Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 817 Supplies

Under the moonlight, the earth is only black and white.

The delicate gravel reflects the moonlight, and the surface of the desert is slightly white, with only one black spot suddenly appearing on the silver carpet.

The huge camel bent its long neck and lowered its head to drink water. There were layers of dark and bright ripples on the pitch-black water surface.

Bi Fang squatted on one knee, dipped his hand in some water, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, flicked his fingers to shake off the water, and then wiped it on the sand to dry.

There is no peculiar smell, it should be a normal water source.

Today is not a full moon, and visibility is limited. Bi Fang can't judge the purity of the water source by eyes, but only roughly by smell.

All oasis water sources in the desert are running water. Stagnant water cannot exist here for a long time. It has the highest water vapor evaporation rate in the world. A glass of 100ml water can evaporate in a few minutes in the most common glass. Gotta clean up.

However, even running water should not be taken lightly. There are huge herds of wild camels in the desert, and they often defecate in water sources.

Especially on some fixed routes, hundreds of camels drink and rest every day, and they even directly dye the water black.

Camels are fine if they drink this kind of water, but people don't have such a physique, and they can't stand such a source of water.

There is no peculiar smell, and the dangerous creatures nearby are excluded, and there is a high probability that it is a normal water source.

[Okay, we found water! 】

[Fang Shen just watched it for fun, if you really want to find the water source, you have to look at me Alpha]

【Are you polite? 】

Bi Fang stood up and probed the bushes with a stick to avoid any poisonous insects and snakes hiding in them, and then began to break off dead branches, preparing to start a fire to boil water.

This oasis is very narrow and long. It looks like a banana from a high altitude. The total area is about the size of a football field. It is neither small nor large. It is surrounded by narrow green belts less than three meters wide.

It took Bi Fang more than half a circle to collect enough firewood.

These dead plants have lost the ability to draw water. Compared with the humid climate of the rainforest, as long as they stay in the desert for a day, they will completely lose the water in their bodies and become easy to ignite firewood. This is one of the few plants in the desert. One of convenience.

Bi Fang took out two pieces of flint from his backpack and rubbed them together with one hand. A few sparks floated on the dry branches. After repeated several times, a circle of orange light soon ignited in the darkness.

The flame dispelled the cold and darkness, Bi Fang picked out a thicker branch, and held it to the pool.

The fire was clearly reflected on the surface of the water, but the color of the water was still invisible.

Bi Fang gave up this idea and continued to boil water.

If you didn't find a direct water source in the desert, but only found green plants, you can also put plastic bags directly on the green plants, wait for the transpiration during the day, and distill with the temperature difference between day and night to get clean water. source of water.

In ancient wars, it was said that grain was not transported for thousands of miles, which means that the grain transported for a thousand miles would not be enough for mules, horses and escorts.

It's meaningless to sweat 40 catties with 50 catties of water on your back. The weight should be adjusted according to your physiological condition and the distance. Generally, 4000 milliliters is enough in the desert.

But, I have Alpha, and it's no problem to triple the water resources on my back. Instead, it's the container that restricts us.

Water has relatively high requirements on the container, and it must also be able to be stored properly. The best thing is actually the stomach bag of the animal, or if the craftsmanship is higher, you can use their skin.

Bi Fang rummaged through his backpack and took out several dead rattlesnakes. These were all he encountered on the road these days, and some of them had already been eaten, leaving only the snake skin and snake stomach. Excellent water storage material.

Although rattlesnakes are not large in size, their stomachs are extremely expandable. It is no problem for a snake to hold two liters of water, and it is like a balloon, as long as it is tied with a knot at the end, it will not leak.

Bi Fang put the snakes on his arm one by one, took them to the pond, and began to clean and make them.

Four snakes, plus a kettle, can bring nearly 10,000 milliliters of water, save some to drink, and can last for a week.

It's better not to sleep too close to the water source at night, as it is easy to run into other animals. We can come back tomorrow.

