Chapter 50: The Cliff
Xiao Wu always feels very aggrieved these days, because he doesn't know what is going on with him, obviously he has just fallen asleep, and he is always hungry and panicked when he wakes up. In fact, if you sleep all day, everyone will be hungry.
Liu Qing is baking the long trunk of the elephant-nosed pig, which is not dried on the baking rack like those pieces of meat, but directly on the edge of the fire and cooked. Piercing a long stick into the nostrils is like roasting a stout snake. The roasted grease dripped onto the flames, making a sizzling sound, and the flames rose slightly. The aroma of barbecue permeated the cave, making Xiao Wu's stomach protest again.
Xiao Wu ran towards Liu Qing with a fart, shaking his head and trying to become as sober as possible. Liu Qing looked at it with a smile, from the beginning of their poisoning coma, until now, Xiao Wu almost slept from yesterday evening to tonight, and slept for a whole day and night, which made Liu Qing have a basic judgment on the toxicity of poison ivy, it seems that the two times he fell asleep before should basically be so long, and it seems to be longer.
Liu Qing brought the long stick over, smelled the roasted long nose, the fragrance was very strong, Xiao Wu stared at Liu Qing with blank eyes, but his stomach gurgled uncontrollably. Liu Qing laughed, and the long stick in his hand was raised, "I know you're hungry, but you can't eat it yet, it's too hot!"
Saying that, he handed the stick to Xiao Wu, the boss of Xiao Wu's mouth was open, and wanted to bite down, but it immediately retracted as soon as it touched it, it was really hot, and it was so hot that he didn't dare to put his mouth down, so he roared twice again. After following Liu Qing for so long, he knew very well what it meant to be hot, and he couldn't drink the freshly cooked broth, and he couldn't eat the freshly roasted meat.
Liu Qing leaned the stick against the wall to let it cool down naturally, took out two fruits from the satchel, cut the shell, "Here, eat some fruit cushions first." "Put one in front of Xiao Wu, and take it yourself to eat. After eating something greasy, and then a fruit, it was really comfortable.
After eating the fruit, Liu Qing picked up the long stick, blew on the long nose roasted on it, and tried to take a bite, "Oops!" Liu Qing really didn't expect that the long nose of this elephant-nosed pig was so delicious when cooked, it looked like fat and fat, but it tasted soft and glutinous and smooth, not greasy at all, and it was very chewy. But he was already full, and he really couldn't eat.
"Here, eat, slow down, it's still a little hot!"
When Xiao Wu saw Liu Qing gnawing, he couldn't hold it back, and when he saw Liu Qing throwing the barbecue meat to it, he immediately opened his mouth and bit it. Just like Liu Qing said, it was still very hot, Xiao Wu took a big bite, and it was so hot that it didn't dare to close its mouth, but the fragrant and glutinous barbecue was in its mouth, and its stomach wanted it desperately, but it didn't dare to swallow it, it was really uncomfortable to death. Liu Qing knew that it would be like this, and he couldn't stop laughing while watching from the sidelines.
After eating and drinking, and just woke up, Xiao Wu was very excited, and pestered Liu Qing to play. Liu Qing was already a little sleepy, but Xiao Wu made a lot of trouble, so he had to play with it for a while, and when he couldn't stand it, he walked straight to the edge of the grass bed and plunged into it, regardless of Xiao Wu sleeping on his own.
After dawn the next day, Liu Qing added some wet wood to the fire, nibbled on a piece of dried fish, and took down the pork pieces that had dried last night, and hung them on the stone wall where the meat was placed.
He didn't have a longbow with him today, but he had all the other tools. Obviously, he didn't want to hunt today, he just wanted to hunt for those poison ivy. Unlike the poison ivy, which seals his throat when he sees blood, Liu Qing has his own ideas about the poison ivy that causes stunning, the kind of venom is used to smear arrows, and this kind of poison ivy that stuns can be used to set traps.
Xiao Wu followed Liu Qing and went out for a few days, Xiao Wu no longer has such a heavy curiosity about some things, but as long as he sees something he has never seen or thinks is interesting, he always has to stop and play with it. Anyway, recently, no, there is basically no need to worry about food in the future, so Liu Qing is not in such a hurry, and occasionally plays with it for a while.
said that he was looking for poison ivy, so naturally he wouldn't just do this, but also get some firewood by the way. No matter how thin or thick it is, it is best to break the branches of a dead tree, and after a while, I will pick up a bundle, tie it with a rattan rope and throw it directly on the ground, and then walk forward. There are many trees and vines in the mountain forest, so it is not easy to find one among so many trees and vines. As for the firewood that was thrown on the ground, just pick it up when you go back to the cave, and there is no need to carry it all the way.
A kind of search, Liu Qing is more and more annoyed, not as much as the poison ivy before, but he has some impressions, he doesn't even have the slightest impression of the target he is looking for this time, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. But Liu Qing is bound to get it, this thing is too important to him, as long as he uses it well, he can even capture all kinds of animals almost infinitely.
