16 Chapter 16
Although Tiso had told her not to run around before going to bed, Ayun had other ideas after making the spear. In addition to putting some leaves on the fence to make a cover, there is a difference in height between the cave and the fence, and I feel that you can build a wide leaf on top of it to make a shed.
It took her only a small amount of time to gather the broadleaf she needed, and then set it up on the fence and the cave, like stacking tiles, and made a small shed for the mouth of her cave. From a distance, it looks like a small house. Ah Yun removed a few of the sides of the fence and tied them together with vines to make a small door panel, and then tied them with a fixed wooden stick to make a narrow side door.
The cracks in the fence were filled with leaves, and Ah Yun also deliberately picked a lot of small branches with leaves and inserted them into the ground on the outside of the fence to make it look like it grew naturally. The difference between the height of the fence and the cave was covered by broad leaves, and in order to prevent the leaves from slipping, Ah Yun pierced the roots of the broad leaves with small wooden sticks, and then nailed them to the top of the cave.
There is about a square meter of space inside the fence, where Ah Yun stacks the stones and other debris he has collected. Worm shells are also placed here.
The transformation of the outside of the cave is probably over here, and the ability to further transform Ayun is limited. After finishing the roof of the shed, Ah Yun went over to see Tisso's state, he was still asleep, and he didn't know what time he kept vigil last night...... You won't stay awake all night, will you?
Yun picked up the clothes that had slipped off Tisso's face, folded them back and put them back to cover his eyes.
The food was collected in the morning, and the renovation of the fence was completed...... What's next? Continuing to explore the bush area? Or do you want to renovate the inside of the cave?
At this stage, the benefits of exploration are definitely greater but also more dangerous, and renovating and expanding the interior of the cave can make her sleep more comfortable, but there is no substantial benefit other than this.
Ah Yun picked up the spear he had just made and weighed it a few times in his hand. She knew that there were a few places not far from the cave, and from time to time some small animals and relatively large bugs would sprang out, so why not go hunting?
And it's not far from the cave, and she can hear Tisso wake up with a few yells...... But Tisso came to help her keep vigil for the past two days because of the insecurity around her.
But it's just around the corner, so it won't happen, right? Ah Yun feels that he is now a bit like a stinky little ghost who wants to play in the community, but is afraid of being discovered by his family.
Forget it, wait until Tiso wakes up and then go out and try hunting? He could also teach her what to do by the way. Just as Ah Yun was about to put down the spear, she heard a strange sound, squirming...... From the west side of the cave.
That's a coincidence, isn't it? Because she often walks around the cave during the day, the animals don't come here during the day. Hopefully it's a smaller, slow-moving animal. Ah Yun clenched his spear and slowly moved towards the place where there was a sound.
The grass on the west side of the cave is relatively lush, probably near the knee, and the grass will become sparse after a hundred meters down, and she is leaning against the outer ring of the cave, and the sound of the squirting is very weak, it doesn't sound like an insect, although it is light, but the sound is still relatively solid.
She hadn't seen anything yet, and Ah Yun's palms were already sweating nervously, and she felt that she needed to successfully hunt something, whether it was insects or small animals.
The strange sound suddenly became a little louder, from a rustling feeling to a regular 'click, click, click'. The change in sound made Ah Yun stop, because the clicking sound was not like the sound of something walking, but like the sound of tapping.
By this time she had moved into the higher grass, for the grass was so dense that it was impossible to tell what was in it without pulling it away with her hands. Bugger? Is it a bug? If the hard shell of a bug hits the dirt, it probably makes such a sound?
But why do bugs keep banging on their shells on the ground...... Ah Yun thought it was a little weird, because the clicking sound became louder and the interval was longer. What is the most important thing about surviving in the wilderness? Turn around and walk away when you feel danger intuitively, and Ayun is preparing to do just that.
Just as she kept her direction and began to slowly back away, the voice stopped abruptly. She was too scared to move. The surroundings were quiet for a while, and Ah Yun didn't dare to breathe...... Something is wrong, something strange seems to have been provoked.
After waiting quietly for a while, the sound of rustling sounded again, and then ...... A brightly colored bird flew away from the grass. Ah Yun held the spear and froze in place with his mouth wide open.
It's just a bird?!!
She poked the spear into the sky a few times in vain, but unfortunately the bird had already flown away. The sound of a bird moving or a flapping of its wings rubbing against the grass, what is that clicking sound? Ah Yun took a few steps forward, came to the place where the birds flew away, and took a few glances at the grass......
