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Chapter 8 Rafting on a bamboo raft

Dinner was the four pig's trotters. He tore off the burnt skin on the outside of the pig's trotters and threw them away. In fact, there was not much meat left inside.

In the end, he ate about another pound of pig head meat in the rattan basket.

He found that his appetite was much greater, perhaps because he was consuming more!

He threw the remaining hoof bones into the bonfire to avoid attracting any wild animals.

After dinner, he broke off a mango stem, held it in his mouth and picked his teeth silently.

Listening to the crackling sound in the nearby campfire and the occasional roar of beasts in the distance, I was thinking about how to make a bamboo raft tomorrow.

Then I thought, are there any water monsters hidden in the river?

As I kept thinking about it, I didn't know when I would fall asleep.

When he got up the next day, he ran to the river to relieve himself, then washed his face, and stuffed a handful of mango leaves into his mouth to use as a toothbrush.

He did not make a bamboo raft immediately, but started looking for bamboo shoots.

There are indeed many bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest with mud and black skin. However, if these bamboo shoots are eaten raw, they will definitely not taste good and the tongue will be numb.

Only those yellow-skinned bamboo shoots that are not exposed to the soil or only have a little tip will be sweet.

He didn't pay attention to the bamboo shoots that had broken out of the ground. Instead, he looked for the small bumps and cracks, kicked them with his feet, and soon found one.

He used the wild boar's tusks to scrape away the soil and dig down along the tips of the bamboo shoots.

It didn't take long to dig out the root of the bamboo shoot. The sharp tip of the wild boar's tusks lightly scratched the root of the bamboo shoot and broke it off.

Then peel the bamboo shoot shells layer by layer to reveal the white bamboo shoot meat inside.

He hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so he lowered his head to nibble on the white bamboo shoots.

It's sweet, crispy and delicious, absolutely green and pollution-free. He thinks it tastes pretty good.

After chewing off half of the bamboo shoots, he continued his search.

After searching for more than two hours and digging out more than 20 bamboo shoots, he began to chop bamboo with wild boar tusks. Some bamboos had water in them, but most of them were empty.

He needs to tap on the bamboo to hear which bamboos are hollow.

He randomly found a bamboo as big as a bowl, and slowly scraped it with the sharpness of the wild boar's tusks. As the wild boar's tusks scraped, strings of bamboo shavings popped up and were collected by it.

These bamboo shavings are not only a combustion aid, but can also be used as a cushion under the body to increase softness.

The sharpness of the wild boar's tusks once again exceeded Yun Buliu's imagination. Not long after, a piece of bamboo was directly broken by him.

He followed the same pattern, and by evening, he had knocked down more than thirty bamboo trees.

He rested another night in the bamboo forest. On the seventh day, he got up early and started building a bamboo raft.

He didn't know whether the bamboos were buoyant enough, so he planned to build a double-layered bamboo raft.

Having watched outdoor survival programs, he still knows how to build a bamboo raft.

He first used wild boar tusks to cut all the bamboos into approximately ten meters, then gathered fifteen of them together, placed a thin bamboo on top, and then used grass and rattan to separate these bamboos and the thin bamboo.

Wrap them one by one and tie them tightly.

In order to increase the safety factor, he got two more thin bamboos and tied them in a few more places.

Then, he dragged the bamboo raft into the water to test its buoyancy.

He found that his strength had indeed increased a lot.

He didn't know if this was a benefit from time travel, or if it was electrocuted by that weird little beast.

In the past two days, the weird little beast didn't shock him, but just looked at him from a distance, and he felt as if something was wrong all over his body.

But this idea was too stupid, so he didn't test it.

But this bamboo raft, which weighed at least two to three hundred kilograms, did not seem that heavy in his hands.

After testing the buoyancy, he dragged the bamboo raft back to the shore, and then began to make the second bamboo raft. Finally, he stacked the two bamboo rafts together and tied them into one piece.

However, this was already in the afternoon.

He did not rush into the water, but went to find resin and made several torches.

On the morning of the eighth day, he gnawed a bamboo shoot, strung the remaining twenty dozen bamboo shoots into several strings with grass and rattan, and tied them one by one to the bamboo raft.

Then he tied the bamboo handles filled with resin vertically to the bamboo raft.

Then he picked up the long pole, jumped onto the bamboo raft, and tied the rattan pole to the raft. Finally, he looked back at the strange little beast squatting on the bushes on the shore and waved to it. "Goodbye, little guy."

Now, I am going to look for the civilized world. Thank you for your company these days."

After he finished speaking, he squatted down and untied the grass and vines on the raft. The bamboo raft lost its restraints and slowly floated downstream along the river.

Having no experience in punting, he stood on the bamboo raft and swayed involuntarily. Finally, he had to sit down and put the four- to five-meter-long pole across his knees.

The long pole swings left and right to adjust the direction of the bamboo raft.

On the shore, the strange little beast looked at Yun Buliu leaving the bamboo raft, feeling a little dazed.

After a long time, it started running on the bushes, so fast that it was almost just a black shadow.

call……

It jumped up and jumped towards the bamboo raft in the river.

From a distance of seven or eight meters, it jumped over.

When it landed lightly on the bamboo raft, it just made the bamboo raft shake.

