The half fish that the cat took from its mouth was not wasted at all.
Even though it was a fish that had struggled in the cat's mouth for most of the day and had several sharp tooth marks on it, Qi Guang still picked it up, washed it, and ate it all up out of the principle of cherishing food.
The cat had a very discerning eye for hunting and caught the fattest, largest and tastiest-looking fish in his mud pit.
The next day Qi Guang saw the cat again by the river.
He had obviously changed his location and went to the river bank further upstream to do his morning washing and cleaning work, but he never expected to see a large furry bunch lying on the river bank from a distance.
The cat was drinking water by the river. Its long fur was puffy and its big fur tail was sweeping behind it like a feather duster.
In fact, the cat had heard the footsteps of the bipeds a long time ago - the bipeds were not good at concealing their whereabouts, and the sound of dragging things on the branches was special and easy to recognize.
However, it waited until the biped came closer before stopping to drink water. It wiped its face with its paws and shook off its long hair, then looked calmly in the direction of the footsteps.
Its demeanor was full of the elegance and pride of a cat, as if it was both very happy and looking forward to what would happen.
Qi Guang had no intention of getting close to the cat at all.
He was dragging his small basket in one hand and holding a wooden spear that he had made overnight in the other, carefully assessing the distance between himself and the cat.
The cat looked like it had had a full meal, and it was lazy and had no intention of attacking him. Maybe because there was no food in its mouth, its fur was not even standing up like it did yesterday.
If Qi Guang does not plan to move for the time being, he must learn to live in harmony with cats.
Just drink water with the lion and zebra by the river, and live in peace.
The cat showed no aggressiveness toward him, which was a positive sign.
Qi Guang slowly dragged his small basket to the river bank - a safe distance away from the cat, but not too far - and watched the cat's every move out of the corner of his eye, then squatted down and scooped up the water to wipe it on his body.
With a small bucket of water, Qi Guang can wash his face and clean his teeth in the shelter. All he has to do by the river is clean his body and wash away the dried river mud that he rubbed on his body yesterday.
Maintaining good health is the best way to avoid disease. Due to the lack of medical care and medicine and the inability to afford high-tech treatment equipment in the system mall, Qi Guang has paid more attention to his physical health than ever before.
But for the cat, a two-legged animal that got itself wet on its own initiative was simply insane. It just looked at Qi Guang's wet hair and quickly shook it, trying to get rid of the illusion of the wet hair sticking to its body.
The cat squinted its eyes comfortably and secretly observed the movements of the two-legged beast.
Perhaps the half fish I fed yesterday worked, the bipeds today were not as fierce as yesterday, and seemed much more docile. However, when the cat saw the bipeds without a single hair on their bodies after washing, his narrowed eyes widened.
No wonder the bipeds have to roll in mud, it turns out they have no hair!
The cat stroked its beautiful fur with its claws and looked at the two-legged beast with a hint of pity in its eyes.
He is naked, ugly and weak, and looks so pitiful that no wonder I want to feed him.
The cat stretched, looked at Qi Guang deeply again, and slowly disappeared into the forest.
A stupid biped like Qi Guang certainly had no idea what the cat was thinking. He just kept alert and paid attention to whether the cat would come back and attack him suddenly. After making sure that the cat had indeed left, he let go and started working seriously.
If he had encountered this situation before the apocalypse, he would definitely have been trembling with fear for a few days, but after experiencing the apocalypse where he was often separated from zombies by a wall, the adaptation time has been shortened to a few seconds.
Instead of wasting time thinking about all sorts of things, you might as well do more work to increase your chances of survival.
The pottery kiln and pottery embryos built yesterday have completely dried after one night.
Qi Guangjian's kiln was cylindrical, with a grate with ventilation holes at the bottom. He placed the pottery embryos in the kiln and covered it with flat stone slabs.
Qi Guang ignited the dead leaves and vine fibers under the grate, and slowly added firewood to make the fire burn more vigorously, while still fanning the fire with a small leaf fan.
The pottery kiln can not only ensure that the embryo is heated evenly and improve the quality of the fired pottery, but also the number of pottery that can be fired each time is much greater than firing one by one in a pile of fire. All the pottery embryos he made can be fired in about two or three times.
