Chapter 922: Army Ant Stitching
There are many preparations before treating a wound.
Under the gaze of everyone, Bifang first took out the large pottery jar he had made earlier, and then , without anyone knowing why, he walked around the grove, squatting down from time to time and digging a pile of soil into it.
What is this for?
[Emm, collecting materials? ]
Why do we need soil to heal wounds?
[You don't understand, right? The most important thing in healing is anti-inflammatory and sterilization. After the treatment, wrap the patient with slightly moist soil and then throw him into the flames to roast. It only takes a moment to successfully avoid subsequent inflammatory infections.]
[Your thing is called a flower chicken|right]
After digging a piece here and a piece there, the pottery jar was soon half filled with mud.
When it was almost done, Bifang returned to Cecil, dug a pit two meters away from it, piled firewood, and started a fire.
After everything was ready, Bi Fang came to Cecil and lifted up his sleeves.
The highlight is coming.
The audience in front of the screen were excited. Although they didn't understand why Bifang was collecting mud, he must have his reasons. So they just watched it.
Old Barry, who was rushing to the protection center as fast as possible, was also worried.
To many onlookers, Cecil might be a handsome and powerful lion king, but after all, perhaps before today, they had never even heard of it, and even if it unfortunately passed away, they would at most feel a little regretful.
But Barry is different, he has known Cecil for more than ten years.
As Cecil grew up, survived his childhood, and gradually revealed his talents, Barry always paid attention to him and had high hopes for him.
It is extremely difficult for a lion cub to grow up, and it is even more difficult for it to have a good end.
Barry witnessed too many lion kings being hunted and countless cubs being taken away or killed by newcomers to the lion group.
Ghostly Lion.
The largest wild lion in history weighs 282 kg when full and 253 kg when empty. This is before reaches its peak and is still in the growth stage. It is expected to become the first wild African male lion in recorded history to weigh over 300 kg.
But poachers love to kill famous lions.
The ghost lion was hunted in 2013.
After the ghost lion died, it weighed 282 kilograms on an empty stomach, which is equivalent to a human being 2.3 meters tall. It is truly a rare lion.
But the hunter shot the ghost lion away with one shot, leaving no offspring.
The Old Sobery Lion Alliance, two of which were hunted in 2000 and 2006.
Both Fabio and Tyson were hunted.
All members of the old Birmingham Lions League were hunted down.
One of the Jacaranda Alliance was hunted.
The three lions of Old Ross were hunted.
Madala, a Western lion, was killed at 22.
The three Skorro brothers were born in late 2014 and were about to reach the peak. The members were Bicolor Pupils, Sharp Eyes, and Light Skin. In mid-to-late 2022, the three brothers took down the Western Lion Group, but the Bicolor Pupil member disappeared mysteriously at this time.
Old Barry knows all the lion kings on the grassland by heart. Even at his old age, he can clearly recall the time and place where each lion king was hunted.
So many lion kings are hunted, but it is possible to stop poachers and successfully rescue the lion kings.
Not even one.
That's right, not even one.
It's as if there is no murder case that the police can successfully stop before the victim is killed.
Cecil was the first of his kind.
Barry felt that this might be his only chance in his life, and he really hoped that Cecil could be saved.
Bifang opened the kettle and washed his hands.
Cecil's hair was stuck together by the dried blood and formed into clumps. This part had to be trimmed off to clean the area around the wound.
Bifang wiped the dagger clean and placed it over the flame to sterilize it. After letting it cool, he cut along Cecil's wound.
The scene was too bloody, so the camera was not aimed directly at the wound, but chose a relatively backward angle, only able to capture Bifang's upper body and his elbow, and then a part of the lion king Cecil, who was lying on the ground and sleeping.
"You can't just pull out the arrows and knives with blood grooves. It's easy to cause secondary damage. If you want to take it out, you have to spend some effort."
After fixing the wound, Bifang clamped the arrow and shook it gently, taking it out little by little from the gap between the flesh and blood.
The whole scene was like an unknown unlicensed doctor performing a bloody surgery on an unsuspecting patient for unknown purposes.
It was still too hasty.
Even though Bifang anticipated the need for medical treatment and prepared a lot of things in advance, the situation was urgent and the conditions were poor. At the moment, it was only emergency treatment that could barely stop the bleeding and the further deterioration of the wound.
In order to truly escape danger, people from the protection center need to arrive as soon as possible and take Cecil back for further treatment.
Taking out an arrow, Bifang turned around and took out two lichen-like ball-like plants, crushed them and applied them on the wound.
"Resurrection grass, also known as Selaginella, is a plant endemic to Africa."
"Many cosmetic companies use it to promote their cosmetics, but it has higher medicinal value, promoting skin regeneration, treating burns and wound healing!"
"Africans use resurrection grass to make tea to fight colds, and apply it to the body as an ointment to fight inflammation. Applying resurrection grass leaves to wounds can speed up repair and even prevent scars. The effect is powerful and has lasted for thousands of years."
“There are many medicinal plants in nature, and I picked out a few of the most powerful ones on the way.”
After applying the resurrection grass, Bifang cleaned up the blood stains again, then took out the pottery jar that was first filled, opened the lid, and tapped it gently with his finger bones.
No one had seen the scene before them, and no one knew what Bifang was going to do.
Soon everyone discovered that extremely large ants were crawling out of the jar. Each one was about the size of a fingernail, and some were even more than two centimeters long. Without magnification, one could clearly see the ants' hideous mouthparts, making people doubt whether they were still ants.
Fortunately, there are still people who recognize the value of this product.
[Africa, so big, these are army ants]
[So what Lao Fang just dug up was not soil, but ants? ]
【What is the use of this ant? 】
[Formic acid can sterilize and disinfect, so we use ants to sterilize and disinfect]
What Bifang said and did next left millions of viewers in front of the screen dumbfounded.
"It's not about sterilization, it's about using army ants to suture wounds."
Bifang grabbed a huge army ant with his bare hands, closed the wound on Cecil's abdomen with his other hand, and then pressed the ant on the wound.
As the camera zoomed in, everyone could clearly see that the army ants' ferocious mouthparts fiercely bit the lion king's wound. At the same time, Bifang was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and quickly pinched the army ant's neck, leaving only the big head with the mouthparts.
The army ants were stimulated to crawl out one after another by knocking on the mouth of the jar. Bifang's movements were smooth and fluid. He pressed one after another on Cecil's wound and pinched the body skillfully. It made people doubt whether this was the first time he had done such a thing.
Soon, a slightly curved "suture line" of the wound appeared, like a crawling centipede.
