Chapter Twenty-Eight: Eating
"Bear with me." Liu Chang said with a sigh.
How painful it is to sprinkle salt on the wound, how painful it is for the little girl to soak her injured foot in salt water at this moment. And because there are many nerves in the plantar terminals, her pain at the moment is several times more painful than ordinary "salt on the wound".
In less than a moment, the little girl's face turned pale in pain, but Liu Chang didn't look at her expression, just stared at her feet.
In the salt water, the scabbed socks began to soften slowly, and the adhesions to the wound began to loosen. After a while, Liu Chang lifted the girl's feet and carefully peeled off her socks little by little.
"Rub it with alcohol, don't wrap it in gauze, just let her feet dry." After Li Qingshui saw the girl's socks taken off, he continued to guide Liu Chang in the back.
"Oh." Nodding, Liu Chang followed the teacher's instructions to treat the little girl's wounds, and then put her legs on the guardrail of the bed. Then he took out the antibiotic in his bag, ate one for himself and fed one to the girl.
"Ugh." After dealing with all this, Liu Chang lay on the bed tiredly.
"How's it going?" Seeing that Liu Chang had finished processing, Li Qingshui returned to the pile of plants again and began to divide the labor.
"It's hard, it's hard to hunt." Liu Chang lay on the bed and looked at the bed board on the top bunk and said, "The prey are too vigilant, and they were discovered before they got close to them." ”
"It's not difficult to hunt, and the ancient hunters wouldn't have starved to death so much." Li Qingshui chuckled and said: "Otherwise, in ancient times, the money exchanged for the fur and flesh of a large prey was enough for a hunter's living expenses for more than a month or even a few months, if they could catch the prey every day, wouldn't they all become rich?" ”
"But in fact, hunters have always been a profession that eats a full meal, and there are not a few good hunters who starve to death." Li Qingshui said while sorting out his things: "And not only hunters, but even those top hunters at the top of the food chain in nature, it is very difficult to hunt. In the case of mammals, the cheetah has the highest success rate among all land mammals, but it seems to have less than one in seven successful hunts. And after each hunt, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, its body will be overloaded due to high-speed running, resulting in a period of inability to eat. ”
"Therefore, although it has the highest success rate of hunting, it is also often robbed of food." As he spoke, Li Qingshui pulled out a strange piece of grass from the pile of plants, and continued while sniffing: "Therefore, even excellent hunters and top hunters are very difficult to obtain food in nature. Those prey that do not have the ability to escape and survive have been eliminated in hundreds of millions of years of evolution. If you want to find something to eat, how can it be so simple? I'll go hunting with you tomorrow, and we'll have enough of these plants for a while anyway. ”
"Oh, okay." Lying on the bed and turning over, Liu Chang happened to see Li Qingshui's action of sniffing plants, and then asked, "Teacher, can you eat these things?" ”
"I don't know, I think I can eat it." Li Qingshui showed a suspicious look in his eyes, "These weeds and wild vegetables are definitely edible before the red mist descends, they are all edible plant types, but now it seems that they have also evolved their own unique abilities." ”
"What unique abilities?" Liu Chang frowned.
"Don't want people to eat their unique abilities." Li Qingshui walked up to Liu Chang, squeezed out the juice of the plant in his hand, and said with a smile: "You smell it." ”
"Gross!" The juice splashed by the plant sprayed on Liu Chang's face, making him sick to his stomach: "What kind of smell is this, it stinks worse than, can you eat it?" ”
"It should be edible!" Li Qingshui was also choked by the smell and sneezed several times in a row, and said: "The ingredients should not change, but they stink, you can eat it if you cook more, it's better than starving to death!" ”
As he spoke, he picked up a bundle of plants and stood up: "I'm going to cook these things in the army room, has anyone come with me?" ”
“……”
There was silence below, and no one answered his words.
"No one is going with me, I'm going by myself." Li Qingshui smiled, turned around and left the room.
An hour later.
He brought in a pot of foul-smelling vegetable soup from outside.
"Oh, I smell the sewers." A pot of soup was brought in, and a room full of people, including two other families, covered their noses at the same time.
"The sewer smells better than the soup." The fat man covered his nose and walked in front of Li Qingshui: "Teacher, are you sure this thing can be eaten?" ”
"Haha, you can eat it, I don't believe that I will test you for drugs first." Li Qingshui found a stool and put the pot on it, then picked up a green vegetable in the pot and put it in his mouth, only chewed one bite and swallowed it into his stomach, and a bitter smile immediately bloomed on his face: "The taste is really Zong!" ”
"Really?" Liu Chang got up from the bed, picked up the spoon and took a sip of vegetable soup. The warm soup in his mouth, a smell of boiled feces filled his entire mouth in an instant, and swept all his taste buds in an instant, stimulated by this strong smell, which made his stomach swell several times in a row, until he felt the sour water in his throat, he pinched his nose and swallowed the soup. "Dung soup" entered the abdomen, and Liu Chang was choked so much that tears and snot flowed out together.
"The smell of authentic sewers, crunchy!" Liu Chang gave a thumbs up to the fat man with tears in his eyes.
"Let's eat some of it, don't be hypocritical, it's better to eat this than to starve to death, although the smell is not good, the taste is a little worse, but after all, it is still a vegetable in nature, and it can be eaten." Li Qingshui said, brought a few bowls prepared in advance from the dormitory, and served this vegetable soup to several people.
"Eat it all, don't leave it all behind. How many days have you not eaten properly? If we don't eat some more, in less than three days, someone among us will die! ”
"So serious?" Liu Chang pinched his nose and poured another big mouthful of vegetable soup, and asked with a foul mouth: "It's not that someone will starve to death in three days, half a biscuit a day, if you lie on the bed and don't move, you can still last for more than ten days!" ”
"Not starvation, but a complication of starvation." Li Qingshui ate another big mouthful of green vegetables, swallowed it in his stomach without chewing a few times, and said, "What kind of world is outside?" All living things are in a world of crazy evolution, but for millions of years, the resistance of microorganisms and humans has always been a pair of equal opponents, and now they have evolved wildly, on the contrary, if we not only do not evolve, but because of hunger, the resistance is greatly reduced, then the result is that all kinds of diseases are swept in, and then an ordinary breath may become a serious bacterial infection of the respiratory tract. ”
"Then according to what the teacher said, people are going to die here in a few days?" Liu Chang took another bite of "" and looked around at the surrounding environment, as if he had seen the scene of starvation everywhere a few days later.
"It's not about killing people, it's about killing a lot of people!" Li Qingshui sighed and handed Zhu Lin a bowl, "Hurry up and eat, these plants are evolving, and now they smell of, and in a few days, we won't even be able to eat." ”
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