Chapter 68
When Chu Huaiqin ran to Sang Guo's tent in the heavy rain with a knife and a coconut, he found a group of people gathered outside. The sound of vomiting coming from inside the tent was even louder than the sound of the rain, which was unbearable to listen to.
The onlookers were chattering and speculating about their situation, and they could even vaguely hear something about God's punishment.
"Get out of the way." The people from the Sheep Country shouted loudly and reached out to pull people away, but no one who gathered together moved away.
The livestreamers were so anxious they cursed. The doctor hadn't arrived yet, and Chu Huaiqin suddenly appeared. Everyone's hopes were pinned on him, only to be stopped at the main door. How infuriating! Even though some people were pessimistic and sarcastic, there were more people who cared. No one paid any attention to the foul-mouthed people; their minds were all focused on the victims, hoping Chu Huaiqin could find a solution.
The sheep team at the scene was also anxious. Although they were all competitors, it would be a disaster if someone died. In their haste, they pulled the person with all their might. The person being pulled, enraged, turned back and was about to curse the person who had pulled him, but was startled by the scene before them. In the pouring rain, the sky flickered with lightning in the distance. The person facing him was holding a tactical knife, his face cold. Looking at the young monk Xia En behind him, he fell silent in an instant. The other onlookers were also frightened by Chu Huaiqin holding a knife and quickly made way.
"The captain of the Gun Gun team has a rather intimidating aura."
"I'm still wondering how he's going to be saved."
"Maybe it's just grandstanding."
The live broadcast room was still noisy, and Chu Huaiqin successfully entered the shed. There was a man lying on the wet ground and vomiting, and another man was lying on a hammock and vomiting. Both of them seemed to have difficulty breathing, and kept inhaling. Their faces were pale and colorless, and their bodies were covered in cold sweat.
There was a strong smell inside. Chu Huaiqin, who had always been called a pampered boy by domestic audiences, had no expression on his face. He quickly walked over and reached out to measure the heartbeat of the poisoned person but was stopped. It was one of the people in this team.
He looked at Chu Huaiqin with a wary look and spoke quickly in his own language, not letting Chu Huaiqin get close. The people from the Sheep Country hurried forward to explain, but their explanation was completely ineffective. Instead, their voices grew louder, their eyes bulging, and they pointed at Chu Huaiqin and yelled at him to get out.
At this time, the two poisoned people suddenly stopped vomiting, their eyes rolled back, and they kept gasping for air. It looked like they were about to die.
"Hold them down."
Chu Huaiqin spoke, and Xia Entanglement and the little monk reacted quickly. The three people who tried to stop Chu Huaiqin from rescuing people were about to fight back when the people from the Sheep Team came over. Without any fight, they pinned the three people to the ground covered in vomit.
Finally, no one tried to stop him. Chu Huaiqin pressed the coconut against a piece of wood and chopped it down with his knife, peeling off the top layer and revealing the coconut water and coconut flesh. Chu Huaiqin placed his hands on the shoulders of the poisoned man lying on the ground and turned him over. He then had another person at the scene help him up, pinched his mouth open, and poured coconut juice into it. His grip was so strong that when he let go, the man's cheeks were completely blue. Chu Huaiqin then used the same method to pour coconut juice into the man lying in the hammock, taking turns until all the coconut juice was gone.
During this period, apart from the shouting of the Sang people and the sound of rain, the only sound left was the sound of Chu Huaiqin drinking coconut juice. The same was true in the live broadcast room, especially the fans of Sang, who were scared to the point of being soaked all over, after all, their favorite stars were in it.
After drinking the coconut milk, the doctor had not arrived yet, but the two men looked much better, their breathing was no longer as short of breath, and they did not look like they would faint at any moment. However, their hands and feet were still numb and they were sweating coldly.
"Let them go!" Chu Huaiqin said, unable to bear the smell here and ready to walk out.
One of the three people who were released blocked Chu Huaiqin's way, chatted for a while, and asked Chu Huaiqin if he had any more coconut juice and asked him to continue drinking it.
Chu Huaiqin took a step back with a strange look on his face and said, "That's enough. It's not like you can just drink too much detoxification stuff. Besides, this is just suppression. You still need to go to the hospital."
Sang Guoren was anxious, "No, give him more..."
"That's enough." Seeing the man about to grab Chu Huaiqin, Xia En stepped forward and blocked his hand, his face gloomy. "Wait for the doctor."
After saying that, he pulled Chu Huaiqin outside. He had noticed that Chu Huaiqin's face turned pale just now. He obviously couldn't stand it, but he still stayed inside. What was there to explain? They didn't owe them anything.
"Brother, is this sea mango so poisonous?" The little monk also chased out. The three of them stood in the rain and finally felt a lot better. They were just surrounded by the smell and were trying hard to hold on.
"Sea mango is known as the suicide fruit. Eating even a little can be fatal. The injections they received before departure should have given them certain antibodies, which allowed them to hold on for so long." Chu Huaiqin didn't expect that there were poisonous mangoes in this place.
The three stood outside for a while until the doctor arrived. On the way there, they heard the director's live broadcast in their headphones. They didn't believe it at first, but when they saw that the two poisoned people were really not in danger of life, they were shocked.
"I was shocked, too."
"It's amazing. I already thought it was incredible when I saw them using mint and ginger to boil water to treat colds, but now they can even detoxify. Oh my God, this is incredible."
"There's a kind of medicine in China called traditional Chinese medicine. I've seen these Chinese people use it several times. I used to think it was just a coincidence, but now I have to admit that these things might really be useful."
"Oh my god, I must learn about Chinese traditional medicine. It's amazing."
"That's five thousand years. How could something our ancestors left behind be useless? Oh, I'm being a bit cocky."
