Seeing hope, Liu Danqing had wind under his feet and accelerated towards his destination.

This is the territory of the Burmese python, be careful, there is not much of a problem, after all, animals generally have a strong sense of territory, and it is easy not to let creatures that can pose a threat to themselves stay in their territory.

After walking in a little more, the plant can already be seen clearly through the branches and leaves, and the straight green bamboo trunks indicate that it is a bamboo forest.

Approaching the bamboo forest, Liu Danqing looked more and more happy, pointed to the bamboos and said: "Look, this bamboo forest is not small, these bamboos are not small, I can use them to make water cylinders and other items." ”

"Don't think that bamboo is a unique species in China, in fact, in Southeast Asia, there are many varieties of bamboo, even more than China, and in the Americas, there are many native bamboo species, and we are in front of one of them. ”

"They are called big hedge bamboo, which belongs to a kind of hedge bamboo, and there are also hedge bamboo distribution in China, but it is not so big, so when the experts in our country translate the name of bamboo, according to its characteristics, it is named big hedge bamboo. ”

Liu Danqing introduced the bamboo in front of him, put down the spear, pulled out the mountain opening knife, picked two large green hedge bamboos with the thickness of his arm, and cut them.

For Liu Danqing, who has cutting skills MAX, these big green hedges with thin arms are trivial, and they can be easily done.

Remove the branches and leaves of the two bamboos, and cut off the bamboo tips, leaving only about two meters of bamboo body, Liu Danqing inserted the mountain knife back into the scabbard, explained: "I don't want those very thick, even if they are made into bamboo tubes, they are too big, inconvenient to carry, these arms are just thick, although the water will be less, but the size is appropriate, it does not affect our actions." ”

"They were cut to about two meters so that I could take them back to the shelter, and if they were longer, it would also affect my movements, and there were many trees along the way, and it was difficult to carry long bamboos. ”

"Before I go back, I want to pick some bamboo leaves, take them back to make tea and drink, bamboo leaf tea in addition to the taste of fragrant, but also can clear heat and relieve heat, and provide us with chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients, as well as a special ingredient: bamboo leaf flavonoids. ”

"Bamboo leaf flavonoids have good anti-free radical ability, can effectively regulate human blood lipids, and have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, and immunity improvement effects, this ingredient is very useful for us, so I want to collect more. ”

Stuffing his two pockets with bamboo leaves, Liu Danqing carried two pillars and his spear on the way back to the shelter.

Smoothly returned to the shelter, Liu Danqing hurriedly sat down by the fire, took off the wet shoes and soaked socks on his feet, put them on the shelf next to the fire to bake, took another bamboo, and said to Xiao Weiwei: "Weiwei, give me your M9 to use, now I need a saw." ”

"Now, I want to make a bamboo tube, this is actually very simple, is to intercept a section of bamboo, these big hedge bamboo knots are not very long, in order to be able to hold more water, I am going to cut two bamboo knots, so that there is about forty centimeters, plus seven or eight centimeters in diameter, about one and a half liters of water. ”

"I first used the saw on the back of this M9 knife to saw a section of bamboo with two sections, and at this time, one thing to pay attention to is that both sides should have bamboo knots, that is, both sides are sealed. There is also a room of three centimeters for a thinner section, which is good for ears for a while. ”

"Next, drill a small hole about a centimeter in diameter in a slightly thin piece of bamboo, and drill the hole at the edge, not in the middle. Then, I stuffed a sharpened branch into the bamboo tube through this small hole, and the tip touched the center of the middle bamboo, because the center of the circle is concave, so it will be well fixed there. ”

"Now set up the bamboo tube and hit the wooden stick with my mountain opening knife, and when knocking, fix the wooden stick with your hand, let it stick to the wall of the tube, and don't use too much force, so as not to fall down and destroy the top bamboo joint. Okay, now you have broken the middle bamboo, now move the stick to a lower position, continue to knock, and knock the hole on the middle bamboo a little bigger. ”

"It should be okay, the hole in the middle is already quite large, I will pour out the debris inside, and it doesn't matter if some can't be poured out, anyway, the bamboo is not toxic, and if you stay in it, you will stay in it." ”

Liu Danqing poured out the debris in the bamboo tube, picked up the M9 again, drilled two holes in the reserved three centimeters of space, untied his bracelet, disassembled, cut off a section of about ten centimeters of paracord, and then divided the remaining paracord into two, and tied the two ends of a parachute rope of 1.40 meters to the two small eyes on the bamboo tube.

Then he hung the bamboo tube on his body, facing Xiao San, and introduced his bamboo tube: "Look, this bamboo tube can be hung diagonally on the shoulder, and then moved to the back, which does not affect our actions at all, when we want to drink water, turn it around, put the mouth to the small eye on the edge of the bamboo, and we can drink water very easily, now I will make another one for Weiwei, and then use pine trees to make two wooden stoppers, and it will be completed." ”

"Tomorrow, we'll be able to travel with a little and a half litres of fresh water each, which will be a revolutionary initiative that means we'll be able to move faster without having to worry about sweating and getting dehydrated. ”

This is the kind of work that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. ”

After making two bamboo tubes, the sky was already slightly dark, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei caught the cold boiling water, ate some roast snake meat, and began to busily light a fire at the door of the shelter.

"You might think that it's a bit redundant for us to keep the barbecue fire about fifty meters downwind of the campsite, but it's really necessary, and unless you're 100% sure that there are no predators around, don't put anything that smells of food or blood in your campsite. ”

"There have been many such incidents in Africa, where people have lit fires in camps, handled hunted prey such as antelopes, cooked them, and put leftover food around the fire, and then people went into tents to rest. The result was a pack of lions or hyenas, and the smell of the food made the hungry beasts overcome their fear of the extinguishing flames, and they rushed to the food to eat, and rushed into the tents, attacking the humans inside. ”

After telling the tragic story, Liu Danqing picked up two dead trees thicker than his thighs and put them in the fire under the grill, and then pressed a thick layer of pine branches with leaves on top of them, and then returned to the shelter.

After interacting with the audience for a while, the two continued to take turns on duty at night, Xiao Weiwei in the first half of the night, and Liu Danqing in the second half of the night.

With someone to chat with and grilled snake meat as a snack, the night must have been easier to pass.

(End of chapter)