On the Seven Towers

Chapter 10: The Edge of the Round Table

"I said, I really underestimated your school and you students." Lying on the window on the second floor of the administration building, Chen Hansheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and drank a few sips of mineral water. The boys downstairs, led by military training instructors, took tools and dug rocks to save people. Girls were also organized to rescue the wounded.

Li Jia nodded. The school's disaster relief work was much faster than he expected. On the one hand, most of the school students were on the playground because of military training. On the other hand, Vice Principal Guo Qian launched the plan in time and quickly organized a rescue team.

After they ran back from the school gate, they reported everything that happened outside the school to Guo Qian, the current top leader of the school.

Li Jiaben felt that it would take a lot of effort to explain clearly to this middle-aged leader what he saw. Unexpectedly, Guo Qian neither refuted their absurdity nor looked too surprised. He only said one sentence at that time: "Let's go and have a look."

Later, he and Lieutenant Colonel Wang Jiyuan, the chief instructor of military training, took several soldiers and teachers and followed Li Jia to check around the school wall. Afterwards, he decisively posted people to guard the door and organized a patrol.

As soon as he returned to the headquarters, Guo Qian held an emergency meeting.

At the door of this conference room, Li Jia and Chen Hansheng have been waiting for nearly twenty minutes.

Li Jia looked at the closed door and couldn't help feeling a little worried. Everything was too incredible. If they hadn't brought back the body of the man he killed, he wouldn't be sure that those natives really existed.

Chen Hansheng paced back and forth, "Xiao Li, I feel so suffocated. I don't know why, but I've never felt so uneasy before."

"Me too." Li Jia turned off the screen of his mobile phone. He just opened the backgammon game, but he couldn't make a step for a long time.

"I think about it afterwards, those natives were brave enough to dare to charge up like this." Chen Hansheng said, "To be able to make so many people sacrifice their lives, that Scarface must be very prestigious. Trouble! The same natives, there are Once organized, it will be much more difficult to deal with.”

"I think we were all deceived by Scarface." Li Jia was also deeply impressed by Scarface. "The natives are ignorant. They say we have treasures, say we are devils, or use some weird excuses." ”

At this moment, they saw a girl in a white coat rushing up from the stairs. Li Jia couldn't dodge and bumped into her. Li Jia just staggered, but the thin girl stepped on Li Jia's feet and fell to the ground. She said "Oh", covered her feet and shed tears.

Li Jiaben was going to help her, but when he saw her face full of pear blossoms and rain, he panicked and his hand got stuck in the air. He didn't know what to do. Fortunately, Chen Hansheng helped her up in time and asked her how her feet were. .

"Ah!" The girl pressed her ankle gently with her hand and cried out in pain. It was obviously a sprain.

"I'm so sorry! I was distracted. Let me help you go to the hospital." Li Jia said anxiously.

Unexpectedly, the girl ignored him, but helped Chen Hansheng stand up, standing on one foot, and said to him: "Please help me to the conference room quickly."

"There's a meeting inside." Chen Hansheng replied.

"It's a matter of life and death, help me in quickly." After saying that, she jumped forward on one foot, and Lao Chen quickly helped her to the conference room.

"Hey... what to do with your foot? You need to see a doctor to take care of it." Li Jia followed her.

"I'm the doctor." She opened the conference room door without looking back.

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"Feng Yao, the leaders are having a meeting, why did you rush in like this?" A middle-aged man in a white coat with gray hair stood up in the conference room and said in a stern tone, "You were organizing rescue operations at the school hospital, how could you leave without permission? "

"Director Wang! Xiao Zhang from the pharmacy told me that some commonly used first-aid drugs are limited. But there are so many injured people, and disaster relief is like putting out fires. Why don't you use the medicines you have?" A female doctor named Feng Yao got straight to the point.

"You don't know some situations!" Dean Wang said with a dark face: "Besides, the disaster relief policy I arranged must be based on the overall situation."

