Chapter 466: The Vacated Shelter
The stream passed a corner, the water slowed down, and on its meandering side, the dirt was covered with umbrella-like houttuynia cordata.
Bi Fang pressed with a stick to scare away all the insects and ants in Houttuynia cordata, grabbed a handful, shook off the soil, and then washed it by the stream.
Leonardo, who was on the side, did the same, and was more careful, the stick in his hand was longer, more than two meters, and often had to be beaten three or four times before daring to approach.
After a series of devastation by bamboo leaf green, white-limbed bison, and red dragon centipede, Leonardo had a nervous breakdown, for fear that something would suddenly jump out of this pile of weed-like things.
It's only the first day, and I've encountered so many dangerous creatures, you must know that Bi Fang has been living here for twenty days, and if he has practiced iron tools, he may be able to come up with something.
Can it really be done?
The audience is different from the speed at which Bi Fang is looking for medicine.
[Damn, how can the old party find anything]
[That's too fast, isn't it?] 】
It's less than half an hour.
"Because the goal of my search is the plants that are easy to find, if you really want to clear heat and detoxify, there are many plants that can do it, but to survive in the wild, what we need to look for is what is readily available, maybe the effect is not the strongest, but it must be the easiest to find, just like the dog's tail grass that can be obtained everywhere on the roadside."
Bi Fang plucked the leaves on the top of Houttuynia cordata's head, leaving only the middle stalk, and sent it directly into his mouth to chew, chew it and spit it out, and applied it to the wound that had been cleaned.
"It tastes like a faint Chinese medicine, but it's still a good food source, and we can collect more of it."
Bi Fang and Leonardo dug for a long time, and only stopped when the two funnels were full, and Leonardo also tried in the middle.
It's a pity that it seems that he is the kind of person with extreme allergies that Bi Fang said.
As soon as I took a bite, I felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, and an extremely strong fishy smell lingered between my mouth and tongue, which was more serious than Bi Fang's discomfort.
Anyway, Bi Fang just felt a faint smell of Chinese medicine, not that he couldn't swallow it.
"I'm probably not fit to survive in the wild." Leonardo laughed at himself.
After eating a few bites to fill his stomach, Bi Fang's body was already full of funnel bags made of plants, a total of four, which were filled with all the harvest in the past half a day.
Bi Fang counted in front of the audience, and the largest one was filled with red clay powder, and a few sharp stone chips and charcoal were stuffed inside.
The other two packets were filled with freshly picked Houttuynia cordata as a reserve food.
One of them also had a milky white pouch shaped like a balloon, which was the stomach pouch of Zhu Yeqing, which contained water.
The contents of the last small bag were more dangerous, a few branches of the blood-sealed throat tree, fresh and green, and the broken end was still bubbling with milky white sap.
It looks no different from ordinary trees, and the audience knows that this is this thing, which is extremely poisonous, and it will either kill or hurt if you touch it.
If splashed into a person's eye, the eye will be blinded instantly. The smoke emitted when a tree branch burns can also blind people's eyes.
Painted on an arrow, once it hits the beast, it can cause the beast's blood to clot and stop the heart beating within 3 seconds.
It was also the most important harvest of Bi Fang's half-day history, and around the branches, it was stuffed with unknown weeds.
It was collected around the Bloody Throat Tree when Bi Fang was collecting the branches, and Leonardo didn't know what those weeds were for, they looked like ordinary grasses, and he only used them to wrap the branches to avoid scratches and poisoning.
"This is the antidote to seeing the blood of the throat tree."
Bi Fang seemed to see Leonardo's question, and deliberately explained, when he found the Blood Sealed Throat Tree, he only cared about digging the soil underneath, and only collected some of the nearby antidotes, and did not have time to explain.
"Antidote?"
[There is an antidote to this thing? 】
[Wait, did Lao Fang pick it casually next to the tree just now? 】
[Damn, the antidote to the arrow poison wood is around it? 】
[Is it true that there must be an antidote within seven steps? 】
"Although the arrow poison wood is poisonous, there is an antidote, it is the red-backed bamboo pole grass, which is the only antidote to the arrow poison wood."
Bi Fang took out the grass in the bag and showed it to the audience in front of the screen, one with several leaves, surrounded by tiny burrs.
"If it is planted near the poison dart wood, there may not be it, but there will almost certainly be it near the wild one, which grows around the poison arrow tree, which looks no different from ordinary grass, and only a few old people of the Yi * nationality can identify it."
