"Snakes! There are snakes!"
There was a sudden exclamation from the depths of the cave, Yan Mo was startled, and his legs lying flat on the ground moved.
The side of his right thigh hurt, something bit him!
"Pfft!" The scalpel was inserted into the head of the snake that was about to escape, and the body of the snake, which was about 60 centimeters long, was still twisting desperately, forming a circle around the scalpel.
For the time being, he didn't have time to surprise his own reaction, the burning pain from the wound told him that it was a poisonous snake that bit him.
Yan Mo pressed the wound on the outside of his right thigh, the bitten area began to swell slightly, the wound was slightly hard, the bleeding continued, and the pain was intense. It is roughly judged that the snake venom probably belongs to blood circulation toxins.
"Don't move around!" Yan Mo shouted inside.
"These snakes are attacking us!" The people sleeping inside shouted, trying to flee.
Active attack? Why? Yan Mo shouted again: "People who have been bitten by poisonous snakes don't move!"
The cave was in chaos, and the people inside didn't really stop moving because of Yan Mo's yelling to stop. They were fleeing, and they were even more afraid that they couldn't see clearly in the dark.
Although it was dark outside, at least there were stars.
Yan Mo didn't care about those people for the time being, and let those who could still move past him. He was not sure about his body's ability to detoxify, so he immediately pulled out his belt and tied it to the heels of his legs. Then he pulled out the scalpel and quickly stabbed at the seven inches of the poisonous snake again. Thanks to that Yupeng eyeball for giving him the added vision, although there is only a little reflection, it is enough for him to see the surroundings clearly.
"Pfft!" This time, the poisonous snake only struggled twice before dying.
Yan Mo cursed in a low voice. This damn poisonous snake not only bit him, but also wasted a life force blessing.
Only then did the bee guards realize that their diet did not include cold-blooded animals like snakes, and they had no interest in each other. They completely ignored the entry and exit of this snake.
At this time, Yan Mo also realized that the bee guard is not omnipotent, in this grassland and this world, he cannot be careless for a moment. If he had arranged for people to take turns defending the entrance of the cave just now, and hadn't ignored the movement in the grass, he wouldn't have just been bitten by a poisonous snake.
This isn't your original world. Did the Jiuyuan Tribe's peaceful life make you forget the dangers of this world? Yan Mo felt ashamed, and the facts told him that in fact, he had been relying on those barbarians he looked down upon to survive until now.
Yes, he won't die, but can't half-dead and begging for death be worse than death
Want to take control of your life? Want to live with more dignity? So from now on, throw away your sense of superiority of those future people!
Yan Mo glanced at the hive, the night is also the weakness of the bee guards.
The lack of bee guard's reconnaissance made him very worried. He wondered why these snakes would attack them. Generally, as long as snakes don't take the initiative to harass it, they rarely take the initiative to bite humans. Did they accidentally enter the snake's den? Would an experienced fighter like Yuan Zhan be so careless
Those who fled outside the cave did not dare to run far. Those knee-deep weeds were even more terrifying. No one knew how many poisonous snakes were hidden inside.
"Why hasn't the person who went out to pick up grass leaves come back?" a boy's voice called anxiously.
Several other people cried out in pain: "I was bitten by a snake! Why are there so many snakes here?"
"Hush! Listen!" The boy told everyone not to speak.
Several people, including Yan Mo in the cave, pricked up their ears, and the sound of a woman's panic and running in the grass came from a distance.
"Xuesheng and the others are back!" the boy shouted in surprise.
"Something is wrong!" Someone alerted, "What is Xuesheng shouting?"
The snakes that were still alive in the cave started to flee, Yan Mo didn't have time to heal his own wounds and didn't care what the woman named Xuesheng was yelling, he had to deal with the poisonous snakes that were about to pass over him first.
Fortunately, he is not afraid of poisonous snakes. These long things are often the undead of his men. Snake venom, snake meat, snake gall, etc. are all good things. There was a time when he liked the more poisonous snakes.
But as soon as he killed a snake, he found that the snakes that came out of the cave had no intention of attacking, and they were only busy leaving the cave, as if something was calling them outside.
"People outside are careful, don't move around, let these snakes pass!" Yan Mo warned the people at the entrance of the cave, while carefully retracting his hands and feet, avoiding the poisonous snakes, and letting them pass freely.
The burning pain from the wound became more and more unbearable, and his leg began to swell.
