Chapter 483 Cave Exploration
Rainy days are a common holiday for all animals, which also explains why many people feel particularly peaceful when listening to the sound of rain.
Our ancestors probably also rested on rainy days.
Rainy day = rest day, this may be common to humans and animals.
"What a pity! I still have to work hard for food on a rainy day. The iron bacteria behind me are so heavy that it feels like I'm carrying a large iron ingot." Bifang began to pant after walking for a while.
If it weren’t for the straw raincoat, my shoulders would have been rubbed by the rattan and blisters would have formed.
[What a pity, I still have to go to work on a rainy day]
[What a pity! It’s raining so I need to do my homework]
[What a pity, I still need to order takeout on rainy days]
[It's raining over there...? ]
[Yes, dog head protection]
"The ground wasn't completely dry to begin with, and now it's even wetter. We'll have to cover it with another layer of leaf bark when we get back."
Bifang lifted one foot of mud. Every step felt like stepping into a swamp. From time to time, strange insects crawled out from the ground.
The edible ones were caught, washed in clean water, and thrown into the backpack.
If it is inedible, throw it back into the mud and watch its tail dangling outside the soil.
It was just enough, bit by bit, for a meal.
Have a bug feast today!
“In the rainforest, if you are familiar with the plants and animals and can resist nausea, food is actually not difficult to find.”
Bifang felt like an old farmer planting rice in a paddy field, with mud under his feet and wheat seedlings in his hands, digging a hole with every step he took.
"The bison should still be on its way. I wonder if it has gone to its salt mine base. I have been waiting for it for three days. I feel uncomfortable if I don't eat salt for a week. If it doesn't replenish salt, I will call it the strongest bison!"
[White-lipped Bison: Thank you, Carl. This is the honor of my life]
【What is Carl? 】
[Our God wishes to call you the strongest! ]
[Bison: There’s a human over there who’s been following me for three days. Now I’m so scared.]
[Frightened, Da Niu read the Wildlife Protection Law overnight]
noon.
Bifang wanders around like a ghost, looking for anything edible. If it comes across a hole, it will go in and dig around. If it sees fruit, it will pick some.
"For small mammals, they are not strong enough to withstand the heavy rain, foxes, mice, rabbits and other small mammals usually have their own nests."
"Many burrowing animals, such as rabbits and mice, will hide in their burrows when it rains heavily. Their burrows are built in relatively high places and are not easily flooded."
"But there are always exceptions. Although squirrels build their nests in dry tree holes, they will use their fluffy tails as umbrellas and walk in the rain on rainy days. So we may not be able to really get anything. I hope our luck will be better."
The little squirrel was much braver than other animals in the heavy rain.
Some seemingly weak animals actually have unexpected adaptability to heavy rain.
Bifang, covered in green leaves, climbed up a big tree, stuck a branch in and poked around. After a while, a big furry squirrel suddenly jumped out. Just as it was about to escape, it was grabbed in mid-air by a big hand.
Fortunately, Bifang was kind and did not let the squirrel stay in fear for too long. With a click, the spine was broken, allowing the young squirrel to see the nut paradise early.
"Hehe, it seems we are lucky, we have lunch."
This squirrel is unexpectedly big. Bifang can’t even hold it completely in one hand. It is estimated to weigh nearly one kilogram and is very fat.
It's very rare.
"It's not even autumn yet, but you've already gained so much weight. It looks like you're living a good life." Bifang wiped the squirrel in front of him, stuffed it into his bag, and continued to dig. "You're so fat, I wonder if there are any nuts left for us. Nuts are good things, the essence of plants, rich in protein, oil, and vitamins."
After digging for a while, branches and dead leaves were thrown to the ground, as well as some broken fruit shells.
"I'm unlucky. It's not autumn yet, and the squirrels haven't stored any food." Bifang clapped his hands, climbed down the tree, took off his hat and shook off the rain.
"The rain seems to have stopped?"
Bifang was surprised to find that no raindrops were falling on his head. He looked up and saw that the frequency of water droplets dripping in the forest was slower in the morning.
