Live Wilderness Challenge

Chen Xu explained again in simple English, and then added: "Argentina has heavy rains in summer, we must find a way to build a very strong shack, otherwise, it will not last for 45 days at all!"

"Building with tree trunks and laying a solid foundation from the shelf is the best solution!"

Lena knew the seriousness of the "otherwise" it said.

Survival in the wild, natural weather is a very terrible factor, a heavy snow, a rainstorm, can be fatal.

Don't think that heavy rain will only bring mudslides and mountain torrents, and that you will be fine if you hide there.

Its really scary, is the low temperature!

Continuous torrential rain will take away a lot of body temperature. Even the best special soldiers will get sick the next day after being exposed to rain overnight in the field.

And for the wilderness where medical emergency measures are rare, the severity of a small cold will be infinitely magnified.

The cold is not fatal, but the persistent weakness it brings will seriously drag down your material collection and food hunting.

If it goes on for a long time, let alone 45 days, if you can survive for a week, you are already thankful!

But how long does it take to build a shack out of trees?

Break up?

You know, the two of them have nothing left except their clothes and a first-aid kit, not to mention an axe, even if they have a machete, it will be much easier to cut down trees.

The audience looked at Lina's puzzled look and suppressed a smile in their hearts.

I'm afraid she hasn't seen Master Xu's hands-on ability yet, right?

At this time, Chen Xu had already found a flat stone from the nearby bushes, lifted it up, and slammed it down against another stone.

There was only a "click", and the stone slab was cracked irregularly from the middle.

He picked out the slightly concave half, and then took the other half, facing the concave stone, and began to knock "ding ding bang bang".

Lina could see that he was trying to knock out a rock to chop down the tree.

But even so, the stone is still an irregular object after all, and cannot leverage force like a machete and an axe.

Just when she thought so in her heart.

After Chen Xu's continuous polishing, the half-concave stone slab has gradually begun to take shape.

And it was this shape that made Lina stunned!

Because the current shape of the slate is so classic, but no one who has been a soldier knows it:

Dog leg knife!

That is the Nepalese Army Knife!

"2333, look at Miss Sister's expression, hahaha!"

"Tianxiu, hit a Nepalese saber with a rock!"

"At the beginning, there is a woman, a pair of pants, and a vest, and all the equipment depends on picking!"

"Congratulations to Lord Xu for getting the stone knife x 1, attack power +5!"

While the audience was sending out the barrage, Chen Xu had already polished the shape of the stone knife.

If it is said that he was not perfect in making tools in the Pacific Islands before, but for him who now has full-level tool-making skills, this is nothing!

"try it yourself!"

While Lina was still dazed, Chen Xu had already sharpened the stone knife and handed it to her.

Stones are not steel after all, so there is no need to grind them too sharply, as long as they have some edges and corners for easy chopping.

Lina regained her senses, took the stone knife, waved it twice out of thin air, and nodded immediately: "I can't believe it, this feeling of chopping power is actually made of a single piece of stone!"

"It has little to do with the stone, but mainly due to the shape. After all, the Nepalese Army Knife is recognized as the most mechanically oriented kekrik in the world, and it is good at chopping naturally!"

While talking, Chen Xu found another stone and began to polish the other half of the slate, "With your help, the time it takes us to build the campsite will be shortened by half compared to my usual time, so that we can use stronger structure!"

Seven or eight minutes later, he also carried a dog-leg-shaped stone knife, and then pointed to the surrounding bushes:

"Try to choose a straight, small tree that is more than two meters long and three fingers thick. When cutting, don't cut it completely from the root, but go up 3 to 5 centimeters. After cutting one centimeter deep, you can change the angle and cut again."

"Take a small tree as thick as three fingers as an example. You can easily break it by cutting it around like this. This is the fastest way to cut a tree. Let's divide the work. I have six and you have four. How about it?"

Lina nodded in agreement.

Here, she didn't bother with "modest women", "showing machismo" and so on.

Because she knew that Chen Xu thought it was her first time to chop a tree with a stone knife, and she was not proficient. According to the time ratio, six or four open is a more reasonable distribution method!

"Okay, pay attention to safety, call me if there is any situation!"

Chen Xu gave one last instruction, and immediately chose a random direction, and went straight into the bushes.

At this point, the two drones began to separate.

But the camera crew of the Discovery Channel was very clever. Instead of dividing the two into two live broadcast rooms and making the audience troublesome to switch back and forth, they directly divided the live broadcast room into two half shots.

Half is Chen Xu, half is Lina.

Obviously, judging from the movements of the two of them chopping trees, Master Xu was obviously much faster than Lina.

When the latter had just cut halfway through, Chen Xu had already cut down a tree.

However, with the first experience, Lina's technique gradually became more proficient, and her speed also increased.

Half an hour later, the two returned to the clearing with a total of ten small trees.

After lifting the dead wood aside, Chen Xu began to trim the ten trunks into sticks with a stone knife.

Lena wanted to help with it.

But he refused and said: "I'll do this, you help me find some strong vines nearby, just slightly thinner than the little finger, and long branches that are as thick as a finger, straight ones, two meters long, you can grow from Look for it on the bushes, the more the better!"

"Row!"

Lina answered very simply.

In this field that she is not good at, the only thing she can do is to obey orders, at least it is better than helping and affecting efficiency.

And here, Chen Xu trimmed the ten tree sticks one by one, picked a few more, cut them off in the middle, and broke them into spare ones more than one meter long.

