Chapter 023: Take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.
Tanning leather in the wild?
Many viewers’ first thought when they heard it was disbelief, but Bifang seemed confident.
"In fact, the so-called tanning is essentially turning raw hides into leather, creating cross-links between the collagen polypeptide chains in the hides, increasing the stability of the collagen structure and improving the hide's ability to resist various environments. The key to this process lies in the tanning agent!"
[Yes, isn't tanning agent a chemical? How do we do this? ]
[That’s right, even a good cook cannot cook without rice! ]
"Who says tanning agents must be chemicals with complicated processes?" Bifang shook his head and disagreed with the netizens' opinions.
"On the contrary, the brain actually acts as a tanning agent! The brain prevents the fibers from regrouping to form a raw hide. If the hide remains stretched and separated after drying, it is no longer raw hide."
"Does anyone remember? The rabbit I roasted yesterday didn't have a brain."
[Ah, how can I remember this...]
[I thought Fang Shen simply didn’t like eating rabbit brains, and I was curious about such a delicious food…]
[666, I learned something again. I used to think that if I learned math, physics and chemistry well, I would be able to travel the world without fear. But after watching Fang Shen today, I realized that I was careless! ]
[I was so scared that I quickly finished my chemistry homework.]
"In fact, it's not just the brain marrow, egg yolks can also be used. But no matter what you use, just make sure that the entire hide fully absorbs the mixture."
While explaining, Bifang restored the surrounding environment to avoid forest fires and leaving no traces.
Then he took his equipment and walked towards the place where he had hung the meat yesterday, where he placed the brain.
But after walking just a few dozen meters, the audience noticed that Bifang's body suddenly stiffened, and then he drew out the short spear behind him as if by reflex!
The audience was immediately shocked by Bifang's reaction and didn't know what was going on.
At this time, the drone also caught up from behind and took pictures of the scene in front of Bifang.
Only then did someone notice that there was a huge footprint just a few meters away!
There are wild beasts, and they are quite big!
[What the hell, what kind of footprints are those? They're so big? ]
[Is it a bear? ]
【so big!】
The netizens who reacted finally understood why Bifang had that reaction just now.
Anyone would be frightened if they woke up early in the morning and found a ferocious beast passing by not far from where they were sleeping .
"Yes, it's a black bear!"
Bifang looked solemn. He never expected that such a terrifying thing would pass by him while he was sleeping soundly.
He looked around and made sure it was safe, then he approached cautiously and pointed at the footprints and spoke.
"From the shape, we can easily tell that this is a bear's footprint, because black bears have five toes on both their front and rear limbs, with sharp claws at the end of the toes that cannot be retracted, and the plantar pads of both the front and rear feet are wide and thick, with very obvious features. This footprint is very fresh, even just recently stepped on, so I was so nervous just now."
Bifang carefully looked at the size of the footprint, stretched out his hand to compare it, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "This thing is really big, the footprint alone is more than 20 centimeters long. I estimate that it is an adult black male bear, weighing at least more than 200 kilograms, almost as much as three of me!"
After listening to Bifang's description, all the netizens were shocked.
A 200-kilogram black bear, how big is that?
I’m afraid that one slap can kill someone, right?
Many viewers shuddered at the thought of this.
Who could have imagined that just when Bifang was sleeping soundly, a giant black bear passed by!
The distance between the two sides was even less than a hundred meters!
Realizing the danger, Bifang broke out in a cold sweat.
It's like you are sleeping soundly in the middle of the night, and there is a murderer standing close to your bed, staring at you with a knife!
Bifang, who had nearly suffered a heart attack early in the morning, tried hard to calm himself down. There was no use panicking now. The first thing to do was to judge the situation, determine which direction the black bear went, judge its motives, and then try to avoid it.
The footprints left by the black bear were very fresh, which meant that it had just left not long ago. I definitely couldn't follow its footprints, as that would be like walking into trouble.
Find a way to escape!
[Run away now! ]
[That's right, before the bear notices.]
[I heard that if you encounter a bear, just pretend to be dead? 】
[Oh my god, it’s our turn]
"Everyone, don't panic. The bear must have spotted me by now, so we must not flee blindly. And playing dead is useless..."
Bifang was speechless as he watched the crowd of viewers dancing wildly in the live broadcast room.
"First of all, the black bear must have discovered me because its sense of smell is very developed, even 7 times that of an excellent hunting dog. It can smell strange smells within a range of 1 kilometer. The shortest distance between us and it was less than 100 meters. It is impossible for us not to be discovered."
"I guess there are two reasons why it didn't attack us at that time. Either it was full, or something else attracted it more than my 100-pound body!"
Bifang raised two fingers and began to analyze further.
"It's unlikely that it's full, because black bears like to sleep during the day and come out to look for food at night. If it's full, it shouldn't come out so early in the morning. The only possibility is that there's something good nearby that's attracting it!"
It's last night's smoked rabbit and offal!
When Bifang analyzed to this point, many netizens had already typed the answer on the public screen.
[It’s a meat bun! ]
[The internal organs will rot, so black bears won’t eat them, right? It must be smoked rabbit meat! ]
[Damn, even bears are attracted to rabbit meat. I am even more greedy...]
But Bifang shook his head and denied the netizens' speculation.
"A friend of mine in Alaska said something to me: 'If you encounter a black bear, fight back. If you encounter a brown bear, lie down. If you encounter a white polar bear, wish you good night.'"
"If you encounter a brown bear, playing dead may work, but it is absolutely impossible for a black bear, because black bears are omnivorous and will not refuse to eat carrion. Even if your death is realistic, since it is obviously not rotten, the black bear will only be happy to open your body cavity to check whether your internal organs are edible!"
"And I hung the meat buns so high last night, it's highly unlikely that it could reach them. So we can be almost certain that it went to the place where we buried the entrails last night!"
[Fuck, black bears are eating carrion! The marketing account misled me! ]
[Oh my god, what should I do now? ]
When many netizens heard this, they immediately became anxious. This is not allowed, that is not allowed. Are they just waiting to die?
Of course not. Sitting and waiting for death is definitely not Bifang’s style!
No matter how fresh and delicious a few pieces of internal organs are, they cannot fill the black bear's stomach. Once it finishes eating and comes to its senses, it will definitely come back to find him!
Besides, how could Bifang, who had caught the rabbit with great difficulty yesterday, just let that beast take advantage of it?
Bifang is unwilling to accept!
He wants the bacon back!
Last night, Bifang was careful when burying the internal organs and hanging the rabbit meat. The two routes did not overlap, but were in a Y shape.
You should know that the black bear is also called the black blind bear. This is not because it has poor eyesight, but because most black bears live in mountainous areas where there are many trees. If you use trees as cover, as long as the black bear's sense of smell cannot lock on you, it will be difficult for the black bear to find you.
As long as you can find shelter downwind and then determine where to hide based on the wind direction, this plan is completely feasible!
Bifang had made a plan in a flash.
He wants to take a gamble!
Let’s bet on who’s more powerful, him or Black Bear!
