Chapter 68: Retired Veterans

  As Duan Yue helped him up, the exhausted man's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he closed his eyes and fainted. Duan Yue could only carry him on his back and head in the direction of the experimental base. With Duan Yue's current strength, carrying a person over 100 pounds wouldn't be too much of a burden.

  The scene of the incident was less than two kilometers away from the laboratory, and considering that the injured person had many wounds, Duan Lei was also worried that going to a regular hospital for treatment would cause unnecessary trouble, so he simply carried him back to the laboratory. Anyway, his heartbeat was still quite stable and strong, and he wouldn't die in a short while!

  Furthermore, the laboratory has a large number of drugs, plus Dingding's all-around scanning machine. Even if Duan Lei only had half-baked emergency rescue knowledge, it wouldn't be too difficult to save the injured person.

  Although he had a strong man on his back, Duan Lei's speed did not decrease at all, and it took less than a minute to return to the laboratory.

  Put the wounded on the operating table in the laboratory, Duan Lei took off his upper clothes to check the injury, and he didn't know if he didn't look, but when he did, he really drew a cold breath.

  I don't know what deep hatred this veteran-looking man and those 'Black Dragon Gang' guys have, they simply hacked the man to death. This man was only wearing a camouflage training suit and an undershirt in today's cold weather, with three deep wounds visible to the bone on his back, which were terrifying. However, Duan Lei judged that the main reason for the man's coma was due to being hit by a blunt object on the back of his head.

  If it were an ordinary college student, they would have been frightened by these bloody scenes long ago. Duan Lei had not spent much time helping his grandfather treat villagers when he was a child and had already developed immunity. He calmly brought over the first-aid kit, washed his hands and disinfected them before starting to clean, suture and dress the wounds on Han's body. His movements were a bit clumsy, but he managed to complete the task with difficulty.

  Looking at Han's pale face, Duan Lei took out a bottle of medicine from the refrigerator, gave it to him, and then put him on the small bed in the bedroom, covered him with a quilt, and waited for him to recover.

  This bottle of medicine was used by Duan Lei when he practiced 'Lian Ti Quan' some time ago. It can stimulate potential, activate blood and nourish vitality. This man just lost too much blood and had a concussion. After taking the medicine, he will be fine after resting for a while.

  After settling down the camouflage-clad man, Duan Lei didn't bother with him anymore and turned to enter the laboratory to do his own thing.

  Our country has a vast territory, and the climate varies greatly from place to place. Like now, Haicheng is icy and snowy, while Hainan Island is still sunny, so the diversity of plants in our country is also among the best in the world.

  However, these situations have brought considerable trouble to Duan Yu's research!

  Let's take 'Zhi Wu Rong' as an example. Even if Duan Yue uses all sorts of methods, it's unlikely that they can survive in temperatures below -30 or -40 degrees. Its limit temperature is around -10 degrees. Tingting also expressed her helplessness, after all, Makka technology can only make some modifications to plants and cannot completely change the plant's genetic makeup.

  Therefore, for the northern market, Duan Yue had to find some cold-resistant plants for experimentation, hoping to find a substitute for 'pollution-tolerant elms' as soon as possible and open up the northern market!

  Duan Lei was so immersed in the experiment that he didn't feel the passage of time, and seemed to have forgotten that there was a wounded person lying in the bedroom.

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  When Jin Xin regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a camp bed, with a dull ache in his back and head that seemed to remind him of everything he had just experienced. Although there was a faint smell of medicine, it didn't have the strong disinfectant smell of a hospital, and for a moment, Jin Xin wasn't even sure where he was.

  Recalling today's encounter, Jin Xin initially felt inexplicable, but now lying in bed, he carefully thought back and finally clarified some thoughts.

  After retiring from the army, because he had no connections, he was assigned to work in the security department of a factory in his hometown, relying on a meager salary to make ends meet every month. Who knew that good times don't last long, the factory went bankrupt and closed its doors, and Jin Xin became a vagrant, having no choice but to return home to farm.

  Working in the fields is still manageable, although it's hard work and you might not get rich, but at least you won't starve. However, once a disaster like drought or flood hits, things become tough. In recent years, Jin Xin's hometown has been hit by severe drought year after year, nothing can be harvested, and the already difficult life becomes even more arduous.

  To support his family, Jin Xin had no choice but to follow his fellow villagers to Haicheng to work and send money back home.

  Jin Xin, who joined the army after graduating from junior high school, had a low level of education and no professional skills. He could only work with most of his fellow villagers on construction sites. At first, the contractor paid wages on time, and Jin Xin was very motivated to work hard for the money.

  Just in the past few months, the contractor has been using various excuses to withhold wages from Jin Xin and others. With the Spring Festival approaching, Jin Xin, as a representative of his fellow villagers, stepped forward to demand payment from the contractor. If it were in the past, migrant workers demanding wages would often have little result, but in recent years, due to the attention of government departments, once the labor department is alerted, most cases can still be resolved.

  When Jin Xin received the back pay, he sent it home and rented a cheap house in Haicheng suburbs, planning to do some small business during the Spring Festival to earn more money.

  However, Jin Xin never expected that although the contractor paid all the wages under the intervention of the labor supervision department, he would vent his anger on Jin Xin who led the trouble. So, he spent money to ask the thugs of "Heilongjiang" to attack Jin Xin when he was not paying attention, just to get revenge!

  If it wasn't for Duan Yue, Jin Xin really wouldn't have known what kind of experience he would have had.

  Jin Xin, who was lying on the bed, turned his head with difficulty to look around the environment, but found that it was not in a hospital, but an ordinary bedroom, with simple furnishings. A faint and intermittent light music came from the glass door next door, and he didn't know where the young man who saved him was?

  Just thinking about it, he was actually knocked unconscious by a group of thugs, and Jin Xin's face was burning with anger. If the superiors in the army found out about this, they would definitely scold him until he was speechless. After retiring from the army for several years, Jin Xin seemed to have degenerated into an ordinary citizen, forgetting the skills he had trained so hard for, and even forgetting how to fight back!

  At this time, Jin Xin thought of an old saying: "A good person is often bullied, a good horse is often ridden!" It seems that this society is not as harmonious and peaceful as reported by the media. I was so foolish to think about reasoning with those thugs at that time!