nucmednet Chapter 239 Strange Events
Chapter 239 Strange Events
The Chen family lived some distance away from where Chang Ningchen lived, so Chang Ningchen drove with Dongfang He to Town B.
However, before they even began their investigation, they encountered a new situation: two couples got lost in the mountains, and many people were looking for them.
"Ding! Triggering the side quest: Find the missing person! Complete the quest and you'll be rewarded with +100 points. If you fail, your car will break down!"
It seems that in detective novels, the protagonist's passive skill is that wherever he goes, something unexpected happens! This car has been with him through many near-death experiences, so Chang Ningchen was a little reluctant to let it break down.
Then join the search team! Chang Ningchen asked about the situation and went up the mountain with Dongfang He to look for people.
Generally, when climbing a mountain, people will look for the mountain road with stone steps to go up, and avoid the small paths on the side to avoid getting lost. Also, they should hurry down the mountain before dark. There will be fog on the mountain at night, and it will be terrible if they get lost. The two couples probably got lost when they were coming down, and then they started to get scared because of the fog on the mountain, so they called the police.
This mountain is called Xuanwu Mountain. It has beautiful scenery but also has many supernatural legends. Many stories are related to its fog, such as people disappearing in the mountain and not being found, or people becoming strange after returning from the disappearance, etc.
The weather was good when we gathered and set off, but it started to get cloudy after a while. I heard from the mountain people nearby that the weather in the mountains changes rapidly. Sometimes the weather looks good outside, but it is raining inside the mountains.
Chang Ningchen felt a little scared standing in the gloomy mountains. They shouted for a long time but no one responded. The wind in the mountains was very cold and the temperature would be very low at night. People would get into trouble in temperatures of more than ten degrees. The fog was slowly getting thicker and there was a strange smell in the air.
To find someone here, you must have a villager who is familiar with the mountain road to lead the way. Several groups of people have already gone up. The one who led Chang Ningchen was an uncle named Chen. He also brought them a rope. They were in a group of six, and the other three were also enthusiastic volunteers.
Uncle Chen got the news and the main force searched east and west. Because Xuanwu Mountain was too long and the northern mountain was too dangerous, there was no time to search before. He thought it might be the missing tourists, so he led the people to the north. He said, "Don't run around. Otherwise, if you get lost before you find the person, it will be even more troublesome. Hold the rope and keep a distance where you can see each other!"
The wind blowing from the northern mountains where there is no sunlight is very cold, so a few people took precautions and headed north.
Fortunately, they were heading in the right direction. Dongfang He found a bag while tying his shoelaces on the road. There were documents in the bag, which were most likely lost by the lost tourist.
Uncle Chen said that there were two men and two women who were missing. Their car was parked on the side of the road. The villagers at the foot of the mountain found that the car had not left and called the police. Coincidentally, the police station also received a call with a poor signal. After checking the information, it was confirmed that it was a police report.
An hour passed and they found some miscellaneous items besides the bag, but they couldn't see anyone.
Chang Ningchen looked up and saw a piece of cloth tied to a branch not far away. It should be a mark left by someone. Yin Shi told Uncle Chen about his discovery, and everyone continued to move forward while looking for the next mark point.
Soon they saw people, but their condition was not very good. Uncle Chen immediately used the walkie-talkie to tell the search team their location, and then hurried over to check.
Fortunately, the two men and two women were together, but they all fell to the ground with their clothes wet. Two of them seemed to have fainted, and two others were sitting there blankly.
Just as Uncle Chen and the others approached them, one of the men sitting there suddenly stood up, and then he looked nervously as if he was looking for something. There was a huge rock not far away, and the man immediately ran towards that direction and tried his best to drill into the crack of the rock.
This bizarre scene startled everyone. The other woman looked at her hand and started biting it. The woman lying down turned blue in the face but kept saying "it's so hot" and started to take off her clothes.
Several people were frightened by this sudden development. One volunteer asked fearfully, "Are they possessed?"
The others remembered that some tourists had told horror stories about Xuanwu Mountain when they were climbing the mountain just now, and they suddenly felt a chill on their backs.
Dongfang He observed their situation carefully and found that it looked more like hypothermia. He pulled Chang Ningchen aside and expressed his thoughts.
After Dongfang He's reminder, Chang Ningchen immediately searched Wei Chen's head for information about hypothermia. As an experienced detective, Wei Chen had encountered this situation several times. After carefully observing the conditions of the people in front of him, he shouted with certainty, "They've been in the mountains for too long and their body temperatures are out of balance! What they're experiencing now is a symptom of hypothermia. We need to take them to a warm and dry place. They need to take off their wet clothes, put on dry clothes, and drink some hot soup or hot water!"
The other volunteers didn't quite understand what these symptoms were, but they knew it was definitely caused by the cold, so they took off their coats and covered the woman who was taking off her clothes.
Uncle Chen went to pull the man with the diamond crack. Volunteer Lao Zhang brought a thermos. They were used to carrying a thermos with hot water soaked with wolfberries in it.
The most seriously ill condition among the four people was probably the man lying motionless. Chang Ningchen hurried over to check on the situation. After the man was injured and had no pulse, he immediately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him.
Uncle Chen pulled the man who had dug the hole back, dressed him in dry clothes and gave him hot water to drink. The man calmed down a little, but he still looked a little strange. Lao Zhang and the others were a little scared when they looked at him.
The woman who bit her hand calmed down a little after drinking the water, but she still had a creepy smile on her face and her body was shaking.
To prevent everyone from having wild thoughts, Chang Ningchen explained hypothermia. He said: "Hypothermia refers to a drop in body temperature caused by the body's internal heat generation being insufficient to compensate for the heat dissipated by the body. Hypothermia is more likely to occur when the body is exposed to severe weather or windy or rainy conditions for too long, especially when the person is exhausted or their clothes are soaking wet. Generally, when the body temperature drops below 35°C, it enters a state of hypothermia.
The main symptoms of hypothermia are irritability, feeling cold, slow reaction, severe and uncontrollable tremors, uncoordinated movements, stumbling when walking, slow pulse, headache, blurred vision, slow heartbeat, weak breathing, etc.
When body temperature drops below 32 degrees Celsius, the heartbeat slows down due to slower blood transport. The drop in blood pressure leads to insufficient blood supply to the brain. The body's central temperature regulation system is paralyzed by the low temperature and issues incorrect instructions. This is why people take off their clothes before freezing to death.
Severe hypothermia can also cause hallucinations, so the little match girl actually tactfully recorded the little girl's feelings before she became hypothermic.
Cold-blooded animals hibernate by digging holes in small, enclosed dens. This confined space helps minimize heat loss. In dying hypothermic individuals, this instinct is triggered, leading to a primitive, protective behavior similar to burrowing. They choose this behavior subconsciously to seek shelter.