The dry season, which is longer than the rainy season, has already begun, but the dry season is really just a seasonal term, and it doesn't mean that the land will actually dry up immediately.

In fact, because the rainy season has just passed, there is a lot of rain preserved on the surface, and there are many seasonal lakes, and the drought on the island is not too strict until these lakes are completely evaporated, and when they first came to the island, it was precisely the time when the dry season was the strictest, so they needed to look for fresh water everywhere.

If you come now, it's easy to spot some of the rainwater accumulating in low-lying areas.

The stagnant water in these low-lying areas is also a favorite source of water for animals, and some herbivores even come in groups to drink water.

Fang Jinyan and the others naturally would not give up such a good hunting opportunity, they often squatted near the stagnant water, sneaking up on these prey, although their weapons were extremely rudimentary, but because of Fang Jinyan's super divine archery skills, they could always gain a lot

Rabbits, wild boars, sambar deer, muntjac, roe deer and many other animals have entered their recipes, and they even killed a wild buffalo weighing more than 300 kilograms!

-- This is one of nature's most formidable creatures, and it is said that the African wild buffalo can take on three or four lions alone!

But Fang Jinyan ate the whole world with one move, any creature, once he was shot blind from dozens of meters away, no matter how strong his combat strength was, it would be difficult to threaten him again, after all, by the time it rushed over, he and his companions had already shifted their positions.

It still takes a lot of effort to kill it, although it is not like ordinary herbivores that will run away once it is injured, but because of its extremely strong combat effectiveness. It was impossible to get close to it when it was furious, so even Fang Jinyan couldn't do it. His bow and arrows are too weak to blind his eyes from a distance. It is simply impossible to shoot through thick cowhide

So they only have one trick, that is, wait, wait for it to lose its strength or suffer serious injuries due to blind collision, and then attack to kill it, although this is very likely to let it escape, but Fang Jinyan does not want to take risks, with the medical conditions on the island, if it is injured, it is a very dangerous thing for them. Safety first, anyway, their current food is not so lacking.

Their current food sources are basically from gathering and hunting, which is no different from primitive people, and the fruits and tubers of various plants and all kinds of animal meat, poultry and eggs are their main food sources

However, they also began to try to change this, because gathering and hunting were too labor-intensive, and the luck component was great, and the harvest was not stable enough. If something happens, their food may be in danger, which is obviously something they are very worried about.

So they, like primitive people, began to experiment with planting plants and domesticating animals. This is how cropping and animal husbandry came into being in the history of mankind.

Using slash-and-burn farming, they reclaimed several plots of land with a total area of about three or four acres in the volcanic lake area. Several important crops they found were cultivated, bananas, cassava, jute and sugar cane.

The reason for the choice of these plants. Mainly because these are high-yielding crops with a short ripening period, and sugarcane can be harvested after a few months. The others can be harvested in just two or three years.

Of course, don't expect them to have any field management, they basically cultivate as rough as primitive people, and basically don't care about planting them, at most occasionally cut down some weeds and shrubs, and then just grow as much as they can.

It's not that they don't want to do fine farming, it's just that precision farming requires a lot of labor, and in the absence of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, it doesn't actually have much effect on increasing yields, and the pay is disproportionate to the return, so it's better to spend this time on gathering and hunting.

To put it bluntly, their cultivation is still in a secondary position, and even after two or three years, their main source of food is still the most primitive gathering and hunting, which is determined by the environment.

In addition, they domesticated animals are even more unpleasant, Fang Jinyan and others hunting, once caught a lot of chicks and young beasts, including wild boars, rabbits and mallards that have been tamed by humans, wild boars and rabbits Needless to say, mallards are the ancestors of all domestic ducks.

It stands to reason that these animals should be the easiest to domesticate successfully, and there are great expectations for this.

Not far from the treehouse, they built a sturdy fence with the help of trees and kept all the small animals inside

The women are always more interested in these little animals, they are more patient, and the daily feeding management task is also given to them as a matter of course, for the sake of these cute little animals and their delicious meat in the future, they devote considerable energy to them, every hour or two, to visit them, to feed them cassava and some wild vegetables they have dug up.

However, there are some things that are not necessarily successful with hard work, and these wild animals are suddenly kept in the fence, and immediately become very anxious, bumping around, and even unwilling to eat at all, no matter what method the girls use, the effect is very weak.

Within a week, all three little wild boars and six little rabbits died, and ten of the twelve mallards died

Such a result made several girls who were extremely enthusiastic very frustrated, and the taste of failure was quite uncomfortable.

Watching the little animals get sick and die can't save them

Of course, they also thought of Fang Jinyan and asked him for help, but Fang Jinyan was powerless in this regard, in fact, he was not very optimistic about their success at the beginning, but since they were interested, let them try it, even if they failed, it would be nothing, and if they succeeded, it would be a heavy achievement.

As it turned out, they failed

It is not surprising that human domestication of wild animals has gone through a long historical process and has experienced countless failures before successfully domesticating so many common domestic animals and poultry, and there are also some animals such as alpacas in the Americas and cheetahs in the Arab region, which have not been completely successful in domestication for thousands of years, and are still only half domestic animals and half wild beasts.

How can it be so easy to complete such a long historical process in an extreme time!

The girls were soft-hearted, and after discussion, they secretly released the only two little mallard ducks, because they were afraid of being scolded, so they didn't tell Fang Jinyan and the others, Fang Jinyan didn't know if he could see it or not, anyway, he didn't react.

But later, Fang Jinyan caught a few ugly chicks and asked them to try to domesticate them, but a month later, one really survived, and it was full of life!

According to Fang Jinyan, this bird is called musk duck, which has also been successfully domesticated by humans, and is generally called "foreign duck" after it was introduced to China in modern times

Compared to the mallard, it is fat and ugly, and what is even more odious is that it is extremely belligerent, even more warlike than the legendary goose

After growing up a little, he immediately began to bite with a flat mouth, although it would not hurt, but the bite on the calf was quite painful, and several girls had been chased by it and fled in all directions, and since then they have been terrified when they see it.

There is such a vicious duck in the world!

And it's still so ugly! (To be continued......)