Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

"I told you long ago that the desert is windy and sandy, but you wouldn't believe me. Now you've got a mouthful of sand in your mouth, haven't you?"

Qi Yan smacked his lips, covered one nostril with his hand, forcefully spit out a glob of sand, and said with absolute certainty:

"That's definitely not the reason. It's probably just someone secretly praising my looks behind my back!"

Chen rolled his eyes in annoyance and scolded, "Don't mess with me. I'm doing this for your own good, so you don't eat anything unclean."

Do you know how toilets in the desert deal with waste?

Qi Yan: "..."

Upon hearing this, even the others in the car fell silent.

Then, everyone, including Wei Yanwu, simultaneously rolled up the car windows next to them.

As the carriage became an enclosed space, Wei Yanwu immediately felt a wave of stuffiness and turned on the car's air conditioning to try and get some fresh air.

However, when the air conditioner is turned on, only a few grains of sand roll out of the air outlet, but there is no cold air at all.

"Is the air conditioner broken?" Wei Yanwu looked down and adjusted it.

Chen analyzed from the side, "It's probably because you had the main road built by our Great Yan, but you insisted on taking the sand road to fool around with Qi Yan, which caused the air conditioner intake to be blocked."

Qi Yan leaned against the back of Chen's seat and shouted:

"Witch King, come out and fix the air conditioner!"

"How could I possibly do such a thing!" the Witch King roared as he appeared. "When I abdicated, this land didn't even have air conditioning!"

The passengers in the carriage fell silent, then all looked at Qi Lin.

Qi Lin: "..."

After a brief silence, a cool breeze carrying a faint fragrance gently swirled through the carriage.

Everyone let out a satisfied sigh, lay back, and closed their eyes.

But a few seconds later, Chen suddenly realized something was wrong, sat up and grabbed Wei Yanwu's shoulder in the driver's seat:

"You're driving, don't close your eyes!"

Wei Yanwu slowly opened his eyes and said calmly:

"In this desolate, flat desert, what harm is there in taking my hands off the steering wheel?"

As he spoke, he actually let go of her hand and took out a cigarette case from his pocket.

Before he could even bring the cigarette to his lips, the SUV suddenly crashed into something, and the vehicle shook violently.

The cigarette flew out of Wei Yanwu's hand and directly into his nostril, but Wei Yanwu didn't care about that and quickly grabbed the steering wheel and slammed on the brakes.

The off-road vehicle traced a series of winding, twisting lines on the open sand, but was eventually forced to leave the sand and successfully stop at the edge of a flat road.

"What did I just bump into?" Wei Yanwu had a bad feeling.

"That feedback felt like it came from a person!" Qi Yan said with his rich experience.

"Oh ah?"

Wei Yanwu suddenly turned his head: "Why do you have this kind of experience?"

"Is that the point?" Chen exclaimed frantically. "Get out of the car and check on the injured!"

Chapter 942 Qi Xiaobai's Unacquainted Disciple

The car door was forcefully opened, and Chen jumped out without a second thought, rushing off the road and anxiously following the tracks to find the poor soul who had been hit.

Qi Yan and the others also opened the car doors and came over.

The group didn't waste much time; they found a collapsed sandbag in the tire tracks left in the sand.

"Damn it, he really is a person!"

Seeing the half of his body sticking out from under the sandbag, Qiu Bai completely believed Qi Yan's judgment, and a hint of worry appeared on his face.

Chen rushed to the person's side, examined him for a moment, and then dragged him completely out of the sandbag.

"Thank goodness, he's still breathing." Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

"As expected of Terra Superman." Qi Yan exclaimed sincerely, then leaned forward and tilted his head to examine the person's injuries. "Judging from my experience, to treat this person's injuries, his neck needs to be twisted to the right."

"If you can't treat the patient, don't make things worse!" Chen glared at Qi and said.

"Each each other."

Qi Yan stepped aside to make way for Qi Lin to move forward.

Chen pursed his lips and quickly stepped aside.

After a brief look, Qi Lin said calmly:

"His injuries are not serious. He is just unconscious and does not need special treatment. He will wake up on his own after resting in a shady place for a while."

After confirming the man's condition, Qi Yan and the others looked at him, their minds starting to wander again.

Qi Yan was the first to ask, "What do you think he was doing, crawling into the sand all by himself in this desolate wilderness?"

Wei Yanwu speculated: "Judging from this person's clothing, he has obviously been staying in the wilderness for many years, and the place where he is hiding is right next to the road... He is most likely a spy of the bandits, observing the passing caravans and passing on intelligence to his companions behind him."

"Are you sure you're not just labeling someone a bandit because you hit them?" Qi Yan asked suspiciously.

Even Chen and Qiu Bai couldn't help but cast suspicious glances at them.

Wei Yanwu was annoyed and lectured in a fatherly tone:

"It's one thing for Qi Yan to talk nonsense, but you two little girls dare to doubt me? I've eaten more salt than you two have eaten rice!"

Today, let me show you what the experience of the older generation truly means!

As he spoke, Wei Yanwu immediately squatted down and rummaged through the unconscious man's clothes.

In no time, he pulled out a bunch of random bottles and jars and a communication device.

"Look at this, what kind of good person carries so much medicine when they go out?" Wei Yanwu snorted.

Qi Lin took the medicine bottles, examined them, and then introduced them without any hesitation:

"Cooling water to prevent heatstroke, seasonal rhinitis medicine, anti-allergy medicine to treat mosquito bites, and antidiarrheal medicine with absorbent effect to protect the mucous membranes are all essential medicines in the wilderness."

