Chapter 159 Aloe Vera

Lu Zhan frowned and brushed off the dirt on his body.

Chu Qiao smiled, picked up a branch and pretended to pat it twice. "If you're out here to survive, don't be picky. Cleanliness is useless. Let's get going."

Chu Qiao was walking behind Lu Zhan when he suddenly noticed some red spots on his elbows.

Chu Qiao took a quick step forward: "Are you injured?"

Lu Zhan rolled up his sleeves and saw a 5-centimeter abrasion under his clothes.

Chu Qiao frowned and felt a little guilty because of what he had done when he had just kicked Lu Zhan with brute force.

"It's okay. If you hadn't noticed, I wouldn't have noticed it."

"Besides, the hole is very narrow. If you try to get through, you'll definitely get hurt. I have to thank you for giving me a quick relief."

Although Lu Zhan said this, Chu Qiao knew that he was comforting himself. Chu Qiao took out the hemostatic ointment from his bag. There was only an empty bottle of hemostatic ointment left. Chu Qiao felt around inside and didn't find even a trace of residue.

"Master Chu, it shouldn't be that serious. It's just a minor injury."

"That's right, Doctor Lu is a man, why are you afraid of this?"

"Master Chu, are you treating Dr. Lu as a woman?"

"Master Chu, there's a doctor next to you, what are you worried about?"

Chu Qiao frowned and shook his head, "Don't be careless. Your wound is too large. In a hot place like Africa, such a wound will quickly become infected. Once your body becomes weak, the risk of contracting various viruses will greatly increase."

Lu Zhan comforted Chu Qiao: "If there is no medicine, we can look for herbs, such as aloe vera and cactus, which can reduce inflammation."

Chu Qiao looked at the hills with complex terrain around him. It was not easy to find aloe vera. "We have to climb over it first. This place is not suitable for plant growth."

The occasional appearance of feline footprints on the hill forced the two to slow down and be cautious.

Chu Qiao suddenly stopped and lowered his head to look at the footprints under the tree. His eyes were shocked: "This footprint is not the small one just now, but the size of a person's palm.

"Lion? Tiger?" Chu Qiao murmured.

Lu Zhan smiled bitterly: "Africa is indeed an animal paradise."

"What? A chance to see wild lions and tigers?"

"I'll go, Master Chu, take us to see it and give us a look."

Brother Feng: "Do you think Chu Ye is a zoo keeper? Tigers and lions behave well when they see her?"

"Forget it, let's run away. Master Chu's life is the most important."

Chu Qiao: "If I really encounter it, I can only avoid it to save my life."

The two people on the screen walked back to back to avoid the risk of being attacked from behind.

"What is that?"

Chu Qiao rushed forward in one step. On a piece of mountain land, there were seven or eight dark green aloe vera plants growing wildly.

“Why is the aloe vera I grow at home different from this one?”

"It's because of the different varieties. I heard some aloe vera is edible and some is not."

"I don't dare eat it anyway."

Chu Qiao picked up the aloe vera leaves, cut off the skin with a knife, revealing the transparent tender flesh inside.

He said, "The netizen above is right. There are indeed many varieties of aloe vera, and not all of them can be eaten or used medicinally."

"There's a species of aloe called Aloe Barbadensis, one of the few edible species. It's also used in beauty, health, and medicine. Its leaves can clear away heat, promote bowel movements, and kill insects and reduce inflammation."

As he spoke, Chu Qiao had already cut off the skin of the aloe vera, leaving behind the glue-like liquid inside.

"Lu Zhan, arm."

Lu Zhan stretched out his arm obediently. The skin blocked by his sleeves was not exposed to ultraviolet rays and was unusually white, but it did not show the weakness of muscle weakness. The muscles of his entire arm were smooth.

Chu Qiao thought of his male teammates on Mars, all of whom had similar figures, and nodded unconsciously: "Doctor Lu, you've trained well."

As he said this, he applied aloe vera gel on Lu Zhan's arm without any gentleness, just like he had treated his teammates before.

"That's enough, that's enough." Lu Zhan didn't expect her hand to be so strong, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

There was constant laughter in the barrage.

"I thought I'd never say Lu Zhan wasn't gentle with women again. Master Chu is no different."

"No, no, your Master Chu is even worse than that."

"The pot calling the kettle black."

“The disciple surpasses the master.”

Chu Qiao looked at the screen, not noticing anything unusual. He frowned and said, "My livestream is too boring, isn't it? You guys are just entertaining yourself by competing with idioms."

"No, Master Chu, you keep your style, we like it very much."

"You have to be a little tougher on men."

Chu Qiao hadn't seen the comments in front of him, and for a moment he didn't understand what they were saying. He said helplessly, "You guys can enjoy yourselves. I'll go cut some more aloe vera."

Chu Qiao deftly cut off a dozen more leaves, put them all into his backpack, and spoke to the drone.

"Aloe vera leaves contain a lot of water. We are running low on water right now. If we can't find a water source for the time being, this can provide us with some."

The aloe vera leaves filled with water were very heavy. Lu Zhan came over and picked up the bag. Like a melodramatic plot in an idol drama, the backpack turned half a circle behind Lu Zhan and fell on his back.

Lu Zhan’s supporters in the barrage suddenly became upset.

"Lu Zhan is so handsome."

"That's how I like it."

Little Chicken: "My sister is about the same age as Dr. Lu. Let me introduce her to Dr. Lu, Mr. Chu, to build a bridge."

Chu Qiao patted his chest and said jokingly: "No problem"

Lu Zhan glanced at the blue screen and said coldly, "I'm not interested."

Chu Qiao laughed and said, "Doctor Lu puts his career first, his career first."

The atmosphere instantly became awkward, and neither Chu Qiao nor Lu Zhan could ease the awkwardness.

The two of them remained silent until they heard the sound of gurgling water ahead.

Chu Qiao and Lu Zhan looked at each other tacitly, and saw joy in each other's eyes.

Chu Qiao had already started to imagine catching fish for dinner that night. They walked towards where the water came from, which was a small canal less than one meter wide.

Lu Zhan instinctively wanted to stir the water with his hands to check the water quality.

Chu Qiao held him back and shook his head: "There might be something wrong with the water."

Lu Zhan looked around seriously and picked up two dry black objects the size of his palms from a recess next to his feet.

The drone followed Chu Qiao into the camera, and netizens looked at the two black, dry things and asked, "What are those?"

"Food?"

"Impossible, who would eat something so disgusting?"

"Why do I look like a turtle?"

"This is what my family looks like after being burned to death by the radiator."

Chu Qiao walked over and found that it was indeed the corpse of a turtle. Logically speaking, if the environment was not too harsh, such a big turtle would not die so easily.

Lu Zhan threw the turtle to the ground and clapped his hands quickly: "You're right. It might be polluted water. Let's be cautious."