City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1545 - 1544: Bitten by a Viper

The old grandmother knows more about the village situation than most people; after all, she’s lived here since she was a child.

Now, when she talks about this matter with Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Ma Wenwen, she stands up and points outside, to the area where Ye Qiu took Zhou Wenting earlier in the morning.

"All those places used to be inhabited, all stone houses. But, over the years, no one maintained them, they all collapsed, and then trees were planted there."

Now when Ma Wenwen looks over, she only sees trees and bamboo groves, not any houses.

"And over here, from the village entrance to the end, it was all houses, now all gone too."

This made Zhou Wenting and Ma Wenwen look over in shock.

This snake-like winding village, from the entrance to the end, at least eight to nine hundred meters long, was all once houses, with many people living here.

"Grandmother, was there a landlord in the village before?"

Ye Qiu asked.

"Ye Qiu, there’s no farmland here, how could there be a landlord?"

Zhou Wenting asked curiously.

"There was a landlord, who even built the largest stone house in our village, near the village committee, but it was later torn down."

So there really was a landlord!

This place has more mountains and less flat land; it’s mainly mountain fields. Of course, this landlord wasn’t just the landlord of this village; he owned lands in the surrounding areas too.

"In the past, the mountains were all used for growing tea, and these tea plantations all belonged to the landlord. Apart from the Miao people, everyone else was just ordinary farmers," the old grandmother said.

This made Zhou Wenting and Ma Wenwen even more surprised and curious about this place, especially Ma Wenwen, who didn’t know why she was increasingly interested in it.

Moreover, she felt that this wasn’t just related to the outbreak of that epidemic, but possibly connected to other matters. She wanted to investigate everything clearly and then write a long novel based on the situation here, believing it would be excellent.

At this moment, the first group of researchers, including several university medical experts, were investigating the mountains, primarily to find the source of this infectious disease.

These days, they were inspecting the mountains, investigating the first villager’s infection, the area where cattle were grazed, and the place where the cow died from the infectious disease.

Unexpectedly, the area was dominated by trees and forests, with no roads except for the small paths used by villagers to graze cattle.

Researchers from multiple medical institutions in the Southwest had been investigating the source of the infectious disease for almost a month without any findings.

But today, Professor Zhang Yilin, in his forties, led the researchers and experts to a place on the mountain with a lot of grass and especially a lot of cow dung. They thought this was a spot where the village’s livestock, mainly cows and sheep, gathered the most, and suspected the issue might be here.

While Professor Zhang Yilin was investigating, he unexpectedly got bitten on the inner thigh by a venomous snake, and he cried out in pain.

"Venomous snake, it’s a venomous snake!"

The other researchers and experts initially thought the infectious disease source was the venomous snake mentioned, but Professor Zhang said, "I just got bitten by a venomous snake."

The other researchers and experts rushed over to find Professor Zhang Yilin sitting limply on the ground, bleeding profusely from his ankle with three fang marks.

Now Zhang Yilin felt dizzy, and as the wound blackened, other researchers recognized it might be due to venomous snakes emerging at the turn of spring and summer, as Professor Zhang had been bitten by a venomous viper.

"Professor Zhang, how are you?"

"Very dizzy," said two young male experts, quickly supporting Professor Zhang downhill.

There was nothing on the mountain, and they hadn’t expected to encounter a venomous snake. The other experts and researchers followed them off the mountain.

But they marked the location temporarily. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Seeing Zhang Yilin’s worsening condition, a young male expert swiftly carried him downhill.

Here, they certainly didn’t have anti-snake venom serum; the city hospital in Guiyang had it, but getting out would take a long time. Considering Professor Zhang’s condition, they weren’t sure if he could hold on.

The most critical issue was the lack of signal; they couldn’t make phone calls.

With the young expert urgently carrying Zhang Yilin, followed by other researchers down the mountain, it took about an hour to reach the base, only to see Zhang Yilin’s condition getting worse.

Some medical staff attending to other patients noticed the unusual situation with Zhang Yilin’s group and asked, "Why are you down here?"

"Professor Zhang was bitten by a venomous snake on his heel on the mountain’s grass. Quick, check if there’s any effective medicine here."

"I’ll go find Director Wei."

When Director Wei, resting, heard that Professor Zhang had been bitten by a venomous snake on the mountain, he immediately became alert, knowing that villagers occasionally got bitten by venomous snakes and were sent to the county hospital for treatment.

However, the county hospital didn’t have anti-snake venom serum; it had to be sent to the big hospital in Guiyang, or they needed to get serum from there.

"Was it a bite from a venomous snake?"

"Possibly a viper. It was under the rocks on the grassland. When Professor Zhang was examining the cow dung, he got bitten without noticing."

Vipers are highly venomous, like the five-step snake, bamboo pit vipers, and hundred-step snakes.

Originally, there was a snake catcher in the village who could make some snake medicine himself, but he had contracted the disease and died recently.

"I’ll check if that villager’s family has any snake medicine," Director Wei said.

While Director Wei went to find the villager’s family, Zhang Yilin’s condition worsened. The other side was ready to notify the military to send someone to transport Professor Zhang out as soon as possible.

At this time, Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Ma Wenwen were still chatting with the old grandmother on the mountain when they saw a doctor from Jinling Chinese Medicine Hospital approach and say, "Doctor Ye, Professor Zhang was bitten by a venomous snake while searching for the infectious disease source on the mountain, and his condition is severe. Can you treat him?"

Bitten by a venomous snake?

Ye Qiu didn’t expect such an incident to occur, but the old grandmother said, "There are many venomous snakes on this mountain; it’s best not to go up there."

In the Southwest areas, since ancient times, there have been many venomous animals, and now, as the weather warms, these dangerous creatures appear.

It’s quite common for venomous snakes to exist here.

"What kind of venomous snake?"

"I heard it’s a triangular viper, blending in with the rocks in color. Professor Zhang didn’t notice it and got bitten on the heel. There’s no anti-venom serum here and no other snakebite treatment. If we were to send him out, he might not survive."