doomsday survival

Chapter 21 Logging
Shi Jian hurried back to the cabin and rested there overnight.In fact, Shi Jian originally wanted to rush back overnight, but it was unsafe to travel at night, and Shi Jian also wanted to study the construction method of the wooden house.

But after studying, Shi Jian felt very disappointed.Because this wooden house was completely built with modern tools, Shi Jian could only copy the design ideas at most.

Looking at the current weather, it may take a few days to see the clear sky. Shi Jian dare not provoke zombies, let alone search tools.

After returning to the camp, Shi Jian turned on the mobile phone with pain again. Now the battery of the mobile phone has long been used up, and the power of the mobile power supply has been used.Shi Jian could only try his best to copy down the materials he thought were useful.However, the data in the mobile phone can be said to be as vast as the sea, and Shi Jian stuffed a lot of data into it, even if it is all text and pictures, there are still several gigabytes.The content is all-encompassing, not only the knowledge of wild life, but also some metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, agriculture and other knowledge.Shi Jian originally wanted to write a time-traveling novel on the Genesis Chinese website, so he specially prepared some materials to check at any time, but before the book was written, he went back and forth by himself.

After inquiry, Shi Jian now has two plans for building a house, both of which can be realized under the existing conditions.

One is to build a log house, which has the advantages of convenient materials, fast construction speed and short time.The disadvantage is that the warmth and safety are not as good.

Another option is to build an adobe house, which has the advantage of being strong and warm, and can be built tall.The disadvantage is that the production of adobe has to go downstream of the creek, where there is only mud, and the adobe is heavy, inconvenient to transport, and the construction time is long.

After much thought, Shi Jian decided to build a log house first, and then build adobe houses if necessary.

Now that the decision was made, Shi Jian started the preparations.First of all, put a wooden handle on the fire axe. The previous axe was not sharp, so Shi Jian threw it aside.After installing the wooden handle, Shi Jian sharpened the ax blade again.After removing the rust on it, the whole ax is shiny and the blade is very sharp. At least it is not a problem to cut down trees.

After the preparations were completed, Shi Jian began to select suitable trees and prepare to fell them one by one.

The trees Shi Jian chose were white birches. In his opinion, white birches are hard and suitable for building wooden houses, but they also have shortcomings. The diameter of a finished tree is half a meter at breast height.Although only [-] or [-] trees are enough to build a two-meter-high wooden house, such a large tree trunk cannot be moved by one person with Shi Jian.

Shi Jian can only choose trees with a breast height of about [-] centimeters to cut, otherwise it will be very difficult to drag.

Logging is also a technical job. It is not enough to just use an ax to chop. If you do not do it well, you will hurt yourself.

The trees Shi Jian chose were all around the open space, so that when the tree fell, it would not hit other trees and could not be brought down.After clearing the bushes around the forest, Shi Jian began to drop the ax on the selected tree.

In order to ensure that the tree can fall into the open space, Shi Jian first cut two diagonal notches on the left and right sides of the trunk facing the open space, and then continued to cut deeply along the cut. There are two notches on the left and right on the back and another notch is cut, and the three notches form a triangle, but the depth of the notches on the back must always be kept much smaller than the other two.After the three gaps were connected together, Shi Jian only cut the two sides, and he had to be careful of the tree falling at any time.

Finally, the tree began to crumble.Shi Jian didn't dare to chop any more, so he found a thick branch, supported the trunk from the back, and pushed hard.The tree trunk, which was about to fall, fell towards the open space, causing the ground to vibrate.

Next, Shi Jian cut off the branches, and then chose a well-proportioned part to cut off about five meters, pulled it to the open space and peeled it away. The peeled bark can be used to cover the roof.For such a tree, it took Shi Jian a full three hours to clean it up.

"It won't work if it goes on like this." Shi Jian discovered the problem.A total of 180 trees had to be felled to build the wooden house. It took 24 hours, and [-] hours without doing anything would take eight days to cut down!Coupled with the time for building the house, it can't be finished in a month.It's better to build an adobe house.

Shi Jian had no choice but to look at the red pines mixed in the birch forest.I didn’t choose Korean pine at the beginning because the growth cycle of these Korean pine is still short, far from the towering giant trees with a thickness of one meter in the whole forest of Korean pine, which are only ten centimeters thick. It is a bit hard to think of cutting more than 100 trees. fear.

With the mentality of trying, Shi Jian chopped down a red pine.It turned out that it only took five or six strokes for a red pine tree to fall to the ground, and it was much faster to pick it up without peeling the bark like a white birch.The most important thing is lightness, Shi Jian can easily carry it.As a result, it took only 10 minutes to put all the red pine trees in place.

Shi Jian, who re-determined his goal, prepared all the trees needed for building the house in one day. If he had known earlier, he would not have cut down the time-consuming white birches.

That night, it began to rain in autumn.Shi Jian secretly rejoiced that if he was still cutting birches, he didn't know when he would be able to live in a house.You know, one autumn rain and one cool.

Lying in the tent, listening to the sound of raindrops patting the tent cloth, Shi Jian's mood was filled for a moment.

While reminiscing about the past in the first rain in this time travel, Shi Jian suddenly heard a scratching sound coming from outside the tent.

Shi Jian sat up suddenly, drew out the samurai sword beside him, and moved it quietly towards the tent door.

Listening carefully, the scratching sound became more and more obvious, accompanied by a low-pitched roar.

Shi Jian was worried that some wild beast was coming, so he slowly opened the tent door. As soon as he opened the door, two figures rushed in.

Shi Jian was so frightened that he swung his knife to slash, but he stopped immediately, and the knife stopped suddenly above a black shadow.

It turned out that under the light of the bonfire that had not been extinguished outside, Shi Jian discovered that it was Xiaomeng and Serena who came in.

As soon as the two little lynxes entered the tent, they shook the water on their bodies, and the water droplets flying around fell on Shi Jian.Xiaomeng still came over to rub against Shi Jian to be cute, while Serena looked cool.

Shi Jian bent down and touched Xiaomeng's head, and Xiaomeng immediately turned over on her belly, playing with Shi Jian with her paws.

After teasing Xiaomeng a few times, Shi Jian tried to touch Serena again.Serena tilted her head, trying to avoid Shi Jian's claws, but in the end she didn't move, letting Shi Jian caress.

This is a huge improvement for Shi Jian.Serena's non-resistance aroused Shi Jian's desire to tame the two little lynxes again.After all, lynx is also a master hunter, and can even prey on reindeer.If there were such two helpers, Shi Jian's life would not be too smooth.

"Look at you," Shi Jian reprimanded the two lynxes, "come whenever you want, and leave whenever you want. Are you being watered now?"

The two little lynxes didn't know if they understood, they squatted down, lowered their heads, and remained motionless.

"Don't run around anymore." Shi Jian said to them, "Watch me build a house tomorrow."

"From now on, we will all have houses to live in!" Shi Jian continued to lure.

Hearing Shi Jian's tone softened, Xiaomeng and Serena stopped pretending.Xiaomeng continued to play cute and tease Shi Jian, while Serena jumped left and right in the tent, having a great time shopping.Shi Jian's spirits also rose, and he started playing with the two little guys.

As a result, after playing with Xiaomeng Xiaowei for a long time, Shi Jian was sleepy, but the two little guys were full of energy.Only then did Shi Jian remember that the lynx was active at night, so he spent half the day playing with two night owls.

Angrily, Shi Jian fell asleep and ignored the little lynxes who were still excited. He had to build a wooden house tomorrow.

　Please collect it, fatten it up before slaughtering it!Comments are welcome, and comments must be refined!

　　
　
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