After waiting for a while, the frequency of raindrops falling became lower.
"It really stopped." Bifang was a little surprised.
The rain lasted for more than two days and finally stopped.
"Hurry up, we have to get on the road." He quickly picked up the bark frame on the ground and continued to track the white-lipped bison.
"Although it just rained, we didn't remember to chase them until several days later, just like the first time. The traces left on the ground are still very obvious. Wait, this is..."
Bifang suddenly braked the car and looked in surprise at the hill in front of him and the huge dark cave under the hill.
"A cave?"
He suddenly lowered his head and looked at the cow hoof prints going in and out on the ground. In front of the dark cave, the road was almost smooth. Apart from the stubborn weeds, there were obviously fewer bushes, which meant that animals often passed by on this road, and those animals were not small in size, which caused such a phenomenon.
Looking at the cow hoof prints again, it is obvious that the white-lipped buffalo went in and came out again!
Why did a bison suddenly enter a cave?
Animals are not as curious as humans, especially about environments in the dark.
Bifang's heart began to beat violently, and he suddenly realized that what he had been looking for might be right in front of him!
Many sharp-minded viewers also noticed this. After three days of searching, there is finally a result?
[Could it be that the salt mine is ahead? ]
[It's such a big hole, no wonder even a white-lipped buffalo can get in. ]
[But, but…]
Some of the audience didn't know what to say...
Bifang was even more confused, with his emotions fluctuating in a rare way.
The total distance from the cave to his single slope shelter is... less than 300 meters...
Three hundred meters!
Not even half a kilometer!
"I slept all night yesterday and spent the whole morning looking for food today, but I didn't even think of walking a little further to have a look!" Bifang held his head and felt for the first time what it meant to be a trick of fate.
If he had chased for a distance wearing a raincoat the day before yesterday, he might have taken the salt and returned to the shelter long ago. How could he have waited until now, waited until now!!!
Bifang felt a little dizzy and wanted to vomit.
"Anyway, we should have found the salt mine now, which is a good thing." Bifang patted his forehead, feeling a little hot.
This is a good thing, a good thing.
He kept repeating to himself that this was a good thing, and after a while, Bi finally calmed down.
"In ancient times, salt was controlled at a military level both at home and abroad. Many civilians who could not afford salt would even boil salt from the walls of pig pens or even the soil in toilets."
"They would break up the soil and soak it, then filter out the brine after a few days and boil it in a clay pot. When the water is boiled dry, the remaining crystals are saltpeter."
"This salt tastes very bitter and can cause poisoning if consumed in excess. The only thing we can do is to save lives and prevent people from dying from lack of salt."
"Some people even mix soils of different flavors together and find that the salt produced in this way is of better quality..."
Bifang has not even mentioned the more disgusting "urine salt" and "feces salt", which are the true portrayal of the lower class in ancient times.
[Ah, is this true? ]
[Is salt so difficult to deal with? 】
How much does a bag of salt cost in the supermarket?
Many people have never bought this kind of thing, but those who are familiar with it know that it costs about one dollar.
One yuan can buy a bag of salt, and if you save money, it can last you nearly two months.
But outside of industrial society, salt is life.
Once you understand this, you will realize that it is very difficult to get salt when surviving in the wild inland.
"In fact, I have thought of other ways to find salt before. Mineral salt is not only found by following animals. It can also be found in many rock walls with seepage or on the shore where the water flow is not turbulent."
"Even some trees can actually find salt, such as the cedar palm. When its roots are boiled and dried, black crystals will precipitate. That is also salt, but I didn't find what you can see."
Thinking of this, Bifang felt unlucky and searched the lower reaches of the two rivers, but did not find any mineral salts.
After that, it rained, and the possibility of finding it became even smaller. Even if there was any precipitation, it would basically be washed away by the rain.
As for the summer palm, there is no trace of it!
"I've done many live broadcasts before, some of which were only a week long. As long as you keep eating, even though the sodium content is extremely low, there is still no problem without salt. At best, it's psychological discomfort, which is a little short of physical discomfort."
