CHAPTER XXVII

The scream of despair echoed in the heavens and the earth, the sea breeze whistled, An Su gathered her loose hair, looked at the gloomy sky, and carried three animal skin bags, and walked towards the island. The life and death behind the pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info have nothing to do with her.

Walking up to the island, Ansu found that the vegetation on this island was more lush than that of the previous island, and it was still a thriving scene. The temperature is also relatively high, and you can hardly feel the chill after leaving the beach. Ansu found a lot of animals along the way, and all kinds of animals could be found in almost every place, but most of them looked tired, probably just after migrating, and the birds seemed more relaxed, and they still had the energy to jump and play in the woods.

Ansu followed the herd all the way forward, through the woods and meadows, towards a cone-shaped mountain. The further you go up the mountain, the warmer it gets, and after seeing the steaming hot springs on the way, Ansu can be sure that the mountain is an active volcano. There is a lot of active magma underneath the ground, and there is a lot of geothermal energy, so it is not too cold even in winter. Ansu understood why the herd had migrated here.

The crater is a lake surrounded by brownish-black volcanic rocks and scattered vegetation. Looking south from this cone-shaped volcano, there is a volcano that is constantly steaming out hot gas. There is a valley between the two volcanoes, and the two mountains look like a saddle when viewed from the side.

Ansu tasted the water in the lake, it was fresh, and planned to find a place nearby to build a shelter. The height of the two volcanoes is not high, about two or three hundred meters above sea level, there are no large rocks or caves, even if there are some good caves, they have already been occupied by some fierce beasts, and An Su does not want to provoke them for the time being. In the end, Ansu found a stone cave of about ten square meters, about one meter wide and about ten meters deep, and it was long and narrow and extended inward, and it was better to say that it was a stone cave than a rock crevice. Fortunately, the animals here are generally relatively large, and they can't live in it, otherwise it wouldn't be Ansu's turn. Although the stone cave is small, Ansu has a thin body, but he can live in it, and of course Xiao Naga can also do it.

Ansu erected two wooden pillars close to the stone cave and tamped them. Then cut some thick branches, intersect them at 90 degrees, make a rectangular wooden door with vines, tie the wooden door and a wooden post with a rope made of vines, make a movable door, and make a rope sleeve on the wooden door at the other end, put the rope sleeve into another wooden post tied with a wooden hook, and the door will be closed. Ansu's humble wooden door is just over two meters high. Because the stone cave is about five or six meters high, the higher it goes, the narrower it becomes, and Ansu is not afraid of the beast jumping through the wooden door and running in. An Suxuan noticed that the wind was blowing in front of the cave, so when a fire was lit in the cave, the smoke would not drift into the cave.

Close the wooden door and light a fire inside, and the smoke will drift out through the gap above the wooden door and be carried away by the cold wind outside the cave. The wooden door acts as a heat-reflecting device, reflecting the heat emitted by the fire back into the cave, and with the addition of geothermal energy, the inside of the cave is warm, which is completely different from the outside of the cave.

Little Naga burped contentedly on the hide, licked his paws, flicked his tail comfortably, groaned, and finally settled down. After eating and sleeping enough, it fell asleep in a daze.

Ansu glanced at the sleeping little Naga, leaned his back against the stone wall, and breathed a sigh of relief. The shelter, food, and fresh water are all available, so there is no need to worry about survival for the time being. She slowly closed her eyes, relaxing her tense body, but still holding the glistening saber in her hand.

At last it was completely dark, and it was dark from morning to night, and all that was left was the faint cold light of the animals and plants. The polar night of the alien planet has arrived.

Since the beginning of the polar night, the temperature plummeted, and fine snowflakes began to float in the sky, and it didn't take long to spread a thin layer on the ground, and the white on the ground reflected the black in the sky, and the heaven and earth seemed to be divided into two pieces, black and white, silent and deserted.

When the polar night arrived, the animals hid all at once. Even the largest number of broad-hoofed deer silently ate the roots of the grass in the snow, barely making any noise, silent as statues. Occasionally chased by predators, their wide hooves glide flat on the snow, flying up and down, quickly leaving the predators behind. Coupled with the fact that broad-hoofed deer like to huddle, it is difficult for trappers to break through their defenses and kill one. In cold conditions, the body's energy is consumed quickly, and the predators do not dare to take too much risk to catch up, and almost always return empty-handed.

Ansu hasn't made any big gains lately, the broadhoofed deer is too alert, and the cold wind in the wild is bitter, often changing the trajectory of the arrow. Ansu wanted to drive them into the trap area, but he was too weak to control the direction of the wide-hoofed deer. After so many days, Ansu's trap only caught two rats the size of a dog, they looked like rats, white fur, and liked to burrow in the snow to advance, maybe accidentally hollowed out, they fell into Ansu's trap, and were stabbed by the sharp wooden sticks in the trap.

This kind of snow rat is about thirty pounds, enough for Ansu to eat for three days, but this is far from enough, the two bags of jerky brought by Ansu have long been gone, in the cold weather, the energy intake is much more than usual, the two bags of jerky are gone after two weeks, before catching this snow mouse, they have been hungry for five days, every day is to live on leaves and grass roots, put the leaves and grass roots into the eggshell and boil, it is a meal. After a full and hungry meal, Ansu and Xiao Naga have lost weight at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. Ansu's figure was about the same as the dead branches she had chopped back, all of them were shriveled and shriveled, as if they would break if they were broken. But in this slender body, there is the most tenacious and unyielding soul.

Ansu wrapped another layer of animal skin around her body, and today she planned to go ice fishing on the frozen lake. Before leaving, little Naga was pitifully smacked on her feet and wanted to go with her, but it was really suffocating from being in the cave all day. An Su thought about it, and still carried the little thing in his arms and went out together.

The mountain is several degrees lower than the bottom, and the lake is covered with a layer of ice, like a large natural mirror. Ansu tested the thickness of the ice on the lake before stepping on it with confidence. Ansu wanted to catch a kind of silver-white fish in this lake, and when they swam, they were shining silver, like a shawl on a fairy's arm, which was very beautiful. Ansu dug a hole in the ice of the lake about thirty centimeters, tied a wire with a hook and bait to a stick, tied a piece of animal skin to the other end of the stick, and tied a crossbar in the middle of the stick. When a fish bites the bait, the bar jerks up to the top of the ice cave, and the end of the stick tied to the skin stands up. The hook is made of thorns with large spines, and a V-shaped groove is cut at the upper end and tied with steel wire. The bait hanging from the hook eats the leftover scraps.

Ansu was intently fiddling with the fishing tackle, but she didn't notice that little Naga had sneaked away.