Chapter Eleven Survival in the Wild
"When the weather is clear at night, you can use the North Star to determine the direction. You must first find the Big Dipper..."
The team members all looked up at the sky and imagined. Li Baoqiang paused and took a breath, but his stomach growled.
“When you lose your way in the wild, do not panic, but stop immediately, calmly recall the path you have taken, try to reorient yourself according to all possible signs, and then find the road again. The most reliable
The method is to find out when you have lost your way and return to your original place of departure.”
The fat man Wang Zhiming thought for a while, but then he had another question: "Captain, look at all the running and jumping all the way. Everyone is exhausted, and there are bruises and sprained feet. How come you don't have anything wrong with you?"
Woolen cloth?"
Li Baoqiang rubbed his nose and said with a smile: "First, you have less training. This time when we go back, each person will do five kilometers of cross-country every day, one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred non-stop assassinations, and one hundred non-stop slashes."
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After the fat man heard this, he immediately felt countless looks on his back that wanted to eat him up.
"In the apocalyptic world, you can only survive if you are stronger than others! Two people are being chased by a tiger. You don't need to outrun the tiger, you just need to outrun the other person. But I want to tell you, you have to outrun the tiger.
Survive." Li Baoqiang's words alerted the team members.
Li Baoqiang rubbed his nose and continued: "This is exactly the method of traveling on complex terrain that I want to teach you."
He stood up and demonstrated excitedly on the slope, gesticulating while talking, as if he was back in the past when the instructor was explaining wilderness survival skills to a group of new recruits.
“When traveling in mountains, in order to avoid losing direction, save energy, and increase travel speed, you should strive to have roads that do not go through forests and cross the mountains, and there are major roads rather than small roads. If there are no roads, you can choose to travel along longitudinal mountain ridges, ridges, mountainsides, or small rivers.
Travel on the edge of streams, and on terrain with tall trees, sparse forests, large gaps, and low grass. Try to walk along beams rather than ditches, and walk vertically rather than horizontally.
When traveling, take long strides instead of small steps. In this way, after dozens of kilometers, you can take more steps with less than ten thousand. When you are tired, use slow and relaxed steps to rest instead of stopping to rest..."
The team members looked at Li Baoqiang with admiration. The captain knew so much. They benefited a lot from this training and everyone was full of confidence in survival after the apocalypse.
"Captain, stop talking. I'm already hungry after walking for a long time, and you won't let me bring any food. What should I do now?" The fat man was grunting with hunger, and the other team members were also dazzled.
"What do you want to eat?" Li Baoqiang asked the fat man Wang Zhiming with a joking smile.
"Meat, lots of meat, big chunks of meat! There was once a delicious piece of elbow in front of me, but I didn't cherish it. If God could give me another chance, I would definitely eat it.
If you have any small request, I hope it is 10,000 yuan!"
Seeing the fat man pretending to pray, the thin man smiled and said, "Ten thousand of your heads." Everyone burst into laughter.
Yes, before the end of the world, who didn’t waste big plates and bowls? Now that I think about it, I really don’t cherish it. I haven’t seen any meat for more than a month, and after hearing the fat man’s prayer, everyone couldn’t help but yearn for it.
"Hey, you want to eat meat? The food is right next to you. It's all delicious." Li Baoqiang smiled jokingly.
Is it around? Everyone looked around. There was a large lake at their feet, which had frozen over. The resting place was a grassland with a gentle slope, and the snow was covered with weeds. Where could the horses eat?
"There are two main ways to obtain food in the wild. One is to hunt wild animals, and the other is to collect wild plants. Today I will open your eyes and quench your thirst."
After saying that, Li Baoqiang went to the hillside and broke off some sharp thorns, took a thin rope, and came to the frozen lake.
He pulled out his spurs and dug out an ice hole. The ice hole was twenty centimeters thick. A strange thing happened. A big grass carp showed its head. Li Baoqiang pulled it up, followed by several more.
The fish jumped out on their own. After harvesting more than a dozen big fish in a row, the fish no longer jumped out of the lake on their own initiative.
Then Li Baoqiang tied the thorns to the string, and tied a small stone ten centimeters from the end of the string. When fishing, he slowly put the string into the hole. After a while, fish took the bait, one for now, and one for another. It was enough to catch a fish.
More than ten items.
Li Baoqiang handed the rope to the fat man Wang Zhiming, and Wang Zhiming caught more than ten fish, which was quite satisfying.
The team members were all shocked, this was incredible.
"The frozen lake surface is deprived of oxygen. When a hole is drilled in the ice, the fish come directly to the hole to breathe oxygen. Some can't wait to jump out of the water, and some can be caught with fish hooks. Because there is less food in the lake in winter, the fish
Hungry people are not selective about food, so even a thorn can catch fish."
Li Baoqiang took advantage of the situation and took the opportunity to teach his experience, and all the team members suddenly realized it.
"There is also delicious food. Use a shovel to dig this slope. If there is a small hole, dig deep. There will definitely be good food, and it will be delicious, hehe!"
More than 20 team members heard that they could dig up delicious food, and they dispersed in a hurry. Hunger can turn people into beasts. It is true.
The team members used shovels to shovel open the snow, looking for the so-called small hole, let alone the existence of a small hole. They continued to dig deeper along the small hole, and screams were heard everywhere.
Female soldier Wu Chun exclaimed: "Snake, what a big snake."
The team members huffed around and saw a spotted snake that was about the thickness of a child's arm and about two meters long. It was slowly squirming, as if it felt the cold, and kept shrinking into a ball, showing no fighting ability.
