Chapter 26: Stay in the Green Mountains

Raising his right hand and touching the back of his bare head, Steve pointed to the three soldiers who had just jumped out of the car and said, "You three, go look for it over there." Then he pointed to another thinner soldier and said, "You, come with me to the front and look for it." ”

After walking into the dense forest that Joseph had burrowed into before, Steve turned and said to the soldier behind him, "Fuck! Are you a general or am I a general? Roll ahead of me now! ”

The soldier, who had been clutching his rifle tightly, was startled by the stinking insult and hurried past Steve and walked ahead to search.

After walking more than a hundred meters, and after making sure that the people outside the forest could not see it, Steve quietly stepped forward, grabbed the soldier by the neck, pinned him to the ground, and confiscated his spear and pistol.

"Don't make a sound, don't move! Otherwise, I'll kill you! Steve exclaimed.

The soldier lay on the ground in frustration and nodded aggrievedly.

Steve pressed his knee against the back of the soldier's heart, pulled out the dagger from the opponent's waist, put his backhand on the opponent's throat, and asked in a low voice, "Say, who is the new commander?" Did he order you to arrest me and Joseph? ”

The soldier said, "Yes, it's Lady Lulu, she ordered us to kill you both." ”

As soon as the other party's words fell, Steve's right hand that grabbed the dagger hooked hard, cutting the soldier's throat, and the blood spurting out instantly flowed to the ground, and the poor soldier, before he died, tightly clutched the huge wound on his neck, looked frightened but couldn't shout.

After removing the soldier's tactical vest with pistol holsters, grenade holsters, cartridge holsters, safety hoops and other equipment, turning off the positioning function of the safety hoops, and pounding all these things onto himself, Steve put on his rifle and pistol, trotted all the way, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

Alone, Joseph ran as far northeast as he could through the woods, reaching out to wipe his tears as he ran.

Fear, the endless fear in his heart made him feel like he was going crazy. How will they survive on this planet in the future? Or, just kill yourself.

Thinking of the word suicide, Joseph suddenly stopped, and while bending over and holding his knees with his hands, he gasped, while thinking carefully about what seemed to be the only "countermeasure" at present.

Suddenly, a "finger banana" fruit fell in front of Joseph, startling him.

It was a long strip of fruit with purple-black skin and the thickness of an adult human finger and a banana on the inside that he had eaten in the human base before, but the fruit tree did not belong to the monocot similar to the earth's plantain, but to the earth-like arbor.

Joseph looked up and saw that the "finger banana" in front of him was full of ripe fruit.

Kicking the trunk of the "finger banana" hard, more than a dozen "finger banana" fruits fell one after another, and a faint fragrance similar to boiled kiwi fruit with cream wafted away with the wind.

Joseph simply sat down on the ground, picked up the delicious "finger bananas" and feasted on them.

After eating, Joseph thought to himself that since Proxima Centauri B was full of food, not only were the plants and fruits abundant all year round, and many animals were slow to crawl, or were not very vigilant, and they were very easy to catch, it was much easier to survive in the wild than on Earth, and as long as he could avoid the attacks of the beasts and the search force sent by the base, it should not be difficult to survive.

Moreover, almost all the larger beasts within a radius of several hundred kilometers of the base have been killed by humans, so the biggest danger to them at present is still from humans.

At the same time, even a nerd like David can find powerful native creatures as helpers, and he is so smart that it is impossible not to do it.

When you find the right animal helpers, or even find intelligent creatures like Muma or the same kind of unknown mysterious creatures, and then improve their civilization, arm them, and form an army to fight back to the base, your dream of becoming a god still has a chance to come true.

Thinking of God, Joseph's infinite thirst for power was aroused, and the original fear in his heart was suppressed.

At this time, the sound of the propellers of a solar helicopter came from a distance, and Joseph hurriedly looked left and right, and saw a small stream in the distance, so he tore off a few large branches from a low fern on the side, quickly ran to the side of the stream, covered himself with the branches, and jumped into the water, leaving only his face up on the water.

The purpose of this is to prevent the infrared detector on the helicopter from detecting itself as much as possible.

After watching the helicopter fly away in the direction of the base through the gaps in the leaves, Joseph returned to land and analyzed that the helicopter should have returned from an expedition, and if it was to search for his own helicopter, the flight speed would not be so fast.

Although on Earth, modern military clothing will have an anti-infrared detection function, because the team of New World engineering scientists unanimously believes that Proxima B native creatures do not have a modern civilization, so the clothing carried by the expeditionary force is not equipped with this function.

