Wang Qi was not sure whether his neighbors were watching him tossing the oak tree, but he just felt a vague sense of being observed while doing it.
Since the door was not opened, the neighbor was probably not mentally prepared and he did not try to force the meeting.
After getting up from sleep, washing and eating, it's time for a new day of work.
After cooling down for a day, the water in the water storage room formed a thin layer of ice. If the temperature did not recover, the insulation ability of the concrete alone would not last long before it would completely freeze. At that time, water would have to rely on flames.
First, go upstairs to collect snow and fill up the bottles and cans in the water storage room.
Then pile the surface snow on the rooftop in the direction facing away from the sun next to the rooftop stairwell. As long as the snow pile is big enough, it can last for many days even if the temperature rises to more than ten degrees.
Be careful not to pack it too tightly, as the air in the snow can help further slow down the melting rate above freezing point.
After that, I went to the fourth floor and waited for my neighbor to show up, while thinking about the plan for the next work.
His goal in the previous month was to kill reptiles to obtain fresh food, but next he may have to face the problem of overwintering.
There's another thing in there.
Reptiles will become inactive below freezing point, so it can be concluded that winter will be a high-incidence period for survivors to go out.
Transactions and plunder, which did not originally exist in the interaction between humans and monsters, may become more frequent.
This kind of thing is difficult to plan, so you can only improvise by bringing appropriate equipment and trading items. Right now, we still need to run the base well and make the safe passage through the winter the top priority.
First, he was unable to determine the snowfall and temperature environment in winter.
If the temperature doesn't rise again and the snow remains, this time the snowfall will be enough to cope with the winter.
What if things didn't work out that way?
There was a moderate snowfall less than half a month ago, but it was all melted away.
In order to avoid dealing with the situation of no precipitation and no accumulation of water on the ground, a special snow storage room is needed in the base.
This workload will not be small. The snow on the ground can last for a while, and there is at least a few hundred liters of water reserve at home. The priority can be put back and the temperature changes will be observed before making a decision.
Then there is the issue of bugs. Today we will dissect the bugs to see if there are any extra edible parts.
It's best to confirm immediately, then go outside in the next few days to look for reptiles stranded everywhere due to the sudden drop in temperature, and stock up on hard food as much as possible.
There is also an oak tree. It is still not safe to put it directly on the first floor. Wait and see if it has been chewed by the little gang. If it is chewed, you have to find a way to raise it or hang it up.
Books and language, if winter is a period of high incidence of survivor activity, he needs to learn the language before spring to the extent that he can understand at least part of the survivors' words, and try to exchange some crop seeds with other survivors before spring for convenience in the coming year. Transform indoor farmland into the base.
After thinking about it for a while, the plug-in arrived.
The neighbor didn't come again.
Add points, [overall enhancement → muscle fiber strength 4+2]
Strengthening muscle fibers will consume more energy, but labor and hunting tasks are relatively heavy these days, so wait two days to reduce energy consumption.
After this addition, seven of the total twelve items in [Overall Enhancement] have been added.
The five that have not been added are [muscle fiber response speed 6, external mental interference resistance 5, anaerobic metabolism toxin production reduction rate 2, mysterious resistance? , Aerodynamic shape optimization? 】
The last two question marks may be zero, or the corresponding resources may not have been detected.
By the way, do people need to consider the aerodynamic shape? Is it going to go supersonic? Will it become an alien after optimization?
Anyway, I haven't seen anyone using magic yet. I'll wait until I have the abilities needed to survive the winter.
Leave the supply room and start dealing with the bugs.
He placed the insect next to the broken window, and it was almost frozen solid.
It seems to make it harder to handle, and on the bright side, freezing also causes the tissues with different textures to separate...meaning the shell is easier to peel off.
The structure of the insect's breastplate is a bit like the cephalothorax of a shrimp. Use a crowbar to pry it open from a position close to the base of the foot.
The carapace is slightly strong, and it took more than ten minutes of work before the breastplate was removed.
Then cut along the underside of the abdomen and remove the soft carapace on the abdomen.
Once the connective tissue under the outer nail is cut open, it is easy to distinguish what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten.
