Chapter 67: Healing Wounds

The preparations of the Dornick Garrison Army were quite good. Three military medics carrying small wooden boxes rushed out from the crowd of soldiers. Baron Milo personally knocked on the door of a nearby house. Lin Qi and Enzo were taken into the hall of this house. Some important figures from Dornick Port, who heard the news, also squeezed into the house. They filled the first-floor hall completely.

The three medics quickly placed Lin Qi and Enzo onto a long wooden table. They skillfully cut open their clothes with small knives, exposing their wounds. Exclamations of shock immediately arose around them. This family had three daughters who had just come of age. As soon as these three young girls, who were already pure and lovely, saw the terrible wounds on Lin Qi and Enzo, they fainted and fell backward.

Of course, it could also be that they were seeing a man’s naked body for the first time, and the strong shock made them faint. After all, the young ladies of the Western Continent were often frail. Any disturbance from the outside could magically make them faint.

A few soldiers nearby were quick-witted. They rushed over and helped the master of the house carry the three pretty girls back to their bedrooms.

This was just a small incident. At most, it would become a topic of conversation for the important people of Dornick during their leisure time in the next few days—such as whether these soldiers would develop feelings beyond friendship with the three lovely young ladies. But soon, everyone’s attention was drawn to Lin Qi and Enzo.

Lin Qi’s body was slightly plump, but a faint outline of two or three abdominal muscles could still be seen on his belly. Enzo, having undergone intense training at the Army Academy for years, had a body leaner and stronger than a leopard’s. His muscles were clearly defined, shining with a bronze glow under the light.

Yet these two youthful bodies had been brutally slashed to pieces.

Lin Qi had slightly fewer wounds. A careful count showed only twenty-three. But Enzo, after all, was not Blackbeard’s own son. Blackbeard had gotten a bit carried away while adding wounds to Enzo, and he ended up cutting thirty-seven deep sword injuries on Enzo’s body. On Enzo’s thighs, there were two pierced wounds, clearly made by a rapier.

When the three medics saw the two rapier wounds on Enzo’s thighs, they could not help but exclaim. It was too close, too dangerous. Just a little more, and the rapier would have torn Enzo’s femoral artery. Given the medical level of the Western Continent, if there were no life-saving potions made by a Master of Secret Medicine, a ruptured femoral artery would be a fatal injury.

After all, Enzo was not his own son, so Blackbeard dared to strike harder. He would never dare do such a thing to Lin Qi.

“God, it must have been those beasts from the north! Only those beasts would do something so cruel! God, punish those damned beasts! Strike them with lightning and turn them to ashes!” Baron Milo looked at Lin Qi and Enzo’s horribly wounded bodies and cursed furiously at the sky.

As the so-called “beasts from the north,” Blackbeard Old Man felt no guilt. He nodded repeatedly and roared, “If I ever catch those damned scoundrels, I will cut them into pieces inch by inch and use their flesh as bait for shark fishing! How could these cruel butchers treat two brave, fearless young men—who are full of love and a sense of responsibility for the people of our homeland—like this!”

The three medics skillfully cleaned Lin Qi and Enzo’s wounds with strong liquor. As the liquor splashed over their bodies, the two, who were feigning unconsciousness, trembled with pain. Enzo, used to suffering from his time at the academy, could still endure it without making a sound. But Lin Qi almost lost control and nearly burst out crying.

In particular, Lin Qi’s bladder felt swollen. The pain almost made him urinate in public.

To avoid becoming a laughingstock in Dornick’s high society for the next thirty years, Lin Qi clenched his teeth and held back the urge to urinate.

However, when the three medics applied the military’s special wound medicine to their injuries and tightly bandaged them, Lin Qi could no longer hold back and started howling. Damn it, Lin Qi thought the officials in the Imperial Military Ministry’s logistics department must have embezzled a lot of money. Because when this medicine was poured into the wounds, it felt like a fire was burning fiercely inside, with countless little knives slashing around. It made Lin Qi’s pain intensify more than tenfold!

Lin Qi opened his mouth wide, his eyes bulging as he screamed. The three medics laughed heartily and said, “Aha, this lad’s yelling is full of energy! If he can still yell like that, it looks like he won’t die!”

Lin Qi’s cries were exceptionally loud. Anyone could tell he still had plenty of vitality. Although he was severely injured, his life was not in danger. But Enzo’s situation was strange. Enzo was still “unconscious.” Even when the powder was sprinkled into his wounds and all his muscles tensed up, he still did not make a sound.

The three medics acted together. They slapped Enzo’s face repeatedly while shouting, “Hey, wake up, wake up! You mustn’t fall asleep! Stay alert, brother, stay alert!”

Enzo was left in a sorry state from the slapping. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and also began to scream.

The three medics laughed together and nodded with satisfaction. “It worked! The old veterans said that on the battlefield, if a soldier who has lost too much blood falls unconscious, you must wake them up. Otherwise, they might die in their sleep!”

They proudly boasted to Lieutenant Colonel Woto, “This is our secret method. Slapping unconscious soldiers awake increases their chances of survival by at least double!”

Lieutenant Colonel Woto nodded thoughtfully. So there was such a method? He immediately expanded on the idea. “Then, I have an even better way to wake them up! Using a red-hot iron to burn their heels—unless they’re dead, they’ll wake up quickly, right?”

The three medics looked at each other as if they had just realized something. Yes, a red-hot iron on the heel—unless they were dead, they would surely wake up. They looked at Lin Qi and Enzo, who were now yelling loudly, and shook their heads regretfully. These two were already awake, so they couldn’t test the red-hot iron on them. But no matter, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future!

Lin Qi, writhing in pain, howled for a long time before the unbearable agony in his wounds finally subsided. Weakly, he looked toward the one who had caused all this—his dear father. Two streams of hot tears rolled down his cheeks. In a trembling voice, he asked, “Father, those damned Beastfolk… did they escape?”

Baron Milo and the many important figures of Dornick present burst into thunderous applause. The clapping nearly lifted the roof.

It was so touching, so moving! What outstanding young men they were—truly moral role models for the youth of the Empire! They had just awoken from the brink of death, yet they were not concerned about their own injuries, but about those damned invaders!

How touching