Chapter 23 Desert Island Escape(2/3)
Twenty minutes later, the tornado disappeared into the clouds, and heavy rain and hail poured down.
Zhou Xingxing and Hualong hid in a pothole, but Han Bingyu asked them to come out.
Hua Long asked: "What for?"
Han Bingyu said: "God is wise, this rain is good."
Zhou Xingxing said: "I understand."
They braved heavy rain and hail to build several dams on the island to intercept rainwater. When the rain cleared and the clouds stopped, they directed the accumulated water together to form a pond, thus completely solving the fresh water crisis.
Life on the island is lonely and peaceful. They use conch to drink water and use casseroles to cook kelp, crabs, fish and shrimp. They once saw a sea snake broken into three parts, but it was still alive. Sometimes, there would be pieces floating on the sea
The red leaves, they felt that the leaves were so beautiful, so they put their hands into the water to grab a leaf and look at it. However, something unexpected happened. The "leaves" actually started to float and disappeared after being submerged in the water. It turned out that,
This is not a beautiful leaf, but a leaf-shaped fish closing its eyes and meditating on the water! The leaf-shaped fish always dresses itself up as a leaf, which can deceive people's eyes.
Since the heavy rain, Han Bingyu's wounds have worsened and festered over a large area. He can no longer lift his arms and his whole body smells bad. What's worse is that after being soaked in the rain, he started to have a high fever. If
Without treatment, Zhou Xingxing and Hualong could only watch Han Bingyu die slowly.
Hua Long said to Han Bingyu: "Cut off your arm? You see the whole arm is rotten, and the smell is really disgusting."
Zhou Xingxing said: "Cutting off the arm may not necessarily save your life. That will cause a new wound. Besides, we don't have a knife. What can we use to chop it? Do we have to use stones to hit it?"
Hua Long said: "The only option is to wait for death slowly."
Han Bingyu is speechless!
When a man is about to die, he hears the buzzing of flies.
Han Bingyu's head was buzzing and he didn't even have the strength to speak. He lay in the pit all day long.
One evening, a seagull suddenly died in flight and landed on the island.
Zhou Xingxing and Hualong ran over to take a look. This seagull should have died of murder. The murderers were wind, disease and humans. One of its paws was injured, possibly accidentally while catching fish. The polluted sea,
Trash thrown everywhere is a fatal cause of its death.
Hua Long said: "It would be great if God could parachute a doctor over here with a scalpel, medicine, and penicillin."
Zhou Xingxing looked at the seagull and thought deeply: "There will be a doctor."
Hualong asked dubiously: "When?"
Zhou Xingxing said firmly: "Tomorrow morning."
Hualong sneered: "Liar."
Zhou Xingxing said: "Wait patiently for one more night."
Hua Long said: "We bet that if you can't see the doctor tomorrow, you will go fishing for kelp."
Zhou Xingxing said: "Okay!"
The next day, the seagull's body rotted and gave off an unpleasant stench. Zhou Xingxing sat on the ground and talked to himself to the seagull. Hualong walked over and asked him where the doctor was. Zhou Xingxing lowered his head and said nothing. After a while,
Zhou Xingxing asked Seagull: "Where are you from?"
The seagull didn't answer.
Zhou Xingxing continued to ask: "Have you seen the doctor?"
The seagull was motionless.
Hua Long asked in confusion: "Zhou Xingxing, did you become a fool by eating kelp?"
Zhou Xingxing continued to interrogate Haiou: "Do you want to be stubborn? Don't you know our policy?"
Hualong laughed loudly: "You can torture it to extract a confession."
Zhou Xingxing said solemnly: "I am a criminal policeman and have worked in preliminary trials for many years. Now I am interrogating Seagull. Please don't disturb me, okay?"
Hualong said: "If it could speak, it would only say to you - I am dead."
Zhou Xingxing turned back and glared at him.
Hua Long held back his laughter to see what Zhou Xingxing wanted to do.
Zhou Xingxing asked: "Have you ever seen flies?"
Hua Long said: "I have seen it."
Zhou Xingxing ignored him and said to Haiou: "It seems that I have no choice but to do an autopsy."
Zhou Xingxing plucked out the seagull's feathers and tore open its body. The seagull's internal organs were filled with dense maggots, and a smell filled the air. Hualong covered his mouth, feeling nauseated. Zhou Xingxing carefully used two fingers to
Picking up a small maggot, he said to Hualong:
"Here, this is the doctor!"
The first witness of death is usually a fly. This is because flies have a very keen sense of smell, and they can often smell fresh corpses from several kilometers away. It only takes ten minutes for a female fly to find a corpse.
Then eggs are laid on top. These eggs can transform into maggots in ten to fourteen hours. The maggots hatch, eat the corpse tissue, develop into the pupa stage, and finally fly away as adults. This whole process takes eight to ten years.
Four days. This is how forensic doctors infer the time of death of a body.
Maggots truly are the best surgeons.
Hospitals often feel helpless when dealing with patients with rotten wounds that have not healed for a long time, because the rotten tissue is difficult to clean up manually. Maggots have been used to treat wound infections centuries ago, from the Battle of Waterloo to the Battle of Somi, and in the United States
During the Civil War, the healing properties of maggots were discovered and utilized by surgeons on the battlefield. Maggots were placed in wounds and they could eat the necrotic tissue and bacteria in the rotten wounds. Maggots are scavenging larvae that eat fresh meat.
