Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

When Aze got home, Chen Qi was sitting by the fire and studying the blue fruit. The skin of the fruit was very thick. Chen Qi broke it a few times but gave up after a while. Aze came in with a duiker that had already been processed, “Are you back?”

“Well, I’m back.” Aze put the things down, walked to the door again, fixed it with wood as the door curtain just now, and opened a hole.

Chen Qi coughed lightly, pulled the pack of animal skins that Aze brought back, opened it, and exclaimed, “There are so many apples.” After counting, there were as many as fifteen, each about the size of a fist. It’s red, it’s really beautiful.

“Apple?”

“Uh, this is the name of my house, you are called Red Berry, right?” Chen Qi remembered the name of this fruit when Aze gave him this fruit for the first time.

“Apple’s name sounds very nice.” A Ze brought the duiker to the fire. There was a shelf on the fire that had been set up a long time ago. Just put the duiker on a wooden stick and roast it.

Chen Qi picked up an apple and wiped it with his sleeve. After taking a bite, a sweet and greasy juice instantly filled his mouth, but the taste was very different from an apple. It would be better to call it a persimmon. Chen Qi After silently commenting, he shook the cyan fruit with a thick skin in his hand and asked, “Aze, what kind of fruit is this? The skin is so thick that I can’t even break it open.”

“This is a green fruit, we all eat it with the skin.”

Chen Qi frowned and looked at it, is this skin edible? It’s a match for some grapefruit peels, and it doesn’t taste good at first glance, “Aze, can you help me cut this fruit?”

Aze thought for a while, but did not take it. Instead, he put the duiker in his hand on the fire and turned around to the side of the slate bed. The slate bed was covered with a layer of animal skin. Azer groped in the animal skin. , when he came back, he held a white bone-like thing in his hand and handed it to Chen Qi, “Here it is.”

“What’s this?”

Aze pursed his lips, and there was a bit of show-off between his eyebrows, “The sword horn of the Stegosaurus, I captured it alone when I was an adult, although it was only a minor Stegosaurus.”

The power of Stegosaurus is above the existence of Hyena, their size is huge, adult Stegosaurus can grow to ten times the size of adult male elephant, they are covered with a layer of long hair, they look a bit like ancient mammoths Elephants have a shorter and thicker nose, with long and sharp horns on the nose. Adult Stegosaurus is about three to four meters long. Their vertebrae are straight and almost impossible to bend, which also causes them to move slowly and attack single. .

The reason why Stegosaurus did not become a more powerful threat than Hyena is not only because they were a vegetarian species, but also because Stegosaurus was not gregarious like Hyena. Stegosaurus will live alone in adulthood, and they are very territorial, and it is almost impossible for a second Stegosaurus to appear in a territory.

Chen Qi took the sword horn curiously. The sword horn was not big, only half as thick as a pinky finger, not as wide as a palm, but it looked like the blade of a fruit knife, and it felt cold to the touch. Chen Qi carefully held both ends of the sword horn, placed the green fruit on the ground, and cut it along the middle of the fruit with the sword horn. Hao cut the fruit in half effortlessly. Chen Qi couldn’t help exclaiming, “It’s so sharp.” Just like a knife.

A Ze warned, “The horns of the sword are too sharp, and you can easily hurt yourself if you are not careful. Chen Qi, remember to wrap it in animal skin when you use it, and don’t hold it directly with your hands.”

“It’s fine, just make a handle.” Chen Qi couldn’t help flicking it with his fingers, and the horn of the sword made a crisp sound. There won’t be metal in this thing, right? Thinking of making a knife handle, Chen Qi turned his head and asked A Ze, “A Ze, do you have any turpentine here, or something that is very sticky.”

“A very sticky thing?” A Ze tilted his head and thought for a while, “Do you mean the fruit of the gum tree?”

“Gum tree? Do you have glue here?”

“Yes, the fruit of the gum tree will become sticky as long as it is boiled with fire. Our house is built with the boiled gum fruit mixed with soil and slate.”

Chen Qi opened his mouth in surprise and ran to the wall to touch it. The joints were very hard, as if they were made of cement. Is the glue stick so high? Nature is so amazing. Do many things in your own world appear in other forms here? Thinking of this, Chen Qi couldn’t help but light up. As long as he made good use of it, even a primitive society would not need to live like a savage. “Azer, Azer, can you get that gum?”

Aze didn’t quite understand why Chen Qi was so excited when he heard the gum fruit, “There is a gum tree not far from here, and my house is built with the gum fruit from that tree. As long as the fruit of the gum tree is not picked, It can last for more than ten years, let’s eat something to rest today, and I’ll pick it up tomorrow.”

