Chapter 63 Chapter 9 Long Line

"What is blood sealing throat? Are you talking about these branches and leaves?" Chen Jing looked at me and asked curiously. "Yes, those branches and leaves!" I explained to them. See blood seal throat, also known as poisonous arrow wood or scissors tree, is an endangered plant that is almost extinct in China, and it is also one of the most poisonous plant species in the world.It is a member of the Moraceae plant, 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 heart beating, and finally lead to cardiac arrest 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 call 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 overturned boat. I felt curious, so I followed him carefully.The two male corpses were swollen from the seawater, and there were no wounds on their bodies. They probably 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 the two male corpses had no wounds at all.

"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?" "Tell me first, if the blood seals the throat and poisons people to death, shouldn't the poison be sent from the blood to the body first?" Xinhong asked. "That's right, how else would you kill someone when you saw the blood sealing the throat..." When I said this, I froze, and then stammered, "You...these corpses...there are no wounds on the corpses!" "Yes, how can they be poisoned to death by sealing their throats when they don't have any wounds on their bodies? They didn't see 'blood', so how can they 'seal their throats'?" Xinhong said unhurriedly.

"So they were drowned?" Lin Yue asked without fear. She was a weak woman on the outside, but she was quite strong on the inside. Xinhong is still the same, he still ignores Lin Yue, which makes me wonder if there is no Lin Yue at all, and I just saw her because of hallucinations.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 after being 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 to the outside They probably died before they fell into the sea. You see, their eyes are blackened, and even their lips are blackened like this. This should be a sign of poisoning!"

"I've touched it in the sea, and it's really soft." Uncle Tian didn't shiver after soaking in the sea for a long time. He asked, "Jin Wei, will there be any obvious signs of being poisoned by these branches?" "This..." I searched in my mind, and then said slowly, "It seems that the eyes will turn black... That's right! There will be an obvious black mark on their necks, as if they were killed by someone. strangled!" 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.For the dead fish floating on the water, it can be said that the venom of the blood-sealed throat entered their bodies through their gills, so this group of sea fish died, but there was no wound on the two corpses, " How did the venom of "seeing blood seal the throat" 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 bit reluctant to leave like this. After all, this was the first time I came out to play on Yongxing Island. I just carried two dead bodies back to the island for no reason.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, there have been many incidents of jellyfish hurting people to death.Although the jellyfish is so dangerous, some newborn fish and shrimps gather under the jellyfish 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 already 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 a dull yellow that made one feel breathless, and now everyone was exhausted and rowing was slow.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 asked, "Is there nothing chasing us?" "Look at that line! That long line is always parallel to our boat, no matter how you row, they are all 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, we worried that Uncle Tian and Brother Li would not be able to survive in the water, so we ignored the long line.The water on the sea is calm, no matter where we paddle, it is exactly the same.The dim yellow light in the sky has disappeared, and 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 we don't know where we are now. "Will we keep spinning around in place, or why is that thread always following us? Is it a ghost on the sea hitting the wall?" Chen Jing looked very anxious. "Probably not, the sea 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 was getting darker, and my heart was disturbed.When I came to Yongxing Island yesterday, the sky didn't get dark so quickly. What happened 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 blankly at the sea, and said blankly, "How come these white lights have 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, and what Chen Jing said was right, the jellyfish all 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. The fishermen in the South China Sea also judged the change of the weather according to 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 blown into the water by the storm!" I was dizzy in anxiety, but then 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, what Xie Zongke said, 'Suddenly following the tide, the letter falls into the dark' means that the jellyfish will hide in the water before the storm! Why didn't I think of it!" Before I finished speaking, the dark clouds piled up in the sky suddenly split down a golden, deafening lightning bolt! We finally experienced the rapid changes of the sea situation, and a sudden lightning strike in the unusually calm South China