"We need blood, do you have the results of Ravi's blood type?" Billy asked with a serious expression.
During this time and long before he knew that Airon, he had taken courses to become a military doctor but in the end gave up on that position. However, during all this time he had received training for when he followed Airon's group.
"The blood type is AB positive, who here has that blood type?" Asked Bob as he sweated profusely, his hands moving quickly as he worked on treating Ravi's wound.
"Me and Airon have that blood type, you can take mine." George said as he looked at the contents of some information cards. The entire team was prepared for this type of situation, so they could deal with what was happening right now.
"Yes, I need you to uncover your arm."
Bob was shaking with nervousness, you could tell right now one person's life and another's well being depended on his skills. Although he was prepared to deal with this type of injury, the lapse of a year without doing so brought many doubts in his procedures.
Airon noticed this, so he reached over and held Bob's hand, who was holding a needle ready to draw blood. His eyes connected with Bob's and then he said, "Listen to me very well, you are a soldier and you are prepared to see things a hundred times worse than what is now in front of your eyes, I trust you will have the skills to solve this problem."
"Concentrate and ignore everything around you, there are only the wounded, Billy and George who will help you and listen to your every word, there is Merle and his brother who are waiting for you to help them with their wounds."
When Bob heard Airon's words and then noticed his face, he nodded and began to work without paying attention to anything else. With smooth, fluid movements, he began to draw George's blood as he moved toward Merle and showed Daryl the way to assist the wound.
"What a fucking shit, I hope Jon killed the asshole that got away or we're fucked later..." Merle muttered with his trademark grin.
"Don't talk..." Daryl said as he looked at his brother.
In a few minutes, the operation began and Airon, who couldn't assist any kind of help, got out of the RV while looking around with watchful eyes. He signaled Glenn to take cover and then began moving sideways.
They were all gathered outside with bitter expressions, this was the first time they had gone so badly in an enemy engagement, so this made them realize how very easily they could get shot and killed.
About an hour later, Bob came out of the modified RV followed by George and Billy, some time later Daryl also came out with a crossbow in his hand. They all moved closer to hear what Bob was about to say, at least from what they had seen Ravi's situation was very bad.
"I can be honest in telling you that I did everything I could, but looking at the situation everything took a long time and now it only remains to wait if he will hold out or else he won't be able to." Bob looked at everyone and then sighed bitterly.
Hearing these statements, everyone looked at each other with sadness and one can say with a sense of guilt, then a voice woke everyone up from their daze and pointed out, "Listen, this is totally my fault, even if I knew that we would most likely meet enemies in this place, I insisted on coming and dragged you into a mission where I put your lives in danger."
"Merle and Ravi's injuries were caused by my bad decisions, don't feel bitterness as I am sure this will make you stronger, I am so sorry guys." Airon looked at everyone and sincerely apologized, he had acted on his wishes and put his people in danger.
As Daryl walked to the front, he looked at Airon for a few seconds and said, "This is not your fault, what does what happened to you have to do with it? Who here dares to say you made a bad decision when you always consult and wait for suggestions from others? If anyone says or blames you for what happened, I will be the first to beat him up."
"Daryl is right, no one here is blind and swayed by emotions. That group of lunatics showed up out of the blue. No one would have thought such a thing would happen even if we knew there were people in this place besides our group. If they didn't attack us now they would do it later if we met them, the world is like that now!"
Glenn also decided to speak. He looked at Airon seriously and his words expressed everything the others thought about what had happened, so when Airon heard these words he felt a little better internally.
At that moment, footsteps were heard coming from inside the modified RV, Bob reacted quickly and held Merle who came out and looked at Auron. "You're the person I decided to help move forward in this hellhole, I don't want to hear apology shit or anything like that, at least they managed to kill all those bastards."
Airon smiled at Merle, nodded and then began to think about what he had to do now that things had unfolded this way.
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"Zz... Jon, what's the situation?" Airon asked with a frown, he hadn't heard back from Jon since he left chasing after the wolf that had escaped.
Just some time later, he thought that order was a bit rash due to his anger and desire to wipe out all the wolves in this place going to his head.
"Zz... Sir, the target was found and eliminated, I'm currently on my way back."
"Zz... That's perfect, is there anything I should know?" Airon was satisfied when he received that answer, at least now they would have more time to move in this place without more enemies arriving.
"Zz... No sir, just that this group isn't normal at all. Apparently they are cannibals, I guess before they found us they found another group of survivors that were near our location."
"Get back as soon as possible, we are surveying the terrain for resources and find out something more about that group that attacked us." Airon ordered directly.
"I understand sir."
When the conversation ended, Airon signaled George and the others to start moving and finish what they came to do in this remote place.
Now that the enemies had been eliminated, Airon had no intention of returning to Noah's shelter right away. The most important thing now was to transport the materials they came to collect as soon as possible into the buses. After all, although the modifications to the buses are not difficult, it will take some time if Airon wants to follow through with his plans.
Taking advantage of the interval between Bob's treatment of Merle, Airon organized everyone to install some modification materials. Fortunately, there were forklifts in the warehouse and there were enough cars driven by himself, so he finally installed all the modification materials.
After that, Airon told everyone to look for the weapons and resources of the enemies they had just eliminated, all those resources would be essential to at least make it worth the losses they suffered this time.