Being called out of nowhere, Lin Tan was stunned for a moment: "You called me?"
"I'm talking about you. Don't you have healing abilities? Go and treat the wounded." Zhu Xin said in a commanding tone.
Lin Tantan found it a little funny. Who does this guy think he is
Bai Cheng frowned and was about to speak, but Lin Tantan spoke before him. She asked Zhu Xin curiously, "Who are you?"
Zhu Xin frowned, but still said proudly: "I am Zhu Xin, the commander of the Third Regiment of Ning City Garrison District, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The garrison district has been expanded into a safe base for survivors. I have been assigned the glorious mission of going out for rescue. After the mission is completed, there are more important tasks waiting for me in the base. You can call me Commander Zhu or Lieutenant Colonel Zhu."
He explained the trajectory of his life clearly in one sentence, deliberately letting these people know that he had a glorious past, he was glorious now, and when he returned to the base, an even more glorious position and future would be waiting for him. Everything was clear and natural, which was different from Ye Xiao, Bai Cheng and other unorganized outsiders.
Of course, the position and rank he mentioned were all promoted after the apocalypse. Before the apocalypse, he was just a small deputy battalion commander with the rank of captain. After the apocalypse, many of his superiors had problems, so he was naturally promoted.
His words did have some effect. When the survivors heard the words "regiment commander" and "lieutenant colonel", they felt that they were very impressive and powerful.
Zhu Xin was getting more and more proud, Lin Tan nodded, she finally understood why this guy was dancing so happily, it turned out that he was of great "status". She smiled and said: "Oh, you are the head of the group, if you don't know me, you would think you are the boss who pays my salary."
Zhu Xin's smile froze, and someone in the crowd laughed out loud. Lin Tantan also stopped laughing and said coldly, "I'm so sorry, I'm not a soldier under your command. Even if you are the division commander, you can't control me."
"You—" Zhu Xin's face darkened, "You are disrespecting the soldiers. We risked our lives to save you..."
"Stop!" Lin Tan Tan raised his hand to interrupt him. "First of all, you didn't save me. I was already in the safe zone and didn't need anyone to save me. Secondly, I didn't look down on the soldiers. You don't have to change the concept and make a big deal out of it. These soldiers risked their lives to come to Yang City for rescue. I respect them very much, but this is not a reason for you to point fingers at me."
Zhu Xin was choked. Seeing that no one around him said anything, he immediately changed his strategy and scolded: "You said so much because you don't want to save people? What time is it now? I just asked you to save a few people. If you have the ability, why don't you do it? For you, it may just be a matter of raising your hand, but for others, it means a life! You are so selfish, female comrade!"
Bai Cheng said coldly: "Zhu Xin!"
Mei Bosheng appeared out of nowhere and ran to Lin Tantan to speak for her. Lin Tantan raised her hand to hold him down. She looked straight at Zhu Xin without retreating or giving in, and sneered, "Are you trying to put pressure on me morally because you can't show off your military prestige? But you'd better save your breath. Didn't I say I won't save people? Who has seen me not saving people? Didn't I help fight the zombies just now? I'm a human, not made of steel. Can't I take a rest first? And you should understand that I save people out of humanitarian spirit, not obligation."
Lin Tantan's voice was not very loud, but it was clear and steady: "If you asked me to help with the treatment in a nice tone, I might agree immediately even if I was very tired, but you opened your mouth with a commanding tone. Do I have to see your face before I can save someone with my hard work? What gives you the right to do that?"
"Just because you're the leader?"
Zhu Xin was so angry that his face turned blue. He stared at Lin Tantan and was speechless. He turned around and pointed at Bai Cheng: "Bai Cheng, you don't even care about your people!"
Bai Cheng walked slowly to Lin Tan Tan's side and looked at Zhu Xin expressionlessly, "You are wrong. Miss Lin is not my person. She is just an ordinary citizen. Neither you nor I nor anyone else has the power to order her to do anything. Please don't use the word 'control'. And before you came, she had been doing her best to rescue the wounded without anyone urging her or asking for anything in return. The 150,000 people can testify to this, so you should reflect on your attitude."
"If someone suffers serious consequences today because they didn't get timely treatment, it's all your fault."
He said these words to Zhu Xin, and even more so to the survivors around him, to remind these people not to think that it was natural for Lin Tantan to save people just because of Zhu Xin's words.
Sure enough, some people listened to his words and showed thoughtful or worried expressions. These people escaped from the city, and some were injured. Some of the injuries could be endured and recovered on their own, but some injuries would affect their actions and even endanger their lives if not treated quickly.
The situation has become so awkward now. What if the healer gets so angry that he just gives up
Zhu Xin's face looked extremely ugly.
