Lu Dachuan, Lu Keqin, Lin Xian'er and Liu Changjiao have been completely attracted since they knew that the land we set foot on was Daxizhou, except for our own safety, everything else was not put down, since they got off the mountain, they never left the jungle, this Lu Dachuan found a tree in the forest, and several of them were concentrating on studying something around the tree, so I shouted loudly and startled all of them,

"What's the situation?" Lu Dachuan ran to me in two steps and looked at the river vigilantly,

I pointed to the river, where the ship had broken down and was now empty: "The ship has gone." ”

"Just drive away, that's to be expected." Lu Dachuan wiped the sweat on his face, "I thought I was discovered by a crocodile again, and I was scared into a cold sweat." ”

If you drive away, you will drive away, is this what people say, my heart suddenly became angry: "You said it easily, losing the giant ship is losing the way out, and without a way out, we will be trapped and die on the island......"

"Don't talk about those useless kids, just watch the crocodiles and cancers in the river stay quietly on the edge as long as they don't go ashore."

Lu Dachuan ran back to the tree again, muttering to Liu Changjiao and didn't know what he was talking about, Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er listened attentively on the side,

How can a tree make a few people babble?

I looked at them curiously, and saw that the tree beside them had a straight trunk no less than twenty-five meters high, and the thick body of the tree that the two of them hugged together was gray, with many foamy protrusions on it, and the huge umbrella-shaped crown of the trees mixed with other trees was lush and green, and there were many small red fruits hanging between the oval green leaves.

It wouldn't be that they wanted to eat the fruit of the tree and couldn't climb it, I thought to myself and walked up to them and volunteered: "Do you want to eat the fruit of the tree, I have been climbing trees since I was a child, and I will go up and pick them for you." ”

As soon as I spoke, their faces changed, and after two or three seconds, they laughed weirdly, laughing so hard that my heart was furious: "What's the matter, did I say it wrong, you laugh like this." ”

Lu Keqin stopped laughing, and said to Lu Dachuan and Lin Xian'er with a stiff face: "Don't laugh, people don't know what kind of tree this is, what's so funny." Then he pulled me to the side and walked a few steps, and whispered: "My little fool, will you be able to ask if you will talk when you encounter something you don't know." ”

"I said something wrong." I'm even more baffled,

Lu Keqin glanced back at a few of them, and said: "This kind of tree is called arrow poison wood or arrow poison tree, also known as 'seeing blood and sealing the throat', it is the most toxic mulberry tree in nature, and it is known as the king of forest poisoning." ”

Holy shit, I gasped in my heart, if I met this kind of tree alone, wouldn't it be all over if I wanted to eat the little fruit on it,

Lu Keqin continued: "There is a white milk in the bark, branches and leaves of poison arrows, which is very poisonous, and the meaning of 'poison arrows' is that this kind of branch can be used as poisoned arrows, and it can shoot wild beasts when it is applied to the arrows, if you accidentally get the poison juice into the eyes, the eyes will be blind immediately, and the smoke released when the branches burn, smoke the eyes, will also cause blindness." ”

"That's amazing." I was taken aback again,

"If you shoot a beast with a poisoned arrow made of this branch, the blood of the beast will quickly coagulate within 3 seconds, and the heart will stop beating and die, if you accidentally let the poisonous juice touch the wounded skin, the person will also die, and if the person and the beast eat it by mistake, it will also cause heart paralysis and stop beating, or suffocate to death."

"It's so powerful, what are you doing around it?"

"Take the poison juice."

Lu Keqin pointed it out to me, and I saw them make a long cut in the tree, and use a branch to drain the white milk flowing from the bark into a cup: "They take the poisonous juice and make poisonous arrows." ”

"Well, my brother said that although we haven't found any beasts in the forest now, it doesn't mean that there are no beasts in the forest.

"Yes, you have to be prepared."

The white milk on the trunk of the tree flowed drip by drop along the draining branches to the cup under the tree, like the droplets during the infusion are particularly slow, and it looks like it will not be able to fill up in a while and a half, Lu Keqin and I sat down facing the beach, and Lu Keqin told me a lot of small stories about poison dart:

Legend has it that when the ancient Indians of the Americas encountered the invasion of the enemy, women and children smeared the juice of the arrow poison wood on the arrows in the rear and transported it to the front for the men to kill the enemy on the battlefield.

Historical records clearly record that in 1859, when the indigenous people of the East Indies and the British army were fighting, they shot arrows coated with the juice of arrow poison wood at the attackers, at first the British soldiers did not know the power of the arrow, and the person who was hit by the arrow still moved forward bravely, but soon fell to the ground and died, the lethality of this poisoned arrow shocked the British army.

It is said that in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the first discovery of the poison wood sap contains highly poisonous is a Dai hunter, one day, the hunter was forced to climb to a big tree by the big bear when hunting, but the bear still did not let him go, hot pursuit, in the way nowhere to go, life and death at the critical juncture, the hunter was in a hurry, broke a branch and stabbed the bear that was climbing the tree, the result of a miracle suddenly happened, the bear immediately fell to the ground and died, since then, The hunters of Xishuangbanna learned to apply the juice of poison arrow wood to arrowheads for hunting.

There is also a very interesting Dai folklore about the origin of poison dart wood in Xishuangbanna, they say that because the poison wood is nourished and grown with human poisonous blood, the sap will be so poisonous.

Legend has it that a long, long time ago, the Dai area of Xishuangbanna encountered a great flood, the bamboo building was all washed away by the flood, submerged, after the flood, there was a Dai man named Po Hongsha, in order to rebuild the homeland took people to the mountains to harvest wood, did not expect that there were seventy-seven tigers gathered in the mountains and forests, the people who went up the mountain to cut wood were repeatedly injured by the tiger, and many people sacrificed the tiger's "five internal organs".

