Chapter Seventy-Three: Exploring the Antidote Grass

With the sound of one after another, the number of people was counted, and three soldiers had fallen to the ground, and I reached out and touched their foreheads, all of them were as hot as fire.

Company Commander Wang hurriedly pulled a few of us a few meters away from them and said, "I'm afraid that the water is also poisonous, you see, these three were all covered with towels before." ”

When I looked back, the three of them still had towels around their necks that had been soaked in the stream.

"Good thing I didn't drink the water."

"Well, the company commander and I didn't drink either."

"Company commander, what should I do? Now, if we want to send them back to the hospital, the nearest one will have to be seven or eight hours away, not to mention that we are still halfway up the mountain, if we carry them down the mountain, I am afraid that we will not be halfway there, and we will also be infected. ”

"Yes, company commander, do you want to call the political commissar and ask him to send medical personnel to come to the rescue?"

……

Two other young soldiers, who had not been poisoned, chimed in on the side.

Company Commander Wang was silent with a solemn face, I think he must have been confused by this sudden situation at this time, seeing him half-squatting, staring at the miasma in the distance, his right hand unconsciously pulling the grass on the ground, and did not speak for a long time.

Ah Zi came over and said softly: "This is the miasma poisoning table, and it may have drunk the miasma water in the stream, we have also had miasma poison in the village before, if you look at the current table xiàn, it is already very strict, I'm afraid it's ......."

She paused, didn't say anything more, just shook her head slightly.

Ah Hu answered: "I'm afraid I won't be able to pass tonight." ”

Jin Facai said: "Big official, do you want to call the little hot girl and ask if she is saved?" ”

After his reminder, I remembered that there is a miracle doctor sister at home, and I can ask her at this time, if she can't help it, then it is estimated that even if she is sent to the hospital, it will be useless.

Without further ado, I quickly dialed the cold mobile phone, and after basically describing the situation here, I hoped that she could have a life-saving solution: "How about it, do you see if they are still saved?" ”

The other head was silent for a few seconds and then replied: "If I am at the scene, I can still help them diagnose the pulse, but this pulse is not something that can be taught to you for a while, although the toxicity of the five-color miasma is violent, but it also depends on what the cause of the miasma is. But I don't know what kind of attribute they got poisoned this time, and which vein they went......"

"So...... Is it hopeless? "I know that this result is not the answer everyone wants, but at this time, I can only prepare for the worst.

"Ahh Let me think about it! After Bingbing interrupted me, she fell silent again, I don't know how long she has to think about it, but she can't hang up the phone and dare not speak, so she can only grab her phone and wait quietly for her next step.

After about three or five minutes, I heard her say, "Brother, how far are you from that miasma now?" ”

"Well...... It's probably less than two hundred meters, and we're hiding on a relatively high grassy slope, and the fog can't float through. ”

"Hey, it's a little far, I guess I can't see clearly." She replied.

"What? What can't be seen clearly? I asked.

"Brother, I thought of a way earlier, but that's it...... It's just a little dangerous. ”

"What's the solution, hurry up! Help matters! ”

"Well, okay. I was thinking: according to the principle of mutual restraint in all things, if there is a poisonous substance in a place, there must be something that can resist the poison in its surroundings, just like a poisonous snake, and there must be a medicinal herb that cures the snake's venom around the place where it is entrenched. So ......"

I immediately understood what she meant, and said, "So what you mean is that where the miasma spreads and evaporates, there must also be detoxifying plants growing, right?" ”

"Yes, since it can grow in poisonous places, it must have some antidote effect. But...... But you are now too far from that place, so I say you can't see the plants in the vicinity, but now you have to look for them closer, and there is bound to be a danger of poisoning......"

"Haha, I see! So that's the danger you're talking about. When I heard her say this, I relaxed: "Why did you forget it, how did my father tell us, we are ancestral spirits that are invincible." ”

"That's what I said, but after all, we haven't tried it ourselves, so how do we know if our bodies can withstand the miasma." When she heard me say this, her tone was not as heavy as it sounded before, but she still hesitated slightly: "By the way, did you keep all the bottles of medicine you gave you last time?" ”

"Well, bring it, what's the matter, there's a medicine for miasma in there?" I quickly opened my backpack and began rummaging through the pile of pill bottles.

