"We had a great day. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over the campfire and went into the tent to pull up sleeping bags for the children. By moonlight, my husband and I held our last cocktail and celebrated a dreamlike day in the Adirondack Hills. We climbed into the tent, slipped into the sleeping bags on either side of the children, and fell asleep. “

"I was awakened by the first tingling and screamed. Another tingling pain, like a knife stabbing me in the side of my head, followed by a thunderous crackling sound in my ears, as if a huge paper bag had been crumpled in my head. The stinging pain came and went, and the screams came and went. My husband pulled me out of the tent so as not to scare the children. Later he said he wondered if I was crazy. I begged him to wake me up from my nightmare and stop it. I grabbed half of my head and cried. The two of us had an epiphany, something in my ear, something that was either biting or burrowing in the eardrum. ”

"I've had children twice; When I was a child, my ankle was bent and my chin was cut by an ice blade. The pain was unbearable, but this time, I was in shock from head to toe, and every time I felt it, a lightning bolt swept in front of my eyes. For twenty minutes, the contents of my ears kept destroying me, while my husband frantically tossed cotton swabs (ridiculously in retrospect) to soothe me and the children. ”

"We were in the depths of the forest, half a mile from a dirt road, and 10 miles away the dirt road was connected to a country road, and after 30 miles down the country road there was a highway, and another 20 miles down the highway there was a large hospital. I chose to camp here because I didn't want to go all the way to a backwooded place where I had to go by water. Two years ago, my youngest son was diagnosed with a physical illness, and since then, we have not camped for holidays. For the first time, I wanted to drive there, just in case, but I never dreamed that I would be in the emergency room. ”

"I don't remember a lot of things on the road. The children were asleep, and my husband kept comforting me. Blood and other fluids flowed out of the ears drop by drop. When I arrived at the hospital, it was already the middle of the night, and the children were asleep. The husband stayed in the car with them. The belated doctor rinsed my ears and put analgesic and insecticidal drops into them if the bugs were still alive. He said my eardrum was so inflamed that I couldn't tell which was the eardrum and which was the bug. The doctor sent me home because he couldn't help me until the swelling subsided, and he didn't want me to be deaf forever. ”

"The next morning, we traveled as a family to Vermont, where there was a bigger and better hospital. My ears hurt and I couldn't hear the sound, on the side that had gotten into the bug's ear. The skin around the eyes is not sensational. ”

"In the emergency room, the doctors rinsed my ears again and gave me painkillers. They said they saw a worm leg, but they couldn't help it, and a disease like mine needed to be treated by a specialist with a special instrument. The doctor told me to go home. ”

"Two days later, I went to that hospital again to see the ENT clinic. These specialists saw a large number of foreign bodies in my ear canal, but according to the two doctors in the previous laboratory, most of these foreign bodies resembled water droplets in the ears of young children. They looked at my ear with a surgical microscope. I remember a doctor who said, 'Insects. It's not small. ’”

"Yesterday, at the magazine where I worked, my colleagues and I guessed what exactly was in my ears: a wasp? Spider? Ant? Centipede? A friend who writes and likes to be close to nature has guessed an insect: the Gidding worm. ”

"He guessed right."

"The worms that the ear, nose and throat specialist pulled out of my ears were slightly larger than the Japanese beetles -- the same in appearance, but dark brown in color. There is no metal case. Scarab, I was terrified. ”

"I'm sure my eardrum isn't damaged. The eardrum is as it is, thin and elastic. Even if it is damaged or torn, it can heal within a few days. The doctor explains why tapping the inner ear alone is so painful: There are four cranial nerves that control the ear canal. And all the sensing information is transmitted to the brain. If there is a slight irritation, the thin skin will be overloaded. ”

One of the ear, nose and throat experts suggested if there was a chance that the phenomenon would happen again. You can pour some oil into your ears to lubricate and kill insects. If you don't have these oils? Water or a 50/50 mixture of water and alcohol, or water and hydrogen peroxide will be useful. Sometimes, bugs can be removed with depilation pliers. He said that if the clippers are inserted too deeply, there is a danger of injuring the eardrum. And, if you can't get all the bugs out, you'll have to go to the hospital anyway. ”

"I took the beetle wrapped in a plastic bag on the road and threw it in the trash. Entomologists have the most reliable signage for their species. The thing I was carrying in my hand - it stinked a little - but it didn't affect me anymore. Later, when I described the bug to an expert on it, he was only able to identify it as a scarab beetle. I asked him how the scarab beetle could tear my eardrums, 'they don't bite,' he explained, and the scarab beetle damages a person's eardrum with its legs and claws. A large beetle can lift objects up to 50 times its weight. ”

"On our way to the emergency room, when the doctor was diagnosing me, I asked them if they had ever pulled insects out of their ears. While interning at a New York City hospital, two doctors said they removed cockroaches from patients' ear canals, and one doctor recalled: "When he tugged the cockroach, the cockroach flew out and flew over his head." Obviously, in Vermont, it's not uncommon for moths to get into the ears. ”

"But it doesn't matter anymore, anyway, next time I'm camping, no matter where I'm camping, I'm going to have to wear earplugs."

