NOVEL WEB Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Accident
Not long after Ian left the base, he found several trees that looked obviously thick. It was estimated that the diameter of each tree was at least 50 centimeters.
He quickly cut one down using the Diffindo spell, put it aside, and then continued searching for a suitable tree.
He had made a preliminary calculation earlier, and the wasteland burned by the Incendio curse was about 400 square meters. If a 50-centimeter-long piece of wood was cut in half from the middle, it would become a natural wall one meter wide.
By this calculation, he would need to cut at least one hundred pieces of wood to enclose his entire vegetable garden.
Fortunately, the thing this area had the most was trees, especially parasitic trees that grew extremely fast.
"The workload is quite large, but it doesn't matter. If I don't find something to do, I'll have to stay at home and read books for a month.
It's a good opportunity to survey this area and eliminate potential dangers, which can also be regarded as consolidating my practice of magic."
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With great interest, Ian started playing the games of "building blocks" and "whack-a-mole." After all, he had the alchemical props that could release the Iron Armor spell at any time, so he was not worried about his own safety.
Ian was enjoying the fun of magic at this moment. The Petrificus Totalus, Repello Muggletum, Protego, Colloshoo, and Diffindo spells appeared frequently.
It was quite like the style of a child picking flowers with tree branches, leaving no flower behind wherever they went.
He took out the portkey pocket watch given by Dumbledore and checked the time. As expected, the attached portkey could not be activated.
However, this exquisite mechanical watch had become Ian's tool for observing time in the apocalypse.
"It's 11:05 now. I've collected about 100 pieces of wood. I can go back and prepare lunch. There's still plenty of time to play slowly."
While using the Levitation spell to put the cut trees into the backpack, he checked and filled in the gaps to see if there were any trees he had missed.
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When he returned to the base, it was almost noon, but he did not see the figure working on the land. Instead, he saw a woman lying on the ground unconscious.
Ian's heart skipped a beat. This didn't look like an attack.
"Are you okay? Hello… Hello…"
While calling out, he quickly ran toward the figure on the ground.
When he came over, he turned the fallen Irene over, let her lie flat, and helped check her injuries.
He saw that the other person had her eyes closed, was breathing rapidly, her face pale, and sweat still coming from her forehead. It was obvious that she was in a coma due to hypoglycemia.
Even though she was unconscious, she still held the shovel tightly with both hands.
Ian had no choice but to use Alohomora to get the other party to let go of the shovel. The slender and tender little hand was covered with blood blisters that shocked Ian, some of which were already worn and oozing blood stains.
Looking at Irene, who was so weak and pitiful at this moment, Ian really wanted to slap her twice.
"You're sick. You haven't eaten for days. Damn your pride. If I had been a little later, I would have found your body."
Ian was well aware of the horror of hypoglycemia and quickly took out a Vitality Tonic potion and distilled white essence from his backpack.
These were the only two potions he knew about after asking Snape that could be used by Muggles, but the Vitality Tonic potion needed to be fully diluted in advance.
He was not a doctor, so apart from forcing the woman's mouth open and forcing her to drink a bottle of diluted Vitality Tonic, he didn't know what else he could do at the moment.
All that was left was to wait.
Fortunately, he soon saw that her breathing had calmed down a lot and her heartbeat was normal, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
After confirming that her life was not in danger, Ian planned to carry her to the room to rest.
Of course, in order to avoid secondary damage caused by bumps and shaking, he used the Levitation spell.
He let her float steadily in the air and then slowly dragged her back to the room. Before he had time to make furniture, he took out his own pine single bed from his backpack to handle it.
He gently placed her on the bed, raised his wand, and used Scourgify to remove the dust and blood stains on her body.
Then he cleaned the wounds on his hands and dropped some white mulberry essence on them. Soon the wounds and blood blisters healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"I hope you can get better soon. After all, in this terrible world, being alive is the greatest blessing. At least you have someone to accompany you, so you won't be abandoned by the world."
Ian prayed silently in his heart.