I am not interested, so there is no need to worry about the maggots eating the whole person. During the war, many field soldiers used this method to treat the disease when there was no medicine.
Zhou Xingxing simply sterilized some small maggots with salt water and then put them into Han Bingyu's wound. He tore his clothes and bandaged Han Bingyu's wound.
Han Bingyu said: "Thank you."
Hua Long asked: "How do you feel now? You know, maggots are crawling in your arms."
Han Bingyu replied: "It's a little itchy."
Zhou Xingxing said: "The maggots must be replaced frequently, otherwise flies will fly out of your arms."
Ten days later, Han Bingyu miraculously healed. The maggots not only ate the ulcerated tissue, but also caused the wound to produce a biological enzyme that helps to form new tissue. In this way, healthy new tissue quickly grew out of the wound.
On September 2, 1998, two birds flew over a man's head, and later, the bird's feathers appeared in his down jacket.
On April 19, 1999, a fisherman released a turtle and carved four words on the turtle's shell: longevity and longevity.
On June 20, 2001, the twenty-eighth day after Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu were trapped on the island, a turtle was captured by Hualong as soon as it climbed onto the beach. Zhou Xingxing and Han Bingyu saw
The words "Longevity and longevity" are engraved on the back of the turtle.
Hualong said: "Turtle meat tastes good."
Han Bingyu said: "Let it go."
Zhou Xingxing said: "Now that we have entered the egg-laying period of sea turtles, there will be many sea turtles coming ashore. Let's release this one. Maybe it will bring us good luck."
Sea lions are the first to crawl to the shore to mate. This animal roars like a lion, and some species have a mane on its neck, which is quite like a lion, so it is named. Hualong's boxing and kicking skills finally came into use. He was on the beach
After fighting with the sea lion, the sea lion was finally defeated and eaten by the three of them. Seals and fur seals came ashore one after another. They must come ashore to mate and reproduce. This happens year after year, passed down from generation to generation. The seal is like a crawler digger.
Like earth machines, it crawls on its belly. The fur of fur seals is precious, and the penis of male fur seals is more effective in aphrodisiac and kidney. Of course, these two animals also entered Zhou Xingxing and his companions' bellies.
The next day, a large number of turtles landed.
Sea turtles lay eggs at different times in different places. The peak breeding season is from April to July. Male and female sea turtles live in groups around coral islands, chasing each other and choosing mates. Sometimes female sea turtles don't like the wooing male sea turtles, so they head against each other.
The male turtle will not let the male turtle climb up the back. The male turtle will always try to find a way to get behind the female turtle from the side. The female turtle will always adapt to the situation and turn around and headbutt the other turtle to prevent the male turtle from succeeding. If the two are satisfied,
When they agree with each other, the male sea turtle climbs onto the back of the female sea turtle, hooks the carapace of the female sea turtle with his forelimb claws, bends his long tail forward, and inserts the sex organ into the cloaca of the female sea turtle. The mating time can be as long as 3 to 4 years.
Hours long.
week
They are looking for a place to lay their eggs on the beach. Although the female turtles are impatient at this time, they are extremely cautious. If there is any disturbance, they will immediately return to the sea. This is because turtle hunters and some wild animals are often waiting to catch the eggs on land during this period.
A female turtle lays eggs, or digs up the eggs she lays. Once a turtle is turned upside down on land, it can only be captured. Turtles during the egg-laying period are particularly vigilant. They will only search when they are sure everything is safe.
Suitable place for laying eggs. Turtles are also very careful in choosing a place to lay eggs. It must be conducive to the hatching of eggs and difficult to be discovered and destroyed by enemies, so it takes a long time.
Han Bingyu was also carefully observing the turtle's egg-laying process. He found that after the turtle chose a site, it first dug a wide pit with its huge forelimbs. The depth of the pit was equivalent to the height of the turtle's body, and the entire body was hidden in the pit.
Then it uses its two shorter hind limbs to alternately dig a vertical egg pit under the reproductive pore. Although the turtle is old and slow, its hind feet are as dexterous as human hands when digging the pit, and it scoops up the sand like a spoon.
Carefully lift it up and throw it out of the pit, sometimes very far. When turtles lay eggs for a long time, the whole beach will make a sound of digging sand. The pit is more than half a meter deep, with vertical walls, like a small well. If the location is suitable, use
It can be dug in less than ten minutes. If there is a collapse or debris such as debris in the sand, it will take a long time to clean it up.
After digging the egg pit, take a short rest and then start laying eggs. Before laying eggs, use your hind limbs to pat the tail and cloaca a few times to remove the adhering sand, and then discharge the cloaca a few times into the egg pit.
Drop the white transparent liquid and immediately lay the first egg. The egg is like a white ping pong ball. The egg shell is hard and elastic and not easy to break. Once the turtle starts laying eggs, it will ignore any strong stimulation. The entire
The egg-laying process takes about ten minutes. During this period, it continues to discharge mucus, so that the entire egg pit is wrapped in sand with mucus. After laying the eggs, it uses its hind feet to dig up the sand to bury the egg pit, and then crawls out.
It then dug into the hole, filled it up with its forelimbs, and finally dragged its exhausted body back to the sea.
Turtle eggs are a delicacy. When Hualong was digging up turtle eggs, some turtles shed tears while crawling to the sea.
This is because sea turtles also swallow seawater while eating aquatic plants and ingest a large amount of salt. Some special glands next to the sea turtle's tear glands will discharge these salts, causing sea turtles to "cry" on the shore.
To be continued...