Chapter 40 The Southerner Trap
Being held by Andrea like this, Xiang En was really surprised, and his palms were sweating a lot due to nervousness, just like a student suddenly became a teacher, and the roles were reversed.
It seems that I think too much, she is stronger than I thought!
Reducing the surprised expression on his face, Xiang En stared at Andrea for a moment, then suddenly smiled, broke free from the restraint of her hands, and hugged Andrea.
"ah!"
Andrea, who was being hugged, let out a moan, her face turned pink, and her eyes suddenly blurred.
Before this feeling took over, Xiang En let her go, which disappointed her for a while.
"Cough... go find some firewood and burn this place."
Xiang En rubbed his nose and looked towards the utility room where the creaking sound came from.
Now the situation is roughly clear, the dozens of corpses that crawled out of the ground ran into the forest, and the infected animals should have caused a lot of impact on the forest.
Hurry up to search for supplies and build shelters!
After this winter, they have to stay away from the forest and go to the towns to find supplies that were missed by the search teams.
Otherwise, their things would only become more and more worn out. The province of D'Aire is very large. Even if those people had more than a month to carry out the massacre, it would be impossible for the people in Greystone City to visit all of them, and there would be many missed villages.
After the fire burned out the utility room, Xiang En and Andrea returned to the cabin to rest.
In the next few days, both of them were storing food. There were fewer animals in the forest, and no animals infected by living corpses were found yet.
After failing to find many animals for three kilometers near the village, Xiang En decided to take the risk and explore deep into the forest.
It took two days to enter. Relying on the trap totem, the two harvested a lot of small animals that were not infected, and nearly 100 kilograms of prey at one time.
On the last night when they were about to leave the forest, they saw a messy space.
The faint green light penetrates the shade of the trees, attracting the sight of the two travelers who strayed into the forest.
Xiang En told Andrea to leave the hunted animals where they were, and walked cautiously towards the lush green forest.
After stepping over the fallen tree trunk, they saw a crater five meters in diameter.
In the center of the crater is a meteorite emitting a strange green light, which can emit as much brightness as a light bulb in the dark, which makes Xiang En both curious and vigilant.
The ominous green light made him stay away, and pulled Andrea who wanted to keep approaching.
"Don't get close to the past, it may be dangerous..."
After staring at the green meteorite the size of a fist for a while, Xiang En decided to poke it with a stick.
A small tree was found from among the trees long enough for Andrea to whittle it into a stick.
There's no point in doing this, it's like firecrackers exploding cow dung, it's purely for fun.
Holding the long stick, Xiang En poked at the meteorite fragments emitting green light, wondering if this meteorite would be radioactive?
The end of the stick slapped on the meteorite fragment, picked up the meteorite fragment, and looked at it from a distance, but Xiang En still didn't dare to move the stone.
This stone looks too weird, and Xiang En is worried that there are radioactive elements, and carrying it around will add several layers of negative status.
There are countless such fragments in the forest, and there will be many fragments in the entire province of D'Aer. Let's wait for the surviving warriors to try it out.
Throwing away the stick, Xiang En clapped his hands, turned and left with Andrea.
Andrea glanced back in the direction of the crater. The green light sent chills down her spine, and she quickly walked a few steps and disappeared into the forest.
It took three days to hunt and one day to carry the prey back to the village.
After finishing the food processing, Xiang En found that they had stockpiled 500 kilograms of meat. The meat contained a lot of bones, and the actual meat might only be half the weight.
Even though the meat reserves did not meet expectations, he was not going to continue hunting. Only ten days later, the cold wind in the morning forced them to put on an extra fur cloak.
As winter approached, the distance between the two gradually narrowed.
Cutting trees to store firewood and digging cellars have become their most common jobs. Xiang En is not in a hurry to upgrade his skills. He has a winter time to practice his skills.
Shout out! Shout out!
With the joint efforts of Xiang En and Andrea, a new room was finally opened on the side of the alchemy room. The area was quite large, and besides the bed, a lot of wood could be put down to practice carving totems.
Xiang En studied the ant nests for a long time. He mixed the ant nests with water and stuck them to the walls, making the surrounding walls much smoother. The price was that they scoured the nearby ant nests.
He also wanted to make a kang for sleeping, but after trying for a long time, Xiang En gave up. The kang made of earth bricks without bricks is not very resistant to burning.
Although they had seen the teaching on brick-burning before time travelling, most of the content had been forgotten, and it took a lot of time to burn bricks. They didn't have that much time, so they could only keep everything simple and spread a few more animal skins.
A fireplace is embedded in the corner of the room, and the chimney is dug directly out, between the two log cabins on the surface.
In order not to be buried by the snow, Xiang En also surrounded a 1.5-meter-high fence with wood, and built a triangular shed above it.
After digging the shelter, it was already twenty days after the end of the day.
During this period, Xiang En smashed an unattractive distillation apparatus with an iron pot in his spare time, fetched water from a nearby flowing stream, and tried to purify the water source by distillation.
The results are not very good, and the distillation method does not do much for acidic water.
Later, Xiang En tried to filter with ordinary charcoal, but the effect was also not ideal.
Only then did he realize that acid rain contains sulfuric acid and nitric acid that are soluble in water, and ordinary filtering methods can't do much at all.
The conventional method failed, and Xiang En simply gave up purifying the water source and waited for nature to dilute it by itself, making it even more difficult to use water.
The two of them haven't showered for half a month, and the best way to clean their bodies is to wipe them with a wet towel.
Another three days later, the two wrapped in buns struggled up the ladder and came to the surface world.
Pushing away the wooden house, the two couldn't help but stay for one.
I saw that the outside was completely white, the ground was covered with a thin layer of ice and snow, and there were many snowflakes falling in the sky, covered in plain silver, which was amazing at first glance.
This is especially true for Xiang En. He has grown up so much, and he has never seen snow so close.
What is in front of me is not snow, but a trap for southerners!
Xiang En seemed to have seen a seductive fox demon, and his Adam's apple rolled involuntarily. He walked out of the wooden house in a nonchalant way, pulled the surrounding snow rakes together, held them in his palm and squeezed them into a ball.
Looking at the round and firm snowball in his hand, Xiang En threw it hard and smashed it against the wall of the wooden house opposite.
Boom!
The wooden house was shaken by the snowball, and a little snow on the roof was shaken off.
"Pfft!"
A chuckle came from behind, Xiang En's body froze, he stood up as if nothing had happened, resisted the urge to fall to the ground and rolled around, turned around and saw that his face was flushed from the cold, and he was covering his mouth and snickering Andrea, said seriously: "Can't help it! This is all can't help it!"
Andrea still covered her mouth, but nodded quickly with narrowed eyes.