Chapter 161: Distress

"Are you really here to travel? Travelling here? Bai Annian looked incredulous.

"Then I said that I came here because you are here, do you believe it?" Chen Mingchu replied a little shyly.

"Dr. Chen is really good at laughing, no matter what, you are here, tomorrow is the last day of the International Trade Fair, I will take you to go shopping at the end." Bai Annian still didn't think so, thinking that since Chen Mingchu was here, he would take him to play.

The Yoruba are one of the largest tribes in Africa and one of the most urbanized, and the Yoruba have always been the most ingenious of African craftsmen, and the bronze castings of the early period are exquisite, and the entire African tribe is unmatched.

Bai Annian likes to collect, so naturally he will not let go of this opportunity, so he found a local guide to take Chen Mingchu to visit the unurbanized Yoruba people, and he happened to visit their market to try his luck.

Along the way, Bai Annian talked about the living habits, architectural characteristics, and social composition of the Yoruba people more interesting and vivid than the introduction of the guide.

At noon, the two also tasted Yoruba's special food, potato potato, and after eating and drinking, they leisurely strolled around the local village's market that attracts tourists.

"The Yoruba are the most ingenious!" Chen Mingchu was in front of a stall, looking at the bold and bright colors of the carpets, and the fancy and complicated carpets and exclaimed.

He didn't hear Bai Annian's words, so he turned his head to look for it, and now she was looking at a bronze headdress, this is a hairpin, the whole is made in the shape of a tribal totem of the Yoruba people.

The Yoruba natives at the "Five Dollar, Five Dollar" stall saw Bai Annian as a foreigner and insisted on asking her for US dollars, and could not accept local currency in life or death.

After some haggling, Bai Annian was about to sell the deal for $3 when suddenly gunshots rang out in the village, and the Yoruba natives in the bazaar heard it and hurriedly fled in all directions, leaving only a few tourists standing there at a loss.

Before Bai Annian could react, she was grabbed by a hand and dragged her towards the guide's car.

The guide watched both of them get into the car, quickly locked the door and started the car. The gunshots in the back of the car were more and more numerous, and there was a tendency to get closer and closer, and one shot hit the door, and the whole car shook and tilted to the side.

While dodging, the guide told them that the person who shot and broke into the project was the Igbo tribe from the next village, a large tribe in the eastern part of country D, and that this kind of turf grabbing often occurred on the border between the two tribes, but the Igbo tribe did not know where to buy guns to escalate the conflict.

When they arrived at a safe place deep in the jungle, the guide got out of the car and said that he was going to investigate the situation and then disappeared, and the two looked at each other and knew that they had been left here.

Bai Annian took out the GPS and found that the signal was lost in the depths of the jungle, but she did not panic and said to Chen Mingchu: "Let's go in the direction of the mountain to the east, and at the top of the mountain, maybe there is a signal to send out and let people save us." ”

A few hours later, the two found a water source, Bai Annian looked at Chen Mingchu, who was already out of breath, and said with a smile: "Don't you a big man usually exercise, how can you breathe after walking a few steps, it's not as good as me." ”

"I'm a hiker, I've been participating in activities since I was 18 years old, and I've saved people. I'm 44 years old now, and of course I'm not as good as you little girl in your twenties. Chen Ming first saw Bai Annian laughing at him, and justified with a good face.

"You won an award at the age of 18 because you saved people, I checked your information when I interviewed you, what the hell is going on."

Seeing that Bai Annian was curious, Chen Mingchu started talking.

When I was 18 years old, out of curiosity, I signed up for a hiking activity in a well-known mountain on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, the tools for walking were rudimentary, but because it was not far from the city, the team was basically a semi-play team, and everyone had no experience in surviving in the wild, mainly for viewing and photography.

Arriving at the outskirts of the city in the morning and setting off, a group of people climbed to the top one after another in the course of the day, prepared to camp on the mountain as planned, and began to descend after sunrise tomorrow, just in time to return just before dark.

So everyone began to set up tents happily, some set up cooking utensils to prepare dinner, and some set up tripods on the side to prepare for sunset.

The teammates in charge of cooking also picked some edible wild vegetables around and made a pot of soup, and everyone gathered around to chat and eat, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After eating, one of the teammates suggested that the game be played, and while everyone was having fun, a female teammate said that she felt uncomfortable and went to rest early.

Then one after another, teammates expressed nausea and dizziness, and then vomited nonstop, and a few had stomach pains to the point of unbearable pain.

Six of the 12 people in the team fell, and it was then that people found out that there was something wrong with the bowl of wild vegetable soup, and the teammates who made the soup said that they added a few oyster mushrooms picked from the mountains to it in order to improve the freshness.

Chen Mingchu asked his teammates who made the soup about the appearance of mushrooms, and learned that he added this poisonous but seemingly indistinguishable small mountain mushroom as an ingredient to it.