Sea completely awakened the dark air currents.Like something out of nothing, the strong wind came as soon as it was said, without any warning.A sea breeze with a strong fishy smell suddenly hit us to the top of the waves, and everyone's hearts fluctuated with the waves.I looked back at the island, it still exists clearly, but it already has a very unreal feeling, we are far away from Yongxing Island!Just a few minutes later, our small wooden boat was driven to the deep sea by the strong wind.When we looked back, there was only one black spot left on Yongxing Island, but the small wooden boat was still rushing towards the deep sea, and no one could control the direction of the small wooden boat. "Go back to the island, row the boat back immediately!" Chen Jing opened her mouth and shouted with difficulty, because the raging air currents on the sea seemed to be desperately trying to crush people, and she had to open her mouth I made great efforts, but opened my mouth and the sea breeze immediately filled my mouth, and I couldn't speak clearly. "Uncle Tian and Brother Li are still in the sea, how can we just leave now..." The strong sea breeze filled my mouth full, and it took all my strength to finish the second half of my mouth. In a word, "Besides... I can't go back now!" The situation is very urgent, so we must immediately row the boat back to the island desperately, so that we may be lucky enough to save a life, but if we row the boat out to sea to find Uncle Tian and Li Ge who are still in the sea, then there will be a lot of trouble here. Under such bad weather, if we make such a decision, our fate may have already been handed over to King Yama.Although the former method can increase the chance of saving their lives, I still don't think I can throw them into the sea just to save myself. Even though we are not very close to Uncle Tian and the others, it is two lives after all. I really don't like it. I would like to see people I know die again, because if one person dies, there will always be another person who will be sad for him for the rest of his life. The fewer such things the better, it is best not to happen again. We had no choice, the storm that came soon pulled our small wooden boat to the depths of the sea, the dense raindrops surrounded us like a layer of translucent oil paper, and the surroundings were blurred.However, the long line can be vaguely seen all the time beside the small wooden boat, and it is still there, which shows that we were pulled straight to the depths of the ocean by the strong wind, so we never met the long line.I thought in my heart, instead of letting the wind blow like this and wandering around without direction, it is better to grab the long line and fix it in one place first, which is much better than really floating out of the China Sea.Although I still don't know what the long line is, I don't know if the long line is strong, and I don't know where the other end of the long line is. So I shouted as hard as I could, "Row the boat to that line!" Everyone understood what I meant when they heard it, but the wind and waves were too big, and the strength of the few of us seemed negligible in front of nature.The small wooden boat was hit to the top of the high waves all of a sudden, and then fell to the bottom of the huge waves all of a sudden. It felt like riding a roller coaster, and the internal organs were about to pour out of the body.Finally, a wave pushed us towards the long line, but just as we were about to approach the long line, the long line suddenly broke into countless lines, and then slowly sank into the sea.Before I had time to sigh in my heart about the bad luck, a huge wave suddenly hit our small wooden boat hard from one side, and the small wooden boat was turned upside down in an instant.None of the four of us expected to encounter such an encounter. As soon as we fell into the water, we were choked by the strong smell of sea water, and our noses were acrid. We sank into the sea for a while, struggled in the water, and finally caught the small wooden boat.In the wind and waves, we sank and floated on the sea. When we sank into the sea, we opened our eyes and saw the scene in black and white, unlike the plot in the movie, those people who sank into the water saw is a colorful world.When I looked at everything in the water in amazement, I suddenly saw the broken long lines seem to be alive, and they all purposefully penetrated into the dark part of the sea.Countless lines squirmed at the same time, like maggots on a corpse.I still wanted to endure the discomfort in my eyes and continue to see what happened, but the waves lifted us to the top of the waves again. The storm was always exciting, and it happened to be night again, and the sea suddenly fell into endless darkness.If the people on the island find that we haven't come back, it may be useless to search and rescue now.The wind and rain are so strong, and it is so dark, how could we be found, this trip to the South China Sea really cost us our lives.However, Uncle Tian and the others were wearing diving suits. If they were smarter, they would dive to the bottom of the sea to avoid it.It's pitiful for the four of us to sink and float in the sea like this, and our minds are almost fainted. After darkness enveloped the South China Sea, the water temperature suddenly dropped sharply. My hand was too stiff to move, but it held on to the small wooden boat so tightly