Chapter 3: The Shadow of the Tiger and the Wolf
In later generations, treehouses were basically made of wooden planks, and in some places in the south, there were bamboo-based treehouses, but to put it bluntly, a treehouse was just a space where trees could be safely lived.
Before there were no good tools, and time was urgent, Ma Qiang thought of the rope tree house.
There were ropes, there was clay, and it was enough to build a makeshift treehouse.
As soon as he thought of it, Ma Qiang thrust the pistol into his waist and began to prepare to polish the stone tools.
What Ma Qiang has to do is a stone axe.
Even if you are going to make a temporary treehouse out of rope and clay, you need an axe to chop off some branches from the tree, and the stone axe is actually not difficult to make.
There are two kinds of stone tools to make, one is called beating, the other is called grinding, the grinding stone tools are naturally more delicate than the beating, but it takes a lot of time, and the stone tools that are beaten require more luck and skill.
However, stone tools such as stone axes can be easily sharpened.
Ma Qiang was about to find a suitable axe handle first, and he found a wind birch, the wood of the wind birch is hard, but the skin is very brittle, and the flesh is smooth when peeled off, which is a very suitable axe handle.
As for how to take this branch off....
Fire solves everything.
Ma Qiang held a burning torch and carefully burned the picked branch, which was of the right thickness, straight in shape, and quite far away from other branches, so it was easier to burn.
But still be careful if you really burn the tree completely, if it causes a forest fire.... But no one came to arrest Ma Qiang.
By the time the branch was broken, the first pot of potash had been boiled, and the second pot was half dry.
The handle of the axe is done, and the next step is to make the axe, Ma Qiang found a stone of the right size and began to polish it on the edge of the river, in fact, it is grinding, constantly grinding in one direction, making this direction sharper.
The materials are ready, how to install it?
Still rely on fire.
Ma Qiang peeled off the skin of the branch, then put it in the water and scraped the skin with the stone just now, so that the skin was smoother, scraped almost and then took out the key, began to dig a small hole at the top of the branch, chiseled out a hole one finger wide, one or two centimeters deep, then picked up some ignition and stuffed it, and then lit the fire, each time the hole will be burned wider and deeper, until it is burned through, and finally the polished stone is installed into it.
A stone axe is all it takes.
Of course, in order to be more stable, Ma Qiang also reinforced it with a rope.
After doing this... Ma Qiang was hungry again.
These physical tasks are really energy-consuming.
The second jar of potash was also cooked, and Ma Qiang pinched another cup and two lids, ready to make dinner.
Dinner is naturally river fresh, but this time Ma Qiang wants to get some fish to eat, as well as river crabs and river shrimp.
Ma Qiang came to the river with a clay pot, first took a hammock and put it in the water, and tried to catch fish.
With a fishing net to catch fish is much simpler, as long as you put some shell meat, snail meat or earthworms in the middle of the fishing net, there will be shrimp, crab or fish running over after a while, at this time as long as the fishing net is quickly collected, there will be goods!
Of course, this is also the fact that there are many fish in this river, and I have to say that Ma Qiang's luck is good, if he is thrown into the desert, he should have turned into a dry corpse at this time.
After catching four or five fish, Ma Qiang began to grill the fish, and the human tongue, as long as there is salt, will feel that it tastes good, and salt is the first of all flavors, which is not a casual saying.
With the fish roasted over there and the water burning on the fire, Ma Qiang continued to cut the thatch, and the tree house to be built will use a lot of thatch.
When Ma Qiang smelled the fragrance, the grilled fish had turned golden brown, looking at the grilled fish that was constantly dripping with fish oil, Ma Qiang couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, put the boiling water on the side to cool, Ma Qiang carefully sprinkled some potassium salt on the fish, blew it, and ate it again.
It's the fragrance of his M!
Ma Qiang, who hadn't eaten salt for a few days, only felt that his tears were about to come out, and five fish entered his stomach in less than ten minutes, and he still felt a little unfinished.
The sun was gradually setting in the west, and Ma Qiang knew that he was ready to rest, and this time, Ma Qiang lit a fire next to his hammock, the light of the fire may attract the attention of the beast, but it can give Ma Qiang some sense of security.
And like a roe deer, not only is he not afraid of fire, but he also wants to come and taste it... I guess it's still a minority.
Ma Qiang held the gun in his hand and slowly fell asleep.
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Ma Qiang carved a stroke on the tree, he suddenly felt that he had to remember the days, and he didn't know when he would be able to leave this mountain forest, Ma Qiang had already thought about it last night, he had to prepare at least five days of food before he could try to leave here, otherwise once he got to a place where he couldn't find food, he would be too dangerous.
