Bell's physical fitness was very good. Although he was exhausted and on the verge of dehydration after drifting at sea for so long, it only took him less than two days as long as he was given enough food and fresh water and a good rest environment. Recovered.
However, Zhang Heng was not in a hurry to hit the road. The area of the island was large or small. It would take him about eight days to walk around the perimeter. After entering the virgin forest, the speed would slow down, but from where he lived It should only take about three days to walk to the center of the island.
If nothing else, Bell's standby time is 19 days, which means they still have plenty of preparation time.
After these two days of getting along, Zhang Heng also basically understood the abilities of his new companion.
Bell's wild survival skills are indeed different from Ed and the shorts. They are more focused on hunting and self-rescue, which is exactly what is needed to explore the primeval forest.
Zhang Heng can now make most tools, and has basic survival skills such as finding places to live and water sources.
However, it can be seen from the monotonous variety of vegetables in his vegetable garden and the solitary Mickey Mouse in the breeding garden that he actually does not know much about the nature he is living in now.
Especially in terms of species identification, it has always been a weakness of Zhang Heng or modern people living in cities.
In fact, there are many other types of plants in the forest, but Zhang Heng didn't know whether they were edible or which parts of them were edible. Because he was afraid of being poisoned, he only dared to dig up the potatoes and onions that he could recognize.
The situation is similar when it comes to animals. Zhang Heng has always disliked Mickey Mouse for being ugly, but he never expected that the latter is actually the extinct national bird of Mauritius.
And now the explorer who was rescued can finally make up for this last shortcoming for him.
Seeing that he still had time to spare, Zhang Heng and Bell took a trip around the island outside the forest.
The latter taught him how to identify and obtain various resources in the forest.
After hearing this, Zhang Heng couldn't help but sigh. He had really wasted his time in the previous year. He clearly had a treasure house, but he didn't know how to mine it at all.
However, when Zhang Heng heard this, he felt something was wrong, because almost all the creatures that appeared in front of Bell would eventually receive the evaluation of "cut off the head and you can eat it."
"…………"
On the morning of the tenth day, the two returned to the Wafang. Zhang Heng was satisfied with the results of this short trip. Even if there was nothing in the center of the island, he had benefited a lot from these ten days.
Not to mention Bell is a great listener and conversationalist.
The two rested for a day in the tile-roofed house. Zhang Heng planted the vegetable seeds collected during the trip into the vegetable garden. During this period, he unexpectedly received another message.
[Successfully collect more than ten kinds of vegetables, wild survival skills will be upgraded from lv1 to lv2, game points +5, you can go to the character panel to view relevant information...]
Zhang Heng still doesn't know what the so-called game points are for. Counting the previous times, he already has 16 points, which can be clearly checked on his character panel.
In his opinion, this thing is a bit like an achievement system, which can be obtained after meeting certain conditions. For example, the previous 11 points come from making fire, building a house and hunting.
However, Zhang Heng doesn't bother with this kind of thing. When he usually plays games, he is a casual player. He just clears the level. He doesn't have the paranoia of hard-core players who must complete all achievements to dominate. This time he just plays alone. If it takes too long, it won’t be possible if you don’t want to achieve it.
In addition, he found that there seemed to be some changes in the evaluation column.
[Evaluation: This player is mediocre and does not have much to praise, but he has certain wild survival and archery skills. It is expected that he will not be able to survive the first five rounds of the game. 】
Zhang Heng was a little curious. He felt that his archery skills were pretty good, and he had the survival knowledge to cope with harsh environments, but he couldn't make it past the fifth round. What about the other players?
This thought just flashed through his mind, and then Zhang Heng focused his attention on what he had to do at the moment.
After a night's rest, both of them had almost recovered from their fatigue, and their physical condition was at its peak.
Now comes the main event.
Zhang Heng carried his long bow and arrow basket on his back, and divided the dry food and fresh water he had prepared before going to bed last night into two parts. He and Bell each took one part. If used sparingly, these supplies would be enough for them to survive in the forest for a whole day. It's been a week.
In addition, with Bell, the humanoid hunting machine, there is no need to worry about supplies.
Then Zhang Heng took out the two spears he had made before as melee weapons, but Bell shook his head. He pulled out the knife from his waist and said, "This is enough for me."
Zhang Heng was a little envious. When he saw the knife, he thought of his Swiss Army Knife King in heaven... He had never seen an iron tool again after living on this desert island. He thought that when he was with Ed, he had He once accomplished the feat of sawing a tree with a clam shell, but even the spear in his hand now only has the front end carbonized and polished to a sharp point.
The effect is pretty good, but in the end it's still not as good as serious equipment.
What's more, the workmanship of the knife looks quite exquisite, with Bell's name engraved on it.
"If you like, I will give this knife to you after we are safe. In addition, you can come to my house as a guest. I will introduce my wife and son to you then."
Although he knew that this day would not come, Zhang Heng politely expressed his gratitude to the explorer.
After making all preparations, the two officially went deep into the primeval forest.
It was only on the first night that Zhang Heng realized how lucky he was to have Bell by his side.
He made the best preparations, but obviously underestimated the danger here.
It is impossible for a person to stay alert 24 hours a day, especially at night in the forest, which is not quiet. There is always something rustling behind the bushes in the darkness.
Zhang Heng had been vigilant in the first half of the night, clenching the spear in his hand at the slightest sign of trouble. However, he found that it was not possible to continue like this. The consequence of not sleeping all night was that his energy would become depressed and his reaction would be slow the next day.
So Zhang Heng forced himself to close his eyes.
I finally managed to ignore the sneaky noises and enter a half-dream state, but at this moment I felt something rubbing my abdomen.
However, this was the sleepiest time of the day for Zhang Heng. He failed to wake up immediately until something wrapped around his body, and it became tighter and tighter. Zhang Heng felt a little stuffy and opened the door. Only then did he see the thing wrapped around his body.
This is a python, estimated to be more than 3 meters long. Its body is thicker than Zhang Heng's forearm, its lower abdomen is white, and its back is covered with brown cloud-like spots.
Zhang Heng tried to break free from its entanglement, but found that he could not lift his arm at all. The thing was getting closer and closer, making him feel as if his bones were being crushed.
Fortunately, his struggle also woke up Bell beside him.
"The Burmese rock python, one of the subspecies of the Indian python, is one of the six most popular snake species in the world. It is very common in tropical rainforests. They are very strong and have few natural enemies, but they are not without weaknesses." Bell One hand touched the tail of the giant python, and with a gentle poke somewhere, the body of the Burmese rock python miraculously softened gradually.
"The anus is usually the most vulnerable part of a python, and attacking this location can buy you time to escape."
After Zhang Heng successfully broke free, Bell inserted the knife into the head of the Burmese rock python while explaining.
"Luckily, we have breakfast for tomorrow morning."
