Chapter 283 A Strange Thing Happened in America
What's so weird about that kind of bug? It all starts with a strange thing that happened when the German doctor first arrived in the tribe.
The chief's tribe is deep in the tropical rain forest. When the German doctor first arrived in the tribe, he was bitten by an insect. This insect was called "sunworm" by the locals. The reason why it was called this name was not only because of its It looks like the sun. It is golden in color and has a round body. The body is surrounded by slender legs, as if the sun is emitting light.
In addition to the shape, the habits of this insect are closely related to the sun: they only come out and move when there is the sun in the sky. But at other times, whether it is night or cloudy, as long as there is no sun, they will never Appear.
What’s even more strange is that whenever this kind of sunworm appears, it will attack sleeping people. German doctors have never figured out why this kind of bug only attacks sleeping people. But if the person is awake, they will It won't attack.
Therefore, local people absolutely dare not sleep during the day when the sun is shining. Because sleeping during the day is very likely to be bitten by this "sun bug". And once bitten, although there are ancestral herbs that are specially used to treat such bites .So that people will not lose their lives, but they will still suffer a lot of pain.
If there is a patient who really needs to sleep during the day, he will be placed in a suspended hammock. Then, one or two people will need to stay next to him to watch over the patient at all times to prevent attacks by this kind of sunworm.
When the German doctor first came to this tribe, he certainly didn’t know about this strange insect. He was not familiar with the local people at that time, so no one reminded him. One day at noon, after he came back from outside, he felt very sleepy, so he lay down in the house. I want to take a nap on the straw mat inside.
Just when he was dazed and half asleep, he suddenly felt that his leg was stung by something. A sharp sting spread throughout his body. He sat up suddenly and found that it was a little golden-yellow child. The insect was lying on his leg. The German doctor quickly raised his hand and slapped it to death.
But it was too late. He felt the place where he had been stung by an insect, as if it had been burned with a branding iron. There was a burning pain. This was the most severe pain he had ever felt in his life.
As a doctor, of course he brought some emergency medicine with him, including painkillers. So, he endured the severe pain that came like a flood, took out the painkillers from his bag, and swallowed them.
But the pain didn't seem to ease at all. The German doctor couldn't help but scream, and his consciousness became increasingly blurred. Later, he only vaguely remembered that several people came in and applied something cool to his legs. I also poured something into his mouth. I don’t remember anything else.
When the German doctor woke up, he found that he was already lying in a hammock. There were three people standing next to him, taking care of him seriously. The German doctor steeled himself and asked the three people feebly in the local dialect, what was he doing? What happened.
After he asked, the three people did not hide anything and told the German doctor in detail about the strange habits of sunworms. This shocked the German doctor that there were such strange bugs in the world. He had never heard of it. Said.
From then on, like all the people in this tribe, the German doctor never dared to sleep during the day again.
But when the German doctor had more contact with the chief, he was surprised to find that the chief dared to sleep during the day. And he did not sleep in a hammock and did not need anyone to look after him. Instead, he lay directly on a mat on the ground. He just slept soundly. He didn't seem to be worried at all about those terrible sunworms.
This is strange. Could it be that the sunworm is the only one that doesn't bite this chief?
Later, when German doctors learned more about it, they found that it was indeed the case. It was precisely because of this that the locals believed even more that the chief was not a mortal.
In addition, after a long time, the German doctor also discovered another quirk of the chief.
The chief has a special small metal box. The box is very beautiful. At first, the German doctor thought it contained some valuables. But later he found out that it was not at all. The box actually contained some insects. There were ants, bees, butterflies, snails, and spiders. , Centipede, etc.
But when they saw these familiar insects, the German doctors were even more surprised... because these insects had no heads, but they were all still alive.
What the hell is going on.
When the German doctor curiously asked the chief, the chief told the German doctor frankly that he himself did not know the reason... but since half of his head was cut off, he had a special hobby, which is to watch. When he saw insects, he always wanted to pinch off their heads. But once he did so, he was surprised to find that these insects could still live for dozens of days without their heads.
And if the heads of these insects were pinched off by ordinary people, they would die very quickly and would not even survive for half a day. Of course, this kind of thing spread quickly among the tribe, becoming another miracle for the chief. .
After the German doctor returned to China, he consulted countless relevant information, but the mysteries surrounding the chief still could not be solved. What was even more unexpected was the mysteries that had troubled him for decades after he came to China. It was actually cracked by an old Chinese man.
