Chapter 258 - Poisoned (2/2)
“You will surely get well!” The teary Bai Qingqing said in a choked voice as she shook her head.
Her vision—blurred by her tears—fell upon Shuu’s purplish skin; it seemed as though the blood wasn’t circulating well in his body.
White flowers could neutralize the poison?
The image of that huge tree in the ape castle flashed in Bai Qingqing’s mind, causing her to abruptly raise her head. “The upas tree!”
“It’s that tree, right?” Bai Qingqing asked with great urgency.
No wonder she had found that tree familiar-looking—in the park near where she used to live there was a 20-year-old upas tree. Although the upas tree—also known as the “silencing tree”—was endangered, it was highly poisonous.
Once the sap of the upas tree was dabbed on a wound, it would cause a person’s heart to go numb and his blood to coagulate, or even cause him to die from suffocation.
It was also said on the info plaque that only the red bamboo grass that grew near the upas tree could neutralize the poison. There were pretty white flowers growing on the red bamboo grass.
Shuu let out a sigh and said with a smile, “Remember not to touch it in the future… Although… females won’t be able to damage the tree bark… I’m still worried.”
“Got it.” Bai Qingqing wiped away her tears haphazardly and carefully massaged Shuu’s body in an attempt to help his blood circulate, despite not knowing if this was of any use.
Bai Qingqing roughly recalled that the upas tree’s poison took around 20 minutes to two hours to kick in. For the poison to have kicked in so quickly in Shuu’s case, it was no doubt due to his vigorous exercise.
If Shuu had asked for help early on, he wouldn’t have ended up in this state.
Muir came back with some grass in his mouth and also some stone tools to grind the medicine.
Bai Qingqing snatched the red bamboo grass and stone tools from Muir and quickly crushed the medicine, before applying it on the wound on Shuu’s shoulder.
“It’s Rosa… she wants to kill you,” Shuu said as he gazed at Bai Qingqing’s face.