doomsday survival

Chapter 29 Defense
Shi Jian didn't know anything about what happened in the distance, so of course he didn't care much. What Shi Jian cared about now was how to transport this huge pile of goods home.

This time, Shi Jian's harvest was so great that he couldn't transport it back once. Shi Jian ran for two days in the rain to transport all the supplies.

Xiaomeng and Xiaowei were very happy to see Shi Jian come back, and they devoured the meat, which made Shi Jian very puzzled.Ordinarily, the lynx is very resistant to hunger, and can go without food for a long time, and still hunts down the prey with agility, but judging by the appearance of the two little guys, it seems that they have not eaten or drank for a year.

Seeing Brother Lynx looking like a reincarnated starving ghost, Shi Jian shrugged helplessly.Now Shi Jian doubts that if he throws them into the depths of the jungle, will the two lynxes, which are considered to be at the top of the food chain, survive? Can they eat without cooked meat?But this is just a thought, if he really lost it, Shi Jian would not be willing to part with it, after all he had managed to tame it, just like his own children.

After dinner, Shi Jian began to design defense facilities.Holding a pen and drawing here and there on the birch bark, it took a long time before he nodded in satisfaction.

Shi Jian had long wanted to arrange the defensive facilities, but he had no tools and could only think about it in his heart.Now I found this set of combination tools from the garage, which can basically meet the requirements of building defense facilities.

But before that, Shi Jian still needs to process some tools.

The first is the shovel.Rather than a shovel, it is better to say it is a pinch.The white birch that Shi Jian felled earlier came in handy. Shi Jian cut off a ten-centimeter-thick wooden cake horizontally on the tree with a hand saw, and then put red-hot charcoal on it, leaving three sides untouched.After one layer of the wooden cake was burnt, Shi Jian removed the charcoal, and then removed the charred part of the wooden cake, so that a wooden pinch was formed.

"How is it? Are you smart?" Shi Jian asked Xiaomeng, who was watching from the sidelines. Xiaomeng didn't know what was the use of Shi Jian's hard work. Seeing that Shi Jian stopped, she turned and left.

"No knowledge, no culture!" Shi Jian scolded angrily, "I tell you, I came up with this idea by myself, that's how the Indians' canoes are made!"

But Xiaomeng is obviously not as interested in Indians as the mouse under Serena's paw, so she ran to play with Serena on the side of the trembling big mouse.The sad mouse was terrified when it saw Serena, and secretly sighed that it was not good for him to go out. When another one came, it immediately rolled its eyes and passed out.

Shi Jian saw that the two little guys were having fun, and probably would not come over, so he started making another tool - a pole.

It is much easier to make a shoulder pole. Find a long branch with a suitable thickness, cut it flat with a knife in the middle, and cut a gap at both ends for the rope used to hang the basket. It will be finished in a short while.

There are ready-made baskets, Shi Jian weaves them himself according to the drawing when he is free, but the appearance is too ugly, but it does not delay the loading.

When everything was ready, Shi Jian first took a pickaxe and dug a trench around the campsite. The soil he dug out was shoveled into a basket with a wooden spatula and thrown away far away.

After seven days of drying up, Shi Jian completed the defensive ditch. A circle of two meters wide and two meters deep surrounded the entire camp like a moat, and under the ditch, Shi Jian inserted dense sharpened wooden sticks , You can tell at a glance whether it will fall or not.

Shi Jian called Xiaomeng and Xiaowei to the side of the ditch without saying much, and threw a rabbit down in front of them.Luckily, Shi Jian was quite strong, and Shi Jian didn't lose face. The rabbit stuck on the sharp wooden stick, kicked his legs twice, and ended his short and hard life.

Xiaomeng backed away in fright, while Serena leaped dismissively and easily jumped over.Seeing Serena jumping over, Xiaomeng jumped over with all her strength, and also jumped over steadily.

The two little guys were shaking their heads at Shi Jian over there, but Shi Jian was not angry, and started the next step of work, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said in his heart: "Do you think that's all you can do? You have great skills. It's gone!"

