CHAPTER 1596: CHAPTER 1596: ENCOUNTERING ROBBERY

Luo Qiao had just opened her thermos and taken a sip of water when she heard shouting. She quickly closed it, put it back in place, and followed the others outside.

There were already doctors gathered around up front. It was clear someone had been bitten by a venomous snake, and everyone was puzzled. It was cold; where did a venomous snake come from?

They had come for a free clinic this time without bringing antivenom. All they could do was help treat the wound for now. Unfortunately, the person had been bitten by a viper, and the nearest hospital with possible antivenom was over an hour away.

Just as everyone was fretting, Yunyi stepped forward, "Let me take a look."

The doctor who had been helping quickly moved aside, but some family members who came with the patient were anxious and said, "This is a matter of life and death. You, a young girl, shouldn’t be messing around."

Doctor Lu, who had just stepped aside, quickly intervened, "This is Director Luo of our hospital. She may look young, but her medical skills are impeccable. You can rest assured. If she can’t help, then we’ll have to rush him off immediately."

Luo Qiao took a box of silver needles from her pocket and asked the nurse beside her to bring some alcohol swabs.

She then asked the family members to cut open the injured person’s trouser leg. The injured person was now clearly feeling a tingling sensation in the wound, was experiencing chills and fever, dizziness, and also had symptoms of chest tightness and rapid breathing.

Luo Qiao skillfully disinfected the silver needles with alcohol swabs, then inserted them. After finishing with the needles, she asked for a sterilized scalpel and made a cross incision directly on the wound.

As they watched the black blood flow from the wound, everyone’s breath tensed. After the blood turned a normal red and flowed for a while, it finally stopped.

Luo Qiao said, "Now I’ve just forced some of the poisoned blood out. You still need to take him to get antivenom."

The family members who brought the injured person thanked them and then took the injured person away.

Only then did the people who accompanied them start talking about how the person had been bitten by the snake.

The brothers in the injured person’s family were idle during the winter. Thinking that there were two brothers who hadn’t married yet, they planned to clean up the backyard of the old house and tear it down to rebuild it next year.

Who would have thought they’d encounter a hibernating venomous snake?

Everyone hurriedly ate a quick bite and then began the afternoon free clinic.

After a busy afternoon, seeing it was getting late, they packed up to head back. But just as they finished packing, the driver realized that all four tires of the car were flat.

It was clearly a deliberate act. When the reception staff brought a pump and tried for a long time, they realized it wasn’t just a matter of deflation; the tires had been punctured.

This really distressed the reception staff.

Upon hearing about the situation, the team leader found out there was a bus returning to the Capital City soon. They left the driver and two support staff behind while everyone else took the bus back to the city to avoid affecting the next day’s work.

Luo Qiao and the others had been on the bus for less than a quarter of the journey when a few young people got on, sitting separately at the front and back of the bus.

Soon after, they stood up, holding knives. One of them, the leader, spoke up, "Stay calm. We’re just after money. Hand over all your valuables."

Luo Qiao realized they were being robbed. Their luck was incredible.

Everyone was terrified by the sudden event. A third of the people on this bus were from the hospital. Luo Qiao thought about their car’s punctured tires and these people’s actions and figured this had been planned long ago.

It seemed it wasn’t just bad luck; they had been targeted.

But for now, four people on the bus held knives, and there were likely accomplices among the passengers. The bus was too cramped, so there really wasn’t any good idea for the moment.