kingnovel Chapter 199 Rescue
Chapter 199 Rescue
After deciding to retreat temporarily, Gloria drew her chainsword and blocked the orcs' weapons that were swinging towards her left and right, while slowing down her advance.
Just by looking at the level of stench in the air around her, Gloria could tell whether the distance between herself and the Sister of Silence was shortening or lengthening.
During this time, Gloria was watching the orc wizard not far away. After discovering that the Silent Sisters' troops were approaching, the cunning alien chose to flee deeper into the area where there were more orcs. Gloria completely lost the opportunity to assassinate it.
Today I let an orc wizard slip away right in front of me.
Gloria remembered this sentence in her heart. This was her shame. In the future, she would wash it away with the blood of hundreds of times more enemies.
A few minutes later, Gloria finally reunited with the Sisters of Silence's vanguard. Under the Sisters of Silence's anti-psychic aura, although Gloria still felt depressed and nauseous, it was still much better than the orcs' noise that almost exploded her brain.
Gloria finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground. This time, she was really out of strength. If the friendly forces coming from behind didn't care about her, she would bleed to death within half an hour.
The Sisters of Silence saw the dying Gloria and exchanged glances with each other. Then, a few minutes later, a Sister of Silence grabbed a medic and a repairman by the shoulders with both hands and threw the two human soldiers in front of the fallen Gloria.
The nuns' meaning was clear: they wanted to save Gloria.
Although Gloria spoke rudely to them at first, they were no longer surprised by this kind of situation. In fact, among those who spoke rudely, Gloria's words could be considered "polite and courteous".
Moreover, from the beginning, this combat nun has demonstrated her strength and value. As long as she still has value, the empire will not abandon her.
Although Sister Silence did not say anything to the medic, any fool would know what it meant when she grabbed him and threw him in front of a wounded man.
In fact, generally speaking, although they are nominally called medical soldiers and maintenance soldiers, their usual duties are not to rescue the wounded or repair equipment.
The main job of a medic is to give the wounded an injection of painkiller and a shot of adrenaline, so as to squeeze out the last bit of strength from the wounded and let them die on the battlefield instead of in their own troops. After all, the cost of recruiting a new soldier from another world is much cheaper than treating, caring for and feeding a wounded person.
If there is a medic who is willing to give some morphine to a seriously injured and dying soldier to send him on his way, he is simply an angel of kindness among medics.
The job of the maintenance troops is to strip and recycle the usable equipment from the friendly troops who have been killed or disabled, or to transform the equipment of ordinary soldiers into explosive devices so that they can launch a desperate charge.
In short, in the eyes of an empire that values human life the most, the importance of "people" has long given way to war itself. The main responsibility of both medical soldiers and repairmen has never been to ensure the life or death of specific "people" as individuals, but to proceed from the overall perspective and do the work that is most beneficial to the entire war situation.
Of course, all this only applies to the lower-level soldiers.
Gloria was a high-ranking combat nun, and her bravery in killing the enemy was known to all. Even the most indifferent medic would not give her a couple of injections and then push her back onto the battlefield.
So the medical soldier began to examine Gloria. The injuries on Gloria's body made the doctor feel difficult to deal with, so the doctor quickly sought help from the repairman nearby.
Although they're nominally called repair corpsmen, they don't actually know how to fix much. Most of them haven't received any formal mechanical training... because most of those who have gone on to work for the Adeptus Mechanicus... It's just that their extensive experience with machinery has given them a certain understanding of its construction and basic maintenance skills, which is why they're assigned to this position. At best, they can reattach a broken tank or a broken track, but repairing a Sister of Battle's uniform is far more complex than reattaching a tank track.
"I... I've never repaired this before..." The weathered repairman said with a bitter face, "I don't know how!"
After hearing this, Sister Silent immediately pointed her gun at him, as if to replace him physically if he couldn't repair it.
"This... this can't be repaired..." At this time, Gloria, who had lost a lot of blood, used up her last bit of strength to say, "Just pry off the broken parts... and that'll be it..."
Gloria's lips turned pale as she spoke these words, and after she finished speaking, she completely fainted.
However, the battle sister's words at least gave the repairman the courage to take action. This nominally technical soldier took out a crowbar, a screwdriver, and a wrench for replacing tank parts from the toolbox, and began to remove the armor from the wounds on Gloria's waist and shoulder under the command of the medic.
After the Primaris established the army, some new technologies were also circulated, such as modular technology. Gloria's power armor was the newer batch of Battle Sisters' power armor, so it also adopted a modular design. Although the repairman had not received orthodox training, he was able to rise from an ordinary big head to a technical position. He was not stupid. He soon found the modular hidden buttons built into the Sisters' armor. The original intention of these buttons was to make it easier to disassemble and assemble certain parts in the future. Soon, Gloria's waist and shoulder armor was removed.
Then the medical soldier began to perform emergency surgery on Gloria. The battle axe on Gloria's shoulder was pulled out, and hemostatic powder was sprinkled on it and stitches were applied. Soon the first wound was sutured.
Then the medic began to treat the wound on Gloria's waist. After observing the condition of the wound, the medic couldn't help but gasp.
An irregular sharp fragment, about the length of an index finger and the width of two fingers, pierced into her waist. Although the wound was not as large as the axe wound on her shoulder, it was much deeper.
What's worse is that compared to her shoulder which had lost mobility due to ruptured tendons, Gloria's waist bore more weight and moved more frequently, so the fragment inserted into her body began to stir, and finally turned an area on the side of her waist into thin strips of flesh. In addition, many fragments of this sharp weapon penetrated deeper due to the movement.
The wound on Gulangyu's shoulder caused by the axe was blocked by the axe so not much bleeding occurred, but the wound on the side of the waist was the bleeding point. Half of Gloria's clothes and pants were stained red by the blood flowing from the waist.
Under normal circumstances, to treat this kind of wound, one needs to thoroughly clean the wound, remove all the rotten flesh, and then regenerate it. However, this is a battlefield, and it is unrealistic to do so. In the end, the medics only pulled out a few of the largest fragments, disinfected the surface of the wound, and then began to suture.
While treating her wound, the medic did not give Gloria any anesthesia.
After the two wounds were sutured, the medic gave Gloria three more injections: a painkiller, adrenaline, and a regeneration potion.
After injecting these three potions, Gloria will wake up within a minute. After waking up, she may need to consume some nutrients to restore her strength.
Although her injuries could not be completely cured, the brief efforts of the medical and repairmen at least brought her back from the brink of death.
Due to lack of blood and armor damage, even after waking up, Gloria's combat effectiveness was only about 60% of her initial strength.