Saeryu's luck was good.
Just as he turned the alley bleeding from a thousand places, the mobile hospital passed by.
The van stopped with a screech as it stopped, and two paramedics rushed out, arriving just in time to catch falling Saeryu.
" Vital seventy and dropping. Prepare blood infusion. "
" Lidocaine ! also, TT injection. " Han Seul went off as fast as possible.
Their mobile hospital served double purpose, at the behest of her husband KimJinchul.
Each of the mobile hospitals carried with them a satellite phone, as well as live broadcast equipment on local wifi.
At first, she thought nothing of it, till she opened it this morning, and saw nearly a million count on each of the four channels of their broadcast.
It seems people rather want to see the real time scenario for themselves rather than seeing it through the colored lenses of some broadcast station.
They have news on.
" lacerations on sternum and abdomen. Suspected abdominal laceration. Suspected right femur fracture. Suspected left ankle commuted trauma. " Han Seul continued diagnosing.
She really hated the types like this. The soldiers who just went all out. However, in a situation like this, there's nothing anyone could do. If the guy in front of her did not do all he can to survive, then the least she could do is heal him well.
As they cleaned his body, Seul noticed that some of the abrasions were not there any more.
" Intern ! Come here. " She ordered the youngest doctor around here.
" Debridge his wounds. Leave them open, I will do the closing up. " She ordered him.
The intern looked as if Christmas had come early.
He started working pretty fast, while Seul set the camera to time lapse photo sequence on the smallest of his wounds.
She returned after fifteen minutes, checked the video.
She did not see it wrong. His wounds are indeed closing up extremely fast.
Good. Then there's no reason to waste gauge on the worst of his wounds.
The intern is still working on the larger of his wounds.
" After you finish, do not use bandages on this guy. Just use some gauge to cover up the most serious of his wounds lightly. We will take a timelapse video of this patient. " Seul commanded the staff.
She absolutely must know where all this guy has walked through. She would do anything to get her hands on this sort of healing power. At least then, she could let her husband go out and fight with some confidence.
If it continues like it is right now, Seul was sure she would die early because of stress.
Saeryu slept like that for almost a day.
He woke up in the night, to Seul's eager face.
It's quite a good thing that he has a frozen face syndrome. It would have been far too comical a sight when he was surprised by seul's eager face.
" Young man ! How did you get that Self Healing power ? " was the first question she asked.
" What ?! Where am I ? " Saeryu was in a hurry to leave.
" This is a hospital. You were found unconscious and bleeding near a vanished portal. Your wounds are treated well. If you want to get discharged, I will later have the nurses help you. Now, about the Healing power. " Seul continued.
Saeryu, who got up and was searching for his own clothes stopped for a moment.
" All information comes with a price tag ! " he said offhandedly, as he continued the search.
" My clothes ? " he asked, when he realized they were nowhere in the room.
" What's the price ? Money is not a problem. " Seul said.
" Not money. I want ammunition. Madam! Your husband is a government man, isn't he ? A paid bloodhound ? " Saeryu finished.
Seul cursed internally.
But she still complied.
" What do you want ? list the weapons, I will have them ready as soon as possible. " she offered.
" I want a military grade motorcycle, a sniper rifle, and at least 20K ammunition. " Saeryu finished.
While Saeryu was negotiating, Chulgun's condition was getting worse by the minute.
There was no dramatic hero to save him from the untimely fall.
Instead, it made Chulgun see a strange area.
It was a shallow valley, a dip in the cliff side. On t's edge stood a tree with a thorny vine, while on the edge there was dry grass.
Chulgun did not think much. He jumped straight for the thorny fine, then hugged it despite the wounds on his body.
The entire vine is like barbed wire.
The thorns pricked straight into his skin, holding him on like hooks.
Chulgun bore with the pain.
Anything is better than dying.
It's a zero sum game when he stands outside. The monkeys are faster than him, terrain is not advantageous. On top of that, he is forever escaping, where his stamina is sapped out.
He just needs to stop and think. Chulgun could do that even under extreme pain. Perhaps just one perk of having lived in the tumultuous times of the beast apocalypse.
As he hung on the barbed wire, with its thorns digging into his thighs and seat, Chulgun evaluated his options.
The dip is not big, just around twenty meters with dry grass in some places, and dead wood all over.
The plus is that no matter which side the monkeys are attacking from, they would not be able to make a jump clear of the valley filled with shrap deadwood.
Thus, one monkey attacking him would mean one dead monkey. After all, soft boned monkeys bleed out fast. With the way the deadwood is arranged below, no matter which direction a monkey falls in, it will get stabbed at least in two places.
He already threw his lighter, so the grass around the valley is alit. However, this is a rainforest like jungle, there's not much dry grass that could burn in the first place.
He considered his options. Now that he is not running, he devoted his entire brain to finding out an escape mechanism, ignoring the pain in his butt.
The result is … there's none.
Despite being painful, and bleeding continuously, the wounds are minor. With his minor healing active, it will take forever for him to bleed out, at least as long as two days.
Now, his only hope is some sort of external help would arrive.
Thus, he hung there, holding on to that vine, and hoping no matter where he was, Saeryu survived.
Given how much importance Saeryu placed on the eagle portal, he assumed he was some sort of marksman. A perfect counter to the monkeys in here.
Perhaps that's the reason that no melee fighter was ever able to clear this place. This could only ever be cleared by a talented marksman.
On the other side of the city, in the patient room, Han Seul spoke to her husband in front of Saeryu.
" Seul-ah, ask that guy to keep the information exclusive. " her husband asked her.
Neither of them are innocent enough to think such information should go to the public where it would help all.
They threatened the president. Sooner or later, the repercussions will arrive. It is best to build their forces before the storm hits.
" Are you sure ? It's the wild boars ? " Kim Jinchul asked his wife to confirm once again.
Unfortunately, the boar and bear portal both occurred in North Korea.
Only, the boar portal is near the border, thus, the strays wandered as far as Busan downtown.
" Not just wild boars, Marmots and otters too,in that order. Boars have the highest occurrence, Marmot's second highest so on and so forth. Healing is not specific to any beast. " Saeryu explained.
" Thank you. If you want to, we could even provide manpower for you to clear the portal. Join us. You could become one of the leading forces of this country. " Seul offered.
" Auntie ! I will become a leading force with or without your help. Just keep your promise well. " Saeryu snarked, before leaving the room.
Seul and Jinchul kept their promises.
Saeryu received a Dragunov, and few SVDs which could be turned into automatic guns if need be. On top of that, they had infrared vision, as well as the proper attire for rain forest battle, as he requested.
The portal was there, as he expected.
Chulgun was shaken awake when the first gunshot occurred.
The monkeys started running pell mell towards the gunner, hoping to reach him before he could kill them.
Saeryu shifted the gun to automatic, and started going crazy.
" Boom ! bbabang ! Bang ! dum ! " The sounds are endless.
The monkeys emptied out from Chulgun's vicinity.
Immediately, Chulgun descended down, going straight into the center. As expected, the wooden piece is removable.
He removed the piece, then started descending down the tunnel.
In no time at all, he was in a hidden cavern, where a female monkey lay, pregnant and its eyes closed. Exhaustion is written all over its face.
Chulgun sneaked in, sliced off the neck of the female monkey.
He grabbed the ascending light before it could escape.
The moment he did, he could feel it. Wounds are mending at incredible speed. His pain is going away.
Given the task he came for is finished, he left just as silently, leaving the rest of the portal to Saeryu.