Chapter 63: Before Winter (1)
Early this morning, Ye Bufan went out with the magic sword "Nian Ghost" and a sack on his back, he wanted to find a plant in the jungle, or a plant that could move.
This plant is not difficult to find, since he has lived here for some time and is very familiar with his surroundings, after about half an hour of travel.
Ye Bufan had already found his target this time, a raw plant that seemed to be half-buried in the ground and magnified more than ten times.
Of course, it can only be called a "plant", because it is too far from it on the outside Jiuzhou, its whole body is dark green, and its surface is covered with many nodules that resemble flower buds.
In fact, Ye Bufan did not conduct special research on this kind of so-called "pig cage ball" in essence, after all, he was a young master outside, not a scholar.
All he knew was that this plant had a peculiarity, and that was when it encountered a strong stimulus from the outside world, such as when a creature bit it and tried to treat it as a good meal.
Then, it creates a stress mechanism in which the buds on its body open up and eject a liquid that tastes extremely salty and bitter.
The liquid itself is not toxic, but it is unusually easy to corrode the fur and has a very strong salty and bitter smell, which can emit a strong pungent smell for a short time to dispel those creatures who want to do wrong with it.
Even if the smell dissipates, the salty smell on the body is as difficult to remove as maggots attached to the bones, and it is difficult to remove it even if you wash it vigorously with water.
Because of this, many demon beasts in the jungle are afraid of this kind of "pig cage ball", for fear of being contaminated with trouble that cannot be washed away.
In fact, this is exactly a means used by the pig cage ball to protect its own safety, and in Ye Bufan's view, this salty liquid is precisely the best source of salt, which is just needed to make jerky for winter.
Ye Bufan first picked a slightly larger stone from the ground and held it in his hand, and retreated back a distance, he visually inspected it, and this distance was enough to make the liquid of the pig cage ball spray on his body.
After that, the stone in Ye Bufan's hand was thrown violently, spinning and hitting the surface of the pig cage ball hard.
Ye Bufan smashed it so hard that he smashed a "bud" on his surface, and the white liquid overflowed instantly.
At the same time, the pig cage ball that was suddenly attacked immediately reacted, and several "flower buds" in the direction of Ye Bufan opened at the same time, and streams of white slurry sprayed out violently towards him.
Ye Bufan took a few steps back the moment he threw the stones, watching the white slurry spray violently a few steps away from him.
After the violent spray, the pitcher ball died down, perhaps thinking that the enemy who had suffered the loss would not come to harass him again, after all, it would take a long time to store some liquid, so the Tori ball would not shoot all the slurry it had stored at once.
After Ye Bufan waited for a while, he picked up another stone in his hand, changed the direction, and then, he walked into the pitcher plant lightly and carefully, threw the stone out violently again, and smashed it on the pig cage ball again.
The pig cage ball that was attacked again reacted again, and several "flower buds" in Ye Bufan's current direction opened at the same time, and streams of white slurry sprayed out violently towards him again.
But Ye Bufan dodged from a distance again, waited for it to stop spraying, then changed directions, and then hit it with a stone, so that it continued to squirt liquid, so that after going back and forth a few times, the pig cage ball was sluggish, and even the color became a little yellow.
The weather is very dry now, the cold wind is blowing, and the slurry on the ground that is sprayed on the ground and the dead leaves and long grass quickly crystallize, and Ye Bufan scrapes them up and puts them into a bamboo tube.
After cleaning up all the crystals on the ground, Ye Bufan smiled with satisfaction and continued to look for the next pitcher ball, just like that, Ye Bufan spent the whole day smashing pitcher plants.
The next day, early in the morning.
Pulling half a sack of soil, Ye Bufan carefully drilled out of the cave, which is what he must do every day, and excavates his cave more spacious every day.
Over time, the entire cave has been doubled in size by him, with a space of about twenty-five square meters, which is already quite spacious.
In addition, in addition to the hole he frequented, he dug a very narrow temporary exit.
As the saying goes, the three caves of the cunning rabbit, this temporary exit is used to escape in times of crisis, so as not to be blocked in the cave and wait, this is the conclusion he came to when he captured the rabbit and reflected.
Like the front door, the exit to this back door is hidden in a thorny bush under a towering tree not far from the cave.
The entrance of the cave was covered by a flat stone sharpened by Ye Bufan with a magic sword, or a flake-like lid of the stone, which was also covered with branches, and the cover was covered with thick fallen leaves, which was tightly covered from the outside, and it was impossible to see from the outside.
And in case of any situation, Ye Bufan can lift the lid here and drill out of the hole, because there is a big tree blocking it, it is impossible to see from the direction of the cave, and he can quickly climb the tree to escape.
Half a bag of soil is already the maximum load capacity of the sack, if you load more, I'm afraid it will leak.
Although Ye Bufan's current strength is also the strength of a battle with a lord-level demon beast, after all, the female earth bat is a relatively weak demon beast, even if it is a lord-level, it is also the weakest one, and there are demon beasts that are more powerful than the lord-level.
Therefore, he could not take it lightly, and carefully chose a hidden bush at a considerable distance from the cave, and then turned back.
Ye Bufan plans to widen this cave today so that he can have a comfortable winter, so in the past few days, in addition to hunting and making jerky, collecting some dry goods, storing food, and then digging a hole.
Back in the cave, Ye Bufan picked up his digging tools, the newly made bone shovel, and continued to dig, he was ready to complete some more work before he finished work.
Suddenly, ...... "......" earth and rocks were flying, Ye Bufan crawled out of the hole, and for a long time, he dared to carefully drill back into the hole to investigate.
It turned out that it was in the direction he had just dug that the soil and rocks were so loose that they collapsed a corner.
He checked it, and thankfully, the collapse was not large enough to cause a large collapse of the entire cavern.
It seems that the cave can no longer be expanded, Ye Bufan thought with a headache, and he realized at this time that the structure of his cave is actually very unsafe, and the cave wall and the roof of the cave are not supported by wooden beams for reinforcement.
This is like building a tunnel, in order to ensure the safety of the structure, steel structure is usually used to reinforce, especially in some loose soil sections, cement grout will be used.
And Ye Bufan obviously doesn't have this technical condition now, and he is not familiar with this kind of technical problem, so he has to rely on his own exploration.
Therefore, he could only dig as deep as possible, and not too big, so as not to collapse and be buried alive in the cave when he fell asleep.
Now, it has finally collapsed, which means that the size of the cave has reached a critical point, and it cannot be dug any bigger, otherwise I am afraid that the danger will be more frequent.
Ye Bufan was a little helpless, but what can he do, he can only take one step at a time, and slowly think of a way. The landslide was completely cleared and took two hours to complete.
Ye Bufan has done what he can to strengthen some places in the cave, at least at this stage, there is only so much he can do.
After cleaning up the rest of his hands, he had no intention of hunting today, but sat outside in the trees, blowing the cold wind, watching the gray haze and the dark clouds in the sky.
This cave is not very stable and safe, and suddenly I remembered the bat cave, am I going to move? I thought about living here for some days, some feelings, and some reluctance.
The Bat Cave is not as safe as it is here now, and it is not so safe to sleep and cultivate, if you can't think of a way to strengthen this place and repair your own home, if you can't even save your own home, then how can you talk about going out and leveling those immortal sects.