Li Baoqiang signaled Wu Chun to chop off the snake's head with a Miao knife. Wu Chun nervously chopped it several times, and finally the snake's head was chopped off. Li Baoqiang stepped forward and inserted the dagger into the snake's neck, slashed a small opening, and turned the snake over.
I pulled the snake's skin all the way to the end and stripped the snake alive.
The white snake meat is such a good thing, Li Baoqiang sighed in admiration, but all the team members felt like vomiting. Thinking about eating snake meat is disgusting.
"Keep digging, there are still good things." The team members dispersed in a hurry and continued to dig carefully. The screams continued one after another. Finally, they found four hibernating animals, snakes, toads, hedgehogs and mountain rats. The number was astonishing.
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These hibernating animals were killed by the team members immediately. After all, it is disgusting to see these ugly animals twisting their bodies that have not yet become flexible.
Li Baoqiang asked the team members to gather together, pointing to some insect pupae and earthworms in the soil and said: "Collect these too, they are delicious, tsk tsk..."
The tip of his tongue moved around his lips, and the team members felt a chill.
"There are also these wild vegetables, collect them all." Li Baoqiang added while teaching the team members to identify them.
When the excavation came to an end, Li Baoqiang asked the team members to find firewood and hay to prepare a fire for barbecue.
"Barbecue, tsk tsk!" The fat man Wang Zhiming rubbed his hands excitedly, and his saliva was about to leak out.
Li Baoqiang looked at the sun and directly sent Fatty to go to the lake to find a thin piece of ice. He asked Fatty to slowly polish it into a magnifying lens that was thick in the middle and thin on both sides. The Fatty grinded the ice grievancely, and all the team members also watched curiously.
Li Baoqiang also asked the team members to find a piece of dry cork as a drilling board, use a dagger to dig out a small inverted "V" shaped hole, and use dry grass to form a bird's nest shape under the small hole. The middle part was hollowed out to keep it as soft as possible.
Put a layer of very fine wood chips and straw velvet to act as tinder.
Then use a curved branch and tie a cloth strip to make a bowstring. Find a relatively hard and straight branch as a drill bit, wrap the bowstring cloth strip around the branch and pull it quickly.
Li Baoqiang demonstrated for a few times and then asked the two team members to pull the bowstring in coordination. When the two team members were sweating profusely, the bow started to catch fire and everyone screamed with excitement.
But the fat man said aggrievedly: "The ice mirror is polished." Li Baoqiang slapped his head and forgot about this.
Li Baoqiang also prepared hay and tinder, and asked the fat man to raise the ice mirror, look for the focus of the sun's rays passing through the ice mirror, and adjust the focus to the tinder. Soon, the tinder slowly emitted fireworks and caught fire.
The team members had their eyes opened today. It turns out that this is what drilling wood to make fire and grinding ice to make fire are like.
Several bonfires were built, and the team members barbecued meat and fish.
After a while, the oil splashed onto the bonfire, and the aroma suddenly hit the nostrils. The team members couldn't help but twitch their index fingers. They had not known the smell of meat for almost a month. For the team members who were used to eating meat before the end of the world, this meal only sprinkled a little bit.
Salted barbecue and grilled fish are simply delicious delicacies.
Li Baoqiang ate a few pieces of roasted snake meat, and made a pot of snake meat and wild vegetable soup in a small pot. He sprinkled some salt on it and drank it happily. At the same time, he did not forget to throw into his mouth from time to time an unknown insect cooked in the fire.
pupa.
"Common edible insects include locusts; dipped in soy sauce and eaten roasted, boiled or stir-fried; mantis: roasted or stir-fried after removing its wings, or boiled; dragonfly: edible after dry-fried; cicada: eaten raw or dry-fried,
Larvae are also edible; centipedes: dried and fried, but taste bad; beetles: larvae can be eaten raw or roasted; ants: fried, delicious; spiders: roasted with legs removed; termites: eaten raw or fried; pine caterpillars:
Grilled food.”
While Li Baoqiang was talking, he continued to throw an insect chrysalis into his mouth. The female team members felt like vomiting, but Li Baoqiang ate it with gusto.
“Edible wild plants include edible wild fruits, wild vegetables, algae, lichens, mushrooms, etc. Our country has a vast territory and is suitable for the growth of various plants, of which there are about 2,000 edible species.
Common edible wild fruits in my country include: mountain grape, tusi, black blind fruit, strawberry, sea buckthorn, torch fruit, myrtle, elegans, black rice tree, amla, etc., especially wild chestnuts, coconuts, papayas It is easier to identify and is a good food for emergency survival.
Common wild vegetables include bitter greens, dandelions, Houttuynia cordata, purslane, amaranth, shepherd's purse, wild amaranth, broom greens, water chestnuts, lotus, reeds, moss, etc. Wild vegetables can be eaten raw, stir-fried, cooked or boiled.
Dip and eat.”
All the team members were so impressed that they looked at Li Baoqiang with eyes full of reverence. They knew that they still have a long way to go, and only by following Li Baoqiang closely can they learn more and live better.
Li Baoqiang asked the team members to use burned plant ashes to continuously rub the snake skin until the oil was clean. With such good leather, many snake skin bags can be made before the end, but now it can only be used as scabbards.
The team members who had eaten and drank enough continued to walk in the mountains, but at this time their walking seemed very professional. After all, Li Baoqiang was talking like an old woman and imparting semi-innocent kung fu.
Chapter completed!