Chapter 1578: Key

"Let's search separately and see which house is more complete, at least without air leakage. We will live in that house tonight."

Zhang Zian took off his backpack and rubbed his sore shoulders.

The elves were all curious about this deserted village that used to be the residence of beekeepers and horse herders, and they all went into the village for sightseeing.

He wasn't sure when the village was abandoned, but since he could see a Chevrolet from the 1960s, it must have been after that.

Due to the natural shelter provided by the dense forest that covers the sky, the wind and rainstorm are blocked and weakened by the trees, and the Indians have some unique house-building skills. The most important thing is that there are no bear children to make trouble. This makes the village quite well preserved. At a glance, most of the window glass is intact.

When beekeepers and horse herders abandon this village, there are two possible situations. One is to come here for the last time and take away all the valuable items that can be taken away; Abandoned.

If it's the latter, maybe you can find something useful in the village.

Taking things that people don't want, shouldn't this be considered stealing?

Unexpectedly, Xiaobai led stray dogs to pick up waste in China, and he picked up waste and found it in the United States...

"Squeak! Squeak!"

π brandished a wooden stick, ran back first, grabbed Zhang Zian by the corner of his clothes, and gesticulated for him to follow him, with an excited expression on his face.

Zhang Zian left the backpack where it was. Anyway, there were so many wolves guarding it, so he wasn't afraid of being stolen.

He followed π to the back of a house where a fallen tree just missed the house.

"Squeak." π pointed to the gap between the tree trunk and the ground.

The tree didn't fall completely to the ground, but kept a small angle with the ground, as if it was being held up by something.

Zhang Zian squatted down to check, and unexpectedly found that it was a well made of stones.

"Pi, move a little farther away, I'll push this tree aside."

He took a few glances and felt that the tree was not very thick, maybe he could try to push it.

"Squeak?"

π gestured worriedly,

He turned back and pointed to the entrance of the village, meaning whether to ask those wolves for help, because this tree is much thicker than the one that was used as a bridge before.

"Don't worry, I think it's okay." Zhang Zian rolled up his sleeves, picked up an iron-legged chair from the side and tried it out, and it was quite easy, "I didn't push with force, you know the principle of leverage? Give me a woman, I can create... no, give me a fulcrum, and I can move the earth!"

He inserted the back of the chair with iron legs into the gap between the Ishii platform and the tree trunk, and then pushed forward holding the chair legs. The L-shaped chair structure acted as a crowbar.

The heavy tree trunk was lifted loosely, and every time it was lifted, it moved a little to the side, and finally fell to the ground with a crash, exposing the dark wellhead.

Zhang Zian shone a flashlight into the well, and saw the reflection of the water surface in the well.

Since the tree trunk completely blocked the mouth of the well before, there were not many fallen leaves on the water surface, and the water quality looked quite clear, after all, it was groundwater.

When other elves heard the movement here, they ran over to check the situation.

"Thanks to π, we found a water source." He said, "I don't need to be thirsty tonight."

"Zhizhi." π shyly lowered his head.

Just to put it bluntly, as a village, no matter how small it is, it would be too inconvenient to have no water. Indians who are proficient in wild survival cannot fail to consider this when building a village.

The wolves did not know the existence of the well, because the mouth of the well was blocked by a tree.

After finding the water source, Zhang Zian had enough confidence.

"Quack quack quack!"

Richard screamed from a room not far away.

Zhang Zian and the elves ran over to take a look, and were also taken aback. They saw a group of black animals flying out of a room with an open door, screaming at a very high frequency and flying towards the dusk sky. Like a fast moving dark cloud.

It's a bat.

They flew so fast that he couldn't see what they looked like. They were probably the big brown bats that are very common in North America. They used that house as a nest.

"These big flying mice almost scared my uncle to death!" Richard was still in shock, stroking his chest with his wings and shouted.

"Your eyesight is not good, so don't run around all day, and be careful that one day you will lose your life." Zhang Zian warned.

Although bats are beneficial animals, their bodies are very dirty and can easily spread germs, so there is no need to look at that house, and there must be a lot of bat guano in it, which stinks to the sky.

"Zian, this old man has found a house that seems to be intact." Old Cha ran over and said.

"Go, go and have a look."

Zhang Zian and the elves followed Old Cha to a house and looked it over carefully.

This house is built with stones as the foundation and walls, and wood as the roof, which is both strong and light-you must know that the west coast of the United States is a hard-hit area for earthquakes. In case of an earthquake, the stone roof is likely to wear The people in the house were all killed, and the wooden walls were not safe from the black bears in the forest.

The house did look quite intact, with no broken windows and half-closed curtains in the room, as if the owner might return at any time.

"Is there anyone in there?"

Although there was a 99.99% chance that there was no one in the room, he knocked on the door and asked aloud.

"Who is it?"

A shrill and sinister voice responded, which made one's hair stand on end.

He and the elves were taken aback for a moment, and Qi Qi took half a step back, and it took a few seconds to realize that Nima was answered by Richard, a bastard imitating a human voice.

"Quack!" Richard knew he was going to be beaten, so he flew to a high place to hide.

Zhang Zian didn't have time to pay attention to it for the time being, so he tried to push the door. The door was locked and very strong.

There is no way, it seems that we can only break in through the window.

He was about to go around to the side and smash the window glass and then unlock the window to enter the room. He suddenly remembered that in many American movies or TV series, Americans often see the door keys hidden near the door, such as under the door mat or above the door frame. , or pressed under the flower pot on the windowsill... Especially for a house like this kind of holiday cottage, the owner does not come once in a few months, so it is easy to lose the key if he takes it with him.

With a thought in his mind, he groped around the door and searched for it. Anyway, he would not get pregnant if he tried. If he couldn't find it, it would not be too late to break in again.

Once the integrity of this house is destroyed, it is likely to become a bat's nest. In case hikers come here in the future, they can only camp in the wild in disappointment...

It's better to try to be considerate of others.

"Quack! What are you looking for, idiot?" Richard couldn't help asking.

"I……"

Zhang Zian hadn't figured out how to reply to this cheap bird, so he moved a natural stone under the porch, and there was a metal key under the stone.