Chapter 10: The End of the First Day
Here in the sand, it seems like a good idea to build a sand pavilion that can separate the damp moisture.
However, it will be too late to start building today, and it will take a lot of time just to gather the right materials for the construction of the pavilion.
Not to mention the construction of pavilions, it takes a lot of physical effort to drive wooden stakes and the like.
It would probably only be three or four hours before the sun set, and the Whitefish Man wouldn't have that much time to build a pavilion today.
And the white fish man thought about it carefully, even if he built a ventilated and moisture-proof sand pavilion, safety was a big problem, after all, the white fish man was alone.
When you fall asleep in the middle of the night, you are targeted by some ferocious creature that preys on at night, and it is very likely that you will be attacked.
"Let's take a closer look at the south side of the sand, and dig a hole or something for the night. The Whitefishman jumped down the ravine and walked in the sand to the south, carefully observing the unknown dangers that might exist around him.
The Whitefish Man was lucky, and spent nearly half an hour surveying the southern side of the sandy land on the east coast, and found no danger.
However, I found dozens of white shells of different sizes, a few small creatures such as red-shelled crabs, burrowing out of the sand, basking in the sun and absorbing heat.
At the edge of the sandy land, the terrain began to sink, and the ravines more than two or three meters high between the dense forest and the dense forest quickly turned into rocky cliffs more than ten meters high, and ordinary creatures could not climb at all.
Aside from the sand, at least in the sight of the Whitefishmen, there was no other place to climb the forest.
By the time the lake thaws, it will be almost impossible for some terrestrial creatures to step across the deep waters of the lake and reach the steep cliffs that curve in a straight arc.
"Maybe I can dig a hole in the cliff. This location is difficult for ordinary creatures to reach, and the safety will be greatly improved. When the Whitefish Man saw the cliff, another thought rose in his heart.
The idea of digging a cave in the rocky cliffs of the cliff is a good idea, and it is a huge project, and this one is not in a hurry for the time being.
After some exploration, the time for the sun to set is getting closer.
The Whitefishman chose the middle of the southern side of the sandy land and began to dig a hole in the ground, which would become a temporary residence for the Whitefishman for the rest of the day.
After a day of exposure, the sand on the sand has completely thawed and become soft, and the white fishman digs easily.
In just over an hour, a hole was dug diagonally down to a depth of five or six meters.
Some places that are prone to collapse were fixed with stones, some branches were broken off in the dense forest to make a simple decoration of the cave entrance, and a large stone was moved to block the cave entrance, and the temporary residence of the White Fish Man was born.
It was almost dusk, and the busy white fish man was resting comfortably on the sand with the residual temperature of the sun at the entrance of the cave, bathing in the sunset with a red-shelled crab the size of a basin next to him, and enjoying the desolate beauty of the frozen lake under the sunset.
Of course, the perception of the beard is better if there is no breath hidden beneath the ground from the north side of the sand.
"What kind of creature hides under the sand all the time, or does it come out at night?" The mouth of the Whitefishman's cave is some distance away from the place where the underground monster lives, and the underground monster should not come all the way to attack him.
It's just that in the future, you may have to be neighbors with this underground monster, and if you don't find out its information, it is inevitable that the people of the white fish will not be able to settle down.
"These days, when I was building my dwelling, I kept my eyes on it, and there was always a time for it to come out and hunt. The white fish man said.
When dusk came, when the sun set, on the other side of the sky, two curved white moons slowly rose into the sky.
This is the bi-lunar period of this world, which will last for two hundred days and nights.
During the bi-moon period, the weather becomes hot and the rain falls regularly, making it a good time for all things to grow.
The sunset and the twin moons had made a perfect alternation, and the sky had become dark, but there was moonlight tonight, and the Whitefish people did not instinctively feel fear like last night.
Under the light of two bright moons in the sky, the white fish people felt that the temperature of their surroundings began to slowly decrease.
This is because the low temperature brought by the cold wave has begun to emerge from all corners again because of the lack of the suppression of the sun, for example, the ice lake in front of you begins to emit bursts of cold air, and the world temperature at night begins to decrease rapidly.
These cold nights will last for almost a month, until all the cold spells are extinguished by the sun, and the nights will return to normal temperatures.
The temperature has not yet dropped to an unbearable level, the white fish man stood at the entrance of the cave and admired the two rounds of symmetrical bright moon, beside him, in the bright moonlight, the red crab could not resist the gradually decreasing temperature, quickly drilled, and soon drilled into the ground, burying its body in the sand that had absorbed the temperature of the day's sun.
After staying for a while, when the temperature dropped to the point where the whitefish-man also felt a little cold, the whitefish-man also set off and climbed into the cave, stretched out his hand to move a large stone to block the entrance of the cave, and went all the way to the deepest part of the cave.
Unlike the cold outside, the depths of the cave are very warm.
The area in the depths of the cave was deliberately dug larger, the space could allow the body to stretch freely, and separated the wet ground with wood, collected some soft dead grass and spread it on the wood, making a simple bed.
The mountain deer leg was set aside, and since there was no strong feeling of hunger, the Whitefish Man decided to save it for breakfast tomorrow.
In the dark caverns, the beards of the white fishmen sensed the surroundings and could smell the scents of many creatures.
Because in the surrounding soil, there are some crabs and conches that choose to sleep deep in the sand like him.
Maybe it's because of the new birth and the body is still developing, and the sleepiness of the white fish people will soon come.
The white fishman lay on the grass bed, his huge head resting on his arms, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
The consciousness of the Whitefishman fell asleep, but the beard of the jaw was still trembling mischievously, and they were still collecting the biological information around them, and if they found danger, they would immediately put the signal into the Whitefishman's mind.
Fish-people are creatures that have evolved perfectly compared to ordinary creatures.
The fish-man in his sleep, his body trembled slightly, his own bones were still constantly strengthening and enlarged, and it took a year for the fish-man to break out of the shell to be considered an adult, and this year was a period of rapid development and growth of the fish-man's body.
The White Fish Man has a natural intelligence in the eggshell, and absorbs a lot of energy in the egg that is difficult to absorb after birth, resulting in a strong body of an adult Fish Man at birth, and becoming a mutated White Fish Man.
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