Chapter 4: The True Colors of Life and Death
In the eyes of modern people, the truth of drilling wood to make fire is really pediatric, everyone understands things, and even asks some children who like to read books, it is nothing more than friction to generate heat, and finally burn into fire.
But it's one thing to understand, it's another thing to be able to do it.
It has been explained again and again that Wu Ming is a young man in the house system, although it is not a whole house, but it also belongs to the kind of urban growth, people who come out of modern society, let alone drill wood to make fire, I am afraid that they have not even used a coal stove.
At the moment, the time is about four o'clock, Wu Ming felt the temperature, this temperature is about the end of summer, this time point is still a little hot, depending on the situation, it is estimated that it will be around half past seven o'clock before night, in other words, he has almost more than three hours to prepare for the night shelter, and lighting a fire is the most important thing.
Wu Ming used some knowledge of wilderness survival, found some dry firewood, carved some dents on it with stones, and found some dry grass fire-making objects, and then, he used a slender wooden stick to rub on this firewood, before and after only about ten minutes, his fingers were hot and painful, if it was in the past, Wu Ming naturally could not continue, but this time is different, in the wilderness, or in the wilderness with fierce beasts, whether there is fire or not means whether he can live, he wants to live, this good life has just begun, how can he die silently like this?
Gritting his teeth, he kept rubbing for an hour, sweat dripping all over the ground, but he was careful that not a drop fell onto the firewood, and the woodwood dents were already charred black, and from time to time there was green smoke rising, and there were already blood blisters on his fingers, but he gritted his teeth and persisted, again and again, until an hour or so of ten or twenty minutes, a small spark loomed in the dent, Wu Ming was overjoyed, carefully dropped the spark on the dry grass, and then gently blew inward like the demonstration in the wilderness survival, slowly, a cloud of smoke rose up, choking Wu Ming almost immediately coughed。
But he actually endured it stubbornly, until the withered grass burned and his hands began to burn, he put the withered grass on the dry firewood that he had prepared earlier, and suddenly, the dry firewood also burned.
Wu Ming's heart was full of joy, but his hand was really painful, and for a while he grinned and just cried bitterly.
At this time, it was already dusk, Wu Ming looked at the sky, carefully put the dry firewood on the fire, estimated the burning time, and then continued to prepare other things for the shelter, the more firewood is definitely needed, the more the merrier, there are also food problems and drinking water problems, this is difficult to do, it is difficult to find these in this wilderness.
However, Wu Ming is also lucky, there are wild fruit trees not far from the place where he came, most of them he doesn't know, but some of the fruits have traces of insects biting birds and pecking, which is non-toxic and edible, and at the same time, about four or five hundred meters away from the shelter he selected, there is a small stream that flows down from the slope of the mountain, very small, it is estimated that it is formed after the snow melts on the mountain, this is the solution to his urgent need, now the weather is still quite hot, he has shed a lot of sweat when drilling wood to make fire, so he drank a stomach of water in front of this stream.
"Food, water, firewood, these are all there, and as for the sleeping place, I can barely hang on a tree to deal with it all night, and it is still ...... Weapons......"
Wu Ming sat down in front of the fire, muttering while eating the fruit, this fruit is actually not delicious, a little astringent, but it can barely fill the stomach, and after eating the fruit, Wu Ming looked at the sky, it was late, it looked like the sun would set in almost an hour, at this moment there was a cool breeze blowing, a little cool, he didn't stay long, just checked among the nearby trees, and after checking half a ring, he finally found the target.
It was a thick branch and a thin branch, after Wu Ming climbed to the tree, he hung his whole body on this branch, and finally tore it short, and then Wu Ming sharpened the branch with a stone, and carefully roasted it with fire, carbonized it to increase its hardness, and it was not until the sun completely set that his wooden spear was finally completely made.
When the night completely fell, the surroundings were really dark, there was only a trace of the moon in the sky, and the whole world seemed to have nothing else except his pile of flames, although there was a faint sound of insects chirping around, but this only added to the gloomy horror, in Wu Ming's eyes, the distance reflected by the firelight, whether it was stones, trees, or anything else, looked terrifyingly distorted, as if there were countless monsters lurking in the darkness.
If this kind of situation is an ordinary person, it is estimated that the spirit will collapse, even if it does not collapse, at least it is nervous, or it will not be long before it will be completely out of control, but Wu Ming is becoming more and more calm, he just sits by the fire with long hair, there is no one to eat the fruit, although there is fear in his heart, but he does not let it spread, he pays attention to the surroundings, but he does not seem afraid, he himself is surprised by his current state, this state has never been experienced in the past few decades.
"Sure enough, people are forced out, if it weren't for this time, I didn't know that I still had the potential to survive in the wilderness. Wu Ming smiled bitterly like self-deprecation, but he was happy in the bitterness.
