Chapter 391: Distress
I gently stroked Momo's soft hair, and nothing was bad yet. After a while, we continued on our way. On the second stop, I saw an animal at the end of the forest, this desert island is close to the primeval forest, and the species must be abundant. That's a spotted leopard!
I motioned for Momo to keep quiet, the leopard was not the one before, because there was a scratch on its forehead. It was taking a leisurely walk, and every step felt like stepping on my body, my heart. I hope it doesn't look back, the leopard is the overlord of the jungle, this guy can also climb trees, it's even trickier, I don't think anyone can compare to the speed of the monster with a speed of 113 kilometers per hour, Momo's face turned pale with fear, and he clutched my palm tightly, and my palm was sweaty. He gripped the stone axe tightly in his right hand, hoping that it would not be used.
We watched the spotted leopard walk away, and just as we breathed a sigh of relief, the leopard jerked back and met us. Not good! The leopard began to run this way. It was the excitement and nervousness of the hunter when he met his prey, but at the moment, the leopard was excited, and the two of us were nervous. "Run" I pulled Momo and ran to the other side of the river, and I had a plan.
"Momo, it's not a way for us to run like this, that leopard is too fast!" I hurriedly said that the leopard was still about five hundred meters away from me. Momo and I stopped at a big rock. "Brother-in-law, what do you say, I'll listen to you!" Momo looked at me, those eyes were distressing. "Do you trust your brother-in-law?" I said hurriedly. "Of course I do!" Momo looked at me and said.
"Alright, wait, you just stay here, leaning on this stone!" I quickly commanded, the leopard was about two hundred meters away from us.
"Brother-in-law, I believe in you!" Momo kissed me on the cheek, and I smiled bleakly. I stood on the side of the big rock. We are human beings, and you are just animals, don't be afraid, I am the primate of all things, there is nothing to be afraid of, at this moment I have regained my self-confidence as a human being, I shouted to Momo in front of me: "Momo, don't be afraid, brother-in-law is here, close your eyes, wait a while, don't open your eyes no matter what happens!" "Hmm!" I heard a response.
I want the leopard to know who is the real hunter and who is the prey. 100 meters, 90 meters...... Sixty meters... Fifty meters...... I could see the leopard's gray-brown pupils. The leopard opened its bloody mouth, and the prey was probably the most delicious food she had ever eaten. Momo shivered nervously.
At the moment when the leopard opened its mouth, I rushed to the front, and the stone axe smashed on the leopard's head, and every hammer and blow was to exert all the strength, which is the power of fear to people, when people are in a situation of extreme fear, fear can also turn into strength, and the extremes of things must be reversed, and the prosperity of the poles must decline! This has been true since ancient times.
The leopard wasn't dead, it was so tenacious that it bit me the shoulder when it was dying, and I was just more scared and stronger. I grabbed the leopard's neck and slashed down with the stone axe. Momo heard the noise and wanted to open her eyes. My majestic voice came out: "Don't open your eyes!" Momo didn't open her eyes when she was obedient. I chopped with a stone axe for more than ten minutes. Then he leaned against the big rock, panting.
"Open your eyes!" Momo first saw the dead body of the leopard, then saw my flesh-and-blood shoulder. "Brother-in-law, you ......" she hugged me. I'm so scared, so scared! At this moment, my adrenaline has not subsided, my hands are still trembling uncontrollably, and I hold Momo's shoulder, "It's okay, my brother-in-law won't let you have anything to do!" ”
Slowly took off his clothes, and the pain in his shoulders became more and more obvious, "Brother-in-law, I'll help you to the river and clean up the wound with clean water!" Momo said. I agreed, got up, turned my head to check the extent of my injury, it was not serious, but it left two deep tooth holes, which looked quite oozing, it would be a symbol of a real man, I thought. The sun was gradually setting in the west, and we had to not only hurry, but also camp.
