Chapter 16 Rebuilding the Homeland
After this toss, more than half a morning has passed. Although Duan Mo was already planning to return, he was a little worried when he looked at the giant python's huge body.
This big snake looked like it weighed a ton of weight, and with him and Zhu Xingxing, there was no way to carry it back no matter what. But if they were abandoned like this, Duan Mo was a little distressed - Duan Mo and Zhu Xingxing's injuries were serious, and they might not be able to continue hunting in the short term, this snake could make them eat for a long time, not to mention that the snake skin and snake tendons were all valuable materials, and they would be of great use in the future, Duan Mo was reluctant to throw them away no matter what.
He thought about it and decided to process this python first.
Duan Mo also had a stone axe on his body—this stone axe was found from the fat man's corpse, and although the axe was not too sharp, it could still come in handy when it could be used to deal with a dead snake.
He first chopped off the python's head with a stone axe – a process that took a lot of time. The giant python's body was too thick, and its neck was thicker than Duan Mo's waist.
After that, he peeled back the snakeskin bit by bit, revealing the muscles inside. This python is extremely strong and has an astonishingly high muscle content, and the meat is much more precious than berries and must not be wasted.
During this process, Zhu Xingxing has been hiding in the distance and not daring to intervene, she seems to be very afraid of snakes.
What surprised Duan Mo even more was that Zhu Xingxing actually recognized this kind of big snake - according to her, the name of this snake was Titan Python, and it was the largest snake that had ever appeared on the earth. The titan python feeds on small crocodiles, which became extinct as early as 60 million years ago.
But this Titan Python and Zhu Xingxing see a lot of differences in the book, such as...... Titan pythons do not have fangs and have no toxins.
But Duan Mo was indeed stunned by the Titan Python, which showed that the big snake in front of them was not weak in poison - it could completely anesthetize an adult man, which many creatures could not do.
Zhu Xingxing couldn't find any answer to this abnormal phenomenon, and could only blame it on this bizarre desert island. After all, on this island, all kinds of prehistoric creatures from different eras can actually gather together, which in itself is an extremely nonsense thing.
Duan Mo was even more puzzled by this, but he didn't care - knowing why the Titan Python suddenly became poisonous didn't help him survive.
He cut the meat on the Titan python's body into small pieces, peeled off the tendons and skin, packed everything that could be used on the snake's body, and then embarked on the return journey with Zhu Xingxing.
When Duan Mo dissected the giant python, Zhu Xingxing was not idle, she quickly knitted two ** bags with thick hemp rope, and the two of them carried the sack on their backs and walked hobbly in the jungle, like two farmers fleeing the famine.
For the first time in his life, Duan Mo was so eager to return to his camp, and he avoided the area infested by the beasts as much as possible, and took the safest route to his home—although it would take a detour, it was worth it in Duan Mo's opinion. Now that they are badly injured and have limited mobility, and at the same time they have plenty of food, there is no need to take any chances.
So, when they returned to their little camp by the lake, it was already sunset, and it was nearly evening.
Looking at the campfires, sleeping bags, and neatly stacked timber in the distance, Duan Mo couldn't help but let out a long sigh, he actually felt that this place was so warm.
Although he only left for a day, Duan Mo could be said to have jumped repeatedly at the Ghost Gate on this day, and it took him nine deaths to pick up his little life.
After lighting the bonfire, Duan Mo happily jumped into the cool lake water to take a bath, and then heated the meat slices of the Titan Python and ate them, only then did he feel that he was back in the world.
Zhu Xingxing's face was also full of joy of escaping death, under the action of anesthetics, her wound was no longer serious, and it would be completely healed in a few days, this unprecedented good state gave her a glimmer of hope for her future life. After Duan Mo took a bath, she also walked to the lake with her clothes, but she didn't jump directly into the lake like Duan Mo, but after walking for a while, she quietly went into the water when she was sure that Duan Mo couldn't see her.
