The moon was high in the sky, and from time to time there were gusts of cool breeze blowing across the grassland, bringing various sounds from afar.
Under the night sky, a bonfire stood out in the endless grassland, but no animal had the idea of approaching it. In addition to the deterrent effect of the flames, the presence of the beasts also told the guys who came out to forage at night that there was a big boss here who was not easy to mess with.
The golden-roasted deer leg was gently turning above the flames. A thumb-thick branch was inserted into the broken bone at the end of the deer leg, and the other end was placed on a dead log lying on the ground. Wang Ping held it down with his claws and stepped on it from time to time.
Gu Lang fell ill in the tent, so naturally no one helped him to deal with the fur on the deer leg. As for how he finally did it, Wang Ping really didn't want to recall it. However, at this time, the teeth marks on the deer leg, which had been roasted to a crisp, seemed to be telling something silently.
Xiaohua was full, so she dragged the remaining venison into the SUV and hid it under the seat.
It is not known whether the leopard has the habit of hiding food or whether it needs to make some reserves because of the injury. It can be seen that whether it is a human or an animal, they all have their own way of survival.
Different from Xiaohua's simple thinking, Wang Ping seemed to be a little worried.
Gu Lang's condition was more serious than he expected. Although the fever-reducing patch controlled his body temperature, the physical symptoms could not be solved by a small fever-reducing patch.
After all, the conditions here are too poor, and it would be the most troublesome thing if any complications really occurred.
When you get sick on the grasslands, especially on the grasslands of Africa, the most terrifying thing is often not the symptoms but the cause.
If Gu Lang's fever was just a natural reaction of his immune system after being frightened, or a minor infection of the wound, then it would be fine. The most frightening thing is that he has contracted Africa's killer: malaria.
A faint meaty aroma wafted from the roasted venison leg, but Wang Ping suddenly lost his appetite.
"Forget it, human life is at stake, the worst that can happen is just a walk!"
After making a certain decision, Wang Ping felt much more relaxed.
The first thing that comes to mind is the rescue team.
After placing the roasted deer leg next to Gu Lang's sleeping bag in the tent, Wang Ping ran back to the car and stared at the two pieces of metal wire that he had broken. From Wang Ping's point of view, this thing didn't look like an Internet cable at all, but it was somewhat similar to the internal structure of a car antenna.
If someone really wanted to rescue Gu Lang before, they would definitely find a way to locate him. If the network in the car can be restored, maybe someone will come to find him.
But how do I connect this thing
Looking at the colorful copper wires leaking out of the broken wire, Wang Ping's eyes were filled with confusion.
If it was to repair a disassembled pistol or a simple positioning device for a single soldier, it would not be beyond his ability. But how to connect a deformed metal router to the Internet in the wild without any tools really stumped Wang Ping.
Without the internet, there would be no rescue team. Do we need to put a capital SOS on the ground? At least there has to be a plane passing by!
Of course, Wang Ping had another choice, which was to immediately go to the nearest city and send Gu Lang to the hospital.
Judging from the distance, the place where the off-road vehicle stops is no more than 100 kilometers away from Makuyuni. If the speed is fast enough, it can arrive on the same day.
But this also faces two problems:
First, given Gu Lang's current condition, if he were thrown into a populated area, in such a foreign environment, especially with the security conditions in Africa, Wang Ping would write his last name backwards unless all his belongings were stolen.
Unless there was a professional rescue team or he met fellow Chinese, Wang Ping would never send Gu Lang away like this.
Of course, there is the second and most important point: who will drive to Makuyuni
After much thought, if we want Gu Lang to receive proper treatment, the most reliable way is to let the rescue team take over.
But this was just Wang Ping's guess. Wang Ping himself was a little confused as to whether such a rescue team really existed.
After studying the line for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how to connect it. Moreover, the individual wire ends with a diameter of less than one millimeter were not even as thick as a hair on his body, which was beyond the ability of a badger to do it.
"Damn! This guy went so far away and didn't even bring a satellite phone?"
Wang Ping couldn't help but complain in his heart, wondering why he was always worried wherever he went.
However, if he knew that Gu Lang originally only planned to take a trip from Dodoma to Handini and had never thought about going deep into the grassland, he might not have thought so.
"It's not that I don't want to save you, it's just that a good cook can't cook without rice!"
Wang Ping muttered to himself and began to observe the structure of the car.
Since the rescue team cannot be relied upon for the time being, we have to implement plan B.
If we only look at the straight-line distance, it's not far from here to the security team base near Karatu. And the whole way is a highway, which is much easier than crossing the grassland before.
The security team's base was always equipped with emergency medicine and surgical equipment. Wang Ping felt more at ease after sending Gu Lang to his teammates.
This does not conflict with Wang Ping's purpose of finding teammates, and it is currently the most effective rescue plan, provided that Wang Ping can start the car.
After all the twists and turns, no matter whether it is plan A or plan B, it is inseparable from a driver who can drive the car. As for how to pull Gu Lang and Xiaohua through the levels on the road in the future, it is actually a trivial matter.
Wang Ping did not rest that night and was busy all the time.
Not far from the tent, there is a small forest. The forest is not big, with only dozens of short trees growing sparsely there.
There are very few trees growing very tall on the grassland. Trees that are over 5 meters tall are considered to be gifted. The main reason is that the wind is strong on the grassland and there are few trees. Without shelter, small trees can be easily broken or uprooted by the wind during their growth. This is the reason why the saying "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind" is true. Another point is the distribution of soil layers.
Large grassland areas like this usually have a thin shallow soil layer and a rocky soil environment, which does not provide the conditions for the growth of large tree roots. Occasionally, trees with roots that can reach deep soil layers are rare on the grassland. Whenever they appear, they are the most obvious signposts.
But even a small tree was not something Wang Ping could easily shake. No matter how shallow the soil layer was, it was still much deeper than Wang Ping's height.
Wang Ping walked around the woods for a few times, originally intending to get some branches to use as auxiliary tools. Unfortunately, he used all his strength and couldn't even break a branch as thick as a bottle mouth. In the end, he had to settle for the next best thing and found a bunch of relatively thick thorn branches to use as a substitute.
Dragging a few thorny branches back to the campfire, Wang Ping remembered the plants he had just seen in the woods and turned back.
Under a dead tree stump that had obviously been broken by the wind long ago, there were a few newly sprouted willow branches.
Although willow trees are rare in the grassland, it does not mean that they do not exist. Especially now, for Wang Ping, willow branches are good things because they can be used to cool Gu Lang down.
This is what Wang Ping heard from Jacob when he was in the team. The epidermis and branches of willow trees contain a substance called salicylic acid, which is as effective as aspirin. If you have a fever or cold in the wild, boiling a pot of willow twig water is a natural antipyretic.
Boiling water was out of the question. Wang Ping was worried that something might happen to his little body, and that he might get burned to death before he even put the pot on the stove.
Wang Ping used another simpler and more brutal method.
After plucking all the new buds from the branches, Wang Ping returned to the tent with a handful of willow buds. He rubbed them vigorously with his two front paws and dripped all the juice squeezed from the rubbed willow buds into Gu Lang's mouth.
Perhaps because he was extremely thirsty, the half-conscious Gu Lang moved his mouth and swallowed all the green juice without leaving a drop. His entire mouth turned green.
Throwing away the residue that could no longer produce juice, Wang Ping looked at his claws with some disgust, rubbed them on Gu Lang's sleeping bag, and then ran to the car to find water.
Help people to the end, send Buddha to the west. After giving the "medicine", why not give some water as well!