"Finally," Bai Cheng seemed to think it was not enough, and he curled his lips slightly and said to Zhu Xin: "In terms of military rank, you and I are equal, please pay attention to the tone you use when talking to me."
"You--" Zhu Xin clenched his fists. Seeing that he was at a disadvantage, his soldiers couldn't help but move closer, but Bai Cheng and Lin Tantan were not much behind. Mei Baisheng was the first to stand in front of Lin Tantan with a guarded look on his face. Then came Xu Qin, Xu Li and others who came over at some point, Fan Fang, Zhao Yidan and other psychics, Jiang Zhongyi and others, as well as many people who had been trained by Ye Xiao, Bai Cheng and others.
Everyone looked at Zhu Xin with a bad expression, and the pressure was undeniable.
Zhu Xin's face turned pale. At this moment he truly felt that these people had built up a considerable force in the past half month.
Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, an officer came over to try to mediate: "Everyone, if you have something to say, please talk it over nicely. Xiao Zhu, you are too harsh in your words!"
He said to Bai Cheng apologetically, "Deputy Captain Bai, I'm so sorry. Xiao Zhu was also worried about everyone, so his attitude might not be very good at the moment. I apologize to you on his behalf. And that female comrade, your last name is Lin, right? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll tell this guy later. Oh, we can't have a fight among ourselves now. Comrade Lin, if you have the healing ability, please lend a hand. We really need to unite at this time."
This person was the slightly plump officer that Lin Tantan had seen talking with Zhu Xin earlier. Although he did not say anything bad about Ye Xiao and the others at that time, Lin Tantan did not like him very much. But since the other party had said so, what else could she say? She did not want to continue to be in a stalemate like this, as there were still many things to do.
She didn't look at the other person, but said loudly to the new survivor, "I am a wood-type mutant with healing abilities. Anyone who needs treatment can come to me. But let me make it clear that my energy is limited. I can only treat three people in an hour at most, so don't come if you have minor injuries. And to prevent anyone from taking my efforts for granted, there is a fee for treatment. Crystal cores and supplies are both acceptable. The quantity is negotiable. Those in need can sign up now. If the number of people exceeds the quota, those in critical condition will be given priority."
The slightly plump officer felt a little embarrassed when he saw that she didn't even look at him. He was about to say something, but within a second after Lin Tan Tan finished speaking, many people started shouting.
"I, I'll sign up!"
"I'll go first. I'm in a hurry."
"My mother was beaten up and is coughing up blood!"
"My son's surgical wound rotted halfway through his stay in the hospital!"
"My husband is dying!" A woman's voice was particularly shrill, drowning out the voices of the others. Lin Tantan looked over and saw a woman and a man carrying a man squeezing in from outside the crowd. The man carrying the man was holding a towel in his hand, covering the left half of the injured man's face. The original color of the towel could not be seen clearly as it was completely soaked with blood. There was a lot of blood on the bodies and hands of these three people.
"How did you do that?" Lin Tan Tan frowned and walked over.
"I was driving too fast on the road and got hit in the eye by a branch." The woman cried and the man holding her carefully took the towel away for Lin Tan to see. There were several deep and shallow scars on the left face of the injured person. The most terrifying thing was that there was only a bloody hole left in the left eye socket. The entire eyeball was swept away!
The people around gasped when they saw this scene.
Lin Tantan's expression tightened slightly. The man was in bad condition too. His face was pale, he was breathing rapidly, and he looked unconscious. He couldn't even stand.
Lin Tan Tan didn't say anything else. He used a belt to hook the man's arm and said, "Follow me."
Then he took people to the room where they often treated people.
People made way for her, and many wanted to follow to watch the fun. Some people asked the people around them: "Can this be cured?"
"If there were equipment, medicine, and doctors, an immediate operation should have saved his life. Oh, and he would have needed a blood transfusion as he was clearly in shock." This was said by someone who knew the business, shaking his head, "But now... it's hard to say what his abilities are."
"Hey, can you do it?" A girl pushed the older boy next to her, and the boy shook his head: "No way for me."
He looked at Lin Tantan's vague back through the gap between people, with curiosity and surprise in his eyes. He was also a wood-type mutant, and he also had healing abilities, which were not bad, but now all he could do was stop bleeding and treat minor wounds. Was this person really that strong
"Let's go and take a look."
Compared to the surprise of these new psychics, the people in the west of the city were much calmer. Their Miss Lin was already very powerful, and they were busy fawning on her. That idiot team leader actually dared to boss her around like that. If it wasn't inappropriate now and the conditions didn't allow it, they really wanted to beat him up.
