?" That was Lan Yue's voice, Xinghe shook his head, and saw Lan Yue looking at him with concern, one hand on his shoulder, the smell of blood, and the bloody hand were all gone.

"Xinghe, are you alright?" Anton looked at himself with some concern, Xinghe climbed up on the edge of the table and shook his head at them, "I'm fine, just a little tired." ”

Old man Balbo glanced at him, as if he could see something, but he said nothing.

"So, Mr. Balbo, what happened?" Xinghe tried to take his eyes off the dark red blood that Balbo had already put in the test tube.

"Boy, it's not that quick to get results. Old man Balbo was a little displeased with Xinghe's impatience, and said to himself, "Young people nowadays have no patience at all. But the work on his hands did not stop.

Balbo found a beaker and asked Anton to fill it with water, then put a thermometer in the beaker and set the beaker on an iron tripod, and lit an alcohol lamp underneath, and when the water temperature reached 60 degrees, he put the test tube containing blood into the beaker and dripped something into the test tube.

Xinghe originally wanted to ask Balbo how long it would take to see the results, but the old man Balbo's attention was always on the test tube in the beaker, and he didn't care about himself at all, so Xinghe had to give up.

The process of waiting has always been full of torment, the old man Balbo has been staring at the blood in the test tube, motionless, during this period, the galaxy also found some clues, the temperature of the water in the beaker has been maintained at sixty degrees, whenever the temperature rises a little, the old man Balbo will remove some of the alcohol, when the temperature drops down, he moves the alcohol lamp back, during which the fluctuation on the thermometer does not even exceed one degree, which is probably the reason why he did not let himself operate.

But even so, it still can't change the fact that this process is boring, Anton has already yawned, Shigego has begun to nod his head non-stop, and Arazuki also stands next to Rei. Although Xinghe had been watching, he also felt that sleepiness was constantly attacking his head.

In order to get rid of the drowsiness, Xinghe rubbed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw that the blood in the test tube had changed wonderfully, and almost instantly, a lot of flocculent black threads appeared in the blood out of thin air.

Xinghe felt shaken awake Andong and Shigego, who were drooling, and the two opened their eyes in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Balbo glared at them disapprovingly, sobering the two guys a little and quickly shutting their mouths.

"What is this?" Xinghe asked.

"It seems to be some kind of curse. ”

"Cursed?"

However, Balbo did not explain more about this problem, but took out a small brown glass bottle from his leather bag, which seemed to contain some kind of liquid, he uncorked the glass bottle, and poured a little liquid into the test tube, but Xinghe did not notice any change in the test tube, Balbo seemed to have noticed this, and his brow furrowed into a deep "river" Words, he gritted his teeth and poured the whole bottle into it, but instead of overflowing, the blood in the test tube began to react violently, as if boiling, a large amount of black smoke drifted out of the mouth of the test tube, and after a few seconds, the blood in the test tube regained its calm, and turned back to a bland dark red, all the black floc was gone, and the eyes of the old man Balbo flashed, but it quickly disappeared, replaced by a look of frustration.

Xinghe chuckled in his heart, and he asked tentatively, "What's the matter, doesn't it work?"

"Effective?" Old Man Balbo smiled bitterly, "The magic water is effective, but now it seems that a large number of high-purity medical magic water must be used, and it also needs to be equipped with large medical equipment, you have also seen, its reaction is very violent, and the cost of treatment in the early stage alone will be an astronomical amount." ”

"Approximate how much it will cost. Xinghe asked through gritted teeth.

Balbo looked at him with a complicated expression, "I have an acquaintance in Jiangcheng Public Hospital, but even so, the cost will not be less than 100,000 Dan." ”