Chapter 73 - 73: What’s Wrong With You?

She took disinfectant, gauze, and a tourniquet from the first aid kit, disinfected the wound, then wrapped the gauze and tourniquet, and managed to stem the bleeding.

"All right," Sophia said.

Pearson leaned over and saw that the blood had stopped. He nodded and got out of the car.

Sophia also got out of the car. Her hands were covered with blood. It looked scary.

Kevin was looking over at her. Sophia hurriedly turned her back so that he couldn't see the blood on her hands. Then she turned to the tourists and said, "Do you have water? I want to wash my hands."

Katherine got a bottle of water out of the bus for Sophia. She was about to offer to help her when Pearson came over and took the water, "I'll do it!"

He unscrewed the cap and tilted the bottle. Sophia stretched out her hands. The cool water poured over her hands, slowly washing the blood off her hands.

"Congratulations!" Pearson praised her, "That was very well done. It almost felt like that wasn't the first time we worked together… Isn't that strange?"

Sophia had seemed to anticipate everything he was worried about before he mentioned it, moving in perfect sync with what he was doing. 

Sophia washed her hands, walked a little farther away and shook them several times, then looked back and laughed, "Well, that's just luck, right? There's no way we could have worked together before, is there?"

Just then, the ambulance and fire trucks arrived. The firemen helped move the car, managing to get the driver's door open. The paramedics stepped forward, got the driver out, and took him to the ambulance.

"Excellent first aid!" one of the paramedics said, "Without doing what you did, he would have died before we got here."

"I need first aid, too!" cried the man whose head had been cut, "My head hurts!"

The paramedics checked him over quickly and said, "I don't think you need first aid anymore. You've already got a band-aid on it!"

The man said angrily, "I might have hurt my brain. The travel agent should pay me compensation!"

The paramedics wanted to shut him up, so he told him to get into the ambulance." We'll get you tested if you insist."

The man was satisfied, "Finally. I want my whole body checked! I'm going to do all the tests possible!"

Sophia gave the man a searching look. She couldn't believe he wanted a general check-up, sounded like he really had had a brain injury if he thought that was a good idea.

The bus was in a bad way, having scraped against the mountainside, and although it could be started, the driver was not comfortable driving it in its current condition. He had contacted the company to send another bus, and they were also sending a trailer to pick up the other one for repair.

The wrecked sports car wouldn't be dealt with until the traffic police came. It had to be moved to a place that didn't affect traffic.

"Sister…" Kevin called to Sophia, "Have some water!"

He had unscrewed the top of the water bottle and handed the water to her. Sophia took it and had a sip. She frowned and said, "Is there any still water?"

"Don't you like soda water, sister?" Kevin looked at her.

"No, I don't."

"Oh… Well, there's some jasmine tea on the bus. Do you want that?"

"Yes!"

Kevin returned to the bus, grabbed the jasmine tea, and handed it to Sophia.

He looked at her strangely and frowned.

"What's wrong with you?" Sophia asked.

"I'm fine. I just saw some of the blood and felt a bit uncomfortable." Kevin said slowly, "How did you know I can't stand the sight of blood?"

Sophia was in a daze. She hadn't thought about it when she stopped Kevin from getting closer. She had done it subconsciously. She is thinking about it now, and it was hard to explain.

"I don't know. I just didn't want you to be scared, you know."

"Yeah," Kevin said, without saying anything.

It took another two hours before the second bus arrived. The group got on the bus, and by the time the bus reached Lands City, it was already dark.

Sophia had called Kate to tell her that she would be late getting back so she wouldn't worry. 

The next day, Sophia got a call from Melissa.

"Boss, it's so funny!" Melissa laughed on the phone, "You remember the man who hurt his head?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"He went in the ambulance to the hospital and got them to check every organ of his body. He almost had a pregnancy test. Then he went to the travel agency with the bills. The travel agency rejected him outright. He protested and complained to the Consumer Association, and guess what?"

Sophia couldn't help laughing, "No compensation, right? He shouldn't get anything."

Melissa laughed. "Of course not! He only got hurt because he refused to follow the tour guide's instructions, and now he's landed himself with a huge medical bill!"

Sophia was almost overwhelmed by all the things she had encountered over the last few days. She had never been on a trip like that in either life, and it had been quite an eye-opener.

***

Two days later, Sophia received a call from Mitch Watson, inviting her to play chess. Seeing as she was on holiday, it seemed like a good way to pass the time. She hadn't had the chance to play chess for a few days. The rich guy, Chubby, hadn't been online to challenge her, and she missed playing chess.

They met in a quiet chess club. He was there already when she arrived.

"Hello, Miss Green." Mitch said in French, "I haven't seen you for a long time."

Sophia wanted to say it hadn't really been that long, but she didn't, she just smiled, "Hello, Mr. Watson."

Mitch had already prepared the board. Sophia sat down, and they began to play straight away.

When she had played him before, she hadn't known she was up against the world champion, and so she hadn't felt any psychological pressure.