Chapter 322: Chapter 322: The Crime Comes to Light
Scott Sullivanâs smile faded. He walked over to Nathaniel Nathan and said, "I got all the intel. The situation is dire. Theyâve hired a team of three hundred mercenaries from abroad, but our squad only has twenty men."
"If it were one-on-one, they wouldnât need us," Nathaniel Nathanâs tone was cold, his eyes glinting with a bloodthirsty chill. "Twenty of us are more than enough to deal with these depraved scumbags."
A flicker of excitement also appeared in Scott Sullivanâs eyes. âThatâs right,â he thought. âWhen weâre deployed, we always win against overwhelming odds. In a dense forest like this, having more people isnât necessarily an advantage.â
Besides, a mission led by Nathaniel Nathan had never failed. He felt a faint thrill of anticipation, wondering what kind of plan Nathaniel would come up with this time.
Shannon Quinn pursed his lips at the sight of them. He had thought he was twisted enough, but compared to these two, he was on a whole different level. He nudged his teammate, Heath Wright, with his elbow and said, "Looks like Direwolfâs about to pull out the big guns again."
Heath Wright said coolly, "Whatâs there to get so excited about? Itâs not our first mission with Direwolf."
Zachary Preston was in good physical condition and recovered quickly after his surgery. However, one side of his body was still paralyzed, and the recovery would be a long process.
Vera Xavier had an excellent prescription to help patients recover from a brain hemorrhage, so she went out that afternoon to buy the traditional Chinese herbs. Only then did she discover that because of unscientific judgments against traditional medicine in the early years after the nationâs founding, hospitals were now dominated by Western medicine. Even Crestfallâs own traditional Chinese medicine hospital was half-occupied by Western medicine departments.
Not only was the traditional pharmacy squeezed into a corner, but its selection was also incomplete. The herbs she needed werenât common, and for one prescription, she could only find half the ingredients.
Even so, the quality of the herbs she did find was far from top-grade.
She spent the entire afternoon running to every traditional pharmacy, hospital, and clinic in Crestfall, but she was still missing a few of the herbs she needed. She was utterly helpless.
Seeing the state of traditional Chinese medicine, Vera Xavier couldnât help but let out a long sigh. âThis is even worse than I expected!â
This was a major trend, and there was little she could do to change it on her own.
But the problem she faced now was severe. Without good-quality herbs, how could she prepare the medicine for Zachary Preston?
The currently available domestic medicines for brain hemorrhage recovery were not very effective. At this rate, when would Zachary Prestonâs body ever recover?
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Ideally, the most effective medicine required a series of complex pharmaceutical techniques to produce. But she had no better option right now. Her original plan was to buy the herbs, grind them into a powder, and roll them into pills herself for Zachary Preston to take for the time being.
But now, even that was impossible, which deeply worried her.
Vera Xavier hadnât initially been in a rush to start producing medicine. She had planned to take her time and start after she went to university in Veridia. But now, it seemed she needed to move up her timeline. She didnât want Zachary Preston to suffer so much and wanted him to get well as soon as possible.
With no other choice, Vera Xavier could only look for substitute herbs with similar medicinal properties. So when she went to the pharmacies, her process became: if one herb was unavailable, she would switch to another type and adjust the dosage accordingly.
By the time she finished, the sky had already grown dark.
When she returned to the hospital carrying a pile of ground-up traditional herbs, she found several people from the procuratorate in Zachary Prestonâs room.