Chapter Twenty-Six: Building a Shelter
These things that are smooth to the touch and feel good don't seem to be as good as they imagined!
Their appearance is creepy, at least Wu Yi felt this way when he saw these things......
It's a leech!
There was a leech lying on his lap, and there was only one thing it could do.
Dine!
That is, blood-sucking, these creatures suck the same blood as mosquitoes, but their appearance is more terrifying than mosquitoes.
Wu Yicai was really afraid of these things, he desperately jumped out of the water, according to his experience, these things will automatically fall when people leave the water.
Personally, he thinks he knows more about these things, because he had intimate contact with them when he was a child......
How intimate it is, in the words of Wen Crepe, it is called skin kissing, and in layman's terms, he has been bitten by them.
When Wu Yicai was a child, he and a few friends went to the Shiwan on the mountain to take a bath, because it was too hot in summer, they would soak in the water and chat.
Because they didn't have air conditioning at home at that time, bathing in the water in the summer was also their summer artifact at that time.
When he was soaking in the water, he always felt something strange on his legs, so he touched it.
It was smooth and tender, and it was comfortable to touch, but he knew what it was.
He was scared at the time, he basically jumped out of the water, and when he got out of the water, the leeches fell off his body automatically.
Wu Yicai remembered that five leeches had fallen at that time, but later he only found three on the land.
They are very smart and know that the water is their cover, and once they get out of the water, they will fall off automatically, but the three leeches that he caught later ended badly.
They were sunburned alive......
But the leeches here seemed to be particularly ferocious, and even when he broke away from the water, they didn't come down at all, and they were still sucking blood there, and he had to tear them off his legs.
Touching this slippery, tender insect with his fingers made his scalp tingle and goosebumps......
Wu Yicai ripped off a total of six leeches, he basically checked his whole body, and after finding that there were no such things, he was a little relieved, but the place where he was bitten by the leeche kept bleeding.
The leeches here are indeed very powerful, much higher than those in his hometown, at least the places in his hometown that bite will not bleed so much......
And he's bleeding all the time now, and he doesn't mean to stop the bleeding himself.
Of course, the end of these leeches that bit him was not much better, and he still planned to dry them into dried corpses!
He used a thorny plant as a tool, and he pinned all six leeches to the ground, where they would slowly be scorched by the sun.
Wu Yicai's blood was still flowing, and now he had to go back to stop the bleeding first, but fortunately he found an aloe vera, which also had the effect of stopping bleeding.
Wu Yicai observed as he walked, and took a general look at the terrain here.
Above the river is a hillside that rises and grows and the trees are dense, and it is clearly not advisable to set up campground there......
He still had to find a place near the sea, far from the dense woods,
The best thing is that the soil on the ground is dirt, because he is so fed up with the sandy camp that it is too difficult to dig a pit or something.
He took a general look along the way back, and he found a very ideal place.
This place is close to the sea, so you can see the vast sea, and if a ship passes by on the sea, you can see the ship at sea for the first time.
At the same time, there are several towering and dense trees growing here, just enough to shade the sun, you must know that the sun here is very bad, in the shade of the trees and under the sun are completely two worlds!
And there is a large open space here, and he can draw a distress signal on the ground, and the planes flying above may be able to detect this distress signal.
Overall, the location is good, close to the river, great view of the sea, good shade trees, a bamboo forest growing not far from the next door, and a large area of reeds not far away......
Bamboo and reeds are good building materials!
Wu Yicai came to the temporary camp, picked a small piece of aloe vera, crushed it, and smeared it on the small hole where he was still bleeding, and it was estimated that it would not take long to stop the bleeding.
Wu Yicai originally planned to move everything over directly, but the narrow coastline not far away attracted his attention.
There's a lot of garbage out there!
Yes, it seems that he came to the windward side of this island, and a lot of garbage accumulated over the years has been washed up here, and the garbage is also varied.
Although most of them were bottles, he still found a few useful things in the trash!
A large but somewhat torn tarpaulin, and a long, resilient rubber rope, were the most precious things he had ever found!
The tarpaulin can be used as a roof, it is not leaky and impermeable, it is a convenient and ideal building material, as for this rubber rope up to half a meter, it can be used as a hunting weapon.
Slingshot!
Wu Yicai played well with slingshots when he was a child, they often put some cans in the distance, and then used slingshots to hit these cans 10 meters away, and his results were the best among his friends.
Later, they often used slingshots to shoot birds, usually some sparrows and pigeons, and then take them home and fry them, which was really delicious in the world, and the chicken and everything was far from good.
He took the garbage he had collected to the new camp's building and began to build the house, but this time there were no natural beams such as tree branches......
He had to build the frame of the beams himself, and first he had some timber to build the frame.
It stands to reason that the best wood for building a house should be bamboo, but unfortunately he does not have the right tools to collect bamboo, so the bamboo frame is not advisable, but it can be replaced with some wood.
He searched the neighborhood for a long time until he found a few pieces of wood, and it was clear that there were not enough of them, and they were not strong enough to be used to frame a house......
The best thing to do at the moment was to dismantle the raft he had made to cross the sea, from which a large amount of wood could be obtained, a total of 8 driftwood, and the wood was very hard.
Wu Yicai dismantled the raft by the sea, he obtained 8 pieces of wood, and a lot of vines, he transported them all four times in total, and now the building materials are available, and they are sufficient.
Because there is basically no branch that can be supported here as a fulcrum, he can only use a set of high-end methods to make a house, which is the crystallization of human wisdom.
The principle is called a tripod!
Using the stability of the triangle, one end of the three tree trunks is connected with vine bundles to form a movable triangle, and then one end of the three trunks is fixed in the soil.
The principle is basically similar to that of a person's index finger, middle finger, and thumb, which are treated as wooden sticks and arranged in the shape of an isosceles triangle.
Put your finger on the table, and you'll find that no matter which direction you push hard, there will be no tilting or collapsing.
The three sticks are connected together in the shape of a tripod, and they are held in each other and stable.
The length of the three stout trunks was about two meters, and he wound one end of them, then tied them tightly, drew three points of an isosceles triangle on the ground, and then dug a hole there.
After digging the pit, he set up the finished tripod, which was a bit tiring, but Wu Yicai still gritted his teeth and erected it, and then put three pieces of wood into the pit respectively, and after burying the soil, he checked it, and it was very stable.
Then I spread the broken tarpaulin I picked up on the frame of the tripod house, the tarpaulin is still a little small, some can't cover, and there is a hole in the top of the house, which is very easy to deal with......
Wu Yicai collected some leaves, and then began to mend the gaps that blocked them, and it didn't take long for them to be done.
The only thing that is a bit of a pity is that the floor of the house is dirt and very wet, and he needs to cover the ground with something to keep out the cold ground temperature.
He laid out the remaining trunks neatly on the floor of the hut, and then simply tied them with vines, and threw a thick layer of leaves on them, which would increase the softness and save the back from being separated by the trunks.
After he was done, he lay down and tried it, but found that he was still very panicked, so he was a little helpless.
Wu Yicai originally planned to just make do with it, but he accidentally saw a few trees.
These trees are supposed to be those trees!