Chapter 3 Tiger Shadow and Wolf Trail(1/2)
The tree houses of later generations are basically made of wooden boards. In some places in the south, there are tree houses made of bamboo, but to put it bluntly, a tree house is just a safe space to live in a tree.
Without good tools and time being tight, Ma Qiang thought of a rope tree house.
There are ropes and clay, which is enough to build a temporary tree house.
As soon as he thought of it, Ma Qiang inserted the pistol into his waist and began to prepare to polish the stone tools.
What Ma Qiang wants to do is a stone axe.
Even if you plan to use ropes and clay to make a temporary tree house, you still need an ax to cut down some branches on the tree, and it is not difficult to make a stone axe.
There are two ways to make stone tools, one is called beating and the other is grinding. Ground stone tools are naturally more refined than hammered ones, but they require a lot of time, and hammered stone tools require more luck and skill.
However, stone tools such as stone axes can be easily ground.
Ma Qiang first prepared to find a suitable ax handle. He found a piece of wind birch. The wood of wind birch is hard but the skin is very brittle. When peeled off, the flesh of the tree is smooth, making it a very suitable ax handle.
As for how to remove this branch...
Fire can solve everything.
Ma Qiang held a burning torch and carefully burned the selected branch. This branch was of appropriate thickness, straight shape, and far away from other branches, making it easier to burn.
But you still have to be careful if you really burn the tree completely. If it causes a forest fire...no one will come to arrest Ma Qiang.
The burning stopped, and by the time the branch was burned, the first pot of potassium salt had been burned, and the second pot was half-dry.
The ax handle was ready, and the next step was to make the ax head. Ma Qiang found a stone of suitable size and began to polish it on the edge of the river. In fact, it was grinding. He kept grinding in one direction to make it sharper.
The materials are all ready, how to install it?
Still have to rely on fire.
Ma Qiang peeled off the skin of the branch, then put it in the water and scraped the skin with the fresh stone to make the skin smoother. When it was almost scraped, he took out the key and started to dig a small hole in the upper end of the branch, one finger wide.
, after making a hole one or two centimeters deep, pick up some fire starters and stuff them in, then light the fire. Each time you burn, the hole will be burned wider and deeper until it is burned through. Finally, polished stones are added and installed.
A stone ax is ready.
Of course, in order to be more stable, Ma Qiang also reinforced it with ropes.
After doing this... Ma Qiang was hungry again.
These physical tasks really consume energy.
The second can of potassium salt was also cooked, and Ma Qiang made another cup and two lids to prepare for dinner.
Of course, dinner is still fresh river food, but this time Ma Qiang wants to have some fish, river crabs and river shrimps.
Ma Qiang took the pottery pot to the river, first put the hammock into the water, and tried to catch fish.
Fishing is much easier with a fishing net. Just put some shell meat, snail meat or earthworms in the middle of the fishing net. After a while, shrimps, crabs or fish will come over. At this time, just quickly collect the fishing net, and there will be something!
Of course, this is because there are many fish in this river. It must be said that Ma Qiang is very lucky. If he was thrown into the desert, he would have turned into a mummy by now.
After catching four or five fish, Ma Qiang started grilling the fish. As long as salt is present on the human tongue, it will taste good. Salt is the first of a hundred tastes. It is not just said casually.
With the fish grilled there and the water boiling on the fire, Ma Qiang continued to cut the thatch. The tree house he was going to build later would need a lot of thatch.
When Ma Qiang smelled the aroma, the grilled fish had turned golden brown. Looking at the grilled fish dripping with fish oil, Ma Qiang couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and put the boiling water aside to cool down. Ma Qiang was careful
I sprinkled some potassium salt on the fish, blew on it, and took another bite.
It smells so good!
Ma Qiang, who hadn't eaten salt for several days, felt like tears were about to come out of his eyes. Five fishes entered his stomach in less than ten minutes, and he still felt that he still had some unfinished food.
The sun was gradually setting in the west, and Ma Qiang knew that he had to prepare for a rest. This time, Ma Qiang lit a fire next to his hammock. The light from the fire might attract the attention of wild beasts, but it would also attract Ma Qiang's attention.
Some sense of security.
And there are probably only a few people like the roe deer who are not afraid of fire but want to try it...
Ma Qiang held the gun in his hand and slowly fell asleep.
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Ma Qiang carved a mark on the tree. He suddenly felt that he had to remember the date. He didn't know when he would be able to leave the forest. Ma Qiang had already thought about it last night. He had to prepare food for at least five days before he could try it.
Get out of here, otherwise it will be too dangerous for you once you reach a place where you can't find food.
In the primeval forest, some people can stay trapped for decades, not to mention five days.
Continuing to build the tree house, weaving straw ropes and digging clay, the preparation of raw materials was very time-consuming. By the time it got dark, Ma Qiang had already braided hundreds of meters of rope.
Another day, Ma Qiang found a few trees at a suitable distance and began to use ropes to build the base. Ma Qiang did not see any large animals in the past two days, not even the roe deer and wild boars he saw before. These were probably
The animals also know that humans are here. There are only some pine trees and small animals such as rabbits.