On the way, I met a group of weevil-trunked pigs sleeping under the woodland trees, and I also saw a group of cow and sheep-like animals in the long grass at the edge of the jungle, the size was as big as a cow, but it had a sheep's head, and a pair of horns were born on the top of the head, but the strange thing was that in this group of dozens of them, one of them had a single horn on its head. With such a large group of animals, and their size, Liu Qing would never dare to provoke them, unless he could find the kind of poison ivy that stunned.
Looking up at the sky, it was already past noon, and there was still no trace of it, Liu Qing gave Xiao Wu a piece of dried fish and meat he brought, and sat under a tree to eat. When he got up to continue walking, Liu Qing found that there seemed to be something wrong with the tree he was sitting on. It's not that something is wrong with the tree, it's that there's something wrong with a vine wrapped around the tree.
At first glance, it looks like nothing, but when you look closely, you can see that the vine has no blades, and it is tightly wrapped around the trunk, like a symbiote of the trunk, slightly thicker than the thumb. The most important thing is that it has some thin spikes on it, Liu Qing carefully identified it, yes, it is this kind of vine!
Liu Qing was overjoyed, it really didn't take much effort to get it. But then again, if it weren't for the hard work he had done before, he wouldn't have found this place. Therefore, all opportunities are also the result of hard work.
With the first vine, the rest of the luck seemed to be much better, and after a while he found one again. After searching in this area for half an hour, he found a third one, and Liu Qing also found a strange phenomenon, this kind of vine seems to be only wrapped around one kind of tree, the leaves of this tree are like wide duck paws, not only that, but each petiole has a small leaf on top of it, in addition to the large leaf.
Knowing this rule, Liu Qing's next search will be easier, and he doesn't need to carefully inspect every vine he encounters, just look at the leaves of the tree, and if he finds a tree with this kind of leaf, he will run over to take a look, and most of the trunks will have this kind of vine. When he found this kind of vine, Liu Qing used a dagger to cut the vine from the root of the trunk, and then untied it one by one.
Because there are thorns on the vine, you always need to scrape the skin underneath to catch it. When he had collected eight long vines, Liu Qing casually cut one other rattan, tied the poison ivy in a circle, and dragged it behind him. Xiao Wu originally wanted to help, so he used his mouth to hold the rattan ring, but as soon as he bit it with his mouth, he immediately retracted his head, and it hurt to pierce his mouth.
Back in the cave, Liu Qing carried two bundles of firewood and threw them to the innermost part of the cave, and then began to clean up the poison ivy he had just found. Carefully scrape off the thorns on them, and then coil them one by one into circles with a diameter of about 50 or 60 centimeters, tie them with thin vines, and bake them next to the fire. Wet rattan is not easy to burn, and it is easy to store and ignite after drying. He already had a plan to use this poisonous vine to make a "poison smoke bomb", which could be used to capture prey in the future.
After all the poison ivy was finished, Liu Qing began to make dinner, dinner was roasted ginger beans and fried dinosaur eggs, last time he brought back a total of three dinosaur eggs, boiled and eaten one, fried one, and there was one left. In fact, Xiao Wu has long coveted this remaining egg, but it can't get it, but it just plays with it a few times, Liu Qing can see from its eyes that this little guy has a heart for this egg.
The omelette is ready, Xiao Wu has already eaten three pieces, and he is still unsatisfied. Liu Qing threw another piece to it, Xiao Wu wanted to eat it very much, but he also knew that Liu Qing hadn't eaten it yet, but it couldn't resist the temptation of the fragrance, and swallowed it while whimpering...... Liu Qing, who watched it, couldn't stop laughing.
After the last piece was fried, Liu Qing ate it directly, and after the ginger beans were roasted, the three ginger beans, Xiao Wu only ate half of them, and his belly was already round, and he couldn't eat it.
When night fell, Xiao Wu was extremely satisfied lying on the soft grass bed, Husheng was greatly satisfied, sleeping on his stomach was obviously uncomfortable, the belly was already very strong, and it was even more unpleasant to press it again, so he simply turned over, came to a belly up, his limbs drooped weakly, his round belly was on both sides, his eyes were closed, and his tongue was stretched out from time to time to lick his mouth, which looked very cute.
Liu Qing ate two ginger beans, drank some water, and still stood at the entrance of the cave looking at the sky outside. The sky is getting darker and darker, and the starlight is gradually emerging, Liu Qing can clearly see the Big Dipper from the gap in the cave, it is precisely because of this that he feels strange, if he is on another planet, how can he also happen to have the Big Dipper? So he is very sure that he is still on the earth.
But on Earth, where would he be? He couldn't tell where he was when he thought about the whole globe? The Antarctic and the North Pole were absolutely impossible, could it be in some undiscovered corner of Africa? It was impossible? He was obviously in China, and no matter how fast the tornado was, it would be impossible for him to move himself to Africa in a day and be unharmed, not even aware of it.
Liu Qing, who originally thought that he would be able to escape, calmed down from his original sense of luck, and now he finally began to think about where he was, and why there are so many animals and plants that he has never seen before?
Not to mention that he is a soldier, even if he writes novels, even a scientist, he will not judge himself to cross over like this.