Chapter 468 Fishing Ground
Bifang mixed some dew with the red mud and made it into thin mud. He then filled in the spots where some of the mud had fallen off, making it even again. His decision to apply the red mud was indeed correct.
He had a good sleep last night, nothing happened and the mosquitoes didn't bother him.
"In humid areas, mosquitoes are already very venomous. Applying floral water is useless, let alone other herbs. Therefore, physical defense is the best choice."
"I slept well last night, and I wasn't bitten by mosquitoes this morning. The only red packets were left before I applied the mud yesterday."
[I’m so jealous. There are more mosquitoes these days.]
[Yesterday a mosquito flew into my mosquito net in the middle of the night. The school didn’t have the air conditioner on, so it was hot and annoying, and the mosquito was buzzing around.]
[Oh my god, there is a scene. If you don’t cover yourself with a quilt, it will bite you everywhere. If you cover yourself with a quilt, it will bite you on the face. You can’t hit yourself when you slap yourself.]
As soon as they heard about being bitten by mosquitoes, a large number of viewers began to complain.
Mosquitoes should have been exterminated long ago!
In the woods, Bifang covered the fire with wet soil, then shuttled through the woods with a straight and sharp wooden spear, heading towards the stream he had discovered yesterday.
The audience guessed correctly that Bifang’s task today was to collect as much food as possible and then further improve the shelter.
"Shelter, sanctuary, as the name suggests, to me, it's not just a place to sleep, it's a place that provides protection."
"Although the iron smelting has not yet been completed, I may not live here for twenty days, but I will stay here for at least five days, so I plan to further improve it, at least build a wall."
As he was speaking, Bifang had quickly arrived at the stream he had been to yesterday.
Last night, while he and Leonardo were setting up camp, they also explored the nearby terrain to determine whether there were any hunting grounds for large animals and which routes were safe enough to serve as roads.
Only then could Bifang reach the river so quickly today.
"If you are lost in a rainforest or other wilderness, the best way to get food is to fish. Any other method is not safe."
Dappled sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves onto the rocky stream, and the water splashing off the raised rocks sparkled in the reflection.
"Without a certain amount of knowledge, you can't tell whether many wild fruits and plants are poisonous. Of course, we can test for poison."
【Testing for poison? How? 】
【Feed to animals? 】
[There are animals testing poison, why would I want to eat unclear fruit? ]
Some viewers expressed disdain.
"Of course not. People can't even afford to eat and yet they take risks to try unknown things. How could there be animals to test poison for you?" Bifang explained to the audience as he walked by the stream.
"Poison testing is a complex and rigorous process. I will show it to you later when I have the chance. Now I have to catch fish first. However, this place is not suitable for fish to survive."
Bifang glanced at the flowing stream and walked downstream: "The stream here is not very deep, only about half a meter. Although it is clear and can be drunk directly, it is not friendly to fish. Generally speaking, it is difficult for big fish to exist in water sources that are too clean."
“When water is too clear, there will be no fish; when a man is too careful, there will be no followers. Although the emphasis of this passage is on the second half, it actually does make sense.”
[Fang Shen is bullying foreigners for not understanding Chinese, dog head.jpg]
Suddenly an ancient saying popped up. Although the system translation was very powerful and enabled barrier-free communication, it still left many foreign audiences puzzled, but they still roughly understood the meaning.
" So now I have to go downstream and try to find a place where the water is slower and more turbid, but I don't want to stretch it too long, within four or five kilometers. Any longer and the physical cost will be a bit high."
"The rivers in the Xishuangbanna rainforest have completely different modes in the dry and rainy seasons. What we see now is a small stream, but in July and August, the middle of the rainy season, it may be a river five or six meters wide. It is easy to find pools of water downstream of such a river."
After walking for about half an hour, Bifang's guess turned out to be correct. The riverbed, which was originally flowing rapidly, suddenly widened, and the stream, which was originally flowing rapidly, suddenly became slow.
The originally clear water became turbid and the river bottom could not be seen.
Bifang inserted the spear in his hand, which was nearly a person's height, into the water, which immediately covered two-thirds of the water. The original half-meter stream doubled in width here, and the water depth exceeded one meter.
This is just the edge, we don’t know what’s deeper yet.