"In fact, many ingredients in Western medicine are also extracted from plants. Although Chinese medicine has been criticized by some people, the fact that it has existed for 5,000 years is a great honor."
"Same as above."
The two were taken out after a simple checkup inside. They will be taken to the director team, and it is also announced that they are out.
Before leaving, several foreign doctors gave Chu Huaiqin a thumbs-up and said two words, "Amazing."
After the incident was resolved, everyone went back to their homes. Shocked by the smell, the three of them came back and saw the pandanus fruit, and instinctively ate a piece to suppress the smell.
Live broadcast room:
"Oh, God, I can't eat this."
"I'm really strong mentally. I just saved someone from eating wild fruit a few minutes ago. Now I don't feel any psychological burden at all."
"Hey, where's the one who cursed at me earlier? Come out and apologize."
Apologies were repeatedly posted in the comments, but some people remained stubborn, stating that while they had apologized, they were reserving their opinions. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. But it's undeniable that the next day, the topic of this incident was pushed to the top of Weibo, both domestically and on the international "blackface" and "smoke" websites.
Chu Huaiqin, as the first person to break out of the circle in the Asian Games, appeared in the international news in this way.
Domestic Weibo:
"Well, those who used to scold their brother come out."
"Hahaha, that's so cool! Those people's faces were slapped again and again, from heavy rain to poisoning. I'm waiting for my brother to slap them in the face again."
"No, didn't they say they were blocking my brother from the international competition? Why are they always the ones who get into trouble? Could it be that he is really the son of destiny?"
"The competition has just begun, and the main battlefield is on Lookout Island!"
A word of advice awakened everyone, and everyone began to reflect on themselves. Yes, we can't relax now.
Chu Huaiqin went to sleep after eating the pandanus fruit. That night, the traffic in the live broadcast room was unexpectedly good, especially Chu Huaiqin's split-screen live broadcast room, whose traffic surpassed A1 channel for the first time, because audiences both at home and abroad wanted to see whether Chu Huaiqin and others who had also eaten wild fruits would be poisoned in the middle of the night.
There were people abroad who were worried, and there were also people watching the fun, but everyone in China was worried. Some were looking up the number and price of air rescue, some were checking which hospital over there would be better, and some even called Director Li to ask him to be more alert when he went to bed tonight.
Director Li: …
At five o'clock the next morning, Chu Huaiqin, who was safe and sober, stretched and greeted the camera. He looked rosy and looked so good.
Domestic audience: Mom, I can finally sleep.
It was still raining. After Chu Huaiqin woke up, Xia En also woke up. The two washed in the rain, put on straw raincoats and set out to the beach to collect shrimp cages. There were still ten minutes before low tide, and the two sat on the rocks in the rain.
The raindrops hit the straw raincoat, making a ticking sound which was quite pleasant to hear.
But after a while, other teams also stood up, wearing raincoats made of banana leaves and oval green hats, which were all wet. When they saw Chu Huaiqin and Xia En's straw raincoats, they were envious and jealous. Then they saw the Sheep Kingdom running over to greet Chu Huaiqin, also wearing straw raincoats. They gritted their teeth and thought, they really have a share of everything, huh.
When the little monk brought Lin Zhinan here, the tide began to recede, and everyone began to scramble for things on the beach. Supplies were scarce at sea now, and this might be just enough food for the day.
After nearly an hour, everyone had cleared the beach of shells, but some teams felt a pang of worry and distress at the sight of these seafood. Ever since the heavy rain and typhoon, their fires had often gone out. At first, they could still make fire by rubbing sticks together, but over time, some teams either didn't have enough dry firewood, or the firewood they did collect was completely wet.
But thinking that everyone was like this, he felt a lot better, especially when he saw Chu Huaiqin and his friends' shrimp cages full of seafood. He sneered, "You still want to eat raw food."
Live broadcast room:
"My eyes are red and bleeding."
"Pfft, I really want to tell them that my brothers have been eating cooked food, seafood platters, grilled crabs, grilled fish, and clams baked in banana leaves. You guys are so jealous."
"Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. If they knew my brother was in trouble, they would definitely snatch him away."
"Well, they can't see it anyway, so it's okay to show off a little!"
"Oh yeah, hahahaha."
Other foreign audiences: ...
I wanted to refute them, but what they said was true. Apart from the Rolling Team, only the Sheep Country could eat cooked food, and it was all thanks to Chu Huaiqin and the others. Everyone else was already eating raw food. It made me vomit just thinking about it.
He returned with a rich supply of seafood, roasting all of it except for what he ate today as food. Chu Huaiqin was still a little worried about leaving the two little ones at home, so he began to teach them how to prevent fire and theft in the next two days. The two little ones listened with their heads buzzing and nodded continuously.
The five of them quickly finished their breakfast. They sprinkled chopped mint on the baked food and placed it inside two hollowed-out coconut shells. They also filled the water cans. The coconut water bottles were placed inside a net bag and hung on their bodies, reminiscent of educated youth of a certain era, carrying a basket on their backs filled with other things.
I left the knife to the two little ones and told them not to eat anything casually. If they didn't come back in one day, they shouldn't worry too much. The plan was to find them in two days. If they hadn't found them, they would come back tomorrow...
Chu Huaiqin chatted for a while longer, and Xia En nodded beside him.
Chinese audience in the live broadcast room:
"I always feel that this scene is a little familiar."
"Yes, it's just that Actor Su is a bit abrupt."
The author has something to say: Sea mango is very poisonous, and coconut juice is a local remedy unique to Hainan. I asked my friend in Hainan about this remedy, and she said that her grandmother's generation said so. However, here, it is fictional. If you have any problems, you must go to the hospital. The best way is to go to the hospital. A better way is not to pick and eat unknown or wild things when traveling.
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