"This should also be the principle of mutual restraint of all things, as for whether there must be an antidote within seven steps of poison, I don't know, but it's not very credible, and if this kind of thing can be transmitted, it should be survivor bias."
[Damn, survivor bias, this is too .....]
[Isn't it, all those who didn't find the antidote died, and the dog's head .jpg]
These four baskets contain food, improvised tools, fire-making items, and means of self-defense.
It shows that in the past half a day, Bi Fang's harvest has been abundant.
It's just that the proposed funnel bag is still not enough, it's too small, and you need to find some other materials to make a larger backpack.
"The next step is to build the shelter." Bi Fang looked around, although the creek was not wide, only about three meters, but there were no large trees above.
Although a large section of the tree cover protruded from the surrounding trees, there was still a large crack, and through this gap, the golden sunlight was completely revealed into the dense forest for the first time.
Leonardo raised his head and finally saw the sun, and the fear of being in the dense forest was half dissipated at once.
It seems that the breathing is much smoother.
Although the primeval rainforest is not completely dark, you can still see things clearly, but the deep depression cannot be eliminated.
Even if you know you're live, you still can't get rid of your fear.
Look at Bi Fang, who is still comfortable on the side, in just half a day in the dangerous jungle, it seems that the external environment cannot affect Bi Fang at all.
A truly strong man.
"Gone, nothing to see." Bi Fang didn't know what Leonardo was thinking, and patted the other party on the shoulder, preparing to find a good place to camp tonight.
When the camp is finished, make two more wooden spears and try to see if you can catch fish in the stream for dinner, and the first day will be complete.
"The camp should not be too close to the water source, so that it is easy to encounter wild beasts that come to drink water, and it must not be too far away, otherwise it will be a big trouble to replenish water every day."
"Many large beasts of prey have their own fixed range of motion, and if you have to run a large distance every day, leaving behind smells and traces of activity, it is easier to encounter them."
"So 500 to 1,000 meters is a very good distance, not only to get water, but also to try fishing."
Along the riverbank, Bi Fang and Leonardo were about to leave, but they were attracted by a cluster of plants hidden behind trees.
"That's ....." Bi Fang looked at the long pole hidden by the trees, a little familiar.
With Leonardo, he crossed the river directly and came to the other end.
As soon as I took a few steps, several long intricate poles came into view.
Hey!
Bi Fangxi smiled.
The audience was equally amused, and the long pole in front of them was knotted, and the top was a wisp of green leaves.
Isn't it sugar cane?
[Holy, wild sugar cane!] 】
[Lao Fang's luck is too good, can he still eat wild sugar cane? ] 】
[June to August, October to December, is the season to eat sugarcane! 】
[Wo Ri, greedy]
Bi Fang was also very surprised, he didn't expect that fruits could be found near Houttuynia cordata.
Sugarcane is a tropical crop and has been eaten for a long time.
Qu Yuan wrote such a poem in "Chu Ci and Summoning Spirits": "The turtle (er) is a turtle and a lamb, and there is some syrup." ”
It means that the family gathers together, and there is a rich variety of food, such as stewed soft-shelled turtle and roasted lamb, dipped in fresh sugar cane syrup.
In terms of time, during the Warring States period more than 300 years BC, syrup made from sugar cane was at least often eaten by the aristocracy.
Gu Kaizhi also has an allusion to getting better.
"Sugar cane?" Leonardo chewed on this unfamiliar word, it seems that he has never heard it, but watching the audience's barrage, is it a very popular fruit?
He quickly asked, "What is this?" ”
Bi Fangzheng smashed the roots of the sugarcane with a stone, and was stunned when he heard this question: "Don't you know the sugarcane?" ”
Leonardo looked dazed and shook his head.
He had never seen this fruit before in the ugly country.
[It's true, I've been studying in Chouguo for two years, and I've never seen anywhere to sell sugar cane. 】
[Yes, the ugly people don't seem to eat this thing, they only use it to squeeze juice and make sugar]
Many Westerners have been addicted to sugar all their lives, but they have never eaten sugar cane, and they don't even know what it looks like.
Hearing the audience's explanation, Bi Fang suddenly realized that although he knew a lot of wilderness, it was the first time he knew about this kind of thing, so he explained: "This plant is called sugar cane. ”
"It is a very common fruit in China, very sweet, but it is not actually its ripening season, and it is still wild, whether it can be eaten or not, and what it tastes like is uncertain."