"No matter how great the overall situation is, it must be implemented for every wounded person. How painful are the wounded who have medicine but cannot use it? What kind of policy is this?" Feng Yao combed her hair in a ponytail. She was young and looked a bit like a student. Especially since the tears on his face had not been wiped dry just now, he looked soft and weak, but the words he spoke at this time were very powerful.

This "tearful" accusation really shocked the dozen or so people in the room, and they suddenly became silent.

"You have no idea that we are already in a different world! There is a shortage of medical treatment and medicine here, and we must live within our means. Some people who cannot be saved cannot be treated as before. All medicine must be used on the edge of the knife!" Dean Wang's voice also became louder.

When Feng Yao heard the words "different world", she almost thought Dean Wang was crazy, but when she saw that no one else here was surprised, her heart suddenly sank: "This is not the earth?"

"No! We no longer have medicine supplies." Dean Wang replied loudly.

Feng Yao was stunned for a while, but quickly realized it. She argued: "No matter where you are, the most important thing is to treat the patient in front of you first. The medicine will always run out. We can't abandon the current situation for the sake of the future." Those who are suffering, are you keeping these medicines to save your own life?”

Dean Wang was so angry that his whole face turned red. He suddenly picked up an ashtray in front of him, slammed it on the ground, and yelled: "I, Wang Wenquan, am dedicated to serving the public. I have to be selfish in this matter. It's thundering." hack!"

"You..." Feng Yao still wanted to argue.

"Okay! Stop arguing!" A loud voice interrupted the quarrel. It was a middle-aged man sitting in the middle of the conference room. He had a square face that didn't look too old, but his hair was very gray. The young man, who gives people a mature and steady feeling, is Guo Qian, the vice president in charge of scientific research.

Guo Qian stretched out his hand and pressed it to calm down Dean Wang, and then said: "I believe that Dean Wang said that for everyone's consideration. His idea is to arrange medicines with the highest efficiency. And he can do this in this way Speaking openly and honestly on this occasion shows that he has no selfish motives.”

Guo Qian gave Feng Yao an encouraging look and said, "However, we must also face the reality faced by Dr. Feng. That is, we must not only consider the issue of drug reserves, but also consider the people's hearts. It is easy for us to control drugs. But if you really do that, what will the teachers and classmates think? To survive in this strange environment, the first thing is to be united. If everyone is separated because of the use of medicine, that would be the biggest tragedy. . There is no need to discuss this matter. Dean Wang, you should try your best to treat me later. There will be a way to reach the mountain."

Dean Wang took a deep breath and finally nodded.

Guo Qian asked Feng Yao again: "Doctor Feng, it looks like your foot is injured. Is it okay? I should have let you rest, but we have too few medical staff. If you can persist, I still hope you can return to work." Hurry up and save people.”

"It's okay, I can do it."

"I'll send two more students to go back with you. If you have difficulty moving, you can ask them to help."

"Okay. Thank you, principal." Immediately, someone came up and helped Feng Yao outside. Chen Hansheng wanted to help, but was stopped by Guo Qian: "Mr. Chen, please stay for a while. You and Li Jia come in." Well, we just want to ask you about the details of the previous conflict."

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Li Jia followed the principal's request and described the situation in detail. The audience listened attentively, and from time to time someone asked some detailed questions, and Chen Hansheng also added a few points from time to time. The situation at that time was quickly reproduced in front of everyone. But when he talked about killing a local by mistake, several exclamations sounded in the room.

"This is troublesome. As soon as we arrived here, we formed a deadly feud with the locals."

"Yes. If they come to take revenge, what will we do?"

Li Jia looked at the people talking and felt deeply uneasy. At the same time, he also felt angry in his heart: Is this the person I want to kill? Is it possible that giving up resistance is the right thing to do?

"Did you take the initiative to provoke me?" A man in his thirties wearing glasses asked with a straight face, "Well, why did he come up and beat you to death?"

"No. We just met and they rushed over. We were just resisting." Li Jia answered while holding back his anger.

"Maybe if you act more peacefully, you can avoid this kind of thing!" the man said loudly, "If we want to survive, we have to deal with the locals. You have made a very bad start."