When the pottery inside was burned red hot, Qi Guang stopped adding firewood to the grate and waited for the firewood inside to burn out and cool down slowly.
At this time, the top stone slabs were all smoked black, and the residual heat could be used to roast the fish and shrimp for Qi Guang's lunch.
Qi Guang crunched the shrimp shells and responded to a few comments that floated over on the live broadcast.
Today's audience number broke a new record, reaching a surprising four-digit number. Most of the audience also accepted that this was a simulated live broadcast of the Earth using black technology, and decided not to think too much and just dream about the Earth with the anchor.
Qi Guang did not receive the highest-level starship gift today, but the audience still gave away small fireworks worth 1 star coin and large firecrackers worth 10 star coins out of courtesy, and it looked quite lively.
At the same time, the number of his fans was also growing rapidly, soon breaking through one thousand and approaching two thousand.
In Qi Guang's eyes, all these numbers were automatically converted into corresponding points, and then automatically converted into his ever-shrinking debt and the shiny Gundams (bushi) in the system mall, making the smile on his face more genuine.
Audience: Yingying is great! I want to contract a fleet for Yingying!
- They talk as if they have the money.
At the top of the gift list are still the two gold/main dads, Heathvis and Philor, whose reward amount is three or four zeros more than the third place.
Among them, Heath took the top spot with an advantage of two star fleet ranks. After all, he was not as obsessed with attracting many people as his friends. As a dedicated bird, Heath only focused on contributing savings to Yingying.
Qi Guang cooked pottery while eating his lunch, leaving a few roasted shrimps in a small basket around his waist as a supplement to his rations.
In the afternoon he will continue to explore the surrounding terrain, but instead of going upstream like yesterday, today he plans to go downstream and follow the direction of the river flow.
This river runs through the university town in the port area. If you go upstream to the end, you can even reach the city center of Shen City. If you go downstream, you can see the winding coastline of Shen City.
The University Town in the Port District is only ten kilometers away from the seaside, and students from the university town used to often go to the beach to spend weekends.
Although the beach in Shen City does not have the beautiful scenery of blue sea and golden sand.
As the estuary of the Yang River, the beach in Shen City is muddy and muddy in color, which is a bit painful to step on. The sea water is not very clear and you can often see marine garbage washed up.
But after all, the beach is full of shells and conchs, and it is a good place where a lot of fish, shrimps and seaweed can be left when the tide goes out.
As Qi Guang walked towards the beach, he complained about the geographical location of the Hong Kong University Town.
It is extremely far from the city center. It takes two hours to drive there and you have to pass a toll booth. My classmate from Huai City next door was still struggling on the road when he got home.
The sea breeze is as cold as a knife in winter, and it is hot, humid and full of bugs in summer. There is no air conditioning in the classroom, which makes people want to drop out of school.
He mumbled, not really caring whether the audience could understand what he was saying. The end of the world had only been a few years, but his memories of school days were so vague that he couldn't even explain them clearly.
Qi Guang took out a shrimp and put it in his mouth. The shrimp shell was roasted crispy and he ate it with the shell and meat together with a crunch.
Shrimp is one of the few foods that will not taste bad without any seasoning. Shrimp meat itself is sweet and delicious, and the freshness will be fully stimulated when the shrimp shell is roasted to crispy. The meat is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, which is Qi Guang’s favorite food at present.
Delicious food helps relieve the inexplicable depression. Qi Guang walked downstream along the direction of the river. The trees around him became sparser and his vision became wider. He could smell a faint fishy smell and moisture in the wind full of the scent of grass and trees.
Completely different from the forest, it has a moisture that belongs to a more distant and extensive existence.
Qi Guang saw the gray-blue shimmering waves from afar. After walking forward for about forty or fifty minutes, the soil under his feet completely turned into gravel.
The sea is right before our eyes.
The sea was almost unchanged from Qi Guang's memory.
During the long period of time that humans have been able to change the world, the sea has not changed at all and is still boundless and endless. The only thing that can be said to have changed is that the water is cleaner, and its different shades of blue contrast with the sky.