Duan Mo originally wanted her to take a bath under his nose - it wasn't that he was lustful, but he was really afraid that Zhu Xingxing, a little girl, would encounter any accidents. However, Duan Mo thought about it, but he still didn't say it after all. Duan Mo is quite familiar with this area, there shouldn't be any danger, and it is better for him to save some face for Zhu Xingxing.
After eating and drinking, sitting by the warm campfire, Duan Mo began to think again. It's a good habit he's been in for a long time – whenever his body allows, he's always going to review what he's been through during the day. Survival in the wilderness depends not only on physical strength, but also on a careful brain that can effectively keep oneself away from danger.
This harrowing experience made Duan Mo even more wary of the other humans on the island, and he also decided that he must build a strong and powerful shelter. At the very least, we can't let Zhu Xingxing's kidnapping happen again.
He set his sights on the piles of wood in the distance. In his original plan, his shelter would only need to fend off the beasts, but now that his imaginary enemy has become human, it means that the shelter must be upgraded.
A solid fortress that had already begun to pop up in his mind......
After Zhu Xingxing washed his body, he returned to the camp with wet hair, both of them didn't sleep well for two consecutive days, and at this time they were finally safe, they didn't have the heart to chat, and soon snuggled up and fell asleep.
After a night's rest, Duan Mo's energy finally recovered, and as soon as the sky was bright, he devoted himself to the work of building the camp with great interest.
The thickness of these stacks of wood is not the same, the thick one Duan Mo can't hold at all, and the thin one is almost the same as Zhu Xingxing's arm, Duan Mo first sorted them out, and then sharpened the axe to the sharpest, and then began to trim the wood.
Although Duan Mo now had blueprints for the refining furnace and blacksmith table, according to the blueprints, making metal tools required refining a large amount of iron ore. So far, Duan Mo has not seen the existence of iron ore on the island, which means that he still has to use these bulky stone tools at this time.
Duan Mo's hard work soon woke up Zhu Xingxing in his sleep, and Zhu Xingxing woke up and joined the construction of the camp very cooperatively. Duan Mo was reluctant to let her do manual work, so he assigned her to work on the side. Both of them have different degrees of injuries to their arms and legs, and they are simply two disabled people, but these two disabled people are not slow to work together.
Duan Mo first sharpened the finer timber and nailed it into the soil as a foundation, and then made the coarse timber into planks and spread it on the foundation as a floor. In the jungle, a large amount of resin can be seen everywhere, these resins can play the role of cement and glue, Duan Mo sent Zhu Xingxing to collect a lot of resin, and smear it between the gaps of the wooden boards, on the one hand, to strengthen the wooden boards, and on the other hand, to make the ground more flat.
This work is simple to say, but it is extremely physically and time-consuming, and it took three whole days to do it.
In the course of three days, Duan Mo rose and rested, cut down almost all the trees in the surrounding dense forest, and finally built a foundation of about 30 square meters, and built a hut on the foundation. Duan Mo was pleased with the hut - every wall of the hut was reinforced with resin and hardwood, and he estimated that the foundation would survive the impact of medium-sized beasts.
The only fly in the ointment is that the size of this hut is really small. He couldn't help but smile bitterly at this situation.
In modern society, he can only live in a 30-square-meter hut, but he didn't expect to come to a prehistoric desert island, he can only live in a 30-square-meter hut.
Either way, the hut would be able to shelter him from the elements. The island's climate is extremely extreme, and this hut is effective at sheltering from torrential rain, cold and scorching sun.
In the past three days, Duan Mo and Zhu Xingxing have also eaten the Titan Python. Originally, according to Duan Mo's plan, this giant python was enough for the two of them to eat for five or six days, but he forgot one thing - under the high-intensity labor every day, their food consumption was also increasing rapidly.
As a result, he had to slow down the construction of the camp and began to make some time to stock up on food. In Duan Mo's vision, his camp would also need a ring of tall stone walls—but this project was bigger than building a hut, and it would not be possible to achieve it anytime soon.
Fortunately, in the past few days, Duan Mo has not encountered any more dangers, which has also reduced the urgency of building a camp. What Duan Mo didn't expect was that in the early morning of one day, Zhu Xingxing suddenly brought a huge surprise to himself.