Players Please Get In the Car

On the way, Xu Huo learned that the man's name was Gao Ming. He used to be a surgeon. After his hometown was destroyed, he wandered around with some fellow villagers. He went from being a first-class resident to a second-class resident, and then from a second-class resident to a third-class resident. Not long after he started digging sewers, he lost his home again. He brought a lot of people with him, many of whom were sick. No city was willing to accept them, so they could only live in the wild.

Fortunately, this area of ​​the canyon was polluted and no one cared about it, not even mutant animals cared about it. With the knowledge he had learned during his wanderings, he and other people settled down nearby.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the place Gao Ming mentioned. The situation was better than Xu Huo had expected. Some simple wooden houses had been built in the woods and surrounded by fences. Some land nearby had been reclaimed and the vegetables planted there were growing well.

"Doctor Gao is back!" The old man who was working at the door shouted when he saw Gao Ming. Then people came out of the wooden house in twos and threes and gathered near the door to greet him.

Gao Ming handed the backpack to a teenager, "These are all poisonous, be careful when handling them."

"Leave it to me, Doctor Gao!" The young man carried the backpack with full confidence.

Gao Ming smiled and patted his shoulder. "You will be an adult soon. You will be our pillar of support in the future. You must always remember to be cautious and careful. Only by being careful can you live longer."

The boy restrained his smile and nodded seriously.

Gao Ming then introduced Xu Huo and the painter. "You two are just passing guests. I will entertain you for one night and you will leave tomorrow."

"Auntie Pan, if you can't finish the vegetables you picked, please give some to me first. You can come back for more after I harvest the vegetables in my field." He said to the old lady with glasses beside him.

The old lady touched the scar on her neck and said with a smile: "A little food is nothing. You can eat it. I can't finish it anyway. I will harvest the second batch soon."

After the evolution, ordinary people in the zone will benefit to some extent. Even in the more chaotic zones, in order to ensure a steady stream of players, they will find ways to improve the physical fitness of ordinary people so that they can give birth to stronger offspring.

The people in this village are almost all old, weak, sick and disabled. There is no sign that they have taken evolutionary agents. Similarly, they have not been eroded by genetic diseases. They are just an ordinary group of people.

However, many people had scars on their bodies, and many of them were injured in fatal areas. For example, Granny Pan had scars on her neck that covered half of her neck. Judging from the scars, she must have been seriously injured at the time. It was amazing that she was able to be rescued in an environment like Area 039.

Xu Huo looked at Gao Ming again. He was not wearing any props, and the protective suit he wore was just ordinary clothes coated with medicine. If there was any difference between him and others, it was just that he had better physical fitness, and he was not a player.

But this person's condition is not only very different from that of the people in the village, but is even much inferior to that of ordinary players. One can tell at a glance that this is a person who is energetic, full of blood, and optimistic and cheerful.

"Have a seat." Gao Ming came over with two wooden water cups. The surface of the shaking liquid reflected some light colors, and it looked like it was not cleaned properly.

"The conditions are simple, but the water is drinkable, non-toxic and clean," he explained. "It won't have any adverse effects on the human body."

The rest of the village drank the same water, and even the sour wine they brewed had a sheen on the surface.

Gao Ming sat with her for a while and then went to cook. Xu Huo went over to help and also took out some ready-made vegetables to add to the dish.

Gao Ming was very happy when he saw this, and without any pretense, he asked directly if he could invite a few children to come over to eat. "Except for Xiaohao, all the other children in the village were born while wandering around, and they have never eaten food from outside until they are seven or eight years old. Let them have a taste."

Of course Xu Huo would not object. Gao Ming asked the child who was squatting and playing near the wooden house to call for help. The child had been so greedy that he happily responded and ran away. After a while, he came with five friends, big and small.

The young boy Xiaohao was called over as well. Three adults and seven children sat around the table and started a not-so-rich dinner.

Gao Ming didn’t eat much, and with a gentle look he left the food for the children.

After the meal, the children helped to clear the table, wash the dishes, and clean the house before leaving. Xiao Hao took the processed mutant plants and followed Gao Ming to grind them to make medicine.

"…Its buds are only slightly poisonous. They can stimulate the heart to a certain extent after taking them. They can be chewed to save lives in critical situations. The rhizomes are highly poisonous. They must be sieved three times before they can be used as medicine in small quantities…" Gao Ming explained to Xiao Hao while making the medicine. Soon, these herbs were separated according to the severity of their toxicity. Some were collected for juice, some for crushed leaves, and then placed on a large shelf in the room filled with all kinds of bottles and jars.

The bottles and jars on the shelves are both new and old. Some of the ready-made medicines are labeled with what diseases or emergencies they can treat, while most of the others are marked as poisonous. There are also two large frames at the back of the shelves, which are filled with various medical books.

"Those were all given to me by friends who passed by," Gao Ming explained when he saw that Xu Huo seemed very interested. "I wrote down the source of each book. In the future, these books will be inherited by Xiao Hao. When the day comes when Area 039 is peaceful, they will be sent to the government for preservation and become a testimony to our friendship with friends from other areas."

He seemed to be just saying it casually, and then went to pack up his tools.

"Does he want to ask you for medical books?" The painter held out the communicator in front of Xu Huo.

Pushing her hand away, Xu Huo planned to find some suitable books to give away. However, at this moment, people suddenly came to the village entrance. Three players were holding a child and ran straight to Gao Ming's residence. "Doctor Gao, please take a look at the child!"

Gao Ming dropped what he was holding and ran out. The moment he saw the child, his expression changed slightly and he hurriedly took the child and brought him back into the house.

The players who came in paused for a moment when they found out that there were players from other areas in the house, but soon turned their attention to the unconscious child and Doctor Gao. One of them quickly explained the situation, "The child was shot in the heart by a razor blade. We gave him a self-healing agent, but we didn't expect that the child's body adapted too quickly, and the razor blade was stuck in the newly grown muscles, and we couldn't pull it out or move it..."

Gao Ming quickly did a basic examination, and then placed his palm on the scar on the child's chest. "The blade cut into a blood vessel. Self-healing agents are useless. Surgery is needed immediately."

This was obviously not the first time. The player who spoke quickly built a tent for them to perform the operation. Through the tent, Xu Huo saw that Gao Ming did not take any tools, but just suspended his palm above the child's heart. As his fingers moved gently, a new wound was cut on the child's chest by the force of space!