Dulcina Calvo was sitting on a small stool eating a cookie when Claudio Belles’ voice suddenly came from outside.
“Come help! Your boss is hurt!”
Dulcina Calvo was so frightened that the cookie she was clutching fell to the ground and she quickly got up and ran out of the store.
“How is Esteban Zaragosa?”
Claudio Belles and Tom Paul helped a semi-conscious Esteban Zaragosa into the tent while saying, “He was wounded by a weapon hidden in the subway tombs.”
Dulcina Calvo’s heart skipped a beat and followed her into the store.
Claudius Belles looked at her, saw her motionless and shouted urgently, “What are you still doing? Go get the first aid kit.
“I … don’t know where your medical kit is.”
Claudius Belles hit his forehead with a clenched fist: “I’m dizzy too!”.
Outside, a mercenary looked for the medical kit and approached, “The first aid kit is here!”.
Tom Paul operated with sophistication to sterilize all the utensils and said to the others, “Everybody get out, it is enough if Claudius stays and gives me a hand.”
Dulcina Calvo plucked up her courage and said, “I’m a doctor, I can stay and help you.”
Tom Paul gave a slight gasp and looked at Dulcina Calvo with a twinkle in his eye, “Good, then you’re staying.”
In the tent, apart from Esteban Zaragosa, who was unconscious from his wounds, only Tom Paul and Dulcina Calvo remained.
Dulcina Calvo put on disposable medical gloves and used iodine to disinfect Esteban Zaragosa’s wound.
Dulcina Calvo, seeing the purple-black coloration around the wound, which appeared to be poisoned, asked worriedly, “It doesn’t look serious, is it because of the poison from the concealed weapon that Esteban Zaragosa is now in a coma?”
Tom Paul looked down and tended to the wound carefully, “Yes, the concealed weapon was very poisoned and he was trying to save Claudius at the time that’s why he was injured.”
Dulcina Calvo, holding a medical instrument, looked at Esteban Zaragosa’s unconscious, pale, handsome face and said, “He must have thought of Claudio as a true member of the family.”
“Esteban is a cold-faced, warm-hearted man who would have unconsciously tried to save someone even though the concealed weapon was pointed at a common mercenary at the time.”
Dulcina Calvo curved her lips, “I always knew he was a good man with a good heart.”
Tom Paul looked at her and scoffed, “He’s your boyfriend, and aren’t you jealous when he’s being nice to someone else and sacrificing his life for them?”
Dulcina Calvo shook her head, “If I didn’t, maybe I wouldn’t love him. Of course I want him to protect himself, but his duty is to protect his brother and his family.”
Tom Paul looked down and smiled intrigued, “No wonder Stephen likes you.”
Dulcina Calvo frowned as she watched the wound grow larger and larger. “Can this poison be cured?”.
“Yes, but now it will take me at least three days to brew the pill, but the poison is extremely potent and I’m afraid Esteban will not survive the three days.”
Dulcina Calvo panicked and asked nervously, “What should I do, is there nothing else we can do?”.
“There is, but we need to catch a worm called king toad, which can suck severe poison out of wounds and bodies.”
A glimmer of hope shone in Dulcina Calvo’s eyes: “Where is it, I’m going to get it now?
“King Toad survives in extreme cold and reproduces in extremely small numbers, and there’s no telling when we’ll have to find it if we go looking all over the snow.”
“Is there another way to save Esteban Zaragosa’s life?”
Tom Paul nodded, “There is, in the absence of an herb called Benemarine, an extremely powerful antidote to the poison. But it’s not very easy to find either.”
After healing Esteban Zaragosa’s wound, Tom Paul came out of the tent and said, “Now everyone split into two teams, one to find the Toad King and one to find the Benamstar herb. Here is a picture of King Toad and Benamstar. The speed must be fast, otherwise I can’t guarantee that we can save Esteban. ”
Claudius Belles looked at the unconscious man in the tent and said, “Stephen was hurt because of me, now I am leading the men to King Toad.”
Tom Paul then ordered another team to search for the benign herb.
In the camp, only two people, Tom Paul and Dulcina Calvo, were left in the care of Esteban Zaragosa.
Dulcina Calvo watched over Esteban Zaragosa all day, who never showed any signs of waking up, and at night neither of the two teams that had gone in search of the antidote returned.
Dulcina Calvo got up and walked out of the tent, looking at the snowy, deserted landscape with some disappointment.
Is it true that Esteban Zaragosa will die if, in three days, neither the king of toadstools nor the benign grass is found?
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes blushed at the thought.
He stood beside Esteban Zaragosa, his small, tender white hand pressed the man’s large hand against his small face, “Esteban Zaragosa, you must stay alive, I have a particularly important secret that I haven’t told you, so you must stay alive.”
“Esteban Zaragosa, I’m pregnant, so you can’t die.”
Dulcina Calvo sniffled and looked at him fondly, “The baby and I will wait for you to wake up.”
Dulcina Calvo, feeling again that this threat was not strong enough, added: “If you die, I will take your son and marry another man.”
But the unconscious man remains indifferent.
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes turned even redder.
He watched over Esteban Zaragosa all night, and in the morning, at dawn, Claudio Belles and the mercenaries still did not return.
Dulcina Calvo helped Esteban Zaragosa tuck himself in, she couldn’t just sit here waiting any longer, even if her strength alone was low, the chances of going out in search of King Toad and Benandstar would be greater, Dulcina Calvo put on her thick comforter and ran out of the tent while Tom Paul dozed off.