Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 30: camping

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Releasing the rails is not a simple matter. The rails that Erikson moved onto the ship were originally from his family's Red Sea Shark, an ocean-going fishing vessel. They were used at sea and were piled up in the warehouse in need of repairs and repairs. reconnect. After all, fish are the most easily damaged fishing gear at sea, being scraped by rocks, swept away by wind and waves, washed away by large fish, etc.

There were no acrylic and petrochemical industries in this era. Most of the materials for weaving fish were hemp rope and leather. Some of the better ones added animal tendons, horsetails, and human hair. These materials were mixed together and twisted into thin ropes. Then use the cooked fish paste or the like to apply it on it and wait for it to dry naturally. Finally, it is woven. Fishing line is also made of this material.

Barriers used at sea are generally more than ten or tens of meters long, but the Erikson family's barrage was damaged at sea. The complete barrage now intercepted is still more than six meters long, but it is not It has a width of 3.7 meters, which means it needs to be placed in a water depth of more than four meters to be suitable. The water depth in this bend of the river was only a little more than two meters, so everyone was dumbfounded.

Seeing half of the block floating on the water, Erikson had no choice but to ask everyone to put the block away, row the boat again to the middle of the lake, find a place more than four meters deep, and throw the block down. If you don’t get anything you just resign yourself to fate. Because this is a barrier used at sea, the eyes are relatively large, and most fish in the lake are larger than those in the sea. Such big eyes will easily pass through. This is what everyone thought of after putting down the barrier.

After all this trouble, it was almost dusk when we rowed the fishing boat into the river again, and the sky began to darken. Stop the boat, drop the anchor, and tie the cable to a thick mulberry tree on the shore. The four people hurriedly unloaded their luggage from the boat. Now they were anxious to set up a camping site. If they moved slowly, they would not be able to see clearly when it got dark.

When they were on the boat, Erikson was the one who made the decision. Now on shore, it was Vericero who was in charge. He often went hunting in the mountains with his father, and among the four of them, he had the most experience in camping in the wild.

"This is it." Viricero said. The place he was looking for was only about twenty meters away from the river, but about seven or eight meters above the water. It was a flat land on a hillside, covered with weeds and bush.

"Let's cut down the grass and shrubs first and clear the ground so that we can set up the tent. Wait, Boa, don't go there," Viricero shouted loudly.

Bockaar was a little confused: "Didn't you say you were the one who cut the grass?"

"First take this stick and hit it in the grass and bushes."

"It's too troublesome, why don't you just chop it down?" Bock'al didn't expect that he only knocked a few times in the weeds and bushes with his stick, and heard a lot of pattering sounds, including four-legged lizards, red-eyed spiders, scorpions, grasshoppers and other animals and insects. He escaped from it, startling him.

"Oh, there's a green snake here." Bock'ar now understood why Vericro asked him not to cut the grass directly, because he might be bitten by something. If it's not poisonous, you'll just feel a little pain. If it's poisonous, you'll have to deal with it, and you'll also need a bottle of antidote.

"Why not just use fire to create an open space? It would be faster and the ground would dry out." Claude asked.

Verricro shook his head and said, "We can't burn it now. There is a lot of moisture in the weeds and shrubs, unless we pour kerosene on them, but we only brought a bottle of kerosene."

However, the four people cleared the open space very quickly, clearing away the weeds and bushes in less than half an hour.

"Boa, divide these shrubs and use them to build bonfires at night. Don't use the ones that are too green. If they are too moist, they will become smoke when burned. Ike, find out the lime powder and sulfur powder, and sprinkle the lime powder on the ground. Some, sprinkle sulfur powder in a circle around the perimeter to prevent poisonous insects from approaching. Claude, you and I will bring machetes and axes and go around to see if we can find a dead tree to chop down for firewood." Viricolo Assign tasks to everyone in an orderly manner.

"Take it." Vericro handed Claude the stick that Boquear had just used. It was also used to knock on the grass. Claude still knew the principle of alerting the snake.

With luck, he found a half-fallen dead tree not far away. Verricro knocked on the trunk to express his satisfaction: "This is it."

Claude didn't move. He became curious about the ground. It was a huge gray rock with a very flat top. This dry rock