The body cavity fluid has been frozen into ice and separated from the muscles. What is wrapped in the body cavity fluid is the digestive tract. If these two parts are removed, the remaining content is theoretically similar to the contents of a crab.
The abdominal breathing control muscles are not very large, and some glands are not damaged because the head was removed, so I don’t know if it can be eaten.
The remaining parts of the thorax and feet were stored as food, and Wang Qi found a plate and arranged the glands in categories.
The remaining insect did the same.
The remaining remains were the breastplate, and the rest was dumped into the elevator shaft.
Next, I moved all the broken pieces to the sixth floor for cooking experiments.
I chose the sixth floor because this time, in order to distinguish whether it is edible or not, several heating points need to be turned on at the same time. The utility room on the eighth floor is too small. The original safe room on the sixth floor has a high degree of light blocking, which is more suitable.
We brought in fuel wood and kindling, made a strip fire, and heated each part in categories.
The remaining heat should not be wasted. After starting to bake, Wang Qi went to bring two buckets of frozen water to heat, and later used hot water to bathe.
The glands are not roasted directly over the fire, but rather slowly. First, look at the amount of meat on the other legs and the remaining parts of the thorax and feet.
After being roasted by fire, the exoskeleton transforms into calcareous material, making it easier to process.
Cut the walking foot open, and inside there are finger-thick strips of meat, divided into front and rear ends, one thick as a thumb and one as thick as an index finger.
The total amount of meat in one leg is less than 150 grams according to visual judgment, and the six legs together do not exceed one kilogram. The six walking legs including the exoskeleton weigh a little more than two kilograms. The recycling value in daily hunting is low, and in winter Don’t worry too much about bugs being attracted to sound. You can consider this.
Then there is the bayonet foot. The shape of the meat inside is close to that of the crab claws. The meat in the two legs together weighs 500 grams. However, the weight of the bones of the bayonet foot is greater, and the meat of the thigh of the spring foot accounts for the most.
There is basically no meat in the remaining parts of the thorax and feet, and together with the connective tissue, the total is less than 500 grams.
Wang Qi ate about a pound of meat to make up for the recent losses, and the rest was strung together and hung up for smoking.
Next comes the main event, the glands.
A small bucket was specially prepared, and a wooden board was placed on top of the bucket to serve as a chopping board.
Put the roasted glands away from the fire and pinch them one by one with your hands when they cool down a little.
If it is too soft, it means there is still liquid in the gland. When you prick it with scissors on a chopping board, liquid of various colors will ooze out. Throw it away.
The remaining soft and hard parts are slightly normal. Use a hunting knife to cut off a little bit and put it on your tongue.
Do not chew, lick or swallow. Leave it on your tongue for a few dozen seconds and then spit it out. Wait for a few minutes.
Throw it away if it makes your tongue feel numb or astringent.
In the end, there is only one type left, which seems to function like a liver.
Wang Qi was not in a hurry to eat. If he ate something bad, he would have to vomit out the meat he had just eaten and save it for the late (breakfast) meal before going to bed.
The fire was extinguished and the charcoal blocks were recycled. The lightly smoked half-cooked meat was sent to the drying room on the eighth floor. Two pieces of worm liver were placed in the kitchen on the eighth floor. The remaining discarded glands were also thrown into the elevator shaft to feed Xiaoqiang.
Assuming that the worm liver is edible, including ten legs and two pieces of fat, the gross weight of a worm as a trophy is about ten kilograms. Calculating the net weight of pure food, it is only 1,500 grams of meat and a piece of worm liver barely weighing a pound more than the previous method of taking four kilograms.
The effective weight-bearing ratio is reduced. It feels better to fix the sled and get the whole insect back. Most of them can be fed to Xiaoqiang to increase the food reserve.
Go to the first floor first and observe the oak wood.
Very good, Xiaoqiang didn't bite it. It seems that this thing is not to Xiaoqiang's appetite. It may also be that the hall on the first floor is not humid enough and Xiaoqiang is unhappy.
To be on the safe side, Wang Qi still found debris to raise the bottom. Even if smaller bugs gathered later and were not discovered, at least the best part of the entire tree could be preserved.
After finishing it, I searched for suitable parts on the first to third floors, preparing to rebuild a more serious sled.