The remains of a bunch of insects remained here, the same huge ant as before, and the clicking sound was probably the sound of a bird poking through the hard shell of an ant's head with its beak.
It's a pity, Ah Yun sighed, if she took a few more steps, would she be able to catch a bird...... However, it was not completely unharvested, the hard snouts on the ant's head remained, and there were some birds on the grass on the grass next to the row, in addition to the fluff there were a few long bright yellow feathers, which were quite beautiful.
With regret, Ah Yun packed up these things and stored them in the fence. Before Tisuo woke up, he replanned his food.
In the past few days, he has not worried about eating and drinking, and he has also enjoyed a fish feast, Ah Yun feels that he may be a little too floating, and he must regain his awe of food...... She sat down and began to brainstorm what Tisuo had taught her what to eat in the rainforest.
The rubber mushroom that Tisso brought yesterday is the easiest and most abundant to obtain, the only bad thing is that it grows in the depths of the rainforest, the wettest place. If Ah Yun wants to pick these mushrooms by himself, he needs to grow another twenty guts on his body.
The rest were the occasional wild fruit growing on the turf near the green slope, and her plan to learn how to make flakes on her own was gone, and she couldn't get the raw materials. But...... In terms of food, Ah Yun is indeed not so worried, and it is thanks to Tisuo that she has learned a lot of food.
After a moment's pause, Tisso finally woke up. He sat up and stretched: "Comfortable......!" ”
Seeing that he woke up, Ah Yun couldn't wait to rush over to show off the spear he had just made, and gave Tiso what he had just encountered in the grass.
"Birds?" Tisuo swept the spear made by Ah Yun, "Well, it's okay." It should work. ”
Saying that, Tisuo took Ah Yun's hand: "I'll teach you!" It's simple. ”
What, can you just go to bed and teach hunting? Ah Yun happily followed Tisso, and the two returned to the grass they had just had.
"There's going to be a lot of bugs here." Tisuo used his spear to push through the grass, and there were a few disgusting bugs in it that were as round as watermelon worms, and he smacked them a few times with his spear, and poked three of them on the bone fragments, "This, you can eat it." ”
Ah Yun looked at the worms that were still writhing in pain on the spearhead, their shells shattered, and passion fruit-like internal organs flowed out of the cracks......
"But, it's going to be numb." Tisso sticks out his tongue "If you eat too much, you will lose your senses, be careful." ”
"Okay!"
Tisso took the worm off the spear, and Ayun instinctively thought that Tisuo was going to feed her again, so he moved silently and closed his mouth. Fortunately, instead of forcing her to eat the bugs, Tiso broke them with her hands and smeared the internal organs of the bugs on the grass chips: "They will smell, bait." ”
After smearing the bugs, Tisso took Ayun out of the grass: "This is the preparation, next, let's wait." ”
After waiting for an hour, Ah Yun couldn't sit still, but Tisuo had been staring intently at the grass where the bait had been applied, and at this time he was a little different from Tisuo, who was usually a little clumsy.
His ears were completely erected, and his pupils were a little smaller. The brow is slightly frowned, and the arm muscles are tense. The whole person is motionless, not exaggerated, but really motionless like wood. I couldn't even see the ups and downs of my breath.
The blink frequency is also terrifyingly low.
After another ten minutes, a large gray bird finally fluttered into the grass area, and it hovered above it for a while. Begin to fly towards the place where the bait has been applied.
Ah Yun felt a sharp wind blow through her cheeks, and before she could react to what was happening, there was a falling sound from the direction of the grass.
"......" she looked at Tisso speechlessly, still in the same position as he had finished the throw. It all happened so fast that the bird hadn't even touched the bait on the grass flakes before Tisso had already thrown the wooden spear.
With so much strength, Ah Yun swore that he had even heard the sound of piercing the air just now...... The bird that was hit didn't even have time to scream.
"Success, how!" Tisso's ears drooped down, "Bird hunting, simple." ”
Where is it easy???
Dumbfounded, Ayun followed Tisuo and went to inspect the loot in the grass. The poor bird was poked in half and stuck directly between the sticks.
"Weapons, good." Tisso picked up the stick and checked the top, "This method is amazing." I also learn. ”
What? Does it mean that a bone fragment is stuck in the gap between the sticks? Ah Yun couldn't believe that Tisso didn't have this kind of weapon, and he hadn't seen any of them before?
"Ah Yun, so smart! Is it the technology in your settlement? ”
Ah Yun scratched his head: "Yes, yes......" right?
