Back to the Wilderness

Xie Cheng and Ji Fuyun stayed up all night, chatting about everything.Xie Cheng talked about his experience on Jueming Island, gathering a group of people together by raising Gu, and leaving the last surviving person; talking about various strange and thrilling tasks, looking for lost pearls in the trench, finding The black box of a country's ship that was swallowed by a giant cuttlefish, learning 100 national languages ​​and 320 local dialects, and hundreds of complete code systems...

Ji Fuyun said that compared with Xie Cheng's experience of wandering on the verge of life and death, his college life seemed a bit dull, especially the intrigue and mutual slander in the student union for the position of minister, which now seems ridiculous.Ji Fuyun couldn't help laughing while talking, perhaps because his vision has broadened, he used to care about and despise things, but he can't make any waves anymore, and he doesn't even bother to give them a disdainful glance.

Xie Cheng was very interesting to hear that these were exactly the lives he had never experienced.The dance he knew was a high-class and delicate arrangement, a hypocritical courtesy with a mask, not a performance by a group of amateur artists that Ji Fuyun said.Of course, Ji Fuyun guessed the "out of tune", and he couldn't hear it either.

When it was light, the two returned to the camp.

Everyone who had already woken up had subtle expressions.

Seeing Ji Fuyun whose breath was obviously not as sluggish as yesterday, Gao Yiyang clicked his tongue twice: "Sure enough, Boss Xie has a solution."

"Hey hey." Old Wang smiled strangely and winked at Xie Cheng.

Xie Cheng ignored him, distributed his load, and started his journey again.

The undulating hills were constantly shrinking under the feet of everyone, and finally, when they crossed a hill again, everyone's vision suddenly widened, and the goal was no longer the green hills like waves, but a pale yellow.At the end of the line of sight, there are cone-shaped volcanoes.

"Are you there?" Someone asked cautiously and softly.

"It should be here." The answer was equally unassuming.

"It's here." Xie Cheng gave them an affirmative answer.

"Ah!" Cheers burst out, "It's finally here! We're all still alive! Great!"

The roar echoed in the valley, layer by layer, which was the great luck for the rest of the life after the catastrophe.

Everyone's tired bodies were immediately filled with vitality. Looking at the volcano in the distance, their footsteps became more and more eager.

But as the saying goes, Wangshan runs dead horses.The volcano is right in front of you, but it is not a short while to walk.

Out of the hills, there is a wilderness, full of yellow-brown volcanic blocks and volcanic gravel, and no grass grows. It is obviously winter, but walking on this terrain, one can feel a kind of oppressive heat.

This is the landform left over from the volcanic eruption, and the hot magma swallowed all the surrounding creatures.Before the lava disintegrates, this place will only be a wasteland.Perhaps in a few years, the soil will be fertile and the vegetation will be abundant.

It was not until the sun began to slant westward from directly above that they finally arrived at the volcano group. There are vast lava platforms here, and there is a vast expanse of brown or ocher red or gray-yellow, with some low-lying lava in high density. The short volcanic cones of various shapes also have no vegetation coverage, bare rocks, desolate and magnificent.These volcanic cones give people a lifeless feeling, as if they have been silent for many years and have lost their lives.

Xie Cheng led the crowd back into the volcano group.

Gradually, everyone can clearly notice the change in temperature.From the coldness at the beginning to the coolness later, and now to the very comfortable temperature, it can be expected that the temperature will increase as you go further in. It is very likely that there will be one or even several active volcanoes in the center of the volcanic group.

"You stop here." Xie Cheng motioned to everyone, then exchanged glances with Ye Feisheng, and they both nodded, "Let's investigate in depth."

Ye Feisheng's weapon is fire, and he is the one who is least afraid of heat.

The two quickly disappeared from everyone's sight, submerged in many volcanoes.

Until the bright moon was in the sky, the temperature gradually dropped, and there was a chill again. Those who stayed at the place set up fire grills and began to barbecue.When the smell of meat overflowed, Xie Cheng and Ye Feisheng came back.

Both of their faces were blushed after being roasted by the scorching heat, which had not subsided for so long, one could imagine how high the temperature inside the volcano group was.

Sure enough, after their investigation, they found an active volcano about 2000 meters away from here, with a height of [-] meters, and there were signs that it had erupted not long ago.Fortunately, because of the terrain, most of the magma flowed to the opposite side of them, and the impact here was not large.

Now this location is the most suitable place to set up camp.Both Xie Cheng and Ye Feisheng decided to stay here temporarily.I'll just get some sleep tonight, and the field allocation will start the next day.

You know, there are several craters with hot springs here, and it will be much more convenient to find a place close to the hot springs.

After the meal, Ye Feisheng called Huangfu Yixiu and the others aside to discuss matters.Xie Cheng naturally gathered the core of the team for a meeting.

"The matter of the territory will be resolved tomorrow, and the outcome will be determined by force. Three out of five rounds." Xie Cheng took a stone and drew a triangle on the ground, focusing on drawing three vertices, marked as abc three points. He pointed Pointing to one of the points a, "Ye Feisheng and I have both taken a fancy to a place, which is here, a circular crater with a diameter of about 50 meters, which is very suitable for us to live in. Among them, point b is a hot spring, and the water temperature is constant. 41 degrees Celsius, point c is close to the active volcano, and the temperature of the hot spring water above is 94 degrees Celsius."

