Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 521 - 261: Prey_2

Chapter 521: Chapter 261: Prey_2

Shana’s yelling finally woke Lin Wu, who first fed her a painkiller before marveling at her wound, "To endure that, impressive."

Unable to help it, Shana swore, "XX, I couldn’t get any painkillers. Don’t worry about me, while it’s fresh, start cutting the meat." The sooner you start cutting, the more meat you get.

"Oh," Lin Wu kneeled in front of the snake.

Shana kicked over, "Tiger, tiger."

"Oh, oh. Don’t kick me, my head’s all muddled now." If brain matter were jelly, then the jelly was still wobbling, and Lin Wu felt top-heavy and weak in the legs.

Pulling out his dagger and glancing at the status, Lin Wu was shocked and quickly connected, "Poisoned, need emergency medical aid."

Stone and Maya asked in unison, "You’re poisoned?"

"Yeah, got bitten twice. Starlight, save me."

Earth’s tigers have an average bite force, two bites and they didn’t kill a person but instead could poison them.

Starlight took the call, and Lin Wu’s heartbeat slowly subsided. As the attending physician, Starlight was also very shocked, "Severe poisoning."

Lin Wu said, "I told you I was poisoned. Wait a second, let me catch my breath and then I’ll start cutting the tiger."

Stone asked, "Do you still need a rescue?"

Lin Wu said, "Depends if you’ve got a stretcher."

Stone said, "All good then, everyone keep working."

Lin Wu paused the medical aid, enduring the gradually accelerating heartbeat and started cutting the meat, obtaining a complete tiger skin and ten kilograms of meat. Lin Wu immediately became so infuriated that the poison nearly reached his heart and complained straight away, "Such a big tiger and you give me just ten kilograms of meat?"

Little White Rabbit said, "If the tiger could complain, it would definitely ask why your pistol bullets can hit its head."

Lin Wu was startled, "You’ve changed." He also cut a kilogram of snake meat—complaints aside, he wouldn’t waste his own time.

Little White Rabbit said, "No, I’m just illustrating that your complaint doesn’t hold. The game bestows you with attributes and skills..."

"Goodbye" Lin Wu had already guessed what it would say; once it started talking, it wouldn’t stop for five minutes.

After Little White Rabbit buzzed off, Lin Wu continued with the medical aid, and Shana also received treatment from Emerald Feather. Before the update, Shadow was worried they would remove remote medical aid. Regarding this matter, Lin Wu filed a complaint, arguing that remote medical aid is illogical, using it to probe for Dawn’s attitude.

Little White Rabbit illustrated his complaint with an example. You fall and can’t walk in the wilderness, you connect with a doctor, and the doctor can tell you how to treat the wound. Little White Rabbit mentioned a real case. A person with no medical experience at all, under the remote guidance of a doctor, used a Sharp Blade to make an incision in the patient’s windpipe, saving a choking victim. The essence of remote medical aid is letting you, or your companion, do what a doctor could.

While in the game the role of remote medical aid is vastly amplified, its existence has a certain scientific basis. Little White Rabbit explicitly stated that after the update, they would not remove remote medical aid.

Take the current situation of Lin Wu, for instance, with zero medical knowledge, he would die quickly after being poisoned. With a doctor’s help, he could extend his time until rescue arrives.

Lin Wu’s treatment time was half an hour, while Shana’s treatment time was as long as six hours. Bored Lin Wu complained again, and Little White Rabbit explained: Shana’s bones were shattered and a piece of flesh was missing while you were merely poisoned with no physical maiming.

After finishing the detox treatment, Lin Wu stood up and stretched only to hear Shana scream, "Ah..."

"What?" Lin Wu jumped five yards away.

A thick ant appeared on Shana’s lower leg, and more ants were crawling on her body, obviously mistaking Shana for food. Shana immediately interrupted the treatment, stood up, and hopped, hoping to shake off the ants. Then came another scream as Shana tore her shoulder wound, and she fell to her knees crying bitterly, her cries filled with immense sorrow.

Lin Wu dragged Shana out, placing her in the rainwater to deal with the ants’ biting, then called Stone, "Stone, send two people to carry Shana back."

Stone connected with Shana, "Shana, do you need help?" Don’t believe a word Lin Wu says.

Shana, exhausted, said, "Please get me out of this damned place."

From these words, Stone read the severity of the situation. Shana, who always carried a sense of pride, wouldn’t say something like this unless she was mentally broken. Stone immediately arranged for Horse Soul and Little Knife to pick Shana up and tried to comfort her over the radio, providing psychological counseling.

Snakes, insects, ants, humidity—they all defeated Shana. Lin Wu didn’t play the warm-hearted guy; he didn’t stay by Shana’s side to offer comfort and company, he was waiting for Shana to calm down.

Lying in the water, squinting at the rain falling from the sky, Shana took a deep breath and asked, "I’m quite useless, aren’t I?"

Before Lin Wu could reply, Shana continued, "I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to lose my composure."

"Because of the snake?"

Shana said, "No, it’s the rain. Being all wet, every move pulls at the clothes bringing chills. I feel like I’m soaked in a movie’s water cell, surrounded by water snakes, and rats gnawing at my body. Leeches and other bugs burrowing into clothes, into my mouth and nose. You, who would have protected me, are also injured. At a time like this, I should be the one protecting you."

Lin Wu laughed and asked, "Doesn’t it feel better to talk about it?"

"Yes, I hate the rain, I hate getting drenched in it, I hate working outdoors on rainy days," Shana said. "Not just today. Since the first day of the typhoon, constantly changing wet and dry clothes has made me extremely uncomfortable." Back then, the Sawmill was flooded, and she could only stay in bed and change into dry clothes. When needing to go out, she had to change into wet clothes again, a process that made Shana very uncomfortable.