22. Caves
When I opened my eyes, Shen Yao was sitting on the edge of the tree house with her hands on her cheeks and looking at the sea, "Xiao Yao, how many days is it today?"
She shook her head.
I don't know what the solar term is now, it's raining from morning to night, and I feel like I haven't seen the sun for about a month, but fortunately, on a rainy day, there will be a lot of harvest from catching the sea, so even if I don't eat turtle eggs, there are so many blue crabs and jumping fish that I can't catch them all, and I won't starve. Another difficulty brought about by the rain was the preservation of the fire, the flint became difficult to use because of the humid air, and I would often wake up in the middle of the night to dig up the fire and light it again for fear that it would be extinguished.
In the interval between the rains, the whole island was filled with fog, and there would be a hot flash, which caused a lot of eczema on my back and the places covering my clothes, because of the itching was terrible, and the skin was scratched in many places, and it looked red.
Shen Yao is a little better than me, after all, she scratches the itch through her clothes, and I am not so restrained.
That day, the human monkey led us into a cold cave, I tripped over something, threw Shen Yao out, and she screamed, listening to her scream, I knew that she couldn't die. What had knocked me down caught my attention at the time, and I knelt in the dark and touched it, at first I thought it was a man and a monkey eating the leftover bones, but when my fingers were stuck in the skull's eye sockets, I knew it wasn't that simple.
The human monkey is obviously much faster than me to adapt to the darkness, and in the darkness his eyes glow with a faint green light, I don't know if it is because his diet since childhood has caused his physique to change! I knelt on the ground and groped out for Shen Yao, who was thrown out by me, and those eyes leaned towards me.
The man and the monkey grabbed my hand, and it was evident that he had grown in great courage in the darkness, and I was startled, his hand was rough and strong, and I was suddenly a little worried that he would suddenly pounce on me, and if that was the case I had little chance of winning in this dark cave. He pulled me forward, and the wind at the entrance of the cave stirred the trees and threw a little light in, and I vaguely saw Shen Yao curled up in the corner of the wall.
I went over and pulled her shoulder, she whispered "It hurts~", I wanted to pick her up again and walk out of the cave, but I thought that the human monkey would not lead me here for no reason, it should be that the shade in the cave can alleviate Shen Yao's symptoms, and the shade in the cave also makes me feel refreshed, and my head is no longer groggy. The human monkey let go of my hand and retreated into the distance.
My hand slid around. After all, I didn't want to get up and get tripped again, but after two strokes, I knocked over an iron bucket, making a clattering sound that scared people and monkeys into gurgling. I retracted my hand, it felt sticky, put it in front of my nose and smelled it, it was the smell of diesel, and I was happy.
I felt the bucket, stood up and walked slowly towards the entrance of the cave, and as soon as I got out of the cave, my eyes were pierced by the light outside.
I made a simple torch out of clothes and a dagger, and then planned to pour diesel fuel, I wasn't worried about what the human monkey would do to Shen Yao, he might just be curious.
But the lid of the oil drum was so tightly tightened that I couldn't unscrew it with nowhere to focus on the greasy, so I had to use a knife to make a cross directly from the barrel, bend the iron sheet and put the torch in, take the tinder and light the torch.
The torches lit up the cave, apparently a tunnel, and the Japanese had built a stronghold on the island, and there were about ten corpses lying on the ground, all of them with shriveled skin and varying degrees of decay.
The skeleton at the entrance of the cave, the bones have turned green, obviously some fungus is attached to it, there is no flesh and skin, it may have been eaten by crabs or insects, and the corpses inside, because they are relatively dry, the shriveled skin is still mutilated and covered with bones, and the clothes are vaguely recognizable, they are some low-grade Japanese officers. It was a thigh bone that had just tripped me up, and judging from the posture of the skeleton, it should have been committed at the same time, perhaps when the emperor announced his surrender, or perhaps when the island was besieged by the Americans and ran out of ammunition.
At this time, I didn't have the mood to take a closer look, the human monkey saw that the torch in my hand was burning vigorously, and retreated to the corner in fear, I couldn't hold Shen Yao while holding the torch, so I wanted to hand him the torch, but he saw me stretching out his hand and retreated further.
There was no way, I put Shen Yao in a slightly comfortable pose, I thought I had to go inside first.
I don't know if the monkey understood me, or was frightened by the torch in my hand, he ran ahead of me to lead the way, and we passed through a false iron gate, and then into a narrow stone corridor large enough for a single person to walk, and came to a locked iron gate, and I knew by the faintly recognizable red cross on the door, and this should be the place I was looking for.
If he knew this was a place where he could save people, then I would have to let him go. I kicked it so hard that I thought the rusted iron door and lock would not be able to hold my kick, but when the echo and dust cleared, the iron door stood still, and the soles of my feet were numb.
It occurred to me that on the skeleton's body, the short knife of the disembowelment had been completely rusted and could easily break, but the machete in the scabbard should still work. I immediately turned around and took the knife, I put the torch aside, pulled out the scabbard, the blade that reflected the fire was still bright, I raised the *** towards the door lock and slashed, there was a spark, the door lock and the door latch were cut by the brush.
I rummaged around, the medicine cabinet was not locked, fortunately it was well sealed, some medicines should still be usable, most of the signs on the medicine bottles were in English, and some Japanese were also traditional Chinese characters, so you can guess the name. Although I don't know how many of these drugs will be effective after a few decades, and the dead horse should be treated as a live horse doctor.
