Chapter 4: Making a Fire
In the hot rainforest, the sound of birds and beasts is endless.
The hot and humid environment is easy to make people upset, and those who are not determined have already tried to retreat, but Lu Yan has a self-confidence that comes from nowhere.
"Challenge the rainforest for half an hour to make a fire with your bare hands!"
Xiaohu hurriedly changed the title of the live broadcast room to this attractive copy.
In this environment, it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to start a fire without relying on any modern tools.
As expected, after the live broadcast room changed its title, its popularity rose sharply again, breaking through the 500,000 mark in an instant.
"Where is the jumping clown so funny here? Rainforest fires with bare hands? Half-hour? Bei Ye doesn't dare to blow it like this, right? ”
"Hahaha, the anchor's live broadcast gimmick is okay, and he successfully introduced me!"
"Don't make noise, don't make noise, watch the anchor perform!"
"It's just, this anchor has something."
As the popularity grew, the barrage began to disagree.
Many new viewers didn't know where Lu Yan came from, and directly ridiculed with a poisonous tongue. There were also many onlookers who spoke for Lu Yan.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the tree with pinnate leaves in front of you is the mulberry bread tree, native to the Pacific Islands, which is rare here."
Just when the audience had the opposite opinion and was about to start a war of words, Lu Yan spoke.
As soon as the camera turned, the little fox had already followed Lu Yan's footsteps and came to the foot of this bread tree dozens of meters high.
"How does this thing make a fire?"
"It's like, it looks wet!"
After a slight pause, a barrage floated a string of questions.
The little fox is also full of curiosity. But he didn't make a sound, and stayed quietly waiting for Lu Yan's popular science.
originally thought that it was her bad luck to meet Lu Yan, but she didn't expect the live broadcast effect to get better and better.
"Of course this tree can't make a fire!"
Lu Yan shook his head, signaled everyone to be calm, and pointed to the rhizome stretching under the tree: "This is the key to making a fire." ”
Xiaohu tacitly aimed the camera at the rhizome on the ground, and came up with a big close-up.
"Tropical rainforests have a very complete biological chain. Since the sun is not sufficient, all kinds of trees are desperately growing, each one is twenty or thirty meters high, and fifty or sixty meters is not uncommon.
In order to support such a large tree, these plants will have a plate root phenomenon. ”
"And these rhizomes on the ground are the roots!"
"The bread tree roots, native to the Pacific Islands, are very dry on the inside, and they are natural flintvels, which catch fire when they catch fire."
As soon as the words fell, Lu Yan had already started to wave away the weeds on the ground, broke a large piece of board root, and knocked open the bark outside, revealing the messy rhizome part inside.
Everything seemed to be very familiar, only Lu Yan himself knew that a few weeks before the crossing, he had done a virtual drill wood fire experiment with similar plant roots.
"It sounds very reasonable, I don't know if it's true or not!"
"This anchor is very good at blowing! Let's make a fire and see! ”
The audience who don't know why can't wait.
"Don't worry, you have to believe in the strength of the little brother!"
Xiaohu didn't miss the opportunity to appear on camera, and while playing a round, he didn't forget to be coquettish at the camera.
"It's also a shortcoming."
Putting the rhizome part in his hand and kneading it into a ball, Lu Yan nodded with satisfaction, then raised his head and smirked at the canopy.
Xiaohu hurriedly moved the lens over, and after focusing, what appeared in front of the lens was an oval bird's nest.
"I'm sorry!"
As he spoke, Lu Yan had already picked up the bird's nest.
To start a fire, it's not enough to have flintvel, you also need a lot of dry branches for fuel. The bird's nest is made of thin branches, and it is far from the ground, so it is dry enough.
Everything was ready, Lu Yan found a long tree trunk, put his hands together and held a wooden stick with good toughness, and aimed at the slightly concave part of the trunk in the center.
The next step is to drill wood for fire.
The first time Lu Yan carried out this kind of practical operation, he had set the appropriate conditions in the virtual warehouse, so he could easily succeed.
Reality is no better than simulation. After three or five minutes, there was only a trace of hot heat coming from the wooden stick, and there was not a single spark.
"The mouth is very good at talking, and the operation is quite stretched!"
"Hahaha, it's only five minutes. Bull puff blows up! ”
"If you fail the challenge, take the next one!"
The style of the barrage painting changed, and there was another burst of ridicule.
"Oh, don't worry, everyone, or I'll sing a song to everyone!"
