Wen Wen told her that the proliferation rate of germs inside in the laboratory was a tenth of the outside.
As soon as Su Mian heard this, her round eyes lit up instantly and she felt better. She dragged Xiao Zhang and the others in to prolong the rate of virus infection.
Xiao Zhang’s condition was very bad right now and according to Su Mian’s estimation, he only had 10 hours left at most. If he was put inside the laboratory, she would have 100 hours to rescue him.
After Su Mian greeted Wu Feng, she dragged Xiao Zhang and the other two into the laboratory.
She decided to try traditional Chinese medicine. During this period, her pulse diagnosis skills had improved greatly and had reached 30 points, so now she could prepare prescriptions.
Su Mian selected a dozen or so Chinese herbs from the storage box and diagnosed Xiao Zhang’s pulse. She discovered that she was still missing two supplementary herbs.
One type was called the Fortune Eupatorium herb, worth a thousand gold1 and difficult to find. It was recorded in the books that it grew in high places on cold mountains.
The other type was called Sky Grey Grass2 which grew by warm streams.
Fortune Eupatorium herb, Sky Grey Grass, Su Mian repeated them aloud incessantly, then her eyes lit up suddenly. Before, Da Hua had given her a few stalks of grass and she had dismissed it at the time, but now that she thought about it…
She immediately took it out of the storage box and Su Mian and held onto them tightly. It turned out that they were Sky Grey Grass.
Su Mian really wanted to hug Da Hua right away and kiss her lots, except she did not have the time for that right now.
The most important thing was to find the Fortune Eupatorium herb. Right, was the place that she was right now not a cold and high mountain? Regardless of whether it was on this mountain or not, she had to try.
“What, you want to go to the mountains?” Wu Feng became anxious when he heard this. Did this girl not know how dangerous it was to do that?
“There are wolves roaming the mountains. A few days ago, our team encountered a pack during military exercise a few days ago. There were hundreds of them. If it were not for the fact that there were many soldiers carrying enough bullets, they would long ago have been eaten by the wolves.”
Su Mian was afraid of wolves. She had been chased by wolves when she was a child and had almost been killed by them.
Yet this was not a reason for her to retreat, “Instructor Wu, I know that it is dangerous. However, lives are at stake so I must try. I cannot watch these soldiers lose their lives in front of me.”
Xiao Zhang was only 19 years old and had been enlisted in the army for one year. He was in the prime of his life.
Wu Feng turned around without a word and left. He told Wei Zhen Hui about Su Mian’s thoughts. Unexpectedly, Wei Zhen Hui actually agreed to it, “I will bring a team of soldiers to protect her.”
Wu Feng was so angry that he gritted his teeth until they creaked. Su Mian was being foolish, yet Wei Zhen Hui actually did not stop her. Were they both mad?
Wei Zhen Hui disagreed with Su Jin Long going. His explanation was, “We can still cope with taking care of your sister alone, we do not have spare energy to take care of you.”
Watching as they all left, Su Jin Long was very angry as he wiped his tears, he refused to accept this! How could he be a burden even after coming to the army? He could run faster than the wolves!
Wei Zhen Hui was well equipped, bringing 90 soldiers in three teams.
The sun had come out and as it had just been snowing, the mountain roads were slippery so the team moved slowly.
Wei Zhen Hui was at the head of the team, breaking through any obstacles and Su Mian followed behind him.
Under the sunlight, Wei Zhen Hui was tall and straight and the military coat did not look oversized on him. Instead, it outlined his well-built figure with wide shoulders and narrow waist. Su Mian could not help but look at him more as she had not had such an opportunity in her previous life.
Perhaps Su Mian’s gaze was too earnest or perhaps her pace was unsteady, as she almost slipped several times.
In front of her, Wei Zhen Hui stopped abruptly and turned around, grasping her small hand with his larger one.
Both of them wore thick gloves and Wei Zhen Hui’s hand was rigid. Through the gloves, Su Mian could still feel the warmth emanating from his hand.
To Wei Zhen Hui’s surprise, Su Mian did not struggle and even tightened her grip on his hand.
Wei Zhen Hui furrowed his brows, yet remained silent. He continued walking forward and pulling Su Mian. Even he himself had not noticed that his pace had become more lively.
TN:
- Fortune Eupatorium herb is called 千金草 which when translated literally means “Thousand Gold Grass”, hence “worth a thousand gold”.
- Apologies, could not find this herb
