Chapter 19: Natural Painkillers

Ji Chen kept cursing these beasts in his heart, and he found that the monsters here either didn't attack people, or they threw you over and dragged you over to torture you, which was really confusing.

Ji Chen raised his torch at the surrounding monkeys, meaning that if you dare to come, I will burn you to death with fire.

Then he squatted down to check on Zhang Lan's injuries. Sun Jian's condition is a little better, like Ji Chen, there is nothing serious except for scratches and bites, Zhang Lan is more serious, but it is also skin trauma.

But Li Xue was not so lucky, she was dragged the farthest away by the monkeys, and Ji Chen almost didn't catch up, so she was almost covered in worn skin, her whole body was blurred with flesh and blood, and she leaned against the tree motionless.

Ji Chen stuck the torch on the ground hard, and then picked her up to check her injuries. Her breathing was already very weak, Ji Chen raised her arm and looked around, and found that there was nothing fatal, thinking to herself, fortunately, it was still daytime, and it should not be long before she got better.

As soon as Ji Chen breathed a sigh of relief, he noticed that something was wrong, a large amount of blood flowed from the knee of Li Xue's left leg, and he hurriedly lifted her left leg, but as soon as he lifted it, the touch in Ji Chen's hand shocked his heart.

He trembled and rolled up Li Xue's trousers, and then saw a scene that gave goosebumps to the ground.

Li Xue's left leg was almost completely severed from the knee, leaving only a little bit of flesh connecting the thigh and calf, and the bones and joints inside were clearly visible.

Ji Chen was stunned for a moment, a little at a loss, and his expression was almost frozen.

Sun Jian discovered Ji Chen's abnormality, he sat up with his hands and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ji Chen looked at him and didn't speak, Sun Jian frowned and realized that something was wrong, and immediately climbed to Li Xue's side, looked at Li Xue's leg, and was immediately shocked.

Sun Jian swallowed his saliva, then immediately took off his coat and carefully wrapped Li Xue's legs, and found two small wooden sticks nearby to clamp her legs, and then pulled two wicker sticks to fix it.

Ji Chen didn't know what to do, so he whispered beside him: "There is a recovery buff during the day, it should be able to be connected, right?"

After saying this, Ji Chen didn't believe it himself, and Zhang Lan's fingers explained everything very well.

After observing for the past few days, Ji Chen found that regarding the recovery gain during the day, it seemed that it could only restore their physical strength and some skin injuries, or some minor internal injuries.

Ji Chen guessed that this recovery would only replicate a small piece of tissue and cells around the body, thus replacing the broken part. However, for such a large piece of tissue that is directly broken, the recovery buff will only heal the wound and will not grow new tissue.

Zhang Lan recovered a little, and as soon as her eyelids raised, she saw that Ji Chen and Sun Jian were busy around Li Xue, so she asked worriedly, "Is Li Xue okay?" ”

"It's okay, it's just that her leg hurts a little, let's just help her bandage it. ”

Ji Chen replied in a very relaxed tone, Ji Chen didn't dare to imagine how Zhang Lan would react if he knew, so he simply chose to hide it from her.

After resting for a while, Ji Chen felt that all his physical strength had recovered, but the scratches and bite marks on his body showed no signs of goodness, which made him feel very strange. Based on so many days of experience, such a wound should have scabbed over a long time ago, Ji Chen thought to himself.

Just when Ji Chen was wondering, he faintly felt that the wounds on his body were a little painful, could it be poisonous? His first thought was that the claws and teeth of those tailless monkeys were poisonous

This pain was growing in a stepwise manner, and after a while, Ji Chen felt the sharp pain emanating from the wounds all over his body covering Ji Chen's whole body like a tide. Sun Jian and Zhang Lan are the same, they are sitting aside**, even Li Xue, who is in a coma, is writhing with a painful expression.

As the pain in several people's bodies became more and more intense, their ** gradually turned into screams.

The monkeys next to them were just silently watching them at first, but now they are starting to get a little nervous.

It turned out that these monkeys were waiting for the wounds on their bodies to attack, Ji Chen gritted his teeth and stood up with the pain in his body, only to find that the tree on his head had burned to only half of it, and he kept falling crumbs.

Just as Ji Chen looked up at it, Sun Jian suddenly shouted hoarsely: "Be careful!"

