Chapter 75 Exploring Northern Tibet (18)
"Cough, cough, cough, cough -"
Ji Hongcai coughed so much that his heart was broken, and the palm he stretched out to Yin Baitao was filled with blood. The passengers were so startled by Yin Baitao's voice that they all stood up, and some subconsciously backed away. However, when Jiang Hongguang and others hurried to Ji Hongcai to help him without hesitation, they felt embarrassed for retreating and wanted to follow him.
"Everyone else stepped back, except Yin Baitao and Jiang Hongguang."
But at this moment, Wei Xun's cold command gave the panicked passengers a backbone to do as he said. In an instant, only Wei Xun, Yin Baitao, Jiang Hongguang and Ji Hongcai were left in the tent. At this moment, Ji Hongcai was coughing until his whole body was convulsing, breathing heavily, his eyes were bulging, he was staring at nothingness in the sky, and his lips were blue.
"Guard Hongcai is suffering from hypoxia on the plateau——"
Jiang Hongguang was rarely anxious, but before he finished speaking, he saw Ji Hongcai gasping for air. Although his breathing was still rapid, it was no longer as terrifying as before. He was stunned when he saw Wei Xun's ferret sneaking in from outside the tent, with the tour guide brooch in its mouth.
The guards had long thought that Ji Hongcai might suffer from hypoxia due to sudden illness!
Jiang Hongguang suddenly felt at ease, and his impatience faded a lot. Enveloped by the power of the brooch ‘Rhodiola’, everyone in the entire tent felt breathing much easier. But Ji Hongcai is not out of the crisis situation yet.
"He felt like he had a thorn in his throat."
Yin Baitao came over with a medicine box and gave masks to Wei Xun and Jiang Hongguang, while she covered her mouth and nose with a magic scarf. Then he began to carefully check Ji Hongcai's situation.
Clinical psychology is different from other psychology. It is the integration of clinical medicine and applied psychology. Only those who study this field have a medical background and are psychiatrists who can prescribe medicine to patients and diagnose conditions. Those who study applied psychology are psychological counselors. The doctor cannot prescribe medicine, nor can he diagnose whether the client really has depression or the like.
Among their brigade, Wei Xun and Yin Baitao had studied medicine more systematically. Although it cannot be compared with a serious doctor, it is still adequate. It's just that Ji Hongcai's situation is extremely bad now, and it's nothing like a simple stuck thorn.
He was speechless now, his whole body was hot, and his body was convulsing from time to time. And his eyes were wide-eyed, and the whites of his eyes were covered with black bloodshot eyes, as if he had some kind of eye disease.
However, when staying up late or suffering from eye diseases, the whites of the eyes suddenly have bloodshot eyes. Most of those bloodshot eyes are blue and red, but they are rarely as black as Ji Hongcai's current condition.
Wei Xun opened his eyelids and found that Ji Hongcai's swollen eyelids were also full of black bloodshot eyes, and the upper eyelids were more serious than the lower eyelids. There were also black blood streaks in his nasal cavity, in the dangerous triangle area.
"What did you find when you explored the ruins?"
Wei Xun gave Ji Hongcai half a bottle of universal antidote, which was seized from Ding Yi. After the antidote was poured down, Ji Hongcai's high fever immediately subsided. However, although the dark blood lines in his eyes and other areas became lighter, they were not completely eliminated.
It seems that he has been poisoned. The universal antidote can only relieve temporary emergencies. The source must be found and eradicated. Yin Baitao carefully wanted to open Ji Hongcai's mouth, but his teeth were clenched tightly, and she could not resist the strength of an adult man.
At the critical moment, Wei Xun had to take action. No one saw clearly how he did it. In just a blink of an eye, Ji Hongcai's jaw was removed by Wei Xun.
The stench spread rapidly from his mouth, making Wei Xun's hands tremble and he almost put Ji Hongcai's chin in place again. Yin Baitao also turned pale from the smoke, but her skills as a doctor made her not retreat. She shined a flashlight to carefully check whether there was any debris in Ji Hongcai's throat.
But there was too much saliva with pus and blood in Ji Hongcai's mouth and throat, and it kept flowing out. The overwhelming stench came from these red and yellow liquids. Yin Baitao unwrapped the cotton balls, but she couldn't wipe away the pus, blood and saliva no matter what. There were also extremely fine black hairs on the cotton balls that had been wiped with pus and blood.