Almost all the fruits eaten in modern times were domesticated by humans over a long period of time.
Not just fruits, all the food crops we grow were originally domesticated from "weeds".
It's like millet is actually an evolution of dog tail grass.
Wild fruit, the taste is worrying.
Bi Fang didn't want the sugarcane in front of him to be sweet, he just hoped that it would have some flavor.
Leonardo, who heard that the long pole in front of him was fruit, became excited.
You can still eat fruit here?
"Sugarcane is very well used by sunlight, so it doesn't need to be exposed to the sun to grow and survive, but not enough sunlight can't effectively accumulate sugar."
The implication of Bi's dialect is obvious, the sun can grow without sufficient sunshine, but it may not be too sweet, so Leonardo should not have expectations.
"And some of the sugar cane can be poisonous."
"Poisonous?"
Leonardo was taken aback, how can it be poisonous? Chinese people like to eat poisonous fruits?
Bi Fang smiled: "It's not that sugarcane itself is poisonous, but that it is easy to mildew." ”
"Before I came, Director Zhou told me that experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences had investigated the wild poisonous plant resources in Banna, and investigated 289 species of wild poisonous plants in Banna, belonging to 79 families and 214 genera."
"The toxicity is mostly small poisonous plants, 5 highly toxic plants, and 11 large poisonous plants. But there is no sugar cane in it. ”
Leonardo breathed a sigh of relief, and Bi Fang also smashed the sugar cane to the ground, and the two of them picked one out together.
"Every year, there are people who are poisoned by eating sugarcane, so we must be careful, and we must look at the abnormal colors such as pale yellow, brown, and gray on the section of sugarcane after cutting."
"It smells musty, it tastes sour in the mouth, or it smells like alcohol, and you can't buy such sugarcane."
Bi Fang picked up the sugarcane and showed the broken end, which was not unusual, white and full of juice.
He pulled out the stone chips and began to peel the sugar cane.
"The roots of sugarcane are the sweetest because it absorbs more nutrients, some of the nutrients are stored, and some of the excess nutrients are turned into sugar."
"Gu Kaizhi, a famous painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, has an allusion to getting better, which means eating from scratch, and the more you eat, the sweeter it gets."
Bi Fang peeled the roots of the sugarcane, broke off the white section and handed it to Leonardo, and took a bite of it himself.
At the moment of entry, Bi Fang's eyes lit up: "Well, it's sweet!" ”
Seeing that Bi Fang also ate it, Leonardo couldn't wait to try it, and his mouth full of juice burst open, but it was not as delicious as he imagined.
There is only a faint hint of sweetness, and more importantly, it smells of clear water.
But it's not bad, Leonardo, who has eaten roasted centipedes, has learned to be content.
The sugarcane was an unexpected harvest, and the two of them ate a whole sugarcane directly on the spot and spit out the fiber residue on the ground.
The cycle in the rainforest is so fast that it may take less than a month for the fibers to turn into fertilizer.
Bi Fang cut three more, only one red heart was inedible, and he carried the rest towards the depths of the rainforest.
Sugarcane is limited in sweetness, but it is suitable for hydration, it is a natural hydration container, just these two roots, can replenish two days of water.
The two of them wandered around, and finally found a relatively empty spot eight hundred meters away from the river.
There was no droppings left by the beasts or the smell of the territory marked.
Better tools make good work.
To build a shelter, you need to make some cutting tools first, and stone axes are indispensable.
Bi Fang took Leonardo with him, made two stone axes out of stones, sticks, and rattan, and searched for suitable materials nearby.
"In the jungle, the most important thing to focus on is the rain. The shelter you build must be able to withstand rain and provide a dry environment. ”
"In the rainforest, there are many palm trees, and their leaves are ideal raw materials for building a shelter.
Bamboo is another ideal material for sheltering.
Tropical rainforests provide an abundance of raw materials for sheltering, but the main challenge is how to keep them dry, and the condition of the ground is also a serious problem. ”
Unlike forests, clearing the ground in a rainforest is almost useless, and it won't be long before insects and ants reclaim it.
Add to that the many more venomous snakes, and a large piece of heat lying on the ground is likely to attract them.
Bi Fang didn't want to wake up in the morning to find a highly venomous cobra coiled on his chest.
"So the shelter must be vacated!"
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