The captain called the police at the first time, but it took 5 or 6 hours for the rescue to reach the top of the mountain at the earliest, and the poisoning of these team members became more and more serious, and they were already lying in the tent with abdominal pain and could not walk, their lips turned black from purple, and their consciousness gradually became unclear.

The vital signs of these team members are getting worse and worse, and the captain is worried that he may not be able to wait for the rescue team to take them down the mountain, and they will die, so he discussed walking down the mountain one by one to buy them as much time as possible.

This plan was immediately rejected, and now it is difficult to walk on the mountain road in the middle of the night, and it is not feasible to carry people down the mountain, not to mention, in case of walking and missing the rescue, it is even more troublesome.

When everyone was at a loss, Chen Mingchu was taking turns to observe the condition of the poisoned people, and after finding this same small mountain mushroom in the surrounding area, after careful identification, he told the captain that he had a way to know which herbs could detoxify, at least alleviate their poisoning symptoms and survive tonight.

Everyone looked at the hairy boy in disbelief, and in the end, the captain slapped the board, and now he can only use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, let Chen Mingchu give it a try.

So the team members helped Chen Mingchu turn on the lights, and the group found herbs around the mountain, this medicine is not difficult to find, but it is dark, everyone can only squat forward.

After collecting the amount of medicine for six people, Chen Mingchu immediately decocted the medicine for them to take, and everyone was very nervous to guard the poisoned people, for fear that something would go wrong.

Chen Mingchu is confident, he has been dealing with medicine in his pharmacy since he was a child.

Sure enough, an hour later, the face of the poisoned person improved, and the abdominal pain was reduced a lot, and by the time the rescuers arrived, he was already walking with the help of others. This pot of soup happened to be for six people, and Chen Mingchu, as the only person who understood pharmacology, fortunately did not eat it that day, so he saved everyone.

This incident was also in the newspaper as a major news in the city, and Chen Mingchu was rated as an outstanding new youth because of the year he saved people.

"It turns out that your award came from that, Dr. Chen was also a chivalrous young man when he was young, which is really commendable."

"What kind of chivalrous young man am I, when I went back, my grandfather scolded me to death, saying that I was reckless. But you, the little girl's family, were thrown here in the mountains and old forests, and I don't think you are afraid at all. Chen Mingchu looked at Bai Annian, who was still energetic after walking for so long, and admired it a little.

"What's there to be afraid of, if there is still no signal on the top of the mountain, there must be people not far from the tribe, and besides, there is clean water and fruit in the jungle, and you can't die of hunger or thirst." Bai Annian himself is delicate and thoughtful, and he has not seen any scenes as a reporter for so long, so he is naturally more courageous than ordinary people.

"I can't do it, I can't compare with you young people." Chen Mingchu didn't know where to find a suitable stick, followed Bai Annian and stepped on the road she opened, and let the girl open the way, Chen Mingchu was really embarrassed in his heart, so he could only laugh at himself.

"Chen Mingchu, you care so much about age?" Bai Annian, who was in front, heard him mention his age again, and suddenly turned around and asked a little angrily.

Chen Mingchu didn't know how to answer this question, he knew that he liked Bai Annian, and he liked it very much, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Africa to see her.

There is no road in the jungle, so you can walk out on your own, and the branches on it are overgrown, and it is easy to scrape yourself if you are not careful, and there are many bushes under your feet, sometimes you can only climb over, and sometimes you must be careful not to trip.

The two of them walked very slowly and cautiously all the way. I didn't think I was talking and laughing just now, but now I am silent, which makes people feel that the journey is longer, and I can't walk in front of me when I look at the mountain.

When it was almost dark, he finally walked to the foot of the mountain, for safety reasons, Bai Annian proposed to find an open place to light a fire to rest, and climb to the top of the mountain early tomorrow morning.

"Chen Mingchu, do you want me to go and come back with some game?" After the fire rose, both of them were tired and hungry, and Bai Annian made a joke to break the silence.

"Forget it, let's bear with it and wait for tomorrow's signal. After that mushroom incident, I never ate anything wild again. Chen Mingchu shook his head and hurriedly refused.

So the two of them sat around the fire, leaning against the tree and chatting with each other, and after walking for so long, they felt very tired after a while, and they both fell asleep slowly.

In the middle of the night, Chen Mingchu heard the sound of Suosuo, worried that an animal was approaching, so he opened his eyes, and found that Bai An had risen, and was standing shaking and roasting the fire, which should have been awakened by freezing.

Looking at the firelight faintly imprinted on her face, the high bridge of her nose, the tip of her nose that was slightly red from the cold, illuminated Bai Annian's side face was extremely beautiful.

Chen Mingchu got up and took off his coat, quietly walked in and put it on her.