205.Chapter 205: The Trapped Potato
Ding Chen didn't stay outside for a long time, he had received the most formal wilderness survival training before, although he couldn't fully copy it to this era, but at least the principles and methods were not too different. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 With the previous three years of experience, Info is already good enough to be among the top waste pickers.
So when he returned to the building with a coyote, the sun had not yet set.
Qiqi has been walking around on the roof of the building, and he has already found him far away, so Ding Chen didn't greet her when he went upstairs, and climbed up directly along the rope, but he didn't expect Qiqi to grab him, and let Ding Chen take his place in a little panic, she was going to find Uncle Potato.
Ding Chen was taken aback, only to find that Uncle Potato did not stay on the roof of the building. According to Qiqi, after he and Liu Chi left, the uncle also went downstairs, saying that he was idle and idle, to see if he could catch some fresh prey.
Scavengers are good hunters, and the principle is to eat wherever they go, so Kiki didn't care, but she didn't expect Uncle Potato to go and never return, and the time was much more than Kiki expected, so she began to feel uneasy, and when she saw Ding Chen coming back, she immediately went to find Uncle.
Of course, Ding Chen wouldn't let Kiki take the risk. She has always served as a long-range fire support, although her melee ability is not weak, but it is definitely not as good as Ding Chen and Uncle Tudou, so he asked Kiki to stay and deal with the prey he brought back, and he went to pick up Uncle himself.
Uncle Potato began to gain weight after middle age, and his weight began to increase, plus he was afraid of cold and wore more clothes when he was older, so it was not difficult to track him. Ding Chen chased all the way in the direction pointed out by Kiki, and soon found that Uncle Potato had entered a building.
This is an ordinary three-story building, I don't know why half of it has collapsed, the scattered cement and stone have been obviously weathered, the steel bars inside are miserably exposed to the air, and the broken end points to the sky, as if to tell the unwillingness.
Looking at the footprints left by the uncle outside the building, Ding Chen scolded this guy for being dead in his heart. Judging from the traces left by the uncle, he should be chasing some animal. But usually, both hunters and scavengers take ambushes or traps when hunting, and rarely chase and kill. Because in any case, the agility and speed of humans cannot be compared with that of wild beasts, and basically they were discovered by the prey, and the hunt was over. I don't know what Uncle Potato found, he actually chased him to someone's lair, is there a little loli here?
Ding Chen's battery light was left on the roof of the building, and at this time the sky was already a little dark, and after the natural light weakened, of course, his vision was also affected. Ding Chen shouted twice to the building, but did not hear an answer except for his own response, so he resigned himself to cutting two pine branches nearby, sandwiching hay in the middle, and then tying them together with thin branches, and then lighting a bonfire at the entrance of the cave with magnesium rods, putting the branches on it and roasting them for a while, and when the oil in the pine branches seeped out and soaked the hay, he raised a torch made of branches and drilled into the hole.
This kind of temporary emergency torch has a big disadvantage, that is, the branches are relatively wet, the water content is large, and there is more smoke. And because of this, the burning is not strong enough, if you hold it in front of you like a normal torch, the flame will soon burn smaller and smaller until it is extinguished, so when you use it, you must stretch the torch straight forward and down, and let the flame burn up along the branches to get a longer lighting time.
In this position, the flame is lower than the head, so the smoke will reach the eyes, and the flame will burn back to the hands.
Ding Chen took a piece of cloth and poured some water from the kettle, then wrapped it around his left hand, held the torch, and carefully got into it with a black knife in his right hand.
The entrance to the first floor was blocked after the collapse of this building, so I got through the hole and went straight to the second floor. Ding Chen stepped on the ruins under his feet and slowly walked into the building, and found that it had become a paradise for rattans, covered with rattan of different thicknesses everywhere, and some even grew out of the collapsed cracks. It seems that the cause of the collapse of this building has something to do with these vines.
The part of the building that did not collapse did not look solid enough, and at this time, the vines that grew along the wall played a role in reinforcing it, so although Ding Chen felt that the floor under his feet was not very stable, he did not fall downstairs all the way.
The plants on the floor prevented the dust from accumulating, so Uncle Potato's footprints were not obvious enough, but Ding Chen found several spider webs that had obviously just been destroyed, and also saw a large spider who had worked hard because the trap was destroyed.
Unlike everyone thinks, there are not many ugly creatures like spiders that are venomous, and most of them don't take the initiative to attack humans, so Ding Chen didn't pay attention to this little guy who was half the size of a fist, and of course he didn't plan to try its taste.
The traces left by Uncle Potato disappeared at the top of the stairs. Ding Chen raised the torch and shone it up and down. The stairs leading to the first floor have collapsed, leaving only a large hole, but the stairs to the third floor are still there, but I don't know if it can support the weight of one person.
Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard a dull crash coming from under his feet. Ding Chen was startled, screamed, and jumped down the stairs.
Because of sending Liu Chi, he left the backpack on his body upstairs, and at this time he only brought a yellow cloth satchel, and the heaviest burden on his body was an iron pipe gun and a black knife, plus his body was well controlled when he landed, so the sound was not loud, but because of this violent action, the flame of the torch in his hand shrank sharply, leaving only a small mass at the head of the branch, almost losing the ability to illuminate.
Ding Chen bowed his body slightly, holding the black knife in his hand and standing still, the torch in his left hand was almost pointed straight to the ground, so that the flames could recover as soon as possible.
He was in the stairwell in the hallway of the building, with rooms on either side. Only the walls on both sides of the corridor have windows, and even in normal times, the lighting capacity is not good, and now that it is getting late, the corridor is even darker.
Ding Chen screamed softly again, and at the same time made sure that he had found the right position, there was a strong smell of blood in the air, and it was obvious that there had just been a very fierce fight.
This time he heard Uncle Potato's response, but not Uncle Potato's voice, but the sound of banging on the wall.
Ding Chen listened carefully and could tell that it was Morse, and the meaning was very simple, "There are beasts, three." ”
Morse code is a kind of interval code, which uses the length of sound to represent information, so it is essentially a serial code, and it takes a long time to send a large amount of information, so after Ding Chen distinguishes this information, several minutes have passed.
Ding Chen was not surprised by the news that there was a beast. If Uncle Potato had been attacked by the scavengers, the battle would have been over a long time ago, and even if the attackers had the upper hand, they would retreat when Ding Chen entered the battlefield, and only when Uncle Potato broke into the beast's territory would the battle become endless.
Ding Chen clenched the black knife with some annoyance, lifted the torch that had barely recovered its lighting function, and walked towards the corridor.
It is a popular saying that wild beasts are afraid of fire, so raising a fire while in the wild can ward off the attacks of wild beasts. This statement is inherently true, but it does not mean that beasts are afraid of flames in any situation, and they will also judge the degree of harm based on the size of the flames they see, especially when facing angry beasts, and flames of the torch level will not prevent them from attacking.
So although he has a torch in his hand, he is still very careful when moving, and it is certainly not easy to trap Uncle Potato's beast.
After walking a few steps, he smelled an even stronger smell of blood, and then he saw a corpse on the ground.
It was an animal carcass that was larger than a domestic cat, with black and yellow fur and a tail about the length of the body, because the head was on the other side, so Ding Chen couldn't see its appearance clearly, and could only see a knife stuck in the corpse.
Seeing this knife, Ding Chen understood why Uncle Potato was trapped, it was obvious that after he killed the animal, he was attacked unexpectedly, and he threw the knife away in a panic. Then because there was no way to quickly escape from the chase and escape from the building, he could only hide first.