Light years away, Phil, who was soaking in the water and watching the live broadcast, typed a long string of exclamation marks.
This is the vast blue ocean that is not inferior to the one on his home planet, Froda.
Clear.
extensive.
Different from the light and dreamy scene of Froda where the sky and water are connected, there is a steady and powerful sound echoing among the waves.
It even made him tremble with awe involuntarily, and he was unwilling to think deeply about what the end of the ocean would be like.
No one dislikes the sea. Even those with thalassophobia cannot resist the sight of the clear blue sea.
This also applies to StarCraft.
The forest! The coast! It doesn't look like it was simulated by technology at all!
Immersed in that blue, the deep and clear blue beauty made me cry qaq.
I have long wanted to say that the host's simulation is so detailed that it is simply terrifying. If I didn't know that the species in it do not exist in the universe, I would have taken it seriously.
The amount of work required to achieve this level of precision in star network simulation is unimaginable...
The vegetation, light, shadow and animals are flawless. When I first clicked in, I almost thought it was a real planet.
This technology is absolutely top-notch. Even the military’s latest environmental simulation technology may not be as realistic.
But Yingying used it to play Earth simulation...
The human race’s obsession with the Earth is truly terrifying [shivering].
The audience was enthusiastically discussing the high-tech content of this earth simulation, or marveling at the magnificent beauty of the sea view, while Qi Guang stood on the beach and looked around, feeling more emotional and at a loss whether to laugh or cry than appreciating the beautiful scenery.
The seaside had not changed much from what he remembered. Not only the coastline had not changed, but also the beach...
Rubbish.
According to the precise time given to him by the system, it has been exactly one thousand years from the time he traveled through to now.
The sea water washes human domestic waste onto the coast, and most of it degrades naturally over a long period of time.
It takes two hundred years for aluminum cans to degrade naturally.
Plastics take between five hundred and one thousand years.
As for glass products, such as glass bottles and glass jars - Qi Guang picked up one from the sand, probably a beer bottle or a beverage bottle. Although the surface was severely weathered and filled with sand and dirty, it was clean and not broken or leaking, so it could be reused.
There are many things like this on the beach, buried in the sand with only the edges showing.
Some glass products take millions of years to degrade.
Metal products also have a long lifespan, especially stainless steel. The stainless steel pipes that Qi Guang dug out from the beach had almost no signs of rust after cleaning.
This was a pleasant surprise for Qi Guang. He had never thought that he could have such a gain before. But it was also a new discovery that made him very happy in every sense.
He picked up the glass bottles one by one and spent time digging through the sea sand to see if there were any more new discoveries inside, like a child obsessed with a treasure hunt game, who only remembered after a while that he had something important to do.
Qi Guang put the glass bottles, stainless steel pipes, etc. he had picked up into the basket one by one, then turned around and filled a small bucket with sea water.
He tasted it and it was salty and astringent, the taste that only comes from a lot of salt.
Qi Guang's main purpose for going to the beach was the sea.
In other words, it is the purification of coarse salt without considering the most basic taste.
A healthy adult who maintains a regular schedule and eats and drinks normally will experience adverse reactions if he does not consume salt for ten days. Considering Qi Guang's current situation where he sweats a lot and works intensively every day and has a single food source, the adverse reactions will only appear faster.
He had gone four days without any salt supplement. Although fish blood or animal blood could also be used as a source of salt, they were not reliable and there was a risk of parasites.
Since the sea water is not too far away, purifying the crude salt from the sea water is undoubtedly a better choice.
Of course, anyone who has taken high school chemistry seriously will know that the white crystals obtained by boiling seawater are not edible directly.
It contains impurities such as magnesium, calcium, and sulfate, which not only tastes bitter but also easily causes metal poisoning.
Qi Guang controlled his hands that wanted to grab the glass bottle on the beach again, and recalled the chapter on crude salt purification in his high school chemistry textbook and the seawater salt drying operation in his extracurricular reading.
Fortunately, this is a key point that is tested every time, otherwise I would have forgotten it long ago.