4, Chapter 4
After solving the most terrifying problem, Yang Fan slowly eliminated his vigilance against him.
Time flies very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, she has lived here for more than 40 days.
Her cell phone was picked up from the forest, and of course there was no electricity inside. She asked him to take her to the place where she came here many times, and she tried to think about what caused her to come here.
Yang Fan judged that it was probably a kind of magnetic force or magnetic field, or spatial gap. At the time and place at that time, a twisted magnetic field or spatial gap happened to appear, two worlds connected to each other or more worlds. This time should be quite short, and she happened to pass by that place at that time and then came over.
Using her barren head, she could only draw such a conclusion, and she didn't know anything else to explain it.
She guessed that going home might be impossible. After all, she didn't know what caused it, so of course she couldn't simulate the environment at that time and sent herself back. She could only sit there often for a while, imagining that maybe she could go back again.
If she could, she would even be willing to live there. But he would not agree. He would be willing to take her there, but he would take her away after a while. It would be useless whether she was begging or angry. She tried to go on a hunger strike, digging her throat and letting the food he fed in and spitting out, using this to show her anger and determination.
But his reaction was to find more food, try to feed her each.
Yang Fan sadly guessed that he probably had no idea why she was angry, and he would not associate the meaning of her behavior. Since she spit out the food, he thought that she could not eat this food, and she spit out because she was sick.
After a stalemate between the two sides, Yang Fan surrendered. It was very painful to vomit every day. She didn't dare to really make herself sick, but there was no hospital here.
After letting go home for the time being, she didn't have much hope, so she was not very disappointed when letting go. After that, she decided to arrange her life here first. After all, before she could not find a way to go home, it seemed that she would stay in this world.
She began to record the time. Because she didn't know how many hours the day was, she wrote down numbers on the stone wall based on a day of day.
She gave him a name, "Nick". A monster like him is called "Nickson". She only called him "Nick" twice, and he knew that when she called that, he should look at her. But she didn't know whether he thought "Nick" was his name, or that she needed him, or that she was equivalent to "seeing over".
The kind of food they often eat like seals, she knew that this animal was very good at digging holes, and when she caught them, it would quickly drill into the soil if she accidentally caught them. But Nick could probably be his natural enemy. He could pierce his hand deep into the ground in an instant and then grab it out. It seemed that he could find its nest through the soil.
Once she saw him next to him. After he caught it, a group of forty or fifty little seals rushed out of the hole, and then in the blink of an eye they spread out and went into the ground.
She named the animal Tumo. Although it looks like a seal, it behaves more like a hole-punching mouse and has a similar fertility.
She asked him to pick a lot of the leaves he used to wrap her, which she thought might have the effect of keeping clean, so even now she insisted on wrapping it on her body.
Nick probably thought she liked this kind of leaves very much and picked a lot of them on the straw mat.
She tried to chew the leaves to brush her teeth, and she had a fresh tone without any odor. She decided to call it mint, although it grew on a tree, the leaves were so big that they could wrap her up.
Nick treats her like a cub who has no self-defense ability. She can move freely on this hillside, but can't walk down the hillside. He goes hunting, and the first thing he does when he comes back is to find her. If she is not nearby, he will get her back first before cooking.
Yang Fan used a wooden stick to the ground, and used the length and direction of the shadow of the stick projected by the sun to judge the time, sunshine and the direction of the sun's rotation. It was much simpler. She spent a day determining the direction of the sun's rotation, marking out the east, west, south, and time. Then she found a large stone with a smooth surface to draw the same line, allowing Nick to use his fingers to mark the scale on the stone surface.
In this way, she had a clock.
Although she still can't judge the hours or minutes, she can roughly determine when it is morning, noon, and when it is near evening.
In the morning, Nick got up at about four o'clock in the morning according to the scale, and then he went to hunt, until he came back, probably at one o'clock in the afternoon, they would not eat their first meal, at four o'clock, at six o'clock, and at seven o'clock.
Most of their food is the kind of earthy rat, and it is enough to eat it for two days when you catch it once. The largest earthy rat in adulthood is about 200 kilograms or more. Yang Fan only needs to eat a small piece of it at a time. Nick will leave her the fattest and tenderest piece of meat close to her neck. She noticed that his appetite is much larger than her, especially for the second meal, he will eat one third more than the first meal.
Nick would go to the forest every day to get clean streams and wild fruits for her. He rarely ate these things, as if he didn't need any other food except the meat of the earthy rat.
Yang Fan recorded every fruit he found for her and their changes.