Afterwards, he used the short tree stick he picked up casually before, put it on a stone, sharpened one end, found the right position around the open space, stabbed it down suddenly, and then smashed it wildly with the stone.

After a while, after he pulled out the thorn, a deep hole tens of centimeters deep was formed on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Xu inserted the tree stick that had been repaired before into the deep hole.

The audience was stunned when they saw this scene!

"Fuck, Master Xu is... laying the foundation?"

"This shack is awesome, Lord Xu plans to live in Argentina for a long time!"

"Compared to Master Xu, the others are really not at the same level. They just came back from the live broadcast room of other players, and they are still using tree piles!"

"That's awesome, Lord Xu is planning to build a stone civilization!"

Chapter 8 Creating Patterns

The audience couldn't imagine that Chen Xu was really building a house!

Ten minutes later, he has inserted four sticks more than one meter long around the flat ground, and formed a regular rectangle with a length of three meters and a width of two meters.

Seeing that Lina hadn't come back, he had no choice but to find a few vines nearby, and fixed one of the two-meter-long sticks to the tops of the other two two-meter-long sticks with a figure-of-eight knot.

Afterwards, Chen Xu used tree thorns to pierce two deep holes in the front, back, and middle of the four foundation pillars. Finally, he carefully held them and inserted them into the soil holes respectively.

After the other two tree sticks were tied to the crossbar, the general skeleton of the whole house came out.

"2333, it looks like parallel bars!"

"Master Xu, please start your gymnastics performance!"

"The one-meter-high horizontal bars on both sides should be walls, and the two-meter-high horizontal bars in the middle should be roof girders, right?"

"Creative mode!"

And just when Chen Xu was about to build the fence, there was a sudden rustling sound from the bushes in the north.

It turned out that Lina came back with a bunch of shrub branches and vines, "Do you think it can be used?"

"Very well, it's time to come back!"

Chen Xu took over the branches of the shrubs, and immediately pulled out two of them, and wrapped them with vines at the top to fix them.

While he was making it, Lina excitedly took out a few yellow fruits with some black spots from her pocket, "I found some wild apricots when I was looking for branches. When it's ripe, I tasted it, it's a bit sour!"

"But it contains a lot of sugar, protein, and calcium and other nutrients, so it's good to supplement energy!"

"Thank you!"

Chen Xu thanked them, because the wild apricots in the deep mountains do not have pesticides, so he just rubbed them lightly and threw them into his mouth.

Immediately, a sweet and sour juice, with the unique fruity aroma of apricot, spread in his mouth, as if he recovered from the fatigue of traveling and cutting trees.

"Is this the skeleton of the house? It looks very strong indeed, but the height difference between the roof ridge and the side wall is a bit large, almost 2:1. In this way, the slope of the roof also increases, which is not conducive to building up. Leaf what?"

Lina admired the speed at which he built the skeleton of the house, but she couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

"The slope must be large. I have calculated that it is about 45 degrees, because Argentina has heavy rains in summer. If the slope of the roof is not large, it cannot be drained in time, and it is easy to accumulate rain and leak in the end."

"Also, I didn't say I was going to put leaves on it, but tied leaves!"

While speaking, Chen Xu had already tied several shrub branches with vines.

Next, it's time to open the eyes of Lena and the audience.

He took these fixed triangular shrub branches and hung them on the ridge of the roof like building blocks.

In this way, with the vines at the top fixed, two shrub branches are naturally hung on the ridge of the roof, and the remaining two sides are respectively hung on the beams of the side walls.

Under everyone's surprised eyes, Chen Xu took vines and fastened the branches and beams tightly, and the prototype of the roof of a tree house has come out!

"I can't believe that this was made without any tools!"

While staring, Lina also held the vine and joined Chen Xu's "knotting" team.

In the army, she also learned related knotting methods, because this is one of the required courses for field rescue and climbing skills on complex terrain.

After 10 minutes, the skeleton of the entire roof was built.

Chen Xu took another shrub branch, found a large piece of broad leaves from around, whether it was fresh or withered, and then threaded them flat on the branch like a skewer.

After 2 minutes, a string of branches covered with leaves appeared under the lens of the live broadcast room.

"It's amazing, I thought Lord Xu saved those leaves to wipe his ass!"

"What are you going to do, chubby?"

"This should be tied to the roof to keep out the rain, right?"

……

As mentioned in the barrage, Chen Xu took the branch covered with leaves, and gently put it on the lower end of the roof, and then wrapped it with vines from both sides a few times, fixed it on the front and tied it well. on the bush skeleton.

Lina didn't know how to describe her surprise when she saw this scene.

No wonder this kid is not afraid that the leaves will fall if the slope is too steep. It turns out that he thought of such a powerful fixing method!

In this way, let alone a heavy rain, even a heavy rain plus strong wind, it is difficult to blow down the roof.

For a 45-day survival period, this is definitely a top-notch shelter!

But some viewers also raised doubts. After being exposed to wind and sun, these leaves should rot within a few days.

At that time, wouldn't it be a waste of effort to build the roof?

To this, Chen Xu replied: "The environment where the leaves rot fastest is the tropical rainforest, and the central part of Argentina has a subtropical climate, which belongs to the mountain forest environment. It takes at least a month for the leaves to rot."

"And the premise of this time is that the leaves fall on the ground and are greatly affected by the decomposition of microorganisms. If they are hung in mid-air like me, their decay time will be doubled!"

"Chen is right."

As a biological expert, Lina knew that what he said was correct.

Afterwards, she also searched for broad leaves around, imitating Chen Xu's method, and helping him wear them together.