CHAPTER 51: CHAPTER 49 MEDICAL

After escaping from the Spider Cave, watching the black tide at the entrance hesitate before the sunlight and finally retreat back into the depths of the cave, all the Beastmen breathed a great sigh of relief.

"Form up, check for casualties."

Glancing around at his many Beastman subordinates, he noticed some Beastmen with swollen limbs, seemingly bitten by ordinary-sized spiders during the previous battle with the spider swarm. He immediately gave orders.

A group of Beastmen quickly organized themselves as they did during training, and two captains began inspecting the Beastmen within the unit.

The inspection results came out shortly, revealing that six Beastmen had been bitten. Most of them were in the front row, using torches to fend off and eliminate ordinary spiders, and had been bitten in the chaos by spiders jumping onto their bodies.

Fortunately, it wasn’t serious. With their strong constitutions, the Beastmen were expected to recover quickly after applying some fire cupping.

Moreover, the gains from this venture into the Spider Cave included the bodies of four large spiders, the unnamed plants collected inside the cave, and those dimly glowing crystals.

However, Austin didn’t plan to inspect these gains in detail here; instead, they would do so back at the Dragon Nest Tribe. With the bodies of those large spiders and the plants growing inside the Spider Cave, they might be able to detoxify Rodney and other poisoned Beastmen.

"I will definitely return!"

He glanced deeply again at the Spider Cave, filled with mysterious and unpredictable secrets, then led the Beastmen to turn and leave.

Deep within this Spider Cave, more terrifying secrets must lie hidden. For the mysterious spiders lurking in the depths of darkness, Austin was currently powerless, but one day, this cave would be leveled by the army of Beastmen he led.

Upon returning to the tribe, the Blue Young Dragon immediately went to check on Rodney and the other poisoned Beastmen, who were still unconscious. Among them, three Beastmen seemed to be recovering as the toxins were drawn out by the fire cupping.

However, Rodney, and another Jackal Wolf Person, as well as a Kobold team member, were in worse conditions, their bodies turning bluish-purple from the toxins within.

For this outcome, the Beastmen within the Dragon Nest Tribe were already quite astonished.

"Your Highness, your wisdom is simply as profound as the ocean."

Seeing that a few seemingly doomed individuals were saved alive with the Blue Young Dragon’s methods, even though Lizardman Rodney and others had not yet improved, it didn’t hinder the boundless admiration the Beastmen of the Dragon Nest Village had for Austin.

In the past, if any Beastman suffered such injuries, they would be doomed unless a Beastman Priest or a Human Priest intervened. But the Blue Young Dragon used his knowledge and simple tools to salvage three Beastmen from the brink of death. How could this not leave the straightforward Beastmen dumbfounded?

Austin shook his head, neither confirming nor denying it.

Holding a different worldview, the Blue Young Dragon considered human resources very important. Even though lighting the Smoke Tower atop a hill continuously attracted wandering Beastmen from the Kawa Great Forest, alleviating the manpower shortage in the Dragon Nest Tribe to some extent, the number of wandering Beastmen was also influenced by the seasons. Moreover, after initially absorbing a large population of wanderers, there were already few nearby. Now, lighting the Smoke Tower every day only occasionally attracted a wanderer or two.

According to Quik, the ability to attract over a hundred wandering Beastmen already was the limit for that enormous Smoke Tower.

Generally, smoke pillars produced by regular Beastman tribes could at most attract around twenty to thirty people.

Given the recent shortage, the Blue Young Dragon was already considering whether to pause for a while and wait until the next wave of wandering Beastmen before lighting the Smoke Tower to recruit them.

Moreover, since Lizardman Rodney was the captain of the third team, the poisoned and comatose Beastmen were all strong forces within the Dragon Nest Tribe, and they couldn’t be casually sacrificed.

Additionally, the attempt to save Lizardman Rodney and others was also an experiment.

An experiment to see if a herb could cure diseases.

In this Otherworld Continent, there was no such profession as a doctor. There were only expensive Pharmacists, Priests, and other Extraordinary Professionals.

By boldly venturing into the Spider Cave, Austin sought to seize the opportunity to find suitable plants as antidotes, thereby introducing traditional Chinese medicine methods into this world.

Though neither the Blue Young Dragon in his past life nor from some ancestral family of Chinese medicine, wasn’t everything initially nonexistent before the advent of Chinese medicine? Chinese medicine was shaped through the combination of experience, passed down by predecessors like Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs.

Before the industrial revolution in Austin’s previous life, Western treatments primarily relied on bloodletting.

That’s why, for a considerable time while recruiting followers later, various Chinese medicine methods remained the primary treatment within the Dragon Nest Tribe.

The Blue Young Dragon already decided that if those unnamed plants proved effective, it would mean herbal treatment was viable. Then, he would specially instruct people to record treatment methods for injuries, fall damage, and various herbal effects to cultivate one or two doctors for the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Recently, with the tribe’s growing population, many Beastmen accidentally injured during work hurt their limbs. Although their strong constitutions allowed them to recover within a few days, it was not a sustainable approach in the long run.

For a tribe of over a hundred people, it was time to consolidate some treatment methods to cultivate one or two doctors.

After all, Extraordinary Professionals remained elevated above the common people. Those healing potions, Divine Healing, and so forth could only be measured in gleaming Gold Coins. Even if Austin became stronger in the future and had subordinates capable of performing Beastman Priest duties, it would be unrealistic for a Beastman Priest to treat every Beastman in a large tribe. Herbal treatments for the common people could more widely benefit Austin’s followers.

With Austin clueless about the traditional Chinese medicine system, rebuilding that system from scratch in this Otherworld was no easy task and would require gradual cultivation.

Therefore, while the Blue Young Dragon worked to help Lizardman Rodney and others by exploring the Spider Cave, the poor, unconscious Lizardman Rodney and the others inadvertently became guinea pigs.

Finding a theoretical antidote from the Spider Cave was one thing, but administering it to Lizardman Rodney and the other patients was yet another issue to solve.