In the primeval forest, let alone five days, some people are trapped for decades.
Continuing to make tree houses, weaving straw ropes, digging clay, and preparing raw materials was time-consuming, and by the time it got dark, Ma Qiang had already braided hundreds of meters of rope.
Another day, Ma Qiang found a few trees at a suitable distance, and began to build a base with ropes, Ma Qiang did not see any large animals in the past two days, even the roe deer and wild boar he saw before did not appear, probably these animals also knew that there were humans here, only some small animals such as pine trees and rabbits were infested.
When Ma Qiang carved a straight character on the tree, Ma Qiang's tree house was finally ready.
I saw that a grass and mud house was erected by countless ropes in the middle of the six trees, and the outside of the house was all protected from rain with thatch, and a rope ladder hung on the ground, and ropes were tied to the trees around the grass and mud house, and the clay pots were tied to the ropes, as long as there were large animals approaching, it would inevitably cause the sound of the clay pots.
All in all, Ma Qiang has done the ultimate for safety.
"Bang la la"
Ma Qiang came to the river and pulled the fishing net hard, and the fat-headed and big-eared river fish kept jumping in the fishing net.
"It's time to get ready to leave."
Ma Qiang never thought of staying in this barren mountain and wilderness forever, after all, people are social creatures, and seclusion in the mountains and forests may be suitable for others, but it is definitely not suitable for Ma Qiang, who has been living in the city of later generations.
If you want to leave this unknown mountain forest safely, food, water, and weapons must be prepared.
There is actually a lot of water in the woods, to be precise, as long as there are leaves, there is water, if a person dies of thirst in the woods, then it can only be said that he does not dare to eat leaves.
As for food, Ma Qiang thinks of these river fish.
After disemboweling, the fish is hung on a covered fire and smoked, so that the aldehydes in the smoke can kill various microorganisms on the fish, which is the reason for the long shelf life of smoked food.
After smoking, Ma Qiang will also sprinkle some potassium salt on the food, so that it will taste much better.
A large piece of the grass by the river was unconsciously cut off by Ma Qiang, and the potash also burned a full clay pot, which was estimated to weigh two catties, and at this time, the second orthography on the tree was only one stroke.
"Good! The crossbow is complete! ”
Ma Qiang looked at the small cross bow in his hand, and waved it happily, this is his first projection weapon in addition to stone axes and stone spears, he originally wanted to make bows and arrows, but archery requires skills, he can't guarantee that he can learn such a weapon in a short time, and the cross bow is very similar to a gun, which is more suitable for him.
The cross bow is actually a crossbow, a simple crossbow is really simple to make, first find two suitable straight wood, slowly polish it off the skin with a stone axe, so that the two pieces of wood can be closely attached to the shape of the cross, and then fix it with a rope, it should be noted that the position must be in the middle of a piece of wood, and then it is to do the machine bracket, in order to do the machine bracket, Ma Qiang scrapped the three racks to barely succeed.
The main thing is that there is a lack of tools, and Ma Qiang only knows the principle, and he hasn't really done it.
Finally, there is the bowstring, and the bowstring Ma Qiang directly replaced it with a thatched rope.
Many people think that the bowstring needs to be elastic like cow tendon, but it is actually a misunderstanding of the bowstring, which is taken for granted, the bowstring is a material with high strength and low deformation, and there is basically no elastic requirement, of course, it cannot be completely absent, otherwise it will break as soon as it is pulled.
The so-called cow tendon is actually attached to the outside of the bow arm, and this cow tendon is not a thick and long thing as imagined, but an animal tendon, a piece the size of a thumb, including the horn, does not really put a horn on both ends of the bow, but is cut into thin slices and dipped in the inside of the bow arm with fish gelatin.
After all, the so-called elastic power of a bow or crossbow is not given by the bowstring, but by the bow arm.
The completion of the cross bow has increased Ma Qiang's sense of security.
As for the arrows, Ma Qiang chose sharpened wood, not because he didn't want to add arrows, but it was too difficult to process arrows in stone, so Ma Qiang simply gave up.
When the night came, Ma Qiang hung the smoked fish on the tree and got into his nest, the smoked fish was floating in the wind, Ma Qiang put a cross bow in his left hand, put a pistol in his right hand, and slowly entered the dream with his mobile phone.
"Whew!!"
Suddenly, a wolf howl made Ma Qiang open his eyes violently, this wolf howl was too close, it seemed to be no more than a hundred meters... Can wolves climb trees?
