Chapter 40: Southerner Traps
Being grabbed by Andrea like this, Xiang En was really surprised, and his palms were sweating a lot due to nervousness, just like a student suddenly becoming a teacher, and the roles were reversed.
It seems that I am thinking too much, and she is stronger than she thinks!
Retracting the surprised expression on his face, Xiang En stared at Andrea for a moment, then suddenly showed a smile, broke free from the grip of her hands, and hugged Andrea.
"Yikes!"
Andrea, who was hugged, let out a sigh, her face was peachy, and her eyes suddenly became confused.
Before this feeling could take over her heart, Xiang En let her go, disappointing her for a while.
"Ahem...... Let's go find some firewood to burn this place. ”
Xiang En touched his nose and looked at the utility room where a squeaky sound came out.
Now that the situation is clear, the dozens of corpses that crawled out of the ground have run into the forest, and the infected animals should have caused a lot of damage to the forest.
Hurry up and scavenge for supplies and build a shelter!
After this winter, they had to leave the forest and go to the towns to find the supplies that had been missed by the looting teams.
Otherwise, their things will only get older and older, and the province of De'er is very large, even if those people have more than a month to carry out a massacre, it is impossible for the people of Greystone City to visit them all, and there will be no fewer villages missing.
When the fire burned out of the utility room, Xiang En and Andrea returned to the wooden house to rest.
Over the next few days, both of them stockpiled food, and there were fewer animals in the forest, and no infected animals were found yet.
After failing to find many animals for three kilometers near the village, Xiang En decided to take the plunge and explore deep into the forest.
This was two days, relying on the trap totem, the two harvested a lot of uninfected small animals, and obtained nearly 100 kilograms of prey at one time.
On the last night of leaving the forest, they saw a messy space.
The faint green light shines through the trees, attracting the attention of the two travelers who strayed into the forest.
Xiang En asked Andrea to leave the hunted animal in place, and cautiously walked towards the green forest.
After stepping over the collapsed tree trunk, they saw a crater five meters in diameter.
In the center of the crater was a meteorite that emitted a strange green light, which could emit a brightness no less than a light bulb in the dark night, which made Xiang En both curious and vigilant.
The ominous green light kept him away, grabbing Andrea as she tried to keep closer.
"Don't go too close, it may be dangerous......"
After staring at the fist-sized green meteorite for a while, Xiang En decided to poke it with a stick.
A small tree long enough was found between the woods for Andrea to sharpen into a stick.
There is no point in doing this, it's like a firecracker blowing cow dung, it's just for fun.
Holding this long stick, Xiang En poked at the fragments of the meteorite that emitted green light, thinking about whether this meteorite would be radioactive?
One end of the stick slapped on the meteorite fragment, picked up the meteorite fragment, and looked at it from a distance, but Xiang En still didn't dare to touch the stone.
This stone looks too weird, and Xiang En is worried that there are radioactive elements, and carrying it with him is equivalent to adding several layers of negative status.
There are countless such fragments in the forest, and there will be no shortage of fragments in the entire province of Deair, so let's wait for those surviving warriors to test it.
Throwing away the stick, Xiang Eun clapped his hands, and turned away with Andrea.
Andrea glanced back in the direction of the crater, the green light sent chills down her spine, and she quickly walked a few steps and disappeared into the forest.
It took three days to hunt, and one day to carry the game back to the village.
After processing the food and counting it, Xiang En found that they had stored 500 kilograms of meat, which contained a lot of bones, and the actual meat was probably only half the weight.
Although the stock of meat was not as good as expected, he was not ready to go on the hunt, and only ten days had passed, and the cold wind of the early morning forced them to put on an extra cloak of animal skins.
As winter gets closer, the distance between the two gradually decreases.
Chopping trees, storing firewood, and digging cellars became their most common jobs, and Xiang Eun was in no hurry to upgrade his skills, he had a winter time to practice his skills.
Whoops! Whoops!
With the joint efforts of Xiang En and Andrea, a new room was finally opened on the side of the alchemy room, which was quite large, and in addition to the bed, a lot of wood could be put down to practice carving totems.
Xiang En studied the ant nest for a long time, and muddied the ant nest with water and stuck it on the wall, making the surrounding walls a lot smoother, at the cost of the nearby ant nests being all washed by them.
He also wanted to make a kang for sleeping, but after trying for a long time, Xiang En gave up, and the kang made of adobe bricks without bricks was not very resistant to burning.
Although they had seen the teaching of burning bricks before the crossing, most of the content had been forgotten, and it took a lot of time to burn bricks, so they didn't have so much time, so they could only keep everything simple and spread a few more animal skins.
A stove is embedded in the corner of the room, and the chimney is dug straight out, just between the two wooden houses on the surface.
In order not to be buried by the snow, Xiang En also used wood to enclose a one-meter-and-a-half-high fence and set up a triangular shed on top.
After digging the shelter, it was already twenty days after the end of the day.
During this period, Xiang En used an iron pot in his spare time to smash out a distorting device that was not very beautiful, fetched the water flowing nearby, and tried to purify the water source by distillation.
The results are not very good, and the distillation method does not do much for acidic water.
Later, Xiang En tried to filter it with ordinary charcoal, but the effect was also not satisfactory.
Only then did he remember that acid rain contained water-soluble sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and ordinary filtration methods did not play much role at all.
When conventional methods failed, Xiang En simply gave up purifying the water source and waited for nature to dilute itself, making it even more difficult to use the water.
The two of them haven't taken a shower for half a month, and the most they can clean their bodies is to wipe them with a wet towel at most.
After another three days, the two of them, wrapped in buns, laboriously climbed the ladder and came to the surface world.
Pushing the wooden house away, the two couldn't help but be stunned.
I saw that the outside was plain white, the ground was covered with a thin layer of ice and snow, and there were a lot of snowflakes falling in the sky, covered in silver, which was very wonderful at first glance.
This is even more true for Xiang En, who has grown so big, and he has never seen snow so closely.
It's not snow in front of you, it's a southerner trap!
Xiang En seemed to see a seductive fox demon, Adam's apple couldn't help rolling, and he walked out of the wooden house with vague steps, pulled the surrounding snow chops together, and held them in the palm of his hand and pinched them into a ball.
Looking at the round and sturdy snowball in his hand, Xiang Eun threw it hard and smashed it against the wall of the wooden house opposite.
Boom!
The wooden house was shaken by the snowball, and a little snow on the roof was shaken off.
"Poof!"
There was a chuckle from behind him, Xiang En's body stiffened, he got up as if nothing happened, resisted the urge to fall to the ground and roll around, turned around to look at Andrea, whose face was red from the cold, and who was covering her mouth and snickering, and said seriously: "I can't help it!" I can't help it! ”
Andrea still covered her mouth, just squinting and nodding quickly.