Chapter 7: Pray to the Stars
The air was filled with the smell of blood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although the wind and water had taken away most of the smell, the smell was enough for Bai He, who was staying next to the source of the smell, to make him vomit a few times. As early as just now, when Bai He used the natural stone knife he picked up to cut open the corpse of the gray wolf, the fishy smell on his face had already aroused his desire to vomit and made him vomit. But even so, Bai He didn't have anything in his stomach to vomit, so when he saw the belly of wolf blood he vomited, the prostration and nausea that struck again still made him dizzy for a while.
Back to the point, Bai He is now dismantling the gray wolf with a stone knife he picked up. After all, this is an important food that was hard to get, and Bai He didn't plan to give up just yet. He was going to get as much food as he could from the wolf before the other animals arrived. You must know that on the earth, wolves are social social animals, and Bai He doesn't know if the wolves in this world are like this, but he doesn't dare to bet on this possibility. Bai He was able to kill this wolf completely because of good luck, and if the smell of blood attracted another one, then Bai He could really say goodbye to the world.
In this world, Bai He has no partners to rely on, no strength to defend himself, and no common sense to live in this world. He had nothing but everything he had gained by living on Earth for fourteen years. For example, if the symbiotic shrimp that Bai He ate before was not a mild paralyzing poison, but a highly poisonous poison that died when eaten, then Bai He should have died and hardened by now.
That's right, Bai He's current situation is like being forcibly blindfolded by someone who doesn't know who it is, and pushed onto a suspension bridge that is on the verge of collapse. There is no way out, standing still is equivalent to sitting still, and if you want to survive, you can only move forward. However, this suspension bridge is full of all kinds of unknown deadly traps, as long as one wrong step awaits Bai He, death awaits him.
But even so, Bai He can only go on and find a possible way to survive.
Why? Why did Bai He struggle even in such a desperate situation?
The answer is simple. Because, he didn't want to die.
Squatting next to the gray wolf's corpse, Bai He scraped the flesh from the corpse with difficulty with a stone knife. The fat and sticky blood had already stained his entire body, and it was because of this that the decomposition process proceeded so slowly. After all, a stone knife is just a stone, and the sharpness of it cannot be compared to a forged metal knife. Under the impregnation of blood and fat, Bai He's hands could not grasp the gray wolf's flesh tightly, no matter how hard he tried, so the stone knife could not cut accurately. Bai He has never missed the blessings brought by the development of human civilization as much as he does now.
In Bai He's mouth, he held a palm-sized slice of dark red meat, the only meat he had successfully peeled from the gray wolf. The only thing that felt disgusting was the first bite he had just swallowed, and Bai He was now slowly chewing on this piece of raw meat in order to get the energy he needed to survive from it. He didn't think about whether he would be poisoned or not, and he used common sense to think about how a guy like this, who could tell at a glance that he was at the top of the food chain, could have poison in his body. Bai He was very relieved to eat raw meat, the only thing he needed to think about now was the problem of diarrhea and fire that he might have in the future. After all, it is impossible for Bai He to eat raw meat all the time, and now he eats like this just to pull himself back from the border of starvation, and the ghost will eat raw meat again when there is room for a fire.
To be honest, raw meat is not delicious, the stickiness of the fat and the smell of blood, coupled with the coldness of this piece of meat. No matter how he chewed Bai He's throat, he refused to accept this piece of meat that had been thoroughly chewed to a pulp. It's not a matter of taste, it's that Bai He's physiology as a person can't accept him eating like this. There was no way, Bai He could only use his fingers to stuff the chewed pieces of meat into his esophagus every once in a while. Whenever this happens, he always has to be careful, after all, this is what he has managed to stuff in, and it will not be good if it causes too strong nausea and vomits.