Yan Mo calmly took out red salt and sprinkled it into the water bag, shaking it. Then rinse the scalpel and wound with salt water.
Bend the right leg and lay it flat, carefully cut open the bite, then slowly turn the leg over, squeeze the wound with your hands, squeeze out the poisonous blood, and then rinse it with salt water. Then let go of the belt around the base of the thigh to allow blood and lymph to circulate, and then put it back on after a while.
This does not guarantee that the snake venom can be completely removed, it can only be used as an emergency measure.
However, because Yuan Zhan repeatedly mentioned that spring and summer snakes and insects are terrible, he once deliberately searched for all herbs that can cure snake venom in the woods and grasslands.
Because of geography and seasons, he didn't find any particularly useful targeted herbs near the Jiuyuan tribe, so he could only use herbs such as gentian grass instead. Blood circulation toxins belong to fire poison in traditional Chinese medicine, and Gentiana great cold is not a symptom, but the effect is not significant when used alone.
After healed his wounds, Yan Mo made a sound to let all the active people in the cave come out of the cave, and let them move as slowly as possible. Although his eyesight is good, if there is no reflection, he still can't see anything.
"Hurry up and hide! Someone is chasing us!" The grass blades rustled, and the woman's shrill cry pierced the eardrums.
The shout was very clear this time, and everyone who heard it was a little panicked at this moment. They had just experienced the attack of the snake group, and now they heard that there was an enemy attack. They didn't know what to do for a while. In the end, everyone, including the running Xuesheng and others who came back all looked at Yan Mo who walked out of the cave.
Yan Mo didn't even have time to think, because he had already seen those pursuers.
"All in the hole!"
The person who just walked out of the cave retreated into the cave again enduring the pain and fear of the snake's venom.
Yan Mo called out the bee guards and let them fly outside to circle.
He was worried that those pursuers would rush over directly, but they didn't know whether they saw the bee guards or had other scruples, so they all stopped 50 meters away from the cave.
"Your name is Xuesheng?" Yan Mo looked at the woman.
"Yes." The woman gasped and nodded.
"Tell me what happened."
"Me, Feique and I just wanted to pick up some grass blades that could be used to light a fire, but when we saw a rabbit, we chased after it before it was dark, but halfway through our run, more than a dozen people rushed out to try Capture us alive. Feique and I ran desperately, but two people were caught by them... I... "
Yan Mo interrupted her, "Did you notice that someone was following you before you saw the rabbit?"
Xuesheng looked at Feique, and the two shook their heads together, "I don't know, I didn't find out."
Yan Mo frowned tightly. He had a guess that they might have been followed by people since the original tribe, but those people might have seen the man-eating bees, so they didn't dare to approach them, and they didn't dare to attack them rashly.
And this can also explain why they were suddenly attacked by poisonous snakes, because those who followed them probably had people who used poisonous snakes. When they saw man-eating bees, they did not dare to approach them, so they used poisonous snakes to sneak up on them, even at night. , because they also know that man-eating bees are affected at night.
The fact that Xuesheng and the others went out gave those people a chance to capture them alive. The fact that those people chose to capture them alive rather than kill them was probably related to the fact that most of Xuesheng and the others were women.
So why are those people stopping outside now
Waiting for their venom to take hold? Or are you afraid of man-eating bees and dare not approach them
Xue Sheng and the others were also obviously wondering why those pursuers followed them here but gave up the pursuit. Several people looked at the man-eating bees crawling around on the hive, and their eyes gradually glowed.
"There are man-eating bees here, they dare not come here!" Xue Sheng whispered excitedly.
"But if they throw their spears here..."
"It's dark and the hole is small, unless they get close...they don't dare to get that close." Another boy was also excited.
"Then they must not dare to stay outside for a long time, even the bravest warriors would not dare to stay in the grassland at night for such a long time." The boy named Feique also said.
"Yes! We just have to wait until Lord Zhan returns."
"Have you forgotten that there are poisonous snakes?" The man who was bitten by a poisonous snake groaned.
"Poisonous snake?" Xue Sheng's face changed, "The people who hunted us are the snake people?"
"The pig tribe, the Haola tribe, the red fox tribe, and now there are more snake tribes. They want to kill all the people in our original tribe!" the boy said angrily.
Yan Mo didn't speak, just listened quietly beside him.