Zhu Xin was still standing there, watching a large number of people around him walk away. He also had to endure some contemptuous and mocking looks, feeling particularly embarrassed. The slightly fat officer patted him on the shoulder and said, "Alright, go back to work."
Zhu Xin sneered: "Her healing ability is amazing, but it can only heal minor injuries and bring the dead back to life? You are just pretending. Any doctor I can find is better than her!"
The slightly plump officer frowned, thinking, if you think so, why bother her? Suddenly, someone said, "Yes, it's just a minor injury. I hope you won't need her to treat minor injuries in the future!"
The two looked over and saw that the people talking were a few tall young men with immature eyes and brows. They looked like college students.
After Jiang Zhongyi finished speaking, he saw the two men coming and hurriedly called out to his companions, "Let's go, he's the regiment commander, we can't afford to offend him."
"Hey, they say any random doctor is better than Sister Lin."
"Listen to him. I just heard a doctor say that there is no way to treat that man's injury unless there are medicines, equipment, and a sterile operating table to operate on him."
"It seems that the leader has everything he needs, haha."
"Where does he get the confidence to talk nonsense with a healer? Doesn't he know that the person you can't offend the most is the doctor?"
"Anyway, when I'm playing games, I don't dare to offend the nanny."
"Hehehe..."
Zhu Xin's face turned dark, blue, and dark again, his chest kept rising and falling. The slightly fat officer sighed and didn't want to say anything to him. He was a little worried. Was that girl really that powerful? There were wood-type superpowers in the army, but I hadn't heard of how powerful they were. If this person was very strong now, then in the future... It would be unwise to offend such a person.
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Here, as soon as they entered the treatment room, Lin Tan Tan stopped irrelevant people, closed the door, asked the family members to help the injured to lie down, and said to Mingze: "Infusion."
This man had lost too much blood. Lin Tantan could heal his wounds, but blood loss could not be restored by supernatural powers.
As she spoke, she raised her hand and retracted the straps that were hooked on his hand. One strap shot directly into the injured eye socket, and the other went straight into the heart.
The wife of the injured man beside him exclaimed, and Lin Tantan explained: "This is energy, not a substantial belt. It will not cause any harm to his body. Don't worry."
When she wanted the energy to become a belt with actual effect, it was tangible, but at this time these two belts were intangible. They were just highly concentrated energy. If you look closely, they look like green beams of light.
Mingze opened the medicine box and reminded, "Family members, please raise the patient's head and feet a little higher."
He just ran to Lin Tantan halfway and took a large medicine box from Bai Cheng. When he opened it, there were many medicines inside. He immediately started to prepare crystalloid solution. He was a licensed rotating doctor and was very skilled in doing these things.
After giving the injured person an IV, he looked at him again and found that his vital signs had stabilized a lot. The symptoms of shock had disappeared. He was secretly amazed that the effect of superpowers was really great. When would he be able to reach such a level
He would be even more shocked if he could use a pair of tweezers to pry open the injured eye and see the muscle filaments and blood vessels regenerating rapidly.
The treatment lasted for fifteen minutes before Lin Tan stopped. The two family members asked her nervously how she was.
"It's not a big problem. Take good care of the wound and make sure it doesn't get infected. Eat something good to replenish your blood and you'll be fine." Lin Tan Tan said, "But the eye is gone, and no matter how powerful I am, I can't make it grow back."
"Of course, of course, as long as the person is alive, it's fine." The two men said hurriedly. Just at this moment, the injured person woke up and was able to speak. The two men were so excited that they cried and laughed.
Lin Tantan sat on a chair and watched Mingze bandage the injured man's eyes. Suddenly he said, "Remember to pay him."
"Of course I should." The male family member quickly took out a small wallet from his pocket and poured out three crystal cores. "Are these enough?" He seemed to know that it was too little. "We still have some food, a car, and two hundred thousand in savings. All of them are for you."
Lin Tan thought for a moment and asked, "What car?"
"Pickup truck, Jiangling Yuhu, bought for more than 150,000 yuan, still very new!"
Lin Tantan didn't know what the Jiangling Yuhu was, but when she heard it was over 150,000, it should be okay. She said, "Then take this car, and keep the others for yourselves. You are the first customers, so I will give you a discount. Come to me again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and I will treat him twice more."
Lin Tan Tan didn't need such a car because she couldn't drive it herself, but since she had already charged a fee, she would charge a high price. If the price was set too low at the beginning, it would be hard to say what would happen later. After all, the person was really in danger just now and this was life-saving money.
To be honest, exchanging a car for a life is nothing, but Lin Tantan didn't intend to take it too seriously. Besides, the attitudes of these two people made Lin Tantan feel quite comfortable.
