Zhang Zian and Famous retreated as they fought. It didn't matter if they won against the guards or the cougars. No one was here to film a documentary anyway. It was more important to meet up with the elfins. While the guards weren't paying attention, he winked at the elfins and went into the forest.
He had night vision goggles. The advantage was that once he was in the forest, he didn't need to turn on the flashlight to see the road clearly. The guards couldn't determine his position through the light, so he quickly got rid of them.
Famous led the way while sniffing the scent of the Fresnel, and Zhang Zian followed behind it unsteadily.
After walking for a while, the road became more and more difficult to walk. It was full of rugged, narrow, and thorny places. Not to mention Zhang Zian, even Famous was miserable. As they were walking, a big mouse suddenly jumped out of the grass and stepped on their faces in panic. It was a sour feeling.
At this time, there was another noise in the grass in front of them. It seemed that a large beast was approaching. Zhang Zian held the flashlight switch and decided to wait for the beast to come out.
It was a North American gray wolf. In the dark, he couldn't tell if the wolf was one of Fabil's subordinates. But from Famous's reaction, it should be.
It obviously recognized him and hurriedly ran over, biting his trouser leg and pulling it in the other direction.
"What's wrong? What happened? "
The wolf couldn't answer his question.
"Stop it. I'll go with you. If you keep pulling my pants, they'll become shorts!"
The wolf's teeth were sharp and had a strong bite force. It had already torn his pants into strips. It was painful to look at.
After he took the initiative to follow, the wolf let go of his pants and ran in front to lead the way. But it didn't have experience in leading, so it often left him behind. It had to stop and wait for him or go back to find him.
Zhang Zian looked at his feet, but Famous smelled a familiar smell. "Isn't this the road to the Indian Village?"
Why did he go back to the village? Did something happen to Megan?
He was confused, but the wolf wouldn't answer him. He could only continue walking.
The deserted village at night was like a ghost village. The open doors and windows made people feel like there were monsters hiding inside. Only the undamaged house had some light.
What happened? He had clearly told Megan not to turn on the lights in a room with the curtains drawn …
The more he thought about it, the stronger the premonition that something bad had happened.
"Megan, it's me! I'm back! Open the door! "He pounded on the door.
Famous lowered its head and sniffed. It said nervously, "Oh no, there's the smell of blood. It seems to be …" It couldn't bear to continue.
Xinghai looked up at him, "Meow, Zian, you must calm down."
When she heard the sound of the lock, Megan opened the door in a panic. She stuttered as she pointed at the house. "I didn't turn on the lights, but …"
Without waiting for her to finish, Zhang Zian barged into the room. He saw Vladimir lying on the coffee table and Fina, who was anxiously waiting at the side, as well as … the bloodstains that had dyed Vladimir's blue-gray hair into a purplish-red color.
When Pi saw the blood, it was so scared that it threw away the stick and covered its eyes, not daring to look again.
"Quack? Huh? "Richard, who had always been eloquent, couldn't utter a complete sentence.
"What … what's going on?"
He rushed to the coffee table to check on Vladimir's injuries.
"No! There was no need to explain! Bandage the wound first! " He interrupted Fina and Megan, who were about to speak. "Let me think … Megan, go and boil a pot of water, then wash your hands. I need your help!"
Megan had already given up on thinking and subconsciously did as he told her to.
In order to steal food and supplies, Zhang Zian had emptied his backpack. Most of the things in his backpack were left there. He quickly took out a first aid kit and put on disposable gloves for himself.
There was also blood on Fina's body, but it was Vladimir's blood. It remorsefully blamed itself. "It's all my fault for being too careless … Can you cure it?"
Vladimir was in a semi-comatose state because of the loss of blood, but it was still breathing. Zhang Zian checked on its injuries. The injuries themselves weren't fatal, but it had lost too much blood during the journey. The most important thing now was to stitch up the wounds to stop the bleeding.
"Don't worry, there's definitely no problem." He comforted Fina, but he didn't have much confidence in himself.
Cats were different from the minke whales he had saved before. Whales could lose hundreds of pounds of blood, but cats didn't have much blood in their bodies …
Megan had already washed her hands. "What do you need me to do?"
"I need to cut off the hair near the wound and stitch it up."
Megan was quite clever. She didn't need him to explain in detail and helped him pick up the hair near the wound to prevent it from cutting into the flesh.
As a wrangler and beekeeper who lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, they had to be self-sufficient. The tools in the house were very complete, such as needles for sewing clothes. Actually, there was also a thread, but the thread that had been there for who knew how many years was no longer useful.
Zhang Zian instructed Megan to disinfect the wound with hydrogen peroxide, then rinse off the remaining hydrogen peroxide with clean water. She then used a pair of tweezers to remove all the hair and dirt in the wound. She then used a lighter to disinfect the needle, then found a suture made from a raccoon's tail tendon and threaded it into the needle hole.
