Chapter 987: Difficulties
Tens of thousands of people are marching in the forest, which is a very huge goal, but the mutant beasts in the mountains do not dare to provoke these marching teams, because many mutant beasts know that these humans are not easy to mess with, if they are ordinary people, but these people carry guns and weapons, then they are obviously ready for battle.
So, when the army entered the forest, the mutant beasts in the vicinity fled far away, and they didn't dare to stay nearby.
"The mutant beast that destroyed Yanjing in the first place is probably in this forest." He Qiu'an couldn't help but think in his heart after seeing a nearby forest.
If he could, He Qiu'an would like to kill all the mutant beasts in this world, but he couldn't do this at all, so he could only think about it in his heart.
The people who opened the way ahead had already drawn a lot of maps, and these people had found the location of the mutant spiders in the forest, and the places where these spiders were located basically did not change, and they had nests in the forest, and they generally did not leave the nests too far, so as long as they bypassed the nests of these spiders, they would not encounter danger.
But not long after walking, the group encountered the biggest crisis, that is, the ubiquitous spicy seeds in the forest, these caterpillars look harmless to humans and animals, just eat leaves on the trees, but as long as you look carefully, there will be a lot of light fluffy hairs on the ground, these hairs are the stingers of spicy people, as long as they touch, it will be poisoned.
When a soldier passed under the tree, suddenly a spicy man fell from above, and it landed right on the back of his neck.
"Ah......h
The people around him rushed up and cut off the clothes on his body, and finally saw that his back was completely swollen, and dozens of poisonous stingers were just pierced on his back.
"Hurry up, stop howling, we'll save you right away." The people around hurriedly comforted the soldier who had been recruited.
Walking in the forest is the most feared thing, if you don't pay attention to the top of your head, a caterpillar will fall, if it falls on your body or head, it's okay to say, as long as you shake it off, it's fine, you won't be hurt if you have the protection of clothes, but once you fall into the collar, the next thing is to suffer.
There are soldiers around who use leaves to smear the slime of the caterpillar's body on the back of the soldier who was killed, and although I don't know if it works, this is the only way.
The tip of the stinger on the caterpillar is very fragile, as long as it touches the human skin, it will be broken, and the venom in it will be released immediately, and the caterpillar that the soldier encountered just now rolled directly on his back, I don't know how many stingers have pierced into the skin.
The soldier, who was still screaming just now, soon lost his reaction and fell to the ground foaming at the mouth.
"Hurry up and take it for treatment, now he can't move, this kid's luck is so bad, these caterpillars actually fell into his collar." Someone next to him lamented that this soldier who was recruited was unlucky.
These mutated caterpillars are relatively large in size and can be the size of a palm, so these stingers are also stronger, and people who used to be stung by caterpillars will not have much after being bitten, at most they will be red and swollen for a day or two, but now if people encounter mutated caterpillars, they are likely to be in danger of their lives.
Of course, the human body is also very powerful, as long as you carry it, you will be fine, but the soldiers who have been recruited in a short period of time cannot move at all, and can only lie in the nearby temporary hospital to be cared for by others.
"These damn bugs, I didn't expect to pose a threat to us right now." He Qiu'an looked very helpless after discovering that there were insects on the tree.
If the bugs in the trees take the initiative to attack the army, it will be easy to do, just lure the bugs to an open area and then destroy them together.
Unfortunately, these caterpillars on the trees basically don't move except for eating leaves, and trying to lure these insects to fight in the open area is completely impossible.
"If it really doesn't work, I suggest that we take a different path, not directly and recklessly go south, but first go west to the grassland, and then enter the customs from the grassland." Lu Kaiyang put forward his own views at this time.
"It's a good idea, but it can take a long time. If there is a protracted war, the supply lines will also be stretched, which is a very bad thing." He Qiu'an immediately rejected this suggestion.
"Then the only way to deal with these caterpillars on the tree is to not let these insects fall at any time." Lu Kaiyang also looked helpless.
At this time, many soldiers thought of a way to defend against the caterpillars in the trees, since these insects will not take the initiative to attack humans, then they only need to be careful of the insects on the top of their heads, in this case, just work on the hat.
Someone modified the hat to make a four-sided wide-brim design, the middle of the hat is relatively high, and the four folds are relatively low, if the worm falls on the hat, it will soon slide away and fall to the ground.
However, the design was immediately followed by the suggestion, "Isn't this just a hat?"
He Qiu'an was awakened by the words of the soldiers, and now he also understood at this time, and then he only needed to guard against the insects that might fall on his head, so he immediately gave an order to Bingcheng to make 10,000 hats in the shortest possible time, and then send them to the front line quickly.
Then the soldiers, armed with the equipment to protect their heads, continued southward, quickly crossing a large area of the forest, and came into trouble that evening.
Everyone was busy cooking in the woods at dusk, and after dinner, they began to rest, but at this time, many people began to foam at the mouth, and one by one they had food poisoning.
