The Survival of the Wild Tribe

After discussing with everyone, I finally decided to choose the place to set up the tent in the middle of the basin. The terrain there is more gentle than that at the foot of the mountain, and the growing weeds are not so many thorns, so it is easier to clean up than other places. Much.

And there is a small stream that flows down from the mountain behind, which just flows through there, and finally merges into the river at the foot of the mountain, so that they don’t need to go to the river to fetch water and grab land with staghorn horses. That stream is enough for them. use.

After deciding on the place, the group stopped staying by the river any more, packed up their things, and followed Heifu to the chosen place.

Even if they have some more animal skins during this period, it is not enough for everyone to build animal skin tents. They already have experience in building haylofts on the high slopes that sheltered from the rain. There are all kinds of weeds and trees nearby. Building a hayloft is much simpler than an animal hide tent.

Before the day went dark, a dozen huts appeared near the creek. Although the surrounding weeds hadn't been cleaned up yet, at least everyone had a place to rest.

Luo Zhen’s thatched shed is next to the horn bamboo family. In order to save firewood, they share a fire. The fire can drive away some timid beasts at night. Their settlement has just been built and there is not enough. Defense, so the fire at night should be kept burning all night.

"What are you doing?" It's not the first time Heiya saw Luo Zhen holding a wooden board and painting there. Now that the other party is still working on the wooden board in a new place, he can't help but ask.

Ah Shui is using a bone knife to chop up the newly picked weed leaves, and put them in a wooden bowl to feed the two cuckoo birds. He curiously put his head over, wanting to see what Luo Zhen is doing. What is it. Recently, he discovered that Luo Zhen’s things are very interesting and easy to use, such as bone knives, wooden bowls and wooden dishes, and even various plants that he didn’t know could be edible before. The most important thing is that they are the same. Things will become more delicious after Luo Zhen's hands.

Ah Shui licked the corners of his lips. He was full of admiration for Luo Zhen now. As long as Luo Zhen got things that they didn't understand at first, A Shui would want to stick to Luo Zhen to see what the other party did.

The two cuckoo birds don't do it anymore. Looking at their empty wooden bowl, the quiet bird calls are like trying to draw all the animals on the other side of the mountain, calling vigorously.

When Luo Zhen saw this, he took the bone knife in Ah Shui's hand amusedly, cut the weeds into scraps with a few sharp cuts, put them in a wooden bowl and pushed them in front of the two cuckoo birds, and finally used a piece of wood. The dish was filled with half a dish of water and put it aside.

The two cuckoo birds screamed with satisfaction at Luo Zhen, tilting their heads, and flopping their wings to the wooden bowl and pecking their heads.

"I've been raising it for so long, and I haven't even laid an egg." A Shui curled his lips and muttered.

Luo Zhen touched each other's head, "We have been running around before, and we haven't stopped. They probably haven't had time to adapt to the new environment. After a while, they should be able to lay eggs."

"Really?" Ah Shui asked suspiciously.

"Of course." Luo Zhen nodded affirmatively.

After speaking, Luo Zhen picked up the wooden board and handed it to the big and small, so that the two of them could see the content on the wooden board clearly, and pointed to the black line drawn with charcoal on it and explained to them: "I plan to Build a house here."

"House?" Hei Ya looked at the painting on the wooden board. This was the first time he saw paintings like this. Except for the great witch, no one of them knew how to record. He just felt that the piece in front of him was so ordinary that it couldn't be ordinary. The planks are full of novelty.

"It's something brighter and stronger than the animal hide tent you lived in before."

"Then what is this kind of house made of? Is it also animal skins?"

Luo Zhen shook his head, "I plan to use wood to make it."

All the cascades around here are mountains, and there are dense trees growing on the mountains. It is most convenient to use local materials to build houses.

"But I don't know whether this most common wooden dowel can support the whole house." Although Luo Zhen only designed the most common single-room square house, he only needs to build all the wood, but he considers that There may be snow here in winter. Luo Zhen wants to build a slightly sloping roof so that even if the snow is too heavy to clean up, the house will not collapse all at once.

However, Luo Zhen has not studied architecture after all. Even though he has seen all kinds of houses, his memory is good enough to tell the shape of the house in detail, but he has no idea how to build the internal structure of the house. . If there is a strong adhesive like cement, novices like him should be able to build a frame that can barely shelter from the wind and rain, right?

For people who don’t have the concept of plane, it’s hard to imagine the line drawn on a wooden board when it becomes three-dimensional. Even if Luo Zhen explained it to Heiya in detail, Heiya still has a little understanding. I understand that this kind of thing is stronger than an animal skin tent, and it can also make windows or something to make the room brighter, and you can make a house as big as you want, as long as you can make the house not Just collapse.

"Then let's make this house." Hei Ya rubbed his palms and looked eager to try. Now that they have come to their new residence, the soldiers do not need to leave for as long as a month just to hunt in winter. Food, everyone can help build this house together, so when it snows in winter, they don’t need to worry that their tent will be crushed by the heavy snow every minute.

You must know the sourness that was buried in the heavy snow in the winter, even if it is now recalled, Black Cliff can't help but shudder.

"Luo Zhen, Luo Zhen." The two were talking, and Lu Zhan's voice came from afar. After setting up the tent, Lu Zhan said that he was going to chop two firewood and come back as fuel. By the way, he picked a little salty fruit and came back. I took a few soldiers and set off. I didn't expect them to go there for most of the day. Now that the sky was completely dark, I saw them come back.