The venison at noon was cold and hard. Chen Qi felt tired after eating a little bit, so he didn’t eat much. This time, he smelled the aroma of barbecue, and his stomach rang twice in a timely manner. Withdrew his excitement, Chen Qi was careful. Putting the horn of the sword aside, he picked up the fruit that had already been cut. There were many seeds the size of soybeans embedded in the pulp, and he licked it, frowning sourly.

Aze cut up the antelope meat with almost roasted skin and handed it to him amusingly, “This kind of green fruit is very sour and hard to eat, unless you are really hungry, we will not eat it, just throw it away, Don’t eat any more.”

Chen Qi took a piece of mutton and threw it into his mouth and chewed it to remove the sour taste. The mutton was grilled just right, but the bitterness of the salt stone was still unaccustomed to, which completely destroyed the taste of the mutton, and there were still several days of meal. The barbecue is a bit boring. Smashing it, smashing its mouth, turned over the half of the green fruit and looked at it. Although the taste was very sour, it always felt like a lemon. After thinking about it, I squeezed a little juice and dripped it onto the barbecue.

He took a piece of mutton dipped in juice and put it in his mouth. Chen Qi’s eyes lit up. The sour taste of the juice melted into the meat, which did not cover up the bitterness of the salt stone. Aze said, “Aze, try it.”

A Ze looked at him strangely, opened his mouth to swallow the flesh on his lips, and Chen Qi asked expectantly, “How is it?”

Looking at Chen Qi’s expression, A Ze unconsciously slowed down his chewing speed. He didn’t smile until Chen Qi’s eyes were a little anxious, and he commented slowly, “It’s more delicious than just smearing salt.”

Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the taste of orcs is similar to his own. In the past few days, seeing that Aze can eat only the bitter barbecue coated with salt stones, he can eat so deliciously. It’s different, “Of course, you need to add seasonings to eat barbecue. There are too many impurities in the salt stone.” Chen Qi happily handed the other half of the green fruit to A Ze, and let him eat it by himself.

Aze took it and squeezed the juice onto the roasting antelope. While Chen Qi was burying his head and eating hard, he quietly cut the juice-coated antelope meat and put it into the pupa leaf that he was holding in his hand.

The two had enough to eat and drink. Chen Qi wanted to have a hasty sleep on the fire, but Aze didn’t want to, so he dragged Chen Qi to the only slate bed and went back to the fire. Zhang animal skin lay down.

However, Chen Qi said that it was not a good experience to sleep in a tree for the first two nights. The group bar was used as a pillow for a good night’s sleep.

The next day when Chen Qi opened his eyes, he saw a dark ceiling. It was really dark, not because of the dim light. After a closer look, he found out that it was because the fire in the house was blackened by smoke. Mark of. Chen Qi’s head is full of black lines, and it really is not a scientific act to make a fire in the house.

Aze was not in the house. The ceiling of the house was too low, and it felt depressing after staying for a long time. The door curtain was still half-opened last night. The sunlight came in from that opening and brightened the house.

Open the door curtain and go out, what you see is a wilderness, you read it right, it is a wilderness, surrounded by semi-dry weeds, not much different from what I saw on the plain before, not far away there is a tree growing The tall trees with a radius of almost one meter are covered with leaves that look like bananas, or fruits. Chen Qi is not very good at distinguishing the leaves and fruits of figs.

After walking a few steps outside, Chen Qi realized that Aze’s house was quite long. It was too dark to see clearly last night. Now, when I went to the back, I found that there was another room, but why the door of the room in the back was opposite to the one in the front room. direction open? Wouldn’t it be more convenient to be close together? Going to another room now requires a long circle around the house.

Chen Qi opened the door and went in, and found that it was a utility room. The chopped firewood alone filled half of the room. The other spaces were cluttered with animal skins and pottery plates and pots. An animal skin wrapped in something, a little familiar, seems to be the one that A Ze carried into the room at the beginning of last night, Chen Qi crouched down curiously and opened it, and rolled out a few shriveled and do not know what kind of fruit. . Chen Qi smiled helplessly, and wrapped the animal skin again and put it back in place.

As soon as he returned to the front door, he saw A Ze running back from a distance with two pheasants, a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and saw Chen Qi habitually smiling, “Are you awake?”

“Well, you went out hunting so early.”

“Ake asked me to go hunting on the plains this morning, I promised you to pick gummy fruit today, and I’ll take you to the tribe later.” Azer paused, “If you want to live in the tribe, I can Help you find a better empty house.”

Chen Qi didn’t answer. He didn’t want to live in Aze’s house. If he wanted to live here, he had to build a new one, but he didn’t mind going to the tribe to see the situation before deciding.