Chapter 67: Hallucinogenic Plants
"Evil grass?" Yu Die'er exclaimed, and Hetai's heart also moved slightly, and there was a hint of surprise in his deep cold eyes, and he began to listen with a little seriousness.
"Yes, there is also a rumor about this grass, saying that this grass should be pulled out in the daytime, if it is night, when this grass is uprooted, it faintly emits a scream similar to that of a person, cutting through the sky, terrifying and abnormal, this rumor may not be credible, alarmist! After I got this grass, I spent three years researching it, but I found that this grass is not the so-called divine grass or the spiritual grass or elixir that is beneficial to people at all, but a kind of plant that can cause hallucinations, and those heavenly scenes are just hallucinations produced by people after eating this plant, and this terrible plant can not only cause hallucinations, but also contain evil toxins, killing people invisibly! This harmful thing is of course an evil grass, how can it be called a divine grass!" Cui Li shook his head, as if he wanted to get rid of some kind of memory.
"The sacred grass that has been guarded for generations is actually a poisonous weed, so why did the people who guarded the tribe that had eaten it for a long time not die of poisoning, but were able to reproduce and survive, and still believe in it as a fairy grass?" Hetai said in a deep silence, his sharp eyes seemed to contain disbelief.
"Yes, if it's poisonous, how can they all live well if they eat it?"
Hallucinogenic plants? What makes a tribe worship like a god grass is actually a plant that makes people hallucinate? And this kind of plant? It's so peculiar, hallucinating? And it's poisonous? Yu Butterfly suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Cui Li was silent about the questions of the two people at first, and then turned around and looked at Hetai, and then at Yu Die'er, that look seemed to hide a thousand words.
He retracted his gaze and sighed heavily: "They are alive and well? Who told you that they are all alive and well? Of course those who survived are well, but ......" His solemn face shocked both of them, could it be that the people in the tribe could not escape the poison?
"The reason why they were okay before was because they just ate the fruit of the grass, the fruit is the fastest hallucination, and it contains the lowest toxin, so it just makes them hallucinate, and there are some beautiful and harmless things in the illusion, so it didn't hurt their lives, as time goes by, I don't know which generation of descendants they have reached, and there are those who are curious to eat the fruit Since they can see the scene of heaven, if they eat flowers, roots, and leaves, I don't know if there will be unexpected occurrences, or can they become immortals?"
So he secretly tasted the other parts of the grass, and when people found him a few days later, he was already delirious and crazy, and the people in the tribe foolishly thought that this was his greed, delusional desire to become an immortal, and was punished by the true god, and some people said that the man had done too many bad things on weekdays, and was not accepted by heaven, so this was the result, and then more and more people secretly tried, hoping that he was the one who could become an immortal, so there were more and more crazy people in the tribe, and people with strange diseases. ”
"Outside the mountain, there were often groups of madmen and people with strange diseases, and they were dressed differently from those outside the town, and there was no one in the town who had lost their population, so they all knew that the tribe in the mountain was infected with what plague could make people crazy, so no one dared to approach, because this kind of thing happened one after another, and the people in the tribe became more and more scarce. With the deterrence of lessons from the past, there are fewer people who dare to try, and the tribe can continue. I'm sure the people of that tribe must have noticed something, or discovered the strangeness of the grass, but they didn't study it thoroughly. ”
"Until two more generations passed, the tribe produced a young man with a very high talent for medicine, at first he followed a Lang Zhong in the tribe to learn medicine, and then went out of the mountains to study, he was the first person in the tribe to officially go out of the mountains, he learned something, traveled all over the world and returned to the tribe, and began to study the fairy grass that they had guarded for generations, only to find the multi-faceted role of this grass, and also found that only edible fruits can produce beautiful illusions, although edible stems will also produce hallucinations, but the illusion is a terrible and terrifying scene, which can scare people to death or disturb the nerves to make people crazy, and edible roots make people gradually lose their spiritsThe young man was greatly surprised when he found out, only to know that the clan had been guarding for generations was not a fairy grass at all, but only a hallucinogenic plant, or poisonous! So he told the patriarch, hoping that the patriarch would announce the news to the whole clan and prevent the people in the tribe from eating such poisonous weeds again. ”
The more she listened, the more shocked she became, how could she be so asymptomatic as herself? Last night, she saw a strange beast, but no one else could see it, she had nightmares and couldn't sleep, and this morning she fainted like she was sick. Could it be that he was also poisoned?
