With the completion of the first wooden house, the captain and the old man shifted their focus to food, but some of them were left to continue repairing the treehouse. Some of the necessary facilities in the house still take time to make, the most important thing is to build a few flat beds, tables and chairs, etc.

But there is one thing more important than food, and fresh water is not available. The captain only has less than 10 tons of water left, and during this time, it is all up to the ship's circulating water purification to maintain a basic supply of fresh water, otherwise these tons of water would have been exhausted by us long ago. Case. Locke sent the most experienced old man and Wharton in the field to find fresh water. After searching for a few days, Tamsui was finally found by Lao Lao. On this day, the old man ran down the mountain in a hurry to find me and tell me the great news for everyone and you. I hurriedly followed the old man to the water source.

It was easy for us to reach the halfway point of the hill about 80 meters from the treehouse. A clear mountain spring is raised in a pool of several square meters. The waterhole is not deep, less than a meter, but you can hear the faint sound of running water coming from a distance, and Lao Mai heard the sound of water before he came to find him. The rocks below the waterhole are covered with patches of green, which are the clear moss that clings to the rocks. The whole waterhole is like a pool of turquoise jade embedded in the mountainside, and at this moment it is something more gratifying than beautiful jade. I quickly possessed and tasted it, and the long-lost sweetness directly stimulated nerve cells to search for past memories, and finally found a bit of similar information in the past on a bundle of cell carriers, which was the taste of the water in my hometown.

"It's delicious!" I couldn't help but take a few more sips.

Lao Mai also took a few sips, wiped his mouth and said, "Yes! I don't know how much better than the purified water in the spaceship, it's still natural! If you drink too much purified water, it's scary to think about! ”

What Lao Mai said is that purified water is fine after drinking it once, but although it is not much different from purifying it once, it is a great challenge to people's psychology if it is purified twice, three times, or four times.

"But how do you get water under the house, make a bucket and carry water every day?" The old man asked another question.

I searched my head for documentaries I'd seen about my home planet, Earth, and wanted to find out how humans could get water in ancient times. "Yes, if only we could find a hollow plant like bamboo on Earth."

"You mean to put it in a pipe to bring the water down?" Lao Mai understood what I meant, looked at the vegetation around me, and sighed, "It seems that there is no such plant, but it is not necessarily, let's make a few buckets to deal with it first." ”

Lao Mai and I went down to the waterhole to look around for hollow plants that could be used as pipes, but we couldn't find them, so it seemed that we had to make buckets. When we got back to the treehouse, we talked about the waterhole with everyone, and as soon as we heard that the water in the pool was sweet and delicious, the people who had long been impatient put down their work and ran to drink water as soon as they smoked. Looking at the empty building site, Lao Mai and I could only shake our heads and smile bitterly. Since I couldn't find the pipe, I had to make a barrel ready. Qingshuang played a big role again at this time. I took a stake thirty or forty centimeters high, dug out an inverted conical inner stamen inside the stake, drilled holes in the sides, put ropes on it, and made four barrels whose weight was much greater than its capacity.

When I came to the waterhole with the strange barrels, I was cheered by everyone. So everyone scrambled to fill the bucket and walk back. Back at the treehouse, find Ogoura and they've returned. They dismantled the photometer and set it up, and even the spacecraft drove back, and the spacecraft was parked on a flat cliff, and the spacecraft was protected by the atmosphere, which could turn off the important space radiation protection system, which was quite energy-intensive.

Faleo, Mobuto, and De La Rozan joined us in our search for food. We are familiar with the types of seafood that can be eaten on the beach, and we have developed a series of planned harvesting measures for the preservation of the entire ecological environment. There is a certain proportion of species obtained each time, and if too many species are collected, it is very likely to destroy the entire ecological chain.

Since the food situation on the beach has been in the hands of the people, it is a good idea. Captain Locke decided to send me, Lao Mai, Faleo, Mobuto, and seven or eight others to explore the mountains and trees in the distance. The primeval forest must have plenty of animals to feed us, just hope not to run into reptiles similar to Earth's Jurassic era. If you encounter such a huge beast, you can't resist it with a few laser guns and my green frost ken.

The group walked in a column on the path that had been evacuated. Mobuto and DelaRozan couldn't stand the stuffiness and took off their spacesuits and changed into civilian clothes. Casual clothes are much cooler than spacesuits, but the disadvantage is that they do not protect the body from plant scratches like spacesuits.

I walked at the front of the whole team, and Lao Mai said that I was the youngest and had the best physical strength, so let me be at the front. I continued to open the road with Qingshuang in my hand, the weeds on the side of the road were trampled directly under our feet, and when I encountered hard branches and vines that could not be stepped on, I shook my wrist and asked Qingshuang to divide them into several sections, and the group walked with difficulty in the primordial forest.

