Episode 2
In an instant, those who will die and those who will live are divided.
He was able to treat two more people. This was only possible because all of them had suffered lacerations.
While two more people were being treated, the others eventually stopped breathing. He couldn’t help but look at them with gloomy eyes.
I thought I was used to it now, but it’s still difficult for someone to die.
He soon turned his head and looked around. There was a flag rolling on the ground.
“It’s called Cloud Dragon Pyo-guk (雲龍鏢局)…”
Because he liked martial arts novels, he also studied oriental medicine as a hobby.
I was able to read the letters on the rolling flag.
‘All of these people were from Pyoguk. So this means that this is the scene of a robbery… Will the rescue team be able to come? If you look at martial arts novels, it is said that in the case of goods being robbed by bandits or thieves, the country sends a tracking party to seek revenge.’
In modern times, Pyo-guk is like a delivery company. However, in this era, security was not good, so it was natural to encounter bandits and thieves while walking down the street.
Those who protect and escort goods, money, and people from such robbers are called pyosas, and a group of such pilgrims is called pyoguk.
Most of the people believed to be from the Cloud Dragon Symbol are currently dead.
As a doctor, from his perspective, only a few hours had passed since the incident occurred.
‘It is a world without asphalt or street lights. I think I’ll have to hold out here for a day before people come running to help me… Can I do it?’
Night is coming soon. As the temperature drops, those who are bleeding will eventually die as their body temperature plummets.
‘If we want to last a little longer, we have to make a fire. I only learned theory in the military… but no. This is not the time to hesitate. ‘I have to try something.’
These are lives that were barely saved. I couldn’t let him die like this. We had to light a fire and raise their body temperature.
He wandered among the corpses. I can’t see anything like metal. It was only natural that if bandits had attacked, they would have swept away everything worth money.
Still, I looked around to see if there was anything left, and found a knife stuck among the corpses.
‘Do you think that will do?’
The child’s body is weak. He lifted the body and took out a knife. This knife has teeth missing here and there, but this one is better for starting a fire.
Then, they took things like leaves and dry stems and piled them up. Then he grabbed a stone and drew it against the toothless blade.
‘Let’s do it. one two…!’
Let’s go!
Sparks fly loudly. After repeating it a few times, the leaf caught fire. He brought in more branches and started a fire.
And then he barely dragged the three patients he treated and moved them near the bonfire.
The man and the handsome boy I first treated. And there was another warrior who looked quite brave.
The boy was so handsome that his face glowed with a strong expression, and the samurai was a woman of large stature and had many scars on her hands, showing signs of holding a sword for a long time.
Both people were saved because they avoided critical points.
‘I administered first aid, but I don’t think this alone will work…’
He knew well that lighting a bonfire would not solve everything.
‘Looking at the forest, the weather is like fall… It looks like the temperature will soon drop to around 5 degrees. At this rate, unless you set up a tent or something, hypothermia is sure to occur. Damn it, what do I need to make a tent…’
I looked around, but it seemed difficult to find the right materials. The carriage was smashed and the horse’s corpse was visible.
Pieces of cloth are rolling around here and there, but they are all torn and useless. Still, if you let go, they could die.
At that thought, he got up from his weary body.
‘It’s a mountain beyond the mountain.’
How great would it be if people woke up immediately after 10 minutes of treatment like in movies or dramas?
The reality was not easy.
Even though he was grumbling internally, he moved diligently. We took whatever wooden poles we could find and used them as supports, and we took pieces of fabric that were lying around and tied them together in a loose manner to make something like a tent.
After all that work was done, the sunset had set in the distance. Soon it will be completely dark.
“Huh…”
He dragged the patients into the tent.
The air started to get colder. Night in the mountains comes early. The patients’ groans of pain were heard.
‘There’s no guarantee that these people will survive… I know in my head that it would be wiser to go down the mountain alone before the sun sets…’
But why? My steps didn’t stop.
He kept adding tree branches to the fire to heat the patients.
Awww!
“It’s a surprise.”
He was startled by the sound of a wolf howling outside, but then calmed down again.
“okay. “It’s strange that it doesn’t exist in times like these.”
It was natural that there were wild beasts and wild animals in the mountains. In modern society, it is difficult to see tigers, but even 200 years ago, there was even a saying that they were 虎患 (bad things that happen to tigers).
“It would be a big problem if a wolf came out…”
It was a crappy tent, but it blocked out the air, so it was warm inside.
As I looked at the burning bonfire like that, my heart became so heavy that I couldn’t help but sigh.
He was an orphan. According to the director of the orphanage, one day it was left in a paper box and abandoned in front of the orphanage.
He said that in the cold winter, he didn’t know why, but instead of baby clothes, he put a rolled up red padded jumper in it. It was tied so tightly that it was hard to untie it.