The bamboo raft shook a little while sailing in the water, which seemed to Yun Buliu to be extremely normal, and he didn't even look back.

The strange little beast squatted on the back of the raft, looking towards the river bottom on both sides.

From time to time, a black shadow would pass by at the bottom of the river, making it extremely alert, and it would start to babble.

Hearing this voice, Yun Buliu suddenly turned his head.

When he saw this strange little beast standing on the bamboo raft behind him, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Then he laughed, and his eyes couldn't help but become moist.

In this lonely world, it feels so good to have company!

He wanted to pick up this weird little beast and stroke it, but thinking that it would discharge electricity, he had to give up this tempting idea.

If I were electrocuted by it here and then fell into the river, wouldn't I die?

He put down the long pole, took out a piece of pig head meat from the rattan basket, and carefully placed it in front of the little beast.

The little beast glanced at him, blinked its round eyes, stretched out its sharp claws, stabbed the piece of meat, picked up the piece of meat, stuffed it into its mouth, and chewed it slowly.

Just like that, Yun Buliu happily took this strange little beast, rowing a bamboo raft, humming songs happily, and walked through the river in the vast mountains.

Although the sound of birds chirping on both sides of the strait was constant, he always felt as if there were peeping eyes in the dark. He suspected it was some ferocious monster.

It's like the bamboo raft has not stopped and is rushing away with the current of the river.

One day passed, and the straight-line distance of the bamboo raft exceeded 40 to 50 miles. If we included the winding river distance, it was estimated to be 70 to 80 miles.

The efficiency is countless times faster than walking on foot.

Fortunately, the river was not turbulent, which made him feel relieved.

At night, he rowed the bamboo raft to the shore, tied the raft to the trees on the shore with grass and rattan, lit a torch on the raft, and peeled two bamboo shoots for dinner.

He handed the peeled bamboo shoots to the little beast. The little beast avoided it with some disgust, and then jumped into the bushes on the shore.



It’s the ninth day since I came into this world.

Not sure whether it was the lack of salt that caused the loss of appetite, or whether it was because he had been chewing bamboo shoots for the past two days, Yun Buliu felt that he had a problem with his appetite, and he wanted to vomit when he saw the bamboo shoots.

Maybe there are both situations!

Although he had no appetite, he still forced himself to eat a bamboo shoot.

Although the salt deficiency is just beginning to show, he is worried that if he cannot supplement enough salt for a long time, even if he does not starve to death, he will probably get sick and possibly die.

He didn't know much about medicine, so he was naturally extremely worried about getting sick.

He desperately wants to find the shadow of human beings and return to civilization.

With many hidden worries, he embarked on a journey to find civilization again.

The little beast came back again and jumped onto the bamboo raft without his instructions.

"Little guy, since you are following me, why don't I give you a name! You are so fluffy that you look like two balls of black yarn. Let's call you Furball from now on!"

The little beast who was forcibly named Maoqiu by Yun Buliu stared at him blankly without any reaction.

On this day, the bamboo raft was walking on the river. Suddenly, the soft hair all over the fur ball exploded.

Yun Buliu looked around, then followed Mao Qiu's gaze and looked toward the bottom of the river.

This sight made his scalp numb. All he saw was a huge shadow on the bottom of the river. The shadow twisted slowly, and finally fled towards the tail of the raft and disappeared without a trace.

He suspected that it was a big snake.

But if it was really a big snake, it would be really scary.

He roughly estimated that it was at least thirty or forty meters long. The green python he saw in the forest a few days ago, in front of this shadow, was the little witch in front of the big witch.

I don't know whether he was really lucky or because he had Furball by his side. This water monster, which was probably a big snake, didn't jump out to cause trouble for him.

"Bless the gods, Taoist Bodhisattvas, and help me find human civilization safely!"

He put his hands together and bowed around him with a pious look.

Furball tilted his little head and looked at him curiously.

In this way, he really spent half a day without any danger and ushered in the sunset.

After floating in the river for two days, he had already eaten all the pig head meat, but there were still a lot of bamboo shoots left.

On the tenth day, Yun Buliu set off on the bamboo raft again.

Until noon, they did not encounter anything strange, if they did not pay close attention to the prying eyes coming from the dark side of the shore.

And just when they were about to approach a bamboo forest, the soft fur on Furball's body exploded again.

I saw it jumping directly from the bamboo raft, skimming the river surface for seven or eight meters, jumping onto the shore, rushing upstream, and disappeared in an instant.

Yun Buliu looked confused, but soon became worried. He quickly rowed the bamboo raft to the shore, pulled the bamboo raft to the shore, and then carefully looked around.

At the same time, I cursed in my heart: You little furball, you are so unloyal! When disaster strikes, we all fly away. I’m talking about you!

He carried a stick, carried the cane basket on his back, put the remaining three torches into the cane basket, and checked his belongings, including lighters and cigarettes. The last cigarette was left.

Then he walked cautiously toward the bamboo forest.

When he walked a mile or two and came to the end of the bamboo forest over there and looked in front of the river, he never expected that there would be such a beautiful scenery in this deep mountain and old forest.

The bamboo forest is fifty or sixty meters long along the river. At the end of the bamboo forest, the river suddenly plunges into a large lake, and the view suddenly becomes wider.

At the same time, he also understood that Maoqiu saved him again.


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