Ji Chen quickly turned his head and saw that a monkey had already walked behind him and reached out to touch the torch planted next to him.

Ji Chen let out a loud shout and rushed over to pick up the torch first, and then waved at the tailless monkey, and the tailless queen immediately ran back with a strange scream.

It seems that these tailless monkeys can't bear it anymore, Ji Chen thought to himself, and with a torch in his hand, he lit five or six trees next to him.

But Ji Chen knew in his heart that if he continued to consume like this, it would never be a way, because even if he put aside the severe pain on his body, if he didn't find a way to get out of here as soon as possible, they would eventually be burned to death by the fire he had set himself.

Ji Chen gritted his teeth and leaned against the tree, his body was tense, his chest was rising and falling rapidly, and his forehead was full of cold sweat caused by pain.

These wounds could neither be touched nor stopped, and they could only endure them by their own perseverance.

Ji Chen took out a little strength and quickly glanced around, except for the monkeys that were one tree after another, everything seemed to have reached the point of lifelessness, and the so-called turnaround seemed to be far away.

The intense pain made Ji Chen's brain unable to think normally, and his body began to curl up together, and Ji Chen felt like he had been skinned alive and sprinkled with a handful of salt.

After a while, Ji Chen didn't even have the strength to stand, he fell to the ground and couldn't help but start rolling left and right. At this time, he wanted to have a knife and stab himself directly to avoid this painful torture.

Ji Chen, who was rolling left and right on the ground, accidentally bumped into a tree, and he turned his head in pain to see that he was hitting that kind of extremely thin willow tree.

Ji Chen suddenly thought of something, and a surge of hope suddenly ignited in his heart.

Ji Chen struggled to get up and began to frantically buckle the willow bark with his fingers, but the willow bark was also very hard, and his nails were all turned out, and he didn't buckle much.

So he simply bit it with his teeth, and after wasting all his strength, he finally bit off a few pieces.

Ji Chen's mouth was full of blood, he spit out the bark in his mouth and held it in both hands, as if looking at a treasure, after a few seconds, Ji Chen stuffed these pieces of willow bark into his mouth with trembling hands and chewed hard.

Chewing the bark was really a very painful thing, Ji Chen only felt that the bark was dry and bitter, and he couldn't chew it at all, his mouth had already been worn out, and the bitter taste of the bark and the taste of blood in his mouth were all mixed in his mouth. But he didn't care about it at all, and chewed with his teeth like a child, and after a few minutes, he finally felt a little rotten, and began to swallow it in his throat.

It wasn't until he swallowed it that Ji Chen found out that the more painful thing than chewing the bark turned out to be swallowing the bark, no matter how he swallowed, he couldn't swallow it, and finally swallowed it, but it was stuck in the middle of his throat again, and in the end, he kept sliding the Adam's apple with his fingers before he barely swallowed.

Ji Chen coughed with his eyes puffed out for a long time, and immediately said to Zhang Lan and Sun Jian after relieving his breath: "Quickly bite some willow bark and swallow it, it can relieve the pain." ”

After speaking, Ji Chen hugged the willow tree and bit off two pieces of willow bark from it, chewed it in his mouth, and then spit it out and knelt in front of Li Xue and slowly put it into her mouth.

Ji Chen also knew that it was disgusting, but at this time, he didn't care about these at all, he gently opened Li Xue's mouth, sent the bark residue in his hand into Li Xue's mouth, then shook her head and rubbed her throat, and wasted a long time before helping Li Xue swallow.

After eating some willow bark, I don't know if it was the psychological effect or the pain-relieving effect of willow bark, Ji Chen really felt that the pain in his body had been reduced a lot.

Zhang Lan lay on the ground in prostration, looked at Ji Chen for a long time, and then asked softly, "How do you know that willow bark can relieve pain." ”

Ji Chen looked at the wounds on his body, then scratched the back of his head and said: "I saw in the magazine before that willow bark is a natural painkiller, and there is a substance called salicylic acid in it, which can relieve pain, and the current painkiller aspirin is extracted from willow bark." ”

Sun Jian also recovered from the severe pain, and said with a smile next to him: "Niu, you even know this." ”

Ji Chen sighed and replied, "It's luck, maybe God intends to help us." ”

After speaking, Ji Chen turned to look around, those monkeys were still eyeing the side, and the fire around them was getting bigger and bigger, and the real threat had not yet dissipated.