Chapter 3: Changes
Ten days have passed since Alan started his life of self-sufficiency in the forest, and the variety of food is limited, but the quantity is sufficient.
"Uh......."
Although Alan woke up, he was still very sleepy, and it was hard to imagine a life of falling asleep after dark.
Is it because of the mental fatigue of a self-sufficient life? He shook his head slightly, ready to go back to sleep.
"Meow!"
"Alright, alright, got it, eat, come on."
Alan took out the few cat fruits in the backpack, and had to find a way to replenish some cat fruits, but it was a bit troublesome, lack of sleep, and a little dizzy.
"Meow?"
"Huh? Ah, hehe, I, I don't eat much in the morning, relational. ”
Erin sighed, when I was a slave, even if I didn't want to eat breakfast, I had a very big appetite per ton because of a lot of work, and now that I don't have a cruel job, even the amount of food is decreasing.
I'm so thirsty, drink some water.
"Ah, damn it, it's empty, alas..............." Alan sighed, having forgotten to fetch water yesterday. Then I'm going to fetch water, you can eat well. ”
"Meow." Xiao Hei was probably also thirsty, so he stopped eating and followed Allen.
The spring was nearby, what Allen called his base camp, and it was a short walk away. He bent down to fill the kettle and drank it from a wooden cup.
"Come on, Blackie."
Alan put the wooden cup in front of Xiao Hei not far from the spring, I don't know if it was because he fell into that terrifying spring last time, and now Xiao Hei is definitely no longer near the spring or something.
After one person and one cat finished replenishing their water, they returned to the base camp next to them and continued to sleep.
"Meow."
"What's the matter?"
"Meow, meow, meow."
"What you're talking about, I don't understand."
"Meow ......."
"Cat fruit? Just pick it tomorrow. ”
Alan closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
In the evening, he opened his eyes.
"Well, it's strange that I'm not hungry."
After thinking about it, I guess it was because I didn't exercise.
"Meow?"
Alan felt a little uncomfortable all over his body, as if he was a little tired, could it be because of the lack of vitamins? I wanted to design a trap to catch the beast, but then I thought of a troublesome disintegration, and finally rejected it with the taste of the beast.
"Meow, meow."
"Alright, you can eat alone."
"Meow .........."
The next day, Alan opened his eyes, felt so tired, did he catch a cold? But the body is not hot.
"Meow."
Alan turned his head and saw that the little ** came to the side with the cat's fruit, which should be eaten by himself.
"Blackie, I don't need it."
"Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! ”
"It's noisy, I don't want to eat, I'm not hungry."
Ailu sighed, could it be that he was sick? He tried to eat the anti-poisonous weed, though he didn't know if it worked.
"Umeboshi.... Umeboshi ......"
He remembered the umeboshi, but he didn't have it.
"Meow?"
"Oh, it's okay, I'm fine, little black."
Turning his head to look at Xiao Hei, he seemed to be worried about himself, so he could only comfort him like this.
"Meow ......"
I'm thirsty.... He didn't want to lie down, and when he did, he was tired, sleepy, and he didn't want to die......
He was tired, he thought that he had been in another world for a month, maybe it was enough, and there were no regrets, he was too tired, so he decided to sleep forever with Xiao Hei in his arms.
Allen's adventure in another world is over!
"Meow!"
"What are you doing! Don't catch me! Wow, what are you doing! Stop it! Blackie! ”
Alan wanted to cry without tears with his hands in front of his face, and Xiao Hei kept scratching his face.
"Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! ”
"Ah, it's noisy, I know! I know! Calm down first! ”
Alan sighed, not knowing what to say, although he knew that Xiao Hei was worried about him and asked him to eat the cat's fruit.
But this is the last one.
It's time to replenish food.
Thinking so, he stood up.
"Hmm...."
Alan staggered to his feet, but he felt that he was in a bad state, although he could walk, but what should he do next?
Trap, right? No, it takes time, you have to make sure the food first, and the nutritional balance is also important.
