Chapter 22: The Arctic Journey (The Flame of Civilization)
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The bee's sting on Cheng Fan did not hurt Cheng Fan, but only made him feel sour and itchy all over his body, and there was a little slight pain, his body shook, the tail behind his back swept back and forth on his body, and bees kept falling from him, and soon fell to the ground densely. Vertices are updated the fastest
These bees, which had lost their stinging needles and internal organs, did not die immediately, and were still struggling on the ground, but unfortunately their lives were running out and they were coming to an end.
Groups died, and groups of people who were not afraid of death poured in, and the worker bees bravely attacked to defend their homeland, but to no avail. On the contrary, the beehive staggered under Cheng Fan's successive stabs, and finally overwhelmed and fell from the tree.
Cheng Fan picked up the beehive that fell to the ground with both hands, and there were still bees in the hive that kept crawling out of the guards, but the number was very small.
Cheng Fan swept the bees that crawled out with his claws and carefully looked at the hive. The hive is an irregular oval, larger than a basketball, and is dark brown throughout, looking like a lump of cow dung that has been pinched into balls.
This kind of beehive, Cheng Fan often saw when he was a child, mostly built on high branches, some built under the eaves of people's houses, sometimes passing by the woods in the countryside, seeing them, not surprised like a bomb being hung in the treetops.
Bees that build such hives are larger and more aggressive than the average bee. Therefore, the old people often tell the children not to be naughty to provoke them, even if the adults want to remove them, they will prepare in advance.
Although it is not pretty, it is indeed made of bees, with sweet honey and young high-protein bee pupae inside.
Cheng Fan returned to the river with the hive, he only went out for a while, and the bear meat drying on the rocks was not stolen, and it was still honestly drying there.
The wind blows gently, the river flows slowly, and the sun shines on the green mountains and green waters, carrying a trace of coolness.
After Cheng Fan stuffed a few pieces of dried bear meat into his mouth, he began to use the collected birch bark to start a fire, without flint and steel, and without a match lighter, he used the knowledge he learned from the wilderness survival column to make a fire.
Watching the show, others make a fire quickly, thinking that it will be very simple, but it is not so easy to do it by himself, Cheng Fan tried several times in a row, and it took several hours to accidentally create a few poor sparks that fell on the ignition and made a fire, carefully protecting the fragile flames, for fear that a random gust of wind would blow, and the hard-won light would suddenly go out.
It's a peculiar picture!
A small monster was making a fire on the riverside, and next to him was a babbling river, with a lot of cut meat drying on the surrounding rocks, and a few wooden sticks on a rack to dry an animal skin, quite the taste of the beginning of civilization in primitive times.
The little monster spent serious effort, and a glimmer of fire appeared on the riverbank, and under the careful care of the little monster, the flame grew and burned into a fire.
Fire, in human accounts, is often used as a symbol of the emergence of civilization, representing the gradual progress of civilization from barbaric primitiveness to civilization, which is of great significance.
If a scientist is here and sees a little black monster making its own fire, I am afraid that the first thing to think about will be that the monster is also going to get out of the ignorance and evolve into civilization? Is the second most intelligent species on Earth about to emerge?
It was getting dark, and this was the Far East, and it was already early in the morning, and it was also dark early.
The curtain of night covers the mountains, and the trees on both sides of the bank come with the sound of "rustling", sometimes mixed with the slight sound of nocturnal small animals' activities, and a few owls chirp and fly by, making the flavor of the night stronger and the mountains and forests more secluded.
In the mountains, in the distance, there is a terrible wolf howl through the mountains and forests.
The dark mountains and forests on both sides could not see the faces of the day, as if the night awakened them and changed their form, like two lying giant beasts dormant in the vast earth, waiting for an opportunity to move at any time, the strange thing is that a pile of fire burned between the two giant beasts, and a smell of barbecue wafted in the air.
Cheng Fan sat by the fire, looking at the two bear paws on the fire, the more they roasted, the stranger it became, he got closer and sniffed with his nose, a strong smell hit his nose, not fragrant at all.
"Am I roasting it the wrong way?"
Cheng Fan scratched his head with his paws, he didn't know what to do with the bear paws and how to cook them?! In his previous life, as a very ordinary little person, he had only seen bears in zoos and on the screen, but eating bear paws and cooking bear paws had never happened before.
The bear paw continued to be turned over and roasted for a long time, probably late at night, Cheng Fan poked with his fingers, and the finger claws could be inserted, proving that at least the meat of the bear paw had been roasted, and he took a bear paw off the fire, and used his claws to cut the thick skin on the bear paw, revealing the meat inside, regardless of the hot in his mouth, Cheng Fan took a big bite.
The entrance is soft and elastic, and the mouth is full of gelatinous meat, as for the taste, for Cheng Fan, who has lost his normal human taste, what are you talking about? What's delicious or not?
Soon, Cheng Fan finished destroying the two bear paws, and ate the fish caught from the river and dozens of catties of bear meat, lying on the ground with his belly facing the sky, looking at the bright moon in the distant sky, listening to the flowing water played by heaven and earth in his ears, and patting his stomach with satisfaction, I am also a beast who has eaten bear paws!
In the early morning of sunrise, the mountains and forests are covered with a thin mist, and the fire that has been burning all night has not been extinguished.
Before going to bed at night, Cheng Fan dug a big pit, wrapped the remaining bear meat and two bear paws in leaves and threw them in, filled the big pit with soil, and then lit a large fire to roast the bear meat and bear paws in this way.
When Cheng Fan woke up, he opened the fire, dug out the leaves that were almost dried and scorched by the heat, and opened them with his claws, steaming hot, and pieces of completely cooked meat were presented in front of Cheng Fan.
I shook the beehive that I had poked down yesterday, and a rich and fragrant honey flowed from it, and when I smelled it, I seemed to see the season when a hundred flowers bloomed and the trees began to grow in shade.
Catch the dripping honey with his claws, lick it with his tongue first, and shake his head helplessly, still without any taste.
Before the barbecue, the honey had been smeared on the meat, and after the meat was cooked, Cheng Fan smeared another layer of honey, and while eating the bear meat, he grabbed the bee chrysalis from the hive and put them on the fiery charcoal to grill.
Bee chrysalis is also a kind of food, rich in various nutrients, for a small monster with a long body, food should not be wasted, especially this highly nutritious food, not to be wasted.
After eating the bear meat, he drank the honey of the hive, and then found a few leaves of the roasted bee pupae and carried them, like a child walking with a bag full of snacks.
He kicked the extinguished fire by the river into the river, and although he could not completely erase the traces of his fire here, humans would not have imagined that a little monster had once made a fire here and set up camp all night. Even if some of them guessed about it, they wouldn't believe it.