Chapter 219: Fungal Offensive

The idea of cultivating strains in the food left behind by the circle of life actually originated from the idea of the druids.

Human experimentation, a particularly sensitive and dangerous sounding term, has been a thousand-year-old tradition in another world. In the ancient legend of the Immortal Sect, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and relied on tea to detoxify, while the druids relied on the magic of life force to resist a dose of poison that exceeded the capacity of ordinary elves several times or even more than ten times. Different from the principle of prescribing the right medicine for the symptoms followed by detoxification in the usual sense, as long as the human body has a certain resistance to the toxin itself, the druid can repair the damage of the toxin to the body through the life force, and at the same time accelerate the detoxification and detoxification function of the organs, so as to greatly reduce the harm of the toxin to the body. In a sense, relying on the power of life to detoxify is indeed a powerful means of targeting almost all toxins.

Relying on this ability, the druids actually have an unparalleled and powerful advantage in the development and application of drugs. But in fact, for thousands of years, the druids only relied on this ability to test drugs, but never thought of using this method to test drugs. Just because the effect of life force is enough to crush the vast majority of so-called special drugs, and its wide range of application is incomparable to any ordinary medicine.

In another world, all drugs need to be tested on animals before they can be used in clinical trials, but animal experiments themselves are limited by many objective conditions that make it difficult to reach accurate conclusions.

First of all, the animals used for the experiment cannot communicate with humans, so the effect of the drug on the experimental animals can only be observed by various means of detection. Unless the effect is particularly significant, the more subtle effects can only be confirmed through long-term observation and increasing doses. If intelligent beings who can communicate without barriers are used as the object of experimentation, some subtle effects of drugs can be more intuitively expressed through language. In another world, because medical research is always for the sake of human beings, humans know much more about themselves than other animals used for experiments, so the data obtained from clinical experiments are often more accurate than those obtained from animal experiments.

Although animal experiments can determine the effects and harms of drugs through dangerous doses that are far beyond the norm.

Another disadvantage of animal experimentation is that most drugs are developed for humans themselves. However, the physiological differences between the animals used in the experiment and the humans may make the effects of the drugs very different in the two bodies.

Clenbuterol is a typical example of this medical experiment, which was originally used to treat respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis in humans. It was later abandoned due to limited therapeutic effects, significant side effects, and the invention of new drugs, but it was found that the use of large doses was extremely effective in inducing the "nutrient redistribution effect" in domestic animals, that is, inhibiting fat deposits to promote their breakdown and promoting protein deposition.

This phenomenon of the difference between different organisms in medicine was first mentioned to the druids by the Children of the Abyss, and then by the elves as a means of studying the mysteries of life.

Is it because of the power of life force or the blood of elves that the elves are more resistant to most common toxins than other humanoids? Because of the druid's life spell as a backing, as long as the conservative dosage is used sensibly, the participants in the experiment will experience some pain at most, and will not really face any danger to their lives.

Then, in this process, the druids found that the dwarves were far more resistant to alchemy toxins (i.e., minerals and chemical toxins) than ordinary people, while the demons had a certain resistance to most common biological toxins, and the orcs were more resistant to gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases...... In short, the druids found this to be a very interesting new field, and then they began to use the war to expand their research to humans.

In the beginning, the druids used several of the more common fast-acting poisonous mushroom spores.

As a result, after breakfast the next day, many human adventurers were already showing various symptoms of mild or severe. The widespread poisoning naturally attracted the attention of the adventurers, and naturally, their suspicions focused on the food left behind in the camp.

But why did the same food, which had been fine last night, cause such severe poisoning this morning? Some of the more astute adventurers pointed out that the mold spots on some of the food after the night were unusual, and by the halfway through the morning, many of the mycelium had grown into individual mushrooms.

The debate over whether these mushrooms are poisonous or not has been debated among humans who have more experience living in the wild.

"Poisonous mushrooms are usually very bright in color. ”

There are indeed many poisonous mushrooms with bright colors and peculiar appearances, but there are also many brightly colored mushrooms that are actually edible, and there are many typical colorful mushrooms in the boletaceae, but porcini mushrooms also contain some poisonous varieties. In addition, there are red mushrooms, elm mushrooms, red phalloides, etc., all of which are precious edible mushrooms with bright colors and even foul odor but have certain medicinal value. On the other hand, there are mushrooms known as death caps and angels of destruction that look inconspicuous in color but are nicknamed "fools" because they are highly poisonous - if anyone really believes that one or several characteristics can be relied on to tell if a mushroom is poisonous or not, then he must be the fool whose life has been fooled.

...... Although these are just examples from another world.

"These mushrooms have ants crawling around, they should be non-poisonous!"

Vertebrates rely on blood to transport oxygen throughout the body, and hemoglobin is a very important medium in this, and you can't expect many of the circulatory toxins to work on insects that are not red at all.

Unless you can determine the exact type of mushroom, whether it is poisonous or not, the odor, fungus drag, fungus ring, or even insect bite cannot be used as a key characteristic to determine whether a mushroom is poisonous or not. Some snail slugs like to eat mushrooms, which are highly toxic to humans, and some highly poisonous mushrooms to fruit flies are human delicacies.

In fact, due to the wide variety of mushrooms and the many similarities between the same genus, sometimes experts even rely on a microscope to determine the species of a mushroom. To add insult to injury, some mushrooms that are otherwise non-poisonous carry deadly toxins because they grow on poisonous plants.

While the "seasoned" hunters were arguing about whether the plaque that spread their food was poisonous or not, the humans of the Emerald Riverside adventurer's camp became panicked again - they found that the more than 1,000 enemies who had been stationed on the other side of the river were nowhere to be found after dawn......

"Since you all say that these mold spots and mushrooms are completely non-toxic, why can't so many companions even stand up!?"

"Now is not the time to talk about such things!" said one of the leaders as he stormed into the tent where the food was stored, "and thousands of enemies have gathered outside the camp in a hurry!"

......

The operation of gathering almost all of Andrari's forces was naturally a matter of no suspense when it was used against some of the enemy, who were more than half of them unable to fight. Perhaps because the first dinner greatly reduced the vigilance of the enemy, several hundred people could not even escape when Andrari attacked. Until the end, there are still quite a few enemies who surrender because they have lost the ability to resist, believing that they have been corrupted by the enemy's curse.

For these stupid enemies, according to Mora's idea, she naturally slashed things with a knife, but this time, she had to suppress her killing intent and transport these incapacitated human adventurers to a small open sandbar thirty kilometers upstream of the Emerald River by a ship in a temporary port.

For Andrari's consul, the Children of the Abyss, has decreed that these human captives are still useful.