Chapter 271 - Death of compassion (1/2)

”CAREFUL!”

Before Suyin could react, Lou held her hand, dragging her aimlessly somewhere. She pulled, but his grip was firm. A second later he lunged at the ground, pulling her along, and threw himself above her. A series of explosions followed, shaking the ground like an earthquake.

Suyin realized it was a grenade attack and Lou had saved her just now. She had barely traveled a few hundred kilometers into the city and faced her first attack already.

As the dust settled, Luo get off from Suyin and dusted his clothes, ”Keep your eyes open if you really wish to go back to your county?”

Suyin looked up, feeling a shiver run down her spine at the brutal site of casualties. People lying in a pool of blood, dead. Many still alive, but struggling for the last breath as if still hoping for life.

”HELP. SOMEONE, PLEASE HELP.”

Suyin's eyes fell on a woman shouting in the grim silence. The woman had her hands at the chest of a teenage boy, trying to staunch the blood.

”SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE MY SON. HELP...”

”Don't,” Lou stood in Suyin's way noticing she was about to go. ”Now that you are here, you will see this often. Get used to it. Don't put your own life in danger for someone else.”

”Can you see any other loving soul here? No. Either people are dead or ran away after hearing the explosion. Nothing will happen, I will just help with the first aid.”

Suyin was speechless. How can someone be this heartless to leave a woman and her son to die? But on another note, how can a country as dangerous as this exist? What can be said when its own citizens were the root cause?

”By pressing at his chest, you are killing him faster.” The woman looked up at Suyin disguised as a bald man with a tattoo on her face. ”It's probably a shrapnel which pierced his chest, by pressing the wound it's getting deep inside.” She positioned herself near the boy and checked, ”Hm, I'm right.”

”A-are you a doctor?”

Suyin didn't answer, but placed her ear against the boy's chest. ”Diminished breath sound on left. I think his lung collapsed.”

The woman, ”Om my God. W-will he be okay? Are you a doctor?”

Ignoring the question again, Suyin pulled out an emergency first aid kit from her backpack. The woman gasped seeing Suyin made a cut on her son's chest. ”What are you doing? You--”

”Saving him. Interfere, and he'll die within a few minutes because of lack of oxygen. Try contacting emergency services or an ambulance to take him to the hospital. If there is any.” Suyin said, ”Lou, get me a long tube or straw or something like that. A pen will do.”

”T-There isn't any hospital nearby. The nearest one is two hours away.” The woman can't see her son being used as a guinea pig and takes out a phone, ”I-I'll call my husband. He'll do something. I'm the wife of the head of Sandrios brigade, keep my son alive, otherwise--” she hissed, and Suyin paused momentarily.

Luo brought a pen, and crouched down, whispering, ”I told you not to interfere. Sandrios brigade is one of the most dangerous militia groups here. If anything happen to this boy, you have no idea how brutally we'll be tortured.”

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Four hours. Suyin managed to keep the boy alive for four hours until his father came at the crime scene and rushed him to the hospital, taking Suyin along.

Throughout the way she didn't lose her calm. Not even when the boy's father pointed a gun at her, threatening to do everything worse if she failed.

Unreasonable.