Chapter 207: A Way to Survive
After another day like this, the scenery in front of Yang Hao slowly changed.
Instead of the same sand, rocks appeared.
However, this does not bring Yang Hao useful information. In addition to sand, there are also saline-alkali land, mountains, riverbeds, deserts and other terrains in the desert, and from these terrains, there is no coordinate information at all, and there is basically no information about water sources.
In the distance, the sky is connected to the sand, and there is no mountain at all. If you can find a mountainous area, you may be able to get water from there, but you will never find it here.
"Shhh
Suddenly, Yang Hao heard a scream. It's not big, but it's clear. Yang Hao immediately stopped moving forward and took out his gun.
This is the voice of a snake.
There are many poisonous snakes in the desert, and if they are bitten in a trapped state, they will definitely die or live.
Soon, Yang Hao saw a snake about ten meters or so in front of him.
Looking at the appearance of the snake, Yang Hao couldn't tell what the name of the snake was. But just look at its head and know that this snake is a poisonous snake.
It's easy to tell if a snake is venomous. A poisonous snake has venomous glands and fangs, as long as you see that the snake has two teeth in its mouth that are much thicker than the others, then this snake is a poisonous snake.
Another way is to look at their heads. Most venomous snakes have triangular heads, while non-venomous snakes have a round or oval head. The head of this snake is triangular and is a distinctly venomous snake.
At this point, the front half of the snake's body was erect. Facing Yang Hao, he opened his mouth widely, looking very aggressive.
And when Yang Hao saw this snake, other ideas germinated in his heart.
Now Yang Hao is hungry and thirsty, and the water is quite sufficient for the time being, but Yang Hao doesn't want to eat up the food too quickly. Survival in the wild in any environment, getting food from the outside world is one of the most basic rules.
Therefore, in Yang Hao's eyes, this snake has been equated with food.
"Smack!"
Yang Hao fired. The bullet hit the snake's head in an instant, directly splitting the snake's head into pieces. Flew backwards about a meter. Yang Hao didn't go up immediately. Instead, I looked around.
Make sure there are no other snakes around and it's safe enough.
After looking around and not seeing any other snakes, Yang Hao straightened up and walked over.
The snake's blood had been spilled all over the ground. The snake with its head blasted was lying not far away. The body is still moving unconsciously. Yang Hao mentioned the snake. He took out a knife and cut off some of the upper part of the snake, and put the rest in his backpack. Then move on.
It's his next dinner.
Since the snake's head had been shattered, Yang Hao didn't care. If the head of the snake is cut off with a knife, then it will have to be dealt with.
For about an hour to two hours after the head is cut off, the snake still has an instinctive reflex to attack objects that are close to it. In particular, some rattlesnakes, two hours after death, once a heat source is close to them, they will still reflexively burst out and hurt others. At this time, the snake is still poisonous after biting a person, so you must not take it lightly after killing the snake, either put the snake head in a safe place and do not approach, or directly break the snake head.
This little episode didn't affect anything. Before the sun was about to set, Yang Hao found a lonely tree growing in the middle of the desert. This tree provided Yang Hao with a certain shade, and Yang Hao stopped here to rest temporarily.
He took some slightly dry branches from the tree, stacked them together and made a fire, and then Yang Hao took out the body of the snake, stripped off the snake skin and internal organs, and wrapped the snake meat around the branches and roasted it.
When it was almost roasted, Yang Hao swallowed the snake meat in two bites. The snake flesh of this snake was about thirty centimeters long, which was enough energy for Yang Hao to need for a period of time.
Hiding in the shade of the tree, Yang Hao didn't continue on the road until the sun set.
For that reason, people will walk farther at night, and now Yang Hao doesn't have any warm tools, so walking at night is a more hode choice.
But now, Yang Hao can no longer walk all night. Because he could already see the rocks.
Sand is very poorly insulated, it heats up quickly and cools quickly, but stone is different. These rocks have absorbed a lot of heat during the day, and at night, they continue to emit heat. With these rocks, you can barely survive a cold night.
Just be careful of the scorpions hidden in the stones, because such an environment is also what they like.
After nightfall, Yang Hao used this method.
Touch the rocks around you, most of them are hot, and some are a little hot. Yang Hao began to work, like a lot of stones piled together, leaving a gap in the middle that was enough for him to lie into, and then slowly lay in.
As soon as he lay down, the heat emitted by the rock was immediately felt by Yang Hao, and the cold outside was immediately dispersed.
