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Chapter 673: Bad Luck and Good Fortune Coexist

In the vast ocean, a colorful wooden boat stood out and the lookout spotted it from a distance.

The boat is more than 20 meters long, has no sails or masts, and its sides are painted with colorful geometric patterns, which is quite eye-catching.

There was a boy of about twelve or thirteen in the boat. He had built a sunshade out of canvas and was curled up underneath it.

"Severely unconscious, the skin takes more than 5 seconds to rebound when pinched, there is almost no pulse, the ball of the head is obviously sunken, it is severe dehydration, but it can still be saved!"

After the examination, the ship's doctor and the accompanying doctor immediately reported the situation to Frederick.

Frederick instructed: "Send him to emergency care immediately."

The sailors had brought a stretcher and quickly carried the boy away for rescue.

A sailor checked the wooden boat and reported back: "There was nothing on the boat except the canvas. The ropes on the boat had broken marks and it looked like they were torn apart with great force."

After hearing this, Lilu said, "Could it be that he was just unlucky and was on the boat when the storm came a few days ago and was blown into the sea?"

The sailor and she were from the same low country, and had heard many similar stories, so he also said, "I'm afraid he is just unlucky like this."

"I heard that there are very few storms in this season. Maybe the storm came suddenly and he was busy moving things, so he didn't have time to get off the boat."

He pointed to a slot on the keel in the middle of the boat and said, "This should be where the mast is placed. It's empty inside, and there are no broken pieces of wood left. It must have been removed in advance."

The onlookers thought what he said made sense, and they all sighed that the boy was both unlucky and lucky. He was unlucky to be blown into the ocean, but he was lucky to be discovered before he died.

At this time, Kamala walked onto the deck with a cane, and Amy stood by as a drip bottle holder.

He asked the sailor, "Is there any color painted on the side of the ship?"

The sailor replied: "Yes, there are colorful ones outside the ship's side."

Kamala immediately asked, "The whole side of the ship?"

The sailor replied: "From the beginning to the end."

Kamala turned to Frederick and said, "My Lord, this is a ship belonging to an important person. If I could see the pattern, I might be able to recognize who it belongs to."

Frederick thought this was very interesting, so he asked a few sailors to go down and row the boat away for a distance so that he could see it more clearly.

"It's a pointed-horned boat," Kamala said. "I have a good relationship with their chief. When I passed by, he treated me to a roasted hippopotamus and gave me a lot of arrows."

"That's not right. We just left the Lucky Islands a few days ago. No matter how fast we go, we can't reach the Pointed Cape."

"I guess this ship might have gone to Sharp Point Bay for business, and was blown into the deep sea by the storm a few days ago."

Frederick and Lulu were confused by his "pointy corner" and "pointy corner bay" and asked, "Are they not the same place?"

Kamala shook her head and said, "No, it's far away. It would take several days to row with the wind."

"The Sharp Cape Bay is in the north. There is a peninsula several kilometers wide and about 60 kilometers long extending from the land, which forms a bay with the land."

"There is a big river estuary to the south of the bay. Through this river, you can reach many places in the middle of the forest sea. There is a big tribe there."

"The sharp corner is in the south. It is a large piece of land protruding from the sea. It should be the westernmost point of this continent."

"There is a river a few dozen kilometers to the north. I heard that it can lead to the southern part of the forest and the grassland. However, the river mouth is all swampy and it is impossible to build a port. All trade is done at Jianjianjiao."

When the people around heard the word "swamp", they all looked at Frederick.

Not to mention the people of the Duchy of Wessen, people in the lowland areas like Lilu saw with their own eyes how Frederick turned the swamp into fertile farmland and pastures bit by bit, and many people recently moved their homes to Lugang. Frederick just spread his hands, the distance was too far, and it was beyond his power projection range, so it was impossible to spend money to develop this place.

He looked at Lulu, and she had the final say on what to do next.

Lilu thought for a moment and said, "The fleet should sail due west immediately and look for Sharp Corner Bay after reaching the coast of the mainland. Maybe we can find his companions there."

We have just agreed to land westward to rest and recuperate, it’s just that the time has been brought forward.

At this time, the photographers on the boat had just taken pictures of the small boat and were about to pack up their cameras when they saw Amy helping Kamala hold the IV bottle, so they took a picture.

Kamala suddenly thought of something when she saw the camera and decided to talk to Frederick about it when she felt better.

The ship needed to turn, so Lulu and the sailors got busy. First they had to tie up the wooden boat and tow it over.

Frederick came to the medical room and found that Susan had already arrived. She was wearing a white coat, a hat and a mask, and was carefully giving the boy an injection in his hand.

The boy's blood vessels were shriveled due to severe dehydration, and he was young and his blood vessels were small, so ordinary doctors couldn't treat him.

Fortunately, Susan is a pediatrician. She had given injections to many children in Weissenberg in the past. Many children were afraid to breathe when they heard the name of the "golden-eyed, black-haired doctor." Now she could be of use.

If Susan is not around, then you can only use rectal hydration, and it is said that there are special tools and plugs for that.

The medical room was very small. Frederick did not go in but just looked outside the door. He saw two bottles of saline solution on the shelf, each 500 ml, so he asked, "Do you need so much solution?"

It’s a bit difficult to drink so much water, let alone an IV.

Susan was using special tools to fix the boy's hand and the needle. Without looking up, she said, "The amount is calculated based on weight."

Frederick did not know the standards for medication, but when he went to the steel plant for research, he knew that some workers had suffered from heatstroke while working in high temperatures, so he should have accumulated mature experience.

He asked again: "Is there anything to prepare in the kitchen?"

Susan thought for a moment and said, "Just prepare the coconut water from a coconut."

Frederick nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

If he can't help here, then he can just run errands.

There were quite a few coconuts on the boat, so he took one and asked the chef to get some coconut water and put it in a kettle to take to the medical room, where he processed the coconut meat himself.

When he returned to the room, Susan also came back.

Susan was still suffering from heatstroke, but she forced herself to go to the medical room to help. When she came back, she breathed a sigh of relief and felt extremely tired.

Frederick immediately carried her to the bed, poured her a glass of water, and asked, "Would you like some coconut meat?"

When Frederick was getting coconut water just now, he cut the coconut meat into slices and brought it back.

Susan sat up in bed and opened her mouth, allowing him to feed her.

Frederick took a piece of coconut meat and put it in her mouth, then pinched her nose.

The ship tilted slightly and the fleet began to turn.

As it got dark, the outline of land could be seen in the distance ahead.

Because of concerns about offshore reefs, the fleet did not dock but anchored in the sea, waiting to look for a port or village that Kamala knew at daybreak.

(End of this chapter)