After returning, Duke prepared to dig an escape tunnel.
He had originally prepared a light and dark basement, but he thought that if things changed, he could hide in the dark basement.
However, when I went to observe the house destroyed by the ghost-faced sculpture, I found that the wind blades directly cut into the ground several meters deep. Obviously hiding in a dark basement is not safe.
Therefore, escape passages must be dug, and the farther away the better.
Once you find a spiritual beast invading, quickly escape through the escape tunnel, or hide in a certain section of the tunnel to avoid the limelight.
"Dig an escape tunnel, right? It will take a lot of time." Sally was noncommittal about Duke's idea.
She doesn't think spiritual beasts will invade Little Duke's farm.
Is it just to come and eat wheat?
"Just think of it as a spare time activity this winter, and use the whole winter to dig the escape tunnel." Duke said without refusal.
That night, he did not repair the scrapped spiritual card.
Instead, I picked up a piece of manuscript paper and hand-drawn a topographic map of Little Duke Farm and its surroundings.
His painting skills are not very good, but with the help of Xiaoyi in composing the map, he can still draw the map in a decent way and design an escape route on it.
"Bieye's basement is the entrance to the passage. We will create a passage to the small river bend in the north. Then we will build a thatched house on the edge of the small river bend and use a fishing spot to cover it. We will also dig a passage to the south and dig to the farm boundary. When the time comes,
Build a haystack to cover up."
Two escape routes were quickly planned.
So starting from this day in late November, he personally picked up the shovel and pickaxe and began to excavate from the dark basement.
While holding a compass, Xiaoyi used his terrain calculation ability to strictly calculate the directional deviation of the channel.
While holding a shovel and a pickaxe, he used his fighting energy to knock down the soil and rocks one by one, put them into baskets, and handed them to Levin to transport out.
Aunt Abi is guarding outside the gate to prevent the recruitment of temporary workers from knowing.
After all, the fewer people who know about the escape route, the safer it is.
Pillars were placed against wooden boards every one meter to support the escape tunnel and prevent it from collapsing. Unknowingly, we dug until December.
The two passages have been dug.
But this is not enough.
Duke spent another sum of money and bought a 1-level arcane card - the Fire Breathing Card, which can release high-temperature flames for scorching combat.
He used the fire-breathing card on the baking channel, drying out all the soil above, below, left, and right of the channel.
Use steel bars to support the top, then apply a thick layer of cement, and then support the wooden boards to shape the cement. After the cement on the top dries, he will also apply a layer of reinforced cement all around and under the feet to ensure the passage.
safety.
The technical difficulty is not great, but the materials are really used.
"Boss, leave the rest of the work to me." Levin studied with Duke and has already mastered the technique of applying cement.
He's not really stupid, he's just kind of honest.
With Levin doing the work for him and Aunt Abby helping out, Duke doesn't have to spend any more time.
He looked at the weather and felt that it might snow in a few days, so he planned to explore the southern forest before it started to snow.
"Let's go, Xiaoyi, hang up "Rainfall Breathing Method"."
"Okay master, a new process has been added for you..."
Neatly dressed, Duke put on his long sword and short knife and plunged into the southern jungle where the terrain was already familiar to him.
Traveling along the familiar road, we soon arrived at Shepan River.
The winter dry season has arrived, and there is only a little water left in the Shepan River, exposing most of the river bed, with some dead fish bones embedded in it.
There was no need to walk on the double wooden bridge. He jumped over the Snake Pan River in one leap.
Continue south.
This time Duke decided to take a road that had not been explored before, constantly chopping the fallen thorns, and headed deeper into the jungle.
"Master, please be cautious. Most of the surrounding plants are in hibernation. The "Rainfall Breathing Method" cannot resonate with them, and the monitoring ability has declined significantly." Xiaoyi reminded timely that the breathing method is not a universal investigation method.
"I understand, I still have Xiao Kabuto."
"Chichi!" The long-haired mongoose on the shoulder slapped its chest with its paws, looking funny as if it was trustworthy to be handed over to me.
But even though I haven’t understood the arcane yet.
However, Xiao Dou is of the second-ring spirit beast bloodline, and his inherited vigilance is still very trustworthy. Together with Xiao Yi, he can completely build a self-propelled radar.
Soon.
Xiao Dou pointed at a big tree and chirped.
The big tree is covered with gray nuts. Xiao Dou is an omnivore and likes to eat meat as well as fruits.
"Go pick some."
"Jiji!"
Little Kabuto jumped quickly from Duke's shoulder to the branch, quickly picked off a dozen nuts, and stuffed them into his mouth. His mouth could be as big as a squirrel's.
Jump back on your shoulders.
Xiao Kabuto spit out two nuts very interestingly, holding one in one paw, and handed it to Duke, intending to share it.
"Thank you, Xiao Dou, you can eat it yourself." Duke didn't want to eat the food spit out of Xiao Dou's mouth, it was all covered in saliva.
Seeing this, Kabuto lay on his shoulders happily, curled up his big furry tail, and spit out all the nuts in his mouth into the big tail. This tail was the best fruit plate for him, leaving only one nut.
, holding it in both hands and starting to bite and remove the shell.
Perhaps it is because winter is approaching and everything begins to become depressed. Along the way, a lot of thorns have been cut, but the harvest has been very little.
There are no spiritual beasts coming or going, no spiritual plants hiding.
Duke felt a little disappointed in his heart, so he switched the Sand Eagle 1.1 muzzle compensator version to his left hand and began to practice his left-hand pistol skills while exploring.
The development of the Sand Eagle 1.2 scope version was somewhat unsatisfactory, so he still had to rely on the crosshair to aim.
The shot is accurate at close range, but requires multiple adjustments at long range.
Poof!
Holding the gun in the left hand is a little awkward.
Naturally, the accuracy is not enough.
But Duke has enough patience, and sooner or later he can train his left hand to be as accurate as his right hand. When the time comes, he can switch his hands at will, and the battle will be sharper.
I kept groping until noon, but still found nothing.
Duke found a dead tree that had fallen to the ground, sat on it, tore a few pieces of toad, wolf and beast meat jerky, and shared it with Kabuto.
After eating, we continued exploring.
The sky was a little gloomy, and the silent forest looked eerie and scary. Duke and Kabuto both cheered up and moved forward cautiously.
It won’t take long.
Duke suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Xiaoyi, am I right? There is a small house here?"
"Master, you read that right."
Faintly among the trees ahead, there is a wooden house that looks like it has a sloping roof, but it is surrounded by grass and grass, and it looks as if no one has lived in it for a long time.
"Isn't this where the hunters come from?" Duke thought.
But it doesn't feel like it. The hunters in the small town don't dare to go too far into the forest, and it's just a place to stay, so they won't build such an exquisite-looking wooden house.
"Is there anything unusual, Xiaoyi?"
"No abnormalities were found in the breathing resonance."
"Okay!"
Duke glanced at Kabuto, who was lying lazily on his shoulder. Apparently, Kabuto didn't feel any danger.
He then approached the wooden house and continued to use his long sword to cut away the waist-high dead grass and thorns on the ground, and soon opened a road leading to the wooden house.
When you get closer, you can see that the wooden house is quite large and there should be an attic on the top.
There was a thick layer of fallen leaves around the house, and the door frames and windows were covered with spider webs. It had indeed been uninhabited for a long time.