The gunshots in the distance had already alarmed the people working in the field, and the Red Mansion quickly got the information through the walkie-talkie, and after a while, Gu Jin rushed over with a few people, and when everyone found Lao Zhu and **, the two were carefully pounding the crocodile's stomach with a steel drill.

Lao Zhu saw that everyone was coming, and got up to greet everyone with a calm smile, but although he also had the same calm expression as Lao Zhu, everyone could see from the young man's somewhat pale face and the beads of sweat on his forehead that the two must have experienced some kind of thrill just now.

In short, it was the first time for everyone to see such a big crocodile at close range, everyone was amazed, and the crowd of onlookers became more and more, until finally, Song Chen drove an earth-loading machine to the river, shoveled the crocodile into the bucket and drove it back to the cave, and everyone dispersed.

Tonight, everyone ate crocodile meat......

After a while, the bulldozer team led by Hou Xianglin also quickly arrived at the section of the river bank where Lao Zhu ** saw the crocodiles just now, at this time the crocodiles were gone, everyone discussed at the scene, and decided that for the safety of the burner team, the isolation zone that originally planned to arrive at the river bank should be rerouted to avoid the river bank area with crocodiles. Although this greatly increases the amount of work, in the face of safety, no matter how much work is not hesitated.

On the third day after the start of construction, all the construction work went smoothly except for this small episode.

In the evening, from the creek to the west bank of the Moon River, the second set of fire was completed, and the steps were the same as yesterday.

The difference is that the grass here is relatively sparse, so the plastic gasoline has been reduced by more than half, and it is also because these drink bottles are almost used up, and there will be many burning actions in the future, even if things like plastic bottles must be used sparingly.

When the livestock and poultry were relocated to the cave after a day of sun, the second large-scale burning operation of the night officially began.

The site is about 100 acres of land from the upper reaches of the creek to the south of the hill where the Red Mansion is located, which is the first step in improving the surrounding environment of the Red Mansion.

This time, everyone learned the lesson of yesterday, and no longer carried out any unified action when setting fires, and after the fire, people would not stand stupidly in the isolation zone to watch the excitement, but ignited the fire in turn from far to near, and the personnel after the fire were quickly withdrawn to the cave.

On the southern boundary of the farm and on the east side of the newly opened field, when the last torches were thrown into the grass opposite, most of the people were already in the cave, and as the last man ran into the cave, the gate slammed shut, isolating the noisy world from the building.

In order to observe the effect of burning, many people went to the top floor of the Red Mansion to watch the excitement, and some people also brought binoculars, because everyone found that in addition to birds, most mosquitoes could not fly to this height, so the roof of the Red Mansion became an excellent viewing platform to enjoy the fire.

By this time, a fire had risen in the distance, and the thick smoke had almost completely enveloped the land......

For dinner that day, people were treated to the authentic game of the New World---- crocodile meat and snake meat for the first time.

The former was beaten by Lao Zhu**, and the latter was picked up by everyone in the field of the overheated vegetable garden farm, and a total of more than 20 were picked up! As for birds and various eggs whose names are unknown, a lot of them are also picked up.

So the dishes of this evening turned into a game special, and Sun Lao fully showed his skills: braised crocodile meat, stir-fried crocodile meat with ginger and garlic, spicy stir-fried snake meat, salt and pepper snake slices, Qingkou snake soup, American ginseng crocodile soup and so on.

Everyone unanimously agreed to give one of the dishes---- steamed crocodile claws, to Lao Zhu and ** in recognition of their contributions, but in the end, a large part of it ended up in the bowls of Tao Tao and other children.

Obviously, everyone is in a very good mood today, and after a few days of actual combat in the field, everyone has a little bottom in their hearts about how to carry out burning and various construction activities in the future.

Now that the vegetable garden has been successfully opened up, the farm is just around the corner, and the smooth progress of these two projects has removed the possibility of cutting off the supply of vegetables and meat, which has been pressing on everyone's heart.

What's more, everyone feels that they have basically found an effective way to deal with the wild environment, and as long as they draw gourds in the same way and repeat the pattern of clearing the wasteland in the past two days, then they are afraid that they will not be able to conquer the whole island?

That night, the girls of the "Life Committee" also took out more than a dozen bottles of liquor from the cave, and the restaurant was full of staggered money, the aroma of wine overflowed, and laughter continued.

At this time, outside the window of the Red Mansion, it was another scene, the fire in the distance was even bigger, the blazing firelight illuminated the distant coastline from time to time, mixed with some pungent, heavy smoke drifted to the vicinity of the Red Mansion, the grass and wood ash flew in the air and fell on the windowsill, and the air mixed with a trace of oil smell drilled into the corridor along the gap in the window, and the smell was really pleasant.

For the New World, heaven and hell were separated from the inside and outside of the building that night......

"This guy is good!"

At this time, the lights were still on in the cafeteria, and several old guys from the General Affairs Coordination Committee and Hou Xianglin Chengdong had just finished summarizing today's work, and seeing that everyone was about to get up and go back to the dormitory, Lao Zhu suddenly said to everyone without a head.

"You're talking about crocodile hunting?"

"Responsible, not chaotic in the face of danger, and bold to attack, I feel that I have the potential to be a general......"

"Let's take a look......"

"Good seedlings, plus my own willingness, I think you can focus on cultivating."

"It also needs to be further observed, and there is no room for a half-point difference in military affairs......"

After exchanging a few words with each other, the "old guys" broke up......

January 6, 1655, the fourth day of the burning operation.

The whole project was carried out completely in accordance with Hou Xianglin's plan, first of all, three bulldozers and three small loaders drove in front and back, and then expanded the open land outside the entrance of the cave, which is a square with a radius of nearly 100 meters, which will be used as a safe gathering place for everyone outside the cave and a collection and distribution center for various bulk materials.

Soon after, it was marked as Dongkou Square by Hou Xianglin on the construction drawings.

This name has been retained for a long time, but later, the cave gate was permanently closed by the traverser due to secrecy, and made this place a private area closed to the public, and the name of the square became "Estuary Square", which seems to outsiders to have some inexplicable place names, because it is still some distance from the mouth of the Moon River, but after the name change, people in later generations do not know what this name means, let alone the origin of this name.

The construction of the entrance square was very smooth, and the terrain here was very gentle, and at this time, the builders were already proficient in the use of mechanized construction vehicles.

So it took only three hours for a flat area with a radius of nearly 80 meters to be cleared by bulldozers and rollers.

After the ground was compacted, a five-ton truck crane in the cave lifted more than a dozen large iron cages out and put them on the square again, which was done at the request of Lao Zhu, who said that the more these livestock and poultry saw the sun, the better for their health.

After the iron cage was placed, Lao Zhu carried the medicine box around the iron cage to observe the situation, accompanied by a group of elated children, the children did not go to class on vacation today, because all the female teachers were standing at the door of the cave to watch the excitement, for everyone, there was finally a relatively safe area outside the Red Mansion.

Therefore, today is the first day that everyone can really come out and see the new world without any strict protection, and of course the ladies and children should come out to breathe some fresh air and see the outside world......

When people drove the construction vehicle into the newly opened plot of the farm again, they found two more crocodiles that had been burned to death, and it seems that this kind of game meat will definitely be indispensable on everyone's table in the future.