"There is a bottle of pill called 'Hundred Poison Elimination' in it, you take it out and mix it with water first, but this pill can only detoxify the poison of insects, ants, snakes, locusts, it can quickly clean up the blood, it is a good medicine for treating plague, and it can also make people who are not infected have a certain resistance, but whether it can cure the poison of this miasma, I am not very sure......"

She paused and continued, "By the way, according to the southern Yunnan earthwork, you can first prick their upper and lower lips with a hot needle to release some blood, and ...... And a little JJ who stabbed them...... Ah, that's what the book says anyway, you guys try it. ”

Bingbing's words were obviously a little shy and uncertain, but he was not modest, after all, in a modern metropolis like Shencheng, there was almost no chance to encounter phenomena such as miasma, malaria and plague, and naturally he had no experience in treatment, but since there was a way to try, it was better than sitting still.

I hurriedly took out the bottle of Hundred Poisons, and instructed Ah Hu and Ah Leopard to distribute one to everyone, including the three sick people, and take it with the mineral water I brought, and let the acupuncture method be tried by Company Commander Wang.

I continued, "The medicine has been given to them, what happens next?" ”

"The amount of this medicine is limited, not enough for a few of you to eat for two days, it is estimated that it will be gone, this miasma should be a stubborn disease, if you want to find the antidote completely, you have to go to the vicinity to see." Bingbing said: "I'm afraid...... I'm afraid that what my uncle said is unreliable, then what if you get poisoned in the past......"

"There's no other way now, I'll go over and have a look." I've decided to take that risk.

"Then be careful! By the way, call the golden fat man and come with you, so that the two of them can take care of each other. ”

"Okay, then I'll not talk about it for now, I'll ask you when I get to the woods!"

After hanging up the phone, he told Company Commander Wang about the fact that there is an antidote grass in the miasma land that Bingbing said, of course, it omitted the link about the inviolability of our ancestral spirits, but said that the "hundred poisons elimination" has some anti-poison effects, and there should be no problem if you walk in the miasma in a short time.

Company Commander Wang looked back at the three soldiers lying on the ground, then looked at the dense forest in front of him, and sighed: "If you can find that medicinal herb, it's best, if not, come back quickly, I will be responsible for your safety." ”

He turned back and gestured to the two warriors standing to the side. said: "Tiedan, you are responsible for protecting these two comrades. Xiao Liu, you accompany us to take care of the wounded. ”

When Ah Zi and the Haw Par brothers heard that we were going to the jungle, they wanted to go too, but in the end, they were persuaded by me and Jin Facai.

I said, "It's a critical moment, don't be angry, let's try to minimize the risk, the three of you stay here and take care of the wounded together, if the three of us don't come out in two hours......"

I didn't know how to go on when I said this, and Jin Facai immediately said: "You haven't even set off and said frustrating, we will definitely come back in two hours!" Company Commander Wang, let's keep in touch at any time! ”

With that, he grabbed his walkie-talkie from his bag and plugged it into his waist.

The sky was almost faint in the middle of the mountain, and the dense forest was even more unfathomable, so Jin Facai and I put on our headlamps, grabbed the sapper shovel on our backs, and walked down the small slope, and another young comrade also followed with rifles.

The soldier who went with us looked young and honest, and introduced himself as he followed behind us: "Two comrades, my name is Zhong Tie, 18 years old, nicknamed Tiedan, what are your names?" ”

Jin Facai laughed: "Iron egg! This name is good, and I am not afraid of death! 18 years old is still young, you can call me Brother Jin. He pointed at me again: "This is Brother Zang!" ”

Although the distance of less than two hundred meters was not far, but because the fog was getting closer and closer, somehow, the steps of the three of them became slower and slower, and the three of them walked along the meadow by the stream in the direction of the dense forest.

As the dense forest approached, a strange fragrance slowly wafted out of the air, this fragrance was not the plant fragrance that I had smelled in the forest before, but an indescribable strange fragrance.

I said to the iron egg: "When you get inside, try to talk as little as possible, and gesture when you can." ”

"Hmm!" He didn't say much, pursed his lips, frowned, held his rifle, and walked to the front first.

Along the stream, we entered the dense fog of the forest, where it was so quiet that we could only hear the sound of the stream and the footsteps of three men stepping on blades of grass, and nothing else.

