"Now it's the fire I need. In the field, I always carried flint stones to make fires, and willow branches on the ground were usually good starters, but they were too damp. So it's very laborious to make a fire. But I have a good idea, because there is no heavy rain in this rainforest, so we can find some relatively large dry branches, peel off the hard shell, and then use our hands to determine which parts are wet and which parts are dry. Find a dry place and use your knife or a stone to scrape some sawdust down. Sawdust is also a very good ignition material, so I don't need to say more, right?"

"I was relieved. The fire was finally kindled. Li Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief, but this fire was still a small fire, very fragile and his self-confidence to take care of it.

"Black bears don't kill as many people as Grizzly Bears in North America, but 90 percent of black bear attacks are incidents. Black bears hunt humans as prey, and many natives carry firearms. If you don't have a gun, you can only try to poke a bear in the eye with a stick. The human body has a biological clock that allows people to sleep when it is dark and wake up at dawn. It's hard to get a full night's sleep in a place where it's only 4 hours in the dark, and there are bears!"

After Li Changsheng successfully lit the fire, he put a few large firewoods and fell asleep lightly.

"It's about two o'clock in the morning and I hear rustling outside. I wonder if this one shot can transmit sound? Listen to it. Whether it's an elk or a bear, all I can hope now is that my fire will stop him from going. In the wild, because of the presence of thunder and lightning, sometimes there are forest fires, and once there is such a bright and high temperature, the animals are afraid of fire. I don't know if my small fire will stop him. Li Changsheng couldn't sleep, no matter what it was, Li Changsheng only hoped that it would leave quickly and let him continue to sleep.

It was only four hours of night, and soon it was dawn, but the sun was still not visible, and the heavy mist obscured the top of the mountains.

"It's dawn, my second day in the Himalayas, it's five o'clock in the morning, it's already dawn. I've woken up, but I'm not feeling well. Li Changsheng woke up and shook his nose, "Look, it's still raining." But I had to move on. I'm going to keep following the stream I found yesterday. I've seen a river at the bottom of the valley, and I've got to go somewhere. ”

Li Changsheng kept walking along the stream, and on the way, the light rain still did not stop, making the road in the rainforest even more muddy.

"I found the river, it was amazing. ”

Li Changsheng realized that the field of vision in front of him suddenly widened, and the light rain finally stopped.

"The river takes me to the sea, which is the easiest place to be found in the Himalayas, but it's not easy to go along the river. A lot of small streams flow into the river to form a pool, but this also forces me to keep wading through the stream. ”

At first, Li Changsheng only came across a small stream that could wet his shoes, but then he had to choose to go to the other side of the river, because the road on his side had been blocked.

"Wow. Water is good ice. These glacial waters are both turbulent and icy. I basically couldn't stand, I just wanted the rocks under my feet not to be too slippery, because a fall in the middle of the river was not fun at all. In this, it is important to keep facing upstream to resist the current. ”

Li Changsheng crossed the river like a crab, walked onto the dry bank, brought out the water in his shoes, and twisted his socks a few times to squeeze the water out.

"If you don't squeeze out the water, you're going to keep your feet soaking in the cold water, and you're going to have to carry the weight of the water with you all the time. Totally golden burden. ”

After walking for a few miles, the river widened and the view became wider. It must be approaching the coast. The sun was finally seen, and the sun was really warm on his body, which gave Li Changsheng a little comfort.

"It's finally time to get to the beach, and I've always known that when I get to the shoreline, I'm most likely to find helpers. But if you go 500 miles here or there, you may still not find anyone. So now it's up to you to judge that it's most likely to be inhabited over there. ”

"I came to one of the many small bays along the Himalayan coastline, and my best chance of being rescued was to hope that the many small fishing boats fishing in the area would find me. ”

Li Changsheng continued to walk along the land, and soon came to a place where a river flows into the sea.

"Look at this, it's a dead salmon, there's another one over there. It's really great, it means that the salmon go up the river from here, and the salmon often swim back from 200 miles away, find the river where they were born, or even the same tributary, and go back to give birth and die. The river is full of king salmon and pink salmon. I don't have a fishing line, so I have to catch fish in a different way. I'm going to make a harpoon out of a branch, and for such a big salmon, I need a trunk of the main fork of a tree. Li Changsheng found a tree with Y-shaped branches on its main trunk that stretched up to four meters.

"The first step was to clear the other twigs, then to break them off and sharpen them, which pierced the tough skin of the fish and immobilized the fish, and I was able to catch the fish with my hands, and it took me ten minutes to make a harpoon. But in terms of the time it takes to catch fish, I can guarantee that it will definitely be longer than this, or even several times longer. ”

Li Changsheng looked for a suitable spot for fishing.

"There are about a thousand salmon in the water on this side, and fish are very frightened animals, so we have to speak a little lower and move as quietly as possible. Fish have a poor memory though, so we can catch a little more salmon in one place. The water here is too deep for spearfishing, and I think if I can drive it to the shallow water, the odds will be greater. Li Changsheng threw a stone into the river, and at the same time kept slapping the water with a harpoon.

The salmon was frightened and began to swim towards the shallow water, which was exactly what Li Changsheng wanted to see.

"I saw a lot of fish somewhere, they were in 6 feet of water. The secret of catching fish is to approach steadily from downstream, one of the main predators of salmon is the eagle, the eagle will pounce down from above, so the salmon is very sensitive to shadows, if the salmon sees my shadow and swims away, I have to wait for the perfect moment, I am now standing motionless on this side, the fish start to lean. But they're really smart, they always swim where I can't catch them, and I've heard that the secret to catching fish is to be patient. Li Changsheng had no way to do better, so he could only keep his current posture.

Finally, a salmon swam over, and Li Changsheng perfectly forked it on its body and successfully caught it.

(End of chapter)