Chapter 67 Chapter 9 Long Line (Part 1)

"What is 'seeing blood to seal the throat'? Are you talking about these branches and leaves?" Chen Jing looked at me and asked curiously. "That's right, those branches and leaves!" I think they explained that "see blood seal throat", also known as "poison arrow tree" or "scissor tree", is an endangered plant that is almost extinct in China, and it is also the most endangered plant in the world. One of the most poisonous plants.It is a member of the Miscellaneous family of plants, and the sap is milky white, and it is those milky white sap that are poisonous.When the venom enters the human body through the wound, it will cause muscle relaxation, blood coagulation, slow heartbeat, and finally cause heartbeat to stop and death.If people accidentally eat it, the heart will be paralyzed and stop beating.If the milk splashes in the eyes, the eyes will be blinded immediately.Therefore, people in ancient times often used this very poisonous milk to make poisonous arrows as hunting weapons. The large animals that were shot, no matter how serious the injury was, would only jump a few times before falling to the ground and dying.The hunters of the Dai ethnic group in Yunnan called the poisonous arrow wood "Guang Sanshui", which means that you will die if you jump three times in the local dialect.This plant was originally produced in Southeast Asia, and it can still be found in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.

Xinhong frowned and listened to my words, but again he was bored and didn't say a word.He turned over the two male corpses on the boat. I felt curious, so I followed him to look at the two male corpses carefully.The two male corpses were swollen with sea water, and there were no wounds on their bodies. It is estimated that they might have drowned after the ship sank, but why did Xinhong examine the two male corpses so carefully?Xinhong checked for a long time without saying a word. I couldn't hold back anymore, so I asked, "What are you looking for?" "Wounds, wounds on their bodies!" Xinhong sighed after finishing speaking, because there were no wounds on the two male corpses.

"But you haven't found any wounds on them after searching for a long time, and..." I thought for a while, and said, "And why did you have to find the wounds?" "If you first said that 'seeing the blood to seal the throat' would poison people to death, did you first send the venom from the blood to the body?" Xinhong asked. "That's right, how else would 'seeing blood seal throat' kill people..." I froze when I said this, and then stammered, "You...these corpses...there are no wounds on the corpses! " "Yes, how can they be poisoned to death by 'seal the throat' if there is no wound on their body? They didn't see any 'blood', so how can they 'seal the throat'?" Xinhong said unhurriedly.

"So they were drowned?" Lin Yue asked without fear.She is a weak woman on the outside, but she is quite strong on the inside. Xinhong is still the same, he still ignores Lin Yue, which makes me wonder if there is no such person as Lin Yue at all, but I have hallucinations to see Lin Yue, who does not exist.Li Ge, who was still in the sea, took over and said: "These two people can't be drowned! I have seen several drowned people in the Tianchi Lake in Tianshan before. Their eyes were all crimson, and The whole body is hard. Even if it has been soaked in water for a long time, the skin of the body is only soft, and the inside of the corpse is still hard when you grab it hard. But if you touch these two corpses, they are very soft from the inside out. They probably died before they fell into the sea. You see, their eyes are black, and even their lips are so black. This should be a sign of poisoning!"

"If you want me to touch them, I have touched them in the sea, and they are indeed soft." Uncle Tian didn't shiver after soaking in the sea for a long time, he asked, "Jin Wei, what will be the obvious effect of being poisoned by these branches?" traces of it?" "This..." I searched in my mind.Then he said slowly, "It seems that the eyes will turn black... That's right! There will be a very obvious black mark on their necks, as if they were strangled to death!" After hearing this, Xinhong immediately pulled off the collar of the deceased.Sure enough, there was an obvious black mark on the throats of the two male corpses, as if they were strangled to death with a rope.At this time, everyone was quiet, only the sea breeze was still slowly across the sea.The dead fish floating on the surface of the water are, it can be said that the venom of "seeing blood and sealing the throat" entered their bodies through their gills, so this group of sea fish died, but there was not a trace of blood on the two corpses. Wounds, how did the venom of "seeing blood seal their throats" enter their bodies and poison them to death?Unless...unless the wounds on their bodies are very small, extremely small, so small that we can't see them with the naked eye, but is this possible?

"Send them to the island first. The wooden boat can carry six people. Uncle Tian and I will swim here first." Li Ge said. I was a little reluctant to leave like this, after all, this was the first time I came to Yongxing Island to play, and we were somehow brought back to the island by two dead bodies.However, we can't carry two dead bodies to play in the sea, besides, the small wooden boat can only carry six people, and now Uncle Tian and Brother Li are still in the water.In a dilemma, everyone can only compromise and transport the two corpses back to the island, and then come back as soon as possible to pick up Uncle Tian and Brother Li.When rowing to the island, I vaguely saw a few transparent jellyfish floating in the surrounding sea water.So, I told Brother Li and the others not to get close to those jellyfish, so as not to be stung by their poisonous stingers.The tentacles of these jellyfish are relatively short, like the jellyfish in the cold waters of the north, and their tentacles stretch more than 30 meters.From ancient times to the present, things that jellyfish hurt people to death have happened frequently.Although the jellyfish is so dangerous, there are still some newly born small fish and shrimps gathered under the jellyfish. This is because they want to seek protection under the jellyfish's umbrella, of course, it is limited to not being caught by the jellyfish's tentacles.Jellyfish are also called jellyfish. The "Jellyfish" written by Xie Zongke of the Yuan Dynasty wrote: "The waves are covered with foam and the shrimps are lined, and the jellyfish contains the earth spirit in autumn. The sea air is frozen and the red jade is crisp, and the sky is cold and clean The purple clouds are fishy. The Xia clothes are faded and slippery, and the orange wisps are fragrant and drunk. It should be Chu Hanping who is old and old, and suddenly follows the tide. When I think of this poem, I suddenly have a very bad feeling. I had a hunch, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.

