Chapter 77 (1/2)
Chapter 077 – Returning to Huadu
Chapter 077: Returning to Huadu
He took out the GPS location tracker to check on his lat.i.tude and longitude. The distance from here to Norris city was more than 1200 km but the maximum range of the Jungle Hunters a.s.sociation’s helicopter was just only until 700 miles, which was more than 1100 km. This meant that Zhou Jian must walk for 100 km to arrive at the destination to catch the flight.
100 km. If it was on the highway, then it would just be an hour of driving time. But in this d.a.m.ned place, it was a h.e.l.l of a journey.
Looking at his body that was still bleeding out from the wounds, Zhou Jian wanted to cry but there were no tears left…
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Hong Kong Island Infectious Disease Hospital – ICU ward.
“What? Xiao Lin was poisoned? What happened?” Wen Ren Bo Da was talking to the phone. He learned from his younger brother that the special forces commando, Lin Dong that he arranged to go to Brazil was poison by a poison dart frog variant with a cut to the wrist in the middle of the jungle. His heart was spooked all of a sudden.
Before the catastrophe, the poison dart frog was already one of the world most poisonous species. A poison dart frog was only the size of a human finger, but its body venom was enough to kill tens of thousands of rats.
Although the poison dart frog was very small, with its poisonous nature, it did not have any natural enemies aside from humans.
A lethal dose of the poison dart frog venom was only 0.0003 gram. What does this mean? If you diluted a drop of venom and put the dilution onto a person’s toothbrush, and when that person cleaned his teeth with the toothbrush, the small amount of venom from the toothbrush could permeate into the gum and kill him. And before the catastrophe, there was no antidote for the poison dart frog venom.
The South American Indians hunted wild animals by smearing the poison dart frogs’ venom onto their arrows. And while they were preparing these arrows, they needed to wrap them up with leaves. Otherwise, even if there was no wound on the body, the slight venom permeation into the skin was enough to cause skin allergies. If there was a wound, then there’s nothing much to think about it, three minutes top and you would be dead.
Thankfully, the poison dart frog variant had a similar size and toxicity as the ordinary poison dart frog. But there was a slight difference, the ordinary poison dart frog used its venom as a defense against the enemy. But the poison dart frog variant had a multi-barbed tongue which it would use to take the initiative to attack the enemy.
They would be perch on the leaves or a thick patch of gra.s.s. Just a dot the size of a hand knuckle. If whoever did not carefully see where they were b.u.mping into and accidentally touched them, then congratulations, you had just won the lottery. They would regard you as their natural enemies and used their barbed tongues onto your skin. Because the tongue was so small, you might not even felt the pain and then death approached just like that.
Wen Ren Bo Da knew of the terror of the poison dart frog. Once Lin Dong had an accident, then it’s big trouble.
“It’s all right. Xiao Lin’s sense was very keen. Once he knew he was bitten, he applied the antidote serum that he brought along. But he could not move his arm within these few weeks.” On the other side was Wen Ren Zheng. He was Wen Ren Bo Da’s second younger brother and a Colonel rank in the Lingnan military division. To compare him to an equivalent administrative rank, the Colonel rank would probably be equivalent with a department leader. He’s comparable with some mayors. Wen Ren Bo Da was the provincial public security bureau deputy director but also served as the Huadu City Public Security Bureau.
Wen Ren Bo Da breathed a sigh of relief. Before the 21st century, there was no solution to the poison dart frog venom but the antivenom was finally developed and a prompt injection could save a life. “Alright. Let Lin Dong come back. Regarding your sister in law disease, I know…”
“Elder brother…”