Chapter 1: Hunger
Zhang Chu fell from the air, fortunately landed on a big tree full of branches, Zhang Chu passed through the branches, the branches tore apart Zhang Chu's clothes and slowed down his descent, Zhang Chu fell to the ground with a buttocks, a graceful posture like a flat sand and a goose.
"I am an angel who fell from the sky, but luckily I didn't have my face to hit the ground first." After calming down the pain coming from under his buttocks, the boring sentences that Zhang Chu often saw on the Internet automatically popped up in his mind.
Sitting on the ground and turning his head to look at the tree that saved his life, this tree looked very strange, the whole tree was bare and had no leaves, even the bark had been stripped away, and then looking around, the whole world was a withered yellow color, there was no green on the hillside and there were dry weeds, and the fields were all sparse weeds, and there were no crops at all.
What a place so desolate! How to do greening, Zhang Chu kept playing useless sentences in his head.
After complaining, Zhang Chu only then remembered to check himself, the clothes on his body had been scraped by the branches and turned into rags one by one, and he couldn't see the original appearance at all, and there was a danger of walking away if he moved. Fortunately, there were no signs of fractures and no problems walking.
I'm going to find out what this place is. So Zhang Chu walked aimlessly in the wilderness, and after a long time he didn't find a person. Gradually, an ominous feeling rose, and a strong message came from Zhang Chu's stomach that he was hungry.
Looking at the bare wilderness, Zhang Chu really wanted to cry without tears, but he didn't expect to be starved to death here instead of falling to death.
A day of aimless walking through the hills and fields, and then another night passed, during which Zhang Chu carefully tasted the creatures in the mountains and fields, and then Zhang Chu was completely desperate, there was really nothing edible here. As time passed, Zhang Chu's hunger became stronger and stronger, and even his consciousness blurred for a while, and he was most looking forward to someone appearing or finding something to eat. The sun rose little by little, almost in the sky, and Zhang Chuqiang searched for the end of the sky with spirit. Finally, in the distance, a moving object appeared, and it was moving this way, getting closer and closer.
Great, it's better to be alone, so that you can find your way out of this wilderness, and the living creature is getting closer and closer. Not a man, but a dog. The dog approached and sat on the ground looking at Zhang Chu. It was good to have a dog, which means that it is not far from the village. It didn't seem right, the dog's eyes were red and there was a fierce light, his tail was stiff and his ears were erect, it couldn't be a wolf. It's better to leave quickly.
Zhang Chu continued to walk in the wilderness, but the difference was that he followed a wolf who was so hungry that he couldn't walk steadily.
When he saw its towering ears and big stiff tail, Zhang Chu was sure that it was a wolf. The wolf may have been looking for food for a long time, and has become very weak. But it didn't want to give up on the food that was still active in front of it, the wolf assessed the strength of both sides, and didn't rush up, but it didn't give up, and followed Zhang Chu not far behind and waited for the opportunity.
An afternoon passed, and seeing that the sky was dark, Zhang Chu had not met anyone yet, and the wolf persistently followed his rare food. Suddenly, the field in front of him was a little calmer, and a small village appeared in front of him, although there were only a few houses in a simple row, but it still brought hope to Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu cheered up and walked into the village, but except for the dilapidated houses, there was no one and nothing to use. Hope was disappointed again, Zhang Chu felt that the strength of his whole body was drained all of a sudden, hunger and fatigue hit, Zhang Chu's consciousness began to blur a little, and Zhang Chu had already begun to have the feeling in his mind that the wolf was biting his neck after he fell asleep.
Can't go on like this, Zhang Chu tore off the clothes from his body one by one while walking, and then made a rope one by one, and then made a looper into a looper, when there was a broken house next to the road, Zhang Chu turned around and climbed through the broken window hole of the house with difficulty, and passed the rope through the upper window frame, and then stretched the rope sleeve on the window hole, sitting under the window with the head of the rope in one hand and panting heavily, calm down for a while Zhang Chuqiang listened to the movement outside, But there was no sound outside. Just when Zhang Chu thought that the wolf had left, a small voice came into Zhang Chu's ears, and the wolf's head had already appeared in the hole in the window. Zhang Chu hurriedly tightened the rope in his hand, but it was still a little too late, and the rope sleeve only wrapped around the wolf's waist, and the wolf was hanging upside down on the window frame and struggling, with an unwilling howl from his mouth.
Zhang Chu pulled the rope and didn't dare to let go, the two sides were deadlocked, the wolf's strength was getting weaker and weaker, and Zhang Chu couldn't hold on anymore, and what was even more terrifying was that the rope was worn off in the part that rubbed against the window frame.
The desire to survive made Zhang Chu make a bold decision, Zhang Chu tightened the rope, little by little closer to the wolf hanging upside down on the window frame, and then tied the rope around his waist, holding the other end of the remaining rope with both hands and pounced on the wolf, quickly wrapped the rope around the wolf's neck, and strangled it with all his strength and the weight of his body, the window frame was overwhelmed and collapsed, Zhang Chu couldn't care about so many whole people pressing on the wolf's body, and his hands kept pulling the rope around the wolf's neck.
