The armored vehicle with the national emblem of Ursus directly broke through the roadblock at the entrance of the hospital and stopped at the entrance of the hospital with a harsh sound.
"get off!"
Razer shouted loudly.
Almost at the same moment the car stopped, the hatch opened and a large number of people in black poured out.
The leader was a short man with platinum hair, holding a frail girl wrapped in a blanket.
Razer was sitting in the cab, with two strong Ursus men crowded in the passenger seat, shivering. She spat out of the car and pointed to the compartment impatiently.
"The things are left inside, please send them yourself!"
"Don't be a transport when you drive so slowly!"
With that said, Razer kicked the car door open and chased the departing people into the hospital.
…
"Get out of the way!"
Hank and Dan pushed aside the nurse standing in the corridor and led Nate forward. Anna gasped for air and was followed closely behind them by Franka. Soon everyone arrived at the door of the operating room.
"What's going on?"
A tall Ussian man in a white coat blocked their way: "This is a hospital, you can't..."
"Emergency requisition!" Hank interrupted him and slapped the tablet on the man: "This is an emergency document issued by the Ursus government! We want to requisition your operating room! And the doctors!"
"Requisition? You are not soldiers." The Ursus looked at the documents and then glanced at the unconscious man covered in filth.
On her feet are black crystals that cannot be hidden.
"And, to save an infected person?" The Ursusian sneered, "No doctor will be willing to participate."
"Then lend us the operating room." Nate's face was full of anxiety, "Please, this is the only place where you can get it!"
The man shook his head arrogantly, "No way."
Nate gritted his teeth and was about to continue the argument——
bump!
A big hand slammed the Ursus man against the wall, and then he punched him hard on the head.
It's the iron arm.
"It's not like we don't have a doctor."
With that said, Iron Arm kicked open the door of the operating room, "Go in!"
Nate only had time to nod and rushed into the operating room. Anna broke free from Franka and followed closely to the operating room!
The two of them worked together to place the girl on the operating table and frantically searched for the needed items.
"Anna, connect the testing equipment quickly!"
"Here it comes!" Anna laboriously brought the cardiopulmonary monitor, cleaned her hands hastily, then began to clean the girl's body, connected the connecting cable to the instrument, and shouted: "The heartbeat is very weak, adrenaline!"
Nate took the hormone pistol directly from his waist and threw it to Anna: "It can be used the same as the syringe!"
Anna pushed the hormone in and shouted through the headset: "It's outside! Go to the blood bank to get blood! It's too late to test the blood type. Get all the types! Hurry!"
"knew!"
There were chaotic footsteps outside.
"Blade fragments..."
Nate took out the scalpel and forceps from the cabinet and was looking for a hemostat when he suddenly heard a faint human voice.
"this……"
Anna was stunned on the spot - the girl actually woke up at this moment.
However, Anna does not speak Russian.
"Don't worry, we are in the hospital now."
Brutal Russian came out.
Nate took a blanket to cover the girl's body and handed the tools to Anna.
"You would say..." Anna was slightly startled.
Nate waved his hand and arranged for Anna: "Find other tools, hurry up! Bring the anesthesia and ventilator as well."
Anna turned and left the operating table.
"How are you feeling, Vera?"
Nate looked at the girl.
"You are... I seem to have seen you before..."
The girl murmured in confusion.
"It's like in a dream...I remember it!"
"You are a knight!"
"...How do you know?" Nate did not avoid the question, nor did he correct the girl that their meeting was not a dream. He held the girl's hand - it was still a little warm now.
"Your horse ears, tail, and platinum hair can only appear in Casimir's story books...you should be a knight."
"Yes, I am Casimir's knight." Nate replied with a smile, as he examined the girl's wounds more carefully.
The wound is too deep.
You have to make some cuts to get the blade out.
"How do you know about Knight Casimir? Aren't you afraid that I will be your enemy?" Nate asked.
"I heard that knights are all handsome and good people who save the weak with a smile. If you are a knight, you should not be a bad person." Vera explained, looked into Nate's eyes and asked:
"Are you here...to save me?"
"Well. I'm here to save you."
As Nate responded, he continued to check the girl's wounds, secretly thinking that something was wrong. This bruise looked like an organ was injured.
"Really?" The corner of the girl's mouth raised slightly and she said no more.
"Nate, there is no rehydration! And I'm afraid there is no anesthesia. What should we do now?"
Anna came to the operating table and put down the tray.
"Angel?" the girl asked subconsciously.