The name Jin Cheon-hee was given to me by the director of the orphanage, and the director said it was because he was also a fan of martial arts novels.
I was born that way and just gritted my teeth and studied. So I was able to enter a mid-level medical school in Korea and earned all the scholarships while working part-time.
It’s not that I don’t miss my parents’ arms, but that doesn’t mean I go out of my way to look for them. Maybe it’s because my hair got thicker and I gradually learned to give up.
‘If they aren’t looking for me, what’s the use of looking for me?’
Not having any blood relatives always made me feel like there was a hole in my heart. So I lived even more intensely to fill it. I had never been in a relationship and had almost no friends.
As I got older, my skills were fairly recognized, and I was able to settle down in a decent position.
It was around the age of 40 that I became financially comfortable, so I had a really hard time living.
“Haa…”
But how did it end up like this? I felt empty because all the hard work I had done so far had all come crashing down in one fell swoop.
Before I died, I lived so long ago, but now there is nothing.
Jin Tianxi looked down at her hands.
A child’s hand. Those were hands that were not good enough to save people.
“That’s what living is like.”
A deep sigh from an adult in his 40s came out from the child’s body.
Most people who attend medical school become military doctors. He also became a military doctor and used to say this to soldiers who came to the army.
-Close your eyes. What do you see? Can’t you see anything? That is the future of your military life. It’s going to be dark.
Then he held up a red pill to the wounded soldier and said.
-What does this look like?
-It is a disinfectant.
-It will be joint medicine from now on.
-Joint medicine?
-I know so.
…Of course it was a joke.
Now he himself has become gloomy. Really, what should I do and how should I live from now on?
‘But I am a doctor. If you’re a doctor, you won’t have to starve to death wherever you go… but I’m worried about whether I’ll be able to adapt to the world, which is so cruel that bandits roam around. I’m worried starting tonight. By the way, did you say it was a cloud dragon symbol? It’s the same as the name of Pyo-guk in the novel I read a few days ago. If you look at the Heavenly Demon, the story starts with the attack of the Cloud Dragon Symbol.’
It was quite strange for a coincidence. Now that I think about it, that handsome boy was somehow similar to the childhood description of Cheonma in the novel.
When you’re lighting a fire like that.
Doo doo doo doo!
An earth-shaking sound began to be heard.
‘what is this sound?’
The sounds began to get closer and closer.
‘Is this… the sound of horse hooves?’
It was similar to the sound of horsemen running in movies.
‘What should I do?’
Someone is coming. It was a situation where it was unclear whether he was a bad person or a good person. He tried to remain calm, but he was left confused and confused.
‘Let’s stay calm.’
He picked up the toothless sword.
My whole body screamed as I spent the whole day rescuing people.
How long can a child’s body endure?
He gritted his teeth.
Jin Cheon-hee went out of the flimsy tent. Fortunately, the sun has not completely set yet.
He could see warriors on horseback coming up from below and a uniquely shaped carriage.
Everyone wore swords at their waists, wearing clothes that you only see in martial arts movies and dramas.
Also, one of them was riding a horse holding a flag, and the flag had the words Cloud Dragon Symbol written on it.
Looking at that, Jin Cheonhee let out a small sigh of relief.
‘Cloud dragon symbol soup! Ha… I’m glad.’
The tension was gone and my legs were shaking. Jin Cheon-hee sat down in his seat.
Only then did I feel the pain in my arm. The child’s body was abused all day long. It was a natural result.
‘Maybe it’s because I’m young, but my eyes are really good. ‘I can see everything even though it’s quite far away.’
Is it because I am relaxed? I observed people running towards me while having strange thoughts. Those on horseback were twenty-two. One carriage.
There was something strange about the carriage in particular. There were four horses tied together, and the carriage itself was huge.
The color was solid and there was no ornament, but what I was most concerned about was the storage cabinet.
Storage cabinets filled the walls.
The entire carriage was like a drawer of herbal medicine.
And Jin Cheon-hee had seen a description of such an unusual carriage.
‘That looks exactly like the medical carriage of Baekrin Ui-seon from The Most Valuable Demon.’
The novel The Most Valuable Demon was a novel that Jin Cheon-hee read in its entirety before she died. It’s a novel I enjoyed reading very much. One of the important supporting characters in the novel is a lawmaker called ‘Baek Rin-ui-seon’.
Baekrin Uiseon is one of the three greatest lawmakers in the world.
It saves the life of the novel’s main character, Yeo Ha-ryun, the future Heavenly Demon.
After that, he had various episodes with Yeo Ha-ryun, but his chronic illness eventually worsened and he passed away around the second volume of the novel.
‘I guess this isn’t the world in a novel…’
I thought while laughing. All the people of the Cloud Dragon Symbol Country have arrived.
Even until they arrived, Jin Cheonhee sat there and did not move.
