doomsday survival

Chapter 8 Making Fire ([-])

After Shi Jian fell in love with outdoor activities, he also found a lot of materials on the Internet for learning, including materials on survival and making fire in the wild.But in Shi Jian's opinion, there are too few opportunities for him to use. After all, he has a zippo in his hand, and he is not the kind of masochist who loves extreme sports. How can he use this knowledge?

Therefore, Shi Jian's understanding of making fire in the wild is limited to knowing that there are two ways to make fire by drilling wood and making fire with flint.As for how to implement it, I don't know much about it.

However, Shi Jian, who has rich experience in lighting bonfires in the wild, still knows the basic requirements for making fire.

First, there must be a kindling.Even if you have matches or a lighter, don't try to light the firewood without a kindling.The firelighter has only one requirement—flammable.Such as dead grass, dry leaves, birch bark, pine needles, pine resin, twigs, paper, cotton, etc. are all suitable fire materials.

Second, there must be dry firewood.Dry firewood should choose dry, undecayed trunks or branches.

Again, choose the venue.Clear out an open space that is sheltered from the wind, flat, and away from dead grass and dry wood.Shelters under cliffs and outside the woods are good choices.

Finally, prepare fire-fighting measures. ?It is best to light a bonfire near water, or prepare some mud, sand, moss, etc. beside the bonfire for timely fire extinguishing.

All these conditions can be met in the birch forest. The only thing Shi Jian lacks is the method, tools, and a little bit of luck to make fire. ?
On the way back, Shi Jian lowered his head, bent down from time to time to pick up a stone or two, and knocked each other to see if there were sparks splashing out.

After repeated experiments, Shi Jian found that: the smoother the stone, the smaller the sparks produced by knocking; on the contrary, the more angular the stone knocked out, the more sparks.And you must choose a hard stone, like some sandstones, which will break when you hit it.

Experimenting all the way like this, Shi Jian unknowingly came to the big rock where the fungus was dried.

Shi Jian looked at the fungus and felt a little wilted.Looking at the watch again, it was only eight o'clock, and the sun was not very strong. When the sun was high at noon, it should be done faster.

Putting the fish on the open space of the stone, Shi Jian sat down, ready to take a good rest.

Being idle and bored, Shi Jian picked up the stones under his feet and kept knocking on the rock he was sitting on, hoping to find a suitable flint.

I tried one piece after another, but none of them fit.Shi Jian threw the stone sentenced to death far away, and picked up the next one to test.

With the continuous throwing of stones, Shi Jian lost his patience.

As soon as he reached out his hand, he touched another stone.When he got it, Shi Jian became a little angry.

This is an oval-shaped stone, off-white in appearance, and a bit large in size, barely able to hold it with one hand.

Shi Jian already knew in the previous experiments that smooth stones like this are useless. Now after trying for a long time, he took a useless stone, and naturally he didn't hit a single place.

Originally, he wanted to throw it far away, but to understand Qi, Shi Jian smashed the stone against the rock with all his strength.

As a result, when it was dropped, the stone did not break.Shi Jian's temper also came up, and he smashed it four or five times in succession, and finally smashed it in half.

After the stone was broken open, the inside was dense yellowish brown, and the section was very neat and sharp.

Shi Jian played with it for a while, and thought: "The two halves of the stone are sharp and sharp, why don't you try knocking on it."

Shi Jian knocked the two sections together vigorously, and sparks flew everywhere, which was even better than the two sections with the largest sparks found earlier.

"This is the legendary flint, right? The ancestor of the Suiren family is famous all over the world for this stuff, right?" Shi Jian guessed secretly.

It really made Shi Jian talk.This stone is the nodular flint in flint, which is mostly produced in limestone. It is generally only five to fifteen centimeters, and the big one is one or two meters. The stone is a bit larger than normal.

Flint has a sharp section, which primitive people loved very much, and most of the stone tools are made of flint.It is estimated that Suirenshi just smashed it when he had nothing to do, and found that the flint ignited the fire.This is not surprising, as most inventions are discovered by accident.

Shi Jian's self-confidence is now extremely inflated, "Brother is still very aggressive! Who would have thought of such a convenient way to catch fish? Only brother! Who can find flint to make fire? Only brother! If you don't believe me, go find someone nearby and ask!"

Of course, if one can be found.

Now that the flint is there, will the bonfire be far away?

Shi Jian walked back to the birch forest with much lighter steps. Looking for kindling, dry firewood, and a venue, as long as all the preparations were done, the fire would be made immediately. Shi Jian couldn't wait.

Back in the birch forest, Shi Jian tied the fish-covered willow in a knot and hung it on a tree, and then started a series of preparations.

Firelighters are easy to find, dry fallen leaves on the ground, and birch bark on birch trees are excellent firelighters.

In the process of stripping birch bark, flint played a great role.The fracture of flint is extremely sharp, and a deep gash can be easily drawn on the birch trunk.

Shi Jian chose a good distance on the birch trunk, and used the flint to cut a circle of openings in circles up and down, and then scratched the bark vertically. Pull, and a ring of birch bark is peeled off.

Not all the freshly peeled birch bark can be used as a firelighter. What can be used as a firelighter is the outer layer of skin, and the inner layer of bast and inner skin.

The bark of the birch tree is very strange, like paper, the layers are easy to peel off.Shi Jian peeled off the outer skin, leaving a white and smooth bast layer with a natural texture like a dotted line.If the yellow-brown inner skin is removed, it can be made into daily utensils such as boxes and barrels.But Shi Jian didn't know how to make it, so he had to put it aside first.

With the kindling, Shi Jian began to look for dry wood.There were many fallen branches on the ground. Shi Jian picked them up and looked at them. Many of them were decayed, and they were still somewhat damp, which was not ideal.

Try not to find rotten branches as dry firewood for fire in the wild. Such branches will emit a lot of smoke after burning and are not resistant to burning.

In order to find suitable dry firewood, Shi Jian kept walking in the forest.There were some dry branches on the tree, and Shi Jian climbed up and down tirelessly, and finally tore the cloth strips tied to his hands, and Shi Jian scratched a few wounds on his fingers.

But none of these can stop Shi Jian's enthusiasm. Thinking of eating grilled fish in a short while, Shi Jian has endless energy all over his body.

Hard work always pays off. With Shi Jian's continuous efforts, he finally collected a lot of dry firewood, most of which are birch branches, and a few are other tree species.

Shi Jian put away the dry firewood and birch bark, and then went outside the forest to find a suitable site.Shi Jian never dared to make fire in the woods.In the event of a fire, it is a trivial matter to lose a place to live, but it is not worthwhile if you set yourself on fire.

Compared with finding dry firewood, it is easier to choose a suitable venue.Shi Jian wandered outside the woods for a while, and found a suitable place.

This is a gravel land, surrounded by birch trees on three sides, very leeward, and the area is not small, it is easy to isolate a section of firebreak.There are many large and small broken stones on the ground, and there is nothing but some weeds with extremely tenacious vitality. Even the common bushes are just a few scattered trees growing close to the birch forest. near here.

After confirming the venue, Shi Jian returned to the forest and brought over the collected dry firewood and birch bark.There was a lot of dry firewood, and it took Shi Jian three trips to get all of them.

Shi Jian found a flat place, first put the birch bark, and then put some small branches from the dry firewood on it, especially the small branches with dry leaves were placed at the bottom by Shi Jian.Then put the larger branches on it, and a simple bonfire is arranged.

In Shi Jian's eyes, a bunch of raging bonfires are slowly burning, and they are getting more and more prosperous; the grilled fish exudes a tempting aroma, which makes people mouth watering. ?
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