Chapter 49: Snake Hunting

This time, Liu Qing focused on fuel, which is firewood for fire. Although he could not remember what the firewood looked like, he believed that the firewood used for the fire was the most suspicious.

After confirming the target, Liu Qing quickly pulled away the piled firewood, carefully distinguishing and separating it from the inside, almost every kind of wood was pulled out by him alone, and in a short time, the empty space as big as the hole was all piled up. After doing this, Liu Qing sighed, and his stomach growled, and he didn't know how long he had been in a coma, and his stomach was already hungry.

When I turned my head to look, the two ginger beans before had been gnawed clean by Xiao Wu, and there were only some crumbs and roasted ginger bean skins on the ground. Liu Qing shook his head with a smile, went to the stone wall on the side and took down a piece of dried fish, he didn't dare to light the fire now, in case the meat was not cooked, if he was stunned again, I was afraid that he would starve to death if he didn't sleep to death.

These fish jerky have already been baked, and they are basically seven or eight ripe, so Liu Qing simply ate them directly. The dried fish is chewy, and the meat quality of this fish is not like dinosaur meat or wolf meat, once dried, it is difficult to chew, and it will feel a little hard when you first eat it, and after biting for a while and soaking in saliva, it becomes very soft and can be easily chewed very badly.

Xiao Wu, who had eaten all the ginger beans, walked around Liu Qing, Liu Qing knew at a glance that the little guy was not full yet, so he threw a piece of dried fish to him, and Xiao Wu also happily picked up and lay on the grass bed to eat. Liu Qing also had a full meal, and then began to test according to his plan.

To make a fire, the firewood added to it is the most commonly used kind, and after the fire is burned, add the same firewood as before. For each addition, just put a small section, wait for it to burn, and then carefully identify the flavor in the air.

However, the experiment disappointed him, so much firewood, there was no burning smell at all. In a blink of an eye, most of the day passed, Liu Qing was extremely puzzled, what was going on? Could it be that the toxins were produced after the dinosaur eggs were fried? It's not right, this can't explain the coma last time, he didn't eat dinosaur eggs last time, so the reason must be on these firewood.

Just when he was puzzled, he suddenly remembered one thing, he remembered that before he fell unconscious for the first time, his hand was pricked when he was adding firewood, and before he was unconscious for the second time, he was stabbed by some kind of firewood.

It was already close to evening outside, and the cave was already dark, Liu Qing was unwilling, and continued to rummage in the firewood pile with a flashlight. Accidentally, his hand was pricked by something again. Others were eager to scold their mothers when they were stabbed, but Liu Qing was very happy to be stabbed at this time, and hurriedly pressed the wooden stick that pierced him, as if it was afraid that it would run away.

When I mentioned it, it was a thumb-thick branch that was a ruler long, and it seemed to look more like some kind of vine than a branch, and it was a vine! Liu Qing was extremely suspicious, were the vines here all poisonous? Are the two fruit vines he had eaten also poisonous?

He carefully cut off a little bit of this vine and threw it into the fire, watching it slowly turn black in the flames, and then burn. It was only a moment before the familiar burnt smell began to appear in the air, but the taste was much lighter.

Just after Liu Qing smelled this smell, he felt dizzy, Liu Qing said that it was not good, so he quickly held his breath and ran towards the entrance of the cave with no discomfort. It's like gas poisoning, when you feel bad, you can quickly run to an open place and take a big breath of fresh air, Liu Qing also thinks so.

There was too much time, and Liu Qing also felt that he didn't have the strength to go up to the stone pile, so he had to lie down on the spot at the entrance of the cave, leaning sideways, his mouth and nose almost tightly attached to the fence door, and then began to breathe heavily. The smell of earth mixed with the smell of unknown grass penetrated into his nostrils, but Liu Qing's eyelids were still a little unbearable and wanted to close.

It's over! The last thought in Liu Qing's mind was these two words. Because he suddenly realized that this was poisoning, and when he smelled the smell, he was already poisoned, and gas poisoning was the combination of carbon monoxide and hemoglobin in the body, the former toxin had already occurred in the body, and the latter could be relieved and treated as long as it was not too deeply poisoned, and enough oxygen could be supplemented.

The reason why he thought about it was because Liu Qing felt that it was a losing choice for him to run to the gate of the fence, at the entrance of the cave, any animal that found him could kill him, and it was an absolutely wrong choice to be unconscious here, it was better to lie down in the hole and sleep like before.

In a daze, Liu Qing opened his eyes, it was pitch black outside, there were a few stars twinkling in the sky, and the moon was nowhere to be seen. "Hmm......" Liu Qing snorted lightly, this posture was too uncomfortable, his face was against the fence gate, his head was in a backward posture, after a long time, he only felt that his neck was going to stiffen, and it was difficult to swing his head back to his normal position.

After adjusting his body a little and becoming lying on his stomach, feeling better, Liu Qing felt that something was wrong, he always felt that something was staring at him, and this feeling was extremely bad. It's like realizing that you've been targeted by a sniper on the battlefield.