When Ma Qiang carved a positive character on the tree, Liu Qiang's tree house was finally ready.
I saw a thatched mud house set up with countless ropes among six trees. The outside of the house was covered with thatch to prevent rain. A rope ladder hung on the ground. There were ropes tied to the trees around the thatched mud house, and there were ropes tied to the ropes.
Each clay pot, as long as a large animal approaches, will inevitably cause the pot to make noise.
All in all, Ma Qiang went to the extreme for safety.
"Wow!"
Ma Qiang came to the river and pulled the fishing net hard, and the fat-headed and big-eared river fish kept beating in the fishing net.
"It's time to get ready to leave."
Ma Qiang never thought of staying in this barren mountains and ridges forever. After all, people are social creatures. Living in seclusion in the mountains and forests may be suitable for others, but it is definitely not suitable for Ma Qiang, who has been living in the cities of later generations.
In order to safely leave this unknown mountain forest, food, water, and weapons are all things that must be prepared.
There is actually a lot of water in the woods. To be precise, as long as there are leaves, there is water. If a person dies of thirst in the woods, then it can only be said that he dare not eat leaves.
As for food, what Ma Qiang thinks of is these river fish.
After the river fish is disemboweled, it is hung over a covered fire and grilled with smoke. In this way, the aldehydes in the smoke can kill various microorganisms on the river fish. This is why smoked food has a long shelf life.
s reason.
After smoking, Ma Qiang will also sprinkle some potassium salt on the food, so that it will taste much better.
A large piece of grass by the river was unknowingly cut by Ma Qiang, and a pot full of potassium salt was burned. It was estimated to weigh a small two kilograms. At this time, the second straight character on the tree
Just one stroke away.
"Okay! The crossbow is finished!"
Ma Qiang looked at the small crossbow in his hand and waved it happily. This was his first projectile weapon besides stone axes and stone spears. He originally wanted to make a bow and arrow, but archery required skills, and he couldn't guarantee that he would
He can learn such a weapon in a short time, and the crossbow is very similar to a gun, so it is more suitable for him.
A crossbow is actually a crossbow. A simple crossbow is really simple to make. First, find two suitable straight pieces of wood, use a stone ax to slowly polish off the skin, so that the two pieces of wood can be closely attached to each other in the shape of a cross, and then use
The ropes fixed it. It should be noted that the contact position must be in the middle of a piece of wood. The next step was to make the machine bracket. In order to make the machine bracket, Ma Qianqiang had to scrap three frames before he could barely succeed.
The main reason is the lack of tools, and Ma Qiang only knows the principles and has not actually done it.
The last thing is the bow string, which Ma Qiang directly replaced with a rope braided from thatch.
Many people think that bow strings need to be made of elastic things like beef tendons. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of bow strings. They just take it for granted. Bow strings are made of high-strength and low-deformation materials and have basically no elastic requirements. Of course, they cannot be completely
No, otherwise it would break as soon as you pull it.
The so-called beef tendon is actually attached to the outside of the bow arm, and this beef tendon is not a thick and long thing as imagined, but an animal tendon, a thumb-sized piece, including the horns.
A horn is placed at both ends of the bow, but is cut into thin slices and dipped in isinglass on the inside of the bow arm.
After all, the so-called elasticity of a bow or crossbow is not provided by the bow string, but by the bow arm.
The completion of the crossbow gave Ma Qiang a greater sense of security.
As for the arrows, Ma Qiang chose sharpened wood. It wasn't that he didn't want to add arrowheads, but it was too difficult to process stone arrowheads, so Ma Qiang simply gave up.
When night came, Ma Qiang hung the smoked fish on the tree and got into his nest. The smoked fish was floating in the wind. Ma Qiang held the crossbow in his left hand and the pistol in his right hand, and slowly fell into a dream while holding his mobile phone.
"Ouch!!!"
Suddenly, a wolf howl made the horse forcefully open its eyes. The howl was too close, as if it was no more than a hundred meters away... Can wolves climb trees?
Ma Qiang put his cell phone in his pocket, carefully opened the door of the tree house and looked outside.
Ordinary wolves can't climb trees, but not all wolves can't. For example, brown wolves can climb trees. To put it bluntly, they are really hungry. Not to mention climbing trees, they can even crawl into fire rings.
The night wind in the forest brought distant sounds over, and the bursts of howling wolves made Ma Qiang hold his hand tighter. Under the dim moonlight, nothing could be seen in the dark distance, but Ma Qiang
It is certain that a pack of wolves must be passing by in the distance.
"Ouch!!!"
Suddenly, a sound that made Ma Qiang's heart tremble came from the side. Ma Qiang was sure that he had heard this sound before, but the animal that made the sound was in the zoo at that time. It was the roar of a tiger.
Ma Qiang forced himself to calm down. He hadn't seen a tiger for so many days. It showed that tigers didn't like to come here. But when he thought of those roe deer and wild boars, Ma Qiang felt that it was absolutely right for tigers to come here. After all, the
There are many animals.
Probably to declare territorial sovereignty, the howling of the wolves over there also became louder.
Ah haha, you are still shouting, so I can’t be a coward anymore!
To be continued...