Chapter 14: Survival on a Desert Island (8)
This kind of giant pheasant that I don't know what its name is ugly makes people can't bear to swallow it, but I didn't expect it to taste quite good.
Zhang Heng has eaten seafood on the island for too long, and he has almost forgotten what chicken tastes like, but the chicken soup stewed at night has reminded him of his long memories.
In fact, strictly speaking, this meat is still rougher than chicken, and it may be closer to a pigeon in terms of taste.
But for Zhang Heng, who is already crazy about meat, this is the best chicken he has ever eaten in his life.
He couldn't eat more than a dozen pounds of chicken, and the rest of the meat was smoked into jerky after removing the internal organs and soaked in seawater, and hung under the eaves.
He found a piece of sunny land behind the house, cut up the artichokes in his hand to make seeds, planted them, burned some grass ash and sprinkled them as fertilizer, and finally surrounded the fence, hoping that this place would surprise him in a month and a half.
Zhang Heng originally recorded the time by carving orthography on the wall, but after moving, it was impossible for him to move the stone wall over, but fortunately, there was still a starfish on his right hand.
With its incredible hardness that surpasses all scientific explanations, Zhang Heng also used it to polish stones in his early days.
Based on the position of the hour and minute hands above, he could deduce the present date in a simple conversion relationship, two hundred and one days after he landed on the deserted island.
The clothes on his body were the first to rot, and then his shoes were also torn with a big hole, fortunately, it was in the tropics, even in winter, he didn't have to worry too much about the temperature, Zhang Heng was now simply naked during the day.
His skin was tanned, his beard was unkempt, and his hair was stranded and somewhat unkempt.
In the afternoon of this day, Zhang Heng put down all the work at hand, chose a rock wall on the coast, climbed it, sat cross-legged on it, and quietly looked into the distance.
About half an hour later, Zhang Heng's old friend appeared on time.
The explorer man struggled in the waves, looking like he could drown at any moment.
Zhang Heng looked at the undulating figure, and his expression was also very entangled.
The great philosopher, mathematician, and historian Russell once said that his life was dominated by three simple and strong emotions - the desire for love, the pursuit of knowledge, and the pity for human suffering.
However, for Zhang Heng now, things are a little simpler.
There were only two things that sustained him through the 500 days - a visit to the center of the island and an explorer man who would come every forty days.
The former keeps him busy and spends less time thinking, while the latter reminds him that he's not alone.
Zhang Heng didn't know how many times he had the idea of fishing the explorer man out of the sea.
As long as he dragged the other ashore he could have someone to spend nineteen days with him, giving him the communion and warmth of his kind that he needed most now.
But Zhang Heng didn't do it for a long time.
He remembered a movie he had watched before called "The Aftermath of a Desert Island", where the protagonist's plane crashed, and he landed on an island with a bunch of packages, and in order to survive, he unwrapped all the packages except the last one, because that package meant hope for him.
The explorer man who now comes back every 40 days also has the same meaning for Zhang Heng.
He's been on the island for more than 200 days, the equivalent of five rounds of gameplay for the average player, and his return to reality is still far away.
If you rescue the explorer man now, then after 19 days, the other party will hang up, and he will be completely alone for the rest of the days.
Although he still lacks everything after his Survival in the Wild has reached lv1 (for example, he really wants a game console, even if it only has Tetris and Snake), but he is no longer as eager to improve his skills as he was when he first came to the island.
In contrast, the center of the Discovery Island still lacks a helper, and of course he can do this alone, but the two of them are safer after all.
Therefore, Zhang Heng planned to rescue the explorer man and let the latter accompany him into this primeval forest.
Zhang Heng also verified one thing from Ed and the shorts guy, that is, although the two are experts in survival in the wild, their respective directions are different.
The knowledge imparted by Ed is mainly based on basic survival skills, while the shorts guy is more oriented towards manufacturing, judging from the way the explorer man is dressed, he is likely to be an expert in expeditions, and it would be a little embarrassing to pick him up at this time.
Therefore, Zhang Heng still restrained the desire in his heart and watched the explorer man being swallowed by the waves for the fourth time.
Reluctantly forgetting to glance at the direction in which the other party finally disappeared, Zhang Heng jumped off the rock wall and continued to train his archery step by step.
It took him a month to raise the 30-meter distance to more than 90%.
As a result, I didn't receive any skill upgrade prompts.
Zhang Heng did not feel discouraged, which was also within his expectations, this game is very harsh on the identification of skills, he has studied English for 14 years, and his native Chinese is only mixed with a lv1 in terms of language, but considering that there are so many languages in the world, this rating is also fair.
In the same way, the same is true for survival in the wild, Zhang Heng feels that now that he throws people from all over the world on a desert island, he should be able to enter the top ten even if he is not the last person to live, but he is also a more serious partial, and he may not be able to eat like this in other harsh environments, such as the polar regions or deserts, he is enough to live, which is also the biggest gap between him and real experts.
Therefore, in terms of archery skills, Zhang Heng was not in a hurry.
After improving his accuracy by 30 meters, he began to try to shoot at dynamic targets.
Zhang Heng used the fish swimming near the coral as the target at first, but after shooting two arrows, he remembered that his line of sight was deflected in the water, and if he practiced it like this, his archery skills would be crooked.
So he switched to using crabs as targets, but the crabs belong to the enemy and I don't move, and the training effect is not good, as for the bird, Zhang Heng didn't consider it at the beginning, mainly because most of them stand on the top of the tree, and the arrows shot out are difficult to recover.
Zhang Heng tried several times, and finally chose broken pottery shards to make his own targets, strung them with ropes and hung them on the branches, and when the wind rose, they would drift with the wind.
As a result, it became difficult to shoot again.
Zhang Heng practiced for two months this time before he could find a little way, during which he unexpectedly harvested a giant "pheasant" with a stumbling appearance, and it was still in good condition, this thing somehow ran to Zhang Heng's vegetable garden, probably wanted to sneak in and steal a free breakfast, but his head was stuck by the fence.
Zhang Heng thought about it, but he didn't eat it in a hurry, but found a rope, tied one end to one leg of this thing, and the other end tied to a stake, so that he had a 2.0 upgraded version of the moving target.
Zhang Heng wrapped the carbonized arrowhead, and then began to make a cruel teasing of the pheasant.