"What will happen if you are bitten by a demonic beast?" Roland asked, "Will you become like them?"
"I hope it won't be a different version of Resident Evil," he thought, with the current level of technology there was no way to extract the virus antigen.
"Of course not," Iron Axe said with an expression of "How can you ask such a question", "If you are bitten, you will only become a corpse."
"What about their meat, can it be eaten?"
Carter exclaimed: "Your Highness! How can this kind of evil thing be eaten, they are all contaminated by the breath of hell! "
Roland looked at Iron Axe, the latter nodded and said, "Your Knight is right, I have cut the meat of a demonic beast and fed it to the hounds, but the hounds soon died after eating the meat."
"Really? What a pity, "Roland sighed, in this era the source of food was very scarce, if the demonic beasts could be eaten, winter would simply be the month of harvest.Think about it, all the animals in the forest would run crazily to Border Town, even saving hunting tools.
After patrolling the city wall, he decided to visit Nana.
Today, the closest noble house to the city wall had been requisitioned by Roland for use as a field hospital, of course, to the outside world it was called a medical hospital. Just in case, this was the most heavily guarded place in Border Town, besides the city wall.
When the owner of the house returned to Longsong Stronghold, he took all the property he could take with him, plus Border Town itself was a place that could be abandoned at any time, so although the house was large, there were no murals, carpets, porcelain, or any other decorations. If it wasn't clean, it would simply look like an ownerless house that had been vacant for a long time.
Roland broke all the wooden partitions on the first floor, except for the corridor and the hall, so that all the other rooms were connected as a whole, and then placed ten beds, a simple hospital was formed. There were no nurses, no doctors, and even the ten beds were unlikely to be used – Nana's treatment didn't require her to stay in bed to recuperate, it would be effective immediately.
During the day, she was on standby on the second floor of the hospital, and when Anna had nothing to do, she would come to accompany her. Sir Pine and Brian were responsible for guarding the first floor. There were also two guards outside the door. It could be said that nothing could go wrong.
But what Roland did not expect was that the first casualty received by the field hospital was not from the militia defending the city wall, but from the workers of the North Slope Mine.
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Nail felt that his hands were trembling.
Hearing Tie Tou's miserable cries that had already become hoarse, he quickened his footsteps once more, even wishing that he could fly.
All of this was because of his negligence, he thought. Damn it, how could he have forgotten Sir Knight's instructions?
If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have accepted the job of controlling the big guy!
Ever since the big black machine was installed at the entrance of the mine, the miners' work had become much easier.
Originally, the most tiring task was to transport the excavated ore out of the mine. When the mining basket was filled with stones, it would require three to four people to drag it. Usually, two people would push from the back and the rest would pull from the front. After many years of mining, the originally uneven ground of the tunnel had been ground flat by the mining basket, and the iron pad at the bottom of the mining basket also needed to be replaced frequently.
A week ago, the Chief Knight commanded Tie Tou and his men to transport a lot of strange metal parts up the mountain, and after a few days of tossing and turning, they assembled a furnace. Nail had never expected that this furnace could actually move by itself after the fire was ignited. Not only could it move, but it also had extraordinary strength.
Sir Knight said that this was the invention of His Royal Highness, and it seemed to be called the steam engine.
As long as the hemp rope was tied tightly to the mining basket and the fire was ignited, this big guy would hum, turn the capstan, and quickly pull the mining basket out of the mine.
It was simply incredible!
After Sir Knight demonstrated it several times, he asked Tie Tou to choose a person to be responsible for operating the steam engine. When Nail was chosen, he was very happy for a long time. Thinking about it, as long as he stayed in front of this machine, he would never have to go down to the mine to dig stones or push the basket. The collapse last time had given him quite a fright.
So what Sir Knight told him, Nail firmly kept in mind.
It was not difficult to say. When he needed the big guy to work, he just needed to lift the green lever and press the red lever. Sir Knight said that the green lever was connected to the inlet valve, and the red lever was connected to the exhaust valve, so that the steam would enter the cylinder through the pipeline. After the mining basket was pulled up, if he wanted to stop the machine, he had to do the opposite. He had to lift the red lever and press the green lever, so that the steam would be discharged from the pipe on the side of the boiler. After each cycle, he had to replenish the water in the furnace. Although he did not understand what the valve and the cylinder meant, Nail had to do it one by one.
However, Sir Knight stressed that he had to pay attention to two things. First, the sequence could not be wrong. When it was started, the green must be followed by the red, and when it was shut down, the red must be followed by the green. If he made a mistake, it could lead to the destruction of the machine. Second, when it was vented, he had to first clear the surrounding miners, and he had to constantly remind them, until the red lever was completely lifted.
The first point was memorized by Nail, he could not make a mistake even with his eyes closed, but the second point was wrong.
Today, when the machine was shut down as usual, there was no one around. He felt that shouting a warning in vain would make him look like a fool, so he lowered his head and pulled the red lever. The lever was a little tight, so he clenched his teeth and spent a long time to pull it up.
Unexpectedly, the moment he pulled it up, Iron Head appeared in front of the furnace. Nail swore that he did not see where Iron Head came from, and the loud roar of the machine also covered his footsteps. White steam whistled out from the exhaust port and rushed straight to Iron Head's face!
Nail was scared on the spot. He saw Iron Head suddenly fall to the ground, rolling around with his hands covering his face, and letting out a shrill scream from his mouth. The scream made Nail's hair stand on end.
Soon, other miners surrounded Iron Head, who was rolling on the ground, and forcibly opened his hands. Iron Head's face was blurred, blood oozed from the cooked rotten flesh, and his eyes turned into white beads. Everyone present realized that Iron Head could not be saved.
When Nail came to his senses, tears came out of his eyes. Iron Head had always taken care of him. Seeing that he was young, Iron Head always assigned less work than others, but he had never been paid less.Now, it was because of his negligence that this accident happened.
In grief and anxiety, Nail suddenly remembered what Sir Knight had said. If someone was accidentally injured in the mining area, he could take the injured to the newly opened medical hospital near the city wall.
Although he knew that such a serious injury could not be cured, because the wound was too big and the herbal medicine could not work, it would only continue to rot, and then the whole body would become hot, and soon he would fall into a coma. But he still carried Iron Head on his back, gritted his teeth, and ran to the foot of the mountain, regardless of the surprise of the people around him.