Lu Zhan was still carrying a person behind him, and that person was carrying a prey. This combination was a bit nondescript, and the two fighters who followed Lu Zhan looked a little anxious.

"What's wrong?" Luo Zhen stood up and looked at a few people suspiciously.

The surrounding straw sheds have only one roof, all sides are ventilated, Lu Zhan shouted so, everyone saw them coming back, the edge of the sheds are a bit far away, people who live there are still there. He drew in together, wanting to see what the soldiers brought back.

Lu Zhan put the person on his back down, and Luo Zhen could see that the person was actually horn bamboo. The expression on horn bamboo was not very good. When Lu Zhan put the opponent down, he encountered the prey behind the horn bamboo, and the horn bamboo was in pain. Hissed.

Hei Ya hurriedly walked over when he saw this. Before he could ask, Hei Fu, who was coming back with him, stepped forward and stopped him, "Don't touch him for now."

Hei Fu's tone was probably too solemn, and Hei Ya's heart swelled a bit, and his injured leg was so anxious that his injured leg was aching, and Ah Shui stepped forward and took his father's hand and called to Horn bamboo in worry.

"Don't worry, it's okay." Lu Zhan didn't forget to comfort him. Then he stepped forward and pulled Luo Zhen over, pointed at the back of the horn bamboo and said: "You show horn bamboo quickly, he is sticking to this prey. Together, you can’t get rid of them, do you have a way to separate them?"

"Stuck?" How could the prey stick to the human?

Lu Zhan hurriedly told what had happened before Luo Zhen understood what was going on.

It turns out that when they were picking salted fruits, the horn bamboo saw a hog deer, because the hog deer was too close to the horn bamboo, and the distance was long enough for him to catch the prey, so he took the shot without thinking too much.

Who knows that the hog deer is also quick to react, and with a kick of its hoof, it stubbornly avoided the capture of the horn bamboo. Originally, the horn bamboo thought that if the hog deer escaped too far, he would give up. As a result, the idea was not there yet. After flashing, the hog deer slid into a pit under its feet, and the horn bamboo walked over and found that it was a muddy ash. The hog deer who wanted to escape was struggling in the quagmire, but it was sinking deeper and deeper. .

Kadotake was delighted, isn't this the prey delivered to the door? So he got the hog deer up from the quagmire, directly choked off his breath, and did not dislike the dirty silt on the hog deer, threw it on his back, carried it and went back to find his companion.

At first, the horn bamboo was not found to be abnormal, but as time passed, the silt on the hog deer slowly began to dry up, and the horn bamboo felt that the skin that was in contact with the prey became more and more stiff. At this time, he wanted When I took the hog deer off his back, I realized that it was too late, and the hog deer had already stuck to his back.

Others wanted to help him get the prey down, but no matter how you pulled it, the prey seemed to grow on the horn bamboo. They almost tore off the skin of the horn bamboo and couldn’t get the prey half off. .

Lu Zhan thought that Luo Zhen always had a lot of novel ideas, so he hurriedly came back to Luo Zhen with the horn bamboo on his back.

Hei Ya listened to the whole process, and saw that the skin on the horn bamboo back had been torn, and the part that was in contact with the hog deer had been stained with blood. With a twitch of heart, he turned his head and looked at Luo Zhen eagerly. Luo Zhen, do you have a way to get that prey off Azhu?"

Luo Zhen rubbed his eyebrows under pressure. He is not a doctor. How could he know how to get the prey down? However, he also knew that there was no wizard among them. Hei Ya had seen himself use big thistle to stop Lu Zhan from bleeding, and he would naturally think of asking him for help first.

"Let me take a look first."

Everyone quickly gave way to Luo Zhen, and Lu Zhan fired a torch to get closer so that Luo Zhen could see more clearly.

The mud that sticks the prey and the horn bamboo together is completely dry and grayish-white, and it feels a bit cool to the touch. It feels like it hits a stone.

Most of the hog deer's body is covered by this dry gray-white mud. If you want to separate the horn bamboo from the prey without injury, it is best to dissolve the mud first and then slowly separate it.

I think of my previous experience that my fingers were stuck with glue. Now there is nothing that can quickly remove the stickiness, but there is a way to try first if it works.

"Go back and get a big tree stump that can hold a person, and empty it out. Let's soak him in hot water to see if we can soften the mud on his body."

Lu Zhan had gotten a big tree stump back as a container for water before. He knew this thing well, and when he heard that he stuffed the torch into Heifu's hand, he rushed to find what Lu Zhan needed.

Others followed Luo Zhen's instructions to clean all the stone pots, fill them with water and burn them on the fire, and prepare hot water to fill the big wooden stakes.

And Luo Zhen asked Heifu to help, using a bone knife to cut off the hog deer's fur, trying to leave only the part that meets the skin of the horn bamboo, so that the horn bamboo can be soaked in hot water.

Looking at the separated hog deer with half of its fur, Luo Zhen knocked it with a bone knife, and then pulled it hard. The parts covered by the dried off-white mud couldn't even leave a mark on the bone knife. .

Thinking of the house design draft that was still in the sketch state, Luo Zhen's eyes lit up, wondering if such a sticky mud could be used as an adhesive for building houses?

If this kind of thing can be used, then he doesn't need to just tie the wood together when building the house, at least he can use sand and stone to make a stronger wall.