Chapter 51: It Comes Naturally

The night is misty and the starry sky is beautiful.

Liu Qing shook his head, it was time to go to sleep. Before returning to the stone wall, he added a black mark on it with the remaining charcoal, and then lay down next to Xiao Wu and fell asleep.

Sometimes people are easily satisfied, for example, when they are hungry and cold, they can easily be satisfied with a steaming meal, but sometimes they are not easily satisfied, for example, when they have enough food, they no longer need to run around for food and clothing, and they will want more.

Liu Qing is like this now, that large field of ginger beans, I don't know how many years it has been growing on its own, the number of ginger beans in it is simply terrifying, even if he doesn't go hunting, the ginger beans are enough to eat until death. But is that enough? He doesn't think that he still has hope in his heart, and wants to find a way to return to human society, even if he doesn't go back for the time being, at least he has to find a way, and if he wants to return in the future, he can go back at any time.

Before dawn, Xiao Wu got up, ate and slept sweetly, its mental state was excellent, he ran to the corner to and pee, and after he was done, he habitually shook his four feet, ran back excitedly, and jumped on Liu Qing who was sleeping all of a sudden, licking Liu Qing's cheek with a barbed tongue, making a swishing sound.

Liu Qing was used to being called like this, and hugged Xiao Wu in the blink of an eye, and the two of them made trouble for a while. I got up and lit the fire, roasted ginger beans for breakfast, and took down the two large pieces of fish that had been placed on the stone circle of the fire last night, wrapped them in leaves and put them in my satchel, which was the ration for today's outing.

According to the law, today should be the day when the dinosaurs forage for food, and Liu Qing would not go out on such days before. However, he plans to go in the other direction today, and he probably won't meet the dinosaurs, so it doesn't matter.

Xiao Wu is still with him, don't look at Xiao Wu who has just arrived at Liu Qing's knee height now, but his strength is not small, and there is another benefit to taking Xiao Wu. Because Liu Qing has discovered in the past few days, Xiao Wu is extremely sensitive to smells, so his ability to recognize the way is also very powerful. Think about it, otherwise, those wild animals will often get lost and can't find their nests.

If there is Xiao Wu with him, Liu Qing will have to make a lot fewer marks along the road, originally he would make a mark every ten meters or so, but now with Xiao Wu following, it is no problem to make another mark every twenty meters or even fifty meters.

His plan today is to go to the creek to get fresh water first, and then see if he can find a way to get fish, after all, no matter how much ginger beans there are, it is only a vegetarian diet, as a human being, and there is also a fierce beast like Xiao Wu, there must be meat food, otherwise after a long time, I am afraid that I will be malnourished. Those wild beasts on land, even herbivores can be dangerous to catch, only the fish in the water, the safest to catch, and the meat is delicious and nutritious.

The only problem is that most of these fish are very large and may not have natural predators to catch, so they can grow indefinitely. The creek where Liu Qing often draws water is actually full of big fish above the meter level, which shows how comfortable they live.

The road to the creek is often trampled, and the rudiments of the path that have been possessed have formed a winding serpentine path on the ground, and a man and a tiger walk along the path like this. Soon, they came to the front of the giant tree forest again, Xiao Wu saw this big forest for the first time, compared to the trees in the mountain forest that were at most one person thick, the trees here were simply huge and terrifying. Xiao Wu was obviously startled by this huge tree, and he didn't dare to move forward for a while, but Liu Qing stepped into the forest first, and Xiao Wu followed him in, his round head swaying from side to side, extremely curious about everything here.

"Quack—quack—"

As he was walking, a piercing scream came, Liu Qing raised his eyes and looked around, there was an echo in the forest, and he didn't know from which direction it came from. After coming here so many times, it was the first time he had heard this kind of call, but Liu Qing quickly judged that it should be the call of a giant bird in the forest, so leave it alone.

The creek was close in front of him, and Liu Qing saw the place where he often fished, but unfortunately the hook was no longer usable. Eight water storage pipes filled with water, stacked under a big tree, Liu Qing stared at the water for a while, can vaguely see the shadow of a fish swimming, but unfortunately there is no way to catch it, if you go into the water to catch it, such a big fish, I am afraid that I can't hold it at all, maybe it will be slapped into the water by the fish.

Looking in the direction of the upper reaches of the stream, Liu Qing suddenly became interested, and he didn't know where the water of this stream came from, maybe he could try to go upstream, maybe he could find a place with shallow water and set a fishing trap. He definitely wouldn't have thought like this and wouldn't have done this before, but now it's not that he's full and panicked, and he has nothing to do, so he thinks of going upstream to have a look.

Of course, in order to survive here for a long time, it is necessary to properly reconnoiter the terrain and grasp the surrounding environment. The water storage pipe is placed here, just like a bundle of firewood, there is no need to worry about losing it, except for him, it seems that he has not seen a second person exist, who will steal it?

