Chapter 1447: Poison Arrow
Just as Bai Tu was thinking about this, Lin Youshu walked in quickly.
Looking at the expression of his adjutant, Bai Tu frowned.
"Something happened to the wounded?"
Hearing this, Lin Youshu nodded solemnly.
"The opponent's arrow must have been poisoned."
As Lin Youshu spoke, he handed an arrow to Bai Tu.
The arrowhead is already stained with blood, and it is no longer possible to tell whether it was originally poisonous or not. The workmanship of the entire arrow is visibly rough, a typical example of crude equipment polished in primitive society.
Because of this, the arrow's accuracy was not very good. In addition, the soldiers of the Great Zhou had armor protecting their torsos, so the arrows could hardly break their armor. Those who were hit were mostly in the hands and feet.
"Go! Check on the wounded!"
Bai Tu stood up and walked quickly to the medical camp.
As soon as he walked in, Bai Tu saw a soldier who had been hit by a poisoned arrow. He was leaning on the bed with his eyes closed and a pale face, with beads of sweat the size of beans still appearing on his forehead.
Seeing Bai Tu coming, the squad leader of the medical squad quickly came over to greet him.
"Colonel!"
Seeing this, Bai Tu returned the salute.
"What's their situation now?"
"The situation of being hit by a poisoned arrow is more serious. If the poison had been removed immediately, the situation would have been much better. After all, there was a delay in the process, and some of the poison had already entered the body."
At this point, the medical squad leader paused.
"The current symptoms mainly include local paralysis at the site of the arrow, loss of intuition, high fever all over the body, and more seriously, confusion."
"We have already prescribed some medicine based on their symptoms, and have also taken physical measures to reduce their temperature. We will have to wait and see how they develop after they finish taking the medicine."
Listening to the report from the medical squad leader, Bai Tu's gaze subconsciously fell on the soldier with his eyes closed. Obviously, this was the one with blurred consciousness.
"Were the ones trapped not poisoned?"
While asking the questions, Bai Tu glanced inside the tent and saw that the soldiers were in relatively good spirits.
The medical squad leader listened and nodded.
"They were also poisoned, but the symptoms were very mild. Apart from the flesh wounds, they were mostly local allergies."
"Aren't they both infected with the same poison?"
Since the other party used poisoning methods, they obviously need to know more about this toxin.
"From what I can see so far, it should be the same poison, but the poison on the trap should have been applied quite some time in advance."
The medical squad leader explained as he spoke.
"Generally, this type of toxin comes from animals or plants. Once these toxins are separated from the body, they cannot remain toxic for a long time. Even if they are sealed according to our current technology, their toxicity will quickly dissipate over time."
"Under this premise, if the poison is taken out of the sealed container and applied to a weapon, the toxicity will decay faster."
After hearing this, Bai Tu basically understood.
The trap was deployed in advance and the poison was applied in advance, so by the time the trap took effect, the toxicity had almost dissipated.
The poison on the arrow should have been applied just before the opponent attacked. It was fresh enough and still retained enough toxicity.
This is also the fundamental reason why the Great Zhou has a tropical rain forest with many poisonous substances, but has basically never considered the means of poisoning.
Not only is collecting toxins time-consuming and laborious, but once collected, there is no way to preserve them for a long time. If war really breaks out and you take them out and take a look, you may find that all your efforts were in vain.
At the same time, considering from the perspective of "quantity", it is not enough to support the consumption of an entire army, and it is easy to become an internal hidden danger.
It was in this special environment that a few stragglers were able to play a role by using local materials.
But in the final analysis, how much actual value can it have? Under various restrictions, even if the opponent uses poison arrows to knock down one or two hundred soldiers, it will not be able to shake the current Great Zhou army!
"Call Lieutenant Gall over here."
After receiving the summons, Lieutenant Gal, the captain of the pterosaur riders, arrived quickly.
"Lieutenant Gall, I have a mission here that I need you to carry out."
As he spoke, Bai Tu quickly assigned the task.
After understanding the situation, Lieutenant Gal acted quickly and immediately assembled a team of pterosaur riders to take action.
The four pterosaur riders worked as a group, controlling their pterosaurs to each grab a corner of the package, and flew into the air carrying the huge package.
Although the pterosaurs' carrying capacity is limited, they can still move some large objects by working together like this.
Not caring whether the other party would notice their movements or not, the pterosaur riders maintained a safe height, estimated the direction, and soon arrived at the area where the smoke had risen before.
Then, the pterosaur loosened its claws, and the package suddenly scattered, and the pale skeletons fell into the jungle below.
During this process, the pterosaurs in other groups were not idle either. From their Da Zhou camp to the primitive tribal camp closest to them, they targeted an entire area in the middle and piles of bones continued to fall down.
At one point, the tribesmen hiding in the jungle mistakenly believed that it was raining skeletons, which scared them all.
Holding a bow and arrow in hand, half-crouching on the thick branch of a towering tree, a skeleton fell from the sky and hit Kara directly at her feet. With a "bang", the skeleton immediately fell apart and landed on the ground.
Compared to his subordinates who were obviously at a loss and panicked in the face of this situation, Kara had a frown on his face the whole time and looked up at the sky from time to time.
Although she didn't know what was going on, the constant falling of skulls from the sky didn't seem normal in any way.
[Are those damn invaders responsible? ! ]
As this thought flashed through her mind, Kara leaped onto a higher branch, intending to climb directly to the top of the tree to find out what was going on! However, before she could take the next step, a more horrified, almost uncontrollable scream came again, which made Kara feel irritated and she subconsciously looked down.
As a result, with just this one glance, Kara was completely stunned.
In the jungle below, where the light was dim even in the daytime, dark green ghost fires were burning quietly.
At this moment, the skeletons that fell from the sky seemed to come alive, and they crawled up from the ground one after another with the sound of "cracking".
Those that were broken into pieces were even reassembled in the process.
Not to mention her useless subordinates, even Kara herself felt frightened.
At the same time, outside the jungle, Bai Tu, who was still casting a spell, closed his eyes and actively cut off his vision so that his perception could better focus on the skeleton soldiers.
"You can't blame me for this, you were the first to do it!"
(End of this chapter)
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