It was dusk when we rowed to the shore. After drinking a few sips of water, we pushed the small wooden boat to the sea, leaving only the people on the island in amazement on the shore.The sun is already hanging weakly on the horizon, and it will go down to rest in a while.The sky was all a dusky yellow and it made us feel out of breath and we were all exhausted.The boat is also slow to row.I rolled my heavy eyelids, and inadvertently found a long line more than 20 meters away from the small wooden boat, which was always beside us.I felt strange, so I rowed vigorously. Everyone was shocked when they saw that I was suddenly rowing crazily.However, I rowed for a long time, and my arms were sore and weak, but the long straight line was still quietly parallel to us.

"Why are you paddling so hard all of a sudden." Chen Jing looked back and said, "There is nothing chasing us!" "Look at that line! That long line has been parallel to our boat, how can they be there!" I was so tired that I kept panting heavily. "There is really a thread there!" Chen Jing said in amazement, "Let's row together and see if we can get rid of it!" "Don't you believe me, that thread has been following us just now. What did I lie to you for?" I complained. "Could it be that we have been staying where we are, that's why the thread has been staying there?" Xinhong guessed.

We rowed the small wooden boat vigorously, and after ten minutes passed, the straight line was still parallel to our boat.It was already dark, and we worried that Uncle Tian and Brother Li would not be able to survive in the water, so we put the long line aside and ignored it.However, the sea is calm water, no matter where we paddle it is exactly the same.The dim yellow light in the sky had disappeared.Passengers are not allowed to stay on the sea at this time, but we can't find the north and south at this time.Just now everyone's attention was attracted by the long line, and now we don't know where we are.

"Will we keep spinning around in place, or why does that thread always follow us? Is it a ghost on the sea hitting the wall?" Chen Jing looked extremely anxious. "Probably not. The sea water is flowing, even if we don't row the boat, the boat will float to other places by itself." Lin Yue interjected. "We've been rowing in the direction of Brother Li and the others. How could we get lost on the sea? Let's row harder!" Xinhong didn't even look at Lin Yue. After he finished speaking, he rowed vigorously. At this time, the sky has accelerated to darkness.My heart became uneasy.When I came to Yongxing Island yesterday, the sky didn't get dark so fast. What's going on today? Is it because of my psychology?When it got dark, we realized that the surrounding waters were glowing with pale white light, and these white lights were all emitted by jellyfish!It was daytime just now, and the jellyfish were all transparent, and everyone's attention was focused on the long line, so they didn't notice that such a large piece of jellyfish had floated up in the surrounding waters.

"Brother Li and Uncle Tian will be stung to death by jellyfish, right?" Chen Jing said a word suddenly, which chilled everyone's hearts. "Don't talk nonsense, just row your boat obediently if you have nothing to do, why curse them!" I replied angrily. "If you don't say it, don't say it, I still need to save some energy!" Chen Jing said with a pouted mouth, which made me a little embarrassed, then Chen Jing stared at the sea in a daze, and said blankly: "Why are these white lights weakened? The jellyfish seem to have run away, come and take a look!" "What did you say, have all the jellyfish run away?" I stared anxiously at the surface of the water, Chen Jing was right, all the jellyfish hid in the deep sea together.This is the harbinger of a big storm on the sea!The body of jellyfish is very soft and fragile, and the reason why jellyfish can survive is because it can protect itself with poisonous tentacles, and another reason is because it has special ears that can hear infrasound waves caused by wind and waves , so that it will quietly hide in the water before the storm comes, and will not be crushed by the waves.The friction between strong winds and huge waves will produce infrasound waves. Before the distant storm comes, the jellyfish can hear it in advance and escape as soon as possible. Therefore, you can often see a sea of ​​jellyfish swarming over the sea, and a white light stretches for several miles on the sea.However, on the eve of the storm, they disappeared without a trace.Fishermen in the South China Sea also judge weather changes based on the habit of jellyfish. "So the storm is coming?!" Lin Yue exclaimed in shock, and everyone panicked, because the jellyfish dived into the deep water in an instant. "Go back quickly, or you will be hit into the water by the storm!" I was dizzy in anxiety, but then I changed my mind, "But Brother Li and the others are still in the water, what should we do now? No wonder it's so dark Hurry up. The phrase Xie Zongke said, "Suddenly follow the tide and the letter falls into the dark", means that the jellyfish will hide in the water before the storm comes! Why didn't I think of it!" Before I finished speaking, the dark clouds in the sky suddenly piled up without knowing when, and a golden, deafening lightning flashed down!