Chapter 797 - Oath (1/2)

To Liang Ce, Ren Xiaosu had helped him avoid a crisis. After all, the deserter had been pointing a gun at him throughout the ordeal. If it came down to a fight, he would definitely have been the first one to die.

Besides, Liang Ce felt it was understandable that Ren Xiaosu had opened fire to protect his girlfriend. If the deserter had tried to take Meng Nan away, he would probably have risked his life to fight him as well.

Ren Xiaosu handed the pistol back to Wang Jing in a fluster. “I’m sorry, I didn’t consider the consequences just now. If I didn’t manage to kill him, I would have implicated everyone.”

However, Wang Jing did not take the pistol back from him. He said with a smile, “You were right to shoot. However, you don’t have to return the gun to me. You can keep it. This gun was handed down to me by my father. But I think you’re more suited to owning it now.”

Ren Xiaosu said in surprise, “But I don’t know how to use a gun.”

“It doesn’t matter whether you know how to or not. What’s important is that you have the courage to open fire.” Wang Jing sighed. When he said that, the middle-aged man beside him felt a little ashamed.

At the beginning, he did even want to let Ren Xiaosu handle a gun. But in the end, he threw down his gun while Ren Xiaosu was the one who resolved the crisis.

It was apparent that Wang Jing had brought him along in recent years because he was the best shooter among them. But what good was that?

Wang Jing waved it off. “You don’t have to feel embarrassed. After all, we’re doctors, and we’ve never killed anyone before. This is only normal.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded to himself. Wang Jing was really quite a reasonable person, and what he said was true as well.

Wang Jing said to the middle-aged man and Liang Ce, “Carry this man’s body into the forest. We’ll be staying here for the night, so it won’t be nice to leave the corpse at the campsite.”

“Sure.” Liang Ce nodded in acknowledgment. The medical field was a little unique. Normal people tended to be afraid of dead people, but surgeons were used to seeing them. So they were not afraid of the dead but the living.

Wang Jing looked north and lamented, “It looks like the world is really going to get chaotic soon.”

“Elder, why do you say that?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“Recently, there have been people getting transferred away from the various hospitals. You know about that, right?” Wang Jing asked.

Ren Xiaosu nodded, pretending to know…

“Actually, these doctors have been temporarily redeployed by the Wang Consortium to join the military.” Wang Jing said, “Apparently, they don’t have enough medics, so they got the doctors in the strongholds to take their place. This is only the first batch. There will still be a second round of deployments after that.”

“The Kong Consortium and the Pyro Company are at war right now. Perhaps the Wang Consortium is making preparations in advance? However, I don’t think the Wang Consortium will be affected by the flames of war,” Ren Xiaosu speculated. In his opinion, the unfortunate ones were the Kong Consortium and Pyro Company. Currently, the Wang Consortium was just sitting back and waiting to reap the benefits.

But when Wang Jing heard his speculation, he shook his head. “I probably know more about this than you all. Those doctors and nurses have actually been deployed to the north.”

“To the north?” Someone was puzzled. Ren Xiaosu examined everyone’s expressions and noticed they seemed like they were hearing this news for the first time.

Wang Jing explained, “Yes, to the north. They’re heading to Stronghold 176! Rumor has it that a new enemy has appeared there. Awhile ago, the nomads came to deliver news that enemies from farther north will be coming to attack.”

“The nomads?” One of the doctors became angry when he heard that. “They’ve just killed so many people at Stronghold 176, so how can we believe their words?”

“This time, the nomads are not lying.” Wang Jing said with a sigh, “After getting the news, the Wang Consortium sent their scouts north and actually found traces of the enemy. Furthermore, someone said all of the nomads living in the grasslands have migrated east so they can avoid this disaster.”

Wang Jing was a medical authority who would usually come into contact with high-ranking officials. Some of the Wang Consortium’s big shots would even specifically look for Wang Jing to handle their treatment. He must have heard the news from those big shots.

Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin looked at each other. Then Ren Xiaosu asked in a low voice, “Before The Cataclysm, there used to be a vast territory up in the north. But from some of the old newspapers dating back some years ago that I read in Stronghold 88, it was said that the disaster had affected the Northern Territory much more seriously than here. How could anyone have survived there?”