We had almost reached the top of the mountain, and we saw a better and wider view in the distance. My heart is full of anticipation, will we be the masters here? I believe that as long as there are human beings, the owner of any planet will only be human beings.

"Ahh Suddenly, someone shouted, breaking the calm of the march. When I looked back, I saw that Mo Butuo's left arm had a vine-like thing attached to it at some point, and this vine had a round head of nearly ten centimeters that seemed to suck the arm, and a little blood seeped out through his clothes. Mo Butuo frowned and dragged his right hand, looking very painful.

Haytham next to him took a knife and cut the vine directly, but the vine was very tough, and it did not break after a few faint shakes. I squeezed over and slashed the vine with a sword, and the head of the vine was dragged off after losing contact with the plant. Look at this disc again, the diameter is about 9CM, and there is a round sucker with lines around the hollow, and the horror is that this suction cup actually has six gelatinous curved protrusions, just like six teeth, it is these six teeth that make Mo Butuo see blood. Oh my God, what kind of monster is this, looking at the toothy vines, my erector muscles can't help but contract again.

Song Mingsheng also squeezed over at this time, looked at the vines that had been dragged down, and tore Mo Butuo's clothes to see how Mo Butuo's injuries were. There were six cuts in the arm, and the entire wound was completely swollen. Song next year pinched the muscles five or six centimeters next to the wound with his hand and asked, "Do you feel it?" ”

Mo Butuo smiled: "Of course there is!" ”

Song Mingsheng then directly pressed the side of the wound: "What about here?" ”

"Nope!"

"So serious?" When I heard this, I hurried over and tore off my torn clothes, only to see that Mo Butuo's wound was already blue, which was a sign of poison. It must be dealt with immediately.

"Bear with me!" I decided to squeeze out the toxins from Mobuto's wounds. Mo Butuo nodded, and I quickly swung it with the green frost, leaving a shallow sword mark on Mo Butuo's wound. The wound was cut open, leaving all that was black blood.

Song Mingsheng's face turned black, and he immediately squeezed the wound, waiting for the blood to turn red. Tear off the corner of your clothes and strangle the upper edge of the wound on the wall of your hand. After a simple process, Song Mingsheng hurriedly said, "Quick! Let's hurry up and withdraw to the tree house first, old man, you and Xiaosu stay to see what kind of plant this is, and it's best to dig it up with the roots. ”

"Okay."

The group was about to walk back, when a vine slowly crawled through the grass like a poisonous snake, and in a moment when everyone was still stunned, it pounced directly on the nearest Ferrasche. Now I can see clearly, this vine has stretched dozens of centimeters in an instant, making it impossible to avoid at close range. Velasche grabbed the vine and pulled it down. Suction cups with teeth did not break through the protection of the spacesuit and did not leave any wounds. It didn't take much effort to pull it off this time. I slashed it with a sword, and cut it off. I saw the remaining vines "whoosh" and retract from the forest, leaving only the severed suckers and the short branches connected to the suckers.

The others walked back quickly with two "trophies", and Lao Mai and I searched for the place where the vines had disappeared just now while clearing the weeds. The weeds were cut off from the earth by the frost, and we trampled them underfoot. I didn't clean up much before I saw a vine climbing on a big tree, and the leaves of this vine could be clearly seen up close, the leaves were like palms with only three fingers, the edges of the leaves were edged and toothed, and a broken branch was hidden in the grass, and a little green juice oozed from the hollow section of the broken branch.

We continued to clear the weeds and wanted to find the exact location of the vine's rhizomes. I bent down to pull out some weeds, and my left hand accidentally touched the leaves of the vine, which suddenly curled up in a clump to form the shape of a funnel. I looked at the old man, and I saw a lot of surprise in his eyes. I deliberately touched another leaf, and the leaf swished and rolled into a funnel, and the three tips of the leaf contracted at the same time, covering the top of the leaf that had been rolled into a funnel, trying to wrap my finger inside, if it was a small worm, it would definitely not be able to escape.

"Man-eating grass!" Lao Mai and I looked at each other for a moment, and the two of us spat out three words in unison, this plant is too aggressive, much like a plant that is widely known in Celta - man-eating grass. The rhizome was quickly found, and after a little bit of dirt was cleared from the side of the rhizome, the whole plant was pulled out. The rhizome is ordinary, and it is very unrecognizable. After tidying up the entire vine, I found that its length had reached more than ten meters, which was really long enough.

Looking at this strange plant, and thinking of the giant barnacles that had risen early on the beach and had long tentacles to hunt on, my heart felt great anxiety for the first time since I set foot on this land. The planet is not destined to be a peaceful and peaceful place to settle.