(Thanks to the book friend "Infinite Vitality Sky Blue" for 2 recommendation votes, and "Nu Yaoer" and "North Wind Snow Wolf" for 3 recommendation votes.)
Day 51 of wilderness survival!
When I woke up early in the morning, I first looked at the homemade fish oil soap in the square wooden box that had solidified. I took a dagger and cut it into six pieces. I smelled it and it smelled of grass, fruit and wood.
After weighing it, I found that it was a small pound, which was enough for Xie Yu to use for cleaning and hygiene in winter.
Seeing that the "toothpaste" made from the remaining orange peels had not yet taken shape, Xie Yu had to clean his mouth with charcoal and salt, and then went outside to solve the physiological problems in the wooden sanitary ware made yesterday.
Sure enough, it’s not freezing….
Xie Yu expressed that he was very satisfied. Of course, he still wanted to make another "wooden chair" and put it in the bathroom. After all, sitting still gave him a sense of civilized society, although Xie Yu usually didn't like to sit down to solve personal hygiene problems.
But in this wilderness condition, it seems more comfortable to sit down and do it!
Okay, let’s put the personal hygiene issue to rest first. Taking advantage of this time, Xie Yu should hurry up and catch some more fish!
This day, most of the time passed by staying with Xie Yu fishing. Maybe it was the disturbance from the small airship yesterday, but the harvest was okay!
But one day later, on the 52nd day of survival in the wilderness, the fish with only seven seconds of memory were not stupid. After netting for most of the day, Xie Yu only caught four fish weighing four kilograms. They were so cold that day that Xie Yu didn’t know. Is it a loss or a transfer?
On the 53rd day of wilderness survival, the second snow arrived in the Saskatchewan Caribou Lake area of the Arctic Circle.
As expected, each scene was cooler than the next. Under the detection of the camera's own temperature measurement equipment, the temperature outside dropped to minus ten degrees.
When Xie Yu braved the snow and went to the river again, the ice layer on the riverside mixed with snowflakes had begun to break out into the river water. This layer of ice and snow extended at least three meters, because it had just been extended, even though the temperature was very low. , but the Master certainly cannot.
I fell into the water this day. For the safety of my life, I could go home directly.
As for casting the fishing net again, it can be cast out, but it is difficult to collect it. It seems that the technology of fishing and throwing the net can no longer be implemented. Is it fishing?
Forget it, braving the cold and rain just to catch fish for a few days? With a lot of reserves, Xie Yu felt that this was not very cost-effective.
Forget it, let’s do something else first.
For example, strengthen the doors and windows. The temperature dropped even more last night, it snowed and there was a strong wind. Xie Yu's plastic bag window was hung so hard that he was always worried about getting a hole in it. Then there would be a strong wind last night.
Returning to the stone house, Xie Yu first cut out some small wooden strips to make crosses and put them on the inside and outside of the plastic windows. This was equivalent to wearing snowshoes on the snow. It increased the contact area and allowed the plastic windows to last longer. .
Then, for the wooden door, Xie Yu chose to add a thin layer on both the inside and the outside. This way, like double-layer insulating glass, the air is used as the insulation layer, which can better retain heat.
Of course, because it is not purely handmade, the sealing performance is definitely not good, but it is better than nothing, and it also saves the wind from being exposed through the wooden door.
After the wooden door was strengthened and thickened, Xie Yu thought of something and began to pick up a long wooden hammer and ax to crack the long board.
This time he was going to build something bigger than the bathroom. Yes, Xie Yu finally remembered to take a bath. It wasn't that he didn't want to take a bath before, but it was to collect better survival resources. Now that the door is closed due to heavy snow and there is no shortage of food, this It is possible to build a wooden sauna room.
However, when Xie Yu was collecting wood again, he found that there was a rabbit running around in this snowy day, so he decisively picked up the slingshot. Unfortunately, under the influence of snowflakes and wind, plus the power and feel of the slingshot...
It was a pity to watch the rabbit quickly disappear before Xie Yu's eyes.
After hesitating for a moment, Xie Yu thought that there would be days when the door would be closed due to heavy snow anyway, or else he would really make a bow and arrow.
Xie Yu had the idea of making a bow several times before, but this was just the environment.
Xie Yu, who had made up his mind, naturally had to consider the material issue and could only choose wooden ones. In this Arctic Circle, the final workmanship material was naturally iron birch, or some yew wood would be fine.
It's a pity that there is none, Xie Yu can only retreat and try again
The last choice was white birch, but perhaps it was the sudden appearance of this hare that brought Xie Yu luck. In the wild pine forest, Xie Yu actually found a short cedar that was obscured by other wild pines.
Although this cedar is relatively small, it is indeed more suitable for making a bow than birch.
He decisively captured it and returned to the stone house shelter with the dwarf cedar and other wild fir materials.
The dwarf cedar was first peeled and processed, and then the wood was quickly chipped to make a bow model. Of course, in such field conditions, in order to obtain bow power, Xie Yu could only make a longer recurve bow style.
Originally, making a wooden bow required at least boiling it in water and soaking it in oil to keep the bow's power enhanced and lasting.
For boiling, Xie Yu doesn't have a big pot, and soaking in oil takes a long time. Xie Yu is also afraid of wasting oil.
We can only take advantage of the freshness of the freshly peeled cedar, and cut some first to keep the bow strength on both sides equal in the future. Then, while warming the fire, when it is softened by the fire, quickly stuff it into the bow-making mold made by Xie Yu.
This kind of work requires special care. Without other processes, if you want to get it right in one step, there will naturally be many risks.
Fortunately, Xie Yu had a steady hand and Muchen Bead was there, and he lowered the requirements a lot, and finally the cedar wood pole was successfully inserted into the mold.
Then, use thin iron wire to hang the cedar pole and mold to the roof above the fireplace, and slowly dry and shape while the fireplace fire is warm.
Of course, during this process, when it is half dry, Xie Yu has to apply several layers of fish oil to maintain the bowing properties. Xie Yu cannot save this point, otherwise it will really become a toy.
Before the bow was ready, Xie Yu stopped making bows and arrows first. After eating another meal of fish, he finally started making wooden bathrooms again.
As long as the boards are there and the wires are nailed, it's just a matter of splicing, so it's quick.
Xie Yu even used the bread bags left by Mr. Henry and the others to make windows for the new wooden bathroom.
This wooden bathroom, designed by Xie Yu, is rectangular and divided into two places. The back is for bathing, and the front door is separated by a wooden board. It is easy to assemble for changing clothes.
Digging a hole in the snow was very fast thanks to Xie Yu's strength and the help of the engineer's shovel.
Then have dinner in advance, use a round iron pot to boil five or six pots of hot water, and use a homemade wooden barrel to hold it.
After drinking more hot water to keep the body hydrated, I sandwiched two pieces of charcoal that were almost burned out in the fireplace and placed them in the wooden bathroom to keep them warm.
Then, I finally took off all my baggage and started taking a shower.
This body was covered in incompletely evolved yellow hair, as well as the muscles that were unhealthy in the wilderness environment, but they did not affect Xie Yu's mood when he took a homemade soap and rubbed mud to take a bath.
[In view of the general environment,
Unhappy, Xie Yu started to shave off the unsightly hair with a dagger. Not to mention that he still had the spirit of short hair, he shaved it by himself, and based on his feeling, it was comparable to what a dog would chew.