It's not clear at first glance, but it's creepy on closer inspection.
Jiang Hongguang's hands supporting him were trembling, but his tone was as calm as possible: "The ruins are to the west of the area you have defined. They are cave ruins inward after the rock collapsed. They are five or six meters deep. There are caves in the ruins. The murals and pottery fragments that Hongcai mentioned are nothing else.”
"Find Qin Xinrong."
Wei Xun said that Ji Hongcai, Qin Xinrong, and Fei Lezhi were in a team of three. They definitely knew better than Ji Hongcai what happened in the cave at that time.
Qin Xinrong waited outside and Wei Xun did not let him enter the tent. The two asked questions across the tent. Qin Xinrong was clear and logical, and Wei Xun soon understood what happened at that time.
"At that time, Ji Hongcai and I took the lead, and Fei Le came to the back. The three of us did not explore separately. We almost discovered the cave together."
Qin Xinrong said: "The cave is not deep, and I reached the bottom at once. There were only some rock paintings and pottery fragments, and nothing else. Ji Hongcai and I have reached 35% of the exploration progress, but Fei Lezhi only has 100% of the exploration progress." out of five.”
"Ji Hongcai wanted to help Fei Lezhi, so he walked around the cave a few times, knocking on it with an engineering shovel, trying to see if there was a secret door. But he found that the pile of stones at the end of the cave didn't look like the one in the previous cave. Yes, it seems like it collapsed due to an earthquake, and there may be a road behind it.”
Qin Xinrong said that Ji Hongcai knocked off a few stone pieces and said that there might be a road behind, and then they were going to come back and report to Wei Xun first. At this time, a hairy black worm crawled out from the pile of stone fragments on the roof of the cave. It hung a silk thread and dropped it on Ji Hongcai's head. When he found it, he beat him to death with a backhand shovel.
Qin Xinrong thought there might be bugs in the cave. For future exploration, he brought the bugs back in a sealed bag.
"Ji Hongcai didn't let the bug touch him, but he had a high fever and was breathing heavily. Could it be when he took a deep breath-"
Qin Xinrong also felt that Ji Hongcai suddenly became like this, which must be related to the insect. Could it be that the black hair on its body was highly toxic and Ji Hongcai accidentally inhaled it into his trachea when he took a deep breath?
But if it's really inhaled into the trachea, where can I get help? With their poor medical conditions, who could perform an operation on Ji Hongcai?
Yin Baitao still cleaned the pus and blood from Ji Hongcai's mouth without fear of the dirty smell, and did not dare to wipe it even though his head was covered in sweat. Jiang Hongguang was anxious to the point of despair. His mind was in a mess. He subconsciously looked at Wei Xun, with a prayer in his eyes that he didn't even notice.
"This is the evil ghost insect recorded in Tibetan scriptures."
Wei Xun said that he had just picked up the sealed bag and was taking a closer look at the flattened black insect. Others thought he was observing the appearance of the black insect, but Wei Xun was using the title of 'archaeological expert' to take a closer look.
Wei Xun had been thinking before that this title means 'you can always get unexpected conveniences in matters related to your excavation of ruins'. So if he delineated the general scope and discovered the ruins related to the temple first, Will the relics finally discovered by Jiang Hongguang, Ji Hongcai and the others in this area be included in the 'things related to the relics excavated by Wei Xun'?
From the moment he saw the black bug and could tell its name at a glance, Wei Xun knew he had guessed it right. But maybe this was indirectly related to him. Wei Xun couldn't get all the information as quickly as he could with Shuang Xiu's mural, so he had to look at it for a while.
"Carry Ji Hongcai outside and light a fire."
Wei Xun named the strange insect, and Jiang Hongguang seemed to see a little more hope. He and Yin Baitao hurriedly pushed Ji Hongcai outside and sat down at the fire where the lunch was being cooked. Yin Baitao hurriedly added a few pieces of solid fuel, and the fire ignited again. Then she added a few pieces of charcoal to the fire.
Wei Xun took out a human-skin Thangka map and cut off a finger-tip-thin strip on the edge with a knife.
Then he thought about it, walked to the edge of the camp, called the snow leopard, raised its front paws and took a closer look. Then click, click, and cut off a little of the snow leopard's claws like a cat's claws. Wei Xun only cut off a little bit, less than a few handfuls in total, considering that snow leopards were wild animals and had to be hunted by themselves. However, Snow Leopard seemed to be aware of Wei Xun's mood. He was very quiet and purred, as if he was comforting him or asking what happened.
