Chapter 1551 Catching a Wild Rabbit

When all this was done, the shelter was very beautiful and durable.

This seemingly simple work actually took a long time, and there were many uncertain factors in the process, which led to many failures. It took nearly eight days to barely complete everything.

Because during this period, all the time during the day and night was devoted to the construction of the shelter, which resulted in the food being consumed very quickly and without being replenished, the originally accumulated food was almost used up.

Looking at the bamboo tube in my hand, there are only one bamboo tube of pea pods, 10 bamboo tubes of starch, and a small amount of wild fruits.

It may look very good, but in fact, the reason why he collected so much root starch was to prepare for possible cold waves, so it was necessary to store some food.

As the food became less and less, it also made him feel less and less safe. Now that the shelter was finally built, he could put all his thoughts back on collecting food.

And now that he has a shelter for storage, he can store more food.

Taking the ax with him, the young man left the shelter to dry himself while he went around the camp to check the situation.

At present, with the camp as the center, the slopes below the camp and the forest to the left of the camp have been explored.

Many pods fell on the hillside below. In the forest on the left, wild fruits and unknown roots were found, which was considered a harvest.

However, the hillside above and the forest on the right have never been explored yet.

On the hillside above, in fact, on the first day we came, we came down from the hillside above and came to this relatively flat campsite.

However, because he was walking in a hurry at the time, he did not carefully observe whether there were resources and food around him. However, based on his vague memory, the young man vaguely remembered that he also found a few wild fruit trees during the process. He could go back and look for them when he had time.

As for the right side of the camp, that is, the other side of the creek, he has never crossed the creek to explore further. If possible, he plans to go there and take a look.

Today's plan is mainly to explore the hillside below and the forest on the left. He is familiar with these two areas and can come and go quickly.

The purpose this time is not to explore more environments, nor to find other resources, but simply to collect more roots and re-store a batch of starch.

So he spent the whole day walking through the forest on the left, digging out all the roots and plants on the ground, and then transporting them back to the camp.

And now that he had experience, he found a flat stone, washed some larger roots, and placed them on the stone to expose them to the sun.

As long as you wait for it to dry, it will be easier to grind it into powder, which can effectively avoid waste and make it easier.

As for some smaller rhizomes that had just begun to grow, he carefully dug them out and planted them around the camp.

Now, the layout of the entire camp seems to be in order.

Close to the small cliff is a small mud house. Although it looks small, it is extremely strong. The roof is covered with thick hay, which looks very warm.

Then, a whole circle of fence surrounded the entire camp. In the open space in front of the shelter, a small vegetable garden of more than ten square meters was cultivated. A large number of roots were planted in it, which already had a sense of life.

It took him nearly a day to dig out nearly 60 roots. After cleaning them all, he placed them neatly on rocks to dry.

At that time, his inner sense of crisis was reduced a bit.

At this time, it was already evening and the sun was about to set.

But for a person who survives in the wild, any sunny moment cannot be wasted and must be used for work.

So, he took a trip to the hillside below to look for some pods, and then see if the trap he had laid earlier had been triggered.

It has to be said that he no longer has high hopes for his trap. It has been 25 days since the first day he came here, but the trap has never caught an animal.

There are probably only two reasons for this result.

Either there is something wrong with the trap making and it cannot catch the prey at all.

Or there are too few prey here.

But after thinking for a long time, he felt that the problem was most likely his own, because he was not an expert in wilderness survival and had never learned how to make traps before. He just made a few simple traps at will based on simple principles.

For example, take a big stone slab and hold it up with a wooden stick...

As far as he understood it, the trap was about the same.

But this time, the situation has changed.

When they were far away, the young man saw that the stone trap had fallen. He was shocked, but he did not show any obvious joy.

Because this happened often before, the trap was obviously triggered, but nothing was done.

But when he came closer, he immediately showed an ecstatic expression, because under the stone slab, there was a large wild rabbit with gray-white fur. It looked very strong and was being pressed hard at the moment. Under the stone slab, the head had been crushed and the body had become stiff.

But it doesn’t matter, this is the first time I’ve seen meat in nearly a month!

He has not eaten meat for a whole month. He only eats vegetables and starch every day, and he has lost several pounds.

Seeing the hare at this moment, I seemed to be a little more energetic. I quickly took out the hare and found that the weight was really unclear, weighing six or seven kilograms.

Even after skinning and deboning, it will most likely weigh two to three pounds. If you eat sparingly, you should be able to eat it for several days.

Seeing that this trap was effective, the young man immediately picked him up again and hurriedly checked for other traps around him.

But unfortunately, there was no harvest at all. Although some traps used to capture birds were triggered, no prey was caught at all. Most likely because the traps were not precise enough.

After thinking for a moment, the young man found a few big rocks again and made a few more stone traps.

Although this kind of trap is simple, it is very effective, and it is most suitable for novices like him. After all, he does not understand the logic of other traps.

After making five or six of them in a row and placing them in the right position, he took the hare back to the camp. Seeing the faint firelight in the camp from a distance, he could feel a sense of security.

It was getting dark now, but it was still difficult to conceal the joy in his heart. He took a torch to the creek and started to disembowel the hare.