185 Desert Hinterland
Why fight and expend energy to fight against things that humans can't change?
This is the only experience of desert survival, even the most brave and warlike human beings, after experiencing real desert survival, will send out this feeling, because the desert is the most unconquerable.
Even all the books that introduce desert terrain survival are not real desert survival manuals.
Specifically, the desert terrain is divided into several major parts: mountains, sand dunes, oases, savannahs, riverbeds, and desert hinterlands.
For mountains, sand dunes, oases and other places, practical survival skills are still necessary, but if you really enter the hinterland of the desert, such as the place where Xiao Zhan has arrived now, even the camels of the desert boat can't hold up, let alone people.
The reason why there is no introduction to survival techniques in the heart of the desert is because there are no skills here, and if you are trapped in such a place, you will definitely die and live.
The heart of the Sahara Desert, a real desert of death.
"Brother, thank you for being with me until I die." Xiao Zhan stroked the camel's head and whispered, "The only thing that can help you is to give you a good time." ”
It seemed that the camel understood Xiao Zhan's words, and a layer of mist appeared in its eyes, looking at Xiao Zhan, it spewed out two heavy breaths with its nose.
Camels, through human nature.
It can never be felt in the interior, but in the desert, the relationship between man and camel can be so deep that it is difficult to understand.
If dogs are man's most faithful friends, then camels are gods who can take people from death to living step by step.
"I'm sorry."
Xiao Zhan pulled out his saber and poked it into the camel's head.
"Whew!"
The sharp saber pierced through the gap between the camel's skull, directly injuring the brain.
"......Shhh ......Shhhh
The dromedary's body spasmed violently, but in less than a minute it lay quietly on the sand, closed its eyes and died.
"Hoo ......"
Xiao Zhan exhaled heavily, pulled out his saber and stood up, picked up the little water and food left, and chose a direction and walked forward slowly.
He did not take the blood of the camel, nor did he take the skin of the camel, after all, this dromedary accompanied him to the end.
As he said, the only thing that can be given is a pleasure.
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It's hot, it's hot, it's hot...... Any word that can describe the temperature of the Sahara Desert will work, there is no wind, no plants, just yellow sand and the sun overhead.
By the time we got to this place, there were no living creatures left.
So, you can go anywhere to survive, to explore, whether it's rainforests, mountains, even ice fields, don't just walk into this kind of desert.
It will grind people to death little by little, and in this kind of environment, even if they stay in the shade, they can't last more than three days.
During the day, the temperature reaches more than 50 degrees Celsius; At night, the temperature can drop below freezing.
Hypothermia and dehydration, including snow blindness – snow blindness is not simply snow whiteness, but anything that causes temporary blindness caused by bright light stimulation of the retina of the eye.
This irritating blindness is all a single color, with snow being a single color and yellow sand being a single color.
There were endless sand dunes in front of him, and after walking for more than half an hour, Xiao Zhan came to the back of a tall sand dune and began to dig holes in the sand with the sapper shovel he carried with him.
He moves very slowly and slowly, this is to avoid sweating and depleting the water in his body.
In this kind of place, the humidity of the air is unbelievably low, and every drop of sweat is precious, and it is tightly entangled with life for the first time.
When the temperature reaches 38 degrees Celsius, adults need to replenish about 1 liter of water per hour, and as the temperature rises, more needs to be replenished.
It's daytime and the temperature is well over 38 degrees Celsius, so it's not a good option to keep walking at this time.
Now what Xiao Zhan has to do is to dig out a shelter, avoid the scorching heat of the day in the shelter, and wait until the temperature drops down at night before marching.
At that time, most of the water needed by the body will be reduced.
To put it simply, in the heart of the desert, one must not travel during the day unless there is enough fresh water to splurge it.
"Rustling ......"
With the condition that he could not sweat, Xiao Zhan quickly dug a sand pit more than two meters long and half a meter wide.
He piled up the sand he had dug up on the side close to the sun, so that the height formed a strong sand and accumulated a little shadow.
Then he took off his coat and covered it over the tunnel, turning it into a shade cloth.
After doing this, he continued to dig down until the sand was no longer so hot and became cool.
This is definitely a dangerous behavior.
If the wind blows, if there is a sandstorm, he will be buried in it at the first time, and then he will be turned into a mummy.
However, he couldn't do that much, there were only about two liters of water left in the kettle, and these two liters of water were his only fresh water, and if he didn't find a water source, consuming any bit of it could lead to death.
"Ah...... After digging six or seven meters, it was still dry sand. ”
Xiao Zhan held the sand and let out a long sigh.
It's so dry here, it's all dug here, and there's still no moisture in the sand.
Carefully opened the kettle, carefully took a sip, Xiao Zhan lay at the bottom of the sand pit and began to sleep, even if he didn't want to sleep yet, he had to sleep.
When awake, you will continue to feel thirsty, and you will keep wanting to drink water, and then you will continue to consume until the water source is exhausted.
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The days are long in the desert hinterland, and the desert hinterland at night is equally long.
Not only is it long, but it is also cold, and the temperature difference between day and night is too great.
Wrapped in clothes and covering his head and face tightly, Xiao Zhan looked up at the stars in the sky and judged the direction according to the position of the stars.
However, here the stars are used to determine the direction by relying on the Southern Cross, not the North Star.
The North Star is used to determine the direction in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Sahara Desert is already in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Southern Cross, also known as the Southern Cross, is located between the constellations Centauri and the Flies, and is the brightest constellation in the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere, which can be seen south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
The way to find the Southern Cross is to first find the South Gate II of Centauri, which is the third brightest star in the whole sky, which is easy to find; The Southern Cross is not far to the west, and it is embedded in the constellation Centauri, which is actually the area under the horse's belly and between the four legs.
Extend the line between the left and right of the Southern Cross to line A; Connect the two brighter stars below to form a straight line B; At the midpoint of the line, pull a vertical line as line C, so that it intersects line A, and the point of intersection is perpendicular to the ground, which is the south.
There are differences between the northern and southern hemispheres, and this is the basis.
Xiao Zhan was marching south, day and night, reducing all consumption to a minimum.
Survival, that's survival.