"fine."
Wei Xun patted Snow Leopard's head and waited for him to return to the fire. However, just a moment later, Ji Hongcai was actually dying. Jiang Hongguang's eyes were red with anxiety. He kept calling Ji Hongcai's name in a low voice, trying to keep him awake. When Wei Xun came back, he quickly moved out of the way.
"You two hold him up."
Wei Xun called Fang Yuhang and asked him and Jiang Hongguang to kneel by the fire with Ji Hongcai supported, leaning forward with their faces facing the fire. Before his jaw could be closed, the pus mixed with blood dripped from his mouth and dripped directly into the flames, making a crackling sound, accompanied by a stench like roasting rotten meat, which made people's scalp numb.
When Ji Hongcai's face turned red from the heat and the pus and blood flowing out of his mouth gradually decreased, Wei Xun instructed Yin Baitao to push aside the pieces of burning solid fuel, leaving only the burnt charcoal. There is no open flame, but there is still a scorching temperature.
"In the scriptures, evil ghosts and insects stand on the six paths of reincarnation, devouring all sins, and are the first of all evils."
Wei Xun wrapped the snow leopard's claw tips in pieces of human skin thangka strips he cut. This human skin thangka is not a normal square shape. Instead, the skin from Gu Xin's back is used to make a square shape in the middle. The area where the thangka has been drawn has extra parts on the edges, which is normal human skin. It has been soaked in a variety of secret medicines and will not rot for thousands of years. It is as thin as a cicada's wing and can be rolled up and stuffed into a yak's barrel.
At this time, Wei Xun divided the piece of human skin into three small sections, each section wrapping a little bit of the snow leopard's claw tip. Then he placed a small 'human skin bag' on the coals and baked it.
The human skin that had been soaked in countless secret medicines suddenly emitted a lot of smoke when it was heated. What was strange was that the small smoke column did not disperse when it rose, but still rose straight up, and the claw tip fragments inside it were also The heat curled it up, exuding a smell similar to burnt protein, mixed with the smoke that had a strange medicinal aroma.
Jiang Hongguang and the others who were closest to him were all moved to tears. The scent of the medicine was so overbearing that it made people unable to breathe normally. They didn't know what Wei Xun was going to do, but at this moment they could only listen to him. Only Wei Xun was the real backbone.
"Ji Hongcai stopped coughing!"
Jiang Hongguang was so dizzy from the smoke that he still didn't forget to pay attention to his brother's situation. Ji Hongcai was supported by them, his face was almost facing the top of the thin smoke column, and most of the thick smoke was inhaled by him. I don't know when Ji Hongcai stopped coughing, and pus and blood stopped flowing from his mouth.
Jiang Hongguang felt that Ji Hongcai's hand that was originally weak suddenly exerted force, as if he had regained consciousness. He began to struggle and turned his head to avoid the smoke column, but as soon as Jiang Hongguang saw hope, he immediately held down Ji Hongcai's head and pressed him directly above the smoke column.
The bit of human skin wrapped around the tip of the snow leopard's claw was quickly burned by the fire, and the smoke column disappeared. Wei Xun did not put down one immediately, but raised his hand and closed Ji Hongcai's chin, asking Yin Baitao to give him water.
"Here, do you want to put some ashes in this water?"
Yin Baitao was trembling and asked about the ashes of burned human skin. Ji Hongcai's illness was too strange, and the methods Wei Xun used were too bizarre, which made her think towards metaphysics.
"What are you adding ash for?"
Wei Xun looked at her in confusion: "Isn't it dirty?"
Ah, Yin Baitao honestly shut up and gave Ji Hongcai water as Wei Xun said.
"Don't swallow it, rinse your mouth and spit it out."
When Wei Xun saw that Ji Hongcai had woken up, he gave instructions. Ji Hongcai reluctantly nodded. His jaw had been dislocated for too long and could not be closed. It leaked out as if he was gargling. Fang Yuhang held a spare small pot in his hand and specially put water under Ji Hongcai to let him spit in the pot. After seeing what he vomited out, Fang Yuhang's hands shook, and a chill ran down his back.
I saw a dense layer of gray stuff floating on the dirty red and yellow water! They are so small that at first glance they might seem like a layer of dust, like gray bran, but upon closer inspection you will find that they are more like the egg shells of some kind of insect.
