The huge size of the Brontosaurus meant that it did not move very fast, but the Pterosaur could fly more than ten meters with a single flapping of its wings. Every time Li Xiao flew a certain distance, he had to stop and wait for the Brontosaurus.
Just walking and walking like this, the Thunder Dragon is getting farther and farther away from the small plain, and the small plain can no longer be seen at all. Li Xiao knows that this is not enough, the Thunder Dragon may still wander to the small plain, and he needs to lure it away
to further distance.
But the Thunder Dragon quit. Maybe it was tired from running, or maybe its eyes no longer hurt. It stopped and stopped chasing Li Xiao.
"This is not possible!" Li Xiao hung on the neck of the pterosaur and flew in front of the thunder dragon again.
"I'll kick!" With his lower body in the air fluttering, Li Xiao kicked the Thunder Dragon on the head. There was nowhere to use the force in the air, and this kick was neither painful nor itchy, and did not cause any harm to the thick-skinned Thunder Dragon.
But it was enough to anger the Thunder Dragon. In the Thunder Dragon's eyes, these two tiny creatures dared to attack him!
So, it went berserk again, chasing these two hateful creatures gradually away...
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The whole morning was spent like this, and Li Xiao returned to Xiaopingyuan at noon.
Although the Dodo birdhouse and horse pen have been scrapped, the house with the largest amount of work has not been damaged at all. This is also a blessing among misfortunes.
After clearing away the clutter in the shed circle, Li Xiao built an identical shed circle on the same spot as the first one.
The next goal is to build the unfinished house.
Wood, thatch, fiber, these minimalist materials were tinkered with by hand, and a solid roof gradually appeared in the 3D image in the production column.
What Li Xiao has to do is very simple - raise his left hand, place the projected light and shadow on the roof, adjust the direction slightly, and confirm!
As Li Xiao lamented the convenience of projection, the roof also turned from light and shadow into a solid object, and the construction was completed.
The junctions between the roof and the walls are tightly connected, as if they were originally a whole. The whole house is natural, solid and reliable, and it looks pretty good from the looks of it.
Sure enough, if it is made from scratch, it must be a high-quality product!
At this point, the construction that took Li Xiao several days and a lot of effort is completely completed. Looking at the house as a whole, it is high in the middle and low on both sides. The sloping roof is also densely covered with a layer of thatch.
Beautiful and rainproof.
The foundation is similar to a stilt building in the tropics, which is hollow from the ground. However, it is much shorter than the stilt building, almost thirty centimeters high from the ground.
For the seaside with a humid and hot climate, this kind of design is very necessary, which can not only keep the house dry but also prevent the infestation of snakes and insects.
The pure wooden walls exude a simple and natural atmosphere, which complements the original Ark Island.
The interior of the house is spacious, and there is a small space as soon as you enter the door. Li Xiao uses this place as a workshop. The grinder, storage boxes, etc. are placed here, and the free space is prepared for the future blacksmith table and furnace.
The room on the left is the bedroom. There are two windows on the wall of the bedroom. The sunlight shines in without any obstruction, illuminating the bedroom brightly. The bed is placed under the window. When you look up, you can have an unobstructed view of the scenery in front of the house.
A small room on the right side of the work area is the kitchen. The cooking pot is placed in the center of the kitchen floor. There is a missing piece of the roof above, which is used for exhausting smoke.
The newly built house has no decorations inside and outside, making it look a bit shabby, and the furniture is extremely simple. However, all this is temporary, and I believe that it will not be long before this house becomes warm and full of life.
Looking at the completed house, Li Xiao's face showed a smile from the bottom of his heart.
Finally, in this strange and dangerous world, I have a decent place to live. Although I am less popular, at least I don’t have to hide around anymore!
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Moving to a new house!
If this kind of festive event happened in another place, I would definitely call my relatives and friends and have a big meal to celebrate.
There are no conditions on Ark Island. It is impossible to have friends and relatives, but it is still possible to have a big meal...
Several long logs lean together to support a large bowl-shaped stone pot, which is the constructed cooking pot.
Li Xiao stood in front of the cooking pot and put in the ingredients he had collected over the past few days.
It goes without saying much about raw meat and berries, but besides these two, there are many other ingredients in the surrounding jungle.
There are many food crops that Li Xiao is familiar with on Ark Island, such as corn, potatoes, mushrooms...
The amount of ingredients collected in the past few days is not much, but it is enough for this meal.
