Chapter 20: 65°C, EDC Materials
I don't know if it's because the weather is too hot or what, the traffic of the survival freak forum has skyrocketed in recent months, and it seems that many people have learned about this group and circle, and often post on the forum.
Zhou Ping is currently one of them.
He learned a lot of survival knowledge from this forum, but he found that among this group, especially in China, real survival freaks are actually relatively rare, and many of them are hobbies, not as crazy as abroad.
Domestic survival freaks, that is, preparing EDC, survival backpacks, hoarding some supplies and food, etc., while abroad are not, they will also build a shelter, get some weapons, and even maintain high-intensity training every day, etc.
For some reason, Zhou Ping was unable to log in to foreign forums, so whenever he asked questions to the shelter, the replies he received in the forums were usually fanciful or even just ridiculous, and rarely received constructive answers.
Now he has two things to do, one is to sell solar batteries as the main means of making money.
The second is to know the necessary knowledge of survival, stock up on the corresponding supplies, go back to your hometown and dig a cellar as a shelter, and prepare coping strategies for special situations.
Let's start with the supplies for survival.
He is now facing mainly extreme heat, and then he is likely to face extreme rain, extreme drought, and extreme cold.
Not alarmist, this is highly likely.
So in terms of survival materials, he needs to hoard and build up a little bit, let's start with EDC, which is a small tin box that we carry with us, which is used to deal with sudden disasters that we may encounter when we go out.
This small tin box is not necessarily an iron box, it has to be easy to carry, and secondly, it must have a waterproof function.
According to the description of netizens in the survival freak forum, they generally place multi-functional military knives, windproof lighters, button compasses, nail clippers, sewing kits, fish hooks and fishing lines, paper clips, wires, cotton and other items in the iron box.
However, this little thing is somewhat rudimentary, and it is still too monotonous in the sudden disasters that may be encountered in real urban application scenarios.
1. The choice of a multi-functional military knife must be of good quality, sharp and hard enough, and it must be convenient for it to be used as a weapon, rather than when it is used, it will be very embarrassing......
And don't take the subway, light rail, etc. after carrying it, otherwise it will be very troublesome.
The price of such a military knife is not cheap, Zhou Ping casually looked at it and it was a few hundred yuan, so he gritted his teeth and bought three.
2. Windproof and waterproof lighters and flashlights, these two are necessary, and you must develop the habit of using a flashlight first when using, and do not use lighters at will in closed and unfamiliar scenes.
Daily EDC does not consider lighters, but if there is enough space, you can also buy them, and Zhou Ping bought all three.
3. First aid bandages, medical tapes, iodophor cotton swabs, Yunnan Baiyao Jinchuang powder, wind oil essence, Huoxiang Zhengqi water, anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, etc., these items occupy a relatively small area and can be placed in a small bag.
What happened in Duan Ang's community last time made it difficult for Zhou Ping to trust that this society could remain stable forever, and if there was a large-scale power and water outage in the city, there would be inevitable conflicts.
4. Umbrella line, compass, electrostatic tape, pipe tape, fish hook and fishing line, needle and thread, wire, whistle, if there is space, then a multi-functional pliers.
The pipe tape is the kind of white tape on the pipe, Zhou Ping can't quite imagine what scene this thing can be used in, but it's not big, and it's okay to carry it.
5. Most importantly, bring a few pieces of sugar.
If you're forced to be stuck somewhere for days, a few pieces of candy might be lifesaving.
That's about the amount of EDC he prepared, just enough to fill his chest bag, and the weight is quite heavy.
The next step is to prepare an escape backpack, also known as 3DAYS, which means that you must prepare 3 days of survivable supplies inside.
There will be a change of clothes, water, food, etc., but normally speaking, on the premise of having an escape backpack, relying on the simple materials inside, it is not a big problem to survive for seven or eight days.
In the escape backpack, portable water purifiers can be purchased if conditions are available, and water purification tablets and disinfection tablets can be purchased if conditions are insufficient.
Then there are garbage bags and plastic wrap, both of which are essential and very useful in special situations.
The disposable emergency blanket, a silver aluminum foil product, has a very small footprint, but it is very warm, and you can have a few more.
Windproof lighters, lighters, paracords, whistles, first aid bandages, etc., can be prepared in the escape backpack.
A mirror that won't be shattered is very important and don't forget. In special scenes, it can replace a lighter, and at the same time reflect the light source, and Zhou Ping feels that it may be a little more practical than a magnifying glass.
Markers, notebooks, and writing pens that can leave fonts on tiles are also essential.
Paper towels, don't forget.
The ultra-small folding umbrella can be removed as a tool if necessary.
Toiletries such as soap or soap, as well as items for mosquito repellent and heat repellent, here we recommend the Liushen spray, which can not only repel mosquitoes, but also spray on the skin to be blown by the wind, and it is also very cool.
At present, Zhou Ping has prepared these general items, all of which are for three people, costing thousands of yuan, which is more expensive than he imagined.
In addition, according to the recommendation of netizens, he also purchased the "Extreme Weather Survival Handbook: 214 Golden Skills to Save Lives in Harsh Environments".
After reading it, he felt that the book was not very helpful except for the beautiful pictures.
"Illustrated Disaster Escape and Self-Rescue Series: Nuclear and Radiation Accidents", although this book is very short, but it is simpler and easier to understand than other similar types of writing, but this book is based on atoms and bombs to write escape and self-rescue, in fact, the current weapons are hydrogen bombs or other "relatively clean weapons", the times are advancing with the times, and the current self-rescue methods for nuclear disasters are actually based on the experience of atoms and bombs, but they are no longer suitable.
Those experiences are hard to use.
In addition, Zhou Ping also bought some wilderness survival guides, as well as the three classic books circulating on the Internet, "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", "Militia Training Course", and "Farmland Water Conservancy Manual".
I can see the strong social charm of that era, which covers a lot of complex issues, and is written in simple terms, vivid and concrete, which is particularly easy to understand.
Zhou Ping hasn't read it carefully, and he will take a closer look at it when he has time to see if there is any important knowledge that can be used.
I bought a lot of things in one go, and there were dozens of receiving code text messages in the mobile phone text messages alone.
Zhou Ping had to go downstairs to get the courier......
By the way, there is another important item that I forgot to mention.
The 304 stainless steel flat-mouthed cup, which can be used as a container for water or placed on a rudimentary shelf for heating items, is also an important survival item that everyone should have in their escape backpack.