Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 93 - 90: Treating the Parasites, Ophidiophobia Warning
Those who had suddenly fallen ill were gathered in a wooden hut, and An Jin hurried over.
The hut was filled with painful groans. The sick females were clutching their stomachs, writhing on the ground.
"Have you eaten any rotten food recently, or any unfamiliar fruits or wild grasses?" An Jin crouched down to examine their symptoms, her first thought being food poisoning.
A female with slightly milder symptoms struggled to her feet, her face pale. She sighed and said, "We would never dare to eat random things. All our food is from the supplies the tribe’s Beastmen gather!"
’With so much poisonous food in the Beast World, they wouldn’t dare risk their lives by eating carelessly.’
"What about the water?" An Jin asked.
"It’s all river water that everyone stored in advance. It’s been raining so hard these past few days, none of us have dared to go out."
’This is strange. The tribe’s food and water are distributed centrally. I eat and drink the same things they do, so why am I fine?’
Furthermore, the males were also fine. Only some of the weaker females and cubs had fallen ill.
Before long, the brawny Beastman named Da Shu stepped out from the crowd and looked at the pensive An Jin. "Clan Leader, this actually happened often in our old tribe. They have parasites in their stomachs!"
"What! Parasites?"
The females were so scared their hearts nearly stopped. Every one of them turned pale, their lips trembling. In an instant, they suddenly felt their stomachs churning violently.
"BLEGH—" They dropped to the ground and tried to vomit. When nothing came out, they stuck their fingers down their throats, managing to spit up puddles of yellow mucus mixed with saliva.
The air quickly filled with the sour stench of undigested food.
The females’ mates quickly pulled them into their arms, comforting them with gentle words, then hurried to cover the sour-smelling liquid on the ground with dirt.
An Jin’s expression didn’t change as she continued to question Da Shu.
The man slapped his forehead with a large hand, his eyes suddenly lighting up. "Aha! I remember now! Those females loved to eat raw meat and drink cold water. The Witch Doctor back then said their stomachaches were because they often ate raw meat, and there were parasites in the meat!"
"You’re lying! How could there be parasites in meat?!"
Hearing the female’s incredulous shriek, An Jin knew she was on the right track to finding the cause.
Even though they had fire, most Beastmen ate raw meat. Many females and cubs didn’t know how to prepare ingredients to make cooked food, or perhaps they had an instinctual, deep-seated fear of fire, leading them to often eat raw meat and drink cold water along with the Beastmen.
But the Beastmen’s digestive systems were no joke. Someone like Mi Yin could swallow prey whole and be perfectly fine.
The females’ constitutions, however, were only that of ordinary people. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
Parasites were not something to be taken lightly, especially now during the great rainy season with its floods. Bacteria and viruses from all sorts of animal carcasses were soaking in the river water.
’I, on the other hand, am used to eating cooked food. Even after coming to the Beast World, every one of my meals has been cooked. Thinking about it this way, the reason makes perfect sense.’
"Go find me some sour fruits and a few other herbs."
An Jin looked at the few Beastmen bustling about beside her and urged them, "Grind them together, mix it with water, and feed it to them."
Not daring to delay for a moment, the Beastmen quickly followed her instructions. After they found everything, ground it together, and fed it to the sick females, the women suddenly clutched their chests, their faces turning even paler.
"Ahh! Water, give me water!" They writhed on the ground in agony. Their throats were itchy and uncomfortable, and they felt extremely thirsty.
But An Jin firmly stopped the Beastmen from giving them water.
Many of the females’ mates began to grow anxious, pacing back and forth. Seeing the females in so much pain, they even began to doubt whether An Jin’s decision was correct.
Facing everyone’s doubt and wavering resolve, An Jin remained unmoved. She said in a cold voice, "If you want them to recover, then you must trust me completely. Now, there are a few more medicinal herbs I need you to find for me."
Seeing their females in such distress, the males were burning with anxiety. At this point, they could only listen to An Jin, find all the herbs, grind them into a medicinal juice, and feed it to the females.
"The parasites go dormant when they encounter a sour taste. That first dose of sour herb juice confirmed that there really are parasites in their stomachs..."