Some corn and potatoes were left as seeds for planting, and Li Xiao threw the rest into the cooking pot.
The soup in the pot was boiling, and there was a constant gurgling sound. He stirred the pot with a wooden stick, and the aroma of the cooking food immediately reached his nose...
This big pot of stew is almost done!
However, this pot of delicious food is still missing the essential thing - salt!
Salt not only adds flavor to food, but is also essential for the body. Fortunately, Ark Island is surrounded by ocean and there is no shortage of salt.
Li Xiao didn't know how to make salt, so his method of making salt was even simpler. He collected the powder dried in the sea and picked out visible impurities, and the rest became simple salt.
This crude salt tastes as you can imagine, bitter, sour, astringent, and other indescribable flavors, but at least it is salty enough.
After all, it would be good for Li Xiao, a liberal arts student, to be able to produce salt.
Wooden bowls, wooden chopsticks, wooden spoons, these simple eating utensils took Li Xiao several hours to make, but it was all worth it before this pot of delicious food!
Put the food in the pot and the soup into a bowl. Li Xiao couldn't wait to pick it up and take a sip without blowing it a few times.
The slightly hot soup flows freely in the mouth, spreading the taste throughout the mouth, and then flows into the stomach through the throat...
The taste of this soup is just right. For Li Xiao, who has eaten monotonous food for a long time, this is a rare delicacy. He picked up a piece of stewed potato with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. There were some tears in the corners of Li Xiao's eyes!
If this pot had been left in the past, it would have been difficult for Li Xiao to take another look at it, let alone eat it, but what about now?
Man is such a creature, he wastes things that are easy to get at will, and only cherishes them after losing them...
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After several days of collecting materials and building houses, Li Xiao's level once again increased by two levels in a row.
[Note: Giant herbivores wandering around randomly? Large carnivores passing by by chance? These are not problems, you just need to set up a circle around the house to keep the horses away!]
[Note: Pachycephalosaurus is not the best mount, but it is definitely the toughest! 】
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[Name: Wooden spiral staircase]
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The blueprints unlocked this time are particularly important for rejecting horses. This thing is completely to prevent the situation like yesterday.
The two-meter-tall Juma is full of sharp wooden thorns, and any animal will be stabbed if it touches it. If the Brontosaurus comes again, it will be the one injured this time when it kicks off!
There were a lot of materials left to build the house, so Li Xiao made a dozen of them and built a yard around the house.
At this moment, the courtyard became a solid fortress, and those dangerous creatures could no longer approach it. This place completely became Li Xiao's private territory.
On this dangerous Ark Island, Li Xiao finally has a completely safe shelter. He no longer has to be wary of wild beasts harassing him, and he no longer has to worry about Dilophosaurus and Brontosaurus coming from nowhere...
"Internal and external troubles" have been solved, and the only remaining "internal trouble" is "eating".
At present, Li Xiao's food reserves are quite sufficient, enough for him to splurge for a while, but he is not a person who rests on his laurels. He has to make plans for the future.
How to do it? It’s just three things: fishing, hunting, planting, and breeding!
To completely solve the food problem, it is difficult to rely solely on fishing and hunting. Once all the weak herbivores around the small plains are killed, future food can only be obtained by luck.
Even if the hunt is successful, the amount of food obtained is uncertain, whether it is enough to eat or not.
Not only that, the islands and oceans are full of dangerous predators. Once you encounter them while fishing and hunting, you may turn from a hunter into a prey.
Thinking about being hungry and running for your life is definitely a torture.
It is imperative to develop planting and breeding!
Although these two methods also consume a lot of manpower and time, they are not dangerous and are the safest ways to obtain food.
Planting and breeding can not only provide a stable source of food, but also save Li Xiao's time, freeing him from the busy fishing work and allowing him to spend more time elsewhere.
In terms of breeding, many creatures on Ark Island can be raised as food reserves, and many non-aggressive herbivores are good choices.
At present, the best breeding creature is the dodo. Li Xiao thought of this before building the dodo birdhouse.
This cute creature is not only cute, but its meat is also delicious. Moreover, this creature is easy-going and extremely easy to breed, as you can clearly see from the "alarm clock".
Just do it!
Let’s set off, grab a few more “alarm clocks” and keep them so they can lay eggs and eat meat...
So, on the edge of the beach——
"Hello everyone, my name is Bear Griffiths, and I'm going to show you how to catch a dodo. Follow me..."
