Chapter 17: A sense of security
On the fifth day after destroying the trio tribe, Duan Mo's hut had been completely built. He and Zhu Xingxing looked at the sturdy wooden house, and their hearts were full of joy. At this moment, the camp finally has a bit of a home, and they no longer have to hide in their sleeping bags and shiver in the cold night.
Duan Mo was very satisfied with the cabin - the walls on all sides had been reinforced with a large amount of resin, the viscous resin could ensure that the walls would not shatter and deform when impacted, and at the same time, it also greatly enhanced the house's thermal insulation ability, Duan Mo only needed to light a campfire in the middle of the house to ensure the warmth of the whole night.
In addition, he also built a bed out of animal skins and thatch in the corner of the room, which was soft and comfortable enough for him and Zhu Xingxing to sleep peacefully all night. On the other side of the room, Duan Mo even made a few simple boxes to stack some miscellaneous items. Next to the bonfire, there was Duan Mo's grinder - this was the strongest equipment that Duan Mo could make at the moment, and powerful materials such as anesthetics and ignition powder all needed to be extracted from the grinder.
Duan Mo also deliberately left some open space in the house, which was used to place the blacksmith table and refining furnace - although Duan Mo could not make these two things immediately, the help of iron tools for survival was extremely great, and Duan Mo would start to make them as soon as his injuries improved slightly.
Everything in this room revealed a shabby atmosphere, but it made Duan Mo and Zhu Xingxing feel extremely relieved. Human beings' attachment to "home" is deeply rooted in their genes, as is Duan Mo, and the same is true of Homo sapiens ancestors millions of years ago.
However, in this joy, Duan Mo was mixed with a little worry.
The Titan Python's meat had been completely eaten, and Duan Mo had to deal with the problem of food, but his injuries had not yet improved significantly, and he couldn't go out hunting at all—even a Dilophosaurus could easily kill him.
Zhu Xingxing's condition was much better than Duan Mo's, those anesthetics themselves had a healing effect, plus her injuries were not as serious as Duan Mo's, and now she had basically returned to normal. But Duan Mo never dared to let Zhu Xingxing go out hunting—in case she encountered any fierce beasts, she couldn't fight them, she couldn't run away, and she was almost the prey of a beast.
Zhu Xingxing was also aware of the shortage of food, and she had taken the initiative to reduce her rations as early as two days ago, and at the same time took advantage of her leisure time to search for a lot of berries nearby. Relying on berries alone could not fill the stomachs of the two adults, and since all the gymnosperms that grew on the island were gymnosperms, there were no fruits such as apples and bananas, which further cut off their desire to be vegetarian.
So Duan Mo had no choice but to re-polish his spear and decided to take a risk. He had wanted to put a wall around the outside of the hut, but now it seemed that the plan had to be put on hold for the time being.
"When Homo sapiens was able to eat mammoths to extinction with a spear, Lao Tzu was stronger than his ancestors, right?"
Duan Mo sharpened the spear while cheering himself up, and suddenly, he heard an exclamation from Zhu Xingxing outside the room.
Duan Mo was startled, thinking that some wild beast was attacking, so he hurriedly grabbed his spear and limped out.
When he walked outside the house, he saw Zhu Xingxing standing alone by the lake not far away, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and there were no wild beasts around him.
"What's going on?" Duan Mo chased after him and found that on the ground in front of Zhu Xingxing, there was actually a dodo.
"Can a single dodo scare you like this?" Duan Mo frowned.
Zhu Xingxing was a little embarrassed, she explained: "I was going to pick some blades of grass just now, and suddenly I felt something moving behind my buttocks......"
Duan Mo laughed dumbly when he heard this, and glanced at Zhu Xingxing's round buttocks, "It seems that this is a lustful dodo." ”
Zhu Xingxing's face was slightly red, and he said: "I was not lightly frightened, and I smashed it with a stick, and it became like this...... It doesn't seem to be dead yet?"
Duan Mo squatted down, grabbed the dodo's neck and took a look, and found that the dodo was indeed not dead - its eyes were still open, but its eyes were dilated, and it was obviously unconscious.
"In a sense, you're good enough. Duan Mo teased: "One blow to defeat the enemy, no pain and no trace." Today's lunch is a ......."
With that, Duan Mo walked towards home with the dodo.
Zhu Xingxing suddenly opened his mouth to stop: "Wait, can you not eat it?"
