Volume 1 The First Advent of the Primal Chapter 19 Building the Foundation and the Longbow

Ding Qi, who felt that his body had recovered a lot, took a flashlight and went to the bamboo forest to cut a big bamboo back, cut it off with a saw, opened up the bamboo joints, and then used the axe to split into bamboo strips that were about 90 centimeters wide and about 90 centimeters long, and then took out a straight knife and began to scrape these bamboo strips into round, small thumb thick bamboo strips, straight and smooth, the front end was sharpened, and the prototype of the arrow slowly appeared.

Every three or four hours today, Tinch would release the longbow string, and then adjust the position of the bowstring down by a groove, repeating the process of releasing the tension, and by tomorrow afternoon the bow should be ready for forming.

Before going to bed, Ding Qi fed the rice porridge by the fire to the hungry little cutie in the carriage, and looked at the baby lynx eating and drinking, and his heart was full of joy and pride. After washing, Ding Qi also quickly fell asleep.

The night is quiet, but beneath the calm surface lies carnage and blood, as well as the law of nature - the law of the jungle.

The next morning, the little cutie made a little noise, and Ding Qi got out of the car, washed, cooked, peeled and roasted grouse, and worked hard for a while. The method of grouse is relatively simple, such as calling flower chicken, wrapped in a layer of large leaves, and then wrapped in a layer of yellow mud and thrown into the campfire. While waiting for breakfast, Ding Qi came to the trunk of the car, ready to clean up the little cute nest and give it air by the way.

The moment he lifted the tailgate lid, Ding Qi's eyes were attracted by a pair of big eyes that were rolling back and forth. The clear blue eyes are full of aura, bright and spiritual, and make people feel like they will fall into it when they look at it. As the light changes, the color of the eyes changes constantly, from blue to amber, then to yellow, and finally to gold, which is fascinating.

It's cutie, and its eyes are completely open. Looking up at Ding Qi who greeted it, the little cutie was full of curiosity. I want to get closer to this "mother" who feels familiar and kind, but I am a little scared and overwhelmed. It screamed softly, as if it were a call.

Looking at the baby lynx in front of him, Ding Qi opened his hands and slowly approached it, and could feel the little cutie's body trembling, but only for a moment. It gradually adjusted to the temperature of its hands, curled up between its hands, stretched out its tongue and gently licked the palm of Ding Qi's hand. Looking at Ding Qi's eyes were full of joy, he suddenly jumped out of Ding Qi's hand, jumped on Ding Qi's arm, climbed on his shoulder, and kept rubbing Ding Qi's face with his head, full of infinite attachment and reluctance.

Holding the little cutie to the bonfire, put a breakfast that belongs to it in its lunch box, after a little cooling, the little cutie rushed over, bowed her head and swallowed the breakfast rich in nutrients and energy, from time to time from the throat whining, as if eating a beast that eats alone, showing the baby teeth that have just grown, for fear that others will snatch its food, has reflected a little bit of the domineering of the jungle beast.

Ding Qi tore off a piece of meat from the grouse and threw it into his mouth, it was a little burnt, and there was a strong earthy smell, the salt taste was very light, and the meat without seasoning was really unpalatable, but he still insisted on eating half of the grouse.

After breakfast, clean up the little cute nest, and then put it back to sleep and grow its body, Ding Qi took out the long-handled shovel on the trunk wall, came to the planned foundation of the house, and devoted himself to the work of excavating and tamping the foundation.

The depth of the foundation was 80 centimeters and the width was 30 centimeters, and it took Ding Qi a morning to dig the entire foundation. Rather than rushing to fill in the stakes, Tinch put the cutie under the back seat and drove to the bottom of the mountain, where he found some flat rocks and small pebbles and threw them into the trunk of the car, ready to be pulled back for use as a foundation cushion.

After pulling back three carts before and after, after evenly placing these materials in the foundation, Ding Qi carried a pine wood and smashed the entire foundation twice, sprinkled with ten centimeters of soil, and then tamped it with pine wood to ensure that the entire foundation was flat and strong, and would not sink due to the extrusion of heavy objects above.

The entire foundation compaction took Dinch an afternoon, not including the time he had to adjust the longbow. After removing the longbow from the bow tamer in the middle, Ding Qi didn't bother to try the quality of the bow and continued to devote himself to the process of building the house.

After dinner, Tinche lit a large bonfire in the middle of the foundation to illuminate it, and he planned to spend the evening building the walls of the house in a hurry. Since there was no one else to help, Ding Qi had to move the logs one by one, stand on the foundation, and then fill in the soil after placing them neatly, filling one side and then filling the other.

The wood is truncated to the dimensions of the previous design, so that the walls on both sides can form a slope, so that other materials can be applied to form a herringbone roof. Then use thick wooden piles to tamp the empty soil on both sides of the wooden wall, sprinkle water, and the foundation work of the whole house construction is completed. It was late, but Dingch teased and fed him before going to bed.

When he got up the next day, the sun showed a rare smile, and Ding Qi also let the little cutie come out to bask in the sun for a while before putting it back. After breakfast, Ding Qi put on his equipment, took a wooden spear, a newly made longbow, and a few arrows, and went to patrol the mountain to see if there was any harvest at the trap.

"The king called me to patrol the mountains, I turned the world, beat my drums, beat my gongs, and life was full of rhythm!"

There isn't much meat in reserve at the moment, and since he fell in love with Cutie, Tinki has buried his mother's meat and fur in the ground, so that the little guy won't be able to smell it and affect the emotional cultivation between him and Cutie.

As he went, Ding Qi tried shooting a few arrows and felt the power of the longbow. It takes about 30 kilograms of strength to draw a full bow, the direct range is 80 meters, and the effective range is about 50 meters, which can basically meet the requirements of Ding Qi's hunting and self-defense, but Ding Qi's archery skills still need to be strengthened. Although as a survival freak, I have learned things like knives, guns, and bows and arrows, but whether I am good or not is another matter. Guns are very familiar to him, marksmanship is not bad, and knife skills are also a compulsory course, but he has very little time to learn bows and arrows.

While walking and practicing the bow and arrow, Ding Qi first went to the location of those traps to check it, all five traps were triggered, but only two complete animals remained in place, one was a hedgehog, very big, and very fat, and was entangled in the rope and couldn't run away, Ding Qi stepped forward to solve it with a knife; The other prey is a pheasant. In the other three places, there were captures, but only part of the body was still on the rope sleeve.

Tinch put the remaining half of the hare back in one of the traps and set up a new trigger trap and knife trap next to it to see if he could catch the thief. In the other two traps, there was only a feather left, and it was believed that a pheasant or other prey had been caught, and Tincchi put half a pheasant there as bait, vowing to catch the other.

Ding Qiti slipped the big hedgehog deeper into the forest, picked back some mushrooms and fungus, and found a large patch of dandelions, picked a dozen of them with roots and leaves to go back to soak in water and drink, and picked five or six seed pompoms and put them in his backpack. On the way back, a large bundle of vines was cut from a bush found earlier and brought back to the camp.

Arrive at camp and dry wet mushrooms, fungus and dandelions on a large rock, while dandelion seeds are scattered around the stone in anticipation of more dandelions growing the following year.

Ding Qi first put the cut vine on a large stone and beat it with a wooden stick, and after removing the wooden core, he separated the fibers inside, and then kneaded the fibers into rope. Next, he made a herringbone ladder out of the wood left over from yesterday and the rope he had just kneaded, which he was going to use when he was laying the roof.