After He Qiu'an learned of this situation, he immediately launched an investigation, focusing on the chefs in the army, because the soldiers under his command obviously had collective food poisoning, and this situation was likely to be a problem with the cooks, if the cooks in charge of cooking in the army were spies of other forces, it would be bad.
However, after the investigation, the chefs washed away their own sins, the ingredients they used were all brought from the ice city, these ingredients are very clean and hygienic, there is no contamination, and there is no problem with the cooking method, there should be no food poisoning.
"Did someone find a mushroom in the woods and eat it quietly?" He Qiuan continued to ask.
There are also a lot of mushrooms in the Northeast, except for the southwest, the Northeast has the most mushrooms, and there was a mushroom forest in the forest a few years ago, but there is no wisdom, so once someone is hungry and wants to eat a little fresh mushroom, there may be danger.
However, after continuing to investigate and question, the soldiers with diarrhea shook their heads and denied this: "Now we basically don't dare to eat mushrooms, even shiitake mushrooms, we don't dare to touch them at all, how can we take the initiative to eat mushrooms?"
"It's weird, if what you're saying is true, then where did the toxin come from?" He Qiu'an was very troubled, and there was food poisoning among the soldiers, but he couldn't find out how the toxin came from.
Fortunately, one of the teenagers in Yuzhou, named Yang Ming, stood up and said, "After my observation, I may know where these toxins come from!"
"You know where these toxins come from, so tell me how they got poisoned?" He Qiuan hurriedly asked.
Yang Ming stretched out his index finger, pointed to the sky and said, "These toxins all come from the sky."
As soon as these words came out, the people around them expressed their doubts, because this kind of thing is too exaggerated.
"How could a toxin come from the sky, now that the sky is cloudless, there is no danger at all."
"Young men need to speak responsibly, have you thought about it? If you talk nonsense, you may be punished!"
"I guess this kid is talking nonsense, just to win attention in front of everyone's eyes."
The surrounding soldiers spoke one after another, and some unfortunate people were also looking up,
I wanted to see what danger was in the sky, but I couldn't see anything but the blue sky.
"Why should I lie to you about this, if you don't believe me, I'll prove it to you." Yang Ming looked very stubborn at this time.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Ming came to the side of the cauldron, found a pair of chopsticks, and began to rummage in the pot.
He Qiu'an followed Yang Ming's side, wanting to see what the root cause of the food poisoning was, but at this time, he could only see Yang Ming constantly using chopsticks to get something out of the soup, but he couldn't see it clearly.
"This thing looks like hair, and it's not a big deal, isn't it just a few hairs! If you eat it, you won't die." After the chef looked at it carefully, he found that Yang Ming fished out the pot with strands of black hair, so he immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Please see, this is not any ordinary hair, this is the hair that has fallen from the caterpillar." Yang Ming explained seriously.
After hearing this, everyone was stunned, and they gathered around and carefully looked at the thin hairs picked out of the pot, even the hair may not be so thin.
"Can such a thin stinger really cause poisoning?" The cook's mood also became apprehensive, at first he thought that these things were hairs, even if they were fine, but now it seems that these hairs are actually the stingers on the caterpillars.
Lu Kaiyang explained at this time: "This student's ability of mine is to enhance vision, so he can see things that many people can't see, in your eyes it may just be a strand of hair, but in his eyes this thing is a burr that falls off the caterpillar!"
He Qiu'an also reacted, and then said: "Yang Ming, thanks to you this time, if you hadn't discovered this problem, we would all be in the dark now, and we must do it in the tent when cooking next, and it is forbidden to cook in the open air."
"It's over, it's over, it's just like that, and it's useless to do it other than to find a little detail." Yang Ming said modestly, although the words on his mouth were very modest, but his mouth was about to grin to the root of his ear, and it could be seen that he was very proud now.
"I didn't expect to make this kid stand out, obviously his ability didn't have any effect, but at this time he turned out to be the first of us to make a meritorious service." After Luo Hui saw this scene, he couldn't help but say sourly.
"There's no need to be jealous, anyway, they're all their own brothers, aren't all the same for whomever has made meritorious contributions?" Qu Zhaoqian hurriedly spoke.
At this time, many people found that Wang Xiqiang, who had always been active, had disappeared, so everyone hurriedly searched for him, and finally saw him under a nearby tree.
"You kid is dying, why don't you come here quickly? Beware of bugs falling on you, so that you can't survive or die." Qu Zhaoqian couldn't help but say.
"Shhhh Wang Xiqiang raised his head and said to the friends who came over.
"You're Zhu Bajie wearing glasses - what kind of college student are you pretending to be? You haven't studied anything like research, and now you're pretending to talk about research, who believes it?" Luo Hui couldn't help but laugh, feeling that Wang Xiqiang at this time must be a hypocrisy.
But Wang Xiqiang said seriously: "If you don't believe it, forget it, but I will let you know how powerful I am in a few days."