Chapter 22: Finding Water
In fact, it is not difficult to find drinking water, and where there is lush vegetation and valleys and ravines, you can generally find a usable water source. The vegetation is abundant, indicating that water resources are abundant, and the trees themselves are also reservoirs of water. If there are valleys and ravines, the underground water can be combined to form a stream.
Our group in search of water left the camp and marched inland on the side of the mountain, and in the distance, we had already met the targets of two high mountains and deep valleys, and decided to divide our forces.
The four of us walked to a small col, and when we were about to separate from the left and the right, I suddenly felt that my feet were loose and soft, and when I looked up, I saw the wet soles of my shoes, so I stopped the other three and said, "No need to go, there is water here." ”
The three of them stopped together, looked around, and then looked at me with puzzled eyes: "Water, where does the water come from here?"
I pestle the ground with the wooden staff in my hand and said, "Here it is." ”
Na Ma Wang laughed: "Open your eyes and tell nonsense, you? You say there is water on this hard ground? You are such a wilderness survival expert?"
This guy is always unconvinced, and he wants to see my jokes at any time when he has the chance.
But I didn't bother to bother with him, so I plucked out a layer of dead leaves from the ground with my wooden staff, and said, "You see, the leaves and soil here are very wet, which means that this little col has gathered into a small stream, but it has been covered by the leaves all the year round, and it has been buried in the ground, so you can't see it." ”
"Let's clean up this layer of rotten leaves from above, dig it down and make a cistern, and then come here to get water." ”
Tian Xiaxia was also a little unconvinced, and said: "Can water really be dug up here?" I don't think it's reliable, like you just said, the two mountain ranges over there, the water flow should be bigger, and the water quality should be better, let's go over and have a look first." ”
I shook my head and said, "Dig the reservoir a little deeper, there is enough water here, and the quality is about the same." I mainly took into account that it was close to the camp and easy to get water. If we were to go to the two valleys we just saw, we would have to move the camp if it was a long way. But there are so many of us, we may not find a spacious place to camp. And this is far from the shipwreck, and it is inconvenient for us to release the rescue signal. ”
After all, I am the leader, and when I had a meeting in front of me, my qualifications were displayed, which had made others dare not comment on my ability, and even Tian Xiaxia, a sister who had received the company's wilderness survival course, was also convinced by me.
There wasn't much nonsense, I drew a circle on the ground, and under my auspices, a few people immediately started to do it.
We didn't have hoes or shovels or anything like that, so we had to do it with our hands and daggers, so I found a few more dry logs nearby and simply sharpened one end to loosen the soil.
As soon as we cleaned the top layer of dead leaves, a thin stream of water appeared in front of our eyes.
This is what I expected, but for Tian Xiaxia and the others, they believe in my ability a little more.
Several men had a lot of strength, and after a while, a small reservoir with a diameter of one meter and a depth of forty centimeters began to take shape.
"It's almost rocks down there. Is that enough?"
"It's okay, dig it down and completely remove this layer of mud, otherwise the water will not be fresh." ”
It's finally over.
Watching a wisp of clear water slowly pour into the pool, Na Ma Wang took off his shirt, revealing a black, oily body, and shouted: "It's hot, this pool is so deep, it will be full of water, I want to take a bath here." ”
When Tian Xiaxia heard this, she couldn't help but give him a blank look, and when she saw him naked and fat, and his face was obscene, she couldn't help but look white a second time.
I said, "The water here is for everyone to drink, what do you bathe here like, don't it make people sick, go back to the beach and wash it again." ”
Ma Wang cut off dissatisfiedly: "Grandma, you still have a lot of care." ”
I ignored him anymore.
This kid is not on the right path with me, but I can't do anything with him, after all, I still have to return to civilized society in the future. Of course, the premise is that this guy doesn't make trouble, otherwise I won't be polite.
We waited for more than half an hour, waited for the water in the cistern to clear, and filled the mineral water bottle with us before turning back.
On the way back, I commanded that the thorns on the road be chopped, and that every day I would come here to fetch water, and that there must be a good road to walk.
I went back and cooked some seafood for lunch, and after eating, I started to build the camp.
On the way to find a water source, I noticed a bamboo forest, which is a kind of water bamboo with a large pole high.
This kind of water bamboo, in all kinds of bamboo, the most practical, straight wall thick, tough texture, do building weaving or anything is suitable.
First of all, I took everyone to the bamboo forest and assigned a task, some people cut bamboo, some people went to branches, and some people carried it.
Because there is no proper firewood knife, chopping bamboo is the most strenuous work. This naturally fell on me and Zhao Chong's two men.
Our approach is to choose a more tender material, first with a hand knife, cut a circle in the bamboo place, and then two people pull hard, you can pull it down.
It's easy to go to the branches, take a piece of wood, and directly turn it upside down and chop it, and the bamboo branch will naturally fall flat, and then cut off the tail.
A piece of bamboo, that's it.
It was almost dusk when we brought all the bamboo materials back to the camp, but we didn't rest in order to get a good night's sleep, and we planned to work overnight to build the camp.
The bamboo material is divided into several categories, some of the coarse ones are used for modeling, the small ones are broken into two or four petals, when the fence and the bed bamboo, and the most tender ones are broken into strips and made fixed parts.
I chose a few suitable sites, cleaned them out, and in each place, I used a few big trees as ground stakes, and then tied bamboo poles to make a basic bamboo house model, and then put fences around it to cover up.
On the top, because the weather is fine now, there is no rain, so I will leave it alone for the time being.
Because there is already a layer of leaves on the head, if you add a thatched roof in the future, two layers of protection should be able to prevent the general heavy rain.
Ke Xin watched me build the bed from the side, and couldn't help asking: "Why is this bed erected?
I glanced at her, smiled at the girl with whom I had had something to do with this morning, and said, "You don't know anything. At night, the ground air is upwell, the humidity is heavy, and if you sleep directly on the ground, you are prone to rheumatism and bone disease, and you can cope with it if you are a day or two. But we don't know when the rescue team will come, so we have to plan to stay for more than half a month or more. In addition, it is too cold at night, so we can also burn a fire under the bed to keep warm. ”
Kexin grinned: "You think really thoughtfully." ”