Chapter 16: Poisoning
It was unexpected that Seraphina and Louise became good sisters.
But it was Louise, a woman who was a little clever, who approached the innocent Seraphina on purpose, and used her to get close to Drax.
It was Drax's wish that Louise joined the battle team. Since she was so proactive, it saved him some effort.
The other girl had short hair, a quiet appearance, delicate features, and beautiful eyebrows. She was also a beauty.
"This is Xu Jing." Seraphina took the hand of the short-haired girl and introduced her, "This is my best sister. She was the only one in the same dormitory at the time."
Xu Jing nodded slightly and smiled shyly, "I heard that someone was needed. Li Dapeng and I want to join together. Is that okay?"
Seraphina added, "Li Dapeng is her boyfriend. They are both very brave and asked to go together.
Xu Jing and him have a good relationship. You can't leave any of them behind!"
Drax nodded, "No problem , but you have to think carefully, this is not a wild adventure game. This operation is a long way and very dangerous. I can't guarantee that you can come back alive. "
Xu Jing's quiet appearance, but her eyes are unusually bright and firm, "Senior Sesis's words are very reasonable. I have also discussed with Dapeng. Instead of hiding in the dark underground cave, it is better to fight.
We... We have all made up our minds! Even if we have to die, we have to die together!"
It seems that Sesis has not been idle for a few days, and his ideological work is very successful.
"Okay, you come."
Drax did not have any abnormal expression, and nodded gently to acquiesce to her joining, but the manpower was still not enough.
Finally, under the introduction of Cassius, Blake, and Ophelia, more than a dozen people joined one after another, and Sesis also recommended a few people who were more capable and competent after his observation.
Such a team of thirty people was finally formed. Drax also saw Xu Jing's boyfriend, the boy named Li Dapeng, who was quite strong and looked simple and thick. He should be a reliable person, and he was quite satisfied.
There were enough people. It was not that they didn't want to bring more people. The more people there were, the more likely they were to encounter danger. Thirty people were already a lot, not to mention that sophisticated weapons were not enough.
The remaining people, under the arrangement of Cesis, made tools, picked fruits, or set traps around. In short, everyone had their own division of labor, and no one was left behind.
After a brief embarrassment at the beginning, Louise immediately recovered as before, as if she had completely forgotten what happened yesterday. She was walking with Seraphina and followed the team out of the cave.
After checking their equipment, everyone walked into the forest without stopping. Shuttled through the jungle, nerves were all tense, and they looked around vigilantly.
"Bang!"
Just after stepping out of the door and taking a few steps, something suddenly fell from the sky and hit a person's head, and the person who was hit screamed immediately.
Everyone looked up and saw a few gray monkeys sitting leisurely on the branches, chewing wild fruits in their hands. When they saw everyone's gaze, they immediately stood up and stepped back, their gray hair stood up, grinning and screaming like a protest.
"Don't look at it, not every creature in the forest is aggressive, these monkeys are not threatening."
Drax said to others as he walked: "In fact, the surrounding animals are sometimes good alarms, and they often convey some very useful information.
The monkeys are eating wild fruits leisurely, and there are birds singing in the trees, which means that there is no obvious threat nearby, but despite this, everyone should still be careful."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Drax walked at the front of the team, waving the bone blade to continue to open the way.
On the way, you can often see all kinds of strange animals and plants. Every time Drax finds some poisonous insects and ants he knows, he will catch them and introduce their habits to everyone, explain the characteristics of their venom, and the techniques of catching them.
With the experience of the previous life, he simply taught everyone some skills to survive in the forest, as well as some poisonous herbs and herbs, and how to identify edible wild fruits. All of them are very useful knowledge, which can help people survive better in this primitive forest.
Cutting through the thorns along the way, everyone advanced at a moderate speed for about an hour.
Drax suddenly stopped, pulled out a sharp fruit knife, and stabbed it into the big tree beside him. When he pulled it out, there was a fingernail-sized worm on the tip of the knife. Its color was the same as the environment. It was almost impossible to distinguish without close observation. "This is a forest bloodworm. Its mouth is like a steel needle. It pierces the blood vessels unknowingly and absorbs blood. The maximum amount of blood sucked can reach five times its body weight!