For fear of declining popularity, Xiaohu hurriedly sold cuteness to the camera.
But the audience in this live broadcast room, at this time, turned a deaf ear to the little fox, and instead shouted to see the fire one by one.
……
"Can you do it?"
The barrage was obviously out of control, and Xiaohu glanced at Lu Yan anxiously.
"Don't ask a man if it's okay......"
Glancing at the little fox, Lu Yan replied by borrowing the more popular words of the twenty-first century.
After a moment of silence, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and walked straight to a mulberry tree, and when he came back, there was already a mass of burnt yellow gooey in his hand.
"The humid climate in the southeast will greatly reduce the heat caused by friction, and with this, you can make a fire!"
Lu Yan smiled, touched the sticky thing in his hand, and began to continue drilling wood.
"It's resin, a natural glue that can be used on your hands to greatly improve your friction! Brother Lu Yan is witty! ”
Without waiting for Lu Yanduo to explain, the barrage has already given everyone the answer.
"Thorn~"
At the same time, there was already a stabbing sound from the wooden stick in Lu Yan's hand.
The boards that were subjected to friction began to turn black. A spark the size of a sesame seed appears on the board.
"It's done!"
Lu Yan was a little excited.
Hurriedly threw the spark into the flintvel, wrapped it and blew it gently.
"Whew~"
After a few breaths, a burst of fire suddenly appeared, accompanied by wisps of white smoke, in front of the camera.
Xiaohu snorted, and his words were full of surprise.
is not only the little fox, but also a string of six floating on the barrage.
"Half an hour, just right!"
Compared with them, Lu Yan was much calmer, watching the time while adding the branches dismantled from the bird's nest to the fire.
At the same time, there was a vibration in the phone.
A scrolling banner appeared in the live broadcast room of the whole platform: "Wang Xiaocong sent five super rockets in the Xiaohu live broadcast room, go dig for treasure!" ”
"Wow~ Thank you, Brother Satoshi!"
The little fox's piercing scream spread throughout the rainforest, and people who didn't know why thought that Lu Yan had done something indescribable to her......
And Xiaohu, who was about to break through the live broadcast room of 600,000 people, was once again attracted more than 100,000 treasure-digging viewers by five super rockets!
Half an hour later, the entire rainforest was occupied by the little fox's exclamations, and the aftermath shuttled through the dense rainforest, echoing for a long time.
The gift income brought by so much traffic can be imagined, even if she is taken by the platform, she can still get an objective figure.
Lu Yan was still fiddling with the blazing bonfire, and he had gradually gotten used to yelling at the little fox.
After a few adjustments, the campfire was arranged in a cross shape.
The four thick trees are placed regularly on the top and bottom, left and right, and only the head of the trunk is burned in the fire.
The advantage of this is that it can be burned for a longer period of time and will not go out.
After all, in the southeastern rainforest, it is difficult to find combustible wood.
"Don't scream the anchor, what about eating snake meat?"
"Yes, yes, I almost forgot about this stubble!"
"Beauty and the Beast Reality Edition is about to take place! / Bad laugh"
Although there were many new viewers, many people still remembered the theme of this live broadcast...... Eat!
"The fire is almost burning, it's time to barbecue!"
Lu Yan opened his mouth, after all, he was busy for a long time, just for a bite to eat.
"You...... Look at what I'm doing! I won't! ”
Being stared at by Lu Yan, the little fox was uncomfortable.
Making up her mind to eat snake meat was already the biggest challenge, if she had to do it herself...... Don't say no, you won't dare!
“……”
Looking at Xiaohu's expression, Lu Yan shrugged helplessly.
Others are either rich or expensive, so why has he become a drama to serve his aunt and grandmother?
Cooking skillsLu Yan is not good at it.
Today, a hundred years later, the kitchen has been replaced by artificial intelligence. Simply enter the recipe into the system, throw the ingredients into the machine, and start up to fully automate the process from washing and cutting to cooking.
Fortunately, I have studied the 21st century and know the general method.
The snake meat is tender and silky, and if it is grilled directly over an open fire, it is easy to get mushy and get old.
After thinking about it, Lu Yan found a branch, dug a shallow pit of a few centimeters on the ground, took out the snake gallbladder, coiled the entire snake body into a circle and covered it with leaves, and finally moved the bonfire to the location of the shallow pit.
Lu Yan was a little depressed, you know, 100 years later, this kind of snake has become extinct, and it can only be seen in history books, but he didn't expect that he would kill such a snake and eat meat for the first time, which is really a luxury.