"What?" Duan Mo was a little puzzled, "Could it be that you want to have a pet?" ”
"No," Zhu Xingxing shook his head and raised his hand, revealing the spar set on his wrist, "Have you forgotten my profession?"
Duan Mo immediately remembered that when he activated the developer profession, Zhu Xingxing also activated the beast tamer profession.
"Can you domesticate it?" Duan Mo asked, "But, it's just a dodo, and the weakest creature on the island is it......, right?"
Zhu Xingxing hurriedly said: "You see that its color is not bright, it should be a female dodo, we can keep it to lay eggs?"
When Duan Mo heard this, he began to hesitate a little.
Zhu Xingxing said again: "After my profession is activated, I haven't tried it yet, so you let me try it, right? If it fails, we'll eat it!"
Duan Mo nodded. He wasn't here to eat the dodo's eggs—the dodos weren't much bigger than chickens, and even if they did, they wouldn't have enough to feed the two of them. What Duan Mo valued more was that if Zhu Xingxing could really domesticate the beast, then he could find a powerful carnivore to tame it—in that case, Duan Mo and Zhu Xingxing would no longer have to worry about eating and drinking.
Thinking of this, Duan Mo handed the toot bird to Zhu Xingxing, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"
Zhu Xingxing thought for a moment, "When activating the profession, a lot of knowledge appeared in my mind - such as the habits of each creature and the food I like to eat...... If we can find food that dodos like to eat, we should be able to domesticate it, right?"
"What does the dodo like to eat?" Duan Mo looked nervous, he couldn't eat enough now, but he really didn't have any extra food to feed the other guys.
Zhu Xingxing replied: "According to the knowledge given to me by the Ark system, the dodo likes to eat...... Berry. ”
"This is easy to do!" Duan Mo breathed a sigh of relief. The dodo is so small that it can't eat much, so it just needs to collect a little bit and feed it. Duan Mo immediately found a few almond trees at the edge of the forest, and a small number of apricot yellow berries were bearing on the robes, the size of raspberries, Duan Mo took a handful of them and handed them to Zhu Xingxing.
Zhu Xingxing took the berries in his hand and slowly brought them to the dodo's mouth.
Duan Mo was a little puzzled, "It's all knocked out by you, how can it eat these things?"
However, to Duan Mo's surprise, the dodo was actually able to eat unconsciously.
I saw Zhu Xingxing put his other hand on the dodo's head, stroking it gently, and the dodo seemed to smell the fragrance of the berries, raised his head stupidly, and put his mouth next to the berries.
Zhu Xingxing hurriedly fed the berries into the dodo's mouth little by little, as if he was taking care of his own child, and even Duan Mo couldn't help but feel a little sour when he saw it.
"With such a beautiful big beauty feeding you with her hands, this can be regarded as the pinnacle of your bird life......" Duan Mo muttered.
After a while, a handful of apricot-yellow berries entered the dodo's mouth, and as the dodo fed, its consciousness gradually began to recover.
Duan Mo had already clenched his spear and stood behind the dodo, if Zhu Xingxing couldn't successfully tame this stupid bird, Duan Mo would immediately stab it to death, and he would never let the duck fly away.
The dodo slowly kicked its legs, and its eyes changed from confused and godless to normal, only to see it slowly get up, stand in place and flutter a few times, and let out a silly "coo", and actually walked towards Zhu Xingxing!
Zhu Xingxing was extremely excited, she couldn't help screaming excitedly, she took a few steps back, and the dodo immediately "cooed" and followed. Zhu Xingxing was overjoyed, turned around and ran a few steps, and the dodo actually fluttered its wings and followed behind Zhu Xingxing with a shake!
"It's a success!" Zhu Xingxing smiled brightly. "Now it's mine!"
Duan Mo witnessed this magical experience on the sidelines, and his mind was in turmoil.
When did it become so easy to tame an animal? Even a dog with a high IQ would take a lot of time to make it understand what humans meant, but this dodo actually identified Zhu Xingxing as its owner in less than ten minutes?
Could it be that this is a special buff for the Beast Trainer class?
Duan Mo could only attribute this magical scene to the head of the Ark System. Since this system can allow Duan Mo, a modern person who doesn't know anything, to master the technology of ironmaking and medicine in an instant, it is not difficult to make animals obey the orders of humans.
It's just that...... This means that Zhu Xingxing will also be able to domesticate other animals in the future?
In Duan Mo's mind, there was already a scene of himself riding on a Tyrannosaurus rex......