Chapter 5 - The Law of the Jungle (Crossing)

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有了那块点火石,江炎在巨蟒巢穴中的生活慢慢变得没那么艰难了,至少能够填饱肚子了.

每天醒来之后,他都会到河边洗漱,然后把周围的枯草和树枝捡拾起来,用藤蔓捆扎起来,分成几捆扛回山洞,准备生火.

如今他喝完了水,刚进山洞,便瞥见了被蟒蛇尾巴收拾得整整齐齐的一堆木头,不禁毫无怨言的重新整理了一下.

他已经尽量把柴堆塞到角落里,但是蟒蛇体型巨大,势不可挡,只能盘绕在中间,长尾巴只要轻轻一动,就能扫过整个洞穴.

每次都看到江颜耐心地整理木柴堆,好几次都弄乱了,很像是故意的.

姜岩虽然有很多抱怨,但是他却不能责怪Python的行为.

他答应把需要的柴火拿出来,把剩下的收起来.然后他扛起一大块储存的猪肉,取下凿出山峰的燧石,把燧石和肉带到河边清洗,分类.

山里天气冷多了,肉放几天也不会变质.

江炎这次本来计划是多烤点肉的,气温一下降,他便渐渐有些懈怠了,再到后来,想干活条件有限也变得无力起来.

如果蟒蛇把他困在巢穴里,他必须为即将到来的冬天做好充分的准备.

至少要准备足够的食物和干柴,以及御寒的暖和的衣服...

江颜有些伤感的看着身上的两件毛衣,在原本的世界里还能穿着它们度过秋天,但是在丛林之中,如果白天不靠阳光汲取温暖的话,现在他怕是难以支撑过夜晚了.

再说入夜之后山里的寒气也愈发浓重,姜炎晚上光是靠着火堆取暖就已经十分煎熬了.

他蹲在河边,凿猪肉,用水洗净肉,心里安排着过冬的一切.

整只猪腿肉被姜炎切好,洗净,带回洞口的平台上晾干.

这个过程中,姜岩又捡了周围的枯枝和干草,直到堆满了两个角落.等到夕阳西下,他把猪肉收起来,生起火,在树叉上拿出几块准备烤的猪肉.

江颜把猪肉划了几道口子,每隔一段路程就翻过来,在中间又摘了几捆树枝和树叶.

他想用这些树叶来遮挡山洞前的风,山里晚上气温下降很快,没有兽皮之类的遮挡物,用​​石头来遮风也不切实际.

而且他并不拥有这片领土,所以当蟒蛇回来时,石头将被砸成粉末,甚至可能会激怒蟒蛇.

想想看,目前最适合的遮荫处就是树叶.

月亮落在洞口外的平台上,距离洞口有一段距离,光线无法透进洞内,只有淡淡的月光从洞顶漏进来,在寒冷的秋夜里,石洞更显得空旷,死寂.

姜炎看了一眼外面漆黑的洞口,又看向了火势爆发的方向.

他先用心地把烤肉翻过来,先把烤熟的一块已经冷却的肉,再慢慢地撕到嘴里嚼,咬一口满嘴的油.

烤好剩下的肉块,江颜用大树叶子裹起来,盘腿坐在火边,拿起洗好的水果,专心致志的品尝起来.

洞外,秋风凛冽,火光轰鸣.

洞外传来一阵奇异的沙沙声,让江颜心中微微一紧,下意识屏住呼吸,才能辨别那是什么声音.

虫子还是野生动物?

若是有野生动物顺着烧烤的味道找到洞口,姜炎全靠自己,又没有任何武器可以防身,自保能力几乎为零.

姜炎盯着洞外漆黑的群山,希望那条巨蟒能快点回来.

仿佛他有所期望,就在他稍加思索的时候,外面突然落下一道黑影,那条巨蟒又回来了.

看到它,江彦顿感安全许多,连眉宇间都不自觉地露出了笑容.

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A cool cheek, python head down with snake letter son to his neck and denomination swept, Jiang Yan for its sudden licking/licking behavior, quite a bit of see not strange.

"Bang", the python brought it back a hanged deer, the bloody taste choked Jiang Yan breathing tight.

He stared wide-eyed at the mangled deer that had fallen beside him. It was big enough to eat for a long time, and the deer was full of treasures, and could be stripped of many nourishing things.

He smiled helplessly. "I can't finish it."

If this deer is only for his exclusive use, I am afraid it will be overreplenished.

Python understood this sentence of Jiang Yan, shallow pupil revealed a little dissatisfaction.

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From the perspective of the python, Jiang Yan is too small, not only does he not have any attack ability, but any poison bug in the forest can hurt him.

And Jiang Yan eats very small portions of food, a piece of meat with two fruits, he has never seen an animal eat so little food.

Jiang Yan was born very small and ate very little. In the cognition of the python, it was difficult for him to survive in the jungle.

So he showed his displeasure, and with a slap at the end, he almost beat the wild deer to a bloody pulp.

