Chapter 623: Colonel Martinez’s Faith
“Trent” Jason wanted to continue calling, but was stopped by Jack, “Leave it to me, Trent can’t perform two surgeries at the same time. "
"The problem now is that we only have two blood bags left. The internal bleeding of the guy in Lasso cannot be stopped. I can only stabilize his condition temporarily and need to rely on blood transfusions to delay the operation." Trent said without raising his head.
Jason said without hesitation, "Spend it all on Martinez, find a way to wake up Russo, I want to interrogate him!"
"No need, share one of my blood Just a bag.”
With the help of Jason, Jack got the colonel to lie down on the bench, and began to mess around with the doubtful eyes of several people.
"The bullet probably did not completely enter the abdominal cavity. These were just some of the bullet fragments that shattered after bouncing off the road. Although Martinez was in hemorrhagic shock, I have found the bleeding point. Trust me, I can handle it. "
Anyway, Trent is busy treating Russo. He has the final say on the specific condition of the colonel's injury. If he says it's okay, it's okay. Even if they are all in the church now, he has the final say in this matter of life and death. Still more effective than God.
"Boss, it's safe upstairs. You hurry up and leave." Not long after Jack knelt beside the bench and lowered his head and was busy, Sonny and Clay pushed a shirtless middle-aged man from behind. Out of the stairwell.
The middle-aged man has a thin face, black hair, black eyes, and dark white skin. He looks like an authentic Iberian.
"Here is some alcohol and gauze, I hope it can help." Sonny handed Jack the few packages he had just collected.
Clay escorted the middle-aged man to Jason and took out the mobile phone he found. "He said he was the priest here, but my Spanish is not very good. It seems that the mobile phone was not dialed. But there is a landline upstairs."
Jason glanced around and saw that the only two people among them who could speak Spanish were one who was in a coma and the other who was operating on the former. He couldn't help but wonder. Some trouble.
"Let him sit over here so I can do two things at once. We are almost done here."
Jack pointed to the bench beside him and kept working. After a while, he was done He quickly hung up the blood bag and gave Colonel Martinez an injection of morphine. At this time, all the shattered warheads had been taken out. By the way, he secretly used healing techniques to repair the colonel's damaged liver and bile duct, and he was ready for the final treatment. Stitched.
This Colonel Martinez is really a ruthless person. He was able to endure this level of severe pain until just now, and still refused to receive treatment, just to exchange his own life for the whereabouts of Doza. People can't help but respect him.
The priest glanced at Jack, who was kneeling next to a bench performing an operation on someone. He sat down on a row of benches behind him and asked while putting on his priest's robes, "Who are you? Can I He understands some English, but can’t speak much.”
Of course Jason couldn’t say that he was a soldier from the United States, so he said perfunctorily, “Just think of us as friends, here to provide some help.”< br>
Because of the unfriendly behavior of Clay and Sonny before, the priest, who was a little angry, sneered, "Friends with weapons, huh?"
Vice team member Ray. Perry seemed to be the only devout Catholic among the crowd, and he said seriously, "Father, I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you. We also want to leave here as soon as possible. Have you told others that we are here?" < br>
The priest's face softened slightly, "No, haven't you checked my phone?"
Jason put on a serious face, leaned in front of him, and asked again, "Did you tell me Someone broke into someone else's church. This is very important."
"No, I just got up from the bed when I heard them going upstairs." The priest glanced at Sonny and Clay.
Clay didn’t have much respect for this priest who lived in the slums. “The gunshots and explosions outside didn’t wake you up. Instead, the slightest movement when we went upstairs woke you up. Are you awake?" Seeing that they didn't believe it, the priest became anxious and spoke a long paragraph in Spanish very fast.
While suturing the wound, Jack helped translate in a calm tone, "He said there would be loud gunshots here every night. He had long been used to it, but he was not used to American soldiers showing up at his residence."
< br>The priest's answer made everyone speechless for a moment. At this time, Colonel Martinez, who was still receiving blood transfusion, had woken up slowly. He heard someone talking in Spanish. He weakly opened his eyelids and saw the priest in front of him.
"Father, are you here to help me with my last prayers?"
"No, you are fine." Jack smiled and said to him, "Although I don't know if you should Thanks to the Holy Spirit of Death or St. Jude, or thanks to the fat on your belly, your injury is not as serious as you think."
"It is definitely not the Holy Spirit of Death, even I can't count myself. He knows how many statues of the Holy Spirit of Death enshrined by drug dealers he and his soldiers have destroyed.”
Colonel Martinez muttered, then a look of astonishment appeared on his face, and he struggled to get up, "Razo, is Russo still alive?"
Jack reached out and held him down, "Don't Move, I'm suturing your wound, Trent is still operating on Russo, I only used a bag of blood, he won't die for a while."
Then he deliberately changed the topic, Ask the priest, "Martinez said before that St. Jude and Holy Spirit of Death are revered by drug cartels. Do they come here usually?"
"You still worship those scum? "Sage?" As soon as Sonny's curse words came out, he was punched lightly by Jason.
Although everyone is quite dissatisfied with this priest who is suspected of collaborating with the drug cartel, the church is a sacred place for them after all, and speaking evil words here can be regarded as disrespectful.
Sonny was still a little angry, "I have been to so many churches, and this is the first time I have seen a sacred place for drug dealers."
"Yes, drug dealers will come here. , but I don’t have any kindness towards them, and I believe the same goes for the Lord.” Halfway through his words, the priest switched to Spanish when he got excited.
“He said that he hated those drug dealers, and that Doza had killed many, many of his friends (the priest’s name for believers was friends), but he was a priest, and he could not turn his back on the Lord’s believers, even if They are all sinners.
He can't stop them from putting the Holy Spirit of Death into the church, because he will also be killed."
After hearing Jack's translation, everyone fell into silence again. .
It took Jason a long while before he spoke, "No matter what, let's set up bunkers first and prepare for defense. It seems we have to hold on here until reinforcements arrive."
Clay's lips twitched and he glanced at the still After undergoing the operation, Russo glanced at the weak Colonel Martinez on the bench, but after all, he still did not speak.
Perhaps he wanted to propose dropping the rope and evacuating directly with the colonel. After all, once this place is surrounded, it will be difficult to break out. He can only place his hope on reinforcements. The previous news was on the way to QRF. Under attack, the time of arrival is still unknown.
But just now, Colonel Martinez endured the injury and would rather give up his own life to save Lasso's life, just because he did not want to lose the only clue to find Doza, which made him hesitate again.
What he saw and heard in Mexico these days, including what happened to Lieutenant Lopez before, finally touched the soldier.
(End of this chapter)