How could there be such a thing in Ji Hongcai's throat!
"Still, itchy..."
Ji Hongcai rinsed his mouth several times and spit out clean water. He was in better spirits, his voice was extremely hoarse, and he could barely express himself. Wei Xun asked Jiang Hongguang and Fang Yuhang to hold Ji Hongcai's face on the fire. He changed the hot coal, put a piece of human skin wrapped in snow leopard claws on top, and continued to smoke Ji Hongcai's throat.
This time the situation was obviously much better than the first time. There was no red and yellow pus in Ji Hongcai's throat, and there were very few eggs floating on the water when he gargled, almost none. By the time Wei Xun used the last third piece of human skin to roast him, Ji Hongcai's throat was no longer itchy or painful. It was just that one of his nostrils was blocked and unable to breathe.
Wei Xun asked Jiang Hongguang to shine a flashlight on Ji Hongcai's nose and squinted at it. Then he leaned back slightly and waved to Yin Baitao:
"Use tweezers to pick out the contents of his nose."
Wei Xun was very eager to learn and said kindly: "This is also a training opportunity for you."
Yin Baitao's eyes shone, and she was grateful to Wei Xun from the bottom of her heart. After studying for a Ph.D. and doing research with her mentor, she knows best how important it is to have the opportunity. This will be her experience from now on! What's more, if she does this, Ji Hongcai and his small team will definitely remember her very well.
"I'll do it."
Yin Baitao was solemn, with a thank you stuck in his throat, unable to speak. At this moment, she really regarded Wei Xun as her senior. Before, she was just trying to establish a relationship in a strange place. How can we have any friendship with people we have never met in real life?
But Wei Xun was willing to give this opportunity to her!
Wei Xun stepped aside so that Yin Baitao could take action. To be honest, the thing in Ji Hongcai's nasal cavity is really disgusting. People who have watched the ear cleaning videos on the Internet may have a better understanding. Even with the help of tools, it is not something ordinary people can do.
But Yin Baitao was different. She was calm and calm, and her hands were very steady. Jiang Hongguang was shining the light next to him. He was originally worried that Yin Baitao would miss, but now he felt a little relieved when he saw her aura.
After a while, Yin Baitao took out an unknown object from Ji Hongcai's nose. It is like a small piece of black flesh, about the size of a sesame seed, wrapped in nasal mucus. The meat is covered with black hairs, which is particularly shocking.
Wei Xun asked Yin Baitao to throw the piece of black meat into the fire and burn it. Ji Hongcai's crisis was finally resolved. But after what he had gone through, his originally strong body like an iron tower was much weaker, and his voice was completely hoarse. But Ji Hongcai's first move was to struggle to get up, kneel in front of Wei Xun and kowtow to him three times.
Jiang Hongguang and Fang Yuhang also stood with him, remembering Wei Xun's kindness in their hearts, which was a life-saving grace.
The other passengers, who had been tense all this time, finally relaxed. They have rarely been this anxious for their teammates in the past, and their worries were mostly due to seeing the miserable condition of their teammates and worrying whether they would be in the same situation. But this time, everyone didn't think about anything else. They were all worried about Ji Hongcai.
This torment reached six o'clock. It has been cloudy today and has not cleared up. The wind in the evening is even colder. Everyone lit a fire, boiled hot water, and gathered around the fire. They all subconsciously wanted to sit closer to Wei Xun, as if they would feel safe, just like in the past, even if tourists were afraid of tour guides, they would subconsciously move closer to him.
It's strange that Wei Xun is just a new tourist without the special skills of a tour guide, but it makes the tourists feel more at ease. Everyone wrapped themselves in blankets and sat around the fire, roasting tsampa on the fire. Everyone held hot water in their hands and listened carefully to Wei Xun's speech.
"In the Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Museum, there is a thangka that is the longest in the world and can be called the museum's treasure."
Wei Xun said: "One corner of the thangka depicts three animals chasing each other and devouring each other. It is a blue-backed bird chasing a snake. The snake bites a wild boar. The wild boar grabs the bird's tail. Surrounding it are gods, Buddhas and ghosts. The story is The three original sins of life are greed, anger and ignorance.”
“In the legend of Bon religion, standing above all sins is an evil insect born from an egg. It will swallow up all sins and become the greatest evil, and then it will be finally swallowed by the Garuda. "
According to Bon legend, the world was originally a huge egg. Later, the eggshell turned into a sacred mountain, the egg white turned into the sea, and the yolk turned into eighteen medium-sized eggs, from which various animals were born, as well as evil spirits representing all evils. The ghost insect, and the Garuda, which represents the most sacred thing.