Jiang Yan quickly stopped: "Wait, don't be angry."

"I'll try to eat more."

He's not lying. He's already eating as much meat as possible to store fat.

How to eat meat every day, the lack of vegetarian mediation, coupled with no spices, with the smell of barbecue is very greasy, Jiang Yan can only eat on time, first to ensure that they do not starve.

He was afraid that the wild deer would be crushed by the python, and said, "I want to skin the deer to make clothes. The climate is getting colder and colder now. Soon, I will not be able to maintain my body temperature at night just by making a fire.

He was lying flat on his back, his neck crooked and dead, his black eyes reflecting the leaping fire.

"So I'd like to keep the deer, OK?"

Although the python can't speak, Jiang Yan can strangely get information from its light-colored eyes.

So he dragged the deer into a corner and placed it there, took an after-dinner walk along the space inside the cave, and finally lay down on a thickly padded "bed" of leaves, and drifted off to sleep with a dim eye on the fire.

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The next day, when Jiang Yan woke up, there was no shadow of the python in the cave.

The sun came down from the ceiling, bringing some dry warmth.

He stretched his hands and feet that had been curled up all night, his eyes slightly narrowed, like a rare lazy cat, lying on the bed of leaves.

Fortunately, the python did not restrain him too much, Jiang Yan sighed that he still had his own space to relax completely.

After stealing a moment of leisure, Jiang Yan slowly dug out the remaining wild boar teeth and some bones from the corner and went to the nearby stream.

After washing, Jiang Yan slowly polished the boar's teeth with flint, planning to make a hole in it to make a simple style of needle for mending things.

In addition to the teeth, he also planned to get some bird leg bones some time, which were thin and pointed, and easier to use as needles.

Barely making the sharp teeth of the wild boar into coarse style bones, Jiang Yan went back to the stone cave and tried to drag the wild deer that had been hidden yesterday to the water's edge.

He went to a lot of trouble and blushed like hell.

First drink some water, open next to the roast wrapped in leaves tear a few pieces to eat, supplement physical strength.

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Everything was quiet except the sound of the mountain birds singing, not even a breath of wind.

When the sun shines during the day, the python often does not stay in its nest, perhaps going out to feed, and returning at night when it is cold.

After a short rest, Jiang Yan moved his hands and feet, looked at the wild deer by the water, and prepared to spend a day peeling the deer skin.

In this way, the deer skin is slowly cut out with the flint peak, which takes most of the day. Jiang Yan's eyes were black as he stood by the stream cleaning the deerskin stained with blood.

After being washed, the deer skin gave off a warm glow. He breathed a sigh of relief, tired and tired, but fortunately, the hard work was not in vain. The harvest of this deer skin can try to make clothes to wear, or use it as a quilt to keep warm.

Jiang Yan put the washed deer skin on the wooden pole in front of the platform to dry until the water dried, and then baked it with fire.

At present, there is no condition and energy to deal with deer skin, Jiang Yan can only use the earth method, smoking method to deal with raw skin.

He put the deer skin on the shelf by burning it, using smoke to gradually soften the hide, and there was not enough time to continue the fire and smoke every day, and then convert the raw skin into cooked skin.

As for the rest of the deer, then slowly peel it off.

**

Facing the red sky, Jiang Yan looked for fruit under the surrounding trees.

Python uprooted and brought back a few trees of fruit almost ripe, there is no stone storage, want to save some fruit pulp can not do at present.

Jiang Yan found the fruit he had eaten a few days earlier, knocked down a few with a stick, wrapped them in leaves and brought them back to the cave.

As the sky darkened, he roughly covered the hole with grass leaves, lit a fire to warm himself, and roughly warmed the meat that had been roasted.

Jiang Yan drank a lot of water and put away other things after eating the barbecue. When he was about to rest, he retrieved the deerskin that had been roasted by fire for half a day and used it to keep warm until dawn, when it was not so cold.

He unfurled the deerskin and wrapped it around him, still smelling, but smell was clearly more important than warmth.

Coupled with the fire, Jiang Yan felt much warmer than he had slept in the past few nights.

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At night, Jiang Yan wrapped his buckskin tightly and looked at the roof of the sparse cave with stars. Not long ago, he was about to fall asleep, but as long as the slightest wind and grass sounded outside, he could not reassure him.

I tossed and turned a few times and opened my eyes to this moment.

The grass leaves blocking the entrance of the cave have been shaking, the leaves are shaking with the wind, and the moonlight tonight is almost in the clouds, not as bright as in the past.

Jiang Yan was sleepy and closed his eyes for less than a while. He was soon frightened and quickly opened his eyelids.

He stared at the direction of the hole until the dark shadow covered and saw the python come back, and Jiang Yan closed his eyes at ease.

His dependence on the python seemed to grow even deeper. With the python there was complete silence. Nothing dared disturb the cave.

Before too quiet will make Jiang Yan nervous, but the silence of the python is a safe and secure peace.

He leaned toward the snake's tail, and when he was wrapped around it, he acquiesced.

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