Chapter 253: March Without Meat
Chen Jue was also amused by Mu Yin's words. He took a look at his masterpiece and it seemed that it was almost as good as a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment as the other party said.
After packing up the inflatable tent, Chen Jue walked out of the cave carrying two boxes of supplies and asked him, "Xiao Mu, where are you from? Why are you so talkative?"
"Hey, Master! I'm from Jinshi." Xiao Mu scratched his head and said embarrassedly.
"Haha! So you are from Jinshi, no wonder you are so eloquent! When I was drifting in Beijing, I often went to Tianqiao to listen to Deyun's crosstalk. It seems that the owner of Deyun is also from your Jinshi." Chen Jue smiled slightly.
"That's right. We in Jinshi are famous for a few things. One is Goubuli steamed buns, and the other is crosstalk. Everyone can sing a few lines. I also learned some when I was a child..." Xiao Mu explained.
One of them drove the expedition vehicle and the other carried a supply box, and they started heading towards the camp at the foot of the mountain.
Mu Yin saw that Chen Jue was carrying the heavy load all the way without getting red in the face or out of breath, and even his pace was not slow, and he kept pace with the expedition vehicle he was driving. He was amazed at Chen Jue's physical fitness.
When they returned to the camp, Luo Qiong and his friends had already started to build a simple earthen stove, and they had prepared all the pots, pans, and utensils.
When this team of eight people arrived at this second home, food was the first big problem they needed to solve.
Fortunately, most of this batch of supplies are daily necessities. In addition to a large box of nutritional supplements, there is also a box of plastic-sealed compressed biscuits. In addition, there are also a lot of condiments. These are specially added by the base considering everyone's diet and daily life.
After all, except for Yun Xiaomei, the other eight people are just ordinary people with slightly stronger physical fitness, and ordinary people cannot do without the intake of condiments, such as salt.
An average person needs to consume at least 6 grams of salt every day to meet the body's sodium needs. Once the intake of salt is too little, the body will have low sodium content, loss of appetite, weakness in the limbs and dizziness. In the long run, it will also cause neurasthenia, abnormal muscle contraction, osteoporosis, etc.
Without salt to eat, how can you have the energy to go out and explore and take root in this place?
Because Chen Jue had practiced fasting before, he could regulate the balance of hormones and trace elements in his body. Even if he didn't take any seasonings, he could survive on this alien planet just by hunting and eating exotic animals. Therefore, in the two boxes that Chen Jue brought, apart from the nutrients, there were no rich seasonings at all, which was also limited by the transportation and delivery capabilities at the time.
"Confucius didn't taste meat for three months, and I haven't tasted anything from Earth for almost two months."
"I've had a dull appetite for almost two months. Fortunately you brought a lot of food, so I'm in for a treat today!" Chen Jue said with an moved heart.
"There is a lack of everything here. Now these things alone are not enough."
"I can't prepare a delicious meal just by relying on these nutritional supplements and compressed biscuits." Luo Qiong said, showing a helpless look like a good cook cannot cook without rice.
Just then, everyone heard a bird singing overhead. It turned out that the little parrot had taken Yun Xiaomei out for a ride and was back.
The parrot's claws were holding two fresh silver carps, which looked like they had just been hunted outside the safe zone.
"Brother Chen Jue, the little parrot is so powerful!"
"It can spit out sound waves and catch fish. Just now, it took me to the river outside to play for a while. It opened its mouth into the river and shook out two big fish." The little parrot slowly descended from the sky, and Yun Xiaomei turned over and said to Chen Jue with a smile.
"This little guy is so smart now? He has even learned how to fry fish?" Chen Jue was slightly stunned when he heard this.
Two one-meter-long mullets were thrown to the ground by the little parrot. Seeing that everyone was looking at the two strange-looking big fish, Chen Jue introduced them: "These two are mullets, non-toxic, and the meat is very delicious! There is no earthy smell at all. I often grilled them before."
"Master Luo, aren't you short of ingredients? I'm here now."
Seeing Chen Jue's words, Luo Qiong also smiled and said, "With two such big fish, it seems that we can prepare a whole fish banquet later, which can be regarded as a celebration banquet for the successful apprenticeship with Master Chen Jue."
"It should be a welcoming banquet! Unfortunately, I can't cook, so I'll trouble you, Master Luo." Chen Jue smiled slightly. He felt that having a small group around was better than suffering alone here .
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With the freshly harvested ingredients, everyone started to get busy. Some were responsible for killing fish and cooking, some were responsible for driving to the lake to fetch water, and some were responsible for chopping firewood in the woods.
Yun Xiaomei took her little parrot and went to the woods to have some fun. The man and the bird communicated frequently in animal language.
The tiger girl became inseparable from the little parrot after just a short while. She was even closer to it than Chen Jue, the old father who had taken great pains to raise the little parrot. Seeing this, Chen Jue felt a pang in his heart and thought, "It was really a waste of time to raise it!"
Seeing that it was still early, Chen Jue thought to himself that he might as well chop some more wood to get some raw materials for the camp, which could be used for furniture making and cooking.