"Shh~ look, what did I find? It's a lone dodo! We can try to capture it. A dodo can provide us with energy for several days. They are rich in protein.
But the dodo is not easy to deal with."
"We approach it slowly from behind, being careful not to make any noise!"
"Hey, I caught it! It struggled hard! We cut off its head and the rest of the parts can be eaten raw. Its protein is beef... um... I don't know how many times, it seems not as high as beef
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"Of course, if time is not tight, we can bake it first, whichever will be more delicious!"
"Well, it has a crunchy texture and tastes just like chicken..."
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Well, it's not as complicated as the above. Li Xiao just caught the dodo on the beach and threw it into the already built dodo house.
Creatures such as dodos can be seen everywhere on the beach. They are so clumsy that they are so slow to escape. A quick acceleration can catch them and pin them to the ground.
The only problem is that the dodo is quite large and not light, so it is quite difficult to hold it up.
Coupled with their constant struggle, the fallen feathers stuck to Li Xiao, and he became a "birdman" in the blink of an eye!
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On the small plain and the beach not far away, Li Xiao's figure shuttled back and forth...
At this moment, he was catching dodos on the beach. He flew up and knocked down a dodo with blue feathers. After suppressing the dodo with the weight of his body, he put both hands in his arms.
The dodo groped around.
Touching the two wings of the dodo that were constantly flapping, Li Xiao held the dodo's wings tightly with one hand and one wing, then stood up and picked up the dodo.
Ignoring the dodo's claws, Li Xiao raised it to his chest and ran towards the small plain.
Returning to the yard, throwing the dodo into the birdhouse, Li Xiao left again...
A dodo fled in a hurry, with Li Xiao chasing closely behind it. The moment it stepped into the quagmire, Li Xiao swooped down and subdued it.
The dirty muddy water splashed everywhere, and Li Xiao and the dodo kept tumbling in the mud, and in the blink of an eye they were covered in mud.
"Young man, are you still making trouble with me?"
Li Xiao spit out the dirt in his mouth and wanted to clean up his body, but he had no choice but to give up as he was still holding a struggling dodo in his arms.
Ever since, I saw a black figure flying across the plain with a black object in his hand. The struggling black object was still splashing with mud...
And the black figure showed a row of white teeth and was still grinning...
This black dodo was thrown into the aviary by Li Xiao, and it immediately attracted the rejection of other dodos. Those dodos who had been captured before and had relatively clean bodies really couldn't recognize the black mass in front of them.
What kind of creature is that?
In the sad eyes of the dodo covered with black mud, Li Xiao left the yard again...
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Li Xiao is very happy. Why is he happy?
There is no such thing, because the originally empty dodo birdhouse is now full of dodos.
The free Dodo was kidnapped by Li Xiao and huddled together in horror, everyone staring at Li Xiao with fear in their eyes.
However, when Li Xiao threw the collected berries into the enclosure, the dodos instantly forgot what they were afraid of and rushed towards the food.
Li Xiao smiled when he saw such a scene. As expected, these dodos are the best creatures to keep in captivity. I am afraid that if they are fed a few more meals, these dodos will be too happy to drive away.
There is no problem with the initial breeding, and the next step is planting.
Growing up in a country with thousands of years of farming civilization, although Li Xiao has never farmed with his own hands, he has been exposed to and understood the planting process since childhood.
Turn the soil, fertilize, sow, water, weed...
The cultivated land made by hand was extremely convenient for Li Xiao. He only needed to cast the light and shadow on the flat ground, and a square piece of cultivated land surrounded by wooden boards and full of soft soil appeared in front of him.
This saves the step of turning the soil. Li Xiao only needs to apply some fertilizer and water some water before planting.
But now the fertilizer has become another problem.
There is no need to think about chemical fertilizers, we can only use farmyard manure. The problem is that we don’t even have farmyard manure now, and we can barely get enough of manure.
However, children all know that fresh manure cannot be used as fertilizer. It must be stacked and fermented before use. Direct use will burn the seedlings.
Then the problem arises. First, the amount of feces is not enough. Second, even if there is enough feces, it takes time to ferment into fertilizer.
Helpless, Li Xiao could only plant the seeds first and fertilize them later.
Turning to look at the dodo and two mounts raised in the yard, Li Xiao took some food and fed it to them again.
While throwing the food into the pen, Li Xiao ordered loudly:
"Eat it all for me! Poop for me when you're full!"