In fact, it was indeed the helicopter of the expeditionary force that rushed back after receiving the order to return to the base, and because the base did not explain why it was rushed, the people on the helicopter did not pay much attention to the various warning sounds issued by the infrared detector against the creatures on the ground.

Joseph then thought that when he was in the cave, David said that he would enter the base and set fire to arrest people, and when he was squatting on the road near the base, he never saw a plane come out, and there were still traces of fire on the truck, could it be that the various planes parked in the base were really burned out?

And the helicopters of the expeditionary force, which had just returned to the base, were trimmed and would certainly be sent out to search for themselves in a short time.

Hiding in the water is actually relatively able to avoid the detection of infrared detectors, and if you look closely at the screen connected to the detector, you can still see Ni Duan.

It seems that you have to find a place to hide for a while before you can continue to go further.

Thinking of this, Joseph walked towards a small group of mountains a few kilometers ahead.

According to the results of previous geological surveys, the thousands of kilometers around the base belong to the karst landform similar to the earth, with many mountains and caves.

Since he was taken from his home, Joseph had no weapons or tools with him, so he had to find a hard wooden stick and sharpen the tip of the stick with a stone as a makeshift weapon.

By the time he reached the foot of the first hill, Joseph had already forked several slow-crawling "Sasa" with a stick.

He peeled three of them with his bare hands, dried the flesh from the inside of the skin with stones and earth, found a place to wash it in a stream, turned the skin back into its original shape, tied it up from its neck, made three small water bottles, filled it with water, and tied it to his belt with their tails.

The peeled meat is forked on a stick like a kebab.

After rounding several hills, I finally found a small hole halfway up the mountain.

Before climbing to the entrance of the cave, Joseph picked up another bundle of dry branches along the way, drilled wood on the inside of the cave to make a fire, and made a simple torch from the dry branches into the cave.

After carefully walking along the hole more than one meter high, it suddenly opened up inside, it was a big hole the size of a school classroom, and there was a hole more than two meters high on the inside of the big hole, I don't know where it was connected.

After lighting a bonfire in the center of the cave, forking the flesh of the "Sasa" that had been cleaned by the stream with small branches, and setting it up half a meter away from the bonfire, Joseph went out of the cave and began to move stones, intending to block the outer hole and the inner hole one after another.

Of course, the opening of the hole outside should be hidden from branches and weeds that have been folded nearby.

After several hours of busy work, this small "project" was finally completed.

At this time, those "sasas" have already been roasted by Joseph's bonfire with branches from time to time, and the smell of barbecue is tempting. It's a pity that there is no salt.

Thinking of salt, Joseph recalls that the humans in the base first used the sap of a worm to extract table salt, until the expeditionary force discovered the salt mine.

I'm going to survive in the wild for a long time, and I can't do it without salt. Fortunately, the worm is very common, living in moist soil, like an earthworm.

You also need to find herbs to prevent colds, diarrhea and other diseases, as well as to prevent poisonous insect bites. Inside the base, in addition to the herbarium, there is also a herbarium, and Joseph's wife, Linda, likes to study plants, so he often accompanies Linda to wander around the herbarium.

Like the herbarium, each plant specimen in the herbarium is preceded by a text introduction, and some plants have medicinal effects on humans, and they will also specifically indicate which medicinal effect, fortunately he remembers some.

I can remember that it is because although Joseph was not very interested in biology, including when he was on earth, he liked to study things that could aphrodisiac, so in the herbarium, he used to carefully check the specimens of each plant to see which plant had the effect of aphrodisiac.

He was originally a high-level intellectual, a scientist, and he still has the ability to remember.

After eating, Joseph lay down near the charcoal fire and slept soundly, and woke up to make weapons and tools.

When moving stones to plug the hole, he deliberately looked for a few pieces of slightly thinner quartz gravel.

A sandstone-like sedimentary rock has also been found, which is formed by the precipitation of stone particles on the riverbed through water erosion, and has been hardened over thousands of years. Earthlings generally use this rock as a whetstone.

Now, Joseph was able to polish those pieces of quartz gravel on sandstone and make them into sharp stone knives.

Then, with a stone knife, the "Sasa" leather left over from the kettle is cut into thin strips to make a sturdy rope.

Then use the hard wooden stick from before to cut it slightly, tie leather ropes at both ends, and make a bow.

Pick a few slightly straight branches and sharpen one end of them and the other end into a zigzag shape to make an arrow.