35. New stronghold

Ling Li set up a simple stove by the river and began to grill fish and meat. A few guys from the same class packed their bags and left the mining area, and when they came back, Xie Bing and Liu Jiang followed. These two may also have had several meals that they hadn't eaten enough, and when they heard that Ling Li was roasting meat, they followed behind them.

"How did you bake everything?" When the monkey came, he screamed.

"The old doesn't go, the new doesn't. I had to walk several kilometers today, and now everyone has enough to eat with dry food, and lunch is free. Ling Li said, and then looked at these people, "None of you have a cauldron?" ”

Li Yong nodded: "We all withdrew from other hunting teams, and the pots were all left." ”

Ling Li frowned, there was a cauldron for sale in the pioneer camp, but one pot cost more than two hundred yuan, if it was put aside, he would be reluctant to spend money to buy it. It's just that in the past few days, he has gained a lot in the tunnels and caves, and his mentality has also undergone some changes.

"Okay, everything is almost baked, you eat first, I'll go to the pioneer camp and buy a cauldron." Ling Li was not polite, and first tore off the only chicken leg for himself.

"Let's pool our money together to buy it." The monkey said, everyone's life is not rich, and this time when they come out, each person has more than 300 yuan in pocket pocket money.

"No, I'll buy it, I won't be able to score it when I go back to the city." Ling Li said, "You eat first, and I'll come back when I go." With that, he ate chicken drumsticks and walked towards the pioneer camp. He turned around in the middle and quietly took a packet of the source energy hedron he had buried, wanting to do an experiment.

When he arrived at the pioneer camp, he spent 210 yuan to buy an alloy pot similar to the "steel pot" of later generations, and after thinking about it, he spent 70 yuan to buy an axe and a single wooden saw. In the newly opened camp, it certainly doesn't hurt to have more tools, and each person has his own shovel, so he doesn't need to buy it. Originally, he wanted to buy a mining pickaxe, but then he gave up, this back and forth for more than half an hour, and when Ling Li came back, these people had already finished eating and were waiting for him to come back.

"Where are we going?" Xie Bing asked.

"There's a cliff over there, and there's a cave on the cliff, and I passed by there the day before yesterday, and it's not far from the river." Ling Li pointed to the upper reaches of the river and said, "It's just that on the other side of the river, we have to set up a raft to get there." ”

"There are very few people on the other side of the river, so it won't be too dangerous." Li Yong said.

"It's safe to mine here, you have to get food." The monkey said, "Not far from that place?" ”

"It's not too far, about five kilometers or so, it's really a bit on the periphery, and there should be a certain danger. Declare in advance that you can not go if you are scared. ”

Daguang gritted his teeth and said, "This is not far away, I heard that some powerful hunting teams have set up camps more than ten kilometers away. If you don't take some risks, you can get something. ”

Everyone discussed it again, and then decided to go to the cliff to set up camp according to Ling Li's wishes.

The group walked up the river, and after crossing the creek that Ling Li had visited yesterday, they could see the cliff that was not very high in the distance. Ling Li and the monkey both took bows and arrows to clear the way in front, and the others also took out their weapons and followed not far behind.

I don't know if these people were lucky or what happened, after crossing the creek and walking less than a kilometer in the valley, a rabbit as big as a lamb suddenly jumped up from the grass, and the monkey missed an arrow in a hurry, and the figure was about to disappear into the jungle quickly. At this time, I only heard the sound of the bowstring, and an arrow shot by Ling Li flew straight to the front of the rabbit's escape, but I saw the rabbit's body jump, but it hit the tip of the flying arrow and fell directly to the ground.

Ling Li and the monkey chased after him quickly, but saw that the arrow was inserted into the back of the rabbit's most vulnerable head, and the rabbit's four legs were still kicking unconsciously, but it was impossible to live.

After the bow and arrow skills were proficient, the accurate prediction of the hare's movement trajectory still played a role.

"This arrow...... God! The monkey exclaimed.

Ling Li smiled and said, "It's a coincidence, it's just luck." ”

The hunting of this hare the size of a lamb immediately relieved everyone's anxiety because they had no place for dinner.

After more than two kilometers of travel, the cliff was on the opposite side of the creek. The surface of the river has been reduced to just over 20 meters wide, and the water on the banks is clear, and through the water, you can see that the bottom of the river is a layer of pebbles of various sizes. There are some small fish swimming happily in the water.

"We don't need to tie up the rafts, let's just swim over." After hearing Ling Li's request for everyone to start cutting trees and building rafts, Xie Bing spoke.

"No, we're not familiar with this water, in case there's any dangerous creature." Ling Li said, "Didn't it be said in the wilderness survival manual, when you enter the forest lightly, you should be careful when you encounter water, the unknown danger in the woods and water is the greatest." ”

They worked together to cut down seven cedar trees with thick bowls, tied them into wooden rows, and supported them with wooden poles to the other side of the river. The river is not very deep, and the middle of the river is only four or five meters deep. Less than 100 meters after crossing the river, we came to the edge of the cliff, where there were four caves side by side at a height of more than five meters above the ground.

A few people climbed to the top of the platform and came to the cave, and Daguang asked a little strangely, "How can there be so many strange caves on the cliff?" ”

After hearing this, Li Yong smiled and said, "Phew, at first glance, I don't usually read books." It is recorded in the history books that this thing is called a cave, a relic left before the cataclysm, and it itself was excavated by humans earlier as a dwelling. ”

A few people laughed a few words, and began to enter the cave one by one to inspect.

These caves are less than three meters high, seven or eight meters deep, and about four meters wide, but the original doors and windows have long since disappeared. There seemed to be wild beasts entrenched in the cave, and there were many broken animal bones, furs, and feces on the ground, but these beast dung had long since dried up, and the beasts inside should have been cleaned up or driven away by the army before.

The cave is more than five meters high from the ground, and a platform passage less than two meters wide is dug in front of it, connecting the four caves, but a piece of it collapses in the middle, so that the four caves are separated from the middle, and wooden planks need to be put on them to pass. Compared to the shacks made of woods, the living conditions here are much better, they can be sheltered from the wind and rain, and they are considered very safe. It's just that the stone steps carved out of the cave were broken and buried underground due to geological changes, and a wooden ladder needed to be built to go up to the platform.

Everyone began to divide the work, cutting trees, cleaning, building wooden ladders, and even building beds. The first craft that these teenagers came into contact with in school was carpentry, and they were no strangers to it, and it took only half a day of work for everyone to work together, and this place of residence was already beginning to take shape, and even installed wooden doors in the two living caves.

There are enough caves, and originally Ling Li meant that everyone was crowded in a cave to save any accidents. Helplessly, under the resolute request of Zou Xinyu, Xie Bing and others, everyone was divided into two rooms, four people in a cave. Ling Li, Monkey, Daguang and Li Yong lived in the outer room, the other four lived next to them, and the remaining two caves were used as a room and the other was intended to be used as a storage room in the future.