Chapter 10 Extreme Challenges
Stern kept flipping the grilled fish, in order to avoid scorching he brushed a little water from time to time, the fish he picked up weighed about a pound and a half, and after cleaning it, it was less than half a pound and less than a pound, and it was not enough to fill his stomach. The small space was filled with the aroma of grilled fish, and Stern picked up the grilled fish that had been grilled and ate it slowly, the meat was tender and delicious, and the aroma lingered after entering the mouth. After eating the grilled fish, Stern continued to add firewood to the fire and turned over the mud in the fire so that the seabirds could be evenly heated. After a while, Stern carefully warped the mud out of the fire with a twig, the mud was dry and hard, and he sniffed it with his nose, but he could not smell any aroma, which showed that the sealing effect of the mud was very effective. Stern took out the axe and gently knocked it towards the mud, and suddenly a thick aroma of meat accompanied by the aroma of wine came to his nose, took out the seabird and put it in the iron basin, Stern couldn't wait to tear off a bird's leg and eat it in a big gulp, the meat was fragrant, this time the fragrance of the seabird was not emitted, nor was it diluted by the soup, all the flavors gathered on the seabird, which was a grade better than the previous pot of seabird stewed mushrooms.
Stern ate half of them and was full, but he couldn't eat the other half anymore, so he tore off a piece of canvas with his dagger and put it aside. After a short rest for dinner, Stern salted another seabird and hung it on a bamboo fence with hemp rope, and then he did push-ups, 100 of them in one go, and then wiped his face and went to bed. For the next few days, Stern continued to train as he had done on the first day, sit-ups, pull-ups, cross-country running, military boxing, push-ups, and the number of training was still the same, but the number slowly increased as he improved. After a week, the number of sit-ups increased from 120 to 250, the number of pull-ups increased from 30 to 60, the number of cross-country long-distance running increased from one and a half an hour to two times in two hours, and the number of push-ups increased from 100 to 300. He also practiced archery with moving seabirds as targets every day, but because the weather was getting colder and colder, the seabirds all migrated south for the winter, and only one or two flew every day, and only seven in a week, in addition to the daily meal, there are now five salted seabirds hanging on the fence.
A week later, in addition to his routine, Stern added a more difficult workout, stealth. Stealth is a special training for Lin Yifei when he was in the special forces in the past, and the main feature is that he can quietly approach the enemy with superb footwork and body skills, and then use weapons such as daggers to defeat the enemy in melee combat. Learning to stealth requires a lot of physical coordination, and Stern would have been impossible to do a week ago. Now he has been practicing day after day for a week with a predetermined goal, and he feels that his footwork and technique have become more and more proficient. This week, Stern has hit five seabirds, some of which have been empty-handed, and so far the six seabirds hanging from the pen have been able to hold out for about 12 to 15 days. The weather is getting colder and there are fewer seabirds, and Stern is running out of food to eat, so it seems that he will have to find another source of food.
After two weeks of bird hunting, Stern found that there were fewer and fewer seabirds, and that a crisis was approaching, and it was necessary for him to take the initiative to turn the situation that was becoming increasingly unfavorable to him. He planned to head towards the forest in the center of the island, this island was very large, and if he wanted to enter the center of the island, it would be basically impossible to complete the task without spending ten days and half a month. Entering the forest may encounter unforeseen dangers, so he must make meticulous preparations before he can venture into the forest with confidence. The last two Sundays of physical training have been not bad, Stern's training goals and requirements have been completed quite well, the quality of all aspects of his body has improved rapidly, according to his current strength, he should be able to defeat a high-level warrior, if he encounters an animal such as a tiger and lion in the forest, he should be able to barely defeat, if he encounters a low-level demonic beast, it may be no problem to escape with the stealth skill he has just practiced recently.
In the afternoon, Stern set out to the bamboo forest to cut down a bamboo, and some large broad-leaved leaves to take to the cave, and spent an afternoon making two buckets of bamboo arrows and a conical bamboo hat, and there was not much left of the bamboo arrows he had made. In the evening, Stern wrapped two seabirds in mud and roasted them in the fire, which was the dry food he would bring with him on his departure tomorrow to explore the forest. The two seabirds were able to last for four days, and he also had a packet of dried cassava that lasted about five days, so this time he planned to go three days deep into the forest and return to the cave for another three days. Stern burned wood and cooked a bowl of seabird soup for dinner, and the fire roasted dry food for the next three days. After dinner, he began to pack some luggage, two buckets of bamboo arrows for hunting on the road, two sacks and a bundle of hemp rope for handling prey, a bag of dried cassava, a bucket of fresh water, two seabirds wrapped in mud, these are all dry food to bring on the road, an axe, a dagger weapon, needless to say, a few pieces of flint are necessary tools for staying in the wilderness at night, and a canvas the size of a quilt is sleeping in the open, the quilt is easy to be soaked in the water mist, and the canvas cover it can separate the water mist in the early morning, and you can sleep a little better. A spare set of clothes, a spare pair of boots, in case of rain, you can also change into a dry one, and a can of rum, you can drink two sips on the road to ward off the cold, and if you are injured, you can also use it to clean up the wound and disinfect it. After emptying the other things in the spatial ring, he packed all these things into the spatial ring, and the ring was full, and it really couldn't hold anything else.
After sorting out all the things to bring, Stern went to bed, and for the next few days he would need to sleep out and explore the uncharted territory of the island, and he would have to get a good night's sleep. It's been three weeks since I arrived on the island, and I've been wandering around the periphery of the island during that time, and I haven't thought about going to the center of the island to explore, and now I have no choice but to do it. Stern got up early, put a thin quilt in a sack, tied a backpack with hemp rope on the outside, and looked like a quilt carried in the army, washed his face and brushed his teeth, ate some dried cassava, and began to set off. He put the sack of the quilt on his back, put the bow of his purple shirt over his shoulders, and then put the bamboo hat on his head, and walked towards the center of the forest to the east.
The cave where Stern is located is on the west side of the island, the weather is fine on the first day out, he holds a compass in his hand, and slowly walks east along the foot of the cave forest, as long as he keeps walking to the east, he can reach the center of the forest, he has found a lot of traces of wild beasts on the way, but it is not obvious that the traces left by the big beasts, so Stern is too lazy to track, he walks in the direction of the compass pointer.