Chapter 37: Distress Signals

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen sat next to each other by the fire, trapped in the sinkhole, and the atmosphere was a little depressing. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Ye Zhenzhen thought about a way to get out, and after thinking about it for a long time, she didn't think of a way out, and then looked at Nan Zhiqiao, her spirit was a little sluggish.

"Senior Nan, how did we get out of the pool. Ye Zhenzhen found a topic and wanted to ease the atmosphere.

"Swim out. Nan Zhiqiao replied succinctly.

"But I remember, as soon as I fell into the water, I didn't realize it, how did we swim out?"

"I swam you out. Nan Zhiqiao's answer was still very concise, but the meaning was very clear, he rescued Ye Zhenzhen by himself.

Zhen Zhen wanted to ask again, but Nan Zhiqiao was obviously in poor spirits, "Senior Nan, are you not feeling well?"

"Hmm. ”

"Then lie down and rest for a while, I'll keep watch by the side. ”

"Hmmm......"

Nan Zhiqiao lay down on the haystack, closed his eyes, motionless, Ye Zhenzhen put his coat on Nan Zhiqiao, and quietly stood aside.

The campfire crackles under the arched rock, the bats perched under the rock wall above the sinkhole have come out of the cave in groups, and everything in nature is running in an orderly manner, but the two people at the bottom of the pit are facing a desperate situation.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at Nan Zhiqiao beside her, her eyes closed, as if she was sleeping deeply, but her eyebrows were twisted together, as if she was thinking about something in her sleep, Zhenzhen sighed and whispered: "If I hadn't insisted on coming to the forest park to explore, you wouldn't have been trapped in this unmanned sinkhole together, Senior Nan, it's me who has burdened you." ”

Nan Zhiqiao's eyes suddenly moved, Ye Zhenzhen thought that the other party was woken up by her own voice, and hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Senior Nan, are you awake?"

Nan Zhiqiao moved, but did not respond.

Ye Zhenzhen reached out and pulled the coat that was about to slip off Nan Zhiqiao's body again, accidentally touching the bare skin on Nan Zhiqiao's neck, only to feel a burst of heat.

"It's so hot, is it a fever?" Ye Zhenzhen muttered in her heart, reaching out to test the temperature of Nan Zhiqiao's forehead.

Boiling hot!

Ye Zhenzhen's heart sank, and she immediately withdrew her hand and touched her forehead, and then reached out to try Nan Zhiqiao's forehead, and the result was the same as before, touching her neck and pulse again, Nan Zhiqiao's whole body was hot, and her heartbeat and pulse were much faster than usual.

Senior Nan actually had a fever!

The most common cause of fever is when pathogens such as bacteria and viruses invade the body, and the person's immune system and nervous system respond to stress.

Bacteria and viruses?Ye Zhenzhen was the first to think of Nan Zhiqiao's injured right foot, hurriedly leaned down, carefully pulled up the trouser hem, and what caught her eyes was Nan Zhiqiao's bloody foot, Zhen Zhen was flustered and distressed for a while.

The wound was simply treated by Nan Zhiqiao himself, wrapped in strips of cloth, but there was still blood oozing out, if this kind of serious abrasion wound was not treated in time, it was easy to be infected and cause high fever, and no matter how serious it was, it could cause sepsis, or even fatal.

Thinking of the consequences, Zhen Zhen was terrified, and suddenly, she remembered that when she climbed along the vine to the top of the sinkhole, Nan Zhiqiao's neck seemed to have been bitten by a bat.

Ye Zhenzhen checked Nan Zhiqiao's neck again, and as expected, there were two rows of small tooth marks on the left side of Nan Zhiqiao's neck, and the blood from the wound had scabbed.

This bat bite is more serious than a foot abrasion, and the virus carried by bats can not only transmit rabies, but also coronavirus, Hendra virus, and Nipah virus......

Thinking of this, Zhen Zhen was even more anxious, the two of them were trapped under the sinkhole, and they didn't even have clean water, let alone medicine to treat injuries, so they had to find a way to get out of here.

"Senior Nan?"

Ye Zhenzhen tried to wake up Nan Zhiqiao, but Nan Zhiqiao didn't react at all, obviously in a coma with a high fever.

Panic, fear, helplessness...... All kinds of feelings filled Ye Zhenzhen's mind, and her already somewhat confused head hurt even more.

Holding Nan Zhiqiao's hand, looking at Nan Zhiqiao's face that was a little crimson due to fever, Ye Zhenzhen's tears fell down, "Senior Nan, it's me who has caused you ......"

While crying and looking at Nan Zhi Qiao, Zhen Zhen's mind flashed the scenes after meeting Nan Zhi Qiao, the encounter in Paris, the in-situ isolation in the Pasteur Institute, the pursuit of the murderer in the Seine, the death valley of the sheep pasture in the northern suburbs, the deadly pendant found in the Nanmu Group, the two of them took care of the winged angel An An together, and found poppy husks and deadly salt in the century-old shop......

The bits and pieces after the two met flashed in their minds one by one, and Zhen Zhen's mood calmed down little by little, in the past, every time there was danger, it was Nan Zhiqiao who rushed to the front, this time, Zhen Zhen had to face it by herself.

Zhen Zhen began to think, the current situation, the two are trapped under the sinkhole, there is no exit, can only call for help, no mobile phone, no modern equipment, the distress signal can only be the simplest and most primitive, now it is a dark day, in the dark, the most effective signal means is? - fire!

The international signal for trapped fire is to make three fires and make them enclose a triangle, with a distance of 23 meters between them, but now with Zhen Zhen's own strength, she can't take care of the three fires at all, and can only protect one fire first.

The fire that was already burning beside them was obscured by the arched cliff above, and it was necessary to find an open place and find enough firewood.

Zhen Zhen remembered that the flood had receded, and the big tree that emerged from the edge of the waterhole seemed to be an ancient camphor tree, and there were many dead branches under the tree, although it had experienced a heavy rain, but after a day of exposure to the autumn sun, the dead branches were already half dry, and with some dry firewood, the whole tree should be able to be ignited.

Wiped away his tears, covered the clothes on Nan Zhiqiao's body, found some dry firewood nearby, put it on the low branch under the camphor tree, and filled it with dry wood around the trunk of the camphor tree, and finally, took out a burning wood from the previous bonfire and lit the dry firewood under the camphor tree.

The fire spread quickly, the whole camphor tree was set on fire, the branches burned and made a "crackling" sound, and the burning camphor wood emitted a special fragrance and spread.

The camphor tree burned, and it would not be extinguished for a while, Ye Zhenzhen returned to Nan Zhiqiao's side, and tried the temperature of her forehead again, it was still hot.

There was no antipyretics, Zhen Zhen thought of physical cooling, tore off a corner of her clothes, moistened it with pool water, and applied it to Nan Zhiqiao's forehead, repeating it many times, the temperature on her forehead dropped slightly, but as soon as it stopped, the temperature immediately became hot again.

Zhen Zhen ripped off the sleeve of her T-shirt, put the previous clothes on Nan Zhiqiao's forehead, and wiped the other places with the ripped off sleeves dipped in water.

When the neck, armpits, back, and left arm were rubbed, I suddenly found that Nan Zhiqiao's entire left arm was a little swollen, and after careful inspection, there were two deep tooth marks on the left forearm, and there were black around the tooth marks, and there were some fresh blood stains.

Zhen Zhen's first reaction was another wound from a bat bite, but when she looked at it again, the wound on her arm was deeper than the bite of a bat on her neck, and her arm was swollen and showed signs of poisoning.