Wei Xun felt that there might be a kind of bug that existed in the ancient Xiangxiong period. They could multiply rapidly in animals or humans and kill people without being seen. Ancient people might have considered it an 'evil ghost' and classified it as an 'evil ghost'. Worm of ghosts'.
The human skin thangka of eminent monks and great virtues can suppress all evil. Perhaps it is soaked in a variety of secret medicines that can suppress evil ghosts and insects.
"I have earned the title of archaeological expert and can see information about things related to the ruins."
Wei Xun revealed a little bit and explained the reason for what he did just now: "The murals in the cave you explored should record how the evil ghosts punished sinners, and then were killed by the eminent monk Pi Tangka. It’s about the history of repression.”
"That seems to be the case."
Qin Xinrong said, looking at Wei Xun with a complicated look, as if he was watching the 'Approaching Science' scene: "So it can be explained this way."
When talking about evil spirits, demonic insects, and human skin thangkas suppressing such things, normal people would think in the direction of gods and ghosts! However, Wei Xun gave such a very legitimate explanation, and everyone thought it made sense!
This is almost the same feeling as when I saw in the legal column [Why do baby girls frequently have scratches on their arms, and the big hairy hands stretched out from under the crib late at night, and the police pulled them out and saw that they were smuggled golden monkeys]!
But their current journey is a difficult one without supernatural elements, so this must be their explanation.
There were no ghosts or ghosts, so most of the passengers were relieved. They had gained a lot today. The two teams that went out to explore both discovered the ruins. Everyone had a sense of propriety. After reaching the minimum goal of the mission, they automatically stopped exploring deeper.
Jiang Hongguang and the others came back early, and even replaced Yin Baitao and the others who were originally stationed there, and asked them to go down and explore as well.
The ones who haven't completed their basic tasks yet are Fei Lezhi and Xu Yang, but they are not in a hurry. The veteran passengers are discussing taking them down again tomorrow. Ji Hongcai's incident completely frightened them.
Ji Hongcai can be considered the strongest among them. He became like this after sucking a bug. If they continue to act recklessly, something will happen.
The first scenic spot was so difficult that for a while everyone in the brigade became like a salty fish, and I was grateful to Wei Xun. Fortunately, he drove Ding Yi away. Otherwise, if Ding Yi is still here, most of them will definitely die here.
I wonder what this evil insect will look like after the difficulty limit is lifted?
The sealed bag containing the insect corpses came into Wei Xun's hands. As soon as Wei Xun thought about it, he lost his mind with an expressionless face.
No, I can’t think about it anymore. What if it’s something more disgusting than Maggot Six?
Although Wei Xun found out in a daze that all the younger brothers he had conquered with the help of a tour guide, except Dingo, seemed to be related to insects.
Logically speaking, by now, he should also be thinking about how to completely separate his identity as a tour guide and his identity as a tourist and make them distinctly different.
For example, when he is a tour guide, he drives abyss-type demonic insects, while when he is a tourist, he brings stuffed animals such as mink cubs, snow leopards, etc. This is very distinguishable.
But Wei Xun refused.
At this moment, he realized that Dingo was good, at least it was a mammal. Does this also mean that he, Wei Xun, did not have to have a relationship with insects? Why should he choose the Abyss Demonic Insect Flow? He could definitely choose the summoning low-level tour guide flow. Even if the tour guide is alienated, he is still a tour guide and cannot be brought into the journey by him. This is a problem——
‘Master, master, save me! ! ! ’
When Wei Xun was thinking, he only heard the heartbreaking and anxious sound of Dingo in his mind.
‘Master, help me, I’m surrounded by a swarm of strange insects, I can’t defeat them! ’
It was really about to collapse. Those strange insects were everywhere, and not even rocks could stop them. Ding Yi tried his best to escape, but he couldn't run as fast as the insects, and somehow he fell into the swarm of insects.
Only Wei Xun can summon it and save it from fire and water. At the critical moment of life and death, Ding Yi doesn't care about his face and throws down all his dignity to ask Wei Xun for help.
But it waited anxiously for a few seconds, and then Wei Xun let out a faint sigh, seeming a little disappointed.
‘Ding Yi, you are a dog, can you really not defeat bugs? ’