Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

After walking through the rocky beach covered with mussels, and then turning over two rocky mountains, Chen Qi could see that some white crystals began to appear nearby, mixed with soil.

"That's the Salt Mountain." A Xu pointed to a rocky mountain not far away that was much taller than the surrounding area.

The shape of the salt mountain is not different from the surrounding rocks. It still looks reddish-brown sandstone, but it is more barren than other rocks, and there are basically no green plants.

The rock mountain has a huge cave in the direction of the back to Luoshui Lake. The further you go in the direction of the cave, the more white crystals around it, and around the cave you can already see the appearance of salt stones that are usually used.

Chen Qi twisted it in surprise and put it in his mouth to taste it. It was salty, with the familiar bitter taste of salt stones. He spat out the salt stones in his mouth. Handing it to him, Chen Qi took it and opened the lid and rinsed his mouth with water, "Is this mountain all salt rocks?"

A Xu nodded, "We usually collect salt rocks in the cave. Most of the salt rocks outside are stained with soil, and the inside is not clean." As Xu said, he led a few people into the cave.

Even the salt stone impurities in it are the same. Chen Qi muttered silently in his heart.

After entering the cave, what you can see is almost a whole piece of gray-white salt stone, which is completely different from the reddish-brown sandstone outside. The underground may be the reason why it is often trampled. It is wet with moisture. Don't look at the large opening, but after entering, the space inside is only half the height of the opening, and the depth is only ten meters. It looks like it was excavated artificially. from.

A Xu walked to the innermost cave wall, and his beastly nails easily dug out a fist-sized salt stone. He handed the salt stone to Chen Qi, "These are the salt stones."

Chen Qi took it over and looked at it. It was exactly the same as the salt rock that he had exchanged at the rally before. He asked with a little doubt: "This cave looks like it was newly excavated not long ago. Is this the only salt mountain you have here? ?"

A Xu shook his head, "There is a salt mountain on the other side, where salt rocks were collected before, but a few years ago, I found that the salt rocks over there look different, so I moved here. Collected on the salt mountain."

"Different?" Is there any difference in salt?

"Well, the more you dig in, the more transparent the salt stone over there is."

Chen Qi didn't have any research on salt, so he didn't ask any further questions. He planned to visit another salt mountain in person when he had time, and then he would know what the so-called transparent salt stones were.

With three female sons, it was not difficult to excavate the salt stone. It didn't take long for the salt stones to be filled with the three big animal skin backpacks. The female sons naturally wouldn't let Chen Qi come to carry things, and of course Chen Qi couldn't carry such a heavy load. Backpack, it is very powerful to be able to walk back to the tribe without Aze carrying it on his back. You must know that there is no road to the rocky mountains here. The females usually climb rocks when they come here, so that an ordinary person with no ability is in Walking on this kind of barren hills is not just a matter of consuming physical strength.

After more than a year of training, Chen Qi's physical strength is much better than his weak physique when he first crossed. Even if he is walking among the rocks, he has no problem keeping up with the speed of several females. .

It was almost evening when we returned to the beach. As the water in Luoshui Lake slowly receded, the beastmen started their hunting activities again today.

The female in charge of hunting today is no longer A Chu, but a middle-aged female with brown hair. This female Chen Qi had met when he entered the Luoshui tribe, on a fig tree outside the tribe yesterday. The female guard, Chen Qi remembered that Ashu called him Amin at that time.

Whale sharks don't go to the lake every day to forage for food. Today, the orcs found a huge octopus. Unlike the small octopuses that Chen Qi bought from Ah Shu, this octopus is more than ten meters long. The big one had surfaced without the orcs driving him away, his huge claws waving haphazardly, as if trying to drive away the orcs who were in his way.

The octopus is slippery all over. It is not so easy to catch it. Amin does not dare to jump directly on the back of the octopus like a whale shark. You must know that octopuses have eight claws, which are covered with claws. The suction cup is also very strong, and if it gets entangled with it, it can strangle the orc alive.

Don't look at this octopus, it looks stupid, but its movements are very flexible. Although it looks like the orcs are gathering around to hunt it, Chen Qi always thinks that this huge octopus is teasing the orcs. Play the same.

The two sides persisted for a while, not knowing whether the octopus had had enough, and suddenly dived into the water, and then sprayed a large jet of ink, dyeing the entire water surface black, blocking everyone's sight.

Seeing this, several females hurriedly swung the thick wood into the water, intending to stop the octopus from escaping, but when the ink on the water disappeared, where was half of the octopus still?

......

For the first time, Chen Qi saw that the orcs failed to hunt.

