Chapter 289 Feathered Serpent God's Egg
The difference between humans and animals is whether they can make and use tools.
Therefore, the importance of tools is self-evident, and even affect the development and direction of a civilization.
Just like the invention of the magic wand, it made learning and mastering magic more convenient, and it also promoted the prosperity of European magic, allowing various genius-like spells to emerge in endlessly.
For the aborigines of North America, due to the natural geographical barrier, they have not been able to enjoy the bonus of the magic wand for a long time.
But correspondingly, they also found another way, learning to use the hides and blood of magical animals to cast spells.
Animal hides and blood, wood and cores similar to wands, also have powerful magical powers.
Based on this spell-casting system, the natives of the Americas created the skin shaper, a high-end transformation technique similar to Animagus.
Of course, compared to Animagus, Skinwalkers need to kill, in exchange for death for the power of transformation.
The shape of the deformed creature should be about the same size as that of a wizard. This restriction will naturally exclude those animals that are too small or too big.
But Animagus can only turn into a fixed animal, but a skinwalker can turn into a variety of animals.
Therefore, both types of magic have their own advantages and disadvantages.
However, this kind of academic problem is not the top priority for Rove to consider. He needs to save people.
The young man checked the conditions of the Indians again, and after repeated inspections, he discussed with Margaret and confirmed that they had been poisoned by snapdragon poison.
Antirrhinum grass is also called skull grass.
The two names are very different, due to the flowers blooming and the flowers fading...the appearance fluctuates greatly.
When in bloom, the flowers of snapdragon grass are particularly beautiful, and the flower shape is elegant, just like goldfish swimming in the water.
When the flowers fall, snapdragons will form seed pods in the shape of scary skulls with two eyes and one mouth... It's frightening to watch.
And this kind of skull-shaped seed pod contains chronic poison. After taking a large amount, the blood will gradually coagulate into clots.
"Their blood is poisonous, and they need to use leech therapy to suck out the poison." Rove looked at Dana and warned:
"You guys are going to catch some black leeches, the more the better."
"Okay...Okay, I see!" Dana nodded hastily.
She ran to communicate with her clansmen again, but those clansmen obviously didn't trust Rove, and they had a quarrel.
Rove didn't say anything, just waited quietly. He was just a doctor and couldn't make decisions for others.
Believe it or not is the other party's business, and has nothing to do with him.
The quarrel continued until two more tribesmen died, and the Indians reached a consensus and went out to find leeches.
Taking advantage of the waiting time, Rove asked Dana to take him to her medicine storage room.
Like Hagrid's log cabin, the herbs here are also weighed by the catty, and the bitter rice flower, a magical plant unique to Arizona, piled up half the room.
In one cabinet, there were also hundreds of corked vials and countless jars of dried herbs, each with the name of the medicine written on it.
These are the secret medicines passed down from the tribe's ancestors.
When Rove was about to leave, he asked Dana for some, and she probably wouldn't refuse.
Of course, the premise is to save her people. If he fails, he should think about how to take Margaery away.
Soon, those tribesmen found black leeches, they were as big as a peppercorn, they were all black, and they looked disgusting.
Luo Fu treated Dana's younger brother Alu first. He cut open the boy's chest with a dagger, and black pus and blood flowed slowly.
He picked up the leech and fell on Alu's pale chest. The black leech crawled into the wound along the blood.
"Prepare another big bucket for me." Rove continued to order: "It must be filled with boiling hot water."
It's not that he wants to take a bath, but to bathe the black leech... The black leech is a double-edged sword, it can absorb toxins, but if it can't be removed in time, it will also dry up the boy.
It just so happens that black leeches are afraid of high temperatures, and after transpiring in hot water for a while, they will come out of the human body.
A fire was quickly lit at the door, and after the bath water was steamed, it was poured into the big mahogany bath, and Rove helped the boy into the tub.
After soaking for less than three minutes, the long leeches came out of the body.
Rove carefully picked off the leeches, and the worms wriggled slowly between his fingers. They were no longer black, but turned bright pink after sucking blood.
This stuff doesn't need to be squeezed to death, it can be kept as a snack for the little basilisk, and it bursts with a mouthful, sour and refreshing.
Rove, as a mother, can be considered dedicated.
After transferring Aru to the bed, Rove gave him painkillers again. Halfway through the medication, the boy suddenly woke up and coughed violently.
The room instantly resounded with cheers, cheers, whistles, horrified gasps, excited whispers, and... Dana's crying.
Luo Funian wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. If the treatment failed, he would immediately take Margaret away, but luckily it succeeded.
This is the case with being a doctor. Some doctors ask for money, and some doctors are terrible!
Rove rescued another person, and he demonstrated the whole process to Dana in detail.
"Okay, you can treat them according to this method." After Rove finished explaining, he turned and walked out of the room.
Margaret didn't know where she went, so the boy hurriedly searched for her in the village, and finally found her in the northwest corner.
The girl is standing by a well, bending over to look down.
"You don't want to commit suicide by jumping into a well, do you?" Rove walked up to Margaery and said with a smile, "If you want to jump down, I won't save you."
Margaery winked, giggled and said:
"Don't worry, if my sister commits suicide, she will definitely drag you along, just treat us as a martyr for love, what a beautiful way to die.
It's much better than me dying in bed and you being eaten by magical creatures... are these two ways to die? "
"Okay, you big-headed ghost!" Rove rolled his eyes and said.
Margery stretched out her arms and hugged Rove, who was exuding cold air, like hugging a big block of ice. She rubbed against it and said comfortably:
"It's so hot, I still hold you to cool off... What do you think of those poisoned Indians?"
"Someone should have poisoned it." Rove lowered his voice and said:
"Snapdragon is a Mediterranean magical plant, which is rare in North America, and the possibility of them being eaten collectively is too small."
"I just asked Dana, and she said that this is the main source of drinking water for their tribe." Margaery stepped on the edge of the well.
"Do you think someone poisoned you here?" Rove frowned and said, "What's the purpose?"
"It should be for that pyramid." Margaret whispered.
"Those reliefs?" Rove wondered, "There are indeed gold and precious stones on them, and they look quite valuable."
"No...I'm talking about the things in the altar at the top of the pyramid." Margaret shook her head.
"What could be there?"
"I've seen Dana's memory." Margaret leaned close to Rove's ear and whispered:
"At the top of the pyramid is enshrined a...feathered serpent egg."
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