He thought about it, the dizziness and discomfort just now were caused by the disease, and it was estimated that it was a lack of nutrition. In the past, seafarers suffered from scurvy due to vitamin C deficiency, vitamin B1 deficiency, athlete's foot?
But what's the shortfall...... Protein, iron, minerals .........."
This is Aelo's instinct, carbohydrates, vitamin C and fat are enough, the fruit of the tree is high in fat, and the berries should also be able to supplement vitamin C.
My feet also move normally and are not numb, so this is not athlete's foot. However, after there is no jerky, because there is no meat, protein, iron, minerals are suspicious.
"Ah, I'm thirsty first...... Thirsty? Thirsty? Thirsty....."
Alan finally noticed that humans need a nutrient, and that is salt. Because people often tell you not to take too much, it is treated as a hindrance like poison. But salt is also a good essential nutrient and is a mineral.
If there is no salt, symptoms such as tiredness, drowsiness, fatigue, dizziness, and finally death, and the amount required for a day varies from person to person, but only a few grams.
However, if you take more than ten grams, you will take too much, so it is very delicate. If you live an ordinary diet life, there will be no deficiency, so it is ignored.
Although Alan knew the reason for his current encounter, another problem arose, how to get salt in this forest. It would be nice if the rock salt was around there, but if not, hunt to catch the beasts.
There was no self-confidence, he sighed softly, but even so, he decided to set a trap.
I found a branch, wrapped it together with vines, and clamped it to the small branch that served as a baffle for fixing. On the curved branches, tie another vine with the essentials of the ferrule, so that the animal can be tightened. When the prey is caught by the food and hits the plug and removes it, the transformed branch regains its original strength and restrains the prey while pulling the vine tight.
This is a basic trap that Alan learned from reading the "Survival Manual", although it is a basic trap, but if you don't dig a deep hole, the prey may escape, but digging a hole is a physical job, and there are no shovels.
Alan chose a place where there was no food such as fruit and so on, and installed traps, not one, he installed five traps.
Next, he was going to look for rock salt and the sea, and in order to suppress the flow of salt in his body as much as possible, he tried to walk around the forest as he normally would, so as not to sweat.
"Can't you........."
Alan sighed deeply, he couldn't see the sea, nor could he find anything like rock salt, but the cat's fruit found some, and he ate a few to replenish his strength.
By this time it was almost dark, and he was about to go and see the trap, and his mind was already thinking about how to braise it, no, roast rabbit or something...............
"What? Damn, did you take the food and run away? ”
Alan looked at the place of the trap in amazement, four of the five traps used as bait for the wild berries disappeared, and both places launched the trap, but there was not a trace of prey hair.
Sighing, he rearranged the trap and prepared to watch in one place.
"Meow."
"Oh, are you going to sleep, damn it."
Alan glanced at the sky that had turned dark, although he insisted on it for a while, but there was no movement at all, and then he thought about it, the animal seemed to sleep at night, so he could only give up helplessly and decided to go to sleep.
The next day, Alan was woken up by Xiao Hei, opened his eyes and looked at the sun hanging high, and was afraid for a while, if he hadn't been woken up by Xiao Hei, would he have been asleep?
"Thank you, Blackie."
"Meow."
After stretching his sleep, Alan set up a bonfire, ate bread, mushrooms and cat fruits, felt as if his body had recovered a little, and then packed up his things and stood up and set off towards the trap in good spirits.
"Wow.........."
Alan looked around at the trap and felt a strong sense of defeat in his heart, and all the food was taken away............
Is this trap really not working?
No, as long as you stick to it, set it again and again, the number increases, and one day you will catch it, have you forgotten about the proficiency system? A voice in his head kept reminding.
But then he shook his head and expelled the idea, his time was running out, it was too late, and now he was gambling with his life, if he lost, there would be nothing.
Then another voice came to mind.
There is another way, go back to the baron's mansion, although you will be punished, but you will eat jerky, solve the problem of insufficient salt, anyway, many soldiers have escaped, it is impossible to behead them all.
No, no, no, no!
Alan shook his head, he is a slave, compared to what they don't have at all, let's continue, survival is still the main goal! To survive! Come on!
"Let's go, Black."
"Meow."