Xue Sheng and the others seemed to have forgotten about this strange white-headed man, and only talked about their own.
Red Wing and Spike come back and tell him that the humans started to back away, and there was a lot of living flesh appearing nearby.
Yan Mo was not surprised. It would be strange if Xuesheng, the others and those pursuers caused such a big commotion, but they didn't attract the attention of those beasts.
"Those people have retreated. There are wild beasts nearby, so light the fire first."
Yan Mo's voice was not high, but everyone who was talking shut their mouths and looked at him.
Xue Sheng even hurriedly said: "I'm going to light a fire, I brought a stone that can make a fire."
Yan Mo nodded, "All those who were bitten by the snake stood in front of me and took off their animal skins."
Everyone looked at Yan Mo again, especially the person bitten by the poisonous snake.
"You, what are you going to do?" A boy who was bitten by a poisonous snake took a step forward and asked hesitantly.
Yan Mo spit out five words: "Save your lives."
The fire finally rose, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief the moment they saw the fire.
In order not to waste the number of blessings of life, Yan Mo instructed them to help each other, first find each other's wounds, and if they found them, try to stop the poisonous blood from flowing to the heart as he said, and then he would cut open their bites with a knife. Then teach them how to squeeze and suck out the poisonous blood.
"In the past few days, there have been no wounds in the mouth, no bleeding from the teeth, no ulcers on the tongue and lips... People who have no swelling or breaks can use their mouths to suck out the poisonous blood from the wounds of your companions. Swallow it into the stomach, spit it all out, don’t swallow any saliva, wait until the color of the sucked blood turns red, and then come to me to get salt water to rinse your mouth.”
"This is a medicinal herb that can cure snake venom. Chew it and apply it to your wounds. In addition, remember to loosen the tied straw ropes after a while, if you feel that the pain has stopped, or the swelling has begun If it disappears, you don’t need to tie the straw rope anymore.”
Yan Mo picked up the poisonous snake he had killed and looked at it over and over for a while, "This is a kind of pit viper. When it dawns, everyone will look around to see if there is any yarrow."
According to the geography and climate here, it is unlikely that herbs that have miraculous effects on treating snake venom, such as Shemimen, Dongfengcai, and Lobelia, will be found here, but plants that are more cold-resistant and heat-loving, such as alpine yarrow, are likely to grow. It can be found everywhere, and maybe you can also find cocklebur.
Yan Mo gave everyone a general description of the appearance of yarrow and cocklebur, and some people thought it was familiar, so they hurried out to look for it at dawn tomorrow.
After Yan Mo finished these tasks, he arranged for people to be on duty at the entrance of the cave in turn, and fell asleep next to the hive—he would pay more attention to how to survive and protect himself, but he would not let himself live so nervously every day.
Yan Mo, who felt that he was just doing a task, didn't realize that although he didn't talk much, and his attitude towards Xuesheng and others could be called indifferent, the eyes of Xuesheng and others looking at him gradually changed from strangeness, fear, and suspicion Cheng fears and trusts, and they are doing their best to do the best for what he has explained.
Yan Mo fell asleep, Xue Sheng and the others stopped talking until Yuan Zhan came back.
Yuan Zhan was not surprised to hear that they were attacked. They were already living in danger every day.
"Two people were taken away?"
"Yes." Xue Sheng nodded painfully.
"Have you seen the people of the snake people?"
"No." Another boy who stayed in the cave said, "Everyone knows that snakes don't bite people actively, because they don't like to eat people. But before so many snakes ran into the cave and bit us , This is too strange. Except for the snake people, no other tribe can do this kind of thing."
"The snake bit you? A poisonous snake?" Yuan Zhan's expression changed, and he immediately looked at Yan Mo who was sleeping soundly curled up next to the beehive.
"No one died!" Yun said with joy and a little fear: "That white-headed soldier saved us. He is like a priest, he knows medicinal herbs, and he also taught us how to save people who were bitten by poisonous snakes! He, He is very… !"
The boy Yun couldn’t find the right words to describe him, scratching his head anxiously. He even showed Yuan Zhan the place where he was bitten by a poisonous snake, “There are a lot of medicinal herbs hidden on his body. After applying these medicinal herbs, the wound doesn’t hurt anymore. I thought I was going to die. Few people in the clan who were bitten by poisonous snakes survived, but we all survived! The white-headed warrior said that none of us would die. He asked us to go out to find herbs tomorrow, saying that we found those kinds Herbs, I won’t be afraid of poisonous snakes in the future.”