Cui Li has been taking care of himself and said: "Since then, as if this young man has never come back, the people in the tribe do not know about the poisonous weeds, but the people in the tribe are surprised to find that the patriarch began to dig up these grasses in large quantities, and dried its roots to make sachets or amulets. The various parts of the poisonous weeds were processed and packed into different sachets or amulets, and then the patriarch and his two sons took the sachets out of the mountains, telling the people only to spread the gospel to the outside world and protect the well-being of the people, and a few months later his eldest son returned to the mountains to take the throne of the patriarch, saying that his father and brother had been killed by mountain bandits on the way. ”
"In fact, they are going to sell this poison covered with divine grass to others, or to deceive people's minds by claiming that this thing can make the gods manifest in a fairyland, or to use this poison to harm people, and all of them are used to seek glory and wealth. The reason why the eldest son came back was for the position of patriarch and to be able to continuously provide poisonous weeds to them outside. Therefore, after he inherited the position of the patriarch, he still ordered the clansmen to refine this grass and put it in the purse, and he went out to distribute it, bringing back a large amount of silver money and distributing it to the clansmen, saying that this grass is magical, and the world is giving it with gold and silver. Cui Li's face was inexplicably resentful, telling this story seemed to be quite painstaking, in addition to resentment, his face was full of tiredness, and his dark eyes were also dull.
"Are you saying that Fluttershy was hurt by this poison?" Wise as Crane Tai, he remembered what Peony had said, and he instantly heard the mystery with a shocked face.
"Fluttershy?" Cui Li didn't react for a while, Hetai's face turned red inexplicably, and he unconsciously called Yu Die'er that, which seemed really inappropriate, so he peeked at her, and saw that she didn't seem to be paying attention, and pulled a little face as if she was thinking about something, so he was relieved.
Cui Li looked at him and understood that he was talking about the woman in front of him. Then he asked, "What strange and different phenomena do you think there are in the past few days, and what is abnormal in your body, tell me about it." ”
Yu Die'er had already guessed a few points, but she was not much shocked, so she carefully told what had happened in the past two days.
Cui Li nodded lightly after listening: " According to the symptoms, you must also be aware, and your pulse, if I expect it to be good, must be poisoned by this plant that can cause people to hallucinate, because although the person's contact has only undergone a slight change, ordinary people can't get out, but I can, because the change is subtle but very peculiar, and you should be a mixture of flowers and roots, the poison is extremely vicious, the poison mixed with these two parts is very powerful, not only can invade the blood, but also invade the brain nerves, so the people who have been poisoned will have a variety of manifestations, at first some are delirious, some are moody, and some have hallucinations in the brainAt first, I will always see all kinds of bizarre visions, unspeakable birds and beasts, or strange buildings. ”
"The more time passes, the hallucinations will become more and more severe in the future, and the attacks will become more and more frequent, so frequent that it is difficult for the poisoned person to distinguish between the real and the fake, and will take the illusion as real, so as to live in the illusion, and behave abnormally, until he goes insane. Because it is a mixed product, it will also be delirious at the same time, suddenly feel the yin and qi around the body, suddenly the world is spinning, it will suddenly faint, the limbs will be weak and weak after waking up, nightmares in the coma, nausea, trembling and sweating, after falling asleep, it will enter a state of illusion, and the later coma will be longer and longer, crazy, stupid and strange, until he dies. ”
"This method is not noticed, only if the poisoned person has a strange disease, or has a mental problem, or is haunted by evil spirits, no one can imagine that it will be poisoned, I am afraid that except for me, no one else can tell this pulse. ”
"Since this poison was produced by the Red Merchant, how can you be interested in this poison? and know so much about the things in that tribe?" Yu Die'er's question made Hetai also feel surprised, this stupid girl, she was highly poisoned, but she was not surprised or afraid at all, and even asked something insignificant.
Cui Li didn't expect Yu Die'er to ask him this, he was slightly stunned, and then said: "Oh, I also got a log by chance, and the log recorded this matter, I was curious to confirm the authenticity of the content in the log so I went to buy a grass to study." ”
Yu Die'er didn't believe it in her heart, there were too many loopholes, and what log could even be recorded by the patriarch to kill people, unless it was the patriarch's log. But who would be so stupid as to write down his evil deeds on paper and leave them behind? Just seeing that Cui Li is unwilling to say it, it is not easy to force people to ask them, who doesn't have some secrets in their hearts? It is not easy for him to tell these secret things.
"Then this poison, is there a solution to it, sir?" Yu Die'er changed the topic, Cui Li's face was a little more natural, at this moment he also regretted it, maybe he shouldn't have said so much, it's just how many years, he accidentally knew these things at the age of seven, he never confided a word to outsiders, and his heart was also heavy, and today he actually met the person who was poisoned, and he said it unconsciously.
Seeing her asking the point, Hetai thought to himself that she hadn't been stupid enough to get home, Cui Li's reputation as a ghost doctor was not blown, and it was said that he could save people from the ghost gate, so he called him a ghost doctor, but it was just poison, there should be a way to resolve it, right? So he wasn't too worried.
"I studied this poisonous weed for three years, only to figure out its poison, tried various methods, but still failed to make an antidote, and it is still under development, but I have no clue. Cui Li looked apologetic.