However, the river where the bottom of the water cannot be seen clearly gives the audience a sense of unknown horror.
[Are there any crocodiles in this water? ]
[Yeah, I remember there seemed to be crocodiles and giant anacondas in the rainforest. Very scary.]
[Damn, Lao Fang, stay away from the water. Don’t get dragged under by something. It’s scary.]
Bifang laughed: "You're overthinking. There may be crocodiles in other rainforests, but I've never heard of them in the Xishuangbanna rainforest. There may have been crocodiles hundreds or thousands of years ago, but there are definitely no crocodiles now, otherwise they would have been discovered long ago."
"I don't know much about history, but in the pre-Qin period, there were many crocodiles, elephants and even rhinos in the south. At that time, there were poisonous insects everywhere, which was not suitable for survival. There were also many diseases that people at that time did not understand."
[Fuck, rhino? We even had this thing?]
[Yes, there were rhinoceros horn cups in the pre-Qin period. Where do you think they came from? ]
[There is also armor made of rhinoceros, which seems to be worn only by generals]
It was the first time for many viewers to know that there had been such a magnificent scene in China.
Elephants and rhinos used to run around in the rainforest, but unfortunately they can no longer be seen today.
Hundreds of years ago, rhinos became completely extinct in this land, and even elephants are few and far between.
"It is also because the living environment is so harsh that the ancients called it miasma. In fact, miasma is not poisonous fog in the literal sense. When you get here, you will feel billowing poisonous smoke, just like the fog in the movie, but it is not that."
Bifang explained calmly.
The humid, hot, and poisonous natural conditions of the ancient south created a breeding ground for disease and plague, and also constituted the historical memory of the Central Plains dynasty after its advance into the Lingnan area was blocked.
After a long journey, the soldiers from the north arrived in the far south. They were unable to adapt to the climate and soil there. They were bitten by poisonous insects and contracted malaria, or suffered from dysentery due to unclean food . They were plagued by various illnesses, and most of them died.
They do not know the true cause of the disease, and can only attribute all these unfortunate experiences to a special and harmful "qi" based on the harsh environment different from their hometown.
It may be related to the blocked water and soil in the south, or it may be related to the geographical isolation between the north and the south... In short, various concepts are integrated together and named in one word, that is, "miasma".
Almost all unknown diseases in wild places can be attributed to "miasma", which is definitely not "gas" in the literal sense.
Even the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is believed to have miasma, but in fact it is just the difficulty of breathing caused by lack of oxygen...
When I was in school, I took it for granted that Bifang was a poisonous gas, similar to biogas. Later, when I learned more, I found that this was not the case.
"Like schistosomiasis, until the middle of the last century, China kept it a secret and simply called it the 'God of Plague'. Once infected, the patient would lose weight rapidly, with only skin and bones left. Even their stature would become shorter and shorter, and they would look like dwarfs. "
"At the same time, their stomachs kept getting bigger as if they were pregnant, and they even got so big that their belly buttons turned outward. At that time, if you just pricked a needle in the stomach, ascites would come out of the needle hole, which was very scary."
Bifang remembers it very clearly, because in the middle of the last century, there were nearly 10 million patients with this disease, including 600,000 patients in the late stage, and about 100 million people were threatened.
How many people were there in the country at that time?
Six hundred million.
This is equivalent to one in six people being threatened by this disease. The most frightening thing is that schistosomiasis does not require wounds to invade the human body, but can directly penetrate the skin...
It is possible to be infected if you come into contact with infected water, which is extremely terrifying.
Later, the teachers issued a strict order and shouted the slogan of "completely and thoroughly eradicating schistosomiasis". Now the disease is gradually disappearing.
[Hiss... Even after all this, Lao Fang, you still dare to drink raw water? ]
[Awesome, worthy of being called Master Fang! ]
[You will definitely go to the hospital for a checkup after every live broadcast, right? 】
[Speaking of which, every time Lao Fang does this, will there be any sequelae? 】
Sequelae?
Bifang looked at his system panel and laughed disdainfully in his heart.
The system can cure any sequelae.
"Regarding drinking raw water, I have actually mentioned before that many parasites are in crustaceans, such as schistosomiasis, which is caused by snails. However, it is difficult for these animals to survive in places with fast-flowing water. In addition, with layers of stone filtering, there is no need to worry too much."