At the same time, it will secrete a strong anesthetic toxin, making it impossible for people to detect their existence. When they are full of blood, they will also lay eggs in the human body. The eggs hatch in the human body and the larvae grow up by sucking blood. Then they will lay eggs again. Repeated cycles until the blood is sucked dry, and the worms will drill out of the body..."
Everyone's scalp tingled, and they couldn't help but check their bodies.
"Ah!"
Seraphina screamed.
Cassius was standing in front of her with his clothes lifted up. He turned his head in confusion when he heard the scream. "What's the matter? Why are you screaming? Are you amazed by the fat man's figure?"
The moment Cassius turned around, everyone gasped. There were large lumps on his back. These lumps were dark red and covered his entire back. They looked like big lumps growing out of the skin, which made people's scalps numb.
In fact, they were clearly bloodworms, as many as 20 or 30 of them. Each one grew to the size of half a ping-pong ball. I don't know how much blood they sucked.
Drax stopped Cassius from grabbing them with his hands, took out a lighter and burned them one by one. In the end, all 28 bloodworms fell to the ground.
Cassius was so angry that he crushed them one by one. Seeing the blood all over the ground, he couldn't help but said with a pang of pain: "No wonder I felt a little dizzy just now. It turns out that I lost so much blood. Damn it!"
Drax checked Cassius's back and frowned and said: "It may have left eggs!"
"What should I do? Is there any hope for me?
Boss, what is that thing in your hand? What are you doing? What are you smearing on my back...ah, damn, why is it so painful!"
Drax crushed the juice of several plants and smeared it on Cassius's back. "This... The juice of the plant kills the bloodworm eggs in the skin.
The plant contains a trace amount of myotoxin, which will not cause any damage, at most a little pain in the flesh. "
Cassius screamed in pain, "I feel like there are hundreds of needles piercing in and out of the flesh, ah! It hurts so much! ... Is this what you call a little pain in the flesh?"
Drax wiped his hands and said lightly: "You must endure it. If the eggs hatch in the body, you will die."
Cassius's face turned green in pain, and he was sweating profusely. He could only walk with the support of two people.
But before he took two steps, the boy named Li Dapeng shouted in panic, "Wait, classmate Drax, come and see, a classmate has fainted!"
A boy in the team fell down without warning. Li Dapeng supported him. This person twitched violently all over his body, as if he had an epileptic seizure. Not long after, his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears kept bleeding.
Everyone was shocked and surrounded him, but they didn't know what happened to him and had no way to save him. The blood flow was getting more and more, and in a blink of an eye, even the ground was dyed red.
Everyone looked at each other and watched his breath quickly weaken. After a while, he was completely dead. But strangely, there was no obvious wound on his body.
After checking, Drax found a row of thin wounds on his left thumb, and made a judgment: "If he didn't eat some kind of highly toxic poison, then he was pricked by a highly toxic caterpillar. I know there are such caterpillars in the jungle.
From the symptoms of heavy bleeding, it is very similar. It is a toxin that prevents blood from clotting and causes internal bleeding, and at the same time causes rapid organ failure. It is very powerful and almost hopeless."
Most caterpillars in the forest are very small, and the color is not particularly eye-catching, sometimes even insignificant, but they are often highly toxic. If you accidentally touch it and get pricked by its thorns, you usually don't care, but death has already come.
The jungle was full of dangers, and there was no time to bury the body. Even if it was buried, it would be dug out by some beasts with a keen sense of smell, so they just took away his weapons and equipment and put the body in a bush.
The tragic death of this boy made others more cautious. Everyone was walking on thin ice and dared not touch anything easily.
"Everyone doesn't need to be so nervous. The destination is very close. This is the territory of a group of monsters. Usually, other powerful monsters will not appear."
Drax finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's really lucky. We didn't suffer any monster attacks along the way. It was just that one person died unexpectedly."