Seeing the females’ complexions improve after taking the medicine, An Jin’s expression remained steady. She continued, "Prepare some wooden basins. They’re about to vomit."
The moment her voice fell, the weak and dazed females suddenly seemed to have a final burst of energy as they collapsed to the ground and began to vomit violently.
What came out was blood—black clots of it. And with the clots, parasites poured out of their mouths in great gushes.
These parasites were the size of a thumb, with bodies like crickets and long legs like praying mantises. They were pure purple, with two inch-long antennae on their foreheads, looking utterly grotesque and disgusting.
The parasites crawled all over the ground in the bloody, yellow liquid—a mix of blood clots and stomach fluids. They had probably been growing inside their bodies for some time.
"AHHHH—!" Many of the females were so frightened their eyes rolled back in their heads and they fainted. To think they had harbored such terrifying parasites inside them.
Now, without any need for a reminder from An Jin, they would absolutely never touch raw meat again! No, they couldn’t even bear to look at it anymore!!
The Beastmen quickly cleaned up the parasites and the fluids, mixing them with dry sand and dirt before tossing the whole mess into the small woods outside.
Seeing that the females, though many had fainted from fright, were finally healthy again, they felt even more grateful to and ashamed before An Jin.
’We actually dared to doubt our Clan Leader. It’s a crime worthy of ten thousand deaths! Never again!’
[Ding—Congratulations on overcoming the sudden crisis (Tribesmen’s Stomachaches). Gold Coin Reward: +59. Account Balance: 87!]
[Public Trust +5, Current: 43↑]
[Personal Prestige +6, Current: 94↑]
The Public Trust and Personal Prestige, which had originally dropped due to the sudden crisis, had now rebounded quite a bit because of this incident.
Not long after the system’s announcement faded, another one came.
[Ding—Congratulations on overcoming the sudden crisis (Beast Tide Attack). Gold Coin Reward: +103. Account Balance: 190!]
’Mi Yin!’
’He successfully stopped the Beast Tide!’
An Jin was overjoyed. She looked up into the distance but couldn’t see the figure of the man she was hoping to see.
She waited for two whole days, but Mi Yin still hadn’t returned.
’Strange... could something have happened to him?’ Worry began to bubble up inside An Jin.
But the mate mark on her body was still vivid. The small, red snake mark seemed even more vibrant than before, showing no signs of fading.
"Ling Hong, take a few Beastmen and go look for Mi Yin. Something might have happened on his end."
「...」
「On the other side of the mountain foothills, time rewound by several hours. The Giant Beast tide had arrived, and Mi Yin had gone alone to drive it back.」
He transformed into a black-and-red giant python over ten meters long and charged toward the herd of Giant Beasts. The trees on either side flew past him, his slithering speed so fast it blurred the rain and the sound of the wind.
He was so fast that in a mere instant, just as the Giant Beasts registered the approaching danger, they were ensnared by his thick, long tail and brutally slammed onto the gravel-strewn ground.
With its terrifyingly powerful constriction, in the space of a single breath, the python crushed several prehistoric Giant Beasts to death amid the continuous CRACK of splintering bone.
Blue-violet lightning shattered the sky, instantly illuminating the apocalyptic, horrifying scene in a heart-stopping flash.
The python opened its sharp, saliva-dripping fangs. It coiled tightly around a Giant Beast’s body, immobilizing it, and then, its fangs full of venom, viciously bit into the artery in the Giant Beast’s neck.
The venomous fangs instantly pierced the Giant Beast’s skin, which was covered in scales and a layer of keratin over ten centimeters thick, injecting a full dose of lethal venom into its body.
A massive amount of blood burst from the bite wound. A spray of blood mist coated the snake’s body, washing its dazzling black-and-red scales clean.
The damp, cold air instantly filled with the stench of blood and rot.
The scene was bloody and cruel, like the ultimate hunt.
As the Giant Beasts fell one after another with thunderous crashes, the black-and-red python opened its ghastly, blood-soaked maw. It crushed their skulls and swallowed them one by one, and soon, its body bulged with one small hill after another.