Li Jia felt that the fire in her heart was burning in her throat, and she couldn't hold it in any longer: "People who are not at the scene are not qualified to make such a judgment, you, you..."

Chen Hansheng suddenly pressed Li Jia's shoulders and said to the man, "Brother, you haven't been in society much, have you?"

"What do you mean? I, Dr. Zhang Hong, stayed in school after graduation and have been teaching and educating people for five or six years now. Is there any problem?"

"No wonder." Chen Hansheng smiled, "You have lived in school for a long time, and you think the world is full of good kids like good students. Do you know who those people are? They can't be bandits? Robbers? In the early years, you When you encounter a robber in the mountains, why don't you just give you a hammer without saying a word? Well, the school is our hometown. If someone comes to our house with a weapon, you can't blame us for being rude. We’ve all been taught that when a jackal comes, there’s a shotgun!”

"Sophistry! Why didn't they climb up earlier or later? They climbed up when they saw you appear..."

"Teacher Zhang, there is no point in discussing these now." Guo Qian knocked on the table and said, "The situation is still unclear. The only thing we can be sure of is that half of the school, plus a group of us, came A different time and space. Then during the contact with the locals, no matter how reluctant everyone was, these things happened."

Zhang Hong stopped talking when he saw the principal talking.

Guo Qian added: "Mr. Chen and Classmate Li first found out the situation for us, which was very helpful in formulating follow-up plans in a timely manner. They also blocked the first wave of attacks from the locals, which was a great contribution. Everyone can Imagine how terrible it would be if we were suddenly attacked by a group of thugs and entered the school while we were providing disaster relief."

Such an analysis made everyone nod in agreement.

Guo Qian quickly changed the subject: "The main leaders of the school are not here, so it is up to us to take responsibility. Now that we are here, we must protect everyone and let everyone survive first. I think except for The two most important things besides disaster relief are organizing supplies and ensuring safety.”

Principal Guo was a practical person. Seeing what he said, Li Jia lost some of his anger. He did not look at the guy named Zhang Hong, but listened to the discussion carefully. According to Bai Yicheng, director of the Logistics Department, the school only has enough food to last for five or six days. If local food sources are not found, the consequences will be disastrous. Guo Qian quickly led everyone to discuss a plan. On the one hand, they tried to collect food from the wild, and on the other hand, they tried to exchange food with the locals.

"Mr. Chen, classmate Li Jia, I hope you can join the trade team organized by Comrade Bai Yicheng." Principal Guo said.

"What did you say? They have all killed their people, and you want us to exchange food?" Li Jia was a little distracted, but when he heard what Principal Guo said, he was so shocked that he almost jumped up. Is there any mistake? This is throwing yourself into a trap!

"Classmate Li Jia, the consequences of that conflict must be resolved. It is better to resolve it later than earlier. After all, you are the parties involved and you have frightened them. Maybe they are still in awe of you. This will help us deal with the matter. I I heard they had a fight just now? People died? The local productivity doesn't seem to be high. In this case, the cost of human life may not be as high as you think." Guo Qian analyzed and sat upright. The upright Wang Jiyuan said, "As for safety issues, don't worry, with Commander Wang and his soldiers here, we will never let our own people suffer."

Wang Jiyuan is tall and strong, with a serious Chinese character face, and his sharp eyes are hard to look at. He is wearing a training uniform, nodded and answered: "It's hard to say what's going on outside, but I will do my best to protect you. As for Local people, if you can convince them with your mouth, that’s better. Otherwise, use your gun.”

Guo Qian's analysis and Wang Jiyuan's assurance gave Li Jia a little confidence.

So he reluctantly accepted his fate.

Guo Qian said again: "Zhang Hong, you go too."

"Me?" Zhang Hong, who had been asking questions just now, turned pale, "Why me?"

"You are proficient in four foreign languages ​​and are an expert in language. It is up to you to try to communicate."

Deserve it! Li Jia looked at Zhang Hong, who looked uncomfortable, and felt happy and felt much more comfortable.

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