Seraphina was holding a wooden spear and was about to speak when a strange sound of croaking came from the jungle in front of her. It sounded a bit like a frog and was very unpleasant. She shrank her neck nervously and took a step back timidly.
"You wait here, Shitou stays to look after the fat man." Drax turned to Ophelia and Seraphina and said, "Teacher Ophelia, Seraphina, follow me, take your weapons, and be quiet when you leave."
Everyone quickly dispersed and crouched in the bushes. Blake helped the sweaty Cassius to sit down beside him.
Drax and the other two sneaked into a bush more than one meter high. The edges of this grass were jagged and easy to cut the skin. When the three came out from the other side, they had some cuts on their bodies. A shallow cut appeared on Seraphina's beautiful face, which was painful and itchy, and blood oozed from it.
She was almost scared. As a woman, especially a beautiful woman, her appearance is equivalent to her life. Fortunately, the cut was very shallow and would not leave any scars.
Ophelia could see from a distance that there were some wooden buildings in the dense woods, and there was even a row of wooden walls outside.
In the surrounding woods, there are a lot of strange creatures wandering around. They are about 1.34 meters tall, about the same height as goblins, but they look thinner, bald without a single hair, and their skin is green.
Ophelia and Seraphina looked at Drax at the same time, waiting for his explanation.
"This kind of monster is called a goblin, and its strength is weaker than that of a goblin." Drax pointed at the wooden wall and continued, "This is a small goblin village, and there are more than one or two hundred goblins here.
As far as I know, there is a first-level goblin among them. However, it is the weakest first-level monster I know within a hundred miles nearby, but we must be careful. Let's clear out the goblins on the periphery first, and then let others come."
Seraphina held the goblin short spear, and looked at him with blinking eyes, "Okay, shall we just kill them?"
"This is too dangerous." Ophelia observed from the gap in the grass, "Look, there are thirty or forty goblins outside, and they are not far from each other. It is difficult for us to defeat them one by one. Once the fighting sound attracts the attention of other goblins in the village, especially the first-level goblins, we will be finished."
Drax smiled confidently, "Teacher Ophelia, don't worry. I'm not stupid, I won't let you go to die."
Ophelia blushed, "I didn't mean that."
Drax took off his backpack, "Goblins and goblins have a lot in common. They are omnivores, but they love to eat meat and are easily attracted by the smell of blood. I brought them food they like!
Here are some wild boar viscera that were not eaten yesterday. I saved them for today, but before feeding them, I need to add a few ingredients."
"You want to poison!" Seraphina shouted, probably realizing that her voice was a bit loud, she immediately covered her mouth and looked around nervously, then whispered: "No wonder you introduced so many poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, and poisonous grasses to everyone along the way and collected venom. It turns out that it can be useful at this time!"
Drax did not deny it. He crawled forward for a distance and came to a more conspicuous open space. He took out three large pieces of wild boar viscera wrapped in coal balls. After the surface coal was peeled off, a pile of wild boar intestines and viscera appeared in front of him in a pungent fishy smell.
Drax quickly diluted the various venoms collected along the way with water, mixed them evenly in the internal organs, and used a branch to spread the internal organs everywhere.
"Let's hide farther away. Goblins have a keen sense of smell and they will come soon!"
The three immediately hid in the nearby bushes and ambushed.
About five minutes later, a group of goblins were attracted by the smell. There were about seventeen of them. Most of them were skinny goblin laborers holding wooden sticks. These were zero-level monsters.
There were two relatively strong ones holding a big axe full of gaps in their hands. These were beginner goblin warriors.
"Gugugugu!"
The goblins who wandered here immediately found the animal internal organs all over the ground. They made excited and strange noises and rushed up to start eating. There were still a lot of coal slag on these internal organs, but the goblins didn't care and ate with relish. Two goblins almost fought to grab the same string of intestines.
Seraphina watched the goblins eat with great excitement and nervousness. Before long, several goblins started foaming at the mouth and fell down with convulsions.
The other goblins continued to eat as if they were unaware of the situation. As a result, they fell down one by one.
"Haha, they fell down, what a stupid monster!"