Yuan Zhan patted the boy on the shoulder and asked him to go with the others to deal with the prey he brought back.
Yuan Zhan sat down beside Yan Mo, and when his eyes swept over the other's right thigh, he immediately bent his legs to cover the eyes of others peeping at Yan Mo.
Yan Mo felt that there was someone beside him, and immediately recovered from a deep sleep.
"Your wound has healed." Seeing him wake up, Yuan Zhan whispered in his ear.
Yan Mo sat up and touched his right thigh, but there was nothing abnormal. The wound he was bitten by the poisonous snake and cut open by himself has healed, and the swelling and pain caused by the snake venom have all disappeared. Looking at other people, the symptoms of poisoning are still obvious.
"Why did you come back so late? I thought you were being watched too."
Yuan Zhan shook his head, "The bee guards should have found two groups of people, but they can't tell the difference. One group is the people who attacked you, and the other party probably followed us here from the original tribe. The other group is the big witches of the Shi clan People and a group of Sun-worshiping warriors, that's what I saw, and the Sun-worshiping warriors captured the big witches of the Shi clan and brought them back to their temporary residence."
"You were discovered by the sun worshipers?"
Yuan Zhan shook his head again, he was not being targeted or discovered, he came back late because he was observing the enemy and eavesdropping on something.
"Aren't you curious about what's under that grassy beach? The big witch of the Shi tribe exchanged that secret with the Sun worshipers, and asked the Sun worshipers to send them to the residence of the Sun tribe."
"deliver?"
"The warriors of the Sun worship tribe captured the great witch of the Shi tribe. The witch didn't want to die, nor did he want the warriors of the tribe to become slaves, so he told the warriors of the Sun worship tribe half of the secret under the grass beach. He said a very strange thing."
"What are you talking about?" When Yan Mo heard Cao Tan's secret, his whole body became energetic.
"On the day when the sun disappears, the moon rises out of the water."
"... What do you mean?"
Yuan Zhan looked at him with a look on his face that you don't know, how could I know.
Yan Mo rubbed his chin, "The sun disappears, a solar eclipse? The moon rises from the water, and the thing in the pool looks like a moon, can it shine?"
"What is a solar eclipse?"
"It means the sun disappears."
"The sun will really disappear?! Isn't the sun the incarnation of God the Father?" Yuan Zhan's eyes widened rarely.
"No, that's a normal celestial phenomenon... The more you explain this kind of thing, the more you need to remember that solar eclipses and lunar eclipses are normal things. You think Father God and Mother God always have a rest time? Even if They are gods, and they need to go out and see friends or sleep at home or whatever."
Yuan Zhan felt reasonable, "The big witch of the Zhu tribe must not know this. I guess he doesn't believe that the sun will disappear at all, so he ran to the grassy beach to dig treasures."
"Did he mention Caotan to the sun worshippers?"
"No, the big witch of the Zhu tribe is as cunning as you. He only said that there are treasures in the residence of the Yuanji tribe, and then told the Bairi tribe that he only told half of what he said, and the other half was not willing to tell them until the tribe lived in the tribe. "
Yan Mo realized that Yuan Zhan was looking at him, and realized, "I don't know which day will be a solar eclipse. Instead of waiting for nothing, it's better to save people first. As long as the big witch of the Shi tribe is still alive, as long as there are people who know the second half of the sentence, we will Always ask."
Yuan Zhan tugged at his leather skirt, "Even if someone takes it away, I will snatch it back for you!"
Yan Mo snatched his leather skirt, rolled his eyelids, "You can go now."
The original battle was gone, and he didn't say another thing he heard, which was also the reason why the Sun worshipers suddenly appeared in the Yuanji tribe's territory.
The next day, those who followed did not show up again.
"They probably think that many of us have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes, and they have already captured two women, so it's not worthwhile to follow us at the risk of being attacked by man-eating bees." Yan Mo said casually.
"We have to speed up." Yuan Zhan didn't say that he would go back to save the two women.
Naturally, Yan Mo would not take the initiative to mention it.
Due to their deliberate search and someone's impression, they soon found a plant similar to alpine yarrow.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Yan Mo used the second biological guide in the guide to confirm that this plant is indeed alpine yarrow, and the medicinal properties are the same as he knows. For this, he was added 5 scum points.
