Chapter 13: Poisoning
When I was feeling strange in my heart, Lao Cai on the side said, "Oops! With a sigh, something seemed to have changed. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info I turned my head and looked, oh no! It was fine just now, but for a while, why did the person disappear? It really scared me and the mark, and I really thought I had hit the wall.
If you take a closer look in the direction where Lao Cai is, you will immediately find something strange in it, and at some point, a door appeared on the cave wall on the right, just one person high.
Surprised, I went in with the standard probe to take a look, by the brightness of the headlight beam, we could see everything behind the door, no one expected, it turned out to be a stone room.
The space of the stone room is quite large, at least fifty square meters, and there is a stone platform on each side of the inner corner of the stone room, like a bed, I don't know what it is used for. Other than that, there was nothing else in the room.
And Lao Cai was lying on the ground of the stone room at the moment, snorting, he probably didn't expect that there was a doorway next to him, so he fell. I hurriedly went over to help him up, but I saw that Lao Cai's face was blue, and the sweat on his head was bigger than soybeans, and I didn't know if he had fallen too badly, and his whole face was a little distorted from pain?
After a while, Lao Cai seemed to be relieved, and he said weakly: "My leg is injured, don't let me get up, I can't use force, it hurts when I exert myself." ”
"How can you get hurt? Is it the left leg or the right leg? I asked as I asked Lao Cai to sit on the ground, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured. The mark and Lao Cai are not quite right, and I didn't want to go over, but when I heard that Lao Cai was injured, I couldn't help but come over.
Lao Cai half-bit his lip and took a lot of effort before he said: "I was careless, blindly walking against the wall, but I didn't find that there was a secret door here, so I planted it in, but there seems to be something on the ground that stabbed my right leg." ”
Stabbed? I thought to myself, I can't be stepping on some kind of mechanism! Because this place looks like an ancient tomb, but whenever there is an ancient tomb, there will inevitably be a mechanism inside, especially this weird large ancient tomb, no one can figure out what is here.
"I'll see!" The expression on Biaozi's face was very solemn, and he immediately squatted down to see Lao Cai's injury.
I thought that the standard would be calculated because of what happened just now, but I didn't expect him to be very generous at the moment, and he took the initiative to care about his opponent, which made me admire him a little.
Lao Cai's face was stunned, and he didn't expect the mark to have such arrogance, his tone changed a little, and he said, "At my heels." After speaking, Lao Cai found the wound and let the mark be seen.
I saw a small hole in the shark-proof suit at Lao Cai's heel, although the wound was small, but the bleeding was not stopping, and the blood that flowed out was black, and I knew that it was poisoned at a glance. Biaozi shook his head and sighed: "You surnamed Cai won the lottery, and you were stung by a corpse scorpion." ”
"Corpse scorpion?" Lao Cai was a little confused, but looking at the look of the mark, it seemed that being bitten by this corpse scorpion was a very serious matter.
Biaozi took out a lighter, pressed the flint, and the flames rushed out, without even thinking about it, he burned directly to Lao Cai's wound, and Lao Cai exclaimed at the time: "You are crazy."
However, the mark did not show mercy, but continued to burn Lao Cai's wound with a lighter, and when Lao Cai resisted, he asked me to come over and help hold him.
Although I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the standard, but from what I know about him, he must be doing this for Lao Cai's good, so I didn't think much about it, and pressed Lao Cai's body hard, so that he couldn't move.
Lao Cai howled vigorously, the sweat on his head increased, and he gritted his teeth tightly for a while, and the pain of being burned by the fire was naturally extremely ordinary.
The temperature of this waterproof lighter was very high, and in just a few seconds, Lao Cai's wound was scorched, and the wound on it no longer bleed.
When the standard stopped, Lao Cai's face was bruised, and he twisted his body vigorously, but he was still sensible, and asked the standard: "You kid won't be a personal vendetta!" What the hell is that corpse scorpion? ”
Biaozi thought about it, but he didn't know where to start, it seemed that he was hiding something, I saw that the situation was wrong, and I hurriedly urged him to tell what he knew.
Biaozi hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Corpse scorpions are very special scorpions, which can only be encountered in tombs, and they are no different from ordinary scorpions, and their toxicity is generalized. However, after living in the ancient tomb for a long time, the whole body will turn purple ink, and once infected by the corpse qi, it will become extremely poisonous, and if it is stung by it, it will also be infected with corpse poison. ”
Lao Cai and I have never even heard of "corpse poison", and we don't know the power of this poison at all, but it can be understood from the literal meaning that it must be related to corpses.
Seeing that Lao Cai and I were at a loss, Biaozi explained: "I don't understand this, have you seen zombie movies made in Hong Kong, people who are bitten by zombies are corpse poison." ”
Lao Cai seemed to have heard a big joke, and he said with great disdain: "You don't have to announce your personal vendetta, and you make up such a lie to deceive us, your trick is too damaging." ”
The label said don't believe it yet, there must be a zombie thing, but it's more troublesome to explain, because Lao Cai and I don't understand the way of feng shui.
As for the formation of corpse poison, in fact, the reason is very simple, the reason why the corpse does not decay is here, and it is explained by scientific reasoning that it is because the corpse has undergone abnormal changes in the enclosed space underground, forming some kind of unknown virus.
