Chapter 306: Poisoning
A series of unexpected situations caused a commotion within the company.
In response, Drogo seemed to have thought of something and hurried forward to confirm the situation.
After some searching, he soon found the wounds on the soldier's legs and feet that had begun to turn blue.
"It's poisoned."
Hearing this, Li Ce was suddenly shocked.
In this era, there are always many people who are poisoned by accidentally ingesting toxic substances. In addition, there are also people who are bitten by poisonous insects and snakes.
When he was the leader, individual members of the tribe would be poisoned every once in a while.
Most tribes have no way to deal with this situation. Once poisoned, they can only leave it to fate.
But he did, because he had Ye Yan! In the primitive era when food was scarce, this kind of poisoning was very common, so Ye Yan also studied this area.
But the problem now is that Ye Yan is not here, and it will take time for him to study the new toxin.
Without time to think too much, Li Ce first learned how Ye Yan handled the situation. Looking at the blue part of the wound, after tying it up tightly with a rope, he began to help the soldier squeeze out the poisonous blood.
Drogo, who was about to do something at the time, paused and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"I didn't expect you knew this, Lieutenant Li."
Apparently, he understood too.
To be precise, it is the experience passed down from their ancestors. For a hunting race like them who walk in the wild all year round, there is no guarantee that they will not be bitten by poisonous insects or snakes, so they must have the ability to deal with it.
"Don't worry, the poison is not strong. Those who are infected will experience temporary paralysis, but you can get through it. If you take care of it, you will recover faster."
They had fallen into this trap many times when they were in the other world and dealing with the Lizardmen.
Li Ce was visibly relieved when he heard what Zhuo Ge said.
"The lizardmen usually don't use poison on their weapons. After all, hunting is an important way for them to obtain food. Once poisoned, the prey they kill will become inedible. This time, our actions probably forced them into a corner, so they resorted to this method."
During the time they were talking, after the poisonous blood was squeezed out, the soldier's complexion had obviously improved a lot, which made Li Ce completely relieved.
At the same time, I felt somewhat relieved.
This time, it was probably thanks to their quick actions that the toxins didn't have time to take effect, so they ended the battle and left the battle area.
Otherwise, according to the current situation, if they fall in the battle area, they will most likely have to face a large army of Lizardmen.
When he thought of this, Li Ce couldn't help but feel a little scared.
After hastily having the warhorse treated for its wound, the group rested for a while, and after the warhorse had recovered its mobility, they quickly left the area.
Originally, seeing that it was still early, Li Ce wanted to look around to see if he could find the Lizardman hunting team, but now he undoubtedly no longer had the mind to do so and went straight back to their temporary camp in the hills to rest.
On the way back, Li Ce felt more and more depressed the more he thought about it.
[Injuries in battle are unavoidable. When the two sides engage in battle, if this happens...]
Thinking of this, Li Ce didn't dare to think further.
"Captain Drogo, how much do you know about the poisons used by the Lizardmen?"
"You're worried about that?"
Looking at Li Ce's expression, Drogo knew what was going on without asking any more questions.
"You don't need to worry about that. Poison is not very useful."
Zhuo Ge's words stunned Li Ce.
From Li Ce's perspective, the poison is terrifying. Once you are infected with it, you will lose half your life if you don't die.
In the battle just now, a soldier under his command had his skin scratched by a flying spear, and his entire arm was paralyzed.
It's really hard to associate this with the word 'not easy to use'.
Thinking of this, he lowered his head to look at the set of rattan armor he was wearing. Unlike its original brand new appearance, many scars from battle appeared on the surface of the rattan armor.
In the previous battle, if most of the remaining soldiers here were not wearing rattan armor, the number of people poisoned would have been much greater.
Since the first battle with the Lizardmen, the importance of the vine armor has skyrocketed. It has saved him countless times.
During this time, facing Li Ce's doubts, Zhuo Ge smiled, and then did not shy away and directly said...
"Our ancestors also studied poison and tried it, but they didn't use it in the end."
Zhuogo gave the result directly, but this result made Li Ce even more incomprehensible.
“To put it bluntly, it’s just not practical.”
"If you want to use this method, you first need to find the corresponding poison, then extract the toxin and save it. When you need to use it, you can apply the toxin to the weapon."
Listening to Drogo's explanation, Li Ce thought about it for a moment and soon remembered the flurry of actions of the group of green lizard infantrymen before.
[I thought they were panicking because they were attacked, but are they applying poison to their weapons?]
It is indeed inconvenient to start applying this only after the enemy appears in front of you.
"Can't you apply it in advance?"
"You mean to keep the weapon poisoned for a long time?"
Facing Drogo's question, Li Jihe paused for a moment and said...
"Wouldn't it be easy to accidentally hurt one of our own people like this?"
"That's one of the reasons, but the main reason is that after the toxin is applied to a weapon, its duration is very limited and it will soon lose its effect."
This situation was undoubtedly beyond Li Ce's understanding.
After all, they wouldn't have the time to think about poisoning their weapons in the past.
"In fact, even if it is placed in a container, it will not last long and will soon become ineffective. Finding, collecting, and extracting toxic substances takes a lot of time and the whole process is very dangerous. The effect is very poor and it is not practical at all."
"How did the Lizardman do it?"
"The lizardmen are because of the giant lizards they raise, such as the big blue lizard we killed earlier. The giant lizard has a paralytic toxin on its tongue, so once its tongue wraps around its prey, the prey will lose the ability to resist because of the paralytic toxin."
At this point, Drogo paused.
"The toxins used by those green lizards were probably collected from the tongues of giant lizards just before we set out."
"But there aren't that many monitor lizards, and the toxins produced by their tongues are very limited. At most, they can only use them on a small scale like this. It's definitely not enough for large-scale use. It's not easy to collect so much toxin."
After listening to Zhuogo's explanation, Li Ce sorted out his thoughts and finally understood the whole thing.
(End of this chapter)
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