Chapter 050 : Giants must have a giant's territory!
Lin Shuhang was not used to eating raw meat, so he skinned the goat with stones, put the minced lamb on a piece of bamboo, and put it on the fire to roast it.
Roast mutton was Lin Shuhang's first delicious meal in the giant forest.
Roasted under the charcoal fire, the plump goat meat is sizzling with oil, and the smell is tempting to drool.
It took Lin Shuhang two hours to roast the goat meat completely.
"It's time to eat!"
Lin Shuhang tore off a piece of oily roast mutton and devoured it hungrily.
For a survivor who has not known the taste of meat for several days, this is undoubtedly the most beautiful delicacy in the world.
Lin Shuhang devoured the roasted goat meat, feeling extremely satisfied physically and mentally.
After eating the roast mutton, Lin Shuhang burped, climbed back into the tree house, and had a good sleep.
When he came down from the tree the next morning, the half of the sheep he had eaten yesterday had disappeared. This made Lin Shuhang furious.
"Tmd, who stole my goat?" Lin Shuhang was furious.
After the hard-earned prey was stolen by other animals, Lin Shuhang was always in a depressed mood.
In order not to go hungry, I had to pick up my bow and arrow again and go hunting.
Relying on the hunting experience accumulated previously, Lin Shuhang gained a lot this time.
I actually caught a huge wild chicken!
The pheasants on Titan look like old domestic hens, but their size is incomparable to hens in the outside world. They are almost as huge as ostriches, weighing almost half a ton.
Lin Shuhang plucked the feathers from the chicken, removed the internal organs, and roasted it on the fire.
The taste of this kind of chicken is not very delicious, the meat is very woody, and there is no seasoning such as salt and pepper, so it tastes just like chewing gum.
Although the taste is not very delicious, it is very filling.
After eating only half of a chicken leg, Lin Shuhang burped.
In order to avoid losing the prey like yesterday, Lin Shuhang hung the remaining half of the chicken on a branch.
After eating and drinking, Lin Shuhang broke off a branch and lay idle on the top of the tree, picking his teeth.
He is considering upgrading the shelter.
The dark and humid rainforest environment has caused him great trouble recently.
Because the sky in the giant forest is blocked by trees, there is no sunlight all year round, and the changes between day and night are almost invisible inside, which makes Lin Shuhang feel very depressed.
In addition, the humid climate in the rainforest can easily cause people to suffer from various skin diseases, which is definitely not conducive to their physical and mental growth in the long run.
More importantly, Lin Shuhang is a human being with strong self-esteem, and humans cannot live in trees like monkeys.
People must have their own territory and residence!
Considering this, Lin Shuhang became more determined to upgrade the shelter.
"I want to build myself a house."
Lin Shuhang spit out the toothpick in his mouth and jumped off the tree.
The location of the house became Lin Shuhang's top priority.
Generally speaking, a suitable shelter must be built in a place with a wide view, abundant sunlight, and close to water.
But the problem is that there are a lot of biological activities near water sources.
Building the shelter there, although it is convenient to obtain water, greatly increases the chance of encountering various wild beasts, which is a very dangerous thing for Lin Shuhang.
Lin Shuhang thought of the deserted beach between the muddy swamp and the giant forest.
There are no plants growing there. Not only does it have a wide view, but it also has abundant sunshine, making it very suitable for settlement.
There were many resources available for use in the forest. Lin Shuhang immediately set out for the bamboo forest and cut down a large number of moso bamboos.
After transporting the bamboos back to the deserted beach, Lin Shuhang built a bamboo house there.
The construction method of a bamboo house is very simple. Just erect a few bamboos, put up a few beams, and finally cover the top with a layer of large plant leaves, and a bamboo house that can be used to keep out the rain is built.
In order to avoid harassment and invasion by forest animals, Lin Shuhang used the remaining bamboo to build a bamboo fence around the bamboo house.
After building the bamboo house, Lin Shuhang considered the issue of drinking water.
In this case, it is impossible for him to dig a well for use, because digging a well requires a lot of time and energy, and it is not necessarily possible to dig a spring.
"We have to find a way to get the water here."
Lin Shuhang decided to build a water diversion pipeline and returned to the bamboo forest to cut down a large number of moso bamboos.
Use a stone ax to split the moso bamboo in half root by root, and remove the bamboo joints inside to create a pipe that can be used to divert water.
As the saying goes, when people go to higher places, water flows to lower places.
In order to allow stream water to flow continuously to your residence, water diversion pipes must be installed from low to high.
During the process of erecting the water diversion pipe, Lin Shuhang constantly adjusted the height of the pipe.
This slope is minimal, but the creek in the forest is two kilometers away from here. As the pipeline continues to extend, the gap between the pipeline and the ground gradually becomes obvious.
Since the bamboo pipes were continuously raised during the erection process, the entire water diversion pipe had reached a height of 5 meters when it reached the stream.
Without the help of a water pump, it would be impossible for the water in the stream to fly up on its own. The huge drop put Lin Shuhang in a difficult position.
Fortunately, human wisdom is infinite, so Lin Shuhang decided to make a waterwheel.
"I want to make a water wheel to divert water!"
The waterwheel, also called the overhead crane, is an ancient agricultural irrigation tool that first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty of China.
Its shape resembles a huge ancient wheel, with scrapers and buckets for lifting water installed on the outside of the wheel.
When the river flows, the water will hit the scraper to make the wheels rotate, and the water bucket will be lifted into the air step by step. When it reaches the top of the water wheel, it will naturally tilt, and the water in the bucket will be injected into the water diversion pipe.
The water diversion efficiency of waterwheels is very amazing. For example, a large waterwheel with a spoke diameter of 20 meters can raise the river water to a height of 18 meters, easily irrigating six to seven hundred acres of farmland. It can be said to be a very advanced technology in ancient times.
Irrigation tools.
Lin Shuhang had seen this kind of irrigation machinery in some tourist attractions. Its production method was not very complicated. With vague memories and the manual skills accumulated in kindergarten, Lin Shuhang spent half a day building a simple machine by the stream.
water wheel.
The appearance of the waterwheel was simply appalling, and it was often stuck in the stream and unable to rotate, which made Lin Shuhang very depressed.
As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success. After many repairs and improvements, before nightfall, the huge bamboo waterwheel finally started to squeak in the creek in the rain forest.
With the rotation of the waterwheel, "tubes" of clear stream water were raised into the air by the buckets made of bamboo tubes, and the stream water was poured into the water diversion pipe like pouring tea. The stream water began to flow continuously along the bamboo pipes for several kilometers.
Moved to other places of residence.
"Finally we have clean water to drink!" Lin Shuhang was extremely excited. Under the night, he danced like a child.