When the needle pierced into the flesh, the semi-comatose Vladimir was temporarily awake because of the pain. It slowly opened its eyes and took a few seconds to see Zhang Zian clearly.
"Don't move. Bear with it." He stared at the wound and the direction of the needle and thread.
Megan nervously pressed down on its head and body. She was afraid that it would move, but she didn't dare to use too much force.
"It's okay. Be braver. Don't be afraid of blood and sacrifice when you do something big. Sacrifice for something big. You dare to change the world …" Fina used a weak voice to encourage him.
Although Megan didn't understand what it was saying, for some reason, she started to cry.
Zhang Zian's hands were also trembling, and his vision was a little blurry. The premonition that he might lose a reliable partner made him almost unable to hold the thin needle. He took a deep breath and tried his best to steady his hands. He didn't think too much and continued to stitch up the wound.
Fina walked around anxiously and discouraged. It hated this feeling of helplessness the most, just like when it lost her.
Snowy Lionet tried to comfort Fina, but it didn't have much effect.
Famous knew that it couldn't help, so it could only quietly lie at the door and listen to the movements in the forest.
"It's a little cold. Are you guys cold? It's as cold as October. Have I returned to Moscow's Red Square … "Vladimir muttered.
"Listen! It's the sound of the Winter Palace's cannons … "
"Look! It's the raging flames that have dyed the East red! "
"Cheering people have flooded into the Red Square!"
"The history of imperialism setting up a few cannons in the East and conquering a country, a nation, is gone forever …"
"Wake up! Vladimir! Wake up! Don't fall asleep! "Zhang Zian fought back the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes." In the future, let's go to Moscow together! To the Red Square! To plant the red flag all over the world! There are still many suffering stray cats in the world waiting for you to liberate them! "
Hearing this, Vladimir seemed to wake up a little. Its lifeless eyes tried hard to look at him, and it grinned.
"Okay!"
Vladimir looked forward to the future and used its steel-like will to fight against the demon of sleep. In order to not fall asleep, it began to gently hum a song.
"White snow floats in the quiet village,
Pigeons fly under the hazy sky,
Two names are engraved on the birch tree,
They swear to love each other for the rest of their lives,
One day, the flames of war burn to their hometown,
The young man picks up his gun and runs to the border,
Sweetheart, don't worry about me,
Wait for me to come back, in that birch forest … "
Vladimir liked to sing, but in the past, it used to sing high-spirited battle songs. Today, it was singing the slow and sad "Birch Forest."
Zhang Zian also hummed along with it. He was obviously tone-deaf and often out of tune, but Richard was silent and didn't mock him.
Megan didn't understand Chinese, and she didn't understand Vladimir's words, but just hearing the traditional Russian melody was enough to make her cry.
"Please … Please, you must save it …" Her shoulders trembled. Even when she was in prison, she hadn't been this sad.
Zhang Zian nodded solemnly and gestured for her to light the fireplace to make the room warmer. Then, he covered it with a few dry towels.
The fire in the fireplace burned, and the firewood crackled and burst into a few sparks.
"Meow … Vladimir …" Xinghai jumped onto the coffee table and used a front paw to gently stroke Vladimir's forehead. "You'll get better …"
"Zhi zhi."
Pi tried hard to suppress its fear of blood and came over to hold one of Vladimir's front paws with both hands.
"You guys … Don't act like it's dying!" Fina scolded angrily. It jumped in front of Vladimir and shouted, "I haven't allowed you to die yet, do you hear me! Do you hear me! "
Famous turned its head away and faced the bare door, not wanting people to see its moist eyes.
Zhang Zian could hear his own heartbeat. For the first time, he felt that time was passing so fast, and his movements were so clumsy.
The room was very cold, but he was sweating because he was panicking.
But in reality, it only took him a few minutes to completely stitch up the wound. The tough and strong beaver tail tendon firmly bound the wound. The surface of the wound was very regular, as if it had been cut by a sharp weapon. This reduced the pressure of stitching it up. After all, he wasn't a professional veterinarian. If it was a tear, it would be too troublesome.
After finishing the last stitch, he tied a knot. Megan used a pair of scissors to cut off the extra tail tendon.
"How is it? Can it survive? "Megan clenched her hands in front of her chest with tears in her eyes.
No one wanted Vladimir to survive more than Zhang Zian, but the truth was that the situation was not optimistic. Although the bleeding had stopped, it had lost too much blood and was already on the verge of death. If it wasn't for its strong body and strong willpower, it might not have been able to survive until now.
"It's lost too much blood. If we want to turn the situation around, we must find a way to give it a blood transfusion," he said word by word.
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