Chapter 2623
As the rain gradually let up, the quarantine zone inside the wooden walls began to take shape.
Grace trudged through ankle-deep mud between the makeshift shacks. Her white skirt was long soaked in blood, and she didn’t bother wiping the herbal residue from the corners of her lips.
Holding a silver needle, she pricked a child’s blackened fingertip, squeezed out half a bowl of foul-smelling black blood, and quickly poured warm medicine into the child’s parched mouth.
“The third row of shacks still needs ten stretchers!”
She shouted, her voice hoarse and grating from nonstop yelling.
Not far off, golden light from Logan’s hands seared the festering wounds of a patient. Threads of gold light snaked through flesh, burning away squirming maggots. The old man being treated trembled in agony, but he clamped down on a stick, refusing to utter a sound. He saw the sweat pouring from the forehead of the white-robed immortal—hotter than his own blood.
The medical team moved faster and more precisely. Some guided wormwood smoke through clay pipes into cellars, purging foul air; others pried open the jaws of unconscious patients with bamboo sticks, feeding them honey-paste bit by bit; some knelt in the mud performing chest compressions on frozen children until weak breaths finally returned.
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