Shi Jian set up a row of wooden frames one meter away from the ditch.They are all made of thick branches tied in a triangle, and the tops of the branches are also sharpened. Each row of wooden frames is connected at three corners with three red pine poles.The lower end is deeply inserted into the ground and is very firm.

"Do you know what it's called?" Shi Jian showed off to Xiaomeng Xiaowei, "Reject the horse! Let's see what you guys do this time!"

Juma was surrounded by Shi Jian inside and outside the ditch, and the red pines on the edge of the forest were almost cut down by him.Shi Jian reckoned that an average beast with a distance of five meters would not be able to jump over it. If he could jump over it, he wouldn't be extremely hungry, so he was very satisfied with this set of defenses.

Xiaomeng and Serena looked at it, feeling a little apprehensive.However, they are petite and good at climbing. They can climb over the rejecting horse, jump over the ditch, and climb another ring of rejecting horses.But it was too troublesome, so they circled around Shi Jian and asked Shi Jian to find a way to get out.

Of course Shi Jian had to go out. In fact, he left a small gap in the circle where the horses were rejected, and he could pass through sideways. He also built a wooden bridge on the trap, so that he could pass smoothly.

After seeing Shi Jian's demonstration, the two little guys also happily shuttled back and forth between the two sides, having a great time.

It took half a month to build this fortification, and the weather gradually turned cold.It was still hot at noon every day, and it was cooler in the morning and evening. At night, Shi Jian had to put on a fleece jacket and turn on the fire.

Taking advantage of nothing to do, Shi Jian cut down some red pine trees, built another layer around the house, and replaced the door with wooden boards. It is estimated that the two layers of walls should be able to withstand the severe cold.

In the following days, Shi Jian began to prepare winter supplies.Chopping firewood, setting traps, and picking wild fruits every day is a mess.Only when he saw firewood piled up in front and behind the house, bacon and salted fish hanging under the eaves beams, and hazelnuts, walnuts and various sun-dried fungus in the granary, Shi Jian stopped. It's mid-October.

In the evening of this day, the howling north wind brought heavy snow with goose feathers, announcing the arrival of severe winter in Xiaoxing'an Mountains to all things.

Shi Jian and Xiaomeng Xiaowei sat around the stove, eating delicious barbecue and drinking warm white wine, while listening to the howling of the cold wind outside, talking.

"You don't know how I used to spend the winter." Shi Jian said to the little guys who were busy eating meat with their heads down. "At that time, I didn't wear a down jacket when I went out. There is heating, what is heating, you don't know..."

As he spoke, Shi Jian's voice weakened and became inaudible, and Shi Jian's mood drifted to the distant past.When he was a child, his father accompanied him on the sledge, playing snowball fights, skating with his classmates, and playing snow football. From the Harbin Ice and Snow World to the Yabuli Ski Resort, the scenes seemed to be in front of him, within reach but impossible to touch. .

Shi Jian drank the wine in the glass vigorously, letting the pungent taste roll in his throat, and the corners of his eyes sparkled under the firelight.

Stretching out his hand to wipe away the moisture from the corners of his eyes, Shi Jian smiled and said to Xiaomeng and Xiaowei who were looking at him: "Brother drank too much, I am happy today. It is snowing, I can still drink and eat meat, and I am still alive!" Brother is happy!"

After speaking, Shi Jian stood up, walked to the door, opened it, and let the strong wind blow into the room with snowflakes.

Shi Jian stood in the snow and sang loudly:

"It's snowing, it's sunny,

Don't forget to wear a cotton jacket when it snows.

It's snowing, it's sunny,
Don't forget to wear a straw hat when it's sunny!
wearing a straw hat—”

The singing sound was mixed in the wind and snow, and gradually spread far away. It seemed inaudible, and at the same time seemed extremely clear. It was floating in the mountains of Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and could not stop for a long time.

　Recently, I got rose rash and suffered from migraine again. Hu Yue went to the hospital today, and the CT results will come out in the afternoon.This chapter is updated late, please forgive me!For the sake of Hu Yue insisting on updating despite his illness, let's throw all kinds of tickets here!

　　
　
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