Ji Fuyun added: "The water temperature of 41 degrees Celsius is the most suitable temperature for human body warm water bath, and the boiling water of 94 degrees Celsius can cook most of the food."

"It's great!" Gao Yiyang cheered, with longing on his face, "I can finally take a hot bath comfortably! Soaking in hot springs, it's wonderful to think about it." Since leaving the safe zone, apart from being drenched in the rain, he I have never showered before, and my body already smells bad.Maybe it's because everyone has a taste, but no one dislikes anyone.

Lao Wang's focus is more on eating: "Eating some barbecue every day, my old teeth are about to shatter, and I finally want to change the taste! Stew Ji Xiaozi's cabbage quickly, and boil it in water." Chinese cabbage!"

Ji Fuyun glanced at him sideways, "That's for saving seeds."

"I just said that casually." Old Wang said awkwardly.

"You all have good ideas, but the premise is that you can grab this place, otherwise you can only settle for the next best thing." Xie Cheng drew a line segment from point a, roughly intersected with the perpendicular line of ac, and marked it as point d , "This is also a relatively suitable crater for human habitation. The temperature is suitable. It is relatively close to point a and point c, but it is relatively far from point b. It takes about an hour to walk."

This means that you will not be hungry, but if you want to take a comfortable warm bath, then go for an hour obediently.But they don't have a lot of time to be idle. The volcano group looks desolate. If they want to catch food, they have to go far away, and the nearest is the hills when they came.The time spent on hunting definitely takes up most of the day, how can there be that time to soak in hot springs.

Of course, if you really want to soak in hot springs, you can camp directly next to the volcanic cone with hot springs.It's just that, after a few nights, without the heat blessing in the crater, people may be frozen and suffer internal injuries. The current temperature is dropping more and more every day.

"Oh, we have Boss Xie here, so we can rest assured!" Gao Yiyang dismissed the martial arts issue.

"Five games and three wins." Xie Cheng emphasized.

Gao Yiyang was stunned, then pointed to Zhou Qiming, Ji Fuyun, Wei Xing and others, "Aren't there still them?"

Xie Cheng shook his head slightly, "I won't go up, it's up to you then."

"Thank you, Boss, who will deal with that Ye Feisheng?"

"Ye Feisheng won't come either." Xie Cheng waved his hand and revealed the matter, "Next, let's talk about other things, first of all, the residence."

The crater can block the wind, but not the rain and snow. They had to build a simple shed.Xie Cheng called Carpenter Wang to inquire for a while. Carpenter Wang was better at making some delicate gadgets. In addition, without tools, it was difficult to make smooth and neat planks out of tree trunks to form a shed.

"If it doesn't work, just divide a tree into two and put it together casually. If it is rough, it will be rough. When the time comes, use some hay to plug the gap, and it will also keep out the rain."

"It's feasible." Xie Cheng nodded. Although it would be a big trouble to move trees more than ten kilometers away here, to Xie Cheng, as long as it can be seen as feasible, it is nothing. Get some food."

Lao Wang immediately spoke positively: "Food must be mixed with meat and vegetables! The body has a balanced nutrition, so it has the strength to work!"

This sentence is quite reliable, Ji Fuyun said: "I found a lot of wild vegetables in the hilly area. Although most of them are on the verge of withering due to the weather, if we gather some as soon as possible, blanch them in hot springs, and dry them, they can be preserved for a long time. time."

"Right!" Old Wang snapped his fingers, "Meat can also be dried in the sun, it's better to make some smoked meat, if possible, drain some oil, heat it and pour it on wild vegetables when eating later, that taste, tsk tsk! It makes me really want to show off my skills and show you my cooking skills!"

"Culinary skills?" Gao Yiyang squinted, and said coolly: "Master, do you still have this thing?"

Lao Wang slammed Gao Yiyang on the head, "Didn't you hear me say 'really want', I really want to show you if I don't!"

Crowd: ...

Xie Cheng said at the right time, "That's it, we will be divided into the vegetable picking group and the hunting group, and we will split up after reaching the hills, but we should not be too far away, so that the two groups can respond in time without affecting each other." Then he said to Ji Fuyun : "You are the leader of the vegetable picking team. Chen Jia is with you. It is best to bring He Zhongqing with you. I will also assign you five people with good skills."

Ji Fuyun said yes, and said: "Zhao Lan and Xu Huihui have learned a lot of basic knowledge of distinguishing wild vegetables from Zhong Qing, which can also come in handy." There are many kinds of wild vegetables, many of which are very similar to other plants. If you are careful, it is easy to confuse it. If it is an ordinary weed, it is fine. The scary thing is that there are many poisonous plants that are similar to wild vegetables. Once you make a mistake, you will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, and even death.

Xie Cheng pondered for a moment, and said to Zhou Qiming: "You and Ji Fuyun will also protect them."

"Yes." Zhou Qiming always obeyed orders.

"Okay, the meeting is over."

"What a neat meeting..." This is Gao Yiyang who was brainwashed by the leader's foot-binding meeting.

Xie Cheng, who got up and was about to leave, paused for a moment, and said, "Tomorrow's martial arts competition, please do your best."