Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 19 The First Settlement

The problem with the medicine that Xie Liu mentioned was actually not a problem with the medicine at all. To be precise, it should be a "toxicology problem."

The reason is very simple. The doctors of this era are simply unable to treat diseases, especially the doctors among the Holy Bloods.

There are only two things they can do, stop the bleeding and bleed.

If someone is injured, stop the bleeding.

If you want to hurt someone, then bleed them.

All treatment or injury is based on these two simple logics. Naturally, their medicines are also designed to achieve this function.

So the problem that troubled Xie Liu was actually very simple. Her blood coagulants would often kill people while saving them, but not every time. Even those with holy blood could not escape this rule.

This made her feel a little confused. She didn't know what dosage she should use to heal the injury without killing the person.

After listening to her description, Chen Jian was almost speechless.

If you want to stop the bleeding, why not just suture it directly? Why do you have to use a coagulant?

What's more, their coagulant was purified from some kind of pit viper venom that Chen Jian had never heard of. Who knows what other toxic ingredients it contained.

In other words, the Holy Blood has good physical fitness, otherwise the mortality rate of the people she saves should not be 50%, but 100%.

So, Chen Jian’s advice to her was very simple.

Don't use it, don't save it.

If it really starts bleeding, tie it up with a cable tie and try to sew it up with needle and thread.

Even if infection occurs later, the survival rate is much higher than that of large-scale thrombosis.
Xie Liu didn't understand these principles, and she also didn't understand how people could sew with thread.

In her opinion, bandaging to stop bleeding is fine, but using needles and thread to sew up the human body is something only certain heretical sects would do, and it is simply blasphemy against humanity.

But after hearing Chen Jian's firm words, she had no choice but to temporarily agree, planning to try to sew up the wound next time.
The group of eight people chatted and rested like this. After nightfall, Chen Jian arranged people to stand guard as usual, while the Holy Blood Squad directly let Xu Lie stand guard all night.

The next morning, when everyone broke camp and set off, it was at this time that Chen Jian saw their means of transportation for the first time - or rather, their means of transport.

Two large buffaloes.

There is no mutation at all, just a genuine Asian buffalo.

They kept these things on a small river beach more than 200 meters away from the camping site. When they were found, they were still playing in the water and looked full of energy.

The team members transferred most of the items that were not needed at the time to the back of the ox, and then set off, leading the ox.

This quaint mode of transportation, coupled with the roads covered with vegetation, almost made Chen Jian think that he was traveling through not the future, but an idyllic era of the past.

But at the same time he also thought of a question:
Why is there no vegetation in Chuansha City?

He asked this question to Xu Lie, who had no answer but told him that every area occupied by monsters above level four had different characteristics.

Some have no vegetation, while others have extremely lush vegetation.

Some of the weathering is so severe that all the buildings have been reduced to rubble.

But some of them remain fresh and new over time, just like newly built cities.

Chen Jian instantly became interested and asked:
"Where is the city you're talking about that looks like a newly built city?"

"In the southwest, a place called Shancheng."

Xu Lie replied casually:
"It's always covered with fog, and only when there's a strong wind will a corner of the fog appear."

"No one has ever been inside. Everyone can only watch from a distance, even the high priest of the Holy Blood Temple."

"Everyone who tried to enter the city died - no, everyone who approached the city died."

"But maybe you can give it a try? But that has to wait until you have completely rested, right?"

"really."

Chen Jian nodded in response and let out a breath.

Mountain city, foggy city!
In his time, the strategic position of the city was self-evident. And common sense would deduce that after a major crisis, there would be unusual deployments there.

If that place is really "timeless", then it is very likely that it is the best place for the team to obtain equipment replenishment.

Chen Jian silently updated this information on his PDA and marked it as the team's core target.

The other three members of the team all had a glimmer of anticipation in their eyes. Perhaps they were not only looking forward to the "equipment", but also
people.

What if the kind of “compatriots” they are most familiar with live there?

This somewhat unrealistic idea was suppressed by the four people at the same time, but it is undeniable that they did regard this idea as a kind of hope.
The team continued to move forward. Chen Jian thought they would have to walk non-stop for half a month.

But in fact, after four rest periods and four days and nights, and after safely killing several monsters wandering in the wild, they arrived at their first stop.

It was a village-like settlement. From its geographical location surrounded by mountains, the collapsed outer walls and outposts, and the distinctive air defense facilities inside, Chen Jian recognized the original function of the settlement at a glance.

"Barracks."

"We have been walking along the expressway. Judging from the direction, it is the Wushen Expressway."

"We walked a total of 220 kilometers. There is a large lake below, so this is near the Baizhangyuan Reservoir."

"That is to say, this base is..."

"The camp of the Second Aircraft Corps of WuJ?"

Chen Jian's tone was somewhat doubtful. Shen Yue beside him shook his head and said:
"It doesn't look like it. The scale is too small."

"But it does look like a base. No matter what, we have to go in and take a look."

"Of course I want to go."

Chen Jian nodded, looked at Xu Lie in front of him and asked:
"How many people are here?"

Xu Lie turned around and answered:

“Less than a hundred.”

“There aren’t many people here, but this is already the largest settlement nearby.”

"Moreover, this is the only way for many caravans to continue south, so the trade is quite prosperous."

"We can sell the resources we have looted to the locals in exchange for some supplies and gold and silver."

"If you're lucky, you can even find some pre-Apocalypse ammunition and bombs here - but you need enough luck."

"Where did it come from?"

Chen Jian asked sharply.

"No one knows. Perhaps the residents here dug it out from the lair of some small monster."

"Anyway, we're going to be here for two days, so you can take a good look around."

Of course you have to take a good look at it.

Chen Jian took a deep breath and nodded to his teammates.

Now he is basically certain that there must be good things hidden in this settlement.

Those ammunition could not have been brought here by merchants, because even if merchants had them, such scarce goods could not be sold to such remote areas.

So there is only one answer.

Those things must be local products.

If I'm lucky, my team's ammunition supply problem might be initially solved here.
Chen Jian's eyes lit up, and then he gave the order:

"Let's go into the city!"

(End of this chapter)