The red fruit I had eaten for the first time will gradually become sweeter and sweeter, and the outer skin of the fruit will become darker. When he brought it back in the past few days, the fruit has already had a black outer skin, and the flesh inside is getting harder and harder. It is as big as an egg. Yang Fan named it Egg Date. She collected some places in a cool and ventilated place to see if it can eventually turn into dried fruits, so that it may be kept until winter.
The yellow wild fruit is round, like a small pumpkin. Its outer skin will become thicker and harder, and its flesh will become smaller and smaller. When it becomes uneasy, Nick will no longer pick this fruit for her, but Yang Fan wants to see what this fruit can become and see if it can have other uses, so he still asks him to pick one at a time. Finally, she found that if the pulp of this fruit is hollowed out, it can actually be used as a container. Its shell is very light and hard. Yang Fan tried to burn it with fire and found that its shell would become whiter and whiter, but it would not break.
She felt that she had found a substitute for the pot.
She asked Nick to empty the fruit with his paws and then get the stream back, which she would boil and cool before drinking.
She called it Guoguo.
It took ninety-four days for the color of the egg date to change from red to black. In 127 days, it turned into something as hard as a stone. Yang Fan could not bite it, and even if it boiled in water, it would melt.
Yang Fan was disappointed to find that the egg dates could not be turned into dried egg dates. She tried to smash it with a stone and grind it, thinking that it would be good if it could turn into powdered sugar.
But she still failed. She grinds it with a stone and didn't fall off for a day. She wanted Nick to try it, so he grabbed the egg dates that turned into stone and squeezed it, burying it into the soil.
Is this planting it? Yang Fan was excited in this guess! She took out all the hundreds of egg dates she collected, selected a flat ground facing the sun on the hillside, drew a square, and buried the egg dates one by one in the square in the ground. She began to imagine the grand occasion of harvesting a field of egg dates next year.
Nick was silent and bystandering about her behavior. He wouldn't come to help, but just watched it occasionally. She guessed that he might just think she was playing?
As the egg dates gradually became sweeter, although Yang Fan was still collecting it, Knik rarely brought it to her. She found that what he picked for her was wild fruits rich in moisture and picked when the fruit was the tenderest and crispest. Then he brought her a kind of wild fruit with a green outer skin, probably the size of a winter melon.
The fruit of this wild fruit is also white, and it tastes very crispy, with a lot of juice, but it has no taste. One of this wild fruit is enough for her to eat for several days, but he will bring one back every day. He will eat everything she can't finish.
She thought it was good to call it winter melon.
The wild fruits he brought back were getting bigger and bigger. Yang Fan looked at the changes in the size of the eggs, dates, pot fruits to winter melons, and felt that this might also be a signal of a season. Considering that the season might change, she decided to make two preparations.
From the weather, she always felt that it was spring. Then the summer was followed, and she had been wearing the skin of earthy rats and mint leaves. If it was summer, she had to assume that the summer here might be hotter than the summer in her world, and she would need lighter and thinner materials to make clothes.
The first thing she thought about was the grass that Nick used to make straw mats. The grass was very long, and she tried to circle two and a half circles around the big stone they lived in. The grass itself was very flexible, with two fingers wide and could not be broken even with the stone. She began to figure out how to woven into a large piece to make clothes to wear.
The second thing she considered was the mint leaves. The leaves were big and comfortable to wrap around on the body. The only disadvantage was that they were not strong enough and were easy to break. I don’t know if they still existed in summer. Seeing the changes in eggs, dates and pot fruits, she was worried that the mint leaves would disappear in a few months. She had already begun to try to collect and store these mint leaves, tearing them into strips or planting them into small squares to store them. The whole leaf was too big and inconvenient.
In addition to preparing thinner clothes, she also had to consider whether it would be winter. This was even worse, but it was very likely that she didn't know if the long-term sunshine was the summer of this world.
She began to collect the skin of the earth rat. She asked Nick to peel off each piece and polish it and put it away. She also wanted more skins of animals with longer hair. But Nick rarely took her to the forest now, and she didn't know how to show the concept of "long hair" and "long hair" animals. She tried to grab her hair that had grown to her shoulders and signaled to him. He grabbed her hair and looked at it, and then planned to eat it into his mouth. Since that day, he has become interested in her hair and always likes to comb with his fingers.
She tried to touch the earth rat he had called back while grabbing her hair to express the meaning of "hair-long prey". He frowned and looked. The next day she could never see a earth rat that was not peeled and was put on a barbecue rack. A few days later, she guessed that he probably thought she meant that the earth rat that hurt her hair.
Chapter completed!