The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 397 - 310: The Injured
The door was kicked open by Qinghan, Mike aimed his gun inside, but the house was empty; there were no people, no beasts, and certainly no corpses.
They both retreated, and Qinghan picked up a flashlight from the ground and asked Mike if this model of strong flashlight was their standard equipment.
Mike shook his head after looking and said no, this isn’t their routine gear.
If it’s not the Kangaroo Country exploration team, then it might have been left by Miss Tang’s team.
Mike speculated that someone was suddenly attacked on the road but not seriously injured, wanting to find more house, then found the house by the road wasn’t locked, so they abandoned the house and went to find another hidden spot.
Wang Le looked at Huang Zaijiang and said he was more inclined to believe that the person didn’t have time to hide in the house before being grabbed by something.
They thought if the person had the time to choose another spot, they would have had the time to retrieve the flashlight from the ground.
But Mike disagreed with them, saying they could still use other lighting tools if the flashlight was gone, or else grope in the dark, which is safer than staying a second longer.
"You saw the speed of that thing." Mike said.
Apparently, he had locked the suspect’s identity on the shadow just now, according to him the shadow was only twice the size of a wild cat, could it have the strength to drag a person away?
Without seeing it with our own eyes, we shouldn’t speak conclusively—at least we should find the body, or a living person first.
Qinghan and they had already confirmed that the blood was human blood, even though it had dried, four hours ago, it was still warm.
There are others in this city with us, and four hours ago they were still alive.
Is he alone? This question became the driving force for our team to speed up, although Mike picked up a logbook, the information on it might need updating; if we could find a living person, we would get first-hand information.
Wang Le and their optimism was notable, thinking the flashlight was just the beginning, and we could find more clues.
It has been some days since Miss Tang and her team came in; since they stayed, they would leave traces of life.
That’s what Wang Le meant; they couldn’t possibly not eat, drink, or excrete.
Mike thought the chance of finding a survivor was very small, the tragic deaths of his teammates left a deep-seated pessimism in his mind.
But the reality was, we found a living survivor, just half an hour after finding that flashlight.
The key was that Qinghan discovered a trail of bloody footprints, leading us to the injured survivor.
And we found the survivor’s ’shelter’, a civilian house off the main road, solidly built but particularly low; besides me and Doctor Du, others had to duck to enter.
Inside the house, they couldn’t even stand up straight, and the windows were especially small, more like holes dug in the wall, or vents?
We found the injured person on a makeshift bed in the house, he had three claw marks on his shoulder, not deep but not shallow, in an outdoor setting lacking medicine, such wounds could be fatal.
When we arrived, this person was already in a high fever; Qinghan had said before that from the footprints, this person walked unsteadily, but the blood on the ground wasn’t exaggerated, it just meant this person’s body was very weak, and their steps were shaky, lacking strength.
It seems this person ventured out while feverish, not passing out halfway was fortunate. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Doctor Du took out a medical kit, cleaned the person’s wounds, did simple suturing, and then applied medicine, wrapping it with clean gauze.
Afterwards, he gave him antipyretic pills and vitamin water, Little Red watched on the side, eyes never leaving.
When Doctor Du finally finished, it quietly asked: "Doctor, could you teach me? What medicine did you use?"
Little Red is a medical robot; I find it normal for it to have interest in this area, and there’s no harm in chatting with Doctor Du.
Back at Amber Hall, I instructed it not to mention anything related to the Ancient City, including people, things, history, customs... not a word.
It fully understands the meaning of ’danger’, knowing that leaking information could invite fatal disaster. What it understands as ’fatal’ is cutting its CPU power, extinguishing its energy source.
Would robots fear death?
No, it promised to keep its identity a secret because it has the responsibility to protect the ward’s secrets. If caught, its memory might be extracted, meaning it would fail in its duty and leak secrets.
Thus, Little Red also didn’t want to reveal its true identity to more people. We agreed it would only say it was a lost tourist trapped inside Scorpion Cave when the area first started changing.
