Chapter 20: Setting the First Trap

Tong Chen dragged off the legs of each grasshopper and placed it on a stone around the fire, which was very hot because it was close to the fire, and it was more than enough to roast the grasshopper legs.

Grasshopper leg Tong Chen had eaten raw before, but it tasted better when roasted, and in less than a minute, the grasshopper leg changed color, and Tong Chen understood that the grasshopper leg was already ready to eat.

He was almost putting his freshly plucked leg on the stone on one side, and with the other hand he had already put the roasted leg into his mouth.

As for the taste, it's not delicious, but it's still a little tasty.

After a while, the legs of a string of more than a dozen grasshoppers were eaten by Tong Chen, and most of the remaining bodies were thrown aside.

After roasting the frog, it was also wiped out by Tong Chen in an instant.

Looking at the beating flames, Tong Chen had an idea in his heart, there was no fire source before, and no idea could give action, but with fire, the situation was different.

But at this moment, it was close to noon, the temperature was very high, Tong Chen didn't want to act immediately, he needed to make up for a good night's sleep before talking about anything else.

This nap, Tong Chen slept very soundly, because he knew that his nap time was no more than three hours, so he didn't have to worry about the fire going out.

Regarding this idea, Tong Chen still saw this scene from the wilderness survival program on TV, because this experiment is very similar to an experiment he did in junior high school physics, so Tong Chen has always remembered it.

Tong Chen remembers that when he was studying physics about ignition point, he did an experiment of making a paper pot out of paper and heating it under an alcohol lamp, the ignition point of paper and water is different, water can absorb the heat from the paper, so that the water in the paper bowl can reach the boiling point, but the paper is not ignited.

Of course, Tong Chen didn't use any paper to make a bowl to boil water, but learned to make a container that could hold water from tree bark on TV, to see if it could boil under the fire, and he had been drinking cold water these days, and Tong Chen felt that his stomach couldn't stand it.

If you can drink boiling water, it will be another great achievement, and it will undoubtedly be a great source of encouragement and confidence for Tong Chen's wilderness survival journey.

Tong Chen couldn't remember what specific bark the survivor used on TV, but he knew that sometimes it might not be helpful, and only by choosing the resources that could be chosen around him was the most suitable way for him.

Tong Chen looked around, and he found that there were not many barks suitable for making bowls, so far, he only felt that poplar bark and willow bark were more suitable, as for any pine or birch trees were not suitable at all.

With the experience of making bark shoes to collect bark, it is not difficult to use tree bark, but how to operate the bowl is a troublesome matter.

For the first time, Tong Chen first folded the two ends of a rectangular bark back, and inlaid it with two equal pieces of bark in front and back, so as to form a square bowl, but the problem was that Tong Chen had nothing to do about the gap between the bark.

Another method is to use paper to make three-dimensional figures when I was in junior high school, and make a large area of bark into the same six sides according to the regulations, and finally form the shape of a three-dimensional bowl, but the problem is the same as the first method, and the problem of water seepage in the gaps cannot be solved.

Tong Chen remembered that the survivors on TV seemed to use some glue to connect the gaps, but Tong Chen didn't find anything sticky around him, let alone use it.

It was a busy afternoon, until the sky was completely dark, and Tong Chen only had some semi-finished products around him, and there was no way to use them, which meant that Tong Chen was completely busy this afternoon, and the plan to make water containers failed.

Sitting by the fire, Tong Chen's heart was indescribably depressed, and he began to reflect on what he had done.

Maybe I didn't think about it comprehensively at the beginning, if I thought that I couldn't solve the problem of the gap at the beginning, I didn't have to do useless work, which was completely thankless, and I was still too tender.

Due to the fall of night, Tong Chen couldn't go to the waterhole to catch frogs in the dark, so he had to rest on an empty stomach, but fortunately, he was almost used to being hungry.

On the eighth day, Tong Chen got up, added matches to the fire, and went to the waterhole to catch frogs.

Maybe Tong Chen's good luck ran out, although he went early, but he spent a lot of effort to catch only one frog.

After eating this frog, Tong Chen felt that he couldn't bet all his hopes on the frog, and the frog was also quite cunning, and if he was unlucky, he might not even be able to catch one.

Tong Chen once again remembered the gray rabbit he met not long ago, if he could catch that rabbit, then Tong Chen would no longer have to worry about food for the rest of his life.

Tong Chen searched for a long time in the wilderness in the morning, but he still didn't find any trace of rabbits.

Lying in the shelter, Tong Chen didn't feel sleepy at all, he felt that the way he was looking for was wrong, he was completely aimless all morning, wandering around, and the chance of finding it was absolutely small.

Although I don't know what rabbits have preferences and what requirements they have, they should be on a hillside or hill, or under a large rock, and they shouldn't burrow in flat ground.

In the following afternoon, Tong Chen started to act according to this idea, and after having a specific action goal, the scope of Tong Chen's exploration also expanded a lot, not to mention, this search really made him find a hole about half a meter in diameter on a hillside far away from the camp.

Tong Chen lay at the entrance of the cave and looked at it for a long time, it was dark inside, and he couldn't see how deep this hole was.

In fact, the animal's hole is almost straight and winding, and it won't be clear at all, and in Tong Chen's impression, he always thought that it was also straight and straight.

With the rabbit's hole, Tong Chen began to set up a looper trap made of willow branches at the entrance of the hole, and once an animal passed through it, the looper would tighten more and more, and Tong Chen could eat deliciously.

In order to make the rope sleeve strong, Tong Chen chose a thicker willow branch as much as possible, and Tong Chen, the main branch at the end, also chose a poplar branch with a thick arm.

There is a key point in setting such a trap, that is, the loop of the looper cannot be too big, the circle is too big, the animal will not play any role if it runs over, the circle is too small, the animal can not drill through, we must master the animal proportion, and the looper is set just right.

After setting the trap, Tong Chen returned to the camp, he had no experience, but he always ignored the size of the hole.

For dinner, Tong Chen still ate some grasshoppers he caught on the way, and of course he only ate their legs.

Of course, this bit of food is just a drop in the bucket for Tong Chen, but he remembers one point, that is, don't waste any opportunity to eat, being in the wilderness, the body is not consuming energy all the time, and it should be replenished in time when there is an opportunity, and eating regularly is also a good hint and encouragement to the psyche, so as to help the survivors survive the difficult days in the wilderness.