"Even if there have been live broadcasts for as long as 20 days or a month, that was either because they were only at the seaside and had no shortage of sodium, or because they were able to hunt large animals frequently and replenish sufficient salt through their blood."
The audience nodded.
There was no shortage of salt when we were surviving at sea. Geese often fly over the sea during migration, and there were also large animals to catch, so there was no shortage of all kinds of blood.
This time it was a bit miserable.
Twenty days without salt is not easy to survive. The simplest question is, why can the human brain control the body?
When a person wants to move his fingers, the brain first sends a command, which is then transmitted by the nerves. The transmitted nerve signals cause the finger muscles to contract and stretch, thus enabling the person's fingers to move.
The conduction of nerve signals is determined by the potential difference between sodium ions and potassium ions entering and leaving nerve cells.
Without salt and sodium ions, your fingers simply wouldn't receive the signal to move, even if your brain wanted them to.
People will experience symptoms such as listlessness and fatigue. In more serious cases, their limbs will become swollen, their bodies will be weak, their brains will be depressed all day, and they will soon die.
But the audience didn't care about that at this time.
[Hurry up and get in, hurry up, get back to the camp and start smelting iron ! ]
"Don't worry, let's light a fire and make a torch before going in. The fact that the white-lipped buffalo can go in means there is basically no toxic gas inside, and it is suitable for living or survival. There is a high probability that there are bats in there."
Bifang took out the fire and the tinder that he had prepared in advance.
He kept these things close to his body in a funnel bag to prevent them from getting wet in the rain.
In the rainy season in the rainforest, you have to look for opportunities to get even dry tinder.
Bifang said as he made a fire: "Bats are probably the mammals that hate rain the most. Bats may look bald on the surface, but they actually have fur."
"If a bat's fur gets wet, their body temperature drops rapidly and the water affects their ability to fly. Even adult bats need to stay dry at all times. So during heavy rains, bats hide in caves and under trees."
"Now that the rain has just stopped, I feel like there might be a lot of bats hiding inside."
[Why must it be bats? Could there be birds among them? 】
[Can bats be eaten? ]
【i am batman！ 】
[The mystery of the hero! ]
【A Master Wayne came out from inside! 】
"It's unlikely that the bird is in the cave." Bifang had successfully lit a torch and hollowed out a bamboo tube and put sand inside.
"Although birds have feathers, they are not actually afraid of rain. Most birds have oil glands. Birds spend a lot of time every day preening their feathers, which means applying oil to their feathers, so their feathers are basically waterproof."
This is also the reason why ducks can play freely in the water without getting wet.
"Some birds will even take advantage of the rain to take a bath and clean their feathers. Only young birds will be in trouble because they have not yet grown waterproof feathers."
"Oh, and owl feathers aren't waterproof either, so they don't usually hunt in the rain."
Bifang filled the bamboo tube with materials, and the process was exactly the same as preparing the gas mask in the wilderness city.
It's just that the plastic bottles are replaced with bamboo tubes, and the inside is covered with charcoal ash, limestone and some sawdust.
He drilled two holes with a stone knife, passed a hemp rope through it and put it on his face. After everything was ready, Bifang still did not go into the cave.
The audience who were just about to watch Bifang explore the cave were almost getting anxious. Why don’t you go in? You’re taking so long. It’s already been half an hour!
Bifang chuckled. Who would be so careless about his own life? He simply grabbed some wet dead branches nearby.
"We can smoke them with salt first and see if we can get them out."
[This is too much]
[Are you also a Gou Daoist? ]
[Oh my god, I've been grinding at the entrance of the cave for half an hour, and my skin is all worn out]
[What a fast car]
"Different woods have different burning properties. If you want to create a lot of smoke, wet dead branches are the best material."
Put the torch close to a bunch of dead branches, and after lighting it, a lot of gray smoke rose up. Bifang quickly entered the cave, and when it was released for a hundred years, he quickly ran out.
Before they could run out of the cave, a large number of shrill screams echoed in the cave.
A swarm of black bats suddenly rushed towards Bifang!