There happened to be many tall trees near the campsite, blocking the view, so it wouldn't be a problem to cut down a few of them.
Seeing the young man named Liu Jun in the team standing under a big tree, Chen Jue, who was measuring and drawing with a ruler, went over curiously.
Liu Jun is the only one in the team who knows civil engineering skills. He is in his early thirties, 1.8 meters tall, and has a mature face. The earthen stove he built just now was built by him. It is obvious that he is a master of life.
"Master Liu, where are the trees being measured?"
"Do you want me to help you cut one down so I can take it back and measure it?" Chen Jue asked.
"cut?"
"What are you going to use to chop?" Liu Jun was stunned when he heard that.
When he was on the platform at the top of the mountain, Liu Jun saw the towering trees nearby. As soon as he arrived near the camp, he focused his attention on these trees.
Because Liu Jun is not only a skilled civil engineer, but also a university graduate student with a background in seedling research. He could tell at a glance that these alien trees were unusual.
These alien giant trees are not only incredibly tall, but their trunk diameters are also extremely exaggerated.
You should know that the tallest tree species on earth, the royal eucalyptus, can grow up to 114 meters, but the royal eucalyptus tree looks like chopsticks, with a slender shape and a breast diameter of only about 2.5 meters.
But these alien trees in front of us are not only as tall as the royal eucalyptus trees, but their chest diameter is almost catching up with the thickest baobab trees on Earth. I just measured them with a tape measure and found that the chest diameter of any one of them can reach more than 10 meters.
After another rough calculation, Liu Jun could roughly estimate that each of these giant trees exceeded 1,000 cubic meters and weighed definitely more than a thousand tons.
To cut down a tree this thick and long, it would take the most professional large-scale industrial logging machine on Earth, fully fueled and at full power.
Chen Jue picked up an engineer shovel in one hand and said he wanted to cut one tree. Liu Jun felt like he had encountered a fairy tale.
"Of course I'll chop it with my hands!"
Chen Jue didn't explain much after hearing this. He just responded with a smile and swung his engineer shovel to chop at him.
With a loud bang and a burst of sparks, the giant tree in front of him began to shake violently, and Liu Jun, who was standing by, widened his eyes!
"What the hell? Are you going to chop it up right away?"
Although he had seen Chen Jue carrying a material box weighing several tons in one hand before and was almost numb from the shock, Liu Jun felt that his eyes were almost not enough when he watched Chen Jue chopping trees up close.
Chen Jue chopped the ten-meter-wide trunk into a depth of several dozen centimeters with one shovel, and wood chips flew everywhere, as if he had encountered a human-shaped logging machine.
Fortunately, the special alloy developed by the base is very strong, otherwise an ordinary engineering shovel would be bent and broken just by a swing!
"Hacking with a shovel will have this effect?"
“Is this tree made of mud?”
Liu Jun rubbed his eyes, and picked up some sawdust from the ground in disbelief. He broke it with his hands and found it was very hard and solid. He muttered, "This hardness is almost as hard as white quebracho!"
The white quebracho that Liu Jun mentioned is the hardest wood known on earth. This wood has a cruel nickname called Axe Terminator. It was originally used to make railway sleepers until it was replaced by reinforced concrete and then withdrew from the stage of history.
But such an alien tree species with a texture comparable to that of white quebracho was like cutting plasticine in Chen Jue's hands!
The rhythmic sound of chopping woods echoed in the forest. The special engineering shovel in Chen Jue's hand left an afterimage, and like the rotating blades of an electric fan, it kept chopping at the tree trunks.
Before Liu Jun could react, a huge crack appeared on the bottom of a giant tree that was nearly ten meters wide, leaving only about two meters of the trunk still connected.
"Master Liu, please stay away. I'm afraid it will fall down and hurt you!" Chen Jue turned around and reminded Liu Jun.
Seeing this, Liu Jun shuddered all over. The fall of this giant tree was no joke. He picked up the tools beside him and ran away over 150 meters away.
Before Liu Jun could stand firmly, he saw Chen Jue stick the engineering shovel in his hand into the ground, and his figure jumped up, like a monkey climbing a tree, jumping back and forth between two giant trees, and finally leaped to the top of another giant tree by using the force of stepping on the tree trunks.
"What is he going to do?" Liu Jun was a little confused. He craned his neck to stare at Chen Jue who had climbed to a high place, and muttered to himself.
Just as he was thinking, he saw Chen Jue suddenly turn around and jump out from another giant tree. He flew up, raised one leg, and kicked heavily on the slightly shaking giant tree that had been mostly cut down.
With a "crack", the only remaining connection under the main trunk of the giant tree made a breaking sound, and the whole giant tree began to tilt to the other side after being kicked by Chen Jue.
With a loud bang, a giant tree weighing thousands of tons fell down, directly raising a large cloud of dust on the ground. Countless dust and fallen leaves flew everywhere. Liu Jun, who was standing at the other end watching, felt his scalp tingling and his brain was almost boiling!
It was like seeing the golden cudgel in Sun Wukong's hand fall down with his own eyes, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow... Shit!!!"