Hearing that Lin Tantan also provided after-sales service, they were both very happy and thanked him repeatedly. Lin Tantan stood up, opened the door, and said to the outside: "Who's next?"
A group of people were waiting outside, making quite a lot of noise, but everything fell silent once the door opened. It was especially so when they saw the man who had almost died a moment ago now had a snow-white gauze on his face, an IV in his arm, and was supported by someone to walk out. He looked in good spirits. The two family members were so happy that they cried and were stunned.
Those who didn't believe it could be cured were confused.
“You’re really good!”
Some people looked at their watches and said, "What a short time it has been, my goodness."
Then those who were originally skeptical started clamoring to move to the front row.
However, Bai Cheng was in charge in front of the treatment room. He knew a little bit about medicine and could tell the severity of the patients by looking at their conditions. He didn't want to jump the queue easily. He selected the three most seriously ill patients and explained their conditions to Lin Tantan. Then he asked Lin Tantan, "These are the most seriously ill. Can you handle them? The next batch of people will arrive soon. If there are so many of them in each batch, will it be too hard?"
Lin Tan Tan looked at the sky. It was already dark. She said, "It's okay. It's just for tonight." She had already said it and couldn't take it back. Besides, it wasn't really hard. It was something she was used to doing. Besides, she had only queued three people for an hour, so she still had some time to rest.
And she had her own considerations. She had actually lowered her treatment level before and did not behave too excessively. But Zhu Xin was still the first one to target her. Whether he was targeting her or simply wanted to find someone to establish his authority, it was enough to prove that she was too eye-catching.
Since hiding one's weakness is useless, there is no point in hiding it anymore. Just make yourself so strong that no one dares to offend you easily. At least, people like Zhu Xin should be left alone.
In fact, when she chose to be a dual-system mutant, she should have had this awareness.
Bai Cheng looked at her and said nothing more.
Lin Tan Tan continued her treatment.
Groups of people arrived, each group had thousands or tens of thousands of people, and there were always a few seriously injured among them. Anyway, Lin Tan Tan only treated three people an hour, and the medical team in the west of the city was also working. It seemed that they were infected by them, and the doctors and people with healing abilities who came later also began to help.
Of course, it's all paid work.
Groups of people arrived outside, and they were organized to kill zombies again and again. It was busy and noisy everywhere, but the treatment room was working in an orderly manner. The injured and their families were praying, expecting, nervous, excited, and grateful. It was unexpectedly harmonious.
Ye Xiao didn't come back until after nine o'clock in the evening, and he brought back a large group of people.
"I thought you would choose the second plan." Bai Cheng said. Ye Xiao's team was going to a far place, which was inevitable. Yang City was not small, and there were always places that could not be visited in one day. The second plan was that if they could not get back in time, they would take the highway from the east of Yang City, and then meet up with the main force on the road.
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "There are too many variables if we go from the east. I'm a little worried about this side." He could not hide his fatigue on his face. He had been on high alert all day. Moreover, because they were traveling at night, those zombies were not to be trifled with. He released his superpowers countless times. Even a strong man could not hold on any longer.
Bai Cheng raised his eyebrows slightly. Everything was arranged well here. What was there to worry about? The one who was worried was that person. It was obvious that this person was worried and concerned, which was different.
He did not tease, but recounted what happened in the evening.
The more Ye Xiao listened, the darker his face became. He took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart: "Let's talk?"
"In the treatment room for several hours, and he hasn't come out yet."
Ye Xiao strode towards the treatment room.
There were people guarding outside the treatment rooms to maintain order, especially the room where Lin Tan was staying. Outsiders were not allowed to get close. Ye Xiao waved his hand and told those people not to bother him. He came to the door, which was not closed tightly, and it opened with a slight push.
He saw Lin Tantan standing in front of the narrow treatment bed, with her head slightly lowered, her palm suspended a few centimeters above a person's chest, and a bright green light fell from her palm onto the person's chest.
The little girl's eyelashes drooped slightly and her lips were slightly pursed. I don't know if it was because her face was facing away from the light, but her expression was calm but also a little indifferent. It was very different from her usual self. There was a kind of solemnity that made people dare not approach her easily.
As if she noticed someone looking at her, she turned around and saw who it was. A huge smile immediately broke out on that face, and the pair of eyes that were so cold and indifferent a moment ago also curved up and became bright.
The voice was also full of joy: "Ye Xiao, you are back!"
Ye Xiao's chest seemed to be filled up all of a sudden.
The author has something to say: Ye Xiao: Look, she is so cold to others, but she smiles so happily when she sees me. She must like me very much. I won’t accept any rebuttal!
Yesterday I said that I would bring back midnight snack today, so I kept writing and writing, and finally I finished writing it back. Phew, here’s the big fat chapter!