Chapter 458 You're a Genius
Leonardo stripped the vine of its branches and leaves, wrapped the two ends around his hands, and stuck the center section into the groove of the saw board.
He took a deep breath and began to rub hard.
But right at the beginning, Leonardo found that this was far from as simple as he had imagined. For some reason, the friction was bumpy and there was no smooth feeling at all.
In this way, it is difficult to even accumulate any heat, let alone make a fire.
"Oh my God, this is completely different from what I thought." Leonardo increased the strength of his hands, but the situation not only did not improve, but became even worse.
Bifang reminded: "Don't pull it completely straight, and apply force in the vertical direction. Don't apply too much pressure. The pressure should gradually increase as the heat accumulates. Think of it as the blade of a saw. It is very strong and will not break."
Leonardo wiped the sweat from his forehead, adjusted his posture, and started pulling again. This time it was much better, but it still got stuck.
"Every pause means the dissipation of heat." Bifang shook his head. Making fire is not something that can be learned by watching or teaching once. It requires a lot of experience accumulation.
Experience is accumulated by individuals and cannot be learned by studying.
Unfortunately, Leonardo didn't seem to have much talent in wilderness survival skills. After rubbing for more than ten minutes, he only managed to avoid any lag, and was still far from accumulating heat to make a fire.
People in the first venue were talking about it.
“Is it really that difficult?”
"Nonsense, do you think it's that easy to make fire in the wild?"
"I want to try it, too."
Everyone at the scene was eager to try . After all, making fire by drilling wood and pumping were too troublesome, while making fire by fire saw looked very simple.
Moreover, the raw materials are easy to find. Isn’t bamboo hard to find?
There will be one on almost any hill, right?
"Bamboo pieces and rattan sticks, anyone want to buy them? 50 yuan each, and you can experience making fire with a fire saw!"
Just when everyone was thinking about going home to see if they could give it a try, an untimely shout was heard outside the door.
A staff member dragged a cart full of bamboo and shouted: "Let's experience the fire saw method of making fire on the spot. Fifty-one materials!"
Everyone: “…”
"Give me one!"
"I want one too!"
"Isn't this too fast? I bought it!"
Leonardo did not accumulate calories effectively until his arms became sore and swollen that he could no longer bear it. He had to stop and rest for a while: "No, this is too difficult."
"It's normal. It's like this the first time. You'll gain experience after a few successes." Bifang used a bamboo board to turn over the red mud on the stone slab. After more than ten minutes, the wet red mud had dried and cracked. It would probably not take long for it to turn into red powder.
But Leonardo did not give up. He shook his hands, relaxed his muscles, held the vine, and continued sawing!
Another ten minutes passed, and this time white smoke finally came out of the bamboo board!
Leonardo was instantly excited: "Hey, did you see it? Did you see it? There's smoke, the saw board is smoking!"
"Yes, I see." Bifang nodded encouragingly, "But the most difficult step is after smoke appears. What you want to get is charcoal fire, not smoke."
Another quarter of an hour passed, and the cigarette in Leonardo's hand was still pitifully small, as if it was silently telling him that if he tried harder, he would soon have charcoal.
But the reality is always cruel. It took Leonardo a whole hour to start a fire, but he still couldn't. When he thought that Bifang only took two or three minutes to start a fire, he couldn't help feeling frustrated.
Leonardo's forearms are now sore and swollen, and he's even trembling slightly.
Bifang on the side obtained the red mud in a dry powder state, moved the stone slab away, and while waiting for the dry powder to cool down, Bifang took out the old fan blades from the funnel, put new fan blades in, and then poured the red dry powder into it.
"We already have the red powder. We will find a clean water source later and mix it with it so we can apply it. In order to achieve a better effect, we can also add some herbs with strong smells to it. This can effectively cover up our body odor and avoid being targeted by wild animals."
Just at this moment, a bunch of complaints caught Bifang's attention.
[I failed too, woo woo woo]
[I sawed for more than ten minutes and didn't even see any smoke]
[I spent three hundred dollars... and I didn't even see a spark...]
[It is said that someone next door succeeded... The club's coach is using a fire saw to make fire]
[There is only a faint white smoke... I feel like a dog, sawing boards like a girl, hanging me up...]
[The manager of this club is a real genius. He can make money from a pile of bamboo.]
[Damn, I really want to try it, I regret not getting a ticket]
What's going on?
Bifang was stunned. He flipped through the comments and looked as if he had seen a ghost.
This is too good, is it possible to be like this?
He never expected that the club could come up with such a thing.
There is no doubt that this operation was naturally come up with by Yao Jun. The moment Bifang obtained the bamboo, he thought of using this method to increase the participation of tourists.
You're a fucking genius.
Bifang thought.
"The red mud is ready. How about it? Do you want to continue trying?" Bifang carried the funnel on his back and looked at Leonardo who was still working hard to saw.
Leonardo sighed and threw the cane and bamboo board on the ground: "I may not have this talent."
After restoring the fire pit on the ground to its original state, Bifang took two pieces of charcoal to make it easier to light a fire next time, and then waved: "Let's go, we have to continue looking for water."
This time on the road, Bifang looked more carefully. He tried to find some herbs that could repel mosquitoes and mix them into the red mud.
"There are many common mosquito repellents, such as mugwort, which is almost everywhere in China except in extremely arid and alpine areas." Bifang poked at a bush with a wooden stick. After a giant millipede woke up and escaped from the bush, he bent down, picked a plant, and sniffed it.
The aroma is very strong.
"In addition, there are honeysuckle and perilla leaves, which are very common mosquito repellent herbs. You don't need too much, ten grams is enough." Bifang introduced, putting the mugwort into the funnel bag around his waist.
Now he had three funnel bags on him, two on his waist and a large one on his back, all filled with red clay powder.
The overall image is becoming more and more integrated into the rainforest.
Just as time was approaching noon, the sound of gurgling water was heard in the woods.
Leonardo, who had almost finished a bottle of water, looked delighted. Did they find the water source?
Just as he was about to quickly step forward to check, Bifang suddenly pulled him back: "Wait!"
