Chapter 304: High Temperature Defense Methods
[Dizziness, headache, excessive sweating are precursors to heatstroke symptoms. Hurry to a shady place; light salt water or electrolyte water can alleviate it. At this stage, health value won’t drop yet.
Then mild heatstroke follows: flushed face, accelerated heartbeat, health value starts dropping, and a reminder appears on the system page. If you have an ice pack, quickly use physical cooling and hydration.
Once it turns severe, you’ll start losing health. It’s best to use Summer Cooling Powder; life is more important.]
Previously in the rainforest, though it was muggy and hot, it wasn’t sunny, with high humidity. It only made the skin uncomfortable and prone to allergies or poisoning. Even with heatstroke, health value dropped slowly, not to mention the abundant medicinal herbs resources there.
Now roadside has no medicinal herbs for gathering, and the air is filled with a foul smell; it’s dry and hot.
Once heatstroke symptoms hit, if not careful, it won’t take long to turn severe.
Salt has always been an important supply in doomsday. Fortunately, there’s a large stock; most players have some on hand.
Great Luck Great Profit: [Bro, is this honeysuckle? ‘Picture’ Not a gathering or farming player, nor an alchemist or explorer. Hunter, no illustrated guide, can’t see medicinal herbs info.]
Qing Ya: [Holy crap! Top-grade fairy grass.]
Lightning Mage King: [??? I don’t know what plant this is, but it’s definitely not honeysuckle. I’ve gathered honeysuckle and sold it to big shots.]
This flower is indeed yellow and dried. He isn’t studying traditional Chinese medicine anyway, and has no medicinal material illustrated guide, so it’s hard to say what it is.
Great Luck Great Profit is very excited: [Then is it some top-grade fairy grass? The kind that gives achievement when eaten, or boosts strength massively for a counterattack as the Chosen One? Has this kind of good luck come to me too?]
Shishi Ruyi: [Real or fake? If it’s real with achievement and stat improvement, can it be sold? How many crystal coins?]
Great Luck Great Profit looks at the big bag of dried flowers in his hand; he’s going to get rich! [I heard some roadside plants have hidden achievements. I felt this flower resembled honeysuckle at the time, so I gathered a lot and dried it for storage.]
Yu Jiang glances at the picture in his hand; if he believes this joker, he’s set for life.
What honeysuckle? That’s gelsemium flower, highly toxic. Eating it causes foaming at the mouth, convulsions, slurred speech, irregular heartbeat, and cold limbs.
Severe cases would be about done for here too.
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain: [Gelsemium, can be used medicinally or eaten, but only once in a lifetime. Need high poison resistance, then it’s fine. Large amounts can be traded to me for Summer Cooling Powder.]
Gelsemium for medicinal use can attack poison to draw it out, dispel stasis and stop pain, kill insects and stop itching; external use treats trauma injury.
But mutated plants gathered from the road have stronger toxicity. Without refining to neutralize the toxicity, it’s very dangerous.
Great Luck Great Profit reads what Yu Jiang says and freezes, unsure for a moment: [It’s really gelsemium?]
Stepping back ten thousand steps, even if it’s gelsemium, no achievement or anything? This stuff is pretty hard to find. If it’s really good, selling it like this…
Lu Zhishen Buries Flowers: [I sell liniment for bruises and sprains. It really is gelsemium. Just ask, it’s used for external pain-relief ointment. The top alchemist, would she deceive you? Brew it as honeysuckle tea and you’ll get poisoned, then you’ll know.]
Yu Jiang says again: [I’ve given the reminder; believe it or not, up to you. You don’t have to sell the things.]
She has potted gelsemium and honeysuckle. Highly toxic medicinal herbs are hard to contain, so she suggested trading for Summer Cooling Powder.
Shishi Ruyi: [Goodbye. Good thing big shot reminded; otherwise I’d have bought it.]
Ice Cream Assassin: [Last time I think I mistook this thing for honeysuckle and refined it, then poisoned myself silly. My poison resistance is pretty good though.]
Lone Wolf 2009: [Really some top-grade spirit grass? Guess if there’s a tracking card on your head. Didn’t buy much health supplements before?]
Great Luck Great Profit: [Sky’s falling. Sure enough, that kind of good fortune wouldn’t come to me.]
Great Luck Great Profit private chats Yu Jiang: “Big shot, how about trading for 5 portions Summer Cooling Powder, 2 portions Advanced Healing Potion? Sicily just private chatted me wanting it too.”
Yu Jiang replies: “Three portions Summer Cooling Powder.”
Not everyone trades straightforwardly; haggling over price is normal, but her offer was already good, so she won’t negotiate further.
Unable to sway her, Great Luck Great Profit haggles with Sicily for half a day, wearing out his lips, but Sicily only offers the same price.
It’s only because he heard Yu Jiang wants it that Sicily is willing to add a bit.
Yu Jiang sees the private chat with the new quote, doesn’t raise the price, doesn’t add friend.
In the end, just adds two compressed biscuits to complete transaction.
Great Luck Great Profit also asked the merchant caravan and knows Yu Jiang’s price is indeed good.
One portion Summer Cooling Powder can be traded for 2 portions bruise and injury ointment. Trading with the top alchemist is reliable. Sicily offers the same price but requires goods first, then he’ll refine the Summer Cooling Powder.
He’s lost money several times selling things, so better to settle directly on both sides. Regular players rely on these supplies for survival and must be cautious.
Yu Jiang confirms the just-received medicinal herbs are fine and clicks to confirm transaction.
At 4:30 PM, the team sets off again.
Ahead, besides muddy yellow and black-gray, no other colors visible; they finally pick up a box.
Opening the box requires going to the stinking roadside; one slip-up and trouble happens.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy still wears her ‘Your Strength Has Come’ short sleeve T-shirt, with a scavenged sun hat, scarf wrapped tightly. She suddenly yells, “Holy crap!”
Suddenly several black spike-like things pop up under her feet. It happens too fast, not even time to blink, and the edge of her shoe sole is pierced.
She tries to retreat, but in this situation, she can’t pull back right away. The spikes reach her calf, stabbing toward her flesh with lightning speed.
Yu Jiang and Shi Xu react first. One swings the long saber to chop the spikes, the other goes forward to help Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy escape.
They coordinate well, pulling Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy back out at the fastest speed.
It’s only then the light screen scans the spikes info.
[Spikes brought by meteorite, no eyes or ear holes, huge body, can pierce people into a sieve, sucks flesh and blood. Generally won’t come out before sunset, but stepping on me means you’re unlucky~]
The spikes on its body are very hard, actually withstanding two slashes from Shi Xu’s saber without a scratch. Finally Shi Xu spots its body position, stabs the long saber into the ground, and the spikes retract.
“You okay?” Yu Jiang looks at the blood seeping from Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy’s right leg.
“I’m fine, fine.” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy shakes her head. “This little injury is no big deal.”
They have plenty of drugs, no other issues, but her foot bone is pierced, injuring tendons and bones. Even with medicine, it needs several hours recovery time.
“Damn it, ruined my shoes.” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy looks heartbroken at the hole in her shoes.
Seeing her okay, Yu Jiang relaxes and picks up the dropped spikes from the ground.
This thing looks pretty good, hurts a lot when it pierces; better collect it first.