"It's disgusting." Ye Xiu couldn't help but say.

"So I'm telling this story to tell you that maybe we should also wear earplugs when we go to bed at night, especially when we sleep outdoors." Gao Xi shrugged his shoulders and said.

Instead of telling a ghost story, he told a story that was closer to life, which is very important for campers, and he felt that the story was much more meaningful than any ghost story.

But Ye Xiu insisted on letting him tell ghost stories, he excused himself, what kind of joke are you kidding, Gao Xi is so big, what he is most afraid of listening to is ghost stories, he is not afraid of horror and blood, but he is afraid of those ghosts that do not exist, let him tell such stories, it is better to kill them.

It was already dark at this time, and Jin Sen said that it was time to get ready to sleep, and Gao Xi was also relieved, and hurriedly left the campfire, and went back to pack his tent, which had already been laid out before, so at this time, as long as he tidied up a little, and then the whole person got into the sleeping bag, he could sleep peacefully.

Of course, the gun must be kept nearby, because this is in the forest, you don't know when you may encounter wolves, insects, tigers and leopards and the like, in case of accidents, you can also deal with it in time.

Ye Xiu likes to take pictures, everyone else is brushing their teeth and getting ready for bed, but he is still taking pictures there with his mobile phone.

Suddenly, looking at a figure standing under a tree, the more I watched it, the more it looked like a horror movie that Gao Xi had seen! With a straight hair in his heart, Ye Xiu laughed and said that Gao Xi had watched too many horror movies, and he was afraid that he would suddenly run into a monster and shoot a ghost shadow.

In fact, he was wrong, Gao Xi really hasn't watched many horror movies, but he heard a lot of ghost stories when he was a child, and he listened to others when he was out in the summer when he was out in the shade, that's called a scary, sometimes he doesn't dare to turn off the lights when he sleeps at night, and his head has to be directly covered in the quilt, which is a bit of an ostrich.

If there really is a ghost, even if it hides in the bed, it's useless, isn't this typical ostrich behavior?

After Ye Xiu frantically took pictures for a while, he returned to the tent, looking really tired and wanted to sleep.

The wind was blowing outside the tent, but it was very warm inside the tent, and it was not the first time that Gao Xi had slept outdoors.

But that's different from this, this is in the middle of the forest, and that kind of exciting and fresh feeling makes Gao Xi a little excited and can't sleep, and he lies there tossing and turning.

The Hulk and Lightning were lying on their stomachs outside, and next to them lay a cougar who had recovered from his injuries.

The cougar is now playing with the Hulk and Lightning, and is not afraid of people at all, but sometimes it is still wild and untamable, and always wants to attack horses and people.

Gao Xi plans to release the cougar after tonight is over, and let it leave here and go home, otherwise it will not be safe to always take it with him, in case he really bites someone, he will have to be responsible, how cost-effective it is.

Just as Gaucy was tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, suddenly there was a low roar in the woods, followed by a burst of dog barking, and almost all the dogs, including Lightning and the Hulk, barked.

It just so happened that Gao Xi didn't fall asleep, so he sat up immediately and got out of the tent with a gun, he didn't take off his clothes at all, he slept wrapped in a jacket, so it was convenient.

Ye Xiu was also woken up, getting dressed there, Gao Xi was the first to run out, as soon as he got outside, Gao Xi saw several powerful cougars approaching in the direction of the camp, Gao Xi looked at the cougar who had not fully healed from his injuries, and probably understood what was going on, this was the cougar's family coming to her.

"Don't shoot yet." Seeing that the campers had all come out of their tents, each with a gun in their hands, Gao Xi hurriedly shouted.

Once this is fired, it will be a battle to the death, and if this battle can be avoided, it will probably be something that everyone will be happy to see.

Goucie picked up the cougar, walked through the dogs' protective line, and released the cougar.

The cougar glanced back at him, clearly reluctant. (To be continued......)