"Ah Yun, where is the settlement?" Hearing Ah Yun's answer, Tisuo couldn't explain the feeling in his heart for a while, "Will you go back?" ”
"I want to go back." Ah Yun sighed, "I can't go back, it's far, far away." ”
"How far away, I'll send you back."
"Far, far, far!" Ayun stretched his arm and gestured, "I can't go back!" ”
"Why? Why can't I go back. Tisso began to frown and muttered, "Ah Yun, hated by his family? ”
No, now is not the time to talk about this kind of thing, we still have the carcass of birds to deal with! Ah Yun tugged on Tisuo's wrist: "Bird! ”
What Ayun didn't expect was that Tisuo raised his hand to dodge: "Tell me, why can't I go back." Give you the bird again. ”
Aren't you a simple savage, when did you learn such insidious negotiation skills?
But from that sentence - I'll send you back. It could be seen that Tisso was really worried about her, and it was also known that she would never be able to enter Tisso's settlement. It's been said far, far away, but Tiso still doesn't mind sending her back.
It's a little helpless, and I can't help it.
"I can't go back. Reason, the same as your settlement. It is impossible for Ah Yun to tell Tisuo that she is from the future of tens of thousands, and even if she wants to, she doesn't know how to say the future in the local dialect, "Understand, don't accept me." Because ......," she gestured to her face.
"It's different."
Tisuo's ears drooped even more: "Ah Yun, it's pitiful. ”
Don't say it!! Ah Yun glared angrily and hammered Tisuo's hard arm: "It's not pitiful! Myself, alive and well! ”
Tisso smiled again: "But, I can't eat enough. ”
"......" What's going on with this guy's personality? Isn't it the kind of wild man who is a little twisted, "Bird, is it okay?" ”
"That's it!" Tisol pulled Ah Yun to trot at the mouth of the cave, and he looked even more excited than Ah Yun, "The dead bird, it's delicious." ”
Uh, that's a scary thing.
But this one is a bird...... It's not like the cute birds that are common in modern times, they are hugely ugly, super ugly, and it's hard to describe the ugliness in words. The wings are wide, the claws are not degenerate, and there are small claws at the first joint of the wings. The feet are slender and look like centipedes with many stiff hairs. The beak is not a triangular cone, but flattened, with fine, dense sharp teeth on the edges.
The eyes are protruding outward, the two eyes are very separated, and in the middle are three large cavities, presumably the nose. Too long to look at.
Next, Ah Yun frowned and watched the whole process of Tisuo's hand-torn ugly bird, the hair was stripped off by him in three or two clicks, and the head was directly screwed off, and he raised his head in front of Ah Yun: "Head, you can't eat it." After saying that, he put it aside.
Then came the bird's body and wings, the bird's flesh and skin were a somewhat unsightly yellow, and Tisuo tore them into small pieces and handed them to Ah Yun: "Eat it." ”
It was treated as unwashed chicken sashimi, Ah Yun didn't hesitate at all, opened his mouth and ate it. Indeed, as Tisso said, it was delicious.
It smells a little bloody, but it doesn't flush the nose. Because it hasn't been long since he died, the meat is still a little hot, very elastic, smooth and tender......
If you can add some chili peppers, it will definitely taste better!
"Delicious! Delicious! Ah Yun kept eating the bird meat that Tisuo handed her, but when she was halfway through eating, she listened and hiccuped, "Tisuo, this ...... Storage, how to do it. ”
"Storage?" Tisuo's bloodied hand stopped in mid-air, as if wondering what Ayun meant by "storing ......"
After Tisuo thought for a while, he realized what Ah Yun meant: "I'll teach you!" ”
"Okay!"
"Stones are needed." As soon as Tisso finished speaking, Ah Yun ran back into the fence and took out a few stones.
Then Tisso placed the meat on the stone and struck it with another stone, slapping the meat into thin slices: "Keep beating, and then keep pressing it with the stone." ”
Ah Yun also learned the movements of Tisuo on the side, and the production was even easier than she imagined, after patting the meat flat, pressing it with a heavier stone all the time, and after pressing it for enough time, it was put in the sun to dry.
Yes...... Is it that simple to make air-dried meat? Wasn't the big pot before me wasted because of improper handling...... I regret it............
"After drying, it's not enough, hang it on the ......," Tisso looked around with a piece of meat, and finally found a small branch on the fence and hung the meat on it. ”
After hanging the meat up, Tisso and Ayun immediately realized something at the same time. Just hanging the meat here is sure to attract strange predators.
"Hmm......" Tisso frowned and began to examine his small cave in Ayun, "inside the fence, no. Inside the cave, even worse. ”
What to do, Ah Yun was also a little stunned.
