Wilderness Redemption Tour

In a clinic near Saint-Denis station, Arthur was sitting on a large treatment chair in the middle of one of the consulting rooms, obeying the doctor's orders and opening his mouth obediently.

"what..."

The young doctor in a shirt and vest picked up a tongue depressor with a small mirror on the head and inserted it into Arthur's throat to take a quick look at the condition of his throat, then put the ear hook of the stethoscope hanging around his neck into his ear.

"What are the symptoms now?" he asked while holding the stethoscope.

"Coughing, occasional fatigue, and not in a very good mood..." Arthur said truthfully.

"Coughing up blood?"

"The bloodshot is so faint that it's almost invisible."

"I understand." The doctor nodded and pressed the stethoscope head on his chest. "Now listen to me and breathe..."

The doctor changed the position of the stethoscope head and said, "Next..."

After listening to several positions in succession, the doctor took off his stethoscope and walked to the sink by the window.

"Doctor Spencer, how is his condition? Is it tuberculosis?" After the diagnosis was completed, Lin Yan asked anxiously.

"It is indeed tuberculosis." After washing his hands, Dr. Spencer took the towel from the towel rack and wiped his hands while saying, "But fortunately, his symptoms are not serious. This disease gradually worsens. In his case, as long as he rests more and recuperates in a dry and warm place for a few years, he may be able to recover."

It was indeed tuberculosis... A dry and warm place? Just as Hosea said... It seems that this is the folk remedy commonly used by people in this era to treat tuberculosis. It is simple to operate, but effective.

Arthur looked a little dazed when he walked out of the clinic. His own guess about his condition was one thing, and the diagnosis of professionals was another. Today's visit confirmed that he had tuberculosis.

"A warm place...Tahiti...gang...Dutch..." Lin Yan saw Arthur muttering something in the direction of the dock, with a rare look of confusion in his eyes. He stood by and waited quietly for a while, until Arthur came to his senses, he took out a small brown glass bottle from the space bag and handed it to him.

Arthur took it instinctively and asked casually, "What is this? Is this the medicine the doctor prescribed for me?"

"It was a medicine prescribed by a doctor, but not by him." Lin Yan explained, "Before, Sadie and I helped a wandering doctor. To thank us, he gave me a bottle of special medicine for treating chronic diseases. He said that this was a bottle of medicine that he had collected herbs for several years based on a mysterious prescription. There is only one bottle of this in the world."

Arthur uncorked the bottle and sniffed it. He looked embarrassed and said, "You want me to drink this? The stuff in here stinks. Is it really for people to drink? Is that doctor a liar?"

After Lin Yan got the bottle of medicine, he kept it in the space bag. He had never opened it, but the item description was there. The system would not lie to him, so there was no need to doubt the authenticity of the item. But looking at Arthur's reaction, in his mind, this bottle of medicine did not look like a serious thing. Out of curiosity, Lin Yan took the bottle back and smelled it.

A non-pungent but extremely foul smell rushed straight from his nose to the top of his head, making Lin Yan so nauseous that he almost vomited his breakfast. How to describe this smell? It's a bit like vomiting out half-digested dairy products in the stomach, the paste of dairy products mixed with gastric juice in a sealed and light-proof container slowly fermenting for a year.

Lin Yan instantly understood why Arthur was so resistant. If he didn't know clearly that this was a good thing, he would never drink it even if he was forced to drink it with a gun.

Lin Yan's expression changed again and again. He regretted telling Arthur that this was a special medicine for treating chronic diseases. He should have said that this was a special medicine for treating cough or lung diseases. But no matter what, since he had taken out the medicine, he had to persuade Arthur to drink it.

"Just give it a try." Lin Yan decided to increase his deception efforts. He patted his chest and said, "I can guarantee that this medicine is definitely not fake, because the doctor had a mysterious expression when he gave me the bottle of medicine, and he was reluctant to give it to me. I forcibly pulled it from his hand. He and I don't know each other, and there is no reason for him to lie to me. If it were you, I would just hold your nose and drink it. Who knows, it might have miraculous effects."

Arthur hesitated again and again, holding the medicine bottle in his hand and looking at it again and again, but he still refused to drink it. Lin Yan felt that even if he was asked to go to the battlefield now, he would agree to it more readily than drinking the medicine. Unexpectedly, this tough guy who was not afraid of bullets and torture was defeated by a small medicine bottle in the end.

"Why don't you leave this thing with me first, and I'll have it whenever I want to drink it..." Arthur finally decided to bargain with Lin Yan.

"That won't do." Lin Yan refused decisively before he could finish. If he couldn't see Arthur drink the medicine with his own eyes today, he probably couldn't count on him to drink it on his own initiative in the future.

"Arthur, no kidding, this is really good stuff." Seeing that it still didn't work, Lin Yan decided to use his last trump card and play the emotional card with Arthur. "If you can't drink it, just think about Mary. If your disease can't be cured, you will be at risk of infecting Mary in the future, and I don't think this is what you want to see. So even if this medicine has only a 1% chance of curing your disease, or even a 1/1000 or 1/10,000 chance, you should try it, right?"

The concept of family has always occupied a considerable weight in Arthur's consciousness. Maybe before, family only represented gangs, but now, the word family has gradually returned to its original meaning. The small family represented by Mary has begun to take root in his heart. When Arthur heard Lin Yan mention Mary, he suddenly realized that his illness was not a minor illness that could be completely cured by resting for a few days, but a highly contagious tuberculosis that made people shudder.

The fear of the disease overcame the resistance to unknown drugs. At this moment, Arthur stopped hesitating. He took a deep breath, raised the small medicine bottle in his hand and drank the dark brown liquid in it.

"Ugh... Ugh..." After drinking the medicine, Arthur lowered his head and dry-heaved a few times, commenting: "This medicine tastes as bad as it smells."

Seeing Arthur finish drinking the medicine, Lin Yan was completely relieved. In this case, Arthur's illness was cured, and it was only a matter of time before his body returned to its previous state.

"Well, you should take a good rest for a few days and see how it works." Lin Yan said happily.