that I couldn't let go even if I wanted to.Gradually, we lose consciousness.We floated up and down in the turbulent sea, and our stomachs were filled with seawater.In the middle of the night, the storm has not stopped, we have been swept into the deep sea, and my consciousness seems to have flown out of the body, as if from the air, I can see that everyone has drifted over seven small sandbars of different sizes. This is Qilianyu. !Unexpectedly, we have rushed so far with the waves! When we woke up, I could only smile helplessly at the rapid change in the weather.At this time, the sky was already bright and sunny, as if the storm had never come, and the sun was so hot that cracks appeared on the small wooden boat.I was very thirsty, but I felt that my stomach was swollen with water and hurt badly.Fortunately, the four of us are holding on to the small wooden boat, and everyone is safe for the time being.After waking up, we looked around nervously. Except for sea water, we couldn't even see a stone!Wouldn't we have been rushed out of China's territorial waters? Now it's really called "every day should not be done", and the ground is not working. "Look, the surface of the water over there..." Chen Jing pointed to the surface of the sea not far away and said with difficulty. We looked in the direction Chen Jing pointed, and there were many colorful lines on the surface of the sea not far away!It's the long wire!Wasn't it disconnected before?Now countless lines slowly surfaced again, and then slowly knotted together again.This long line has been connected to the place where the sea and the sky meet, which is simply a "long line of thousands of miles"!This "thousand-mile long thread" seems to be alive, it can be broken freely, and can be re-connected to everything, what is this thing! "I'm so thirsty, who of you has fresh water?" Lin Yue's mouth was already cracked, and her face was haggard. "Those bottles of water have been beaten to the bottom of the sea by the waves, where did you get fresh water?" Chen Jing looked very energetic. "I remember I still have a bottle of mineral water in my pocket, I don't know if it's still there?" I said while reaching out to fumble.The bottle of water miraculously remained in his pocket. "Turn the boat over first, it's not a solution for us to soak in the sea like this!" Xinhong said wearily. Everyone felt that what Xinhong said was right, so they all turned over the small wooden boat that was covered in the sea with all their strength.This turned over exhausted my strength, but fortunately, the quality of the small wooden boat made in China can really travel thousands of miles, it has not been pierced, and it can carry people!Everyone climbed onto the small wooden boat exhausted, and groaned in pain again facing the scorching sun in the sky. This sun is not ordinary, and the small wooden boat has cracks in the sun. How can human skin resist it.After we drenched the boat and our bodies with seawater, we finally lowered the temperature temporarily.The next question is, how should this small bottle of mineral water be drunk? "Let's all have a bite, so that everyone has a share." I suggested, but then I found that everyone's eyes were very hungry, which made me shudder. They won't be thirsty and going crazy, right? "Everyone take a sip first, and mix the rest with seawater." After Xinhong finished speaking, he saw everyone's questioning eyes, and he immediately explained that the reason why seawater is undrinkable is not because it is poisonous, but because it contains magnesium chloride. , Drinking magnesium chloride will cause diarrhea. The real reason why you can't drink seawater is because the average salt content of seawater is as high as 3.5%, and its salt concentration is 4 times higher than that of the human body!After people drink a lot of seawater, although they quench their thirst for a while, the good times don't last long, and soon they will lose a lot of water in the body due to a lot of urination, which will lead to life-threatening.Because after people drink water, a large part of it will be excreted through the kidneys into urine, but the function of the human kidney to excrete salt is very limited. Generally, the excretion of salt cannot exceed 2%. Dilute it with fresh water before it can be excreted as urine.This is why people feel thirsty after eating something salty and always want to drink water. For people drifting at sea, where to find fresh water to dilute such a high concentration of salt, of course, they have to absorb water from the cells in their own bodies, and they will die of dehydration in a short time.Therefore, sea water cannot be drunk, but as long as it is diluted to a certain concentration, it can still save life. After listening, we finally stretched our brows.In fact, I have heard about drinking seawater for a long time. As early as 1966, Saito Minoru of Japan had done similar sea experiments.I saw the long line joined together again, so I said, "Let's row the boat over there and see what that thread is?" As soon as I finished speaking, I saw a few pieces of seaweed floating on the surface of the sea, and in an instant the seaweed turned over into a large cart.At this time, the current suddenly became faster, and we seemed to be sucked by something. The boat began to fail, and a large vortex appeared on the sea surface at some point, and a large cloud of black mist rose into the sky from the vortex.