"I'll take it back, at home, and help you dry it."
“……!” Can it still be like this?! Ah Yun kept nodding, "Okay!" Good! ”
Speaking of going home, Tisso turned to look at the rainforest, "I should go back." He looked back at Ah Yun, who was looking at him with bright eyes, because she had just eaten meat, and there was still a lot of blood on her mouth and face.
I don't want to go back, I want to continue playing with Ayun...... Ayun still has a lot to learn.
Take her back and hide at home. You shouldn't be able to find out...... Tisuo had thought about it more than once in the past few days, but he was still afraid, afraid that his mother would punish him and Ah Yun. His current behavior of running out every day has made the rest of the settlement a little dissatisfied.
"Ah Yun, if I don't come for many days...... What to do. ”
How many days don't come? It might be a little lonely, but Ah Yun probably knows why Tisuo asked, "It's okay! There was no mention of myself, here. ”
I still want to stay and play with Ah Yun for a while, but it's really not early. He must have known that he didn't go back last night......
Tisso put away all the slices of meat: "When it's dried, I'll bring it to you!" ”
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After Tisso left, Ayun went back to check the spear he had used, and the head was a little crooked and needed to be resecured.
Anyway, it's still early, so let's learn the method just proposed. Ah Yun came to the grass, and after a while, he caught several large watermelon insects, and after a while of mental preparation, Ah Yun reached over and grabbed the watermelon insects, tore them apart from the middle to let the juice flow out as much as possible, and rubbed them on the blades of grass.
After getting the bait, Ah Yun slipped to a hidden place next to her, because she didn't have the arm strength and shooting accuracy like Tisuo, she could only get closer to the bait, but try to hide her body as much as possible, so it should be okay!
The next thing is to wait, a long wait...... A few birds flew by, but they didn't hover and land. Ah Yun felt that it might be because he was too obvious, so after thinking about it, he retreated into the distance and buried his body.
This time the wait was much longer than when Tisso was there, and it was close to the setting of the sun that a bird's face fell, and it landed in the grass.
The sound of squirming came, because he was really waiting for the prey, Ah Yun was so excited that his hands trembled a little. She mentally prepared herself for a while before slowly moving in the direction of her prey.
It's slow, it feels like it's moving slower than a snail, and there's no sound at all. She clenched the stick, and although her palms were sweaty, she did not tremble.
When Tisso hunted, she did so before the target fell into the grass, and naturally she couldn't learn that trick, so she could only slowly close the distance to the prey that had landed in the grass, without making a sound...... Based on the shaking of the grass, she could probably discern where the target had stopped.
No problem, find the right position and pierce it hard, the wooden stick is long enough...... Ah Yun slowly raised the stick, and then slammed it towards the place where the grass was shaking. Some terrible screams rang out, and Ah Yun hurriedly rushed forward and grabbed the prey that had been stabbed by the wooden stick.
Oh my God, oh my, the feeling of the prey struggling in her arms was telling her that she had succeeded!
She actually succeeded in the hunt...... When Tiso's comes, she'll have to show it off!
However, for a person like Ah Yun who goes to the vegetable market to buy fish and is handled by the boss, it is still a little too difficult to deal with the living creatures, the prey in his hand is only partially injured by the wooden stick, and it also has attack power, when Ah Yun presses it to the ground, it keeps fluttering on Ah Yun's hand and leaves a lot of scars.
Ah Yun looked at it with mixed feelings, different from insects...... It is a furry animal, and although it looks a little ugly, the color of its blood is the same.
"I'm sorry!" Ah Yun pulled out his stick, gave himself a loud shout, closed his eyes and pierced the prey's abdomen.
Strange feel, through the wooden stick, you can feel yourself destroying something soft. It was an immediate feeling of guilt and horror.
Ah Yun regretted it almost immediately. Something warm sprayed on her arm, and she was breathing fast and her heart was beating fast.
She's not a ruthless person, and she's had pets herself...... Although it is unfair to the watermelon worm who died under her hands as bait, there is no way to do it...... Killing hairy animals can be psychologically burdensome.
Ah Yun didn't dare to look at the corpse of the prey on the ground, nor did he dare to stand up. The joy of the successful hunt disappeared the moment she started.
She could clearly feel that the prey in her hands gradually lost its movements, turning into a pile of soft meat, like a rag doll hanging from the edge of the bed.
…… Why is it completely different from doing it yourself...... Ah Yun tried to calm herself down, she felt that she was a bit of a chicken woman now, but her hands were still shaking instinctively.