Chapter 38 Saving People [Monday asks for recommendation tickets]
"What happened?" Just as Wu Yili began to feel increasing pain in her buttock wound, a numbness spreading from the wound and even a slight dizziness and chest tightness, her heart growing more and more panicked, a voice suddenly sounded behind her.
"I've been bitten by a snake!" Upon hearing the voice behind her, Wu Yili, like a drowning person grasping at straws, quickly turned her head to look.
However, upon looking, Wu Yili couldn't help but feel deeply disappointed because it was just a young boy.
"Bitten by a snake in the buttocks? Let me see," Ge Dongxu's gaze was sharp, and he immediately noticed Wu Yili's hand pressing on her buttocks, where a faint bloodstain was visible on her beige pants just below where her hand was.
"No, is there any adult around? If not, please hurry along the road to Baiyun Mountain Resort and call for help. Do you know Baiyun Mountain Resort?" Wu Yili, seeing that Ge Dongxu was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy and a male, didn't think much before blurting out when she saw him staring at her buttocks and offering to help.
"The area where the snake bit you is already swelling up. If it's not treated immediately, it won't be fatal, but the muscle around the bite will likely atrophy and die. Baiyun Mountain Resort is several miles away from here, I can get there quickly, but their back and forth won't be that fast. I'm a local, and I can usually handle wounds from poisonous snakes," Ge Dongxu, though still not of age, was already sixteen and knew the differences between men and women. He slightly frowned and then looked up at Wu Yili.
If it were anywhere else, Ge Dongxu wouldn't have wasted words and would have just treated her. But on the buttocks, he obviously needed to pull down the pants, and some places that shouldn't be seen could not be avoided. Moreover, this woman, clearly a city dweller, was both beautiful and had an air of elegance. Without her permission, Ge Dongxu dared not take off her pants.
Upon hearing this, Wu Yili glanced at the winding mountain road leading to the front mountain, a thoughtful look flashed in her eyes, knowing Ge Dongxu was right. She had walked a good half hour from Baiyun Mountain Resort along the mountain road earlier that morning to get here. Going back and forth would indeed take a significant amount of time. And now her buttocks were already numbing, even spreading to her thighs. Without immediate treatment, it might not be fatal, but as the young man said, the bitten area's muscles could atrophy and die.
Thinking about having a large, ugly pit of flesh on her body sent a shiver of fear through Wu Yili. She quickly redirected her gaze back to Ge Dongxu.
Looking at him now, she noticed the medicine basket on his back and saw his clear, calm eyes, which increased her trust in him.
"Then take a look, and if you can't manage, please hurry to Baiyun Mountain Resort and call for help." Wu Yili was a decisive and strong woman in handling matters. Since she felt trust in Ge Dongxu, she no longer delayed and wasted no time.
"This, this will require you to pull down your pants," Ge Dongxu said, seeing Wu Yili really wanted his help to treat the snake bite. Looking at her, his clear eyes showed a ripple, and his youthful, honest face also turned slightly red and flushed.
Seeing Ge Dongxu falter in his words and noticing his face turning red, Wu Yili couldn't help her face from blushing too, and her heart rate slightly increased.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Illness should not be hidden from a doctor, and after all, he was still just a child—what was there to be ashamed of?
Wu Yili repeated these words to herself twice internally, gradually restoring her complexion to normal, then she pulled down her outer pants to her knees.
Seeing this, Ge Dongxu's face instantly turned completely red.
However, Ge Dongxu was, after all, a straightforward and simple young man. He soon felt a twinge of guilt and quickly shifted his gaze to the part of Wu Yili that had been bitten by the snake.
The wound had stopped bleeding and had turned purple-black, surrounded by swelling and blisters, blood blisters included.
"You were bitten by a cobra," Ge Dongxu said gravely, his face showing the calm composure of an adult.
"It must be a cobra; I saw that the snake's head was triangular. What about now? Do you have a solution?" Ge Dongxu's words and his displayed maturity gave Wu Yili an illusion for a moment. It was as if the man before her was not a youth, but a composed adult, adding a bit more confidence in her gaze towards him.
"If it had been later, you would inevitably have some scarring, but now it's not a problem," Ge Dongxu replied.
"Really?" Wu Yili asked with unconscious delight, noticeably relieved.
She had indeed been worried about being left with an ugly scar.
"No problem, just bear with the pain for a bit," Ge Dongxu confidently replied.
"Do you need to cut open the wound to let the blood out?" Wu Yili asked, turning slightly pale.
Being an overseas-educated scholar and a university professor, Wu Yili was well versed in many fields and knew quite a bit about general knowledge. She knew some methods on how to deal with snake bites. If the bite had been elsewhere, she would have quickly found a way to tie a band near the heart to prevent the venom from spreading, but since it was on her buttock, she did not know how to deal with it and simply pressed on it to prevent the poison from spreading upwards. Therefore, when Ge Dongxu told her to bear with the pain, she immediately thought that Ge Dongxu was going to cut open the wound to let blood out.
"If that were the case, you would still end up with some scars, plus I don't have a knife!" Ge Dongxu shook his head.
As he spoke, his thumb and forefinger were already pressing on the upper part of Wu Yili's buttocks, and he pushed down along the way.
Wu Yili saw Ge Dongxu pressing directly on her upper buttocks with his fingers. She had wanted to speak up to stop him, but when she saw the black blood slowly oozing out of two small holes, and the swelling around them gradually subsiding, the numbness in her buttocks and thighs gradually returning to normal, she obediently closed her mouth, her beautiful eyes looking up at Ge Dongxu involuntarily.
Seeing him focused intently on the area below, with his eyes serious and concentrated, and a few drops of sweat on his brows seemingly unnoticed, she felt a warmth in her heart and couldn't help but reach up to gently wipe the sweat from his brows and forehead.
"Thank you!" While Wu Yili was thinking of wiping more, Ge Dongxu suddenly looked up and gave her a smile, revealing a row of white, neat teeth. His smile was genuine and simple, his eyes dark and clear, giving Wu Yili a moment when her heart felt like it had been fiercely struck by something, leaving her somewhat lost.
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