Coincidentally, by the river, I found wormwood, a medicinal plant that grows towards the sun, and with plenty of fresh water, they grow luxuriantly, and I can see them everywhere in my hometown, and now I can see them, which makes me feel very relatable. I asked Momo to pick some back, and told her that wormwood has the effect of stopping bleeding, and the stupid girl hurriedly chewed the wormwood she was picking and put it on my shoulder. I smiled and touched her head, little fool! Then the two of us went to look for firewood and make a fire, and when I was making that simple fire-making tool with Hei Zhuang, I left a few husks for myself, Momo was not willing to take them on the road, but now, I will show her how useful they are. It was the same step, and in half an hour, a small flame was raised, and Momo happily kissed me on the face. This leopard eventually became our food. However, without salt, the meat tastes like chewing wax, and when roasted, it only smells like firewood.
I am reminded of the ancient times, when the ancients refined sea salt. The most of this is seawater, which can be used completely. But now is not the time, this will have to wait until tomorrow, this is the first day we have eaten different food from fruit and fish, which is already good.
At night, I divide the firewood into two piles, and on the other side I cover the wormwood I have picked, which can play a role in repelling mosquitoes, and there is one creature that has the most in the sea, that is, mosquitoes. I picked some large leaves from the trees, and Momo magically dressed them into tiles, and in order to prevent rain at night, there were vines above the foothold we found, and Momo covered the leaves densely.
Everyone was tired for a while, and Momo lay on my chest. "If only my sister could join us!" "Actually, I hope so, but she's doing well now!" I comforted myself. "But ......" "Okay, shall we get some salt on our bodies tomorrow?" I watched Momo and closed my eyes.
The next morning, I took a stone axe and went to the beach to get some shells and crabs, but I can't eat them now, and the fire last night was very well protected, and there were even sparks, and the foam blew a little, and the flames came up again. I carefully held a handful of sea water with leaves, the blue sea water became very magical at this moment, the ancients were drying salt, we didn't have that long time, I brought a thin stone, supported it with a branch, set up the fire underneath, and slowly sprinkled the sea water on it, and the water was slowly evaporated.
Momo watched nervously at my movements. "It doesn't matter, it's the safest way to purify. It's just time-consuming, there was a lot of leopard meat yesterday, but fortunately in the woods, the temperature is relatively low, and it hasn't broken yet, so we'll smoke it later, so it can be preserved for a little longer. "Okay, I'll go get the meat!" At this moment, I seem to be the god of foam, white grains slowly appear on the slate, I keep taking seawater from the sea, the particles on the slate become very turbid, because there are many other minerals in the sea, and now it is only coarse salt, which cannot be directly applied and will be poisoned. I have more than 20 grams of coarse salt for one kilogram of seawater. I don't know how much I did, but I just ran back and forth for three hours.
Momo looked curiously at the particles mixed with various colors on the slate and said, "Brother-in-law, do you think this thing can be eaten?" "Of course...... No! I said, "Eating this will kill you!" ”
"So why have we wasted so much time doing this?" She asked unhappily. I pinched her face, "Of course the little fool is for eating." "But didn't you say it's poisonous?" "Yes, but your brother-in-law and I have a way!" I said with a smile. Burning charcoal has carbon dioxide, which turns carbonic when exposed to water, so I took off my clothes and made a filter out of it, and the leaves wrapped the weak acid containing the charcoal and put all the grains in. Momo suddenly realized. "Do you want to precipitate calcium ions, magnesium ions, and barium ions?"
"Yes, you go to the beach to pick up some dry firewood, this thing is a little bit of firewood, go quickly!" Momo obediently went to collect firewood. Busy and busy, soon the day will be over, the coarse salt has been filtered by precipitation, evaporated, and the color has become much whiter. It was getting late, but we were still in high spirits, and those tiny white sprites, in the palm of our hands, jumping, smelling, were the most beautiful things in the world.
When I went to pick up shells and crabs in the morning, I wrapped them in rattan and raised them in the fresh water around me, I was busy for a long time and I was hungry, just able to roast and eat, these belong to seafood, no need to add salt, a peculiar fragrance, let us open our index fingers, Momo cleverly packed the salt we made with a small leaf, and then tied it with fine fibers, which is the source of taste, and then this side is extremely precious!