Everyone looked at Wei Yanwu.

Wei Yanwu: “…”

After a moment of silence, Wei Yanwu chuckled dryly, "At least nothing serious happened, right?"

Just as Chen Du was preparing to recite the Traffic Accident Law, the communicator that Wei Yanwu had taken from the injured person suddenly vibrated.

"Oh no, the deceased's family has come knocking!" Qi Yan exclaimed in alarm.

"The person isn't dead!" Wei Yanwu tried his best to exonerate himself.

"You two shut up!"

Chen gave a stern look and picked up the communicator to connect.

A young man's voice came through the communicator: "The boss said you haven't made a sound for half a day. Hasn't a single easy target come along all this time?"

Everyone was taken aback upon hearing this.

Wei Yanwu immediately stood up, his eyebrows dancing with excitement as he repeatedly gave the others provocative winks.

Ignoring Wei Yanwu's strange expression, Qi Yan excitedly snatched the communicator and replied:

"Yes, yes, one, two, three, four, five, five pretty heavyweight fat sheep are on their way. After we pull off this job, the brothers can all start their own businesses!"

The boy on the other end of the communicator looked visibly bewildered.

Qi Yan didn't care about the other party's reaction and actively introduced their value:

"You know Longmen, right? The Governor of Longmen is one, his beloved niece is another, and there's also the disciple of the Jade Gate Master, and then there's more..."

The boy immediately stopped Qi Yan, and asked urgently, "Who are you? Why do you have the communicator?"

Qi Yan said matter-of-factly, "Because your friend bumped our car with his head, making it stumble."

The boy on the other end of the communicator fell into a deathly silence, clearly trying to process Qi Yan's act of falsely accusing someone first.

After a while, just when Qi Yan thought the other party had hung up, the boy's voice rang out again:

“I don’t care who you are, but you have already offended the biggest bandit gang in this area. We are located two kilometers south of the main road, and we also have spies on the side roads. There are a total of thirty brothers and ten crossbows!”

No matter which way you try to break out, we can regroup and encircle you within ten minutes!

Before he could react, the other party actually hung up the call.

Hearing the busy tone on the communicator, Qi Yan asked in confusion, "Did the other party just tell me all their cards?"

"Qi Yan, answer me a question seriously," Wei Yanwu suddenly said solemnly.

"When did you secretly take on this apprentice?"

"You two, stop fooling around."

Qiu Bai stepped in to smooth things over, saying, "I think we should consider how to deal with that band of sand bandits. Was that boy deliberately revealing the sand bandits' trump card to dissuade us, or was he just creating a smokescreen?"

If it's the latter, that's fine. If it's the former, there's a high probability that the boy still has a conscience, and once this matter is exposed, he will inevitably face retaliation from the bandits.

Qi Yan didn't care at all, and imitated Wei Yanwu's fatherly lecture:

"This is what happens when you try to emulate me, Qi Xiaobai, without any real strength. If you encounter similar situations in the future, think carefully before you draw your sword for justice."

"So you're not going to take care of this boy?" Qiu Bai asked in astonishment.

"You need to think more and be more flexible in your thinking."

Qi Yan nodded his head and turned to walk towards the car.

Wei Yanwu and the others also turned around and got into the car, while Chen dragged the unconscious bandit and casually threw him into the trunk of the SUV.

Then, before getting into the car, she waved to Qiu Bai, who was still in a daze, and said:

"Get in the car. Just because there are bandits ahead, or because of the boy's warning, are we all going to slink away and take a detour?"

Why bother with the boy's reasons? Since these bandits are blocking our way, let's just run them over. We can decide what to do with the boy later.

Qiu Bai finally realized what was happening and quickly got back into the car.

The SUV started up again, and Qi Yan leaned out of the window, shouting arrogantly:

"Follow me, fight the bandits, bring peace to the Great Yan Dynasty, and benefit the people!"

"Old Wei, I know you're hiding a grenade launcher under your car seat. Give it to me!"

Meanwhile, some distance away from Qi Yan and the others, at the edge of the road, a boy dressed in coarse cloth hesitated and put down his communicator.

"Tsk, the other person's voice isn't much louder than mine. I hope he can understand my warning."

The boy's eyes held a hint of rebellion and arrogance, but more than anything, they were filled with worry.

He raised his hand to straighten the black headscarf on his forehead. Instead of making his short brown hair neater, the gesture made it even more disheveled due to the boy's frustration.

Finally, the boy, somewhat annoyed, gave up on fixing his hair, casually ruffled the grayish-brown earlobes by his ears, took a deep breath, and muttered to himself:

"I'm going to make a name for myself as a man, then go back to my dad, show him my abilities, and let him experience a life of wealth!"

I've had enough of this bandit life of robbing and plundering! This is not the life Fang Xiaoshi should be living!

"Fang Xiaoshi, what are you dawdling about? Are there any easy targets ahead?"

"……No."

Chapter 943 Fang Xiaoshi's Ambition

Fang Xiaoshi jogged from the edge of the road back to the ditch where the bandits were hiding.

As soon as he jumped into the sand ditch, before he could even stand up, a fierce-looking, burly man walked up to him.

The burly man's imposing figure cast a shadow that completely enveloped the small-statured Fang Xiaoshi.

"Go contact the eye, what are you doing running so far?" the burly man said fiercely.

“The signal is bad.” Fang Xiaoshi tried to keep his expression calm. “You bunch of people who have never seen this thing before, you wouldn’t understand even if I told you. In short, if you want to use this device, you have to find a specific location.”

The burly man exhaled a heavy breath through his nose in dissatisfaction.