Chapter 18: Phantom Flowers
Poisoned, my muscles twitched, my face was hot, my ears were red, my head was about to crack, and the worst thing was that the venom had entered my heart, and the pain was like being pricked by ten thousand needles.
Professor Xia, who ran over to help me sit up, said anxiously to Lingxin: "Lingxin, the snake venom has spread to Sen's heart, you quickly take out the serum and inject him, whether it can be done or not, we have no other choice." β
After Professor Xia had just finished listening to my heart, I felt unusually cold, my throat was dry and bitter, as if someone had choked my throat, and it was extremely difficult to breathe.
In a trance, I heard Ling Xin almost crying to Professor Xia: "Dad, the serum has been injected, can Sen survive it......"
Then, my whole body was so numb that I lost consciousness, and the figure swaying in front of me made it impossible for me to distinguish whether it was Professor Xia or Lingxin; All I could see was that the venom of the snake had clotted the blood in my eyes into small clots, which fluttered like bubbles as my eyeballs shook. At that moment, I could hear the frequency of the blood vessels beating in my headβvery fast.
In the end, I lost the strength to keep my eyes open, and I didn't know where I was at that moment, and it was like an ice cave around me, and the cold air was seeping through it.
At that moment, all I had was consciousness was that I was about to die......
Immediately, my heart seemed to come back to life - "pounding~pounding~pounding-"
"Ahh
"Dad, Mori survived!" Ling Xin looked at her the moment he saw me sit up, and shouted in surprise to Professor Xia on the side.
"Who are you?" Seeing them looking at me in amazement, I said lightly.
"Oops! Mori is amused by the snake bite show! Seeing my reaction, Ling Xin was surprised, then shook Professor Xia's arm and said in a panic, "Dad, what should we do, Sen is stupid!" β
"Ahem, Lingxin, I'm not stupid, it's you who are too noisy and confuse my language logic." Seeing that she was in such a hurry, I had to add. Actually, I really want to save this sentence, my throat is too dry.
"I'm not stupid, you said it earlier, what you said just now scared me to death!" Embarrassment, she withdrew her hand and complained to me.
"I'm so thirsty~" I looked at her blankly, "Lingxin." β
"Water, water, water......" Hearing me say that I was thirsty, Lingxin immediately muttered to himself rummaging through my backpack for me.
I was so anxious that I couldn't do it, and after some searching, I simply poured out all the things in my backpack, picked out a bottle of water from a pile of items, and handed it to me and said, "Come, give!" β
"Coo~" I took the water, raised my head and began to pour.
"Slow down, no one will rob you~" Lingxin, who was afraid that I would choke, reached out to take my bottle.
I was so thirsty, and when I saw her stretch out her hand, I turned around and began to pour again.
"Sen, are you feeling unwell right now?" Professor Xia, who was silent for a while, looked at me with a solemn expression and said.
After listening to Professor Xia's words, I moved my body, except for feeling some soreness in my muscles and a little dizzy in my brain, there was no other major problem, so I said to him, "Uncle Xia, I'm fine now." β
"It doesn't make sense~" Listening to my answer, Professor Xia frowned and muttered.
"Dad, now that Sen seems to have completely solved the snake venom, what are you worried about?" Regarding Professor Xia's abnormality, Lingxin was very puzzled.
"Is it a miracle?" Once again, Professor Xia said something that puzzled us.
Seeing that we were silently looking at him, he took my hand, looked at the two tooth holes that had been bitten by the snake, and then said: "Sen, this snake venom cannot be solved by the serum we carry, and the poison has already entered your heart at that time, not to mention ......"
"What's more?" Seeing that Professor Xia wanted to speak and stopped, he couldn't help but ask him curiously.
"Well, since Sen is fine, I'll tell you the truth!" Professor Xia looked at the two of us, "Lingxin, in fact, what you just injected Sen with was not a serum at all, but a glucose solution!"
"You were completely panicked, so you took it wrong. By the time I found out, it was too late, and even if I had another injection, it wouldn't help.
"I couldn't bear to see what I didn't want to see, so I just stood silently on the sidelines, not daring to look at Sen, and I knew that I had hurt him.
"Until you told me that Mori survived, I couldn't believe it, that incredible feeling I had never felt in my life."
"Ahh After listening to Professor Xia's words, Ling Xin screamed in horror, "Dad, you said that I injected Sen with glucose!" Oh my God! β
Professor Xia nodded to her silently, and then he looked at me as if he had found an antiquity.
"Could it be that Sen's blood can ward off snake venom?" Seeing that Professor Xia was puzzled, he made a bold assumption.
I, who had never been bitten by a venomous snake, was surprised by the sudden disappearance of the poison in my body. Therefore, I said to the two of them: "Uncle Xia, listen to the heart, just when the beating of my heart was almost close to zero, there was a violent rebound, and then I had all my strength. Could it be that I have some kind of antibodies in my body that fight against snake venom? β
"Uh, it's hard to say!" Professor Xia did not deny my opinion, "Sen, after being bitten by this snake, ordinary people are basically killed on the spot, like you can hold out for a while, it is almost impossible." The most amazing thing is that you are cured without medicine. I can't explain this, there are too many reasons, but I can say that your body is different from ordinary people. β
"Unusual people?" After listening to Professor Xia's words, Ling Xin looked at me carefully. In the end, she shook her head helplessly, maybe even she didn't believe it.
I don't know how my body defeated snake venom. I have experienced too many weirdness since I was a child, and I feel that I still study archaeology, and I haven't even studied it thoroughly.
"Hey, Sen, your hands!" Just as we were struggling with the question of how I could get rid of the snake venom, Ling Xin was surprised, "The tooth holes in your fingers are gone!" β
"Ahh After listening to Lingxin's words, I took a look, and sure enough, there were no traces of injury, and I couldn't help but be amazed.
"That's not right!" I suddenly realized that we had made a very serious perceptual mistake, "Uncle Xia, listen to the heart, I know why everything is." Don't be scared when I say it. β
"What? Mistake? No way! β
"Sen, are you having another attack of snake venom?"
When they saw that I suddenly looked flustered, they wondered. Maybe they thought I wasn't clear.
"Uncle Xia, listen to the heart, in fact, I wasn't bitten by a snake at all, it was just what we experienced in the illusion just now!" I pointed to the surroundings and said, "The smell of flowers here is very strange, sometimes light and sometimes strong.
"So I guess it has a hallucinogenic effect when it is thick, and this is the place where we meet the snake in the illusion, and when the fragrance of the flowers fades, we get out of the illusion, and mistakenly think that this is the place where we have walked a long way;
"The illusion is caused by the fragrance of flowers in our minds, and the place in the illusion is actually a place in this mountain that our brain has made up, and our eyes are deceived by the illusion - we are still in place, all because of our fear of the dark, in fact, there are no snakes at all!
"Even though this strong hallucinogenic effect replicates everything very realistically, allowing our three senses of sight, hearing, and touch to the fullest, it is only an illusion, and the easiest way to verify it is to listen to the glucose in your backpack is still there."
After some searching, the unbelieving Lingxin found the glucose, and then said in surprise: "Sen, as you said, we are bewitched by the fragrance of flowers. Let's get out of here, the wind will stop in a while, the flowers will smell stronger, and we will have to enter the illusion again! β
"Hmmm! Let's go! I answered. Then, I nodded to Professor Xia, who was still apprehensive.