bayedsolid Chapter 40 Rescue
Chapter 40 Rescue
In the dead of night, Wen Yuxia was awakened by the rapid, drum-like sound of horses' hooves. Light as a feather, she leaped onto the treetops and darted through the woods like a ghost, galloping towards the direction from which the sound of hooves came.
Soon, she saw five men on horseback galloping ahead, desperately dodging arrows, while behind them, a group of about twenty men continued to fire arrows.
Wen Yuxia, who was counting the number of riders, suddenly cried out in alarm. The riders behind her were wearing iron armor. Oh no, those people behind her were actually the Mad Barbarians!
So she quickly ran back to her resting place and said urgently to the two villagers on night watch, "The barbarians are only ten miles away from here. Quickly wake up the village chief and the others, and flee into the mountains!"
She then returned to where her family was resting and anxiously woke them up: "Grandpa, it's dangerous here! The bandits are catching up! We need to get into the mountains quickly!"
Wang Ping hurriedly shouted, "Dazhu, quickly go and inform the village chief!"
"No need, I've already sent Uncle Li and Uncle Wang, who are on night watch, to inform them. Let's go quickly!" Wen Yuxia grabbed Wang Dazhu, who was about to turn and leave.
When disaster strikes, it is already difficult enough to protect one's family. As for the villagers of Xiaowang Village, it is already more than enough to tell them the exact location of the madman and advise them to find a place to hide in the mountains. Whether they can survive is up to fate.
Wen Yuxia hoisted Wen Yunhong onto her shoulder and leaped into the woods. Wang Ping and the others followed, running into the forest. Once inside, the Wang family members instantly split into seven or eight small groups, running in different directions.
During this time, Wen Yuxia constantly instilled the rules of escape in Wang Ping and the others: they should not hide with the main force, nor should they stay together as a family; they should hide separately to avoid being captured all at once.
Based on the family's situation, Wang Ping divided his family members into several groups, so as soon as they entered the woods, the Wang family members each went to find a hiding place.
After the Wang family left in a hurry, Village Chief Wang, with a solemn expression, led a group of villagers in close pursuit. At this moment, the people who were originally immersed in their sleep were awakened by the sudden commotion.
Seeing that the villagers of Xiaowang Village were up late at night and in a hurry, they were filled with doubt and gathered around to inquire about the situation.
Upon learning that the ruthless and fearsome madmen were so close to them, everyone turned pale with fright and panicked.
Fear instantly gripped everyone's hearts. Without thinking, they swarmed into the nearby woods.
Meanwhile, the five riders ahead decisively abandoned the flat and wide official road, instead spurring their horses up the hillside beside the road and plunging into the dense forest.
Leading the pack on horseback was a little boy who looked to be under ten years old. His small face was filled with deep remorse, and his eyes were brimming with tears, yet he continued to gallop wildly, oblivious to everything else.
At the same time, the vicious and ruthless thugs, seeing this, did not hesitate to rush up the hillside and swarm into the forest like hungry wolves pouncing on their prey.
On the other side, Wen Yuxia, who was the first to rush into the woods, used her excellent lightness skills to nimbly move through the forest.
Before long, she successfully reached the summit along the winding mountain path. Standing at the top, she looked around and finally discovered a cave entrance hidden behind vines.
She happily pulled Wen Yunhong towards the cave entrance. After confirming that there were no wild beasts or poisonous snakes inside, Wen Yuxia pushed Wen Yunhong into the cave without hesitation.
"Hong'er, you go in first, I'll cover the entrance," Wen Yuxia said as she pulled the vines on both sides of the entrance towards the middle.
Upon entering the cave, Wen Yuxia also placed a large rock into her spatial storage, intending to use it to block the cave.
Before she could even finish clearing the vines outside the cave, Wen Yuxia saw a figure—no, two figures—quickly approaching the cave entrance.
One of them pushed aside the vines at the cave entrance, stuffed the person he was carrying into the cave, and said to Wen Yuxia:
"He's injured. Please take care of him. We're not bad people. I'll lure the people away and come back for him. If I'm not here by tomorrow night, please, please save him!"
Wen Yuxia watched silently as the person outside the cave cleared away the vines and erased the traces of the cave entrance before quickly leaving.
Alas, what's meant to be will be. The person was already crammed in; what could she do? Helpless, Wen Yuxia moved the unconscious person further inside and then used a large rock from her spatial storage to completely block the entrance.
Then she took out a tinderbox and an oil lamp from her spatial storage, lit the lamp, and only then could she see clearly that the person lying on the ground was a boy not much older than her, with an arrow stuck in the boy's right shoulder.
"Hong'er, come quickly and help," Wen Yuxia said in a low voice.
Wen Yunhong took the oil lamp and watched Wen Yuxia carry the boy deeper into the cave. Curious, he asked, "Sister, why is his blood black?"
Black blood... Could this person have been poisoned by an arrow? Wen Yuxia carefully placed the person on the ground, pulled back the boy's blue outer robe, and stared blankly at the wound.
"Sister, what are you thinking about?" Wen Yunhong shook Wen Yuxia's hand, not understanding why she was staring blankly at the boy's shoulder.
In fact, Wen Yuxia wasn't spacing out; she was still searching for usable medicinal herbs in her spatial dimension. In her previous life, she was a pharmacist with a large stockpile of herbs. After transmigrating to this place, she also dug up quite a few medicinal herbs.
In her past life, Wen Yuxia would never have dared to prescribe medicine to patients without a medical license. However, under these circumstances, there was nothing she wouldn't dare to do if it meant reviving the unconscious boy.
After taking out anesthetic from his spatial storage and injecting it into the boy, he made incisions around the arrowhead with a scalpel, carefully using the scalpel to pry open the flesh and pull out the arrowhead.
Then, they forcefully squeezed out the toxic blood until the blood flowing from the boy's shoulder turned red. Only then did they take out anti-inflammatory powder, sprinkle it on the wound, and bandage it with clean white gauze.
Wen Yuxia put the basin that had collected the poisoned blood, the boy's bloodstained clothes, and the arrow with the hook into her spatial storage.
He took out a few anti-inflammatory and detoxifying pills and fed them to the boy, then sighed and said, "Whether you live or die depends on your luck."
Wen Yuxia didn't know what kind of poison the boy had been poisoned with. All she could do was help him remove the arrow and cleanse his blood. Whether she could revive him depended on the boy's luck.