After more than half an hour, Bai He had obtained eight pieces of meat from the gray wolf, not including the one he had already eaten. Looking at the amount alone, this meat is probably enough for Bai He to eat for two days, but it is difficult to say whether these meats can last for two days in this weather. Judging by the position and color of the sun in the sky, it must be about three or four hours in the afternoon, and the temperature that Shiraka is feeling right now is about 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the raw meat will spoil in one night at most. The same is true for cooked meat, and none of the knowledge that Hakuga knows can tell him how to preserve raw food.
If he had just listened, he had heard that salt could preserve food for a long time, but unfortunately he didn't know how to get salt in such a place.
Bai He looked around left and right, wanting to be inspired. Still when I saw the river, an idea came to me. He walked to the river and put his hand in the water to feel the temperature.
I thought it was strange at first, but the water doesn't get hot when exposed to the sun? The river water is cool, and the temperature is probably like well water. Bai He felt that the method he had come up with might be feasible.
Bai He took off the pajamas on his upper body, and the original white pajamas were now dark red after a series of dyes. Throwing the clothes into the river and washing them a little to remove the dust, Shiraka threw the meat in and wrapped it up. Since low temperatures can prevent the growth of bacteria, low temperature water should also work. Bai He couldn't be sure, but he decided to give it a try, which was better than eating stinky meat. As for the blood stains on his clothes, Bai He didn't even think about washing them off, he felt that it was a miracle that he could wash off the stains on his clothes when he had nothing on his hands.
The preservation of food can be said to be solved for the time being, and Bai He decided to get up and leave. It's better that he's wasted too much time here. Animals that smell blood can come at any time, and it's not a good place to stay around. As for the cave when he woke up, Bai He didn't plan to stay any longer, not to mention the insects in the cave, the mere fact that they might be found by the animals that followed the smell of blood was enough to make him shake his head. Although the cave can be used as a shelter from the elements.
After simply washing off the blood stains on his body with river water, Bai He walked towards the downstream of the river. The knowledge he had learned in his head told him that if he kept walking along the river, he would always find someone, whether he was going upstream or downstream. No matter whether the situation is good or bad at that time, it will be a little more comfortable to see Bai He's heart.
Walking along the shore, Bai He kept thinking about how to light the fire in his head. As a bear child born and raised in a modern civilized society, Bai He naturally did not know how to make a fire in such a situation. Of the three ways he mastered to make a fire in the wild, drilling wood to make a fire was the easiest and the most difficult. The simplicity is because the materials are available everywhere, but it is difficult that the thin Bai He is unlikely to succeed in making fire by drilling wood. The convex mirror method is even more important, after all, its premise is that you have to have a light-transmitting device, if it's winter, you can still use ice, but now it's summer, let Bai He go where to find ice. As for flint, hehe, not just any stone can knock on the fire.
Almost every solution you can think of requires tools. Bai He couldn't help but curse secretly, who the fuck really brought those bullshit stuff when he was in trouble in the wild! The only thing Bai He could do now with the only tools in his hand was to drill wood for fire, and he could only try that.
After walking unhurriedly for about 10 minutes, after turning slightly to the right, the small space that was originally composed of a forest (left), a small river (middle), and a forest (right) suddenly became wide.
"This ...... This is so big!" Bai He said in a tone of amazement.
What appeared in front of Bai He's eyes was a super giant river with an indefinite length and a width of 100 meters no matter how you looked at it. Originally, when he was on earth, Bai He rarely went far for some reasons, and he never saw the river or the sea. The largest piece of water Bai He had ever seen was just a small lake in the city where he grew up, and that lake was far less big than the gently flowing river in front of him. Standing by the river, Bai He couldn't help but feel his insignificance.
The exclamation passed quickly. More than the river in front of him, a more important question appeared in his head. That's where he's going. Originally, Bai He only thought that it was a small river, and as long as he walked along it, he could always find someone who lived by the river. But now he realized that the small river was nothing more than a tributary of the great river in front of him. This is no joke, who knows how long the river is, and if you go in the wrong direction, it will be over. Originally, Bai He was going to look for the big road when he was rescued by the girl before, after all, the road is the traces of people, and you can definitely meet people if you walk along the road. But when he escaped that night, even Bai He himself didn't know in which direction he fled and how far, let alone walked back like this. Moreover, Bai He's self-esteem didn't allow him to run back like this.