That old man was an imperial doctor in the former Qing Dynasty. But he was not in Shanghai, but in Hangzhou. He had extremely superb medical skills, but he usually lived in seclusion and rarely visited the clinic. Only people in the medical circle really knew about this old imperial doctor. sharp.
The German doctor visited this old imperial doctor many times after being introduced by a friend.
The old imperial doctor was quite resistant to this blond, blue-eyed foreigner at first. But as the contact increased, he gradually developed a good impression of this foreign doctor who was fluent in Chinese, knowledgeable, and humble. The relationship gradually became closer.
For the German doctor, he was already interested in traditional Chinese medicine. Through long-term contact with the old imperial doctor, he understood the magic and profoundness of traditional Chinese medicine.
During a conversation with the old imperial doctor, the German doctor told the old imperial doctor about the African chief. Because the chief had all kinds of weird things that couldn't be explained by Western medicine.
After listening to the German doctor's story, the old imperial doctor showed no surprise at all. He did not immediately explain what was going on. Instead, he just smiled and said to the German doctor: "Don't you Western medicine pay attention to experiments? I will use it today too." Test method. Tell you what happened to that African chief."
This sentence immediately aroused the curiosity of the German doctor.
The old imperial doctor came to the yard. He held a sundial in his hand and asked his family to catch a chicken. After tying it with a rope, he put it next to him. He then took out a knife and a packet of medicine from a bag. Come.
Could it be that the old imperial doctor wanted to kill the chicken? But what does killing the chicken have to do with explaining the questions raised by the German professor?
The more German doctors look at it, the more confused they become. But the more confused they become, the more curious they become.
The old doctor was concentrating on the sundial. The shadow cast by the sun was moving extremely slowly on it. The German doctor knew that the old doctor was waiting for a certain moment to arrive.
This went on for about twenty minutes. The old imperial doctor suddenly grabbed the chicken. Then he poured the packet of medicine into the chicken's mouth. Then he raised the knife and brushed the chicken's head all at once. Chop it into pieces and throw the headless chicken to the ground.
But then the most incredible thing happened:
The chicken whose head was chopped off was not dead. It flopped on the ground a few times, and then slowly stood up. After a minute or two, it was able to walk staggeringly.
The German doctor was completely stunned by the scene in front of him.
After a few minutes of adaptation, the headless chicken became more and more stable. After a while, it was able to walk more freely in the yard. Although compared with a normal chicken, it still stumbled a bit when walking.
The old imperial doctor then explained to the German doctor that the reason why the chicken will not die after it has lost its head is because of the special Yin Qi at work. There is Yin and Yang Qi in the heaven and earth and in all living things. As long as it is mixed properly, it can bring about death. Resurrection. Even after losing the most important organs of the body, you can still live for a period of time.
The old Chinese doctor also said that the chicken he chopped off its head was not an ordinary chicken. Instead, he specially used special medicine and fed it for a long time. Therefore, this chicken has extremely strong Yin energy compared with ordinary chickens. .If its head is chopped off, the strong yin energy in its body can be released even more.
The old imperial doctor went on to explain that not only chickens can do this, but also all things. The reason why the chief could still survive after most of his head was cut off was because the yin energy in his body was many times stronger than that of ordinary people. And The yin and yang qi of heaven and earth at the time when his head was cut off happened to match the yin qi in his body, so he would not die.
After half of the chief's head was cut off, the yin energy emanating from his body became stronger. That's why the sunworms with extremely strong yang energy did not dare to approach the chief.
In addition, those insects that have lost their heads can live for a long time. It is also the chief's Yin Qi that is at work.
After listening to what the old imperial doctor said, the German doctor finally solved the mystery for many years. He felt that all this was really amazing.
What makes the German doctors even more unexpected is that in 1945, the old imperial doctor's case of "a headless chicken can still live" was miraculously reproduced in the United States:
On September 10, 1945, on a farm in Colorado, USA, farmer Lloyd Olsen was about to kill a chicken. But after he chopped off the head of the chicken, the chicken turned out to be dead. died. And after being beheaded, this one could walk normally again soon.
Afterwards, Roddy fed the headless chicken directly from its esophagus, keeping the headless chicken alive for another eighteen months. This incident shocked the entire United States.
After Huizhong listened to the whole story of the German professor, he basically understood what was going on. But he still couldn't figure out where the headless chicken in the forest came from. Could anyone be like the old imperial doctor? Is it his ability to specifically use this headless chicken to kill the corpse insects that he relies on to make a fortune?
Chapter completed!