Survival in the Mist: Beginning Evolution Pingtouge

Chapter 16 Making a Fire
Although Brother Pingtou can't read, but as an animal, his ears are extremely sensitive.

"I heard what you said to yourself just now."

When Zuo Bing heard this, he felt very embarrassed.

I didn’t expect this guy’s ears to be so good. If I had known better, I wouldn’t have muttered.

Looking at the flat-headed brother who was about to go crazy, he could only quickly deny it: "My...you heard it wrong, I didn't say I wouldn't use it for you, you have auditory hallucinations."

"Hearing hallucinations? Believe me, huh!" Brother Pingtou didn't want to talk to Zuo Bing any more.

If it wasn't for the system not allowing her to betray her master, she would have done it long ago.

Putting away the transformation card, Zuo Bing's stomach growled.

Opening the system panel to check the time, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be dark in a while.

After the dark sky, I am afraid there will be more monsters, so the left soldiers immediately decided to stay where they are.

Now I have steel knives, saws, and ropes in hand, and there are many trees nearby, so I should be able to build a temporary shelter.

"It's getting late, we'll camp here tonight."

Zuo Bing said something, and looked at Brother Pingtou: "Go around and see if there are any monsters. If there are any monsters, do it directly, and we will have dinner when we come back."

"Understood." Brother Pingtou replied angrily.

"I'll take the things down and you go."

After Zuo Bing took off the supplies from Pingtouge's back, Pingtouge turned his head and left.

Then Zuo Bing said to Ma Wenjie again: "Xiao Ma, you cut down the surrounding trees, and we will build a wooden house later. I don't know how many monsters will appear at night, so we can't hurry."

Ma Wenjie also nodded, took the saw and ran to the nearest tree, and pulled it up.

Zuo Bing himself was not idle, and rearranged the supplies.

The food includes two packs of compressed biscuits, three sheets of XJ baked naan, one can of luncheon meat, four pieces of ham sausage, a lot of wolf meat, and two pheasants are temporarily included in the food.

There are about seven liters of water in total, the five liters of the farmer's three fists just picked up in a bucket, and the leftovers from before, about two liters.

Tools include a windproof lighter, a multifunctional engineer shovel, a large carpet, two and a half pieces of rope, and a saw used by Ma Wenjie.

The extras are the two hiking bags he and Ma Wenjie were carrying, a pair of cotton rubber gloves on Ma Wenjie's hands, and a steel slingshot in his pocket.

Then there are tarps and wolf skins, as well as bows and arrows, and steel knives. These are all the supplies they have now.

Other materials are easy to say, just put them in the backpack, but the bloody tarpaulin, wolf meat and wolf skin are not easy to deal with.

The main reason is that there is no water to wash it, and it is too dirty to put in the backpack.

And there is another point, the environment and climate here are not good, and raw wolf meat cannot be stored.

Looking at the wolf meat on the ground, Zuo Bing thought about it and decided to roast it all for him, and then give it to Brother Pingtou, he and Ma Wenjie would not eat it.

The reason why she didn't plan to eat it was mainly because there was a very important question, whether there would be viruses in wolf meat.

Although a wolf is not a zombie, it does not mean that there is no virus in the wolf's body. Even if it is cooked, there is no guarantee that it will not be infected.

For safety reasons, he decided this way.

Of course, this does not mean that he is not worried about whether Pingtouge will be poisoned, but because Pingtouge can be resurrected.

Afterwards, Zuo Bing found some branches nearby and came back, preparing to light a fire.

But the sky here is full of fog, the air is always wet, and there is no sunshine. The branches cannot be dried at all, they are so wet that they cannot be lit at all.

Now, Zuo Bing was worried.

The fire can't be lit, let alone the barbecue, and the clothes on my body are all damp. It will definitely be unbearable after a long time.

"What the hell, in this shitty world, you don't even give a chance to start a fire, shit!"

Zuo Bing kicked all the branches away angrily.

He took off his clothes and twisted them vigorously, and water came out.

"Baked! Saunas don't even have that much moisture."

A tree happened to be felled by Ma Wenjie, and she walked over with some difficulty.

Seeing Zuo Bing go crazy, he asked suspiciously, "Brother, what's wrong?"

Zuo Bing was getting angry, and said angrily: "It's okay, hurry up and work."

Ma Wenjie didn't dare to say more, threw the tree on the ground, and ran away again.

The fire could not be started, and Zuo Bing was not in the mood to study the barbecue anymore, so he put his clothes on and went to study the tree.

It was the first time for him to see a whole big tree with a height of more than 20 meters and a diameter of more than [-] centimeters.

But it's very strange, the trunk is green from the middle, although it can't reach the luxuriant branches, but it is growing well.

On the contrary, in the lower half, the bark is black, and there are no branches. Looking at the cross-section full of cracks, it looks like a dead tree.

Half green, half dead, really weird.

Zuo Bing reached out and touched the lower part of the tree. It was indeed very dry, no wonder it was cracked.

yes!You should be able to start a fire with this.Such dry wood should burn at one point.

"Little horse, come here."

The left soldier shouted.

Ma Wenjie hastily pulled out the saw and ran over in a hurry.

"Brother, what are your orders?"

"Saw it off for me from here."

"okay."

Ma Wenjie didn't ask anything, and started to pull according to the position pointed by Zuo Bing.

In a few strokes, the tree was sawn off four or five sections of [-]-degree centimeters of wood.

Anyone who has ever made a fire knows that no matter how dry the wood is, it is not easy to burn if it is too thick.

So Zuo Bing asked Ma Wenjie to use a steel knife to split the tree trunk into wooden halves.

"Go to work."

Ma Wenjie waved her hand, and then started to set firewood.

Born in the countryside, he still has some experience in this area, and he quickly started a fire, and the fire was not small.

The moment the fire started, the surrounding temperature began to rise, and the fog disappeared.

It is even more obvious that the moisture in the clothes on the body is continuously evaporating.

Really comfortable.

After baking for a while, it is a little hot.

Zuo Bing found some thicker branches, tied them with ropes, made a shelf, took off his clothes and pants, put them on it to dry, and put on a pair of big underpants.

Anyway, no one, nothing to be ashamed of.

Ma Wenjie got another big tree over there, and after dragging it back, Zuo Bing also told him to take off his clothes and pants to dry.

But Ma Wenjie refused to do anything, so she took off her shirt and didn't take off her pants.

Zuo Bing didn't move either. This guy must have asked Brother Pingtou to come back and see him, so he stopped trying to persuade him.

Due to the rise in temperature, the original visibility range was only a dozen meters, but now it has extended to five or six meters, and it doesn't look so hazy.

After filling in a few pieces of wood, Zuo Bing picked up two pieces of wolf meat and threw them in.

Anyway, if you don’t eat it by yourself, just bake it.

The wolf meat soon "sizzled" out of oil, making the fire more intense, and the aroma of the barbecue wafted out.

Zuo Bing couldn't help but want to taste this taste.

"Brother, what are you baking? It's so fragrant."

Ma Wenjie dropped the tree trunk, ran over in a few steps, stared at the wolf meat in the fire with wide eyes, licked his lips, and asked knowingly.

(End of this chapter)