He is now in the cave, except for Xiao Wu, there is no other animal at all, maybe it is his own illusion! Even with this explanation, Liu Qing still subconsciously looked up, and suddenly he was so frightened that he almost jumped up, in fact, he was about to jump up, but he was lying on his side before, his left arm was pressed under him, and at the same time, the posture was extremely unpleasant, and he maintained it for so long, and now his whole body is numb and stiff, otherwise he would definitely jump up all of a sudden.

What appeared in front of his eyes was a pair of big green eyes that were close at hand! This kind of eyeball Liu Qing had seen too much, and it was the coyote's unique eyeballs, which could be seen to reflect green light when there was light at night, and coupled with the moist characteristics of the eyes, it showed a green light similar to a flowing green light, which was called green.

Although he couldn't jump up, Liu Qing's tactical literacy was still there, and his body was stiff and couldn't stand, so he kicked on the stone wall, and with the help of the reaction force, his body moved backwards at once, and at the same time rolled back twice, and with the force of rolling, his legs curled up, and his body turned into a half-kneeling posture, and when he touched his waist with his right hand, he remembered that the pistol was not on his body, and it was still in the satchel in the hole.

The gap between the fence gate can be seen clearly, but now the distance is farther, and you can only see roughly through the gap in the fence, so a man and a wolf look at each other through the fence gate.

Liu Qing stared at this wolf, he couldn't be sure if it was one of the coyotes in the group that he had fought with last time, after all, in his opinion, the coyotes were basically no different in other aspects except for their different sizes.

Perhaps this coyote had only just spotted him, or else, with the strength of the coyote, he would have been able to tear through the fence gate easily. Seeing that the strange creature inside was alert, the coyote may have lost interest, turned around and left.

Liu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the cave. There are only some charcoal fires left in the fire, sometimes bright and dark, add some firewood, and put the remaining vines in place, this thing is simply a big treasure in Liu Qing's opinion, a big killing weapon, just like the poison ivy last time, he has to get more. Liu Qing also understood that he had not been in a coma for a long time, probably only a few hours, because the fire had not been extinguished, probably because he had inhaled a very small amount of poisonous gas this time.

Xiao Wumei fell asleep on the ground, with half a piece of dried fish in her mouth, and saliva flowed down the dried fish, and she didn't know if she was dreaming of eating delicious food. Liu Qing smiled, this little guy is really a fool, he was cheated again.

After calming down, Liu Qing was really a little afraid, at first he planned to do the experiment outside the cave, if he really did it outside the cave at that time, then now he may have turned into wolf dung! Fortunately, he only took a few breaths of poisonous gas and ran away with his breath, otherwise it would not be safe to be in a coma for so long like before, even at the entrance of the cave.

At the same time, Xiao Wu is still asleep, and Liu Qing also happens to use this test to see how long he can be in a coma. picked up Xiao Wu and put him on the grass bed, just like that, Liu Qing cleaned up the messy firewood in the cave again, and Xiao Wu kept falling asleep. In the second half of the night, there was no sign of waking up, and it seems that the medicinal properties of this poison ivy are really powerful, and just cutting off a little bit of the smell of burning can make people sleep for so long.

Until Liu Qing woke up again the next day, Xiao Wu was still asleep. Liu Qing went to the outside of the cave to take a look, the sun was shining, the haze for several days finally dissipated, the long-lost sunlight sprinkled in the mountains and forests, and the trees that had been washed by the rain looked fresh.

Back in the cave, Liu Qing was not idle, found a thicker wooden stick, carried it on the gap at the entrance of the cave, tied the hind feet of the weevil-trunked pig with rattan rope, hung it on the horizontal wooden stick, and prepared to skin and slaughter.

The fire was lit again, and the improvised baking rack stood aside.

The weevil-nosed pig's bristles are so hard that even if his knife is very sharp, he can only cut a few of them with a single effort, and he can't even touch the skin under the bristles. Holding the weevil's forelimbs with one hand, the dagger was aimed at its belly, and it stabbed down from the abdomen, but there were no bristles on the belly, only some delicate fluff.

Cutting, peeling, Liu Qing is also relatively proficient, starting from this part, the bristles almost do not affect the operation. Maybe it's because the weevil-nosed pig has been dead for a long time, and there was basically no blood when it was slaughtered, and it was probably coagulated.

When the skin reached the feet, he cut a circle at the ankles, and the whole pork skin was quickly cleaned by him, and the cut pieces of meat were hung directly on the improvised baking rack. For convenience, and in order to save time and effort, Liu Qing did not remove the bones this time, but just decomposed the entire pig body, and hung the hind legs, front legs, pig head, and ribs directly on the fire to roast.

Because Liu Qing knew that if he had to cut so many bones, his sapper shovel would probably not be able to bear it, anyway, it would be eaten, and it would be a big deal to gnaw on the bones in the future, and the sapper shovel was a very important tool for him, and it must not be abolished because of this.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that Liu Qing had already gnawed off half of his front legs, and Xiao Wu's low wail came from his ears.