There's a chat group for pets in my neighborhood.

Fortunately, the bone was not completely broken; it was just a fracture accompanied by a tear in the deep muscles.

Lu Fang muttered to himself, calmly analyzing Charlie's injuries: "The wounds have been exposed for too long, the mud and water have caused severe infection, and the skin and flesh at the edges have begun to necrotize. No, we have to start cleaning the wounds immediately, otherwise we'll have to amputate."

He took the first-aid kit, pulled out a large bottle of saline solution, pressed down on Charlie's trembling body with one hand, and began to rinse the deep, bone-revealing wound with the other.

Dark red blood and mud mixed with salt water flowed down, and Charlie began to struggle violently in pain. However, it knew that the person in front of it had come to help it, and no matter how painful it was, it had no intention of biting.

Tanuki watched this scene and praised, "Although this guy is a maniac at dismantling eggs, his medical skills are really good. With him around, we can rest assured."

The sheriff nodded thoughtfully to the side.

After rinsing, Lu Fang first found medical scissors and surgical forceps in the first-aid kit, but he did not rush to use them. Instead, he looked around and sighed.

Then he put all the tools away.

"What does this mean? Why aren't you saving him anymore!" Tanuki was immediately a little anxious. He had been handling things perfectly fine just now, so why did he suddenly stop?

"Don't worry, trust the doctor." The sheriff seemed to realize something and immediately stopped the hot-tempered Tanuki.

There was indeed a reason why the Chinese side stopped.

The environment here is terrible. The minimum requirement for surgery is sterility. If we clean the wound here, we're afraid that every little bit of cleaning will lead to infection. Charlie is currently weak and can't withstand any accidents.

He hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone and dialed a number.

Although it was late at night, the call was answered quickly.

Xu Yi's lazy voice came from the other end of the phone: "Brother Fang, why are you looking for me so late?"

"Xiaoyi, are you at Meiji Hospital?" Lu Fang cut straight to the point.

"I'm here. I'm on duty alone tonight. Bald Cui ran away a long time ago. I'm so bored!" Xu Yi complained.

"I'll be there in about ten minutes." Lu Fang hung up the phone without having time to explain.

He quickly packed up the medical kit, then pulled out a clean, thick blanket and wrapped the weak Charlie up tightly, leaving only his nose exposed for breathing.

During this process, the orange cat seemed to realize something, and lay on Lu Fang's body, trying to stop something, but it was powerless to do so.

Lu Fang gently comforted the orange cat: "The environment here is too bad, I can't perform the surgery on it. Don't worry, I'll take it to a safe place for treatment now."

With that, he scooped Charlie up in his arms and rushed into the night.

"The brothers in the group are really loyal. They even managed to get the egg-breaking maniac to come. Let's follow him." Tanuki said, watching Lu Fang's departing figure.

"Let's go." The sheriff nodded, jumped off the roof, and quickly followed behind Lu Fang, maintaining a very ambiguous distance. If Lu Fang hadn't known about the group chat beforehand, he wouldn't have noticed the sheriff behind him at all.

At two in the morning, the streets of Yanling City were deserted. Lu Fang carried Charlie and ran all the way. Fortunately, he had always had the habit of exercising, otherwise he might not have been able to keep up.

Ten minutes later, when Lu Fang appeared in the back alley of Meiji Pet Hospital carrying Charlie, the back door had already been pushed open a crack.

Wearing a nurse's uniform, Xu Yi poked half her round head out, her usually docile face now filled with nervousness: "Brother Fang! What are you doing here in the middle of the night? This is...?"

Her gaze quickly fell on Charlie in Lu Fang's arms.

"There's no time to explain, I need to borrow the hospital's equipment and medicine." Lu Fang rushed into the hospital in a hurry.

"Brother Fang, Bald Cui has always been against you using the hospital's equipment to treat stray cats and dogs. He didn't say much before because you worked here, but now that you've resigned, you're still using it? Aren't you afraid he'll cause you trouble?"

Although Xu Yi was saying this, she was very quick with her hands, pushing the door a little wider to welcome Lu Fang in.

"It's alright, using the operating room isn't a big deal. As for the medication used, just pay for it." Lu Fang grabbed the excited Xu Yi and dragged her back forcefully: "Don't go that way, there are surveillance cameras. Go to a blind spot, don't let Baldy Cui catch you doing anything."

The two followed the blind spot of the surveillance cameras and went up the logistics corridor to the sterile wound cleaning room on the second floor.

"Turn on the operating room light, then get two bottles of saline solution, a disposable wound cleaning kit, and some anti-inflammatory medication."

"Okay!" Xu Yi readily agreed, "Don't worry, I'll unplug the monitor in the operating room."

After saying that, she quickly pulled over a chair, and as she did so, the power light on the monitor in the corner of the operating room went out: "Done."

After doing all this, she quickly put on a mask and gloves and prepared the necessary equipment and medicines for Lu Fang. The orange cat at her feet watched the two of them busy at work. Although it couldn't understand what they were doing, it felt a strange sense of peace.

Under the bright operating lights, Lu Fang demonstrated his absolute expertise as a senior veterinarian.

Without the harsh conditions of the red brick factory, he held a scalpel, his eyes frighteningly focused.

High-pressure rinsing with saline solution, removal of necrotic tissue, suturing of torn muscle layers... every movement is fluid and precise, without any unnecessary actions.

Xu Yi watched from the side with eyes full of love. There was no way around it; Lu Fang was just so dazzling when he was performing surgery on small animals on the operating table.

"The wound is now treated. The muscle layer is sutured very well, and the main nerve has not been damaged." Forty minutes later, Lu Fang cut the last suture and let out a long sigh of relief.

He put a small bag of antibiotics into Charlie's IV drip, and the tormented dachshund finally fell into a deep sleep under the warmth and the effects of the medicine.

"Brother Fang, where did this dog come from? It looks like it's been abused." Xu Yi helped clean the blood-stained gauze while tenderly patting Charlie's head.

"It's a long story. I'll investigate it slowly after it wakes up." Lu Fang wiped the sweat from his forehead and carefully transferred Charlie into a portable flight case. "Thanks, I owe you a favor today. I need to take it home to recover quickly. I'll clean the operating table before dawn and make sure it doesn't cause you any trouble."

Just as Lu Fang was carrying the aviation case and pushing open the back door of the hospital to leave, he suddenly stopped.

By the dim light of the streetlamp, he saw a small, thin figure squatting next to a trash can in the back alley.

It's that stray orange cat.

Dragging its injured body and hungry belly, it followed Lu Fang's scent and ran wildly for several kilometers from the red brick factory, waiting outside the pet hospital!