Besides, Bifang himself knows very well that his stomach is not that of an ordinary person. It does not mean that he will be infected with parasites just by eating them. First of all, they have to pass the test of stomach acid. In this regard, Bifang has a great advantage.
Vultures are not afraid of eating carrion, so why should they be afraid of drinking some raw water?
And Bifang would go to the hospital for a checkup after every live broadcast...
Bifang looked around and selected a spot where the stream flowed into a river, where he planned to go fishing.
But this time it’s not fishing, and it’s not about fish.
"Fishing is an excellent way to get high-protein foods. Fish can be caught with a net, hook, harpoon, lasso, or even by hand."
"But these are not good solutions for me, because I have a lot of other work to do. Catching fish by hand is naturally more efficient and has a greater chance of catching fish, but it will prevent me from doing other things."
"So setting up traps in the stream is the technique I'm going to show you this time, so that while you're waiting for the fish to swim into the trap, you can do other work."
All Bifang has to do is build a fishing fence and let the fish swim in. As long as the terrain is arranged, he can set other traps or go back to continue transforming the camp.
He gripped the spear tightly, found a flat stone, and used other stones to knock and polish it, making a concave shape outside and outside. He tied it to the end of the spear with a vine, and then began to dig the soil.
Bifang would build a circular fence with its opening facing the upstream of the stream, and then build a funnel-shaped fence deeper into the opening.
If the stream is fast-flowing, this device can catch enough fish; if the water is slow-flowing, you can also use flexible branches to weave a cover curtain along the fence, pointing to the entrance of the trap.
When the fish swims into the fence, the curtain will be pushed open, and when the fish in the fence want to get out, they are blocked.
Fish of different sizes can be caught by adjusting the size of the fence gaps.
This is a place where you can enter but not leave.
It doesn't need to be too deep, thirty centimeters is enough, about one or two square meters.
The soil in the rainforest was moist and soft, with many holes. It didn't take Bifang long to dig. He finished almost everything in more than half an hour. Then he found a lot of branches and vines and began to weave a fence.
When everything was ready, Bifang dug a hole, and the stream water immediately rushed in, flooding the small pit. He put the fence in place and filled it with mud to secure it. The "fishing ground" was then completed.
However, this trap alone consumed Bifang's energy for more than an hour, and he also had a lot of physical strength. He was already starving, and he cried even louder.
[Isn't this too much effort? ]
[Yes, can you really catch fish? ]
"Of course you can, but how many you can catch depends on whether God will give you a chance. The trap I made this time is the same as the previous ones. It is permanent and will remain effective as long as it exists."
Bifang took out a handful of Houttuynia cordata from the small bag around his waist, crushed it and sprinkled it in.
"Houttuynia cordata can attract fish. It attracts fish in the form of bait. We can crush it and sprinkle it in."
"Okay, let's go somewhere else. We can't put all our eggs in one basket. To be honest, I'm starving now."
Bifang wandered around the area and found a few small animal trails. On the way back, he set up a few traps.
There are also some on the trees. After observation, Bifang thinks they belong to squirrels.
Unfortunately, there was no suitable bait, and Bifang didn't have much hope for the trap on the tree.
When he finished everything and returned to the camp, Bifang found that it was already noon.
"The traps I set just now are basically non-lethal, and are mainly used to trap people. Do you know why?"
After Bifang's reminder, the audience suddenly remembered that it seemed to be true. The stone slabs and wooden spikes were gone, and all they had were traps similar to noose.
Trapping but not harming.
【Why? 】
“Because there are so many animals to protect.”
Bifang spread his hands helplessly, "I'm not sure what kind of animals I saw just now. I can only be sure that they are small herbivores. What if they are country one or country two ? I'll be in trouble if I hurt them."
Good job!
The audience laughed.
【Do you ever get scared one day? 】
[The outlaws were finally caught]
[The net of heaven is vast and wide, nothing can escape it, turn yourself in, Lao Fang. ]
Back at the camp, Bifang started making tools for today.
Compared to walls, Bifang feels that more containers are the top priority.
Backpacks, bowls and spoons, baskets and even pottery.
These are the tools you need for long-term survival.
