Compared with the Western Chili, the previous Swallowtail Butterfly larvae were like Gu Tianle to Huang Bo, and Little Li to Nicholas Cage, the King of Bad Movies. It made people wonder how there could be such an ugly and disgusting thing in the world. Not to mention letting it fall on one's body, just looking at it would make one feel like their eyes were about to miscarry.
In general, this thing was more suitable to grow in the depths of the bottomless ocean. Anyway, no one could see each other, so they could grow as they pleased.
The Western Chili was covered with defensive bristles. The top was thick and hard, and the bottom was thin and dense. The most concise description was that it was a moving cactus.
The fat boy should be thankful that when the Western Chili fell on him, it was probably the fine and dense bristles that pricked him. If it were thick and hard, he would probably have fallen to the ground in pain.
After the most painful stage passed, it began to itch again, making people unable to help but scratch and pinch. Once the skin was scratched, it might become infected and finally scar. Fortunately, the fat boy's arms were short and could not reach the red and swollen area. Otherwise, he would have to put an Elizabethan collar on his neck …
Everyone saw the ugly appearance of the Western Chili and felt disgusted. At the same time, they had doubts in their hearts. This insect should be poisonous. Would it really be effective to apply its body fluid to the red and swollen area? Wouldn't it aggravate the symptoms? It sounded like an unreliable folk remedy.
As the saying went, there must be an antidote within five steps of a poisonous creature. This was wrong most of the time, but it could not be said to be wrong. In some cases, it still made sense.
In old novels and folklore, it was often recorded that after a fierce man was bitten by a poisonous snake, he immediately grabbed the poisonous snake that bit him, cut it open, took out the snake's gallbladder, and swallowed it whole without chewing. It was said that it could detoxify the poison. This was obviously a false rumor. After a poisonous snake bit a person, the venom entered the blood circulation system, and swallowed the snake's gallbladder entered the digestive system. When the snake's gallbladder was digested, the person would be cold. If the person was not cold, it could only mean that the snake was not poisonous enough.
Western Chili's situation sounded similar to the above example, but it was completely different. Because the part that was stung was the skin, and the part that was smeared with body fluid was the affected part. In theory, there was no essential contradiction.
As for the principle, there was very little research in this area. After all, being stung by a Western Chilli would not kill you. Even the mechanism of the toxins of many highly poisonous marine creatures had not been studied. How could it be the Western Chilli? They could only guess that some components in the body fluid could neutralize or decompose toxins to prevent the Western Chilli from poisoning itself to death.
Zhang Zian vigilantly looked up at the dense canopy above their heads and reminded them, "This is not a good place to talk. Let's leave here first. It would be disgusting if other Western chilies fell on us."
Everyone readily followed his advice. Without needing him to say it a second time, they all retreated one after another, afraid that they would also suffer.
They quickly left the green space and returned to the entrance of the pet shop.
Zhang Zian asked Lu Yi Yun to prepare soap water, alkaline water, and other alkaline things in case the larvae's body fluid did not work. He then found the thick rubber gloves that parents used to bathe cats. Only then did he dare to touch the Western Chilli through the gloves.
He used a small knife to cut the Western Chilli's body, and the green body fluid slowly flowed out. He used a small box to catch it, and squeezed it again, squeezing out a box of body fluid.
If a human lost all their blood, they would have died a long time ago. However, the tenacious vitality of the Western Chilli had not died yet, and it was still squirming and struggling. If it was put back on the tree, it might even come back to life.
Zhang Zian threw the half-dead Western Chilli aside, dipped a cotton swab in the green body fluid, and then pretended to smear it on the little fat boy.
In fact, he was not particularly sure. After all, he had not personally experienced this kind of thing. It was just that when he was in college in another city, he had heard about it from his classmates.
He grew up in Binhai City, and when he was a child, he often played around. In his impression, he had never encountered an insect like the Western Chilli, nor had he heard that his other friends had encountered it.
There were old and young people among the onlookers. The neighbors had lived nearby for half their lives, and they had never heard of this kind of insect. Otherwise, they would definitely have had experience. Without waiting for him to do anything, someone would have already taken care of it.
Was this … the so-called invasion of foreign species?
With the increasing convenience of transportation, some animals and plants that originally lived in specific areas would be brought to completely unfamiliar new areas. These new areas might also happen to be suitable for their survival habits, so they would thrive in the new areas. What was more troublesome was that they might have natural enemies in their original areas to limit their numbers. Nature used this to achieve a balance between species, but there might not be any natural enemies in the new areas. This caused their numbers to increase explosively without any restrictions.
People who bought snakes, fish, and turtles and released them, as well as some minority pet players who kept pets and released them when they didn't want to keep them, often inadvertently exacerbated the trend of the disorderly migration of the species.
Zhang Zian had this worry, but it was obviously too early to make such a judgment based on only one Western Chilli. The number of samples was too small, and it was not in line with the spirit of science. Thus, he did not say anything, lest he be taken as an alarmist.
The fat boy was not afraid in front of adults, but when he applied the liquid squeezed out from the body of this disgusting insect, he was so scared that he almost peed his pants. His face was pale, and his legs could not stop shaking. He begged, "That … Take me to the hospital …"
"If you go to the hospital, you will be in pain for at least three days. Maybe your butt will also hurt."
Zhang Zian held him down with one hand because he was twisting his body to resist the body fluid of the Western Chilli.
"Why … Why does my butt hurt?" The fat boy was puzzled. "Did it move?"
"I was beaten by your father. Do you think going to the hospital is free?" Zhang Zian asked.
The fat boy was suddenly speechless, because it was very likely. Even if his father did not beat him, at least all the red packet money at the end of this year would be confiscated.
"Then … Then come on!" He gritted his teeth and tightened the fat on his body. "Gently … Gently … Yes, let the beautiful sister apply it on me. I don't need you to apply it!"
He stared at Snowy anxiously, trying to signal her with his eyes.
Zhang Zian said, "Don't talk nonsense! What's wrong with you? Don't you know that the more beautiful the nurse in the hospital, the more ruthless she is? Just stay here! "
The onlookers burst into laughter, and Snowy also covered her mouth and laughed.
The fat boy was helpless. He turned his head and closed his eyes, waiting with a guilty conscience.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he used a cotton swab that had absorbed the Western Chilli's body fluid to draw circles and apply it to the red and swollen area of the fat boy. Where the cotton swab touched, the fat boy's muscles tightened due to nervousness.
The Western Chilli's body fluid had an immediate effect. The fat boy felt that the burning pain on his back had almost completely disappeared.
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