Chapter 21: Cutting down trees
"Alright, don't fight. I stopped Zhou Qiqi's words in time, and I knew what more outrageous words could pop out of her mouth if this continued, so I continued: "Don't worry about clothes, don't we still have a lot of canvas in that cave? ”
"Can I wear clothes made of canvas?" Zhou Qiqi said with a frown.
"So I said, it's better not to be comfortable, is it? This island has a pleasant climate, and it doesn't catch a cold. ”
"Pervert!" Zhou Qiqi scolded me, and I saw Chen Mengyu covering her mouth and laughing.
Xia Ran didn't pay attention to our "flirting", but walked towards the black dog.
"Where did you say this dog came from?" Xia Ran asked.
"Could it be another wrecked cruise ship?" I said.
"Impossible. Zhou Qiqi said: "This dog is so powerful, if it is really on that ship, it is impossible for Lin Hai and them not to stay by their side." ”
We discussed it for a long time without any result......
I looked at the mighty Rottweiler, and I thought it was a little ridiculous, I had been trying to find new survivors to join, but I didn't expect that in addition to the three girls, the first one to join was actually a dog......
We rested for a little while, and then I told them to hurry back in the direction of the cave, lest we be overtaken by the wolves, and we had no clothes to light the fire......
When we were on the way, we discussed our future plans again, and the conclusion was that the way of doing things that Lin Hai said before was the most reliable, and we haven't figured out what the opponent is yet, so the best way is to hide ourselves first and wait for the opportunity to leave this island.
In addition, I also seem to have some faith in the "cursed island" mentioned by Lin Hai, can the rest of the island really not be seen by others? Otherwise, there is no reason why no rescue team has appeared for so long.
What's more, there was a helicopter that flew low over the area, but it didn't stop, and unless it was a private sailing, it would have noticed the markers we had placed on the beach.
It took a little longer to return to the cave due to the fact that we had followed Lin Hai for a long time, but we still arrived safely at our "shelter" after an hour.
When I crawled into the cave with three girls and a black dog in my arms and sat down to rest, I really felt a sense of security at home.
Wrong......
This sense of security is far from enough.
It seems that we need to start building a "line of defense" as soon as possible.
Now that food was no longer an issue, safety was the number one priority, and I decided to use this axe to cut down the trees, and fence off the open space below our cave.
We ate something quickly and then got to work.
Of course, I had to do the work of cutting down the tree alone, and since we only had an axe, and I could not bear to let the other three girls do such rough work, and it would be a sin to wear out the skin of their tender hands.
However, the three of them will not be idle, and I will quickly divide the labor among them.
Xia Ran was in charge of catching birds on the cave and cooking food for the night.
Chen Mengyu is responsible for using those canvases to make a few "clothes", her hands are very skillful, just relying on a few sharp small stones to tear off the threads on the original tent, and use these threads to connect the broken canvas into a wearable clothes, she used this method to quickly make a set of clothes and pants for Zhou Qiqi, although the appearance of the clothes and pants is not good, but at least Zhou Qiqi does not have to worry about the leakage of spring.
Zhou Qiqi followed me in the construction of the fence, and she was very dissatisfied with my division of labor.
When she jumped off the small stone mountain with me, and only the two of us were left, Zhou Qiqi immediately said: "Xiao Chen! Why do you always let me follow you to do this kind of manual work? I'm not a woman!"
"You're not a woman, who's a woman?" I said, pointing in the direction of the cave, "You see that the other two girls are more feminine than you, right?"
"Xiao Chen, I know what you're thinking!"
"Oh, you know?" I was a little curious, and to be honest I didn't even know what I was thinking right now, "So what do you tell me about what I'm thinking?"
"Do you think that if you are left alone with you, you will have a chance to catch me? Tell you, this is impossible!
Forehead......
I glanced at Zhou Qiqi in surprise and found that she looked serious, so I immediately shrugged my shoulders and said, "Don't say it...... I really don't think so. ”
"What? You mean you're not interested in me, you don't want to chase me?" Zhou Qiqi seemed to be even more angry.
"Of course, I'm most interested, especially when you're not wearing clothes. I said this deliberately.
"You!" Zhou Qiqi seemed to be so angry with me that she didn't know what to say for a while.
"You what you. I continued, "Don't forget that you owe me a favor, and can you see any other boys of the same age on this island?" so I don't have to chase you at all, because you can only follow me." Of course, if you are willing to follow Liu Yong and those guys, I have no opinion. ”
At this time, Zhou Qiqi's face turned red, and I realized that her eyes seemed to be focused on my six-pack abs again, and I immediately moved closer to her: "How is it?
"Get out!" Zhou Qiqi immediately looked away.
I think the joke is almost over, after all, there are serious things to do, in other words, even if I really want to have something to do with Zhou Qiqi, it must be done under absolute safety, and for now, I still have to build a strong camp.
I immediately flipped the hatchet in my hand and walked towards the nearest tree.
To tell the truth, this short-handled axe is not used to cut trees at all, the whole axe handle adds up to less than half an arm, and the axe blade is quite blunt, and it can be used to chop wood even if it is dead, and it must be time-consuming and laborious to cut down trees.
But at the moment I don't have any other tools, and I don't seem to lack time and strength now......
The handle of the axe was so short that I couldn't swing it with both hands at the same time, so I had to slam it down on the trunk with one hand.
Fortunately, my strength is now amazing, and with every axe that goes down, the trunk can sink into a deep gap.
The trunk was about 30 centimeters in diameter, and I slashed it about 20 times, and then the tree fell down with a "boom".
I glanced back at Zhou Qiqi, who was standing behind me, and her eyes were full of surprise.
"How's it going? I've got a lot of strength, right?" I said with a smile.
"Simple-minded and well-developed limbs. Zhou Qiqi pouted and said.
I laughed a little, and then with my axe I cut off all the miscellaneous branches and leaves from the canopy, which could be used as fuel for our campfire at night, and I quickly carried them all to the stone platform outside the cavern.
The tree was about ten meters long, and after cutting off all the other branches and leaves, I cut the trunk into three sections, each about four meters, and these three sections of wood were the pillars of the fence.
It took fifteen minutes from the time I started cutting down the trees to the time I made the three pillars, and I didn't feel too tired.
As I said before, the open space under our cave is about 200 square meters, and I roughly estimated that if I want to fence off this open space, I will need about 60 large columns, which means that I have to cut down 20 trees, which can be done in five or six hours.
Of course, this is only the first step, and then we have to find a way to drive these pillars into the ground at least one meter deep, so that the position of the pillars above the surface is more than three meters high, which can basically play a certain protective role. We will need more wood to fill the gaps between the columns, which will be a long process.
It would be nice if we had nails, and we could form a solid fence by nailing a short piece of wood between the pillars horizontally, but we didn't have nails, so we had to use a stupid way to plug the gaps between the pillars with a little bit of filling, so that the "construction" time was undoubtedly extended a lot.