Chapter 171: Consultation Conference
In the video, Lao Wang twisted his body proudly and did not forget to show off his wife at the end of the video.
The army of scorpions twisted their scorpion tails and made surprised sounds.
[Huh? You're also helping animals find partners? You're so kindhearted!]
Lao Wang is indeed a well-known bachelor. Among the snakes gathered in the canyon, there is actually a snake that recognizes Lao Wang, and it is also a male king cobra.
[I know this king cobra. It's never found a mate and is a well-known bachelor in our desert snake community!]
[You actually helped it get rid of being single. Now we have to believe that you are really capable.]
King cobras are dominant wherever they are, and this king cobra's words carry a lot of weight among the snakes in the canyon.
After it finished speaking, the snake that had been twisting its body towards Xu Ying and trying to intimidate her immediately became well-behaved.
Xu Ying was a little puzzled. Why did this king cobra's attitude change 180 degrees after hearing that she helped Lao Wang get out of being single?
Then she heard King Cobra say in a shy voice: "Hey, Station Master Xu, I usually stay in the underground canyon and my social circle is relatively closed. Can you help me find a partner?"
Xu Ying: ...It's over. Now I've become a professional matchmaker. No, the news will spread wider and wider, and more and more animals will come to her and ask her for help in finding their partners, right?
"Of course you can, but you can't expect me to bring your partner to you if you stay in the canyon all the time. You might want to go out with me."
Xu Ying scratched his head.
The King Cobra made up his mind: "Okay, then it's settled. I'll go out with you to see the world."
"I may not be able to solve the problem of being single in the short term."
Xu Ying glanced around the crowd and asked boldly, "Is there anyone among you little animals feeling unwell? I can help right now."
The underground canyon fell into silence for a moment.
Finally, a desert golden scorpion squirmed its body and crawled in front of Xu Ying with difficulty.
The scorpion was waving its tail impatiently, and its metallic shell was reflecting an unnatural light under the flashlight.
"Let me see." Xu Ying said softly, lightly touching the scorpion's carapace with her fingertips.
[Something is stuck in my tail pin, stationmaster, can you help me take a look?]
"Is there something stuck in your stinger?" She frowned slightly and pulled a micro-magnifying glass from her medical kit. Sure enough, a rusty copper ring was tightly wrapped around the joint of the scorpion's stinger, its edge wedged into the gap in the carapace.
The scorpion wiggled its claws in pain: "It hurts so much! The younger ones in the tribe are all laughing at me."
Xu Ying couldn't help but smile. Scorpios have such strong self-esteem.
She carefully used tweezers to hold the scorpion's body. "It will be a little painful, just bear with it."
[Humph, we Desert Golden Scorpions are the least afraid of pain—Ouch!]
The scorpion's stinger trembled violently.
The moment the copper ring was removed, a trickle of dark green liquid seeped out.
Xu Ying immediately took out the herbal ointment she carried with her - this was an anti-inflammatory medicine she specially made using desert aloe and sea buckthorn fruit.
As soon as the anti-inflammatory drug was applied, the coolness seeped into the body, and the scorpion suddenly felt that its tail felt much better.
[Oh my God, what a miracle doctor!]
The scorpion moved its tail, and the pain that had troubled it for days was cured in one go by the two-legged beast in front of it!
[Webmaster, will you stay in our canyon forever? If I encounter difficulties in the future, can I still find you?]
Xu Ying pondered for a moment, then her eyes suddenly lit up. She picked up a piece of weathered shale and tapped it gently against the rock wall: "Do you hear this frequency?"
“Dong-dong-dong-dong”
The scorpion waved its tentacles in confusion: "What is this?"
"Signal for help." Xu Ying knocked again. "If you're in trouble, knock on the rock like this. The echo in the canyon can reach three kilometers away."
"My gerbil informant will receive the information and report it to me, and I will rush over to help you."
As soon as she finished speaking, a rhythmic rustling sound suddenly came from the distance.
Ten scorpions of different sizes emerged from the cracks in the rocks and were neatly arranged in a semicircle.
"Are they imitating you?" Xu Ying was surprised to find that every scorpion was using its chelicerae to imitate her tapping movements.
The Desert Golden Scorpion proudly lifted its tail: [Now, the entire tribe knows this code!]
[Similarly, if you encounter any difficulties, you can also ask the informant to come to us for help!]
Xu Ying smiled and nodded: "Okay!"
"I really need a favor from you right now. Could you send Scorpion to check if there are any suspicious individuals lurking at the canyon entrance?"
[No problem, leave it to us!]
After examining the scorpion, three small red-headed centipedes immediately crawled in front of Xu Ying.
[Webmaster, our mother is sick and feels so bad. Can you help her?]
The bright red on the top of the red-headed centipede's head was quite scary. Xu Ying nodded gently: "Where is your mother?"
Following the guidance of the three little centipedes, Xu Ying squatted in the shadow of a weathered rock, and gently pushed away the gravel with his fingertips.
A desert centipede, about twenty centimeters long, was curled up in pain.
The front half of its body had shed its new crimson shell, but the back half was still tightly wrapped in the grayish-white old skin, like a worn-out, ill-fitting coat.
"Don't move."
Xu Ying took out a pair of tweezers from the medical kit and said, "The old skin on your seventh body segment is stuck together.
The centipede saw its three children at Xu Ying's feet. It suddenly raised its head, opened its venomous jaws, and hissed menacingly. [Twolegs, stay away from my children!]
The three little ones quickly said, "Mom, this is the one we hired to help you. She was just treating Uncle Scorpion and healed him in no time!"
Hearing the children's words, the centipede's poisonous jaws slowly closed.
Its tentacles trembled slightly.
[Is that so? Sorry, I was too anxious.]
[Thank you for your help.]
Xu Ying nodded and took out a bottle of medicine from the medical box: "It will be a little painful later."
As an experienced veterinarian, she had treated exotic pets like centipedes before.
Now with the development of the pet economy, many people have started to raise less popular and niche animals, such as centipedes and spiders.
Centipedes encounter this problem when their living conditions are too dry when they shed their skin.
Xu Ying used a dropper to carefully drip water onto the moss. "This is from the oasis in the north. It smells like groundwater."
The moment the moist moss covered its shell, the centipede suddenly twitched violently.
"The old skin is absorbing water and swelling."
Xu Ying pressed her gloved fingers against its third pair of legs. "I'll count to twenty, and you'll be fine."
When she counted to fifteen, she suddenly pulled out a camel-hair crochet hook from her tool kit.
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