The wolf struggled unwillingly, kept twisting his body, and scratched with his claws, scratching blood marks on Zhang Chu's body. Zhang Chu endured the pain, but kept tightening and tightening the rope. Gradually, Zhang Chu felt that his hands had become numb, his arms had lost their strength, and his consciousness was a little blurred. When Zhang Chu thought that he was about to lose consciousness, the claws that the wolf grabbed gradually lost their strength and stopped grasping. Zhang Chu's spirit was lifted, the hands that grabbed the rope had strength again, and increased the strength of the strangulation, the wolf did not move under Zhang Chu's tightness, and after confirming that the wolf was really dead, Zhang Chu suddenly collapsed on the ground, and the feeling of exhaustion filled his whole body, and Zhang Chu fell asleep groggily.
But soon Zhang Chu was awakened by the hunger in his belly, Zhang Chu dragged his heavy legs and tried to find everything to eat and use inside and outside the house, but he didn't find anything, only found a broken clay pot and half a porcelain bowl fragments, and finally Zhang Chu finally set his eyes on the dead wolf. Zhang Chu couldn't wait to cut the wolf's neck with a broken porcelain piece, and finally the wolf's skin was broken, and the blood flowed out, Zhang Chu desperately put his mouth up and sucked, Zhang Chu had only one belief in his heart, as long as there was food in his stomach, he would not die.
After sucking for a while, there was a feeling in his stomach, and reason returned to Zhang Chu's mind, and the bloody smell of wolf blood awakened Zhang Chu's sense of taste. Zhang Chu also knew that he couldn't eat too much raw food, so he stopped sucking, cut the wound on the wolf's neck and put the blood into the broken crockpot. When food is available, how to cook it becomes another problem.
Fire, I need fire, a voice swirled in Zhang Chu's head, how can there be fire, lighters, matches, and all kinds of tools for making fire lined up in Zhang Chu's mind, as if they were demonstrating against Zhang Chu, "How did you remember that we were here, but unfortunately we are not here." "How did human beings start to use fire, naturally make fire, drill wood to make fire. To drill wood for fire, thanks to the history teacher of junior high school. Just do it, Zhang Chu found some thatch and branches outside the house, used a thick and straight branch to make a drill, made a bow with another branch and rags on his clothes, took the broken window wooden frame and put it flat on the ground, Zhang Chu scraped it hard with a porcelain piece, scraped a little sawdust, and then used the bow to pull the branch to make the drill bit and drilled it up, after several tests, Zhang Chu's technique gradually became proficient, and gradually the sawdust turned black, and then smoke came out, Zhang Chu piled the thatch on it and pulled the wooden bow harder, and finally a spark flashed in the sawdust, Zhang Chu blew lightly on the spark, the flame jumped up all of a sudden, Zhang Chu kept adding branches and broken window frames to the fire, and a fire was formed. Zhang Chu looked at the fire with great pride and a sense of accomplishment, feeling extremely proud that he could raise the fire under such conditions. even forgot why he wanted to raise the fire for a while, and finally his stomach reminded Zhang Chu in time. Zhang Chu took the clay pot containing wolf blood, saw that the blood had solidified, found a little water at the bottom of the earthen well that was about to dry up outside the house, put it in the jar, returned to the house and boiled it on the fire, and gradually the aroma wafted out of the clay pot. It's really a rare delicacy, Zhang Chu couldn't help but admire it from the bottom of his heart. After eating, Zhang Chu endured sleepiness, suppressed the fire, and finally fell asleep.
When Zhang Chu woke up again, it was already noon the next day. I ate some more wolf blood, and then inspected the village again. It was supposed to be an abandoned village for unknown reasons, uninhabited and unusable, and where the bodies of presumably killed people were found scattered around. Not only is there no food to eat, but the village is also very dangerous. The disappointed Zhang Chu returned to his previous room, and he will still face the problem of survival. Zhang Chu can only make long-term plans. Zhang Chu used porcelain pieces to peel off the wolf skin little by little and take out the internal organs, these must be eaten first, otherwise they will rot. The whole wolf was put away, the useful entrails were cooked in a crockpot, and the wolf meat was roasted in the fire and wrapped in rags, hopefully for a few more days. When all this was done, it was getting dark again. Zhang Chu looked at the dark sky and his mind was chaotic, he couldn't understand how all this happened, what should he do to get out of the current predicament, and couldn't help but recall the boring life before, and now he thinks about how happy he was then. In the end, Zhang Chu fell asleep in the chaos. Zhang Chu woke up early the next morning, and Zhang Chu quickly made a decision to leave here and find a place where there were people. With wolf meat on his back and a clay pot with the fire preserved, Zhang Chu left the deserted village and walked down the road.
The sun hung high in the sky, bringing Zhang Chu only heat and thirst, in the face of the long road ahead Zhang Chu walked more and more without confidence, if he could not find the village again, he would starve to death, die of thirst in this wilderness, or encounter some fierce beast to be eaten. During the difficult walk, the sun rose again into the sky, and there was still no human habitation.
Just when Zhang Chu was about to collapse, Zhang Chu saw a person sitting under a dead tree in front of him. That's right, it was a person, Zhang Chu could see it clearly, that person was sitting leaning against the trunk of a dead tree on the side of the road, looking up at the sky. At this time, Zhang Chu came to his senses, and quickly ran over and shouted, "Fellow, fellow." Then Zhang Chu swallowed what he was going to say, because it was indeed a person, but it was a dead person, that person opened his mouth to the sky, and there were only two black holes left in his eyes, and it seemed that he had been dead for a long time, and he was already a corpse.