But in fact, even he didn't realize that he was not a potential to survive in the wilderness at all, but something much more advanced, and that was a qualification.
After another hour or two, Wu Ming added firewood and calculated the firewood to be used for the night, and when he finished calculating, he was about to run to a tree next to the fire and squint for a while, when suddenly at this moment, he heard a wolf howling.
The moment he heard the wolf howl, Wu Ming's hair all over his body stood upside down, he picked up the long hair and stood up violently, his body seemed to exceed the speed of brain thinking, and he rushed directly towards the big tree next to him, before and after less than ten seconds, his whole person had already jumped to the treetops, and the whole person climbed on it motionless, except for the heartbeat, there was no sound at all.
(Wolves?There are wolves?)
The fear in Wu Ming's heart was simply overflowing, but the more so, the calmer his mind became, which made him himself surprised again and again, but now was not the time to think about this, he just held his breath and climbed quietly on the treetops motionless, the treetops were in a pitch black, and then there was a fire below to attract attention, even if he stood under the tree and looked up, it was unlikely to find him, and Wu Ming had been waiting on the tree, even if there were mosquito bites, it was not moving, so I don't know how long, there was a hidden creature black shadow from the darkness。
Wu Ming didn't dare to look at this thing squarely, he just looked at it with his eyes, he had checked in the government network of the Flood Desolate Heavenly Court before, people above the second-order gene lock would become sensitive to hostility and other gazes, and wild creatures also had this kind of wild intuition, if it was a demonic beast, this intuition might even evolve into their innate skills, Wu Ming would never be wrong in this kind of detail, he would only use his afterglow to look at the incoming things.
Soon, a blue-gray giant wolf stepped into the range of firelight, from the visual point of view, this is a giant wolf with a tail of more than three meters long, like a calf, blue-gray fur is very rare, Wu Ming doesn't know if the wolf in the Flood Continent is like this, but at least it is impossible to exist in the earth world, maybe there was in ancient times, but now it is almost impossible to have it again.
This giant wolf looks really scary, but what makes Wu Ming care is that it is not a pack of wolves that comes, but only this lonely giant wolf, this is one of them, and the other is that this giant wolf has injuries on his body, and it is seriously injured, there are blood stains on his back, a whole piece of fur has been lifted, and there is a big gap in his stomach, although it has been scarred, but this big gap almost cuts the stomach into two pieces, and it actually didn't even die of this serious injury?
Finally, there was a large wound on the skull of this giant wolf, and even one eye was blind, and it looked extremely terrifying, and the wound on the head could even see the bones, and there was a hole about the size of a thumb in the skull, which seemed to have been bitten by other beasts in the skull, not only bitten through a hole in the bone, but also torn off a lot of skin on the head.
(This is a lone wolf, I don't know if it was the product of the destruction of the wolves, or if the former wolf king was driven out of the wolf pack...... )
Wu Ming thought in his heart, although he is not an animal expert, but he has watched many animal science and education films, and it is also mentioned in novels and comics, the lone wolf is the most dangerous wild wolf, usually the lone wolf was the wolf king of the wolf pack, or the remaining wolves after the destruction of the wolf pack, no matter which one, the lone wolf is full of tyranny and killing intent, if ordinary wolves encounter an enemy beast that they feel may be dangerous, they will usually retreat, but the lone wolf is different, they will lurk in the dark, and the hunting object will not die, the most dangerous。
And lone wolves are more cunning than wolves in the pack, because lone wolves often have wounds, even if they are wounded, they have memories, so they are cunning and deadly, they are the most terrible hunters, and they are often very patient, and can stay up all day or even days for a little food.
This information flashed in Wu Ming's mind, his face gradually turned iron-blue, and beside the fire, the giant wolf looked at the fire with fear, and then it sniffed on the ground, sniffing little by little, and its figure gradually came towards the tree where Wu Ming was staying.
Wu Ming immediately looked at his fingers, because he had drilled wood to make fire before, there were blood blisters on his fingers, one of the blood blisters had burst, and blood had flowed out of it, although the amount of blood was not much, and it had begun to scar, but there was no doubt that it was these blood that exposed his location.
Gradually, the giant wolf got closer and closer to Wu Ming, and the more the situation was crisis, the more calm Wu Ming became, he himself was surprised by this calmness, and even reached the realm of ruthlessness, he looked at the giant wolf approaching coldly, his heart was full of fear, but there was incomparable killing intent in his eyes.
Finally, the giant wolf came under the tree, and at the moment when the giant wolf raised his head upward, Wu Ming actually jumped straight down from the treetops, holding the wooden spear in his hand, and the tip of the spear was facing the ......
It's that tooth hole in the wolf's skull!
In an instant, the giant wolf's surprised eyes met Wu Ming's cold and murderous eyes, and the hunter and the prey were confused with each other, and they could no longer tell who each other was.