Chapter 341: Chapter 341: The Person Has Been Found
It wasn’t for no reason that the inside was lit up, for he saw at the center of the cave, a campfire had been kindled, and the flames it emitted flickered all the way outside.
There was a pile of straw laid out to one side, which clearly should have been someone’s living space. Plus, the vigorous burning of the campfire proved that someone had been maintaining it.
The cave wasn’t very big, and at that moment, he spotted in a corner, right where the firelight couldn’t reach, what seemed like two shadows persisting there.
"I’m from a nearby village, my name is Liu Zheng. Are you two the people who appeared in the village earlier? If so, you can come out now, I won’t hurt you,"
Of course, this was just Liu Zheng’s speculation. He wasn’t clear about the situation and had no idea who these two people really were.
Unexpectedly, just after Liu Zheng finished speaking, he suddenly saw one of the people coming his way. Through the glow of the campfire, he could see clearly; yes, this person was the same vagrant he had seen before.
"You, you are, you’re the vagrant? Then, that person, is that the old man?"
Liu Zheng was truly excited. After searching for so many days, he hadn’t expected to actually find them here.
"Divine Doctor, are you the Divine Doctor?"
Good heavens, he could talk! When he saw him last time, he was moving fast and they hadn’t had any interaction.
"Yes, I am the Divine Doctor. Who are you really? And has the incident in the village anything to do with you two?"
"Grandpa, grandpa can be saved. This time we really can be saved. He is the Divine Doctor, he really is."
Immediately after his words fell, they quickly rushed to the corner and then helped an elderly man with white hair and a stooped figure to walk towards him step by step.
When he saw the old man, Liu Zheng was truly shocked and dumbfounded because he saw that half of his face had started to rot, and even pus was continuously dripping onto the ground.
"You, what’s happened to you?"
Before he could react, suddenly, the vagrant knelt before him with a thud.
"Divine Doctor, I’ve heard so much about you. No one else could probably cure my grandfather’s disease, we could only rely on you. I was worrying about how to get him to the village,"
"Don’t panic, let me take a look first."
As he spoke, Liu Zheng quickly approached. After all, as a doctor who saves lives and helps the injured, even a scene of rot like this had long since ceased to be odd to a doctor.
He examined the wound carefully. Because of the campfire, it was a bit dim and not very clear, but he could make out that the area was indeed experiencing tissue decay, and yellowish pus was oozing out.
"How many days has this condition persisted?"
"About two days. Since the morning the day before yesterday, I felt that half of my face was numb and a bit red, and then it slowly started to decay."
"No need to say anything else. Right now, follow me to my clinic immediately. All my tools and equipment are there, so I can’t treat you here."
"Divine Doctor, we’ve been infected with a kind of bacteria, and we don’t know what it is. So, you must be careful when you’re in contact with us, be very careful. Do you have anything to cover your mouth and nose with?"
"Don’t worry, I took precautions earlier, so I’ve already dealt with that issue. I won’t get infected by you. Let’s go, hurry back to the village with me. Don’t stay here, this environment is not suitable for the recovery of your wound."
"Then, Divine Doctor, if we enter the village now, won’t they treat us as monsters?"
"There is a small path into the village where no one goes by. We can bypass it and get straight to the back of my clinic. If I bring you in that way, no one will notice."
"Okay, I understand. Grandpa, we finally have hope now. Let’s go, I’ll take you there."
The vagrant seemed very excited, as if seeing a glimmer of hope. Then they quickly extinguished the fire, gathered some personal belongings, and, supporting each other, they hurried from the foot of the mountain towards the village.
The first thing Liu Zheng did upon returning to the clinic was to immediately take out his medical toolkit and then used iodine and some homemade solutions to disinfect the wound. Only after finishing the last step, did he cover the wound with layers of a special medicine he had developed.
The vagrant who stood by anxiously watched everything unfold. Although he could see his grandfather making sounds of pain during the treatment, he knew that all of this was really a sign of hope.
"It’s done, I’ve applied the medicine on him now, but his wound is a bit unusual, I can’t bandage it, it must be left exposed. It needs to be treated three times a day, for three days in a row, and it should be mostly healed."
"Divine Doctor, you truly are a savior. Divine Doctor, your immense kindness, I will never forget,"
As he spoke, the vagrant once again kneeled down, and Liu Zheng hurriedly moved to lift him from the ground.
But the instant he touched him, he suddenly felt his hands and feet were completely cold, a kind of cold that was different from what he understood to be cold. How to describe it? It was like the temperature of a corpse.
"Your, your hands?"
"My body has been like this for many years, and often, I experience a phenomenon similar to being in a state of apparent death."
"You mean, the last time you were in the village, it was also a state of apparent death, right? And before that, your grandfather experienced the same thing, was it also a state of apparent death?"
"Correct, about every ten days or so, we experience a state of apparent death that lasts about six hours. During those six hours, if no one treats us urgently, we naturally wake up."
"As far as I know, the hospital declared you dead, and then you were sent to the crematorium as unclaimed bodies. But afterward, the crematorium disappeared all of a sudden, didn’t it?"