With the yarrow that can cure the poison of vipers, Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan no longer have to worry about the safety of Boy Yun and others. Immediately and Yan Mo speeded up and headed deep into the grassland.
Yuan Zhan looked at the young man running beside him, and suddenly found that the young man seemed to be taller than before, and his beautiful muscle curves had also appeared. This was very obvious when he was running, just like those running on the grassland and Leopard cubs on the hills.
A little white-headed leopard? Yuan Zhan smiled inexplicably.
"Be careful!" Yan Mo suddenly shouted.
"Bang!" Yuan Zhan bumped his head against a weathered rock.
The corner of Yan Mo's mouth twitched, the voice made him feel pain in every bone.
Yuan Zhan was stuck in the rock for a long time without moving.
Yan Mo stepped forward, poked him on the back, and said with a smile, "Are you still alive?"
He really didn't expect that this primitive man, who seemed to be vigilant all the time, could do such a stupid thing without looking at the road, and was so eager to save his own people
Yuan Zhan pulled himself out of the rock, wiped his face, turned in the direction expressionlessly, avoided the rock, and waved his hand without saying a word, indicating that he would continue to move forward.
Yan Mo followed up speechlessly.
In a leeward valley.
Hide and other warriors looked at the old priest Qiu Shi.
The old man got up and shook his head at the soldiers.
"Master Qiushi! Chief, he..." Lie's face was full of grief.
"Leave, I have something to say to the chief." The old man waved his scepter.
Yin and Lie exchanged glances, they didn't want to leave the chief at this time, but they couldn't refuse to listen to what the old priest said, so they could only nod their heads to make room for them to talk.
The old priest waited for Ji and Lie to go away before sitting down beside the chief, and said directly: "The Mother Goddess is already on her way to welcome you."
Chief Hao of the original tribe opened his eyes. His eyes were clear, but his face was extremely gray.
"Jian and Lie want to lead the soldiers to fight back and take back the tribe's residence." The old priest said slowly.
"You don't agree?" Chief Hao didn't seem surprised.
"The Haola tribe and the Red Fox tribe can agree to attack us with the Shi tribe for the sake of salt. What about the other tribes? My tribe's hunting territory has always been coveted by other tribes. Once we leave that land, they will never let us go back."
"Do you want them to take the tribe to another place?"
"It's not hideous. He and Hunter are the best fighters, but they can't be chiefs." The old priest said the ultimate purpose of his conversation, "We must keep enough seeds so that we can accumulate strength and come back later. If the tribe is handed over In the hands of Xiong, he will take the remaining warriors and the Yi people to death, I am the priest of the tribe, and I must consider the survival of the tribe."
Hao closed his eyes, "No, the tribe must be handed over to Hin, only he can command the respect of all warriors, and no one else can. As for the matter of retaining power you mentioned, I will tell Hin that he is not blindfolded for revenge. Beast."
The old priest's face was ugly, "You are gone, no one can suppress him anymore, if he wants revenge, who can stop him? I, the other elders, I am afraid no one can."
"So you want to find someone who is obedient?" Hao smiled bitterly, and opened his eyes again, "I know you want Bing to be the chief, although he is also a third-level fighter, but he can't convince the crowd, let him be the chief, and the tribe will disperse , who will listen to him except the Heiyuan tribe, Xirang tribe and Feisha tribe? My lord priest, don’t let me die uneasy.”
"You think I'm harming the tribe? I'm all for the tribe!" the old priest said angrily.
"I know..." He was exhausted, he was always worried that this would happen, before he thought that he must live longer than the old priest, but obviously he was wrong, "My lord priest, just listen to me this time, let Hide...cough puff!"
"Dahao! Chief!" The voice of the old priest overlapped with the voice of the soldier catching moths.
It's just that after the moth catcher shouted to the chief, he shouted again: "They found us! The pigs are chasing us!"
The old priest suddenly turned to look at the mothcatcher rushing into the valley.
The author has something to say: Introduction to Chinese Herbal Medicine - Yarrow:
Functions and indications: expelling wind and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, detoxification. It can treat head pain, toothache, rheumatic arthralgia, blood stasis amenorrhea, abdominal mass, bruises, carbuncle sores and poisonous snake bites.
Small prescription: yarrow grass juice combined with partial incision and detoxification can cure pit viper bites.