However, this method will not work overnight. Because the rocks themselves do not heat up, over time, the heat accumulated by the stones gradually scatters, and the rocks become cold again.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, it began to get cold. Yang Hao didn't stay here anymore, got up and continued to hurry.
In order to make his body emit more heat to resist the cold, Yang Hao had to trot.
And so the night passed. When the sun rose again, Yang Hao stopped and sat on the ground to rest.
It didn't take long for the sun to jump out completely. At this time, Yang Hao also stood up again and continued to move forward.
In the past few days, Yang Hao has been moving most of the time. Since he didn't have GPS, he didn't know how far he had gone, so he had to keep going.
At noon, the temperature peaks. Simply Yang Hao found a small tree that grew alone in the desert, and Yang Hao stayed here.
The temperature at noon Yang Hao felt that it should have exceeded thirty-five degrees, and the hottest time should have exceeded forty degrees. If you are exposed to the sun for a long time at this temperature, you are likely to suffer from heat stroke. Therefore, it is beneficial for oneself to avoid the highest peak of this temperature.
Under the tree, Yang Hao dug a ditch about fifteen centimeters deep, wide enough to lie down on his own. After digging this ditch, Yang Hao lay in it, and the coolness of the sand below suddenly reached Yang Hao's body, making him snort comfortably.
In urban or suburban areas, the average temperature difference between the place where the sun shines and the shade of trees is 6 degrees Celsius, and this temperature difference is even more pronounced in the desert. Moreover, digging a pit fifteen centimeters deep under a tree like Yang Hao will widen the temperature difference by about fifteen degrees, which is a good way to find shade in the desert.
At two o'clock, Yang Hao continued to move forward.
It's just that at this time, he doesn't have enough water.
I took out my level and the kettle and checked it, and found that the water in the kettle had been drunk, and many of the water bottles in the backpack had been emptied, leaving only three bottles of water.
Enough to hold yourself out until the night.
Yang Hao looked around. Looks like it's going to have to stop tonight.
Then the question arises: how to survive the cold nights?
You have to find a place like a shelter, or you won't be able to hold on to it in the middle of the night.
There must not be any decent shelter around, Yang Hao had to move forward first, maybe there was something in front of him.
When the time came to dusk, Yang Hao, who had walked all the way, still didn't find anything, but the surrounding environment changed again, and the sand dunes became fewer, replaced by a large number of stones.
Yang Hao decided to rest here.
Putting down his backpack and checking around to make sure there were no poisonous snakes or scorpions, he began to move his hands and carry the stones.
He wanted to use the stones to build an improvised shelter.
There is a large rock next to it, which can be used as a shelter from the wind. Yang Hao found a lot of big stones, built a foundation next to this rock, and then took some smaller stones and began to build them, and soon, Yang Hao built two stone walls.
Coupled with the rocks behind him, Yang Hao has three stone walls to shield him from the cold wind at night. As long as you are not attacked by the cold wind, you will feel much less cold.
Then he found a lot of dried plants nearby, piled them up next to them, and used them to make a fire. Even not far away, Yang Hao also recruited some leaves to spread under the shelter to use as mats, and some branches, which could also be used as fuel.
After all this is done, the night has already fallen.
He dug a pit in the sand not far away, put a little grass underneath it, and put his spare short sleeves on it, and pressed some stones, covering the top with dry grass, and pressing stones around it to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
Water is scarce in the desert, but there is a lot of dew and condensation that can be collected. During the day, where the cold stones meet the hot air, there will be a lot of condensation on them, and this condensation will fall down the stones and be absorbed by the clothes below. When Yang Hao takes out those stones and clothes, he will get a part of the moisture. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.
Yang Hao clapped his hands, returned to the shelter, lit the fire, took out a small packet of canned beef, pried it open, and ate it directly without heating.
After eating, Yang Hao took two sips of water, and then shook the bottle in his hand.
The water in the bottle is only enough for himself to drink four or five sips, and this is also the water left by Yang Hao. By tomorrow night, at most until tomorrow morning, if he still can't find water, then Yang Hao won't be able to hold on. If a person has no water in the desert, it only takes two days, and he will die of dehydration.
Yang Hao put down the bottle, leaned against the stone and closed his eyes.
The stones around are still hot, and there is a fire on the other side. The walls made of stone blocked the cold wind that was blowing, so that Yang Hao didn't feel much cold. (To be continued......)