Chapter 498: Mist. Mutual Counteraction
On the other side, Chu An had replaced the Hummer with an Expedition RV, and there were two soldiers lying in the car (Shen Dawei and Qi Guoxin), who she had picked up along the way.
At that time, one of the soldiers was still somewhat conscious and kept saying that the squad leader was bitten by a snake and asked him to save him.
Chu An guessed that the snake was the blue and white stripes that attacked Gu Ye, and her heart went cold. Mou Ci might be in danger. Old Chu comforted her and told her to do her best. Now she had to see the person alive or the body dead. However, she was not resting here, but she could not move forward.
Twenty meters away there is a thin white fog. After inhaling it, the whole body will feel sore and weak. Ordinary protective clothing and gas masks are completely useless. She is one of the people who have experienced it firsthand.
She now stayed about five meters in front of the white fog. After a day, the white fog retreated another fifteen meters.
The height of the white fog was about 30 meters, and its width spread to the forests on both sides, at least 100 meters. The fog was thin at the edge, and it became thicker as it went deeper. She once used the purple willow to lift herself up to the sky, and found that the white fog stretched for at least 50 kilometers, with a mountain range at the end.
She took out the map and found that the river changed its course to the east at the mountains. With the current flow rate, Mou Ci could not have drifted that far. He... was in the white fog.
The two people in the car should also be affected by the fog. Wang Ce has already drawn blood from them for testing, and Grandma Xia has also come out to collect a lot of white fog samples for testing. Fortunately, the people in the space are not affected by the white fog.
So today, Chen Xun, Guo Changren and Gao Daye rode their motorcycles to explore the white fog, and in ten minutes, it would be three hours. Recently, her mental strength has improved a bit, but the time that Chen Xun and others can go out has not increased, and it seems to have stayed at three hours.
According to her observation, the water level drops by about 30 centimeters every seven or eight kilometers. The deepest water level here is 1.2 meters, and the water flow is not as turbulent as upstream. According to this calculation, after another 24 or 25 kilometers, the water level will drop below 30 centimeters, and the water flow will be gentle, making it difficult to continue to wash away an adult's body.
So, three hours were enough to find Mou Ci, but...there seemed to be no results.
"Xiao An, I caught a white fish." Lao Chu walked back from the main river not far away carrying a fish basket.
Recently, he suddenly had an idea to let Chu An save some food in the space and eat outside if he could catch wild game to fill his stomach. Chu An knew that this was his way of relieving anxiety, so he ignored him.
"Let's make fish soup later." She was poking at the drones. Eight out of ten that had been sent in before had malfunctions. There seemed to be a special magnetic field interference in front.
She misses Dabao so much now. If he were here, he would definitely be able to deal with these problems.
Suddenly, she felt a mental fluctuation in the space, and it was Shen Xun and the others who came back. Chu An asked directly about the result, and Shen Xun said helplessly that no one was found.
“What’s the depth of the water downstream?”
"It's shallower than you'd expect. Before we came back, the water was only about ten centimetres deep and the current was very small."
Guo Changren added, "It can no longer be called a river, it's just a stream at best."
Grandpa Gao consoled him, "Don't worry, Xiao An. Let's wait until the fog recedes a bit tomorrow and then we can continue our search."
Chu An sighed. Mou Ci had been missing for seven days and there was very little hope.
"Xiao An, maybe he woke up and left on his own." Guo Changren suddenly said.
"Even if he wakes up, he can't withstand the power of this white fog." said Grandpa Gao.
"Not necessarily." Guo Changren held his hands up in thought, "I've heard from old people before that there must be an antidote around poisonous things. You said that Mou Ci was poisoned by a snake, and the white fog is also poisonous. Could it be that the two counteract each other..."
"That's possible." Chu An felt like he had grabbed a life-saving straw. "Although the composition of snake venom is complex, the main component is toxic protein, which is composed of about 20 to 30 types and can be destroyed by strong acids, strong alkalis, oxidants, etc."
Shen Xun's eyes lit up, and he added: "Grandma Xia said that the origin of the white fog is mainly the reaction and volatilization of acid rain and special substances. So..."
Chuan, "So I'm going to catch a snake."
She quickly cut off the connection and asked Lao Chu to catch the snake. Before, she only thought about preparing the anti-snake venom serum and giving Mou Ci an injection as soon as she saw him, and she didn't think about this direction at all.
Seeing his daughter so anxious, Old Chu immediately followed without asking any reason. He just did it.
It was almost noon when Chu An finally found one. He didn't dare to use stone nails, so he tied up the snake with a straw rope, tying it straight. It was estimated that it had never thought of wearing a straw coat in its life.
She handed the snake to Wang Ce. If this direction was correct, the two young warriors would be able to wake up as soon as possible. That was all she could think of. Wang Ce could only be relied upon to extract the remaining toxins and make an antidote.
Shen Xun reminded her to take a rest. She hadn't slept since she separated from Gu Ye and the others.
Chu An just wanted to find Mou Ci as soon as possible. Besides worrying about his life or death, she was also worried about Gu Ye. The last thing she wanted to see was saving one person and sacrificing another.
Thinking of this, she fired a purple flare into the sky. Purple meant to get Gu Ye to come closer to her. At this time, she had a selfish motive. Since she was sure that Mou Ci was here, she would save as many people as she could from Gu Ye.
She calculated based on what the little soldier said in a daze that Gu Ye should have met those people long ago if he followed the branch. Those who were willing to believe Gu Ye could follow him back. She would try her best to take them out. If they were unwilling, she didn't want to force them.
Old Chu cooked the fish soup, took out the wild vegetable dumplings he made yesterday, and invited Chu An to eat. He served Chu An a bowl of soup, asking her to taste it quickly as if asking for praise.
Chu An had no confidence in his cooking skills, but she still took a sip. The taste was not as bad as she imagined, maybe because of the fish. But she really didn't want to eat the wild vegetable dumplings. It's not that she was delicate, it's just that there was no need.
She took out a meat bun from the space and placed it between the two of them. Without pushing it away from Lao Chu, she picked up one and started eating it with relish.
Old Chu choked on two bites of vegetable dumplings, and finally couldn't help but reached out for... the meat buns.
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