When the two came back, Huo Dong had already lit the fire.
A piece of fish skin measuring several square meters was spread out, and pieces of black smoked fish meat were placed on it.
Huang Jiahui's face was expressionless, as if she didn't hear the quarrel between the two. She calmly placed the wooden cups in front of everyone, poured a cup of tree milk for each person, and said to Zhao Yali: "Try this !”
Zhao Yali has a weak personality, so she only loses her temper with people she knows. Even if she is dissatisfied, she does not dare to show mercy to others. She quickly said: "Thank you!"
She held the cup and took a sip, then took another big sip and remained silent.
Master Wang was not so calm. Brother Luo was too carefree. The women came one after another, which made her feel a great sense of crisis.
She kept looking at Zhao Yali with a hostile face. Most of the paint on her face had been washed away by tears, revealing her true face. The more she looked at it, the more familiar she felt. She ignored the hostility and said in surprise: "You used to be Don’t you live across from my house?”
Zhao Yali was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect anyone other than Luo Yuan to recognize her here. She looked at Master Wang carefully. Unfortunately, Master Wang had already changed drastically, and she had no impression of him at all.
"I live across from your house, and we often bumped into you before." Seeing the confusion on Zhao Yali's face, Wang Shishi explained.
Zhao Yali thought for a while and seemed to have some impression. She was surprised and said: "How come you are so old and you are still with Luo Yuan."
"My parents are gone, so I have been following Brother Luo."
Zhao Yali thought of her family, sighed, and drank the tree milk from the cup, worrying about the future.
Seeing that everyone was chatting and the atmosphere was not as dull as before, Cao Lin couldn't help but be curious and said: "What is it that you have painted on your face? I think everyone in the camp seems to have it."
Zhao Yali looked a little stunned and said: "The sap of a kind of tree can prevent insects, but the effect is not very good."
Except for Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi, everyone's eyes lit up. Although this juice smells bad and doesn't look good when applied, these shortcomings are nothing compared to life. Cao Lin quickly asked: "Where is it?" Planting plants?”
Zhao Yali showed a trace of uneasiness on her face: "I don't know, this is all caused by... Zhu Hao and the others."
She has a timid character. She has never been outside the dangerous jungle since she came to the camp, and she has no idea what kind of plant juice this is.
A trace of disappointment flashed across everyone's faces. There are so many mutated plants. If you want to find out which plant it is, it's almost as good as finding a needle in a haystack.
Luo Yuanzhi did not participate in these women's topics. He carried a wooden barrel that he had made before and walked towards the distance. There were low-lying areas everywhere, filled with water. These were seawater left after the tide receded, and they were growing in the long run. The salinity is very high under the sun for a long time.
As Luo Yuan walked in, whirlpools were turning at the bottom of the pond from time to time, causing bursts of filth. Luo Yuan found this in several places. He couldn't care less, so he chose a low-lying area that was a little cleaner, picked up a bucket of water, and returned.
Seeing that the salt was ready to be boiled, Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin also came over to help. They stacked several pieces of cloth together and filtered the sewage over and over again. However, the cloth strips were not specialized filtering materials after all. No matter how much they were filtered, the water would still be there. It's a bit muddy, but now that the conditions are simple, that's all it can do.
After placing the stone pot, start boiling the salt. The fire was burning very brightly, the water boiled quickly, and then salt precipitated out.
These salts are not as white as those in the packaging bags before the end of the world, but rather half gray.
"This salt has too many impurities, I guess it will be very bitter." Huo Dong said.
"It's better than nothing. I feel like I can eat one or two now." Lin Xiaoji licked his chapped lips. He hadn't eaten salt for a long time. Everything he ate now had no taste. He could eat even the bitter salt. .
The water boiled dry quickly, and a layer of gray salt crystals appeared on the bottom of the pot, which formed into lumps. It was completely unlike the table salt that was used at home in the past.
Everyone couldn't wait to taste it. The salt was bitter, astringent, and full of gravel. Even dogs would not eat this kind of salt before the end of the world, but now everyone not only remains calm, but also has some expressions of enjoyment on their faces. People who have not experienced it will never know the pain of not eating salt for a long time. Some people He even grabbed a handful, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it hard like candy, and swallowed all the sand and gravel.
Because they had not taken in salt for several days, everyone except Zhao Yali ate a lot during lunch. In the end, everyone drank water because it was so salty that they all drank up the bag of tree milk.
After eating, everyone packed up the excess salt, packed their luggage, and set off again.
Huge skeletons could be seen stranded on the tidal flats everywhere along the way. These dead marine creatures died one after another during the low tide before they could evolve their limbs and lungs to crawl on land. Luo Yuan saw one of the skeletons. , even more than thirty meters long and eighty-nine meters high. The huge skeleton lies on the shallow sea like a hill.
He went over specifically to take a look, only to find that it was just a dark blue-level creature, but its size was several times larger than a land creature such as a monitor lizard. With this size alone, I am afraid that ordinary light green-level land creatures would be able to attack it. Nothing can be done.
Luo Yuan originally thought that these were all tidal flats, but as he approached the center of the cross-sea bridge, there were fewer and fewer tidal flats. Many slightly low-lying places were covered by sea water. Wherever he saw, there were large and small tidal flats everywhere. Small lakes range from thousands of square meters to several square kilometers.
You can avoid it at first. But gradually the lake became larger and larger. When the other shore was already in sight, the front was blocked by a narrow strip of seawater several kilometers wide.
Luo Yuan looked around. Even with his eyesight, he couldn't see where the end of the sea was. A wide river had almost formed here.
"The water is too wide, should we turn back?" Huang Jiahui asked depressedly.
"We have gone so far, and I really can't bear to look back." Huo Dong said with a bitter face: "It's already three o'clock now. It won't be long before it gets dark. There is mud everywhere here, even the holes in the ground. It’s not easy to dig, and sleeping in the open is too dangerous!”
"Yeah, the water here shouldn't be deep. I estimate it's at most three or four meters, which should be fine for monitor lizards." Lin Xiaoji also said.
It took a lot of effort to get here, and the other shore was already in sight. Going back would be too demoralizing.
On the one hand, it was night in the open air, and on the other hand, there was danger in the sea. Luo Yuan felt a little hesitant in his heart. He felt that there should be no powerful mutant creatures in the shallow water, so he decided: "Let's go into the water first and take a look. If the water is too deep, just go back directly." ”
Now that Luo Yuan has made his decision, no one has any objections.
The monitor lizard waded carefully through the water, occasionally letting out roars and driving away any creatures that tried to get closer.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the water began to gradually become deeper and gradually submerged into the monitor lizard's thighs.
From time to time, streaks of water streaked across the sea surface as fast as sharp arrows, or violent splashes of several meters high were stirred up. Blood surged from the bottom of the water from time to time. Undercurrents surged here, murderous intent abounded, and splashes splashed on everyone several times.
Everyone's faces gradually turned pale. Zhao Yali no longer cared about being angry with Luo Yuan and grabbed his arm tightly.