"She said you are an angel." Nate explained, then lowered his head and smiled at Vera: "She is Anna, a doctor and my colleague."
"I never knew that angels could be from Philin." The girl said.
Anna shook her ears - although she didn't understand Russian, she knew from the look on Nate's face that he was introducing her. Looking at the confused girl, she tried her best to smile and said, "Hi, I'm Anna.
"
Vera's eyes widened and she asked: "English?"
Anna nodded, "I don't speak Russian."
The girl's eyes became moist: "Isn't this...a dream?"
The two "doctors" in combat uniforms were silent.
——This girl has probably believed that this was a dream since just now.
Nate stroked her head and said:
"It's not a dream. Look, we are still wearing combat uniforms. We just rescued you."
The girl's tears wet the operating table. "Then...Bella, where is she?"
"she……"
Nate smiled hesitantly: "Your sister is fine. She's in another operating room. It's okay, girl."
The girl choked and said:
"I thought this was a dream..."
"How come there is a knight coming to save me and a doctor who speaks English..."
"Bella, she is really..."
"Well, really. You should know: in the Ten Commandments, it is said that people cannot lie."
The girl nodded and smiled: "Yes, grandma told us."
"The knight is the defender of the Lord, I believe in you."
The girl burst into tears and said with a smile: "I also said that I could finally have a dream. But now I feel that being awake should be better than dreaming."
Nate smiled, his palms sweating. He anxiously said to Anna in English: "Is there really no anesthesia?"
"Yes, but this situation..."
"You should do it first. Take out the blade first. Then, she may still have some internal injuries."
He lowered his head again and took Vera's hand: "Vera, we are going to start the operation now. Hold my hand and tell me if it hurts."
Anna patted her face hard and put on a mask and gloves.
The scalpel opened the wound.
"Does it hurt?"
The girl shook her head:
"No. Is there...that thing called anesthesia? I can't feel anything."
Anna's breath was trembling, but her hands were unusually steady - she opened the wound on one side and used tweezers to take out the broken blade inside.
But Vera didn't even waver in expression.
Nate silently squeezed his other hand.
"...Yes, it's anesthesia. It seems to have taken effect."
——Painlessness. Moreover, even if it is anesthesia, it should feel like something is being taken out.
Weakened consciousness, this is dangerous!
Anna said with a trembling voice: "Nate, the amount of bleeding is wrong."
She stopped the bleeding from the wound, but the current situation was far beyond her expectation: blood loss and physical weakness meant that the amount of bleeding from the wound was far lower than it should have been.
"Sister Anna, what is she talking about?"
"She's saying...she's afraid of hurting you." Nate forced a smile and asked, "How do you feel now?"
"...It seems like there's something heavy in my stomach."
...internal bleeding.
"Other than that, I feel great - like I've never felt better."
The girl's bright expression didn't look like she was lying.
"Really? That's great...you'll reply soon."
Nate pretended to wipe away the sweat and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes - this was not a good state... this was euphoria caused by long-term anemia.
"Here comes the blood!"
Hank and Dan rushed in with blood bags in their hands. Anna took the blood bags and began to look for equipment to prepare blood transfusions.
"...Vera, do you remember your blood type?"
"...Is blood type O."
Nate turned around and shouted to his companions: "Type O blood, hurry up!"
Ana's movements in her hands paused:
"...Only half a liter of type O blood in total."
…
"Hey, Vera." Nate said softly to the girl: "We are going to start a major operation. We may need to start general anesthesia. You need to sleep for a while."
"Come on, just breathe."
Nate placed the anesthesia mask on the girl's face.
"You'll fall asleep soon, just relax."
"OK."
The girl closed her eyes obediently, with a smile on her lips.
As if she suddenly remembered something, she opened her eyes again and asked:
"Sir, may I ask who you are...?"
"My name is Nate, from Casimir."
"Can I still see you when I wake up?"
"……certainly."
Nate's body was trembling, but he still smiled and said with relief:
"You and your sister will also meet, and you won't go back again, believe me. So, take a break, it will be soon."
"……Um."
The girl slowly closed her eyes, as if she really fell asleep under anesthesia.
At this time, according to the procedure, the patient should be connected to the ventilator before he loses breathing due to anesthesia... However, there is no so-called anesthesia at all.
Hank and Dan looked at the silent Anna and Hank, standing there at a loss.
"...Nate."
Anna choked and said:
"She has..."
——It’s hopeless.
Anna still couldn't really say it in the end.