After fetching some water, Bi Fang didn't choose to stay here to survive the whole night, but led Alpha, who was full of water, to the southwest direction. He didn't look for shelter, dug a hole, and dealt with it all night. .

In the early morning of the next day, Bi Fang came back to the water pool, continued to boil water, looked at the surrounding environment, even took a shower with water, and washed his clothes again. Looking for suitable plants, weaving a soft basket.

Alpha was gnawing on the sprouts in the oasis, with his mouth crooked to make up for the loss of these days, and even urinated on a rare occasion. After repeated absorption many times, it was as thick as pus, although it had a strong taste, But it still surprised many viewers.

[By the way, Fang Shen is pretending too much, I feel like he's going to explode]

[This milky yellow color makes me have a bad association (dog head)]

[What do you think of, speak out boldly! 】

【too avant-garde】

[We old-fashioned people can't see this]

[Will it really explode? 】

Baskets made of twigs were hung on both sides of the camel, and Bi Fang put the bulging snake stomach bags into them, like milky white balloons filled with water, and the fresh water flowing inside could be clearly seen through the surface , can not help but worry about whether it is installed too much.

Don't worry, the snake stomach belt is very expandable, and I specially woven a soft basket, which is not easy to break.

Bi Fang was holding the baskets on both sides of the camel, they were all woven with long leaves, not so much a frame, but more like a hollowed-out bag, tightly enclosing the water bag.

After doing this, Bi Fang looked back at Alpha and found that it was still grazing in the bushes.

【Absolutely hungry】

[Speaking of which, Alpha hasn’t eaten for a long time (dog head)]

[I ate some. In fact, Lao Fang didn’t encounter any plants. Didn’t he encounter two trees last time? It’s just that I don’t feel like I’m full]

[The poor child's hump has deflated a lot]

A healthy adult camel can go on for 15-30 days without eating or drinking if it is full of food and drink.

Under normal circumstances, a camel can eat about 13 kilograms of dry food and drink about 10 liters of water in one meal.

If it is in extreme circumstances, such as returning from the desert, it can eat at least 30 kilograms of food and drink up to 120 liters of water at a time.

They eat and drink far more food and water than their bodies need every day. This is actually a reserve, and the sign is that the hump is full and upright.

Eating and drinking a lot laid the foundation for the camel's ability to withstand hunger and thirst in the future.

After following Bi Fang for so long, as the audience said, the hump is indeed not as bulging as it was at the beginning. It looks a little tired, and the peaks are a little soft. Of course, it may also be because of sitting for a long time.

The fat in the hump also needs to be replenished, so Bi Fang decided to wait a day, or even two days if necessary, and wait until tomorrow to set off again, trying to bring Alpha back to its peak condition.

There is still more time, and then we will see if there is any food to collect.

There are a few dum palm trees in the oasis, and maybe some fruit can be found.

You can also look for fish in the water pool to make further supplements.

Fish cannot survive without water, and water happens to be the most scarce resource in deserts. Therefore, many people may think that there are no fish in deserts.

But the desert is not completely lifeless. There are usually oases in the desert, and there may be fish in the water of the oasis, especially in deserts with many underground rivers. For example, there are crucian carp and grass carp in the oasis of the Taklamakan Desert in my country.

In addition to oases, dark rivers, lakes, and caves in the desert are all possible.

【Oasis, lake, dark river, isn’t this the same thing (shuddering)】

【Bold! presumptuous! Are you questioning Fang Shen? , the dog's head saves his life]

[My god can't be wrong! 】

There is still a difference. Bi Fang rubbed his head and laughed, Generally, a lake in a desert is an oasis, but there are exceptions.

There is a desert covering an area of ​​1,500 square kilometers in Niurranian State in the north of Badong, which is the famous Thousand Lakes Desert.

Brazil has a tropical rainforest climate, which everyone should know, so it is rare to have a desert, and the formation of this desert has a lot to do with the tropical rainforest climate.