Again, there are two choices: left or right. On the left is a forest lined with towering trees like a tropical rainforest, and on the right is a normal forest with flowers and grass. The forest is divided into two different ecosystems by a river, which is really incomprehensible to Shiraka, who is only in the eighth grade. Bai He decided not to think about it. As for the other side, Bai He didn't even think about it, if he really wanted to go to the other side, then he didn't have to call Bai He anymore, he would be called an idiot instead.
In just a few seconds, Bai He had already made a decision. He decided to go to the right-hand side, which looked like a more ordinary-looking forest. Bai He is not stupid, that rainforest-like forest is unusual no matter how you look at it. If this is that kind of fantasy world, then that forest must have a name similar to the Warcraft Forest.
Picking up the package that had been thrown in the water and dragging it away, Bai He headed to the right.
Judging from the position of the sun, it must have been late in the evening, and the setting sun was beginning to dye the forest orange.
After finding a fairly flat place by the river and sitting down, Bai He began to arrange dinner. But before that, he had to find a way to raise the fire, otherwise even if he managed to make the meat delicious, it would be in vain. Without fire, no matter how good he thinks, it's useless, he can only eat raw meat.
After going into the woods and picking up some leaves and branches that had fallen on the ground, Shiraka began to try to drill wood to make a fire. In the past, although Bai He had watched the Bei Ye food list for a while with the popularity, he really didn't know anything about drilling wood for fire. The most Bai He knows about drilling wood for fire is that rubbing wood with a stick to generate heat to ignite the fire. The selection of materials, the debris tank, and the flammable materials used for ignition are unknown to Bai He. Originally, Bai He's purpose in reading Bei Ye's food catalog was to watch Bei Ye, a fierce man, eat, and he never thought that he would fall into this field one day.
Feeling the constant soreness coming from his arms and palms, Bai He couldn't wait to slap himself, he knew very well that he couldn't turn around like this. Although Bai He didn't look carefully when Bei Ye did it, he at least knew that Bei Ye lit the fire in three or two clicks, which was like himself.
Throwing off the wooden stick in his hand, Bai He simply lay down on the river beach. The soreness in his hands gradually disappeared as he stopped, the fatigue of his muscles was relieved, and the comfortable feeling soothed his body.
Don't do it!TM Whoever loves to eat, come and eat!
Lying on the ground, Bai He's heart was very aggrieved. After coming to this world, there is nothing he can do well. After actually doing it, Bai He found out that he actually didn't know anything but studying. No matter what it is, it is not as simple as imagined, he can't stand bravely in front of the weak to protect them like the protagonist in the story, nor can he easily kill the ferocious beast in three or two clicks like the protagonist in the story, and he can't understand everything like the protagonist.
It turns out that without the protection of his parents, he is nothing. The huge gap between imagination and reality knocked Shira down, and he didn't really want to get up again.
Because it took a lot of time to rub the sticks, the sky has now turned from orange in the evening to pitch black. On that dark background, the stars shone brightly.
Flash~☆
Suddenly, a thin line of light crossed the sky. It's a shooting star.
"I didn't expect there to be shooting stars in this world. Bai He said after watching the meteor streak across the sky without emotion. "I don't know if the meteor from another world can make my wish come true. Bai He smiled bitterly.
Aspiration. That's right, since you can be taken to another world, it's not impossible for a meteor to fulfill your wish or something!
The so-called rush to the doctor is like this, when people are desperate, anything that appears will be used as a lifesaver.
The sky flashed, and another meteor streaked by.
Bai He hurriedly knelt down, clasped his hands like a praying believer, closed his eyes, and then.
"Let me go back to the world I was!"
Make a wish.