Obviously it wasn't the first time that the orcs of the Luoshui tribe had failed. The expressions on their faces were not at all discouraged. Everyone organized their things in an orderly manner. Even if they failed once or twice, they were not short of food in summer, even if They can also go outside the tribe to pick wild fruits to eat if they can't hunt prey for several days.

"It's really not easy to catch octopuses." Ah Le and Ah Shu, who watched the whole process, saw several people coming over here, and Ah Le took Ah Xu's backpack.

"Didn't you bring a big bag of octopuses to exchange with me last time?" Chen Qi always thought that octopuses should be easy to catch.

Ashu pouted, "It took me two months to catch that bag of octopuses."

"..."

"It's a pity that we can't eat octopus today." Ashu was a little dejected.

"You like octopus?"

"Of course, octopuses have no bones, and people in the tribe like to eat them."

Chen Qi thought about it and found that most of the prey hunted in the Luoshui tribe were mollusks, and even fish hunted huge fish like whale sharks. These prey were not like those big freshwater fish in Chishui River, which were covered with fine fragments. bones.

"Are there many octopuses around here?" Chen Qi asked.

A Xu nodded, "There are many octopuses by Luoshui Lake, but octopuses are generally very cunning, and it is not easy to catch them."

Chen Qi smiled thoughtfully, "I know a relatively simple way to catch an octopus, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know if I can catch it. Would you like to try it?"

"What method?" Ah Shu looked at Chen Qi with bright eyes.

"I need to go back and find some props."

Chen Qi briefly explained the method to a few people, and a few people listened to each other. It's so simple, can you really catch an octopus?

After returning to the cave, a few people first put the salt stones collected today, and the dried mussels that have been dried for a day are almost dry. Chen Qi plans to dry them again in two days, so that the dried mussels will not be left on the side of the meat. It's hard, it's already evening, and the sun will go down soon, so we can only continue to make dried mussels until tomorrow.

Many of the pottery brought here this time are jars. Chen Qi took five or six, made a simple rope net with rope, and tied the jar to the net, so that the jar would not face the mouth of the jar when it was lifted directly. Down.

Before the sky was completely dark, a few people came to the waters where octopuses were more frequented by A Xu, put the jar under the water, and fixed the rope to the driftwood on the water surface, and the driftwood was fixed to the shore with vines. On the rocks on the side, don't worry about being washed away by the current.

Several people were busy following Chen Qi's instructions suspiciously, and couldn't wait to pull Chen Qi to see the results early the next morning.

But Chen Qi was not in a hurry. Instead, he asked them to collect all the mussels that needed to be dried today, boiled and peeled, and then spread them out to the mouth of the cave. It was almost noon. I was more impatient, and every once in a while I would ask Chen Qi if he could go and see if the jar had caught an octopus yesterday.

After finally drying the mussels, Chen Qi finally waved his hand, and the two females spread their feet and ran to the lake first.

Last night, A Xu told A Chu that they were going to catch the octopus. Now that they were going to see the results, A Chu took Luther and followed them to the lake curiously.

"Chen Qi, can I pull it up?" Ah Shu squatted on the driftwood, his hand gripping the rope was a little nervous, he asked Chen Qi on the shore softly, for fear that his voice would be too loud and the octopus he might catch would be given to him. Frightened away.

Chen Qi nodded, indicating that the other party could pull up the jar. Ashu took a deep breath and carefully pulled up the rope slowly, trying not to make too much movement.

After the jar was pulled out of the water, Ah Shu looked into the mouth of the jar and watched it for a long time. Everyone on the bank thought that when they didn't catch it, Ah Shu suddenly stepped on the driftwood and ran back to the shore. The jar came up to Chen Qi and said excitedly, "I caught it, it's really an octopus."

As Ashu's voice fell, Ale on the other side also ran back excitedly holding a jar, "I caught this too. It's really an octopus, and the whole jar was filled with it." I was a little confused, "But this octopus can't be caught, do you want to break the jar?" of clay.

Chen Qi took out a salt rock from the cloth bag he was carrying, and asked A Ze to crush the salt rock. Then he took the jar in A Le's hand and put it on the ground, and sprinkled the crushed salt into it according to the mouth of the jar. The octopus inside began to move slowly, and when it leaned out of the mouth of the altar, Azer's sharp nails directly pierced the octopus's skin and lifted it up.

Although this jar doesn't look very big, the octopus is two or three times the size of the jar when it is lifted up.

Ah Chu was amazed at the sight, "I didn't expect octopuses to be caught so easily. If the jar was bigger, could the big octopus like yesterday be caught this way?"

Chen Qi patted off the broken salt on his hands, "It stands to reason that it should be able to be caught. Octopuses like to burrow into hollow vessels. This method is much easier than catching them directly, and there is no danger."