Po Hongsha organized people to go up the mountain to fight tigers, and many of the people who beat tigers were eaten by tigers, Po Hongsha was in pain, in order to eliminate the tiger trouble, he found a very pair of poison boiled into juice, rubbed it externally and took it internally, determined to poison the tiger with his own flesh and blood.

Seventy-seven tigers came up together to eat his corpse, but all of them were poisoned, and the place where Po Hongsha's body was torn apart by the tiger and eaten was full of poisonous blood, and then a small tree grew in the place where the poisonous serum was moistened, and this small tree eventually grew into a poisonous tree because it absorbed the poisonous blood of Po Hongsha, which is now the arrow poison wood......

Lu Dachuan took a glass full of arrow poison wood juice and called me and Lu Keqin, we walked over, he smeared the tips of our spears with poison, and then led us to the depths of the forest,

Seeing Lu Dachuan tethering the water cup full of venom with a rattan and carrying it carefully like carrying a time bomb, I said: "Since you want to make poisonous arrows, why don't you use the time to receive poison juice to do some, it's not good for us to take the arrows directly, why bother carrying a bottle of poison and don't dare to put it in the bag, it's tiring." ”

He raised his leg and gave me a kick in the ass: "You kid doesn't understand anything, you talk a lot of bullshit, you look at these trees, I don't know what they can do, and they still need you to call." ”

Why can't these trees be done, I turned my head and looked around, and found that the thick trunk of each tree in this forest on the plain was more than twenty meters high, and most of the low plants mixed with the big trees were ferns, and there was really no material suitable for making bows and arrows, I really wanted to slap myself in the face, and swore in my heart that I would first find out the situation before expressing my opinion,

It should be close to the river bank, the relationship between the water is sufficient, the trees on the plain are tall and big on this side of the beach, we walked a few hundred meters, the surrounding trees are scattered, and the light is brighter, Lu Dachuan and Liu Changjiao looked around, looking for materials suitable for making bows and arrows, our speed slowed down, I took the opportunity to ask Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er for the names of some plants I didn't know, and I knew that the leaves looked like pig's kidneys called lotus leaf ferns, Like a triangular big egg, it is called a volley shield fern, and I also know the staghorn fern, the crab claw leaf shield fern, the emerald cloud grass, the stone pine, etc., etc.,

After about half an hour, Lu Dachuan and Liu Longleg finally collected all the materials to make bows and arrows, and then we sat around in a relatively wide place, I, Lu Keqin, and Lin Xian'er were responsible for sharpening the branches they had cut off, and Lu Dachuan and Longlegs used tuomu branches as bows and old nettle bark as strings, and made three bows and two simple crossbows according to the strength of the five of us, and then added arrow feathers to our sharpened branches (watching them cut the leaves into the shape of arrow feathers instead of feathers). , I think it's amazing,), and finally we carefully coated each arrow with the juice of poison arrowwood,

It took a little half a day in total, and we were done and set off, with the lethal weapon, our hearts were obviously a lot more confident, and when we spoke, we didn't want to be so sneaky as before, and our voices couldn't help but get louder,

As I walked, I looked around in the sky and on the ground, left and right, and Lu Keqin, who was walking in front of me, noticed it, turned around and said, "Is your neck uncomfortable, why is your head shaking like a rattle." ”

I shook the bow in my hand: "This forest is too weak, and there are no small animals such as hares and pheasants for me to practice." ”

Lu Keqin glanced at me: "Burn the bun." ”

"It's not easy to practice." Lu Dachuan casually cut down a straight branch, briefly trimmed it a few times and handed it to me, and then pointed to a thick branch on a big tree on our left that was hugged by three people and stretched horizontally into the dense canopy of another tree and said, "Shoot that horizontal branch." ”

I looked at it, and the branch was as thick as a bucket, and it was fifteen meters away from us at most: "That's too big." ”

Lu Dachuan said: "You used to play archery. ”

"When I was a child, it didn't count." I'm a little embarrassed,

Lu Dachuan's eyes were as big as a bull's eye,

I pretended not to see, put the arrow on the string, aimed it at the tree, drew the bow and fired it, and it didn't hit.

"Eh......"

"Alas......"

Lu Dachuan, Lu Keqin, and Lin Xian'er sighed,

"At this level, you can't find a hare to practice, and you can't find a big cow."

Seeing that such a big tree didn't hit, I couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, but when I heard Liu Changjiao mock me like this, I stubbornly said: "Long legs, don't laugh at people first, you can also try an arrow." ”

Several of them laughed,

"This guy is getting thicker." Liu Changleg also waved a knife to cut off a branch next to him, took out a knife and patiently repaired it, handed it to Lu Keqin and said, "Sister, don't need my brother to make a move." ”

Lu Keqin glanced at me, took the arrow in his hand, snatched the bow in my hand, didn't look at it, shot the arrow, and when I reacted, the arrow had been straight into the branch, looking at Lu Keqin's soft and weak, relying on us to protect him all the way, I didn't expect such a hand, I didn't react from the shock, and suddenly several big trees around us shook violently,

We thought that there was a strong wind suddenly, but if we looked closely, the low trees around us did not move, and our bodies did not feel the wind, only the few big trees swayed violently, and the sound of the leaves was mixed with the sound of branches breaking, and even the trunks of the trees hugged by several people shook more than once.

I was looking around in confusion when I heard Liu Changleg shouting, "Oh my God, it wasn't a branch that the piano shot, it was a forest worm." ”