After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 497

Back to the main activity in the clinic, the trio of bloodied young men were treated quickly by the doctors there. They didn’t have EMTs and there was no stretcher so when they were transferred there, everyone had to make do with several people carrying the young men to minimize the movements.

The worst of them all was Tacky, a curly-haired blonde. His body was now filled with bandages and he looked incredibly pitiful. He also had a cast on his arm made of wood and wrapped with some rough bandage they made from the leaves of some plants doused with some ointments Vanessa sent.

It was very inconvenient and had limited effectivity, but it was much better than just covering it up with leftover cloth.

Next to him were his very injured friends, Juan, who had very short hair but had a tiny tail-hair behind his head. He mostly had bandages from minor wounds and he also needed a stitch on the side of his head.

And there was Baka, a pale-skinned brunette with one hand. Fortunately, his other hand remained attached in this ordeal otherwise it’d be a real tragedy.

At first, one would think they were injured from a hunting accident. Judging from their faces it seemed that there was more to this story.

They happened to be acquaintances of one of the doctors there—Dr. Lu—and he knew this because he was quite familiar with their usual personalities.

Dr. Lu looked at his neighbors who looked at their poor states in pity.

They were a group of friends who had transferred all the way from Terran. He heard they were a group of 10 when this all started, and there were only 3 of them left now.

He had known them as lively young men, and they were very friendly to him as well. Occasionally, they would send him excess from the meat they captured, saying it’d just go bad. However, Dr. Lu still knew there was no lack of a market to sell these things. He never embarrassed them by pointing this out, of course, though he silently swore to help them when he could.

So when they arrived here, he led their treatment himself.

Another reason he remembered them well was because, despite all the suffering, they always found something to laugh about.

For instance, when one of them—Baka, was his name—lost an arm, after the initial mourning, they could make jokes about it. Baka himself would joke and do a one-hand stand, saying he was a tree trunk. He would also say that he’d make a bionic arm one day.

Now though, there was little to no sign of that optimism.

They were already awake at this time. They had no anesthesia and no one would be able to sleep peacefully with those wounds for a long time.

Dr. Lu heaved a sigh as he looked at the boys. "What happened to you?" he asked and the boys’ faces turned even darker at the question.

"GRRR—Those bastards!!" Tacky cursed outright. If he could move his arm, he had no doubt loudly hit a surface by now. "How could they!"

Seeing as Tacky couldn’t answer properly, it was Baka who did it for him. "We say his sister today."

"Sister?" The doctor blinked. He didn’t remember any of the trio had family members in the territory.

"She was captured as a slave," Juan added, eyes twitching a bit from the pain of the stitches. "They were using her as bait!" What made everything worse was that the men were stronger than the monsters, they didn’t even need bait!