But they all know it.
Without anesthesia and adequate blood transfusion, disembowelment surgery is killing people.
And Vera's weak body and accumulated injuries...
"She is dying."
They are now rescuing a "dead man".
"As medical practitioners, we should..."
Avoid patient pain. So...
"Nate!"
"……Miss."
Nate put on a mask and gloves.
——He knows.
"I've broken the Ten Commandments twice today - I'm a complete bastard."
——Killing and lying.
"But I know one thing:"
Even if I don’t have enough opportunities and abilities... I still have to--!
Tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.
As if he had returned to that place, he was no longer a teenager and said through gritted teeth: "As medical staff, we should at least do our best."
Nate held out his hand and said:
"Hang up the blood bag and give me the scalpel."
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The white color of fish belly appears in the east.
Silent people gathered in the corridor, looking at each other in silence.
Between them were Nate and Anna—who didn't even take off their bloody gloves.
Anna leaned against the wall with tears still on her face.
Nate sat on the bench, holding his head and saying nothing.
Her platinum hair is dyed a little pink.
Vera's last heartbeat still escaped from the electrocardiograph - no matter what methods they used, they still couldn't catch it.
Anna washed her body with tears and sewed up the wound.
Although a girl who was abused and mutilated does not look less embarrassed because of it.
The girl was sent away with a smile - the infected person's body will become a new source of infection.
From then on there was oppressive silence.
It was Jiang Yan who carried the exhausted Nate to the bench: the injuries he sustained in the battle would not be healed by his determination to save others.
But he didn't want to rest.
Slow footsteps came from the other end of the corridor——
Iron Arm came over holding two bottles.
"…You should drink some."
He handed one of the bottles to Anna. The Philin girl drank most of the bottle in one breath. The spicy liquid made her want to vomit - but she still swallowed it.
Iron Arm handed another bottle to Nate.
"...Do you think I'm a jerk, Iron Arm?"
Nate took the bottle with a twisted smile on his face: "...I really want to drink now."
"...This is a good thing, it proves that you are still conscious."
--but Nate didn't open it.
"Nate, kid... I'm a rough guy and I don't know what to say, but that girl is dead."
"I know...I killed her."
"You know what the heck! - It wasn't you who killed her, it was..."
"What the fuck is the difference!"
——This is the first time anyone has heard Nate swear.
"I gave her hope! I deceived her! I made her believe in me, but in the end she still died in front of me - I didn't change a damn thing!"
"What's the difference between this and me killing her!"
Snap!
A bright red mark appeared on Nate's face - Iron Arm slowly retracted his hand.
"--listen to me."
Iron Arm said in a deep voice: "...Although I don't know what you have experienced, I can guess, Nate, you were definitely not an ordinary person before."
"We have never been good people: we take money to do things, and there is no essential difference between us and mercenaries."
"We hurt others too."
"You are very used to life and death, Nate. You are used to killing people, you are not a novice, but now you choose to save people."
“And it’s in an environment where you may not even be able to fully repay yourself!”
"You have chosen to save people now, Nate. You are now a rescuer, not just because you are a medical operator or because you participated in a rescue operation."
"It's because you're a good person - and good people never have an easy life."
He held Nate's shoulders and pointed out the window:
"Can anyone stop the sun from rising? That's what God does and it has nothing to do with you. Only God can bring people back to life. What's the point of yelling here!"
"This is us, security contract operators, a group of little people! We will struggle, but it may be useless. We will work hard, but it may be useless!"
"Everyone knows this truth, and the real cowards don't even know how to struggle - they give up before they have a chance to struggle, but we won't!"
"Tell me, why won't we give up?"
"...I don't know." Nate lowered his face.
Iron Arm lifted Nate's head up, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Because someone is waiting for us."
Iron Arm snatched the wine bottle from Nate's hand and unscrewed the cap.
"Drink it, we have to go on our way. Right now, Olaina is launching a counterattack, and the government has sent out a request for help again. There are many injured and civilians who need us."
"You may not be able to save one person, but not everyone can't be saved."
"Did you hear that, operator?"
Nate silently took the bottle and poured all the wine on the ground.
"...You can't save people after drinking."
"Then we should go."
"Everyone is here and ready to go! This time we have to drive ourselves!"
Everyone stood up silently and picked up the equipment and weapons they had left behind.
Anna smashed the bottle against the wall.
They left the hospital.
Jiang Yan followed the team, recalling Tie Jian's words in his mind: