Alice helped her up: "Ruola, let me help you back to the airship. If you feel uncomfortable, stay away from this cave."
"Well...thank you."
The two of them were about to leave when Qiu Ya escaped from the cave carrying a heavy blond Shakhan on his back. Following closely behind, Ma Ban and the others carried out several more people.
Members with some medical skills immediately checked Shakhan's physical condition and said: "He is not dead yet, he is still alive."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then checked the others and found that they were all still alive. Tyson observed Qiu Ya and the others and asked, "Are you all okay?"
Cannabis Spot patted his chest and said, "It's okay, it's fine. We didn't encounter anything terrible when we went down there."
Rourke judged: "It seems there is no danger down there, maybe they are just hypnotized. In any case, let's rescue them all first."
Knowing that the situation below was okay, more people went down to the cave to help carry the person. Alice also checked Shakhan's condition, shook her head and said, "He has no symptoms of poisoning. It doesn't look like he was exposed to poisonous smoke."
A category of people who are dazed. In specific cases, they have to be taken back to the airship for more professional inspection."
Of course, a large group of people like Tyson brought doctors with them. There were also some simple medical equipment on the airship. Only with clearer diagnosis and treatment can we know what is wrong with them. And their situation is by no means simple.
coma.
One after another, people were carried out and returned to the airship, including the eight sand pirates who were also rescued. Jennifer was more thoughtful and asked Qiu Ya: "You saw a lot of bones down there, didn't you?"
"They are all dried skeletons, even the skin and flesh are gone. It's the same as what a few sand pirates said." Qiu Ya replied.
Jennifer asked: "Can you ask your people to go down again and bring up more bones?"
Qiu Ya understood what she meant and nodded in agreement: "You are still thoughtful. I will ask my men to go down two more times. It seems that it will be okay to go down to this mysterious underground cave for a short time."
More than twenty unconscious people were sent to the boat to receive medical treatment, while Alice and the others gathered around the sand to study the skeletons that Black Flag Stick and the others had brought.
"Did you see anything?" Jennifer stood opposite Alice, holding her chin in her hands and looking at the dozens of broken human bones lying side by side on the ground.
"It's obvious, isn't it?" Alice stood up and pointed to the bones on the ground and said, "You can tell at a glance that 14 of the 16 human bones here are already white bones. But there is still a layer of bones on two of them.
The thin yellow gelatin indicates that they decayed at different times and died at different times. These people entered the caves in different batches, and there may be decades, even hundreds, or even hundreds of years between them."
After hearing these words, the faces of Qiu Ya and the Alligators became serious: "You mean..." Thinking of the unconscious Shakhan, Tusi Xiong, Flat Nose and others, they looked at the ground again.
These bones gave rise to a bad premonition.
"Now that they are out of the cave, maybe they will wake up soon after they are safe." With this trace of fantasy, Tyson comforted the Black Flag Stick and White Skeleton mercenaries.
"But..." Jennifer said: "The comatose Shakhan, Tusi Xiong and others may be in danger of death. Although they still have vital signs now, they may never wake up."
"Hey, Jennifer, can you please don't sound so scary?" Komande persuaded from the side.
Jennifer said: "What I'm talking about is just a possibility, a fact that may happen. Those people who died in the cave will never be simple. Although Shakhan and the others came out, it does not mean that they are safe.
.I don’t like to say nice things, I like to think of the worst aspects of things. With Shakhan, Toast Bear’s strength and ability, he will never be knocked unconscious easily. The cave is not deep inside, and we are outside
But I didn’t hear any movement at all, which shows that something evil is happening here.”
Everyone was speechless. Jennifer's inference was reasonable. Such an assumption might be happening. And they had to face these things. It was unrealistic to escape the current predicament with the illusion of peace.
Tyson said: "Whether they are safe or not depends on the doctor's diagnosis results."
Everyone returned to the airship to eat, feeling very uneasy. Especially Qiu Ya, who was so anxious that he couldn't eat at all. Alice saw that Ruola's condition was getting better after she left the cave, and asked her what happened.
Ruola said: "This is not the first time this has happened. This happened to me when I was on the north slope of St. Vicoia. I had a bad feeling. The hole made me uneasy."
During the trip, Alice heard Ruola talk about her experience of meeting her master, but it was not specific. This time, she talked about it in detail, and told Alice and others everything that happened on Beiwangpo.
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Lucas wondered: "Then what is the reason why you are vomiting like this?"
Ruola looked slightly pale and shook her head gently: "I don't know myself. Beiwangpo is the first time I have encountered this situation, and this is the second time. I have no idea what happened to me.
I don’t know. In fact, it’s not just the problem of vomiting, there are many other problems that bother me.”
Jennifer said: "No matter what kind of troubles you have, in short, you seem to be able to sense some dangers that ordinary people can't detect. It's a pity that this is not Barren Rock City, otherwise maybe the mystery on you can be solved."
After waiting for several hours, in the evening, the doctors on the airship tried all methods but could not wake up Shakhan and the others, and finally expressed helplessness to Tyson that there was nothing they could do.
Tyson asked: "Doctor, can you find out why they are the way they are now?"
The attending doctor shook his head: "The cause has not been found. All of them are now in a coma. There are no signs of poisoning in their bodies, and they don't seem to be mentally hypnotized..."
"seem?"
"I am not a professional spiritual doctor, so I can only make a rough judgment." The doctor continued: "Their condition is very strange. I can't tell what it is. I can only describe it, like...like...
Just like losing the soul, the body only has the basic functions of a living being, such as blood circulation, heart beating, etc., but all other functions are lost."
Alice was shocked: "Like the living dead?"
The doctor nodded: "Yes, you described it very well, like the living dead... No, to be more precise, they are the living dead, or a vegetative state deeper than a vegetative state. Their condition is even worse than a deep vegetative state."
"Dead living people..." Jennifer crossed her chest with one hand and held her chin in thought.
Qiu Ya asked with concern: "Then...then what will happen to them?"
The doctor said: "If this situation continues, the final result will be death, not even becoming a vegetative state."