Xiang En was really surprised to be held by Andrea like this, and his palms were sweating a lot due to nervousness. It was like a student suddenly turned into a teacher, and the roles were reversed.
It seems that I have thought too much. She is stronger than I thought!
After suppressing the surprised expression on his face, Xiang En stared at Andrea for a moment, then suddenly smiled, broke free from the grip of her hands, and hugged Andrea.
"ah!"
The hugged Andrea let out a cry, her face turned pink, and her eyes suddenly became blurred.
Before this feeling could take over his heart, Xiang En released her, leaving her disappointed for a while.
"Ahem... Let's go find some firewood and burn this place down."
Xiang En touched his nose and looked towards the utility room where there was a strange creaking sound.
Now the situation is roughly clear. The dozens of corpses crawling out of the ground have run into the forest. The infected animals should have a lot of impact on the forest.
You have to seize the time to search for supplies and build a shelter!
After this winter, they would have to stay away from the forest and go to the towns to look for supplies that had been missed by the raiding teams.
Otherwise, their things will only get older and worn out. The province of De Er is very large. Even if those people have more than a month to carry out massacres, it is impossible for everyone in Greystone City to visit them all, and there will be many missing villages.
After the fire burned out the utility room, Xiang En and Andrea returned to the cabin to rest.
In the next few days, the two of them were storing food. There were fewer animals in the forest, and no animals infected by living corpses were found yet.
After failing to find many animals within three kilometers of the village, Xiang En decided to take the risk and explore deep into the forest.
This lasted two days. Relying on the trap totem, the two harvested many uninfected small animals and obtained nearly a hundred kilograms of prey at one time.
On the last night when they were about to leave the forest, they saw a messy space.
The faint green light shines through the trees, attracting the eyes of the two travelers who strayed into the forest.
Xiang En asked Andrea to leave the hunted animals where they were and cautiously walked towards the green forest.
After crossing the fallen tree trunk, they saw a crater five meters in diameter.
In the center of the crater is a meteorite that emits a strange green light. It can emit as much brightness as a light bulb in the dark night, which makes Xiang En both curious and alert.
The ominous green light made him stay away, and he pulled Andrea who wanted to get closer.
"Don't get close to it, it may be dangerous..."
After staring at the green meteorite that was only as big as a fist for a while, Xiang En decided to poke it with a stick.
A small tree was found between the woods that was long enough for Andrea to cut into a stick.
There's no point in doing this, it's like exploding cow dung with firecrackers, it's just fun and cheap.
Holding this long stick, Xiang En poked at the meteorite fragments that emitted green light. What he was thinking about was whether this meteorite would be radioactive
One end of the stick hit the meteorite fragment, lifted it up, and looked at it from a distance. Xiang En still didn't dare to touch the stone.
This stone looked so weird, Xiang En was worried that it contained radioactive elements, and carrying it around would add several layers of negative status.
There are countless such fragments in the forest, and there are many fragments in the entire De Aier Province. It is better to wait for the surviving warriors to test them.
He threw away the wooden stick, clapped his hands to En, turned around and left with Andrea.
Andrea glanced back in the direction of the crater. The green light sent shivers down her spine, and she quickly walked a few steps and disappeared into the forest.
It took three days to hunt and one day to carry the prey back to the village.
After finishing the food processing and taking inventory, Xiang En discovered that they had stored 500 kilograms of meat. The meat contained a lot of bones. The actual meat may only be half the weight.
Although the meat reserve did not meet expectations, he was not ready to continue hunting. Only ten days had passed, and the cold wind in the morning forced them to wear an extra animal skin cloak.
As winter gets closer, the distance between the two gradually shrinks.
Cutting down trees to store firewood and digging cellars have become their most common tasks. Xiang En is not in a hurry to upgrade his skills. He has a winter to practice his skills.
Phew! Phew!
With the joint efforts of Xiang En and Andrea, a new room was finally opened on the side of the alchemy room. It was quite large. In addition to the bed, a lot of wood could be put down for practicing carving totems.
Xiang En studied the ant nests for a long time. He mixed the ant nests with water and stuck them on the wall, making the surrounding walls smoother. At the expense of them, all the nearby ant nests were stained by them.
He also wanted to make a kang for sleeping, but after trying for a long time, Xiang En gave up. There were no bricks and a kang simply made of adobe bricks would not be very resistant to burning.
Although they had seen brick-making tutorials before traveling through time, most of the content had been forgotten, and brick-making took a lot of time. They didn't have that much time, so they had to keep everything simple and lay out a few more animal skins.
A stove was built into the corner of the room, and the chimney was dug directly between the two cabins on the surface.
In order not to be buried by the snow, Xiang En also surrounded the 1.5-meter-high fence with wood and built a triangular shed above it.
After digging the shelter, it was already twenty days after the end.
During this period, Xiang En used his free time to smash an unsightly distillation device out of an iron pot, fetched water from a nearby flowing stream, and used distillation to try to purify the water source.
The results are not ideal, and distillation does not have much effect on acidic water.
Xiang En then tried filtering with ordinary charcoal, but the effect was also unsatisfactory.
Only then did he remember that acid rain contains sulfuric acid and nitric acid that are soluble in water, and ordinary filtration methods are not effective at all.
Conventional methods failed, so Xiang En simply gave up on purifying water and waited for nature to dilute it on its own, making it even more difficult to use water.
The two of them hadn't taken a shower for half a month, and the only way to clean their bodies was to wipe them lightly with a wet towel.
Three days later, the two people, wrapped in buns, climbed up the ladder with difficulty and arrived at the surface world.
Pushing open the wooden house, the two of them couldn't help but be stunned.
The outside was completely white, the ground was covered with a thin layer of ice and snow, and there were many snowflakes falling in the sky. It was covered in silver, which looked very strange at first glance.
This is especially true for Xiang En. He has never seen snow so close in his life.
What’s in front of me isn’t snow, it’s a southerner trap!
Xiang En seemed to have seen a seductive fox demon, and his Adam's apple rolled involuntarily. He walked out of the wooden house with empty steps, pulled the surrounding snow together, and held it in his hands to form a ball.
Looking at the round and solid snowball in his hand, Xiang En threw it hard and hit the wall of the wooden house opposite.
Boom!
The wooden house was shaken by the snowball, and a little snow on the roof was knocked off.
"Pfft!"
There was a chuckle from behind. Xiang En's body froze, and he stood up pretending to be nonchalant. He resisted the urge to fall to the ground and roll around. He turned around and looked at his face, which was red from the cold, covering his mouth and snickering. Andrea said seriously: "I can't help it! I can't help it!"
Andrea still covered her mouth, just squinted her eyes and nodded quickly.
(End of chapter)