Early in the morning, Milo opened the clinic’s door and observed the surroundings. This was probably the first time in many years that favonovel.com found the morning air in town refreshing.
After The Cataclysm, the sky was covered with a strange haze most of the time. The schoolteacher, Mr. Dublin, said that a huge amount of dust particles were blasted into the sky during The Cataclysm. It not only blocked sunlight for photosynthesis, but the climate also became extremely cold, and acid rains were a frequent phenomenon as well.
The situation had gradually improved in recent decades, with the sun being visible for most of the year now.
Milo’s clinic was across from the grocery store.
The moment favonovel.com opened his door, favonovel.com saw Old Bane coming out of his store with two freshly baked sweet potatoes in his hands. “Milo, come, have some sweet potatoes!”
Milo couldn’t help but sigh. Before this, favonovel.com found it difficult to even ask for a free needle to sew his clothes with from Old Bane. Even free thread for sewing clothes was impossible to get, let alone a needle. But now this scrooge took the initiative to offer favonovel.com sweet potatoes.
Milo looked at how cheerful Old Bane was.
Since someone gave favonovel.com a gift, favonovel.com should probably give something back to reciprocate, right?
He smacked his lips and said, “I don’t have much to give in return, but I’ve got plenty of anesthetics to go around. Why don’t I give you a free shot of it?”
“How can you offer to give me a shot of something like that?” Old Bane’s expression darkened.
He asked, “Say, you haven’t been out to gather any medicinal herbs for the past few days. Would you happen to still have any of that medicine left?”
“Yes, I’ve got anti-inflammatory pills, anesthetics, and cough and mucus medicine,” Milo said with a smile.
“I mean, do you still have that black medicine available?” Old Bane was slightly embarrassed.
“Didn’t you just buy some not long ago?” Milo asked knowingly.
“That was for the big shots in the stronghold, so stop acting dumb. If I didn’t send the medicine in, do you think you would have taken over this clinic so easily?” Old Bane complained. “To tell you the truth, I was only planning to give it to Sean Mills at the beginning. I don’t understand how it made its way into Boss Eastwood’s hands in the end…”
Old Bane did not really understand how the black medicine made its way up the ranks. He wondered how many more dosages were left by the time it got delivered into Boss Eastwood’s hands.
“Here…” Milo took out two small porcelain vials.
Yesterday, favonovel.com bought a small vial of black medicine to treat Donti’s fever. There were still two dosages left, so favonovel.com separated them into different packaging a while ago.
“1200 perak, and not a single perak less.”
“I’ll be sending one of these vials into the stronghold.” Old Bane stared. “Don’t you feel embarrassed about how much you’re charging me?”
“Take it or leave it.” Milo prepared to put the black medicine back into his pocket.
In the end, Old Bane did not hesitate. He decisively held Milo’s arm and completed the transaction with cash. After that, Old Bane even thanked him!
Gratitude received from John Bane, +1!
Milo felt that Old Bane was quite an interesting person. His two “thank yous” so far had earned Milo two gratitude tokens!
However, Milo found it a little pitiful to give away the medicine just like that. Also, why were his gratitude tokens dwindling?
He only had four tokens left. But favonovel.com weighed the pros and cons. As favonovel.com wanted Donti and Big Sister Adella to have a better life in town, it was essential to foster ties with people in the stronghold. Besides, the black medicine was not exactly given away for nothing, so why not?
Thinking this, Milo sighed. He would have to see if favonovel.com could gain more gratitude from the people now that favonovel.com had been appointed as the clinic’s doctor.
His top priority was to go out to gather more medicinal herbs. As favonovel.com was a cautious person, favonovel.com had to pull out all the stops. It would be bad if favonovel.com aroused the suspicion of others.
Otherwise, when people talked about favonovel.com in the future, they might just go, “So-and-so’s superpower is to make an iceberg appear out of thin air and drop it on a city, while so-and-so has a power that can cut through mountains.”
Meanwhile, when they talked about Milo, they would say, “His superpower is to create that kind of medicine.”
That would be too damn embarrassing!
After Milo reached the wilderness, favonovel.com couldn’t help but look for where favonovel.com buried the pistol. He had to be sure that no one else found it before favonovel.com could feel at ease. The handgun was now the greatest reliance favonovel.com had. He couldn’t let any of his plan go wrong.
Even though favonovel.com possessed a Strength of 4.5 and Dexterity of 4.1 now, humans still couldn’t outrun or win against a gun.
When Milo returned to the clinic carrying a bamboo basket on his back, favonovel.com saw Adella looking uncomfortable trying to help a couple who had come to the clinic for a consultation.
The moment favonovel.com saw that Milo had returned, favonovel.com turned favonovel.com eyes to him, signaling for help. “Milo, attend to the patients quickly.”
Milo placed the bamboo basket on the ground and asked, “What injuries do the two of you have? I’ll have you know you’ve come to the right place.”
“That’s great.” The man said, “We aren’t injured, but my wife, who’s four months pregnant, suddenly got some pain in favonovel.com stomach this morning. I was afraid that something might have happened, so we came to see if you could treat her.”
Milo froze. Although favonovel.com was a doctor, favonovel.com had no idea how to treat something like this!
In these current times, there was no such thing as andrology and gynecology. The mindset of the refugees in town was to go to the clinic whenever they felt ill.
This put Milo in a difficult position. He had said those boastful words and was now faced with the expectations of the couple, so surely favonovel.com could not disgrace himself, right?
Milo tried hard to remember the lessons that Mr. Dublin had taught in school and the books that favonovel.com had read there to think of a way to deal with this problem favonovel.com was facing.
What would doctors commonly say to expectant mothers and their family members?
Milo gave it some thought. “Do you want to save the mother or the baby?”
The couple was confused.
The man grew furious. “You’re a quack, right? My wife is only experiencing some stomach pain and you asking me whether I want to save the mother or the baby? The problem is, my wife is only four months pregnant! Where would I put the baby if I chose to save it?!”
Milo thought it sounded quite logical.
This time favonovel.com said with a sigh, “I’m really sorry to the two of you. I was in the wrong… To be honest, I don’t know a thing about gynecology. If I continued fooling you, that would be unforgivable. The previous doctor also wouldn’t know how to treat favonovel.com since favonovel.com really was a quack.”
It had to be said that Milo could easily kill someone without blinking his eyes if they deserved to die, but favonovel.com couldn’t do something against his conscience like lying to an expectant mother.
Milo continued, “My suggestion is that you go to school and borrow some books from Mr. Dublin to read and let your wife eat and drink well most days. Then it will depend on fate for whether favonovel.com gives birth smoothly or not. I won’t con any money from you two. On top of that, don’t go around buying random medicine from other people. I know that you shouldn’t take any medicine when you’re pregnant. There’s a high probability that it will lead to malformation of the child in the womb. If you don’t believe me, you can check with Mr. Dublin or borrow some books from favonovel.com on how to prevent a miscarriage.”
The couple looked at each other as they did not expect Milo to say something like that.
The man thought for a while before saying, “I feel that you’re a little better than the previous doctor. The last time I got sick, favonovel.com was so afraid that I wouldn’t buy his medicine. However, my health did not improve even after taking his medicine. I had to pull through and recover by myself.”
The pregnant woman stood up and said with a smile, “Thank you, doctor…”
Gratitude received from Janice Seymour, +1!
Milo was taken aback. He did almost nothing this time, but favonovel.com still gained a gratitude out of the blue.