And this virus is the main reason why the corpse will not decompose, but for the living, this virus is very powerful, it will not take long to make the blood in the human body quickly necrotic, according to the news obtained by the standard, anyone who has been poisoned by the corpse, can be divided into two kinds.
Why? Because the toxicity of corpse poison is related to the age of the ancient tomb, there is a record in the ancient book of Biaozi, generally found in the ancient tombs below the Han Dynasty, the effect is not serious, as long as the poisoned person is not injured to the death, the poison can be pulled out with glutinous rice, and it can be cured after a few months, and this degree of corpse poison is not a real corpse poison, at most it is corpse gas.
What about the ancient tombs above the Han Dynasty? The corpse poison in it is very powerful, no matter which part of the body is poisoned, even if it is the epidermis, it is basically equivalent to being sentenced to death, even if the poison is pulled out with glutinous rice and snake wine, it can only slow down the spread of the corpse poison, and cannot be completely cured.
According to the judgment of the standard, the age of this cave is at least more than three thousand years, so he can be sure that the corpse poison in Lao Cai's place belongs to the second type completely, and there is no cure.
Hearing such serious news, not to mention that Lao Cai was dumbfounded on the spot, I also felt that my scalp was tight for a while, with my understanding of scorpions, as long as it is not a highly venomous scorpion, it will not be life-threatening if it is sent to the hospital for treatment in time after the bite. But the mark said that this is a corpse scorpion, and it is a corpse scorpion in an ancient tomb of more than 3,000 years, so being poisoned by it is equivalent to no solution.
I said, is there really no cure for it? Biaozi shook his head and said: "There is salvation, but there is little hope, the only way to detoxify is to find the legendary "earth spring water", after drinking the earth spring water, all poisons can be cured, and all diseases are eliminated, but it is a legendary product, where can you find it in this world." ”
As for what the "earth spring water" is, the label said that he is not very clear, according to the records in the ancient books, it is the divine water drunk by the great god Pangu who opened the world and the earth, and Pangu grew up drinking that thing, so he said that there is little hope. "Is there any other way to detoxify?" I still didn't give up.
Biaozi said that there may be, but there is only one detoxification method he knows, and there may be a detoxification method that he doesn't know, and Biaozi also guessed what I thought in my heart, so he added: "The current medicine can't even cure AIDS, let alone corpse poison, so you don't have to fantasize, people who are poisoned by corpses can only wait for death." ”
Biaozi said so much, but no one knew whether it was true or not, because everything he knew came from his grandfather's ancient book, which was a feng shui book, so I don't think it can be trusted, after all, the things written in that book are legends, just like the Chinese Classic of Mountains and Seas, the things on it are impossible to verify, and the degree of exaggeration accounts for most of them.
Speaking of which, it is important to mention that Biaozi's grandfather was a feng shui master in the 60s, commonly known as "earth immortals" in our side, and most of them made a living by watching the yang and yin houses for others, and occasionally told fortunes for others. However, in the "special period", the four old ones were broken, so the grandfather of the standard was inevitably criticized, and since then, the old man Sun has not taken over this job, let alone let the father of the standard come into contact with these things.
And the standard is because he was in the antique business later, and he always came into contact with some old things, so Mr. Sun let him read this ancient book, hoping that he could avoid some taboos between the living and the dead.
Lao Cai said that he believed that corpse poison was a rare and unknown virus, but he did not believe the zombies in Biaozi's mouth, and said that Biaozibai lived in this era of science and technology, and it was alarmist there. But why don't I think so, you say that there are zombies or something in this world, don't you also want me to believe that there are immortals, but are there really immortals in this world? I don't need to say the answer at all, even a three-year-old child knows it.
Seeing that Lao Cai and I didn't believe it, Biaozi sneered: "Believe it or not, it's your business, buddy, I'm just reminding you, but I'll tell you the truth, this cave is definitely the location of a large ancient tomb, and it's very old, since there are corpse scorpions here, then there will definitely be zombies, so you two must be mentally prepared, so as not to be scared later." ”
I said what's the matter with you, how did you get like this after a few years, like a god, have you really seen zombies, if not, don't say it so fascinating, beware of outsiders when you are a mental hospital. Biaozi was speechless when I asked him this, but I didn't look like he was joking, as if there was something unspeakable, and he opened his mouth to speak, but finally held back.
After resting for a while, Lao Cai's injury was also a little better, at least not as painful as before, as for the mark, he didn't pay attention to it at all, and when he saw that the wound was no longer bleeding, he forcibly stood up, and didn't let me support him, and the mark shook his head helplessly on the side.
And we knew the things in this stone room at a glance, naturally we didn't find any trace of Professor Zhang, and we were about to go out, when we looked back, the three people were dumbfounded, I don't know when, a mutilated and bloody corpse appeared at the door, and there was a palm-sized scorpion lying on it, with its tail raised high, ready to attack the three of us at any time.
My scalp suddenly itched, I dare to swear, when I came in, there was nothing at the door, and I don't know how this corpse appeared behind us, there was not even a sound during the period, even if I would be wrong, but looking at the label and Lao Cai's shocked expression, I knew that their thoughts at the moment were the same as mine.