Surviving in the Wilderness: I Lived for 50 Years

An unusual experience made me realize the value of life, but by the time I looked back, I was already in my twilight years.

It seemed long, yet it passed in a flash.

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Chapter 137...

After doing all that, I felt completely drained.

I chopped all the fish I got into mincemeat, including their innards, and then filled a small bamboo jar with it.

I sealed the jar with a lid to speed up the fermentation process. I placed the jar of fish paste inside my clothes; the constant body temperature and suitable humidity create the perfect environment for microbial fermentation.

Now all that was left was to wait. Holding this jar that might save my life, I drifted off to sleep again.

When I woke up the next day, I found that the situation was a bit worse than the day before, and my head started to feel dizzy again.

The first thing I did was take out the jar of fish paste that I had been carrying yesterday.

I asked Top to fetch a banana leaf. After a night of constant-temperature fermentation, the moment the jar was opened, a huge stench mixed with a foul smell permeated the vicinity of the residence.

Top didn't understand why I would bring such a smelly thing into my dwelling. It covered its mouth, squeaked a few times, and then hid in a corner of the rock crevice.

I only glanced at Top and didn't pay much attention to its disdainful look.

Next, I spread these things out evenly on a banana leaf. The fish paste was already fishy and smelly, and after being spread out, the smell was like a wild horse being released.

Even I felt nauseous and wanted to vomit from the smell, but the stinkier this stuff was, the more it attracted the thing that would save my life.

Soon a buzzing sound began, and several greenbottle flies had followed the scent to my banana leaf.

Seeing that it was a green bottle fly, I smiled. It seemed that a guest had arrived.

Soon, several species of flies, drawn by the smell, arrived near the stinking fish mud. Except for the large green bottle flies, I chased away the other flies.

The reason is simple: among these insects, only the green bottle fly is the largest, grows the fastest, and has the fastest decomposition efficiency.

In this warm and humid primeval jungle, their eggs can hatch into maggots in just one hour.

Provided there is food, they can pupate in about four to seven days and become a new generation of flies to continue reproducing.

Under my careful care, a large number of green bottle flies crawled all over the banana leaf. The green bottle flies on the fish mud were now so numerous that they seemed to be fighting.

In their competition for nesting sites, flies constantly extend their ovipositors into the gaps between numerous green bottle flies, vying to lay their eggs.

After the green bottle flies left, I saw that the originally grayish-white fish mud was now covered with snow-white green bottle fly eggs.

The density of these green bottle fly eggs would probably scare someone with trypophobia to death.

These white egg masses now resemble a white carpet, completely covering the fish mud, making it seem as if there are more eggs than fish.

I was very satisfied. I carefully rolled up the banana leaves containing greenbottle fly eggs and tucked them into the cracks in the rocks.

What needs to be done now is to wait for them to hatch and then use them to produce an antibiotic that is more potent than penicillin.

During this time, in order to prolong my life, I would still drink a bowl of those medicines even if they were not very effective at the moment. It's better to have something to drink than nothing at all.

After taking the medicine and eating some food, I could only go back to sleep, trying to reduce my physical activity and energy consumption as much as possible, since I didn't have as much energy reserves as before.

The next day, the maggots, which were the size of pinholes, were still moving slightly, feeding on the stinking fish mud.

By the third day, the tropical rainforest climate was probably very suitable for the reproduction of insects.

The hatched maggots had grown nearly twice their size, constantly burrowing and turning in the rotten fish mud, which was full of holes.

On the third day, my consciousness began to blur again. I knew this body was issuing its final warning. If my plan failed, then there was nothing I could do but die!

A bamboo tube of cold water was poured over my head, instantly clearing my somewhat dazed mind. I forced myself to start putting the fish paste into a water jar.

I had already chopped the fish paste into very small pieces, so it crumbled apart with just a gentle squeeze in the water. A large number of maggots hidden within the fish paste also surfaced densely.

They seemed to be terrified of water, and they all scrambled to climb to the edge of the jar, trying to escape.

Looking at the swarms of maggots crawling around, my scalp tingled. But now was not the time to think about that; I didn't have much time left and had to get the life-saving medicine out as quickly as possible.

The next day, I distilled most of the tub of water, which I used to prepare the saline solution. As for the salt, I used regular cooking salt.

0.5% saline solution is an essential diluent for preparing vaccines and antibiotics.

Physiological saline not only dilutes these medications, but also provides the body with some electrolyte energy.

My weakened body needs these saline infusions to relieve my symptoms.

I poured a small amount of saline solution into a bamboo tube, then used a bamboo sieve to scoop up all the maggots floating on the surface, rinsed them twice, and then put them back into the bamboo tube containing the saline solution.

Maggots, those disgusting creatures, have a powerful ability: their saliva has an extremely strong bactericidal effect, even stronger than penicillin.

This is also why maggots, which feed on decaying meat, remain unharmed and unaffected by bacteria and viruses.

The saline solution inside the bamboo tube will stimulate the maggots, causing them to secrete large amounts of saliva to neutralize the salt.

At this time, the saliva secreted by a large number of maggots dissolves in the saline solution, forming a powerful natural antibiotic.

These concentrates need to be diluted before they can be used.

After a while, I poured the saline solution containing the maggots back into the original half-full saline solution to mix and dilute it into a preparation.

I retrieved the virus indicator I had made earlier using taro paste, and it was now covered with blackish-gray colonies, which must be the bacteria on my body.

Now we just need to test the drug's efficacy again before it can be used.

I placed a small drop of diluent on the dark gray bacterial colony in the very center of the taro paste.

As soon as this natural saliva antibiotic was applied, the bacteria in the center began to quickly lose their black color, and the taro paste that had been covered was revealed to be its original form.

It was a success!

Seeing this scene, I don't know how to describe my feelings right now.

I want to cry my heart out, I want to kneel down and kiss the earth. I can't believe that a theory that only existed in my mind has been proven by the experiment in front of me to have a strong killing effect on my own germs.