This stream is still a narrow waterway in the meadow outside, after entering the forest, it goes upstream, but it is getting wider and wider, presumably there is a reservoir and other terrain in front, the five-color miasma is a color layering from a distance before, and to the inside, but it is not obvious, the front is just a mist half floating in the air like a flowing glow, when you look back, it is more than 100 meters away from the entrance of the forest, and then look forward, you can't see the end of this miasma.

The only glimmer of light in the sky was blocked by the dense forest, and it was getting darker and darker.

I turned on the searchlight on my head, which can shine at a distance of about tens of meters, and Jin Facai also wanted to turn it on, but was stopped by Tie Dan, pursed his mouth and spit out two words: "Power saving." ”

I swept the ground with the lights, trying to find some plants that at first glance looked like antidote grasses or something, but after looking at them for a long time, I didn't find anything special except for some low weeds and wildflowers. I had no choice but to take out my mobile phone and take a photo of each of the various plants, send it to Bingbing's mobile phone, and make a message: "I am already in the forest, it is inconvenient to say more, say it in words." ”

Soon after the pictures and messages were sent, the mobile phone rang, and when I saw that it was Bingbing's call, I had to pick it up first, and I heard the other end say: "You stupid, you can't say, why let me send a message too, I don't have a miasma, don't talk, just listen to me." ”

I thought about it too, and I couldn't stop laughing.

"Listen, in those pictures just now, the fourth one, the one with small white flowers, is the edge of the leaf a little jagged? How high is it...... Is it less than half a person's height? Probably as tall as your thighs? ”

I looked at the photos and compared them with a clump of plants growing next to the dipterocarp tree, and it was indeed as Bingbing said, so I said "um".

"Go over and take a closer look, are there some small red spots on the stem of the plant?"

I leaned over to take a closer look, and there were really patches of red spots, "Hmm! Not only did I secretly admire this little girl, but I could know the whole appearance of it just by seeing a small flower.

"That's it, this is the antidote herb, but ...... The main part of this thing is at the root, you dig it up by the roots, and the roots are like sweet potatoes, and you cut down that root and take it out, and I will tell you how to do it. By the way, the stems and leaves on it are tied up and tied into grass to light a fire, and the fire is used to smoke the air here, which can also disperse the miasma. ”

I hung up the phone in a hurry and didn't ask the name of the medicinal herb, so I quickly called Jin Facai and Tie Dan, and dug out a large area of half-human tall medicinal herbs in the vicinity with a sapper shovel, and sure enough, as Bingbing said, the roots below were like sweet potatoes.

After wiping the roots and throwing them into their bags, the three of them held the bundles of stems and leaves and piled them together with some hay, ready to light a fire. At this time, Tie Dan hurriedly stopped, and regardless of the previous taboo, he said: "You can't light a fire here, if the fire can't be controlled, there is a danger of causing a mountain fire." ”

Jin Facai said: "When is this time, and said that there is no such thing, if you don't burn the fire, this poisonous gas will not disperse, what do you say?" ”

Tie Dan was speechless by this question, I thought that what he said was not unreasonable, so I looked around for a suitable place, and saw that there was a big rock protruding very high at the corner of the stream in front of me on the other side, so he said: "There is a big platform there, we climb on the big stone and burn it, we are not afraid of burning the turf, if we really can't control the fire, we kick them into the water, how about it?" ”

Tie Dan thought about it, then nodded in agreement, and the three of them ran towards the big stone with the haystack in their hands.

The stone was about three or four meters long, more than one person high, and we first threw the haystack up, and then the iron egg took a few steps back, and one of them climbed up, and then pulled me up, and then the two of us worked together to pull the fat man up from below.

The three of them were about to light the fire, but they heard Jin Facai say "sigh", and then they squatted down and lay on the stone.

When we saw this, we didn't think much about it, and just lay down, and I asked, "What's wrong?" ”

I saw Jin Facai staring at the other end of the stream, putting his index finger to his lips, and whispering to the front, "Shh...... Look, am I dazzled? Hey~"

Looking at Jin Facai's gaze, there is a heart-pounding scene:

In the other direction after the stream bends, there is a puddle of water twenty or thirty meters away from us, and in the middle of the sparkling pool, there is a white swaying back, shining by the light above my head, it is clearly a graceful, naked girl, standing alone in the water bathing!