Ma Qiang put his phone in his pocket and carefully opened the door of the treehouse to look outside.
Ordinary wolves can't climb trees, but not all wolves can't, for example, brown wolves can climb trees, to put it bluntly, I'm really hungry, let alone climbing trees, and it's okay to drill the fire ring.
The night wind of the mountains and forests brought the sound in the distance, and the wolf howls made Ma Qiang's hand grip tighter, and in the dim moonlight, it was dark in the distance, and nothing could be seen, but Ma Qiang could be sure that there must be a wolf pack passing by in the distance.
"Roaring !!"
Suddenly, a voice that made Ma Qiang's heart tremble came from the side, this voice Ma Qiang was sure that he had heard it before, but the animal that made this sound at that time was in the zoo, it was the roar of a tiger.
Ma Qiang forced himself to calm down, he hadn't seen a tiger for so many days, it can be seen that the tiger doesn't like to come here, but when he thinks of those roe deer, wild boars or something, Ma Qiang feels that it is perfectly correct for the tiger to come here, after all, there are many animals here.
Probably to declare territorial sovereignty, the wolf howl over there also became louder.
Ahh
Ma Qiang can now basically determine that he should be near the northeast in the future, because this group of wolves and the tigers who don't know if it's one or two are starting to compete, you call me, I call you, Ma Qiang even has a kind of these two sides shouting to each other "You dare to yell at me?" "What are you doing!" "Roar again!" "Try it!" illusions.
Now Ma Qiang's only hope is that the uncles on both sides don't notice him, otherwise even if he has a gun... That's no different from nothing.
Maybe there are really warriors in this world who can kill tigers with their bare hands, but Ma Qiang is very confident that he is definitely not on this list.
How powerful is the tiger, let's put it this way, the tiger has the power of five or six hundred kilograms with a casual slap, and that is really the power that can smash a human head like a watermelon.
Later generations like to say that tigers are cats' apprentices and can't climb trees, but tigers have excellent bouncing power, and can easily jump to a height of four or five meters.
And Ma Qiang is only about three meters from the ground now, mainly because Ma Qiang is worried that the tree house he made will collapse if it is not strong, if he knows that he will face the current situation, he has to make the tree house a hundred meters above the ground to feel at ease.
The tiger's roar gradually went to the side of the wolves, and it was far away from Ma Qiang, and Ma Qiang's fiercely beating heart began to slow down.
Ma Dan, I still want to go out of the mountain, but in this environment, I don't even want to go down to the tree now.
Ma Qiang was really scared, although he knew that there were wolves in this mountain, Ma Qiang felt that he could try to get out if he had a gun, but he knew that there were tigers... Ma Qiang just wants to try to make the treehouse a little taller now.
"Roar!" "Woooooooo
At this time, the wolf howl and tiger roar in the distance became intense, and Ma Qiang guessed that the two sides had probably met.
It's better to fight, it's better to die!
Maybe God really heard the expectations in Ma Qiang's heart, the tiger roar and the wolf howl began to be messy, and there was a faint sound of trees being crushed, Ma Qiang now especially wanted to have a drone, but thinking about it was impossible.
When I get out, I must make a drone to come out!
Ma Qiang didn't care about the level of science and technology outside, and secretly made up his mind.
After about three or five minutes, it was quiet outside, and Ma Qiang didn't dare to sleep, so he continued to widen his eyes and listen to the movement outside with his ears pricked up, hoping that it would be dawn soon.
After more than ten minutes, Ma Qiang heard a rustling sound from below, Ma Qiang hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, this is unlucky, something is down there, it is better to be a stupid roe deer!
After a while, there was a clang, and it was the sound of pottery breaking.
This ruined thing! What is this, this is, smashed all the pots and pans that I had worked so hard to make.
Ma Qiang thought about it and understood again, his pot had boiled the potassium salt so many times, and when he smoked the fish, he put salt again, which must have caused potassium salt to fall to the ground and the pot, and was found by some animal and licked it.
As mentioned earlier, there are no animals on land that do not need salt, and most animals rely on eating meat or licking the land to replenish their salt, but if you find a place where a large amount of salt gathers, it will also be regarded as a treasure by animals.
In ancient times, the panda was also called the iron-eating beast because the panda wanted to lick the villagers' pots because there would be salt on them.
Some beasts like to find people to eat after eating people, which is also because the salt content of humans is higher than that of other creatures.
Hemp eggs! Why can't the smell of people be stinky, now Ma Qiang really likes that he smells all over his body, and all animals smell it!