While speaking, Liu Qing had already taken Xiao Wu on the road together. Walking along the creek all the way upstream, the scenery on the way is strange, not to mention all kinds of strange flowers and plants, and there is even a huge tree growing above the river, the roots of this tree happen to be an arch, across the river, the roots of the fruit dew are not as thick as words, you can drive a car on it. (The word "fruit" here should be "naked", not that I made a typo, but that the words "naked" and "exposed" are easily blocked together.) )

Walking across the tree bridge, Liu Qing carved a mark on it, and then walked forward. The river twists and turns, and he doesn't know where he will turn the next moment, and Liu Qing doesn't care about that, just follow the river, at least he won't get lost.

The road ahead became more and more difficult, and the giant trees became thicker and farther apart from each other, but at such a distance, all kinds of weeds grew. Liu Qing gradually retreated, and walked through a piece of grass, all the way to open the way with a sapper shovel, which was already stained with all kinds of grass and tree juice. Liu Qing was not worried about getting lost, but afraid of all kinds of dangers lurking in the grass, such as the snake he had seen last time, and the kind of corpse eating insects...... Moreover, some of these plants and trees have sharp spikes on them, and if you are scratched by these spikes, you will shudder to think about it and encounter such a large group of corpse-eating insects.

Liu Qing is not a person who loves to die, and he knows very well that if he doesn't die, he won't die, especially in the current situation, without sufficient certainty, without perfect logistics and medical security, a person running around aimlessly is actually an act of death. Liu Qing did this, because he was still within the controllable range, and he could withdraw it at any time, otherwise, he would definitely not do it.

Just as Liu Qing was about to turn around and return, he noticed that something seemed to move in the grass on the right. It was a piece of soft grass, if he didn't return, Liu Qing would definitely wade through here, and the place on the left side of the river bank was a tall and dense bush, which was not easy to drill. But something was moving there, and it didn't move much, and it didn't look like a big animal.

Liu Qing thought for a moment, intending to see what kind of animal it was, and Xiao Wu behind him also noticed the movement in the grass, and stared there very vigilantly. Liu Qing took a step forward, cut down a slightly straight wooden stick from the bushes, held a shovel in his left hand and a stick in his right hand, walked to the edge of the soft grass, stretched out the stick and beat it hard, and waited for a while without any movement.

Suddenly, a large snake sprang out of the grass. The snake's whole body was black and green, the thickness of an arm, and as soon as it came out, it was tightly coiled, and the snake's head was high, and it was strange that there were two horn-like things on the snake's head. The two yellow-brown eyes stared directly at Liu Qing, the black pupils were like a slit, and the snake letter kept swallowing, exuding a dangerous aura all over his body. A man and a snake confronted each other four or five meters away, and no one moved first.

Liu Qing thought that it would be some kind of small animal in it, and if he hit it with a stick, he might be scared away, but he didn't expect it to be such a big snake, and besides, this snake didn't look easy to mess with. Xiao Wu also seemed to have a premonition of danger, with a slight front body, his tail raised high, constantly swaying from side to side, ready to pounce at any time.

In the past, when I was training in the army, I also caught snakes, but I never caught such a large one. However, Liu Qing knows very well that snakes, especially poisonous snakes, generally try not to provoke, but once they are opposed, whether you want to attack or withdraw, slow down as much as possible, and at the same time always pay attention to the movement of the snake, and as long as you attack, it is best to kill with one blow.

Liu Qing slowly handed the stick to his left hand, slowly withdrew his right hand, then took out the pistol from his satchel, opened the safety with one hand, and aimed at the head of the snake. Poor serpent, he had no idea what it was facing, and at such a close distance.

As soon as the gun rang out, the snake didn't even have time to move, and a hole was punched in its head, and blood burst out. But the serpent did not seem to be dead, and its whole body was rolling on the ground, and it was as if it would relieve its pain.

Liu Qing took back the pistol, carried the sapper shovel, walked closer, went down with a spade, and directly separated his body. But the headless snake's body is still rolling, and it's even a little scary. Liu Qing has seen this scene many times, so it doesn't matter, wait until it stops moving, just put it away.

Xiao Wu stared at the constantly tumbling snake body with interest, where he went, and looked down to sniff the severed snake head with his nose. When Liu Qing saw it, he hurriedly grabbed Xiao Wu's ear, pulled his head up, and said, "Xiao Wu, you don't want to die, this snake head can't be touched!"

As he spoke, he poked the head of the snake on the ground with a stick, and Xiao Wu looked at it curiously. When Liu Qing poked the snake's mouth, the snake head that was obviously dead suddenly burst out, the boss with his mouth open, struggled to bite the wooden stick, and the four sharp teeth of the upper and lower jaws were nailed to the wooden stick.

Xiao Wu seemed to understand Liu Qing's action, and was a little afraid, so he wailed aggrievedly and shrank back.

(Fortunately, fortunately, today's more followed)