PFC Chapter 138 An Unexpected Incident: The Green Family Farm (2)
Chapter 138 An Unexpected Incident: The Green Family Farm (2)
Chapter 138 An Unexpected Incident: The Green Family Farm (Part Two)
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The atmosphere in the living room was so oppressive it was almost frozen. Rick and Sean sat side by side, their expressions identical, heavy as if a thousand-pound boulder were pressing down on them.
Rick had just been on the verge of a breakdown and was persuaded by Hassel to calm down, but even sitting here, the self-blame and pain in his heart were still like a surging tide, wave after wave, difficult to quell.
"Why did I let him come with us in the first place? I should have let him stay with Lori."
Rick's voice was filled with endless regret, and after calming down, he fell into deep self-blame.
"..."
Sean frowned slightly, his face full of worry. Hearing this, he quickly advised, "Once you start thinking like this, you'll never be able to get rid of this shadow."
"Hunting is for adults; we can do it ourselves. It's simple and straightforward."
Rick couldn't help but think this way; his eyes were filled with pain and self-blame as he said, "The person lying in there should have been me..."
“You’ve been through this before, right, good partner.”
Sean patiently comforted him, his eyes full of concern, "You got through it, he can do it too."
"Is this why I left the hospital? To end everything here after finding my family, like this?"
Rick's voice trembled slightly as he asked, "What kind of twisted joke is this?"
"Don't do that again!"
Seeing him wallowing in self-pity, Sean raised his voice and shouted, "Stop like that!"
Just as Sean finished speaking, the bedroom door creaked open.
Rick.
Maggie came out of there looking flustered and said anxiously, "He needs a blood transfusion."
"..."
Rick suddenly stood up, staggering but rushing into the room.
As soon as he entered, he heard little Carl's painful sobs, each cry a tear that pierced Rick's heart.
This bedroom is now being used as a makeshift operating room, and as you can imagine, the conditions are appalling—the room is neither sterilized nor does it use anesthesia.
All I could see was Hao Sher bending over, carefully removing bullet fragments from little Karl.
Extreme pain roused little Karl from his coma. His body writhed incessantly, and Patricia struggled to restrain him, making it difficult for Hershel's surgery to continue.
He looked up and saw Sean had followed him in, and quickly said, "You, hold him down."
"I held him down."
Sean didn't dare to delay for a moment and quickly took over from Patricia, firmly holding down little Carl with both hands.
"dad!!!"
Little Karl was pinned down and unable to move. The sharp pain in his abdomen made him cry out for his father.
"..."
Herschel held tweezers and carefully inserted them into the wound, gently reassuring the patient, "It'll be over soon."
"Ah!!! Waaaaah..."
Little Karl screamed in agony, a sound that seemed to shatter the entire room.
"stop!"
Seeing this, Rick was heartbroken and couldn't hold back any longer. He roared at Hassel, "You'll kill him!"
"..."
Sher remained focused on his work, not even looking up, and said calmly, "Rick, do you want him to live?"
Patricia, looking anxious, urged from the side, "He needs a blood transfusion."
"..."
Seeing Rick still standing there in a daze, Sean was both angry and anxious, and shouted, "Get him a blood transfusion!!!"
"..."
Sean's yelling finally calmed Rick down. At this moment, he had no choice but to trust Hasee and endure the pain in his heart, cooperating with Patricia to begin the blood transfusion.
"Woooo..."
Just then, little Karl suddenly fell silent.
"Wait, wait..."
Upon seeing this, Sean's heart leaped into his throat, and he looked at Hassel with a face full of fear.
"..."
Hao Sher had clearly anticipated this, and his movements were completely calm as he explained, "He just fainted."
"..."
Rick breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this; for a moment just now, he felt as if his heart had almost stopped beating.
The surgery continued, and soon, a piece of bullet fragment was removed from the wound by Hao Sher with tweezers; this was only the shallowest piece.
"Take out one piece."
Hao Sher looked at the bloody bullet fragments on the tweezers, his eyes showing little joy, and simply muttered, "Five pieces left."
However, the surgery had to be temporarily stopped at this point.
...a moment later.
"Blood pressure is stable."
After treating Karl's wound, Haosheer carefully measured his blood pressure.
"..."
Rick, who was sitting on the edge of the bed giving his son a blood transfusion, felt a temporary sense of relief upon hearing this. Then he added, "Lori has to come here; she doesn't know what happened yet."
"I...I have to go find her and bring her back."
"..."
Hearing this, Hao Sher looked up and said to him seriously, "You can't do that."
"She is the child's mother!"
Rick was somewhat agitated. He looked at the old man who had just saved his son, forcibly suppressing his emotions, and said to him, "She has the right to know what happened. Her son was shot and is lying here."
"But he still needs blood transfusions at any time."
Seeing that he couldn't think calmly, Hao Sher could only turn to look at Sean, who had been silent all along, and said, "He can't even walk 50 feet."
"..."
Sean didn't say anything, but just waved his hand, indicating that he would handle it.
At this moment, Patricia came over and gently removed the needle from Rick's transfusion tube, ending the transfusion.
"..."
Rick had just stood up when he swayed and almost fell, but luckily Patricia caught him in time.
"..."
Seeing this, Sean quickly came over to help him, saying, "Don't worry, I'll help you."
Rick said he was fine, then, with unsteady steps, slowly left the bedroom...
"..."
Outside the bedroom, Maggie and Otis were waiting anxiously when Rick opened the door and came out.
They were about to ask about the child, but seeing Rick's preoccupied look, they swallowed their words and didn't know how to start the conversation.
At this moment, Sean also came out, gently closed the door behind him, and said to the two of them, "He's stable for now."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Maggie and her companion were relieved, as they both genuinely didn't want to see a tragedy unfold.
Otis, in particular, breathed a long sigh of relief; the heavy guilt he had felt earlier had almost crushed him.
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