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【Transition: that night】
After bringing back supplies from the clinic, Lin Shuang slept for less than three hours.
Su Lin practiced her knife against the wall, stopping to rub her left leg after every few stabs.Lin Shuang slept lightly with half-closed eyes, the stone ax lying across his legs, and the system scanned the surrounding area every half hour.The first half of the night was uneventful, except for the occasional faint sound of a giant rat crawling outside the vent.
1. High fever
At two o'clock in the morning, Lin Shuang suddenly had a high fever.
It was not an ordinary low-temperature heat, it was a burning heat that spread from the bones to the outside. The whole figure was roasted on the charcoal fire.His forehead was horribly hot, his lips were chapped and bleeding, his breathing was heavy and hot, and every breath he took out was filled with heat waves.
Su Lin didn’t have a thermometer, so she raised her hand and put the back of her hand on Lin Shuang’s forehead, and then compared her own body temperature.The huge temperature difference requires no numerical proof.
"The wound infection has spread." Su Lin lowered her voice, unable to hide the panic in her heart, "Green pus gushed out from the suture, and the smell was rancid. It is an infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Aminoglycoside antibiotics must be used, and if it continues - "
"I understand." Lin Shuang reluctantly opened her eyelashes, her voice hoarse like sandpaper, "I can last for one day at most."
She has already asked the system to scan her status.
【Host status】
Radiation value: 0.9Gy (mild radiation sickness)
Left arm wound: spread of infection (Pseudomonas aeruginosa)
Body temperature: 40.2°C
Estimated organ failure time: 36-48 hours
"The system searches for the location of antibiotics nearby."
"There is no antibiotic signal in the current range. It is recommended to expand the search. The host has high fever and is weak and is not suitable for action. It is recommended to entrust a companion to go out and search."
Entrust a companion.
Lin Shuang looked sideways at Su Lin beside her. She was twisting a cold water cloth and gently applying it to her forehead.
Su Lin’s face was equally haggard, her left leg was broken and every step was painful, her body was covered in bruises, and her eyes were bloodshot.But she didn't complain, didn't flinch, and didn't ask why she wanted to take the risk to help.
Lin Shuang propped up her weak body and took out the hand-drawn camp layout map and spread it out - it was collected from the corpses of the looters last night. It was scrawled with a ballpoint pen, but it marked the overall view of the camp and information about tomorrow's market transactions.The fingertips were trembling slightly due to the high fever, but they still accurately circled three places where antibiotics might be hidden.
"The first place is the Hammer Gang's medical tent. It has the most medicines and the highest risks. It's three kilometers away."
"The second place is Dakeng Market. There will be transactions at noon tomorrow. You may be able to exchange for medicines. The risk is medium. "
"The third location is a pre-war pharmaceutical factory. The furthest distance is about ten kilometers. The risk is unknown, but if there is inventory, the reserve is the largest."
Su Lin stared at the map, was silent for a few seconds, and said firmly: "I'll go."
Lin Shuang raised his eyes to look at her. There was no emotion in his eyes, only calm assessment.
"The bones in your left leg are broken and you can't survive the three-kilometer journey. You've never killed anyone before. You bumped into a predator halfway and you have no way to protect yourself."
“Are you just going to stay here and wait for death?”
Lin Shuang said no more, took out three seized machetes from his backpack, picked out the lightest and sharpest one, wrapped a cloth strip around the handle, and handed it to Su Lin.
"Here you go with the machete. Keep the dagger close by as a backup." The broken-point dagger on Su Lin's waist was the one Lin Shuang gave her last night, and the blade had a gap as big as a grain of rice.
"This is a handy dagger. When you encounter a stranger, don't hesitate, don't make a sound, just strike directly. Focus on the neck, wrists, and knees. Remember, this is not a fight, it's about cutting off the person who wants to take your life."
Su Lin took the machete and held it tightly together with the broken-point dagger behind her waist.The cold light of the blade reflected her pale and thin face - the dagger in her left hand defended herself, and the machete in her right hand opened the way. This was the combination Lin Shuang taught her.
"I'm going to look for medicine." Su Lin put the machete behind her waist and picked up a steel pipe to use as a crutch. "Give me eight hours. If you don't come back within eight hours, you have to find a way to survive on your own."
In the wasteland, promises are the cheapest.Lin Shuang didn't say "I'll wait for you to come back." She just silently handed over the pot of river water captured by the looters, and stuffed the last two compressed biscuits into her pocket - the half-pack left after eating in Chapter 3 was now bottomed out.Then he closed his eyes and rested, saying no more words.
Su Lin pushed open the basement barrier and got out sideways.
The sky is still dark before dawn, gray and black clouds are pressing down on the surrounding areas, and the cold wind blows the fine sand and cuts it on the face.She took a deep breath of cold air, limped, and disappeared into the depths of the ruins.
The basement returned to dead silence.
Lin Shuang slowly opened his eyes and looked at the gray cement roof above his head.
"System, if she dies, how will my survival probability change?"
"The host's emotions do not affect physiological indicators. According to the human psychological model, there is a high probability that survivor guilt will occur and reduce decision-making efficiency."
"I don't need efficiency." She whispered in a voice as light as a whisper, "Just remember that I owe her a life. In this wasteland, debts of gratitude must be repaid."
She struggled to sit up against the wall, took out the map and the painkillers she found at the clinic, and swallowed two.Acetaminophen can only reduce fever, but cannot suppress deep-seated infections.I took another sip of the seized river water. It tasted strange and turbid. The system indicated that it contained heavy metals and radioactive dust, making it impossible to drink for a long time.
At this moment, she urgently needed a drop of clean water.
During my military career, I learned the standard field water purification process: sedimentation, filtration, and boiling.But now there is a lack of pots, fuel, and professional filter materials, so we can only use local materials.
Inventory of existing supplies:
2 glass bottles, some scrap cloth, gravel, sand and soil are available everywhere, no iron buckets, no plastic pipes, no charcoal.
In a flash of thought, she finalized a plan in her mind: a homemade solar still.
Without fuel or heat source, using sunlight to evaporate water and condense the water vapor into pure water to isolate salt and radiation impurities is the only feasible method at the moment.
"System, how many survival points are needed to redeem the elementary water purifier blueprint?"
"50 points are needed. The current host has 45 points, and there are still 5 points left."
"How to get it quickly?"
“Making simple survival tools +5 points; discovering new resource points +5 points; disposing of corpses properly to avoid diseases +3 points.”
Lin Shuang glanced around the corner, remembering that she could still get enough points by making tools.
In the next two hours, even though she was suffering from a high fever, she still stood up and used medicine bottles, old cloth, gravel, and discarded plastic bottles picked up from the wild to piece together a mini solar still.
The method is very simple: cut the plastic bottle in half, hold the lower half with sewage, turn the upper half upside down to form a closed cavity, and put a wet cloth on the inner wall to absorb water.The sunlight evaporates water vapor, condenses and flows along the cloth strips into the small container.
The efficiency is not high, it can only collect ten milliliters per hour, but it is already a life-saving water source in desperate situations.
After a while, the value in the upper right corner of the field of vision jumped quietly.
【Survival points: 50】
"Redeem the blueprint of the primary water purifier."
【Water Purifier Blueprint (Elementary) Unlocked】
Required materials: iron bucket × 1, plastic pipe × 2 meters, activated carbon × 1 kg, gravel × 5 kg, sand × 10 kg
Production time: 4 hours
Daily water purification output: 10 liters
Required conditions: Stable boiling heat source Page (1/3)