Because Brazil has too much rainfall, its two main rivers often flood seasonally. The flooded rivers carry a lot of sediment and are injected into the Atlantic Ocean, forming a large number of yellow sand dunes at the mouth of the sea. These yellow sand dunes are due to The effect of the trade winds blowing from the sea is blown inland, creating deserts.

[Good guy, things are always reversed]

[strange geographical knowledge added]

Bi Fang broke off a branch from a tree to make fishing lines and hooks.

After the desert was formed, since the average annual precipitation here is as high as 1600 millimeters, once the rainy season comes, lakes of various sizes will form in this desert, hence the name Qianhu Desert, but it is not an oasis. Because the lake is not stable, but the ecology of the oasis is stable.

The dry lake desert is the same as the river, so there are a lot of fish, and there is a desert with the most fish in the world.

Bi Fang processed a small piece of elastic branch into a hook structure, stuffed it into a small piece of pipe, bound it to the fishing line, and threw it into the lake.

Secondly, there are dark rivers. The dark rivers in the desert are formed in various ways. Some of them have a lot of rain, but they can't store them. Some of them go underground and dry up completely. However, due to the large temperature difference between day and night in the desert, the water vapor in the air will evaporate at night. Saturated and condensed into the ground through the desert surface, accumulated over the years will form flowing groundwater underground in some desert areas.

The dark river in the desert has no entrance, but it has an exit, and it is connected to other water systems, so that fish in other water systems can enter it.

However, since there is no light after entering the dark river, these fish tend to degenerate their eyes and become blind fish.

The Tuagre people in the Sahara Desert live completely in the desert. As humans, they naturally need water and food. The main source of water is the dark river, and the food is the fish in the dark river.

Living in the desert for a long time, the Tuagre people can accurately find the underground river, and the next step is to dig. When the water emerges, they will hang insects on the hooks to fish.

【Another Miracle Race】

[There are Sherpas in Everest, someone who dives there, and Maasai people, everyone is human, why are they hanging like this]

[But Fang Shen is better than all of them! 】

[Understood, Fang Shen is the ultimate creature! ! ! 】

[I have long suspected that Lao Fang is not a human being (funny)]

Finally, there are caves. In addition to dark rivers, oases and lakes, there are naturally formed caves in the desert, and some of these caves have water, and there are fish in these caves with water.

Death Valley in the Ugly Country is an arid and uninhabited area. There is a 130-meter-deep cave in the Mojave Desert. Fish were found in it. The body length of these fish is less than 5 centimeters, and the number is about 300, and scientists later named it the killifish.

There is nothing to say about the oasis, because the oasis itself is a complete small ecology. There are invertebrates and aquatic plants in the water.

It's just that in the above-mentioned terrains, the fish are mostly not big, because in most of the above-mentioned environments, the food abundance is very poor, and it is impossible to feed large fish, and these small fish rely on their small size. The demand for energy is low, and it has survived tenaciously.

Because of this, we don't need a very good fishing rod, a branch is enough.

While speaking, Bi Fang pulled up the branch, and a small fish no bigger than a palm hung on it, flapping its tail constantly.

Tilapia, the most common fish in the Sahara Desert, seems to have a well-connected underground.

[Hiss, there are really fish! 】

[Fishing in the desert, you have a hand]

【It's you who pays back】

[Will the fish in the desert taste better? 】

[No, it will be more expensive]

Bi Fang took it off, put it in Lou Kuang, hung fruit on the hook, and continued to throw it into the pool.

After waiting for the afternoon, Alpha stopped eating, and Bi Fang also had a good harvest, having a feast of grilled fish at night.

The next day, Alpha continued to eat, chewing monotonously with his big mouth, as if he would never get tired, like a ruthless grass-grazing machine.

Bi Fang touched Alpha's hump and found that most of it had recovered, which showed that it had almost stopped.

After filling the kettle with water for the last time, Bi Fang pulled away Alpha who was still eating, got on his back, and continued to move forward.

At the foot is the vast desert, and above the head is the vast blue sky without a trace of variegation. The sky and the vast desert merge into a line at the far edge.

Mali has become the background, maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, they will be able to reach the next country.