The wind blew the trees, making a small rustling sound, Feng Shiyan stood still, looking at this endless bamboo forest in distraction.

The impression left by the previous passing, including the hurried glimpse when I came to cut down the bamboo yesterday, is still relatively one-sided after all. And at this time, the magnificent scene in front of him made Feng Shiyan sigh in admiration!

In the end, it is the miracle of the creator that this bamboo forest has survived until now after so many years of continuous reproduction.

In fact, when he saw this bamboo forest yesterday, Feng Shiyan also wondered if he could find a few bamboo shoots, but after several searches, he couldn't find any of them, and the night was dark at that time, so he could only leave in a hurry......

He didn't know if it was because the season had passed or because of the continuous rainfall: you know, once the bamboo shoots start to pull out the joints, as long as they go through a few rains, they can stretch to a few meters or even more than ten meters in a short time, and they lose their edible value.

But then again, in such a large bamboo forest, the probability of finding bamboo insects must be much greater.

Now the main question is, what kind of bamboo insects can be found in bamboo......

The first thing is to choose the target - the target is still to lock on the bamboo that has not grown for a long time, and it is best to focus on the new bamboo that is born in the current year.

The reason is that the main target of bamboo insects is still those new bamboos that are less than 2 years old, and those bamboos that have withered or yellowed, and the probability of finding bamboo insects cannot be said to be none, but the probability is not very large.

And in this cloud-like sea of bamboo, the number of new bamboos is unknown, what kind of bamboo insects will exist in what kind of new bamboo?

Then we need to pay attention to the knots of these bamboos - those bamboos that have been attacked by bamboo insects tend to have much shorter knots than normal bamboos, which will be a major criterion for final judgment.

If the above two screening criteria are combined, Feng Shiyan believes that he can generally lock on some targets, and the next thing is just a matter of searching.

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Feng Shiyan wandered among the bamboo seas, carefully observing each bamboo.

But it's one thing to think, it's another thing to do. Years are a more ambiguous thing after all, especially for an inexperienced person.

Although Feng Shiyan knew many recipes well when he was studying his cooking skills, this does not mean that he is an all-rounder, and many things are only roughly dabbled, and how to sift through bamboo obviously touches his knowledge blind spot.

Therefore, he can only choose to judge the age of the bamboo from the color in general.

Most of the new bamboos are tender green and are far less tall than the older bamboos, and over time, these bamboos will eventually become darker, yellower, and finally wilt. Although there may be some error in this judgment, there will be no significant discrepancy in general.

This kind of observation is actually quite eye-catching.

Because there are subtle differences in most of the bamboo joints of each bamboo, you can only compare the two phases if you want to distinguish them, especially when the surrounding bamboo is endless, it is still easy to cause visual fatigue.

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After searching for a long time, Feng Shiyan locked on one of the bamboos: compared with other bamboos, the joints of this bamboo are much shorter to the naked eye, and the upper end of the whole bamboo is slightly yellow, and the branches and veins are scattered, which is most likely caused by the attack of bamboo insects: bamboo insects generally attack bamboo from top to bottom.

Feng Shiyan picked up the stone, selected a bamboo knot at the lower end of this bamboo and began to chisel.

The sharp stone quickly broke this piece of bamboo, and the scene inside the bamboo tube was presented to Feng Shiyan for the first time......

A few sporadic insects were constantly wriggling up and down in the bamboo knots - they were the bamboo insects that Feng Shiyan was looking for.

But seeing that these insects are white and fat, fat and large, each of them is about the length of two knuckles of an adult, and there are also circles of black lines like bamboo joints around the body, I don't know if it is because of the lack of natural enemies, or the supply given by this bamboo forest is too rich, these bamboo insects are obviously a little thicker than Feng Shiyan's impression.

"Yay!" Feng Shiyan clenched his fists and let out a suppressed cheer: "It's finally a harvest!" ”

Feng Shiyan chiseled the lower end of the bamboo one by one, and the scene full of bamboo worms wriggling shocked Feng Shiyan, who saw live bamboo insects for the first time!

The expectation was that you would find something to eat, but now it seems that the end result will be much more than you had originally thought.

Cautiously put the bamboo insects into the bamboo tubes he brought with him, and then grabbed a few handfuls of bamboo leaves to seal the bamboo tubes, and it didn't take long for Feng Shiyan to fill all the bamboo tubes he brought.

After doing the math, the bamboo insects harvested in this bamboo alone may be enough for him to supply food for about two days, which can be said to be a great harvest!

Helplessly, the equipment that could be accommodated was limited, and Feng Shiyan could only take the first wave of harvest and embark on the road back to the shelter.

Along the way, the mood was extremely comfortable, and I couldn't help humming a little song again. It's no wonder that for a novice to survival in the wild, there doesn't seem to be a clearer start than now: the problem of shelter is solved, the problem of using fire is solved, the problem of drinking water and food is solved!

If he only relied on this shelter and didn't consider exploring outside, Feng Shiyan felt that he would basically be sure to complete this mission.

However, a lingering cloud still hung over his heart, unable to dispel, just like the current treacherous and complicated situation:

Inexplicably bound to the system, there are a few problems that have never been figured out, and there is no risk of being chased from the beginning...... If he can solve his worries, Feng Shiyan will still decisively choose to leave here and try his best to find a more suitable and safer place to live.

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The next question is how to deal with bamboo insects?

If you want to highlight its flavor, it is best to choose to fry it in oil, and sprinkle it with fine salt and pepper after it comes out of the pan.

But at this time, all the cooking conditions were not complete, so he could only choose to make bamboo worms with the existing conditions.

After thinking about it again, the only thing he could do at this time seemed to be to heat the stone slab and fry the bamboo worms.

For him, this is probably the easiest way to cook it - just pick a moderately flat stone from the rocks in the cave, place it on the windbreak trough in front of it with fine stones, and then burn the bonfire until the stones are burned, and then put the bamboo worms on it......

The thermal conductivity of the stones is not very good, so this will also be a relatively long process, and all Feng Shiyan can do is to throw as much firewood into the bonfire as possible to make the bonfire burn more vigorously to speed up the process.

Of course, in order to store as many bamboo insects as possible, he also went to the cave to find some large leaves, wrapped the bamboo insects collected from the previous wave densely, and then pressed them with fine stones to prevent them from escaping.

And the few bamboo tubes that were freed up could be carried by him again and go to the bamboo forest to collect more bamboo insects.

Due to the experience of the previous time, the follow-up collection work was still very smooth, and after a few trips, he soon had several large bags of bamboo insect reserves wrapped tightly in leaves.

If the situation is optimistic, it is believed that he will not be bothered by food shortages for a long time to come......