Chapter 248: Fire can be poisonous, meow?
Aquatic plants are non-toxic.
However, the fallen sika deer had droopy eyelids and weak muscles all over their bodies, which were obvious signs of food poisoning.
"Save my deer herd, two-legged beasts." The male sika deer looked at Li Mu with tears in his eyes.
It is the leader of this group of deer. Looking at its own group of deer lying on the ground and wailing, it feels helpless and places all its hopes on Li Mu.
"Don't worry, they're fine."
Li Mu touched the sika deer and comforted it, "I will treat them now."
There is plenty of time to find out what the problem is, but the poisoned sika deer can't wait any longer.
Li Mu exchanged antidotes for detoxification in the system mall. He didn't dare to use the water in the puddles until he found the source of the poisoning of the deer.
He took out two bottles of mineral water from his bag, put the medicine in, and after it dissolved, he fed it to each sika deer.
"Okay, they will recover slowly after drinking the medicine." After feeding them two bottles of water, Li Mu put away the bottles.
"Thank you!" The male sika deer showed a look of gratitude in his eyes.
"You are welcome."
Li Mu waved his hand and looked at the sika deer leader, "Have you eaten the grass here?"
It was the only sika deer in the herd that was not poisoned.
"have eaten."
"Oh, I see." Li Mu nodded.
The deer leader also ate grass, but it was fine, which means it’s not the grass’s problem.
"I'll go look somewhere else. You stay here and watch over the deer. They'll be able to stand up soon." Li Mu told the deer leader, "Don't eat or drink anything before I come back."
"Yeah." The deer leader nodded repeatedly.
Li Mu looked at the puddle in front of him and decided to go around it to see if there were any poisonous herbs growing nearby.
The puddle is neither big nor small, in fact, it can be called a pond.
The water source here is not replenished by external fresh water. When it rains in the mountains, the rainwater flowing in is stored here, forming such a puddle.
Walking and looking along the way, Li Mu soon arrived at the opposite side of the grassland where the deer were.
Nothing unusual was found.
The sunlight shines on the water, reflecting a bright golden color, sparkling, and the blue sky and white clouds are all reflected in the water.
There are also several plants with dense yellow flowers growing on the shore.
This is a vine plant that cannot grow upright and can only grow close to the ground or with the help of other upright plants.
The rhizome is slender and cylindrical, growing from the edge of the puddle and spreading into the water.
The leaves grow opposite each other, are dark green in color, and are paired with small yellow flowers, which is very beautiful.
Li Mu took a look and continued walking.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
wrong!
Li Mu turned around and walked back to the side of the vines that were blooming, squatting down to examine them carefully.
The leaves are round and have no thorns, and the flowers are dense and small.
They are not wild flowers at all, they are clearly a few Gelsemium elegans plants.
Li Mu looked at the vines growing into the water and instantly understood why the deer were poisoned.
It's not the grass that's the problem, it's the water.
Gelsemium is an evergreen woody vine of the Gelsemium family and the genus Gelsemium. This plant contains elsemiumin, an alkaloid that is highly toxic.
In Longguo, people usually call this plant "Gelsemium elegans", and Gelsemium elegans is the most representative species of Gelsemium elegans.
Li Mu counted carefully and found that there were five heartbreak grasses in this area, three of which had grown into the water.
Fortunately, this puddle stored enough water, and the roots of the heartbreak grass growing in the water were not damaged, so not much toxins accumulated in the water.
Li Mu carefully scooped up the heartbreak grass from the water, took out a folding military shovel from his backpack, dug up all five heartbreak grasses, then took out a few plastic bags, packed up the dug heartbreak grasses, and prepared to take them back to the yard to burn them.
After dealing with the heartbreak grass, Li Mu continued walking along the puddle.
We walked all the way back to where the deer were and didn't find any other heartbreak grass or other poisonous plants.
The antidote took effect, and all the fallen sika deer stood up. When they saw Li Mu coming back, they all surrounded him, rubbed their heads against him, and made deer calls to express their gratitude.
Li Mu smiled and touched them one by one. "Thank you, two-legged beast." The deer leader walked to Li Mu and suddenly knelt down on his two front legs.
The other sika deer also followed the leader's example and knelt on the ground.
"No, get up."
Li Mu quickly bent down and helped the deer leader up. "Everyone, stand up. I am the ranger of this forest. It is my responsibility to rescue you. There is no need to do this."
After the deer leader stood up, he kept rubbing his hand with his nose, being very affectionate.
Li Mu touched it and said, "We have found the cause of the poisoning of your deer. It is because of the Gelsemium elegans in the water. Have you not drunk the water here yet?"
"Yes." The deer leader nodded, and at the same time looked puzzled, "What is the heartbreak grass?"
"That's it." Li Mu showed the heartbreak grass in the bag to the deer, "I've dug it out. Remember, this grass is poisonous. Don't eat it if you come across it."
"Got it." The deer tried hard to remember what the grass looked like. This poisoning experience taught them a lesson.
After chatting with the deer for a while, Li Mu exchanged some antidotes again, sprinkled them into the puddle, and tested it. After finding that the water no longer contained the toxins of the heartbreak grass, he waved goodbye to the deer.
The deer watched him go away.
"Nimu, you're back."
The cat squatted on the grass obediently, staring at Li Mu. As he approached, the cat's head raised up little by little. Until Li Mu walked in front of her, the kitten's head was already raised high.
Li Mu looked down at the kitten and opened his mouth to say, "Isn't it uncomfortable for you to hold your head up so high?" But then he thought, if he said that, she would definitely answer, "All cats are like that." So the words came to his lips and turned into another sentence: "Has Miss Yogurt been sitting here waiting for me all this time?"
"That's right! Master Yogurt hasn't gone anywhere!"
"I just told Master Yogurt to wait here and not to follow me, for fear that the deer might get a contagious disease and infect you. I didn't tell you to sit here and not move."
"But you didn't say Master Yogurt can move around as he pleases!"
"Do you want to say this, too?"
"need!"
"Well, I was negligent."
"You neglected it~"
"Let's go."
"Then Master Yogurt can move now, meow?"
"You can move now."
"Ok."
The cat then stood up from the ground, bent over, raised its butt, and stretched so hard that its paw pads were exposed.
Li Mu smiled and shook his head, then walked forward. The kitten stretched and trotted after him.
"Nimu, is Lu'er's illness cured, meow?"
"It's cured."
"What is it?"
"It's not an infectious disease, it's the water they drink that's problematic."
"Well!"
The cat stared at the plastic bag in his hand again, "Why did you put a bag of grass in it?"
"We dug it near the water. It's the grass that poisoned the deer."
“Poisonous weeds!”
"Yes."
"Throw it away!"
"Don't just throw it away. Burn it when you get back."
"Then fire will be poisonous, meow?"
"Will not."
"Well"
The cat chirped and kept asking questions full of childish innocence, which was very interesting.
(End of this chapter)