Just as I was about to give up, I reached for a flat box on the top layer and brushed the dust off it, the box was marked with the words "vK blood coagulation", and the box contained a bottle of liquid, which I thought was probably what I was looking for.
I took out the needle, hurriedly ran back to Shen Yao's side, and stood the torch by the wall, although I found the medicine, but I still made a difficulty, not only did I not know the dosage, but I also didn't know if there would be other side effects, the field hospital would not equip the medicine with instructions, even if there was one, I couldn't understand it.
But if he doesn't do this now, Shen Yao is really unlucky. Regardless of the efficacy of the drug, what should I do if I use too much after one injection, and Shen Yao dies because of blood clots or myocardial infarction?
I skillfully knocked open the medicine bottle, and one bottle happened to suck a tube, for the sake of caution, I planned to try the effect of the medicine myself, and slapped my wrist a few times hard.
I was probably in a hurry, and as soon as I pushed the tube into the vein, it felt a little fluttery, although I knew that my breathing was getting harder, but it was not painful.
I knew that I had overdosed, and my entire injected left arm was numb and I couldn't lift it anymore, which also proved that the medicine was working, and the blood in my left arm was clotted.
A tube could kill me, numbness began to spread all over my body, I couldn't open the bottle properly, it broke one after another, and seeing that it was already the last bottle, I could only use my teeth as a retainer, and with a twist of my hand, I finally opened a bottle. When I sucked half a tube with a needle and wanted to inject Shen Yao, Shen Yao's body shook in front of my eyes, becoming two, and then becoming four, I wanted to reach out and grab it but couldn't catch it, thinking that it was over, and then my head fell to the ground with a wooden head forward.
When I woke up, my eyes were dim, I couldn't exert my strength, I only felt that my fingertips and eyelids could move, I felt that the needle was still stuck in Shen Yao's thigh, and my heart was half down, but I couldn't move away and couldn't pull out the needle. I don't know if she saw me awake or felt me move, apparently she was only worse off than I was, but I heard her whisper to me.
"Uncle Yi?"
"Huh?"
"You... You... What are you doing here?"
I actually pillowed on Shen Yao's lower abdomen all the time, she seemed to grit her teeth and wanted to scold me, but it seemed that she hadn't sorted out the language, I don't know if I slept too soundly and drooled too much. Anyway, she was very angry, maybe it was a side effect of this blood clotting needle?
"What's wrong with me? Why can't I move?"
"We're all poisoned!" I made up the reason casually, at least easier than explaining the injection.
"Poisoned?"
Boom, she cried quietly, girls have always been emotional, crying can indeed reduce pressure, being able to cry means that my mind is normal, and my hanging heart is put down.
I was able to sit up at this time, my limbs had regained sensation, my fingers and toes were swollen, I moved my fingers a little bit, and then gradually my arms could move, and then I took off Shen Yao's shoes with great difficulty, her swollen feet were almost torn.
Because I woke up from the darkness and adapted to the darkness, I noticed that the human monkey was not in the cave.
"Hey~~~Hey~~~, you're pricking me with a needle?"
Shen Yao struggled to sit up and pull out the needle on her lap.
"What's wrong?oh~~~ Oh, I'm sorry. ”
I just noticed the needle on Shen Yao's leg.
I pulled the needle off Shen Yao's leg, and she didn't say a word, which is not a good thing!
This kind of coagulation needle is used to treat internal bleeding for the wounded, which is generally only used by officers, but it is necessary to keep the wounded in proper activity, otherwise the blood will accumulate in one organ for a long time, and it is easy for organs to fail, if it is coagulated in a certain part, this part will be paralyzed, and after a long time, it will die, and necrosis will have to be amputated!
I pulled Shen Yao up, let her lean against the wall, and moved her arms.
"Do you feel it?"
She nodded, "Yes, it's swollen, it's boring."
I breathed a sigh of relief and shook her leg again.
"Do you feel it?"
She looked at me as if she was feeling, and then motioned for me to shake again. I shook it again, but she still looked confused.
I thought it was bad, cold sweat came out of my head and back, and I stood up in a hurry, but obviously my legs had not fully recovered, and I didn't stand firm and smashed down towards Shen Yao.
For a moment, I reached out to support the wall, Shen Yao also turned her face sideways in fear and wanted to raise her hand to support me, but her arm fell halfway up, my arm was like a noodle on the wall, and suddenly the whole arm turned over to my back, clicking, but I didn't feel the pain, my face rubbed against the wall and smashed on Shen Yao's face, Shen Yao's face was pinned to the side, panting and humming quietly.
I felt a little sore in my nose, and blood was dripping down Shen Yao's face.
"Huhu, my God, Huhu, Uncle you, I'm really going to be crushed to death by you. Shen Yao complained, although she was not in a good state, she seemed to be in good spirits, and she seemed to be swearing.
My arm had just been pinned, and I couldn't use any force, and I could faintly feel the misaligned arm returning to its place under the tug of the muscles.
"Wait, I can't move my arm yet, even if I die, I have to take a breath first!"
"Uncle Yi, keep your mouth shut. ”
I guess my breath must have been too heavy, but I didn't bother to pay attention to her innocuous warning.
"What?"
"Shut up and don't blow at me. ”
"Fault!"
I'm angry too, I'm not going to do this for the sake of the medicine! I held my breath, my legs and arms together, and finally I rolled myself to the ground and breathed a long sigh of relief.